cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The impact of telemental health use on healthcare costs among commercially insured adults with mental health conditions
Creators: name: Xiaohui Zhao
name: Sandipan Bhattacharjee
name: Innes, Kim K.
name: LeMasters, Traci J.
name: Nilanjana Dwibedi
name: Sambamoorthi, Usha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: To determine the impact of telemental health (TMH) use on total healthcare costs and mental health (MH)-related costs paid by a third party among adults with mental health conditions (MHC). Method: This study employed a pre-post design with a non-equivalent control group. The cohort comprised adults with MHCs identified using diagnosis codes from de-identified claims data of the Optum Clinformatics DataMart (01/01/2010 - 06/30/2017). We identified mental health (MH) service users and TMH users (N = 348) based on procedure codes. Non-users (N = 238,595) were defined as those who only used in-person MH services. A Difference-in-Differences (DID) analysis was performed within a multivariable two-part model (TPM) framework to examine the impact of TMH use on adjusted standardized costs (2018 US $) of all healthcare services and MH services. Patient-level and state-level factors were adjusted in TPM. Results: TMH use was associated with significantly higher MH-related costs [Marginal effect = $461.3, 95% confidence interval: $142.4 – $780.2] and an excess of $370 increase in MH-related costs at follow-up as compared to baseline. However, TMH use was not associated with an increase in total third-party healthcare costs nor with changes in total costs from baseline to follow-up. Conclusions: Despite having a higher likelihood of MH services use and MH-related costs, TMH users did not have higher total costs as compared to adults using only in-person MH services. Our findings suggest that TMH can increase access to MH care without increasing total healthcare costs among adults with MHC. Future studies exploring whether TMH use can lead to cost-savings over a longer period are warranted.
Parity Breaking in Nematic Tactoids
Creators: name: Prinsen, P.
name: van der Schoot, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate under what conditions the director field in a spindle-shaped nematic droplet or tactoid obtains a twisted, parity-broken structure. By minimizing the sum of the bulk elastic and surface energies, we show that a twisted director field is stable if the twist and bend elastic constants are small enough compared to the splay elastic constant, but only if the droplet volume is larger than some minimum value. We furthermore show that the transition from an untwisted to a twisted director-field structure is a sharp function of the various control parameters. We predict that suspensions of rigid, rod-like particles cannot support droplets with a parity broken structure, whereas they could possibly occur in those of semi-flexible, worm-like particles.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
70 years of machine learning in geoscience in review
Creators: name: Dramsch, Jesper Sören
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This review gives an overview of the development of machine learning in geoscience. A thorough analysis of the co-developments of machine learning applications throughout the last 70 years relates the recent enthusiasm for machine learning to developments in geoscience. I explore the shift of kriging towards a mainstream machine learning method and the historic application of neural networks in geoscience, following the general trend of machine learning enthusiasm through the decades. Furthermore, this chapter explores the shift from mathematical fundamentals and knowledge in software development towards skills in model validation, applied statistics, and integrated subject matter expertise. The review is interspersed with code examples to complement the theoretical foundations and illustrate model validation and machine learning explainability for science. The scope of this review includes various shallow machine learning methods, e.g. Decision Trees, Random Forests, Support-Vector Machines, and Gaussian Processes, as well as, deep neural networks, including feed-forward neural networks, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and generative adversarial networks. Regarding geoscience, the review has a bias towards geophysics but aims to strike a balance with geochemistry, geostatistics, and geology, however excludes remote sensing, as this would exceed the scope. In general, I aim to provide context for the recent enthusiasm surrounding deep learning with respect to research, hardware, and software developments that enable successful application of shallow and deep machine learning in all disciplines of Earth science.
description: 36 pages, 17 figures, book chapter
Detection of orbital and superhump periods in Nova V2574 Ophiuchi (2004)
Creators: name: Kang, Tae W.
name: Retter, Alon
name: Liu, Alex
name: Richards, Mercedes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of 37 nights of CCD unfiltered photometry of nova V2574 Oph (2004) from 2004 and 2005. We find two periods of 0.14164 d (~3.40 h) and 0.14773 d (~3.55 h) in the 2005 data. The 2004 data show variability on a similar timescale, but no coherent periodicity was found. We suggest that the longer periodicity is the orbital period of the underlying binary system and that the shorter period represents a negative superhump. The 3.40 h period is about 4% shorter than the orbital period and obeys the relation between superhump period deficit and binary period. The detection of superhumps in the light curve is evidence of the presence of a precessing accretion disk in this binary system shortly after the nova outburst. From the maximum magnitude - rate of decline relation, we estimate the decay rate t_2 = 17+/-4 d and a maximum absolute visual magnitude of M_Vmax = -7.7+/-1.7 mag.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 2 .sty files, AJ accepted, minor change to one of references
SUPPLY RESPONSE UNDER THE 1996 FARM ACT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE U.S. FIELD CROPS SECTOR
Creators: name: Torre Ugarte, Daniel De La
name: Sanford, Scott
name: Skinner, Robert A.
name: Westcott, Paul C.
name: Lin, William W.
name: Torre Ugarte, Daniel De La
name: Sanford, Scott
name: Skinner, Robert A.
name: Westcott, Paul C.
name: Lin, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Supply response
subject: major field crops
subject: acreage price elasticities
subject: normal flex acreage (NFA)
subject: 1996 farm legislation.

description: The 1996 Farm Act gives farmers almost complete planting flexibility, allowing producers to respond to price changes to a greater extent than they had under previous legislation. This study measures supply responsiveness for major field crops to changes in their own prices and in prices for competing crops and indicates significant increases in responsiveness. Relative to 1986-90, the percentage increases in the responsiveness of U.S. plantings of major field crops to a 1-percent change in their own prices are wheat (1.2 percent), corn (41.6 percent), soybeans (13.5 percent), and cotton (7.9 percent). In percentage terms, the increases in the responsiveness generally become greater with respect to competing crops' price changes. The 1996 legislation has the least effect on U.S. wheat acreage, whereas the law may lead to an average increase of 2 million acres during 1996-2005 in soybean acreage, a decline of 1-2 million acres in corn acreage, and an increase of 0.7 million acres in cotton acreage. Overall, the effect of the farm legislation on regional production patterns of major field crops appears to be modest. Corn acreage expansion in the Central and Northern Plains, a long-term trend in this important wheat production region, will slow under the 1996 legislation, while soybean acreage expansion in this region will accelerate. The authors used the Policy Analysis System-Economic Research Service (POLYSYS-ERS) model that was jointly developed by USDA's Economic Research Service and the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center to estimate the effects of the 1996 legislation.
QSO Narrow [OIII] Line Width and Host Galaxy Luminosity
Creators: name: Bonning, E. W.
name: Shields, G. A.
name: Salviander, S.
name: McLure, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy bulge luminosity L, black hole mass (Mbh), and stellar velocity dispersion (sigma_*) increase together in a way suggesting a close evolutionary relationship. Measurements of the Mbh-sigma_* relationship as a function of cosmic time may shed light on the origin of this relationship. Direct measurements of sigma_* at high redshift are difficult, and the width of the narrow emission lines of AGN has been proposed as a surrogate. We investigate the utility of using sigma_[OIII] for sigma_* by examining host galaxy magnitudes and [OIII] line widths for low redshift QSOs. For radio-quiet QSOs, sigma_[OIII] is consistent in the mean with the value of sigma_* predicted by the Faber-Jackson relation. For our limited range of host luminosity, scatter obscures the expected increase of sigma_[OIII] with host luminosity. However, for a sample of AGN covering a wide range of measured or inferred sigma_*, there is a clear increase of sigma_[OIII] with sigma_*. Radio-loud QSOs on average have sigma_* smaller by ~0.1 dex than radio-quiet QSOs of similar host luminsotiy, at least for luminosities typical of PG QSOs. Star formation rates in our low redshift QSOs are smaller than required to maintain the typical observed ratio of bulge mass to black hole mass.
description: ApJ, in press. 20 pages, 5 figures
Ein liturgiegeschichtliches Unternehmen deutscher Benediktinerabteien
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 17 (1920): Oriens christianus, Band 17
Patient characteristics of insulin lispro 200 units/mL users in real world setting in Germany
Creators: name: Schloot, Nanette C.
name: Perez-Nieves, Magaly
name: Sapin, Hélène
name: Kruppert, Silvia
name: Otto, Thorsten
name: Corrigan, Sheila M.
name: Oliveira, Carolina Piras De
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Insulin lispro 200 U/mL (IL200) is a treatment choice for people with diabetes who have daily mealtime insulin (MTI) requirements of >20 U/day. We report clinical characteristics of real world IL200 users in Germany to understand clinical settings and the type of patients who would benefit from IL200 treatment. This retrospective database analysis used the patient-level data from “IMS Disease Analyzer” in Germany from February 2015 to June 2016. Clinical and demographic information were collected and analyzed for IL200 users alongside that of those who were using more than 20 U a day of 100 U/mL analog MTI. Of the 17,261 patients using insulin, 811 were identified in IL200 group. The IL200 group had 60% men, mean ± SD age of 63.6 ± 11.9 years, and BMI of 36.2 ± 6.7 kg/m2. Of these, 63.5% (n = 515) were seen by diabetologists, while 36.5% (n = 296) were seen by general practitioners (GPs). In the IL200 group, 77.7% used basal insulin concomitantly, >90% had ≥1 comorbidity, and 52% had ≥4 comorbidities; the most common being hypertension (75.2%), neuropathy (66.0%), and nephropathy (59.6%). Diabetologist-treated IL200 users were more likely to have multiple comorbidities as compared with those treated by GPs (15.0% vs. 12.9% for >5 comorbidities). IL200 is prescribed to people with diabetes who need more than 20 U/day of mealtime insulin and tend to be more obese, older, and with multiple comorbidities. Future research should explore how concentrated MTI can impact adherence and long-term glycemia.
РАҚОБАТ ҚОНУНЧИЛИГИНИ БУЗГАНЛИК УЧУН ЖАВОБГАРЛИК (ФРАНЦИЯ ДАВЛАТИ МИСОЛИДА)
Creators: name: Саттаров, У.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Франция доктринаси ва қонунчилигида рақобат қоидаларини бузганлик учун жавобгарликнинг иқтисодий-ҳуқуқий жиҳатлари кўриб чиқилади. Рақобат муносабатларини ҳуқуқий тартибга солишнинг иқтисодий жиҳатларига ва иқтисодий назорат билан боғлиқ низоларда француз судлари томонидан иқтисодий таҳлил услубининг амалий қўлланилишига алоҳида эътибор қаратилмоқда. Франция Рақобат Кенгаши битимнинг ижобий иқтисодий оқибатлари мавжудлиги ёки йўқлиги тўғрисида қарор қабул қилишда муҳим рол ўйнайди. Монополияга қарши муносабатларни француз Савдо кодекси билан ва инсофсиз рақобат ҳужжатларини француз Фуқаролик кодекси билан тартибга солишни фарқлаш масаласи ўрганилади. Инсофсиз рақобат ҳолатларини аниқлаш бўйича доктринада ишлаб чиқилган ёндашувлар таҳлил қилинади. Франция қонунчилигига кўра, рақобат қоидаларини бузган юридик шахсларни жиноий жавобгарликка тортиш мумкинлиги кўрсатилади.
Analysis of limit order markets
Creators: name: Slive, Joshua
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation consists of three essays analyzing the strategies of traders who participate in limit order markets from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In the first essay, I examine the implications of asymmetric information on the strategies of traders facing a multi-period limit order market. In the second essay, we examine liquidity provision on a limit order market using a simple order-choice model where traders with extreme liquidity needs place market orders and traders with less extreme liquidity needs place limit orders or stay out of the market. In the third essay, I solve the dynamic problem of an investor in a limit order market who manages his order over the trading day.
ECONOMICS OF SEQUESTERING CARBON IN THE U.S. AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
Creators: name: Lewandrowski, Jan
name: Peters, Mark
name: Jones, Carol Adaire
name: House, Robert M.
name: Sperow, Mark
name: Eve, Marlen
name: Paustian, Keith H.
name: Lewandrowski, Jan
name: Peters, Mark
name: Jones, Carol Adaire
name: House, Robert M.
name: Sperow, Mark
name: Eve, Marlen
name: Paustian, Keith H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Carbon sequestration
subject: greenhouse gas mitigation
subject: afforestation
subject: conservation tillage
subject: no-till
subject: incentive design
subject: leakage
subject: carbon stock
subject: permanence

description: Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases can be reduced by withdrawing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in soils and biomass. This report analyzes the performance of alternative incentive designs and payment levels if farmers were paid to adopt land uses and management practices that raise soil carbon levels. At payment levels below $10 per metric ton for permanently sequestered carbon, analysis suggests landowners would find it more cost effective to adopt changes in rotations and tillage practices. At higher payment levels, afforestation dominates sequestration activities, mostly through conversion of pastureland. Across payment levels, the economic potential to sequester carbon is much lower than the technical potential reported in soil science studies. The most cost-effective payment design adjusts payment levels to account both for the length of time farmers are willing to commit to sequestration activities and for net sequestration. A 50-percent cost-share for cropland conversion to forestry or grasslands would increase sequestration at low carbon payment levels but not at high payment levels.
Dihedral rigidity of parabolic polyhedrons in hyperbolic spaces
Creators: name: Li, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we establish the dihedral rigidity phenomenon for a collection of parabolic polyhedrons enclosed by horospheres in hyperbolic manifolds, extending Gromov's comparison theory to metrics with negative scalar curvature lower bounds. Our result is a localization of the positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We also motivate and formulate some open questions concerning related rigidity phenomenon and convergence of metrics with scalar curvature lower bounds.
Constraints on neutrino masses from a Galactic supernova neutrino signal at present and future detectors
Creators: name: Nardi, Enrico
name: Zuluaga, Jorge I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the constraints on neutrino masses that could be derived from the observation of a Galactic supernova neutrino signal with present and future neutrino detectors. Our analysis is based on a recently proposed method that uses the full statistics of neutrino events and does not depend on particular astrophysical assumptions. The statistical approach, originally justified mainly in terms of intuitive reasoning, is put on a more solid basis by means of Bayesian inference reasoning. Theoretical uncertainties in the neutrino signal time profiles are estimated by applying the method to two widely different supernova models. Present detectors can reach a sensitivity down to 1 eV. This is better than limits from tritium $β$-decay experiments, competitive with the most conservative results from neutrinoless double $β$-decay, less precise but less dependent from prior assumptions than cosmological bounds. Future megaton water Cerencov detectors will allow for about a factor of two improvement. However, they will not be competitive with the next generation of laboratory experiments.
description: 28 pages, 5 Figures, added discussion on systematic errors and some clarifications. Results unchanged. Published version
Polarization-gradient cooling of 1D and 2D ion Coulomb crystals
Creators: name: Joshi, M. K.
name: Fabre, A.
name: Maier, C.
name: Brydges, T.
name: Kiesenhofer, D.
name: Hainzer, H.
name: Blatt, R.
name: Roos, C. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experiments on polarization gradient cooling of Ca$^+$ multi-ion Coulomb crystals in a linear Paul trap. Polarization gradient cooling of the collective modes of motion whose eigenvectors have overlap with the symmetry axis of the trap is achieved by two counter-propagating laser beams with mutually orthogonal linear polarizations that are blue-detuned from the S$_{1/2}$ to P$_{1/2}$ transition. We demonstrate cooling of linear chains of up to 51 ions and 2D-crystals in zig-zag configuration with 22 ions. The cooling results are compared with numerical simulations and the predictions of a simple model of cooling in a moving polarization gradient.
Technical Documentation of the Regional Manure Management Model for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Creators: name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Gollehon, Noel R.
name: Breneman, Vincent E.
name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Gollehon, Noel R.
name: Breneman, Vincent E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: technical documentation
subject: regional analysis
subject: Chesapeake Bay
subject: animal waste
subject: manure management
subject: nutrient management plan
subject: manure land application
subject: manure transport
subject: cost minimization
subject: optimization model

description: The Regional Manure Management Model, developed for the ERS project on "Manure Management for Improved Water Quality," is used to evaluate the cost and feasibility of manure land application as a manure management strategy at the regional level. This model is a nonlinear mathematical programming model of animal manure-nutrient production and distribution applied to the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The model is designed to assess regional costs of manure management, transport, and land application in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, given the existing structure of the animal industry and manure-storage technologies currently in use. Manure-nutrient production is allocated within the basin to minimize costs to the animal sector, subject to land availability and policy provisions. A defining feature of the modeling system involves the integration within an optimization framework of spatial data from a Geographic Information System and farm-level data from the 1997 Agricultural Census aggregated to the county level. The framework captures important spatial interactions involving animal concentrations and land available for manure spreading that can significantly affect manure land application costs faced by animal producers.
Sensory descriptors which identify neuropathic pain mechanisms in low back pain: a systematic review
Creators: name: Heraughty, Michelle
name: Ridehalgh, Colette
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Descriptors provided by patients with neuropathic low back pain (NLBP) with or without spinally referred leg pain are frequently used by clinicians to help to identify the predominant pain mechanisms. Indeed, many neuropathic screening tools are primarily based on subjective descriptors to determine the presence of neuropathic pain. There is a need to systematically review and analyse the existing evidence to determine the validity of such descriptors in this cohort. Ten databases were systematically searched. The review adhered to PRISMA and CRD guidelines and included a risk of bias assessment using QUADAS-2. Studies were included if they contained symptom descriptors from a group of NLBP patients +/− leg pain. Studies had to include a reference test to identity neuropathic pain from other pain mechanisms. Eight studies of 3099 NLBP patients were included. Allodynia and numbness were found to discriminate between NLBP and nociceptive LBP in four studies. Autonomic dysfunction, (changes in the colour or appearance of the skin), was also found to discriminate between the groups in two studies. Dysesthesia identified NLBP in 5/7 respectively. Results from studies were equivocal regarding pain described as hot/burning cold and paroxysmal pain in people with NLBP. Subjectively reported allodynia and numbness would suggest a neuropathic pain mechanism in LBP. Dysesthesia would raise the suspicion of NLBP. More research is needed to determine if descriptors suggesting autonomic dysfunction can identify NLBP. There is poor consensus on whether other descriptors can identify NLBP.
Agriculture and European Union Enlargement
Creators: name: Josling, Timothy E.
name: Kelch, David R.
name: Liapis, Peter S.
name: Tangermann, Stefan
name: Josling, Timothy E.
name: Kelch, David R.
name: Liapis, Peter S.
name: Tangermann, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP reform
subject: European Union
subject: EU
subject: European Union enlargement

description: Potential accession of a number of eastern and central European countries into the European Union (EU) seems destined to lead to further reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The financial costs of absorbing these countries may be extreme. This report documents the modeling framework (European Simulation Model, ESIM) used to analyze the 1992 CAP reform and discusses possible effects of EU enlargement.
A Study of the Roper Resonance as a Hybrid State from $J/ψ$ Decays
Creators: name: Ping, R. G.
name: Chiang, H. Q.
name: Zou, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of the Roper resonance as a hybrid baryon is investigated through studying the transitional amplitudes in J/psi-> p\barN*, N*\barN* decays. We begin with perturbative QCD to describe the dynamical process for the J/psi-> 3\bar q+3q decay to the lowest order of α_s, and by extending the modified quark creation model to the J/psi energy region to describe the J/psi-> 3\bar q+3q +g process. The non-perturbative effects are incorporated by a simple quark model of baryons to evaluate the angular distribution parameters and decay widths for the processes J/psi-> pbar N*,N*bar N*. From fitting the decay width of J/psi->gamma p pbar to the experimental data, we extract the quark-pair creation strength g_I=15.40 GeV. Our numerical results for J/psi->pbar N*,N* bar N* decays show that the branching ratios for these decays are quite different if the Roper resonance is assumed to be a common $3q$ state or a pure hybrid state. For testing its mixing properties, we present a scheme to construct the Roper wave function by mixing |qqqg> state with a normal |qqq,2s> state. Under this picture, the ratios of the decay widths to that of the J/psi->p pbar decay are re-evaluated versus the mixing parameter. A test of the hybrid nature of the Roper resonance in J/psi decays is discussed.
description: 18 pages,3 figures, To appear in Nuclear Physics A
Applying Evolutionary Optimisation to Robot Obstacle Avoidance
Creators: name: Pauplin, Olivier
name: Louchet, Jean
name: Lutton, Evelyne
name: Parent, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an artificial evolutionbased method for stereo image analysis and its application to real-time obstacle detection and avoidance for a mobile robot. It uses the Parisian approach, which consists here in splitting the representation of the robot's environment into a large number of simple primitives, the "flies", which are evolved following a biologically inspired scheme and give a fast, low-cost solution to the obstacle detection problem in mobile robotics.
Factors Affecting the Macronutrient Intake of U.S. Adults
Creators: name: Variyam, Jayachandran N.
name: Variyam, Jayachandran N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: diet quality
subject: health risk
subject: heteroskedasticity
subject: nutrition
subject: quantile regression

description: The purpose of this study is to better characterize factors associated with the likelihood of macronutrient excess or inadequacy among U.S adults by modeling parts of the conditional distribution of dietary intakes other than the conditional mean. The risk of dietary inadequacy or excess faced by an individual tends to increase as his or her intake moves from the mean of a nutrient intake distribution toward its tails. Therefore, marginal effects of explanatory variables estimated at the conditional mean using ordinary least squares may be of limited value in characterizing these distributions. Quantile regression is effective in this situation since it can estimate conditional functions at any part of the distribution. Quantile regressions based on data from USDA's 1994-96 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals indicate that differences in mean macronutrient intakes based on sociodemographic characteristics can be quite different from intake differences at other parts of the distributions. Therefore, judging dietary disparities between subpopulations by comparing mean intakes only, and not by comparing intakes at other parts of the distributions, may lead to misleading or incomplete conclusions.
Direct detection of vector dark matter through electromagnetic multipoles
Creators: name: Hisano, Junji
name: Ibarra, Alejandro
name: Nagai, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter particles, even if they are electrically neutral, could interact with the Standard Model particles via their electromagnetic multipole moments. In this paper, we focus on the electromagnetic properties of the complex vector dark matter candidate, which can be described by means of seven form factors. We calculate the differential scattering cross-section with nuclei due to the interactions of the dark matter and nuclear multipole moments, and we derive upper limits on the former from the non-observation of dark matter signals in direct detection experiments. We also present a model where the dark matter particle is a gauge boson of a dark $SU(2)$ symmetry, and which contains heavy new fermions, charged both under the dark $SU(2)$ symmetry and under the electromagnetic $U(1)$ symmetry. The new fermions induce at the one loop level electromagnetic multipole moments, which could lead to detectable signals in direct detection experiments.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures, published version
RETAIL-FARM PRICE MARGINS AND CONSUMER PRODUCT DIVERSITY
Creators: name: Reed, Albert J.
name: Elitzak, Howard
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
name: Reed, Albert J.
name: Elitzak, Howard
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Retail-farm price margins
subject: marketing services
subject: food quality
subject: consumer demand
subject: Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem.

description: This bulletin provides an alternative approach for computing retail-farm price margins. Current published estimates of retail-farm price margins are calculated assuming that food markets are comprised of identical firms producing, in fixed-factor proportions, a homogeneous set of final food products. The approach presented here relaxes these assumptions by relying on an expenditure-based measure, justified by the Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem, that reflects consumer demand for the many different elementary food products associated with a modern food market. This measure allows a direct link between consumer demand for diverse elementary products and food quality and marketing services where increases in retail-farm price margins, for example, can be traced to increases in consumer purchases of high-value products. Retail-farm price margins based on the alternative approach are estimated here for seven major U.S. food markets for each year from 1980-97. Although the alternative retail-farm price margins and the currently published estimates show similar trends, they also show significant differences, particularly in more recent years, that can be traced to shifts in increased consumer demand for marketing services.
Changing Consumer Food Prices: A User's Guide to ERS Analyses
Creators: name: Reed, Albert J.
name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Elitzak, Howard
name: Schluter, Gerald E.
name: Reed, Albert J.
name: Hanson, Kenneth
name: Elitzak, Howard
name: Schluter, Gerald E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: price-spread model
subject: input-output model
subject: variable-proportions model
subject: food prices
subject: energy prices
subject: input prices

description: USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) uses different economic models to estimate the impact of higher input prices on consumer food prices. The present study compares three ERS models. In the first two models, neither consumers nor food producers respond to market prices. We refer to these two models as short-run models. In the third model, both consumers and food producers respond to changing prices, and we refer to this model as a long-run model. Given published parameter estimates, we simulate the impact of a higher energy price on consumer food prices, and our empirical findings are consistent with our understanding of market responses. In the short run, we find that the full effect of an increase in the price of energy is fully (or nearly fully) passed on to consumers, because neither food producers nor consumers can immediately respond to changing prices. In the long run, however, the price response of food producers and consumers serves to mitigate the increase in consumer food prices.
SAMARALI BOSHQARUV TIZIMINI TASHKIL ETISH BORASIDA MA'MURIY MENEJMENT TAMOYILLARINING O'RNI
Creators: name: G'ulomova, Shaxlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada ma’muriy menejmentning asosiy 8 ta tamoyillari haqida ma’lumotlar berilgan hamda alohida har bir tamoyilga  tarif berib o’tilgan. Bundan tashqari tashkiliy tuzilmaga va boshqaruv usullariga ma’lumotlar keltirilgan.
Chionomus quadrispinosus Weglarz & Bartlett 2020
Creators: name: Weglarz, Kathryn M.
name: Bartlett, Charles R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Delphacidae
Chionomus
Chionomus quadrispinosus

description: Chionomus quadrispinosus
 United States: Florida: Broward Co., Fort Lauderdale, 14 May 1975, N. L. Woodiel (LBOB, 1 ♂). Hendry Co., LaBelle, 16- VII-1939, [P.W.] Oman (FSCA, 3b ♂). Highlands Co., Archbold Biological Station, 27.18833°N 81.33778°W, 15 Mar 2012, M. A. Deyrup, Galactia elliottii (ABSC, 1 ♀). Miami-Dade Co.,Coral Gables, Matheson Hammock, 25.66914°N 80.26655°W, 03 May 2010, Vince Golia (ABSC, 1 ♂). Seminole Co., Sanford, 29-V-1926, E.D. Ball (FSCA, 2b ♂, 2b ♀); Sanford, 11-III- 1947, R.H. Beamer (FSCA, 1b ♂, 1b ♀). Louisiana: Baton Rouge Par., Baton Rouge, 10-XI-1975, (LSAM, 3b ♂). Dominican Republic: La Vega: La Guardarraya, Mons. Nouel-Constanza Rd, J. Maldonado-Capriles (USNM, 1m ♂). Guatemala: Quetzaltenango: Fuentes Georginas, Volcan Zunil, 8km SE Zunil, 14-15-II-2007, AT Gonzon & R Donovall (UDCC, 1m ♂). Suchitepequez: reserva Los Tarrales, Volcan Atitlan, 12km NW Patulul, 14.54822°N 91.16106°W, 1450 m, 11 Feb 2007, J. R. Cryan & J. Richards (UDCC, 1 ♂). Honduras: Francisco Morazan: Zamorano, 23- IX- 1961, J.M. Matta (LBOB, 1m ♂). Nicaragua: Rio San Juan: Refugio Bartola, nr. Indio Maíz Biological Reserve, ~6Km E of El Castillo, 10.97252°N 84.33916°W, 50 m, 01-06 Nov 2010, J. Cryan, J. Urban, G. Svenson (UDCC, 1 ♂). Costa Rica: San José: San Pedro de Montes de Oca, 4-XII- 1936, CH Ballou (USNM, 1m ♂); 2 km W. Empalme, I-1995, C. Godoy & P. Hanson (UDCC, 1m ♂); Moravia Co.: Zurqui de Moravia, Mar 1994, Hanson and Godoy (LBOB, 1 ♂); 26 km N Sanisidro, 2100 m, Mar–May 1992, P. Hanson & C. Godoy (LBOB, UDCC, 3 ♂). Puntarenas: S. Voco, Est. Biol. Las Alturas, X-1991, Hanson & Godoy (LBOB, 1m ♂); S. Voco, Est. Biol. Las Alturas, II-1992, Hanson & Godoy (LBOB, 2m ♂); Res. For. Golfo Dulce, 3 km SW Rincon, 10 m, Dec 1989 – Mar 1990, Hanson (UDCC, 1 ♂). Heredia: nr Puerto Vieja La Selva Bio. Sta., 24-II-2004, CR Bartlett, et al (UDCC, 1m ♂, 1b ♂); same, (23-II)-(2-III)-2004, CR Bartlett, J Cryan, J Urban (UDCC, 1m ♂); Estacion Biologica, La Selva, 12-I-1995, S.M. Clark (BYUC, 1m ♂).
description: Published as part of Weglarz, Kathryn M. & Bartlett, Charles R, 2020, A revision of the planthopper genus Chionomus Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4811 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4811.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3944031
The Holevo capacity of infinite dimensional channels and the additivity problem
Creators: name: Shirokov, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion of the Holevo capacity for arbitrarily constrained infinite dimensional quantum channels is introduced. It is shown that despite nonexistence of an optimal ensemble in this case it is possible to define the notion of the output optimal average state for such a channel. The characterization of the output optimal average state and a "minimax" expression for the Holevo capacity are obtained. This makes it possible to prove equivalence of several additivity properties for infinite dimensional quantum channels. The notion of the $χ$-function for an infinite dimensional channel is considered, its strong concavity and lower semicontinuity are shown. The problem of continuity of the Holevo capacity is also discussed. It is shown that the Holevo capacity is continuous function of a channel in the finite dimensional case while in general it is only lower semicontinuous. This conclusion is confirmed by the example. The main result of this note is the statement that additivity of the Holevo capacity for all finite dimensional channels implies additivity of the Holevo capacity for all infinite dimensional channels with arbitrary constraints. The subadditivity of the $χ$-function for two infinite dimensional channels with one of them noiseless or entanglement breaking is also proved.
description: 32 pages
RETAIL FOOD PRICE FORECASTING AT ERS: THE PROCESS, METHODOLOGY, AND PERFORMANCE FROM 1984 TO 1997
Creators: name: Joutz, Frederick L.
name: Trost, Robert P.
name: Hallahan, Charles B.
name: Clauson, Annette L.
name: Denbaly, Mark
name: Joutz, Frederick L.
name: Trost, Robert P.
name: Hallahan, Charles B.
name: Clauson, Annette L.
name: Denbaly, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Forecasting retail food prices has become increasingly important to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This is due to the changing structure of food and agricultural economies and the important signals the forecasts provide to farmers, processors, wholesalers, consumers, and policymakers. The American food system is going through fundamental structural changes. It is unclear how these changes will affect the cyclical variation of food price markups and translate into changes in retail food prices. The only government entity that systematically examines food prices and provides food price forecasts (on an annual basis) is the Economic Research Service, and agency of USDA. This report explains the ERS procedures in forecasting food prices and assesses how changes in the current procedures would improve the quality of the forecasts.
Pairwise entanglement and readout of atomic-ensemble and optical wave-packet modes in traveling-wave Raman interactions
Creators: name: Wasilewski, Wojciech
name: Raymer, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze quantum entanglement of Stokes light and atomic electronic polarization excited during single-pass, linear-regime, stimulated Raman scattering in terms of optical wave-packet modes and atomic-ensemble spatial modes. The output of this process is confirmed to be decomposable into multiple discrete, bosonic mode pairs, each pair undergoing independent evolution into a two-mode squeezed state. For this we extend the Bloch-Messiah reduction theorem, previously known for discrete linear systems (S. L. Braunstein, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 71, 055801 (2005)). We present typical mode functions in the case of one-dimensional scattering in an atomic vapor. We find that in the absence of dispersion, one mode pair dominates the process, leading to a simple interpretation of entanglement in this continuous-variable system. However, many mode pairs are excited in the presence of dispersion-induced temporal walkoff of the Stokes, as witnessed by the photon-count statistics. We also consider the readout of the stored atomic polarization using the anti-Stokes scattering process. We prove that the readout process can also be decomposed into multiple mode pairs, each pair undergoing independent evolution analogous to a beam-splitter transformation. We show that this process can have unit efficiency under realistic experimental conditions. The shape of the output light wave packet can be predicted. In case of unit readout efficiency it contains only excitations originating from a specified atomic excitation mode.
Association of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate exposure with chronic kidney disease and osteoporotic fracture in US veterans with HIV
Creators: name: S. Scott Sutton
name: Magagnoli, Joseph
name: Hardin, James W.
name: Ling-I Hsu
name: Beaubrun, Anne
name: Majethia, Sunil
name: Cummings, Tammy H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)-based regimens have been associated with impaired kidney function and loss of bone mineral density among patients living with HIV (PLWH). We assess the association between TDF exposure and the odds of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and osteoporotic fracture in HIV patients. Demographics, administrative claims, and pharmacy dispensation were extracted from the Veterans Affairs Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI). Patients were categorized based on TDF utilization. Incidence rates for patients exposed and unexposed to TDF were calculated per 1000 patient-years (PYs). Logistic regression was used to calculate the odds of outcome after adjusting for baseline and clinical characteristics. The sample included 4,630 PLWH who were currently exposed to TDF and 1,181 who were never exposed to TDF for the CKD analyses. For fracture analyses, the sample included 6,883 PLWH who were currently exposed to TDF and 1,951 who were never exposed to TDF. In adjusted models, current TDF exposure was associated with increased odds of CKD compared to never having been exposed (OR: 1.48, 95% CI: 1.18–1.85). Odds of fracture were 2.32 times higher for patients who were currently on a TDF regimen (OR: 2.32, 95% CI: 1.58–3.42) compared to those who had never been exposed to TDF in adjusted models. In a large cohort of US veterans with HIV, current exposure to TDF was associated with a 48% higher odds of CKD and a greater than two-fold increase in the odds of osteoporotic fracture.
Proceedings 8th International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation and 7th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis
Creators: name: Fribourg, Laurent
name: Heizmann, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The proceedings consist of a keynote paper by Alberto followed by 6 invited papers written by Lorenzo Clemente (U. Warsaw), Alain Finkel (U. Paris-Saclay), John Gallagher (Roskilde U. and IMDEA Software Institute) et al., Neil Jones (U. Copenhagen) et al., Michael Leuschel (Heinrich-Heine U.) and Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR) et al.. These invited papers are followed by 4 regular papers accepted at VPT 2020 and the papers of HCVS 2020 which consist of three contributed papers and an invited paper on the third competition of solvers for Constrained Horn Clauses. In addition, the abstracts (in HTML format) of 3 invited talks at VPT 2020 by Andrzej Skowron (U. Warsaw), Sophie Renault (EPO) and Moa Johansson (Chalmers U.), are included.
Eine syrische Übersetzung des Makariosbriefes "ad filios Dei"
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 17 (1920): Oriens christianus, Band 17
Chionomus cultus Weglarz & Bartlett 2020, new combination
Creators: name: Weglarz, Kathryn M.
name: Bartlett, Charles R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Delphacidae
Chionomus
Chionomus cultus

description: Chionomus cultus (Van Duzee, 1907), new combination (incertae sedis)
(Figure 7)
 Liburnia culta Van Duzee, 1907: 47.
 Megamelus cultus (Van Duzee), comb. by Crawford 1914: 628.
 Delphacodes culta (Van Duzee) by Muir & Giffard 1924: 38.
 Type Locality. Mandeville, Jamaica.
 Distribution. Jamaica, USA: Florida, Cuba, Bermuda (Van Duzee 1907; Barber 1914; Osborn 1926 a, b; Ogilvie 1928)
 Remarks. This species was described from single female specimen from Jamaica and subsequently reported from other localities. It is probable that C. cultus is synonymous with some other species of Chionomus. However, because the holotype is female (with no definitively associated males), we have found no certain method to confidently associate it with any other Chionomus species, and we are reluctant to speculate especially given that C. cultus would be the senior name. The following species of Chionomus are reported from Jamaica: C. havanae, C. balboae, C. dissapatus, C. puellus, C. tenae and C. pacificus. As the holotype is a female, subsequently reported localities are doubtful.
description: Published as part of Weglarz, Kathryn M. & Bartlett, Charles R, 2020, A revision of the planthopper genus Chionomus Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Delphacidae), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4811 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4811.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3944031
Safety in numbers: Gravitational Lensing Degradation of the Luminosity Distance-Redshift Relation
Creators: name: Holz, Daniel E.
name: Linder, Eric V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observation of the expansion history of the Universe allows exploration of the physical properties and energy density of the Universe's various constituents. Standardizable candles such as Type Ia supernovae remain one of the most promising and robust tools in this endeavor, by allowing for a direct measure of the luminosity distance-redshift curve, and thereby producing detailed studies of the dark energy responsible for the Universe's currently accelerating expansion. As such observations are pushed to higher redshifts, the observed flux is increasingly affected by gravitational lensing magnification due to intervening structure along the line-of-sight. We simulate and analyze the non-Gaussian probability distribution function of de/amplification due to lensing of standard candles, quantify the effect of a convolution over many independent sources (which acts to restore the intrinsic average (unlensed) luminosity due to flux conservation), and compute the additional uncertainty due to lensing on derived cosmological parameters. For example, the ``degradation factor'' due to lensing is a factor of three reduction in the effective number of usable supernovae at z=1.5 (for sources with intrinsic flux dispersion of 10%). We also derive a useful expression for the effective increased dispersion in standard candles due to lensing, as a function of redshift.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures