cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Progressive arm muscle weakness in ALS follows the same sequence regardless of onset site: use of TOMS, a novel analytic method to track limb strength
Creators: name: Thakore, Nimish J.
name: Drawert, Brian J.
name: Lapin, Brittany R.
name: Pioro, Erik P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Objective: Examine sequence of weakness in arm muscles from longitudinal hand-held dynamometry (HHD) data in ALS for congruence with contiguous spread of neurodegeneration along spinal cord segments. Methods: Longitudinal HHD data from the Ceftriaxone clinical trial were examined using nonlinear mixed models, assuming a logistic trajectory from normal to zero strength. Unobserved baseline normal strength of weak muscles was assumed using strength of the best-preserved muscle. A novel metric called “time from onset to midway strength” (TOMS) was estimated for each muscle group, and TOMS ratios were examined to identify sequence of weakness, overall and by onset site. Results: Shoulder flexion (SF), elbow flexion (EF), elbow extension (EE), wrist extension (WE), and first dorsal interosseous (FDI) were measured on each side. Over a median of 36 weeks, 513 subjects provided 2589 sets of HHD measures. TOMS increased sequentially in the following order: FDI, WE, SF, EF, and EE. TOMS ratios estimates with 95% CIs (adjusted for multiple comparisons) were: WE/FDI 1.32 (1.24–1.41), SF/WE 1.06 (1.01–1.10), EF/SF 1.06 (1.02–1.10), and EE/EF 1.18 (1.12–1.23). Elbow and shoulder flexors weakened sooner than did elbow extensors. The sequence of arm muscle weakness progression was similar regardless of onset site. Conclusion: Nonsegmental progression of arm muscle weakness that is similar for different onset sites favors cortical influence/network spread over contiguous spread of neurodegeneration in the spinal cord. Furthermore, this study confirms the “split elbow” pattern. TOMS and other proposed methods may have value as outcome measures in clinical research.
Biconical structures in two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Holtschneider, M.
name: Selke, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Square lattice Heisenberg and XY antiferromagnets with uniaxial anisotropy in a field along the easy axis are studied. Based on ground state considerations and Monte Carlo simulations, the role of biconical structures in the transition region between the antiferromagnetic and spin--flop phases is analyzed. In particular, adding a single--ion anisotropy to the XXZ antiferromagnet, one observes, depending on the sign of that anisotropy, either an intervening biconical phase or a direct transition of first order separating the two phases. In case of the anisotropic XY model, the degeneracy of the ground state, at a critical field, in antiferromagnetic, spin--flop, and bidirectional structures seems to result, as in the case of the XXZ model, in a narrow disordered phase between the antiferromagnetic and spin--flop phases, dominated by bidirectional fluctuations.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. B
Fast-neutron induced pre-equilibrium reactions on 55Mn and 63,65Cu at energies up to 40 MeV
Creators: name: Avrigeanu, M.
name: Chuvaev, S. V.
name: Filatenkov, A. A.
name: Forrest, R. A.
name: Herman, M.
name: Koning, A. J.
name: Plompen, A. J. M.
name: Roman, F. L.
name: Avrigeanu, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excitation functions were measured for the $^{55}$Mn(n,2n)$^{54}$Mn, $^{55}$Mn(n,$α$)$^{52}$V, $^{63}$Cu(n,$α$)$^{60}$Co, $^{65}$Cu(n,2n)$^{64}$Cu, and $^{65}$Cu(n,p)$^{65}$Ni reactions from 13.47 to 14.83 MeV. The experimental cross sections are compared with the results of calculations including all activation channels for the stable isotopes of Mn and Cu, for neutron incident energies up to 50 MeV. Within the energy range up to 20 MeV the model calculations are most sensitive to the parameters related to nuclei in the early stages of the reaction, while the model assumptions are better established by analysis of the data in the energy range 20-40 MeV. While the present analysis has taken advantage of both a new set of accurate measured cross sections around 14 MeV and the larger data basis fortunately available between 20 and 40 MeV for the Mn and Cu isotopes, the need of additional measurements below as well as above 40 MeV is pointed out. Keywords: 55Mn, 63,65Cu, E$\leq$40 MeV, Neutron activation cross section measurements, Nuclear reactions, Model calculations, Manganese, Copper
description: 39 pages, 12 figures
Cosmological Constraints and SU(5) Supergravity Grand Unification
Creators: name: Arnowitt, R.
name: Nath, Pran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The predictions of SU(5) supergravity models with radiative breaking constrained by experimental proton decay bounds are discussed. It is shown that cosmological constraints further restrict the parameter space but can be satisfied for a wide range of parameters. It is also shown that no serious fine tuning problems (either at $M_{SUSY}$ or $M_{GUT}$) exist.
description: 11pages
Coupled Soil-Structure Interaction Effects of Symmetric and Asymmetric Buildings In Urban Regions
Creators: name: Yigit D. Isbiliroglu
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 90799 Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This thesis deals with the response of idealized building clusters during earthquakes, their effect on the ground motion, and how individual buildings interact with the soil and with each other. We simulate the ground motion during the 1994 Northridge earthquake and focus on the coupled response of multiple simplified symmetric and asymmetric building models located within the San Fernando Valley and the Simi Valley. We use the Domain Reduction Method (DRM) in order to perform these simulations efficiently while recurrently modifying the models without having to redo the entire simulation every time. Numerical results show that the soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects vary with the number and dynamic properties of the buildings, their separation, and the impedance with respect to the soil. These effects appear as: (i) an increased spatial variability of the ground motion; and (ii) significant reductions in the buildings’ base motion at high frequencies, changes in the higher natural frequencies of the building-foundation systems and variations in the roof displacement, with respect to those of the corresponding rigid-base and single SSI models. Torsional coupling of the asymmetric structures combined with SSI effects are also investigated, and results, in comparison with the symmetric structures, are given.
Gauge Invariance in Chern-Simons Systems
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show explicitly that the question of gauge invariance of the effective potential in standard scalar electrodynamics remains unchanged despite the introduction of the Chern-Simons term. The result does not depend on the presence of the Maxwell term in the Chern-Simons territory.
description: 10 pages, Plain Tex, DF/UFPB-14/92
Estimates on trapped modes in deformed quantum layers
Creators: name: Kovarik, Hynek
name: Vugalter, Semjon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35P05,81Q10

description: We use a logarithmic Lieb-Thirring inequality for two-dimensional Schroedinger operators and establish estimates on trapped modes in geometrically deformed quantum layers.
Localizing gravity on Maxwell gauged CP1 model in six dimensions
Creators: name: Kodama, Yuta
name: Kokubu, Kento
name: Sawado, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We shall consider about a 3-brane embedded in six-dimensional space-time with a negative bulk cosmological constant. The 3-brane is constructed by a topological soliton solution living in two-dimensional axially symmetric transverse subspace. Similar to most previous works of six-dimensional soliton models, our Maxwell gauged CP1 brane model can also achieve to localize gravity around the 3-brane. The CP1 field is described by a scalar doublet and derived from O(3) sigma model by projecting it onto two-dimensional complex space. In that sense, our framework is more effective than other solitonic brane models concerning with gauge theory. We shall also discuss about linear stability analysis for our new model by fluctuating all fields.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures; references added
Predictions in SU(5) Supergravity Grand Unification with Proton Stability and Relic Density Constraints
Creators: name: Nath, P.
name: Arnowitt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that in the physically interesting domain of the parameter space of SU(5) supergravity GUT, the Higgs and the Z poles dominate the LSP annihilation. Here the naive analyses on thermal averaging breaks down and formulae are derived which give a rigorous treatment over the poles. These results are then used to show that there exist significant domains in the parameter space where the constraints of proton stability and cosmology are simultaneously satisfied. New upper limits on light particle masses are obtained.
description: (An error in the reheating factor is corrected, strengthening the conclusions, i.e. the region in parameter space where the relic density constraints are satisfied is enlarged.)
Untersuchung zur neophytischen Gehölzflora im Stuttgarter Stadtgebiet
Creators: name: Schmid, Martin
Publisher: name: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg
Year: 2005

description: Während noch die Zusammenhänge im Ökosystem Wald an den natürlichen Standorten untersucht werden, finden sich bereits in den Städten „Neubürger“ (Neophyten), wie Robinie, Platane und Götterbaum zu völlig neuartigen Waldgesellschaften zusammen. Diese Gehölze, die auch als „urban forest“ bezeichnet werden, bilden nun plötzlich am Rande von Schuttplätzen, Rangierbahnhöfen und auf Industriebrachen eigenständige Ökosysteme, die sich an Artenvielfalt zwar nicht mit vergleichbaren natürlichen Systemen messen können, jedoch bereits für viele selten gewordene Tier- und Pflanzenarten Rückzugsmöglichkeiten bieten. So hat die gefährdete Hohltaube beispielsweise in den Baumhöhlen der alten Platanen im Rosenstein-Park eines ihrer bedeutendsten Brutgebiete in Baden-Württemberg.
description: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, Bd. 161 (2005): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 161. Jahrgang
Cost Effectiveness of CO2 Mitigation Technologies and Policies in the Electricity Sector
Creators: name: Moore, Jared
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: In order to find politically feasible ways to reduce greenhouse gas emission emissions, governments must examine how policies affect a variety of stakeholders. The costs and benefits of low carbon technology options are unique and affect different market participants in different ways. In this thesis, we examine the cost effectiveness of carbon mitigation technologies and policies from the social perspective and from the perspective of consumers. In Chapter 2, we perform an engineering-economic analysis of hybridizing concentrating solar thermal power with fossil fuel. We examine the cost effectiveness of substituting the solar power for new coal or gas and find the cost of mitigation to be approximately ~$130/tCO2 to ~$300/tCO2. In Chapter 3, we quantify some externalized social costs and benefits of wind energy. We estimate the costs due to variability and transmission unique to wind to have an expected value of ~$20/MWh. In Chapter 4, we quantify the cost effectiveness of a renewable portfolio standard and a carbon price from the perspective of consumers in restructured markets. We find that both that the RPS can be more cost effective than a carbon price for consumers under certain circumstances: continued excess supply of capacity, retention of nuclear generators, and high natural gas prices. In Chapter 5, we examine the implications of lowering electricity sector CO2 emissions in PJM through a Low Carbon Capacity Standard (LCCS). We estimate that an LCCS would supply the same amount of energy (105,000 GWh) as the RPS’s in PJM and an additional ~10 GW of capacity. We find that the LCCS could be more cost effective for consumers than an RPS if it lowered capacity prices.
Azimuthal Anisotropies at High Momentum from Purely Non-Hydrodynamic Transport
Creators: name: Romatschke, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the limit of short mean free path, relativistic kinetic theory gives rise to hydrodynamics through a systematically improvable gradient expansion. In the present work, a systematically improvable expansion in the opposite limit of large mean free path is considered, describing the dynamics of particles which are almost, but not quite, non-interacting. This non-hydrodynamic "eremitic" expansion does not break down for large gradients, and may be useful in situations where a hydrodynamic treatment is not applicable. As applications, azimuthal anisotropies at high transverse momentum in Pb+Pb and p+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV are calculated from the first order eremitic expansion of kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures; v2: reference to Borghini and Gombeaud added who discussed same setup in 2010, typos corrected; v3: minor changes, matches published version
title: ADCO, Abbaye de Cîteaux, Tablettes de cire, comptes du boursier, 1321-1325, 11 H 1165, f. 0005268
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Abbaye de Cîteaux, Tablettes de cire, comptes du boursier, 1321-1325, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, 11 H 1165, f. 0005268, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Abbaye de Cîteaux, Tablettes de cire, comptes du boursier, 1321-1325, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, 11 H 1165, f. 0005268, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Cost and Efficiency in Dynamic Government Outsourcing: Evidence from the Dredging Industry
Creators: name: Barkley, Aaron
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This dissertation contains essays on government outsourcing and identification of dynamic binary choice models. The first essay, titled “Mixed-Delivery of a Public Good: An Empirical Case Study of the Dredging Industry,” provides a descriptive analysis of the United States dredging industry. The industry has several features that make it an interesting area to study delivery of public goods; most notably, provision of dredging services in the US are split between in-house provision by the US Army Corps of Engineers and contracting out to private sector dredging companies. Patterns of in-house government project selection suggest that government prefers to complete smaller projects and also indicates the presence of complementarities across projects arising from travel distance between project sites. In the second essay, “Semi-parametric Identification of Dynamic Binary Choice Models,” I give conditions under which both the per-period payoffs for each state and the distribution of the random, unobserved component of agent utility are identified. Most previous work in dynamic discrete choice models has used the assumption that the distribution of choice-specific utility shocks are known. I show that two conditions suffice to identify this distribution: first, that there is a period in which there is no future value component for agents. This can arise due to either non-stationary state transitions or a finite time horizon. Second, I assume that there is a state variable that enters into the utility for one of the choices through a known function. This allows for identification of the distribution of the unobserved utility component through variation in this state variable in the static periods. Finally the last essay, titled “Cost and Efficiency in Government Outsourcing,” builds a dynamic binary-choice model of government outsourcing decisions and applies the model to the dredging industry described in the first essay. I investigate the effect of government outsourcing on total expenditures and efficiency by considering how outsourcing decisions are determined along two dimensions: (i) cost differences between private firms and government suppliers of public goods and (ii) dynamics arising from cost complementarities and capacity constraints. Identification of the model uses the identification results from the second chapter, and allows for identification of the full distribution of government project costs. Model estimates indicate substantial cost savings due to outsourcing but also that government presence in the market is important for cost reduction. A counterfactual policy experiment featuring direct competition between government and private sector firms finds a total expenditure reduction of 17.1%.
A potential upper motor neuron measure of bulbar involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using jaw muscle coherence
Creators: name: Rong, Panying
name: Pattee, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: To identify a novel, quantitative bulbar measure in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) based on jaw muscle coherence. Methods: The myoelectric activities of masseter, anterior temporalis, and anterior belly of digastric were recorded bilaterally during a speech task in 12 individuals with ALS and 10 neurologically healthy controls, using surface electromyography. Coherence and directed coherence were calculated for all muscle pairs. The muscle pairs showing significant coherence and directed coherence in the beta-band (15–35 Hz) were identified and their mean beta-band coherence were (1) correlated with the kinematic (i.e. jaw acceleration time) and functional speech (i.e. speaking rate) measures that have been previously identified to be affected by bulbar ALS, across all participants, and (2) evaluated in terms of their efficacy in differentiating individuals with ALS from healthy controls. Results: Beta-band coherence was in general reduced in ALS relative to healthy controls, with the antagonistic and homologous muscle pairs being more affected than the agonistic pairs. Among all muscle pairs, the coherence between masseter and digastric (1) showed the strongest correlations with jaw acceleration time and speaking rate, and (2) differentiated individuals with ALS from healthy controls with the highest sensitivity (i.e. 0.92) and specificity (i.e. 0.90). Conclusions: Reduced beta-band coherence between masseter and digastric in ALS reflects weakened neural linkage between these muscles resulting from the disrupted cortical drive to the bulbar musculature. These findings provide preliminary evidence for jaw muscle coherence as a novel, quantitative measure of corticobulbar involvement, designed to improve bulbar assessment in ALS.
Cosmological Simulation Studies of the Intrinsic Alignment of Galaxies
Creators: name: Ananth  Tenneti
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 20399 Classical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak lensing refers to a statistical study of the small distortions of the images of galaxy shapes due to the gravitational deflection of light by the foreground structures. Weak lensing has emerged as a powerful probe to constrain cosmological paramters to subpercent errors in future cosmological surveys. However, the intrinsic alignment of galaxies with the large-scale density field is a significant astrophysical contaminant in weak lensing measurements that can bias cosmological constraints and also a useful probe of galaxy formation and evolution. Recent large volume hydrodynamic simulations that include galaxy formation have become an important tool to study intrinsic alignments which are difficult to model analytically and the presence of baryonic component allows us to directly measure galaxy shapes and alignments. This thesis presents a study of the intrinsic alignment of galaxies in the MassiveBlack-II (MBII) hydrodynamic simulation. We first analyze the shapes and alignments of the stellar component of the galaxies in MBII and their dependence on subhalo mass and environment. This is followed by an analyis of two-point statistics quantifying intrinsic alignmnents and their scaling with mass, luminosity and color. We then compare the galaxy shapes and alignments in the hydrodynamic simulation with the shapes of dark matter subhalos in a dark matter-only simulation performed with the same resolution and initial conditions. Finally, we analyze the intrinsic alignments of disks and elliptical galaxies which are morphologically classified based on a dynamical bulge disk decomposition in MBII and Illustris, a hydrodynamic simulation implemented with moving mesh code and different baryonic feedback models. We also carry out a parameter space study by modifying the free paramters in the MBII feedback models and study their impact on intrinsic alignments using small volume simulations.
Persian adaptation of Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural Screen (ECAS)
Creators: name: Mojtabavi, Helia
name: Nafissi, Shahriar
name: Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz
name: Fathi, Davood
name: Fatehi, Farzad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Objectives: To adapt the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioral screen (ECAS) English version into Persian. Methods: The ECAS test was adapted and implemented to 30 ALS patients and 31 healthy volunteers in Tehran, Iran. The ECAS results were compared to MoCA and ALS-FRS-r, the other standard tools to determine whether the translated version is reliable and valid in the new language. In addition, the patients’ caregivers were interviewed for behavioral and psychiatric changes. Results: The Persian version of ECAS revealed high internal consistency (α = 0.791), alongside the strong correlation of ECAS and its subscales with MoCA and ALS-FRS. Moreover, Persian ECAS discriminated against the patients and the healthy population well. Sensitivity analysis revealed promising results of Persian ECAS with an area under the curve of 0.871 in ROC curve analysis. Cognitive impairment was observed in 43.33% of patients. Conclusion: The Persian version of the ECAS, exclusively designed for the Iranian population, is the first screening tool to assess multiple neuropsychological functions, which provides a rapid and inclusive screen of cognitive and behavioral impairments specifically in ALS patients.
Beyond Newton: a new root-finding fixed-point iteration for nonlinear equations
Creators: name: Aggarwal, Ankush
name: Pant, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Finding roots of equations is at the heart of most computational science. A well-known and widely used iterative algorithm is the Newton's method. However, its convergence depends heavily on the initial guess, with poor choices often leading to slow convergence or even divergence. In this paper, we present a new class of methods that improve upon the classical Newton's method. The key idea behind the new approach is to develop a relatively simple multiplicative transformation of the original equations, which leads to a significant reduction in nonlinearities, thereby alleviating the limitations of the Newton's method. Based on this idea, we propose two novel classes of methods and present their application to several mathematical functions (real, complex, and vector). Across all examples, our numerical experiments suggest that the new methods converge for a significantly wider range of initial guesses with minimal increase in computational cost. Given the ubiquity of Newton's method, an improvement in its applicability and convergence is a significant step forward, and will reduce computation times several-folds across many disciplines. Additionally, this multiplicative transformation may improve other techniques where a linear approximation is used.
PO 28 - VIA AÉREA DIFÍCIL NUM DOENTE OBESO COM TUMOR DE WHARTIN: ABORDAGEM ANESTÉSICA
Creators: name: Madruga1, Carolina
name: Castro2, Maria Massá
name: Rodrigues2, Idalina
Publisher: name: Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia
Year: 2023

description: .
description: Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia, Vol. 31 N.º 1 (2022): SUPLEMENTO Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia
IDEAS FOR DEBATE: ELEMENTARY MONETARY CONCEPTS AND STORYLINES PART 1: REMEMBER THE GAME!
Creators: name: Martignoni, Jens
Publisher: name: International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR)
Year: 2022
Subjects: editorial
debate section IJCCR

description: The Ideas for Debates section has been announced in this journal for a long time but has been sparsely filled withcontent. As a new editor, I would like to change this and take the opportunity to reopen this section, even if I startwith some personal contributions and hopefully inspire others to join later. However, this requires a different un-derstanding of the position of this section within a scientific, academic journal.
Intuitive Staging Correlates With King’s Clinical Stage
Creators: name: Khleifat, Ahmad Al
name: Balendra, Rubika
name: Fang, Ton
name: Al-Chalabi, Ammar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Clinical stage in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can be assigned using King’s staging with a simple protocol based on the number of CNS regions involved and the presence of significant nutritional or respiratory failure. It is important that the assigned clinical stage matches expectations, and generally corresponds with how a health care professional would intuitively stage the patient. We therefore investigated the relationship between King’s clinical ALS stage and ALS stage as intuitively assigned by health care professionals. Methods: We wrote 17 case vignettes describing people with ALS at different disease stages from very early limited disease involvement through to severe, multi-domain disease. During two workshops, we asked health care professionals to intuitively stage the vignettes and compared the answers with the actual King’s clinical ALS stage. Results: There was a good correlation between King’s clinical ALS stage and intuitively assigned stage, with a Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient of 0.64 (p Conclusions: Across a spectrum of ALS scenarios, King’s clinical ALS stage corresponds to intuitive ALS stage as assigned by a range of health care professionals.
Progenitor Mass Distribution for Core-Collapse Supernova Remnants in M31 and M33
Creators: name: Díaz-Rodríguez, Mariangelly
name: Murphy, Jeremiah W.
name: Rubin, David A.
name: Dolphin, Andrew E.
name: Williams, Benjamin F.
name: Dalcanton, Julianne J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the star formation histories (SFHs) near 94 supernova remnants (SNRs), we infer the progenitor mass distribution for core-collapse supernovae. We use Bayesian inference and model each SFH with multiple bursts of star formation (SF), one of which is assumed to be associated with the SNR. Assuming single-star evolution, the minimum mass of CCSNe is $7.33^{+0.02}_{-0.16}$ $\text{M}_\odot$, the slope of the progenitor mass distribution is $α= -2.96^{+0.45}_{-0.25}$, and the maximum mass is greater than $\text{M}_\textrm{max} > 59$ $\text{M}_\odot$ with a 68% confidence. While these results are consistent with previous inferences, they also provide tighter constraints. The progenitor distribution is somewhat steeper than a Salpeter initial mass function ($α$ = -2.35). This suggests that either SNR catalogs are biased against the youngest SF regions, or the most massive stars do not explode as easily as lower mass stars. If SNR catalogs are biased, it will most likely affect the slope but not the minimum mass. The uncertainties are dominated by three primary sources of uncertainty, the SFH resolution, the number of SF bursts, and the uncertainty on SF rate in each age bin. We address the first two of these uncertainties, with an emphasis on multiple bursts. The third will be addressed in future work.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Two dimensional baryons in the large N limit
Creators: name: Bedaque, P. F.
name: Horvath, I.
name: Rajeev, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a bilocal field theory for mesons in two dimensions obtained as a kind of non local bosonization of two dimensional QCD. Its semi-classical expansion is equivalent to the $1/N_c$ expansion of QCD. Using an ansatz we reduce the classical equation of motion of this theory in the baryon number one sector to a relativistic Hartree equation and solve it numerically. This (non topological) soliton is identified with the baryon.
description: 14 pages including figures
The Sounds of North: Political Efficacy and the “Listening Self” in Elizabeth Hay’s Late Nights on Air
Creators: name: Visvis, Vikki
Publisher: name: Canadian Literature
Year: 2016

description: In a historical moment where sound and aural senses are elided, either as a result of technological advancement or as noise pollution, Elizabeth Hay’s novel Late Nights on Air mounts a defense of sound and listening by foregrounding alternative discourses from the period that derive from the Canadian North. Specifically, by alluding to Glenn Gould’s method of contrapuntal listening and the explorer John Hornby, whom John Moss in 1971 aligned with the “greatest Arctic narrative [of] silence” (56), the novel configures sound and listening as efficacious, both in terms of political engagement and identity formation. Ultimately, in Late Nights on Air sound and, by extension, aural sensory engagement within a specifically Canadian northern tradition disallows a reductive understanding of Canada’s sonic environment in the late twentieth century as technologically obsolete or as ecologically threatening by revealing its value as a political and identity-forming tool.
description: Canadian Literature, No 225 (2015): Radio, Film, and Fiction
“Something in Between”: Monkey Beach and the Haisla Return of the Return of the Repressed
Creators: name: Gaertner, David Randall
Publisher: name: Canadian Literature
Year: 2016

description: The return of the repressed is a pervasive trope in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach and it has been well theorized in the criticism surrounding the novel—from a Freudian perspective. However, in order to fully understand the aesthetics and politics of this important text more work is needed to develop the ways in which readers can engage with repression and its return from an Indigenous—and more specifically—Haisla, point of view. Via close reading and historical analysis, this essay locates the return of the repressed in relation to settler colonialism and traditional Haisla storytelling and fundamentally reframes arguments concerning psychoanalytic critique and Indigenous literature.
description: Canadian Literature, No 225 (2015): Radio, Film, and Fiction
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0043
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0043, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu (Fin XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 181 (11 H 754), 165 folios, f. 0043, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
PO 27 - UMA ABORDAGEM INESPERADA DE VIA AÉREA DIFÍCIL PREVISÍVEL
Creators: name: Delgado1, André Matos
name: Dinis1, Rita Lopes
name: Pinto1, Ana Sofia
name: Serrano2, Nuno
Publisher: name: Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia
Year: 2023

description: .
description: Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia, Vol. 31 N.º 1 (2022): SUPLEMENTO Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia
Matrix completion with deterministic pattern - a geometric perspective
Creators: name: Shapiro, Alexander
name: Xie, Yao
name: Zhang, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the matrix completion problem with a deterministic pattern of observed entries. In this setting, we aim to answer the question: under what condition there will be (at least locally) unique solution to the matrix completion problem, i.e., the underlying true matrix is identifiable. We answer the question from a certain point of view and outline a geometric perspective. We give an algebraically verifiable sufficient condition, which we call the well-posedness condition, for the local uniqueness of MRMC solutions. We argue that this condition is necessary for local stability of MRMC solutions, and we show that the condition is generic using the characteristic rank. We also argue that the low-rank approximation approaches are more stable than MRMC and further propose a sequential statistical testing procedure to determine the "true" rank from observed entries. Finally, we provide numerical examples aimed at verifying validity of the presented theory.
Additional file 1 of Assessing the fidelity of a peer-led chronic pain management program (PAP)
Creators: name: Tse, Mimi M. Y.
name: Tang, Shuk Kwan
name: Ng, Shamay
name: Li, Yajie
name: Cheung, Daphne Sze Ki
name: Kwan, Rick Yiu Cho
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Fidelity checklist.
The radial gauge propagators in quantum gravity
Creators: name: Menotti, P.
name: Modanese, G.
name: Seminara, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a general procedure for extracting the propagators in gauge theories in presence of a sharp gauge fixing and we apply it to derive the propagators in quantum gravity in the radial gauge, both in the first and in the second order formalism in any space-time dimension. In the three dimensional case such propagators vanish except for singular collinear contributions, in agreement with the absence of propagating gravitons.
description: 38 pages, 1 fig. not available, LATEX, IFUP-TH-30/92
Correlations in Bottom Quark Pair Production at the Fermilab TeVatron
Creators: name: Galyardt, Jason
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 20399 Classical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present an analysis of bb pair production correlations, using dimuon-triggered data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) in pp collisions at a/s=1.96 TeV during Run II of the TeVatron. The leading order (LO) and next-to-leading order (NLO) b quark production processes are discriminated by the angular and momentum correlations between the bb pair. Track-level jets containing a muon are classified by b quark content and used to estimate the momentum vector of the progenitor b quark. The theoretical distributions given by the MC@NLO event generator are tested against the data.
Two-Stage Proximity-Induced Gap-Opening in Topological Insulator - Insulating Ferromagnet (Bi$_x$Sb$_{1-x}$)$_2$Te$_3$ - EuS Bilayers
Creators: name: Yang, Qi I.
name: Kapitulnik, Aharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To further investigate the interplay between ferromagnetism and topological insulators, thin films of the low-carrier topological insulator (Bi$_x$Sb$_{1-x}$)$_2$Te$_3$ were deposited on the insulating ferromagnet EuS (100) in situ. AC susceptibility indicates magnetic anomalies between $T\approx30~\mathrm{K}$ and $T\approx60~\mathrm{K}$, well above the Curie temperature $T_C \approx 15~\mathrm{K}$ of EuS. When the Fermi level is close to the Dirac point and the surface state dominates the electric conduction, sharp increases in resistance with decreasing temperatures were observed concurrently with the magnetic anomalies. Positive-negative magnetoresistance crossovers were observed at the Curie temperature, which seem only to appear when the sheet resistance exceeds the Mott-Ioffe-Regel limit $h/e^2$. A two-stage gap-opening process due to magnetic proximity is proposed.
Development and characterization of electrosprayed microcaspules of poly ε-caprolactone with citronella oil for mosquito-repellent application
Creators: name: Pardini, Francisco
name: Iregui, Álvaro
name: Faccia, Paula
name: Amalvy, Javier
name: González, Alba
name: Irusta, Lourdes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Several life-threatening diseases such as malaria, dengue or zika are transmitted by mosquito bites. Although there are several products available for personal protection against mosquitoes, the adequate efficacy of natural insect repellents (NIR) or the adverse effects of synthetic ones are problems that need to be solved. The encapsulation of NIR in low-cost, nontoxic and biodegradable polymers has emerged as a promising method for the development of eco-friendly repellent systems. In this work, the encapsulation of citronella oil (CO) into microcapsules of poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) was made by electrospraying technique to obtain a system that shows a sustained release of the high volatile oil. Characterizations of the capsules were performed by NMR, FTIR, SEM and DSC techniques. CO encapsulation efficiency (EE) and release studies were also determined by using HPLC technique. Results demonstrated that a 3/1 PCL-CO ratio and 10 kV were the best conditions to obtain regular and well-formed microcapsules. Characterization techniques showed the presence of CO in the microcapsules with an EE higher than 80%. Release studies in water solution indicated a sustained CO liberation for at least forty days. The present study shows the strong potential of the PCL-CO microcapsules as an effective and sustained release system with potential application in protection against mosquitoes. These microcapsules are not considered microplastics due to their biodegradable character and therefore their use is not restricted by the different legislations.
Über die Flechtenflora im Kur- und Schlosspark von Bad Mergentheim sowie über neue und seltene Flechten im Taubertal (Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland)
Creators: name: Türk, Roman
Publisher: name: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg
Year: 2005

description: Als Folge der Verbesserung der Luftqualität innerhalb der letzten zwanzig Jahre stiegen die Anzahl der Flechtenarten und deren Abundanz im Kurgarten und im Schlossgarten von Bad Mergentheim im Taubertal (Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland) an. Die epiphytischen und saxicolen Flechten auf den Mauerwerken und den Gebäuden des Deutschordensschlosses werden aufgelistet. Neu für das Taubertal sind: Arthonia apatetica, Arthonia didyma, Bacidia globulosa, Catillaria nigroclavata, Chaenotheca furfuracea, Chaenotheca stemonea, Cladonia rei, Collema limosum, Gyalecta ulmi, Leproloma vouauxii, Neofuscelia verruculifera, Pachyphiale fagicola, Peltigera hymenina, Pertusaria pustulata, Rinodina calcarea, Rinodina pityrea, Schismatomma decolorans und Verrucaria dolosa. Cladonia acuminata ist neu für die Flechtenflora von Baden-Württemberg.
description: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, Bd. 161 (2005): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 161. Jahrgang
Spatial distribution of stars and brown dwarfs in sigma Orionis
Creators: name: Caballero, Jose A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I have re-visited the spatial distribution of stars and high-mass brown dwarfs in the sigma Orionis cluster (~3 Ma, ~360 pc). The input was a catalogue of 340 cluster members and candidates at separations less than 30 arcmin to sigma Ori AB. Of them, 70 % have features of extreme youth. I fitted the normalised cumulative number of objects counting from the cluster centre to several power-law, exponential and King radial distributions. The cluster seems to have two components: a dense core that extends from the centre to r ~ 20 arcmin and a rarified halo at larger separations. The radial distribution in the core follows a power-law proportional to r^1, which corresponds to a volume density proportional to r^(-2). This is consistent with the collapse of an isothermal spherical molecular cloud. The stars more massive than 3.7 Msol concentrate, however, towards the cluster centre, where there is also an apparent deficit of very low-mass objects (M < 0.16 Msol). Last, I demonstrated through Monte Carlo simulations that the cluster is azimuthally asymmetric, with a filamentary overdensity of objects that runs from the cluster centre to the Horsehead Nebula.
description: MNRAS, accepted
Untersuchungen zur Pflegesituation im Naturschutzgebiet „Beurener Heide“ bei Hechingen
Creators: name: Schlee, Matthias
Publisher: name: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg
Year: 2005

description: Die „Beurener Heide“ bei Hechingen ist eines der bekanntesten Naturschutzgebiete in Südwestdeutschland und wird vor allem wegen seines Orchideenreichtums geschätzt und stark frequentiert. Anhand umfangreicher aktueller pflanzensoziologischer Studien und einem Vergleich mit historischen Befunden wird der Wandel dieser typischen Wacholderheidenlandschaft des Albtraufs mit ihren wechselfeuchten Halbtrockenrasen nachgezeichnet und die Pflegesituation diskutiert. Bezeichnend ist, dass die gefundenen Vegetationseinheiten durchweg kaum mehr einzelnen Assoziationen zugeordnet werden können, sondern eine starke Durchmischung der Gesellschaftsanteile zu einer homogeneren Einheit stattfindet. Der Umbau und die akute Gefährdung der Halbtrockenrasen lässt sich dabei durch Prozesse der Vergrasung, Verkrautung, Versaumung und Verbuschung erklären, die trotz oder gerade durch den enormen Pflegeaufwand beim Ersatz der Beweidung durch ein Mähregime aus naturschützerischer Sicht nicht genügend einer ungewollten Sukzession entgegenwirken können. Allgemeine Überlegungen zum Kulturlandschafts- und Prozessschutz im Naturschutz ergänzen die Vorschläge zu einer Rückkehr gezielter extensiver Beweidung und Landnutzung gerade auch in Naturschutzgebieten, um kleinsträumige Randeffekte zwischen verschiedenen Biotopeinheiten auch weiterhin zu gewährleisten, wie sie anhand eines historischen Luftbildes für das Untersuchungsgebiet belegt werden können.
description: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, Bd. 161 (2005): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 161. Jahrgang