cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evolution of Spherical Overdensities in Energy-Momentum-Squared Gravity
Creators: name: Farsi, Bita
name: Sheykhi, Ahmad
name: Khodadi, Mohsen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing the spherical collapse (SC) formalism, we investigate the linear evolution of the matter over-density for energy-momentum-squared gravity (EMSG), which in practical phenomenological terms, one may imagine as an extension of the ΛCDM model of cosmology. The underlying model, while still having a cosmological constant, is a non-linear material extension of the general theory of relativity (GTR) and includes correction terms that are dominant in the high-energy regime, the early universe. Considering the Friedman{Robertson{Walker (FRW) background in the presence of a cosmological constant, we find the effects of the modifications arising from EMSG on the growth of perturbations at the early stages of the universe. Considering both possible negative and positive values of the model parameter of EMSG, we discuss its role in the evolution of the matter density contrast and growth function in the level of linear perturbations. While EMSG leaves imprints distinguishable from ΛCDM, we find that the negative range of the ESMG model parameter is not well-behaved, indicating an anomaly in the parameter space of the model. In this regard, for the evaluation of the galaxy cluster number count in the framework of EMSG, we equivalently provide an analysis of the number count of the gravitationally collapsed objects (or the dark matter halos). We show that the galaxy cluster number count decreases compared to the ΛCDM model. In agreement with the hierarchical model of structure formation, in EMSG cosmology the more massive structures are less abundant, meaning that form at later times.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures. v3: version accepted for publication in PRD: the title changed
Salute delle donne e procreazione medicalmente assistita
Creators: name: Rossi, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2005

description: Pregnancy and delivery are associated with several adverse consequences for women’s health, but the risks are even higher for women undergoing treatments with assisted reproduction technologies (ART). The main risks concern multiple gestation, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and extrauterine pregnancy. These conditions can have severe consequences, potentially precluding future pregnancies and even resulting life threatening for mother and child. The risk of delivering a child with congenital malformations and of transmitting genetic abnormalities to the future generations is also increased and genetic diagnosis is recommended to prevent birth defects.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 1 (2005): Concepire Generare Nascere
Nomada flavoguttata
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada flavoguttata

description: Nomada flavoguttata (Kirby, 1802)
 7.V.2000, sablière, filet, 4♀ 1♂; 29.III.2002, sablière, vol sur sable, 1♀, Prunus avium, 1♀, Salix caprea, 1♀; 20.IV.2002, sablière, vol sur sable, 6♀ 3♂; 23-26.IV.2002, sablière, bac jaune, 7♀ 3♂; 20.V.2002, bac jaune, 4♂, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Antigone a Port-Royal: obbedienza monastica e autonomia femminile in un’abbazia di Antico Regime
Creators: name: Bartoli, Silvana
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: Can a superior command to the conscience? Set inside a female religious tradition which for centuries answered in an affirmative way to this question, the nuns of Port Royal became rebels “proud as demons”, when they decided to say no to a document that required from them blind obedience. The History of Port Royal is indeed a history of a rebellion. The “day of the judas” and the denial of the Formulary are just the tip of the iceberg: the responsible consensus given by the nuns to the Benedettinian rules implies in itself the opposition to the rules of power. The model of an obedient nun is swept away by the obedience itself. Is it possible to apply Rossana Rossanda’s question «why disobedience is woman» to a monastery of the ancient regime?
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
Drell-Yan Production at NNLL'+NNLO Matched to Parton Showers
Creators: name: Alioli, Simone
name: Bauer, Christian W.
name: Berggren, Calvin
name: Tackmann, Frank J.
name: Walsh, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for Drell-Yan production from the GENEVA Monte-Carlo framework. We combine the fully-differential NNLO calculation with higher-order resummation in the 0-jettiness resolution variable. The resulting parton-level events are further combined with parton showering and hadronization provided by PYTHIA8. The 0-jettiness resummation is carried out to NNLL', which consistently incorporates all singular virtual and real NNLO corrections. It thus provides a natural perturbative connection between the NNLO calculation and the parton shower regime, including a systematic assessment of perturbative uncertainties. In this way, inclusive observables are correct to NNLO, up to small power corrections in the resolution cutoff. Furthermore, the perturbative accuracy of 0-jet-like resummation variables is significantly improved beyond the parton shower approximation. We provide comparisons with LHC measurements of Drell-Yan production at 7 TeV from ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. As already observed in $e^+e^-$ collisions, for resummation-sensitive observables, the agreement with data is noticeably improved by using a lower value of $α_s(M_Z) = 0.1135$.
description: 26 pages, 20 figures
Nomada flava Panzer 1798
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada flava

description: Nomada flava Panzer, 1798
20.IV.2002, sablière, vol sur sable, 1♀, 1♂; 20.V.2002, sablière, bac jaune, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
La prospettiva della storia culturale e l’approccio autobiografico
Creators: name: Passerini, Luisa
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: Cultural history can contribute to age studies in many ways: by using literary texts, memory sources (both written and oral), and visual images from art and the cinema, it can give a sense of the plurality of ways of aging in various ages and places. It recognizes the centrality of the body for this type of research on subjectivity and it considers the autobiographical approach essential for the study of aging. The author includes her own reflections on the experience of aging and writing on age, besides reviewing a number of existing texts from Europe and North America.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
Revisiting proton-proton fusion in chiral effective field theory
Creators: name: Acharya, Bijaya
name: Marcucci, Laura Elisa
name: Platter, Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the $S$-factor for proton-proton fusion using chiral effective field theory interactions and currents. By performing order-by-order calculations with a variety of chiral interactions that are regularized and calibrated in different ways, we assess the uncertainty in the $S$-factor from the truncation of the effective field theory expansion and from the sensitivity of the $S$-factor to the short-distance axial current determined from three- and four-nucleon observables. We find that $S(0)=(4.100\pm0.019\mathrm{(syst)}\pm0.013\mathrm{(stat)}\pm0.008(g_A))\times10^{-23}~\mathrm{MeV\,fm}^2\,,$ where the three uncertainties arise, respectively, from the truncation of the effective field theory expansion, use of the two-nucleon axial current fit to few-nucleon observables and variation of the axial coupling constant within the recommended range. The increased value of $S(0)$ compared to previous calculations is mainly driven by an increase in the recommended value for the axial coupling constant and is in agreement with a recent analysis based on pionless effective field theory.
Semiclassical fermion pair creation in de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Stahl, Clément
name: Strobel, Eckhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to semiclassically compute the pair creation rate of bosons and fermions in de Sitter spacetime. The results in the bosonic case agree with the ones in the literature. We find that for the constant electric field the fermionic and bosonic pair creation rate are the same. This analogy of bosons and fermions in the semiclassical limit is known from several flat spacetime examples.
description: 10 pages, no figure, proceeding of the 2nd Cesare Lattes Meeting
AD research American Council of the Blind
Creators: name: Orero, Pilar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education for sustainable development, eco-school, environmental education, sustainability, sustainability competences, GreenComp

description: Pilar's presentation at the American Council of the Blind covered three main themes: Metaverse: Exploring the concept of an immersive digital world where users can interact with a computer-generated environment and each other. Sustainability: Emphasizing the importance of considering environmental, social, and economic factors in the development and operation of the metaverse. Copyright/Minting/Distribution: Discussing the legal and economic aspects of intellectual property, including copyright protection, virtual asset creation and ownership, and the distribution of digital goods and services within the metaverse.
Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: A Statement for Healthcare Professionals From the Expert Panel on Population and Prevention Science of the American Heart Association
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Air pollution is a heterogeneous, complex mixture of gases, liquids, and particulate matter. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated a consistent increased risk for cardiovascular events in relation to both short- and long-term exposure to present-day concentrations of ambient particulate matter. Several plausible mechanistic pathways have been described, including enhanced coagulation/thrombosis, a propensity for arrhythmias, acute arterial vasoconstriction, systemic inflammatory responses, and the chronic promotion of atherosclerosis. The purpose of this statement is to provide healthcare professionals and regulatory agencies with a comprehensive review of the literature on air pollution and cardiovascular disease. In addition, the implications of these findings in relation to public health and regulatory policies are addressed. Practical recommendations for healthcare providers and their patients are outlined. In the final section, suggestions for future research are made to address a number of remaining scientific questions.
Le nonne di Plaza de Mayo
Creators: name: Calandra, Benedetta
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: The article is focused on a specific case study of ‘motherist movement’ in Argentina during the last military rule (1976-1983): the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. Blurring the boundaries between public and private realm, these old women, without a previous, soundly-based political conscience, were able to set up a transnational human rights movement, well known all over the world, while looking for their abducted grandchildren. A crucial issue, still, is: how far did this group go in terms of advocating womens’ rights? Could we really find a correspondence, as Jelin puts it, between ‘women for human rights’ and ‘women for women’s rights’? The answer, as the Argentinean case shows, seems to be not so straightforward.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
Bose-Hubbard ladder subject to effective magnetic field: quench dynamics in a harmonic trap
Creators: name: Tschischik, Wladimir
name: Moessner, Roderich
name: Haque, Masudul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by a recent experiment with optical lattices that has realized a ladder geometry with an effective magnetic field (Atala et al., Nature Physics \textbf{10}, 588 (2014)), we study the dynamics of bosons on a tight-binding two-leg ladder with complex hopping amplitudes. This system displays a quantum phase transition even without interactions. We study the non-equilibrium dynamics without and with interactions, in the presence of a harmonic trapping potential. In particular we consider dynamics induced by quenches of the trapping potential and of the magnitude of the rung hopping. We present a striking "slowing down" effect in the collective mode dynamics near the phase transition. This manifestation of a slowing down phenomenon near a quantum phase transition can be visualized unusually directly: the collective mode dynamics can be followed experimentally in real time and real space by imaging the atomic cloud.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Le signore di settant’anni
Creators: name: Piazza, Marina
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: The essay focuses on the aging of a generation of women who have played a leading role in important transformations at both the social and the subjective level. It seeks to sketch a composite picture, often contradictory and ambivalent, which includes losses but also the possibility of opening up to change and to new experiences. The key issue becomes that of time, the time of the body and the time of the future, which brings with itself also the threat of extreme old age and of death. The way out is in the willingness to “be that which one is” in the different contexts of life, that is, working to find meaning through a subjective process, gathering strength to maintain inner balance. And the tool for it seems to be the time for oneself.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
Efficient multi-timescale dynamics of precessing black-hole binaries
Creators: name: Gerosa, Davide
name: Fumagalli, Giulia
name: Mould, Matthew
name: Cavallotto, Giovanni
name: Monroy, Diego Padilla
name: Gangardt, Daria
name: De Renzis, Viola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytical and numerical progress on black-hole binary spin precession at second post-Newtonian order using multi-timescale methods. In addition to the commonly used effective spin which acts as a constant of motion, we exploit the weighted spin difference and show that such reparametrization cures the coordinate singularity that affected the previous formulation for the case of equal-mass binaries. The dynamics on the precession timescale is written down in closed form in both coprecessing and inertial frames. Radiation reaction can then be introduced in a quasi-adiabatic fashion such that, at least for binaries on quasi-circular orbits, gravitational inspirals reduce to solving a single ordinary differential equation. We provide a broad review of the resulting phenomenology and rewrite the relevant physics in terms of the newly adopted parametrization. This includes the spin-orbit resonances, the up-down instability, spin propagation at past time infinity, and new precession estimators to be used in gravitational-wave astronomy. Our findings are implemented in version 2 of the public Python module PRECESSION. Performing a precession-averaged post-Newtonian evolution from/to arbitrarily large separation takes $\lesssim 0.1$ s on a single off-the-shelf processor - a 50x speedup compared to our previous implementation. This allows for a wide variety of applications including propagating gravitational-wave posterior samples as well as population-synthesis predictions of astrophysical nature.
description: Code available at https://github.com/dgerosa/precession
«Io come madre cercava ogni strada». Una madre ebrea e un figlio nei guai nella Roma del Cinquecento
Creators: name: Di Nepi, Serena
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: In the Counter Reformation Rome Jewish mother is trying to have her son sent free from the prison. He has been found guilty of many crimes, mainly sexual crimes and he will be most likely sentenced to the galere where the hard conditions would probably kill him. His mother goes around the town,out of the ghetto where Jews are forced to live, looking for help in the attempt to liberate him. The records of the trial report two different voices: the mother’s and the Christian mediator’s telling two different versions of the story. According to the mother, she has paid him a sum coming from her dowry for his help, according to the Christian man he has helped the young Jew because the latter has promised to convert to Christianity. Reading the records we have a deep look inside the streets of the city and the main places of the Jewish life in Rome, including the threatening Casa dei Catecumeni.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Confini domestici. Ruoli e immagini femminili nella pittura della controriforma
Creators: name: Moretti, Massimo
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: Looking out of the window or out of the door, peering beyond the property line, are considered blamed behaviours for the woman, as results in the domestic economy treaties and in the manual for the confession published between XV and XVI century. The symbiotic link between the woman and the door, background and semantic frame of the female condition, has been confirmed during the time by the paintings. In particular, the stories of Mary of Nazareth are able to define the scanning of the spaces and of the times of the Christian woman. As the illustrations of the XVI century obstetrician treaties show, the depiction of the “Nativity of Mary” is vehicle for the representation of the female life in the domestic settings in a significant moment as that concerning the birth of a baby. The pictorial and sculptural examples shown in this work, mark a double vision of the woman in the modern age in her relationship with her boundary. Doors and windows represent positive elements when are used to contain woman freedom; on the contrary, they are considered as negative ones when appear as woman means to fuel her curiosity.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Observation of 2011-02-15 X2.2 flare in Hard X-ray and Microwave
Creators: name: Kuroda, Natsuha
name: Wang, Haimin
name: Gary, Dale E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous studies have shown that the energy release mechanism of some solar flares follow the Standard magnetic-reconnection model, but the detailed properties of high-energy electrons produced in the flare are still not well understood. We conducted a unique, multi-wavelength study that discloses the spatial, temporal and energy distributions of the accelerated electrons in the X2.2 solar flare on 2011, Feb. 15. We studied the source locations of seven distinct temporal peaks observed in hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave (MW) lightcurves using the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) in 50 to 75 keV channels and Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) in 34 GHz, respectively. We found that the seven emission peaks did not come from seven spatially distinct sites in HXR and MW, but rather in HXR we observed a sudden change in location only between the second and the third peak, with the same pattern occurring, but evolving more slowly in MW. Comparison between the HXR lightcurve and the temporal variations in intensity in the two MW source kernels also confirmed that the seven peaks came predominantly from two sources, each with multiple temporal peaks. In addition, we studied the polarization properties of MW sources, and time delay between HXR and MW. We discuss our results in the context of the tether-cutting model.
Protocol for a scoping review on rehabilitation and treatment options for patients with residual symptoms following established cauda equina syndrome
Creators: name: Anil, Krithika
name: Olmesdahl-Fletcher, Sandra
name: Roy, Holly
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: cauda equina syndrome
subject: post-surgical
subject: scoping review
subject: treatment

description: This project registers the protocol for our scoping as titled.
Intrecci dalla soglia. Spazio e corpo
Creators: name: Nobili, Piera
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: From the crossing between various knowledges, wisdomes and disciplines, known through the experiences whether personal or working, born a different approach to the territories of the architecture, to the concept to live and to the plan. The architectonic space is considered a resource, therefore like the air and the water, to inquire in its complexity phenomenology to the center of which it’s the body of the inhabitant. The plan makes contingent, contextual and characterizes giving them place to a not authoritarian space, where «the art to construct» converses with «the art of live and the art to inhabit» (Charlotte Perriand).
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Case study n°3: Economic effects of adapting critical infrastructure in the Mannheim metropolitan area - Lessons learned (D3.4.3)
Creators: name: Rome, Erich
name: Lückerath, Daniel
name: Milde, Katharina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: UNCHAIN deliverable D3.4 is a collection of twelve two-part reports describing the lessons learned in the twelve UNCHAIN case studies. This report presents the findings of Case Study 3, titled “Economic effects of adapting critical infrastructure in the Mannheim metropolitan area.” It describes how the Impact Chain based Climate Risk and Vulnerability assessment was applied in the case study, characterizes the results, and details the achieved innovations of the Impact Chain based method. Case Study 3 shows how to combine different levels of scale, by starting with relevant parts of existing German national Impact Chains, building regional Impact Chains based on these parts, and pinpointing risk factors from the regional Impact Chains to corporate units, processes, and activities (the corporate Value Chain). Regarding economic effects, the study assessed the impact of more frequent periods of low water of the Rhine River on costs of inland waterway transport of large volume goods for energy production. There is a short version of the report in native German language with an English abstract and a long version in English only.
description: Also funding: BMBF 01LS1908B
Non-integrable Floquet Ising model with duality twisted boundary conditions
Creators: name: Mitra, Aditi
name: Yeh, Hsiu-Chung
name: Yan, Fei
name: Rosch, Achim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented for a Floquet Ising chain with duality twisted boundary conditions, taking into account the role of weak integrability breaking in the form of four-fermion interactions. In the integrable case, a single isolated Majorana zero mode exists which is a symmetry in the sense that it commutes both with the Floquet unitary and the $Z_2$ symmetry of the Floquet unitary. When integrability is weakly broken, both in a manner so as to preserve or break the $Z_2$ symmetry, the Majorana zero mode is still found to be conserved for small system sizes. This is reflected in the dynamics of an infinite temperature autocorrelation function which, after an initial transient that is controlled by the strength of the integrability breaking term, approaches a plateau that does not decay with time. The height of the plateau agrees with a numerically constructed conserved quantity, and is found to decrease with increasing system sizes. It is argued that the existence of the plateau and its vanishing for larger system sizes is closely related to a localization-delocalization transition in Fock space triggered by the integrability-breaking interactions.
Sulla soglia dell’esilio. Scritture di donne della ex Jugoslavia
Creators: name: Richter, Melita
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: The essay focuses on the experience of women authors emigrated from former Yugoslavia, and their writing from the exile... The concept of threshold (soglia) and of crossing thresholds as the essential characteristic of women’s activism and communication is central to the essay. The author explores the concept of threshold across some literary texts and includes the autobiographical aspects of experienced migration from her native city Zagreb to Trieste, Italy, developing in a form of dialogue the “conversation” with a polish-American author Eva Hoffman who moved from Krakow, Poland to Canada and USA. In spite the differences of the two paths of integration in new social environments, many similitudes will be found between the life experiences of the two authors. Particularly will emerge the history of belonging to two different separated worlds, the appropriation of the new language, the reduction of plural identities, the role of memory and nostalgia in the integration process and the meaning of citizenship in a specific cultural and historical contexts.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Probing the Moduli Dependence of Refined Topological Amplitudes
Creators: name: Antoniadis, Ignatios
name: Florakis, Ioannis
name: Hohenegger, Stefan
name: Narain, K. S.
name: Assi, Ahmad Zein
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the aim of providing a worldsheet description of the refined topological string, we continue the study of a particular class of higher derivative couplings $F_{g,n}$ in the type II string effective action compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold. We analyse first order differential equations in the anti-holomorphic moduli of the theory, which relate the $F_{g,n}$ to other component couplings. From the point of view of the topological theory, these equations describe the contribution of non-physical states to twisted correlation functions and encode an obstruction for interpreting the $F_{g,n}$ as the free energy of the refined topological string theory. We investigate possibilities of lifting this obstruction by formulating conditions on the moduli dependence under which the differential equations simplify and take the form of generalised holomorphic anomaly equations. We further test this approach against explicit calculations in the dual heterotic theory.
description: 30 pages
Diagnosis and management of the metabolic syndrome: An American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute scientific statement. Executive summary
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: "This Executive Summary is a synopsis of the full scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which is intended to provide up to date guidance for professionals on the diagnosis and management of the metabolic syndrome in adults. The metabolic syndrome has received increased attention in the past few years. It consists of multiple, interrelated risk factors of metabolic origin that appear to directly promote the develop- ment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). This constellation of metabolic risk factors is strongly associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus or the risk for this condition. The metabolic risk factors consist of atherogenic dyslipidemia (elevated triglycerides and apolipoprotein B, small LDL particles, and low HDL cholesterol [HDL-C] concentrations), elevated blood pressure, elevated plasma glucose, a prothrombotic state, and a proinflammatory state. At present, it is not clear whether the metabolic syndrome has a single cause, and it appears that it can be precipitated by multiple underlying risk factors. The most important of these underlying risk factors are abdominal obesity and insulin resis- tance. Other associated conditions include physical inactivity, aging, hormonal imbalance, and genetic or ethnic predisposition. Prospective population studies show that the metabolic syndrome confers an [almost equal to]2-fold increase in relative risk for ASCVD events, and in individuals without established type 2 diabetes mellitus, an [almost equal to]5-fold increase in risk for developing diabetes as compared with people without the syndrome. This finding implies that the meta- bolic syndrome imparts a relatively high long-term risk for both ASCVD and diabetes. In the absence of diabetes, the absolute short-term (10-year) risk for major coronary heart disease (CHD) events is not necessarily high. In the Framingham Heart Study data, the 10-year risk for CHD depends on other risk factors in addition to the metabolic syndrome components contained in Framingham scoring (ie, blood pressure, HDL-C). These other risk factors are age, sex, serum total or LDL-C, and smoking status. For individuals with the metabolic syndrome who do not have established ASCVD or type 2 diabetes mellitus, the absolute 10-year risk is best assessed by Framingham risk scoring."
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes IV. Change and stability from 2007-2020
Creators: name: Charlesworth, Tessa
name: Banaji, Mahzarin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Using 7.1+ million implicit and explicit attitude tests towards six social groups, we examine long-term trends over 14 years (2007-2020). Despite tumultuous sociopolitical events, attitude trends from 2017-2020 persisted largely as forecasted from past data (2007-2016). Since 2007, all six self-reported, explicit attitudes decreased in bias between 22% (age attitudes) and 98% (race attitudes). Implicit sexuality, race, and skin-tone attitudes continued to decrease in bias, decreasing by 65%, 26% and 25%, respectively, since 2007. Implicit age, disability, and body weight attitudes, however, continued to show little to no long-term change. Patterns of attitude change and stability were generally consistent across demographic groups, indicating macro-level societal change. Ultimately, the data magnified the evidence that (some) implicit attitudes reveal persistent, long-term change toward neutrality. Newly, the data also reveal the potential for short-term influence from sociopolitical events that temporarily disrupt progress to neutral, although attitudes eventually return to long-term homeostasis in trends.
Multi-brane cosmology
Creators: name: Girmohanta, Sudhakantha
name: Lee, Seung J.
name: Nakai, Yuichiro
name: Suzuki, Motoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 5D warped extra dimension models with multiple 3-branes can naturally realize multiple hierarchical mass scales which are ubiquitous in physics beyond the Standard Model. We discuss cosmological consequences of such multi-brane models with stabilized radions. It is confirmed that for temperatures below the scale of the IR brane at the end of the extra dimension, we recover the ordinary expansion of the Universe, with the Hubble expansion rate determined by sum of the physical energy densities on all 3-branes where they are localized. In addition, we explore the cosmology for temperatures above the scales of the intermediate and IR branes where the Universe is described by a spacetime with the 3-branes replaced by an event horizon. As the temperature of the Universe cools down, phase transitions are expected to take place, and the intermediate and IR branes come out from behind the event horizon. The Goldberger-Wise mechanism for radion stabilization has a well-known problem of having a supercooled phase transition, which typically does not get completed in time. This problem is even more severe when an intermediate brane is introduced, whose scale is well above TeV, as the corresponding Hubble rate is much larger. We circumvent the problem by employing an alternative mechanism for radion stabilization with dark Yang-Mills fields, which prevents a long supercooling epoch, but still allows the strong first order phase transitions. As a result, the phase transitions in our multi-brane Universe predict a stochastic gravitational wave background with a unique multi-peak signature, which is within the sensitivity reach of future space-based gravitational wave observers. We also show that there are $N-1$ radions for an $N$ 3-brane set-up, unlike a recent claim that there exists only one radion.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures. v2: matches published version
Nomada fulvicornis Fabricius 1793
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
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Nomada fulvicornis

description: Nomada fulvicornis Fabricius, 1793
7.V.2000, sablière, filet, 7.V.2000, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
2014 Evidence-based guideline for the management of high blood pressure in adults: Report from the panel members appointed to the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: "Hypertension is the most common condition seen in primary care and leads to myocardial infarction, stroke, renal failure, and death if not detected early and treated appropriately. Patients want to be assured that blood pressure (BP) treatment will reduce their disease burden, while clinicians want guidance on hypertension management using the best scientific evidence. This report takes a rigorous, evidence-based approach to recommend treatment thresholds, goals, and medications in the management of hypertension in adults. Evidence was drawn from randomized controlled trials, which represent the gold standard for determining efficacy and effectiveness. Evidence quality and recommendations were graded based on their effect on important outcomes. There is strong evidence to support treating hypertensive persons aged 60 years or older to a BP goal of less than 150/90 mm Hg and hypertensive persons 30 through 59 years of age to a diastolic goal of less than 90 mm Hg; however, there is insufficient evidence in hypertensive persons younger than 60 years for a systolic goal, or in those younger than 30 years for a diastolic goal, so the panel recommends a BP of less than 140/90 mm Hg for those groups based on expert opinion. The same thresholds and goals are recommended for hypertensive adults with diabetes or nondiabetic chronic kidney disease (CKD) as for the general hypertensive population younger than 60 years. There is moderate evidence to support initiating drug treatment with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, angiotensin receptor blocker, calcium channel blocker, or thiazide-type diuretic in the nonblack hypertensive population, including those with diabetes. In the black hypertensive population, including those with diabetes, a calcium channel blocker or thiazide-type diuretic is recommended as initial therapy. There is moderate evidence to support initial or add-on antihypertensive therapy with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker in persons with CKD to improve kidney outcomes. Although this guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for the management of high BP and should meet the clinical needs of most patients, these recommendations are not a substitute for clinical judgment, and decisions about care must carefully consider and incorporate the clinical characteristics and circumstances of each individual patient."
Tecla di Iconio e le donne alla finestra
Creators: name: Di Marco, Francesca
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: An apocryphal tale, the Acta Pauli et Theclae, tells that at the beginning of the Christian Era, a young girl, Thecla, peeping at her window hears Paul the Apostle preaching and is converted to Christianity. Has Thecla’s attitude a specific significance in the tale? And how was evaluated a woman staying at a window in the ancient world? The article searches for an answer to these questions through the analysis of episodes representing women at the window in the Old Testament and in Greek and Latin literature.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
A Gaia Data Release 3 View on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Luminosity
Creators: name: Li, Siyang
name: Casertano, Stefano
name: Riess, Adam G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is a standard candle that can be used to help refine the determination of the Hubble constant. $Gaia$ Data Release 3 (DR3) provides synthetic photometry constructed from low-resolution BP/RP spectra for Milky Way field stars that can be used to directly calibrate the luminosity of the TRGB in the Johnson-Cousins I band, where the TRGB is least sensitive to metallicity. We calibrate the TRGB luminosity using a two-dimensional maximum likelihood algorithm with field stars and $Gaia$ synthetic photometry and parallaxes. For a high-contrast and low-contrast break (characterized by the values of the contrast parameter $ R$ or the magnitude of the break $ β$), we find $M^{TRGB}_I$ =$-4.02$ and $-3.92$ mag respectively, or a midpoint of $-3.970$ $^{+0.042} _{-0.024}$ (sys) $\pm$ $0.062$ (stat) mag. This measurement improves upon the TRGB measurement from Li et al. (2022), as the higher precision photometry based on $ Gaia $ DR3 allows us to constrain two additional free parameters of the luminosity function. We also investigate the possibility of using $Gaia$ DR3 synthetic photometry to calibrate the TRGB luminosity with $ω$ Centauri, but find evidence of blending within the inner region for cluster member photometry that precludes accurate calibration with $Gaia$ DR3 photometry. We instead provide an updated TRGB measurement of $m^{TRGB}_I$ = $ 9.82 \pm 0.04$ mag in $ω$ Centauri using ground-based photometry from the most recent version of the database described in Stetson et al. (2019), which gives $M^{TRGB}_I$ = $-3.97$ $\pm$ $0.04$ (stat) $\pm$ 0.10 (sys) mag when tied to the $Gaia$ EDR3 parallax distance from the consensus of Vasiliev & Baumgardt (2021), Soltis et al. (2021), and Maíz Apellániz et al. (2022a).
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Accepted by ApJ
Phenomenological description of the nonlocal magnetization relaxation in magnonics, spintronics, and domain-wall dynamics
Creators: name: Wang, Weiwei
name: Dvornik, Mykola
name: Bisotti, Marc-Antonio
name: Chernyshenko, Dmitri
name: Beg, Marijan
name: Albert, Maximilian
name: Vansteenkiste, Arne
name: Waeyenberge, Bartel V.
name: Kuchko, Andriy N.
name: Kruglyak, Volodymyr V.
name: Fangohr, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phenomenological equation called Landau-Lifshitz-Baryakhtar (LLBar) equation, which could be viewed as the combination of Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation and an extra "exchange damping" term, was derived by Baryakhtar using Onsager's relations. We interpret the origin of this "exchange damping" as nonlocal damping by linking it to the spin current pumping. The LLBar equation is investigated numerically and analytically for the spin wave decay and domain wall motion. Our results show that the lifetime and propagation length of short-wavelength magnons in the presence of nonlocal damping could be much smaller than those given by LL equation. Furthermore, we find that both the domain wall mobility and the Walker breakdown field are strongly influenced by the nonlocal damping.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
A new Universal Resample Stable Bootstrap-based Stopping Criterion in PLS Components Construction
Creators: name: Magnanensi, Jérémy
name: Bertrand, Frédéric
name: Maumy-Bertrand, Myriam
name: Meyer, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62F40, 62F35

description: We develop a new robust stopping criterion in Partial Least Squares Regressions (PLSR) components construction characterised by a high level of stability. This new criterion is defined as a universal one since it is suitable both for PLSR and its extension to Generalized Linear Regressions (PLSGLR). This criterion is based on a non-parametric bootstrap process and has to be computed algorithmically. It allows to test each successive components on a preset significant level alpha. In order to assess its performances and robustness with respect to different noise levels, we perform intensive datasets simulations, with a preset and known number of components to extract, both in the case n>p (n being the number of subjects and p the number of original predictors), and for datasets with n
description: 31 pages, 20 figures
Anna Politkovskaja
Creators: name: Chiesa, Giulietto
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: This paper draws a profile of Anna Politkovskaja, the journalist murdered in Moscow in October 2006. When the communist regime collapsed she sided with the “Democrats” (Boris Eltsin), but afterwards she departed from them when the first Cecenia War began (autumn 1994). With the beginning of the second Cecenia War (August-September 1999) Anna Politkovskaja definitively understood the Democrats no longer existed in Russia. In fact, opening the road to the new massacre had been their own responsibility. Once she had understood the truth, she began to tell the way “they”, the “Democrats” had organized the Cecenia Wars. Many times she went to that devastated land and denounced the dreadful war crimes committed there by the Russians, writing on her daily Novaja Gazeta. She openly condemned the Russian army and government for their lacking in respect of civil rights and their violation of the Constitutional State, both in Russia and Cecenia. In the West she had published a book –Putin’s Russia– from which she gained fame. But it provoked the Russian President to anger. The strong will of this woman with a feeble voice to testify and inform has been blown out, together with her obstinate tenaciousness. Anna Politkovskaja had staked her own life, conscious of the risk.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 4 (2008): «Correrò questo rischio» Sacrificio, sfida, resistenza
Four-photon orbital angular momentum entanglement
Creators: name: Hiesmayr, B. C.
name: de Dood, M. J. A.
name: Löffler, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement shared between more than two particles is essential to foundational questions in quantum mechanics, and upcoming quantum information technologies. So far, up to 14 two-dimensional qubits have been entangled, and an open question remains if one can also demonstrate entanglement of higher-dimensional discrete properties of more than two particles. A promising route is the use of the photon orbital angular momentum (OAM), which enables implementation of novel quantum information protocols, and the study of fundamentally new quantum states. To date, only two of such multidimensional particles have been entangled albeit with ever increasing dimensionality. Here we use pulsed spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) to produce photon quadruplets that are entangled in their OAM, or transverse-mode degrees of freedom; and witness genuine multipartite Dicke-type entanglement. Apart from addressing foundational questions, this could find applications in quantum metrology, imaging, and secret sharing.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Diffusion-driven frictional aging in silicon carbide
Creators: name: Nordhagen, Even Marius
name: Sveinsson, Henrik Andersen
name: Malthe-Sørenssen, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Friction is the force resisting relative motion of objects. The force depends on material properties, loading conditions and external factors such as temperature and humidity, but also contact aging has been identified as a primary factor. Several aging mechanisms have been proposed, including increased "contact quantity" due to plastic or elastic creep and enhanced "contact quality" due to formation of strong interfacial bonds. While proposed mechanisms for frictional aging have been dependent upon the presence of a normal force, this factor is not a fundamental prerequisite for the occurrence of aging. In light of this, we present a novel demonstration of a substantial frictional aging effect within a cubic silicon carbide system, even when a normal force is entirely absent. Our observations indicate that the time-evolution of the frictional aging effect follows a logarithmic behavior, which is a pattern that has been previously observed in numerous other materials. To explain this behavior, we provide a derivation that is rooted in basic statistical mechanics, demonstrating that surface diffusion, a phenomenon that serves to minimize surface energy in the interface region, can account for the observed behavior. Upon application of a normal force, the friction force is enhanced owing to the presence of plastic creep. Although aging resulting from plastic and elastic creep is widely recognized and incorporated into most friction laws, diffusion-driven aging has received comparatively less attention. The ultimate objective is to develop or redesign friction laws by incorporating the microscopic behavior, with the potential to enhance their effectiveness.