cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Group-2 innate lymphoid cell-dependent regulation of tissue neutrophil migration by alternatively activated macrophage-secreted Ear11
Creators: name: Panova, Veera
name: Gogoi, Mayuri
name: Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Noe
name: Sivasubramaniam, Meera
name: Jolin, Helen E.
name: Heycock, Morgan W. D.
name: Walker, Jennifer A.
name: Rana, Batika M. J.
name: Drynan, Lesley F.
name: Hodskinson, Michael
name: Pannell, Richard
name: King, Gareth
name: Wing, Mark
name: Easton, Andrew J.
name: Oedekoven, Caroline A.
name: Kent, David G.
name: Fallon, Padraic G.
name: Barlow, Jillian L.
name: McKenzie, Andrew N. J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
article

description: Abstract: Type-2 immunity is characterised by interleukin (IL)-4, IL-5 and IL-13, eosinophilia, mucus production, IgE, and alternatively activated macrophages (AAM). However, despite the lack of neutrophil chemoattractants such as CXCL1, neutrophils, a feature of type-1 immunity, are observed in type-2 responses. Consequently, alternative mechanisms must exist to ensure that neutrophils can contribute to type-2 immune reactions without escalation of deleterious inflammation. We now demonstrate that type-2 immune-associated neutrophil infiltration is regulated by the mouse RNase A homologue, eosinophil-associated ribonuclease 11 (Ear11), which is secreted by AAM downstream of IL-25-stimulated ILC2. Transgenic overexpression of Ear11 resulted in tissue neutrophilia, whereas Ear11-deficient mice have fewer resting tissue neutrophils, whilst other type-2 immune responses are not impaired. Notably, administration of recombinant mouse Ear11 increases neutrophil motility and recruitment. Thus, Ear11 helps maintain tissue neutrophils at homoeostasis and during type-2 reactions when chemokine-producing classically activated macrophages are infrequently elicited.
Broken scaling in the Forest Fire Model
Creators: name: Pruessner, Gunnar
name: Jensen, Henrik Jeldtoft
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the scaling behavior of the cluster size distribution in the Drossel-Schwabl Forest Fire model (DS-FFM) by means of large scale numerical simulations, partly on (massively) parallel machines. It turns out that simple scaling is clearly violated, as already pointed out by Grassberger [P. Grassberger, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 26, 2081 (1993)], but largely ignored in the literature. Most surprisingly the statistics not seems to be described by a universal scaling function, and the scale of the physically relevant region seems to be a constant. Our results strongly suggest that the DS-FFM is not critical in the sense of being free of characteristic scales.
description: 9 pages in RevTEX4 format (9 figures), submitted to PRE
Thermofield Double States in Group Field Theory
Creators: name: Guo, Xiao-Kan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Group field theories are higher-rank generalizations of matrix/tensor models, and encode the simplicial geometries of quantum gravity. In this paper, we study the thermofield double states in group field theories. The starting point is the equilibrium Gibbs states in group field theory recently found by Kotecha and Oriti, based on which we construct the thermofield double state as a "thermal" vacuum respecting the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger condition. We work with the Weyl $C^*$-algebra of group fields, and a particular type of thermofield double states with single type of symmetry are obtained from the squeezed states on this Weyl algebra. The thermofield double states, when viewed as states on the group field theory Fock vacuum, are condensate states at finite flow parameter $β$. We suggest that the equilibrium flow parameters $β$ of this type of thermofield double states in the group field theory condensate pictures of black hole horizon and quantum cosmology are related to the inverse temperatures in gravitational thermodynamics.
MOESM1 of Removal of alleles by genome editing (RAGE) against deleterious load
Creators: name: Johnsson, Martin
name: R. Gaynor
name: Jenko, Janez
name: Gorjanc, Gregor
name: Dirk-Jan Koning
name: Hickey, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Fitness, deleterious load, and number of segregating variants for different scenarios. Mean and standard deviation of fitness, deleterious load, and number of segregating variants for codominant (h = 0.5) and recessive (h = 0) variants with 5000, 10,000, and 15,000 of fitness variants in the genome, breeding goal traits drawn from a gamma distribution rather than a normal distribution, a shorter historical breeding (10 generations of natural selection and 5 generations of historical breeding), a longer historical breeding (25 generations), or a simpler population history (constant effective population size of 100). The numbers are based on 10 replicates.
Additional file 1 of Monitoring trends in the absolute lymphocyte count and the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with breast cancer receiving eribulin
Creators: name: Su, Meng-Xia
name: Lin, Hsiang-Wen
name: Nguyen, Hanh T. H.
name: Lin, Tien-Chao
name: Chen, Chih-Jung
name: Wang, Hwei-Chung
name: Wu, Chen-Teng
name: Wu, Yao-Chung
name: He, Geng-Yan
name: Liu, Liang-Chih
name: Huang, Chih-Hao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Overall survival (OS) among patients with increased or decreased trends of ALC, NLR (0: decreasing, 1: non-decreasing). Supplementary Figure 2. Comparing PFS and OS among different groups of patients stratified by ALC trends according to the baseline level. Supplementary Figure 3. Comparing PFS and OS among different groups of patients stratified by NLR baseline and trends. Supplementary Figure 4. Analysis on the association of high(1)/low(0) NLR/ALC with OS stratified by on(1)/off(0) treatment with eribulin.
A very young star forming region detected by the ISOPHOT Serendipity Survey
Creators: name: Krause, O.
name: Lemke, D.
name: Toth, L. V.
name: Klaas, U.
name: Haas, M.
name: Stickel, M.
name: Vavrek, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multi-wavelength study of the star forming region ISOSS J 20298+3559, which was identified by a cross-correlation of cold compact sources from the 170 micron ISOPHOT Serendipity Survey (ISOSS) database coinciding with objects detected by the MSX, 2MASS and IRAS infrared surveys. ISOSS J 20298+3559 is associated with a massive dark cloud complex (M ~ 760 M$_{\odot}$) and located in the Cygnus X giant molecular cloud. We derive a distance of 1800 pc on the basis of optical extinction data. The low average dust temperature (T ~ 16 K) and large mass (M ~ 120 M$_{\odot}$) of the dense inner part of the cloud, which has not been dispersed, indicates a recent begin of star formation. The youth of the region is supported by the early evolutionary stage of several pre- and protostellar objects discovered across the regio n: I) Two candidate Class 0 objects with masses of 8 and 3.5 M$_{\odot}$, II) a gravitationally bound, cold (T ~ 12 K) and dense (n(H$_{2}$) \~ 2 x 10$^{5}$ cm$^{-3}$) cloud core with a mass of 50 M$_{\odot}$ and III) a Herbig B2 star with a mass of 6.5 M$_{\odot}$ and a bolometric luminosity of 2200 L$_{\odot}$, showing evidence for ongoing accretion and a stellar age of less than 40000 years. The dereddened SED of the Herbig star is well reproduced by an accretion disc + star model. The externally heated cold cloud core is a good candidate for a massive pre-protostellar object. The star formation efficiency in the central cloud region is about 14 %.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving
Creators: name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: McConnell, Margaret
name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: McConnell, Margaret
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: prosocial behavior
subject: experiments
subject: voluntary contributions

description: Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University service club to test the impact of a promise of public recognition on giving. Some may claim that they respond to an offer of public recognition not to improve their social standing, but rather to motivate others to give. To tease apart these two theories, we conduct a laboratory experiment with undergraduates, and found no evidence to support the alternative, altruistic motivation. We conclude that charitable gifts increase in response to the promise of public recognition primarily because of individuals' desire to improve their social image.
Liriomyza salpingion Lonsdale 2011, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Lonsdale, Owen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Liriomyza
Liriomyza salpingion

description: Liriomyza salpingion spec. nov.
Figs 204–207
 Wing length 1.6mm (♂). Female unknown. Length of ultimate section of vein CuA 1 divided by penultimate section: 2.7. Eye height indistinguishable. Scutum glossy.
 Chaetotaxy: Two ori, two ors. Acrostichal setulae in four rows.
 Colouration: Calypter margin and hairs grey. Head light brown with first flagellomere yellow and back of head and ocellar tubercle dark brown. Thorax brown with scutum dark brown, scutellum lighter with centre yellowish, and notopleuron and postpronotum (excluding dark medial spot) light brown. Legs and abdomen dark brown.
 Genitalia: Figs 204–207. Surstylus fused to epandrium and with apex split into two pointed, apically darkened lobes. Epandrium without spine. Swollen distal section of duct narrowed to apex. Paraphallus fused to membranous distal margin of basiphallus. Hypophallus forming broad, flattened V-shaped plate with hairs emerging from base of medial desclerotized region. Mesophallus indistinct. Distiphallus long, tapering to base, more thickly sclerotized along dorsal and lateral walls, with slight segmentation on distal half, and apex thin-walled and enclosing one pair of small spinulose pads. Ejaculatory apodeme with pileus ejaculatorius relatively thin with ends swollen and dark; base of duct dark; base of stem broad and centre of stem and blade weakly sclerotized with minute transverse striations; blade pale with long, irregular base.
 Etymology. The specific epithet, a noun in apposition, is Greek for “small horn”, referring to the shape of the distiphallus.
 Host. Unknown.
 Range. USA.  California [county unknown].
 Type material. Holotype, USA. California: Yosemite, 10.vi.1935, A.L. Melander (1♂, USNM).
 Comments. Liriomyza salpingion is a predominantly dark species with a slightly yellowish scutellum, notopleuron and postpronotum, and an entirely yellow antenna. The male terminalia are distinct, with a bifid, pointed surstylus, a large triangular plate-like hypophallus and a long, conical distiphallus.
description: Published as part of Lonsdale, Owen, 2011, The Liriomyza (Agromyzidae: Schizophora: Diptera) of California 2850, pp. 1-123 in Zootaxa 2850 (1) on pages 91-93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2850.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5287220
Randomized Shortest Paths with Net Flows and Capacity Constraints
Creators: name: Courtain, Sylvain
name: Leleux, Pierre
name: Kivimaki, Ilkka
name: Guex, Guillaume
name: Saerens, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work extends the randomized shortest paths (RSP) model by investigating the net flow RSP and adding capacity constraints on edge flows. The standard RSP is a model of movement, or spread, through a network interpolating between a random-walk and a shortest-path behavior [30, 42, 49]. The framework assumes a unit flow injected into a source node and collected from a target node with flows minimizing the expected transportation cost, together with a relative entropy regularization term. In this context, the present work first develops the net flow RSP model considering that edge flows in opposite directions neutralize each other (as in electric networks), and proposes an algorithm for computing the expected routing costs between all pairs of nodes. This quantity is called the net flow RSP dissimilarity measure between nodes. Experimental comparisons on node clustering tasks indicate that the net flow RSP dissimilarity is competitive with other state-of-the-art dissimilarities. In the second part of the paper, it is shown how to introduce capacity constraints on edge flows, and a procedure is developed to solve this constrained problem by exploiting Lagrangian duality. These two extensions should improve significantly the scope of applications of the RSP framework.
Additional file 1 of Association of cardiovascular health and periodontitis: a population-based study
Creators: name: Qu, Haitao
name: Zhang, Shengnan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Targeting Investments To Cost Effectively Restore and Protect Wetland Ecosystems: Some Economic Insights
Creators: name: Hansen, LeRoy
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Williamson, James
name: Nulph, David
name: Loesch, Charles
name: Crumpton, William
name: Hansen, LeRoy
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Ribaudo, Marc
name: Williamson, James
name: Nulph, David
name: Loesch, Charles
name: Crumpton, William
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Wetland conservation
subject: ecosystem benefits
subject: environmental economics
subject: environmental targeting
subject: nonmarket benefits
subject: values of wetland ecosystems

description: USDA has spent more than $4.2 billion on wetland restoration and protection over the last two decades. One challenge in allocating these funds is the lack of information on variations in wetland benefits and costs across the Nation. This report discusses the biophysical impacts of new wetlands for eight benefit categories: duck hunting, carbon sequestration, flood protection, nitrogen removal, species protection, open space, sediment removal, and groundwater recharge, as well as the value of these impacts for some categories. In addition, it presents county-level estimates of the costs of restoring and preserving wetlands for some parts of the United States. Although the estimates range in precision and are not comprehensive, they call attention to some areas where the benefits of new wetlands are likely to exceed costs or perhaps may be insignificant. For example, the benefits of restoring and preserving wetlands near the Missouri River in central North and South Dakota are likely to exceed costs. Findings underscore the need for additional information that may increase the number, accuracy, and spatial resolution of wetland benefit estimates.
The Density of States in High-Tc Superconductors Vortices
Creators: name: Berthod, C.
name: Giovannini, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated the electronic structure of a vortex in a pseudogapped superconductor within a model featuring strong correlations. With increasing strength of the correlations, the BCS core states are suppressed and the spectra in and outside the core become similar. If the correlations are short-range, we find new core states in agreement with the observations in YBaCuO and BiSrCaCuO. Our results point to a common phenomenology for these two systems and indicate that normal-state correlations survive below Tc without taking part in the overall phase coherence.
description: REVTeX 4, 5 pages, 2 EPS figures. Some changes to the text; new figures; references updated
Liriomyza schlingeri Spencer
Creators: name: Lonsdale, Owen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Agromyzidae
Liriomyza
Liriomyza schlingeri

description: Liriomyza schlingeri Spencer
Figs 208, 209
 Liriomyza schlingeri Spencer 1981: 269. Spencer & Steyskal 1986: 130.
 Wing length 1.4–1.5mm (♂), 1.7mm (♀). Length of ultimate section of vein CuA 1 divided by penultimate section: 2.1–2.6. Eye height divided by gena height: 4.2–5.5. Scutum subshining.
 Chaetotaxy: Two ori, two ors. Acrostichal setulae in four rows.
 Colouration: Calypter margin and hairs grey. Posterolateral margin of head to base of outer vertical bristle, ocellar triangle and back of head brown; clypeus yellow, sometimes brown laterally. Scutum with complete lateral yellow band; katatergite yellow; anatergite dark brown below scutellum and paler laterally. Anepisternum with broad transverse stripe that is highly reduced in non-types; anepimeron sometimes with brown mottling; most of meron brown; katepisternum brown to level of bristle. Legs yellow with base of mid and hind coxae brown (broader on hind coxa), hind femur possibly narrowly brown at base, tibiae brown to light brown and tarsi light brown, becoming paler to base. Abdomen brown with lateral and complete central stripe on all tergites yellow, posterior margin of tergites thinly yellow (incomplete medially on tergite 1) and epandrium yellow dorsally.
 Genitalia: Figs 208, 209. External terminalia as described for L. sativae. Paraphallus thin and subrectangular. Hypophallus with distal section short-haired and nearly separate. Mesophallus approximately as long as wide, separate from distiphallus; mesophallus and distiphallus with complete ventral suture. Distiphallus darker, tapered at base and with basolateral and dorsal surfaces thick; distal half thin-walled with one pair of dark internal fringed structures.
 Hosts. Asteraceae — Baccharis sp., B. glutinosa *.
 Range. USA.  California [Los Angeles, Riverside].
 Type material. Holotype, USA. California: Riverside Co., Deep Canyon, 30.v.1963, reared from Baccharis sp., E.I. Schlinger (1♂, CASC); Paratype examined, USA. California: Los Angeles Co., Los Angeles, 3.iv.1915, M.C. VanDuzee (1♂ [head missing], CASC).
 Additional material examined. USA. California: Riverside Co., Riverside, 19.viii.1959, Baccharis glutinosa (3♂ 1♀ 1?, UCD).
 Comments. Liriomzya schlingeri is externally similar to other Liriomyza with entirely yellow femora, particularly L. sativae (also found on Baccharis), but subtle characters of the phallus can be used to distinguish them. The examined paratype was not listed in the original description, but bears a circular paratype label typical of Spencer’s other species.
description: Published as part of Lonsdale, Owen, 2011, The Liriomyza (Agromyzidae: Schizophora: Diptera) of California 2850, pp. 1-123 in Zootaxa 2850 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2850.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5287220
title: Mark Dybul, et al. (dont Anthony S. Fauci) "A Proof-of-Concept Study of Short-Cycle Intermittent Antiretroviral Therapy with a Once-Daily Regimen of Didanosine, Lamivudine, and Efavirenz for the Treatment of Chronic HIV Infection"
Creators: name: Dybul, Mark
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Extrait du Journal of infectious diseases, vol. 189, 2004 (juin).
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111232830396
Final report: Spectacled eider March 2020 aerial survey
Creators: name: Rizzolo, Daniel
name: Stellrecht, Neesha
Publisher: name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Year: 2021
Subjects: biota, environment, eiders, Spectacled Eiders, monitoring, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection

description: To determine winter population size and late winter distribution, we conducted an aerial survey of the Bering Sea wintering area of Spectacled Eiders (Somateria fischeri). The survey area was delineated based on satellite transmitter locations from eight marked Spectacled Eiders during the three weeks prior to the survey. On 03 and 04 March 2020, the survey completed 13 transects spaced 7.8 km apart through the 8,600 km2 survey area. During the survey, observers documented 76,952 Spectacled Eiders in 105 flocks. The total count of eiders in 2020 was 78 percent less than the most recent count in 2010, which was just over 369,000. The 2020 survey encountered more flocks (average number of flocks encountered in the previous 8 surveys is 55, range is 19 to 115) that included fewer individuals (78 percent of flocks included fewer than 1,000 eiders in 2020) than the last survey in March 2010. Previous winter surveys documented flocks containing tens-of-thousands of individuals; however, no large flocks were encountered in 2020 when the largest flock size was just over 5,000. Spectacled Eider flocks were located farther northeast than previously documented, closer to the southeast coast of St. Lawrence Island. The potential causes of the lower count in 2020 compared to 2010 include incomplete census due to unobserved flocks within the survey area and additional flocks outside of the survey area, and population decline since the 2010 survey. We cannot disentangle the relative contributions of an incomplete count and population decline to the difference between counts in 2020 and 2010. Because the 2020 count is likely incomplete, it should be interpreted with caution and treated as a minimum count rather than a complete census.
A method to disentangle and quantify host anabolic turnover in photosymbiotic holobionts with subcellular resolution
Creators: name: Gibbin, Emma
name: Banc-Prandi, Guilhem
name: Fine, Maoz
name: Comment, Arnaud
name: Meibom, Anders
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/1647
/631/326
/631/1647/296
/14/28
/14/63
/82/58
article

description: Abstract: A wide range of organisms host photosynthesizing symbionts. In these animals the metabolic exchange between host and symbionts has prevented in situ host anabolic turnover to be studied without the confounding effect of translocated photosynthates. Using the symbiotic coral Stylophora pistillata as a model organism and [1-13C]-pyruvate and [2,3-13C]-pyruvate in different incubation conditions (light, light + DCMU, and darkness), we employed NanoSIMS isotopic imaging to quantify host anabolism, with and without translocated metabolites from their photosynthesizing dinoflagellate symbionts. Under our experimental conditions, host de novo lipid synthesis accounted for ~40% of the total holobiont lipid reserve, and dinoflagellate recycling of metabolic 13CO2 enhanced host tissue 13C-enrichment by 13–22% in the epidermis, 40–58% in the gastrodermis, and 135–169% in host lipid bodies. Furthermore, we show that host anabolic turnover in different tissue structures differs, in a manner consistent with the localisation, function and cellular composition of these structures.
Residual Attention Graph Convolutional Network for Geometric 3D Scene Classification
Creators: name: Mosella-Montoro, Albert
name: Ruiz-Hidalgo, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Geometric 3D scene classification is a very challenging task. Current methodologies extract the geometric information using only a depth channel provided by an RGB-D sensor. These kinds of methodologies introduce possible errors due to missing local geometric context in the depth channel. This work proposes a novel Residual Attention Graph Convolutional Network that exploits the intrinsic geometric context inside a 3D space without using any kind of point features, allowing the use of organized or unorganized 3D data. Experiments are done in NYU Depth v1 and SUN-RGBD datasets to study the different configurations and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms current state-of-the-art in geometric 3D scene classification tasks.
Market Structure Conduct Performance Hypothesis Revisited Using Stochastic Frontier Efficiency Analysis
Creators: name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Allen, Albert J.
name: Edwards, Seanicaa
name: Harris, James
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Allen, Albert J.
name: Edwards, Seanicaa
name: Harris, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Stochastic frontier analysis, which is used to estimate technical efficiency, is extended to examine the market structure, conduct and performance hypothesis for the U.S. trucking industry. The technical efficiency measure takes into account not only the relationship between inputs used in the production of output, but it also examines the importance of market structure conduct factors to the performance of the firm. An empirical application to U.S. trucking carriers over the period 1994-2003 is examined. Results reveal that average haul, average load, debt-to-equity and market concentration significantly affected technical efficiency. Capital, fixed and variable input variables were significant in the production function equation.
Smoothing, discounting, and demand for intra-household control for recipients of conditional cash transfers
Creators: name: Aycinena, Diego
name: Blazsek, Szabolcs
name: Rentschler, Lucas
name: Sandoval, Betzy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Inter-temporal preferences are important determinants of investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Yet, little is known about these preferences for recipients of conditional cash transfers (CCTs). We simultaneously estimate utility curvature (preference for consumption smoothing), discounting, and present biasedness for such recipients. We also introduce a financially motivated method of measuring willingness to forgo funds to control household finances. We find that female participants in a CCT program in Guatemala have very high degrees of utility curvature and low discount factors, which may lead to low levels of investment by participants in the human capital of the household. We also find that intra-household conflict is not significantly related to consumption smoothing, discounting, or present bias.
Gevrey vectors of multi-quasi-elliptic systems
Creators: name: Bouzar, C.
name: Chaili, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B65, 35H10(Primary), 35N10(Secondary)

description: We show that the multi--quasi-ellipticity is a necessary and sufficient condition for the property of elliptic iterates to be hold for multi-quasi-homogenous differential operators.
description: 11 pages
Additional file 1: of Novel optical spectral transmission (OST)-guided versus conventionally disease activity-guided treatment: study protocol of a randomized clinical trial on guidance of a treat-to-target strategy for early rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: N. Besselink
name: A. Westgeest
name: R. Klaasen
name: M. Gamala
name: J. Woerkom
name: J. Tekstra
name: M. Verhoeven
name: W. Spil
name: F. Lafeber
name: A. Marijnissen
name: J. Laar
name: J. Jacobs
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*. (DOC 121 kb)
Stability of equilibria to the model for non-isothermal electrokinetics
Creators: name: Jiang, Ning
name: Luo, Yi-Long
name: Zhang, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently, energetic variational approach was employed to derive models for non-isothermal electrokinetics by Liu et. al \cite{Liu-Wu-Liu-CMS2018}. In particular, the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Fourier (PNPF) system for the dynamics of $N$-ionic species in a solvent was derived. In this paper we first reformulate PNPF ($4N+6$ equations) into an evolutional system with $N+1$ equations, and define a new total electrical charge. We then prove the constant states are stable provided that they are such that the perturbed systems around them are dissipative. However, not all positive constant solutions of PNPF are such that the corresponding perturbed systems are dissipative. We characterize a set of equilibria $\mathcal{S}_{eq}$ whose elements satisfy the conditions {(A1)} and {(A2)}, and prove it is nonempty. After then, we prove the stability of these equilibria, thus the global well-posedness of PNPF near them.
description: 30 pages; all comments welcome. Accepted by Communications in Mathematical Sciences
Public Perceptions of Pricing Existing Roads and Other Transportation Policies: The Texas Perspective
Creators: name: Kockelman, Kara M.
name: Podgorski, Kaethe
name: Bina, Michelle
name: Gadda, Shashank
name: Kockelman, Kara M.
name: Podgorski, Kaethe
name: Bina, Michelle
name: Gadda, Shashank
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Public Economics

description: This work illuminates public opinion on various transportation policies and issues. Statewide survey results reveal considerable agreement on two issues (higher tolls for heavy vehicles and dedicated truck lanes) and reasonable support for conversion of non-tolled roads to tolled roads. Under congestion pricing, older persons report being more likely to reduce their travel during peak periods, members of larger households are more likely to change travel routes, and full-time workers are more likely not to change their current travel patterns. Other results tie into the information content of messages, highway safety policies and revenue generation for transportation agencies.
Charged Particle-Image Interaction Near a Conducting Surface
Creators: name: Durgut, M.
name: Mete, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction of a bulk electron with conducting surfaces is studied by means of Bohm-Pines transformation in the second quantization formalism. The effective interaction potentials are obtained for the case of one plane and two plane configurations in the form of electron-image electron scattering.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Airlines Entry and Exit and Its Impact on Air Traffic Management: An Analytical Framework for Zero-Sum and Positive Sum Games
Creators: name: Berry, Tom
name: Bhadra, Dipasis
name: Gentury, Jennifer
name: Nelson, Gregory
name: Berry, Tom
name: Bhadra, Dipasis
name: Gentury, Jennifer
name: Nelson, Gregory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Passenger airline service can have a significant impact on a metropolitan region’s economy in terms of direct spending and employment, as well as on indirect spending related to industries such as tourism and the service sector. In the past decade passenger service levels have changed considerably in many markets due to a wide variety of events including increased competition, terrorism, and a downturn in the economy. Airlines have responded to these challenges in a variety of ways. Some of the traditional network carriers have been forced into bankruptcy in an attempt to reduce their costs and compete more effectively with the low cost carriers. In contrast, the low cost carriers have expanded service and enter new markets at a rapid pace. This paper examines the economic evolutionary process whereby a dominant carrier competes intensely in one market against a similar airline and retreats in another where new, lower cost entrants expand service. The relevant literature is examined for evidence pertaining to the market’s response to a network carrier’s financial distress, its impact on airport service levels, and implications on local economies. A zero sum case is explained using a recent example. A positive sum case is explored, where the positive contributions of the entering carrier exceed those left behind by the resident carrier. In the process, depending on the types of gains and nature of evolving airlines network, the patterns of air traffic may also change. Using these experiences, an analytical framework is proposed that attempts to explain the emergent behavior of low cost carriers when they enter new markets. In addition, the impact of these changes on the air traffic management system is also examined.
Personalized Graph Neural Networks with Attention Mechanism for Session-Aware Recommendation
Creators: name: Zhang, Mengqi
name: Wu, Shu
name: Gao, Meng
name: Jiang, Xin
name: Xu, Ke
name: Wang, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of session-aware recommendation aims to predict users' next click based on their current session and historical sessions. Existing session-aware recommendation methods have defects in capturing complex item transition relationships. Other than that, most of them fail to explicitly distinguish the effects of different historical sessions on the current session. To this end, we propose a novel method, named Personalized Graph Neural Networks with Attention Mechanism (A-PGNN) for brevity. A-PGNN mainly consists of two components: one is Personalized Graph Neural Network (PGNN), which is used to extract the personalized structural information in each user behavior graph, compared with the traditional Graph Neural Network (GNN) model, which considers the role of the user when the node embeddding is updated. The other is Dot-Product Attention mechanism, which draws on the Transformer net to explicitly model the effect of historical sessions on the current session. Extensive experiments conducted on two real-world data sets show that A-PGNN evidently outperforms the state-of-the-art personalized session-aware recommendation methods.
description: 12 pages
On topological defect formation in the process of symmetry breaking phase transitions
Creators: name: Alfinito, E.
name: Romei, O.
name: Vitiello, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By resorting to some results in quantum field theories with spontaneous breakdown of symmetry we show that an explanation based on microscopic dynamics can be given of the fact that topological defect formation is observed during the process of non-equilibrium phase transitions characterized by a non-zero order parameter. We show that the Nambu-Goldstone particle acquires an effective non-zero mass due to the boundary (finite volume) effects and this is related with the size of the defect. We also relate such volume effect with temperature effect.
description: 12 pages, no figures
Additional file 1: of Healthy eating index versus alternate healthy index in relation to diabetes status and health markers in U.S. adults: NHANES 2007–2010
Creators: name: Afnan Al-Ibrahim
name: Jackson, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S1. Association between total HEI-2010 score and Diabetes Status in adults (Age ≥ 20, n = 3632) using Multinomial Logistic Regression. Table S2. Association between total AHEI-2010 score and Diabetes Status in U.S. adults (Age ≥ 20, n = 3617) using Multinomial Logistic Regression. (DOCX 25 kb)
Airport Performance: A Summary of the 2003 ATRS Global Airport Benchmarking Report
Creators: name: Oum, Tae Hoon
name: Yu, Chunyan
name: Oum, Tae Hoon
name: Yu, Chunyan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper provides a partial summary of the 2003 ATRS Global Airport Benchmarking Report which uses year 2000-2001 data. The objective of the ATRS benchmarking report is to measure and compare the performance of several important aspects of airport operation: productivity and efficiency, unit costs and cost competitiveness, financial results. The report also examines the relationships between various performance measures and airport characteristics in order to better understand the observed differences in airport performance. This particular paper extracted from the benchmarking report focuses on the productivity and efficiency performance of the airports. In particular, the paper presents the results on the airports’ Variable factor Productivities (VFP). It further examines the effects of various factors influencing airport’s variable input productivity, and computes a 'residual' VFP index to provide an indicator for airports’ operations efficiency.
Few cycle pulse propagation
Creators: name: Kinsler, P.
name: New, G. H. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive framework for treating the nonlinear interaction of few-cycle pulses using an envelope description that goes beyond the traditional SVEA method. This is applied to a range of simulations that demonstrate how the effect of a $χ^{(2)}$ nonlinearity differs between the many-cycle and few-cycle cases. Our approach, which includes diffraction, dispersion, multiple fields, and a wide range of nonlinearities, builds upon the work of Brabec and Krausz[1] and Porras[2]. No approximations are made until the final stage when a particular problem is considered. The original version (v1) of this arXiv paper is close to the published Phys.Rev.A. version, and much smaller in size.
description: 9 pages, 14 figures
An Evaluation of Transportation Needs of the Disadvantaged in North Dakota
Creators: name: Hegland, Gary
name: Hough, Jill
name: Hegland, Gary
name: Hough, Jill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The disadvantaged population have barriers to a normal lifestyle. Mobility is one of these barriers. Approximately 15.4 percent of North Dakota’s population is disadvantaged. These individuals live in the metropolitan areas and in the rural, low-population-density counties, which have limited transportation. The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) developed a survey to identify the transportation needs of the disadvantaged population and measure how those needs are being met. The UGPTI worked with four Centers for Independent Living that serve the state of North Dakota. Each of the centers selected a random sample of their clients and mailed the survey to them. The results of the study are based on a 21 percent response rate. Results showed that more people would use transit if it were available to them. Almost 60 percent of the disadvantaged use transit either daily or weekly, and the majority perceived they rode less than five miles per trip. Most respondents use transit for medical appointments and shopping. The respondents indicated they primarily use demand-response transit, which usually is provided by taxi, senior bus, and paratransit. Riders think the drivers are well-trained to accommodate their needs and times at bus stops are adequate. The weekend and holiday hours of services were the most inadequate followed by scheduling and number of trips provided. This study found that a higher percentage of North Dakota disadvantaged reported problems with transportation than the national average.
Signatures of Chiral Magnetic Effect in the Collisions of Isobars
Creators: name: Shi, Shuzhe
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Hou, Defu
name: Liao, Jinfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum anomaly is a fundamental feature of chiral fermions. In chiral materials the microscopic anomaly leads to nontrivial macroscopic transport processes such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), which has been in the spotlight lately across disciplines of physics. The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in relativistic nuclear collisions provides the unique example of a chiral material consisting of intrinsically relativistic chiral fermions. Potential discovery of CME in QGP is of utmost significance, with extensive experimental searches carried out over the past decade. A decisive new collider experiment, dedicated to detecting CME in the collisions of isobars, was performed in 2018 with analysis now underway. In this paper, we develop the state-of-the-art theoretical tool for describing CME phenomenon in these collisions and propose an appropriate isobar subtraction strategy for best background removal. Based on that, we make quantitative predictions for signatures of CME in the collisions of isobars. A new and robust observable that is independent of axial charge uncertainty -- the ratio between isobar-subtracted $γ-$ and $δ-$ correlators, is found to be $- ( 0.41 \pm 0.27 )$ for event-plane measurement and $ - ( 0.90 \pm 0.45 )$ for reaction-plane measurement.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures; final published version
Integrating Disaster Family Assistance into Transportation Education and Training
Creators: name: Lynn, Jill A.
name: Lynn, Jill A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The transportation industry has entered a new era where as professionals and educators we need to address transportation disasters not only from the technical side, but from the human services side as well. The history of the transportation industry shows technical expertise and efficiency as it relates to the investigation of transportation disasters (accidents/incidents), however the human services component has always been left to the side with the belief that these issues will be taken care of by another entity. The Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act of 1996, the Foreign Air Carrier Family Support Act of 1997, and recent legislation for the Rail Passenger Family Assistance Act of 2003, indicates a change for transportation professionals relating to the human issues component of transportation disasters. As an industry we must address this component effectively or face legal ramifications and public ridicule.
The story is everywhere
Creators: name: Reißmann, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft
subject: Role play games (RP)
subject: Mediated presence
subject: Digital ethnography
subject: Platforms

description: This paper draws on the history and development of digital ethnography. The point of departure is that it is characteristic for digital environments to enforce feelings of being there and not being there simultaneously. Instead of invoking digital exceptionalism, however, it is assumed that mediatised ways of acting sensitise research for the fact that all situations are dispersed in one way or another. Acknowledging the distributed character of situations means accepting their fragmentary and nested character. Using the example of a literary role play game, the paper invites the reader to follow selected interconnections between heterogeneous actors, strings of actions and layers of reality.
Dynamic Efficiency and Transportation Infrastructure Investment”
Creators: name: Bartle, John R.
name: Bartle, John R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The concept of efficiency has long been applied to transportation, and was a prominent justification for the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) [emphasis added]. However, other ideals have justified transportation policy often to the detriment of efficiency. In this paper I argue that a broader view of efficiency is needed and that it should be the primary criterion in making transportation policy. This conception of efficiency developed here, dynamic efficiency, draws from transaction cost theory to incorporate institutions into the analysis and as such resolves some dilemmas posed by previous economic analysis. It also suggests an analytical method for making decisions about the design of institutional structure in this policy area. Finally it has a dynamic component which charts out a path for optimal economic development in a holistic way that integrates transportation policy with environmental, land use, and social policy. Several illustrations of how existing transportation policy could be changed to improve dynamic efficiency are given.
Electron self-energy and effective mass in a single heterostructure
Creators: name: Hua, Xiu-Kun
name: Wu, Yin-Zhong
name: Li, Zhen-Ya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the electron self-energy and effective mass in a single heterostructure using Green-function method. Numerical calculations of the electron self-energy and effective mass for GaAs/AlAs heterostructure are performed. The results show that the self energy (effective mass) of electron, which incorporate the energy of electron coupling to interface-optical phonons and half three-dimension LO phonons, monotonically increase(decrease) from that of interface polaron to that of 3D bulk polaron with the increase of the distance between the position of the electron and interface.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures