cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Maturity model and action recommendation
title: A PSS capability self-assessment tool for companies
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Exner, Konrad
name: Zimpfer, Raphael
name: Stark, Rainer
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 670 Industrielle Fertigung
subject: product-service systems
subject: maturity model
subject: self-assessment

description: The main idea in Product-Service Systems (PSS) research is to provide solutions instead of products or services. Nevertheless, PSS comprise a broad variety of characteristics from product-oriented services, to use-oriented services and result-oriented services [1]. In industrial practice all of these dimension as well as intermediate stages are evidently realized. Additionally, trending topics like smart services, which can be described as the exploitation strategy from Industrie 4.0 [2], also known as cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things, accelerate the interest in PSS. However, many companies’ in particular small and medium-sized enterprises just started realizing the potential and necessity to establish service thinking in order to stay competitive. These companies face considerable challenges regarding the transformation from an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) towards an Original Solution Provider (OSP)[3]. In a first step,companies need to assess their current situation and develop a strategy based on the desired target situation. For this reason, the authors developed a model combined with a self-assessment method which enables a basic analysis of the companies’ situation including action recommendations. The research results as well as the evaluation with a company are presented in this paper.
On treebank development for under-resourced languages with active annotation
Creators: name: Arampatzakis, Vasileios
name: Stamou, Vivian
name: Pavlidis, George
name: Markantonatou, Stella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: About half of the living languages and dialects, including the Greek ones, are endangered, and language loss occurs at an accelerated rate because of globalization and neocolonialism. In addition, only few languages are endowed with the resources ensuring their survival in the AI era. Saving and revitalizing the linguistic heritage of humanity has become important for maintaining global cultural diversity. Natural language processing (NLP) for endangered and under-resourced languages can be beneficial for their preservation and documentation; the latter is a challenge as endangered languages typically lack written resources. Language technologies enable the development of digital archives and linguistic resources by automating technical processes and allowing language documentation practitioners to focus on the linguistic aspects. Furthermore, NLP can provide insights into the unique linguistic features of endangered languages, aiding in their preservation and documentation. In line with these concepts and facts, the project Philotis has developed a workflow and platform to support the multimodal documentation of living languages. Advanced NLP technology is utilized to develop spoken and textual corpora (up to the level of a treebank) from raw documentation materials with a workflow that automates NLP processes and allows language documentation practitioners to focus on linguistic aspects. The Philotis workflow accommodates several documentation scenarios, and was tested on Pomak, an endangered oral Slavic language of the Balkans. Several state-of-the-art NLP tools that can be integrated into different NLP pipelines suitable for under-resourced languages were evaluated under this framework. Developing treebanks for languages is a difficult and extremely time-consuming process. Active learning approaches have been proposed to automate part of the process and reduce the total annotation duration and cost. Crucially, under-resourced languages typically provide (severely) limited amounts of data and few, if any, experts for data development and annotation. A practical active annotation strategy for such a case could be implemented in the form of an online learning approach. This approach uses randomly selected sentences for a loop including annotation prediction, manual correction, and model retraining. To implement this approach in a realistic scenario, we used 300 annotated sentences from the Pomak corpus published by Philotis on the Universal Dependencies repository. By utilizing a simple weighted summation of four potential annotation errors (lemmas, part of speech, dependency pair, and dependency label), we run several experiments of online annotation, which revealed an underlying optimal strategy. This strategy resulted in a significant decrease in the total annotation duration by 54% and a corresponding decrease in the total cost by 63% compared to manual annotation.
Declaration of Intention of Kate Ann Martin
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1926

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Kate Ann Martin Applicant age:48Occupation: HousewifeCountry of Origin:IrelandDate of Birth: March 1878Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:Columbia City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:25 March 1926
Declaration of Intention of Paul Alfred George Schulz
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1925

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Paul Alfred George Schulz Applicant age:39Occupation: ElectricianCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 5th March 1887Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Augusta Victora City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJ Declaration submitted and sworn on date: 24th July 1925
Nanotechnology: a promising method for oral cancer detection and diagnosis
Creators: name: Liu, Qi
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
              Oral cancer is a common and aggressive cancer with high morbidity, mortality, and recurrence rate globally. Early detection is of utmost importance for cancer prevention and disease management. Currently, tissue biopsy remains the gold standard for oral cancer diagnosis, but it is invasive, which may cause patient discomfort. The application of traditional noninvasive methods-such as vital staining, exfoliative cytology, and molecular imaging-is limited by insufficient sensitivity and specificity. Thus, there is an urgent need for exploring noninvasive, highly sensitive, and specific diagnostic techniques. Nano detection systems are known as new emerging noninvasive strategies that bring the detection sensitivity of biomarkers to nano-scale. Moreover, compared to current imaging contrast agents, nanoparticles are more biocompatible, easier to synthesize, and able to target specific surface molecules. Nanoparticles generate localized surface plasmon resonances at near-infrared wavelengths, providing higher image contrast and resolution. Therefore, using nano-based techniques can help clinicians to detect and better monitor diseases during different phases of oral malignancy. Here, we review the progress of nanotechnology-based methods in oral cancer detection and diagnosis.
Next-to-leading order Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with resummation
Creators: name: Lappi, T.
name: Mäntysaari, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation at next-to-leading order accuracy including a resummation of large single and double transverse momentum logarithms to all orders. We numerically determine an optimal value for the constant under the large transverse momentum logarithm that enables including a maximal amount of the full NLO result in the resummation. When this value is used the contribution from the $α_s^2$ terms without large logarithms is found to be small at large saturation scales and at small dipoles. Close to initial conditions relevant for phenomenological applications these fixed order corrections are shown to be numerically important.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. RevTex. v2: small clarifications to text, published in Phys. Rev. D
Declaration of Intention of Paul Alfred Schuetze
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1925

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Paul Alfred Schuetze Applicant age: 30Occupation: DairymanCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 4th February 1894Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Columbus City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 28th April 1925
WIPO Worldwide Symposium on the Future of Copyright and Neighboring Rights /
Creators: name: World Intellectual Property Organization.
name: France.
name: Francja.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0

description: organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Francophonie of France; Table of Contents : Opening address : Arpad Bogsch, Director general, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Welcoming address : Jacques Toubon, Minister of Culture and Francophonie of France; 1. Introduction : SIRINELLI, Pierre. The adaptation of copyright in the face of new technology; 2. Basic notions of copyright and neighboring rights in the face of new technologies : DREIER, Thomas K. Authorship and new technologies from the viewpoint of civil law traditions; JASZI, Peter. Authorship and new technologies from the viewpoint of common law traditions; VIVANT, Michel. The notions of work, originality and neighboring rights from the viewpoint of civil law traditions; CORNISH, William R. The notions of work, originality and neighboring rights from the viewpoint of common law traditions; 3. New challenges for producers and disseminators of works : ROGARD, Pascal. Audiovisual industry : economic and legal challenges; GARNETT, Nicholas. Recording industry, the first cultural industry fully exposed to the impact of digital technology; KITAGAWA, Zentaro. Computers, digital technology and copyright; TILLIET, Hubert. Publishing in the digital age : acquisition and assignment of electronic rights; 4. Protection and administration of copyright and neighboring rights : TOURNIER, Jean-Loup. The implications of new technology for the protection and collective management of authors' rights; PARROT, Franc?ois. New technologies and the protection and administration of the rights of performers; KOSKINEN, Tarja. Reprography, electrocopying, electronic delivery and the exercise of copyright; GYERTYANFY, Pe?ter. Using computer technology to solve the copyright problems raised by computer technology; CORREA, Joao. Protection of the rights of the creators of audiovisual works; 5. Structural changes in the international copyright system : FICSOR, Miha?ly. New technologies and copyright : need for change, need for continuity; GINSBURG, Jane C. Surveying the borders of copyright; KOUMANTOS, Georges. Copyright and private international law in the face of the international diffusion of works; GOTZEN, Frank. Harmonization of copyright in the European Union; 6. Conclusions : GOLDSTEIN, Paul. Copyright and author's right in the twenty-first Century; LUCAS, Andre?. Summary of the proceedings of the symposium;.
Exacerbation of allergic inflammation in mice exposed to diesel exhaust particles prior to viral infection
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenli
name: Brighton, Luisa E
name: Hua, Xiaoyang
name: Jaspers, Ilona
name: Sheridan, Patricia A.
name: Tilley, Stephen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2009

description: Abstract Background Viral infections and exposure to oxidant air pollutants are two of the most important inducers of asthma exacerbation. Our previous studies have demonstrated that exposure to diesel exhaust increases the susceptibility to influenza virus infections both in epithelial cells in vitro and in mice in vivo. Therefore, we examined whether in the setting of allergic asthma, exposure to oxidant air pollutants enhances the susceptibility to respiratory virus infections, which in turn leads to increased virus-induced exacerbation of asthma. Ovalbumin-sensitized (OVA) male C57BL/6 mice were instilled with diesel exhaust particles (DEP) or saline and 24 hours later infected with influenza A/PR/8. Animals were sacrificed 24 hours post-infection and analyzed for markers of lung injury, allergic inflammation, and pro-inflammatory cytokine production. Results Exposure to DEP or infection with influenza alone had no significant effects on markers of injury or allergic inflammation. However, OVA-sensitized mice that were exposed to DEP and subsequently infected with influenza showed increased levels of eosinophils in lung lavage and tissue. In addition Th2-type cytokines, such as IL-4 and IL-13, and markers of eosinophil chemotaxis, such as CCL11 and CCR3, were increased in OVA-sensitized mice exposed to DEP prior to infection with influenza. These mice also showed increased levels of IL-1α, but not IL-10, RANTES, and MCP-1 in lung homogenates. Conclusion These data suggest that in the setting of allergic asthma, exposure to diesel exhaust could enhance virus-induced exacerbation of allergic inflammation.
Declaration of Intention of Julia Gebhardt
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1924

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Julia Gebhardt Applicant age:23Occupation: WaitressCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 29 March 1900Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Leidlitz City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:10 March 1924
Vertical structure of Advection dominated Accretion Flows
Creators: name: Zeraatgari, Fateme Zahra
name: Abbassi, Shahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the set of hydrodynamic (HD) equations for optically thin Advection Dominated Accretion Flows (ADAFs) by assuming radially self-similar in spherical coordinate system $ (r, θ, ϕ) $. The disk is considered to be steady state and axi-symmetric. We define the boundary conditions at the pole and the equator of the disk and to avoid singularity at the rotation axis, the disk is taken to be symmetric with respect to this axis. Moreover, only the $ τ_{r ϕ} $ component of viscous stress tensor is assumed and we have set $ v_θ = 0 $. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the variation of dynamical quantities of the flow in the vertical direction by finding an analytical solution. As a consequence, we found that the advection parameter, $ f^{adv} $, varies along the $ θ$ direction and reaches to its maximum near the rotation axis. Our results also show that, in terms of no-outflow solution, thermal equilibrium still exists and consequently advection cooling can balance viscous heating.
description: Accepted for publication to ApJ
Values clarification workshops to improve abortion knowledge, attitudes and intentions: a pre-post assessment in 12 countries
Creators: name: Andersen, Kathryn L
name: Turner, Katherine L
name: Pearson, Erin
name: George, Allison
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract Background Women’s access to abortion care is often denied or hampered due to a range of barriers, many of which are rooted in abortion stigma. Abortion values clarification and attitude transformation (VCAT) workshops are conducted with abortion providers, trainers, and policymakers and other stakeholders to mitigate the effects of abortion stigma and increase provision of and access to abortion care. This study assesses changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of VCAT workshop participants. Methods Pre- and post-workshop surveys from 43 VCAT workshops conducted in 12 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America between 2006 and 2011 were analyzed to assess changes in three domains: knowledge, attitudes and behavioral intentions related to abortion care. A score was created for each domain (range: 0-100), and paired t-tests or Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks tests were used to test for significant differences between the pre- and post-workshop scores overall and by region and participant type (providers, trainers, and policymakers/other stakeholders). We also assessed changes in pre- and post-workshop scores for participants with the lowest knowledge and negative attitudes on the pre-workshop survey. Results Overall, the mean knowledge score increased significantly from 49.0 to 67.1 (p < 0.001) out of a total possible score of 100. Attitudes and behavioral intentions showed more modest, but still statistically significant improvements between the pre- and post-workshop surveys. The mean attitudes score increased from 78.2 to 80.9 (p < 0.001), and the mean behavioral intentions score rose from 82.2 to 85.4 (p = 0.03). Among participants with negative attitudes pre-workshop, most shifted to positive attitudes on the post-workshop survey, ranging from 35.2% who switched to supporting unrestricted access to second-trimester abortion to 90.9% who switched to feeling comfortable working to increase access to contraceptive services in their country. Participants who began the workshop with the lowest level of knowledge experienced the greatest increase in mean knowledge score from 20.0 to 55.0 between pre- and post-workshop surveys (p < 0.001). Conclusions VCAT workshop participants demonstrated improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions related to abortion care. Participants who entered the workshops with the lowest levels of knowledge and negative attitudes had the greatest gains in these domains.
Repeatability and measurement error in the assessment of choline and betaine dietary intake: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Creators: name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Chambless, Lloyd E
name: Zeisel, Steven H.
name: Heiss, Gerardo
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2009

description: Abstract Background The repeatability of a risk factor measurement affects the ability to accurately ascertain its association with a specific outcome. Choline is involved in methylation of homocysteine, a putative risk factor for cardiovascular disease, to methionine through a betaine-dependent pathway (one-carbon metabolism). It is unknown whether dietary intake of choline meets the recommended Adequate Intake (AI) proposed for choline (550 mg/day for men and 425 mg/day for women). The Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) remains to be established in population settings. Our objectives were to ascertain the reliability of choline and related nutrients (folate and methionine) intakes assessed with a brief food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and to estimate dietary intake of choline and betaine in a bi-ethnic population. Methods We estimated the FFQ dietary instrument reliability for the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and the measurement error for choline and related nutrients from a stratified random sample of the ARIC study participants at the second visit, 1990–92 (N = 1,004). In ARIC, a population-based cohort of 15,792 men and women aged 45–64 years (1987–89) recruited at four locales in the U.S., diet was assessed in 15,706 baseline study participants using a version of the Willett 61-item FFQ, expanded to include some ethnic foods. Intraindividual variability for choline, folate and methionine were estimated using mixed models regression. Results Measurement error was substantial for the nutrients considered. The reliability coefficients were 0.50 for choline (0.50 for choline plus betaine), 0.53 for folate, 0.48 for methionine and 0.43 for total energy intake. In the ARIC population, the median and the 75th percentile of dietary choline intake were 284 mg/day and 367 mg/day, respectively. 94% of men and 89% of women had an intake of choline below that proposed as AI. African Americans had a lower dietary intake of choline in both genders. Conclusion The three-year reliability of reported dietary intake was similar for choline and related nutrients, in the range as that published in the literature for other micronutrients. Using a brief FFQ to estimate intake, the majority of individuals in the ARIC cohort had an intake of choline below the values proposed as AI.
Energy dissipation in magnetic null points at kinetic scales
Creators: name: Olshevsky, Vyacheslav
name: Divin, Andrey
name: Eriksson, Elin
name: Markidis, Stefano
name: Lapenta, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use kinetic particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamic simulations supported by an observational dataset to investigate magnetic reconnection in clusters of null points in space plasma. The magnetic configuration under investigation is driven by fast adiabatic flux rope compression that dissipates almost half of the initial magnetic field energy. In this phase powerful currents are excited producing secondary instabilities, and the system is brought into a state of `intermittent turbulence' within a few ion gyro-periods. Reconnection events are distributed all over the simulation domain and energy dissipation is rather volume-filling. Numerous spiral null points interconnected via their spines form null lines embedded into magnetic flux ropes; null point pairs demonstrate the signatures of torsional spine reconnection. However, energy dissipation mainly happens in the shear layers formed by adjacent flux ropes with oppositely directed currents. In these regions radial null pairs are spontaneously emerging and vanishing, associated with electron streams and small-scale current sheets. The number of spiral nulls in the simulation outweighs the number of radial nulls by a factor of 5\---10, in accordance with Cluster observations in the Earth's magnetosheath. Twisted magnetic fields with embedded spiral null points might indicate the regions of major energy dissipation for future space missions such as Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS).
Declaration of Intention of Gaetano Laielli
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1926

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Gaetano Laielli Applicant age:49Occupation: MerchantCountry of Origin:ItalyDate of Birth: 15 March 1877Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Unknown City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:13 July 1926
Cleansing and expanding the HURTLEX-EL with a multidimensional categorization of offensive words
Creators: name: Stamou, Vivian
name: Alexiou, Iakovi
name: Klimi, Antigone
name: Molou, Eleftheria
name: Saivanidou, Alexandra
name: Markantonatou, Stella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Cleansing and expanding the HURTLEX-EL with a multidimensional categorization of offensive words
Declaration of Intention of Arthur Brode
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1920

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Arthur Brode Applicant age: 36Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 25 August 1884Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: JohnCity of residence at time of declaration: Mays LandingDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:20 September 1920
Cutting simulation with consideration of the material hardening in the Shear Zone of AISI1045
Creators: name: Uhlmann, E.
name: Henze, S.
name: Brömmelhoff, K.
name: Reimers, W.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 670 Industrielle Fertigung
subject: chip
subject: simulation
subject: nano indentation
subject: hardening
subject: cutting

description: By the use of high energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction it was possible to determine the stress state in the chip formation zone during orthogonal cutting of AISI1045. The analysis of the diffractograms showed a hardening of the material during the movement through the shear zone. For this reason nano indentation experiments on prepared chips have been carried out. With these experiments, the material hardening has been confirmed. The nano indentation experiments were reproduced by FEM simulations and it was possible to determine flow curves of the hardened material above the shear zone based on existing flow curves of AISI1045. Thus, cutting simulations have been carried out, which considered the material hardening in the shear zone. The simulation results were then compared with the results of the in-situ strain measurements.
Thermopower of crown-ether-bridged anthraquinones
Creators: name: Ismael, A. K.
name: Grace, I.
name: Lambert, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate strategies for increasing the thermopower of crown-ether-bridged anthraquinones. The novel design feature of these molecules is the presence of either (1) crown-ether or (2) diaza-crown-ether bridges attached to the side of the current-carrying anthraquinone wire. The crown-ether side groups selectively bind alkali- metal cations and when combined with TCNE or TTF dopants, provide a large phase-space for optimising thermoelectric properties. We find that the optimum combination of cations and dopants depends on the temperature range of interest. The thermopowers of both 1 and 2 are negative and at room temperature are optimised by binding with TTF alone, achieving thermpowers of -600 microvolts/K and -285 microvolts/K respectively. At much lower temperatures, which are relevant to cascade coolers, we find that for 1, a combination of TTF and Na+ yields a maximum thermopower of -710 microvolts/K at 70K, whereas a combination of TTF and Li+ yields a maximum thermopower of -600 microvolts/K at 90K. For 2, we find that TTF doping yields a maximum thermopower of -800 microvolts/K at 90K, whereas at 50K, the largest thermopower (of -600 microvolts/K) is obtain by a combination TTF and K+ doping. At room temperature, we obtain power factors of 73 microwatts/m.K2 for 1 (in combination with TTF and Na+ ) and 90 microwatts/m.K2 for 2 (with TTF). These are higher or comparable with reported power factors of other organic materials.
Digitalisation of health and social care services for older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic mapping review
Creators: name: Eost-Telling, Charlotte
name: Hall, Alex
name: Beyer, Fiona
name: Craig, Dawn
name: Hanratty, Barbara
name: Bower, Peter
name: Todd, Chris
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Information Technology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Telemedicine
subject: Covid-19
subject: Digitalisation
subject: Older people
subject: Service delivery

description: This is a protocol for a systematic mapping review to map changes in health and social care service delivery for older people, arising due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Weighted Diffeomorphic Density Matching with Applications to Thoracic Image Registration
Creators: name: Rottman, Caleb
name: Bauer, Martin
name: Modin, Klas
name: Joshi, Sarang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we study the problem of thoracic image registration, in particular the estimation of complex anatomical deformations associated with the breathing cycle. Using the intimate link between the Riemannian geometry of the space of diffeomorphisms and the space of densities, we develop an image registration framework that incorporates both the fundamental law of conservation of mass as well as spatially varying tissue compressibility properties. By exploiting the geometrical structure, the resulting algorithm is computationally efficient, yet widely general.
description: Accepted in Proceedings of the 5th MICCAI workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, Munich, Germany, 2015 (http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/events/MFCA15/)
The study of women, infant feeding and type 2 diabetes after GDM pregnancy and growth of their offspring (SWIFT Offspring study): prospective design, methodology and baseline characteristics
Creators: name: Faith, Myles S
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background Breastfeeding is associated with reduced risk of becoming overweight or obese later in life. Breastfed babies grow more slowly during infancy than formula-fed babies. Among offspring exposed in utero to maternal glucose intolerance, prospective data on growth during infancy have been unavailable. Thus, scientific evidence is insufficient to conclude that breastfeeding reduces the risk of obesity among the offspring of diabetic mothers (ODM). To address this gap, we devised the Study of Women, Infant Feeding and Type 2 Diabetes after GDM Pregnancy and Growth of their Offspring, also known as the SWIFT Offspring Study. This prospective, longitudinal study recruited mother-infant pairs from the SWIFT Study, a prospective study of women with recent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The goal of the SWIFT Offspring Study is to determine whether breastfeeding intensity and duration, compared with formula feeding, are related to slower growth of GDM offspring during the first year life. This article details the study design, participant eligibility, data collection, and methodologies. We also describe the baseline characteristics of the GDM mother-infant pairs. Methods The study enrolled 466 mother-infant pairs among GDM deliveries in northern California from 2009–2011. Participants attended three in-person study exams at 6–9 weeks, 6 months and 12 months after delivery for infant anthropometry (head circumference, body weight, length, abdominal circumference and skinfold thicknesses), as well as maternal anthropometry (body weight, waist circumference and percent body fat). Mothers also completed questionnaires on health and lifestyle behaviors, including infant diet, sleep and temperament. Breastfeeding intensity and duration were assessed via several sources (diaries, telephone interviews, monthly mailings and in-person exams) from birth through the first year of life. Pregnancy course, clinical perinatal and newborn outcomes were obtained from health plan electronic medical records. Infant saliva samples were collected and stored for genetics studies. Discussion This large, racially and ethnically diverse cohort of GDM offspring will enable evaluation of the relationship of infant feeding to growth during infancy independent of perinatal characteristics, sociodemographics and other risk factors. The longitudinal design provides the first quantitative measures of breastfeeding intensity and duration among GDM offspring during early life.
Declaration of Intention of Philipp Maurer
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1921

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Philipp MaurerApplicant age: 40Occupation: waiterCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 19 July 1887Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: GermanyCity of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 24 June 1921
Therapeutic ultrasound as a potential male contraceptive: power, frequency and temperature required to deplete rat testes of meiotic cells and epididymides of sperm determined using a commercially available system
Creators: name: Hamil, Katherine G
name: Silva, Erick JR
name: Gallippi, Caterina
name: Tsuruta, James K
name: O'Rand, Michael G
name: Gessner, Ryan C
name: Dayton, Paul
name: Gregory, Thomas S
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract Background Studies published in the 1970s by Mostafa S. Fahim and colleagues showed that a short treatment with ultrasound caused the depletion of germ cells and infertility. The goal of the current study was to determine if a commercially available therapeutic ultrasound generator and transducer could be used as the basis for a male contraceptive. Methods Sprague-Dawley rats were anesthetized and their testes were treated with 1 MHz or 3 MHz ultrasound while varying power, duration and temperature of treatment. Results We found that 3 MHz ultrasound delivered with 2.2 Watt per square cm power for fifteen minutes was necessary to deplete spermatocytes and spermatids from the testis and that this treatment significantly reduced epididymal sperm reserves. 3 MHz ultrasound treatment reduced total epididymal sperm count 10-fold lower than the wet-heat control and decreased motile sperm counts 1,000-fold lower than wet-heat alone. The current treatment regimen provided nominally more energy to the treatment chamber than Fahim's originally reported conditions of 1 MHz ultrasound delivered at 1 Watt per square cm for ten minutes. However, the true spatial average intensity, effective radiating area and power output of the transducers used by Fahim were not reported, making a direct comparison impossible. We found that germ cell depletion was most uniform and effective when we rotated the therapeutic transducer to mitigate non-uniformity of the beam field. The lowest sperm count was achieved when the coupling medium (3% saline) was held at 37 degrees C and two consecutive 15-minute treatments of 3 MHz ultrasound at 2.2 Watt per square cm were separated by 2 days. Conclusions The non-invasive nature of ultrasound and its efficacy in reducing sperm count make therapeutic ultrasound a promising candidate for a male contraceptive. However, further studies must be conducted to confirm its efficacy in providing a contraceptive effect, to test the result of repeated use, to verify that the contraceptive effect is reversible and to demonstrate that there are no detrimental, long-term effects from using ultrasound as a method of male contraception.
Declaration of Intention of Reinhold Kuhn
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1924

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by:Reinhold Kuhn Applicant age:39Occupation:Bookkeeper Country of Origin:Littland ( Latvia)Date of Birth: 18 January 1885Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Lina Ventana City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:10 March 1924
Eigenvalues for perturbed periodic Jacobi matrices by the Wigner-von Neumann approach
Creators: name: Judge, Edmund
name: Naboko, Sergey
name: Wood, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Wigner-von Neumann method, which was previously used for perturbing continuous Schrödinger operators, is here applied to their discrete counterparts. In particular, we consider perturbations of arbitrary $T$-periodic Jacobi matrices. The asymptotic behaviour of the subordinate solutions is investigated, as too are their initial components, together giving a general technique for embedding eigenvalues, $λ$, into the operator's absolutely continuous spectrum. Introducing a new rational function, $C(λ;T)$, related to the periodic Jacobi matrices, we describe the elements of the a.c. spectrum for which this construction does not work (zeros of $C(λ;T)$); in particular showing that there are only finitely many of them.
Declaration of Intention of Ernest Wiegand
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1925

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Ernest Wiegand Applicant age: 20Occupation: Hotel WorkCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 4th June 1905Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Stuttgart City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 17th December 1925
A Bayesian fusion model for space-time reconstruction of finely resolved velocities in turbulent flows from low resolution measurements
Creators: name: Van Nguyen, Linh
name: Laval, Jean-Philippe
name: Chainais, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of turbulent flows calls for measurements with high resolution both in space and in time. We propose a new approach to reconstruct High-Temporal-High-Spatial resolution velocity fields by combining two sources of information that are well-resolved either in space or in time, the Low-Temporal-High-Spatial (LTHS) and the High-Temporal-Low-Spatial (HTLS) resolution measurements. In the framework of co-conception between sensing and data post-processing, this work extensively investigates a Bayesian reconstruction approach using a simulated database. A Bayesian fusion model is developed to solve the inverse problem of data reconstruction. The model uses a Maximum A Posteriori estimate, which yields the most probable field knowing the measurements. The DNS of a wall-bounded turbulent flow at moderate Reynolds number is used to validate and assess the performances of the present approach. Low resolution measurements are subsampled in time and space from the fully resolved data. Reconstructed velocities are compared to the reference DNS to estimate the reconstruction errors. The model is compared to other conventional methods such as Linear Stochastic Estimation and cubic spline interpolation. Results show the superior accuracy of the proposed method in all configurations. Further investigations of model performances on various range of scales demonstrate its robustness. Numerical experiments also permit to estimate the expected maximum information level corresponding to limitations of experimental instruments.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Philotis: NLP Informed Language Documentation of Under-Resourced Languages - The Case of Pomak
Creators: name: Stamou, Vivian
name: Arampatzakis, Vasileios
name: Constantinides, Nikolaos
name: Kokkas, Nikolaos
name: Karamatskos, Dimitrios
name: Seveltidis, Vasileios
name: Krimpas, Panagiotis
name: Markantonatou, Stella
name: Pavlidis, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Philotis Project develops a platform for the multimodal documentation of living languages; the documentation materials are processed with state-of-the-art NLP technology that renders them suitable for downstream applications. Philotis supports language documentation practitioners by automating the required technical processes so that they can focus on the linguistic aspects of resource collection and annotation. The platform supports several scenarios regarding the available documentation materials and the required processing pipelines. Pomak, an endangered oral Slavic language of the Balkans, is used as a case study. Documentation of Pomak is an ongoing project by an interdisciplinary team working closely with the Pomak community of Greece. We have developed and published a gold morphologically annotated corpus of Pomak; morphological annotation has greatly profited from the electronic lexicon of Pomak "Rodopsky” that contains about 3.5 x 106 morphologically annotated forms. Rodopsky was converted into the CONLLU format and its morphological annotation to the Universal Dependencies (UDs) scheme. We evaluated several openly available state-of-the-art NLP tools wrt their ability to be integrated into different NLP pipelines suitable for under resourced languages. We identified two problems (i) languages not already registered in the UDs-repository were difficult to be processed by spaCy & stanza, (ii) the syntactical information was prerequired for the morphological task (spaCy, stanza); however, a language might provide precious information for either of these levels and, it is widely accepted, also by UDs, that syntax builds on morphology. Recently, the option of separate processing has been adopted by Stanza based on our experience from Pomak. We are now experimenting with active annotation in order to assign dependency relations aiming at a considerable reduction of annotation costs as regards the (semi-)automatic assignment of syntactic dependencies to the Pomak corpus. Our first results indicate that quality morphological analysis directly affects the accuracy of syntactic dependencies.
title: Dialektalität als phonetische Distanz. Ein Verfahren zur Messung standarddivergenter Sprechformen
title: Dialectality and phonetic distance
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Herrgen, Joachim
name: Lameli, Alfred
name: Rabanus, Stefan
name: Schmidt, Jürgen Erich
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2001
Subjects: Phonetik
Language, Linguistics
Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Dialektometrie
Mundart
Quantifizierung
Aussprache

description: Vorgestellt wird ein Verfahren zur Quantifizierung des phonetischen Abstands sprachlicher Äußerungen. Die von Herrgen/Schmidt (1989) eingeführte Methode wird im vorliegenden Text einer Systematisierung unterzogen, die für die Zwecke einer überregionalen Anwendung geeignet ist.
Time to reappraise or distract? Time of day, weekday, and situational context in emotion regulation in daily life
Creators: name: Hiekkaranta, Anu
name: Kirtley, Olivia
name: Lafit, Ginette
name: Houben, Marlies
name: Vachon, Hugo
name: Myin-Germeys, Inez
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Contextual factors influence how people regulate their everyday emotions. In this study, we present the idea of environmental affordances derived from ecological psychology as a framework for investigating the role of contextual factors in everyday emotion regulation. The concept of affordances, derived from ecological psychology, refers to possibilities for action that the situational context offers humans and non-human animals, given the individual characteristics of the agents (Gibson, 1979). In the current study, we focus on two commonly used emotion regulation strategies: reappraisal and distraction, which have both been studied extensively in lab experiments, but less in daily life. In this study, we investigate how different contextual factors afford reappraisal and distraction in everyday life. First, we explore the possibility that distraction and reappraisal are differentially affordable at different times within a day and week. Second, we assess how level of tiredness is associated with the use of distraction and reappraisal. Tiredness both varies throughout the day and has been shown to affect cognitive performance (Blatter & Cajochen, 2007). Cognitive performance, in turn, is relevant in engaging in cognitively taxing emotion regulation such as reappraisal (Gross, 1998; 2015). We therefore hypothesize tiredness to be associated with less reappraisal and more distraction. Third, recent investigations suggest that low intensity emotional situations afford more reappraisal in daily life (Hiekkaranta et al., 2021; Lennarz, Hollenstein, Lichtwarck-Aschoff, Kuntsche, & Granic, 2019; Wilms, Lanwehr, & Kastenmüller, 2020). The role of event intensity in engaging in distraction in everyday life is less clear, as some have reported a relationship between higher intensity and more distraction use (Lennarz et al., 2019) and others have found no relationship (Wilms et al., 2020, Hiekkaranta et al., 2021). We therefore also investigate the role of event intensity in distraction and reappraisal use in daily life. Finally, an important characteristic of the external context, the type of event that evokes emotion regulation, has been shown to influence affordances for engaging in reappraisal to regulate emotions in laboratory experiments (Suri et al., 2018). Given that laboratory findings indicate high reappraisal affordances for interpersonal situations, we hypothesize negative interpersonal events to be positively associated with reappraisal use. In this study, we use pre-existing data (Eisele et al., 2020) of 14 days of daily diaries collected via the Experience Sampling Method, to test how the different types of contextual factors at are associated with engaging in reappraisal and distraction to regulate daily emotions in general population of adults (N = 156).
Declaration of Intention of Mrs. Mary Snyder
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1925

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Mrs. Mary Snyder Applicant age:70Occupation: Chamber MaidCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 17th December 1856Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Maine City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 23rd December 1925
title: Professing planning: On the horns of the modern/postmodern dilemma
title: La profession d'urbaniste: Face à un dilemme entre modernisme et postmodernisme
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wight, Ian
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Editorials
subject: Planners
subject: Éditoriaux
subject: Urbanistes

description: Editorial article on the "Planning Professionalism" theme of this issue of Plan Canada.
description: From the editor
description: Le mot du rédacteur principal
description: Text in English and French.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6055/1-Editorial.pdf?sequence=3
Omega-3 fatty acids for breast cancer prevention and survivorship
Creators: name: Hursting, Stephen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Women with evidence of high intake ratios of the marine omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) relative to the omega-6 arachidonic acid have been found to have a reduced risk of breast cancer compared with those with low ratios in some but not all case–control and cohort studies. If increasing EPA and DHA relative to arachidonic acid is effective in reducing breast cancer risk, likely mechanisms include reduction in proinflammatory lipid derivatives, inhibition of nuclear factor-κB-induced cytokine production, and decreased growth factor receptor signaling as a result of alteration in membrane lipid rafts. Primary prevention trials with either risk biomarkers or cancer incidence as endpoints are underway but final results of these trials are currently unavailable. EPA and DHA supplementation is also being explored in an effort to help prevent or alleviate common problems after a breast cancer diagnosis, including cardiac and cognitive dysfunction and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. The insulin-sensitizing and anabolic properties of EPA and DHA also suggest supplementation studies to determine whether these omega-3 fatty acids might reduce chemotherapy-associated loss of muscle mass and weight gain. We will briefly review relevant omega-3 fatty acid metabolism, and early investigations in breast cancer prevention and survivorship.
title: VERZEICHNIS DER BIBLIOTHEK / Arnold KOWALEWSKI (1873-1945) / (Königsberg)
title: The Library of Arnold Kowalewski (1873 - 1945) / (Koenigsberg)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Stark, Werner
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2008
Subjects: Einpersonen-Bibliothek
Bibliography
Bibliografien

description: VERZEICHNIS DER BIBLIOTHEK Arnold KOWALEWSKI (1873-1945) (Königsberg) In zwei Teilen: A: Literaturarchiv, Marbach/Neckar (S. 2 - 15) B: Kant-Archiv, Philipps-Universität Marburg/Lahn (S. 16 - 35)