cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Academic Affiliation and Surgical Volume Predict Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Surgery
Creators: name: Zanation, A.M.
name: Farquhar, D.R.
name: Lumley, C.
name: Weissler, M.C.
name: Patel, S.N.
name: Sheth, S.
name: Lenze, N.R.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Masood, M.M.
name: Hackman, T.G.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2021

description: Objective: To determine whether the academic affiliation or surgical volume affects the overall survival (OS) of human papillomavirus (HPV)–negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients receiving surgery. Methods: A retrospective study of 39 North Carolina Medical Centers was conducted. Treatment centers were classified as academic hospitals, community cancer centers, or community hospitals and were divided into thirds by volume. The primary outcome was 5-year OS. Hazard ratios (HR) were determined using Cox proportional hazard models, adjusting for demographics, tumor site, stage, insurance status, tobacco use, alcohol use, stage, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Patients were also stratified by stage (early stage and advanced stage). Results: Patients treated at community cancer centers had significantly better 5-year OS (HR 0.68, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.48–0.98), and patients treated at academic hospitals trended toward better 5-year OS (HR 0.72, 95% CI = 0.50–1.04) compared to patients treated at community hospitals. The effect for academic affiliation on survival was more pronounced for patients with advanced stage cancer at diagnosis (HR 0.60, 95% CI = 0.37–0.95). There were no significant survival differences among early stage patients by treatment center type. Top-third (HR = 0.64, 95% CI = 0.42–0.96) centers by surgical volume had significantly better 5-year OS, and middle-third (HR = 0.71, 95% CI = 0.51–1.03) centers by volume trended toward better 5-year OS when compared to the bottom-third centers by volume. Conclusion: Patients treated at academic hospitals, community cancer centers, and hospitals in the top third by case volume have favorable survival for HPV-negative HNSCC. The effect for academic hospitals is most pronounced among advanced stage patients. Level of Evidence: 4 Laryngoscope, 131:E479–E488, 2021.
Happiness: A Multi-Voice Narrative
Creators: name: Ellene G Mobbs
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: At its heart, this project is simply a story about happiness. It may not look like a regular story-where you know exactly where it begins and where it ends and in what order you must read it in order to understand it fully-but I found that tackling the enormous (and enormously diverse) topic of happiness required an approach to narrative-crafting that would use the topic's multidimensionality as a tool to facilitate the telling of the story, rather than inhibit it. I wanted to create an experience for the user that allowed for multiple readings of the same material, where each reading highlighted a different relationship between the many voices in the story. It was also important to me that the user discovered these multiple readings on their own, even if it took several sessions with the material for them to do so. The idea is that happiness itself takes on many characteristics that can change over time.
Optical emission from massive donors in ULX binary systems
Creators: name: Patruno, Alessandro
name: Zampieri, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evolutionary tracks of binary systems with high mass companion stars and stellar-through-intermediate mass BHs. Using Eggleton's stellar evolution code, we compute the luminosity produced by accretion from the donor during its entire evolution. We compute also the evolution of the optical spectrum of the binary system taking the disc contribution and irradiation effects into account. The calculations presented here can be used to constrain the properties of the donor stars in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources by comparing their position on the HR or color-magnitude diagrams with the evolutionary tracks of massive BH binaries. This approach may actually provide interesting clues also on the properties of the binary system itself, including the BH mass. We found that, on the basis of their position on the color-magnitude diagram, some of the candidate counterparts considered can be ruled out and more stringent constraints can be applied to the donor masses.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Improving the Quality of Toxicology and Environmental Health Systematic Reviews: What Journal Editors Can Do
Creators: name: Wikoff, D.
name: Brozek, J.
name: Radke, E.G.
name: Hair, K.
name: Whaley, P.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Rooney, A.A.
name: Kwiatkowski, C.F.
name: Woodruff, T.J.
name: Tugwell, P.
name: Shamseer, L.
name: Mellor, D.T.
name: Knudsen, T.B.
name: Page, M.J.
name: Cohen Hubal, E.A.
name: Blaauboer, B.J.
name: Kacew, S.
name: Tsaioun, K.
Publisher: name: ALTEX Edition
Year: 2021

description: Systematic reviews are fast increasing in prevalence in the toxicology and environmental health literature. However, how well these complex research projects are being conducted and reported is unclear. Since editors have an essential role in ensuring the scientific quality of manuscripts being published in their journals, a workshop was convened where editors, systematic review practitioners, and research quality control experts could discuss what editors can do to ensure the systematic reviews they publish are of sufficient scientific quality. Interventions were explored along four themes: setting standards; reviewing protocols; optimizing editorial workflows; and measuring the effectiveness of editorial interventions. In total, 58 editorial interventions were proposed. Of these, 26 were shortlisted for being potentially effective, and 5 were prioritized as short-term actions that editors could relatively easily take to improve the quality of published systematic reviews. Recent progress in improving systematic reviews is summarized, and outstanding challenges to further progress are highlighted.
Hand Grenade on a Hot Day
Creators: name: Rood, Kyle
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: I
 Graffiti
Crown of Thorns
 Evening on the Diamond
Form of My Father
 Blood on the Chopping Block
 Going Downstream II
 Hand Grenade on a Hot Day
 Up in Smoke
The Smell of Shit
 Do You Think I'm Easy?
 A Moment of Recognition
 If Only
 Die Trying III
 The Barber
 Childhood Forté
 The Physics of Violence
 Eyes Wide Open
 What's It Worth?
 Someone Else's House
 It's Not Alright
 Addicted to Your Memory
Misery
 The Bones Beneath the Skin
The mass ratios parametrization
Creators: name: Saldana-Salazar, Ulises J.
name: Tame-Narvaez, Karla M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed hierarchy in the fermion masses, which imply a set of small mass ratios, is not naturally small regarding 't Hooft's criteria. In this work, in a model independent approach, we introduce a set of conditions by which fermion mass ratios become natural. Interestingly, these conditions demand that fermion mixing should be described by the four independent mass ratios of each fermion sector. Application of this set of conditions to the standard theory enables one to understand the mains aspects in quark and lepton mixing. This feature can be taken as a strong evidence for the existence in Nature of a flavour symmetry. Also, for this analysis to work in the lepton sector, neutrino masses should have normal ordering with the lightest neutrino mass satisfying the lower bound, $m_{ν1} \geqslant (5.0\pm 0.1) \text{ meV}$, making the approach testable.
description: 16 pages + Appendices, 3 tables; major revision, conclusions unchanged; matches published version
Additional file 1 of The transcriptome profile of human trisomy 21 blood cells
Creators: name: Antonaros, Francesca
name: Zenatelli, Rossella
name: Guerri, Giulia
name: Bertelli, Matteo
name: Locatelli, Chiara
name: Vione, Beatrice
name: Catapano, Francesca
name: Gori, Alice
name: Vitale, Lorenza
name: Pelleri, Maria Chiara
name: Ramacieri, Giuseppe
name: Cocchi, Guido
name: Strippoli, Pierluigi
name: Caracausi, Maria
name: Piovesan, Allison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Scatterplot matrix of each possible pair of trisomy 21 samples (A) and each possible pair of normal control samples (B) obtained with JMP 14.2 Pro software (SAS Institute, Campus Drive, Cary, NC, USA). Fragments per kilobase million (FPKM) values are transformed in logarithmic scale (log10(FPKM)).
Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Stanescu, Tudor
name: Anderson, Brandon
name: Galitski, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a many-body system of pseudo-spin-1/2 bosons with spin-orbit interactions, which couple the momentum and the internal pseudo-spin degree of freedom created by spatially varying laser fields. The corresponding single- particle spectrum is generally anisotropic and contains two degenerate minima at finite momenta. At low temperatures, the many-body system condenses into these minima generating a new type of entangled Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that in the presence of weak density-density interactions the many-body ground state is characterized by a twofold degeneracy. The corresponding many-body wave function describes a condensate of ``left-'' and ``right-moving'' bosons. By fine-tuning the parameters of the laser field, one can obtain a bosonic version of the spin-orbit coupled Rashba model. In this symmetric case, the degeneracy of the ground state is very large, which may lead to phases with nontrivial topological properties. We argue that the predicted new type of Bose-Einstein condensates can be observed experimentally via time-of-flight imaging, which will show characteristic multipeak structures in momentum distribution.
description: published version, 10 pages, 4 figures
Gumbo: an application to support impromptu collaborative workspaces on campus
Creators: name: Samuels, Molly
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80609 Information Systems Management
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gumbo is a web application that supports the creation of impromptu collaborative workspaces on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. The application prompts students to share information about what they are working on and where on campus they are working. Students may join others in a workspace for the purpose of maintaining focus and productivity, collecting feedback on a creative project, or collaborating on group work. This project describes the creation of Gumbo, from early user research through the development of a final prototype.
Lessons learned from the INHANCE consortium: An overview of recent results on head and neck cancer
Creators: name: Muscat, J.
name: Richiardi, L.
name: Mates, D.
name: Cadoni, G.
name: Brenner, H.
name: Moyses, R.A.
name: Lagiou, P.
name: Boffetta, P.
name: Hashibe, M.
name: Zevallos, J.P.
name: Negri, E.
name: Lissowska, J.
name: Lazarus, P.
name: Li, G.
name: Fernandez, L.
name: Znaor, A.
name: Conway, D.I.
name: Herrero, R.
name: Vilensky, M.
name: Luce, D.
name: Gross, N.D.
name: Fabianova, E.
name: Sturgis, E.M.
name: Gillison, M.
name: Franceschi, S.
name: La Vecchia, C.
name: Benhamou, S.
name: Daudt, A.W.
name: Shangina, O.
name: Serraino, D.
name: Menvielle, G.
name: Winn, D.M.
name: Chuang, S.-C.
name: Macfarlane, G.J.
name: Garavello, W.
name: Toporcov, T.N.
name: Chen, C.
name: Boccia, S.
name: D'Souza, G.
name: Yu, G.-P.
name: Wunsch-Filho, V.
name: Kelsey, K.
name: Curado, M.P.
name: Ahrens, W.
name: Moysich, K.
name: Zheng, T.
name: Kjaerheim, K.
name: Holcatova, I.
name: Matsuo, K.
name: Healy, C.
name: Koifman, R.
name: Canova, C.
name: Zhang, Z.-F.
name: Smith, E.
name: Świątkowska, B.
name: Lee, Y.-C.A.
name: Levi, F.
name: Bravi, F.
name: Radoï, L.
name: Polesel, J.
name: the INHANCE Consortium investigators
name: McClean, M.
name: Thomson, P.
name: Vaughan, T.L.
name: Schantz, S.
name: Pandics, T.
name: Purdue, M.P.
name: Ramroth, H.
name: Brennan, P.
name: Hayes, R.B.
name: Morgenstern, H.
name: Agudo, A.
name: Dal Maso, L.
name: Schwartz, S.M.
name: Edefonti, V.
name: Menezes, A.
name: Ferraroni, M.
name: Olshan, A.F.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2021

description: Objective: To summarize the latest evidence on head and neck cancer epidemiology from the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium. Subjects and Methods: INHANCE was established in 2004 to elucidate the etiology of head and neck cancer through pooled analyses of individual-level data on a large scale. We summarize results from recent INHANCE-based publications updating our 2015 overview. Results: Seventeen papers were published between 2015 and May 2020. These studies further define the nature of risks associated with tobacco and alcohol, and occupational exposures on head and neck cancer. The beneficial effects on incidence of head and neck cancer were identified for good oral health, endogenous and exogenous hormonal factors, and selected aspects of diet related to fruit and vegetables. INHANCE has begun to develop risk prediction models and to pool follow-up data on their studies, finding that ~30% of cases had cancer recurrence and 9% second primary cancers, with overall- and disease-specific 5-year-survival of 51% and 57%, respectively. Conclusions: The number and importance of INHANCE scientific findings provides further evidence of the advantages of large-scale internationally collaborative projects and will support the development of prevention strategies.
ИЖТИМОИЙ-СИЁСИЙ ИШТИРОКИНИНГ ТАРИХИЙ ИЛДИЗЛАРИ (ЁШЛАР ҚАТЛАМИ МИСОЛИДА)
Creators: name: Атамуратова, Дилафруз
name: Мадаминов, Жайхунбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ўзбекистонда шаклланаётган эркин, демократик фуқаролик жамияти ривожланиши учун негиз вазифасини ўтайдиган адолатли жамият ғояси ва унинг тарихи, ўлка тарихига оид энг қадимги манба “Авесто”, ўрта аср ренессанси намоёндаларининг қарашлари, XVII – XIX аср Европа маърифатпарварлари назариялари, Туркистон жадидларининг ёшларга мурожаатларида замонавий даврда демократик “транзит”  ва у орқали умуминсоний қадриятга айланаётган фуқаролик жамияти тушунчалари, ва мазкур жамиятда ёшларнинг тутган ўрни ва келгусидаги ижтимоий-сиёсий жараёнларда иштироки масалалари кўриб чиқилди. Мақолада замонавий тарих фанининг амалий-татбиқий масалаларидан бўлган  – фуқаролик жамиятини шакллантиришда ёшлар ижтимоий-сиёсий иштироки муаммосининг тарихий негизлари тадқиқ этилди.
The Strong Coupling from Quarkonia
Creators: name: El-Khadra, Aida X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The status of determinations of $\al_s$ from quarkonia using lattice QCD is reviewed. We compare the results with those obtained from perturbative QCD.
description: 7 pages, 1 uuencoded postscript file, OHSTPY-HEP-T-93-020, DOE/ER/01545-614
The Role of Sustainable Practices on Hospitals Management In Somalia, 2024
Creators: name: Zeynab, jamac ismacil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: The Role of Sustainable
Practices on
Hospitals
Management In Somalia,

description: Abstract 

The healthcare sector in Somalia faces significant challenges due to resource limitations, political instability, and infrastructural constraints. This study examines the role of sustainable practices in hospital management, emphasizing their impact on operational efficiency, cost reduction, environmental sustainability, and healthcare service delivery. The research explores key areas such as energy efficiency, waste management, sustainable procurement, and green building practices, identifying both barriers and opportunities for implementation within Somali hospitals.

A mixed-methods approach was employed, utilizing surveys and interviews with hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and policymakers in Mogadishu and the surrounding regions. Findings indicate that while sustainable practices can improve hospital efficiency and reduce environmental impact, their adoption is hindered by financial constraints, lack of awareness, and inadequate policy frameworks. The study highlights the need for government intervention, stakeholder engagement, and international collaboration to integrate sustainability into healthcare management.

This research contributes to the growing body of knowledge on sustainable healthcare systems in post-conflict settings, providing recommendations for policymakers and hospital administrators on strategies to enhance sustainability in Somalia’s hospital sector. The findings offer valuable insights for improving hospital resilience, service quality, and environmental responsibility in resource-constrained healthcare systems.

Keywords: Sustainability, Hospital Management, Healthcare Efficiency, Somalia, Environmental Practices, Resource Optimization.
Additional file 2 of The transcriptome profile of human trisomy 21 blood cells
Creators: name: Antonaros, Francesca
name: Zenatelli, Rossella
name: Guerri, Giulia
name: Bertelli, Matteo
name: Locatelli, Chiara
name: Vione, Beatrice
name: Catapano, Francesca
name: Gori, Alice
name: Vitale, Lorenza
name: Pelleri, Maria Chiara
name: Ramacieri, Giuseppe
name: Cocchi, Guido
name: Strippoli, Pierluigi
name: Caracausi, Maria
name: Piovesan, Allison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Mapping statitics regarding reads aligned against the Homo sapiens (GRCh38) reference genome with STAR aligner. A: trisomy 21 samples; B: normal control samples.
Girls Who Save the World: The Female Hero in Young Adult Fantasy
Creators: name: Danehy, Erin
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Note on Abbreviations .... 3
Prologue: The Female Hero .... 4 Part I: The Adventure Of The Hero ....8
Chapter I: In Defense of Fantasy: Imagination and Tradition ..... 8
Chapter II: Hro Theory and the Female Hero Story: An Overview ..... 26
Call to Adventure.... 28
Threshold Crossing....30
Initiation.....34
First Dragon: The Self .....35
Second Dragon: Depression.....36
Third Dragon: Passivity ......39
Fourth Dragon: Prejudice......40
Fifth Dragon: Overextension of Self or Resources....42
Sixth Dragon: Coping with Loss and Accepting Mortality ..... 44
Transformation and the Elixir.....45
Flight.......48
Return......50
Freedom to Live.....54 Part II: A Closer Examination Of The Female Hero...... 56
The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown ....67
The Song of the Lioness Quartet ....74
The Abhorsen Trilogy......79
The His Dark Materials Trilogy ........84 Epilogue: The Female Hero And Society .....93 Appendix I: List Of Important Characters And Settings..... 95
Appendix II: A Diagram Of Joseph Campbell’s Hero Structure...... 100 Bibliography .....101
A classification of some Finsler connections and their applications
Creators: name: Bidabad, B.
name: Tayebi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B40, 53C60

description: Some general Finsler connections are defined. Emphasis is being made on the Cartan tensor and its derivatives. Vanishing of the hv-curvature tensors of these connections characterizes Landsbergian, Berwaldian as well as Riemannian structures. This view point makes it possible to give a smart representation of connection theory in Finsler geometry and yields to a classification of Finsler connections. Some practical applications of these connections are also considered.
description: 14 pages and one table
title: Lettre de Jacques Leibowitch au Professeur [Patrice?] Morel (Hôpital Saint-Louis)
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111133351233
Full-Dimensional Schrödinger Wavefunction Calculations using Tensors and Quantum Computers: the Cartesian component-separated approach
Creators: name: Poirier, Bill
name: Jerke, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditional methods in quantum chemistry rely on Hartree-Fock-based Slater-determinant (SD) representations, whose underlying zeroth-order picture assumes separability by particle. Here, we explore a radically different approach, based on separability by Cartesian component, rather than by particle [J. Chem. Phys., 2018, 148, 104101]. The approach appears to be very well suited for 3D grid-based methods in quantum chemistry, and thereby also for so-called "first-quantized" quantum computing. We first present an overview of the approach as implemented on classical computers, including numerical results that justify performance claims. In particular, we perform numerical calculations with four explicit electrons that are equivalent to full-CI matrix diagonalization with nearly $10^{15}$ SDs. We then present an implementation for quantum computers, for which both the number of qubits, and the number of quantum gates, may be substantially reduced in comparison with other quantum circuitry that has been envisioned for implementing first-quantized "quantum computational chemistry" (QCC).
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Special Issue on Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Storage
Heavy-light and light-light weak matrix elements on the lattice
Creators: name: Bernard, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review recent developments in lattice weak matrix element calculations. I focus on on $f_B$ (both with propagating quarks and in the static limit for the $b$ quark), semi-leptonic form factors for $D$ meson decay, form factors for $B \to K^* γ$, and $B_K$. [Review presented at Lattice '93]
description: 16 pages. (latex; 7 postscript figures included; 7 other figures are reproduced from work by others and are not available here. Some hardcopies of the talk will be available; send e-mail to cb@lump.wustl.edu.)
Multi-Agent Submodular Optimization
Creators: name: Santiago, Richard
name: Shepherd, F. Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent years have seen many algorithmic advances in the area of submodular optimization: (SO) $\min/\max~f(S): S \in \mathcal{F}$, where $\mathcal{F}$ is a given family of feasible sets over a ground set $V$ and $f:2^V \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is submodular. This progress has been coupled with a wealth of new applications for these models. Our focus is on a more general class of \emph{multi-agent submodular optimization} (MASO) which was introduced by Goel et al. in the minimization setting: $\min \sum_i f_i(S_i): S_1 \uplus S_2 \uplus \cdots \uplus S_k \in \mathcal{F}$. Here we use $\uplus$ to denote disjoint union and hence this model is attractive where resources are being allocated across $k$ agents, each with its own submodular cost function $f_i()$. In this paper we explore the extent to which the approximability of the multi-agent problems are linked to their single-agent {\em primitives}, referred to informally as the {\em multi-agent gap}. We present different reductions that transform a multi-agent problem into a single-agent one. For maximization we show that (MASO) admits an $O(α)$-approximation whenever (SO) admits an $α$-approximation over the multilinear formulation, and thus substantially expanding the family of tractable models. We also discuss several family classes (such as spanning trees, matroids, and $p$-systems) that have a provable multi-agent gap of 1. In the minimization setting we show that (MASO) has an $O(α\cdot \min \{k, \log^2 (n)\})$-approximation whenever (SO) admits an $α$-approximation over the convex formulation. In addition, we discuss the class of "bounded blocker" families where there is a provably tight O$(\log n)$ gap between (MASO) and (SO).
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.05222
A multivariable Mendelian randomization analysis investigating smoking and alcohol consumption in oral and oropharyngeal cancer
Creators: name: Martin, R.M.
name: Pring, M.
name: Munafò, M.
name: Thomas, S.
name: Sanderson, E.
name: Davey Smith, G.
name: Liu, G.
name: Tyrrell, J.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Boccia, S.
name: Dudding, T.
name: Gormley, M.
name: Richmond, R.C.
name: Brennan, P.
name: Ness, A.R.
name: Hung, R.J.
name: Diergaarde, B.
Publisher: name: Nature Research
Year: 2020

description: The independent effects of smoking and alcohol in head and neck cancer are not clear, given the strong association between these risk factors. Their apparent synergistic effect reported in previous observational studies may also underestimate independent effects. Here we report multivariable Mendelian randomization performed in a two-sample approach using summary data on 6,034 oral/oropharyngeal cases and 6,585 controls from a recent genome-wide association study. Our results demonstrate strong evidence for an independent causal effect of smoking on oral/oropharyngeal cancer (IVW OR 2.6, 95% CI = 1.7, 3.9 per standard deviation increase in lifetime smoking behaviour) and an independent causal effect of alcohol consumption when controlling for smoking (IVW OR 2.1, 95% CI = 1.1, 3.8 per standard deviation increase in drinks consumed per week). This suggests the possibility that the causal effect of alcohol may have been underestimated. However, the extent to which alcohol is modified by smoking requires further investigation.
Energy Efficiency Maximization of Full-Duplex Two-Way Relay With Non-Ideal Power Amplifiers and Non-Negligible Circuit Power
Creators: name: Cui, Qimei
name: Zhang, Yuhao
name: Ni, Wei
name: Valkama, Mikko
name: Jantti, Riku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of full-duplex (FD) two-way relay (TWR) systems under non-ideal power amplifiers (PAs) and non-negligible transmission-dependent circuit power. We start with the case where only the relay operates full duplex and two timeslots are required for TWR. Then, we extend to the advanced case, where the relay and the two nodes all operate full duplex, and accomplish TWR in a single timeslot. In both cases, we establish the intrinsic connections between the optimal transmit powers and durations, based on which the original non-convex EE maximization can be convexified and optimally solved. Simulations show the superiority of FD-TWR in terms of EE, especially when traffic demand is high. The simulations also reveal that the maximum EE of FD-TWR is more sensitive to the PA efficiency, than it is to self-cancellation. The full FD design of FD-TWR is susceptible to traffic imbalance, while the design with only the relay operating in the FD mode exhibits strong tolerance.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
title: An XMM–Newton observation of the massive edge-on Sb galaxy NGC 2613
Creators: name: Li, Z
name: Wang, QD
name: Irwin, JA
name: Chaves, T
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: * galaxies: general; * galaxies: individual: NGC 2613; * galaxies: spiral; * X-rays: general
subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10682.x/abstract
description: We present an XMM–Newton observation of the massive edge-on Sb galaxy NGC 2613. We discover that this galaxy contains a deeply embedded active nucleus with a 0.3–10 keV luminosity of 3.3 × 1040 erg s−1 and a line-of-sight absorption column of 1.2 × 1023 cm−2. Within the 25 mag arcsec−2 optical B-band isophote of the galaxy, we detect an additional four sources with an accumulated luminosity of 4.3 × 1039 erg s−1. The bulk of the unresolved X-ray emission spatially follows the near-infrared (NIR) K-band surface brightness distribution; the luminosity ratio LX/LK∼ 8 × 10−4 is consistent with that inferred from galactic discrete sources. This X-ray–NIR association and the compatibility of the X-ray spectral fit with the expected spectrum of a population of discrete sources suggest that low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are the most likely emitters of the unresolved emission in the disc region. The remaining unresolved emission is primarily due to extraplanar hot gas. The luminosity of this gas is at least a factor of 10 less than that predicted by recent simulations of intergalactic gas accretion by such a massive galaxy with a circular rotation speed Vc∼ 304 km s−1. Instead, we find that the extraplanar hot gas most likely represents discrete extensions away from the disc, including two ‘bubble-like’ features on either side of the nucleus. These extensions appear to correlate with radio continuum emission and, energetically, can be easily explained by outflows from the galactic disc.
Applying Retinex Filters to Microscopic Images
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Image processing
Image Segmentation
Texture Analysis
Entropy
Microscopy
Kerr Microscopy
SEM imaging
Optical Microscopy

description: We will discuss, in a series of papers, the several applications that Retinex filters can have for enhancing images. Applications are ranging from the images obtained by microscopes to the images coming from satellites. However, we can find also interesting uses for the increase of the visibility of objects in dark, foggy and underwater images, such as for increasing details in medical imaging and for fault- and face-detection. Besides these applications, others are possible such as in the studies of painting masterpieces and for the digital restoration of cultural heritage. Here we discuss the first application of Retinex, that for enhancing the images coming from microscopy.
Time-dependent rate of multicomponent dark matter: Reproducing the DAMA/LIBRA phase-2 results
Creators: name: Herrero-Garcia, Juan
name: Scaffidi, Andre
name: White, Martin
name: Williams, Anthony G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current paradigm for dark matter direct detection is to assume that the dark sector is solely composed of a single particle species. In this short paper, we make the observation that dark matter comprising both a light and a heavy component that modulate out of phase leads to interesting phenomenology in annual modulation experiments. For an illustrative example, we use the recently released DAMA/LIBRA phase-2 results with a lower energy threshold. Immediately after, it was argued that a one-component spin-independent dark matter explanation of the observed annual modulation is strongly disfavored or excluded unless isospin-violating couplings are invoked. We show that a simple two-component extension can reproduce the observed spectrum without the need to invoke fine-tuned couplings. Using the publicly available DAMA/LIBRA data, we perform a fit of the DAMA/LIBRA energy spectrum of the annual modulation amplitude to a scenario with two dark matter components. We also take into account how gravitational focusing affects the phases of the light and a heavy components differently, which leads to nontrivial effects in the total time-dependent rate. Our results show that there exists a unique solution in agreement with the data in the simplest case of isospin-conserving couplings with equal cross sections. The distinctive features found in this work are crucial for a dark matter interpretation of any observed annual modulation.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Title and abstract changed, matches published version in PRD
Additional file 3 of The transcriptome profile of human trisomy 21 blood cells
Creators: name: Antonaros, Francesca
name: Zenatelli, Rossella
name: Guerri, Giulia
name: Bertelli, Matteo
name: Locatelli, Chiara
name: Vione, Beatrice
name: Catapano, Francesca
name: Gori, Alice
name: Vitale, Lorenza
name: Pelleri, Maria Chiara
name: Ramacieri, Giuseppe
name: Cocchi, Guido
name: Strippoli, Pierluigi
name: Caracausi, Maria
name: Piovesan, Allison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 2. Fragments per kilobase million values (FPKM). ID: Ensembl gene accession number identifier. A: trisomy 21 samples, B: normal control samples. FPKM values for each sample are accessible through NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) Series accession number GSE151282 ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE151282 ).
Progress in the evaluation of the anti-B -> X_s gamma decay rate at NNLO
Creators: name: Schutzmeier, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theoretical status of NNLO QCD corrections to the inclusive radiative anti-B -> X_s gamma decay in the standard model is briefly overviewed. Emphasis is put on recent results for three-loop fermionic corrections to matrix elements of the most relevant four-quark operators.
description: Presented at the XXXI International Conference of Theoretical Physics "Matter To The Deepest: Recent Developments In Physics of Fundamental Interactions", Ustron, 5-11 September 2007, Poland; 5 pages
Gender Differences in Professional Socialization: A Study of Women and Men in the Computer Science Ph.D. Program at Carnegie Mellon
Creators: name: Burton, Mary Diane
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: 170202 Decision Making
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study investigated differences in the socialization experiences of men and women
who are in the process of becoming computer science Ph.D.s. In-depth interviews with
women in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Carnegie Mellon revealed their
experiences as a distinct minority in a male-dominated field. It was hypothesized that the
absence of role models and the reduced social support structure for women would result in
a less positive socialization experience than for men in the same program. A questionnaire
was used to examine the experiences of men and women comparatively. No differences
were found in time allocation or quality of performance between women and men, but
women found their environment to be less supportive and had less positive attitudes toward
the computer science profession than did men.
[Certificate of Filing Notice of Change of Name of Roger Kee Cheng]
[Roger Kee Cheng 的更改名字證書]
Creators: name: British Columbia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This certificate verifies that Roger Kee Cheng changed his name from Cheng Wun Hin to Cheng Roger Kee in May 1938.
Risk Prediction Models for Head and Neck Cancer in the US Population from the INHANCE Consortium
Creators: name: McClean, M.
name: Schantz, S.
name: Ying, J.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Muscat, J.
name: Zevallos, J.P.
name: Lazarus, P.
name: Hashibe, M.
name: Morgenstern, H.
name: Chen, C.
name: Zhang, Z.-F.
name: D'Souza, G.
name: Winn, D.M.
name: Monroe, M.
name: Li, G.
name: Smith, E.
name: Schwartz, S.M.
name: Gillison, M.
name: Kim, J.
name: Lee, Y.-C.A.
name: Kelsey, K.
name: Al-Temimi, M.
name: Gross, N.
name: Sturgis, E.M.
name: Boffetta, P.
name: Vaughan, T.L.
name: Yu, G.-P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Head and neck cancer (HNC) risk prediction models based on risk factor profiles have not yet been developed. We took advantage of the large database of the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) Consortium, including 14 US studies from 1981-2010, to develop HNC risk prediction models. Seventy percent of the data were used to develop the risk prediction models; the remaining 30 were used to validate the models. We used competing-risk models to calculate absolute risks. The predictors included age, sex, education, race/ethnicity, alcohol drinking intensity, cigarette smoking duration and intensity, and/or family history of HNC. The 20-year absolute risk of HNC was 7.61 for a 60-year-old woman who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day for over 20 years, consumed 3 or more alcoholic drinks per day, was a high school graduate, had a family history of HNC, and was non-Hispanic white. The 20-year risk for men with a similar profile was 6.85. The absolute risks of oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers were generally lower than those of oral cavity and laryngeal cancers. Statistics for the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) were 0.70 or higher, except for oropharyngeal cancer in men. This HNC risk prediction model may be useful in promoting healthier behaviors such as smoking cessation or in aiding persons with a family history of HNC to evaluate their risks.
A local-global generalized multiscale finite element method for highly heterogeneous stochastic groundwater flow problems
Creators: name: Wang, Yiran
name: Chung, Eric
name: Fu, Shubin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a local-global multiscale method for highly heterogeneous stochastic groundwater flow problems under the framework of reduced basis method and the generalized multiscale finite element method (GMsFEM). Due to incomplete characterization of the medium properties of the groundwater flow problems, random variables are used to parameterize the uncertainty. As a result, solving the problem repeatedly is required to obtain statistical quantities. Besides, the medium properties are usually highly heterogeneous, which will result in a large linear system that needs to be solved. Therefore, it is intrinsically inevitable to seek a computational-efficient model reduction method to overcome the difficulty. We will explore the combination of the reduced basis method and the GMsFEM. In particular, we will use residual-driven basis functions, which are key ingredients in GMsFEM. This local-global multiscale method is more efficient than applying the GMsFEM or reduced basis method individually. We first construct parameter-independent multiscale basis functions that include both local and global information of the permeability fields, and then use these basis functions to construct several global snapshots and global basis functions for fast online computation with different parameter inputs. We provide rigorous analysis of the proposed method and extensive numerical examples to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the local-global multiscale method.
description: 29 pages
Geeks, rebels and prom queens : the risky business of perpetuating the capitalist family in 1980s high school genre films
Creators: name: Landes, Emily
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: When I was growing up, I wanted nothing more in the world than to be a character in a 1980s high school film. The characters in these films had the coolest of everything: cars, clothes, dance moves. Their parents went away on European vacations and left them at home. They trashed huge mansions without a second thought. Of course, all of that was only true on one side of the deeply divided socio-economic landscape. Onthe other side, cute rebels worked on their motorcycles while pouty girls designed clothesthat were cooler than what the rest of the kids were wearing. I was willing to exist on either side of this great divide. I could have been friendly with the rich kids, with their parties and sports cars, but I was equally enticed by the creativity, honor and drive that the working class kids seemed to represent. It is only now, as I look back to the characters I so admired, that I begin to ask some questions about my favorite films. Why were so many teenagers in these films virtually abandoned by their parents? Why were so many cars destroyed and dresses mangled? Why was romance, but only heterosexual romance, such an essential component to every film? Why did working class characters have different rules for success than their middle class counterparts? In essence, why are the rules of a 1980s high school genre film set the way that they are?
Funny Looking Kids
Creators: name: Halleman, Francesca
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: 1. HAND 2
2. MEMORIES 4
3. ANGEL 6
4. RETARD 7
5. RACHEL 11
6. RECESS 13
7. HALLOWEEN 15
8. PILLS 19
9. ABORTION 22
10. SEIZURES 24
11. MORNINGS 26
12. PROMOTION 28
13. TELLING 31
14. GRANDMA 33
15. AMERICAN GIRL 35
16. ANNA 36
17. GENETIC 40
18. COLLEGE 43
19. BOYFRIENDS 45
20. BIRTHDAY 50
Factors influence youth unemployment in Mogadishu
Creators: name: Hussein, Ahmed Sheik Mustafa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: influence youth
unemployment in Mogadishu

description: Abstract

The most serious issue on the planet, particularly in developing nations, is unemployment. In certain aspects, unemployment has turned into a persistent issue in both wealthy and developing nations. Unemployment is the condition in which a person needs to work and possesses the necessary knowledge and abilities but is unable to find employment. According to Keynesian economics, unemployment occurs when markets and consumer demand for goods and services are efficient. (Mohamed, 2017)
Phenotypic characterisation of two Spanish strains of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. multiplex ST6 differing in plasmid content
Creators: name: M. Román-Écija
name: B. B. Landa
name: J. A. Navas-Cortés
name: L.M. Gómez
name: L. De La Fuente
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Two Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) subsp. multiplex strains IVIA5901 and ESVL were isolated from symptomatic almond trees in Alicante (Spain). Even if these Xf strains show an average nucleotide identity at the chromosomal level of 99.99%, they differ by the presence of two plasmids pXF64-Hb_ESVL and pUCLA-ESVL, only found in strain ESVL. Xf colonisation and disease development in host plants have been shown to be related to the size of cell aggregates, bacterial motility and biofilm formation, which are mediated by type I and type IV pili, among other traits. The goal of this study was to characterise the phenotypic characteristics of these strains that may be related to their differences in plasmid content.
 The Spanish Xf subsp. multiplex strains were compared with Xf subsp. multiplex strains Alma-Em3 and BB08-1 isolated from blueberry and the reference strain Xf subsp. fastidiosa Temecula1 from grapes, all isolated in the US. To study bacterial behaviour and phenotypic characteristics, several experiments were performed to determine adhesion force to substrate, biofilm formation, movement, cell–cell aggregation, twitching motility and patterns of bacterial growth. Additionally, a virulence assays were conducted in the greenhouse using tobacco plants cvs. SR1 and Xanthi. We also determined the presence of genes coding for type I and type IV pili in the Spanish strains. Our results show that the two Spanish isolates of Xf subsp. multiplex have lower motility, less capacity of aggregation, make less biofilm, and cause lower disease severity when compared with the US isolates used in this study. Also, there were significant differences in disease severity between Xf Spanish strains that varied according to the tobacco cultivar, with Xanthi being the most susceptible one. Besides, our results indicate that strain ESVL exhibits stronger attachment to substrate than IVIA5901, but no differences in biofilm formation, cell–cell aggregation or twitching motility were found between them. The role of plasmids in the biology of these Spanish Xf strains will be further investigated
Additional file 4 of The transcriptome profile of human trisomy 21 blood cells
Creators: name: Antonaros, Francesca
name: Zenatelli, Rossella
name: Guerri, Giulia
name: Bertelli, Matteo
name: Locatelli, Chiara
name: Vione, Beatrice
name: Catapano, Francesca
name: Gori, Alice
name: Vitale, Lorenza
name: Pelleri, Maria Chiara
name: Ramacieri, Giuseppe
name: Cocchi, Guido
name: Strippoli, Pierluigi
name: Caracausi, Maria
name: Piovesan, Allison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table 3. Differential expression of pool A (trisomy 21 blood) versus pool B (normal control blood cells). Loci were sorted in descending order of expression ratio (Ratio A/B). N/A: not available. SD: standard deviation.
Cluster Structure of Disoriented Chiral Condensates in Rapidity Distribution
Creators: name: Huang, Zheng
name: Wang, Xin-Nian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the creation of disoriented chiral condensates with some initial boundary conditions that may be expected in the relativistic heavy ion collisions. The equations of motion in the linear $σ$-model are solved numerically with and without a Lorentz-boost invariance. We suggest that a distinct cluster structure of coherent pion production in the rapidity distribution may emerge due to a quench and may be observed in experiments.
description: 10 pages in LaTex, 2 uuencoded ps figures, LBL-34931
Additional file 5 of The transcriptome profile of human trisomy 21 blood cells
Creators: name: Antonaros, Francesca
name: Zenatelli, Rossella
name: Guerri, Giulia
name: Bertelli, Matteo
name: Locatelli, Chiara
name: Vione, Beatrice
name: Catapano, Francesca
name: Gori, Alice
name: Vitale, Lorenza
name: Pelleri, Maria Chiara
name: Ramacieri, Giuseppe
name: Cocchi, Guido
name: Strippoli, Pierluigi
name: Caracausi, Maria
name: Piovesan, Allison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Table 4. A) Segment map of the T21 blood cell transcriptome map. B) Segment map of the normal control blood cell transcriptome map. "Genes" column list only over-/under-expressed genes, in red over-expressed genes, in blue under-expressed genes.