cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Potential Data Link Candidates for Civilian Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Survey
Creators: name: Zolanvari, Maede
name: Jain, Raj
name: Salman, Tara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This survey studies the potential data link candidates for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). There has been tremendous growth in different applications of UAVs such as lifesaving and rescue missions, commercial use, recreations, etc. Unlike the traditional wireless communications, the data links for these systems do not have any general standardized framework yet to ensure safe co-existence of UAVs with other flying vehicles. This motivated us to provide a comprehensive survey of potential data link technologies available for UAVs. Our goal is to study the current trends and available candidates and carry out a comprehensive comparison among them. The contribution of this survey is to highlight the strength and weakness of the current data link options and their suitability to satisfy the UAVs communication requirements. Satellite links, cellular technologies, Wi-Fi and several similar wireless technologies are studied thoroughly in this paper. We also focus on several available promising standards that can be modified for these data links. Then, we discuss standard-related organizations that are working actively in the area of civilian unmanned systems. Finally, we bring up some future challenges in this area with several potential solutions to motivate further research work.
Producing the Dead Sea Scrolls: (Trans)national Heritage and the Politics of Popular Representation
Creators: name: Taylor, Evan P.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This thesis explores the politics of representing the assemblage of ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls to popular audiences in Israel, the occupied West Bank, and the United States. I demonstrate that these objects of national heritage are circulated along transnational routes to maintain the legitimacy of nationalist discourse abroad. Three sites—the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Qumran National Park in the West Bank, and a travelling exhibit presented at the Boston Museum of Science—are examined for textual narrative, spatial arrangement, and visitor behavior. Analysis of these observations illuminates two recurring motifs common to all three sites: the restoration of an ancient ethno-national landscape (“land of Israel”) in the contemporary landscape of Palestine/Israel and the important legacy of ancient Jewish society in contemporary Israel and “the West.” These motifs and the way they are presented through a framing of cultural heritage can be associated with a larger nationalist discourse maintained by Israeli state authorities and mainstream media that perpetuates a linking of western liberal and Zionist ideologies. I contend that the transnational circulation of this nationalist heritage narrative works to legitimize—at a global scale—an ongoing Israeli program of occupation and settlement in Palestinian territory subsumed under the biblical/Zionist frame of the “land of Israel.” While making preliminary suggestions toward critical interventions, I also suggest that the analysis of transnational encounters with nationalist heritage merits deeper ethnographic investigation towards understanding its impact on individuals’ political (in)action towards the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Percnon gibbesi
Creators: name: Coelho, Petrônio Alves
name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Percnidae
Percnon
Percnon gibbesi

description: Percnon gibbesi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853)
Western Atlantic: Bermuda, North Carolina to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies to Brazil (Fernando de Noronha). Eastern Atlantic: Azores to South Africa. Eastern Pacific: California to Chile, Galápagos and Clipperton I. (Melo 1996).
 Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: FN: Coelho (1969), as P. planissimum (Herbst, 1804).
description: Published as part of Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-58 in Zootaxa 1956 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1956.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5241063
From Vacant to Vibrant: Proposing a New Approach to the Anchor Store Typology
Creators: name: Greenberg, Samantha L.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: The ever-evolving retail landscape in the United States represents a narrative of change for local communities. While change may signify instability, it also presents opportunities for innovation. This dichotomy is particularly pertinent in small downtowns, where the faltering of both national chain and locally owned retail establishments is felt, not only by business owners, but by all members of the community. The loss of anchor stores (large stores that serve to draw patrons to a commercial center) has proven especially challenging for downtowns that formerly relied on the consumer traffic generated by a big-name retailer. The loss of anchor stores also scars the built environment, which is often not designed to respond fluidly to programmatic flux.
While the default response to a failed anchor store is often to simply replace it with a slightly more robust retail anchor, this approach to renewal is shortsighted, for the replaced anchor store will inevitably fail as well. Instead, it is essential that the reuse of vacant anchor spaces be designed to not only sustainably support local economies, but also to address and enhance community and the built environment. Reprogramming, as opposed to replacing, former anchor stores presents an opportunity to embrace change in order to build a truly sustainable and vibrant neighborhood that considers retail to be one of many assets.
This thesis presents a study of and an intervention at the site of a, still vacant, former Borders bookstore and café in the downtown of a New York City metro north community. The design proposal seeks to identify, develop, and celebrate the coalescence of the site’s economic, social, and architectural potentials. Paradoxically, while the proposal focuses on promoting the local capacity of a particular place, the greater implications of this study can be translated to other small downtowns nationwide, and perhaps even globally.
Percepción servicios ecosistémicos del manglar en Ecuador
Creators: name: Peñafiel, Daniela
name: Vanegas, Wilder
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 140205 Environment and Resource Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Las parroquias rurales de Puerto El Morro (provincia del Guayas), y la cabecera parroquia de Jambelí, isla Costa Rica (Provincia de El Oro), son comunidades tradicionales, situadas al suroccidente de la costa ecuatoriana en la porción del Ecuador denomina manglar de Jama -Zapotillo (MAE y FAO, 2014). Estas comunidades se caracterizan por mantener una relación directa con los ecosistemas de manglar, viviendo así en un entorno natural del cualidad variable de beneficios económicos, sociales, como ambientales (Roy, Alam y Gow, 2013), siendo estos de gran apoyo a las actividades humanas, ya la definición de estados como la sensación de felicidad y bienestar (Damastuti y de Groot, 2017; Villegas, Berrouet, López, Ruiz y Upegui, 2016). En estos territorios se encuentran en común un tipo de economía tradicional a pesar de tener unas condiciones geográficas, espaciales y temporales distintas. Esta economía tradicional se sustenta en la propiedad colectiva del territorio y en la productividad a lo largo del tiempo los beneficios que se pueden obtener del medio ambiente, en especial los marinos y del ecosistema de manglar. En esta investigación se analiza la percepción de los habitantes frente a los servicios ecosistémicos que ofrecen los manglares, para fortalecer la gestión que realizan estas comunidades respecto a la conservación y el equilibrio de este ecosistema.
Urinary Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations and Cancer Mortality in NHANES,  1999-2006
Creators: name: Kaiser, A B
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Four in ten people in the US will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime. Environmental exposures are important determinants of cancer risk, causing as many as 19% of cancers worldwide. Phthalates are a group of chemicals used to increase the flexibility of plastics and vinyl in household materials such as food packaging, plastic toys, wood finishes and adhesives. Some phthalates may act as endocrine disruptors with hypothesized links to endometriosis, breast cancer, and reproductive outcomes. However, no research yet exists on phthalate exposure and all-cancer mortality. We investigated the relationship between seven urinary phthalate metabolites among 5,205 adults in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), from 1999 to 2006 with mortality data through 2011. Urinary phthalate metabolites were measured in spot urine samples using HPLC-MS/MS and HPLC-ESI-MS/MS. Cox proportional hazard regressions were conducted to calculate hazard ratios and 95 percent confidence intervals for all-cancer mortality, stratified by gender. Mean creatinine adjusted metabolite concentrations ranged from 0.03 – 3.86 ug/mg in males and 0.07 – 4.37 ug/mg in females. Age-adjusted and multivariate Cox proportional hazard models did not yield statistically significant results for any metabolites. Hazard ratios in the multivariate model for continuous, creatinine adjusted, log transformed metabolite concentrations, ranged from 0.90 to 1.27 in men and 0.86 to 1.07 in women. There was no evidence for a dose-response relationship in the quartile analyses, with p-values for trend above 0.12. This research contributes to the limited cancer literature on phthalate exposure that helps direct future regulations on plasticizers in consumer products.
An unorthodox exploration and exploitation strategy for the development of an unconventional geothermal reservoir, the Göttingen University campus demo site
Creators: name: Leiss, Bernd
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: geothermal

description: An unorthodox exploration and exploitation strategy for the development of an unconventional geothermal reservoir, the Göttingen University campus demo site
Preface to the special issue – Exploration models for New Zealand’s hard rock gold deposits
Creators: name: Christie, Anthony B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Preface to the special issue – Exploration models for New Zealand’s hard rock gold deposits
Additional file 1 of Risk of cardiovascular mortality, stroke and coronary heart mortality associated with aircraft noise around Congonhas airport, São Paulo, Brazil: a small-area study
Creators: name: Roca-Barceló, Aina
name: Nardocci, Adelaide
name: Breno Souza De Aguiar
name: Adeylson G. Ribeiro
name: Failla, Marcelo Antunes
name: Hansell, Anna L.
name: Cardoso, Maria Regina
name: Piel, Frédéric B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Noise contours. A. Ldn noise contours > 65 dB as provided by the Brazilian Airport Infrastructure Company (INFRAERO) for Congonhas airport, São Paulo, Brazil. B. Noise contours (yellow) as estimated by Prof. Jules G. Slama (personal communication). Districts selected for being partially or entirely exposed to noise levels are shown in dark blue. The grey outline illustrates the boundaries of the Municipality of São Paulo. Fig. S2. Maps of covariates within our study area, São Paulo, Brazil. Spatial distribution of: A. the quintiles of the Index of Human Development (IHD); B. Proportion of Black and Mixed population; C. proportion of East Asian population; D. Quintiles of total traffic density as a proxy for air pollution E. Smoothed lung mortality risk; and F. Posterior probability of lung mortality risk. Fig. S3. Scatter plot between the standard MHDI 2010 score and the modified MHDI 2010. The modified MHDI was re-calculated excluding the life expectancy indicator using a geometric mean. The red line, the fitted linear regression. Fig. S4. Spatial distribution the standard and modified MHDI 2010. The standard (left) and modified (right) MHDI for both the continuous score (top) and quintiles classification (bottom). Fig. S5-S9. Correlations between covariates. The correlation coefficient and p-value of the Cramer’s V-square test are shown. V Cramer = 1 denotes strong association and V Cramer = 0 denotes weak association. Bar plots indicate the number of census tracts belonging to each category for a given covariate against each of the other covariates.
Additional file 1 of A proteolysis-targeting chimera molecule selectively degrades ENL and inhibits malignant gene expression and tumor growth
Creators: name: Li, Xin
name: Yao, Yuan
name: Wu, Fangrui
name: Song, Yongcheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures, table, materials and methods.
Analysis of static and spherically-symmetric solutions in NDL theory of gravitation
Creators: name: Novello, M.
name: Bergliaffa, S. E. Perez
name: Hibberd, K. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a static solution with spherical symmetry of a recently proposed field theory of gravitation. In this so-called NDL theory, matter interacts with gravity in accordance with the Weak Equivalence Principle, while gravitons have a nonlinear self-interaction. It is shown that the predictions of NDL agree with those of General Relativity in the three classic tests. However, there are potential differences in the strong-field limit, which we illustrate by proving that this theory does not allow the existence of static and spherically symmetric black holes.
description: RevTex4, 6 pages
Short Line Railroads and Municipal Land Use Planning, Policy, and Regulation
Creators: name: Train, Alexander R
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This research puts forth an examination of the relationship between municipal planning and short line freight railroads. Methodologically, it employs a content analysis framework that explores local master plans and zoning bylaws for the presence of concepts relevant to short line railroads. A historically omitted topic, the railroads are found to be frequently omitted from plans, often conflicting with civic and recreational interests despite their increasingly efficient ability, economic and environmental, to service numerous industries. Zoning bylaws show a disfavor to these entities, and at times may exceed their authority. Moreover, they may create physical and legal limitations to new, rail-sustained industry, as well as the rehabilitation of former industrial clusters. Findings related to regulatory preemption, transportation and land use policy, corridor conversion, and shifting land use patterns are presented. Consequentially, daunting implications may resonate for both the railroad and municipalities. Recommendations encompass municipal, regional, and state policy, as well as opportunities for multi-agency collaboration, economic development initiatives, and revised regulatory structures.
explAIner: A Visual Analytics Framework for Interactive and Explainable Machine Learning
Creators: name: Spinner, Thilo
name: Schlegel, Udo
name: Schäfer, Hanna
name: El-Assady, Mennatallah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a framework for interactive and explainable machine learning that enables users to (1) understand machine learning models; (2) diagnose model limitations using different explainable AI methods; as well as (3) refine and optimize the models. Our framework combines an iterative XAI pipeline with eight global monitoring and steering mechanisms, including quality monitoring, provenance tracking, model comparison, and trust building. To operationalize the framework, we present explAIner, a visual analytics system for interactive and explainable machine learning that instantiates all phases of the suggested pipeline within the commonly used TensorBoard environment. We performed a user-study with nine participants across different expertise levels to examine their perception of our workflow and to collect suggestions to fill the gap between our system and framework. The evaluation confirms that our tightly integrated system leads to an informed machine learning process while disclosing opportunities for further extensions.
description: 9 pages paper, 2 pages references, 5 pages supplementary material (ancillary files)
A new airborne detector for atmospheric muons
Creators: name: Achenbach, C. P.
name: Cobb, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The University of Oxford has started the design and development of the new experiment ADLER (Airborne Detector for Low Energy Rays). This apparatus will measure the cosmic-ray muon flux at an altitude of 10 - 13km. The detector should be flown by aircrafts on transatlantic routes crossing the magnetic equator to investigate the flux at different geomagnetic latitudes. The goal of the experiment is to obtain better constraints on the low energy atmospheric neutrino flux and the results will be of importance to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly.
description: To appear in the proceedings of 27th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2001), Hamburg, Germany, 7-15 Aug 2001
Parent- and SLP-delivered multiple oppositions (Sugden et al., 2019)
Creators: name: Sugden, Eleanor
name: Baker, Elise
name: A. Lynn Williams
name: Munro, Natalie
name: Trivette, Carol M.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Purpose: Evidence for the multiple oppositions intervention approach indicates it should be delivered 3 times weekly; however, this high dose frequency is not provided by many speech-language pathologists worldwide. This study investigated whether parents could be involved in delivering phonological intervention to fulfill this intensity shortfall.Method: Five children with moderate-to-severe phonological impairment aged 3;3–5;11 (years;months) and 1 of their parents participated in this study using a multiple-baseline across participants design. Participants attended one 60-min clinic-based session per week for 8 weeks, and parents completed home practice 2 times per week over this period after receiving training. Parents also attended a 60-min training session prior to commencing intervention.Results: All children showed a treatment effect to treated words. Three of the 5 children demonstrated a large effect size for generalization to nontreatment words, with 1 child demonstrating a moderate effect and 1 child demonstrating no effect. However, all children showed qualitative changes to their speech system. Three of the 5 children experienced significant changes to communicative participation. Measures of treatment fidelity indicated that parents were able to competently deliver the intervention both within the clinic and at home.Conclusions: Combined parent- and speech-language pathologist–delivered multiple oppositions intervention is effective for some children with moderate-to-severe phonological impairment. The findings indicate that parents can be trained to competently and confidently deliver phonological intervention. Further evidence is needed to identify optimal child and parent characteristics most suited to this modified service delivery approach.
Supplemental Material S1. Speech analysis results.
Supplemental Material S2. Details of multiple oppositions intervention provided in this study.
Supplemental Material S3. Integration of principles of parent training outlined by Rush & Shelden (2011) into clinic-based sessions.
Supplemental Material S4. Summary of intervention tailoring provided to participants.
Sugden, E., Baker, E., Williams, A. L., Munro, N., & Trivette, C. M. (2019). Evaluation of parent- and speech-language pathologist–delivered multiple oppositions intervention for children with phonological impairment: A multiple-baseline design study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_AJSLP-18-0248
Additional file 1 of Discovering mutated driver genes through a robust and sparse co-regularized matrix factorization framework with prior information from mRNA expression patterns and interaction network
Creators: name: Xi, Jianing
name: Wang, Minghui
name: Li, Ao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary figures and tables. Figure S1. The AUCs of precision recall curves of our proposed method when the number of dimensions K increases. Figure S2. Performance comparison of our proposed method and existing network-based methods, evaluated by IntOGen list. Figure S3. Performance of our proposed method when the parameters for sparseness (or robustness) are fixed and the parameters for prior knowledge varies, where λ RV , λ LV and λ RU are fixed and λ LU varies. Figure S4. Performance of our proposed method when the parameters for sparseness (or robustness) are fixed and the parameters for prior knowledge varies, where λ RU , λ LU and λ RV are fixed and λ LV varies. Figure S5. Performance comparison of our proposed method and existing network-based methods, applied on GBM, COADREAD and BRCA datasets and evaluated by IntOGen list. Figure S6. Performance comparison of our proposed method and existing network-based methods, applied on KIRC, THCA and PRAD datasets and evaluated by CGC list. Figure S7. Performance comparison of our proposed method and existing network-based methods, applied on KIRC, THCA and PRAD datasets and evaluated by IntOGen list. Figure S8. Performance comparison of our proposed method and existing network-based methods with network information from both iRefIndex and String v10. Table S1. Fisher’s exact test on the top scored candidates of BRCA results for CGC and IntOGen benchmarking genes. Table S2. Fisher’s exact test on the top scored candidates of GBM results for CGC and IntOGen benchmarking genes. Table S3. The full list of the top 200 genes detected by our model on GBM dataset. Table S4. The full list of the top 200 genes detected by our model on COADREAD dataset. Table S5. The full list of the top 200 genes detected by our model on BRCA dataset. Table S6. Functional enrichment analysis results for KEGG pathways of the top 200 genes of the proposed method on COADREAD dataset. Table S7. Functional enrichment analysis results for KEGG pathways of the top 200 genes of the proposed method on BRCA dataset. (PDF 5670kb)
Extensions of the asymptotic symmetry algebra of general relativity
Creators: name: Flanagan, Éanna É.
name: Prabhu, Kartik
name: Shehzad, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a recently proposed extension of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra to include arbitrary infinitesimal diffeomorphisms on a (2)-sphere. To realize this extended algebra as asymptotic symmetries, we work with an extended class of spacetimes in which the unphysical metric at null infinity is not universal. We show that the symplectic current evaluated on these extended symmetries is divergent in the limit to null infinity. We also show that this divergence cannot be removed by a local and covariant redefinition of the symplectic current. This suggests that such an extended symmetry algebra cannot be realized as symmetries on the phase space of vacuum general relativity at null infinity, and that the corresponding asymptotic charges are ill-defined. However, a possible loophole in the argument is the possibility that symplectic current may not need to be covariant in order to have a covariant symplectic form. We also show that the extended algebra does not have a preferred subalgebra of translations and therefore does not admit a universal definition of Bondi 4-momentum.
description: 29 pages, v2: minor edits to the introduction, matches published version
Information, Option, and Existence Value
Creators: name: Conrad, Jon M.
name: Conrad, Jon M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: An intergenerational model of resource development is constructed to examine the concepts of option and existence value. These concepts are seen to relate to a more fundamental concept: the expected value of perfect information. The analysis would suggest that when sequencing irreversible resource developments both uncertainty and the expected value of information should be considered.
Two Dimensional Equilibrium Surface Roughness for Dissociative Dimer Dynamics
Creators: name: Lee, Deok-Sun
name: Nijs, Marcel den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equilibrium crystal surfaces, constrained to equilibrate by means of dissociative dimer deposition and evaporation, have anomalous global surface roughness. We generalize earlier results for one dimensional interfaces to two dimensions. The global surface width scales with surface size L as W^2 \sim log [L/ (log L)^{1/4}] instead of the conventional form W^2 \sim log L. The surface roughening transition does not change in nature, but its location is subject to a large and slowly varying logarithmic finite-size-scaling shift.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E
Optimal Topological Arrangement of Queues in Closed Finite Queueing Networks
Creators: name: wang, lening
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Closed queueing networks are widely used in many different kinds of scientific and business applications. Since the demands of saving energy and reducing costs are becoming more and more significant with  developing technologies, finding a systematic methodology for getting the best arrangement is very important. In this thesis, design rules are proposed for tandem and various other topologies, to help the designer find the best arrangements which maximize the throughput. Our topological arrangements problem (TAP) can be established as: the system has m-service stations in a network and each one may have different design parameters. To relax the queueing system, the original finite buffer queue is decomposed into a buffer and an infinite buffer server system. Mean Value Analysis (MVA) is used to measure the performance of each topology arrangement. Finally, mixed-integer sequential quadratic programming (MISQP) is used to solve the optimization problem and it is compared with enumeration and a simulation model of Arena (a discrete-event model).
Fayet-Iliopoulos D-terms, neutrino masses and anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking
Creators: name: Jack, I.
name: Jones, D. R. T.
name: Wild, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore, in the context of the MSSM generalised to admit massive neutrinos, an extension of the Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking solution for the soft scalar masses to incorporate Fayet-Iliopoulos D-terms. The slepton mass problem characteristic of the scenario is resolved, and the fermion mass hierarchy is explained via the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism. FCNC problems are evaded by a combination of universal doublet charges and Yukawa textures which are diagonalised by transforming the left-handed fields only.
description: 13 pages, TeX, Uses Harvmac (big). Improved R-parity discussion (v2). Redundant singlet excised (v3). Figure added and minor corrections, added references (v4)
Predictive effect of estimated glomerular filtrate rate by creatinine or cystatin C on mortality in patients with coronary artery disease
Creators: name: Chen, Shiqun
name: Zhou, Yang
name: Liang, Guoxiao
name: Wu, Wanying
name: Huang, Zhigang
name: Shi, Lile
name: Gao, Yuwei
name: Gu, Xia
name: Wang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Renal dysfunction leads to poor prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Current studies have reported the prognosis or mortality of various diseases using different estimated glomerular filtrate rate (eGFR) formulas, while the performance of these equations is unclear in CAD patients. We aim to evaluate the predict effect of creatinine-based eGFR (eGFRcr), cystatin C-based eGFR (eGFRcys), and both creatinine and cystatin C-based eGFR (eGFRcr-cys) in CAD patients. A total of 23,178 patients with CAD were included from CIN-II cohort study. The association of eGFRcr, eGFRcys and eGFRcr-cys with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality was detected by Cox regression analysis. The predictive effect of eGFRcr, eGFRcys and eGFRcr-cys on mortality was assessed. During a median follow up of 4.3 years, totally 2051 patients (8.8%) experience all-cause mortality, of which 1427 patients (6.2%) died of cardiovascular disease. For the detection of cardiovascular mortality among CAD patients, eGFRcr-cys had high discriminatory capacity with area under the curve (AUC) in receiver operator characteristic analysis of 0.730, which was significantly better than eGFRcr (AUC = 0.707, p < 0.001) and eGFRcys (AUC = 0.719, p < 0.001). Similar results were observed in all-cause mortality. Restricted cubic spline showed a U-shaped association between eGFRcr and all outcomes in patients with both reduced and supranormal eGFR levels, while a L-shaped association in eGFRcys and eGFRcr-cys. Estimated GFR based on both creatinine and cystatin C has highest predictive effect for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among CAD patients. Meanwhile, supranormal eGFRcr may indicate a higher risk of mortality.
How Strange! Are My Eyes Mistaken?":  A Study of Arakida Reijo and Her Book of Fantastic Tales, Ayashi no yogatari
Creators: name: Karavias, Miriam
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Arakida Reijo has been described as the most prolific female writer in Japanese premodern history, with her literary output encompassing a huge number of texts in a variety of genres. However, her works remain for the most part untranslated from the original classical Japanese, and she is almost a nonentity in modern literary academia. Given the widespread lack of female education in the Tokugawa period combined with the era’s general image of male societal domination, an argument might be made for Reijo’s inclusion in modern scholarship due to her status as an educated woman alone. However, Reijo’s masterful handling of complicated plots, both interesting as entertainment and rewarding for further academic study, merits a place for her in the Japanese canon even apart from her rarity as an educated female author from the Tokugawa period.
As will be examined in this paper, Reijo’s treatment of supernatural women in her 1778 collection of fantastic tales Ayashi no yogatari, or “Tales of the Uncanny,” stands as an interesting departure from the often misogynistic themes in premodern Japanese supernatural tales. Reijo’s treatment of supernatural women becomes all the more interesting when compared against traditional and contemporary literature, as rather than attempting a complete reversal of ideas and motifs of her day, Reijo instead affects more subtle but important changes. While the women in her stories still often lack agency and interiority, and furthermore still play the role of the “monster,” subject to supernatural metamorphoses, Reijo’s tales often lack both the ultimate judgement of these characters and the subsequent didactic atmosphere present in so many similar tales. An analysis of Reijo’s tales in comparison with traditional and contemporary literature reveals the uniqueness of her approach and its import in the Japanese literary tradition.
Design and Implementation of Digital Information Security for Physical Documents
Creators: name: Wang, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this thesis is to improve the security for physical paper documents. Providing information security has been difficult in environments that rely on physical paper documents to implement business processes. Our work presents the design of a digital information security system for paper documents, called "CryptoPaper", that uses 2-dimensional codes to represent data and its security properties on paper. A special scanner system is designed for "CryptoPaper" which uses image recognition techniques and cloud-based access control to display plaintext of encrypted and encoded data to authorized users.
Do Word-Level Characteristics Predict Spontaneous Finiteness Marking in Specific Language Impairment?
Creators: name: Wilson, Patrick S
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: The correct use of morphological suffixes in obligatory contexts reflects linguistic knowledge and competence of speakers. Grammatical knowledge is acquired during a child’s period of primary language acquisition, and may be partial or incomplete due to normal linguistic variation found during acquisition, due to a child’s level of progression through typical chronological development, or due to the presence of language disorders, like specific language impairment (SLI). In the current study, we ask whether characteristics of verbs make it more or less likely that children will correctly use an inflectional morpheme. The morphemes of interest in the current study were third person singular –s (3S) and past tense –ed (ED). Data for analysis were taken from a database of spontaneous language samples collected from 40 children (20 with SLI and 20 developing typically; Hoover, Storkel, & Rice, 2012). Spontaneous language samples were analyzed for the presence or absence of each morpheme in obligatory contexts. For each word item, the uninflected base word was additionally analyzed for a number of phonological and lexical variables. After comparing children with SLI to typically developing peers group differences emerged with respect to the effect of phonological and lexical variables. Moreover, different variables were determined to predict the 3S and ED morphemes. The results are discussed highlighting relevant theoretical and clinical implications.
Translating Travel in the Spanish Sahara: English Versions of Sanmao's Stories of the Sahara
Creators: name: Xu, Ying
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Sanmao (1943-91), author of over 19 books, is well known in Chinese-speaking communities for her travel writing. The present work offers a critical introduction to Sanmao’s life and work as well as an English translation of three selections from her most recognized travelogue, among both general readers and critics, Stories of the Sahara (1976). This text recounts her experience of travelling in the Western Sahara with her husband José María Quero y Ruíz from Spain. Chapter 1 introduces Sanmao’s career, her travel narratives, and the extant scholarship on her work to the English-speaking audience. More specifically, it highlights her time living in the Western Sahara among three cultures and languages—Chinese, Spanish, and Sahrawi—and contextualizes Stories of the Sahara, especially drawing attention to moments that require special care when the text is moved from Chinese to English. Next, this chapter focuses on the central role that language and translation play in Sanmao’s travel writing. This analysis is informed by Roman Jakobson’s classification of translation as used to study travel literature by Michael Cronin. I provide a discussion of my choices concerning translating the texture of the Western Sahara and the linguistic aspects of Sanmao’s writing, as well as the characteristics of Sanmao’s legacy that I attempt to emphasize through my translation. Chapter 2 includes my English translation of three texts from Stories of the Sahara. A brief introduction and a short conclusion open and close this thesis.
Additional file 1 of Barriers to and facilitators of HIV serostatus disclosure to sexual partners among postpartum women living with HIV in South Africa
Creators: name: Adeniyi, Oladele Vincent
name: Nwogwugwu, Charlotte
name: Ajayi, Anthony Idowu
name: Lambert, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. PMTCT Questionnaire (Adeniyi, et al., 2018).
A compendium of pseudoholomorphic beasts in R x (S^1 x S^2)
Creators: name: Taubes, Clifford Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32Q65, 57R17, 57R57

description: This article describes various moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves on the symplectization of a particular overtwisted contact structure on S^1 x S^2. This contact structure appears when one considers a closed self dual form on a 4-manifold as a symplectic form on the complement of its zero locus. The article is focussed mainly on disks, cylinders and three-holed spheres, but it also supplies groundwork for a description of moduli spaces of curves with more punctures and non-zero genus.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol6/paper23.abs.html
Additional file 2 of Altered gut microbiota and its association with inflammation in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a single-center observational study in Japan
Creators: name: Ikubo, Yumiko
name: Sanada, Takayuki Jujo
name: Hosomi, Koji
name: Park, Jonguk
name: Naito, Akira
name: Shoji, Hiroki
name: Misawa, Tomoko
name: Suda, Rika
name: Sekine, Ayumi
name: Sugiura, Toshihiko
name: Shigeta, Ayako
name: Nanri, Hinako
name: Sakao, Seiichiro
name: Tanabe, Nobuhiro
name: Mizuguchi, Kenji
name: Kunisawa, Jun
name: Suzuki, Takuji
name: Tatsumi, Koichiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2. Univariate analysis for overall microbiome community variation using the envfit function. FDR: false discovery rate.
Risk factors and outcomes in patients who switched from peritoneal dialysis to physician-oriented or patient-oriented kidney replacement therapy
Creators: name: Zhang, Liu
name: Guan, Xu
name: Liu, Liang
name: Huang, Yinghui
name: Xiong, Jiachuan
name: Zhao, Jinghong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: We aimed to compare the cardiovascular events and mortality in patients who underwent either physician-oriented or patient-oriented kidney replacement therapy (KRT) conversion due to discontinuation of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Patients with end-stage kidney disease who were receiving PD and required a switch to an alternative KRT were included. They were divided into physician-oriented group or patient-oriented group based on the decision-making process. Logistic regression analysis was used to explore the influencing factors related to KRT conversion in PD patients. The association of physician-oriented or patient-oriented KRT conversion with outcomes after the conversion was assessed by using Cox proportional hazards models. A total of 257 PD patients were included in the study. The median age at catheterization was 35 years. 69.6% of the participants were male. The median duration of PD was 20 months. 162 participants had patient-oriented KRT conversion, while 95 had physician-oriented KRT conversion. Younger patients, those with higher education levels, higher income, and no diabetes were more likely to have patient-oriented KRT conversion. Over a median follow-up of 39 months, 40 patients experienced cardiovascular events and 16 patients died. Physician-oriented KRT conversion increased nearly 3.8-fold and 4.0-fold risk of cardiovascular events and death, respectively. After adjusting for confounders, physician-oriented KRT conversion remained about a 3-fold risk of cardiovascular events. Compared to patient-oriented KRT conversion, PD patients who underwent physician-oriented conversion had higher risks of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. Factors included age at catheterization, education level, annual household income, and history of diabetes mellitus.
Thermodynamic Analysis of the Application of Thermal Energy Storage to a Combined Heat and Power Plant
Creators: name: McDaniel, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: The main objective of this paper is to show the economic and environmental benefits that can be attained through the coupling of borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) and combined heat and power (CHP). The subject of this investigation is the University of Massachusetts CHP District Heating System. Energy prices are significantly higher during the winter months due to the limited supply of natural gas. This dearth not only increases operating costs but also emissions, due to the need to burn ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD). The application of a TES system to a CHP plant allows the plant to deviate from the required thermal load in order to operate in a more economically and environmentally optimal manner. TES systems are charged by a heat input when there is excess or inexpensive energy, this heat is then stored and discharged when it is needed. The scope of this paper is to present a TRNSYS model of a BTES system that is designed using actual operational data from the campus CHP plant. The TRNSYS model predicts that a BTES efficiency of 88% is reached after 4 years of operation. It is concluded that the application of BTES to CHP enables greater flexibility in the operation of the CHP plant. Such flexibility can allow the system to produce more energy in low demand periods. This operational attribute leads to significantly reduced operating costs and emissions as it enables the replacement of ULSD or liquefied natural gas (LNG) with natural gas.
Pinnixa latissima Coelho 1997
Creators: name: Coelho, Petrônio Alves
name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pinnotheridae
Pinnixa
Pinnixa latissima

description: Pinnixa latissima Coelho, 1997
Western Atlantic: Brazil (Pernambuco to Bahia) (Coelho 1997).
 Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: PE: Coelho & Ramos (1972), as Pinnixa sp. C; BA: Coelho (1997).
description: Published as part of Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-58 in Zootaxa 1956 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1956.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5241063
Quasi-Isotropization of the Inhomogeneous Mixmaster Universe Induced by an Inflationary Process
Creators: name: Kirillov, A. A.
name: Montani, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a ``generic'' inhomogeneous ``bridge'' solution for a cosmological model in the presence of a real self-interacting scalar field. This solution connects a Kasner-like regime to an inflationary stage of evolution and therefore provides a dynamical mechanism for the quasi-isotropization of the universe. In the framework of a standard Arnowitt-Deser-Misner Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamics and by adopting Misner-Chitrè-like variables, we integrate the Einstein-Hamilton-Jacobi equation corresponding to a ``generic'' inhomogeneous cosmological model whose evolution is influenced by the coupling with a bosonic field, expected to be responsible for a spontaneous symmetry breaking configuration. The dependence of the detailed evolution of the universe on the initial conditions is then appropriately characterized.
description: 17 pages, no figure, to appear on PRD
USER MANUAL: CalcPlotAnomaly Matlab function set for the calculation and plotting of anomalies.
Creators: name: Varona. H., L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Anomalies Computation
Matlab function

description: USER MANUAL: CalcPlotAnomaly Matlab function set for the calculation and plotting of anomalies.
description: Humberto L. Varona acknowledges the TRIATLAS project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under grant agreement no. 817578. Moacyr Araujo acknowledges the support of the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change-Rede CLIMA (FINEP grants 01.13.0353-00). This work is a contribution to the Projects INCT AmbTropic–Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Tropical Marine Environments (grants 565054/2010-4, 625 8936/2011, and 465634/2014-1, CNPq/FAPESB/CAPES), and to the International Joint Laboratory TAPIOCA (IRD-UFPE-UFRPE).
description: {"references": ["Humberto L. Varona. (2021). CalcPlotAnomaly: Matlab function set for the calculation and plotting of anomalies (1.01). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5576889"]}