cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of “Enhanced acquisition of antibiotic-resistant intestinal E. coli during the first year of life assessed in a prospective cohort study”
Creators: name: Hetzer, Benjamin
name: Orth-Höller, Dorothea
name: Würzner, Reinhard
name: Kreidl, Peter
name: Lackner, Michaela
name: Müller, Thomas
name: Knabl, Ludwig
name: Geisler-Moroder, Daniel
name: Mellmann, Alexander
name: Sesli, Özcan
name: Holzknecht, Jeanett
name: Noce, Damia
name: Orawan Boonpala
name: Noppadon Akarathum
name: Somporn Chotinaruemol
name: Prelog, Martina
name: Peninnah Oberdorfer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Data collection form Figure S2. Genes linked with extra- and intra-intestinal pathogenicity tested by multiplex or single PCR. Comparison between transmitted/persistent E. coli (n = 12) and all tested strains (n = 20). (DOCX 57 kb)
Asplenium erectum Willd.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium
Asplenium erectum

description: Asplenium erectum Bory ex Willd.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ; up to 3 100 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Near Ontulili Forest Station, Alt. 2 178 m, 5 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003117 & 003128 (HIB).
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Schelpe (1951), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Combinatorial aspects of multiple zeta values
Creators: name: Borwein, J. M.
name: Bradley, D. M.
name: Broadhurst, D. J.
name: Lisonek, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A19, 11M99, 68R15 (Primary) 11Y99 (Secondary)

description: Multiple zeta values (MZVs, also called Euler sums or multiple harmonic series) are nested generalizations of the classical Riemann zeta function evaluated at integer values. The fact that an integral representation of MZVs obeys a shuffle product rule allows the possibility of a combinatorial approach to them. Using this approach we prove a longstanding conjecture of Don Zagier about MZVs with certain repeated arguments. We also prove a similar cyclic sum identity. Finally, we present extensive computational evidence supporting an infinite family of conjectured MZV identities that simultaneously generalize the Zagier identity.
description: 12 pages
Understanding gravitational particle production in quintessential inflation
Creators: name: de Haro, Jaume
name: Pan, Supriya
name: Saló, Llibert Aresté
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diagonalization method, introduced by a group of Russian scientists at the beginning of seventies, is used to compute the energy density of superheavy massive particles produced due to a sudden phase transition from inflation to kination in quintessential inflation models, the models unifying inflation with quintessence originally proposed by Peebles-Vilenkin. These superheavy particles must decay in lighter ones to form a relativistic plasma, whose energy density will eventually dominate the one of the inflaton field, in order to have a hot universe after inflation. In the present article we show that, in order that the overproduction of Gravitational Waves (GWs) during this phase transition does not disturb the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) success, the decay has to be produced after the end of the kination regime, obtaining a maximum reheating temperature in the TeV regime.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted for publication in JCAP
Nonlinear Impurity in a Lattice: Dispersion Effects
Creators: name: Molina, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the bound state(s) associated with a single cubic nonlinear impurity, in a one-dimensional tight-binding lattice, where hopping to first--and--second nearest neighbors is allowed. The model is solved in closed form {\em v\`ıa} the use of the appropriate lattice Green function and a phase diagram is obtained showing the number of bound states as a function of nonlinearity strength and the ratio of second to first nearest--neighbor hopping parameters. Surprisingly, a finite amount of hopping to second nearest neighbors helps the formation of a bound state at smaller (even vanishingly small) nonlinearity values. As a consequence, the selftrapping transition can also be tuned to occur at relatively small nonlinearity strength, by this increase in the lattice dispersion.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures
Asplenium friesiorum C. Chr.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium
Asplenium friesiorum

description: Asplenium friesiorum C.Chr.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF, BZ; up to 2 800 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Irangi Forest, Alt. 2 341 m, 15 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 004005 (HIB).
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Schelpe (1951), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998, 1999), Beentje (2008a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Revisiting the Fe XVII line emission problem: laboratory measurements of the 3s-2p and 3d-2p line-formation channels
Creators: name: Shah, Chintan
name: López-Urrutia, José R. Crespo
name: Gu, Ming Feng
name: Pfeifer, Thomas
name: Marques, José
name: Grilo, Filipe
name: Santos, José Paulo
name: Amaro, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determined relative X-ray photon emission cross sections in Fe XVII ions that were mono-energetically excited in an electron beam ion trap. Line formation for the 3s (3s-2p) and 3d (3d-2p) transitions of interest proceeds through dielectronic recombination (DR), direct electron-impact excitation (DE), resonant excitation (RE), and radiative cascades. By reducing the electron-energy spread to a sixth of that of previous works and increasing counting statistics by three orders of magnitude, we account for hitherto unresolved contributions from DR and the little-studied RE process to the 3d transitions, and also for cascade population of the 3s line manifold through forbidden states. We found good agreement with state-of-the-art many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and distorted-wave (DW) method for the 3s transition, while in the 3d transitions known discrepancies were confirmed. Our results show that DW calculations overestimate the 3d line emission due to DE by ~20%. Inclusion of electron-electron correlation effects through the MBPT method in the DE cross section calculations reduces this disagreement by ~11%. The remaining ~9% in 3d and ~11% in 3s/3d discrepancies are consistent with those found in previous laboratory measurements, solar, and astrophysical observations. Meanwhile, spectral models of opacity, temperature, and turbulence velocity should be adjusted to these experimental cross sections to optimize the accuracy of plasma diagnostics based on these bright soft X-ray lines of Fe XVII.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, Accepted in ApJ, in press
Graviton Production in Elliptical and Hyperbolic Universes
Creators: name: Maia, M. R. de Garcia
name: Lima, J. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of cosmological graviton creation for homogeneous and isotropic universes with elliptical ($\vae =+1$) and hyperbolical ($\vae =-1$) geometries is addressed. The gravitational wave equation is established for a self-gravitating fluid satisfying the barotropic equation of state $p=(γ-1)ρ$, which is the source of the Einstein's equations plus a cosmological $Λ$-term. The time dependent part of this equation is exactly solved in terms of hypergeometric functions for any value of $γ$ and spatial curvature $\vae$. An expression representing an adiabatic vacuum state is then obtained in terms of associated Legendre functions whenever $γ\neq \frac{2}{3}\; \frac{(2n+1)}{(2n-1)}$, where n is an integer. This includes most cases of physical interest such as $γ=0,\;4/3\;,1$. The mechanism of graviton creation is reviewed and the Bogoliubov coefficients related to transitions between arbitrary cosmic eras are also explicitly evaluated.
description: 25 pages, uses REVTEX
Additional file 1 of M2HepPrEP: study protocol for a multi-site multi-setting randomized controlled trial of integrated HIV prevention and HCV care for PWID
Creators: name: Martel-Laferrière, Valérie
name: Feaster, Daniel J.
name: Metsch, Lisa R.
name: Schackman, Bruce R.
name: Loignon, Christine
name: Nosyk, Bohdan
name: Tookes, Hansel
name: Behrends, Czarina N.
name: Arruda, Nelson
name: Adigun, Oluleye
name: Goyer, Marie-Eve
name: Kolber, Michael A.
name: Mary, Jean-Francois
name: Rodriguez, Allan E.
name: Yanez, Iveth G.
name: Pan, Yue
name: Khemiri, Rania
name: Gooden, Lauren
name: Sako, Aïssata
name: Bruneau, Julie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Spirit Checklist
Additional file 5: of Decision aids that facilitate elements of shared decision making in chronic illnesses: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wieringa, Thomas
name: Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Rene
name: Spencer-Bonilla, Gabriela
name: Wit, Maartje
name: Ponce, Oscar
name: Sanchez-Herrera, Manuel
name: Espinoza, Nataly
name: Zisman-Ilani, Yaara
name: Kunneman, Marleen
name: Schoonmade, Linda
name: Montori, Victor
name: Snoek, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Developmental Biology
Computational Biology

description: DA effects. (DOCX 64Â kb)
Synthesis and Stoichiometry of MgB2
Creators: name: Hinks, D. G.
name: Jorgensen, J. D.
name: Zheng, Hong
name: Short, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The system MgxB2 has been investigated to investigate possible nonstoichiometry in MgB2. When synthesized at 850oC, MgB2 is a line compound with a possible Mg vacancy content of about 1%. Small changes in lattice constants as a function of starting composition result from grain interaction stresses, whose character is different in the Mg-rich, near-stoichiometric, and Mg-deficient regimes. A small linear decrease of the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, in the Mg-rich regime results from accidental impurity doping.
description: Accepted for publication in Physica C. 24 pages, 7 figures
Layertronic control of topological states in multilayer metal-organic frameworks
Creators: name: de Lima, F. Crasto
name: Ferreira, G. J.
name: Miwa, R. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the layer localization control of two-dimensional states in multilayer metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). For finite stackings of (NiC4S4)3 MOFs, the weak van der Waals coupling between adjacent layers leads to a Fermi level dependent distribution of the electronic states in the monolayers. Such distribution is reflected in the topological edge states of multilayer nanoribbons. Moreover, by applying an external electric field, parallel to the stacking direction, the spacial localization of the electronic states can be controlled for a chosen Fermi energy. This localization behavior is studied comparing density functional theory calculations with a kagome lattice tight-binding model. Furthermore, for infinite stacked nanoribbons, a new V-gutter Dirac state is found in the side surfaces, which allows anisotropic current control by tuning the Fermi energy. Our results can be immediately extended to other kagome MOFs with eclipsed stackings, introducing a new degree of freedom (layer localization) to materials design.
Optimizing Future Perfect: A Model for Composition with Genetic Algorithms
Creators: Holbrook, Geoffrey John
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Music
Computer science
Composition (Music)
Genetic algorithms

description: This paper describes the development of OM-Darwin, a generalized system for composing with genetic algorithms (GA), realized as a library for OpenMusic. It provides a simple GA engine, along with sophisticated devices for genotype encoding, phenotype mapping and modular fitness function design, while offering a collection of objects that represent common musical forms and rules. A comparison with other optimization methods reveals some advantages in the GA approach, in particular the capability of defining frequency-based rules and producing partial solutions to difficult musical problems. Reference is made to the author's Future Perfect (2010) for 13 instruments, composed entirely using OM-Darwin.
Additional file 1 of Real-world effectiveness of second-line Afatinib versus chemotherapy for the treatment of advanced lung squamous cell carcinoma in immunotherapy-naïve patients
Creators: name: Chen, You-Yi
name: Chang, Shih-Chieh
name: Chang, Cheng-Yu
name: Chang, Chun-Fu
name: Lai, Yi-Chun
name: Wei, Yu-Feng
name: Chen, Chung-Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. 3rd Line Treatment Regimens (n = 23).
Optimization of two-photon excited fluorescence for volumetric imaging
Creators: Galwaduge, Pubudu Thilanka
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Optics
Imaging systems in biology
Fluorescence microscopy
Physics

description: Two-photon microscopy is often used in biological imaging due to its optical sectioning and depth penetration capabilities. These characteristics have made two-photon microscopy especially useful for neurobiological studies where imaging a volume at single cell resolution is typically required. This dissertation focuses on the optimization of two-photon excited fluorescence for volumetric imaging of biological samples, with special attention to imaging the mouse brain.
      Chapter 2 studies wavefront manipulation as a way of optimizing two-photon excited fluorescence. We show, through numerical simulations and experiments, that the magnitude of the two-photon fluorescence signal originating from cell-sized objects can be used as a metric of beam quality. We also show that the cranial window used in mouse experiment is a major source of aberrations, which can readily be represented in the Zernike basis. Finally, we implement a modal wavefront optimization scheme that optimizes the wavefront based entirely on the magnitude of the fluorescence. Along with this scheme, Zernike functions are found to be a useful basis for correcting aberrations encountered in mouse brain imaging while the Hadamard basis is found to be useful for scattering compensation. Corrections performed in mouse brain using Zernike functions are found to be valid over hundreds of microns, allowing a single correction to be applied to a whole volume.  Finally, we show that the wavefront correction system can double as a wavefront encoding system for experiments that require custom point-spread-functions.
      Chapter 3 aims to significantly improve the volume imaging rate of two-photon microscopy. The imaging speed is improved by combining two-photon excitation with scanning confocally-aligned planar excitation microscopy (SCAPE). Numerical simulations, analytical arguments, and experiments reveal that the standard method of combining nano-joule pulses with 80 MHz repetition rates is inadequate for two-photon light-sheet excitation. We use numerical simulations and experiments to explore the possibility of achieving fast volumetric imaging using line and sheet excitation and find that the sheet excitation scheme is more promising. Given that two-photon excitation requires high photon-flux-densities near the focus, achieving high enough fluorescence has to be balanced with restrictions placed by saturation, photodamage, photobleaching and sample heating effects. Finally, we experimentally study light sheet excitation at various pulse repetition rates with femtosecond pulses and find that repetition rates near 100 kHz allow imaging of nonbiological samples of ~200x300x300 μm^3 volume at 20 volumes per second while balancing the above constraints. This work paves the way for achieving fast, volumetric two-photon imaging of the mouse brain.
Selenium investigations in the Elk River Valley, B.C. : 2008 update.
Creators: name: Chapman, Peter M.
name: Berdusco, Roger Joseph
name: Jones, Ron
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Regional monitoring of water and biota indicates that there continue to be long-term increases in selenium (Se) in water downstream of the Elk Valley River coal mines, operated by the Elk Valley Coal Corporation. However, monitoring also indicates that Se concentrations in benthic invertebrates, fish muscle and bird eggs, although elevated, have not increased over the last few years. Previous studies have indicated that the viability and productivity of fish and water bird populations do not appear to be adversely impacted by Se. Nor does it appear that human health or terrestrial wildlife (i.e., ungulates) are presently being adversely affected. Current efforts are focused on monitoring and management, in addition to a study attempting to establish a definitive adverse effects threshold for Westslope cutthroat trout in the Elk River Valley. Management investigations include efforts to: predict future Se releases under different mining scenarios and management approaches; determine factors affecting the cycling and conversion of inorganic Se once it enters the aquatic environment; and integrate present and future information to effectively manage Se releases from the coal mines. Research is also being conducted into treatment alternatives to reduce Se loadings to the aquatic environment. Lentic and lotic areas of the Elk River Valley are being mapped to determine the relative proportions of these habitat types both related to future Se studies, and to provide the basis for evaluating the significance of any localized impacts that may occur to the overall health of the Elk River Valley aquatic ecosystem. Selected Se studies conducted through 2007 in the Elk River Valley are being integrated into monitoring and management plans, including a Standard Operating Procedure for fish deformity analysis, and predictive modeling of fish populations.
Additional file 4: of Decision aids that facilitate elements of shared decision making in chronic illnesses: a systematic review
Creators: name: Wieringa, Thomas
name: Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Rene
name: Spencer-Bonilla, Gabriela
name: Wit, Maartje
name: Ponce, Oscar
name: Sanchez-Herrera, Manuel
name: Espinoza, Nataly
name: Zisman-Ilani, Yaara
name: Kunneman, Marleen
name: Schoonmade, Linda
name: Montori, Victor
name: Snoek, Frank
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Developmental Biology
Computational Biology

description: DA information. (DOCX 77Â kb)
Asplenium gemmiferum Schrad.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium
Asplenium gemmiferum

description: Asplenium gemmiferum Schrad.  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF; up to 2 300 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Schelpe (1951), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Sports Celebrity Publishing Platform Branding
Creators: name: Al Salem, Atharie
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3303
subject: Design
classificationCode: 360503
subject: Digital and electronic media art

description: ALL-STAR is a sports celebrity lifestyle and digital media brand ideation that broadcasts real updates of world-class, nationally, or regionally popular athletes’ authentic experiences through a stylish, edgy, and trendy brand that puts forth blog posts, news and fun content towards the Gulf region’s sports fans and enthusiasts. The power of pursuing a sports career and succeeding in it coupled with the many hobbies that sports celebrities have is presented in a first-ever experience of such a brand. It combines multimedia forms to lead users to a binge-worthy, fun, and interactive brand that can be popular amongst many in the Gulf and bring people together in the one thing they can relate to: Sports.
Derospidea Blake 1931
Creators: name: Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam
name: Clark, Shawn M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Derospidea

description: Genus Derospidea Blake, 1931
Derospidea Blake, 1931: 32
(type species Trirhabda brevicollis LeConte, 1865, by original designation).
Remarks
This genus includes three described species, which occur from Canada to Mexico. See Fig. 12 for a habitus illustration.
description: Published as part of Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam & Clark, Shawn M., 2022, New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 842 on page 5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.842.1945, http://zenodo.org/record/7222499
Growth and Magnetotransport in Thin Film α-Sn on CdTe
Creators: name: Vail, Owen
name: Taylor, Patrick
name: Folkes, Patrick
name: Nichols, Barbara
name: de Coster, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report growth and characterization of epitaxial $α$-Sn thin films grown on CdTe(111)B. Noninvasive techniques verify the film's pseduomorphic growth before fabrication of magnetotransport devices, overcoming ex-situ obstacles on uncapped films for measurement in the Hall bar geometry. We identify a transition to metallic behavior at low temperature with large magnetoresistance, high mobility, and quantum oscillations tentatively suggesting an n-type Dirac semimetallic channel. A parallel p-type dopant channel with high carrier density is seen to dominate at thinner film thicknesses. Careful preparation of the CdTe surface before growth is considered crucial to attain a low dopant density and accessible topological states on an insulating substrate.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
MOESM2 of Susceptibility to L. sigmodontis infection is highest in animals lacking IL-4R/IL-5 compared to single knockouts of IL-4R, IL-5 or eosinophils
Creators: name: Frohberger, Stefan
name: Jesuthas Ajendra
name: Jayagopi Surendar
name: Stamminger, Wiebke
name: Ehrens, Alexandra
name: Buerfent, Benedikt
name: Gentil, Katrin
name: Hoerauf, Achim
name: HĂźbner, Marc
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Mean adult worm burden and microfilariae (MF) counts per 50 Âľl of blood and standard deviation (SD) as well as minimum and maximum adult worm/microfilariae counts are shown as well as the frequency of animals developing microfilaremia. Statistical significance was determined by Mann-Whitney U-test.
Transformations of Quadrilateral Lattices
Creators: name: Doliwa, A.
name: Santini, P. M.
name: Manas, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the classical studies on transformations of conjugate nets, we develop the general geometric theory of transformations of their discrete analogues: the multidimensional quadrilateral lattices, i.e. lattices x: Z^N -> R^M, whose elementary quadrilaterals are planar. Our investigation is based on the discrete analogue of the theory of the rectilinear congruences, which we also present in detail. We study, in particular, the discrete analogues of the Laplace, Combescure, Levy, radial and fundamental transformations and their interrelations. The composition of these transformations and their permutability is also investigated from a geometric point of view. The deep connections between "transformations" and "discretizations" is also investigated for quadrilateral lattices. We finally interpret these results within the D-bar formalism.
description: 50 pages, 15 figures; minor corrections, added references
The biogeochemical behaviour of selenium in two lentic environments in the Elk River Valley, British Columbia
Creators: name: Martin, Alan J.
name: Wallschläger, Dirk
name: London, Jacqueline
name: Wiramanaden, Cheryl I. E.
name: Pickering, Ingrid J.
name: Belzile, Nelson
name: Chen, Yu-Wei
name: Simpson, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The biogeochemical behaviour of selenium (Se) in two lentic environments (Goddard Marsh (GM) and Fording River Oxbow (FRO)) was assessed through detailed examination of Se speciation in bottom water, porewater and sediment components. The depositional environments at GM and FRO differ with regards to organic matter content, organic matter sources (as revealed by C:N ratios) and redox character. X-ray absorption near edge spectral (XANES) data suggest that elemental Se and organo-Se represent the dominant hosts for Se at GM and FRO. At both sites, the vertical distributions of dissolved Se species in porewater are closely linked to the profiles of redox-sensitive metabolites. Porewater profiles indicate that the sediments at GM and FRO are serving as diffusive sinks for Se through in situ adsorption/precipitation of Se in suboxic horizons. Although the sediments at both sites serve as net sinks for dissolved Se, interfacial peaks in dissolved selenite (SeIV) and organo-Se demonstrate these species are recycled back into the water column. The conditions present at GM are more favourable for the recycling of reduced Se species. Such observations can be linked to subtle differences in redox conditions as illustrated by profiles of redox-sensitive species (dissolved NO₃-, Fe, Mn, SO₄²- and ΣH₂S). These differences have important implications to both the recycling of reduced Se species into the water column and Se uptake by aquatic biota. Implications with regards to Se management, bioremediation and biologically availability (food chain transport) are discussed.
Optimizing Query Processing Under Skew
Creators: Zhang, Wangda
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computer science
Querying (Computer science)
Data structures (Computer science)
Computer algorithms

description: Big data systems such as relational databases, data science platforms, and scientific workflows all process queries over large and complex datasets. Skew is common in these real-world datasets and workloads. Different types of skew can have different impacts on the performance of query processing. Although skew sometimes causes load imbalance in a parallel execution environment, negatively impacting query performance, we demonstrate in this thesis that, in many cases we can actually improve the query performance in the presence of skew. To optimize query processing under skew, we develop a set of techniques to exploit the positive effects of skew and to avoid the negative effects. In order to exploit skew, we propose techniques including: (a) intentionally creating skew and clustering data in a distributed database system; (b) optimizing data layout for better caching in main-memory databases; and (c) adaptive execution techniques that are responsive to the underlying data in the context of compilers. In order to ameliorate skew, we study optimized hash-based partitioning that alleviate outliers in a genomic data context, as well as parallel prefix sum algorithms that used to develop skew-insensitive algorithms. We evaluate the effectiveness of our techniques over synthetic data, standard benchmarks, as well as empirical datasets, and show that the performance of query processing under skew can be greatly improved. Overall this thesis has made a concrete contribution to skew-related query processing.
Optoelectronic Neural Implant Sensors for Cerebral Blood Volume Monitoring
Creators: Choi, Christopher Samuel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Electrical engineering
subject: Medical imaging
subject: Blood volume--Measurement
subject: Optoelectronic devices
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Nearly 50 million people are afflicted with epilepsy, worldwide. These patients suffer from unprovoked seizures, where neurons in the cerebral cortex under go uncontrolled, hypersynchronous firing of neurons. 30\% of patients with epilepsy do not respond to drug treatments. For these patients, surgical treatment involving the removal or disconnection of brain matter is one of the only alternatives. Such surgical treatments often rely on long-term monitoring of neuronal activity in the brain using subdurally implanted surface electrodes to locate the epileptic focus, but these clinical methods for mapping neuronal activity suffer from low spatial resolutions and poor noise, which can limit the success of surgical treatments where an error of even 1 mm can be critical.
      The work described here involves the development of an implantable system for performing optical recordings of intrinsic signal (ORIS) on the surface of the brain. By taking advantage of the unique absorption spectrum of hemoglobin, cerebral blood volume (CBV) can be measured via reflectivity changes in the brain at at specific wavelengths of light. Due to the metabolic demands of the brain, the exaggerated neuronal activity and spiking associated with epileptic seizures can be detected indirectly through changes in CBV. While high resolution ORIS measurements have been recorded using externally mounted CCD sensors, this work presents some of the first developments in producing a fully implantable ORIS sensor.
      Progress in the development of an implantable ORIS sensor described here includes: an implantable organic light emitting diode (OLED) and organic photodetector (OPD) integrated on a highly flexible parylene-c substrate, an implantable sensor using a microLED array embedded on a flexible polyimide substrate, and the application of quantum dots to microLEDs for optical down-conversion. Successful in vivo detection of seizures is achieved with high signal-to-noise using these methods. Additionally, spatial localization of seizure activity is performed using the microLED array. These developments represent crucial first steps in the development of a full 2D neuronal mapping system using implantable ORIS devices.
Remarks on Fermionic Formula
Creators: name: Hatayama, Goro
name: Kuniba, Atsuo
name: Okado, Masato
name: Takagi, Taichiro
name: Yamada, Yasuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R10, 81R50, 82B23 (Primary), 05E15 (Secondary)

description: Fermionic formulae originate in the Bethe ansatz in solvable lattice models. They are specific expressions of some q-polynomials as sums of products of q-binomial coefficients. We consider the fermionic formulae associated with general non-twisted quantum affine algebra U_q(X^{(1)}_n) and discuss several aspects related to representation theories and combinatorics. They include crystal base theory, one dimensional sums, spinon character formulae, Q-system and combinatorial completeness of the string hypothesis for arbitrary X_n.
description: 49 pages, no figures, LaTeX2e using package amsmath
Optimizing the Collection and Use of Patient-Generated Health Data
Creators: Reading, Meghan J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Medical records
subject: Health services administration
subject: Public health

description: This dissertation aims to examine the collection and use of digital patient-generated health data (PGHD) in real-world settings, including existing barriers from the perspectives of patients and healthcare providers, and possible approaches to optimizing the process. In Chapter One, the potential of PGHD to improve health and wellness, particularly for individuals with chronic conditions, as well as known barriers to PGHD collection and use, are described. One chronic condition in particular, atrial fibrillation (AF), is then introduced as a use case for PGHD. Chapter Two contains an integrative review synthesizing findings from eleven studies reporting patients’ and providers’ needs when collecting and using PGHD, and identifying convergence and divergence between needs. Chapter Three contains a quantitative evaluation of sustained engagement, currently a major barrier to collection of PGHD, in a group of adults self-monitoring AF, as well as predictors and moderators of engagement that come from an adapted version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). These individuals were previously enrolled in the randomized, controlled trial, the iPhone® Helping Evaluate Atrial Fibrillation Rhythm through Technology (iHEART). In Chapter Four, the adapted UTAUT model is explored in more detail through a qualitative investigation of sustained engagement with patients, healthcare providers, and research coordinators involved in the iHEART trial. Chapter Five summarizes the findings of this dissertation, including strengths and limitations, and elicits implications for the intersection of health policy and clinical practice, design, nursing, and future research from the findings.
Asplenium hypomelas Kuhn
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium
Asplenium hypomelas

description: Asplenium hypomelas Kuhn  —
Habit: Fern.
Habitat: LMWF; up to 2 400 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Thungura Hill Forest, Alt. 1 966 m, 10 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003955 (HIB).
 References: Fries et al. (1924b), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998, 1999), Beentje (2008a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Optimizing Multifunctional Green Infrastructure as a Societal Co-Benefit Catalyst in New York City Policies for Coastal and Stormwater Management
Creators: Ellis, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Coastal zone management--Government policy
subject: Sustainable design
subject: Urban runoff--Management
subject: City planning
subject: Climatic changes
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Green infrastructure uses and imitates natural systems to support human habitats.  There has been a resurgence of the concept in recent decades, and in New York’s case, especially as it relates to coastal and stormwater management, while awareness of the interconnectedness of persistent social and economic problems to the built and natural environments has grown.  The concept of multifunctionality explicitly ties solutions to an array of issues, from the ecological to the social and economic, into landscape design.
	This paper, Optimizing Multifunctional Green Infrastructure as a Societal Co-­‐‑ Benefit Catalyst in New York City Policies for Coastal and Stormwater Management, seeks answers to the questions: do the policies in New York City regarding green infrastructure incorporate the concept of multifunctionality? To what extent does the increasing prevalence of green infrastructure policy for coastal and stormwater management present a potential catalyst to tie climate urgency to issues of social and economic urgency, and is this catalyst potential reached?
	By reviewing the evolution of green infrastructure, multifunctionality, and their correlation, and then analyzing at the city’s relevant GI policies, this paper finds that while multifunctionality is increasingly present in policy, policies do not take explicit advantage of climate urgency to expedite social solutions.
Doubly-charged Higgs Boson at Future Electron-Proton Collider
Creators: name: Dev, P. S. Bhupal
name: Khan, Sarif
name: Mitra, Manimala
name: Rai, Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the discovery prospect of the doubly-charged component of an $SU(2)_L$-triplet scalar at the future $e^- p$ collider FCC-eh, proposed to operate with an electron beam energy of 60 GeV and a proton beam energy of 50 TeV. We consider the associated production of the doubly-charged Higgs boson along with leptons and jet(s), and its subsequent prompt decay to same-sign lepton pair. This occurs for ${\cal O}(1)$ Yukawa coupling of the scalar triplet with charged leptons, which is expected for reasonably small vacuum expectation values of the neutral component of the triplet field that governs the neutrino mass generation in the type-II seesaw. We present our analysis for two different final states, $3l+\ge1j$ and an inclusive $\ge2l+\ge1j$ channel. Considering its decay to electrons only, we find that the doubly-charged Higgs with mass around a TeV could be observed at $3σ$ confidence level with $\mathcal{O}(200)\, \rm{fb}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, while masses up to 2 TeV could be probed within a few years of data accumulation. The signal proposed here becomes essentially background-free, if it is triggered in the $μμ$ mode and a $5σ$ discovery is achievable in this channel for a TeV-scale doubly-charged Higgs with an integrated luminosity as low as $\mathcal{O} (50)\, \rm{fb}^{-1}$. We also highlight the sensitivity of FCC-eh to the Yukawa coupling responsible for production of the doubly-charged Higgs boson as a function of its mass in both the $ee$ and $μμ$ channels.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables; minor changes, published version
Additional file 1 of IRF7 and RNH1 are modifying factors of HIV-1 reservoirs: a genome-wide association analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhenhua
name: Trypsteen, Wim
name: Blaauw, Marc
name: Chu, Xiaojing
name: Rutsaert, Sofie
name: Vandekerckhove, Linos
name: van der Heijden, Wouter
name: dos Santos, Jéssica Cristina
name: Xu, Cheng-Jian
name: Swertz, Morris A.
name: van der Ven, Andre
name: Li, Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used in this study for qPCR. Table S2. Candidate genes identified by FUMA tool. Table S3. QTL SNPs affect the expression of identified loci. Table S4. Publicly available AIDS GWAS QTLs estimated in current study
Additional file 1: of HNF1A gene p.I27L is associated with early-onset, maturity-onset diabetes of the young-like diabetes in Turkey
Creators: name: Selvihan Beysel
name: Nilnur Eyerci
name: Pinarli, Ferda
name: Kizilgul, Muhammed
name: Ozgur Ozcelik
name: Caliskan, Mustafa
name: Cakal, Erman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Genotyping and Statistical analysis. (DOCX 14 kb)
Orange Handcuffs, Part of an (In)Complete Breakfast: Methadone's Failure to Address Structural Inequalities in the Civil Rights Era
Creators: Dobberteen, Lily
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Americans
History

description: Methadone maintenance emerged in the midst of a great American drug panic. Concurrent with widespread civic unrest in disenfranchised communities, myths began to circulate amongst the press that young, white men returned to suburbia from the Vietnamese warfront hooked on heroin. The American medical community responded by pushing forth a new addiction treatment modality known as methadone maintenance, a daily prescription. Many methadone patients refer to the drug as “orange handcuffs,” as it is most commonly dissolved in orange juice for daily dosing. Methadone occupies the space at which the federal and medical intersect. This thesis argues aims to explicate the politics of methadone to understand larger themes and truths of the Civil Rights era. The first chapter dissects the theories undergirding methadone maintenance, which relied almost exclusively on biomedical definitions of drug use and addiction, virtually erasing issues of race and class. The second chapter explores methadone through a political lens, showing how politicians presented it as a means of crime reduction, which in turn bolstered state-based discrimination. In the final chapter, analysis of community-based responses to methadone exposes the failures of the program and the overarching structural oppressions at play. Methadone’s history ultimately illustrates macroscopic issues of racial injustice and assumptions about drug users, and offers a counter narrative that calls into question a widespread, “common sense” construction of medicine’s neutrality.
There is No Ambiguity in the Radiatively Induced Gravitational Chern-Simons Term
Creators: name: Altschul, Brett
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum corrections to Lorentz- and CPT-violating QED in flat spacetime produce unusual radiative corrections, which can be finite but of undetermined magnitude. The corresponding radiative corrections in a gravitational theory are even stranger, since the term in the fermion action involving a preferred axial vector $b^μ$ would give rise to a gravitational Chern-Simons term that is proportional $b^μ$, yet which actually does not break Lorentz invariance. Initially, the coefficient of this gravitational Chern-Simons term appears to have the same ambiguity as the coefficient for the analogous term in QED. However, this puzzle is resolved by the fact that the gravitational theory has more stringent gauge invariance requirements. Lorentz symmetry in a metric theory of gravity can only be broken spontaneously, and when the vector $b^μ$ arises from spontaneous symmetry breaking, these specific radiative corrections are no longer ambiguous but instead must vanish identically.
description: 16 pages
Suite of Meshless Algorithms for Accurate Computation of Soft Tissue Deformation for Surgical Simulation
Creators: name: Joldes, Grand
name: Bourantas, George
name: Zwick, Benjamin
name: Chowdhury, Habib
name: Wittek, Adam
name: Agrawal, Sudip
name: Mountris, Konstantinos
name: Hyde, Damon
name: Warfield, Simon K.
name: Miller, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ability to predict patient-specific soft tissue deformations is key for computer-integrated surgery systems and the core enabling technology for a new era of personalized medicine. Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) methods are better suited for solving soft tissue deformation problems than the finite element method (FEM) due to their capability of handling large deformation while also eliminating the necessity of creating a complex predefined mesh. Nevertheless, meshless methods based on EFG formulation, exhibit three major limitations: i) meshless shape functions using higher order basis cannot always be computed for arbitrarily distributed nodes (irregular node placement is crucial for facilitating automated discretization of complex geometries); ii) imposition of the Essential Boundary Conditions (EBC) is not straightforward; and, iii) numerical (Gauss) integration in space is not exact as meshless shape functions are not polynomial. This paper presents a suite of Meshless Total Lagrangian Explicit Dynamics (MTLED) algorithms incorporating a Modified Moving Least Squares (MMLS) method for interpolating scattered data both for visualization and for numerical computations of soft tissue deformation, a novel way of imposing EBC for explicit time integration, and an adaptive numerical integration procedure within the Meshless Total Lagrangian Explicit Dynamics algorithm. The appropriateness and effectiveness of the proposed methods is demonstrated using comparisons with the established non-linear procedures from commercial finite element software ABAQUS and experiments with very large deformations. To demonstrate the translational benefits of MTLED we also present a realistic brain-shift computation.
description: Accepted for publication in Medical Image Analysis