cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trichomaladera Nomura 1974
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Trichomaladera

description: Trichomaladera Nomura, 1974
[5 species].
Type species Trichomaladera elongata Nomura, 1974, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
DARWIN observatory – Neutrino physics with an ultimate Dark Matter detector
Creators: name: TERLIUK, Andrii
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Masses and Mixing - New Facilities

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: on behalf of the DARWIN collaboration
The Lamperti representation of real-valued self-similar Markov processes
Creators: name: Chaumont, Loïc
name: Pantí, Henry
name: Rivero, Víctor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we obtain a Lamperti type representation for real-valued self-similar Markov processes, killed at their hitting time of zero. Namely, we represent real-valued self-similar Markov processes as time changed multiplicative invariant processes. Doing so, we complete Kiu's work [Stochastic Process. Appl. 10 (1980) 183-191], following some ideas in Chybiryakov [Stochastic Process. Appl. 116 (2006) 857-872] in order to characterize the underlying processes in this representation. We provide some examples where the characteristics of the underlying processes can be computed explicitly.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ460 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Physics opportunities at nuStorm
Creators: name: Ruso, Luis Alvarez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Masses and Mixing - New Facilities

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: on behalf of the Storm collaboration
description: {"references": ["PROMETEO/2020/023", "FIS2017-84038-C2-1-P"]}
Maximal $m$-distance sets containing the representation of the Johnson graph $J(n, m)$
Creators: name: Bannai, Eiichi
name: Sato, Takahiro
name: Shigezumi, Junichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B99

description: We classify the maximal $m$-distance sets in $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$ which contain the representation of the Johnson graph $J(n, m)$ for $m = 2, 3$. Furthermore, we determine the necessary and sufficient condition for $n$ and $m$ such that the representation of the Johnson graph $J(n, m)$ is not maximal as an $m$-distance set. Also, we classify the maximal two-distance sets in $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$ which contain the representation of $J(n - 1, 2)$.
description: 10 pages, http://researchmap.jp/j_shigezumi/ESSP2009/ (in Japanese)
Implicit and explicit adaptation processes during visuomotor adaptation of manual aiming movements
Creators: name: Larssen, Beverley Christine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: In this thesis I investigate how people adapt manual aiming in novel visual-motor environments and how different adaptation processes (implicit/explicit) depend on feedback type, and existing internal models (action experience). How implicit and explicit processes interact to facilitate accurate performance in adaptation paradigms is debated. One key study concluded that implicit adaptation, driven by error in expected sensory consequences, guided adaptation independent of ‘correct’ strategic/explicit processes (Mazzoni & Krakauer, 2006). We hypothesized that if these processes are independent, later explicit re-adaptation should not influence a previously acquired implicit adaptation (evidenced by unchanged after-effects). In Experiment 1, numeric post-trial knowledge of results (KR) was used to promote explicitly-guided, re-adaptation of an implicit adaptation. Thirty participants gradually adapted aiming movements to a 30° CW visual rotation to achieve implicit adaptation (evidenced by strong after-effects). Participants practiced again with correct or incorrect (+/-15°) KR about cursor endpoint accuracy while still receiving correct cursor feedback. The incorrect KR groups showed the highest variable error, indicative of error-reducing strategic adjustments. Only the +15° error group re-adapted to KR. This resulted in larger after-effects than before KR exposure. If KR engaged only explicit processes, these results would suggest that these processes are interdependent, whereby an (implicit) internal model for aiming was updated by explicit processes, resulting in augmented after-effects. Despite existing evidence suggesting that post-trial KR facilitates only explicit adaptation, we had to test this result in our research design before concluding that the effects of KR were unique to re-adaptation. Therefore, we conducted Experiment 2 to determine whether post-trial KR could be used to update internal models for aiming without previous visual-motor experience. Thirty participants gradually adapted to a 30° CW visual rotation receiving either concurrent or post-trial cursor feedback, or post-trial numeric KR. Although all groups showed after-effects following practice, suggesting implicit adaptation in all feedback conditions, the magnitude of after-effects was smaller for the numeric KR group. From these data we conclude that numeric KR results in both implicit and explicit adaptation and that the relative contributions of these processes to adaptation likely depends on self-attribution of errors and timing of visual feedback.
Renormalization group approach for the scattering off a single Rashba impurity in a helical liquid
Creators: name: Crépin, François
name: Budich, Jan Carl
name: Dolcini, Fabrizio
name: Recher, Patrik
name: Trauzettel, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The occurrence of two-particle inelastic backscattering has been conjectured in helical edge states of topological insulators and is expected to alter transport. In this Letter, by using a renormalization group approach, we provide a microscopic derivation of this process, in the presence of a time-reversal invariant Rashba impurity potential. Unlike previous approaches to the problem, we are able to prove that such an effect only occurs in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Furthermore, we find that the linear conductance as a function of temperature exhibits a crossover between two scaling behaviors: $T^{4K}$ for $K>1/2$ and $T^{8K-2}$ for $K<1/2$, with $K$ the Luttinger parameter.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Corresponds to published version
Noncommutative geometry of multicore bions : numerical solution to the Born Infeld action for D1-branes
Creators: name: Sibilia, Ariel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: A noncommutative geometric configuration of D1-branes is obtained by numeric methods. This configuration is a static BPS solution to the non-Abelian Born-Infeld action, which is dual to an Abelian BPS D3-brane solution with magnetic charges. These monopoles correspond to emergent D1-branes that are attached to the D3-brane's surface and span a transverse direction. In the non-Abelian geometry, there is a topology change from a single noncommutative two-sphere of infinite radius at one end into two isolated two-spheres at infinity, with asymptotically vanishing radii. Recent method for constructing an Abelian surface from a non-Abelian geometry is used on the D1-brane configuration to compare it to the Abelian D3-brane configuration. The D3-brane and the D1-brane pictures are expected to converge for large N, yet surprisingly good agreement is found for N only reaching as high as 6.
Continuity of convolution of test functions on Lie groups
Creators: name: Birth, Lidia
name: Glockner, Helge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46F05 (Primary) 22D15, 22E30, 42A85, 43A10, 43A15, 46A03, 46A13, 46E25

description: If G is a Lie group, let D(G) be the space of compactly supported smooth functions on G. Consider the bilinear map B : D(G) x D(G) -> D(G), (f,g) |-> f*g which takes a pair of test functions to their convolution. We show that B is continuous if and only if G is sigma-compact. More generally, let r,s,t be non-negative integers (or infinity) with t <= r+s. Let E_1, E_2 be locally convex spaces and b : E_1 x E_2 -> F be a continuous bilinear map to a complete locally convex space F. The main result is a characterization of those (G,r,s,t,b) for which the convolution map C^r_c(G,E_1) x C^s_c(G,E_2) -> C^t_c(G,F) associated with b is continuous. Convolution of compactly supported continuous functions on a locally compact group is also discussed, as well as convolution of compactly supported L^1-functions and convolution of compactly supported Radon measures.
description: v4: update of references
Testing the Origin of High-Energy Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Vladimirov, Andrey E.
name: Jóhannesson, Guðlaugur
name: Moskalenko, Igor V.
name: Porter, Troy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent accurate measurements of cosmic-ray (CR) protons and nuclei by ATIC-2, CREAM, and PAMELA reveal: a) unexpected spectral hardening in the spectra of CR species above a few hundred GeV per nucleon, b) a harder spectrum of He compared to protons, and c) softening of the CR spectra just below the break energy. These newly-discovered features may offer a clue to the origin of the observed high-energy Galactic CRs. We discuss possible interpretations of these spectral features and make predictions for the secondary CR fluxes and secondary to primary ratios, anisotropy of CRs, and diffuse Galactic γ-ray emission in different phenomenological scenarios. Our predictions can be tested by currently running or near-future high-energy astrophysics experiments.
description: 23 pages, 14 color figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
A proposito del Convegno internazionale "La funzione dell'eroe germanico: storicità, metafora, paradigma"
Creators: name: Poli, Diego
Publisher: name: Società culturale Classiconorroena
Year: 2013

description: Sul convegno "La funzione dell'eroe germanico"
description: Classiconorroena, N° 2 (1993)
Triodontella Reitter 1919
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Triodontella

description: Triodontella Reitter, 1919
[69 species and 1 additional subspecies].
Replacement name for Triodonta Mulsant, 1842, not Triodonta Bory de St. Vincent, 1827, Triodonta Agassiz, 1846, Triodonta Gray, 1851, Triodonta Williston, 1885, nor Triodonta Koenen, 1893.
Triodonta Mulsant, 1842.
Type species Serica aquila Laporte, 1840, by monotypy.
Euronycha Péringuey, 1904.
Type species Triodonta sericans Fåhraeus, 1857, by subsequent designation of Lucas (1920).
Synonymy by Arrow (1917).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Leggett-Garg inequalities for the statistics of electron transport
Creators: name: Emary, Clive
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a set of Leggett-Garg inequalities (temporal Bell's inequalities) for the moment generating function of charge transferred through a conductor. Violation of these inequalities demonstrates the absence of a macroscopic-real description of the transport process. We show how these inequalities can be violated by quantum-mechanical systems and consider transport through normal and superconducting single-electron transistors as examples.
description: 5 pages; 3 figures
Lessons from Toy-Models for the Dynamics of Loop Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Bonzom, Valentin
name: Laddha, Alok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some approaches to the Hamiltonian dynamics of (loop) quantum gravity, the main issues being the regularization of the Hamiltonian and the continuum limit. First, Thiemann's definition of the quantum Hamiltonian is presented, and then more recent approaches. They are based on toy models which provide new insights into the difficulties and ambiguities faced in Thiemann's construction. The models we use are parametrized field theories, the topological BF model of which a special case is three-dimensional gravity which describes quantum flat space, and Regge lattice gravity.
Where Are We in Europe? Two Literary Maps of the Continent in Renaissance Epic Poetry (Luís Vaz de Camões and Maciej Stryjkowski)
Creators: name: Niedźwiedź, Jakub
Publisher: name: Studi Slavistici
Year: 2019

description: In my paper I discuss two representations of Europe in epic poems by Maciej Stryjkowski and Luís Vaz de Camões. Both poets lived at opposite ends of the continent but they both attempted to respond to the cartographic revolution they witnessed. The increasing importance of maps caused several problems. Stryjkowski and Camões were also witnesses of political troubles in their own countries. One of the most important tasks was placing their own country (and nation) on the map of Europe and the world. This raised questions of symbolic and real hierarchy in cartographic representations, national pride and its cartographical identity. Poets who produced their own ‘self-made maps’ dealt with this problem in different ways, and this paper focuses on these poetic practices. Two of them are cartographical imitations and use rhetorical figures to translate a chart into a poetic map.
description: Studi Slavistici, Studi Slavistici XV, 2018, 2
Norm convergence of multiple ergodic averages on amenable groups
Creators: name: Zorin-Kranich, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A30

description: We apply Walsh's method for proving norm convergence of multiple ergodic averages to arbitrary amenable groups. We obtain convergence in the uniform Cesàro sense for their polynomial actions and for ``triangular'' averages associated to commuting homomorphic actions. The latter generalizes a result due to Bergelson, McCutcheon, and Zhang in the case of two actions.
description: v8: 16 p., with improved notation and a new introduction
Trioserica Moser 1922
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Trioserica

description: Trioserica Moser, 1922
[14 species].
Type species Trioserica lepichaeta Moser, 1922, by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2002).
Sinoserica Miyake & Yamaya, 2001.
Type species Sinoserica maculipennis Miyake & Yamaya, 2001, by original designation.
Synonymy by Ahrens (2007b).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Diarrhea Prevalence and Sociodemographic Factors among Under-Five Children in Rural Areas of North Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Atalay Getachew, 1 Tadesse Guadu,1 Alebachew Tadie,2 Zemichael Gizaw,1 Mulat Gebrehiwot,1 Daniel Haile Cherkos ,1 Martha Alemayehu Menberu ,3 And Teklay Gebrecherkos
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: No abstract available for this resource
Robotic Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic and Periampullary Cancer
Creators: name: De Lio, Nelide
name: Belluomini, Mario Antonio
name: Costa, Francesca
name: Gennai, Andrea
name: Signori, Stefano
name: Perrone, Vittorio Grazio
name: Vistoli, Fabio
name: Boggi, Ugo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Minimally invasive surgery, when feasible, should accept no oncologic compromise in the setting of pancreatic and periampullary cancer since local radicality is key for all these tumor types. Objective We herein report on 50 patients undergoing robotic pancreatic resection because of pancreatic or periampullary cancer. Methods Fifty patients diagnosed with malignant tumors were selected for laparoscopic robot-assisted pancreatectomy between October 2008 to June 2012. There were 28 males (56%) and 22 females (44%), with a mean age of 60 years (range 24-78 years). Twenty-five patients underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) (50%), 16 distal pancreatectomy (DP) (32%), 7 total pancreatectomy (TP) (14%), and 2 to central pancreatectomy (CP) (4%). Results Final pathology disclosed neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) in 7 patients (14%), cancer arising on IPMN in 9 cases (18%), ductal adenocarcinoma (DA) in 19 cases (38%), cholangiocarcinoma (CHC) in 5 patients (10%), carcinoma of the papilla of Vater in 5 cases (10%) (4 PD), solid pseudopapillary tumor in 2 (4%) and adenosquamous carcinoma in 1 case (2%). Resection margins were all negative. A mean number of 30 lymph nodes (range 5-74) was retrieved en-bloc with the specimen. 22 patients had lymph node metastasis (44%) including 11 diagnosed with DA (60%), 4 with CHC (80%) and 4 with NEC (5.7%). After a mean follow-up period of 14.1 months (range 1-42 months) all but 2 patients are disease-free (96%). Conclusions After a learning curve, best completed on patients with benign pancreatic diseases, laparoscopic robot-assisted pancreatic resection seems to offer the potential for radical tumor clearance in selected patients without locally advanced pancreatic and periampullary cancer. Further experience and longer follow-up are both needed before any final conclusion can be drawn.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Measurement of the Mass and Stellar Population Distribution in M82 with the LBT
Creators: name: Greco, Johnny P.
name: Martini, Paul
name: Thompson, Todd A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a K-band spectroscopic study of the stellar and gas kinematics, mass distribution, and stellar populations of the archetypical starburst galaxy M82. Our results are based on a single spectrum at a position angle of 67.5 degrees through the K-band nucleus. We used the CO stellar absorption band head at 2.29 μm (CO_2.29) to measure the rotation curve out to nearly 4 kpc radius on both the eastern and western sides of the galaxy. Our data show that the rotation curve is flat from 1 - 4 kpc. This stands in sharp contrast to some previous studies, which have interpreted H I and CO emission-line position-velocity diagrams as evidence for a declining rotation curve. The kinematics of the Brγ, H_2, and He I emission lines are consistent with, although characterized by slightly higher velocities than, the stellar kinematics. We derived M82's mass distribution from our stellar kinematic measurements and estimate its total dynamical mass is ~10^10 Msun. We measured the equivalent width of CO_2.29 (W_2.29) as a function of distance from the center of the galaxy to investigate the spatial extent of the red supergiant (RSG) population. The variation in W_2.29 with radius clearly shows that RSGs dominate the light inside 500 pc radius. M82's superwind is likely launched from this region, where we estimate the enclosed mass is <= 2 x 10^9 Msun.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to ApJ. For a brief video explaining the key result of this paper, see http://www.youtube.com/user/OSUAstronomy
Total Robotic Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Creators: name: Belluomini, Mario Antonio
name: De Lio, Nelide
name: Signori, Stefano
name: Perrone, Vittorio Grazio
name: Vistoli, Fabio
name: Kauffmann, Emanuele Federico
name: Napoli, Niccolò
name: Boggi, Ugo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context The “da Vinci” surgical system reintroduces much of the operative dexterity lost during laparoscopic operations and offers the unique opportunity to verify if pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) can be safely performed through a minimally invasive approach. Objective We report our technique for total robotic PD employed in 39 consecutive patients. This experience was earned at a high-volume center of pancreatic surgery, having extensive experience in advanced laparoscopy and robotic surgery. Methods Our technique for total robotic PD is unique in several respects: pure laparoscopy is not used at any stage; only the right colonic flexure is mobilized; a total of five ports are used; the camera port is placed along the right pararectal line to allow optimal view of the uncinate process (UP); the third robotic arm is placed on the patient’s left side and it is used to “hang” the duodenum during dissection of the UP; the gallbladder is used to retract the liver; the first jejunal loop is fully mobilized but it is not sectioned until the specimen is ready for removal, to facilitate jejunal rotation behind the mesenteric vessels. Results No PD was converted to open surgery or laparoscopy, despite 3 patients required segmental resection of the mesenteric vein and reconstruction by a jump graft. Mean operative time was 597 minutes (range: 420-960 minutes). Thirty-day operative mortality was nil. No pseudoaneurysm of the gastroduodenal artery was noted. Only 4 patients developed grade B pancreatic fistulas and none grade C fistulas. Mean hospital-stay was 23 days (range: 10-86 days). Malignant tumors were diagnosed in 51% of the patients. Overall, the mean number of lymph nodes retrieved was 32 (range 15-76). None of the margins was positive. Conclusions In selected patients total robotic PD is feasible. As compared to hybrid techniques, coupling laparoscopic dissection with robotic reconstruction, a total robotic procedure spares unnecessary dissections and allows optimal control of large peripancreatic vessels permitting segmental vein resection and tailored reconstruction. Technology refinements and improvement of surgical technique could make robotic PD an appealing alternative to open PD in selected patients.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Modified FOLFOXIRI in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Vasile, Enrico
name: De Lio, Nelide
name: Cappelli, Carla
name: Pollina, Luca
name: Ginocchi, Laura
name: Sainato, Aldo
name: Lucchesi, Maurizio
name: Funel, Niccola
name: Caparello, Chiara
name: Caponi, Sara
name: Perrone, Vittorio
name: Pasqualetti, Francesco
name: Signori, Stefano
name: Mazzeo, Salvatore
name: Belluomini, Mario
name: Greco, Carlo
name: Campani, Daniela
name: Mosca, Franco
name: Falcone, Alfredo
name: Boggi, Ugo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context FOLFIRINOX has shown high activity in metastatic pancreatic cancer patients and therefore the regimen could be of interest also for patients with inoperable locally advanced disease. Our group had developed a very similar schedule in colorectal cancer named FOLFOXIRI with no bolus 5-fluorouracil and a slight lower dose of irinotecan with good tolerance and activity. Objective We have performed a phase II trial in order to prospectively evaluate the activity of a modified (m)FOLFOXIRI regimen in locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Methods mFOLFOXIRI consisted of: oxaliplatin 85 mg/m2, irinotecan 150 mg/m2 and folinic acid 200 mg/m2 on day 1, plus infusional 5-fluorouracil 2,800 mg/m2 administered in 48 hours on days 1 to 3, with cycle repeated every 14 days. The study enrolled patients with diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, stage III locally advanced disease without evidence of metastatic disease, ECOG performance status (PS) 0 or 1, age 18-75 years. The primary end-point of the study was the percentage of patients who achieve radical surgical resection after chemotherapy; the trial was designed with a percentage of low activity of 30% and a percentage of interest of 50% with an α and β errors of 0.05 and 0.20, respectively. Results Twenty-five patients have been so far enrolled; M/F: 8/17; PS 0/1: 10/15. Median age was 60 years (range: 44-75 years). Celiac axis was involved in 9 patients, superior mesenteric artery in 11 cases, both arteries in 5 patients. Baseline computer tomography showed pathological nodes in 21 patients. Twenty-one patients have been evaluated, with 9 partial responses (43%) and 12 stable disease (57%). A local treatment after chemotherapy was received by 13 patients until now: 8 (38%) underwent to radical surgery; 1 had an explorative laparotomy with evidence of liver metastases; 4 received concomitant chemo-radiotherapy with gemcitabine. Median progression-free survival was 24.5 months and median overall survival was 30.1 months. Conclusion Chemotherapy with mFOLFOXIRI seems active in locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients and may allow to obtain a downstaging of disease leading some patients to achieve a curative surgical resection. Longer follow-up is needed to better evaluate long-term outcome of this strategy.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Trochaloschema Reitter 1896
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Trochaloschema

description: Trochaloschema Reitter, 1896
[16 species].
Type species Serica iris Semenov, 1893, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Modified FOLFOXIRI in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Ginocchi, Laura
name: Vasile, Enrico
name: Caponi, Sara
name: Lucchesi, Maurizio
name: Caparello, Chiara
name: Lencioni, Monica
name: Ricci, Sergio
name: Falcone, Alfredo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context The combination regimen of 5-fluorouracil, folinic acid, oxaliplatin and irinotecan named FOLFIRINOX has been proposed as a new standard of care for metastatic pancreatic cancer patients. However, FOLFIRINOX was associated with high incidence of grade 3 and 4 toxicities (neutropenia in 45.7% of patients with G-CSF use in 42.5% of patients; febrile neutropenia in 5.4%; diarrhea in 12.7%). Our group had developed a very similar schedule in colorectal cancer named FOLFOXIRI which contains no bolus 5-fluorouracil and a slight lower dose of irinotecan. Objective The objective of this study was to prospectively evaluate the tolerability and activity of a modified (m)FOLFOXIRI regimen in metastatic or locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients. Methods The regimen included a lower dose of irinotecan (administered at 150 mg/m2 on day 1 every 14 days) and of infusional 5-fluorouracil (2,800 mg/m2 administered as a 48-hour continuous infusion on days 1 to 3 every 14 days). Folinic acid and oxaliplatin remained unchanged. Results Thirty-nine patients with cytological or histological diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma have been treated with (m)FOLFOXIRI from August 2010 onwards; 17 had metastatic disease while 22 had locally advanced disease. A total of 260 cycles have been administered so far. The grade 3-4 toxicities reported are: neutropenia in 35.9% of patients, thrombocytopenia 2.6%, diarrhea 5.1%, stomatitis 7.7%, nausea/vomiting 5.1%, fatigue 2.6%, liver toxicity 5.1%, sensory neuropathy 5.1%. No toxic deaths and no febrile neutropenia have been occurred. G-CSF has been used in seven patients (18%). A delay in the administration of chemotherapy was required in 12 patients (31%) and a reduction of doses in 7 cases (18%). Among 30 evaluable patients 11 partial responses (36.7%) and 14 stable disease (46.7%) have been observed. Median progression-free survival (PFS) was 11.5 months and median overall survival (OS) 25.5 months. For metastatic patients only, response rate resulted 33% with a PFS and OS of 8.4 and 14.8 months, respectively. Conclusion The (m)FOLFOXIRI regimen as we used resulted feasible and quite well tolerated and it maintained its good activity in metastatic pancreatic cancer.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Trochaloserica Brenske 1900
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Trochaloserica

description: Trochaloserica Brenske, 1900b
[4 species].
Type species Trochaloserica festiva Brenske, 1902, by subsequent monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Disruption of a Proto-Planetary Disk by the Black Hole at the Milky Way Centre
Creators: name: Murray-Clay, Ruth A.
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, an ionized cloud of gas was discovered plunging toward the supermassive black hole, SgrA*, at the centre of the Milky Way. The cloud is being tidally disrupted along its path to closest approach at ~3100 Schwarzschild radii from the black hole. Here, we show that the observed properties of this cloud of gas can naturally be produced by a proto-planetary disk surrounding a low-mass star, which was scattered from the observed ring of young stars orbiting SgrA*. As the young star approaches the black hole, its disk experiences both photo-evaporation and tidal disruption, producing a cloud. Our model implies that planets form in the Galactic centre, and that tidal debris from proto-planetary disks can flag low mass stars which are otherwise too faint to be detected.
description: Accepted to Nature Communications; new Figure 4b provides predicted Br-gamma emission as a function of time
Fixed-Dose Rate Gemcitabine Plus Capecitabine as Second-Line Treatment for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Patients Pretreated with Oxaliplatin
Creators: name: Caparello, Chiara
name: Vasile, Enrico
name: Lucchesi, Maurizio
name: Ginocchi, Laura
name: Caponi, Sara
name: Lencioni, Monica
name: Ricci, Sergio
name: Falcone, Alfredo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context There is no consensus about second-line chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. The addition of oxaliplatin to 5-fluorouracil/folinic acid improved outcome in gemcitabine refractory patients. However, first-line options for these patients are changing and combination chemotherapy containing oxaliplatin such as FOLFIRINOX is frequently used. Objective We performed a phase II trial to evaluate the activity of a regimen with fixed-dose rate gemcitabine and capecitabine (FDR GEM-CAP) as second-line treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer patients pretreated with oxaliplatin. Methods Patients with cytological or histological diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, with ECOG performance status (PS) 0 or 1, who progressed after first-line chemotherapy including oxaliplatin were enrolled into the study and treated with capecitabine 650 mg/m2 bid on days 1 to 14 plus FDR gemcitabine 800 mg/m2 infused in 80 minutes on days 1 and 8, with cycles repeated every 21 days. The main end-point of the study was the percentage of patients free of progression at 2 months after beginning of chemotherapy; with a p0=0.50 and p1=0.70, an α=0.10 and β=0.20, a total of 20 patients should be necessary for the analysis. Results Twenty patients were enrolled; M/F=9/11; PS 0/1=13/7. Median age was 60 years (range 42-75 years). First-line treatment was gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin (GEMOX) in 13 patients and FOLFIRINOX in 7. The median number of cycles of second-line FDR GEM-CAP was 4 (range 2-14), with a total of 108 cycles administered. The only grade 3 toxicity recorded was anemia in 1 patient. Only 9 cycle delays (8.3%) were needed for toxicity. Among 18 patients so far evaluable for response, 2 partial responses (11.1%) and 7 stable diseases (38.9%) have been observed. The trial met its primary end-point; median progression-free survival was 4.3 months with a percentage of patients free of progression at 2 months of 79%. Median overall survival from the beginning of second-line was 12 months. Conclusion The combination of FDR GEM-CAP as we used is well tolerated and active in metastatic pancreatic cancer patients and could be an interesting second-line option for selected patients treated with first-line FOLFIRINOX.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Chemotherapy for Metastatic Invasive Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (IPMNs) of the Pancreas
Creators: name: Lucchesi, Maurizio
name: Vasile, Enrico
name: Caponi, Sara
name: Ginocchi, Laura
name: Caparello, Chiara
name: Falcone, Alfredo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context IPMNs are intraductal mucin-producing cystic neoplasms of the pancreas. The incidence of these neoplasms is rising and it has been reported in recent works that IPMNs account for approximately 25% of resected pancreatic neoplasms. It has been described that recurrence of disease is observed in 26-65% of patients resected for invasive IPMN (also named papillary mucinous carcinoma), usually within 3 years from surgery and often in form of distant disease. The natural history of metastatic invasive IPMNs is not clear and few data regarding the role of palliative treatments are available. Objective To evaluate the clinical outcome of this disease and the response to medical treatment. Methods We retrospectively collected data about patients with diagnosis of metastatic invasive IPMN who were treated with palliative chemotherapy at our institution from 2008 to 2012. Results Thirteen patients (M/F 8/5) affected by metastatic invasive IPMN were identified. Median age was 69 years (range 64-81). Most patients (12, 92%) had a recurrence after radical resection while one patient had synchronous metastases. All patients were treated with first line gemcitabine-based chemotherapy: seven (54%) patients received gemcitabine mono­therapy; six (46%) received the combination of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin. All patients except one experienced disease progression and 6 died. Two (15%) patients experienced partial response with first-line chemotherapy; 6 (46%) had stable disease while 5 (38%) showed disease progression. The estimated median progression-free survival was 9.6 months. Eight patient received also further lines of chemotherapy. Median overall survival was 15.4 months. Conclusion Our results confirm that metastatic invasive IPMNs have a dismal prognosis. The outcome of these patients is similar to patients affected by pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. In the absence of prospective clinical trials conducted in patients with this histology, the choice of chemotherapy should be based on data about pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Extinguishment by extirpation : the Nuxalk eulachon crisis
Creators: name: Hilland, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: De facto extinguishment of Aboriginal rights occurs when Aboriginal peoples are factually precluded from practicing their rights. While the Supreme Court of Canada has established that de facto extinguishment of constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights is an infringement of those rights, its acceptance of sweeping Canadian interests as valid objectives to justify the infringement of Aboriginal rights means the recognition of those rights provides limited protection. This thesis analyzes the nature of Aboriginal rights in Canadian legal system through an examination of the extirpation of eulachon from Nuxalk territory. It describes Nuxalk legal order prior to European arrival in Nuxalk territory, and the imposition of colonial laws to the detriment of Nuxalk sovereignty, territory, and people. It investigates the management of fisheries under Canadian law to show the inefficiencies of the fragmented Canadian legal system. An analysis of Canadian jurisprudence demonstrates that section 35(1) Aboriginal rights have minimal protection under the Canadian legal regime. A consideration of Nuxalk concerns regarding the Species at Risk Act indicates that the consultation doctrine has hindered the protection of Aboriginal rights. A review of the honour of the Crown in relation to Aboriginal rights suggests that fiduciary duties are confined to exceptional circumstances, and effectiveness of lesser obligations remains uncertain. This thesis concludes that the current state of Canadian law leaves the Nuxalk people with little prospect for any meaningful resolution to the eulachon crisis under the Canadian legal system. If Aboriginal rights are to have any substance under Canadian law, courts and governments must acknowledge the existence of these rights on a broader scale. Reconciliation requires the recognition and affirmation of Indigenous sovereignty by the Canadian legal system.
Vaporization of the Earth: Application to Exoplanet Atmospheres
Creators: name: Schaefer, Laura
name: Lodders, Katharina
name: Fegley, Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Currently, there are about 3 dozen known super-Earth (M < 10 MEarth), of which 8 are transiting planets suitable for atmospheric follow-up observations. Some of the planets are exposed to extreme temperatures as they orbit close to their host stars, e.g., CoRot-7b, and all of these planets have equilibrium temperatures significantly hotter than the Earth. Such planets can develop atmospheres through (partial) vaporization of their crustal and/or mantle silicates. We investigated the chemical equilibrium composition of such heated systems from 500 - 4000 K and total pressures from 10-6 to 10+2 bars. The major gases are H2O and CO2 over broad temperature and pressure ranges, and Na, K, O2, SiO, and O at high temperatures and low pressures. We discuss the differences in atmospheric composition arising from vaporization of SiO2-rich (i.e., felsic) silicates (like Earth's continental crust) and MgO-, FeO-rich (i.e., mafic) silicates like the bulk silicate Earth. The computational results will be useful in planning spectroscopic studies of the atmospheres of Earth-like exoplanets.
description: 50 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, ApJ (in press)
Trochalus Laporte 1832
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Trochalus

description: Trochalus Laporte, 1832b (not Trochalus Dejean, 1833)
[191 species and 1 additional subspecies].
Type species Trochalus rotundatus Laporte, 1832, by monotypy.
Eotrochalus: Buregon 1943.
Unavailable name.
Trochalus (Epitrochalus) Frey, 1960, as Epitrochalus.
Type species Epitrochalus zumpti, Frey, 1960, by original designation.
Status revised to Trochalus (Epitrochalus) by Frey (1968).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Reflections on the four facets of symmetry: how physics exemplifies rational thinking
Creators: name: Mouchet, Amaury
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contemporary theoretical physics, the powerful notion of symmetry stands for a web of intricate meanings among which I identify four clusters associated with the notion of transformation, comprehension, invariance and projection. While their interrelations are examined closely, these four facets of symmetry are scrutinised one after the other in great detail. This decomposition allows us to examine closely the multiple different roles symmetry plays in many places in physics. Furthermore, some connections with others disciplines like neurobiology, epistemology, cognitive sciences and, not least, philosophy are proposed in an attempt to show that symmetry can be an organising principle also in these fields.
Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on Dijet Productions in Relativistic Heavy-ion Reactions at LHC
Creators: name: He, Yuncun
name: Zhang, Ben-Wei
name: Wang, Enke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the cold nuclear matter(CNM) effects on dijet productions in high-energy nuclear collisions at LHC with the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD. The nuclear modifications for dijet angular distributions, dijet invariant mass spectra, dijet transverse momentum spectra and dijet momentum imbalance due to CNM effects are calculated by incorporating EPS, EKS, HKN and DS param-etrization sets of parton distributions in nucleus . It is found that dijet angular distributions and dijet momentum imbalance are insensitive to the initial-state CNM effects and thus provide optimal tools to study the final-state hot QGP effects such as jet quenching. On the other hand, the invariant mass spectra and the transverse momentum spectra of dijet are generally enhanced in a wide region of the invariant mass or transverse momentum due to CNM effects with a feature opposite to the expected suppression because of the final-state parton energy loss effect in the QGP. The difference of EPS, EKS, HKN and DS parametrization sets of nuclear parton distribution functions is appreciable for dijet invariant mass spectra and transverse momentum spectra at p+Pb collisions, and becomes more pronounced for those at Pb+Pb reactions.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
The AMIGA sample of isolated galaxies. XI. Optical characterisation of nuclear activity
Creators: name: Sabater, J.
name: Verdes-Montenegro, L.
name: Leon, S.
name: Best, P.
name: Sulentic, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context.- This paper is part of a series involving the AMIGA project (Analysis of the Interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies), which identifies and studies a statistically-significant sample of the most isolated galaxies in the northern sky. Aims.- We present a catalogue of nuclear activity, traced by optical emission lines, in a well-defined sample of the most isolated galaxies in the local Universe, which will be used as a basis for studying the effect of the environment on nuclear activity. Methods.- We obtained spectral data from the 6th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which were inspected in a semi-automatic way. We subtracted the underlying stellar populations from the spectra (using the software Starlight) and modelled the nuclear emission features. Standard emission-line diagnostics diagrams were applied, using a new classification scheme that takes into account censored data, to classify the type of nuclear emission. Results.- We provide a final catalogue of spectroscopic data, stellar populations, emission lines and classification of optical nuclear activity for AMIGA galaxies. The prevalence of optical active galactic nuclei (AGN) in AMIGA galaxies is 20.4%, or 36.7% including transition objects. The fraction of AGN increases steeply towards earlier morphological types and higher luminosities. We compare these results with a matched analysis of galaxies in isolated denser environments (Hickson Compact Groups). After correcting for the effects of the morphology and luminosity, we find that there is no evidence for a difference in the prevalence of AGN between isolated and compact group galaxies, and we discuss the implications of this result. Conclusions.- We find that a major interaction is not a necessary condition for the triggering of optical AGN.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, 12 tables, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Figure 5 corrected: [OI] diagram added