cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Natural History of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms: A Case Report
Creators: name: Zingaretti, Caterina Costanza
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: Taffurelli, Giovanni
name: D'Ambra, Marielda
name: Buscemi, Salvatore
name: Casadei, Riccardo
name: Minni, Francesco
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context The natural history of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) is unknown even if we well-know that a pancreatic IPMN has malignant potential as the disease process follows the adenoma-carcinoma sequence. The vast majority of our resections were done to prevent the development of invasive cancer. Herein, we report the 14-year natural history of a IPMN. Case report In 1999, a 60-year-old man was observed for the incidental US finding of a cystic lesion (diameter 30 mm) in the head of the pancreas. MRI and cholangiopancreatography confirmed the finding. The past medical history reported a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in 1998. FNA-US aspiration was performed and high levels of CEA (104 ng/mL) and amylase (1,230 U/L) were detected. The patient underwent surgery but an explorative laparotomy was performed because cystic lesion disappeared. The patient undergone to a surveillance program with yearly US scans. After five years (2004), an US showed a cystic lesion (diameter: 17 mm) of the pancreatic head without Wirsung dilatation. Re-evaluations by US scan showed stable disease until April 2013, when an increased size of the cystic lesion (diameter 29x32 mm) was revealed. A cholangio-Wirsung magnetic resonance (CWMR) showed a further cystic enlargement (60x26 mm) and showed a diffuse Wirsung duct dilatation (8 mm). Finally, an endosonography revealed the presence of “fish-eye” sign, confirmed the diffuse dilatation of the Wirsung duct (maximum diameter 15 mm), a 3 cm cyst communicating with the main duct and revealed several contrast-enhancing mural nodules. A FNA did not show malignant cells. Considering the presence of these “high-risk-stigmata” the diagnosis of main duct IPMN with high risk of progression to invasive carcinoma was made and the patient underwent a total pancreatectomy. Pathological diagnosis confirmed an IPMN diffuse to the whole pancreas with an invasive carcinoma of the pancreatic head. Conclusions Our case showed that in fourteen years an IPMN may become malignant. Thus, a surveillance program has to be performed for a long time, especially in young patients with a long expectancy of life. Surgery has to be strongly considered in young fit patients with cystic lesion greater than 2 cm in diameter.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5S (2013): September (Suppl.) - p. 528-602
Executive function and future orientation moderate the relationship among substance use associations and outcome expectancies with substance use in adolescents : a pilot study
Creators: name: Barkowsky, Deborah Suzanne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The overall purpose of the present study was to investigate the moderating role of Executive Function and Future Orientation in the relationship between implicit associations/explicit outcome expectancies and substance use in grade 8 adolescent students. Participants from grade 8 (13-14 years old) completed cued association tasks that measure implicit substance use associations and explicit substance use outcome expectancies. They then completed substance use measures, as well as three measures of substance use problems: the CRAFFT, AUDIT, and CUDIT. In a separate session, participants completed the Substance Use Risk Profile Scales (SURPS), and the Executive Function measures of response inhibition (Go/No-Go Task), working memory (Self-OrderedPointing Task, SOPT), and reward sensitivity (Donkey Task, a revised version of the Iowa Gambling Task). Lastly, they completed the Future Orientation Questionnaire. Moderation analyses were conducted using Generalized Linear Regression (GLzM). Results confirmed previous research showing that associations and outcome expectancies, as well as Impulsivity, predict substance use and abuse. The findings suggested moderation effects of response inhibition (Go/No-Go performance) and reward sensitivity (Donkey Task performance). Contrary to previous reports working memory (SOPT performance) did not moderate implicit memory association effects. In a novel demonstration, Future Orientation has moderating effect on associations and outcome expectancies with substance use in adolescents. Overall, the results suggest that the relationship between the development of executive functions and future orientation with associative learning is important in the development of adolescent substance use and abuse. The intention is that these findings will provide insights useful for the development of prevention programs.
Additional file 3 of Effect of Buyang Huanwu decoction for the rehabilitation of ischemic stroke patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Gao, Li
name: Xiao, Zhuoran
name: Jia, Chunhua
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Sensitivity analysis in terms of clinical efficacy in symptoms anddaily activities.
Additional file 2 of A prospective investigation of developmental trajectories of psychosocial adjustment in adolescents facing a chronic condition - study protocol of an observational, multi-center study
Creators: name: Warschburger, Petra
name: Petersen, Ann-Christin
name: von Rezori, Roman E.
name: Buchallik, Friederike
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: Holl, Reinhard W.
name: Minden, Kirsten
name: Müller-Stierlin, Annabel S.
name: Reinauer, Christina
name: Staab, Doris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2:. Measures for assessment of Covid-19-related factors.
Cold and trapped metastable noble gases
Creators: name: Vassen, Wim Null
name: Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
name: Leduc, Michèle
name: Boiron, Denis
name: Westbrook, Christoph I
name: Truscott, Andrew
name: Baldwin, Ken
name: Birkl, Gerhard
name: Cancio, Pablo
name: Trippenbach, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review experimental and theoretical work on cold, trapped metastable noble gases. We em- phasize the aspects which distinguish work with these atoms from the large body of work on cold, trapped atoms in general. These aspects include detection techniques and collision processes unique to metastable atoms. We describe several experiments exploiting these unique features in fields including atom optics and statistical physics. We also discuss precision measurements on these atoms including fine structure splittings, isotope shifts, and atomic lifetimes.
Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Is It Possible Pancreatic Resection? A Case Report
Creators: name: Di Marco, Mariacristina
name: Zingaretti, Caterina Costanza
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: Vecchiarelli, Silvia
name: Taffurelli, Giovanni
name: Macchini, Marina
name: D'Ambra, Marielda
name: Buscemi, Salvatore
name: Monari, Francesco
name: Casadei, Riccardo
name: Biasco, Guido
name: Minni, Francesco
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer are usually treated with chemoradiotherapy and rarely they became resectable. Herein, we present the case of a patient with locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Case report A 56-year-old man was observed in October 2011 because of high blood levels of CA 19.9 (>230 U/mL) and the presence of a pancreatic mass of the uncinate process (diameter 3.8x3.5 cm) revealed by US and CT scan. An US-guided biopsy allowed the diagnosis of well differentiated pancreatic adenocarcinoma, biliopancreatic type. CT scan showed a vascular involvement of both superior mesenteric vein and artery. The disease was defined as locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer. The patient started chemotherapy with gemcitabine and oxaliplatin. Five months later, CT scan re-evaluation of the disease showed a stable disease. Thus, a protocol of radio-chemotherapy was suggested. Eight months later from diagnosis, the mass was still unresectable. Other eight cycles of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin were performed. In February 2013 a further CT scan evaluation demonstrated a smaller lesion (3.5x2.2 cm) and also the vascular involvement was decreased, still without a normal fat plane between the tumor and the vessels. Another cycle of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin was completed. At the end of May 2013, the 18FDG-PET was negative; CT scan demonstrated a further decreased of the mass (maximum diameter: 2.5 cm) while the mesenteric vessels involvement still remained. Moreover, the genomic characteristics of the patient DNA were different from other the pancreatic cancer. Because of the long-term survival of the young patient, the partial regression of the disease and the genomic characteristics of the tumor, a surgical approach was indicated. The patient underwent to a total pancreatectomy with splenectomy plus segmental resection of portal mesenteric trunk. Pathological diagnosis confirmed a well-differentiated ductal pancreatic carcinoma, biliopancreatic type (T4), with R0 resection. Conclusion Our case suggests that there are locally advanced pancreatic cancers in which chemoradiotherapy can allow surgical pancreatic resection probably because they have particular genomic characteristics.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5S (2013): September (Suppl.) - p. 528-602
Cluster algebras and triangulated orbifolds
Creators: name: Felikson, Anna
name: Shapiro, Michael
name: Tumarkin, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F60

description: We construct geometric realization for non-exceptional mutation-finite cluster algebras by extending the theory of Fomin and Thurston to skew-symmetrizable case. Cluster variables for these algebras are renormalized lambda lengths on certain hyperbolic orbifolds. We also compute growth rate of these cluster algebras, provide positivity of Laurent expansions of cluster variables, and prove sign-coherence of c-vectors.
description: 58 pages, lots of figures; v4: the accepted version with further corrections (not included in the journal version): the definition of an arc on an orbifold is corrected (thanks to T. Nakanishi who has told us about the mistake), typos corrected, references to the paper of Fomin-Thurston updated (including the numbers of statements). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.5569 by other authors
Role of Arterial Variants in Pancreatic Surgery
Creators: name: Santilli, Mario
name: Iannone, Francesco
name: Benucci, Chiara
name: Caronna, Roberto
name: Prezioso, Giampaolo
name: Dinatale, Giuseppe
name: Sacco, Luca
name: Farelli, Francesco
name: Chirletti, Piero
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Surgical resection is the only curative option for the treatment of pancreatic adeno­carcinoma. If preoperatively undetected, the presence of arterial variants with or without their neoplastic involvement, could be the cause of intra- or post-operative complications, particularly during a pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). As reported, a normal arterial anatomy of the celiac axis and of the superior mesenteric artery is present in only 55-60% of patients. Objective The objective of this study is to demonstrate the role of arterial variants in pancreatic surgery. Methods From 2008 to 2012, 85 patients were submitted to a multidetector CT scan before undergoing pancreatic surgery, paying particular attention to the 3D reconstruction of vascular anatomy. Results This preoperative evaluation showed a normal vascular anatomy in 84.7% of cases while 15.7% patients showed at least one arterial variant. In one patient we observed the origin of the gastroduodenal artery from the left hepatic artery, in 4 cases the left hepatic artery (LHA) from the left gastric artery (LGA) (Michels type II), in 1 case (1.2%) the right hepatic artery (RHA) from the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) (Michels type III), in 1 case the RHA from the SMA and the LHA from LGA (Michels type II + type III), in 1 case the proper hepatic artery from the SMA (Michels type IX) and in 1 patient an accessory RHA for the IV hepatic segment from the SMA and an accessory left hepatic artery from the LGA (Michels type VII). The arcuate ligament syndrome was also detected in 4 subjects (4.7%). Conclusions According to our experience, the preoperative identification of these variant arteries seems very important. These data suggest that in patients who undergo pancreatic surgery, besides the evaluation of portal vein and/or superior mesenteric vessels tumor impairment, the arterial vascular anatomy should be always studied preoperatively to avoid severe intra- or post-operative complications such as bleeding, hepatic failure and biliary fistulas.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5S (2013): September (Suppl.) - p. 528-602
Quantum dynamical screening of the local magnetic moment in Fe-based superconductors
Creators: name: Toschi, A.
name: Arita, R.
name: Hansmann, P.
name: Sangiovanni, G.
name: Held, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have calculated the local magnetic susceptibility of one of the prototypical Fe-based superconductors (LaFeAsO) by means of the local density approximation + dynamical mean field theory as a function of both (imaginary) time and real frequencies with and without vertex corrections. Vertex corrections are essential for obtaining the correct $ω$-dependence, in particular a pronounced low-energy peak at $ω\sim 0.2 $eV, which constitutes the hallmark of the dynamical screening of a large instantaneous magnetic moment on the Fe atoms. In experiments, however, except for the case of x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), the magnetic moment or the susceptibility represent typically the average over long time scales. In this respect, the frequency range of typical neutron experiments would be too limited to directly estimate the magnitude of the short-time moment.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Cachexia is an Insidious Symptom of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Associated with Delayed Diagnosis and Advanced Stage of Disease
Creators: name: Piciucchi, Matteo
name: Valente, Roberto
name: Stigliano, Serena
name: Archibugi, Livia
name: Zerboni, Giulia
name: Signoretti, Marianna
name: Larghi, Alberto
name: Costamagna, Guido
name: Delle Fave, Gianfranco
name: Capurso, Gabriele
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive neoplasm, frequently presenting with cachexia that seems to retard the diagnosis and leading to worse prognosis. Molecular mechanism of cachexia are increasing explained, but its clinical features and its impacts on prognosis are still unclear. Objective To evaluate prevalence and features of a cachexia as presenting symptom of PDAC, clinical factors associated to its occurrence and its associated survival in PDAC patients. Methods Database retrospective analysis of prospective enrolled PDAC (Jan 2006 to Jan 2012): symptoms, tumor’s features and outcome of patients with cachexia (defined as weight loss >5 kg in the year before diagnosis) compared to those without it. Results Two-hundred and 91 PDAC patients enrolled: 144 (49.4%) presented cachexia (C+). C+ patients had similar medical history (chronic pancreatitis, diabetes, insulin and statin usage) than C-, but they were more frequently male (61.0% C+ vs. 46.5% C-; P=0.04) and overweight subjects (mean BMI: 28.6 kg/m2 C+ vs. 25.9 kg/m2 C-; P=0.0001). The onset symptoms other than cachexia were similarly frequent in C- and C+ patients, but for unspecific abdominal pain which was more frequent in C+ (56.4 %) than C- (40.8%; P=0.004). Patients with cachexia had a longer diagnostic delay than C- (4.81 months vs. 2.23 P=0001). C+ and C- patients had similar site and size of primary tumor, as well as histological grading, but C+ had more frequently distant metastasis at diagnosis (44.4% C+ vs. 32.6% C-; P=0.04) and a shorter, although non significantly, overall survival (7 vs. 11 months; P=0.19) compared to C-. Conclusion In our cohort of incident PDAC, about half of patients presented with cachexia. Cachexia was frequently associated with abdominal pain and with a diagnostic delay, and with a metastatic stage at diagnosis. The results suggest that unexplained weight loss and recurrent abdominal pain are under-evaluated symptoms of PDAC, and their investigation might lead to an earlier diagnosis of this aggressive disease.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5S (2013): September (Suppl.) - p. 528-602
Lichnia Erichson 1835
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Lichnia

description: Lichnia Erichson, 1835
[2 species].
Type species Lichnia limbata Erichson, 1835, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Additional file 1 of Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Fischer, Natalie
name: Peeters, Ilse
name: Klamer, Sofieke
name: Montourcy, Marion
name: Cuylaerts, Vicky
name: Van Beckhoven, Dominique
name: De Baetselier, Irith
name: Van der Heyden, Johan
name: Vanden Berghe, Wim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Study Questionnaire CT1 in English.
Strangeness in the baryon ground states
Creators: name: Semke, A.
name: Lutz, M. F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the strangeness content of the baryon octet and decuplet states based on an analysis of recent lattice simulations of the BMW, PACS, LHPC and HSC groups for the pion-mass dependence of the baryon masses. Our results rely on the relativistic chiral Lagrangian and large-$N_c$ sum rule estimates of the counter terms relevant for the baryon masses at N$^3$LO. A partial summation is implied by the use of physical baryon and meson masses in the one-loop contributions to the baryon self energies. A simultaneous description of the lattice results of the BMW, LHPC, PACS and HSC groups is achieved. From a global fit we determine the axial coupling constants $F\simeq 0.45$ and $D \simeq 0.80 $ in agreement with their values extracted from semi-leptonic decays of the baryons. Moreover, various flavor symmetric limits of baron octet and decuplet masses as obtained by the QCDSF-UKQCD group are recovered. We predict the pion- and strangeness sigma terms and the pion-mass dependence of the octet and decuplet ground states at different strange quark masses.
description: 15 pages, 5 tables, 3 figures. There are two significant extensions in the revised manuscript. First, a precise determination of the axial coupling constants F and D from the lattice data on the baryon masses is provided. Second, it is shown that the lattice data of the QCDSF-UKQCD group on the baryon masses in the flavor symmetric limit are recovered. The 3rd version is the published version
Initial Experiences of an Enhanced Recovery Programme After Pancreaticoduodenctomy
Creators: name: Coletta, Pietro
name: Partelli, Stefano
name: Crippa, Stefano
name: Neba, Gerald
name: Crognaletti, Paolo
name: Franconi, Annamaria
name: De Angelis, Carlo
name: Falconi, Massimo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: pancreas; surgery; enhanced recovery

description: Context Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programmes decrease morbidity and duration of stay after colorectal surgery. There is little information about their role in complex procedures, such as pancreaticoduodenectomy. Objective To evaluate the safety, feasibility, and the short-term outcomes of enhanced recovery after pancreatico­duodenectomy (ERAPD) programme. Methods Beginning in January 2013 a multidisciplinary protocol of ERAPD was developed at our institution. In all the cases, the reconstruction after pancreaticoduodenectomy included duct-to-mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy. This protocol included near-zero fluid balance, mid-thoracic epidural analgesia, removal of nasogastric tube before the extubation, liquid diet in post-operative day 1 and solid diet in post-operative day 2, as well as early drains removal according to amylase value in drains (AVD). Overall, 29 patients were included in the ERAPD group (ERAPD+) and were compared with other 29 patients (ERAPD-) previously treated by the same surgical team. Results The two groups were similar with respect to age, gender, diagnosis, and operative time. There were no significant differences in the incidence of post-operative complications (55% for ERAPD+ versus 52% for ERAPD-, P=0.792). The rate of pancreatic fistula was 14% in the ERAPD+ group compared with 28% in the ERAPD- group (P=0.195). In younger patients (age <70 years), ERAPD+ patients had a lower risk of pancreatic fistula compared with ERAPD- patients (6% versus 33%, P=0.042). The incidence of delayed gastric emtpying syndrome was 10% in the ERAPD+ group compared with 7% in the ERAPD- group. The overall length of hospital stay was 12 days in both the groups (P=1.000). Conclusion The implementation of an ERAS programme after pancreaticoduodenectomy was safe and feasible. This protocol was associated with a tendency toward a lower incidence of pancreatic fistula although not statistically significant. ERAPD+ patients younger than 70 years have the best results in terms of reduction of pancreatic fistula rate.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5S (2013): September (Suppl.) - p. 528-602
Additional file 2 of Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Fischer, Natalie
name: Peeters, Ilse
name: Klamer, Sofieke
name: Montourcy, Marion
name: Cuylaerts, Vicky
name: Van Beckhoven, Dominique
name: De Baetselier, Irith
name: Van der Heyden, Johan
name: Vanden Berghe, Wim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Questionnaire BHIS and BELHES in English.
Testing the gravitational lensing explanation for the MgII problem in GRBs
Creators: name: Rapoport, Sharon
name: Onken, Christopher A.
name: Schmidt, Brian P.
name: Wyithe, J. Stuart B.
name: Tucker, Brad E.
name: Levan, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sixty percent of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) reveal strong MgII absorbing systems, which is a factor of ~2 times the rate seen along lines-of-sight to quasars. The discrepancy in the covering factor is most likely to be the result of either quasars being obscured due to dust, or the consequence of many GRBs being strongly gravitationally lensed. We analyze observations of GRBs that show strong foreground MgII absorption. We Monte-Carlo the distances between foreground galaxies in the HUDF and lines of sight distributed randomly within a radius derived from the covering factor, and find that galaxies are located systematically closer to the position of the observed GRBs than expected for random lines of sight. This over-density at small impact parameters is statistically more robust than the well known excess of MgII absorbers among GRB afterglow spectra, and presents a new puzzle for MgII absorption studies. The over-density cannot be explained by obscuration in the GRB sample, but is a natural consequence of gravitational lensing. Upon examining the particular configurations of galaxies near a sample of GRBs with strong MgII absorption, we find several intriguing lensing candidates. Our results suggest that lensing provides a viable contribution to the observed enhancement of strong MgII absorption along lines of sight to GRBs, and we outline the future observations required to test this hypothesis conclusively.
description: v2 includes major updates in response to referee's comments. 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Effective action for EPRL/FK spin foam models
Creators: name: Mikovic, Aleksandar
name: Vojinovic, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a natural modification of the EPRL/FK vertex amplitude gives a finite spin foam model whose effective action gives the Einstein-Hilbert action in the limit of large spins and arbitrarily fine spacetime triangulations. The first-order quantum corrections can be easily computed and we show how to calculate the higher-order corrections.
description: v2: some changes in text, new references added; 4 pages, proceedings of Loops 11 conference, Madrid; to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Historians of their own lives : Okanagan and settler Ukrainian women's cross-cultural relationships during BC's colonial and industrial development
Creators: name: Kober, LaVonne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis examines cross-cultural relationships between Indigenous Okanagan and settler Ukrainian women who lived in Vernon and Head of the Lake areas of British Columbia during the province's colonial and industrial development in the early 1900s. The lived experiences shared by female participants in this project challenge the dominant historical narratives that have traditionally overlooked women's lived experiences. Women's histories are retrieved from the silence and invisibility of omission to fill in gaps in the literature concerning cross-cultural relationships between Okanagan Indigenous and settler Ukrainian women. In conceptualizing the histories of these women this thesis argues that the processes of colonization, largely influenced by male Eurocentric perspectives, have negatively impacted the development and maintenance of female cross-cultural relationships. Using Indigenous methodologies and research approaches that honor and respect Indigenouse perspectives and worldviews, I embarked on individual interviews with two older Okanagan and two older Ukrainian women from Vernon and Head of the Lake areas. Throughout the interviews it became evident that the intersections of race and gender prejudices were deeply embedded within the colonization processes of BC. These affected how Okanagan and Ukrainian women lived their lives individually and in relation to each other. A narrative analysis of the oral histories of Okanagan and Ukrainian women offers a study of the situations of Indigenous and immigrant European women in the early twentieth century in the Northern Okanagan. Through the use of oral interviews, archives, and narrative analysis this thesis explores how colonialism and the dominant culture influenced the significance of and the extent to which female cross-cultural relationships occurred during BC's colonial and industrial development.
Additional file 3 of Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Fischer, Natalie
name: Peeters, Ilse
name: Klamer, Sofieke
name: Montourcy, Marion
name: Cuylaerts, Vicky
name: Van Beckhoven, Dominique
name: De Baetselier, Irith
name: Van der Heyden, Johan
name: Vanden Berghe, Wim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Comparison of the general Belgian population in 2018 and 2019, and the study populations of CT1 and CT2.
Additional file 4 of Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Fischer, Natalie
name: Peeters, Ilse
name: Klamer, Sofieke
name: Montourcy, Marion
name: Cuylaerts, Vicky
name: Van Beckhoven, Dominique
name: De Baetselier, Irith
name: Van der Heyden, Johan
name: Vanden Berghe, Wim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. Characteristics of BELHES study participants aged 18-59 years, who did or did not consent for further use of their urine sample.
Acoma Casey 1890
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Acoma

description: Acoma Casey, 1890 (not Acoma Steiner, 1920)
[34 species].
Type species Acoma brunnea Casey, 1890, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Birkhoff's Theorem in f(T) Gravity up to the Perturbative Order
Creators: name: Dong, Han
name: Wang, Ying-Bin
name: Meng, Xin-He
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: f(T) gravity, a generally modified teleparallel gravity, has become very popular in recent times as it is able to reproduce the unification of inflation and late-time acceleration without the need of a dark energy component or an inflation field. In this present work, we investigate specifically the range of validity of Birkhoff's theorem with the general tetrad field via perturbative approach. At zero order, Birkhoff's theorem is valid and the solution is the well known Schwarzschild-(A)dS metric. Then considering the special case of the diagonal tetrad field, we present a new spherically symmetric solution in the frame of f(T) gravity up to the perturbative order. The results with the diagonal tetrad field satisfy the physical equivalence between the Jordan and the so-called Einstein frames, which are realized via conformal transformation, at least up to the first perturbative order.
description: 8 pages, no figure. Final version, accepted for publication in EPJC
Temperature and quark density effects on the chiral condensate: an AdS/QCD study
Creators: name: Colangelo, Pietro
name: Giannuzzi, Floriana
name: Nicotri, Stefano
name: Tangorra, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dependence of the chiral condensate $$ on the temperature and quark density using the soft-wall holographic model of QCD, adopting geometries with black holes at finite temperature and quark chemical potential $μ$. We find that, for $μ$ below a critical value, increasing the temperature the condensate decreases and vanishes at a temperature $\tilde T\simeq 210$ MeV (at $μ=0$). An analogous behaviour is observed increasing the chemical potential at fixed temperature. These results agree with the findings obtained by other methods. We also comment on the robustness of the results if geometries not involving black holes are adopted at low temperature, and an Hawking-Page transition is implemented.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, published on EPJC
Weak convergence of finite element approximations of linear stochastic evolution equations with additive noise II. Fully discrete schemes
Creators: name: Kovács, M.
name: Larsson, S.
name: Lindgren, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M60, 60H15, 60H35, 65C30

description: We present an abstract framework for analyzing the weak error of fully discrete approximation schemes for linear evolution equations driven by additive Gaussian noise. First, an abstract representation formula is derived for sufficiently smooth test functions. The formula is then applied to the wave equation, where the spatial approximation is done via the standard continuous finite element method and the time discretization via an I-stable rational approximation to the exponential function. It is found that the rate of weak convergence is twice that of strong convergence. Furthermore, in contrast to the parabolic case, higher order schemes in time, such as the Crank-Nicolson scheme, are worthwhile to use if the solution is not very regular. Finally we apply the theory to parabolic equations and detail a weak error estimate for the linearized Cahn-Hilliard-Cook equation as well as comment on the stochastic heat equation.
Additional file 5 of Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Fischer, Natalie
name: Peeters, Ilse
name: Klamer, Sofieke
name: Montourcy, Marion
name: Cuylaerts, Vicky
name: Van Beckhoven, Dominique
name: De Baetselier, Irith
name: Van der Heyden, Johan
name: Vanden Berghe, Wim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S3. Analysis of factors associated with consent for further use of urine sample among BELHES participants 18-59 years of age.
Additional file 1 of Assembly and comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of Suaeda glauca
Creators: name: Cheng, Yan
name: He, Xiaoxue
name: Priyadarshani, S. V. G. N.
name: Wang, Yu
name: Ye, Li
name: Shi, Chao
name: Ye, Kangzhuo
name: Zhou, Qiao
name: Luo, Ziqiang
name: Deng, Fang
name: Cao, Ling
name: Zheng, Ping
name: Aslam, Mohammad
name: Qin, Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The secondary structure of tRNA. A and B are two different structures of trnM-CAU. Figure S2. The distribution of SSRs in S. glauca mt genome. The colors represent different types of SSRs. The area on the pie chart indicates the percentages of different SSR types. Table S1. The mt homologous genes in S. glauca, A. thaliana, H. sapiens, and S. cerevisiae. Table S2. The stop codes of protein-coding genes in S. glauca mt genome. Table S3. The abbreviations and NCBI accession numbers of mt genomes used in this study. Table S4. Protein-coding genes annotated in S. gluaca mt genome in comparison to related species.
Lichnia (Neolichnia) Gutierrez 1943
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Lichnia

description: Lichnia (Neolichnia): Gutiérrez 1943.
Unavailable name.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Implementierung Manual for the Practical Implementation
Creators: name: Puchan, Jörg
name: Zapf, Sophia
name: Schubert-Stöcklein, Fee
name: Willige, Christian
Publisher: name: e-Journal of Practical Business Research
Year: 2013
Subjects: managementScience

description: e-Journal of Practical Business Research, Business Process Benchmarking - Band III Implementierung, S. 1-18
Cartan's Structural Equations for Singular Manifolds
Creators: name: Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B30, 53B15, 83C75

description: The classical Cartan's structural equations show in a compact way the relation between a connection and its curvature, and reveals their geometric interpretation in terms of moving frames. In order to study the mathematical properties of singularities, we need to study the geometry of manifolds endowed on the tangent bundle with a symmetric bilinear form which is allowed to become degenerate. But if the fundamental tensor is allowed to be degenerate, there are some obstructions in constructing the geometric objects normally associated to the fundamental tensor. Also, local orthonormal frames and coframes no longer exist, as well as the metric connection and its curvature operator. This article shows that, if the fundamental tensor is radical stationary, we can construct in a canonical way geometric objects, determined only by the fundamental form, similar to the connection and curvature forms of Cartan. In particular, if the fundamental tensor is non-degenerate, we obtain the usual connection and curvature forms of Cartan. We write analogs of Cartan's first and second structural equations. As a byproduct we will find a compact version of the Koszul formula.
description: 8 pages
Éowyn the unintended : the caged feminine and gendered space in The Lord of the Rings
Creators: name: Harrison, William Henry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: As Alexandra Ganser points out, in the West, freedom of the road has tended to be a prerogative of males; this is as true in the novelistic imagination as it is in the streets. The Lord of the Rings (LotR) is a novel of the road. In it, J. R. R. Tolkien maintains a firm gendering of spaces, as Ganser theorizes. Women may not take to the road or enter the battlefield, except under male direction and supervision. Éowyn is the exception to this rule, but one that highlights the existence of the rule. Initially, Tolkien planned Éowyn as a warrior who would ride openly as a woman, beside Aragorn, the King whom Éowyn would marry. Éowyn was planned as a heroine, who overcomes a Nazgûl by her own strength. However, this is not the Éowyn whom Tolkien wrote. Instead, she feels caged in Rohan, but is refused permission to take the road or the battlefield. To escape, she disguises herself in the visible cage of male armour and goes to war. Once there, Éowyn fights the Nazgûl, but wins only because a male defeats the spell sustaining the enemy. Éowyn is sent to the Houses of Healing (a neutral space) and is delivered from her erroneous attitude to the gendering of spaces by falling in love with Faramir (the Steward) and submitting to domesticity. Tolkien’s treatment of Éowyn is of public significance because Tolkien rejects any notion of human progress, so that Éowyn cannot be an instance of a past norm to be overcome by social improvement. Instead, her fall into a determination to trespass on male space is of the nature of sin and her deliverance into domesticity is her redemption, her eucatastrophe. Moreover, Éowyn is a political symbol because LotR is intended as part of a mythology for England, which suggests that Tolkien is making a statement about the direction that society should take. Éowyn, therefore, is Tolkien’s demonstration of God’s will for English society: women ought to remain in domestic spaces and not go to war.
Meleageria daphnis
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Meleageria
Meleageria daphnis

description: Meleageria daphnis ([DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER], 1775)
 B e l e g e: Austria, Niederösterreich, Neunkirchen, 7.7.1957.- Wiener Neustadt, 20.8.1951, 15.7.1956. Steiermark, Grazer Bergland, Graz, Gösting, 24.6.+ 28.7.1948; Graz, Kanzel, 12.7.1953, 12.7.1955; Graz, Stübing, 13.8.1955; Peggau-Badl, Badlgraben, 23.6.1950.-. Oberes Murtal, St. Michael, Hinterberg, 8.+ 22.7.1949, 29.7.1952; Trofaiach, Kulm, 18.+ 22.7.1954; alle leg. Meier.
V e r b r e i t u n g: Chorotyp europäisch-vorderasiatisch; Süd- und Südosteuropa bis zum Südural, Vorderasien (Türkei, Libanon, Syrien, Iran).
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, 2021, Zur Chorologie und Faunistik der Tagfalter in den Ost- und Südalpen 1. Tagfalter (Papilionoidea) aus der Sammlung von Herbert Meier † sowie Daten aus den Sammlungen des Entomologischen Forschungsmuseums EFMEA in Feldkirch, pp. 787-867 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 818, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10086880
Spacetime Symmetries and Kepler's Third Law
Creators: name: Tiec, Alexandre Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The curved spacetime geometry of a system of two point masses moving on a circular orbit has a helical symmetry. We show how Kepler's third law for circular motion, and its generalization in post-Newtonian theory, can be recovered from a simple, covariant condition on the norm of the associated helical Killing vector field. This unusual derivation can be used to illustrate some concepts of prime importance in a general relativity course, including those of Killing field, covariance, coordinate dependence, and gravitational redshift.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; minor changes and text improvements; matches version to appear in Class. Quant. Grav
Paleoearthquake activity along the Irtysh fault (Eurasia Stable Continent, Kazakhstan) through geomorphological and trenching analyses
Creators: name: Baize, S.
name: Reicherter, Klaus
name: Avagyan, A.
name: Belyashov, A.
name: Pestov, E.
name: Vittori, E.
name: Arakelyan, A.
name: Decker, K.
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2018

description: [EGU General Assembly 2018, 2018-04-08 - 2018-04-13, Vienna, Austria] EGU General Assembly 2018, EGU2018, Vienna, Austria, 8 Apr 2018 - 13 Apr 2018; Katlenburg-Lindau : European Geophysical Society, Geophysical Research Abstracts 20, 1 Seite (2018).
description: Published by European Geophysical Society, Katlenburg-Lindau
Natural History of Small Sporadic Non-Functioning Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: An Observational Bi-Centric Study
Creators: name: Partelli, Stefano
name: Gaujouox, Sébastien
name: Maire, Frédérique
name: Coletta, Pietro
name: Larroque, Béatrice
name: Crippa, Stefano
name: Sauvanet, Alain
name: Falconi, Massimo
name: Ruszniewski, Philippe
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Asymptomatic sporadic non-functioning well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (AS-NF-PNET) are increasingly diagnosed, and their management is controversial because of their overall good but heterogeneous prognosis. Objective The aim of the present study was to assess the natural history of AS-NF-PNET below 2 cm in size, and the benefit-risk balance of a non-operative management. Methods From January 2000 to June 2012, 46 patients with proven AS-NF-PNET below 2 cm in size were followed-up for at least 18 months with serial imaging. Results Patients were mainly female (65%), with a median age of 60 years. Tumors were mainly located in the pancreatic head (52%), with a median lesion size of 13 mm (range: 9-15 mm). Distant or nodal metastases appeared on imaging in none of the patients after a median follow-up of 34 months (range: 24-52 mm) and an average of 4 (range: 3-6) serial imaging. A ≥20% increase in size was observed in 6 (13%) patients. Overall median tumor growth was 0.12 mm per years and nor patients neither tumor characteristics were found to be significant predictors of tumor growth. Overall, 8 patients (17%) underwent surgery after a median time from initial evaluation of 41 months (range: 27-58 months); all resected lesions were ENETS T stage 1 (n=7) or 2 (n=1), grade 1, node negative, with neither vascular nor peripancreatic fat invasion. Conclusion In selected patients non-operative management of AS-NF-PNET below 2 cm in size is safe. Larger and prospective multicentre studies with long-term follow-up are now needed to validate this “wait and see” policy.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5S (2013): September (Suppl.) - p. 528-602