cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Cross-sensor Pore Detection in High-resolution Fingerprint Images
Creators: name: Anand, Vijay
name: Kanhangad, Vivek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the emergence of high-resolution fingerprint sensors, there has been a lot of focus on level-3 fingerprint features, especially the pores, for the next generation automated fingerprint recognition systems (AFRS). Following the success of deep learning in various computer vision tasks, researchers have developed learning-based approaches for detection of pores in high-resolution fingerprint images. Generally, learning-based approaches provide better performance than handcrafted feature-based approaches. However, domain adaptability of the existing learning-based pore detection methods has never been studied. In this paper, we study this aspect and propose an approach for pore detection in cross-sensor scenarios. For this purpose, we have generated an in-house 1000 dpi fingerprint dataset with ground truth pore coordinates (referred to as IITI-HRFP-GT), and evaluated the performance of the existing learning-based pore detection approaches. The core of the proposed approach for detection of pores in cross-sensor scenarios is DeepDomainPore, which is a residual learning-based convolutional neural network(CNN) trained for pore detection. The domain adaptability in DeepDomainPore is achieved by embedding a gradient reversal layer between the CNN and a domain classifier network. The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in a cross-sensor scenario involving public high-resolution fingerprint datasets with 88.12% true detection rate and 83.82% F-score.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Co-designing Large Language Model Tools for Project-Based Learning with K12 Educators
Creators: name: Ravi, Prerna
name: Masla, John
name: Kakoti, Gisella
name: Lin, Grace
name: Anderson, Emma
name: Taylor, Matt
name: Ostrowski, Anastasia
name: Breazeal, Cynthia
name: Klopfer, Eric
name: Abelson, Hal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The emergence of generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), has opened the door for student-centered and active learning methods like project-based learning (PBL). However, PBL poses practical implementation challenges for educators around project design and management, assessment, and balancing student guidance with student autonomy. The following research documents a co-design process with interdisciplinary K-12 teachers to explore and address the current PBL challenges they face. Through teacher-driven interviews, collaborative workshops, and iterative design of wireframes, we gathered evidence for ways LLMs can support teachers in implementing high-quality PBL pedagogy by automating routine tasks and enhancing personalized learning. Teachers in the study advocated for supporting their professional growth and augmenting their current roles without replacing them. They also identified affordances and challenges around classroom integration, including resource requirements and constraints, ethical concerns, and potential immediate and long-term impacts. Drawing on these, we propose design guidelines for future deployment of LLM tools in PBL.
description: 25 pages
Aceria phylloperthus
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria phylloperthus

description: Aceria phylloperthus (Nalepa, 1918)
 Eriophyes phylloperthus Nalepa, 1918: 62–63.
 Aceria phylloperthus; Meyer, 1990a: 170.
 Aceria phylloperthus; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 75.
 Host. Acacia phylloperthus (Fabaceae).
 Habit. Galls, deformation.
 Distribution. Indonesia (Java).
 Remarks. Nalepa (1918) provided no figures for this species.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 41
Very severe tungiasis in Amerindians in the Amazon lowland of Colombia: A case series
Creators: name: Miller, Hollman
name: Ocampo, Jovana
name: Ayala, Alvaro
name: Trujillo, Julian
name: Feldmeier, Hermann
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: parasitic skin disease
subject: Tungiasis
subject: parasite
subject: sand flea disease
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: BACKGROUND: Tungiasis is a parasitic skin disease caused by penetrating female sand fleas. By nature, tungiasis is a self-limiting infection. However, in endemic settings re-infection is the rule and parasite load gradually accumulates over time. Intensity of infection and degree of morbidity are closely related. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: This case series describes the medical history, the clinical pathology, the socio-economic and the environmental characteristics of very severe tungiasis in five patients living in traditional Amerindian communities in the Amazon lowland of Colombia. Patients had between 400 and 1,300 penetrated sand fleas. The feet were predominantly affected, but clusters of embedded sand fleas also occurred at the ankles, the knees, the elbows, the hands, the fingers and around the anus. The patients were partially or totally immobile. Patients 1 and 3 were cachectic, patient 2 presented severe malnutrition. Patient 3 needed a blood transfusion due to severe anemia. All patients showed a characteristic pattern of pre-existing medical conditions and culture-dependent behavior facilitating continuous re-infection. In all cases intradomiciliary transmission was very likely. CONCLUSION/SIGNIFICANCE: Although completely ignored in the literature, very severe tungiasis occurs in settings where patients do not have access to health care and are stricken in a web of pre-existing illness, poverty and neglect. If not treated, very severe tungiasis may end in a fatal disease course.
The Sacral Kingship of the Early Arsacids. Fire Cult and Kingly Glory, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 7, 2016, 91-106.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, The Sacral Kingship of the Early Arsacids. Fire Cult and Kingly Glory, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 7, 2016, 91-106.
Effects of epitaxial strain on the growth mechanism of YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films in [YBa2Cu3O7-x / PrBa2Cu3O7-x] superlattices
Creators: name: Varela, M.
name: Grogger, W.
name: Arias, D.
name: Sefrioui, Z.
name: Leon, C.
name: Vazquez, L.
name: Ballesteros, C.
name: Krishnan, K. M.
name: Santamaria, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the growth mechanism of YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO). Our study is based on the analysis of ultrathin, YBa2Cu3O7-x layers in c-axis oriented YBa2Cu3O7-x / PrBa2Cu3O7-x superlattices. We have found that the release of epitaxial strain in very thin YBCO layers triggers a change in the dimensionality of the growth mode. Ultrathin, epitaxially strained, YBCO layers with thickness below 3 unit cells grow in a block by block two dimensional mode coherent over large lateral distances. Meanwhile, when thickness increases, and the strain relaxes, layer growth turns into three dimensional, resulting in rougher layers and interfaces.
description: 10 pages + 9 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. B
Layer Construction of Topological Crystalline Insulator LaSbTe
Creators: name: Qian, Yuting
name: Tan, Zhiyun
name: Zhang, Tan
name: Gao, Jiacheng
name: Wang, Zhijun
name: Fang, Zhong
name: Fang, Chen
name: Weng, Hongming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological crystalline insulator (TCI) is one of the symmetry-protected topological states. Any TCI can be deformed into a simple product state of several decoupled two-dimensional (2D) topologically nontrivial layers in its lattice respecting its crystalline symmetries called the layer construction (LC) limit. In this work, based on first-principles calculations we have revealed that both tetragonal LaSbTe (t-LaSbTe) and orthorhombic LaSbTe (o-LaSbTe) can be interpreted as stacking of 2D topological insulators in each lattice space. The structural phase transition from t-LaSbTe to o-LaSbTe due to soft phonon modes demonstrates how the real space change can lead to the modification of topological states. Their symmetry-based indicators and topological invariants have been analyzed based on LC. We propose that LaSbTe is an ideal example demonstrating the LC paradigm, which bridges the crystal structures in real space to the band topology in momentum space.
Improving water quality in Waikato-Waipa Catchment: Options for dry
Creators: name: Olubode-Awosola, Femi
name: Palmer, Jon
name: Webby, Rex
name: Jamieson, Ian
name: Olubode-Awosola, Femi
name: Palmer, Jon
name: Webby, Rex
name: Jamieson, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: sheep and beef farming
subject: water quality
subject: nutrient loss
subject: mitigation
subject: farmlevel
subject: abatement
subject: catchment

description: Sheep and beef farming industry is probably more challenging than any other industries in New Zealand. Farm costs are rising without corresponding price increases for wool and meat. On top of that is the reality that restoring and maintaining water quality has gone beyond expectations on any one industry alone. As part of a project to study the costs of meeting water quality in Waikato region, sheep and beef, including dairy support farms were surveyed to identify 5 ‘typical’ case study farms/systems in terms of main enterprises and other factors that characterise the farms. The farms were then modelled with different but relevant nutrient loss mitigation practices based on the farms’ main enterprises and characteristics. FARMAX® model was applied to investigate biological feasibility and financial implications of the mitigation practices and then OVERSEER® model was applied to estimate the nutrient budgets associated with the mitigation practices. The results show some trade-off, but also, that mitigating nutrient loss is possible even with increased financial net benefits in some cases. However, the socio-economic, cultural and demographic factors that could impact on farmers' decision were not captured with the data used and so those factors have not been considered.
The Cosmological Constant and the Deconstruction of Gravity
Creators: name: Jejjala, Vishnu
name: Leigh, Robert G.
name: Minic, Djordje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Witten has presented an argument for the vanishing of the cosmological constant in 2+1 dimensions. This argument is crucially tied to the specific properties of (2+1)-dimensional gravity. We argue that this reasoning can be deconstructed to 3+1 dimensions under certain conditions. Our observation is also tied to a possibility that there exists a well-defined UV completion of (3+1)-dimensional gravity.
description: LaTeX, 17 pages; references added, arguments clarified, discussion on the scaling of entropy added
Quark Transverse Parton Distribution at the Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order
Creators: name: Luo, Ming-xing
name: Yang, Tong-Zhi
name: Zhu, Hua Xing
name: Zhu, Yu Jiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a calculation of the perturbative matching coefficients for the transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions for quark at the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD, which involves calculation of non-standard Feynman integrals with rapidity divergence. We introduce a set of generalized Integration-By-Parts equations, which allows an algorithmic evaluation of such integrals using the machinery of modern Feynman integral calculation.
description: v1:5+19 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added; v3: fig. 3 added. journal version; v4: Coefficient for d33 in (A.13) corrected, fig. 2 updated, ancillary files updated, numerical fitting added
Clinical Requirements of Future Patient Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Poncette, Akira-Sebastian
name: Spies, Claudia
name: Mosch, Lina
name: Schieler, Monique
name: Weber-Carstens, Steffen
name: Krampe, Henning
name: Balzer, Felix
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: design thinking
subject: digital health
subject: digital literacy
subject: grounded theory
subject: intensive care medicine
subject: multidisciplinary
subject: patient monitoring
subject: qualitative research
subject: user-centered design
subject: intensive care unit
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: BACKGROUND: In the intensive care unit (ICU), continuous patient monitoring is essential to detect critical changes in patients' health statuses and to guide therapy. The implementation of digital health technologies for patient monitoring may further improve patient safety. However, most monitoring devices today are still based on technologies from the 1970s. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate statements by ICU staff on the current patient monitoring systems and their expectations for future technological developments in order to investigate clinical requirements and barriers to the implementation of future patient monitoring. METHODS: This prospective study was conducted at three intensive care units of a German university hospital. Guideline-based interviews with ICU staff-5 physicians, 6 nurses, and 4 respiratory therapists-were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using the grounded theory approach. RESULTS: Evaluating the current monitoring system, ICU staff put high emphasis on usability factors such as intuitiveness and visualization. Trend analysis was rarely used; inadequate alarm management as well as the entanglement of monitoring cables were rated as potential patient safety issues. For a future system, the importance of high usability was again emphasized; wireless, noninvasive, and interoperable monitoring sensors were desired; mobile phones for remote patient monitoring and alarm management optimization were needed; and clinical decision support systems based on artificial intelligence were considered useful. Among perceived barriers to implementation of novel technology were lack of trust, fear of losing clinical skills, fear of increasing workload, and lack of awareness of available digital technologies. CONCLUSIONS: This qualitative study on patient monitoring involves core statements from ICU staff. To promote a rapid and sustainable implementation of digital health solutions in the ICU, all health care stakeholders must focus more on user-derived findings. Results on alarm management or mobile devices may be used to prepare ICU staff to use novel technology, to reduce alarm fatigue, to improve medical device usability, and to advance interoperability standards in intensive care medicine. For digital transformation in health care, increasing the trust and awareness of ICU staff in digital health technology may be an essential prerequisite.
Credit Constraints and Impact on Farm Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam’s North Central Coast region
Creators: name: Tran, Minh Chau
name: Gan, Christopher
name: Hu, Baiding
name: Tran, Minh Chau
name: Gan, Christopher
name: Hu, Baiding
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Credit constraint
subject: determinants
subject: impact
subject: welfare
subject: rural households

description: This study aims at identifying factors affecting formal credit constraint status of rural farm households in Vietnam’s North Central Coast region (NCC). Using the Direct Elicitation method (DEM), we consider both internal and external credit rationing. Empirical evidences confirm the importance of household head’s age, gender and education to household’s likelihood of being credit constrained. In addition, households who have advantages in farm land size, labour resources and non-farm income are less likely to be credit constrained. Poor households are observed to remain restricted by formal credit institutions. Results from the Endogenous Switching Regression model suggest that credit constraints have negative impact on household’s consumption per capita and informal credit can act as a substitute to mitigate the negative influence of formal credit constraints.
The true cost of milk: Environmental deterioration Vs. profit in the New Zealand dairy industry
Creators: name: Foote, Kyleisha
name: Joy, Mike
name: Foote, Kyleisha
name: Joy, Mike
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: New Zealand dairy farming
subject: intensification
subject: externalities
subject: environmental impacts

description: Over the past two decades, major increases in production have occurred in the New Zealand dairy industry. This has required the use of externally sourced inputs, particularly fertiliser, feed supplements, and irrigation. Contemporary New Zealand dairy farming practice incurs environmental externalities: impacts that are not paid for by the dairy farmer. Hence, the public is left to deal with these externalities, both regarding the economic responsibility and environmental degradation. This study estimated that the economic cost of environmental externalities is higher than the 2012 dairy export revenue of $11.6 billion.
Numerical Semigroups generated by Primes
Creators: name: Hellus, Michael
name: Rechenauer, Anton
name: Waldi, Rolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D07 (Primary) 11P32, 20M14 (Secondary)

description: Let $p_1=2, p_2=3, p_3=5, \ldots$ be the consecutive prime numbers, $S_n$ the numerical semigroup generated by the primes not less than $p_n$ and $u_n$ the largest irredundant generator of $S_n$. We will show, that $\bullet$ $u_n\sim3p_n$. Similarly, for the largest integer $f_n$ not contained in $S_n$, by computational evidence we suspect that $\bullet$ $f_n$ is an odd number for $n\geq5$ and $\bullet$ $f_n\sim3p_n$; further $\bullet$ $4p_n>f_{n+1}$ for $n\geq1$. If $f_n$ is odd for large $n$, then $f_n\sim3p_n$. In case $f_n\sim3p_n$ every large even integer $x$ is the sum of two primes. If $4p_n>f_{n+1}$ for $n\geq1$, then the Goldbach conjecture holds true. Further, Wilf's question in [12] has a positive answer for the semigroups $S_n$.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures; added references for tables
Aceria pinnipes
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria pinnipes

description: Aceria pinnipes (Nalepa, 1918)
 Eriophyes pinnipes Nalepa, 1918: 57–58.
 Aceria pinnipes; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 75.
 Host. Flueggea virosa (Euphorbiaceae).
 Habit. Galls.
 Distribution. Indonesia (Java).
 Remarks. Nalepa (1918) provided no figures for this species.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 41
Collective excitations of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate in liquid phase with spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Sahu, Saswata
name: Majumder, Dwipesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the collective excitation of Bose-Einstein condensate of short range weak interacting atoms with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in two dimension in liquid phase. In our study, we have included Rashba, Dresselhaus SOC as well as Raman SOC. The study of Bogoliubov excitation shows that in small interaction case only phonon modes are present and for higher interactions roton modes start to appear. Energy spectra contain two roton modes in the system relatively strong interacting atomic system.
Hypoxia and mesenchymal stromal cells as key drivers of initial fracture healing in an equine in vitro fracture hematoma model
Creators: name: Pfeiffenberger, Moritz
name: Bartsch, Janika
name: Hoff, Paula
name: Ponomarev, Igor
name: Barnewitz, Dirk
name: Thöne-Reineke, Christa
name: Buttgereit, Frank
name: Gaber, Timo
name: Lang, Annemarie
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fracture
subject: Horse
subject: equine orthopedics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Fractures in horses–whether simple fractures with just one clean break, or incomplete greenstick with stress fractures, or complications such as shattered bones can all be either minimal or even catastrophic. Thus, improvement in fracture healing is a hallmark in equine orthopedics. The fracture healing process implements a complex sequence of events including the initial inflammatory phase removing damaged tissue, re-establishment of vessels and mesenchymal stromal cells, a soft and hard callus phase closing the fracture gap as well as the remodeling phase shaping the bone to a scar-free tissue. Detailed knowledge on processes in equine fracture healing in general and on the initial phase in particular is apparently very limited. Therefore, we generated equine in vitro fracture hematoma models (FH models) to study time-dependent changes in cell composition and RNA-expression for the most prominent cells in the FH model (immune cells, mesenchymal stromal cells) under conditions most closely adapted to the in vivo situation (hypoxia) by using flow cytometry and qPCR. In order to analyze the impact of mesenchymal stromal cells in greater detail, we also incubated blood clots without the addition of mesenchymal stromal cells under the same conditions as a control. We observed a superior survival capacity of mesenchymal stromal cells over immune cells within our FH model maintained under hypoxia. Furthermore, we demonstrate an upregulation of relevant angiogenic, osteogenic and hypoxiainduced markers within 48 h, a time well-known to be crucial for proper fracture healing.
title: An "Earthly Paradise": William Morris's Later Prose Romances
Creators: name: Gardner, Carolyn Adele
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1996

description:
William Norris, prominent Pre-Raphaelite poet and early Socialist thinker, devoted the final six years of his life not to poetry or Socialism, but to the creation of a new literary genre, the prose romance. Following the initial publication of the later prose romances between 1890-1896, few critics have attempted to analyze Norris's last works; moreover, those who have done so, have generally either dismissed the romances as escapist fantasies or twisted the narratives of these romances in an attempt to demonstrate the presence of Marxist allegories thought to accord with Norris's Socialism. Yet Norris's later prose romances, uniting his philosophies about art and society within the representational format of fiction, are escapist only insofar as are other utopian works, which tend to take on fantastic characteristics as a means of countering the prevailing conventions of the society they would replace. Nor do the later prose romances merely represent a continuation of Norris's Socialist philosophies: rather, they form the culmination of the utopian vision which Norris had been developing throughout his career--a vision which had, in fact, drawn him to Socialism in the 1880's as a possible method of achieving the ideal society. An analysis of the later prose romances which focuses on the motivating values of the characters who are able to achieve versions of Morris's ideal society reveals the underlying principles of Norris's utopian philosophy. The later prose romances hold an essential place, therefore, within a complete understanding of Norris's artistic vision.
Marek Jan Olbrycht, The Sacral Kingship of the Early Arsacids. Fire Cult and Kingly Glory, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 7, 2016, 91-106.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, The Sacral Kingship of the Early Arsacids. Fire Cult and Kingly Glory, Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia 7, 2016, 91-106.
Mental disorders and mental health symptoms during imprisonment: A three-year follow-up study
Creators: name: Gabrysch, Caroline
name: Fritsch, Rosemarie
name: Priebe, Stefan
name: Mundt, Adrian P.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Imprisonment
subject: mental disorders
subject: south america
subject: depression
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: BACKGROUND: Data on the course of mental disorders during imprisonment are scarce. Longitudinal studies from high-income Western countries point to improvements of symptoms over time. The aim of the present study was to assess mental disorders and symptoms three years after baseline evaluation at imprisonment and to determine predictors of change in a South American prison context. METHODS: Consecutively admitted prisoners in Santiago de Chile were assessed at intake and reassessed after three years using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview and the Symptom-Check-List 90 Revised (SCL-90-R). The global severity index (GSI) was calculated with standard deviations (SD) and compared using paired t-tests. The prevalence of mental disorders at baseline and at follow-up were compared using McNemar tests. Analyses of variance were conducted to evaluate whether prespecified socio-demographic variables and disorders at baseline predicted symptom change at follow-up. RESULTS: 73 (94%) out of 78 prisoners participated. The prevalence of major mental illnesses was lower at follow-up: 47 (64%) at intake vs. 23 (32%) at follow-up had major depression (p<0.001); 22 (30%) at intake vs. 10 (14%) at follow-up had psychosis (p = 0.008). The mean GSI improved from 1.97 (SD 0.65) at intake to 1.16 (SD 0.82) at follow-up (p<0.001). Depression at baseline (F = 9.39; [Formula: see text] = 0.137; β = -0.67; p = 0.003) and working or studying during imprisonment (F = 10.61; [Formula: see text] = 0.152; β = -0.71; p = 0.002) were associated with strong improvement of the GSI at follow-up, whereas psychosis at intake was associated with relatively small symptom improvement (F = 12.11; [Formula: see text] = 0.17; β = 0.81; p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: In a resource poor prison context in South America, mental health symptoms and disorders improve considerably over three years during imprisonment. This applies especially to people with depression at intake. Offers to work or study during imprisonment may improve mental health outcomes.
Improved visualisation of hepatic metastases in gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MRI: Potential of contrast-optimised (phase-sensitive) inversion recovery imaging
Creators: name: Fahlenkamp, Ute Lina
name: Engel, Günther
name: Adams, Lisa Christine
name: Böker, Sarah Maria
name: Huynh Anh, Minh
name: Wagner, Moritz
name: Hamm, Bernd
name: Makowski, Marcus Richard
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: hepatic metastases
subject: gadoxetate disodium-enhanced
subject: MRI
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: BACKGROUND: Detection of metastases can have a significant impact on therapy. Nevertheless, even in gadoxetate disodium-enhanced MR scans, very small hepatic metastases may be difficult to see. PURPOSE: To investigate the potential of a contrast-optimised (phase-sensitive) inversion recovery MR sequence in gadoxetate disodium-enhanced scans for detection of hepatic metastases. MATERIALS AND METHODS: With institutional review board approval and after written informed consent, 40 patients (18 male, 22 female) with suspected or known hepatic metastases were examined on a 1.5 T MR system. A T1-weighted gradient-echo volumetric-interpolated-breath-hold (VIBE) sequence was acquired as part of the standard imaging protocol 20 minutes after administration of gadoxetate disodium. Additionally, an IR sequence was acquired with an inversion time to suppress native signal from metastases. Overall image quality and delineation of lesions were assessed on VIBE as well as on magnitude-reconstructed (MAG) and phase-sensitive IR (PSIR) sequences. Lesion-to-liver contrast (LLC) was compared between VIBE and MAG images. RESULTS: Overall image quality was high in both VIBE and MAG IR sequences (VIBE 4.275; MAG 4.313), yet significantly lower in PSIR (4.038). Subjective delineation of lesions was higher on MAG and PSIR images compared to VIBE in all size groups with an overall statistically significant difference for VIBE vs. MAG vs. PSIR (p < .001) in the variance analysis. Mean LLC was 0.35±0.01 for VIBE sequences, and 0.73±0.01 for MAG. CONCLUSION: Contrast-optimised PSIR seems to improve imaging characteristics of hepatic metastases in gadoxetate disodium-enhanced scans compared to T1 gradient-echo VIBE sequences.
Andragoras in Parthia-Hyrkania (Literary Sources), in: Traces of Empires, ed. R. Muradov, Kabul-Bishkek 2018, 361-372.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, Andragoras in Parthia-Hyrkania (Literary Sources), in: Traces of Empires, ed. R. Muradov, Kabul-Bishkek 2018, 361-372.
Dairy farming - but not as we know it?
Creators: name: Pellow, Ron
name: Edwards, Grant
name: Pellow, Ron
name: Edwards, Grant
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: DAIRY FARMING SYSTEMS
subject: NITROGEN LOSS
subject: PROFIT

description: Lincoln University Dairy Farm is a well-known, frequently visited commercial demonstration farm, operated by the South Island Dairying Development Centre (SIDDC) to showcase best practice sustainable, profitable farming. In late February 2014, part way through a very high payout and production season, the farm adapted its management to ensure predicted nitrogen leaching did not exceed that of past seasons. This action resulted in 8% less N-loss than the 2012-13 season and 17% less than initially forecast for the 2013-14 season (as predicted with Overseer®). The farm therefore made substantial progress in regard to the changing expectations expressed via the community and through the regional council’s (proposed) Land and Water Regional Plan. The cost however was approximately $84,000 for this individual farm. If extrapolated across the Canterbury region’s 1000 dairy farms, this impact would markedly change the local economy. Uncomfortable with the above outcome, yet seeing potential legislative reductions in N-loss within 2.5 years, LUDF is voluntarily changing its management for the 2014-15 season to operate with lower N-loss. The farm is adopting research undertaken within the Pastoral 21 (P21) research programme whereby farm systems research with self-contained farmlets has shown an irrigated nil-infrastructure, low input (N-fertiliser and supplement) system is theoretically as profitable as the previous system at LUDF, yet should further reduce the catchment nutrient loss. The farm management system of a nil-infrastructure, low input farm operated at scale on large dairy farms is still being developed and will determine the opportunity (or cost) of adapting management practices to the changing expectations and requirements of farmers in coming years.
Aceria pipturi Keifer 1966
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aceria
Aceria pipturi

description: Aceria pipturi Keifer, 1966
 Aceria pipturi Keifer, 1966a: 15–16.
 Aceria pipturi; Corpuz-Raros, 1989: 319.
 Aceria pipturi; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 75.
 Host. Pipturus arborescens (Urticaceae).
 Habit. Galls.
 Distribution. The Philippines (Albay).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 41
Hanle effect in coherent backscattering
Creators: name: Labeyrie, G.
name: Miniatura, C.
name: Mueller, C. A.
name: Sigwarth, O.
name: Delande, D.
name: Kaiser, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the shape of the coherent backscattering (CBS) cone obtained when resonant light illuminates a thick cloud of laser-cooled rubidium atoms in presence of a homogenous magnetic field. We observe new magnetic field-dependent anisotropies in the CBS signal. We show that the observed behavior is due to the modification of the atomic radiation pattern by the magnetic field (Hanle effect in the excited state).
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Discovery and Validation of Novel Biomarkers for Detection of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
Creators: name: Kulbe, Hagen
name: Otto, Raik
name: Darb-Esfahani, Silvia
name: Lammert, Hedwig
name: Abobaker, Salem
name: Welsch, Gabriele
name: Chekerov, Radoslav
name: Schäfer, Reinhold
name: Dragun, Duska
name: Hummel, Michael
name: Leser, Ulf
name: Sehouli, Jalid
name: Braicu, Elena Ioana
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: biomarker discovery
subject: differential expression
subject: ovarian cancer
subject: tumour microenvironment
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Detection of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) poses a critical medical challenge. However, novel biomarkers for diagnosis remain to be discovered. Therefore, innovative approaches are of the utmost importance for patient outcome. Here, we present a concept for blood-based biomarker discovery, investigating both epithelial and specifically stromal compartments, which have been neglected in search for novel candidates. We queried gene expression profiles of EOC including microdissected epithelium and adjacent stroma from benign and malignant tumours. Genes significantly differentially expressed within either the epithelial or the stromal compartments were retrieved. The expression of genes whose products are secreted yet absent in the blood of healthy donors were validated in tissue and blood from patients with pelvic mass by NanoString analysis. Results were confirmed by the comprehensive gene expression database, CSIOVDB (Ovarian cancer database of Cancer Science Institute Singapore). The top 25% of candidate genes were explored for their biomarker potential, and twelve were able to discriminate between benign and malignant tumours on transcript levels (p < 0.05). Among them T-cell differentiation protein myelin and lymphocyte (MAL), aurora kinase A (AURKA), stroma-derived candidates versican (VCAN), and syndecan-3 (SDC), which performed significantly better than the recently reported biomarker fibroblast growth factor 18 (FGF18) to discern malignant from benign conditions. Furthermore, elevated MAL and AURKA expression levels correlated significantly with a poor prognosis. We identified promising novel candidates and found the stroma of EOC to be a suitable compartment for biomarker discovery.
Tradable Renewable Quota vs. Feed-In Tariff vs. Feed-In Premium under Uncertainty
Creators: name: Marschinski, Robert
name: Quirion, Philippe
name: Marschinski, Robert
name: Quirion, Philippe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Feed-in Premium
subject: Feed-in Tariff
subject: Renewable Energy Policy
subject: Renewable Portfolio Standard
subject: Tradable Renewable Quota
subject: Uncertainty

description: We study the performance under uncertainty of three renewable energy policy instruments: Tradable Renewable Quota (TRQ), Feed-In-Tariff (FIT), and Feed-In-Premium (FIP). We develop a stylized model of the electricity market, where renewables are characterized by a positive learning externality, which the regulator aims to internalize. Assuming shocks on the fossil-based electricity supply, renewables supply, or on total electricity demand, we analytically derive the conditions determining the instruments’ relative welfare ranking. Although we generally confirm the key role of the slopes of marginal benefits and costs associated with the policy, the specific ranking depends on which type of uncertainty is considered, and whether shocks are permanent or transitory. However, a high learning rate generally favours the FIT, while TRQ is mostly dominated by the other two instruments. These results are confirmed in a numerical application to the US electricity market, in which the FIP emerges as the most and TRQ as the least robust overall choice.
TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN THE PRESENCE OF DOMESTIC REGULATIONS: IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED EU-U.S. FREE TRADE AGREEMENT ON WINE MARKETS
Creators: name: Rickard, Bradley J.
name: Gergaud, Olivier
name: Ho, Shuay-Tsyr
name: Hu, Wenjing
name: Rickard, Bradley J.
name: Gergaud, Olivier
name: Ho, Shuay-Tsyr
name: Hu, Wenjing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Domestic regulations
subject: EU-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
subject: Non-tariff barriers
subject: Simulation model
subject: Trade policy
subject: Wine

description: The United States and the European Union (EU) have embarked on ambitious negotiations to create a comprehensive free trade agreement known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Agricultural markets receive relatively high levels of support and protection in both regions, and therefore are sensitive to the discussions surrounding the TTIP. Wine is the highest valued agricultural product traded between the United States and the EU, and any reduction in trade barriers resulting from the TTIP has the capacity to generate additional trade in this sector. We carefully develop parameters to characterize the effects of tariffs and domestic regulations that affect production and consumption of wine in these two regions. Results show that reductions in tariffs would have relatively small effects in these wine markets, whereas reductions in EU domestic policies that affect wine grape production would have much larger trade and welfare implications.
Substrate induced nanoscale resistance variation in epitaxial graphene
Creators: name: Sinterhauf, Anna
name: Traeger, Georg Alexander
name: Pakdehi, Davood Momeni
name: Schädlich, Philip
name: Willke, Philip
name: Speck, Florian
name: Seyller, Thomas
name: Tegenkamp, Christoph
name: Pierz, Klaus
name: Schumacher, Hans Werner
name: Wenderoth, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene, the first true two-dimensional material still reveals the most remarkable transport properties among the growing class of two-dimensional materials. Although many studies have investigated fundamental scattering processes, the surprisingly large variation in the experimentally determined resistances associated with a localized defect is still an open issue. Here, we quantitatively investigate the local transport properties of graphene prepared by polymer assisted sublimation growth (PASG) using scanning tunneling potentiometry. PASG graphene is characterized by a spatially homogeneous current density, which allows to analyze variations in the local electrochemical potential with high precision. We utilize this possibility by examining the local sheet resistance finding a significant variation of up to 270% at low temperatures. We identify a correlation of the sheet resistance with the stacking sequence of the 6H-SiC substrate as well as with the distance between the graphene sheet and the substrate. Our results experimentally quantify the strong impact of the graphene-substrate interaction on the local transport properties of graphene.
description: 27 pages main text, 4 figures and 11 pages supplementary information, 17 figures. This is a pre-print of an article published in Nature Communications
421-1735-1-PB.pdf
Creators: name: Giovana Gomes Estanislau
name: Agostinho, Luciana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Abstract There is a great variability in literature in the forms of clinical description, diagnosis, treatment and criteria used for the genetic test on breast and ovarian cancer. The aim of this study was to conduct a literature review about breast and ovarian cancer, investigating the phenotype of the affected patients and the frequency of the mutation in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. We also investigated the data variability reported in these studies. This study was performed in Pubmed and Scielo databases from 1997 to 2017. The analyzed data were: criteria for genetic testing, frequency of mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, tumor characteristics, family history, genetic counseling, treatment and age of diagnosis in affected patients. Twenty-three studies were selected from 419 articles at the beginning of our search in the Pubmed and Scielo database. All studies reported the family history of cancer, 16 articles presented the mean age at diagnosis, 11 described tumor characteristics, 21 described the prevalence of mutations and only 4 reported genetic counseling. All data were reported and compared in this review. Most studies use heterogeneous concepts and terms, and only few studies properly describe the association between the phenotype and genotype of the investigated cases. The variability of the reported data in each study makes it difficult to reliably compare them when analysed together, besides it makes the understanding of these studies complex by the scientific community.
A TALE OF REPETITION:LESSONS FROM FLORIDA RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS
Creators: name: Jin, Ginger Zhe
name: Lee, Jungmin
name: Jin, Ginger Zhe
name: Lee, Jungmin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: restaurants
subject: hygiene

description: We examine the role of repetition in government regulation. Using Florida restaurant inspection data from 2003 to 2010, we find that inspectors new to the inspected restaurant report 12.7-17.5% more violations than the second visit of a repeat inspector. This effect is even more pronounced if the previous inspector had inspected the restaurant more times. The difference between new and repeat inspectors is driven partly by inspector heterogeneity in inherent taste and stringency, and partly by new inspectors having fresher eyes in the first visit of a restaurant. These findings highlight the importance of inspector assignment in regulatory outcomes.
Control of anomalous diffusion of a Bose polaron
Creators: name: Charalambous, Christos
name: García-March, Miguel Ángel
name: Muñoz-Gil, Gorka
name: Grzybowski, Przemysław Ryszard
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the diffusive behavior of a Bose polaron immersed in a coherently coupled two-component Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). Polaron superdiffuses if it couples in the same manner to both components, i.e. either attractively or repulsively to both of them. This is the same behavior as that of an impurity immersed in a single BEC. Conversely, the polaron exhibits a transient nontrivial subdiffusive behavior if it couples attractively to one of the components and repulsively to the other. The anomalous diffusion exponent and the duration of the subdiffusive interval can be controlled with the Rabi frequency of the coherent coupling between the two components, and with the coupling strength of the impurity to the BEC.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
Fluctuating brane in a dilatonic bulk
Creators: name: Brax, Philippe
name: Langlois, David
name: Rodriguez-Martinez, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a cosmological brane moving in a static five-dimensional bulk spacetime endowed with a scalar field whose potential is exponential. After studying various cosmological behaviours for the homogeneous background, we investigate the fluctuations of the brane that leave spacetime unaffected. A single mode embodies these fluctuations and obeys a wave equation which we study for bouncing and ever-expanding branes.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, revtex
Marek Jan Olbrycht, Andragoras in Parthia-Hyrkania (Literary Sources), in: Traces of Empires, ed. R. Muradov, Kabul-Bishkek 2018, 361-372.
Creators: name: Olbrycht, Marek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History

description: Marek Jan Olbrycht, Andragoras in Parthia-Hyrkania (Literary Sources), in: Traces of Empires, ed. R. Muradov, Kabul-Bishkek 2018, 361-372.