cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Masked Hypertension and Prehypertension: Diagnostic Overlap and Interrelationships With Left Ventricular Mass: The Masked Hypertension Study
Creators: name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Newman, Jonathan D.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Heart--Left ventricle
Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Risk factors
Blood pressure
Hypertension
Medicine

description: Background Masked hypertension (MHT) and prehypertension (PHT) are both associated with an increase in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, relative to sustained normotension. This study examined the diagnostic overlap between MHT and PHT, and their interrelationships with left ventricular (LV) mass index (LVMI), a marker of cardiovascular end-organ damage.

Methods A research nurse performed three manual clinic blood pressure (CBP) measurements on three occasions over a 3-week period (total of nine readings, which were averaged) in 813 participants without treated hypertension from the Masked Hypertension Study, an ongoing worksite-based, population study. Twenty-four-hour ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) was assessed by using a SpaceLabs 90207 monitor. LVMI was determined by echocardiography in 784 (96.4%) participants.

Results Of the 813 participants, 769 (94.6%) had normal CBP levels (<140/90 mm Hg). One hundred and seventeen (15.2%) participants with normal CBP had MHT (normal CBP and mean awake ABP ≥135/85 mm Hg) and 287 (37.3%) had PHT (mean CBP 120–139/80–89 mm Hg). 83.8% of MHT participants had PHT and 34.1% of PHT participants had MHT. MHT was infrequent (3.9%) when CBP was optimal (<120/80 mm Hg). After adjusting for age, gender, body mass index (BMI), race/ethnicity, history of high cholesterol, history of diabetes, current smoking, family history of hypertension, and physical activity, compared with optimal CBP with MHT participants, LVMI was significantly greater in PHT without MHT participants and in PHT with MHT participants.

Conclusions In this community sample, there was substantial diagnostic overlap between MHT and PHT. The diagnosis of MHT using an ABP monitor may not be warranted for individuals with optimal CBP.
Are Women more work well being sufferer than men? Calculating work well being index of working women as compare to men in Pakistan
Creators: name: Hameed, Naila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Employment equity and diversity
Human resources management
Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life

description: The outcomes of stress (poor performance, anxiety, absentees, intention to quit and chronological heart disease) enforce high economical cost on industries and societies by negatively affecting workforce. By improving the feelings of work well being of employees we can overcome this pertinent issues. This paper is presented to explore the significance and relationship of some key factors which perceived to affect work well being index. This study is also made to find the work well being index of working women as compare to men using Asian Sample (Pakistan). Data was gathered through male and female public sector employees working in different cities of Pakistan. A well reliable interval scale questionnaire was self-administered. Results show no significant difference in work well being index between women and men. It was also found that there is insignificant relationship of work interference with family and job support with work well being index
DESERT ACADEMY
Creators: name: Hoshimova Oftobkhon Kamilovna
name: Rustamova Mekhrinigor Ibrokhimjon Kizi
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: pharmacology
folk medicine
Anabasis
Gobelia
Harmala
standardization
alkaloid
bod (rheumatism)
hypertension

description: This article discusses the unique rich flora of the desert region and the use of its medicinal plants in medicine and pharmaceuticals
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1955-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

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.
Numerical Chladni figures
Creators: name: Müller, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chladni patterns of vibrating membranes or thin plates faszinated the people already in the eighteenth century. As a simple way to visualize acoustic phenomena it is a valuable experiment for beginners' courses. In this paper I present NumChladni, an interactive tool for studying arbitrary two-dimensional vibrating membranes based on the Finite Element method. I also describe the straightforward approach of the underlying mathematical details and give some examples. NumChladni is directly applicable in the undergraduate classroom as, for example, complementary application to experimental setups.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Relation Between Leukocyte Telomere Length and Incident Coronary Heart Disease Events (from the 1995 Canadian Nova Scotia Health Survey)
Creators: name: Ye, Siqin
name: Shaffer, Jonathan A.
name: Kang, Min Suk
name: Harlapur, Manjunath
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Epel, Elissa
name: Guernsey, Duane
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Kirkland, Susan
name: Honig, Lawrence S.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Leucocytes
Telomere
Coronary heart disease
Medical sciences
Epidemiology
Molecular biology

description: Leukocyte telomere length has been proposed as a biomarker of cellular aging and atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to determine whether leukocyte telomere length is independently associated with incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in the general population. Telomere length was measured using a polymerase chain reaction method for participants enrolled in the 1995 Nova Scotia Health Survey (NSHS95; n = 1,917). The primary end point was the first occurrence of a fatal or nonfatal CHD event. During a mean follow-up period of 8.7 years, 164 fatal or nonfatal CHD events occurred. Compared with participants in the longest tertile of telomere length, those in the middle and shortest tertiles had increased incidence of CHD events (6.2, 11.2, and 12.2 per 1,000 person-years, respectively). After adjustment for demographics, traditional risk factors, and inflammatory markers including high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule–1, those in the middle tertile had significantly elevated risk for incident CHD (hazard ratio 1.63, 95% confidence interval 1.07 to 2.51, p = 0.02) compared with the longest tertile, whereas the risk for those in the shortest tertile was nonsignificantly elevated (hazard ratio 1.25, 95% confidence interval 0.82 to 1.90, p = 0.30). In conclusion, these findings do not support a linear association between leukocyte telomere length and incident CHD risk in the general population.
Photon self-interaction through gravitons and axions
Creators: name: Hoseinpour, Ahmad
name: Zarei, Moslem
name: Abdi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we propose to employ the concept of photon self-interaction for axion detection. In particular, we derive the interaction Hamiltonian for photons via axions in a ring cavity. We show that when the incoming photons are considered in plane-wave basis, the interaction vanishes. However, when the realistic case of photon wavepackets are assumed, a self-interaction whose strength is proportional to the size of the wavepacket and the cavity length exists. Under specific conditions, we find that the axion-mediated interaction dominates the gravitationally induced self-interaction. We discuss the implications of this setup for axion detection, focusing on the range of axion mass, $10^{-10}~\text{eV} 9 \times 10^{-12}~ \text{GeV}^{-1}$.
Phase transition to spatial Bloch-like oscillation in squeezed photonic lattices
Creators: name: Nezhad, M. Khazaei
name: Bahrampour, A. R.
name: Golshani, M.
name: Mahdavi, S. M.
name: Langari, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an exactly solvable waveguide lattice incorporating inhomogeneous coupling coefficient. This structure provides a classical analogue to the squeezed number and squeezed coherent intensity distribution in quantum optics where the propagation length plays the role of squeezed amplitude. The intensity pattern is obtained in a closed form for an arbitrary distribution of the initial beam profile. We have also investigated the phase transition to the spatial Bloch-like oscillations by adding a linear gradient to the propagation constant of each waveguides ($ α$). Our analytical results show that the Bloch-like oscillations appear above a critical value for the linear gradient of propagation constant ($ α> α_{c} $). The phase transition (in the propagation properties of the waveguide) is a result of competition between discrete and Bragg diffraction. Moreover, the light intensity decay algebraically along each waveguide at the critical point while it falls off exponentially below the critical point ($ α< α_{c} $).
description: 7 Pages, 7 Figure
Arthrophytum lehmannianum 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
Arthrophytum
Arthrophytum lehmannianum

description: Arthrophytum lehmannianum Bunge ex Litv.
Arthrophytum lehmannianum Bunge ex Litv. in Trudy Bot. Muz. Imp. Akad. Nauk 11: 33 (1913).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Vulnerable (VU). D 1.
The species is known from the only locality in Orenburg Region and Russia, isolated at the northern margin of its distribution area, where the only small population is known. It was observed in a petrophytic steppe on saline substrates, co-occurring with Camphorosma monspeliaca, Artemisia nitrosa, Atriplex cana etc. (Stepanova and Safronova 2019). The species population is situated next to the road and is in danger of further development of the road network. For this reason, legal protection is recommended.
Distribution
Orenburg Region: Yasnyi District (Fig. 70).
Previous reports: Stepanova and Safronova (2019).
The species occurs in petrophytic steppes. It is very rare in the Region.
The species is distributed in Eastern Europe (south-eastern part), Kazakhstan, western China. The record in Yasnyi District belongs to the only population found in Russia (Stepanova and Safronova 2019).
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
Cams mesomelas Schreber 1778
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
Cams
Cams mesomelas

description: Cams mesomelas Schreber, 1778. Saugethiere, pl. 95; text 3:370, 568. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope. DISTRIBUTION: Africa, south of the tropical rain-forest in the west and as far north as Ethiopia and Sudan in the east. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001003006001.
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 245, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Spin Waves and Dielectric Softening of Polar Molecule Condensates
Creators: name: Wilson, Ryan M.
name: Peden, Brandon M.
name: Clark, Charles W.
name: Rittenhouse, Seth T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an oblate Bose-Einstein condensate of heteronuclear polar molecules in a weak applied electric field. This system supports a rich quasiparticle spectrum that plays a critical role in determining its bulk dielectric properties. In particular, in sufficiently weak fields the system undergoes a polarization wave rotonization, leading to the development of textured electronic structure and a dielectric instability that is characteristic of the onset of a negative static dielectric function.
description: 4+ pages, 3 figures
Antigen-specific immune responses to influenza vaccine in utero
Creators: name: Rastogi, Deepa
name: Wang, Chaodong
name: Mao, Xia
name: Lendor, Cynthia
name: Rothman, Paul B.
name: Miller, Rachel L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: T cells--Receptors
subject: Immune response
subject: Fetus--Development
subject: Influenza vaccines
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Medical sciences

description: Initial immune responses to allergens may occur before birth, thereby modulating the subsequent development of atopy. This paradigm remains controversial, however, due to the inability to identify antigen-specific T cells in cord blood. The advent of MHC tetramers has revolutionized the detection of antigen-specific T cells. Tetramer staining of cord blood after CMV infection has demonstrated that effective CD8+ antigen-specific immune responses can follow intrauterine viral infections. We hypothesized that sensitization to antigens occurs in utero in humans. We studied cord blood B and T cell immune responses following vaccination against influenza during pregnancy. Anti-Fluzone and anti-matrix protein IgM antibodies were detected in 38.5% (27 of 70) and 40.0% (28 of 70), respectively, of cord blood specimens. Using MHC tetramers, HA-specific CD4+ T cells were detected among 25.0% (3 of 12) and 42.9% (6 of 14) of cord blood specimens possessing DRB1*0101 and DRB1*0401 HLA types, respectively, and were detected even when the DRB1 HLA type was inherited from the father. Matrix protein–specific CD8+ T cells were detected among 10.0% (2 of 20) of HLA-A*0201+ newborns. These results suggest that B and T cell immune responses occur in the fetus following vaccination against influenza and have important implications for determining when immune responses to environmental exposures begin.
Wavelength-Selective Switches for Mode-Division Multiplexing: Scaling and Performance Analysis
Creators: name: Ho, Keang-Po
name: Kahn, Joseph M.
name: Wilde, Jeffrey P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wavelength-selective switches for mode-division-multiplexing systems are designed by scaling switches from single-mode systems. All modes at a given wavelength are switched as a unit, which is necessary in systems with substantial mode coupling, and minimizes the number of ports required to accommodate a given traffic volume. When a pure mode is present at the input, modal transmission and coupling coefficients are mode-dependent and may be computed using a simple mode-clipping model. When multiple modes are present, interference between modes alters the transmission and coupling coefficients, shifting the passband center frequency and changing its bandwidth. Mode-coupling matrices are used to compute mixed modes having the narrowest or widest bandwidths, or having the largest center-frequency offsets. In a specific design for graded-index fiber, five mode groups and 50-GHz channel spacing, the one-sided bandwidth may change up to $\pm$3.6 GHz. In a system with many cascaded switches and strong mode coupling, the end-to-end response per switch may be characterized by a mode-averaged transmission coefficient.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures. appears in Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2014
source data
Creators: name: Zhang, Haibo
name: Sun, Lei
name: Qian, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Asthma exacerbations caused by respiratory viral infections is a serious global health problem. Impaired antiviral immunity is thought to contribute to the pathogenesis, but the underlying mechanisms remains understudied. Here using mouse models we find that Cullin5 (CUL5), a key component of Cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligase 5, is upregulated and associated with increased neutrophil count and influenza-induced exacerbations of house dust mite-originated asthma. By contrast, CUL5 deficiency mitigates neutrophilic lung inflammation and asthma exacerbations by augmenting IFN-β production. Mechanistically, following thymic stromal lymphopoietin stimulation, CUL5 interacts with O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) and induces Lys48-linked polyubiquitination of OGT, blocking the effect of OGT on mitochondrial antiviral-signaling protein O-GlcNAcylation and RIG-I signaling activation. Our results thus suggest that, in mouse models, pre-existing allergic injury induces CUL5 expression, impairing antiviral immunity and promoting neutrophilic inflammation for asthma exacerbations. Targeting of the CUL5/IFN-β signaling axis may thereby serve as a possible therapy for treating asthma exacerbations.
title: Sancti Francisci Salesii Genevensium Antistitis Laudatio; 1761
title: Quam Honori ... Domini Francisci, Antonii, Chritsoph [!] Dicavit Conventus Minimorum S. Francisci De Paula Pragae Veteris
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gebauer, Nicolaus
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Litteris Academicis, Per Joannem Georgium Schneider, Factorem
Halogeton glomeratus Ledeb.
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
Halogeton
Halogeton glomeratus

description: Halogeton glomeratus (M. Bieb.) Ledeb.
Halogeton glomeratus (M. Bieb.) Ledeb., Icon. Pl. Fl. Ross. 1: 10 (1829) ≡ Anabasis glomerata M. Bieb., Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 1 (ed. 2): 110 (1811).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC).
EOO 1,000 km 2, AOO 12 km 2. The species is found in a few localities in the south-eastern part of the territory and shows no tendency to decline.
Distribution
Orenburg Region (south-eastern districts): Svetlyi, Yasnyi Districts, Orsk Town (Fig. 71).
Previous reports: Knjazev (2009).
The species occurs in steppes, on saline lands and in human-made habitats. It is found sporadically in the eastern part of the Region.
The species is distributed as native in Eastern Europe (southern Ural), Siberia, Central Asia, North Himalaya, Mongolia, western China. It is known as alien in North America.
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
Structural Equation Modelling of Digital Entrepreneurship, Logistics Innovation, and Digital Transformation Influence on Logistics Performance of Logistics Entrepreneurs in Thailand
Creators: name: Napatsaporn Niyawanont
Publisher: name: Assumption University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Logistics Innovation
Logistics Performance
Digital Entrepreneurship
Digital Transformation
Structural Equation Modelling

description: ABAC JOURNAL, 41, 4, 147-174
Cross-Cultural Competence - A Crucial Factor That Affects Chinese Corporations’ Business Performance in The Eastern Special Development Zone of Thailand
Creators: name: Chidchai Muensriphum
Publisher: name: Assumption University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cross-cultural competence
Business strategy emphasis
Environmental Dimensions
Business performance
Eastern Special Economic Zone

description: ABAC JOURNAL, 41, 4, 175-197
NSMAXG: A new magnetic neutron star spectral model in XSPEC
Creators: name: Ho, Wynn C. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excellent sensitivity of X-ray telescopes, such as Chandra and XMM-Newton, is ideal for the study of cooling neutron stars, which can emit at these energies. In order to exploit the wealth of information contained in the high quality data, a thorough knowledge of the radiative properties of neutron star atmospheres is necessary. A key factor affecting photon emission is magnetic fields, and neutron stars are known to have strong surface magnetic fields. Here I briefly describe our latest work on constructing magnetic (B >= 10^10 G) atmosphere models of neutron stars and the NSMAXG implementation of these models in XSPEC. Our results allow for more robust extractions of neutron star parameters from observations.
description: Proceedings of IAUS 302 "Magnetic Fields Throughout Stellar Evolution", M. Jardine, P. Petit, & H.C. Spruit (eds.); 4 pages, 2 figures
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1955-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

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.
On Lattice-Free Orbit Polytopes
Creators: name: Herr, Katrin
name: Rehn, Thomas
name: Schürmann, Achill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 52B15, Secondary: 90C10, 20C99

description: Given a permutation group acting on coordinates of $\mathbb{R}^n$, we consider lattice-free polytopes that are the convex hull of an orbit of one integral vector. The vertices of such polytopes are called \emph{core points} and they play a key role in a recent approach to exploit symmetry in integer convex optimization problems. Here, naturally the question arises, for which groups the number of core points is finite up to translations by vectors fixed by the group. In this paper we consider transitive permutation groups and prove this type of finiteness for the $2$-homogeneous ones. We provide tools for practical computations of core points and obtain a complete list of representatives for all $2$-homogeneous groups up to degree twelve. For transitive groups that are not $2$-homogeneous we conjecture that there exist infinitely many core points up to translations by the all-ones-vector. We prove our conjecture for two large classes of groups: For imprimitive groups and groups that have an irrational invariant subspace.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures; with minor adaptions according to referee comments; to appear in Discrete and Computational Geometry
Majorana states and devices in magnetic structures
Creators: name: Ojanen, Teemu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pursuit for Majorana fermions is one of the top priorities in condensed matter physics at the moment. In this work we propose a new method of fabricating Majorana Josephson devices in systems with a weak or no spin-orbit coupling and without external magnetic fields. Our proposal is based on curved semiconductor wires in the proximity of superconducting elements and a small number of nanomagnets. With this method it is possible to fabricate devices that are not feasible by employing straight topological wire segments. The proposed method is naturally scalable and opens up a possibility for a systematic fabrication of arrays of Majorana states where a pair of Majorana states is obtained from a single magnet.
description: 4.5 pages, 5 Figs
Infracta in Rota fracta Constantia, Triumphi Virginei insigne Decus In Partheno-Sopha Martyre D. Catharina Coram Senatu, Populoque Academico Almae Caesareae, Regiaeque Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandae Pragensis Sub Rectoratu ... D. Joannis Francisci Löw ... In Basilica Salvatoris Soc. Jesu Pragae ad S. Clementem Panegyrico illustratum; [1717]
Creators: name: Kominek, Ignatius
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2013

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Pragae, Typis Univ. Carolo-Ferdinand. in Collegio Soc. Jesu ad S. Clementem
Supporting information for "Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids"
Creators: name: Chen, Chong
name: Zhang, Ruiyan
name: Zhang, Dongsheng
name: Qiu, Jian Wen
name: Zhou, Yadong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310305
subject: Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)

description: Supporting information for "Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids" in Ecology, by Chong Chen, Ruiyan Zhang, Dongsheng Zhang, Jian-Wen Qiu, and Yadong Zhou.Micro-CT image stack of a part of an arm from a hyocrinid collected 1883 m deep in the northwestern Pacific, showing feeding marks by the laubierinid snail Laubierina peregrinator. Rendering of the same scan is shown in Fig. 2 of the paper, and a 3D model is available on Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/ptVrQGenBank sequences PQ451241-PQ451242 and PQ774871-PQ774872 are also attached, for review purposes.
Adherence to Cardiovascular Medications: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Creators: name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Ye, Siqin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Patient compliance
Myocardial infarction--Treatment
Cardiovascular system--Diseases--Treatment
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: Approximately 50% of patients with cardiovascular disease and/or its major risk factors have poor adherence to their prescribed medications. Finding novel methods to help patients improve their adherence to existing evidence-based cardiovascular drug therapies has enormous potential to improve health outcomes while potentially reducing health care costs. The goal of this report is to provide a review of the current understanding of adherence to cardiovascular medications from the point of view of prescribing clinicians and cardiovascular researchers. Key topics addressed include: 1) definitions of medication adherence; 2) prevalence and impact of non-adherence; 3) methods for assessing medication adherence; 4) reasons for poor adherence; and 5) approaches to improving adherence to cardiovascular medications. For each of these topics, the report seeks to identify important gaps in knowledge and opportunities for advancing the field of cardiovascular adherence research.
Robust stationary mechanical squeezing in a kicked quadratic optomechanical system
Creators: name: Asjad, M.
name: Agarwal, G. S.
name: Kim, M. S.
name: Tombesi, P.
name: Di Giuseppe, G.
name: Vitali, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme for the generation of a robust stationary squeezed state of a mechanical resonator in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system, driven by a pulsed laser. The intracavity photon number presents periodic intense peaks suddenly stiffening the effective harmonic potential felt by the mechanical resonator. These "optical spring kicks" tend to squeeze the resonator position, and due to the interplay with fluctuation-dissipation processes one can generate a stationary state with more than 13 dB of squeezing even starting from moderately "pre-cooled" initial thermal states.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. This paper supersedes an earlier version arXiv:1109.3905
The benefits of neighborhood racial diversity: Neighborhood factors and its association with increased physical activity in ACS patients
Creators: name: Denton, Ellen-Ge
name: Green, Philip
name: Newman, Jonathan
name: Ye, Siqin
name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neighborhoods
subject: Myocardial infarction
subject: Cultural pluralism
subject: Exercise--Health aspects
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Regular physical activity reduces the risk of adverse events after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) [1]. Physical activity level is influenced by neighborhood factors such as racial diversity in the general population [2] and [3], but the impact of neighborhood factors on physical activity after an ACS is unknown. We therefore prospectively evaluated the relationship of post-ACS physical activity assessed by continuous activity monitors with neighborhood characteristics, including ethnic density, income, female headed households, and racial diversity, in patients enrolled in the Prescription Use, Lifestyle, and Stress Evaluation (PULSE) Study.

We included 107 patients enrolled in the PULSE study from February 1, 2009 to June 30, who were monitored with an Actical® (Philips Respironics, Inc., Bend, Oregon) accelerometer device during the first 45 days following discharge from their ACS. For this analysis, physical activity level was operationalized as the mean maximum 6 min of activity during the day (M6m), which has previously been employed in studies of patients with chronic heart failure to summarize the patients' peak activity level [4] and [5]. Because the trajectory of physical activity is expected to change after hospital discharge, we calculated the M6m measure at 7, 14, 21, and 28 days post-discharge.
Ibutilide Increases the Variability and Complexity of Atrial Fibrillation Electrograms: Antiarrhythmic Insights Using Signal Analyses
Creators: name: Biviano, Angelo B.
name: Ciaccio, Edward J.
name: Whang, William
name: Garan, Hasan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Myocardial depressants
Electrophysiology
Cardiology--Research
Atrial fibrillation
Biology
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: Introduction
Intravenous ibutilide is used to convert atrial fibrillation (AF) to sinus rhythm (SR) due to its Class III antiarrhythmic mechanisms. However, the effects of ibutilide on local electrograms (EGMs) during AF have not been elucidated.

Methods and Results
We used EGM analysis techniques to characterize how ibutilide administration changes the frequency, morphology, and repeatability of AF EGM signals, thereby providing insight into ibutilide's antiarrhythmic mechanism of action. AF recordings were collected from 21 patients with AF, both before and after ibutilide administration. The effects of ibutilide on the following AF EGM parameters were assessed: (1) dominant frequency (DF), (2) variations in EGM amplitude and overall morphology, (3) repetition of EGM patterns, and (4) complexity of the AF frequency spectra. When comparing pre- versus post-ibutilide administration EGMs, DF decreased from 5.45 Hz to 4.02 Hz (P < 0.0001). There was an increase in the variability of both AF EGM amplitudes (P = 0.003) and overall AF EGM morphologies (P = 0.003). AF EGM pattern repetitiveness decreased (P = 0.01), and the AF frequency spectral profile manifested greater complexity (P = 0.02).

Conclusions
Novel EGM signal analysis techniques reveal that ibutilide administration causes increased complexity in the atrial electrical activation pattern with decreasing rate. These findings may be explained by the progressive destabilization of higher frequency, more homogeneous primary drivers of AF over the course of ibutilide administration, and/or less uniform propagation of atrial activation, until AF maintenance becomes more difficult and either transforms to atrial tachycardia or terminates to SR.
Salsola collina Pall.
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
Salsola
Salsola collina

description: Salsola collina Pall.
Salsola collina Pall., Ill. Pl.: 34 (1803) ≡ Kali collina (Pall.) Akhani & Roalson, Int. J. Pl. Sci. 168 (6): 946 (2007).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC).
EOO 107,700 km 2, AOO 108 km 2. The species is very common in the whole territory and shows no tendency to decline.
Distribution
Orenburg Region (whole territory): Adamovka, Aleksandrovka, Asekeevka, Belyaevka, Buguruslan, Buzuluk, Dombarovskii, Gai, Kurmanaevka, Kvarkeno, Matveevka, Novosergievka, Orenburg, Pervomaiskii, Ponomarevka, Saraktash, Sorochinsk, Totskoe, Yasnyi Districts (Fig. 72).
Previous reports: Iljin (1930), Ryabinina (1998), Knjazev (2009).
The species occurs in steppes, on saline lands and sands and in human-disturbed sites. It is common in the Region.
The species is distributed as native in Eastern Europe (south-eastern part) and across most of the arid Asia (Mongolia, China, Kyrgyzstan, mountainous parts of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, southwards up to mountainous deserts of Karakoram). It is known as alien in the forest and forest-steppe zones of Eurasia.
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
Cams rufus Audubon and Bachman 1851
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
Cams
Cams rufus

description: Cams rufus Audubon and Bachman, 1851. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 2: 240. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Texas, 15 mi. (24 km) W. Austin. DISTRIBUTION: S. E. and S. C. U.S.A., from Florida to C. Texas and north to S. Indiana and Missouri. COMMENT: The widely used name niger has been rejected by opinion 447 of the ICZN. The validity of rufus as a species has been questioned by Clutton-Brock et al., 197$ 29(3): 143, due to the existence of natural hybrids with lupus and latrans. Natural hybridization may be a consequence of habitat disruption by man; see Paradiso and Nowak, 1972, U.S. Fish and Wild. Serv., Spec. Sei. Rep. Wildl., 145; Nowak, 1979, Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. Monogr., 6: 1 -154, who provided evidence for specific distinctness. Reviewed by Paradiso and Nowak, 1972, Mamm. Species, 22:1-4. Type locality restricted by Goldman, 1937, J. Mammal., 18: 38. PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001003007001.
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 245, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Nowak, R. M. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Monograph, 6: 1 - 154.", "Goldman, E. A. 1937. The wolves of North America. Journal of Mammalogy, 18: 37 - 45."]}
QGen Studio: An Adaptive Question-Answer Generation, Training and Evaluation Platform
Creators: name: Moses, Movina
name: Elkaref, Mohab
name: Barry, James
name: Tanaka, Shinnosuke
name: Kuruvanthodi, Vishnudev
name: Herr, Nathan
name: Watson, Campbell D
name: De Mel, Geeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present QGen Studio: an adaptive question-answer generation, training, and evaluation platform. QGen Studio enables users to leverage large language models (LLMs) to create custom question-answer datasets and fine-tune models on this synthetic data. It features a dataset viewer and model explorer to streamline this process. The dataset viewer provides key metrics and visualizes the context from which the QA pairs are generated, offering insights into data quality. The model explorer supports model comparison, allowing users to contrast the performance of their trained LLMs against other models, supporting performance benchmarking and refinement. QGen Studio delivers an interactive, end-to-end solution for generating QA datasets and training scalable, domain-adaptable models. The studio will be open-sourced soon, allowing users to deploy it locally.
The Substantial Lessening of Competition Test for Mergers Under the Trade Competition Act B.E. 2560: Lessons from The United States, European Union, Japan, and Singapore
Creators: name: Peerapong Jongpaisalsakul
Publisher: name: Assumption University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Competition law
Merger control
Business combinations
Substantial lessening of competition

description: ABAC JOURNAL, 41, 4, 293-314
Model Predictive Control for Deferrable Loads Scheduling
Creators: name: Chen, Niangjun
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2014
Subjects: distributional analysis
EV charging
model predictive control
deferrable load scheduling
stochastic control
smart grid
Computer Science

description: Real-time demand response is essential for handling the uncertainties of renewable generation. Traditionally, demand response has been focused on large industrial and commercial loads, however it is expected that a large number of small residential loads such as air conditioners, dish washers, and electric vehicles will also participate in the coming years. The electricity consumption of these smaller loads, which we call deferrable loads, can be shifted over time, and thus be used (in aggregate) to compensate for the random fluctuations in renewable generation.

In this thesis, we propose a real-time distributed deferrable load control algorithm to reduce the variance of aggregate load (load minus renewable generation) by shifting the power consumption of deferrable loads to periods with high renewable generation. The algorithm is model predictive in nature, i.e., at every time step, the algorithm minimizes the expected variance to go with updated predictions. We prove that suboptimality of this model predictive algorithm vanishes as time horizon expands in the average case analysis. Further, we prove strong concentration results on the distribution of the load variance obtained by model predictive deferrable load control. These concentration results highlight that the typical performance of model predictive deferrable load control is tightly concentrated around the average-case performance. Finally, we evaluate the algorithm via trace-based simulations.
Asthma in Inner-City Children at 5–11 Years of Age and Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates: The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health Cohort
Creators: name: Whyatt, Robin M.
name: Perzanowski, Matthew S.
name: Just, Allan C.
name: Rundle, Andrew G.
name: Donohue, Kathleen M.
name: Calafat, Antonia M.
name: Hoepner, Lori A.
name: Perera, Frederica P.
name: Miller, Rachel L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: City children
Asthma--Environmental aspects
Phthalate esters
Asthma in children
Environmental health
Medical sciences
Public health

description: Background: Studies suggest that phthalate exposures may adversely affect child respiratory health.

Objectives: We evaluated associations between asthma diagnosed in children between 5 and 11 years of age and prenatal exposures to butylbenzyl phthalate (BBzP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DnBP), di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), and diethyl phthalate (DEP).

Methods: Phthalate metabolites were measured in spot urine collected from 300 pregnant inner-city women. Children were examined by an allergist or pulmonologist based on the first parental report of wheeze, other respiratory symptoms, and/or use of asthma rescue/controller medication in the preceding 12 months on repeat follow-up questionnaires. Standardized diagnostic criteria were used to classify these children as either having or not having current asthma at the time of the physician examination. Children without any report of wheeze or the other asthma-like symptoms were classified as nonasthmatics at the time of the last negative questionnaire. Modified Poisson regression analyses were used to estimate relative risks (RR) controlling for specific gravity and potential confounders.

Results: Of 300 children, 154 (51%) were examined by a physician because of reports of wheeze, other asthma-like symptoms, and/or medication use; 94 were diagnosed with current asthma and 60 without current asthma. The remaining 146 children were classified as nonasthmatic. Compared with levels in nonasthmatics, prenatal metabolites of BBzP and DnBP were associated with a history of asthma-like symptoms (p < 0.05) and with the diagnosis of current asthma: RR = 1.17 (95% CI: 1.01, 1.35) and RR = 1.25 (95% CI: 1.04, 1.51) per natural log-unit increase, respectively. Risk of current asthma was > 70% higher among children with maternal prenatal BBzP and DnBP metabolite concentrations in the third versus the first tertile.

Conclusion: Prenatal exposure to BBzP and DnBP may increase the risk of asthma among inner-city children. However, because this is the first such finding, results require replication.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1955-03)
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.
Prenatal phthalate and early childhood bisphenol A exposures increase asthma risk in inner-city children
Creators: name: Whyatt, Robin M.
name: Rundle, Andrew G.
name: Perzanowski, Matthew S.
name: Just, Allan C.
name: Donohue, Kathleen M.
name: Calafat, Antonia M.
name: Hoepner, Lori A.
name: Perera, Frederica P.
name: Miller, Rachel L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Asthma in children
City children
Asthma--Environmental aspects
Bisphenol A
Environmental health
Medical sciences
Public health

description: To the Editor:
We previously reported that inner-city childhood asthma was independently associated with measures of early childhood exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)1 and prenatal, but not childhood, exposures to di-n-butyl phthalate and butylbenzyl phthalate (BBzP). 2 Here, we evaluate whether these 2 classes of endocrine-disrupting chemicals interact to increase the risk of asthma.

We evaluated 292 inner-city women and their children aged 5 to 11 years from the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health birth cohort of pregnant women who delivered between 1998 and 2006. Enrollment, exclusion criteria, and a description of the cohort have been reported previously.3 Subjects were selected for the present study on the basis of the availability of (1) measurements of phthalates in spot urine collected from the mother during pregnancy (33.9 ± 3.1 weeks' gestation) and BPA in child urine at ages 3 (n = 237), 5 (259), and/or 7 (n = 161) years; (2) data on child asthma and wheeze-related outcomes; and (3) availability of model covariates. Demographic characteristics of Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health subjects are provided in Table E1 in this article's Online Repository at www.jacionline.org. All participants gave written informed consent.