cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Querying Large Text Databases for Efficient Information Extraction
Creators: name: Agichtein, Eugene
name: Gravano, Luis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Computer science

description: A wealth of data is hidden within unstructured text. This data is often best exploited in structured or relational form, which is suited for sophisticated query processing, for integration with relational databases, and for data mining. Current information extraction techniques extract relations from a text database by examining every document in the database. This exhaustive approach is not practical, or sometimes even feasible, for large databases. In this paper, we develop an efficient query-based technique to identify documents that are potentially useful for the extraction of a target relation. We start by sampling the database to characterize the documents from which an information extraction system manages to extract relevant tuples. Then, we apply machine learning and information retrieval techniques to derive queries likely to match additional useful documents in the database. Finally, we issue these queries to the database to retrieve documents from which the information extraction system can extract the final relation. Our technique requires that databases support only a minimal boolean query interface, and is independent of the choice of the underlying information extraction system. We report a thorough experimental evaluation over more than one million documents that shows that we significantly improve the efficiency of the extraction process by focusing only on promising documents. Our proposed technique could be used to query a standard web search engine, hence providing a building block for efficient information extraction over the web at large.
The good, the bad, the thirsty : de-mystification in the postmodern vampire film
Creators: name: Hughes, Jessica Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The predominance of romance, exoticism and mystical powers of the supernatural embodied onscreen by the character of the vampire has created both allure and apathy in viewers. While vampires have been portrayed in a large number of films since the early days of cinema, there has recently been a considerable modification in their depiction. Rather than the demons of Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922) and various other Dracula adaptations, or the romantic figures of Interview with the Vampire (Jordan, 1994), Twilight (Hardwicke, 2008), and even the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series (Whedon, 1997-2003), a selection of contemporary vampires are informed by a postmodern reconfiguration of the monster. This thesis examines the global and hybrid nature of these films by establishing a select group based on the character of the postmodern vampire. These postmodern vampires are sympathetic and de-mystified, exhibiting symptoms stemming from a natural illness or misfortune. Over the course of this thesis, both narrative and stylistic patterns emerge, emphasizing the way these films stray from pre-established conventions of vampire films. This thesis first investigates onscreen portrayals of sympathetic female vampires through recurring depictions of melancholy and isolation in The Addiction (Ferrara, 1995), Let The Right One In (Alfredson, 2008), and Trouble Every Day (Denis, 2001), followed by the placement of South Korean film Thirst (2009) within Park Chan-wook’s oeuvre as a filmmaker notorious for graphic depictions of violence and revenge, and finally the sociopolitical context of Hong Kong film Mr. Vampire (Lau, 1985), which reflects the growing tension of the state in the years leading up to its 1997 return to China. The portrayal of the vampire as a sympathetic figure allows for a shift away from the conventional focus on myth and the exotic, toward a renewed construction of the vampire in terms of its contribution to generic hybridization and cultural adaptation.
Rule Chaining in MARVEL: Dynamic Binding of Parameters
Creators: name: Heineman, George T.
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
name: Barghouti, Naser S.
name: Ben-Shaul, Israel Z.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Computer science

description: Marvel is a rule-based development environment (RBDE) that assists in the development of software projects. Marvel encapsulates each software development activity in a rule that specifies the condition for invoking the activity and its effects on the components of the project under development. These components are abstracted as objects and stored in a persistent object database. Each rule applies to a specific class of objects, which is specified as the parameter of the rule. Firing a rule entails binding its formal parameter to a specific object. If the rule changes the object in such a way that the conditions of other rules become satisfied, these other rules are automatically fired. A problem arises in this forward chaining model when the classes of the objects manipulated by the rules are different. Marvel has to determine which object to bind to the parameter of each rule in the chain, based on the object manipulated by the original rule that initiated the chain. We describe a heuristic approach for solving this problem in the current MARVEL implementation and introduce an algorithm approach that does better.
Becoming a birth mother of a child with fetal alcohol syndrome
Creators: name: Badry, Dorothy Eleanor
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2008

description: Bibliography: p. 222-246
description: The term and the meanings associated with 'Fetal Alcohol Syndrome' (FAS) originates from, and to a large extent has become institutionally colonized by, a positivistic-science dominated bio-medical model. This dissertation houses a qualitative inquiry into the lived experience effects and affects of what it means to become and be a birth mother of a child diagnosed with FAS. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, in contemporary Western society, has become overtly represented as a moralized disability. As such, the dissertation locates - historically, culturally, socially, politically, and medically - the evolution of a prevailing discourse, grounded in the bio-medical definition of FAS, that suggests if only women refrain, by choice, from alcohol use during pregnancy, then FAS will cease to exist. Discourse on prevention suggests if pregnant women do not refrain from alcohol, then these mothers-to-be must be held responsible - ethically, socially, morally, medically, politically, etc. - for any alcohol-related difficulties the child experiences. Although there are 'takes' and 'solutions' on what to do about FAS in medical or political or cultural environments, there are very few studies that offer any in-depth insights or understandings of the lives of birth mothers who, indeed, give birth to a child diagnosed with FAS. Therefore, the purpose of the research advanced in this dissertation is to develop deeper understandings of the lived experiences of birth mothers of children diagnosed with FAS. To accomplish this inquiry, a hermeneutic phenomenology methodology was employed to provide a thick descriptive and significantly interpretive frame by which birth mothers with children diagnosed with FAS could be engaged with in meaningful, non-threatening conversations about their life experiences. This novel approach resulted in conversational - interview data, hermeneutically cared for, showing the lives of eight (8) women between the ages of twenty-five (25) and sixty (60) all of whom had given birth to one or more children medically diagnosed with FAS. Thus, this study sought to honour the often unheard voices its participant women whose lives were significantly fraught with poverty, trauma, abuse, violence, and alcoholism.
Additional file 1 of Experiences of frontline healthcare workers and their views about support during COVID-19 and previous pandemics: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
Creators: name: Billings, Jo
name: Ching, Brian Chi Fung
name: Gkofa, Vasiliki
name: Greene, Talya
name: Bloomfield, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
The Construction of Gender through Violence in Medieval France from the Letters of Remission, 1410-1411
Creators: name: Bailey, Allison Tracy Maria
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: History--Medieval
subject: History--European

description: Violence was pervasive in medieval society, and as such it was regulated by strong sociocultural norms, as well as judicial and customary laws. Violence, but also its acceptable or justifiable uses, therefore were socially constructed. Gender, like violence, was also strongly controlled and regulated through social norms that dictated how men and women were to behave. Because both violence and gender were socially constructed and regulated they should be studied together. This project seeks to investigate the relationship between violence and the construction and reinforcement of gender identities (masculinity and femininity) in medieval France from the year 1410-1411 based on the letters of remission. The letters of remission were pardons granted by the king in the form of a royal letter, given to supplicants who had committed crimes but could justify their actions. The letters under investigation here were granted to supplicants who sought remission for violent crimes. I will argue that violence was not only used to construct, reinforce, and maintain gender identities, but by seeking and especially being granted pardon on these grounds, these actions were legitimized and therefore perpetuated their social acceptability.
Adiabatic Theorem for Discrete Time Evolution
Creators: name: Tanaka, Atushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A proof of the adiabatic theorem for quantum systems whose time evolution proceeds along discrete time, e.g., quantum maps and quantum circuits, is shown.
description: 2pages; typos corrected; v3 added "NOTE ADDED" on an earlier work
Solanum hotteanum Urb. & Ekman
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum hotteanum

description: Solanum hotteanum Urb. & Ekman, Ark. Bot. 22(10): 51. 1929 Type: Haiti. Massif de la Hotte, western group, Tarbec, top of Morne Formon, ca. 2225 m, 1 Jan 1927, E.L. Ekman H.7489 (holotype, S [S04-2917]).
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness of physical activity intervention in children – results based on the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) study
Creators: name: Kuvaja-Köllner, Virpi
name: Lintu, Niina
name: Lindi, Virpi
name: Rissanen, Elisa
name: Eloranta, Aino-Maija
name: Kiiskinen, Sanna
name: Martikainen, Janne
name: Kankaanpää, Eila
name: Valtonen, Hannu
name: Lakka, Timo A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1:
Process-based Software Tweaking with Mobile Agents
Creators: name: Valetto, Giuseppe
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Computer science

description: We describe an approach based upon software process technology to on-the-fly monitoring, redeployment, reconfiguration, and in general adaptation of distributed software applications, in short 'software tweaking'. We choose the term tweaking to refer to modifications in structure and behavior that can be made to individual components, as well as sets thereof, or the overall target system configuration, such as adding, removing or substituting components, while the system is running and without bringing it down. The goal of software tweaking is manifold: supporting run-time software composition, enforcing adherence to requirements, ensuring uptime and quality of service of mission-critical systems, recovering from and preventing faults, seamless system upgrading, etc. Our approach involves dispatching and coordinating software agents - named Worklets - via a process engine, since successful tweaking of a complex distributed software system often requires the concerted action of multiple agents on multiple components. The software tweaking process must incorporate and decide upon knowledge about the specifications and architecture of the target software, as well as Worklets capabilities. Software tweaking is correlated to a variety of other software processes - such as configuration management, deployment, validation and evolution - and allows to address at run time a number of related concerns that are normally dealt with only at development time.
Revisiting the Long/Soft-Short/Hard Classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Fermi Era
Creators: name: Zhang, Fu-Wen
name: Shao, Lang
name: Yan, Jing-Zhi
name: Wei, Da-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a statistical analysis of the temporal and spectral properties of the latest Fermi gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to revisit the classification of GRBs. We find that the bimodalities of duration and the energy ratio ($E_{\mathrm{peak}}$/Fluence) and the anti-correlation between spectral hardness (hardness ratio ($HR$), peak energy and spectral index) and duration ($T_{90}$) support the long/soft $-$ short/hard classification scheme for Fermi GRBs. The $HR - T_{90}$ anti-correlation strongly depends upon the spectral shape of GRBs and energy bands, and the bursts with the curved spectra in the typical BATSE energy bands show a tighter anti-correlation than those with the power-law spectra in the typical BAT energy bands. This might explain why the $HR - T_{90}$ correlation is not evident for those GRB samples detected by instruments like {\it Swift} with a narrower/softer energy bandpass. We also analyze the intrinsic energy correlation for the GRBs with measured redshifts and well defined peak energies. The current sample suggests $E_{\mathrm{p,rest}}=2455\times (E_{\mathrm{iso}}/10^{52})^{0.59}$ for short GRBs, significantly different from that for long GRBs. However, both the long and short GRBs comply with the same $E_{\mathrm{p,rest}}-L_{\mathrm{iso}}$ correlation.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Evaluation of nitrate in groundwater under long-term manure application
Creators: name: Kyte, Emily
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nitrate
subject: Groundwater
subject: Manure application
subject: Long-term study
subject: Hydrogeology
subject: Stable isotopes
subject: Recharge
subject: Denitrification
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Hydrology

description: Over-application of manure to agricultural fields can contaminate groundwater resources through the leaching of nitrogen below the root zone. The goal of this study was to evaluate the factors affecting the spatial and temporal distribution of nitrate in groundwater following 44 years of manure application. The sampling of 26 wells over an 18-month period revealed that nitrate concentrations ranged from <10 mg-N/L to 1350 mg-N/L and isotopic analysis of 15N-NO3 and 18O-NO3 showed that denitrification occurred in 16 well locations. Generalized additive mixed models (GAMM’s) confirmed that cumulative manure loading had the largest control on the current spatial distribution of groundwater nitrate, while a decrease in groundwater nitrate with sampling date and an increase with dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and were also significant relationships. Evidence for the leaching of nitrogen into groundwater was found in well locations where manure was applied within the past 16 years. The groundwater nitrate trends observed in this long-term study suggest that historical management practices will affect groundwater quality for many decades to come.
An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol
Creators: name: Baset, Salman Abdul
name: Schulzrinne, Henning G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Computer science

description: Skype is a peer-to-peer VoIP client developed by KaZaa in 2003. Skype claims that it can work almost seamlessly across NATs and firewalls and has better voice quality than the MSN and Yahoo IM applications. It encrypts calls end-to-end, and stores user information in a decentralized fashion. Skype also supports instant messaging and conferencing. This report analyzes key Skype functions such as login, NAT and firewall traversal, call establishment, media transfer, codecs, and conferencing under three different network setups. Analysis is performed by careful study of Skype network traffic.
Data Migration in an Object-Oriented Software Development Environment
Creators: name: Sokolsky, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: As software systems grow from small systems developed by a handful of people to large, complex systems developed by hundreds of people, the environment in which they are developed evolves. Large software systems contain vast quantities of data that must migrate to new development environments. Object-oriented software development environments (OOSDEs) have received research attention recently, and seem destined to become commonplace for software development of these large systems. System growth involves data migration, a problem that must be solved before OOSDEs become practical tools. Data migration includes immigration (import) of systems developed using traditional facilities, reorganization of systems supported by object-oriented databases (objectbases), and schema evolution as the class structure of the objectbase changes. This thesis presents graphics-oriented tools -- Marvelizer and Organ -- that solve the first two problems for the Marvel OOSDE. Marvelizer and Organ have been implemented and used on Marvel itself.
Solanum gundlachii var. monteverdense O. Schulz
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum gundlachii
Solanum gundlachii urb. var. monteverdense o. schulz, in urban, symb. antill. 6: 210. 1909

description: Solanum gundlachii Urb. var. monteverdense O. Schulz, in Urban, Symb. Antill. 6: 210. 1909 Type: Cuba. Monteverde, 800 m, H.F.A. von Eggers 5108 (holotype, B destroyed, no duplicates yet found).
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Real-time Portfolio Management and Automatic Extensions: MS Thesis
Creators: name: Patel, Tushar M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Computer science

description: This thesis has been motivated by the problem of real-time portfolio management. The primary work is the creation of a real-time portfolio management application — SPLENDORS [Patel 91]. It allows the monitoring of the changing market conditions using appropriate criteria according to the condition being monitored (for example, the prices of a volatile security can be monitored more frequently than that of a stable security) as well as the investment philosophy of the portfolio owner (for example, the same security might be monitored more often for a trader and less often for a long-term stable investor). SPLENDORS allows the end user to add program components from a pre-defined library of reusable generic components without programming to the running system without having to bring it down. This makes it possible to extend the system as appropriate by non-programmers, on the fly, to represent additional securities purchased or to represent portfolios created for new customers by non-programmers. This is done using interpretive constructs. When SPLENDORS is brought down (typically at the end of the trading day), it converts the additional program components to a form that can be compiled. This means that a fully compiled instance of the system can be created for the next trading day. Thus, SPLENDORS has application generator like features that allows non programmers to extend the SPLENDORS system without programming. However, unlike the usual application generator, the SPLENDORS application generation is extensible. It is possible for the PROFIT and C programmers to create new program components and integrate them with SPLENDORS and making these additions available to non programmers.
Lattice QCD with 12 Degenerate Quark Flavors
Creators: name: Jin, Xiao-Yong
name: Mawhinney, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on new data from additional zero temperature simulations of QCD with 12 flavors. This is a continuation of previous studies using the DBW2 gauge action and naive staggered fermions. With the use of the force gradient integrator and a multiple-quark-mass preconditioned HMC, we have done simulations with input quark masses from $m_q=0.003$ to $m_q=0.008$. We have observed a metastable, first order, bulk transition that occurs at small input quark masses. As the quark mass increases, this first order bulk transition ends at a second order critical point, and, for still heavier quark masses, becomes the cross-over we have previously reported. We present measurements of hadron masses, decay constants and other low energy observables in the small quark mass region on the weak coupling side of the bulk transition. Our results show that the behavior of the system is still consistent with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. We also discuss a preliminary investigation into the behavior of the bulk transition itself. We have found that, as the system approaches the second order critical end point, the scalar singlet meson becomes lighter. Thus it appears that the critical endpoint corresponds to a continuum limit theory only involving scalars and, following known triviality arguments, this is likely a free field theory. The presence of this critical endpoint could influence scaling of lattice observables in the conventional continuum limit.
description: 7 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables. Contribution to the XXIX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 10-16, 2011, Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe, California
Additional file 2 of Cost-effectiveness of physical activity intervention in children – results based on the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) study
Creators: name: Kuvaja-Köllner, Virpi
name: Lintu, Niina
name: Lindi, Virpi
name: Rissanen, Elisa
name: Eloranta, Aino-Maija
name: Kiiskinen, Sanna
name: Martikainen, Janne
name: Kankaanpää, Eila
name: Valtonen, Hannu
name: Lakka, Timo A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2:
Diagnostic accuracy of arterial spin labeling in differentiating between primary central nervous system lymphoma and high-grade glioma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: You, Guoliang
name: Wu, Honggang
name: Lei, Bo
name: Wan, Xiaoqiang
name: Chen, Shu
name: Zheng, Niandong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Existing studies have confirmed the accuracy of arterial spin labeling (ASL) in differentiating between primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) and high-grade glioma (HGG). We aimed to consolidate the existing evidence with a meta-analysis. Six literature databases were searched for relevant papers. After assessing the quality of studies, bivariate regression was performed, and the pooled sensitivity (SEN), specificity (SPE), positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic score, diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and the area under the curve (AUC) of the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve were calculated, along with the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Deeks’ test was used to determine risk of publication bias. Ten high-quality studies, comprising 151 patients with PCNSL and 455 with HGG, were included. The pooled SEN was 0.79 (95% CI: 0.72–0.85), pooled SPE was 0.90 (95% CI: 0.84–0.94), pooled PLR was 8.07 (95% CI: 5.01–13.02), pooled NLR was 0.23 (95% CI: 0.17–0.32), pooled diagnostic score was 3.56 (95% CI: 2.94–4.18), and pooled DOR was 35.10 (95% CI: 18.83–65.45). The AUC of SROC was 0.86 (95% CI: 0.83–0.89). No publication bias was found. ASL demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy in differentiating between PCNSL and HGG.
Quasiparticle scattering measurements of laminar and turbulent vortex flow in the spin-down of superfluid 3He-B
Creators: name: Hosio, Jaakko
name: Eltsov, Vladimir
name: Krusius, Matti
name: Mäkinen, Jere
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of quantized vortices is studied in superfluid 3He-B after a rapid stop of rotation. We use Andreev reflection of thermal excitations to monitor vortex motion with quartz tuning fork oscillators in two different experimental setups at temperatures below 0.2Tc. Deviations from ideal cylindrical symmetry in the flow environment cause the early decay to become turbulent. This is identified from a rapid initial overshoot in the vortex density above the value before the spin-down and its subsequent decay with a t^(-3/2) time dependence. The high polarization of the vortices along the rotation axis significantly suppresses the effective turbulent kinematic viscosity below the values reported for more homogeneous turbulence and leads to a laminar late-time response. The vortex dissipation down to T < 0.15Tc is determined from the precession frequency of the polarized vortex configuration. In the limit of vanishing normal component density, the laminar dissipation is found to approach a temperature-independent value, whose origin is currently under discussion.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of Cost-effectiveness of physical activity intervention in children – results based on the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) study
Creators: name: Kuvaja-Köllner, Virpi
name: Lintu, Niina
name: Lindi, Virpi
name: Rissanen, Elisa
name: Eloranta, Aino-Maija
name: Kiiskinen, Sanna
name: Martikainen, Janne
name: Kankaanpää, Eila
name: Valtonen, Hannu
name: Lakka, Timo A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3:
Dark matter line search using a joint analysis of dwarf galaxies with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Creators: name: Geringer-Sameth, Alex
name: Koushiappas, Savvas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a joint analysis of dwarf galaxy data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in search of dark matter annihilation into a gamma-ray line. We employ a novel statistical method that takes into account the spatial and spectral information of individual photon events from a sample of seven dwarf galaxies. Dwarf galaxies show no evidence of a gamma-ray line between 10 GeV and 1 TeV. The subsequent upper limit on the annihilation cross section to a two-photon final state is 3.9(+7.1)(-3.7) x 10^-26 cm^3/s at 130 GeV, where the errors reflect the systematic uncertainty in the distribution of dark matter within the dwarf galaxies.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Replaced with version accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in PRD
Interactive Multimedia Explanation for Equipment Maintenance and Repair
Creators: name: Feiner, Steven K.
name: McKeown, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: COMET (COordinated Multimedia Explanation Testbed) is a research system that we are developing to explore the coordinated generation of multimedia explanations of equipment maintenance and repair procedures. The form and content of all material presented is generated interactively, with an emphasis on coordinating multiple media to allow cross-references between media and to make possible display layout that reflects the fine-grain relationships among the material presented. COMET's architecture includes multiple static and dynamic knowledge sources, a content planner, a media coordinator, media generators (currently text and graphics), and a media layout manager. Examples are given of the kinds of material processed and produced by each of the components.
Additional file 1 of Stakeholder-engaged research: strategies for the prevention and control of overweight and obesity in Kenya
Creators: name: Wanjau, Mary Njeri
name: Kivuti-Bitok, Lucy W.
name: Aminde, Leopold N.
name: Veerman, J. Lennert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1. Displayed lists of all the identified strategies at the workshop. These was the list of identified strategies that was compiled and displayed at the front of the workshop room. The stakeholders’ ranking is also displayed through the coloured stickers they have put against specific strategies for the.
Development of novel peptides for blocking aggregation and caspase-3 cleavage of TDP-43
Creators: name: Liu, Rui
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) is a protein that is thought to be involved the pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frototemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Several TDP-43 mutations have been found in sporadic and familial ALS and FTLD. In patients with these neurodegenerative diseases, TDP-43 forms insoluble inclusions in the nucleus and cytoplasm of neurons. Evidence shows that TDP-43 is abnormally cleaved by caspase-3 and that the truncated inclusions were toxic to cells, which may be the cause of neurodegenerative diseases. To explore novel treatments of neurodegenerative diseases, we identified regions in TDP-43 that are bound by TDP-43 itself or by caspase-3 using high density peptide array analysis. Based on the identification of the key regions, peptides that might be able to block the interactions were designed. We found our synthetic peptides could effectively inhibit the formation of TDP-43 protein aggregations in a concentration-dependent manner in Hela cells in which a mutated human TDP-43 gene was overexpressed. However, these peptides could not prevent cell death. These results suggest that TDP-43 aggregation is a consequence of the cell death process rather than a cause. In addition, the synthetic peptides that are able to block the binding of caspase-3 to TDP-43 in a cell-free assay were also effective in inhibiting the cleavage of TDP-43 in cultured neuronal cells after NMDA insults. Furthermore, application of our peptide was able to block NMDA-induced, caspase-3 dependent cell death. These results suggest new approaches to treatment of ALS and FTLD.
Solanum lomense Britton & P. Wilson, Bull. Torrey Bot.
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum lomense

description: Solanum lomense Britton & P. Wilson, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 53: 464. 1926 Type: Cuba. Prov. Oriente, Loma San Juan, near Loma del Gato, Hongolosongo, 22 Apr 1926, Bro. Clement 2520 (holotype, NY [NY00111364]) (“ Bro. León ” as collector in protologue). as “ lomensis ”.
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Solid-phase C_60 in the peculiar binary XX Oph?
Creators: name: Evans, A.
name: van Loon, J. Th.
name: Woodward, C. E.
name: Gehrz, R. D.
name: Helton, L. A.
name: Clayton, G. C.
name: Rushton, M. T.
name: Eyres, S. P. S.
name: Krautter, J.
name: Starrfield, S.
name: Wagner, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present infrared spectra of the binary XX Oph obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The data show some evidence for the presence of solid C_60 - the first detection of C_60 in the solid phase - together with the well-known ``Unidentified Infrared'' emission features. We suggest that, in the case of XX Oph, the C_60 is located close to the hot component, and that in general it is preferentially excited by stars having effective temperatures in the range 15,000-30,000K. C_60 may be common in circumstellar environments, but un-noticed in the absence of a suitable exciting source.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
An Object-Oriented Model for Network Management
Creators: name: Sengupta, Soumitra
name: Dupuy, Alexander
name: Schwartz, Jed
name: Yemini, Yechiam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Computer science

description: Most networks today lack management tools that support automated identification of faults and bottlenecks and support effective recovery procedures. The NetMATE project, discussed in this paper, addresses the issue related to distributed network management of large, heterogeneous networks. NetMATE employs a modular, object-oriented approach to develop extensible management tools and a model for network information. The first prototype of the system confirms the elegance of the design.
Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection
Creators: name: Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G.
name: Gravano, Luis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Computer science

description: Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are 'hidden' behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many such databases at once through a unified query interface. A critical task for a metasearcher to process a query efficiently and effectively is the selection of the most promising databases for the query, a task that typically relies on statistical summaries of the database contents. Unfortunately, web accessible text databases do not generally export content summaries. In this paper, we present an algorithm to derive content summaries from 'uncooperative' databases by using 'focused query probes,' which adaptively zoom in on and extract documents that are representative of the topic coverage of the databases. Our content summaries are the first to include absolute document frequency estimates for the database words. We also present a novel database selection algorithm that exploits both the extracted content summaries and a hierarchical classification of the databases, automatically derived during probing, to compensate for potentially incomplete content summaries. Finally, we evaluate our techniques thoroughly using a variety of databases, including 50 real web-accessible text databases. Our experiments indicate that our new content-summary construction technique is effcient and produces more accurate summaries than those from previously proposed strategies. Also, our hierarchical database selection algorithm exhibits significantly higher precision than its flat counterparts.
Detection of ultrafast oscillations in Superconducting Point-Contacts by means of Supercurrent Measurements
Creators: name: Avriller, R.
name: Bergeret, F. S.
name: Pistolesi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a microscopic calculation of the nondissipative current through a superconducting quantum point contact coupled to a mechanical oscillator. Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green function approach, we determine the current-phase relation. The latter shows that at certain phases, the current is sharply suppressed. These dips in the current-phase relation provide information about the oscillating frequency and coupling strength of the mechanical oscillator. We also present an effective two-level model from which we obtain analytical expressions describing the position and width of the dips. Our findings are of relevance for nanomechanical resonators based on superconducting materials.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. B
Partitioned Blockmap Indexes for Multidimensional Data Access
Creators: name: Ross, Kenneth A.
name: Sitaridi, Evangelia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer science

description: Given recent increases in the size of main memory in modern machines, it is now common to to store large data sets in RAM for faster processing. Multidimensional access methods aim to provide efficient access to large data sets when queries apply predicates to some of the data dimensions. We examine multidimensional access methods in the context of an in-memory column store tuned for on-line analytical processing or scientific data analysis. We propose a multidimensional data structure that contains a novel combination of a grid array and several bitmaps. The base data is clustered in an order matching that of the index structure. The bitmaps contain one bit per block of data, motivating the term "blockmap." The proposed data structures are compact, typically taking less than one bit of space per row of data. Partition boundaries can be chosen in a way that reflects both the query workload and the data distribution, and boundaries are not required to evenly divide the data if there is a bias in the query distribution. We examine the theoretical performance of the data structure and experimentally measure its performance on three modern CPUs and one GPU processor. We demonstrate that efficient multidimensional access can be achieved with minimal space overhead.
The Intergenerational Transmission of Stress: Investigating Mediators and Moderators of the Association between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Development
Creators: name: Thomas, Jenna C.
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: adverse childhood experiences
subject: intergenerational transmission
subject: HPA axis
subject: cortisol
subject: pregnancy
subject: Child Development
subject: social support
subject: Education--Early Childhood
subject: Education--Health
subject: Human Development
subject: Mental Health
subject: Psychology--Developmental
subject: Psychobiology

description: Objective: The intergenerational transmission of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has been observed, however the biological mechanisms underlying these associations have yet to be elucidated. Given the dearth of research examining prenatal biological mechanisms, the overall objective of this dissertation was to understand the role of the maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis during pregnancy in transducing the effects of maternal ACEs to child developmental outcomes. A subsequent aim was to evaluate social support as a moderator that may buffer the intergenerational transmission of stress. Methods: Data were from 356 pregnant women and their children enrolled in the longitudinal Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) study. Maternal HPA axis function was assessed via self-collected salivary cortisol samples collected over multiple days in early (6-22 weeks) and late (27-37 weeks) pregnancy. Maternal ACEs, mental health, and social support were assessed via self-report measures. At 6 months of age, infant HPA axis reactivity was assessed via salivary cortisol samples at baseline and 20 minutes after a standardized laboratory stressor. At 4 years, child behaviour problems were assessed via a standardized maternal report. Results: Maternal ACEs were associated with higher morning cortisol levels and a flattened diurnal slope, consistent with a pattern of cortisol hypersecretion. Maternal HPA axis alterations mediated the association between maternal ACEs and infant HPA axis reactivity to stress at 6 months. These mediated effects were moderated by social support indicating that social support may be a factor that buffers the intergenerational transmission of stress. Maternal ACEs were associated with higher child internalizing problems at 4 years of age, and there were multiple mediators of this association including maternal HPA axis function, prenatal depression, and gestational age at birth. Unexpectedly, the HPA axis pathway predicted lower child internalizing problems and may represent a biological resiliency pathway in an otherwise healthy low sociodemographic risk sample. Conclusions: These studies provide the first evidence that prenatal maternal HPA axis function is a biological mediator of the association between maternal ACEs and child outcomes, and offers some insights into potential avenues for preventing the intergenerational transmission of stress.
Solanum cristalense Amshoff
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum cristalense

description: Solanum cristalense Amshoff, Rev. Soc. Cubana Bot. 13: 6. 1956 Type: Cuba. Oriente: Pinares, el Prado, Nicaro, Mayari, J. Acuña & F. Zaguas 19778 (holotype, SV n.v.).
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
The lived experience of men who leave the ministerial priesthood of the roman catholic church and enter into a committed heterosexual relationship
Creators: name: Banka, Anthony Joseph
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2008

description: Bibliography: p. 249-257
description: The purpose of this thesis was to provide a deeper understanding of the lived experience of men who have "resigned" from active ministry and entered into committed heterosexual relationships. To explore this phenomenon the author used a qualitative Heuristic methodology. Data in this study was derived from the author's personal experiences and participant interviews with other men who had "left" the priesthood. The composite depiction and creative synthesis present the main concepts emerging from the interviews. The findings suggest that all men within this particular study were sincere in their desire to fulfill their vocation to the priesthood. Since "leaving", each participant has viewed the process of incorporating one's priesthood into their new life-state role is vital. Learning to transition upon "exit" and incorporate their priesthood into their secular roles was seen as a continuation of their call to serve.
The AdS3 central charge in string theory
Creators: name: Troost, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the vacuum expectation value of the central charge operator in string theory in an AdS3 vacuum. Our calculation provides a rare non-zero one-point function on a spherical worldsheet. The evaluation involves the regularization both of a worldsheet ultraviolet divergence (associated to the infinite volume of the conformal Killing group), and a space-time infrared divergence (corresponding to the infinite volume of space-time). The two divergences conspire to give a finite result, which is the classical general relativity value for the central charge, corrected in bosonic string theory by an infinite series of tree level higher derivative terms.
description: 8 pages
Additional file 1 of Challenges in current nursing home care in rural Germany and how they can be reduced by telehealth - an exploratory qualitative pre-post study
Creators: name: May, Susann
name: Jonas, Kai
name: Fehler, Georgia V.
name: Zahn, Thomas
name: Heinze, Martin
name: Muehlensiepen, Felix
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Pre-Implementation Interview Guide.
Solanum cristalense var. macrospermum Hada
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum cristalense
Solanum cristalense amshoff var. macrospermum hada?, folio geobot.phytotax. prague 5: 431.1971

description: Solanum cristalense Amshoff var. macrospermum Hada?, Folio Geobot.Phytotax. Prague 5: 431.1971 Type: Cuba. Oriente: montibus Montecristo, E. Hada? 1421 (holotype, P). Distribution. Only known from eastern Cuba and from Haiti, in pine woods from 700-2225 m elevation. Representative specimen. Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Herbario Flora de Cuba (HFC) 57223 (B). The type collection of Solanum gundlachii (Wright 3030) is present in many herbaria, some of which have both flowers and fruit. The specimen at GH [GH00077553] has both flowers and mature fruits and is here selected as the lectotype. The sheet clearly represents two separate gatherings, as two labels bear different collection dates and appear to come from different localities (see Fig. 3b).
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308