cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gestational diabetes screening changes and impacts on diagnosis
Creators: name: Nethery, Elizabeth M K
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects between 2-40% of pregnancies worldwide, depending on diagnostic and screening methods. Changes in screening practices are not well understood because administrative sources lack data on whether or how individuals were screened. The objectives of this thesis were to: 1) validate a method to identify prenatal screening for GDM and other conditions in administrative health data; 2) describe changes in GDM screening; 3) evaluate the relative contributions of screening and population characteristics to changes in GDM risk; 4) characterize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy weight gain and infant birthweight. Methods: Laboratory billing records from BC’s universal health insurance system for prenatal screening tests were compared with medical records by calculating validation properties. All pregnancies (birth >20wks or >500g) in British Columbia, Canada, 2005-2019, with linked perinatal health and administrative data, were used to examine time trends in GDM screening methods, trends within subgroups, and the effect of screening changes on prevalence. A second cohort from Washington State, 2016-2020, was analyzed using an interrupted time series design, to assess COVID-19 impacts on pregnancy weight gain and infant birthweight using z-scores. Results: GDM screening in laboratory billing records had a high sensitivity (97% [95% CI: 90, 99]) and specificity (>99% [95% CI: 86, <99]) compared with medical records. GDM diagnoses in BC more than doubled from 7.2% in 2005 to 14.7% in 2019 (n=550,783 pregnancies). Most of this increase was explained by changes in screening; adjustment for population factors had minimal impact. In Washington state, using an interrupted time series, pregnancy weight gain z-score increased by 0.08 (95% CI 0.03, 0.13) after the COVID-19 pandemic onset and infant birthweight z-scores were unchanged (-0.004, 95% CI (-0.04, 0.03)). Conclusion: Prenatal screening tests can be accurately ascertained using BC insurance billing data. Changes in GDM screening completion and in screening methods accounted for most of the increase in GDM diagnosis in BC since 2005. Covid-19 pandemic countermeasures were associated with an increase in pregnancy weight gain but not infant birthweight. Public health and future researchers should understand how screening changes can directly affect disease prevalence.
Additional file 3 of Evaluating the impact of 18F-FDG-PET-CT on risk stratification and treatment adaptation for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (EFFORT-MIBC): a phase II prospective trial
Creators: name: Verghote, Flor
name: Poppe, Lindsay
name: Verbeke, Sofie
name: Dirix, Piet
name: Albersen, Maarten
name: De Meerleer, Gert
name: Berghen, Charlien
name: Ost, Piet
name: Villeirs, Geert
name: De Visschere, Pieter
name: De Man, Kathia
name: De Maeseneer, Daan
name: Rottey, Sylvie
name: Van Praet, Charles
name: Decaestecker, Karel
name: Fonteyne, Valérie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 3. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) procedure, conducted as metastasis directed therapy (MDT) in treatment arm 2.
Impact of Population III stars on the astrophysical gravitational-wave background
Creators: name: Kouvatsos, Nikolaos
name: Sakellariadou, Mairi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the astrophysical gravitational-wave background resulting from compact binary coalescences, focusing on Population III binary black holes. We exploit results of state-of-the-art simulations on the evolution of Population I-II and III binaries, considering a variety of initial condition and star formation rate models for the latter. The contribution from Population III binary black holes is found to be very small, with no effect on the gravitational-wave spectrum. A network of third-generation detectors will detect easier individual Population III binaries, due to their significantly higher masses, hence decreasing even further their residual contribution.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Projective simulation for artificial intelligence
Creators: name: Briegel, Hans J.
name: Cuevas, Gemma De las
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model of a learning agent whose interaction with the environment is governed by a simulation-based projection, which allows the agent to project itself into future situations before it takes real action. Projective simulation is based on a random walk through a network of clips, which are elementary patches of episodic memory. The network of clips changes dynamically, both due to new perceptual input and due to certain compositional principles of the simulation process. During simulation, the clips are screened for specific features which trigger factual action of the agent. The scheme is different from other, computational, notions of simulation, and it provides a new element in an embodied cognitive science approach to intelligent action and learning. Our model provides a natural route for generalization to quantum-mechanical operation and connects the fields of reinforcement learning and quantum computation.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures. Close to published version, with footnotes retained
Additional file 1 of Sex affects the response of Wistar rats to polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP)-coated silver nanoparticles in an oral 28 days repeated dose toxicity study
Creators: name: Ćurlin, Marija
name: Barbir, Rinea
name: Dabelić, Sanja
name: Ljubojević, Marija
name: Goessler, Walter
name: Micek, Vedran
name: Žuntar, Irena
name: Pavić, Mirela
name: Božičević, Lucija
name: Pavičić, Ivan
name: Vinković Vrček, Ivana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Title of data: Numerical results.Data description: Tables showing data and statistics of the results of determination of biodistribution and bioaccumulation of AgNPs, biochemical analyses of the liver, kidneys and blood parameters, and Mt mRNA and protein analyses.
A unified first-principles study of Gilbert damping, spin-flip diffusion and resistivity in transition metal alloys
Creators: name: Starikov, Anton A.
name: Kelly, Paul J.
name: Brataas, Arne
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
name: Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a formulation of first-principles scattering theory that includes disorder and spin-orbit coupling on an equal footing, we calculate the resistivity $ρ$, spin flip diffusion length $l_{sf}$ and the Gilbert damping parameter $α$ for Ni$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$ substitutional alloys as a function of $x$. For the technologically important Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ alloy, permalloy, we calculate values of $ρ= 3.5 \pm 0.15$ $μ$Ohm-cm, $l_{sf}=5.5 \pm 0.3$ nm, and $α= 0.0046 \pm 0.0001$ compared to experimental low-temperature values in the range $4.2-4.8$ $μ$Ohm-cm for $ρ$, $5.0-6.0$ nm for $l_{sf}$, and $0.004-0.013$ for $α$ indicating that the theoretical formalism captures the most important contributions to these parameters.
description: Published in Physical Review Letters
Mockumentary: Parasitology Research
Creators: name: Ahn, Micky
name: Hirtle, Sarah
name: Hohman, Leah
name: Pollo, Stephen
name: Venkatesan, Abhinaya
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: A new parasite is decimating the endangered purple platytoad population! Follow scientists from the Host-Parasite Interactions group as they try to save the purple platytoad through a behind-the-scenes look at parasitology research in the field and the lab.
Additional file 1 of Biomimetic calcium carbonate nanoparticles delivered IL-12 mRNA for targeted glioblastoma sono-immunotherapy by ultrasound-induced necroptosis
Creators: name: Zhao, Pengxuan
name: Tian, Yu
name: Lu, Yongping
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Tao, Anyu
name: Xiang, Guangya
name: Liu, Yani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary materials.
Hybrid Deterministic-Stochastic Methods for Data Fitting
Creators: name: Friedlander, Michael P.
name: Schmidt, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many structured data-fitting applications require the solution of an optimization problem involving a sum over a potentially large number of measurements. Incremental gradient algorithms offer inexpensive iterations by sampling a subset of the terms in the sum. These methods can make great progress initially, but often slow as they approach a solution. In contrast, full-gradient methods achieve steady convergence at the expense of evaluating the full objective and gradient on each iteration. We explore hybrid methods that exhibit the benefits of both approaches. Rate-of-convergence analysis shows that by controlling the sample size in an incremental gradient algorithm, it is possible to maintain the steady convergence rates of full-gradient methods. We detail a practical quasi-Newton implementation based on this approach. Numerical experiments illustrate its potential benefits.
description: 26 pages. Revised proofs of Theorems 2.6 and 3.1, results unchanged
Additional file 1 of Non-destructive quantification of anaerobic gut fungi and methanogens in co-culture reveals increased fungal growth rate and changes in metabolic flux relative to mono-culture
Creators: name: Leggieri, Patrick A.
name: Kerdman-Andrade, Corey
name: Lankiewicz, Thomas S.
name: Valentine, Megan T.
name: O’Malley, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Images (left) and micrographs (right) of rhizoidal AGF N. lanati (top) in biofilm-like morphology and non-rhizoidal AGF C. churrovis (bottom) in well-mixed cell suspension. Both cultures shown here grown in Medium B on soluble sugars. The C. churrovis culture is amenable to growth tracking via optical density of small culture samples, while the N. lanati culture is not.
Exploring the nature of dark matter with the extreme galaxy AGC 114905
Creators: name: Piña, Pavel E. Mancera
name: Golini, Giulia
name: Trujillo, Ignacio
name: Montes, Mireia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AGC 114905 is a dwarf gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxy seemingly in tension with the cold dark matter (CDM) model. Specifically, the galaxy appears to have an extremely low-density halo and a high baryon fraction, while CDM predicts dwarfs to have very dense and dominant dark haloes. The alleged tension relies on the galaxy's rotation curve decomposition, which depends heavily on its inclination. This inclination, estimated from the gas (neutral atomic hydrogen, HI) morphology, remains somewhat uncertain. We present unmatched ultra-deep optical imaging of AGC 114905 reaching surface brightness limits $μ_{\rm r,lim} \approx 32$ mag/arcsec$^2$ ($3σ$; 10 arcsec $\times$ 10 arcsec) obtained with the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias. With the new imaging, we characterise the galaxy's morphology, surface brightness, colours, and stellar mass profiles in great detail. The stellar disc has a similar extent as the gas, presents spiral arms-like features, and shows a well-defined edge. Stars and gas share similar morphology, and crucially, we find an inclination of $31\pm2^\circ$, in agreement with the previous determinations. We revisit the rotation curve decomposition of the galaxy, and we explore different mass models in the context of CDM, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), fuzzy dark matter (FDM) or Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). We find that the latter does not fit the circular speed of the galaxy, while CDM only does so with dark halo parameters rarely seen in cosmological simulations. Within the uncertainties, SIDM and FDM remain feasible candidates to explain the observed kinematics of AGC 114905.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. Minor changes w.r.t. previous version; results remain unchanged. Biggest update: A new figure (Fig. 3) highlighting the depth of our new optical data compared to previous imaging. References updated. 18 pages (13 figures) + appendices
Default clustering in large portfolios: Typical events
Creators: name: Giesecke, Kay
name: Spiliopoulos, Konstantinos
name: Sowers, Richard B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a dynamic point process model of correlated default timing in a portfolio of firms, and analyze typical default profiles in the limit as the size of the pool grows. In our model, a firm defaults at a stochastic intensity that is influenced by an idiosyncratic risk process, a systematic risk process common to all firms, and past defaults. We prove a law of large numbers for the default rate in the pool, which describes the "typical" behavior of defaults.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP845 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Finite volume and pseudo-spectral schemes for the fully nonlinear 1D Serre equations
Creators: name: Dutykh, Denys
name: Clamond, Didier
name: Milewski, Paul
name: Mitsotakis, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: After we derive the Serre system of equations of water wave theory from a generalized variational principle, we present some of its structural properties. We also propose a robust and accurate finite volume scheme to solve these equations in one horizontal dimension. The numerical discretization is validated by comparisons with analytical, experimental data or other numerical solutions obtained by a highly accurate pseudo-spectral method.
description: 28 pages, 16 figures, 75 references. Other author's papers can be downloaded at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/
Compilation and critical assessment of observations from a selection of historical tailings dam breach events for numerical breach and runout modelling
Creators: name: Adria, Daniel Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Tailings Dam Breach Analyses and various modelling software are used to estimate consequences of a hypothetical failure at a Tailings Storage Facility. The results of such forward-analyses are used in risk assessments and emergency planning. Many model inputs and approaches are currently based on expert judgment or adapted from other fields. There is some existing research and guidance for modelling approaches applicable for Tailings Dam Breach Analyses, however, there are few resources available that assess the hydrotechnical and geotechnical characteristics for dam breach and runout modelling from multiple diverse events. This presents a challenge for the experts who must make specific judgements for forward-analysis with little available hindsight into previous events. To address this knowledge gap, detailed investigations into 12 historical tailings dam breach events across a range of Tailings Storage Facility arrangements and taxonomies were completed. The investigations considered the outflow volumes, breach characteristics, and observations of downstream impacts. Some of these values or observations were previously reported by others for some events, but never previously compiled for the specific purpose of breach and runout modelling. These previous reports were critically assessed and included where relevant. Several original interpretations were made, and novel data were uncovered for many of the events evaluated in this thesis. Misconceptions regarding the events were frequently encountered, which likely contribute to the existing dearth of hindsight. Using the compiled information, a back-analysis model was developed to simultaneously simulate the breach and the tailings runout for the 12 events using HEC-RAS. HEC-RAS is a publicly available software for water resources and geohazards modelling. The modelling used the parametric breach method and non-Newtonian flow capabilities within HEC-RAS. The non-Newtonian flow parameters were determined through a comprehensive calibration process. The quality of the terrain data and misconceptions were found to be the most influential on model fit to any observed impact. The investigations and 12 models form the most comprehensive, diverse, and detailed tailings dam breach database to date. The insights from the investigations and modelling are applicable to forward-analysis Tailings Dam Breach Analyses, and the database serves as a springboard for multiple avenues of future research.
Divisibility of Power Sums and the Generalized Erdos-Moser Equation
Creators: name: MacMillan, Kieren
name: Sondow, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D79 (Primary) 11D61 (Secondary)

description: Using elementary methods, we determine the highest power of 2 dividing a power sum 1^n + 2^n + . . . + m^n, generalizing Lengyel's formula for the case where m is itself a power of 2. An application is a simple proof of Moree's result that, if (a,m,n) is any solution of the generalized Erdos-Moser Diophantine equation 1^n + 2^n + . . . + (m-1)^n = am^n, then m is odd.
description: 4 pages, simplified proof of Proposition 1, added reference [4]
title: Sensing Molecules with Metal–Organic Framework Functionalized Graphene Transistors
Creators: name: Kumar, Sandeep
name: Pramudya, Yohanes
name: Müller, Kai
name: Chandresh, Abhinav
name: Dehm, Simone
name: Heidrich, Shahriar
name: Fediai, Artem
name: Parmar, Devang
name: Perera, Delwin
name: Rommel, Manuel
name: Heinke, Lars
name: Wenzel, Wolfgang
name: Wöll, Christof
name: Krupke, Ralph
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023

description: Graphene is inherently sensitive to vicinal dielectrics and local charge distributions, a property that can be probed by the position of the Dirac point in graphene field‐effect transistors. Exploiting this as a useful sensing principle requires selectivity; however, graphene itself exhibits no molecule‐specific interaction. Complementarily, metal–organic frameworks can be tailored to selective adsorption of specific molecular species. Here, a selective ethanol sensor is demonstrated by growing a surface‐mounted metal–organic framework (SURMOF) directly onto graphene field‐effect transistors (GFETs). Unprecedented shifts of the Dirac point, as large as 15 V, are observed when the SURMOF/GFET is exposed to ethanol, while a vanishingly small response is observed for isopropanol, methanol, and other constituents of the air, including water. The synthesis and conditioning of the hybrid materials sensor with its functional characteristics are described and a model is proposed to explain the origin, magnitude, and direction of the Dirac point voltage shift. Tailoring multiple SURMOFs to adsorb specific gases on an array of such devices thus generates a versatile, selective, and highly sensitive platform for sensing applications.
Additional file 1 of What values drive communities’ nutrition priorities in a resource constrained urban area in South Africa?
Creators: name: Erzse, Agnes
name: Rwafa-Ponela, Teurai
name: Goldstein, Susan
name: Motlhatlhedi, Molebogeng
name: Watson, Daniella
name: Hofman, Karen J.
name: Danis, Marion
name: Norris, Shane A.
name: Ward, Kate A.
name: Tugendhaft, Aviva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Description of the 14 CHAT interventions as provided to participants.
Additional file 2 of Non-destructive quantification of anaerobic gut fungi and methanogens in co-culture reveals increased fungal growth rate and changes in metabolic flux relative to mono-culture
Creators: name: Leggieri, Patrick A.
name: Kerdman-Andrade, Corey
name: Lankiewicz, Thomas S.
name: Valentine, Megan T.
name: O’Malley, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Comparison of C. churrovis metabolic EC numbers with the rest of the AGF phylum (Neocallimastigomycota) and with N. lanati in particular shows significant similarity in metabolic potential between C. churrovis and the rest of the AGF. Bottom row represents the total EC numbers present only in the indicated organism, relative to all of that organism’s EC numbers.
Spin Josephson effect with a single superconductor
Creators: name: Brydon, P. M. R.
name: Asano, Yasuhiro
name: Timm, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thin ferromagnetic layer on a bulk equal-spin-pairing triplet superconductor is shown to mediate a Josephson coupling between the spin $\uparrow$ and $\downarrow$ condensates of the superconductor. By deriving analytic expressions for the bound states at the triplet superconductor-ferromagnet interface, we show that this spin Josephson effect establishes an effective anisotropy axis in the ferromagnetic layer. The associated Josephson spin current is predicted to cause a measurable precession of the magnetization about the vector order parameter of the triplet superconductor.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, references added, published version
Additional file 1 of Divergent expression of aristaless1 and aristaless2 during embryonic appendage and pupal wing development in butterflies
Creators: name: Bayala, Erick X.
name: Cisneros, Isabella
name: Massardo, Darli
name: VanKuren, Nicholas W.
name: Kronforst, Marcus R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Figure 1. In situ hybridization staining against al1 and al2 transcripts across Heliconius embryonic development. In situ hybridization stainings are shown in embryos spanning 36 to 60 hours after egg deposition for both Al1 (A-D) and Al2 (E-H). Multiple embryos of specific stages stained with control sense probes for both genes are also shown (I-L).
Noninteger flux - why it does not work
Creators: name: Smilga, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Dirac operator on a 2-sphere without one point in the case of non-integer magnetic flux. We show that the spectral problem for the Hamiltonian (the square of Dirac operator) can always be well defined, if including in the Hilbert space only nonsingular on 2-sphere wave functions. However, this Hilbert space is not invariant under the action of the Dirac operator; the action of the latter on some nonsingular states produces singular functions. This breaks explicitly the supersymmetry of the spectrum. In the integer flux case, the supersymmetry can be restored if extending the Hilbert space to include locally regular sections of the corresponding fiber bundle. For non-integer fluxes, such an extention is not possible.
description: 10 pages. Eq.(20) corrected
Restitution of Mapuche lands : challenges and enabling conditions for adaptation to a changing context
Creators: name: Arias-Bustamante, José
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Mapuche people are claiming rights to their ancestral territorial spaces, including the ownership of land and control over the territory, in order to exercise the right to set their development priorities and to have the natural resources to ensure their existence as a people. However, settlers and commercial companies have legal access to the same lands and, therefore, can develop the land by the means they consider best for their own interests. The state has supported unfair practices by providing subsidies and militarizing claimed spaces (e.g., using heavy weaponry, armoured vehicles, and tear gas). On top of this, Mapuche communities, like other Indigenous communities around the globe, are experiencing the impacts of climate change (e.g., drought and forest fires combined with the impacts of introduced forest plantations). The main purpose of this study is to understand the process that Mapuche communities experience in their quest for land restitution in a constantly changing context. To accomplish this aim, I approached the issue through a specific research question: How do Mapuche people navigate the challenges and opportunities provided by a rapidly changing context to secure land restitution and their cultural survival? An inductive qualitative case study approach was adopted, informed by Indigenous methodology and constructive grounded theory. Data-collection methods were tailored to respect Indigenous protocols, values, and beliefs important to the Mapuche communities. I show that the different understandings of the land respond to an ontological conflict that affects the efforts of Mapuche communities to rebuild their ancestral territories. While navigating CONADI’s land restitution process, communities witness how settlers, seeing the land as a commodity, take advantage of the process and inflate land prices. When prices are too high, communities are asked to find alternative estates. The lack of access to capital and knowledge to maintain the control of access gained through the CONADI makes tenure security insufficient to drive climate change mitigation. If the law does not bundle land restitution and financial support for the communities to establish living conditions and conserve or restore their native forests, it will be hard for communities to avoid subscribing to environmentally detrimental agreements.
PRINCIPLES OF BOOK SELECTION IN FOSTERING READING CULTURE AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Creators: name: Ajiniyoz Nukus State Pedagogical Institute Primary Education Student Lobar Alisherovna Yusupbayeva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article highlights important aspects of fostering a reading culture among primary school students. It discusses the pedagogical, psychological, and aesthetic principles that should be considered when selecting literature aimed at young readers. The book selection process should serve to develop the student’s age-appropriate understanding, interests, thinking level, moral education, and aesthetic taste. It also emphasizes that cooperation between parents, teachers, and librarians can enhance the effectiveness of this process.

Keywords: reading culture, primary school, book selection, aesthetic education, student interest, reading motivation
$G-$Decompositions of Matrices and Related Problems I
Creators: name: Ganikhodjaev, Rasul
name: Mukhamedov, Farrukh
name: Saburov, Mansoor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A51, 47H60, 46T05, 92B99

description: In the present paper we introduce a notion of $G-$decompositions of matrices. Main result of the paper is that a symmetric matrix $A_m$ has a $G-$decomposition in the class of stochastic (resp. substochastic) matrices if and only if $A_m$ belongs to the set ${\mathbf{U}}^m$ (resp. ${\mathbf{U}}_m$). To prove the main result, we study extremal points and geometrical structures of the sets ${\mathbf{U}}^m$, ${\mathbf{U}}_m$. Note that such kind of investigations enables to study Birkhoff's problem for quadratic $G-$doubly stochastic operators.
description: 23 pages
Additional file 3 of Non-destructive quantification of anaerobic gut fungi and methanogens in co-culture reveals increased fungal growth rate and changes in metabolic flux relative to mono-culture
Creators: name: Leggieri, Patrick A.
name: Kerdman-Andrade, Corey
name: Lankiewicz, Thomas S.
name: Valentine, Megan T.
name: O’Malley, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Medium B (MB) formula and protocol. Methanogen mono-cultures receive the peptone and yeast extract additives, while co-cultures and AGF mono-cultures do not.
Adaptive Evolutionary Clustering
Creators: name: Xu, Kevin S.
name: Kliger, Mark
name: Hero, Alfred O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.3; H.3.3; G.3

description: In many practical applications of clustering, the objects to be clustered evolve over time, and a clustering result is desired at each time step. In such applications, evolutionary clustering typically outperforms traditional static clustering by producing clustering results that reflect long-term trends while being robust to short-term variations. Several evolutionary clustering algorithms have recently been proposed, often by adding a temporal smoothness penalty to the cost function of a static clustering method. In this paper, we introduce a different approach to evolutionary clustering by accurately tracking the time-varying proximities between objects followed by static clustering. We present an evolutionary clustering framework that adaptively estimates the optimal smoothing parameter using shrinkage estimation, a statistical approach that improves a naive estimate using additional information. The proposed framework can be used to extend a variety of static clustering algorithms, including hierarchical, k-means, and spectral clustering, into evolutionary clustering algorithms. Experiments on synthetic and real data sets indicate that the proposed framework outperforms static clustering and existing evolutionary clustering algorithms in many scenarios.
description: To appear in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, MATLAB toolbox available at http://tbayes.eecs.umich.edu/xukevin/affect
The evolutionary pathways of disk galaxies with different sizes
Creators: name: Ma, Hong-Chuan
name: Du, Min
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Sheng, Ming-jie
name: Liao, Shihong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the IllustrisTNG-50 simulation, a sample of 836 central disk galaxies with tiny stellar halos is chosen to study the inherent evolution of galaxies driven by nature. These galaxies are classified as compact, normal, or extended by referencing their locations on the mass-size ($M_\star-R_{\rm 1/2}$) diagram. This research demonstrates the distinctive evolutionary pathways of galaxies with different sizes in IllustrisTNG simulations, primarily driven by nature. It is confirmed that disk galaxies inherit the angular momentum of their parent dark matter halos. More compact galaxies form earlier within halos possessing lower specific angular momentum through heightened star formation during the early phase at redshifts above 2. During the later phase, the size of extended galaxies experiences more pronounced growth by accreting gas with high angular momentum. Additionally, we reveal that many key characteristics of galaxies are linked to their mass and size: (1) compact galaxies tend to exhibit higher metal content, proportional to the potential well $\frac{M_\star}{R_{\rm 1/2}}$, (2) compact galaxies host more massive bulges and black holes, and higher central concentration. Furthermore, our analysis indicates that galaxies of all types continue to actively engage in star formation, with no evident signs of quenching attributed to their varying sizes and angular momenta.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 4 of Non-destructive quantification of anaerobic gut fungi and methanogens in co-culture reveals increased fungal growth rate and changes in metabolic flux relative to mono-culture
Creators: name: Leggieri, Patrick A.
name: Kerdman-Andrade, Corey
name: Lankiewicz, Thomas S.
name: Valentine, Megan T.
name: O’Malley, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Mathematical workflow for calculating absorbance and associated uncertainty of each species (A: AGF; B: methanogen) from total co-culture fluorescence (F) and absorbance (Abs) signals. ε is the pure species absorbance per cell and Ƒ is the pure species normalized fluorescence intensity per cell.
Exact Chiral Spin Liquid with Stable Spin Fermi Surface on the Kagome Lattice
Creators: name: Chua, Victor
name: Yao, Hong
name: Fiete, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an exactly solvable quantum spin model of Kitaev type on the kagome lattice. We find a rich phase diagram which includes a topological (gapped) chiral spin liquid with gapless chiral edge states, and a gapless chiral spin liquid phase with a spin Fermi surface. The ground state of the current model contains an odd number of electrons per unit cell which qualitatively distinguishes it from previously studied exactly solvable models with a spin Fermi surface. Moreover, we show that the spin Fermi surface is stable against weak perturbations.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 5 of Non-destructive quantification of anaerobic gut fungi and methanogens in co-culture reveals increased fungal growth rate and changes in metabolic flux relative to mono-culture
Creators: name: Leggieri, Patrick A.
name: Kerdman-Andrade, Corey
name: Lankiewicz, Thomas S.
name: Valentine, Megan T.
name: O’Malley, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: The fluorescence intensity of aliquots of Pacific Blue Dye in dimethyl sulfoxide (100 µg/L) stored at -20 ºC did not significantly change over 15 months of storage, indicating its utility as a standard for fluorescence normalization. The slope of the regression of fluorescence intensity vs. time (in weeks) is not significantly different from zero (p = 0.1366), suggesting that fluorescence remains constant over the time period shown. Dotted lines represent the 95% confidence interval of the regression.
On Level One Cuspidal Bianchi Modular Forms
Creators: name: Rahm, Alexander D.
name: Sengun, Mehmet Haluk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we present the outcome of vast computer calculations, locating several of the very rare instances of level one cuspidal Bianchi modular forms that are not lifts of elliptic modular forms.
description: final version
Large-scale land investment in Ethiopia: how much land is being allocated, and features and outcomes of investments to date
Creators: name: Keeley, James
name: Wondwossen Michago  Seide
name: Abdurehman Eid
name: Admasu Lokeley
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Large-scale land investment in Ethiopia: how much land is being allocated, and features and outcomes of investments to date
Cryogenic Microwave Imaging of Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Silicon
Creators: name: Kundhikanjana, Worasom
name: Lai, Keji
name: Kelly, Michael A.
name: Shen, Zhi-Xun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the instrumentation and experimental results of a cryogenic scanning microwave impedance microscope. The microwave probe and the scanning stage are located inside the variable temperature insert of a helium cryostat. Microwave signals in the distance modulation mode are used for monitoring the tip-sample distance and adjusting the phase of the two output channels. The ability to spatially resolve the metal-insulator transition in a doped silicon sample is demonstrated. The data agree with a semi-quantitative finite-element simulation. Effects of the thermal energy and electric fields on local charge carriers can be seen in the images taken at different temperatures and DC biases.
description: 10 pages, 5 Figures, Accepted to Review of Scientific Instrument
Topology and Geometry of the Berkovich Ramification Locus for Rational Functions, II
Creators: name: Faber, Xander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H05, 11S15

description: This article is the second installment in a series on the Berkovich ramification locus for nonconstant rational functions f: P^1 -> P^1. Here we show the ramification locus of f is contained in a strong tubular neighborhood of finite radius around the connected hull of the critical points if and only if f is tamely ramified at all of its critical points. When the ground field has characteristic zero, this bound may be chosen to depend only on the residue characteristic. We give two applications to classical non-Archimedean analysis, including a new version of Rolle's theorem for rational functions.
description: this is the final version; to appear in Mathematische Annalen
Additional file 7 of Non-destructive quantification of anaerobic gut fungi and methanogens in co-culture reveals increased fungal growth rate and changes in metabolic flux relative to mono-culture
Creators: name: Leggieri, Patrick A.
name: Kerdman-Andrade, Corey
name: Lankiewicz, Thomas S.
name: Valentine, Megan T.
name: O’Malley, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Total culture absorbance (A), M. thaueri fluorescence + absorbance (B), C. churrovis concentration (C), and glucose consumption (D) curves from co-cultures inoculated with seven day-old M. thaueri culture. While methanogen growth occurred (B), neither the growth rate (C) nor glucose consumption rate (D) of C. churrovis increased in co-culture. The fluorescence of the methanogen does not diverge relative to the absorbance (B) because these slow-growing co-cultures did not fully reach stationary phase. All of these results differ from the glucose co-cultures presented in Additional File 8, in which a 48 hour-old M. thaueri culture was used for inoculation. Dotted lines represent the 95% confidence interval of each regression. The p-values in panels C and D represents a test for significant difference in the values of the slopes of the two regressions.
Quantum Phase Dynamics in an LC shunted Josephson Junction
Creators: name: Kaiser, Christoph
name: Bauch, Thilo
name: Lombardi, Floriana
name: Siegel, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied both theoretically and experimentally how an LC series circuit connected in parallel to a Josephson junction influences the Josephson dynamics. The presence of the shell circuit introduces two energy scales, which in specific cases can strongly differ from the plasma frequency of the isolated junction. Josephson junctions were manufactured using Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb fabrication technology with various on-chip LC shunt circuits. Spectroscopic measurements in the quantum limit show an excellent agreement with theory taking into account the shunt inductance and capacitance in the Resistively and Capacitively Shunted Junction model. The results clearly show that the dynamics of the system are two-dimensional, resulting in two resonant modes of the system. These findings have important implications for the design and operation of Josephson junctions based quantum bits.
Copper-cobalt double metal cyanides as green catalysts for phosphoramidate synthesis
Creators: name: Fonseca, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Phosphoramidates are common and widespread backbones of a great variety of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, additives and natural products. Conventional approaches to their synthesis make use of toxic chlorinated reagents and intermediates, which are sought to be avoided at an industrial scale. Here we report the coupling of phosphites and amines promoted by a Cu3[Co(CN)6]2-based double metal cyanide heterogeneous catalyst using I2 as additive for the synthesis of phosphoramidates.
''Manual de instrucciones'' y ''Preámbulo a las instrucciones para dar cuerda al reloj'' de Julio Cortázar. Píldora audiovisual
Creators: name: Francisca Noguerol Jiménez
name: Vega Sánchez-Aparicio
name: Andrea Elvira-Navarro
name: Borja Cano Vidal
name: José Antonio Paniagua García
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Material docente elaborado en el seno del proyecto de Innovación Docente «Elaboración de píldoras audiovisuales para la enseñanza de la literatura hispanoamericana» (ID2021/076) concedido en la Universidad de Salamanca durante el curso académico 2021/2022.
Inequalities for non-equilibrium fluctuations of work
Creators: name: Davydov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Five previously unknown inequalities relating equilibrium free energy differences and non-equilibrium work fluctuations are derived, and lucid path to derivation of many similar inequalities is presented. These results are based upon combined exploitation of the Jarzynski equality and the generalization of the scheme for producing uncertainty-type inequalities due to H. Weyl. The inequalities may possibly lead to better understanding of behavior of the equilibrium free-energy estimators from non-equilibrium experimental data in many important applications concerning biological, chemical, and physical molecular processes.
description: 11 pages, 1 table, final version
Multi-objective integer programming: An improved recursive algorithm
Creators: name: Ozlen, Melih
name: Burton, Benjamin A.
name: MacRae, Cameron A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper introduces an improved recursive algorithm to generate the set of all nondominated objective vectors for the Multi-Objective Integer Programming (MOIP) problem. We significantly improve the earlier recursive algorithm of Özlen and Azizoğlu by using the set of already solved subproblems and their solutions to avoid solving a large number of IPs. A numerical example is presented to explain the workings of the algorithm, and we conduct a series of computational experiments to show the savings that can be obtained. As our experiments show, the improvement becomes more significant as the problems grow larger in terms of the number of objectives.
description: 11 pages, 6 tables; v2: added more details and a computational study
Additional file 1 of Public relations strategies employed by the Ghana Health Service to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a qualitative inquiry
Creators: name: McCarthy, Ruth Nana Efua
name: Donkoh, Emmanuel Timmy
name: Arthur, Dominic DeGraft
name: Dassah, Edward Tieru
name: Boadu, Kwame Ofori
name: Otoo, John Ekow
name: Boadu, Ivy Wina Ofori
name: Gyasi, Samuel Fosu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: S1 Appendix A: Interview guide for in-depth interviews.
On the Complete Integrability of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems on Discrete Manifolds within the Gradient-Holonomic Approach
Creators: name: Prykarpatsky, Yarema A.
name: Bogolubov, Nikolai N.
name: Prykarpatsky, Anatoliy K.
name: Samoylenko, Valeriy H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gradient-holonomic approach for the Lax type integrability analysis of differentialdiscrete dynamical systems is devised. The asymptotical solutions to the related Lax equation are studied, the related gradient identity is stated. The integrability of a discrete nonlinear Schredinger type dynamical system is treated in detail.
description: 20 pages