cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hepatoprotective potentials of Usnea longissima Ach. and Xanthoparmelia somloensis (Gyelnik) Hale extracts in ethanol-induced liver injury
Creators: name: Berköz, Mehmet
name: Aslan, Ali
name: Yunusoğlu, Oruç
name: Krośniak, Mirosław
name: Francik, Renata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: In our study, the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of different lichen applications were investigated in rats using an experimental ethanol toxicity model. 48 rats were used in the study and they were divided into 6 groups with 8 rats in each group. These groups were: control, ethanol (2 g/kg), ethanol + Usnea longissima Ach. (200 mg/kg), ethanol + Usnea longissima Ach. (400 mg/kg), ethanol + Xanthoparmelia somloensis (Gyelnik) Hale (100 mg/kg) and ethanol + Xanthoparmelia somloensis (Gyelnik) Hale (200 mg/kg). The experimental work continued for 21 days. Lichen extracts and ethanol were administered by gavage to rats divided into groups. According to the experimental protocol, the experimental animals were sacrificed and their liver tissues were isolated. Biochemical parameters in serum, histological examinations, oxidative stress and inflammation parameters both at biochemical and molecular level in liver tissues were performed. Oxidative stress and inflammatory response were increased in the liver tissue of rats treated with ethanol for 21 days, and liver functions were impaired. It was found that U. longissima and X. somloensis extracts showed good antioxidant activity and conferred protective effects against ethanol-induced oxidative stress and inflammation. This could be attributed to the presence of secondary metabolites in the extract, which act as natural antioxidants and could be responsible for increasing the defence mechanisms against free radical production induced by ethanol administration.
A two-coil mutual inductance technique to study matching effect in disordered NbN thin films
Creators: name: Kumar, Sanjeev
name: Kumar, Chandan
name: Jesudasan, John
name: Bagwe, Vivas
name: Raychaudhuri, Pratap
name: Bose, Sangita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although matching effects in superconducting anti-dot arrays have been studied extensively through magneto-resistance oscillations, these investigations have been restricted to a very narrow temperature window close to the superconducting transition. Here we report a "two coil" mutual inductance technique, which allows the study of this phenomenon deep in the superconducting state, through a direct measurement of the magnetic field variation of the shielding response. We demonstrate how this technique can be used to resolve outstanding issues on the origin of matching effects in superconducting thin films with periodic array of holes grown on anodized alumina membranes.
The Use of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Among Medicare Beneficiaries in 2007-2010
Creators: name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Kent, Shia T.
name: Diaz, Keith
name: Huang, Lei
name: Viera, Anthony J.
name: Kilgore, Meredith
name: Oparil, Suzanne
name: Muntner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Hypertension--Treatment
Medicare beneficiaries
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Medicine
Medical sciences
Health services administration
Medical care

description: The US Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services reimburses ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for suspected white coat hypertension. We estimated ABPM use between 2007 and 2010 among a 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries (≥65 years). In 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, the percentage of beneficiaries with ABPM claims was 0.10%, 0.11%, 0.10%, and 0.09%, respectively. A prior diagnosis of hypertension was more common among those with versus without an ABPM claim (77.7% vs. 47.0%). Among hypertensive beneficiaries, 95.2% of those with an ABPM claim were taking antihypertensive medication. Age 75–84 versus 65–74 years, having coronary heart disease, having chronic kidney disease, having multiple prior hypertension diagnoses, and having filled multiple classes of antihypertensive medication were associated with an increased odds for an ABPM claim among hypertensive beneficiaries. ABPM use was very low among Medicare beneficiaries and was not primarily used for diagnosing white coat hypertension in untreated individuals.
Subhaloes gone Notts: Subhaloes as tracers of the dark matter halo shape
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Kai
name: Planelles, Susana
name: Gaztanaga, Enrique
name: Knebe, Alexander
name: Pearce, Frazer R.
name: Lux, Hanni
name: Onions, Julian
name: Muldrew, Stuart I.
name: Elahi, Pascal
name: Behroozi, Peter
name: Ascasibar, Yago
name: Han, Jiaxin
name: Maciejewski, Michal
name: Merchan, Manuel E.
name: Neyrinck, Mark
name: Ruiz, Andrés N.
name: Sgro, Mario A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the shapes of subhalo distributions from four dark-matter-only simulations of Milky Way type haloes. Comparing the shapes derived from the subhalo distributions at high resolution to those of the underlying dark matter fields we find the former to be more triaxial if theanalysis is restricted to massive subhaloes. For three of the four analysed haloes the increased triaxiality of the distributions of massive subhaloes can be explained by a systematic effect caused by the low number of objects. Subhaloes of the fourth halo show indications for anisotropic accretion via their strong triaxial distribution and orbit alignment with respect to the dark matter field. These results are independent of the employed subhalo finder. Comparing the shape of the observed Milky Way satellite distribution to those of high-resolution subhalo samples from simulations, we find an agreement for samples of bright satellites, but significant deviations if faint satellites are included in the analysis. These deviations might result from observational incompleteness.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. 1 figure removed to reduce paper extension, shorter discussion, accepted for publication in MNRAS
EGI-ACE D2.7 Technical specifications for compute common services
Creators: name: Enol Fernández
name: Sipos, Gergely
name: Antonacci, Marica
name: Ardizzone, Valeria
name: Priyasma Bhoumik
name: Caballero, Jose
name: Caballer, Miguel
name: Calatrava, Amanda
name: Collier, Ian
name: Cooper, Rose
name: Karageorgos, William
name: Kryza, Bartosz
name: Liampotis, Nicolas
name: Slávek Licehammer
name: López, Alvaro
name: Manzi, Andrea
name: Marchetti, Gino
name: Moltó, Germán
name: Noble, Timothy
name: Tran, Viet
name: Pospíšil, Petr
name: Spiga, Daniele
name: Zdeněk Šustr
name: Wartenburger, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Technical Architecture
Compute Services

description: EGI-ACE builds on the computing e-Infrastructure of the EGI Federation to deliver the EOSC Compute Platform: an open, data-centric, distributed, hybrid and secure infrastructure consisting of computing and storage providers and platform services to support research and open science via data spaces. The technical architecture of EGI-ACE provides a platform to build and deploy Thematic Services that can exploit baseline compute and storage resources from Cloud, HTC and HPC providers via a set of Federated Compute and Data services that facilitate running the workloads near the data to be analysed. Alongside user-oriented services, the Core EGI Services cover the operational aspects of the federation (authentication and authorization, accounting, monitoring, helpdesk) and bridge the EGI-ACE services with EOSC Core functionalities. This document presents the technical specifications of the EOSC Compute Platform services and components.
Mitochondrial toxicity of selected natural compounds: in vitro assessment and in silico molecular docking and dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Ergüç, Ali
name: Albayrak, Gökay
name: Muhammed, Muhammed Tilahun
name: Karakuş, Fuat
name: Arzuk, Ege
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Prangos uechtritzii Boiss & Hausskn stands out for its rich bioactive constituents including prantschimgin (PRA), imperatorin (IMP), suberosin (SUB), adicardin (ADI), and oxypeucedanin hydrate (OPH) in the Apiaceae family. Although these molecules contribute to several biological activities, their mitochondrial toxicity were not illuminated in depth with the appropriate in vitro and in silico models. Cell viability studies investigated the cytotoxic activities of molecules in HepG2 cells by replacing glucose with galactose due to Warburg effects. Mitochondrial toxicity (mitotoxicity) parameters such as cellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) levels were assessed with cytotoxic concentrations of selected molecules. Molecular docking and dynamics studies were also conducted against mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) complexes (I-V) with selected compounds. In vitro results showed that PRA, SUB, and IMP reduced cell viability more in galactose media compared to high glucose media in a dose-dependent manner. PRA, IMP, and SUB decreased ATP levels and MMP, especially in the galactose medium. The in silico study revealed that PRA, IMP, and SUB might bind to complexes I-V at different levels. The docking study demonstrated that PRA had the highest binding potential with the complexes, higher than the standard ligands in some cases. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study showed that PRA formed stable complexes with complexes II, III, and IV. In addition, PRA was anticipated to remain inside the binding site of complex II most stably during the 230 ns simulation period. Our study suggests that PRA, IMP, and SUB exhibit mitotoxicity.
Association of acute coronary syndrome-induced posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms with self-reported sleep
Creators: name: Shaffer, Jonathan A.
name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Clemow, Lynn
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sleep--Physiological aspects
subject: Post-traumatic stress disorder
subject: Coronary heart disease--Patients
subject: Medicine
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Medical sciences

description: Background
Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are associated with recurrent ACS events and mortality. Poor sleep may be a mechanism, but the association between PTSD and sleep after ACS is unknown.

Purpose
This study aims to estimate the association between ACS-induced PTSD symptoms and self-reported sleep.

Methods
ACS-induced PTSD symptoms were assessed 1-month post-ACS in 188 adults using the Impact of Events Scale-Revised. Sleep was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Linear and logistic regression models were used to determine whether PTSD symptoms were associated with self-reported sleep, independent of sociodemographic and clinical covariates.

Results
In adjusted models, ACS-induced PTSD symptoms were associated with worse overall sleep (β = 0.22, p = 0.003) and greater impairment in six of seven components of sleep (all p values <0.05).

Conclusions
ACS-induced PTSD symptoms may be associated with poor sleep, which may explain why PTSD confers increased cardiovascular risk after ACS.
Dusicyon H. Smith 1839
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Dusicyon

description: Dusicyon H. Smith, 1839. Jardine's Natur. Libr., 9:243. REVIEWED BY: K. L. Anderson (KLA). COMMENT: Includes Atelocynus, Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, and Pseudalopex; see comments under culpaeus, microtis, thous, and vetulus. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001007000000 as Dusicyon. 5301412001002000000 as Atelocynus. 5301412001004000000 as Cerdocyon. 5301412001009000000 as Lycalopex.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Effect of Nd2O3 concentration on radiations shielding properties of Gd3+-doped borate glasses: a theoretical investigation using Phy-X Software
Creators: name: Khattak, Shaukat
name: Rooh, Gul
name: Ullah, Irfan
name: Shoaib, Muhammad
name: Wabaidur, Saikh Mohammad
name: Usmani, Yusuf Siraj
name: Zulfiqar, Syed
name: Khan, Tahirzeb
name: Khan, Gulzar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: In this study, we investigate the shielding properties of borate glass systems [30Li2O + 10MgO + 5Gd2O3 + (55-x)B2O3 + xNd2O3], where x = 0, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 mol %: by varying x, the concentration of both B2O3 and Nd2O3 changes. We exploit robust Phy-X software, developed for photon shielding and dosimetry, to carry out the calculations for the determination of the shielding properties such as linear and mass attenuation coefficients, effective atomic number, half value layer, mean free path, and tenth value layer versus photon energy in the range of 0.08 to 15 MeV. The HVL decreases from 9.91 to 8.86 cm while moving from sample 1 to sample 6, which is attributed to its highest density among all samples. Compared to the other five samples, the results indicate that sample 6 with 2.0 mol % Nd2O3 is more likely to attenuate gamma and X-ray photons due to its lower tenth values of tenth value layer, half value layer, mean free path, and higher mass attenuation coefficient and effective atomic number. In the energy range of 0.08–15 MeV, the mass attenuation coefficient for sample 1 varies between 86.96 and 0.024 cm2/g, while the mass attenuation coefficient for sample 6 with the highest Nd concentration ranges between 104.66 and 0.026 cm2/g. We find that among all samples, sample 6 with 2.0 mol % Nd2O3 is more likely to attenuate the gamma and X-ray photons, i.e. the incorporation of Nd2O3 improves shielding properties, as indicated by the increase in linear and mass attenuation coefficients and effective atom number with increasing the Nd2O3 concentrations, while the half value layer, mean free path, and tenth value layer decrease with increasing Nd2O3 content. Therefore, the glass with composition 30Li2O + 10MgO + 5Gd2O3 + 53B2O3 + 2Nd2O3 turns out to be the most promising material among the studied glass samples for the X-ray and gamma-ray shielding.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1960-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
A nonlocal kinetic energy functional for an inhomogeneous two-dimensional Fermi gas
Creators: name: van Zyl, B. P.
name: Farrell, A.
name: Zaremba, E.
name: Towers, J.
name: Pisarski, P.
name: Hutchinson, D. A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The average-density approximation is used to construct a nonlocal kinetic energy functional for an inhomogeneous two-dimensional Fermi gas. This functional is then used to formulate a Thomas-Fermi von Weizsäcker-like theory for the description of the ground state properties of the system. The quality of the kinetic energy functional is tested by performing a fully self-consistent calculation for an ideal, harmonically confined, two-dimensional system. Good agreement with exact results are found, with the number and kinetic energy densities exhibiting oscillatory structure associated with the nonlocality of the energy functional. Most importantly, this functional shows a marked improvement over the two-dimensional Thomas-Fermi von Weizsäcker theory, particularly in the vicinity of the classically forbidden region.
description: 7 figures
Climacoptera crassa Botsch.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Climacoptera
Climacoptera crassa

description: Climacoptera crassa (M. Bieb.) Botsch.
Distribution
Central Asia.
Notes
Iljin (1930) reported this species from Orenburg on the basis of a single old specimen collected by Karelin in the mid- 19 th century. This occurrence has not been confirmed by recent specimens. The northern limit of this species distribution area lies south of Orenburg Region, in the southern part of Aqtöbe Region of Kazakhstan.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Multimode optomechanical dynamics in a cavity with avoided crossings
Creators: name: Lee, D.
name: Underwood, M.
name: Mason, D.
name: Shkarin, A. B.
name: Hoch, S. W.
name: Harris, J. G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cavity optomechanics offers powerful methods for controlling optical fields and mechanical motion. A number of proposals have predicted that this control can be extended considerably in devices where multiple cavity modes couple to each other via the motion of a single mechanical oscillator. Here we study the dynamical properties of such a multimode optomechanical device, in which the coupling between cavity modes results from mechanically-induced avoided crossings in the cavity's spectrum. Near the avoided crossings we find that the optical spring shows distinct features that arise from the interaction between cavity modes. Precisely at an avoided crossing, we show that the particular form of the optical spring provides a classical analog of a quantum-nondemolition measurement of the intracavity photon number. The mechanical oscillator's Brownian motion, an important source of noise in these measurements, is minimized by operating the device at cryogenic temperature (500 mK).
description: 21 pages, 5 figures, 14 pages of supplementary info
title: Die weinende Liebe bey dem Abschiede eines Lehrers aus seinem Vaterlande redete und hörete ihr letztes Wort in der öffentlichen Abzugs-Predigt; 1758
title: welche nach übernommenem Pastorate bey der Hauptkirche zu St. Jacob in Hamburg am XII Sonntage nach Trinitatis 1757. über das ordentliche Evangelium in der Evangelischen Gnadenkirche vor Landeshut bey volkreicher Versammlung unter göttlichem Beystende gehalten
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ulber, Christian Samuel
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: In Fraktur
Unsteady MHD micropolar fluid flow over a vertical stretching sheet under the influences of radiation, Joule heating and Soret effects in porous medium
Creators: name: Al Khayer, Saleem Jabed
name: Chakraborty, Shyamanta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The aim of the study is to analyse the combined effect of thermal radiation, Joule heating, thermal diffusivity and heat source on an unsteady MHD flow of micropolar fluid over a vertical stretching sheet in a porous medium. Buoyancy forces, viscous dissipation and higher-order chemical reactions are also taken into consideration. Governing equations are solved by applying the bvp4c technique. The influence of pertinent parameters on the fluid velocity, angular velocity, temperature and concentration is discussed and displayed with the help of their graphical representation. To assess the accuracy and validity of the current study, the results are compared with some previous outcomes and seen as a good agreement with those results. The results divulge that the angular velocity decreases with the increment in the values of the unsteadiness parameter while the opposite behaviour is noticed for fluid velocity, temperature and concentration. In addition, thermal radiation, Joule heating and heat source have a tendency to enhance the fluid temperature. This study advances our knowledge of complex fluid dynamics in porous media, and the tests described in the article can be used to investigate human and animal blood, fuel industries, polymer production, solar collection systems, electric coffee makers, the extrusion of polymer sheets, etc.
The Effect of Numeracy Level on Completeness of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
Creators: name: Rao, Vishal N.
name: Tuttle, Laura A.
name: Sheridan, Stacey L.
name: Lin, Feng-Chang
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Diaz, Keith
name: Hinderliter, Alan L.
name: Viera, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Numeracy
Health literacy
Patient education
Blood pressure--Measurement
Public health
Medicine
Biometry

description: Home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) readings predict the increased risks of cardiovascular events and end-organ damage independent of office blood pressure (BP). Numeracy (the ability to handle numbers) may limit the feasibility of patients' performing HBPM. The authors analyzed data from 409 adults recruited from 12 North Carolina primary care clinics who completed a three-item numeracy assessment, the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine–Short Form health literacy assessment, and HBPM over 2 weeks. Among the 409 participants, 73% were college graduates and 69% had adequate numeracy. Completion of HBPM was greater among those with adequate numeracy (96.2% vs 93.7%; P=.009) and did not correlate with health literacy scores. More participants with adequate numeracy reported completion of ≥85% of readings than those with low numeracy (95% vs 88%; P=.018). Adequate numeracy, but not high literacy, is associated with more complete HBPM reporting. Whether higher numeracy is associated with more accurate self-reported readings is an area of future research.
Transient domain formation in membrane-bound organelles undergoing maturation
Creators: name: Dmitrieff, Serge
name: Sens, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The membrane components of cellular organelles have been shown to segregate into domains as the result of biochemical maturation. We propose that the dynamical competition between maturation and lateral segregation of membrane components regulates domain formation. We study a two- component fluid membrane in which enzymatic reaction irreversibly converts one component into another, and phase separation triggers the formation of transient membrane domains. The maximum domains size is shown to depend on the maturation rate as a power-law similar to the one observed for domain growth with time in the absence of maturation, despite this time dependence not being verified in the case of irreversible maturation. This control of domain size by enzymatic activity could play a critical role in intra-organelle dynamics.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Directionality of the Relationship Between Depressive Symptom Dimensions and C-Reactive Protein in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes
Creators: name: Shaffer, Jonathan A.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Chaplin, William F.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Rieckmann, Nina
name: Davidson, Karina W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Depression, Mental
C-reactive protein
Coronary heart disease--Patients
Medicine

description: Objective: Previous theoretical models predict that elevated inflammation may predict later depressive symptoms, but bidirectional associations are possible. We examined whether depressive symptoms or inflammation predicts change in the other for a 3-month period in a sample of adults with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Methods: During hospitalization for their index ACS event (baseline) and then again 1 and 3 months later, 163 post-ACS patients completed the Beck Depression Inventory, a measure of depressive symptom severity with cognitive-affective and somatic-affective subscales. C-reactive protein (CRP) was also assessed at each visit; known correlates of depression and CRP were assessed at baseline. Path analyses were conducted to evaluate prospective associations between depressive symptoms and log-transformed CRP values and whether strength and/or directionality varied by specific depressive symptom dimensions. Results: Baseline total depressive symptom severity predicted a smaller decrease in CRP from baseline to 1 month (unstandardized parameter estimates [B] = 0.04, p < .001) controlling for all covariates, as did baseline cognitive-affective depressive symptom severity (B = 0.10, p = .02). Baseline somatic-affective depressive symptom severity did not predict change in CRP (B = −0.002, p = .94). CRP did not predict 1- or 3-month change in total, cognitive-affective, or somatic-affective depressive symptom severity. The results did not differ for men and women. Conclusions: Greater cognitive-affective and total depressive symptom severity at the time of a cardiac event predicts a smaller decrease in CRP 1 month later, but there was no evidence in this study that CRP predicts change in depressive symptoms.
Halimocnemis karelinii Moq.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Halimocnemis
Halimocnemis karelinii

description: Halimocnemis karelinii Moq.
Distribution
Central Asia.
Notes
There is one old collection from Orenburg Region with the label that reads “ Orsk, 1852, Antonov ” (LE). We believe that this specimen was collected south of Orenburg Region, apparently in Aqtöbe Region of Kazakhstan. The species is common in southern Kazakhstan.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
The Unreasonable Success of Quantum Probability II: Quantum Measurements as Universal Measurements
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik
name: de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the first part of this two-part article, we have introduced and analyzed a multidimensional model, called the 'general tension-reduction' (GTR) model, able to describe general quantum-like measurements with an arbitrary number of outcomes, and we have used it as a general theoretical framework to study the most general possible condition of lack of knowledge in a measurement, so defining what we have called a 'universal measurement'. In this second part, we present the formal proof that universal measurements, which are averages over all possible forms of fluctuations, produce the same probabilities as measurements characterized by 'uniform' fluctuations on the measurement situation. Since quantum probabilities can be shown to arise from the presence of such uniform fluctuations, we have proven that they can be interpreted as the probabilities of a first-order non-classical theory, describing situations in which the experimenter lacks complete knowledge about the nature of the interaction between the measuring apparatus and the entity under investigation. This same explanation can be applied -- mutatis mutandis -- to the case of cognitive measurements, made by human subjects on conceptual entities, or in decision processes, although it is not necessarily the case that the structure of the set of states would be in this case strictly Hilbertian. We also show that universal measurements correspond to maximally 'robust' descriptions of indeterministic reproducible experiments, and since quantum measurements can also be shown to be maximally robust, this adds plausibility to their interpretation as universal measurements, and provides a further element of explanation for the great success of the quantum statistics in the description of a large class of phenomena.
description: 29 pagesa, 6 figures
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms Predict Delay to Hospital in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
Creators: name: Newman, Jonathan D.
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Shaffer, Jonathan A.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Myocardial infarction--Patients
Hospital care
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Medicine

description: Background: Increased delay to hospital presentation with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with poor outcomes. While demographic factors associated with this delay have been well described, scarce data are available on the role of modifiable factors, such as psychosocial disorders, on pre-hospital delay. Patients with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often avoid stressful situations and may delay presenting for care when they experience cardiac symptoms. It is unknown, however, whether PTSD symptoms negatively impact the time to presentation during an ACS. Methods: We assessed the relationship between PTSD symptoms and pre-hospital delay in 241 adults with an ACS in the ongoing Prescription Use, Lifestyle, Stress Evaluation (PULSE) study. Results: Overall, 66% of patients were male; 40% were Hispanic or Latino. The mean age was 61.9±11.6 years old. PTSD symptoms were present in 17.8% of patients. Pre-hospital delay was longer for patients with PTSD symptoms compared to those without [geometric mean: 25.8 hours (95% CI 13.8 – 44.8) vs. 10.7 hours (95% CI 8.3 – 13.8)]; P = 0.005. After multivariable adjustment for age, sex, ethnicity, depression, left ventricular ejection fraction and history of myocardial infarction, the mean pre-hospital delay was 173% (95% CI: 36% –450%) longer for patients with versus without PTSD symptoms. Conclusion: Among patients presenting with an ACS, PTSD symptoms were independently associated with longer pre-hospital delays. Future studies of pre-hospital delay should examine the mechanisms underlying this association.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1961-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Superintegrability in two dimensions and the Racah-Wilson algebra
Creators: name: Genest, Vincent X.
name: Vinet, Luc
name: Zhedanov, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analysis of the most general second-order superintegrable system in two dimensions: the generic 3-parameter model on the 2-sphere, is cast in the framework of the Racah problem for the su(1,1) algebra. The Hamiltonian of the 3-parameter system and the generators of its quadratic symmetry algebra are seen to correspond to the total and intermediate Casimir operators of the combination of three su(1,1) algebras, respectively. The construction makes explicit the isomorphism between the Racah-Wilson algebra, which is the fundamental algebraic structure behind the Racah problem for su(1,1), and the invariance algebra of the generic 3-parameter system. It also provides an explanation for the occurrence of the Racah polynomials as overlap coefficients in this context. The irreducible representations of the Racah-Wilson algebra are reviewed as well as their connection with the Askey scheme of classical orthogonal polynomials.
description: 17 pages
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Adherence to Medications in Survivors of Strokes and Transient Ischemic Attacks
Creators: name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Goldfinger, Judith Z.
name: Fei, Kezhen
name: Horowitz, Carol R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder
Cerebrovascular disease
Transient ischemic attack
Drug utilization
Medicine

description: Background and Purpose--Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be triggered by life-threatening medical events such as strokes and transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). Little is known regarding how PTSD triggered by medical events affects patients' adherence to medications. Methods--We surveyed 535 participants, age ≥40 years old, who had at least 1 stroke or TIA in the previous 5 years. PTSD was assessed using the PTSD Checklist-Specific for stroke; a score ≥50 on this scale is highly specific for PTSD diagnosis. Medication adherence was measured using the 8-item Morisky scale. Logistic regression was used to test whether PTSD after stroke/TIA was associated with increased risk of medication nonadherence. Covariates for adjusted analyses included sociodemographics, Charlson comorbidity index, modified Rankin Scale score, years since last stroke/TIA, and depression. Results--Eighteen percent of participants had likely PTSD (PTSD Checklist-Specific for stroke ≥50), and 41% were nonadherent to medications according to the Morisky scale. A greater proportion of participants with likely PTSD were nonadherent to medications than other participants (67% versus 35%, P<0.001). In the adjusted model, participants with likely PTSD were nearly 3 times more likely (relative risk, 2.7; 95% CI, 1.7–4.2) to be nonadherent compared with participants without PTSD (PTSD Checklist-Specific for stroke <25) even after controlling for depression, and there was a graded association between PTSD severity and medication nonadherence. Conclusion--PTSD is common after stroke/TIA. Patients who have PTSD after stroke or TIA are at increased risk for medication nonadherence.
Measuring Beliefs about Suffering: Development of the Views of Suffering Scale
Creators: name: Hale-Smith, Amy
name: Park, Crystal L.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Theodicy
subject: Faith
subject: Scale analysis (Psychology)
subject: Suffering--Religious aspects
subject: Religion
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Theology

description: Efforts to measure religion have intensified and many specific dimensions have been identified. However, although belief is a core dimension of all world religions, little attention has been given to assessment of religious beliefs. In particular, one essential set of religious beliefs, those concerning the reasons for human suffering, has remained virtually unexamined in spite of the potential clinical relevance of these beliefs. To fill the need for a measure of people’s beliefs about suffering, we developed the Views of Suffering Scale (VOSS). Analyses identified factors related to traditional Christian teachings, unorthodox theistic beliefs, karma, and randomness. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability for VOSS subscale scores were good (α’s and r’s ≥ .70). Comparisons to measures of related constructs suggest that the VOSS scores demonstrate good convergent validity. One subscale score was modestly correlated with social desirability related to image management, and seven were positively correlated to self-deceptive enhancement. These preliminary studies suggest that the VOSS differentiates religious perspectives on suffering among a sample of US university students, though more research is needed to confirm its utility in diverse populations. The VOSS provides a valid way to measure individuals’ beliefs about suffering, allowing for inquiry into the factors that lead to various beliefs about suffering and the roles of these beliefs in adjusting to stressful life events.
Key Barriers to Medication Adherence in Survivors of Strokes and Transient Ischemic Attacks
Creators: name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Diefenbach, Michael A.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Phillips, L. Alison
name: Fei, Kezhen
name: Horowitz, Carol R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Transient ischemic attack
Cerebrovascular disease--Patients
Poor
Minorities
Drug utilization
Medicine

description: Background: Even though medications can greatly reduce the risk of recurrent stroke, medication adherence is suboptimal in stroke survivors. Objective: To identify key barriers to medication adherence in a predominantly low-income, minority group of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) survivors. Design: Cross-sectional study. Participants: Six hundred stroke or TIA survivors, age ≥ 40 years old, recruited from underserved communities in New York City. Main Measures: Medication adherence was measured using the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Questionnaire. Potential barriers to adherence were assessed using validated instruments. Logistic regression was used to test which barriers were independently associated with adherence. Models were additionally controlled for age, race/ethnicity, income, and comorbidity. Key Results: Forty percent of participants had poor self-reported medication adherence. In unadjusted analyses, compared to adherent participants, non-adherent participants had increased concerns about medications (26 % versus 7 %, p
Spin Hall effect in AA-stacked bilayer graphene
Creators: name: Dyrdał, A.
name: Barnaś, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intrinsic spin Hall effect in the AA-stacked bilayer graphene is studied theoretically. The low-energy electronic spectrum for states in the vicinity of the Dirac points is obtained from the corresponding $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ Hamiltonian. The spin Hall conductivity in the linear response regime is determined within the Green function formalism. Conditions for the existence of spin Hall insulator phase are also analyzed, and it is shown that the spin Hall insulator phase can exist for a sufficiently large spin-orbit coupling, which opens a gap in the spectrum. The electric field perpendicular to the graphene plane leads then to reduction of the gap width and suppression of the spin Hall insulator phase. The low temperature spin Nernst effect is also calculated from the zero temperature spin Hall conductivity.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Petrosimonia oppositifolia Litv.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Petrosimonia
Petrosimonia oppositifolia

description: Petrosimonia oppositifolia (Pall.) Litv.
Distribution
Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia.
Notes
Ryabinina (1998) reported this species from four districts of Orenburg Region. However, voucher specimens are absent in herbarium collections. Although the presence of this species is logically possible in the Region, we exclude it from the list due to the lack of documentation.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
title: Prediction of child and adolescent outcomes with broadband and narrowband dimensions of internalizing and externalizing behavior using the child and adolescent version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Creators: name: Kulawiak, Pawel R.
name: Wilbert, Jürgen
name: Schlack, Robert
name: Börnert-Ringleb, Moritz
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a frequently used screening instrument for behavioral problems in children and adolescents. There is an ongoing controversy—not only in educational research—regarding the factor structure of the SDQ. Research results speak for a 3-factor as well as a 5-factor structure. The narrowband scales (5-factor structure) can be combined into broadband scales (3-factor structure). The question remains: Which factors (narrowband vs. broadband) are better predictors? With the prediction of child and adolescent outcomes (academic grades, well-being, and self-belief), we evaluated whether the broadband scales of internalizing and externalizing behavior (3-factor structure) or narrowband scales of behavior (5-factor structure) are better suited for predictive purposes in a cross-sectional study setting. The sample includes students in grades 5 to 9 (N = 4642) from the representative German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS study). The results of model comparisons (broadband scale vs. narrowband scales) did not support the superiority of the broadband scales with regard to the prediction of child and adolescent outcomes. There is no benefit from subsuming narrowband scales (5-factor structure) into broadband scales (3-factor structure). The application of narrowband scales, providing a more differentiated picture of students’ academic and social situation, was more appropriate for predictive purposes. For the purpose of identifying students at risk of struggling in educational contexts, using the set of narrowband dimensions of behavior seems to be more suitable.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 669
Sustainability of 6G: Ways to Reduce Energy Consumption
Creators: name: Hecker, Artur
name: Bernardos, Carlos Jesus
name: Gavras, Anastasius
name: Schörner, Karsten
name: Bou Rouphael, Rony
name: AL-Naday, Mays
name: Lombardo, Chiara
name: Ghoraishi, Mir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document is the first whitepaper of the 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) dedicated to the technological questions of sustainability of future mobile telecommunications systems (6G). Produced as a collaborative effort within the 6G-IA Vision and Societal Challenges Working Group (VSC WG), it results from both internal and collaborative research activities of the involved partner organizations, most notably within the research projects of the Smart Network and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU).This whitepaper identifies main challenges in the area of operational Sustainability of 6G by contrasting the consensual 6G vision of the European Industry and the expected evolution of services and the mobile ecosystem with the lessons learnt from 5G, in the sense of the main energy consumers and the reasons for the latter. Trying to address these challenges, it identifies several candidate enabling technologies and more general approaches for energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission reduction and possible current research and standardization gaps, to be considered in the future work on the way towards more sustainable 6G.