cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modelling the Earth's magnetic field of magnetospheric origin from CHAMP data
Creators: name: Schwarte, Judith
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2004

description: As observed on the Earth's surface, the magnetic field can be separated into three components: The "Main Field", the "Crustal Field"; and the "External Magnetic Field". This work concentrates on the magnetospheric current systems, in order to correct the effect of large-scale magnetospheric current systems. Their exact knowledge is vital to improve the main field and secular variation models. Spherical harmonic analysis (SHA) is commonly used to describe the magnetic field. In SHA it is possible to distinguish between internal and external contributions to the Earth's magnetic field. The spherical harmonic coefficients describe dipolar, quadrupolar and higher parts in spherical coordinates. Here, CHAMP (CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload) measurements are used. Due to the inclination CHAMP is changing the orbit in local time. From time to time CHAMP is flying in resonance with the Earth's rotation, i.e. the satellite is flying over the same ground track after a couple of days. To model changes during a period of a few days these so called "repeat tracks" are very helpful for an improved main field/external field model. On the Earth's surface the magnetic effect of magnetospheric currents is often characterised by the DST-indix. In this study, it is explained how a possible constitution of the external sources of the geomagnetic field can look like and how the effect of these magnetospheric currents can be corrected in main field modelling.
description: report
Double parton scattering in four-jet production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC
Creators: name: Fedkevych, Oleh
name: Kulesza, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the contribution from double parton scattering (DPS) to four-jet production at the LHC, both at the leading order accuracy and after incorporating the effects of QCD radiation. Apart from DPS, we also include and discuss the contribution from single parton scattering (SPS). We find that the QCD radiation impacts theoretical predictions significantly, with DPS contributions more affected than the SPS. We also examine a number of observables in regard to their effectiveness for discrimination between DPS and SPS events and propose sets of kinematical cuts to improve the prospects of measuring DPS in four-jet production.
title: The experiences of African, Caribbean and South Asian women in initial teacher education
Creators: name: Maylor, Uvanney
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1995

description: This thesis is based on research into the subjective views and experiences of a group of black women student teachers. It is through the women's own voices that an insight is given into the experience of teacher training for black women. The women's motivations to enter initial teacher education (ITE), their perceptions of ITE, their experiences in ITE and their experiences as practising teachers are examined through the life history method. This thesis provides a detailed account of the interpretation and meanings black women students apply to their ITE experiences and how those experiences contribute to their learning in ITE. It also illuminates black women's views of primary teaching and their role as primary teachers. In addition, the inadequacy of multicultural and equal opportunities policies in teacher education are explored in this study. This is followed by an in-depth examination of the role of 'race' during teaching practice placements for black women students, and the influence of 'race' and gender in the experiences of practising black teachers. Chapter four exposes some of the gaps in teacher education in relation to 'race' and education. The case study in chapter five clearly illustrates the role of 'gender' in shaping women's experiences in primary teaching. Having explored the above, I provide examples and make recommendations of possible directions higher education institutions could take to address issues of inequality in teacher education.
A fourth order split scheme for elastic wave propagation
Creators: name: Geiser, Jürgen
name: Nilsson, Stefan
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Univ., Berlin
Year: 2007

description: Motivated by seismological problems we have studied a 4th order split scheme for the elastic wave equation. We split in the spatial directions and obtain locally one-dimensional systems to be solved. We have analyzed the new scheme and obtained results showing consistency and stability. We have used the split scheme to solve problems in two and three dimensions. We have also looked at the influence of singular forcing terms on the convergence properties of the scheme.
description: report
Where Culture Meets Development: Perspectives of Development Professionals in the Participatory Era
Creators: name: Maedel, Ouida Fredessa
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Conventional development practices, designed to promote modernization and economic integration, gave way to ideologies of participatory development in the 1990s. While participatory development, in theory, privileges the desires, and strategies of communities in the global South, and reflects local cultural practices, its success is limited. This thesis considers the perspectives of development professionals, and addresses the following questions: Given lessons learned from the failures of structural adjustment and other conventional practices, what barriers prevent development professionals from working with communities effectively in the participatory era? How do development professionals find meaning in their work, in spite of conflict and failure? Findings suggest that the interests of donors and employers, and a "professional culture" constrains practitioners, to the point that it is not possible for project beneficiaries to participate significantly. Fully aware of the problems of structure and agency pervading the field, practitioners adapt or leave, implying that there is little space for innovation in development institutions and organizations.
A Regional Mechanism for Agricultural Health and Food Safety in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Ambrose, Everton
name: Chesney, H. Arlington D.
name: Ambrose, Everton
name: Chesney, H. Arlington D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness
Crop Production/Industries

description: The demands of globalization, commitments under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and greater public scrutiny of quality and safety of produce are forcing countries to rethink their agricultural health and food safety policies and actions. Agricultural Health and Food Safety (AHFS) must now reflect a broader mandate and an expanded vision building on traditional agricultural health services within the Ministries of Agriculture to include stronger alliances and integration with Ministries of Health, Trade, and External Affairs and adopting a systems approach which involves links with producers, operators of agribusiness and food industries. Actions taken not only, should assure a strong and productive agricultural economy, but also increase trade and competitiveness, improve food safety, promote health, advance food security and tourism, and enhance environment stewardship. AHFS organizations must obtain the confidence of those they serve and that of their trading partners. To obtain this confidence requires the active participation of all parties across the entire agri-food chain. There must be a shared responsibility and coordinated approach on the part of public and private sectors to ensure that all of the stages in the agri-food chain are identified, that decisions are based on scientific criteria, that regulations are consistent with international standards, and that ail parties recognize the impact of AHFS policies and actions, in this paper, we discuss a modern national agricultural health and food safety system and suggest an approach to regional cooperation and coordination which will contribute to the Regional discussions.
Multifractality and nonextensivity at the edge of chaos of unimodal maps
Creators: name: Mayoral, E.
name: Robledo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine both the dynamical and the multifractal properties at the chaos threshold of logistic maps with general nonlinearity $z>1$. First we determine analytically the sensitivity to initial conditions $ξ_{t}$. Then we consider a renormalization group (RG) operation on the partition function $Z$ of the multifractal attractor that eliminates one half of the multifractal points each time it is applied. Invariance of $Z$ fixes a length-scale transformation factor $2^{-η}$ in terms of the generalized dimensions $D_β$. There exists a gap $Δη$ in the values of $η$ equal to $λ_{q}=1/(1-q)=D_{\infty}^{-1}-D_{-\infty}^{-1}$ where $λ_{q}$ is the $q$-generalized Lyapunov exponent and $q$ is the nonextensive entropic index. We provide an interpretation for this relationship - previously derived by Lyra and Tsallis - between dynamical and geometrical properties. Key Words: Edge of chaos, multifractal attractor, nonextensivity
description: Contribution to the proceedings of 2nd International Conference on News and Expectations in Thermostatistics (NEXT03), Cagliari, Italy, 21-28/09/2003. Submitted to Physica A
A simplified strategy based on the house of quality to prioritize farming practices under variable weather conditions
Creators: name: Robayo-Avendaño, Angélica
name: Prato-Garcia, Dorian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This work describes for the first time a strategy based on the house of quality analysis (HOQ) to select a farming practice adaptable to variable weather conditions (VWC). Five basic requirements: water, soil, fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides, together with six agricultural practices: organic farming (OF), agroecology (AE), conservation agriculture (CA), genetically-modified varieties (GMV), intensified agriculture (IA), and climate smart agriculture (CSA) were correlated, assessed, and prioritized. HOQ concluded that water and soil are essential for the development of a crop, whereas the need of agrochemicals was less noticeable because they could be substituted by the use of sustainable practices. OF and AE resulted more convenient because they use sustainable methods to manage a crop. The efficacy of CA and GMV to face VWC was limited by factors like the weather conditions of the site, the type of crop, and costs. IA and CSA were satisfactory when financing for the development is available. The synergy observed among OF, AE, and CA would ease transition and/or their simultaneous adoption; it would improve sustainability, productivity, and profitability for the farmer as long as the needs of the region, management of resources, and interested parties are taken into account.
title: A new tool for the validation of dynamic simulation models
Creators: name: Martin, Christopher John
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1995

description: A new method for determining the causes of discrepancies between dynamic simulation models and measured data is described. Whilst principally aimed at the validation of building thermal simulation codes, the method may rind application in the validation of simulation models from other disciplines. The new method relies on generating a model of the discrepancies in terms of the variables driving the physical reality which produced the experimental data and the corresponding simulation. Inspection of the resulting error model allows the principal contributors to simulation error to be identified, its dynamic nature to be characterised, and the likely cause of the error to be identified. The method is tested by generating a 'quasi-truth' dataset using the building thermal simulation code SERI-RES. A series of simulations is then prepared with perturbations to selected input parameters. The new tool is found to be capable of recovering details of the perturbations. Finally, the power of the new technique is demonstrated in a series of comparisons between the predictions of the model SERI-RES and data collected in outdoor test rooms. These comparisons reveal that the principal source of error in the predictions is the treatment of the interactions between the heater and the air and fabric of the room. The new technique proves sufficiently sensitive to detect the changing structure of the prediction errors as the position of the heater within the room is changed.
The Impact of Front-of-Package Labeling in Low Socioeconomic Areas
Creators: name: Marco, Allison
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Front-of-package food labeling has become a growing marketing tool for food companies to encourage customers to purchase their products and educate them through the use of symbols and health claims. Previous research has examined how front-of-package labeling influences consumers' decisions to purchase products; however, most studies focus on populations living in areas with adequate income levels, sufficient access to grocery stores, and grocery stores that provide a variety of foods. The purpose of this research is to measure the effects, if any, of front-of-package food labeling on food preferences in a lower socioeconomic area of DC, where food options and establishments may be fewer and food environments less inviting. One-hundred and ten residents shopping at two major grocery stores in Ward 7, one of the lowest-income areas of Washington, DC, were surveyed to better understand the factors that regularly influence their food choices. To measure the role that front-of-package food labeling may play, we worked with two larger chain grocery stores. Customers were surveyed in order to gain a better understanding of the factors that influence their food choices. This study sheds light on the role of front-of-package labeling in environments where food preferences and access to foods may be limited, and in areas where price may play a more important factor than health benefits, as compared to more advantaged areas. The majority of participants in this study stated that nutrition was the most important factor when making food choices compared to cost, convenience, and taste. They also believed that front-of-package labeling plays a role in their food choices, and symbols can influence purchases. These findings indicate that this population has intent to make healthy choices in the grocery store, and there are opportunities for nutrition education in low-income areas.
Paläoökologische Untersuchungen des Pestruper Moores (Ldkr. Oldenburg) in Hinblick auf die Flussgeschichte der Hunte seit dem Weichsel-Spätglazial
Paleoecological investigations in the fen Pestruper Moor (district Oldenburg) in view of the history of the river Hunte since the Weichselian Late Glacial
Creators: name: Caspers, Gerfried
name: Grosse-Brauckmann, Gisbert
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2003

description: Abstract: The "Pestruper Moor” fen grew on the floodplain of the river Hunte in a depression of fluvial origin. The development of the fen was reconstructed from the analysis of pollen and macro botanical residues. Lacustrine sedimentation began in a small area during Preboreal times. The fen almost reached its present day extent during Boreal times. During the Atlantic period and sometimes beyond, growth of the fen stopped for a few thousand years in response to unfavourable hydrological conditions. Peat accumulation started again in some parts of the fen during the Subboreal and up to the early and middle Subatlantic period. The anthropo-zoogenic degradation of woodland from the Middle Ages up to modern times increased the runoff of precipitation. This raised water levels in the Hunte floodplain and boosted peat accumulation in large parts of the fen. The dating of basal layers in the Pestruper Moor and the downstream Poggenpohlmoor indicates that the Hunte already had a meandering course during the Late Glacial, and that the present day floodplain of the river Hunte had already formed during the Younger Dryas.
description: Zusammenfassung: Das Pestruper Moor wuchs im Durchbruchstal der Hunte durch die Wildeshausener Geest in einer fluviatil angelegten Hohlform auf. Durch die Analyse von Pollen und botanischen Makroresten konnte die Entwicklung des Pestruper Moores nachgezeichnet werden. Als älteste Schicht datiert eine kleinflächig sedimentierte Mudde in das Präboreal. Das Pestruper Moor erreichte im Boreal etwa seine heutige Größe. Im Atlantikum und teilweise auch länger andauernd folgte für mehrere tausend Jahre eine Stillstandsphase. Während des Subboreal und bis zum Mittleren Subatlantikum besiedelten torfbildende Pflanzengesellschaften an günstigen Stellen erneut das Moor. Aufgrund der anthropo-zoogenen Öffnung der Landschaft im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit flossen Niederschläge schneller ab, es kam zur Vernässung der Hunte-Aue und infolgedessen zu einer stark erhöhten Torfbildung in weiten Bereichen des Pestruper Moores. Die Alter der basalen Mudden und Torfe aus dem Pestruper Moor und dem weiter flussabwärts gelegenen Poggenpohlsmoor zeigen, dass die Hunte bereits im Spätglazial mäandrierte und das Niveau der heutigen Talaue in der Jüngeren Tundrenzeit erreicht hat.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Amphetamine-induced dopamine release in Parkinson's disease patients with depression measured using high-resolution positron emission tomography with [¹¹C]raclopride
Creators: name: Bogusz, Elliott Adam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Depression affects around 40% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), which is nearly double the amount of severe depression seen in comparably disabled patients with other chronic illness. Mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) depletion has been implicated in the pathogenesis of depression, and thus may contribute to the high incidence of depression in PD. Amphetamine (AMPH)-induced striatal DA release was compared between depressed (n=3) and non-depressed (n=6) patients with PD using positron emission tomography. DA release was estimated by displacement of the D2/D3 receptor radiotracer [¹¹C]raclopride (RAC). Subjects completed three scans over two days within a three month period. The first scan was a baseline scan, followed by either blinded d-AMPH (0.3 mg/kg p.o.) or placebo administration, counterbalanced across subjects. Emission data were acquired for 60 minutes using a high resolution research tomograph, scans were reconstructed using Ordinary Poisson-OSEM3D including attenuation, scatter and random correction, and inter-frame realignment was performed to correct for motion. RAC binding potentials were estimated using regions of interest and a graphical tissue approach with the cerebellum as a reference region. Amphetamine induced DA release was observed at a significant level in the ventral striatum and with a strong trend in the caudate. Although amphetamine induced DA release has been observed in other studies, these PD patients exhibit a different amphetamine induced profile in which caudate and ventral DA release was greater than putamen DA release. No significant placebo effect was measured in this study but visual inspection suggests depressed patients may have a decrease in endogenous DA release with placebo. Other than this effect no difference was observed between depressed and non-depressed PD subjects. Ongoing work will attempt to extend these findings to a larger sample.
Additional file 1 of Transmissibility and pathogenicity of the emerging meningococcal serogroup W sequence type-11 complex South American strain: a mathematical modeling study
Creators: name: Cellès, Matthieu Domenech De
name: Campbell, Helen
name: Borrow, Ray
name: Muhamed-Kheir Taha
name: Lulla Opatowski
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Material, composed of Supplementary data, Supplementary methods, Supplementary results, Figures S1–S6, and Table S1.
The Impact of Front-of-Package Labeling in Low Socioeconomic Areas
Creators: name: Marco, Allison
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3210
subject: Nutrition and dietetics
classificationCode: 3506
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Front-of-package food labeling has become a growing marketing tool for food companies to encourage customers to purchase their products and educate them through the use of symbols and health claims. Previous research has examined how front-of-package labeling influences consumers' decisions to purchase products; however, most studies focus on populations living in areas with adequate income levels, sufficient access to grocery stores, and grocery stores that provide a variety of foods. The purpose of this research is to measure the effects, if any, of front-of-package food labeling on food preferences in a lower socioeconomic area of DC, where food options and establishments may be fewer and food environments less inviting. One-hundred and ten residents shopping at two major grocery stores in Ward 7, one of the lowest-income areas of Washington, DC, were surveyed to better understand the factors that regularly influence their food choices. To measure the role that front-of-package food labeling may play, we worked with two larger chain grocery stores. Customers were surveyed in order to gain a better understanding of the factors that influence their food choices. This study sheds light on the role of front-of-package labeling in environments where food preferences and access to foods may be limited, and in areas where price may play a more important factor than health benefits, as compared to more advantaged areas. The majority of participants in this study stated that nutrition was the most important factor when making food choices compared to cost, convenience, and taste. They also believed that front-of-package labeling plays a role in their food choices, and symbols can influence purchases. These findings indicate that this population has intent to make healthy choices in the grocery store, and there are opportunities for nutrition education in low-income areas.
On the singular spectrum for adiabatic quasi-periodic Schrodinger operators on the real line
Creators: name: Fedotov, Alexander
name: Klopp, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34E05, 34E20, 34L05

description: In this paper, we study spectral properties of a family of quasi-periodic Schrodinger operators on the real line in the adiabatic limit. We assume that the adiabatic iso-energetic curves are extended along the momentum direction. In the energy intervals where this happens, we obtain an asymptotic formula for the Lyapunov exponent, and show that the spectrum is purely singular.
The Crystallization of a Moral Panic: A Content Analysis of Anglophone Canadian Print Media Discourse on Arabs and Muslims Pre- and Post-9/11
Creators: name: McClure, Helen R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the effects of the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks on Anglophone Canada, specifically its print media, and how that media can be used as both a window into and a mirror of societal trends. This study uses content analysis to look for evidence of a terrorism “moral panic” with Arab/Muslim “folk devils.” The data is analyzed using keyword word counts as well as a modified Critical Discourse Analysis to examine discourse strands before and after 9/11. This study finds that Anglophone Canadian print media discourse shifted after 9/11, indicating a terrorism moral panic with racialized Arabs/Muslims as folk devils. This moral panic and the attendant folk devils, as well as the trends in the data, are strikingly similar to their American counterparts, leading to the conclusion that Anglophone Canadian print media were influenced by American print media, most likely due both to American media's prominent international position and Anglophone Canada's ongoing internal struggle between recognizing its similarities with and declaring its differences from the United States.
Dangerous Invasive Species Threatening or with a Foothold in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Kairo, Moses T. K.
name: Cheesman, Oliver D.
name: Ali, Bibi S.
name: Haysom, Karen
name: Murphy, Sean T.
name: Berg, Chris
name: Kairo, Moses T. K.
name: Cheesman, Oliver D.
name: Ali, Bibi S.
name: Haysom, Karen
name: Murphy, Sean T.
name: Berg, Chris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Invasive alien species
subject: Caribbean

description: In recent years, a spate of dangerous invasive alien species (IAS) have become established in the Caribbean, and many others threaten the region. Some established species continue to spread, causing economic and environmental damage. This paper reviews the status and significance of IAS in the Caribbean. Factors contributing to the upsurge of new problems and pathways are discussed from a perspective of prevention. Steps recently taken to prevent or mitigate the impact of these species are also discussed. On the basis of these experiences, suggestions are made for the future direction of efforts to prevent or manage such invasive species within the Caribbean context.
title: The association of Clostridium perfringens with foal diarrhoea
Creators: name: Netherwood, Trudy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1995

description: Several case reports of i>Clostridium perjringens involvement in equine enteric disease have not identified the prevalence and statistical association of these bacteria with foal diarrhoea. Each of five methods which favoured the recovery of C. perjringens in different physiological states were chosen to improve the sensitivity of isolation in a survey of foal diarrhoea for C. perjringens and other pathogens. C. perjringens was significantly associated with foal diarrhoea (isolated from 57% of 421 scouring anjmals but from only 33% of 222 controls; odds ratio 7.4; p<0.001 by multivariate analysis); it was also associated with fatal diarrhoea (odds ratio 2.7; p=0.047). Rotavirus, Cryptosporidium sp. and large numbers of Strongyloides westeri were the only other pathogens associated with diarrhoea although they were less prevalent than C. perjringens; Salmonella sp. was the only other pathogen associated with fatal diarrhoea.

Enterotoxin production was detected by reverse passive latex agglutination test (RPLA) amongst isolates of C. perjringens from scouring and healthy foals. The enterotoxin gene from an equine strain was cloned and its sequence was essentially identical to that published for a human isolate. Less than 5% of C. perjringens isolated from scouring foals and 0.5% from controls were positive for the enterotoxin gene by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (odds ratio 19.1; p<0.005). Presence of the enterotoxin gene was confirmed in representative isolates with a gene probe of chromosomal DNA and PCR product as well as neutralisation of cytotoxicity by antitoxin. Enterotoxigenicity of half ofRPLA positive isolates could not be confirmed in this way.

Enterotoxigenic C. perjringens were a probable cause of foal diarrhoea. However, a greater proportion of the disease was associated with non-enterotoxigenic C. perjringens. There is now a need to identify molecular differences between non-enterotoxigenic C. perjringens strains from scouring and healthy foals which might be associated with pathogenicity.
The Crystallization of a Moral Panic: A Content Analysis of Anglophone Canadian Print Media Discourse on Arabs and Muslims Pre- and Post-9/11
Creators: name: McClure, Helen R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4701
subject: Communication and media studies

description: This study examines the effects of the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks on Anglophone Canada, specifically its print media, and how that media can be used as both a window into and a mirror of societal trends. This study uses content analysis to look for evidence of a terrorism “moral panic” with Arab/Muslim “folk devils.” The data is analyzed using keyword word counts as well as a modified Critical Discourse Analysis to examine discourse strands before and after 9/11. This study finds that Anglophone Canadian print media discourse shifted after 9/11, indicating a terrorism moral panic with racialized Arabs/Muslims as folk devils. This moral panic and the attendant folk devils, as well as the trends in the data, are strikingly similar to their American counterparts, leading to the conclusion that Anglophone Canadian print media were influenced by American print media, most likely due both to American media's prominent international position and Anglophone Canada's ongoing internal struggle between recognizing its similarities with and declaring its differences from the United States.
Additional file 1 of Quality of life in chronic musculoskeletal symptomatic Chilean population: secondary analysis of National Health Survey 2009–2010
Creators: name: Mena-Iturriaga, Maria Jesus
name: Mauri-Stecca, Manuel Vicente
name: Sizer, Phillip S.
name: Leppe, Jaime
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. HRQoL in population with cMSS, according to NHS 2009–10. (n = 2404).
Second-order fluctuations and current across characteristic for a one-dimensional growth model of independent random walks
Creators: name: Seppalainen, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35 (Primary) 60F17. (Secondary)

description: Fluctuations from a hydrodynamic limit of a one-dimensional asymmetric system come at two levels. On the central limit scale n^{1/2} one sees initial fluctuations transported along characteristics and no dynamical noise. The second order of fluctuations comes from the particle current across the characteristic. For a system made up of independent random walks we show that the second-order fluctuations appear at scale n^{1/4} and converge to a certain self-similar Gaussian process. If the system is in equilibrium, this limiting process specializes to fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter 1/4. This contrasts with asymmetric exclusion and Hammersley's process whose second-order fluctuations appear at scale n^{1/3}, as has been discovered through related combinatorial growth models.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000946 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 1 of Waterpipe smoking among university students in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Lee, Jung Jae
name: Yongda Wu
name: Wang, Man Ping
name: Yeung, Karly Cheuk-Yin
name: Wong, Janet Yuen-Ha
name: Smith, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Title of data: Multiple imputation analyses of ever-use of waterpipe. Description of data: Sensitivity analysis of ever-use of waterpipe was conducted through multiple imputation using chained equation to handle missing values.
Disentangling the influence of earthworms in sugarcane rhizosphere
Creators: name: Braga, Lucas P. P.
name: Yoshiura, Caio A.
name: Borges, Clovis D.
name: Horn, Marcus A.
name: Brown, George G.
name: Drake, Harold L.
name: Tsai, Siu M.
Publisher: name: London : Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 16s ribosomal-rna
subject: nitrous-oxide emissions
subject: aporrectodea-caliginosa
subject: plant-growth
subject: microbial community
subject: functional domains
subject: humic substances
subject: forest soils
subject: genes
subject: bacteria
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften

description: For the last 150 years many studies have shown the importance of earthworms for plant growth, but the exact mechanisms involved in the process are still poorly understood. Many important functions required for plant growth can be performed by soil microbes in the rhizosphere. To investigate earthworm influence on the rhizosphere microbial community, we performed a macrocosm experiment with and without Pontoscolex corethrurus (EW+ and EW−, respectively) and followed various soil and rhizosphere processes for 217 days with sugarcane. In EW+ treatments, N2O concentrations belowground (15 cm depth) and relative abundances of nitrous oxide genes (nosZ) were higher in bulk soil and rhizosphere, suggesting that soil microbes were able to consume earthworm-induced N2O. Shotgun sequencing (total DNA) revealed that around 70 microbial functions in bulk soil and rhizosphere differed between EW+ and EW− treatments. Overall, genes indicative of biosynthetic pathways and cell proliferation processes were enriched in EW+ treatments, suggesting a positive influence of worms. In EW+ rhizosphere, functions associated with plant-microbe symbiosis were enriched relative to EW− rhizosphere. Ecological networks inferred from the datasets revealed decreased niche diversification and increased keystone functions as an earthworm-derived effect. Plant biomass was improved in EW+ and worm population proliferated.
Density in categorical topology via quantaloid-enriched categories
Creators: name: Lai, Hongliang
name: Shen, Lili
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54B30, 18F60, 18D20

description: Based on Garner's discovery that topological categories are total categories enriched in a quantaloid, this paper presents a series of results related to initial and final density in categorical topology via (co)density in quantaloid-enriched categories, focusing on (co-)Sierpiński objects, Galois correspondences and their fixed points.
description: 19 pages, final version
50 Jahre Verbandsorganisation der deutschen Torfwirtschaft — Entwicklung der Torf- und Humuswirtschaft und Ausblick
50-years anniversary of the peat-producers association in Germany-Development of the peat- and humus-industry and outlook
Creators: name: Falkenberg, Hartmut
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1996

description: Die Entwicklung der Verbandsorganisation der deutschen Torfwirtschaft und deren Aufgabe seit der Gründung der ersten Fachverbände im Jahr 1946 werden beschrieben. Des weiteren wird die Entwicklung der Torfwirtschaft von der zunächst relativ einfachen Struktur der Brenntorf- bzw. Ballentorfwerke zu modernen, leistungsfähigen Rohstoffgewinnungsbetrieben und Herstellern hochwertiger Erden- und Kultursubstrate erläutert.
description: The paper gives an overview on the development of the peat-producers association in Germany and the main tasks since foundation of the first association in the year 1946. Furthermore the development of the peat industry from relative simple structured fuel-peat works and factories, respectively, peat-bale factories to modern, productive peat-companies and factories of high-qualified potting-soils and growing media is shown.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: report
They Say It's Genetic
Creators: name: McIntyre, Antoinette
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: I started from the premise that family building is a kind of myth building. To understand the mythology of my family I researched those early figures--the far-away family members that came and went before my time but are responsible for the foundation of my extended family. I then explored how I fit into this construction of family by reflecting on my own inherited names and traits and illnesses. Throughout I wanted there to be an undercurrent of the relationship between that kind of truth and fiction that is special to a myth laden family construction. What is spoken and what goes unspoken, the stories that everyone in the family knows and shares and those that are equally well known but kept hidden, out of sight--how both play a large part in the final product of family.
Soil conditions rather than long-term exposure to elevated CO2 affect soil microbial communities associated with N-cycling
Creators: name: Brenzinger, Kristof
name: Kujala, Katharina
name: Horn, Marcus A.
name: Moser, Gerald
name: Guillet, Cecile
name: Kammann, Claudia
name: Müller, Christoph
name: Braker, Gesche
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ammonia oxidizers
subject: Denitrifiers
subject: DNRA
subject: Elevated CO2
subject: FACE
subject: N-fixers
subject: N2O
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Continuously rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations may lead to an increased transfer of organic C from plants to the soil through rhizodeposition and may affect the interaction between the C- and N-cycle. For instance, fumigation of soils with elevated CO2 (eCO2) concentrations (20% higher compared to current atmospheric concentrations) at the Giessen Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (GiFACE) sites resulted in a more than 2-fold increase of long-term N2O emissions and an increase in dissimilatory reduction of nitrate compared to ambient CO2 (aCO2). We hypothesized that the observed differences in soil functioning were based on differences in the abundance and composition of microbial communities in general and especially of those which are responsible for N-transformations in soil. We also expected eCO2 effects on soil parameters, such as on nitrate as previously reported. To explore the impact of long-term eCO2 on soil microbial communities, we applied a molecular approach (qPCR, T-RFLP, and 454 pyrosequencing). Microbial groups were analyzed in soil of three sets of two FACE plots (three replicate samples from each plot), which were fumigated with eCO2 and aCO2, respectively. N-fixers, denitrifiers, archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers, and dissimilatory nitrate reducers producing ammonia were targeted by analysis of functional marker genes, and the overall archaeal community by 16S rRNA genes. Remarkably, soil parameters as well as the abundance and composition of microbial communities in the top soil under eCO2 differed only slightly from soil under aCO2. Wherever differences in microbial community abundance and composition were detected, they were not linked to CO2 level but rather determined by differences in soil parameters (e.g., soil moisture content) due to the localization of the GiFACE sets in the experimental field. We concluded that +20% eCO2 had little to no effect on the overall microbial community involved in N-cycling in the soil but that spatial heterogeneity over extended periods had shaped microbial communities at particular sites in the field. Hence, microbial community composition and abundance alone cannot explain the functional differences leading to higher N2O emissions under eCO2 and future studies should aim at exploring the active members of the soil microbial community. © 2017 Brenzinger, Kujala, Horn, Moser, Guillet, Kammann, Müller and Braker.
Additional file 2 of Waterpipe smoking among university students in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Lee, Jung Jae
name: Yongda Wu
name: Wang, Man Ping
name: Yeung, Karly Cheuk-Yin
name: Wong, Janet Yuen-Ha
name: Smith, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Title of data: Multiple imputation analyses of smoking status. Description of data: Sensitivity analysis of smoking status was conducted through multiple imputation using chained equation to handle missing values.
They Say It's Genetic
Creators: name: McIntyre, Antoinette
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: I started from the premise that family building is a kind of myth building. To understand the mythology of my family I researched those early figures--the far-away family members that came and went before my time but are responsible for the foundation of my extended family. I then explored how I fit into this construction of family by reflecting on my own inherited names and traits and illnesses. Throughout I wanted there to be an undercurrent of the relationship between that kind of truth and fiction that is special to a myth laden family construction. What is spoken and what goes unspoken, the stories that everyone in the family knows and shares and those that are equally well known but kept hidden, out of sight--how both play a large part in the final product of family.
A simplified strategy based on the house of quality to prioritize farming practices under variable weather conditions
Creators: name: Robayo-Avendaño, Angélica
name: Prato-Garcia, Dorian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This work describes for the first time a strategy based on the house of quality analysis (HOQ) to select a farming practice adaptable to variable weather conditions (VWC). Five basic requirements: water, soil, fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides, together with six agricultural practices: organic farming (OF), agroecology (AE), conservation agriculture (CA), genetically-modified varieties (GMV), intensified agriculture (IA), and climate smart agriculture (CSA) were correlated, assessed, and prioritized. HOQ concluded that water and soil are essential for the development of a crop, whereas the need of agrochemicals was less noticeable because they could be substituted by the use of sustainable practices. OF and AE resulted more convenient because they use sustainable methods to manage a crop. The efficacy of CA and GMV to face VWC was limited by factors like the weather conditions of the site, the type of crop, and costs. IA and CSA were satisfactory when financing for the development is available. The synergy observed among OF, AE, and CA would ease transition and/or their simultaneous adoption; it would improve sustainability, productivity, and profitability for the farmer as long as the needs of the region, management of resources, and interested parties are taken into account.
The Effect of Traditional Masculine Gender Role Adherence on Community Reintegration Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Military Veterans
Creators: name: Meyers, Noah Matthew
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Although returning from deployment and reintegrating into one's community is a difficult task for any military veteran, these tasks can be especially difficult for veterans sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI) during deployment. Due to the unique cognitive and social deficits caused by the injury, individuals (predominately male) who sustain a TBI have a more difficult time reintegrating into their communities and report a poorer subjective quality of life than do individuals and veterans with other serious injuries. The present study examined the effect of level of traditional masculine gender role cognitions, attitudes, and behaviors on community reintegration outcomes in a sample of 60 male military veterans who had sustained a TBI during deployment. Data was collected through self-report measures and cognitive tests, and analyses were carried out using correlation, mediation, and moderation models. Results suggested that greater endorsement of traditional masculine gender role beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors was related to: (a) poorer outcomes on certain measures of community reintegration (i.e., livings skills and relationships); and (b) poorer outcomes in living skills and increased psychosocial difficulties only for participants with greater verbal cognitive flexibility. Findings were discussed in relation to previous research and future directions.
The impact of microorganisms on consumption of atmospheric trace gases
Creators: name: Kolb, Steffen
name: Horn, Marcus A.
name: Murrell, J. Collin
name: Knief, Claudia
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Carbon monoxide
subject: Denitrification
subject: Methane
subject: Methanotroph
subject: Nitrous oxide
subject: Phyllosphere
subject: Volatile organic compounds
subject: Editorial
subject: gas
subject: microorganism
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Editorial on the Research Topic
Level-statistics in Disordered Systems: A single parametric scaling and Connection to Brownian Ensembles
Creators: name: Shukla, Pragya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that the statistics of levels undergoing metal-insulator transition in systems with multi-parametric Gaussian disorders and non-interacting electrons behaves in a way similar to that of the single parametric Brownian ensembles \cite{dy}. The latter appear during a Poisson $\to$ Wigner-Dyson transition, driven by a random perturbation. The analogy provides the analytical evidence for the single parameter scaling of the level-correlations in disordered systems as well as a tool to obtain them at the critical point for a wide range of disorders.
description: 19 Pages, 10 Figures, Published Version