cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ALIEN PLANT SPECIES GROWING NEAR TRAFFIC LINE STRUCTURES IN THE TŘEBOŇSKO PROTECTED LANDSCAPE AREA
Creators: name: Lachman, L.
name: Šerá, B.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2022

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
description: The occurrence of non-native species is one of the priorities for nature and landscape protection. Protected areas are among the most valuable parts of the landscape, so nature conservation takes care not only of rare and endangered species, but also of alien species. The aim was to map out the occurrence of invasive and other non-native plant species on model examples of two types of propagation vectors - roads and railways in the Třeboňsko Protected Landscape Area. The total of 75 alien plant species were identified in 68 locations, of which 28 are listed in the Black, Gray and Watch Lists of alien species in the Czech Republic. The most abundant families were Asteraceae, Poaceae and Amaranthaceae. No difference in the occurrence of alien plants between the observed types of propagation vectors was found. The most dangerous invasive species growing along the main roads and railways were: Reynoutria japonica Houtt. var. japonica, Impatiens glandulifera Royle, Helianthus tuberosus L., Solidago sp., Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronq., and Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P.B. Another non-native species that was captured successfully along rail tracks and road sides was Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop. subsp. sanguinalis. Near roads, a significant spreading of the expansive halophilic species Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl. was also found. The rare growings of Plantago coronopus L. near a road and Alopecurus myosuroides Huds. near a highway were also reported. The occurrence of many aliens and spreading species was discussed.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
Postural analysis of pork special cuts in a typical slaughterhouse in Brazil
Creators: name: EVANGELISTA, Wemerton Luis
name: BORGES, Laureilton José Almeida
name: NORONHA, Cassia Maria Silva
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: Nowadays, with the most competitive market, companies have sought new
ergonomic strategies. This study was conducted in a typical slaughterhouse from the Brazilian swine industry, in order to perform a postural ergonomics analysis, followed by proposals to minimize or eliminate identified risks. Among the various sectors of the productive processes in the slaughterhouse the one that presented greatest need was selected: the special cuts sector (sausages). It is believed that the analysis of postural assessment and recommendations presented in this paper, will allow the production process of the slaughterhouse to become more efficient and provide greater welfare to the employees.
Place of birth, duration of residence, neighborhood immigrant composition and body mass index in New York City
Creators: name: Park, Yoosun
name: Neckerman, Kathryn M.
name: Quinn, James
name: Weiss, Christopher
name: Rundle, Andrew G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Human behavior--Nutritional aspects
subject: Demographic surveys
subject: Emigration and immigration--Social aspects
subject: Public health
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Demography

description: Background: Past research has suggested that changes in culture explain the substantial weight gain seen in many immigrant groups with length of residence in the U.S. and across generations of residence in the U.S. However, it has been theorized that those settling in immigrant and co-ethnic neighborhoods may be buffered against this acculturative process and will be more likely to maintain home country dietary and physical activity patterns. To investigate this theory we incorporated measures of neighborhood immigrant composition into analyses of individual's body mass index (BMI) and generation of immigration and duration of residence in the U.S.
Methods: Multilevel analyses were performed using objectively measured height and weight and survey data on diet and physical activity from a sample of 13,011 residents of New York City. Census data were used to calculate the proportion of foreign-born residents and extent of household linguistic isolation in a ½ mile radial buffer around the subject's home.
Results: Foreign birth was associated with a significantly lower BMI (-1.09 BMI units, P < 0.001). This association was weakest among Asians (-0.66 BMI units, P = 0.08) and strongest among Black-Caribbeans (-1.41 BMI units, P = 0.07). After controlling for individual level variables, neighborhood proportion foreign-born was not associated with BMI, but increasing neighborhood linguistic isolation was inversely associated with BMI among Hispanics (-2.97 BMI units, P = 0.03). Furthermore among Hispanics, the association between foreign birth and BMI was stronger in low linguistic isolation neighborhoods (-1.36 BMI units, P < 0.0001) as compared to in high linguistic isolation levels (-0.42 BMI units, P = 0.79). Increasing duration of residence in the U.S. was significantly associated with higher BMI overall and among Hispanics.
Conclusion: The analyses suggest that acculturation is associated with weight gain, and that neighborhood characteristics are only associated with BMI among Hispanics. However, we suggest that changes in body size currently interpreted as post-migration effects of acculturation to U.S. norms may in fact reflect changes in norms that are taking place internationally.
How could you use the ergonomic checkpoints for job enrichment in an ‘appreciative way’ in industrial of industrially developing
Creators: name: HELALI, Faramarz
name: DASTRANJ, Farahnaz
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: This paper describes five steps for ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ to purpose understanding from getting to use “ergonomic checkpoints”, in an ‘appreciative way’ including; 1) Definition of frame implementing a phase method for pre-systemic ergonomics intervention work process; 2) Discovery; what are appreciative and active learning, and how it has worked? (The research model) 3) Dream; how vision and voices of the future in industries of industrially developing countries? (The Learner at the Centre) 4) Design; how to give to values and ideals using power “participatory ergonomics process”? (The tactic of pulling) 5) Destiny; how make it happen? (Inspired action and improvisation)
Efficient synthesis of quantum gates on indirectly coupled spins
Creators: name: Yuan, Haidong
name: Wei, Daxiu
name: Zhang, Yajuan
name: Glaser, Steffen
name: Khaneja, Navin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments in coherent nuclear and electron magnetic resonance,and quantum computing in general correspond to control of quantum mechanical systems, guiding them from initial to final target states by unitary transformations. The control inputs (pulse sequences) that accomplish these unitary transformations should take as little time as possible so as to minimize the effects of relaxation and decoherence and to optimize the sensitivity of the experiments. Here, we derive a time-optimal sequences as fundamental building blocks for synthesize unitary transformations. Such sequences can be widely implemented on various physical systems, including the simulation of effective Hamiltonians for topological quantum computing on spin lattices. Experimental demonstrations are provided for a system consisting of three nuclear spins.
description: 10 pages
On generic parametrizations of spinning black-hole geometries
Creators: name: Cardoso, Vitor
name: Pani, Paolo
name: Rico, Joao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The construction of a generic parametrization of spinning geometries which can be matched continuously to the Kerr metric is an important open problem in General Relativity. Its resolution is more than of academic interest, as it allows to parametrize and quantify possible deviations from the no-hair theorem. Various approaches to the problem have been proposed, all with their own (severe) limitations. Here we discuss the metric recently proposed by Johannsen and Psaltis, showing that (i) the original metric describes only corrections that preserve the horizon area-mass relation of nonspinning geometries; (ii) this unnecessary restriction can be relaxed by introducing a new parameter that in fact dominates in both the post-Newtonian and strong-field regimes; (iii) within this framework, we construct the most generic spinning black-hole geometry which contains twice as many the (infinite) parameters of the original metric; (iv) in the strong-field regime, all parameters are roughly equally important. This fact introduces a severe degeneracy problem in the case of highly-spinning black holes. Finally, we prove that even our generalization fails to describe the few known spinning black-hole metrics in modified gravity.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. v2: extended discussion, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
EVALUATION OF METALS AND METALLOIDS IN WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.) UNDER APPLICATION OF ZEOLITE AND COMPOSTED COW MANURE
Creators: name: Rashidi, M.
name: Marashi, S.K.
name: Babaeinejad, T.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2022

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
description: Today, large parts of the world are exposed to heavy metal pollution. The highest contamination with heavy metals is found in industrial areas, around large cities and mines. This experiment was carried out in order to evaluate uptake and accumulation of metals and metalloids in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under zeolite and composted cow manure application. The experimental design was factorial according to a completely randomized design with three replications. To contaminate the soil metals and metalloids included lead, nickel and arsenic were mixed with the soil. In this experiment, four different amounts of zeolite and composted cow manure include (zero) (control), 0.5, 1 and 1.5 percent of the soil weight were investigated in soil contaminated. The concentration of lead, nickel, and arsenic were determined in different parts of the plant including root, stem and grain at final harvest stage. Results showed that the effect of zeolite, compost and interaction between zeolite and compost on concentration of lead, nickel and arsenic in root, stem and grain were significant. The maximum and minimum accumulation of lead, nickel and arsenic under application and non-application of treatments were in root and grain, respectively. In general, in the contaminated soils, application of zeolite and compost by 1.5% is effective in reducing the contamination below the standards level of food. So it can increase food safety and food security.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
Durational cues of Standard German Plosives: A comparison between Austrian, German, and Swiss speakers
Creators: name: Choi, Yeongeun
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
title: Durchlauchtigster Herr Erzherzog, Reichsverweser! Die Worte von Eurer Kaiserlichen Hoheit vor wenigen Jahren in edler Begeisterung ausgesprochen: "Ein einiges kräftiges Deutschland!" sie beginnen wahr zu werden, ...; [1848]
title: München, den 12. Juli 1848
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Johann Österreich, Erzherzog
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
Mein Deutsch klingt nicht hochdeutscher als Deins – Zur Einschätzung eigener und fremder Standardnähe von Sprecher:innen deutscher Jugendsprache
Creators: name: Karnovska, Sofiya
name: Kyriakidis, Kalliopi
name: Kleber, Felicitas
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
THEORETICAL BASICS OF GENDER CHARACTERISTICS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Creators: name: Sharifzoda, Marjona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This thesis discusses the theoretical factors of teaching foreign languages, taking into account gender characteristics. In order to study the gender characteristics of the students, the article developed a real questionnaire, including the analysis of the reasons for the students' reluctance to speak English with the representatives of the opposite gender and the students' tendency to work in groups.
The impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Creators: name: Gordin, Fred M.
name: Nelson, Eileen T.
name: Cohn, David I.
name: Matts, John P.
name: Cohn, David L.
name: Ernst, Jerome
name: Benator, Debra
name: Besch, C. Lynn
name: Crane, Lawrence R.
name: Sampson, James H.
name: Bragg, Patricia S.
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: AIDS, Terry Beirn Community Programs For Clinical Research On
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Epidemiology
Pharmacology

description: Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been associated with increased rates of single- and multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in the New York City area. In order to examine the relationship of HIV infection to drug-resistant tuberculosis in other selected regions of the United States, we established a registry of cases of culture-proven tuberculosis. Data were collected from sites participating in an NIH-funded, community-based HIV clinical trials group. All cases of tuberculosis, regardless of HIV status, which occurred between January 1992 and June 1994 were recorded. Overall, 1,373 cases of tuberculosis were evaluated, including 425 from the New York City area, and 948 from seven other metropolitan areas. The overall prevalence of resistance to one or more drugs was 20.4%, and 5.6% of isolates were resistant to both isoniazid and rifampin (MDR). In the New York City area, HIV-infected patients were significantly more likely than persons not known to be HIV-infected, to have resistance to at least one drug (37% versus 19%) and MDR (19% versus 6%). In other geographic areas, overall drug resistance was 16%, and only 2.2% of isolates were MDR. In multiple logistic regression analyses, HIV infection was shown to be a risk factor for drug-resistant tuberculosis, independent of geographic location, history of prior therapy, age, and race. We concluded that HIV infection is associated with increased rates of resistance to antituberculosis drugs in both the New York City area and other geographic areas. MDR tuberculosis is occurring predominantly in the New York City area and is highly correlated with HIV infection.
Diffuse phase transition and electrical properties of lead-free piezoelectric (LixNa1-x)NbO3 (0.04 to x to 0.20) ceramics near morphotropic phase boundary
Creators: name: Mitra, S.
name: Kulkarni, A. R.
name: Prakash, Om.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature-dependent dielectric permittivity of lead-free (LixNa1-x)NbO3 for nominal x = 0.04-0.20, prepared by solid state reaction followed by sintering, was studied to resolve often debated issue pertaining to exactness of morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) location along with structural aspects and phase stability in the system near MPB. Interestingly, a diffuse phase transition has been observed in the dielectric permittivity peak arising from the disorder induced in A-site and structural frustration in the perovskite cell due to Li substitution. A partial phase diagram has been proposed based on temperature-dependent dielectric permittivity studies. The room temperature piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties were investigated and the ceramics with x = 0.12 showed relatively good electrical properties (d33 = 28 pC/N, kp = 13.8%, Qm = 440, Pr = 12.5 {micro}C/cm2, EC = 43.2 kV/cm, Tm = 340 oC). These parameter values make this material suitable for piezoelectric resonator and filter applications. Moreover, a high dielectric permittivity (= 2703) with broad diffuse peak near transition temperature along with low dielectric loss (< 4%) in a wide temperature range (50-250 oC) found in this material may also have a potential application in high-temperature multilayer capacitors in automotive and aerospace related industries.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Akustisch-phonetische Muster verbaler Ironie: Eine kontrastive Untersuchung zweier deutscher Regionalakzente
Creators: name: Fünfgeld, Sophia
name: Braun, Angelika
name: Zahner-Ritter, Katharina
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
What are the driving forces behind sound change in Swiss German?
Creators: name: Leemann, Adrian
name: Steiner, Carina
name: Jeszenszky, Péter
name: Siebenhaar, Beat
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Short-term pacing in the mouse alters cardiac expression of connexin43
Creators: name: Kontogeorgis, Andrianos
name: Kaba, Riyaz A.
name: Kang, Eunice
name: Feig, Jonathan E.
name: Gupta, Pritha P.
name: Ponzio, Marc
name: Liu, Fangyu
name: Rindler, Michael J.
name: Wit, Andrew L.
name: Fisher, Edward A.
name: Peters, Nicholas S.
name: Gutstein, David E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Gap junctions (Cell biology)
Connexin 43
Cardiac pacing
Heart--Diseases
Cardiology
Medical sciences
Medicine
Pharmacology

description: Background: Cardiac insults such as ischemia, infarction, hypertrophy and dilatation are often accompanied by altered abundance and/or localization of the connexin43 gap junction protein, which may predispose towards arrhythmic complications. Models of chronic dyssynchronous cardiac activation have also been shown to result in redistribution of connexin43 in cardiomyocytes. We hypothesized that alterations in connexin43 expression and localization in the mouse heart might be induced by ventricular pacing over a short period of time.
Results: The subdiaphragmatic approach was used to pace a series of wild type mice for six hours before the hearts were removed for analysis. Mice were paced at 10–15% above their average anesthetized sinus rate and monitored to ensure 1:1 capture. Short-term pacing resulted in a significant reduction in connexin43 mRNA abundance, a partial redistribution of connexin43 from the sarcolemma to a non-sarcolemmal fraction, and accumulation of ubiquitinated connexin43 without a significant change in overall connexin43 protein levels. These early pacing-induced changes in connexin43 expression were not accompanied by decreased cardiac function, prolonged refractoriness or increased inducibility into sustained arrhythmias.
Conclusion: Our data suggest that short-term pacing is associated with incipient changes in the expression of the connexin43 gap junction, possibly including decreased production and a slowed rate of degradation. This murine model may facilitate the study of early molecular changes induced by pacing and may ultimately assist in the development of strategies to prevent gap junction remodeling and the associated arrhythmic complications of cardiac disease.
Diffuse neutrino flux measurements with the Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope
Creators: name: Baikal Collaboration
name: Allakhverdyan, V. A.
name: Avrorin, A. D.
name: Avrorin, A. V.
name: Aynutdinov, V. M.
name: Bardačová, Z.
name: Belolaptikov, I. A.
name: Borina, I. V.
name: Budnev, N. M.
name: Dik, V. Y.
name: Domogatsky, G. V.
name: Doroshenko, A. A.
name: Dvornický, R.
name: Dyachok, A. N.
name: Dzhilkibaev, Zh. -A. M.
name: Eckerová, E.
name: Elzhov, T. V.
name: Fajt, L.
name: Gafarov, A. R.
name: Golubkov, K. V.
name: Gorshkov, N. S.
name: Gress, T. I.
name: Kebkal, K. G.
name: Kebkal, V. K.
name: Khatun, A.
name: Khramov, E. V.
name: Kolbin, M. M.
name: Konischev, K. V.
name: Korobchenko, A. V.
name: Koshechkin, A. P.
name: Kozhin, V. A.
name: Kruglov, M. V.
name: Kulepov, V. F.
name: Malyshkin, Y. M.
name: Milenin, M. B.
name: Mirgazov, R. R.
name: Naumov, D. V.
name: Nazari, V.
name: Petukhov, D. P.
name: Pliskovsky, E. N.
name: Rozanov, M. I.
name: Rushay, V. D.
name: Ryabov, E. V.
name: Safronov, G. B.
name: Shaybonov, B. A.
name: Seitova, D.
name: Shelepov, M. D.
name: Šimkovic, F.
name: Sirenko, A. E.
name: Skurikhin, A. V.
name: Solovjev, A. G.
name: Sorokovikov, M. N.
name: Štekl, I.
name: Stromakov, A. P.
name: Suvorova, O. V.
name: Tabolenko, V. A.
name: Yablokova, Y. V.
name: Zaborov, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first observation of the diffuse cosmic neutrino flux with the Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope. Using cascade-like events collected by Baikal-GVD in 2018--2021, a significant excess of events over the expected atmospheric background is observed. This excess is consistent with the high-energy diffuse cosmic neutrino flux observed by IceCube. The null cosmic flux assumption is rejected with a significance of 3.05$σ$. Assuming a single power law model of the astrophysical neutrino flux with identical contribution from each neutrino flavor, the following best-fit parameter values are found: the spectral index $γ_{astro}$ = $2.58^{+0.27}_{-0.33}$ and the flux normalization $ϕ_{astro}$ = 3.04$^{+1.52}_{-1.21}$ per one flavor at 100 TeV.
description: 9 pages; 5 figures; 2 tables
EFFECT OF ECOTOURISM ON PLANT DIVERSITY, SOIL AGGREGATE STABILITY AND PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER IN NATIONAL KHOJIR PARK IN TEHRAN
Creators: name: Jirdashtani, A.
name: Ramezani, M.
name: Nahibi, S.
name: Khorasani, N.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2022

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
description: This work assesses the effects of ecotourism on biodiversity, soil POM and ASI in a semi-arid region in Iran. Three zones as High-pressure (0 to 50 m from the road, visitors density: > 20 persons ha-1 day-1), Mid-pressure (50 to 100 m from the road, visitors density: 5-20 persons ha-1 day-1), and Low-pressure (100 to 150 m from the road, visitors density: 5 persons ha-1 day-1) ecotourism were selected. Indicators of biodiversity, richness, and evenness (0.77, 5.55, and 0.79, respectively) were significantly higher in the High-pressure zone. Soil bulk density (1.95 g m3 ), pH (7.98), and EC (0.82 ds m-1) were significantly higher in the High zone whereas a higher content of total C (0.39%), total N (0.13%), available P (4.83 mg kg-1), available K (3.21 mg kg-1), available Ca (34.91 mg kg-1), and available Mg (5.66 mg kg-1) were found in the Low-pressure zone. POM-C and POM-N were significantly followed by Low (0.21 and 0.03 g kg-1) > Mid (0.14 and 0.02 g kg-1) > High (0.08 and 0.01 g kg-1) zones, respectively. The Low-pressure zone with a population density of only 5 people per ha is associated with enhanced soil biodiversity and nutrient cycles.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
CONSERVATION STATUS ASSESSMENT OF THE ENDEMIC HIERACIUM S. STR. (ASTERACEAE) OCCURRING IN SICILY
Creators: name: Di Gristina, E.
name: Raimondo, F.M.
name: Domina, G.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2022

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
description: The current status of the majority of apomictic taxa, and therefore their priorities for conservation, are poorly known, and consequently, they are neglected by conservationists. In Sicily 8 species and 4 subspecies of Hieracium s. str. occurs. Eleven taxa are endemic to the area, one has a wider distribution. These taxa were not evaluated within the recent project “Red List assessment of plants and fungi in Italy” because collectively considered with insufficient and unreliable distribution data. The global conservation status of the endemic Hieracium s. str. taxa occurring in Sicily was assessed here using the IUCN categories and criteria, on the basis of the data collected during field surveys over 10 years. Criteria A, B, C and D were used in assessments. The assessment of punctual endemic taxa considered the real threats to which populations are subjected. Overall, 6 Critically Endangered, 2 Endangered, 1 Vulnerable and 2 Least Concern taxa were assessed. The knowledge of taxa, currently small in size and isolated from each other, allows for the planning of differentiated conservation strategies.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
title: Hohe Reichsversammlung! Beschwerde und Bitte vieler Bürger und Einwohner der Stadt Mannheim um Schutz gegen drückende Einquartierungs-Last; [1848]
title: [Mannheim, den 4. Juni 1848]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
Rates of Tuberculosis Infection in Healthcare Workers Providing Services to HIV-Infected Populations
Creators: name: Zahnow, Karen
name: Matts, John P.
name: Hillman, David
name: Finley, Elizabeth
name: Brown Jr., Lawrence S.
name: Torres, Ramon A.
name: Ernst, Jerome
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: Perez, George
name: Webster, Carol
name: Barber, Beverly
name: Gordin, Fred M.
name: AIDS, Terry Beirn Community Programs For Clinical Research On
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Epidemiology
Medicine, Industrial

description: Objective: To assess the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) or a positive skin test in healthcare workers (HCWs) providing services to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals and to determine prospectively the incidence of new infections in this population.
Design: This prospective cohort study enrolled 1,014 HCWs working with HIV-infected populations from 10 metropolitan areas. Purified protein derivative (PPD) tuberculin skin tests were placed at baseline and every 6 months afterwards on those without a history of TB or a positive PPD. Demographic, occupational, and TB exposure data also were collected.
Setting: Outpatient clinics, hospitals, private practice offices, and drug treatment programs providing HIV-related healthcare and research programs.
Participants: A voluntary sample of staff and volunteers from 16 Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS units.
Results: Factors related to prior TB or a positive skin test at baseline included being foreign-born, increased length of time in health care, living in New York City, or previous bacille Calmette-Guerín vaccination. The rate of PPD conversion was 1.8 per 100 person years of follow-up. No independent relation was found between the amount or type of contact with HIV-infected populations and the risk of TB infection.
Conclusion: These data provide some reassurance that caring for HIV-infected patients is not related to an increased rate ofTB infection among HCWs in these settings.
Amplitude envelopes as a means to quantify vowel length contrasts
Creators: name: Hohl, Friederike
name: Behrens-Zemek, Hendrik
name: Braun, Bettina
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Kehlkopfanhebung in englischen wortfinalen Ejektiven: eine Echtzeit-MRT-Studie
Creators: name: Price, Lavinia
name: Pouplier, Marianne
name: Hoole, Phil
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
On the use of non-concurrent controls in platform trials: A scoping review
Creators: name: Roig, Marta Bofill
name: Burgwinkel, Cora
name: Garczarek, Ursula
name: Koenig, Franz
name: Posch, Martin
name: Nguyen, Quynh
name: Hees, Katharina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Platform trials gained popularity during the last few years as they increase flexibility compared to multi-arm trials by allowing new experimental arms entering when the trial already started. Using a shared control group in platform trials increases the trial efficiency compared to separate trials. Because of the later entry of some of the experimental treatment arms, the shared control group includes concurrent and non-concurrent control data. For a given experimental arm, non-concurrent controls refer to patients allocated to the control arm before the arm enters the trial, while concurrent controls refer to control patients that are randomised concurrently to the experimental arm. Using non-concurrent controls can result in bias in the estimate in case of time trends if the appropriate methodology is not used and the assumptions are not met. In this paper, we faced two main objectives. In the first, we aimed to identify the methods currently available for incorporating non-concurrent controls, clarify the key concepts and assumptions, and name the main characteristics of each method. For this purpose, we systematically searched research articles on methods to include non-concurrent controls. The second objective is to summarise the current regulatory view on non-concurrent controls to clarify the key concepts and current guidance. Therefore, we conducted a systematic search in regulatory guidelines regarding using non-concurrent controls and summarised the most relevant arguments and recommended methods. Finally, we discuss the advantages and potential caveats of using non-concurrent controls.
EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT HERBICIDES ON WEED CONTROL, GROWTH INDICES AND FORAGE YIELD IN ALFALFA (MEDICAGO SATIVA L.)
Creators: name: Noroozi, M.
name: Dadashi, M.R.
name: Meighani, F.
name: Ajam Norouzi, H.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2022

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
description: In order to investigate the chemical management in alfalfa newly planted, an experiment in a randomized complete block design with four replications was conducted in the research farm of Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection located in Meshkindasht, Iran (2014-2016). Treatments includes EPTC (5 l/ha), Metribuzin (750 g/ha), 2,4-DB (3 and 3.5 l/ha), Bentazon (3 l/ha) and Imazethapyr (0.5 and 1 l/ha) on newly planted and established alfalfa, as well as control treatments without weeds control and with manual weeding during alfalfa growth season. The results revealed that the most effective herbicides to decrease the broadleaf weeds density were Metribuzin (99 and 97% in the first and second cuttings, respectively) and Imazethapyr (1 l/ha) (91 and 90% in the first and second cuttings, respectively). The lower effect was related to EPTC application (44 and 36% in the first and second cutting, respectively). As regards the the effects on narrow-leaf weeds density the highest herbicides efficiency was related to EPTC (100% in both cuttings), Metribuzin (87 and 91% in the first and second cuttings, respectively), Imazethapyr (1 l/ha) (81 and 90% in the first and second cuttings, respectively). In conclusion, Imazethapyr application (1 l/ha) was more suitable than other herbicides.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
Ted Sider’s Solution to the Problem of Radical Semantic Skepticism
Creators: name: Richey, Alexander Ondrus
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Language and languages
Knowledge, Theory of

description: In this paper, I exposit Ted Sider’s proposed solution to the problem of radical semantic skepticism, as it is presented in his Writing the Book of the World, and argue that it does not succeed. I begin with an exposition of the problem of radical semantic skepticism, then offer one solution to the problem and a subsequent modification to this solution. Next, in a brief interlude, I roughly characterize Sider’s notion of “structure” – whose exposition and defense is the primary aim of his book – and then turn to its application to the skeptical problem. There I pose an objection to it, which, I believe, ultimately causes Sider’s proposal to fail and compromises the larger agenda of his book.
Contextual bias and insulation against bias during aesthetic rating. The roles of VMPFC and DLPFC in neural valuation
Creators: name: Kirk, Ulrich
name: Freedberg, David A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Arts
subject: Psychobiology

description: The scientific study of aesthetic experience through the examination of the neural correlates of sensory and motor responses works of art and to other visual images has thrived during the last decade. The neural substrate of embodied responses to works of art, and to visual images more generally, has been the object of much attention. This research, however, has tended to sidestep the question of aesthetic preference and rating, and the neural correlates of contextual influences on such ratings. Responses in the domain of perception–action coupling have provided useful and important evidence for the role of somatic and emotional responses in viewers’ engagement with works of art. Nevertheless, the degree to which they form the basis of evaluation, ranking, and even judgment remains unclear. In this chapter we concentrate on the respective roles of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during aesthetic evaluation, particularly the aesthetic evaluation of visual works of art. Activity in these areas is modulated by external contextual pressures on viewing. The roles of ACC, hippocampal and striatal connections in the process of rating and evaluating works of visual art, and the relationship between expert and non-expert responses, are also discussed.
Establishing a Critical Feminist Perspective on Phonetic Gender Research
Creators: name: Kachel, Sven
name: Nieber, Leah
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Neural Circuits Underlying Motor Facilitation during Observation of Implied Motion
Creators: name: Concerto, Carmen
name: Al Sawah, Mohomad
name: Infortuna, Carmenrita
name: Freedberg, David A.
name: Chusid, Eileen
name: Aguglia, Eugenio
name: Battaglia, Fortunato
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Motor cortex
subject: Sensorimotor integration
subject: Magnetic brain stimulation
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: In the present study we used single and paired-pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to evaluate the effect of implied motion on primary motor cortex microcircuits. We found that observation of the implied motion of a static image increases MEP amplitude and reduces short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), without significant modulation of intracortical facilitation and sensory-motor integration. Our results add to the existing literature on the activation of the observation-execution matching system and describe a selective modulation of GABAergic cortical microcircuits during observation of implied motion.
Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board
Creators: name: Small, Dan
name: Drucker, Ernest
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Harm reduction
Drug addicts--Services for--Evaluation
Epidemiology
Public health

description: Nearly 400 years after Galileo Galilei of Florence was arraigned and convicted of suspected heresy by the ten member Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition), the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) is similarly inserting itself into matters pertaining to innovations in healthcare and the public health response to addiction throughout the world. Like that earlier Inquisition of 1633 that convicted Galileo of heresy for holding that the sun is the centre of the universe with the earth revolving around it (in contradiction to church doctrine of the time) the INCB and its thirteen-member panel, now rails against any evidence out of sync with the established doctrine of the war on drugs – particularly those innovations in public health called harm reduction.

The latest healthcare and harm reduction practices to attract the ire of the INCB Inquisition are elements of Canada's most effective and innovative measures to minimize the harms of drugs in Vancouver – supervised injection facilities and, recently, the potential establishment of supervised inhalation rooms – along with the long established practice of providing safer mouthpieces for pulmonary inhalation in British Columbia. This is particularly significant as it comes in the midst of a crucial battle between municipal and provincial authorities in BC with the federal government in Ottawa, which seems determined to undermine all the most effective HR programs that are the result of years of steady local and governmental support in Vancouver and now threatens to derail all these programs and spread doubt about their usefulness despite the overwhelmingly positive findings of serous research.
Growing evidence for high-energy neutrinos originating in radio blazars
Creators: name: Plavin, A. V.
name: Kovalev, Y. Y.
name: Kovalev, Y. A.
name: Troitsky, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence for bright radio blazars being high-energy neutrino sources was found in recent years. However, specifics of how and where these particles get produced still need to be determined. In this paper, we add 14 new IceCube events from 2020-2022 to update our analysis of the neutrino-blazars connection. We test and refine earlier findings by utilising the total of 71 track-like high-energy IceCube events from 2009-2022. We correlate them with the complete sample of 3412 extragalactic radio sources selected by their compact radio emission. We demonstrate that neutrinos are statistically associated with radio-bright blazars with a post-trial p-value of 3*10^-4. In addition to this statistical study, we confirm previous individual neutrino-blazar associations, find and discuss several new ones. Notably, PKS 1741-038 was selected earlier and had a second neutrino detected from its direction in 2022; PKS 0735+168 has experienced a major flare across the whole electromagnetic spectrum coincidently with a neutrino arrival from that direction in 2021.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, 2 machine-readable tables; V2: minor changes and updates, accepted by MNRAS
A test of the millisecond magnetar central engine model of GRBs with Swift data
Creators: name: Lü, Hou-Jun
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized neutron star (magnetar) has been proposed as one possible candidate of the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We systematically analyze the Swift/XRT light curves of long GRBs detected before 2013 August, and characterize them into four categories based on how likely they may harbor a magnetar central engine: Gold, Silver, Aluminum, and Non-magnetar. We also independently analyze the data of short GRBs with a putative magnetar central engine. We then perform a statistical study of various properties of the magnetar samples and the non-magnetar sample, and investigate whether the data are consistent with the hypothesis that there exist two types of central engines. By deriving the physical parameters of the putative magnetars, we find that the observations of the Gold and Silver samples are generally consistent with the predictions of the magnetar model. For a reasonable beaming factor for long GRBs, the derived magnetar surface magnetic field $B_p$ and initial spin period $P_0$ fall into the reasonable range. Magnetar winds in short GRBs, on the other hand, are consistent with being isotropic. No GRB in the magnetar sample has a beam-corrected total energy exceeding the maximum energy budget defined by the initial spin energy of the magnetar, while some non-magnetar GRBs do violate such a limit. With beaming correction, on average the non-magnetar sample is more energetic and luminous than the magnetar samples. Our analysis hints that millisecond magnetars are likely operating in a good fraction, but probably not all, GRBs.
description: 19 pages, 41 figures, 3 Tables. ApJ, in press
Listeners make use of subphonemic information in comprehension
Creators: name: Schmitz, Dominic
name: Baer-Henney, Dinah
name: Plag, Ingo
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
NEW RECORDS OF NATIVE AND ALIEN VASCULAR PLANTS FROM ABRUZZO, LAZIO AND MOLISE NATIONAL PARK (ITALY) – AND ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF ABRUZZO AND MOLISE ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS
Creators: name: Conti, F.
name: Cancellieri, L.
name: Cangelmi, G.
name: Filibeck, G.
name: Rosati, L.
name: Bartolucci, F.
Publisher: name: Annali di Botanica
Year: 2022

description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
description: The Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, a flagship conservation area in Italy, is a hotspot of floristic diversity and a crossroad for plant biogeography. In this work, as a result of recent field studies in the Park and herbarium revisions, we report 10 taxa new or confirmed for the Abruzzo administrative region, and 3 for the Molise administrative region. Moreover, 47 taxa of vascular plants (41 native and 6 alien taxa) that are new or confirmed for the flora of the Park are reported. Five taxa are excluded from the flora of the Park.
description: Annali di Botanica, V. 12 (2022)
A detailed description of the experimental realisation of quantum illumination protocol
Creators: name: Lopaeva, E. D.
name: Berchera, I. Ruo
name: Olivares, S.
name: Brida, G.
name: Degiovanni, I. P.
name: Genovese, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last years the exploitation of specific properties of quantum states has disclosed the possibility of realising tasks beyond classical limits, creating the new field of quantum technologies [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Among them, quantum metrology and imaging aim to improve the sensitivity and/or resolution of measurements exploiting non-classical features such as squeezing and quantum correlations (entanglement and discordant states) [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. Nevertheless, in most of the realistic scenarios losses and noise are known to nullify the advantage of adopting quantum strategies [15]. In this paper we describe in detail the first experimental realization of quantum illumination protocol aimed to target detection in a noisy environment, that preserves a strong advantage over the classical counterparts even in presence of large amount of noise and losses. The experiment, inspired by the theoretical ideas elaborated in [16, 17, 18, 19] (see also [20, 21]), has been performed exploiting only photon number correlations in twin beams. Thus, for its simplicity it can find widespread use. Even more important by challenging the common believe that real application of quantum technologies is limited by their fragility to noise and losses, it paves the way to their real application.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1303.4304
title: An die hohe deutsche Nationalversammlung. Die allgemeine, deutsche Studentenversammlung auf der Wartburg hält eine Umgestalt der Universitäten für dringend nöthig und legt ihre desfallsigen Wünsche ... vor: Die Universitäten sollen Nationalanstalten werden ...; [1848]
title: Eisenach, 15. Juni 1848
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lang, ...
name: Klostermann, ...
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
The psychosocial work environment and certified occupational health and safety management systems in the public sector – experie
Creators: name: HASLE, Peter
name: HOHNEN, Pernille
name: JESPERSEN, Anne Helbo
name: MADSEN, Christian Uhrenholt
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: Certified occupational health and safety management (OHSM) systems are expected to cover the psychosocial work environment. We studied certified OHSM
systems implemented in two medium-sized to large Danish municipalities. The cases show that the process of adopting OHSM systems from their traditional base in manufacturing to a public sector with a focus on the psychosocial work environment is difficult and complex. The management system seems to help maintaining systematic OHS activities but the actors are still searching for ways to fit the systems to the peculiarities of the psychosocial work environment in the public sector.
Light Z' in Heterotic String Standard-like Models
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, P.
name: Faraggi, A. E.
name: Mehta, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC supports the hypothesis that the Standard Model provides an effective parameterisation of all subatomic experimental data up to the Planck scale. String theory, which provides a viable perturbative approach to quantum gravity, requires for its consistency the existence of additional gauge symmetries beyond the Standard Model. The construction of heterotic--string models with a viable light $Z^\prime$ is, however, highly constrained. We outline the construction of standard--like heterotic--string models that allow for an additional Abelian gauge symmetry that may remain unbroken down to low scales. We present a string inspired model, consistent with the string constraints.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, v2: minor changes, added 2 references
Student Success in a University First-year Statistics Course: Do Students' Characteristics Affect Their Academic Performance? Code and Output
Creators: name: Akimov, Alexandr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: economics education, student success, statistics, academic performance, higher education, gender, education policy, Uzbekistan

description: The folder contains Stata code and output to accompany a paper to be published at Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
Prosodie für den fremdsprachlichen Französisch-Unterricht: Zum Bedarf bei Lehrkräften
Creators: name: Zahner-Ritter, Katharina
name: Trouvain, Jürgen
name: Feldhausen, Ingo
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
A review of pulsating stars from the ASAS data
Creators: name: Pigulski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) appeared to be extremely useful in establishing the census of bright variable stars in the sky. A short review of the characteristics of the ASAS data and discoveries based on these data and related to pulsating stars is presented here by an enthusiastic user of the ASAS data.
description: 8 pages, to be published in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 301 "Precision Asteroseismology"
Acoustic characteristics of filler particles in German
Creators: name: Muhlack, Beeke
name: Trouvain, Jürgen
name: Jessen, Michael
Publisher: name: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
Year: 2022

description: Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum