cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Picture description assessment in videoconference (Marcotte et al., 2022)
Creators: name: Marcotte, Karine
name: Lachance, Arianne
name: Brisebois, Amélie
name: Mazzocca, Patrizia
name: Désilets-Barnabé, Marianne
name: Desjardins, Noémie
name: Maria Brambati, Simona
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Speech production
Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians and researchers have increasingly used remote online assessments to pursue their activities, but mostly with tests not validated for videoconference administration. This study aims to validate the remote online administration of picture description in Canadian French neurotypical speakers and to explore the thematic unit (TU) checklist recently developed. Method: Spoken discourse elicited through the picture description task of the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised (WAB-R) was collected from Canadian French neurotypical speakers from Québec aged between 50 and 79 years old. Forty-seven participants completed the task in person, and 49 participants completed the task by videoconference. Videos of each discourse sample were transcribed using CHAT conventions. Microstructural variables were extracted using the CLAN (Computerized Language ANalysis) program, whereas thematic informativeness was scored for each sample using TUs. Chi-square tests were conducted to compare both groups on each TU; t tests were also performed on the total score of TUs and microstructural variables. Results: Groups were matched on sex, age, and education variables. The t tests revealed no intergroup difference for the total TU score and for the microstructural variables (e.g., mean length of utterances and number of words per minute). Chi-square tests showed no significant intergroup difference for all 16 TUs. Conclusions: These findings support remote online assessment of the picnic scene of the WAB-R picture description in Canadian French neurotypical speakers. These results also validate the 16 TUs most consistently produced. The use of videoconference could promote and improve the recruitment of participants who are usually less accessible, such as people using assistive mobility technologies. Supplemental Material S1. Study procedure document for the remote assessment. Supplemental Material S2. Best Practice Guidelines checklist from Stark et al. (2022). Supplemental Material S3. Interrater reliability for all variables express as two-way random effect intraclass correlations (ICC) for the videoconference group and the in-person group. Marcotte, K., Lachance, A., Brisebois, A., Mazzocca, P., Désilets-Barnabé, M., Desjardins, N., & Brambati, S. M. (2022). Validation of videoconference administration of picture description from the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised in neurotypical Canadian French speakers. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00084
Do Search Engines Influence Media Piracy? Evidence from a Randomized Field Study
Creators: name: Sivan, Liron
name: Smith, Michael
name: Telang, Rahul
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: There is an ongoing public policy debate regarding the role search engines can play in the fight against intellectual property theft. However, for any sensible policy discussion it must first be the case that changes in search results can influence consumers’ decisions to pirate or purchase legally. Surprisingly, there is little empirical evidence on this important policy issue.
To analyze this question, we design a customized search engine and conduct experiments on a general population of users and on college-aged users where we manipulate the positions of infringing and legal sites in users’ search results.
Our data show that users are more likely to purchase legally when legal links are promoted in search results, and users are more likely to pirate when pirate links are promoted. Together our results suggest that reducing the prominence of pirated links can be a viable policy option in the fight against intellectual property theft.
HD 222925: a New Opportunity to Explore the Astrophysical and Nuclear Conditions of r-process Sites
Creators: name: Holmbeck, Erika M.
name: Surman, Rebecca
name: Roederer, Ian U.
name: McLaughlin, G. C.
name: Frebel, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the most trans-iron elements detected of any star outside the Solar System, HD 222925 represents the most complete chemical inventory among r-process-enhanced, metal-poor stars. While the abundance pattern of the heaviest elements identified in HD 222925 agrees with the scaled Solar r-process residuals, as is characteristic of its r-process-enhanced classification, the newly measured lighter r-process elements display marked differences from their Solar counterparts. In this work, we explore which single astrophysical site (if any) produced the entire range of elements ($34\leq Z\leq 90$) present in HD 222925. We find that the abundance pattern of lighter r-process elements newly identified in HD 222925 presents a challenge for our existing nucleosynthesis models to reproduce. The most likely astrophysical explanation for the elemental pattern of HD 222925 is that its light r-process elements were created in rapidly expanding ejecta (e.g., from shocked, dynamical ejecta of compact object merger binaries). However, we find that the light r-process-element pattern can also be successfully reproduced by employing different nuclear mass models, indicating a need for a fresh investigation of nuclear input data for elements with $46\lesssim Z\lesssim 52$ by experimental methods. Either way, the new elemental abundance pattern of HD 222925 -- particularly the abundances obtained from space-based, ultraviolet (UV) data -- call for a deeper understanding of both astrophysical r-process sites and nuclear data. Similar UV observations of additional r-process-enhanced stars will be required to determine whether the elemental abundance pattern of HD 222925 is indeed a canonical template for the r-process at low metallicity.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
A INFLUÊNCIA DE JOAQUIM DE FLORA EM PORTUGAL E NA EUROPA
Creators: name: Manso, Artur
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2013

description: A INFLUÊNCIA DE JOAQUIMDE FLORA EM PORTUGALE NA EUROPA – escritos de Natália Correia sobre a utopia da idade feminina do Espírito Santo José Eduardo Franco José Augusto Mourão Editora: Roma Editora (ISBN 9789728490676) Lisboa, 2005 – 266 pp.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, n. 13-14: Parte I: Vieira e a possibilidade de um mundo novo | Parte II: Missionação no Império Colonial Português
Dietary Impacts on Gestational Diabetes: Connection between Gut Microbiome and Epigenetic Mechanisms
Creators: name: Bankole, Taiwo
name: Winn, Hung
name: Li, Yuanyuan
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: maternal diets
gestational diabetes
microbiome
metabolome
epigenome

description: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common obstetric complications due to an increased level of glucose intolerance during pregnancy. The prevalence of GDM increases due to the obesity epidemic. GDM is also associated with an increased risk of gestational hypertension and preeclampsia resulting in elevated maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Diet is one of the most important environmental factors associated with etiology of GDM. Studies have shown that the consumption of certain bioactive diets and nutrients before and during pregnancy might have preventive effects against GDM leading to a healthy pregnancy outcome as well as beneficial metabolic outcomes later in the offspring’s life. Gut microbiome as a biological ecosystem bridges the gap between human health and diseases through diets. Maternal diets affect maternal and fetal gut microbiome and metabolomics profiles, which consequently regulate the host epigenome, thus contributing to later-life metabolic health in both mother and offspring. This review discusses the current knowledge regarding how epigenetic mechanisms mediate the interaction between maternal bioactive diets, the gut microbiome and the metabolome leading to improved metabolic health in both mother and offspring.
Additional file 1 of Biobanks in the low- and middle-income countries of the Arab Middle East region: challenges, ethical issues, and governance arrangements—a qualitative study involving biobank managers
Creators: name: Abdelhafiz, Ahmed Samir
name: Ahram, Mamoun
name: Ibrahim, Maha Emad
name: Elgamri, Alya
name: Gamel, Ehsan
name: Labib, Rania
name: Silverman, Henry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide for policy makers of biobank centers.
Genome-Wide Analysis on Transcriptome and Methylome in Prevention of Mammary Tumor Induced by Early Life Combined Botanicals
Creators: name: Arora, Itika
name: Li, Shizhao
name: Crowley, Michael R.
name: Li, Yuanyuan
name: Tollefsbol, Trygve O.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: breast cancer
prevention
transgenic mice
broccoli sprouts
green tea polyphenols
RNA-seq
RRBS
epigenetics

description: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy and the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. The consumption of natural dietary components such as broccoli sprouts (BSp) and green tea polyphenols (GTPs) has demonstrated exciting potential in reducing the risk of BC through the regulation of epigenetic mechanisms. However, little is known about their impacts on reversing epigenomic aberrations that are centrally involved in the initiation and progression of BC. Previously, we have determined the efficacy of combined BSp and GTPs treatment on the inhibition of the growth of a mammary tumor in a transgenic Her2/neu mouse model. We sought to extend our previous study to identify universal biomarkers that represent common mechanistic changes among different mouse models in response to this dietary regime by including a new transgenic mouse model, C3(1)-SV40 TAg (SV40). As a result, we identified novel target genes that were differentially expressed and methylated in response to dietary botanicals when administered singly (BSp and GTPs) and in combination (BSp + GTPs) in both mouse models. We discovered more differentially expressed and methylated genes in the combination treatment group compared to the singly administered groups. Subsequently, several biological pathways related to epigenetic regulations were identified in response to the combination treatment. Furthermore, when compared to the BSp and GTPs treatment alone, the combinatorial treatment showed a more significant impact on the regulation of the epigenetic modifier activities involved in DNA methylation and histone modifications. Our study provides key insights about the impact of the combined administration of BSp and GTPs on BC using a multi-omics analysis, suggesting a combinatorial approach is more efficacious in preventing and inhibiting BC by impacting key tumor-related genes at transcriptomic and methylomic levels. Our findings could be further extrapolated as a comprehensive source for understanding the epigenetic modifications that are associated with the effects of these dietary botanicals on BC prevention.
Predissociation dynamics of lithium iodide
Creators: name: Schmidt, H.
name: von Vangerow, J.
name: Stienkemeier, F.
name: Bogomolov, A. S.
name: Baklanov, A. V.
name: Reich, D. M.
name: Skomorowski, W.
name: Koch, C. P.
name: Mudrich, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The predissociation dynamics of lithium iodide (LiI) in the first excited A-state is investigated for molecules in the gas phase and embedded in helium nanodroplets, using femtosecond pump-probe photoionization spectroscopy. In the gas phase, the transient Li+ and LiI+ ion signals feature damped oscillations due to the excitation and decay of a vibrational wave packet. Based on high-level ab initio calculations of the electronic structure of LiI and simulations of the wave packet dynamics, the exponential signal decay is found to result from predissociation predominantly at the lowest avoided X-A potential curve crossing, for which we infer a coupling constant V=650(20) reciprocal cm. The lack of a pump-probe delay dependence for the case of LiI embedded in helium nanodroplets indicates fast droplet-induced relaxation of the vibrational excitation.
Primordial magnetogenesis before recombination
Creators: name: Fabre, Ophélia
name: Shankaranarayanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of large magnetic fields in the Universe remains currently unknown. We investigate here a mechanism before recombination based on known physics. The source of the vorticity is due to the changes in the photon distribution function caused by the fluctuations in the background photons. We show that the magnetic field generated in the MHD limit, due to the Coulomb scattering, is of the order $10^{-49}$~G on a coherence scale of 10 kpc. We explicitly show that the magnetic fields generated from this process are sustainable and are not erased by resistive diffusion. We compare the results with current observations and discuss the implications. Our seed magnetic fields are generated on small scales whereas the main mechanisms studied in the literature are on scale bigger than 1 Mpc. However, compared to more exotic theories generating seed magnetic fields on similar scales, the strength of our fields are generally smaller.
description: 20 pages in Astroparticle Physics 2015
Do Spreadsheet Errors Lead to Bad Decisions: Perspectives of Executives and Senior Managers
Creators: name: Caulkins, Jonathan
name: Morrison, Erica Layne
name: Weidemann, Timothy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Spreadsheets are commonly used and commonly flawed, but it is not clear how often spreadsheet errors lead to bad decisions. We interviewed 45 executives and senior managers / analysts in the private, public, and non-profit sectors about their experiences with spreadsheet quality control and with errors affecting decision making. Almost all said spreadsheet errors are common. Quality control was usually informal and applied to the analysis and/or decision, not just the spreadsheet per se. Most respondents could cite instances of errors directly leading to bad decisions, but opinions differ as to whether the consequences of spreadsheet errors are severe. Some thought any big errors would be so obvious as to be caught by even informal review. Others suggest that spreadsheets inform but do not make decisions, so errors do not necessarily lead one for one to bad decisions. Still, many respondents believed spreadsheet errors were a significant problem and that more formal spreadsheet quality control could be beneficial.
Cryptococcal Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome: From Clinical Studies to Animal Experiments
Creators: name: Shi, Zoe W.
name: Chen, Yanli
name: Ogoke, Krystal M.
name: Strickland, Ashley B.
name: Shi, Meiqing
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: fungus
cryptococcus neoformans
HIV/AIDS
antiretroviral therapy (ART)
fungal pathogenesis
cryptococcosis
cryptococcal meningitis
meningoencephalitis
inflammation
central nervous system
microglia
monocytes
cytokines
biomarkers

description: Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated pathogenic fungus that initially infects the lung but can migrate to the central nervous system (CNS), resulting in meningoencephalitis. The organism causes the CNS infection primarily in immunocompromised individuals including HIV/AIDS patients, but also, rarely, in immunocompetent individuals. In HIV/AIDS patients, limited inflammation in the CNS, due to impaired cellular immunity, cannot efficiently clear a C. neoformans infection. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can rapidly restore cellular immunity in HIV/AIDS patients. Paradoxically, ART induces an exaggerated inflammatory response, termed immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), in some HIV/AIDS patients co-infected with C. neoformans. A similar excessive inflammation, referred to as post-infectious inflammatory response syndrome (PIIRS), is also frequently seen in previously healthy individuals suffering from cryptococcal meningoencephalitis. Cryptococcal IRIS and PIIRS are life-threatening complications that kill up to one-third of affected people. In this review, we summarize the inflammatory responses in the CNS during HIV-associated cryptococcal meningoencephalitis. We overview the current understanding of cryptococcal IRIS developed in HIV/AIDS patients and cryptococcal PIIRS occurring in HIV-uninfected individuals. We also describe currently available animal models that closely mimic aspects of cryptococcal IRIS observed in HIV/AIDS patients.
Rational discrete cohomology for totally disconnected locally compact groups
Creators: name: Castellano, Ilaria
name: Weigel, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20J05 22D05 57T99 22E20 51E42 17B67

description: Rational discrete cohomology and homology for a totally disconnected locally compact group $G$ is introduced and studied. The $\mathrm{Hom}$-$\otimes$ identities associated to the rational discrete bimodule $\mathrm{Bi}(G)$ allow to introduce the notion of rational duality groups in analogy to the discrete case. It is shown that semi-simple groups defined over a non-discrete, non-archimedean local field are rational t.d.l.c. duality groups, and the same is true for certain topological Kac-Moody groups. However, Y. Neretin's group of spheromorphisms of a locally finite regular tree is not even of finite rational discrete cohomological dimension. For a unimodular t.d.l.c. group $G$ of type $\mathrm{FP}$ it is possible to define an Euler-Poincaré characteristic $χ(G)$ which is a rational multiple of a Haar measure. This value is calculated explicitly for Chevalley groups defined over a non-discrete, non-archimedean local field $K$ and some other examples.
Additional file 1 of Improved CTAB method for RNA extraction of thick waxy leaf tissues from sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottb.)
Creators: name: Yan, Wei-Jie
name: Pendi, Fifi Hafizzah
name: Hussain, Hasnain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. The RNA purity profile prior to shipment for RNA sequencing.
Task-Space Synchronization of Nonlinear Teleoperation with Time-Varying Delays and Actuator Saturation
Creators: Amir Zakerimanesh
Farzad Hashemzadeh
Mahdi Tavakoli
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

In a nonlinear teleoperation system controlled for task-space position tracking, while the time-varying delay in the communication channel has been addressed, the actuator saturation has not been taken into account yet. Considering that in practice, the actuator saturation is a serious constraint, disregarding it in the controller design stage can cause problems. In this paper, we have proposed a control framework to ensure end-effectors position tracking while satisfying sub-task control in the presence of the nonlinear dynamics for the telemanipulators, bounded time-varying delays in the communication channels and saturation in the actuators. We have shown that in free motion and when the operator applies a bounded force to the local robot, the proposed controller not only guarantees the position convergence of the end-effectors but also guarantees the accomplishment of the sub-task control. The asymptotic stability of the closed-loop dynamics is studied using a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional under conditions on the controller parameters and the maximum values of time-varying delays. The efficiency of the proposed teleoperation system and the control algorithm is validated using numerical simulations with a 2-DOF planar local robot and a 3-DOF planar redundant remote robot.
Critical Assessment of Short-Read Assemblers for the Metagenomic Identification of Foodborne and Waterborne Pathogens Using Simulated Bacterial Communities
Creators: name: Chen, Zhao
name: Meng, Jianghong
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: illumina sequencing
metagenome assembly
short-read aseembly
short-read assembler
foodborne pathogen
waterborne pathogen
spinach
surface water

description: Metagenomics offers the highest level of strain discrimination of bacterial pathogens from complex food and water microbiota. With the rapid evolvement of assembly algorithms, defining an optimal assembler based on the performance in the metagenomic identification of foodborne and waterborne pathogens is warranted. We aimed to benchmark short-read assemblers for the metagenomic identification of foodborne and waterborne pathogens using simulated bacterial communities. Bacterial communities on fresh spinach and in surface water were simulated by generating paired-end short reads of Illumina HiSeq, MiSeq, and NovaSeq at different sequencing depths. Multidrug-resistant Salmonella Indiana SI43 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 were included in the simulated communities on fresh spinach and in surface water, respectively. ABySS, IDBA-UD, MaSuRCA, MEGAHIT, metaSPAdes, and Ray Meta were benchmarked in terms of assembly quality, identifications of plasmids, virulence genes, Salmonella pathogenicity island, antimicrobial resistance genes, chromosomal point mutations, serotyping, multilocus sequence typing, and whole-genome phylogeny. Overall, MEGHIT, metaSPAdes, and Ray Meta were more effective for metagenomic identification. We did not obtain an optimal assembler when using the extracted reads classified as Salmonella or P. aeruginosa for downstream genomic analyses, but the extracted reads showed consistent phylogenetic topology with the reference genome when they were aligned with Salmonella or P. aeruginosa strains. In most cases, HiSeq, MiSeq, and NovaSeq were comparable at the same sequencing depth, while higher sequencing depths generally led to more accurate results. As assembly algorithms advance and mature, the evaluation of assemblers should be a continuous process.
Discounting the Past: Bad Weighs Heavier than Good
Creators: name: Brandimarte, Laura
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This paper introduces and tests the hypothesis that the effects of information with
negative valence tend to fade away more slowly than the effects of information with
positive valence, not only because their immediate impact may be stronger, but also
because the two types of information are discounted differently. To empirically test this
hypothesis, we designed three survey‐based randomized experiments, in which we
manipulated the valence of the information that subjects are exposed to and the time to
which such information refers. We measured how our subjects reacted to such
information using judgment metrics derived from the literature or created ad‐hoc for
our experiments. We used a difference‐in‐difference model to disentangle the effects of
valence, time and their interaction. Our findings provide some empirical support for our
hypothesis. We suggest the theoretical grounds that could motivate differential
discounting, and the implications of such phenomenon in a society where negative and
positive information about people is so easily retrievable.
Metal Crystal/Polycrystal Plasticity and Strengths
Creators: name: Armstrong, Ronald W.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: Taylor-based strain hardening
crystal plastic deformation stages
deformation-induced dislocation interactions/reactions
polycrystal tensile plastic instability

description: A brief historical sketch is given of Taylor’s dislocation density-based model description, leading to the prediction of a parabolic, tensile, stress–strain curve for the plastic deformation of aluminum. The present focus is on additional results or analyses obtained on the subject for crystal/polycrystal strain hardening. Our current understanding of such material behavior is attributed to post-Taylor descriptions of sequential deformation stages in stress–strain measurements that are closely tied to specific dislocation interaction and reaction mechanisms. A schematic comparison is given for individual face-centered cubic (fcc), body-centered cubic (bcc), and hexagonal close-packed (hcp) crystal curves and to related strength properties determined for individual crystals and polycrystalline material. For the fcc case, an example sessile dislocation reaction is described based on a stereographic projection. Then, quantitative constitutive-relation-based assessments are presented for the tensile strain hardening leading to the plastic instability behaviors of copper and tantalum materials.
Asymptotically conical Ricci flat Kähler metrics on $\mathbb{C}^2$ with cone singularities along a complex curve
Creators: name: de Borbon, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove an existence theorem for Asymptotically Conical Ricci Flat Kahler metrics in $\mathbb{C}^2$ with cone singularities along a smooth complex curve. These metrics are expected to arise as blow up limits of non collapsed sequences of Kahler Einstein metrics with cone singularities.
description: New exposition. Typos corrected. The mathematical content and arguments remain the same
Analysis of Plant Trait Data of Host Plants of Lycorma delicatula in the US Suggests Evidence for Ecological Fitting
Creators: name: Avanesyan, Alina
name: McPherson, Cameron
name: Lamp, William O.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: forest pests
invasive species
novel associations
plant defenses
plant-insect interactions
spotted lanternfly
trophic interactions

description: Plant traits, used by the invasive insect herbivores to find and select suitable hosts, can play an important role in insect host range expansion. With regard to invasive Lycorma delicatula, it is not well explored, however, how the plant origin affects insect host selection, and whether native and introduced host plants differ in their morphology, lifespan, as well as environmental requirements for growth. We addressed this issue in our study through the comprehensive assessment of 25 relevant plant traits (a total of 27,601 records retrieved from the TRY database), as well as the origin and phylogenetic relationships of 37 host plants of L. delicatula in the U.S. Our results showed that only leaf area, leaf chlorophyll content, and canopy size were significantly greater in the introduced hosts than that in native plants. We did not detect a significant effect of the plant origin on other characteristics. Additionally, no significant differences between native and introduced hosts of L. delicatula in genetic distances from introduced Ailanthus altissima (the most preferred host) were detected. These results, for the first time, suggest strong evidence for ecological fitting which might drive the host plant selection of L. delicatula and its rapid spread in the U.S.
Infrared behavior of dynamical fermion mass generation in QED$_{3}$
Creators: name: Wang, Jing-Rong
name: Liu, Guo-Zhu
name: Zhang, Chang-Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extensive investigations show that QED$_{3}$ exhibits dynamical fermion mass generation at zero temperature when the fermion flavor $N$ is sufficiently small. However, it seems difficult to extend the theoretical analysis to finite temperature. We study this problem by means of Dyson-Schwinger equation approach after considering the effect of finite temperature or disorder-induced fermion damping. Under the widely used instantaneous approximation, the dynamical mass displays an infrared divergence in both cases. We then adopt a new approximation that includes an energy-dependent gauge boson propagator and obtain results for dynamical fermion mass that do not contain infrared divergence. The validity of the new approximation is examined by comparing to the well-established results obtained at zero temperature.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, to appear on Phys. Rev. D
A INTERCULTURALIDADE NA EXPANSÃO PORTUGUESA
Creators: name: Calazans, José Carlos
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2013

description: A INTERCULTURALIDADENA EXPANSÃO PORTUGUESA João Paulo Oliveira e Costa Teresa Lacerda Editora: ACIME (ISBN 9789898000316) Lisboa, 2007 – 159 pp.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, n. 13-14: Parte I: Vieira e a possibilidade de um mundo novo | Parte II: Missionação no Império Colonial Português
Relationship between Live-In Grandparents and Grandchild’s Health and Well-Being in Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Creators: name: Sheikomar, Olfat B.
name: Ghattas, Hala
name: Sahyoun, Nadine R.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: grandparents
grandchildren
mental wellbeing
health
acute illness
chronic disease
school attendance
child employment
food insecurity

description: Grandparents (GP) play influential roles in grandchildren’s health, behavior, and life. However, this relationship has not been examined in the Arab region. This study assesses whether the presence of GP in the household is associated with grandchildren’s health and wellbeing. Health status was determined by a child experiencing chronic health conditions or an acute illness, and wellbeing was determined based on school attendance and child labor. Data were collected through surveys conducted in 2010 and 2015 of representative samples of Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. Multivariate logistic regression showed that, even after controlling for potential confounders, including the presence of parents in the household and household food insecurity (FI), the presence of live-in GP was associated with lower odds of children experiencing acute illnesses (OR 0.74 95% CI 0.62–0.92) and higher odds of attending school (OR 2.22 95% CI 1.28–5.33), but not child labor. The presence of GP in the household may be protective to grandchildren’s health status and school attendance in this population.
Repercussões da imigração protestante na sociedade argentina
Creators: name: Liberal, Márcia Mello Costa De
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2013

description: O presente artigo busca dar uma visão histórica do protestantismo em território argentino, remontando ao início da presença de imigrantes protestantes, europeus e americanos nesse país. Tenta, também, evidenciar as diferenciações existentes entreas duas categorias de Igrejas protestantes que brotaram em solo argentino: as Igrejas de Missão, que se propõem à evangelização de todos, utilizando-se do idioma do país que os acolhera, e as Igrejas de Imigração, voltadas exclusivamente para os próprios imigrantes, cujos grupos se isolavam, utilizando o idioma do país de origem, repetindous os e costumes, princípios religiosos e morais da Igreja e país de onde provinham. Destaca, ainda, a diferença de postura em relação aos problemas econômicos e políticos de cada tipo de Igreja, manifestando participação ou indiferença aos problemaspolíticos do país receptor. Após estabelecer a diferença entre as posturas dessas Igrejas, apresenta onde se instalaram geograficamente e quais os efeitos sociológicos que suas presenças geraram em território argentino. Faz-se uma análise sociológica alicerçada nos estudiosos desse problema para, finalmente, serem efetuadas as críticas positivas e negativas da presença do protestantismo europeu e americano no Sul da América Latina, mostrando a grande importância de haver uma redefinição de valores para que as Igrejas de Imigração não caminhem na contramão da história.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, n. 13-14: Parte I: Vieira e a possibilidade de um mundo novo | Parte II: Missionação no Império Colonial Português
HealPhilFlora: Plants that love to Heal You
Creators: name: Swami, Vidyamritananda
name: Brahmachari, Vinayachaitanya
name: Gupta, Sounak
Publisher: name: Ramakrishna Mission Sikshanamandira, Belur Math, Howrah
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicinal Plants
Ayurveda
Nabapatrika
charaka

description: Ramakrishna Mission Sikshanamandira, a college of Teacher Education at the precincts of Belur Math holds a rich floral diversity with a variety of herbs, shrubs, creepers, trees etc. It also has numerous medicinal, aromatic, ceremonial, economical plants which are not only rare but also have educational significance. The Chraka Udyan, Nabapatrika Udyan and other small gardens all around the Sikshanamandira campus are home to such exceptional plants. The details of these plants like their common name, local name, scientific name, family along with their usage and used parts are described in this book. Some external links for further reading is also included after each plant description. High resolution photos of each plant clicked at our garden is also included for all the plants mentioned in the book for ease of identification. Altogether there are 120 medicinal plants are included in this book.
Additional file 2 of Testing the generalizability of ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores to predict prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Kim, Michelle S.
name: Naidoo, Daphne
name: Hazra, Ujani
name: Quiver, Melanie H.
name: Chen, Wenlong C.
name: Simonti, Corinne N.
name: Kachambwa, Paidamoyo
name: Harlemon, Maxine
name: Agalliu, Ilir
name: Baichoo, Shakuntala
name: Fernandez, Pedro
name: Hsing, Ann W.
name: Jalloh, Mohamed
name: Gueye, Serigne M.
name: Niang, Lamine
name: Diop, Halimatou
name: Ndoye, Medina
name: Snyper, Nana Yaa
name: Adusei, Ben
name: Mensah, James E.
name: Abrahams, Afua O. D.
name: Biritwum, Richard
name: Adjei, Andrew A.
name: Adebiyi, Akindele O.
name: Shittu, Olayiwola
name: Ogunbiyi, Olufemi
name: Adebayo, Sikiru
name: Aisuodionoe-Shadrach, Oseremen I.
name: Nwegbu, Maxwell M.
name: Ajibola, Hafees O.
name: Oluwole, Olabode P.
name: Jamda, Mustapha A.
name: Singh, Elvira
name: Pentz, Audrey
name: Joffe, Maureen
name: Darst, Burcu F.
name: Conti, David V.
name: Haiman, Christopher A.
name: Spies, Petrus V.
name: van der Merwe, André
name: Rohan, Thomas E.
name: Jacobson, Judith
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: McBride, Jo
name: Andrews, Caroline
name: Petersen, Lindsay N.
name: Rebbeck, Timothy R.
name: Lachance, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Ability of PRS to distinguish between case and control status using a shared set of variants for both continental datasets.
Deformation and Extension of Fibrations of Spheres by Great Circles
Creators: name: Cahn, Patricia
name: Gluck, Herman
name: Nuchi, Haggai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a 1983 paper with Frank Warner, we proved that the space of all great circle fibrations of the 3-sphere S^3 deformation retracts to the subspace of Hopf fibrations, and so has the homotopy type of a pair of disjoint two-spheres. Since that time, no generalization of this result to higher dimensions has been found, and so we narrow our sights here and show that in an infinitesimal sense explained below, the space of all smooth oriented great circle fibrations of the 2n+1 sphere S^(2n+1) deformation retracts to its subspace of Hopf fibrations. The tools gathered to prove this also serve to show that every germ of a smooth great circle fibration of S^(2n+1) extends to such a fibration of all of S^(2n+1), a result previously known only for S^3 .
Da fuga mundi à vita in mundo - Comunidades novas e outras metamorfoses da vida consagrada
Creators: name: Franco, José Eduardo
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2013

description: Apresentação e análise da natureza e missão dos novos modelos de consagração desenvolvidas na Igreja Católica especialmente depois do Concílio Vaticano II, os quais se situam na ponta avançada da evolução e metamorfose do monaquismo cristão. Chamadas comunidades novas ou assumindo outras nomenclaturas, esta diversidade de movimentos e carismas que se têm multiplicado no mundo eclesial inventaram formas de consagração integradas na vida do século de uma maneira multifacetada e adaptada, que englobamos no conceito operativo da flexi-consagração.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, n. 13-14: Parte I: Vieira e a possibilidade de um mundo novo | Parte II: Missionação no Império Colonial Português
Efficient measurement schemes for bosonic systems
Creators: name: Gu, Tianren
name: Yuan, Xiao
name: Wu, Bujiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boson is one of the most basic types of particles and preserves the commutation relation. An efficient way to measure a bosonic system is important not only for simulating complex physics phenomena of bosons (such as nuclei) on a qubit based quantum computer, but for extracting classical information from a quantum simulator/computer that itself is built with bosons (such as a continuous variable quantum computer). Extending the recently proposed measurement schemes for qubits, such as shadow tomography and other local measurement schemes, here we study efficient measurement approaches for bosonic systems. We consider truncated qudit and continuous variable systems, corresponding to simulated bosons on a discrete quantum computer and an inherent boson system, respectively, and propose different measurement schemes with theoretical analyses of the variances for these two cases. We numerically test the schemes for measuring nuclei vibrations simulated using a discrete quantum computer and a continuous variable Gaussian state, and the simulation results show great improvement of the performance of the proposed method compared to conventional ones.
CINECA Development and application of optimised polygenic risk scores D4.3
Creators: name: Rayner, Will
name: Chowdhary, Anshika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: PRS
federated
pipeline

description: WP4 of the CINECA project aims to create a comprehensive set of pipelines and tools that can facilitate federated analysis of large scale genomic data cohorts. The aim being that these would then require minimal efforts or changes in DevOps to deploy and run in multiple different compute environments. This federated model would not require download of the genetic data, the analyses are brought to the data, rather than the more traditional method of bringing the data to the analysis, thus ensuring privacy and control of the data are retained as required by GDPR. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are an aggregate of an individual’s risk score for a given trait or disease/condition, and are computed from the number of alleles carried by the individual which are associated to the trait in question to be explored. In this deliverable WP4 has worked in a PRS use case that aims to build a data processing pipeline for the data analysis of genotype data for the computation of polygenic risk scores in a federated manner.
Does Managed Care Matter? Hospital Utilization in the U. S. between 1985 and 1993
Creators: name: Farasat A.S. Bokhari
name: Caulkins, Jonathan
name: Gaynor, Martin
name: Wholey, Douglas R.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Heinz College paper
Velhos “cristãos-novos” no sertão paraibano
Creators: name: Miele, Neide
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2013

description: Devido às tradições culturais brasileiras, sobretudo no Nordeste, onde o cadinho da História fundiu as culturas indígena, africana e europeia, o país tornou-se sui generis e profundamente sincrético. No Brasil colonial, os “cristãos-novos” se constituíram em produtores e grandes mercadores de cana-de-açúcar. Entretanto, perseguidos de morte pela Inquisição, eles tiveram de fugir. Alguns para além-mar, e muitos para dentro do continente, em direção à zona semi-árida do Sertão. Embora a “religião judaica”, em termos estritos, não tenha sobrevivido nesta região, a “religiosidade judaica” deixou profundos traços nos usos e costumes praticados pela população, muitas vezes ignorando sua procedência. Este estudo empírico coloca algumas questões teóricas.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, n. 13-14: Parte I: Vieira e a possibilidade de um mundo novo | Parte II: Missionação no Império Colonial Português
Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Financial Performance in American Firms
Creators: name: Florkowski, Gary W.
name: Shastri, Karen
name: Shastri, Kuldeep
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 160510 Public Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Heinz College paper
O colégio jesuítico da Vila do Desterro e a expansão portuguesa no Atlântico Sul
Creators: name: Dallabrida, Norberto
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões
Year: 2013

description: Relato da fundação do colégio jesuítico no Sul do Brasil e da sua muito breve duração. Recolha sobre as missões jesuíticas anteriores na região e contextualização do papel do colégio na capitania da Ilha de Santa Catarina, como parte da integração da fronteira sul na política colonial de expansão e povoamento, sempre acompanhado, no Brasil,pela presença jesuítica. Caracterização geral dos colégios da Companhia, pedagógica, de funções e de meios de sustentação.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência das Religiões, n. 13-14: Parte I: Vieira e a possibilidade de um mundo novo | Parte II: Missionação no Império Colonial Português
Double obstacle phase field approach to an inverse problem for a discontinuous diffusion coefficient
Creators: name: Deckelnick, Klaus
name: Elliott, Charles M.
name: Styles, Vanessa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a double obstacle phase field approach to the recovery of piece-wise constant diffusion coefficients for elliptic partial differential equations. The approach to this inverse problem is that of optimal control in which we have a quadratic fidelity term to which we add a perimeter regularisation weighted by a parameter sigma. This yields a functional which is optimised over a set of diffusion coefficients subject to a state equation which is the underlying elliptic PDE. In order to derive a problem which is amenable to computation the perimeter functional is relaxed using a gradient energy functional together with an obstacle potential in which there is an interface parameter epsilon. This phase field approach is justified by proving Gamma-convergence to the functional with perimeter regularisation as epsilon tends to zero. The computational approach is based on a finite element approximation. This discretisation is shown to converge in an appropriate way to the solution of the phase field problem. We derive an iterative method which is shown to yield an energy decreasing sequence converging to a discrete critical point. The efficacy of the approach is illustrated with numerical experiments.
Additional file 3 of Testing the generalizability of ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores to predict prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Kim, Michelle S.
name: Naidoo, Daphne
name: Hazra, Ujani
name: Quiver, Melanie H.
name: Chen, Wenlong C.
name: Simonti, Corinne N.
name: Kachambwa, Paidamoyo
name: Harlemon, Maxine
name: Agalliu, Ilir
name: Baichoo, Shakuntala
name: Fernandez, Pedro
name: Hsing, Ann W.
name: Jalloh, Mohamed
name: Gueye, Serigne M.
name: Niang, Lamine
name: Diop, Halimatou
name: Ndoye, Medina
name: Snyper, Nana Yaa
name: Adusei, Ben
name: Mensah, James E.
name: Abrahams, Afua O. D.
name: Biritwum, Richard
name: Adjei, Andrew A.
name: Adebiyi, Akindele O.
name: Shittu, Olayiwola
name: Ogunbiyi, Olufemi
name: Adebayo, Sikiru
name: Aisuodionoe-Shadrach, Oseremen I.
name: Nwegbu, Maxwell M.
name: Ajibola, Hafees O.
name: Oluwole, Olabode P.
name: Jamda, Mustapha A.
name: Singh, Elvira
name: Pentz, Audrey
name: Joffe, Maureen
name: Darst, Burcu F.
name: Conti, David V.
name: Haiman, Christopher A.
name: Spies, Petrus V.
name: van der Merwe, André
name: Rohan, Thomas E.
name: Jacobson, Judith
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: McBride, Jo
name: Andrews, Caroline
name: Petersen, Lindsay N.
name: Rebbeck, Timothy R.
name: Lachance, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Ability of PRS to distinguish between aggressive and non-aggressive forms of CaP using the optimal set of variants for European and African datasets.
Exploring the phase structure of 12-flavor $SU(3)$
Creators: name: Gelzer, Zechariah
name: Liu, Yuzhi
name: Meurice, Yannick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are studying the $SU(3)$ gauge theory with 12 staggered fermions, searching for the endpoint of the line of first-order phase transitions in the mass--beta plane. This endpoint plays an important role in our understanding of the phase diagram of this model. Having found this endpoint with high statistics on a small lattice using unimproved staggered fermions, we are working to find it on larger lattices and with improved actions. For an action improved with nHYP-smeared staggered fermions, we discuss the effect of slowly turning off the improvement on the broken shift symmetry phase.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, presented at the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 23-28 June, 2014, Columbia University, New York, NY