cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dry skin and the use of leave-on products in nursing care: A prevalence study in nursing homes and hospitals
Creators: name: Lechner, Anna
name: Lahmann, Nils
name: Lichterfeld-Kottner, Andrea
name: Müller-Werdan, Ursula
name: Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike
name: Kottner, Jan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: care
subject: care activities
subject: dermatology
subject: hospital care
subject: nursing home care
subject: practice nursing
subject: quality of care
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aims: To describe the prevalence of dry skin in nursing homes and hospitals and to describe relationships between topical skincare interventions and dry skin. Design: Two multicentre descriptive cross-sectional prevalence studies. Methods: The studies were performed in German nursing homes and hospitals in 2015 and 2016. Data were collected by trained nurses based on a standardized data collection form. The severity of dry skin was measured using the Overall Dry Skin Score. Results: In total, 1,662 nursing home residents and 1,486 hospital patients participated. The prevalence of dry skin was 41.2% in nursing homes and 55.2% in hospitals. In case of skincare dependency, the proportions of participants with dry skin were higher, particularly in hospitals (70.2%). In both institutions, the application of leave-on products increased when dry skin was present but remained lower in hospitals. Considering the high amount of skin dryness in skincare-dependent participants, interventions seem not to be successful. Results indicate a need for skincare improvement in future.
Does Excess Quantum Noise Exist in Spontaneous Processes?
Creators: name: Aiello, A.
name: van Exter, M. P.
name: Nienhuis, G.
name: Woerdman, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of excess quantum noise in type-II degenerate parametric down conversion in a cavity with non-orthogonal polarization eigenmodes. Since only two modes are involved we are able to derive an analytical expression for the twin-photon generation rate measured outside the cavity as a function of the degree of mode nonorthogonality. Contrary to recent claims we conclude that there is no evidence of excess quantum noise for a parametric amplifier working so far below threshold that spontaneous processes dominate.
description: 7 pages, 3 figure in the text. Submitted to Optics Communications
Chileanthicus penai Werner 1966
Creators: name: Kejval, Zbyněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthicidae
Chileanthicus
Chileanthicus penai

description: Chileanthicus penai Werner, 1966
(Figs 49–53)
 Chileanthicus penai Werner, 1966: 225, figs 3, 4, 6.
 Type locality. Chile, Atacama, Huasco Prov., N of Vallenar.
 Diagnosis. Body rufous brown, elytra with transverse yellowish band close behind mid-length; body surface rather smooth and glossy, its setation comprising longer erect setae; head rather widely rounded posteriorly; elytra truncate apically; metafemora unidentate, subapical process facing outer side of tibia; male sternum VII modified, its postero-median emargination on each side with 7–8 peg-like setae (Fig. 49); paired prongs of male sternite VIII with 6–7 peg-like setae ventrally (Fig. 50); tergite VIII with posterior margin rather deeply emarginate medially; segment IX (spiculum) as in Fig. 51; apical portion of tegmen of aedeagus incised and lobed latero-basally, apex of tegmen widely rounded to subtruncate in ventral view (Fig. 52); female sternum VII simple; female tergum VII strongly bulging and with moderate median longitudinal impression (Fig. 53); body length (♂ ♀) 2.8–3.6 mm.
 C. penai is well-characterized by morphology of apical portion of tegmen (latero-basal incisions, subtruncate apex) and modification of female tergum VII. Both these characters are unique within the Chilean species group.
 Type material. Holotype (♂, not examined, MCZC). Paratypes: 5 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, CHILE: Atacama Pr.: N. of Vallenar in desert 24 Sept. 1963 under stones L. Peña [p] // PARATYPE Chileanthicus penai ♂ [or ♀] Werner [h] // PARATYPE [p; blue label] (UAIC, DCDC).
 Additional material. 1 ♀, Chile, Coquimbo, Elqui Prov., Choros Bajos, xi.1997, J. E. Barriga leg. (JEBC).
 Distribution. Chile (Atacama, Coquimbo, see Remarks).
 Remarks. The single female specimen from Choros Bajos (JEBC) displays the external characters of C. penai, including the distinctive form of tergum VII, however, occurrence of C. penai in the Elqui province should be confirmed by examination of a male specimen.
description: Published as part of Kejval, Zbyněk, 2009, Taxonomic revision of the genus Chileanthicus Werner (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) 2180, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 2180 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2180.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313537
Split string field theory II
Creators: name: Gross, David J.
name: Taylor, Washington
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the ghost sector of cubic string field theory in terms of degrees of freedom on the two halves of a split string. In particular, we represent a class of pure ghost BRST operators as operators on the space of half-string functionals. These BRST operators were postulated by Rastelli, Sen, and Zwiebach to give a description of cubic string field theory in the closed string vacuum arising from condensation of a D25-brane in the original tachyonic theory. We find a class of solutions for the ghost equations of motion using the pure ghost BRST operators. We find a vanishing action for these solutions, and discuss possible interpretations of this result. The form of the solutions we find in the pure ghost theory suggests an analogous class of solutions in the original theory on the D25-brane with BRST operator Q_B coupling the matter and ghost sectors.
description: 44 pages, Latex; v2: reference added, typos fixed, footnote added regarding ghost solution
Additional file 1 of The UK BiLEVE and Mendelian randomisation: using multivariable instrumental variables to address “damned if you, damned if you don’t” adjustment problems
Creators: name: Woolf, Benjamin
name: Gill, Dipender
name: Sallis, Hannah
name: Munafò, Marcus R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
MOESM3 of Influence of oxytocin receptor single nucleotide sequence variants on contractility of human myometrium: an in vitro functional study
Creators: name: F. Füeg
name: S. Santos
name: C. Haslinger
name: B. Stoiber
name: L. Schäffer
name: E. Grünblatt
name: R. Zimmermann
name: A. Simões-Wüst
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Distribution of the various sequence variant alleles in the study population.
Non-parametric efficient causal mediation with intermediate confounders
Creators: name: Díaz, Iván
name: Hejazi, Nima S.
name: Rudolph, Kara E.
name: van der Laan, Mark J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Interventional effects for mediation analysis were proposed as a solution to the lack of identifiability of natural (in)direct effects in the presence of a mediator-outcome confounder affected by exposure. We present a theoretical and computational study of the properties of the interventional (in)direct effect estimands based on the efficient influence fucntion (EIF) in the non-parametric statistical model. We use the EIF to develop two asymptotically optimal, non-parametric estimators that leverage data-adaptive regression for estimation of the nuisance parameters: a one-step estimator and a targeted minimum loss estimator. A free and open source \texttt{R} package implementing our proposed estimators is made available on GitHub. We further present results establishing the conditions under which these estimators are consistent, multiply robust, $n^{1/2}$-consistent and efficient. We illustrate the finite-sample performance of the estimators and corroborate our theoretical results in a simulation study. We also demonstrate the use of the estimators in our motivating application to elucidate the mechanisms behind the unintended harmful effects that a housing intervention had on adolescent girls' risk behavior.
Loss & Damage: a Critical Discourse Analysis
Creators: name: Calliari, Elisa
name: Calliari, Elisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Loss and Damage
subject: Climate Change Negotiations
subject: State Responsibility
subject: State Liability
subject: Attribution
subject: Critical Discourse Analysis

description: The years-long negotiations on an international mechanism for loss and damage (L&D) associated with climate change impacts got to a milestone during the nineteenth session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-19), held in Warsaw in November 2013. The COP established the Warsaw international mechanism, aiming to address L&D associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including extreme events and slow onset events, in vulnerable developing countries (Decision 2/CP.19). The paper performs a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of COP decision 2/CP.19 in order to reconstruct developing and developed countries’ positions on L&D and reflect on how the Warsaw mechanism could be implemented. The analysis builds on Fairclough’s (1992) three-dimensional model for CDA, and makes use of a wide range of materials including previous COP decisions, High Level Segment statements and Parties submissions to COP 19, press releases and other relevant documents. The analysis highlights the lack of a common understanding and representation of L&D by developed and developing countries, with this fact ultimately hampering the possibility to define specific tools to address the issue within the mechanism. The difficulty to come to a shared meaning on L&D is due to its connection to other controversial discourses under the UNFCCC, including that of compensation for climate change impacts. As the concept of compensation pertains to the field of international law, the paper explores the appropriateness of the notions of State Responsibility for wrongful acts and State liability for acts not prohibited by international law to effectively deal with L&D. The paper concludes by discussing some strategic options for developing countries to advance the L&D discourse within international talks.
Mu-Opioid Receptor Agonist Induces Kir3 Currents in Mouse Peripheral Sensory Neurons - Effects of Nerve Injury
Creators: name: Stötzner, Philip
name: Spahn, Viola
name: Celik, Melih Ö.
name: Labuz, Dominika
name: Machelska, Halina
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: neuropathy
subject: DRG neurons
subject: DAMGO
subject: peripheral opioid receptors
subject: potassium channels
subject: GIRK channels
subject: patch clamp
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Neuropathic pain often arises from damage to peripheral nerves and is difficult to treat. Activation of opioid receptors in peripheral sensory neurons is devoid of respiratory depression, sedation, nausea, and addiction mediated in the brain, and ameliorates neuropathic pain in animal models. Mechanisms of peripheral opioid analgesia have therefore gained interest, but the role of G protein-coupled inwardly rectifying potassium (Kir3) channels, important regulators of neuronal excitability, remains unclear. Whereas functional Kir3 channels have been detected in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons in rats, some studies question their contribution to opioid analgesia in inflammatory pain models in mice. However, neuropathic pain can be diminished by activation of peripheral opioid receptors in mouse models. Therefore, here we investigated effects of the selective μ-opioid receptor (MOR) agonist [D-Ala(2), N-Me-Phe(4), Gly(5)-ol]-enkephalin (DAMGO) on potassium conductance in DRG neurons upon a chronic constriction injury (CCI) of the sciatic nerve in mice. For verification, we also tested human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells transfected with MOR and Kir3.2. Using patch clamp, we recorded currents at -80 mV and applied voltage ramps in high extracellular potassium concentrations, which are a highly sensitive measures of Kir3 channel activity. We found a significantly higher rate of HEK cells responding with potassium channel blocker barium-sensitive inward current (233 +/- 51 pA) to DAMGO application in transfected than in untransfected group, which confirms successful recordings of inward currents through Kir3.2 channels. Interestingly, DAMGO induced similar inward currents (178 +/- 36-207 +/- 56 pA) in 15-20% of recorded DRG neurons from naive mice and in 4-27% of DRG neurons from mice exposed to CCI, measured in voltage clamp or voltage ramp modes. DAMGO-induced currents in naive and CCI groups were reversed by barium and a more selective Kir3 channel blocker tertiapin-Q. These data indicate the coupling of Kir3 channels with MOR in mouse peripheral sensory neuron cell bodies, which was unchanged after CCI. A comparative analysis of opioid-induced potassium conductance at the axonal injury site and peripheral terminals of DRG neurons could clarify the role of Kir3 channel-MOR interactions in peripheral nerve injury and opioid analgesia.
Meson-Nucleon Physics: Past, Present and Future
Creators: name: Nefkens, B. M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We will present some thoughts on the following topics: 1. Major highlights in the history of strong interactions such as isospin, the pion, SU(3), quarks, the color degree of freedom, QCD. 2. Topics of high current interest such as quark confinement, the origin of mass, the search for the gluon degrees of freedom, chiral symmetry, flavor symmetry, regularities in the properties of the light-baryon families (parity doublets, clusters) decay patterns, hadronization, chiral restoration, effective Lagrangians and their degrees of freedom. 3. The input parameters for QCD and for effective models. 4. Hadron physics as a necessary aspect of precision tests of the Standard Model and of the Search for New Physics.
description: 7 pages, uses menuproc.sty; talk given at the 9th International Symposium on Meson - Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2001), Washington, District of Columbia, 26-31 Jul 2001. To be published in pi-N Newsletter 16 (2001)
Valuing Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles for Use in Swine Diets
Creators: name: Hubbs, Todd
name: Bista, Bhawna
name: Preckel, Paul
name: Richert, Brian
name: Hubbs, Todd
name: Bista, Bhawna
name: Preckel, Paul
name: Richert, Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The emergence of Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) as a viable feedstuff for swine producers coincides with escalating feedstuff prices, increased DDGS production and changes in processing resulting in increases in available nutrients in DDGS. Evaluation of the nutritional and market characteristics of DDGS is useful for both ethanol and swine producers in establishing the value of this coproduct of ethanol production. This paper uses a minimum-cost feed formulation linear programming model to determine the value of DDGS in swine diets.
MOESM3 of Dataset’s chemical diversity limits the generalizability of machine learning predictions
Creators: name: Glavatskikh, Marta
name: Leguy, Jules
name: Hunault, Gilles
name: Cauchy, Thomas
name: Benoit Da Mota
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 3. Affinity index. Details on the SOM affinity analysis.
Neutral Collective Excitations in Striped Hall States
Creators: name: Maeda, N.
name: Aoyama, T.
name: Ishizuka, Y.
name: Ishikawa, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the striped Hall state, a magnetic translation in one direction is spontaneously broken to the discrete translation. The spectrum of the neutral collective excitation is obtained in the single mode approximation at half-filled third and fourth Landau levels. The spectrum is anisotropic and has a multiple line node structure. In one direction, the spectrum resembles the liquid Helium spectrum with the phonon and roton minimum.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, LT23 Hiroshima
Computerized Technology Adoption Among Farms in the U.S. Dairy Industry
Creators: name: Gillespie, Jeffrey
name: Mark, Tyler B.
name: Sandretto, Carmen
name: Nehring, Richard
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey
name: Mark, Tyler B.
name: Sandretto, Carmen
name: Nehring, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This article examines the rate of adoption of four computerized technologies in U.S. dairy production : an on-farm computer to manage dairy records, accessing the internet for dairy information, computerized milking systems and computerized feed delivery systems. Data from the USDA-Agricultural Resource Management Survey were used for the analysis. Computers for managing records were used by most farmers, but adoption rates for the remaining technologies were much lower. Adoption rates differed by demographics, financial status, farm size and adoption of other technologies. Farm profitability differed by adoption status.
Observation of a C-type short range antiferromagnetic order in expanded FeS
Creators: name: Wang, Meng
name: Yi, Ming
name: Frandsen, Benjamin A.
name: Yin, Junjie
name: Sun, Hualei
name: Xu, Zhijun
name: Cao, Huibo
name: Bourret-Courchesne, Edith
name: Lynn, Jeffrey W.
name: Birgeneau, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report neutron diffraction studies of FeS single crystals obtained from Rb$_x$Fe$_{2-y}$S$_2$ single crystals via a hydrothermal method. While no $\sqrt {5}\times \sqrt {5}$ iron vacancy order or block antiferromagnetic order typical of Rb$_x$Fe$_{2-y}$S$_2$ is found in our samples, we observe $C$-type short range antiferromagnetic order with moments pointed along the $c$-axis hosted by a new phase of FeS with an expanded inter-layer spacing. The Néel temperature for this magnetic order is determined to be 165 K. Our finding of a variant FeS structure hosting this $C$-type antiferromagnetic order demonstrates that the known FeS phase synthesized in this method is in the vicinity of a magnetically ordered ground state, providing insights into understanding a variety of phenomena observed in FeS and the related FeSe$_{1-x}$S$_x$ iron chalcogenide system.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
MOESM2 of Influence of oxytocin receptor single nucleotide sequence variants on contractility of human myometrium: an in vitro functional study
Creators: name: F. Füeg
name: S. Santos
name: C. Haslinger
name: B. Stoiber
name: L. Schäffer
name: E. Grünblatt
name: R. Zimmermann
name: A. Simões-Wüst
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Link disequilibrium values of the eight common OXTR sequence variants previously shown to be associated with a relevant perinatal outcome as determined using LDlink 3.0.
Theoretical framework for physical unclonable functions, including quantum readout
Creators: name: Gianfelici, Giulio
name: Kampermann, Hermann
name: Bruß, Dagmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theoretical framework to quantitatively describe Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), including extensions to quantum protocols, so-called Quantum Readout PUFs (QR-PUFs). (QR-) PUFs are physical systems with challenge-response behavior intended to be hard to clone or simulate. Their use has been proposed in several cryptographic protocols, with particular emphasis on authentication. Here, we provide theoretical assumptions and definitions behind the intuitive ideas of (QR-) PUFs. This allows to quantitatively characterize the security of such devices in cryptographic protocols. First, by generalizing previous ideas, we design a general authentication scheme, which is applicable to different physical implementations of both classical PUFs and (QR-) PUFs. Then, we define the robustness and the unclonability, which allows us to derive security thresholds for (QR-) PUF authentication and paves the way to develop further new authentication protocols.
description: Published version, new title, 1 new reference. 14 pages, 5 figures (1 updated)
The Economic Impact of Rising Input Prices on California Agriculture
Creators: name: Klonsky, Karen
name: Klonsky, Karen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance
Public Economics

description: The recent rises in production costs pose new challenges to farmers. However, price increases are not proportionate across input categories with the most dramatic increases in energy and energyintensive inputs such as fertilizer. Consequently, the relative impact of rising input costs on different subsectors of agriculture depends on the input-intensity of the production system. Operating costs were examined for five crops in California, prunes, winegrapes, processing tomatoes, alfalfa hay and dry beans over the period 2001 to 2008. For all commodities, the increase in operating costs was greater from 2007 to 2008 than the average annual increase from 2001 to 2007. The increase in costs was greatest for alfalfa and processing tomatoes with relatively high levels of fuel and fertilizer inputs, and lowest for wine grape production which is labor intensive
d-Dimensional Black Hole Entropy Spectrum from Quasi-Normal Modes
Creators: name: Kunstatter, Gabor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from recent observations\cite{hod,dreyer1} about quasi-normal modes, we use semi-classical arguments to derive the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy spectrum for $d$-dimensional spherically symmetric black holes. We find that the entropy spectrum is equally spaced: $S_{BH}=k \ln(m_0)n$, where $m_0$ is a fixed integer that must be derived from the microscopic theory. As shown in \cite{dreyer1},4-$d$ loop quantum gravity yields precisely such a spectrum with $m_0=3$ providing the Immirzi parameter is chosen appropriately. For $d$-dimensional black holes of radius $R_H(M)$, our analysis requires the existence of a unique quasinormal mode frequency in the large damping limit $ω^{(d)}(M) = α^{(d)}c/ R_H(M)$ with coefficient $α^{(d)} = {(d-3)/over 4π} \ln(m_0)$, where $m_0$ is an integer and $Γ^{(d-2)}$ is the volume of the unit $d-2$ sphere.
description: 4 pages, Latex, Revtex4 Some formulas corrected, a reference added
Stability properties of |Psi|^2 in Bohmian dynamics
Creators: name: Potel, G.
name: Munoz-Alenar, M.
name: Barranco, F.
name: Vigezzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to Bohmian dynamics, the particles of a quantum system move along trajectories, following a velocity field determined by the wave-function Psi(x,t). We show that for simple one-dimensional systems any initial probability distribution of a statistical ensemble approaches asymptotically |Psi(x,t)}|^2 if the system is subject to a random noise of arbitrarily small intensity.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. A
Negative Energy Balance Does Not Alter Fat-Free Mass During the Yukon Arctic Ultra-The Longest and the Coldest Ultramarathon
Creators: name: Schalt, Adriane
name: Johannsen, Michelle M.
name: Kim, Jimin
name: Chen, Richard
name: Murphy, Carl J.
name: Coker, Melynda S.
name: Gunga, Hanns-Christian
name: Coker, Robert H.
name: Steinach, Mathias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: body composition
subject: cold exposure
subject: cytokines
subject: extreme environment
subject: ultramarathon
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine alterations in caloric balance, body composition, metabolites, and cytokines in athletes participating in the Yukon Arctic Ultra. Methods: Ten participants traveling on foot in the 2017 692-km event were recruited for the study. Measurements and samples were obtained at pre-event, 278 km (C1), 384 km (C2), and post-event. Body composition measurements were obtained using bioelectrical impedance analysis. Accelerometer devices were utilized to provide an estimation of caloric expenditure and dietary recalls provided assessments of caloric intake. Blood serum samples were collected, processed, and analyzed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays or nuclear magnetic resonance. Results were analyzed using linear mixed model, presented as means +/- SD, and considered significant at p < 0.05. Results: Participants (8 males, 2 females; age: 37 +/- 10 years; body mass index: 24.4 +/- 2.5 kg/m(2)) were recruited. Four males and one female completed the entire event in 260 +/- 19 h. Caloric intake/expenditure was 4,126 +/- 1,115 kcal/day and 6,387 +/- 781 kcal/day, respectively, indicating a caloric deficit of 2,261 +/- 1,543 kcal/day. Total mass, body mass index, and fat mass were reduced at each time point of the event. Fat-free mass (FFM) was unchanged throughout the event. Follistatin was increased at C1 (1,715 +/- 876 pg/ml) in comparison to baseline. Acetoacetate increased significantly at post-event (6.1 +/- 1.5 mg/ml). Conclusions: Despite a pronounced caloric deficit and sustained activity under extreme cold conditions, FFM was preserved with an increase in serum follistatin and acetoacetate. Future studies should be directed at the role of nutrient strategies and/or training methods on the retention of FFM under these conditions.
Production of the MSSM Higgs Bosons at Next Generation Linear $e^+e^-$ Colliders
Creators: name: Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, A.
name: Hernández-Ruíz, M. A.
name: Sampayo, O. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: % insert abstract here We study the production of the Higgs bosons predicted in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model $(h^0, H^0, A^0, H^\pm)$, with the reactions $e^{+}e^{-}\to b\bar b h^0 (H^0, A^0)$, and $e^+e^-\to τ^-\bar ν_τH^+, τ^+ν_τH^-$, using the helicity formalism. We evaluate cross section of $h^0, H^0, A^0$ and $H^\pm$ in the limit when $\tanβ$ is large. The numerical computation is done considering two stages of a possible Next Linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ Collider: the first with $\sqrt{s}=500$ $GeV$ and design luminosity 50 $fb^{-1}$, and the second with $\sqrt{s}=1$ $TeV$ and luminosity 100-200 $fb^{-1}$.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Contracting for Biomass: Supply Chain Strategies for Renewable Energy
Creators: name: Altman, Ira J.
name: Boessen, Chris
name: Sanders, Dwight
name: Altman, Ira J.
name: Boessen, Chris
name: Sanders, Dwight
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Cellulosic-based ethanol production is a cornerstone of current and proposed U.S. renewable fuels policy. Indeed, some recent proposals include a nearly five-fold increase in renewable fuels production, the majority of which would have to come from cellulosic ethanol. U.S. farmers will clearly play a significant role in the development and success of this industry. Aside from the technological hurdles, a number of supply chain barriers must also be overcome. One such barrier includes the marketing of cellulosic feedstock (e.g., wheat straw and corn stover) by farmers and the procurement of this feedstock by biofuels refineries. The exchange mechanism for cellulosic feedstock may develop in a number of alternative ways. This research specifically examines some early contracting and procurement strategies by an industry leader, the Iogen Corporation. An understanding of how biomass marketing may evolve will help farm managers better prepare for entering this emerging industry.
Record-Keeping Technology Adoption among Dairy Farmers
Creators: name: Grisham, Elisabeth
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey
name: Grisham, Elisabeth
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Louisiana farmers were surveyed to determine their adoption of information and record-keeping technologies, including the Internet, Dairy Herd Improvement Association membership, use of financial measures, and frequency of use of computerized records. Factors influencing adoption included having a family successor, overall technology adoption propensity, diversification, off-farm income, college degree, and others.
Influence of density dependence of symmetry energy in hot and dense matter for supernova simulations
Creators: name: Sumiyoshi, Kohsuke
name: Nakazato, Ken'ichiro
name: Suzuki, Hideyuki
name: Hu, Jinniu
name: Shen, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of density-dependent symmetry energy at high densities in simulations of core-collapse supernovae, black hole formation and proto-neutron star cooling by extending the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory used for the Shen EOS table. We adopt the extended RMF theory to examine the density dependence of the symmetry energy with a small value of the slope parameter $L$, while the original properties of the symmetric nuclear matter are unchanged. In order to assess matter effects at high densities, we perform numerical simulations of gravitational collapse of massive stars adopting the EOS table at high densities beyond $10^{14}$ g/cm$^3$ with the small $L$ value, which is in accord with the experimental and observational constraints, and compare them with the results obtained by using the Shen EOS. Numerical results for 11.2M$_{\odot}$ and 15M$_{\odot}$ stars exhibit minor effects around the core bounce and in the following evolution for 200 ms. Numerical results for 40M$_{\odot}$ and 50M$_{\odot}$ stars reveal a shorter duration toward the black hole formation with a smaller maximum mass for the small $L$ case. Numerical simulations of proto-neutron star cooling over 10 s through neutrino emissions demonstrate increasing effects of the symmetry energy at high densities. Neutrino cooling drastically proceeds in a relatively long timescale with high luminosities and average energies with the small symmetry energy. Evolution toward the cold neutron star is affected because of the different behavior of neutron-rich matter while supernova dynamics around core bounce remains similar in less neutron-rich environments.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, revised version accepted for publication in ApJ
Critical behavior of gravitating sphalerons
Creators: name: Millward, R. Steven
name: Hirschmann, Eric W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the gravitational collapse of sphaleron type configurations in Einstein--Yang--Mills--Higgs theory. Working in spherical symmetry, we investigate the critical behavior in this model. We provide evidence that for various initial configurations, there can be three different critical transitions between possible endstates with different critical solutions sitting on the threshold between these outcomes. In addition, we show that within the dispersive and black hole regimes, there are new possible endstates, namely a stable, regular sphaleron and a stable, hairy black hole.
description: Latex, 14 pages, 8 figures
Recreational Leases as Means to Increase Landowner Income
Creators: name: Eberle, Phillip
name: Wallace, Russ
name: Eberle, Phillip
name: Wallace, Russ
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Land Economics/Use

description: Recreational leases for hunting, fishing, and wildlife watching provide a means by which landowners can supplement their income from land ownership. Illinois professional farm managers were surveyed regarding recreational leases held by their clients. Information was collected on lease rates, recreational uses, wildlife types, land management practices, and property characteristics. Results indicated that 38 percent of managers had recreational leases on about 6 percent of their managed properties. Lease rates ranged from $1-75 per acre. Results of a hedonic lease rate model indicated adoption of land management practices and location positively affected lease rates.
The Impact of Transaction Costs and Differential BMP Adoption Rates on the Cost of Reducing Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution in Virginia
Creators: name: Rees, Gwen
name: Stephenson, Kurt
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
name: Rees, Gwen
name: Stephenson, Kurt
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Nonpoint source
subject: implementation costs
subject: transaction costs
subject: BMPs

description: The cost estimates to meet agriculture reduction goals for the Bay run into the billions. Most cost models, however, are based on simplifying behavioral assumptions about public transaction costs, adoption rates, and implementation costs of agricultural nutrient-reducing practices (called best management practices or BMPs). Relatively little systematic research has been conducted on the transaction costs of implementing agricultural conservation programs. Similarly, watershed scale cost models typically assume constant and uniform costs for different BMPs. The objective of this paper is to examine the cost implications of including transaction costs and differential BMP costs and adoption rates associated with reducing nitrogen and phosphorus loads from agricultural sources in Virginia. The paper uses math programming to estimate the minimum cost of achieving agricultural nutrient reductions under a number of different cost scenarios that include transaction costs and differential adoption rates. Transaction costs are found to comprise between 13 and 27% of the total costs. The inclusion of plausible maximum BMP adoption rates increase costs substantially above conventional model estimates.
A Semiconductor Topological Photonic Ring Resonator
Creators: name: Mehrabad, M. Jalali
name: Foster, A. P.
name: Dost, R.
name: Clarke, E.
name: Patil, P. K.
name: Farrer, I.
name: Heffernan, J.
name: Skolnick, M. S.
name: Wilson, L. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unidirectional photonic edge states arise at the interface between two topologically-distinct photonic crystals. Here, we demonstrate a micron-scale GaAs photonic ring resonator, created using a spin Hall-type topological photonic crystal waveguide. Embedded InGaAs quantum dots are used to probe the mode structure of the device. We map the spatial profile of the resonator modes, and demonstrate control of the mode confinement through tuning of the photonic crystal lattice parameters. The intrinsic chirality of the edge states makes them of interest for applications in integrated quantum photonics, and the resonator represents an important building block towards the development of such devices with embedded quantum emitters.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Locally dose-escalated radiotherapy may improve intracranial local control and overall survival among patients with glioblastoma
Creators: name: Zschaeck, Sebastian
name: Wust, Peter
name: Graf, Reinhold
name: Misch, Martin
name: Onken, Julia
name: Ghadjar, Pirus
name: Badakhshi, Harun
name: Florange, Julian
name: Budach, Volker
name: Kaul, David
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Glioblastoma
subject: Radiotherapy
subject: Temozolomide
subject: Dose escalation
subject: Simultaneous integrated boost
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The dismal overall survival (OS) prognosis of glioblastoma, even after trimodal therapy, can be attributed mainly to the frequent incidence of intracranial relapse (ICR), which tends to present as an in-field recurrence after a radiation dose of 60 Gray (Gy). In this study, molecular marker-based prognostic indices were used to compare the outcomes of radiation with a standard dose versus a moderate dose escalation. Methods: This retrospective analysis included 156 patients treated between 2009 and 2016. All patients were medically fit for postoperative chemoradiotherapy. In the dose-escalation cohort a simultaneous integrated boost of up to 66Gy (66Gy RT) within small high-risk volumes was applied. All other patients received daily radiation to a total dose of 60Gy or twice daily to a total dose of 59.2Gy (60Gy RT). Results: A total of 133 patients received standard 60Gy RT, while 23 received 66Gy RT. Patients in the 66Gy RT group were younger (p<0.001), whereas concomitant temozolomide use was more frequent in the 60Gy RT group (p<0.001). Other intergroup differences in known prognostic factors were not observed. Notably, the median time to ICR was significantly prolonged in the 66Gy RT arm versus the 60Gy RT arm (12.2 versus 7.6months, p=0.011), and this translated to an improved OS (18.8 versus 15.3months, p=0.012). A multivariate analysis revealed a strong association of 66Gy RT with a prolonged time to ICR (hazard ratio=0.498, p=0.01) and OS (hazard ratio=0.451, p=0.01). These differences remained significant after implementing molecular marker-based prognostic scores (ICR p=0.008, OS p=0.007) and propensity-scored matched pairing (ICR p=0.099, OS p=0.023). Conclusion: Radiation dose escalation was found to correlate with an improved time to ICR and OS in this cohort of glioblastoma patients. However, further prospective validation of these results is warranted.
MOESM1 of Influence of oxytocin receptor single nucleotide sequence variants on contractility of human myometrium: an in vitro functional study
Creators: name: F. Füeg
name: S. Santos
name: C. Haslinger
name: B. Stoiber
name: L. Schäffer
name: E. Grünblatt
name: R. Zimmermann
name: A. Simões-Wüst
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Additional annotations and functional data extracted from SNPnexus on the allele distribution of eight common OXTR variants previously shown to be associated with a relevant perinatal outcome.
Formation and Evolution of Compact Object Binaries in AGN Disks
Creators: name: Tagawa, Hiromichi
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Kocsis, Bence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The astrophysical origin of gravitational wave (GW) events discovered by LIGO/VIRGO remains an outstanding puzzle. In active galactic nuclei (AGN), compact-object binaries form, evolve, and interact with a dense star cluster and a gas disk. An important question is whether and how binaries merge in these environments. To address this question, we have performed one-dimensional $N$-body simulations combined with a semi-analytical model which includes the formation, disruption, and evolution of binaries self-consistently. We point out that binaries can form in single-single interactions by the dissipation of kinetic energy in a gaseous medium. This ``gas capture'' binary formation channel contributes up to $97\,\%$ of gas-driven mergers and leads to a high merger rate in AGN disks even without pre-existing binaries. We find the merger rate to be in the range $\sim 0.02-60\,\mathrm{Gpc^{-3}yr^{-1}}$. The results are insensitive to the assumptions on gaseous hardening processes: we find that once they are formed, binaries merge efficiently via binary-single interactions even if these gaseous processes are neglected. We find that the average number of mergers per BH is $0.4$, and the probability for repeated mergers in 30 Myr is $\sim 0.21-0.45$. High BH masses due to repeated mergers, high eccentricities, and a significant Doppler drift of GWs are promising signatures which distinguish this merger channel from others. Furthermore, we find that gas-capture binaries reproduce the distribution of LMXBs in the Galactic center, including an outer cutoff at $\sim1$ pc due to the competition between migration and hardening by gas torques.
description: 39 pages, 20 figures, accepted in ApJ
An Analysis of Tourists’ Preferences and Perceptions for Gulf Coast Seafood: Does Labeling Matter
Creators: name: Robinson, Derrick
name: Hite, Diane
name: Robinson, Derrick
name: Hite, Diane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Consumer demand
subject: food safety
subject: Gulf Coast
subject: seafood
subject: perception
subject: preference
subject: random utility model

description: This study analyzes the impacts of consumer differentiated Mississippi/Alabama Gulf Coast region (GCR) seafood products, specifically looking at consumers’ perceptions of preferences and how these products impact consumer choice for seafood in the GCR. The study uses the conceptual “lens” model, which examines the impact of product differentiation on consumer preferences through attribute perception labeling. This type of labeling provides consumers with perceptions of safety for labeled products, more specifically GCR seafood products in this study. These perceptions of product attributes are determined endogenously when looking at the choice to consume GCR seafood in the model. To control for this endogeneity, use of a stated preference discrete choice random utility model will be used to examine the consumers’ preferences for perceptions (labels) on the stated preference to consume seafood when traveling to the GCR, both before and after the Deep Water Horizon oil spill. Both bivariate probit estimation, as well as a ranked order logit procedure are used to estimate the impact of these perception preferences on the likelihood to consume GCR seafood. Understanding these consumer preferences and impacts of product labeling, especially after disasters and shocks, can help to make the GCR seafood industry more resilient thereby creating a more resilient community. Preliminary results show that consumers traveling to the GCR value safe seafood, and have an increased likelihood of consuming GCR seafood when safe seafood perception value is increased (i.e.: industry approved safe labels). Also, higher income tourists are more likely to consume GCR seafood, while total GCR travel expenditure, increasing age, & and perceptions of GCR seafood freshness seem to be consistently not a factor. Although perceived freshness does seem to matter most for consumers of GCR seafood at festivals. GCR seafood certified safe by industry and certified sustainable increase the likelihood to consume GCR seafood most. Implications could be that local policymakers should be more involved in promoting industry, and GCR seafood industry should concentrate on label promotion.
description: This is a preliminary, working paper. Please address all shortcoming and comments to Derrick Robinson. Thank you!
Quasi gravity in branes
Creators: name: Carter, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast with pseudo-gravitational effects that are mathematically analogous but physically quite distinct from gravity, this presentation deals with a kind of quasi-gravitational effect that can act in an asymmetrically moving brane worldsheet in a manner that approximates (and in a crude analysis might be physically indistinguishable from) the effect that would arise from genuine gravitation, of ordinary Newtonian type in non-relativistic applications, and of scalar - tensor (Jordan - Brans - Dicke rather than pure Einstein) type in relativistic applications.
description: 9 pages Latex. Contrib. to proc. workshop on Analogue Models for General relativity, Rio, Oct., 2000, ed. Matt Visser
Additional file 1 of Current coffee consumption is associated with decreased striatal dopamine transporter availability in Parkinson’s disease patients and healthy controls
Creators: name: Wang, Chao
name: Zhou, Cheng
name: Guo, Tao
name: Jiaerken, Yeerfan
name: Yang, Siyu
name: Xu, Xiaopei
name: Hu, Ling
name: Huang, Peiyu
name: Xu, Xiaojun
name: Zhang, Minming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Dopamine transporter availability between PD patients and healthy controls. Table S2. Correlation analyses between coffee cups consumed per day and dopamine transporter availability in striatal subregions.