cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Systematic literature review of the epidemiology and clinical burden of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis
Creators: name: Chen, Stephanie
name: Zhou, Anna
name: Emmanuel, Benjamin
name: Thomas, Kim
name: Guiang, Hannah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to determine the epidemiology and clinical burden of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and to describe how the addition of biologics has affected outcomes for patients with CRSwNP. The SLR adhered to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Embase, MEDLINE, and Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews databases were searched using OVID. Relevant studies published between 1 January 2008 and 8 February 2019, for epidemiology, and 1 January 2008 and 16 February 2019, for clinical burden, and relevant conference abstracts from 1 January 2017 to 7 March 2019, for epidemiology and 1 January 2017–16 February 2019 for clinical burden were included. For the epidemiology and clinical burden SLR, 147 and 119 records, respectively, met the inclusion criteria. We found the prevalence of CRSwNP was 1–2.6% and was greater in men. Asthma, allergy, and allergic rhinitis were the most common comorbidities identified. Reported risk factors included asthma, gene polymorphisms, age, and eosinophilia. Studies indicated that dupilumab, mepolizumab, and omalizumab each improved different clinical outcomes. Non-biologics (drugs such as corticosteroids or antibiotics, surgery, or aspirin desensitization) improved clinical outcomes as well. CRSwNP is fairly prevalent in the general population. Despite the significant efficacy of existing treatments, several unmet needs remain. The high burden of uncontrolled symptoms, frequent recurrence of nasal polyps after surgery, and long-term adverse effects of oral corticosteroids indicate that new therapies addressing these unmet needs should be developed. Although data on biologics from randomized controlled trials look promising, the efficacy of biologics in the real world has yet to be established. The SLR of the epidemiology and clinical burden of CRSwNP revealed key gaps in the literature. There was a paucity of prevalence data across many geographic areas, and no prevalence projections could be determined. Studies showed varying efficacy of non-biologics and no studies directly compared biologics for efficacy. Data regarding clinical efficacy of agents for eosinophilic CRSwNP or severe CRSwNP were lacking, and these patient populations would be served by more trials.
Forecasting Consumer Price Indexes for Food: A Demand Model Approach
Creators: name: Huang, Kuo S.
name: Huang, Kuo S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: food price forecasts
subject: inverse demand system
subject: autoregressive model

description: Forecasting food prices is an important component of the U.S. Department of Agricultureís short-term outlook and long-term baseline forecasting activities. A food price-forecasting model is developed by applying an inverse demand system, in which prices are functions of quantities of food use and income. Therefore, these quantity and income variables can be used as explanatory variables for food price changes. The empirical model provides an effective instrument for forecasting consumer price indexes of 16 food categories.
N=4 "Fake" Supergravity
Creators: name: Zagermann, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study curved and flat BPS-domain walls in 5D, N=4 gauged supergravity and show that their effective dynamics along the flow is described by a generalized form of "fake supergravity". This generalizes previous work in N=2 supergravity and might hint towards a universal behavior of gauged supergravity theories in supersymmetric domain wall backgrounds. We show that BPS-domain walls in 5D, N=4 supergravity can never be curved if they are supported by the supergravity scalar only. Furthermore, a purely Abelian gauge group or a purely semisimple gauge group can never lead to a curved domain wall, and the flat walls for these gaugings always exhibit a runaway behavior.
description: 32 pages, 1 figure, Latex2e, v2: minor corrections and references added
INGLIZ TILINING XALQARO TIL SIFATIDAGI ROLINING AHAMIYATI VA UNING ISTIQBOLLARI
Creators: name: Zubaydova, Nilufar
name: Nematova, Dilnura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqola ingliz tilining xalqaro til sifatidagi rolini va uning ahamiyatini oshirish muhimligini tahlil qiladi. Bugungi kunda ingliz tili global kommunikatsiya, iqtisodiyot, ta’lim va madaniyat sohalarida asosiy vosita sifatida keng tarqalgan. Maqola, ingliz tilini o‘rganishdagi muammolar va qiyinchiliklarni ko‘rsatib beradi hamda xorijiy tajribalar asosida samarali yechimlar taklif etadi. Shuningdek, ingliz tilining rivojlanishi va global madaniy almashinuvdagi roli hamda ta’lim tizimida ingliz tilini o‘rganishni yaxshilash uchun zarur bo‘lgan yondashuvlar ko‘rib chiqiladi. O‘quvchilar va ta’lim muassasalari uchun ingliz tilining ahamiyatini oshirishga qaratilgan usullarni aniqlash maqsad qilingan.
Murnarus Leviathan vulgo dictus, Geltnar oder Gensz Prediger : Murnerus et Schönhenselin, oder Schmutzkolb, de se ipso... / R. Musaei in gratiam M. Lutheri et Hutteni, propugnatorum Christianae et germanicae liberatis, ad osores epistola
Creators: name: Murner, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1750

description: Avskrift. Eks. 1.
description: Trykt utgave ca 1520.
A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Creators: name: Klimm, Florian
name: Maier, Benjamin F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 97D40

description: We discuss a two-week summer course on Network Science that we taught for high school pupils. We present the concepts and contents of the course, evaluate them, and make the course material available.
description: 18 pages
Cross-Commodity Analysis of China's Grain Sector: Sources of Growth and Supply Response
Creators: name: Colby, Hunter
name: Diao, Xinshen
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Colby, Hunter
name: Diao, Xinshen
name: Somwaru, Agapi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: China agriculture
subject: growth accounting
subject: total factor productivity (TFP)
subject: multi-product supply response

description: We investigate sources of output growth and supply response in rice, wheat, corn, and soybeans, the four most important crops in China's grain sector, during 1978-97. Using a growth accounting methodology, we found large total factor productivity (TFP) contributions to growth in grain production immediately following China's rural economic reform (1978-85). In 1995-97, the TFP contribution dropped to only 16 percent of growth in grain production, as greater use of inputs increasingly drove growth. In the supply response analysis, the results of the econometrically estimated restricted profit function confirm a joint and nonseparable multiproduct technology for China's grain sector. Complementarity prevails in the grain sector among different outputs and inputs, meaning that an increase in the price of intermediate inputs/capital or wages would result not only in an absolute reduction in all outputs but also in a change in the composition of these outputs. The expansion (or scale) effects subsided during 1986-97, implying a relatively slow outward shift of the production frontier during this period. If the current government policy environment remains unchanged, China's grain production will become more costly, constraining its future growth and competitiveness in world markets.
Schmidt, Carl: Gespräche Jesu mit seinen Jüngern nach der Auferstehung
Creators: name: Haase, Felix
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 18 (1920): Oriens christianus, Band 18/19
On surrogate loss functions and $f$-divergences
Creators: name: Nguyen, XuanLong
name: Wainwright, Martin J.
name: Jordan, Michael I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62G10, 68Q32, 62K05 (Primary)

description: The goal of binary classification is to estimate a discriminant function $γ$ from observations of covariate vectors and corresponding binary labels. We consider an elaboration of this problem in which the covariates are not available directly but are transformed by a dimensionality-reducing quantizer $Q$. We present conditions on loss functions such that empirical risk minimization yields Bayes consistency when both the discriminant function and the quantizer are estimated. These conditions are stated in terms of a general correspondence between loss functions and a class of functionals known as Ali-Silvey or $f$-divergence functionals. Whereas this correspondence was established by Blackwell [Proc. 2nd Berkeley Symp. Probab. Statist. 1 (1951) 93--102. Univ. California Press, Berkeley] for the 0--1 loss, we extend the correspondence to the broader class of surrogate loss functions that play a key role in the general theory of Bayes consistency for binary classification. Our result makes it possible to pick out the (strict) subset of surrogate loss functions that yield Bayes consistency for joint estimation of the discriminant function and the quantizer.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOS595 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Randomized head-to-head comparison of minodronic acid and raloxifene for fracture incidence in postmenopausal Japanese women: the Japanese Osteoporosis Intervention Trial (JOINT)-04
Creators: name: Uemura, Yukari
name: Teruki Sone
name: Tanaka, Shiro
name: Teruhiko Miyazaki
name: Tsukiyama, Mayumi
name: Taguchi, Akira
name: Soen, Satoshi
name: Mori, Satoshi
name: Hagino, Hiroshi
name: Toshitsugu Sugimoto
name: Fukunaga, Masao
name: Ohta, Hiroaki
name: Toshitaka Nakamura
name: Orimo, Hajime
name: Shiraki, Masataka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: We conducted a head-to-head randomized trial of minodronate, a bisphosphonate, and raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator, to obtain clinical evidence and information about their efficacy and safety. The Japanese Osteoporosis Intervention Trial protocol number 4 (JOINT-04) trial is a multi-center, open-labeled, blinded endpoints, head-to-head randomized trial of minodronate and raloxifene. Ambulatory elderly women with osteoporosis (age, >60 years) were randomly allocated to the raloxifene or minodronate group by central registration. The co-primary endpoints included any one of osteoporotic fractures (vertebral, humeral, femoral, and radial fractures), vertebral fractures, and major osteoporotic fractures (clinical vertebral, humeral, femoral, and radial fractures). The biological effects of each drug, patients’ quality of life, and drug safety were assessed based on the secondary outcomes. This study was registered at the University Hospital Medical Information Network-Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) under trial identification number UMIN000005433. A total of 3896 patients were randomized to the minodronate and raloxifene groups, and drug efficacy assessments were performed for 3247 patients (1623 and 1624 patients, respectively). Among these patients, 1176 and 1187 patients received allocated treatment for 2 years. The incidence rate ratios for osteoporotic, vertebral, and major osteoporotic fractures in the minodronate group were 0.94 (95% CI: 0.78–1.13, p = .494), 0.86 (95% CI: 0.70–1.05, p = .147), and 1.22 (95% CI: 0.86–1.74, p = .274), respectively. Compared to the raloxifene group, the minodronate group showed significantly increased bone mineral density of the lumbar spine for each visit (6 months: p = .007, 12 months: p = .0003, 24 months: p Overall, there were no statistical differences in the incidence rates of osteoporotic, vertebral, or major osteoporotic fractures between the two groups. Serious adverse reactions were rare in both groups.
Public process and the creation of a marine protected area at Race Rocks, British Columbia
Creators: name: LeRoy, Alfred Sean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The creation of a marine protected area in British Columbia is a political process that must reconcile the wants of several jurisdictions and interests. One forum for consultation and reconciliation is a consensus process, where individuals representing differing interests engage in long-term, face-to-face discussions, seeking agreement on strategy, plans, policies, and actions. This study employed qualitative methods to examine the successes and shortcomings of the consensus process associated with the forthcoming designation of the Xwayarj (Race Rocks) Marine Protected Area, which will be Canada's first marine protected area under the federal Oceans Act. Known as the Race Rocks Advisory Board, this process included government, aboriginal and stakeholder representatives, and was successful at negotiating consensus recommendations in support of designation. Notable among the recommendations were provisions for the creation of a no-take zone, and for the establishment of a co-management regime involving First Nations, British Columbia and Canada. However, once submitted, these recommendations were misrepresented in the federal government's regulatory approval process, leading to protest by various First Nations and a halt to final designation. Both the misrepresentation and the protest involved groups that were not part of the Race Rocks Advisory Board. This suggests that consensus processes for the creation of marine protected areas should include representatives from each part of the designation process, including delegates from all affected First Nations and all relevant branches of government. To achieve this, it is recommended that future consensus processes be jointly convened by Canada, British Columbia and affected First Nations, respecting the government-to-government relationship between the three parties. The joint convenors would negotiate what form of co-ordination and facilitation should take place in the process, and which stakeholders should be involved. In effect, this would be a comanaged consensus process — an experiment with a new form of public engagement, which is in keeping with the 'learning-by-doing' approach endorsed by federal policies for the creation of marine protected areas under the Oceans Act.
Cosmological analogies in the search for new physics in high-energy collisions
Creators: name: Sanchis-Lozano, Miguel-Angel
name: Sarkisyan-Grinbaum, Edward K.
name: Domenech-Garret, Juan-Luis
name: Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, analogies between multiparticle production in high-energy collisions and the time evolution of the early universe are discussed. A common explanation is put forward under the assumption of an unconventional early state: a rapidly expanding universe before recombination (last scattering surface), followed by the CMB, later evolving up to present days, versus the formation of hidden/dark states in hadronic collisions followed by a conventional QCD parton shower yielding final-state particles. In particular, long-range angular correlations are considered pointing out deep connections between the two physical cases potentially useful for the discovery of new physics.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
ГЕНДЕРНОЕ ВЫРАЖЕНИЕ ЗООНИМОВ В УЗБЕКСКОМ, РУССКОМ И АНГЛИЙСКОМ ЯЗЫКАХ: ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ И КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ
Creators: name: Маматхонова, Гульмирабону
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В нашей жизни культура, как и язык, есть взаимодополняющие друг друга части. Язык представляет собой компонент культуры, это важнейший компонент в ее формировании и хранении. Языковые единицы, и особенно единицы лексико-фразеологического языкового уровня, являются «зеркалом народной культуры», семантические и структурные словарные связи отображают актуальные и важные для человека связи между объектами и предметами окружающей действительности, ее идеальными и реальными субъектами и, таким образом, передают особенности национальной культуры.
Many-body theory of gamma spectra from positron-atom annihilation
Creators: name: Dunlop, L. J. M.
name: Gribakin, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A many-body theory approach to the calculation of gamma spectra of positron annihilation on many-electron atoms is developed. We evaluate the first-order correlation correction to the annihilation vertex and perform numerical calculations for the noble gas atoms. Extrapolation with respect to the maximal orbital momentum of the intermediate electron and positron states is used to achieve convergence. The inclusion of correlation corrections improves agreement with experimental gamma spectra.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures, submitted to J. Phys. B
Treatment patterns and direct medical costs among patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Aly, Abdalla
name: Malangone-Monaco, Elisabetta
name: Noxon, Virginia
name: Henriques, Caroline
name: Benavente, Fernando
name: Kim, Amy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: This study assessed the real-world United States (US) treatment patterns and the associated economic burden in patients diagnosed with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The MarketScan database was used to identify patients newly diagnosed with HCC who received systemic therapy between 2011 and 2018 and continuously enrolled for ≥6 months (baseline period) prior and ≥1 month following HCC diagnosis. Treatment patterns (systemic and locoregional therapy), healthcare resource utilization, and costs were reported during follow-up. The final sample included 1580 patients (median age, 61; 78% male; median follow up, 8.7 months). The most common first line of therapy (LOT) was sorafenib (78%). The median time from HCC diagnosis to start of sorafenib was 43 days, and the median duration of sorafenib therapy was 60 days. Only 17% of patients received second LOT, and non-sorafenib treatment use increased to 66% (mostly chemotherapy combination). Transarterial chemoembolization was the most commonly observed locoregional therapy prior to the first LOT. The multivariable-adjusted average all-cause total cost among sorafenib treated patients was $17,642 (95% CI: $16,711–$18,558) per-patient per-month), of which $11,393 were HCC-specific. In patients who received first-line therapy for HCC, the duration of therapy was short (potentially due to progression or tolerability). Most patients did not continue to second-line therapy. Despite the short duration of therapy, HCC patients still incur a high economic burden, and there is a need for more effective and tolerable treatments.
Structural reliability analysis of Cross Laminated Timber plates subjected to bending
Creators: name: Vilela, Ramon
name: Nilson Tadeu Mascia
name: Santos, Luciano Ferreira Dos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Failure modes of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) plates reach by an excess of tensile stress on finger joints, shear stress on transverse layer due to rolling shear effect, and also by natural vibration. The Probability of Failure (POF) of CLT plates can be estimated from the probability distribution of its rupture and stiffness, as well as their correlation coefficients. In this context, the aim of this paper is to estimate the load capacity of Cross Laminated Timber plates from a specific probability of failure and the experimental results of mechanical and physical properties. For this purpose, CLT plates were manufactured with wood species of Pinus taeda L., originally from Brazilian reforestation. Four-point bending tests were conducted to investigate the failure behavior of the CLT plates. Density and moisture content were obtained from small specimens extracted from CLT plates. Monte Carlo simulation was carried out to predict the probabilistic loads that produce the failure of CLT plates, considering the failure occasioned by natural vibration as well. Experimental and numerical results of the failure modes were compared and the maximum loads to an acceptable probability of failure of the several CLT lengths were estimated too
Infrared fixed points of higher-spin fermions in topological semimetals
Creators: name: Boettcher, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the fate of interacting fermions described by the Hamiltonian $H=\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{J}$ in three-dimensional topological semimetals with linear band crossing, where $\textbf{p}$ is momentum and $\textbf{J}$ are the spin-$j$ matrices for half-integer pseudospin $j\geq 3/2$. While weak short-range interactions are irrelevant at the crossing point due to the vanishing density of states, weak long-range Coulomb interactions lead to a renormalization of the band structure. Using a self-consistent perturbative renormalization group approach, we show that band crossings of the type $\textbf{p}\cdot \textbf{J}$ are unstable for $j\leq 7/2$. Instead, through an intriguing interplay between cubic crystal symmetry, band topology, and interaction effects, the system is attracted to a variety of infrared fixed points. We also unravel several other properties of higher-spin fermions for general $j$, such as the relation between fermion self-energy and free energy, or the vanishing of the renormalized charge. An $\text{O}(3)$ symmetric fixed point composed of equal chirality Weyl fermions is stable for $j\leq 7/2$ and very likely so for all $j$. We then explore the rich fixed point structure for $j=5/2$ in detail. We find additional attractive fixed points with enhanced $\text{O}(3)$ symmetry that host both emergent Weyl or massless Dirac fermions, and identify a puzzling, infrared stable, anisotropic fixed point without enhanced symmetry in close analogy to the known case of $j=3/2$.
description: 13+11 pages, published version
A hierarchical algorithm for multicentric matched cohort study designs
Creators: name: Mayer, Benjamin
name: Tadler, Simone
name: Rothenbacher, Dietrich
name: Seeger, Julia
name: Wöhrle, Jochen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Lack of structural equality is a major issue to be addressed in observational studies. Their major disadvantage of these studies compared to randomized controlled trials is the vulnerability towards confounding, but they often better mirror real world patients and, therefore, entail an increased external validity. Numerous approaches have been developed to account for confounding in observational research, including multiple regression, subgroup analysis and matched cohort designs. The latter has been often described as a useful tool if large control data sets are available. In this paper we present a hierarchical matching algorithm entailing two stages which enables a multicentric matched cohort study to be conducted. In particular, the algorithm defines the matching strategy as a combination of exact matching and a subsequent consideration of further matching variables to be controlled using a distance measure (e.g. the propensity score). The algorithm is applied to a study in interventional cardiology and demonstrates high flexibility and usefulness with regard to the aim of finding comparable cases of exposed and non-exposed patients from observational data. The algorithm increased structural equality by balancing the most important covariates which might be of different importance for the matching process. The implementation of the algorithm in the statistical software SAS offers high flexibility regarding an application to various data analysis projects. Specifically, it provides a broader range of features (e.g. diverse distance measures) when compared to other existing solutions for conducting matched cohort analyses.
Breakdown of One-Paramater Scaling in Quantum Critical Scenarios for the High-Temperature Copper-oxide Superconductors
Creators: name: Phillips, Philip
name: Chamon, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that if the excitations which become gapless at a quantum critical point also carry the electrical current, then a resistivity linear in temperature, as is observed in the copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors, obtains only if the dynamical exponent, $z$, satisfies the unphysical constraint, $z<0$. At fault here is the universal scaling hypothesis that, at a continuous phase transition, the only relevant length scale is the correlation length. Consequently, either the electrical current in the normal state of the cuprates is carried by degrees of freedom which do not undergo a quantum phase transition, or quantum critical scenarios must forgo this basic scaling hypothesis and demand that more than a single correlation length scale is necessary to model transport in the cuprates.
description: 4 pages, 1 .eps figure. Physical Review Letters, in press
SOPs/Protocols for the Libraries in the New Normal
Creators: name: Hasan, Nabi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80799 Library and Information Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 80706 Librarianship

description: The world today is passing through a very tough time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation and lockdowns. This scenario is unprecedented, strange, unknown, weird, confusing, risky, and requires social distancing, use of masks, soaps, sanitizer, etc., and we must follow many mobility restrictions. A comparable earlier pandemic, occuring in the years 1918-19, is known as the Spanish flu.Every walk of life, profession, etc. is affected by this WHO-declared pandemic. Most impacted are labourintensivephysical industries, but as the library profession is IT-supported, so there is hope. COVID-19 began to lead to the closure of library buildings at the start of the year 2020. Libraries and librarians are now offering reduced or alternative services until full services resume, though generally, the focus is on online services and digital contents. Valuable resources libraries can offer to include support for teachers and students, engaging in online instructions, access to e-Resources, curated lists of COVID-19 news and examples of best-practice responses. Decision-makers need to weigh the well-being of staff,library users, and the community, when making changes to library service hours, programs, or policies, given their local contexts. Despite all the limitations, libraries have started opening their services and providing physical access tomany resources in the New Normal in this COVID-19 situation, as people believe that the virus may remainfor a longer time? It means, despite all the limitations, the libraries and librarians must provide library services to the clientele in the COVID-19 situation, which is also termed as the New Normal. Some of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)/Protocols, which may be considered as the Model SOPs for functioning and reopening libraries in the new normal, have been enumerated below to help leaners to explore and adopt after observing their local conditions.
The number of link and cluster states: the core of the 2D $q$ state Potts model
Creators: name: Hove, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to Fortuin and Kastelyin the $q$ state Potts model has a representation as a sum over random graphs, generalizing the Potts model to arbitrary $q$ is based on this representation. A key element of the Random Cluster representation is the combinatorial factor $Γ_{\Graph{G}}(\Clusters,\Edges)$, which is the number of ways to form $\Clusters$ distinct clusters, consisting of totally $\Edges$ edges. We have devised a method to calculate $Γ_{\Graph{G}}(\Clusters,\Edges)$ from Monte Carlo simulations.
description: Many updates throughout the text. Current version published in J. Phys. A
Fermionic quantization and configuration spaces for the Skyrme and Faddeev-Hopf models
Creators: name: Auckly, Dave
name: Speight, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The fundamental group and rational cohomology of the configuration spaces of the Skyrme and Faddeev-Hopf models are computed. Physical space is taken to be a compact oriented 3-manifold, either with or without a marked point representing an end at infinity. For the Skyrme model, the codomain is any Lie group, while for the Faddeev-Hopf model it is $S^2$. It is determined when the topology of configuration space permits fermionic and isospinorial quantization of the solitons of the model within generalizations of the frameworks of Finkelstein-Rubinstein and Sorkin. Fermionic quantization of Skyrmions is possible only if the target group contains a symplectic or special unitary factor, while fermionic quantization of Hopfions is always possible. Geometric interpretations of the results are given.
Themata aus dem Forschungsgebiete des gesamten christlichen Orients
Creators: name: Graf, G.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 18 (1920): Oriens christianus, Band 18/19
BANK MARKET STRUCTURE AND LOCAL EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
Creators: name: Collender, Robert N.
name: Shaffer, Sherrill L.
name: Collender, Robert N.
name: Shaffer, Sherrill L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: commercial banking
subject: employment growth
subject: geographic liberalization
subject: bank ownership

description: The relationship between financial structure and job growth is both an unexplored issue and a possible channel through which financial structure impacts income growth. We explore these issues using both longrun and shortrun models. Our shortrun model provides evidence of a robust relationship between local employment growth and geographic deregulation of bank activity in the United States. We also found that U.S. nonmetropolitan employment grew faster in 1973-96 where there were fewer locally owned bank offices and a more concentrated initial banking market structure; these linkages were less stable in metropolitan areas. Overall, however, we found only weak evidence in support of an employment growth channel linking bank structure to subsequent economic growth. Our findings suggest that job creation is not consistently a major channel by which banking structure stimulates income growth. A corollary is that the macroeconomic benefits of banking structure accrue primarily to those already working, rather than new workers.
Additive Nonparametric Reconstruction of Dynamical Systems from Time Series
Creators: name: Abel, Markus
name: Ahnert, Karsten
name: Kurths, Juergen
name: Mandelj, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a nonparametric way to retrieve a system of differential equations in embedding space from a single time series. These equations can be treated with dynamical systems theory and allow for long term predictions. We demonstrate the potential of our approach for a modified chaotic Chua oscillator.
description: accepted for Phys. Rev. E, Rapid Comm
Optical circular dichroism of single-wall carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Sanchez-Castillo, A.
name: Roman-Velazquez, C. E.
name: Noguez, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The circular dichroism (CD) spectra of single-wall carbon nanotubes are calculated using a dipole approximation. The calculated CD spectra show features that allow us to distinguish between nanotubes with different angles of chirality, and diameters. These results provide theoretical support for the quantification of chirality and its measurement, using the CD lineshapes of chiral nanotubes. It is expected that this information would be useful to motivate further experimental studies.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. B
O'ZBEKISTONDA INGLIZ TILINI O'RGANISHNING AHAMIYATI VA MUHIM TARMOQLARI
Creators: name: Zubaydova, Nilufar
name: Hotamova, Laylo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqola O‘zbekistonda ingliz tilining o‘rganishining ahamiyatini va uning xalqaro til sifatidagi rolini tahlil qiladi. Ingliz tili hozirgi kunda global kommunikatsiya, biznes, ta’lim va madaniyat sohalarida asosiy vositaga aylandi. Maqolada ingliz tilining rivojlanish bosqichlari, muammolari, taklif etilgan yechimlar va olimlarning fikrlari o‘z ichiga olingan. O‘quvchilarga ingliz tilini o‘rganish jarayonida to‘g‘ri yondashuvlar va metodologiyalarni taqdim etish orqali, ushbu tilni muvaffaqiyatli o‘zlashtirish uchun zarur bo‘lgan ko‘nikmalarni rivojlantirishga yordam berish maqsad qilingan. Shuningdek, maqola xorij tajribasi va O‘zbekistondagi ingliz tili ta’limining sifatini oshirish uchun takliflar bilan to‘ldirilgan.
Neue handschriftliche Denkmäler melkitischer Liturgie
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 18 (1920): Oriens christianus, Band 18/19
Systematic literature review of humanistic and economic burdens of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis
Creators: name: Chen, Stephanie
name: Zhou, Anna
name: Emmanuel, Benjamin
name: Garcia, David
name: Rosta, Emily
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) of randomized controlled trials and real-world evidence (RWE) studies to determine the humanistic (e.g. health-related/disease-specific quality of life [QOL]) and economic (e.g. direct and indirect costs) burdens of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP). The SLR adhered to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Embase, MEDLINE and Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews databases were searched using OVID. Relevant studies involving adult patients with CRSwNP published between 1 January 2008 and 16 February 2019 were included, with relevant conference abstracts from 1 January 2017, onward. Sino-Nasal Outcomes Test (SNOT)-22 was the most frequently used disease-specific health-related QOL/patient-reported outcomes instrument for patients with CRSwNP. Baseline SNOT-22 scores ranged from 25 to 73 for surgical candidates and from 14 to 56 for medically managed patients with CRSwNP. Mean baseline EuroQol-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D) index for patients with CRSwNP ranged from 0.81 to 0.86, and mean baseline Short Form-6 Dimensions (SF-6D) ranged from 0.67 to 0.75. Three months (EQ-5D) and 5 years (SF-6D) post-endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), rates increased from 0.81 to 0.89 and from 0.69 to 0.80, respectively. One year post-diagnosis, patients with CRSwNP had significantly more systemic prescriptions, underwent significantly more medical procedures, demonstrated greater health care resource utilization and had significantly greater mean health care costs compared with matched controls (all p This SLR identified substantial humanistic burden among surgery candidates. RWE shows that surgeries were used to treat relatively more severe CRSwNP patients as recommended by guidelines. Patient QOL is improved significantly after surgery; however, there is a lack of evidence on patients with revision surgery. Surgery is also associated with higher costs, and the presence of NP was a predictor of revision surgery. Patients with CRSwNP demonstrate greater health care resource utilization and costs compared to those with CRS without NP. Costs associated with different severity of CRSwNP and revision surgery need to be assessed further.
Spin-Glass Stochastic Stability: a Rigorous Proof
Creators: name: Contucci, P.
name: Giardina', C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove the property of stochastic stability previously introduced as a consequence of the (unproved) continuity hypothesis in the temperature of the spin-glass quenched state. We show that stochastic stability holds in beta-average for both the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in terms of the square of the overlap function and for the Edwards-Anderson model in terms of the bond overlap. We show that the volume rate at which the property is reached in the thermodynamic limit is V^{-1}. As a byproduct we show that the stochastic stability identities coincide with those obtained with a different method by Ghirlanda and Guerra when applyed to the thermal fluctuations only.
description: 12 pages, revised version
THE SOYBEAN PROCESSING DECISION: EXERCISING A REAL OPTION ON PROCESSING MARGINS
Creators: name: Plato, Gerald E.
name: Plato, Gerald E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: real options
subject: option exercise
subject: processing decision
subject: processing margins
subject: futures prices
subject: soybean crush

description: The gross soybean processing margin (the gross return per bushel of soybeans processed) is the main decision variable that processors use in deciding when and if to make binding commitments to process soybeans on future dates. Understanding how processors choose processing margins for future processing dates from among those available on successive days may help to resolve the ongoing concern about the level of competitiveness in processing agricultural commodities. Processing returns are treated as being equivalent to the returns to a call option. This approach provides the opportunity to simulate processor choice of processing margin by evaluating the incentive of waiting for a larger processing margin versus the incentive of locking in the currently available processing margin for a future date. The approach captures the irreversibility of the decision to process soybeans. Once the decision is made to process soybeans it cannot be economically reversed because of the contractual penalties involved. Processing margins selected using evaluations of these incentives explained variation in soybean crush, whereas spot margins for the corresponding processing dates did not.
Spherical Accretion Flow onto General Parameterized Spherically Symmetric Black Hole Spacetimes
Creators: name: Yang, Sen
name: Liu, Cheng
name: Zhu, Tao
name: Zhao, Li
name: Wu, Qiang
name: Yang, Ke
name: Jamil, Mubasher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transonic phenomenon of black hole accretion and the existence of the photon sphere are the characteristics of strong gravitational fields near a black hole horizon. In this work, we study spherical accretion flow onto a general parametrized spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes. For this purpose, we analyze the accretion process of various perfect fluids, such as the isothermal fluid of ultra-stiff, ultra-relativistic, and sub-relativistic types and polytropic fluid, respectively. The influences of extra parameters beyond the Schwarzschild black hole in the general parameterized spherically symmetric black hole on the flow behaviors of the above-mentioned test fluids are studied in detail. In addition, by studying the accretion of ideal photon gas, we further discuss the correspondence between the sonic radius of accreting photon gas and the photon sphere for the general parameterized spherically symmetric black hole. Some possible future extensions of our analysis are also discussed.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures; v2: version to be published in Chinese Physics C
Web-based Agricultural Information Systems and Services under National Agricultural Research System
Creators: name: Hasan, Nabi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80706 Librarianship

description: The paper provides the brief background of the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). It elaborates the National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP) and the components of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) with special reference to the Component-I under which all the important and most innovative web-based projects, i.e., KrishiPrabha, CeRA, and e-Granth falls. The overview of these projects including objectives and deliverables has been highlighted especially keeping in view of the current scenario of the NARS institutions. It further elaborates the rationale, mission and objectives of the projects, the methodologies, and work programs. It also shows the directions and outcomes of the projects. The long term positive deliverables of the projects have also been projected.
Degree-Ordered-Percolation on uncorrelated networks
Creators: name: Caligiuri, Annalisa
name: Castellano, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We analyze the properties of Degree-Ordered Percolation (DOP), a model in which the nodes of a network are occupied in degree-descending order. This rule is the opposite of the much studied degree-ascending protocol, used to investigate resilience of networks under intentional attack, and has received limited attention so far. The interest in DOP is also motivated by its connection with the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model for epidemic spreading, since a variation of DOP is related to the vanishing of the SIS transition for random power-law degree-distributed networks $P(k) \sim k^{-γ}$. By using the generating function formalism, we investigate the behavior of the DOP model on networks with generic value of $γ$ and we validate the analytical results by means of numerical simulations. We find that the percolation threshold vanishes in the limit of large networks for $γ\le 3$, while it is finite for $γ>3$, although its value for $γ$ between 3 and 4 is exceedingly small and preasymptotic effects are huge. We also derive the critical properties of the DOP transition, in particular how the exponents depend on the heterogeneity of the network, determining that DOP does not belong to the universality class of random percolation for $γ\le 3$.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, version to appear in JSTAT
Predicting Credit Default in an Agricultural Bank: Methods and Issues
Creators: name: Odeh, Oluwarotimi O.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
name: Sanjoy, Das
name: Odeh, Oluwarotimi O.
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
name: Sanjoy, Das
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: This study examines the performance of logistic regression, artificial neural networks and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system in predicting credit default using data from Farm Credit System. Empirical findings show that credit default predictions vary with empirical model used.