cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 (YAM-5): Development and First Psychometric Evidence of a New Scale for Assessing Anxiety Disorders Symptoms of Children and Adolescents
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Anxiety disorders symptoms
Children and adolescents
Questionnaire
Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5
Adolescent
Agoraphobia
Anxiety
Child
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Female
Humans
Male
Netherlands
Panic Disorder
Phobic Disorders
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Test Anxiety Scale

description: © 2016, The Author(s). The Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 (YAM-5) is a new self- and parent-report questionnaire to assess anxiety disorder symptoms in children and adolescents in terms of the contemporary classification system. International panels of childhood anxiety researchers and clinicians were used to construct a scale consisting of two parts: part one consists of 28 items and measures the major anxiety disorders including separation anxiety disorder, selective mutism, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, whereas part two contains 22 items that focus on specific phobias and (given its overlap with situational phobias) agoraphobia. In general, the face validity of the new scale was good; most of its items were successfully linked to the intended anxiety disorders. Notable exceptions were the selective mutism items, which were frequently considered as symptoms of social anxiety disorder, and some specific phobia items especially of the natural environment, situational and other type, that were regularly assigned to an incorrect category. A preliminary investigation of the YAM-5 in non-clinical (N = 132) and clinically referred (N = 64) children and adolescents indicated that the measure was easy to complete by youngsters. In addition, support was found for the psychometric qualities of the measure: that is, the internal consistency was good for both parts, as well as for most of the subscales, the parent–child agreement appeared satisfactory, and there was also evidence for the validity of the scale. The YAM-5 holds promise as a tool for assessing anxiety disorder symptoms in children and adolescents.
An earlier origin for the Acheulian
Creators: name: Lepre, Christopher J.
name: Roche, Hélène
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Harmand, Sonia
name: Quinn, Rhonda L.
name: Brugal, Jean-Philippe
name: Texier, Pierre-Jean
name: Lenoble, Arnaud
name: Feibel, Craig S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Archaeology
Physical anthropology

description: The Acheulian is one of the first defined prehistoric technocomplexes and is characterized by shaped bifacial stone tools It probably originated in Africa, spreading to Europe and Asia perhaps as early as 1 million years (Myr) ago. The origin of the Acheulian is thought to have closely coincided with major changes in human brain evolution, allowing for further technological developments. Nonetheless, the emergence of the Acheulian remains unclear because well-dated sites older than 1.4Myr ago are scarce. Here we report on the lithic assemblage and geological context for the Kokiselei 4 archaeological site from the Nachukui formation (West Turkana, Kenya) that bears characteristic early Acheulian tools and pushes the first appearance datum for this stone-age technology back to 1.76Myr ago. Moreover, co-occurrence of Oldowan and Acheulian artefacts at the Kokiselei site complex indicates that the two technologies are notmutually exclusive time-successive components of an evolving cultural lineage, and suggests that the Acheulian was either imported from another location yet to be identified or originated from Oldowan hominins at this vicinity. In either case, the Acheulian did not accompany the first human dispersal from Africa despite being available at the time. This may indicate that multiple groups of hominins distinguished by separate stone-tool-making behaviours and dispersal strategies coexisted in Africa at 1.76Myr ago.
Finding Communities by Their Centers
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Algorithms
Community Networks
Computer Simulation
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Social Support

description: Detecting communities or clusters in a real-world, networked system is of considerable interest in various fields such as sociology, biology, physics, engineering science, and interdisciplinary subjects, with significant efforts devoted in recent years. Many existing algorithms are only designed to identify the composition of communities, but not the structures. Whereas we believe that the local structures of communities can also shed important light on their detection. In this work, we develop a simple yet effective approach that simultaneously uncovers communities and their centers. The idea is based on the premise that organization of a community generally can be viewed as a high-density node surrounded by neighbors with lower densities, and community centers reside far apart from each other. We propose so-called "community centrality" to quantify likelihood of a node being the community centers in such a landscape, and then propagate multiple, significant center likelihood throughout the network via a diffusion process. Our approach is an efficient linear algorithm, and has demonstrated superior performance on a wide spectrum of synthetic and real world networks especially those with sparse connections amongst the community centers.
title: Evaluation of Frogurt: A New Product Prepared by Fermentation of Ice Cream Mix
Creators: name: Mashayekh, Morteza
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: Ice cream mix was fermented with yogurt cultures of Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus to four different pH's then frozen in a batch ice cream freezer. A consumer panel of 120 people tasted samples of strawberry flavored product with pH's of 4.4, 4.7, 5.1, and 5.4 and commercial frozen yogurt as a standard. Results from the panel were used to predict a preferred pH of 4.9. Another panel of 181 people compared product at pH 4.9 with 10, 15 and 20% strawberry flavoring. There was not a statistically significant difference among levels of flavoring.
Starter culture populations and lactase activity were monitored for one month both in yogurt and in the frozen fermented ice cream mix. Lactase activity and colony counts progressively decreased in refrigerated yogurt at 4°C during the 30-day period. In frozen fermented ice cream mix, lactase activity and colony counts decreased slightly. The fermented ice cream mix can be held frozen for more than one month with active lactase activity, and viable colony counts, but refrigerated yogurt does not have a shelf life of more than one month.
Rock Deformation Studies in the Mineral Mountains and Sevier Desert of West-Central Utah: Implications for Upper Crustal Low-Angle Normal Faulting
Creators: name: Anders, Mark H.
name: Christie-Blick, Nicholas
name: Wills, Stewart
name: Krueger, Scot W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plate tectonics
subject: Remote sensing

description: The Cave Canyon detachment, a low-angle normal fault that crops out in the Mineral Mountains, west-central Utah, has been interpreted as a hanging-wall splay of a much larger structure (the Sevier Desert detachment) that was influential in development of the idea that low-angle normal faults play a role in crustal extension. The Cave Canyon detachment provides expectations for the deformational features that might be expected along the hypothesized Sevier Desert detachment, which is not exposed in outcrop and is inferred to exist primarily on the basis of seismic reflection data. The footwall of the Cave Canyon detachment is characterized by a 200-m-thick granite cataclasite, which exhibits a clear decrease in grain size and increase in microfracture density as the fault surface is approached. Undulatory extinction in quartz and feldspar and abundant quartz deformation lamellae at distances more than 200 m from the fault surface are interpreted as related to cooling of the Miocene granite rather than to normal faulting. Although mylonitic textures have previously been described in the granite, we found no evidence for mylonitization in the footwall rocks. The hanging wall of the detachment is characterized by 9 m of deformed, partially dolomitized limestone, with a 2-m-thick carbonate mylonite at the contact. Deformation features include dynamic recrystallization, grain-size reduction, development of twinning with a strong preferred orientation, some grain-size layering, and undulatory extinction close to the fault. Static recrystallization overprints fossils and ooids at distances greater than 9 m. Drill cuttings and some core recovered at similar distances above and below the hypothesized Sevier Desert detachment show no evidence for localized deformation (ARCO Hole-in-the-Rock No. 1, ARCO Meadow Federal No. 1, and Argonaut Energy Federal No. 1 wells). Fossils and ooids are undeformed in Paleozoic carbonate rocks within 3 m below the contact, and sandstone and conglomerate with rounded clasts lacking more than background levels of microfracturing are found in samples within 3 m above the contact. These features contrast markedly with those of the Cave Canyon detachment, which was active at a considerably shallower and cooler level in the crust (∼5 km and less than 300 °C) than is implied for Paleozoic rocks beneath the Sevier Desert, once hanging-wall rocks are restored along the hypothesized detachment (9−14 km and 280−425 °C at the locations studied). The very different character of the two surfaces reinforces our earlier suggestion that beneath much of the Sevier Desert basin, the base of the Tertiary section is an unconformity rather than a low-angle normal fault.
Cucurbitacin B inhibits the stemness and metastatic abilities of NSCLC via downregulation of canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling axis
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: A549 Cells
Animals
Blotting, Western
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Cell Line, Tumor
Cell Movement
Cell Proliferation
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
Down-Regulation
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Female
Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
Humans
Immunoprecipitation
Lung Neoplasms
Mice
Microscopy, Fluorescence
Neovascularization, Physiologic
Nitrosamines
RNA Interference
RNA, Small Interfering
Transforming Growth Factor beta1
Triterpenes
Wnt Signaling Pathway
Wnt3 Protein
Wnt3A Protein
beta Catenin

description: Lack of effective anti-metastatic drugs creates a major hurdle for metastatic lung cancer therapy. For successful lung cancer treatment, there is a strong need of newer therapeutics with metastasis-inhibitory potential. In the present study, we determined the anti-metastatic and anti-angiogenic potential of a natural plant triterpenoid, Cucurbitacin B (CuB) against non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) both in vitro and in vivo. CuB demonstrated a strong anti-migratory and anti-invasive ability against metastatic NSCLC at nanomolar concentrations. CuB also showed significant tumor angiogenesis-inhibitory effects as evidenced by the inhibition of migratory, invasive and tube-forming capacities of human umbilical vein endothelial cells. CuB-mediated inhibition of angiogenesis was validated by the inhibition of pre-existing vasculature in chick embryo chorio-allantoic membrane and matrigel plugs. Similarly, CuB inhibited the migratory behavior of TGF-β1-induced experimental EMT model. The CuB-mediated inhibition of metastasis and angiogenesis was attributable to the downregulation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling axis, validated by siRNA-knockdown of Wnt3 and Wnt3a. The CuB-mediated downregulation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling was also validated using 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)-induced lung tumorigenesis model in vivo. Collectively, our findings suggest that CuB inhibited the metastatic abilities of NSCLC through the inhibition of Wnt/β-catenin signaling axis.
Noise induced phenomena in point Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Gordeeva, Anna V.
name: Pankratov, Andrey L.
name: Spagnolo, Bernardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of the mean switching time and its standard deviation of short overdamped Josephson junctions, driven by a direct current and a periodic signal. The effect of noise enhanced stability is investigated. It is shown that fluctuations may both decrease and increase the switching time.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Int. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos
Periodic orbits for an infinite family of classical superintegrable systems
Creators: name: Tremblay, Frédérick
name: Turbiner, Alexander V.
name: Winternitz, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that all bounded trajectories in the two dimensional classical system with the potential $V(r,ϕ)=ω^2 r^2+ \frac{\al k^2}{r^2 \cos^2 {k ϕ}}+ \frac{βk^2}{r^2 \sin^2 {k ϕ}}$ are closed for all integer and rational values of $k$. The period is $T=\fracπ{2ω}$ and does not depend on $k$. This agrees with our earlier conjecture suggesting that the quantum version of this system is superintegrable.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures
Malaria in pregnancy: A passive surveillance study of pregnant women in low transmission areas of Colombia, Latin America
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Malaria
Pregnancy
Colombia
Plasmodium
Antibodies
Microsatellite repeats

description: © 2016 Lopez-Perez et al. Background: Malaria causes a significant burden in highly endemic areas where children and pregnant women are more susceptible to severe disease and death, however, in low transmission settings malaria in pregnant women is less frequent. The aim of this study was to provide information of clinical profile, anti-parasite host immune responses and parasite genotyping of pregnant women with malaria in low endemic areas of Colombia. Methods: This was a descriptive study conducted through passive surveillance in 1328 individuals from three endemic areas of Córdoba, Nariño and Chocó departments between 2011 and 2013. Trained physicians confirmed the pregnancy status and recorded clinical and epidemiological information. Haematological parameters, as well as hepatic and renal function, anti-malarial antibodies and parasite genotypes were evaluated. Results: A total of 582 women presented with malaria infection, 34 of whom were pregnant (5.8 %), and most were infected by Plasmodium falciparum (n = 24). In 44 % (n = 15) of the women, the infection occurred during the first half of pregnancy. Although uncomplicated disease and parasitaemia ≤20,000 parasites/μL were common (n = 31), three women (8.8 %) infected by P. falciparum were classified as severe cases. Mild to moderate anaemia (68 %) and mild thrombocytopaenia (41 %) were the most frequent blood alterations and in four women acute renal failure was observed. Six women presented a second malaria episode during pregnancy mainly caused by P. vivax (n = 5), although no direct evidence of relapse was found by genotyping. Two out of the six women presenting a second malaria episode had severe malaria. A low prevalence of specific anti-parasite antibodies was found. Microsatellites indicated that all P. vivax infections involved multiple lineages whereas all but one P. falciparum infections harboured single genotypes. Conclusions: Most malaria infected pregnant women displayed uncomplicated malaria, although a few of them with a second malaria episode presented an increased risk of severe malaria which appeared to be associated with malaria transmission intensity and not with levels of anti-parasite antibodies. The effects of severe malaria in both mother and fetus warrant future studies in low transmission settings. Keywords: Malaria, Pregnancy, Colombia, Plasmodium, Antibodies, Microsatellite repeats.
title: The Bioavailability of Iron from Meat, Spinach, Soy Protein Isolate, Meat:Spinach and Meat:SPI Mixtures Fed to Anemic and Healthy Rats
Creators: name: Zhang, Dejia
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: Two Experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of iron status and iron source on iron bioavailability using the rat model. Beef was proportionally mixed with spinach (Experiment I) or soy protein isolate (Experiment II) to test if meat enhances the absorption of iron from spinach or SPI. Five diets with the iron from meat:spinach (or SPI) ratios of 100:0, 75:25, 50:50, 25:75 and 0:100 were prepared and fed to rats. FeS04 was used as a reference. Two trials of rats were used in Experiment I. In trial I, half of the rats were made severely iron deficient (Hb 6.3 g/dl) and the other half mildly iron deficient (Hb 8.8 g/dl). In trial II, half of the rats were depleted to severe iron deficiency and the remainder were not depleted (Hb 11.3 g/dl). Hemoglobin regeneration efficiency (HRE), apparent absorption and 59Fe absorption were compared.
The HREs were 41, 53 and 36% (spinach); 42, 51,and 44% (beef) and 73, 66 and 46% (FeS04) in severely, mildly iron-depleted and healthy rats and 56 and 42% (SPI) in iron-depleted and healthy rats, respectively. Iron depletion stimulated iron absorption. This effect was very significant for rats fed a FeS04 supplemented diet and lessened for rats fed diets containing beef, spinach or SPI as the iron source. Spinach and soy protein isolate were good iron sources both having similar iron bioavailabilities as beef. Beef ~as a good iron source, as noted in other reports; however, enhancement of meat on absorption of iron from spinach and SPI did not occur.
Hemoglobin regeneration efficiency is a simple, accurate and definitive method for measuring effects of iron source and iron status on iron bioavailability. Apparent absorption gives similar values to HRE. However, it requires meticulous iron analysis and has more potential for errors. Extrinsic radioisotope tagging is an easy method, but there is evidence of possible incomplete exchange of radio tracer with iron in food. The different absorption pattern between FeS04 and food iron suggests a third iron pool, highly soluble iron salt, in addition to heme and nonheme iron complex pools.
Characterization by a time-frequency method of classical waves propagation in one-dimensional lattice : effects of the dispersion and localized nonlinearities
Creators: name: Richoux, Olivier
name: Depollier, Claude
name: Hardy, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents an application of time-frequency methods to characterize the dispersion of acoustic waves travelling in a one-dimensional periodic or disordered lattice made up of Helmholtz resonators connected to a cylindrical tube. These methods allow (1) to evaluate the velocity of the wave energy when the input signal is an acoustic pulse ; (2) to display the evolution of the spectral content of the transient signal ; (3) to show the role of the localized nonlinearities on the propagation .i.e the emergence of higher harmonics. The main result of this paper is that the time-frequency methods point out how the nonlinearities break the localization of the waves and/or the filter effects of the lattice.
Distinct Reward Properties are Encoded via Corticostriatal Interactions
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Adolescent
Adult
Comprehension
Emotions
Female
Humans
Male
Models, Neurological
Nucleus Accumbens
Prefrontal Cortex
Reward

description: © 2016, Nature Publishing Group. All rights reserved. The striatum serves as a critical brain region for reward processing. Yet, understanding the link between striatum and reward presents a challenge because rewards are composed of multiple properties. Notably, affective properties modulate emotion while informative properties help obtain future rewards. We approached this problem by emphasizing affective and informative reward properties within two independent guessing games. We found that both reward properties evoked activation within the nucleus accumbens, a subregion of the striatum. Striatal responses to informative, but not affective, reward properties predicted subsequent utilization of information for obtaining monetary reward. We hypothesized that activation of the striatum may be necessary but not sufficient to encode distinct reward properties. To investigate this possibility, we examined whether affective and informative reward properties were differentially encoded in corticostriatal interactions. Strikingly, we found that the striatum exhibited dissociable connectivity patterns with the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, with increasing connectivity for affective reward properties and decreasing connectivity for informative reward properties. Our results demonstrate that affective and informative reward properties are encoded via corticostriatal interactions. These findings highlight how corticostriatal systems contribute to reward processing, potentially advancing models linking striatal activation to behavior.
title: Change in Serum Iron as a Measure of Bioavailability of Dietary Iron
Creators: name: Wright, Mary Beth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: Methods currently used to determine iron bioavailability have disadvantages for both the subjects and researchers involved. One safe and simple method that needs further evaluation, the serum iron absorption method, involves an initial blood drawing, dosages of iron, and blood drawings taken at intervals thereafter. Generally, the rise in serum iron or area under the curve is used to determine iron uptake. Two experiments were conducted using the serum iron absorption method in an effort to improve the utility of this method for the measurement of iron bioavailability. With this effort in mind, an equation adjusting for dose of iron (0.5-8 mg) and blood volume was used to estimate serum iron absorption and allow for adequate comparisons of other iron absorption data obtained with this method and others.
One very significant result was that low serum ferritin was found to be a predictor of high serum estimated iron absorption (SEIA). Similarly, low serum ferritin levels were also highly correlated to iron absorption when radioiron methods were used.
In Experiment I, college-aged women (n=11) with low serum ferritin levels (average 11 ng/ml) participated in four serum iron trials in which four iron sources were used as iron dosages. Ferrous sulfate in orange juice (2.2 mg iron), ground beef (0.62 mg iron), cereal (6.6 mg iron), and ground beef and cereal together (3.6 mg iron) were used. Comparisons were made between the results obtained using this serum iron absorption data and other radioiron absorption data for similar iron sources, and the results were quite similar to iron absorption levels reported in the literature. In Experiment I, the ferrous sulfate (40%) and ground beef treatments (46%) had the highest serum estimated iron absorption (SEIA) and the cereal/ground beef (5%) and cereal treatments (3%) had significantly less.
Experiment II involved 28 college-aged women who participated in four serum iron absorption trials. For these four trials the iron dose was the same (2 mg iron as ferrous sulfate in orange juice). However, pre-trial supplements containing either (1) 30 mg iron, 60 mg ascorbic acid, (2) 30 mg iron, no ascorbic acid, (3) no iron, 60 mg ascorbic acid, or (4) a placebo were given (one per day) on each of the three days prior to the weekly serum iron absorption trials. During each pre-trial supplementation period, three daily diet records were kept by subjects to determine if the previous intake of nutrients (from food or pre-trial supplements) influenced the outcome of the serum iron absorption trial. Pre-trial supplementation of 30 mg iron, no ascorbic acid caused a significantly lower SEIA. Dietary nutrients did not cause a significant effect on SEIA. Mean SEIA following combined iron supplements was lower (p=0.081) 16% vs. 23% following non-iron containing supplements. For this experiment, the SEIA was higher in subjects with low serum ferritin (20 ng/ml).
The dual systems model: Review, reappraisal, and reaffirmation
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Adolescents
Risk taking
Dual systems
Sensation-seeking
Reward sensitivity
Cognitive control

description: © 2016 The Authors. According to the dual systems perspective, risk taking peaks during adolescence because activation of an early-maturing socioemotional-incentive processing system amplifies adolescents' affinity for exciting, pleasurable, and novel activities at a time when a still immature cognitive control system is not yet strong enough to consistently restrain potentially hazardous impulses. We review evidence from both the psychological and neuroimaging literatures that has emerged since 2008, when this perspective was originally articulated. Although there are occasional exceptions to the general trends, studies show that, as predicted, psychological and neural manifestations of reward sensitivity increase between childhood and adolescence, peak sometime during the late teen years, and decline thereafter, whereas psychological and neural reflections of better cognitive control increase gradually and linearly throughout adolescence and into the early 20s. While some forms of real-world risky behavior peak at a later age than predicted, this likely reflects differential opportunities for risk-taking in late adolescence and young adulthood, rather than neurobiological differences that make this age group more reckless. Although it is admittedly an oversimplification, as a heuristic device, the dual systems model provides a far more accurate account of adolescent risk taking than prior models that have attributed adolescent recklessness to cognitive deficiencies.
title: An Investigation of Criterion-Related Validity and Clinical Sensitivity of the Internalizing Symptoms Scale for Children
Creators: name: McClun, Lisa Ann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: The need for a self-report instrument that assesses internalizing problems in children ages 8 through 12 is evidenced in the lack of such an instrument, and in the prevalence of internalizing problems in children. A new self-report instrument, the Internalizing Symptoms Scale for Children (ISSC), has been proposed and developed to fit this need. The present study evaluated the criterion-related validity, clinical cutoff points, and discriminating power of the ISSC. Two groups of child subjects, clinic-referred and general-school-population, were recruited and administered the ISSC, and a parent of each subject completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Each case within the clinic-referred group was then classified as an Internalizer or non-Internalizer based on the CBCL Internalizing T-score. The CBCL was identified as the criterion because of empirical methods used in creating the factor structure, extensive clinical use, psychometric properties, cross-informant design, and large research representation.
Results of the evaluations indicated the ISSC to have moderate, yet adequate evidence of criterion-related validity, an optimum clinical cutoff point of 70 (raw score), and strong discriminating power. These results give support for the clinical use of the ISSC as a screening instrument, and for potential use in diagnosis and treatment planning.
Фальсификация истории Великой Отечественной войны в западной игровой индустрии на примере франшизы «Call of Duty»
Creators: name: Ильичев Алексей Владимирович
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Великая Отечественная война
фальсификация истории
Call of duty
видеоигры
политическая пропаганда
Восточный фронт
Great Patriotic war
falsification of history
videogames
political propaganda
Eastern front

description:  

Аннотация. События Великой Отечественной и Второй мировой войн подвергаются активному историческому ревизионизму в странах Запада. Манипуляции, искажения исторических событий присутствуют не только в научных работах и заявлениях политиков, но и в массовой культуре. Учитывая широкое распространение в мире и в России видеоигр, необходимо пристальное изучение этого сегмента на предмет политической пропаганды. Среди современных авторов, занимающихся этим направлением, стоит выделить С.Н. Федорченко, Д.В. Лосева и Д.А. Беляева. Основной задачей исследования является анализ видеоигровой серии «Call of Duty». При помощи качественного контент-анализа удалось выявить основные нарративы, продвигаемые разработчиками в контексте событий на Восточном фронте.  

Abstract. Events of Great Patriotic War and World War II are subjected to active historical revisionism in western countries. Manipulations and distortions of historical events are present not only in scientific works and politician’s statements, but also in mass culture. Given the widespread phenomenon of videogames in the world and in Russia, it is necessary to conduct detailed analysis of this segment for political propaganda. Among the contemporary authors who develop this area are S.N. Fedorchenko, D.V. Losev, D.A. Belyaev. The main purpose of article is to research Call of Duty videogame franchise on the peculiarities of the representation of the Eastern Front. Through qualitative content analysis it was possible to identify in the context of Eastern front the main narratives promoted by developers.
Diffusion of Tagged Particle in an Exclusion Process
Creators: name: Barkai, E.
name: Silbey, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the diffusion of tagged hard core interacting particles under the influence of an external force field. Using the Jepsen line we map this many particle problem onto a single particle one. We obtain general equations for the distribution and the mean square displacement $$ of the tagged center particle valid for rather general external force fields and initial conditions. A wide range of physical behaviors emerge which are very different than the classical single file sub-diffusion $ \sim t^{1/2}$ found for uniformly distributed particles in an infinite space and in the absence of force fields. For symmetric initial conditions and potential fields we find $ = {{\cal R} (1 - {\cal R})\over 2 N {\it r} ^2} $ where $2 N$ is the (large) number of particles in the system, ${\cal R}$ is a single particle reflection coefficient obtained from the single particle Green function and initial conditions, and $r$ its derivative. We show that this equation is related to the mathematical theory of order statistics and it can be used to find $$ even when the motion between collision events is not Brownian (e.g. it might be ballistic, or anomalous diffusion). As an example we derive the Percus relation for non Gaussian diffusion.
Review of The Asset Economy by Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings
Creators: name: Tapp, Renee
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 149903 Heterodox Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Book review of The Asset Economy by Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings
Stereoscopic Analysis of the 19 May 2007 Erupting Filament
Creators: name: Liewer, P. C.
name: De Jong, E. M.
name: Hall, J. R.
name: Howard, R. A.
name: Thompson, W. T.
name: Culhane, J. L.
name: Bone, Laura
name: van Driel-Gesztelyi, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A filament eruption, accompanied by a B9.5 flare, coronal dimming and an EUV wave, was observed by the Solar TERrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) on 19 May 2007, beginning at about 13:00 UT. Here, we use observations from the SECCHI/EUVI telescopes and other solar observations to analyze the behavior and geometry of the filament before and during the eruption. At this time, STEREO A and B were separated by about 8.5 degrees, sufficient to determine the three-dimensional structure of the filament using stereoscopy. The filament could be followed in SECCHI/EUVI 304 A stereoscopic data from about 12 hours before to about 2 hours after the eruption, allowing us to determine the 3D trajectory of the erupting filament. From the 3D reconstructions of the filament and the chromospheric ribbons in the early stage of the eruption, simultaneous heating of both the rising filamentary material and the chromosphere directly below is observed, consistent with an eruption resulting from magnetic reconnection below the filament. Comparisons of the filament during eruption in 304 A and Halpha show that when it becomes emissive in He II, it tends to disappear in Halpha, indicating that the disappearance probably results from heating or motion, not loss, of filamentary material.
description: Accepted for publication in Solar Physics
Capture, movement, trade, and consumption of mammals in Madagascar
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Animals
Cities
Conservation of Natural Resources
Eating
Madagascar
Mammals
Meat
Rural Population
Surveys and Questionnaires

description: © 2016 Reuter et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Wild meat trade constitutes a threat to many animal species. Understanding the commodity chain of wild animals (hunting, transportation, trade, consumption) can help target conservation initiatives. Wild meat commodity chain research has focused on the formal trade and less on informal enterprises, although informal enterprises contribute to a large portion of the wild meat trade in sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the formal and informal components of these commodity chains by focusing on the mammalian wild meat trade in Madagascar. Our objectives were to: (1) identify hunting strategies used to capture different wild mammals; (2) analyze patterns of movement of wild meat from the capture location to the final consumer; (3) examine wild meat prices, volumes, and venues of sale; and (4) estimate the volume of wild meat consumption. Data were collected in May-August 2013 using semi-structured interviews with consumers (n = 1343 households, 21 towns), meat-sellers (n = 520 restaurants, open-air markets stalls, and supermarkets, 9 towns), and drivers of inter-city transit vehicles (n = 61, 5 towns). We found that: (1) a wide range of hunting methods were used, though prevalence of use differed by animal group; (2) wild meat was transported distances of up to 166 km to consumers, though some animal groups were hunted locally (<10 km) in rural areas; (3) most wild meat was procured from free sources (hunting, gifts), though urban respondents who consumed bats and wild pigs were more likely to purchase those meats; and (4) wild meat was consumed at lower rates than domestic meat, though urban respondents consumed wild meat twice as much per year compared to rural respondents. Apart from the hunting stage, the consumption and trade of wild meat in Madagascar is also likely more formalized than previously thought.
Fast-forward of adiabatic dynamics in quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Masuda, Shumpei
name: Nakamura, Katsuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a way to accelerate adiabatic dynamics of wave functions in quantum mechanics to obtain a final adiabatic state except for the spatially uniform phase in any desired short time. We develop the previous theory of fast-forward (Masuda & Nakamura 2008) so as to derive a driving potential for the fast-forward of the adiabatic dynamics. A typical example is the fast-forward of adiabatic transport of a wave function which is the ideal transport in the sense that a stationary wave function is transported to an aimed position in any desired short time without leaving any disturbance at the final time of the fast-forward. As other important examples we show accelerated manipulations of wave functions such as their splitting and squeezing. The theory is also applicable to macroscopic quantum mechanics described by the nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
Initiation propagation and termination of elastodynamic ruptures associated with segmentation of faults and shaking hazard
Creators: name: Shaw, Bruce E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Plate tectonics
Physics

description: Using a model of a complex fault system, we examine the initiation, propagation, and termination of ruptures and their relationship to fault geometry and shaking hazard. We find concentrations of epicenters near fault step overs and ends; concentrations of terminations near fault ends; and persistent propagation directivity effects. Taking advantage of long sequences of dynamic events, we directly measure shaking hazards, such as peak ground acceleration exceedance probabilities, without need for additional assumptions. This provides a new tool for exploring shaking hazard from a physics-based perspective, its dependence on various physical parameters, and its correlation with other geological and seismological observables. Using this capability, we find some significant aspects of the shaking hazard can be anticipated by measures of the epicenters. In particular, asymmetries in the relative peak ground motion hazard along the faults appear well correlated with asymmetries in epicentral locations.
Identification of novel microbes associated with pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS
INFERTILITY
PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
Adolescent
Adult
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Cefoxitin
Doxycycline
Drug Therapy, Combination
Endometritis
Female
Humans
Infertility, Female
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Prospective Studies
United States
Vagina
Vaginosis, Bacterial
Young Adult

description: © 2016 Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. Objectives As pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) aetiology is not completely understood, we examined the relationship between select novel bacteria, PID and long-term sequelae. Methods Fastidious bacterial vaginosis (BV)-associated bacteria (Sneathia (Leptotrichia) sanguinegens, Sneathia amnionii, Atopobium vaginae and BV-associated bacteria 1 (BVAB1)), as well as Ureaplasma urealyticum and Ureaplasma parvum were identified in cervical and endometrial specimens using organism-specific PCR assays among 545 women enrolled in the PID Evaluation and Clinical Health study. Risk ratios and 95% CIs were constructed to determine associations between bacteria, histologically confirmed endometritis, recurrent PID and infertility, adjusting for age, race, gonorrhoea and chlamydia. Infertility models were additionally adjusted for baseline infertility. Results Persistent detection of BV-associated bacteria was common (range 58% for A. vaginae to 82% for BVAB1) and elevated the risk for persistent endometritis (RR adj 8.5, 95% CI 1.6 to 44.6) 30 days post-cefoxitin/doxycycline treatment, independent of gonorrhoea and chlamydia. In models adjusted for gonorrhoea and chlamydia, endometrial BV-associated bacteria were associated with recurrent PID (RR adj 4.7, 95% CI 1.7 to 12.8), and women who tested positive in the cervix and/or endometrium were more likely to develop infertility (RR adj 3.4, 95% CI 1.1 to 10.4). Associations between ureaplasmas and PID sequelae were modest. Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first prospective study to demonstrate that S. sanguinegens, S. amnionii, BVAB1 and A. vaginae are associated with PID, failure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recommended treatment to eliminate short-term endometritis, recurrent PID and infertility. Optimal antibiotic regimens for PID may require coverage of novel BV-associated microbes.
title: Doctissimus antiquitatis perscrutator. Studi latini in onore di Mario De Nonno
Creators: name: d'Alessandro, Paolo
name: Luceri, Angelo
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description:

Miscellanea di studi latini offerti a Mario De Nonno in occasione del suo settantesimo compleanno. I contributi spaziano dalla letteratura latina arcaica al 1600 e riguardano Plauto, Ennio, Accio e i tragici arcaici, Lucrezio, Cicerone e l'oratoria romana, Sallustio, Virgilio, Orazio, Seneca, Apuleio, Gellio, il Nuovo Testamento e i testi cristiani apocrifi, Giulio Paolo, Ambrogio, Agostino, la tradizione grammaticale e metrica, Servio, Cledonio, Isidoro di Siviglia e Ugo di San Vittore, Machiavelli e i classici, un falso di Caspar von Barth nell’Anthologia latina, questioni di retorica, linguistica, paleografia e codicologia. — Mario De Nonno è professore ordinario di Letteratura latina presso l'Università Roma Tre, Presidente della Pontificia Academia Latinitatis, Presidente della Consulta Universitaria di Studi Latini. Ha fornito preziosi contributi alla tradizione manoscritta e alla critica del testo di numerosi poeti e prosatori latini, da Plauto a Petronio e a Ulpiano, con particolare riguardo alla tradizione grammaticale ed erudita.
Patterns of seismic activity preceding large earthquakes
Creators: name: Shaw, Bruce E.
name: Carlson, Jean M.
name: Langer, James S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Plate tectonics
Seismology
Earthquakes

description: We analyze the patterns of seismic activity which precede large events in a mechanical model of a fault. The model generates a statistical distribution of events similar to that observed for a single fault, with a scaling region consistent with the Gutenberg-Richter law at small and moderate magnitudes, and an excess of events at large magnitudes. We find only slight variation in the scaling behavior during a loading cycle. However, we do observe systematic variations in space and time of the overall rate of activity. In the model, the activity accelerates dramatically preceding a large event and is usually a maximum hi the neighborhood of the future epicenter. These results are compared to California seismicity data, where we find that activity patterns vary regionally. Looking at patterns of activity in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1948, we find an increase of activity on the Calaveras fault near San Jose beginning in the 1980s which, if our model is relevant, would forecast a large earthquake in that region. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on the San Andreas fault within 30 km of the section of the Calaveras fault showing increased activity.
Rhinodrilidae
Creators: name: Demetrio, Wilian C.
name: Santos, Alessandra
name: Ferreira, Talita
name: Nadolny, Herlon
name: Cardoso, Guilherme B. X.
name: Torres, Julia L. M.
name: Dudas, Rafaela
name: Oliveira, Viviane De
name: Barreto, Julia O.
name: James, Samuel W.
name: Silva, Elodie Da
name: Brown, George G.
name: Bartz, Marie L. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Haplotaxida
Rhinodrilidae

description: Rhinodrilidae juveniles  COFMBRPR0942, 1 individual, topsoil (0–20 cm) of grass lawn in Private Reserve of Natural Heritage of Mata do Uru, Lapa—PR (25°48'32.87''S 49°41'09.42''W); July, 2016; E. Silva, R. Dudas, V. Oliveira, R.F. Segalla, A. Santos, H. Nadolny, W.C. Demetrio, L.F.N. Cunha, G.G. Brown, M.L.C. Bartz, A. Tavares, M. Smokanit, K. Alves, T. Ferreira, colls.
description: Published as part of Demetrio, Wilian C., Santos, Alessandra, Ferreira, Talita, Nadolny, Herlon, Cardoso, Guilherme B. X., Torres, Julia L. M., Dudas, Rafaela, Oliveira, Viviane De, Barreto, Julia O., James, Samuel W., Silva, Elodie Da, Brown, George G. & Bartz, Marie L. C., 2018, Earthworm species in various land use systems in the Campos Gerais region of Lapa, Paraná, Brazil, pp. 503-516 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 509, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.39, http://zenodo.org/record/1447007
Natural history and parasitism of Geocaulon lividum (santalaceae)
Creators: name: Warrington, Patrick Douglas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The natural history, structure and parasitism of Geocaulon lividum (Richardson) Fernald of the Santalaceae are described. Both the present study and that of Piehl (1963) maintain the generic segregation of Geocaulon and Comandra. All available data on the distribution of Geocaulon are presented in a series of Maps, in the accompanying text and in an Appendix. The data are drawn from the literature, from herbarium material and from field work. The only vegetation zones of Canada in which Geocaulon is not commonly found are the prairie grasslands, the arctic and alpine tundra and the west coast Douglas Fir and Hemlock forests. The ecological conditions under which Geocaulon is usually found are noted. A list of known hosts is given; many of them represented by voucher specimens in the herbarium of the University of Lethbridge (LEA). Anatomical and morphological data on the various portions of the Geocaulon plant are presented under a series of topics: rhizome, short-shoot, aerial shoot, leaf, inflorescence, flower, fruit, and root. These descriptions are accompanied by illustrative material in the form of figures, plates and photographs. Criteria for estimating the age of rhizomes and short-shoots are given along with a series of representative short-shoots with age determinations. Illustrations also indicate some of the diversity in the appearance of the inflorescence units. The haustorium is described in some detail. It is treated under several topics: general characteristics, development and structure. The structure is treated first under outer cortical region and second the, inner vascular core. The core is further divided into the mother root, transitional and haustorial zones. The distribution pattern of vessel elements within the core region is graphed. A brief discussion is included of as yet unresolved problems associated with the structure and function of the haustorium of most Santalaceous root parasites. Some previously unreported types of thickenings on parenchyma walls were found in rhizomes and short-shoots of Geocaulon. These were found mostly on cortical cell walls but were also found on the walls of other tissues. A microchemical investigation was undertaken to characterize these wall thickenings. They were found to be holocellulosic but were not assigned to either the hemicellulose or cellulose fractions. They were not composed of alpha-cellulose, the major structural material of plant cells.