cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The clinical efficacy of angiotensin II type1 receptor blockers on inflammatory markers in patients with hypertension: a multicenter randomized-controlled trial; MUSCAT-3 study
Creators: name: Umebayashi, Ryoko
name: Uchida, Haruhito A.
name: Okuyama, Yuka
name: Kakio, Yuki
name: Hanayama, Yoshihisa
name: Shikata, Kenichi
name: Wada, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Purpose: The purpose of present study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of irbesartan on the anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative stress effect in patients with hypertension compared to other ARBs. Further, we assessed the effect of the ARBs on kidney function and urinary albumin excretion. Methods: Eighty-five outpatients with hypertension who took an ARB except irbesartan more than 3 months were assigned into two groups, one continued the same ARB and the other switched the ARB to irbesartan for 6 months. Results: Although blood pressures were equally controlled (continue group: 148 ± 2/79 ± 2 mmHg to 131 ± 2/74 ± 2 mmHg; switch group: 152 ± 2/81 ± 2 mmHg to 132 ± 2/74 ± 2 mmHg; p < 0.001 each), the inflammatory markers (hsCRP, PTX3, MCP-1) and oxidative stress marker (MDA-LDL) did not change after 6 months in both groups. Urinary albumin excretion was significantly reduced only in the switch group without renal function deterioration (switch group 292.4 ± 857.9 mg/gCr to 250.6 ± 906.5 mg/gCr, p = 0.012). Conclusion: These results provide knowledge of the characteristics of irbesartan, suggesting appropriate choice of ARBs in the treatment for hypertension should be considered.
title: The systematisation of visual display forms in social science research
title: Die Systematisierung visueller Darstellungsformen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung
Creators: name: Ebert, Thomas
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: Methodenforschung
Visualisierung , Sozialwissenschaften
Inhaltsanalyse
Pädagogik
content analyis
visualisations, social science research
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Visualisations are an important
      aspect in knowledge transfer however are instruments for
      generating knowledge. Furthermore they can be a source and/or
      item of research. While visualisations are a matter of course
      in many scientific disciplines (mainly the natural sciences),
      the social sciences are said to refuse them. This is due to
      an exaggeration of the written or spoken word as a
      high-culture asset (see Feldmann 2003). Until now there has
      been no empirical data about the use of visualisations in the
      social sciences. From this academic void different forms of
      publications were analysed in regard of the use of
      visualisations and a systematisation of the different forms
      of visualisations was created. Therefore 136 relevant works
      about social science research were subjected to a content
      analysis. The basis for this analysis are the recommendations
      of the two methodological sections of the German Sociological
      Association. As a further form of publication, five volumes
      of five social science journals were analysed.
description: Visualisierungen spielen sowohl für
      die Wissensvermittlung als auch als Mittel der
      Erkenntnisgewinnung eine große Rolle. Weiterhin können
      Visualisierungen auch Gegenstand und Ausgangspunkt von
      Forschung sein. Während in vielen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen -
      allen voran den Naturwissenschaften - Visualisierungen
      selbstverständlich sind, wird den Sozialwissenschaften eine
      Bildfeindlichkeit unterstellt, die mit einer
      disziplinimmanenten Überhöhung der (Schrift-)Sprache als
      hochkulturelles Gut begründet wird (vgl. Feldmann 2003). Über
      die tatsächliche Verwendung von Visualisierungen in den
      Sozialwissenschaften lagen bisher jedoch keine Daten vor. Von
      dieser Forschungslücke ausgehend wurden verschiedene
      Publikationsformen hinsichtlich des Einsatzes von
      Visualisierungen untersucht und eine Systematisierung der
      Visualisierungsformen erstellt. Dafür wurden
      inhaltsanalytisch 136 einschlägige sozialwissenschaftliche
      Werke auf der Basis der Leseempfehlungen der beiden
      Methodensektionen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
      analysiert. Als weitere Datenquelle wurden fünf Jahrgänge von
      fünf sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschiften
      herangezogen.
Xanthopimpla pulvinaris Townes & Chiu 1970
Creators: name: Pham, Nhi Thi
name: Broad, Gavin R.
name: Matsumoto, Rikio
name: Wägele, Wolfgang J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Xanthopimpla
Xanthopimpla pulvinaris

description: Xanthopimpla pulvinaris Townes & Chiu, 1970 Xanthopimpla pulvinaris Townes & Chiu, 1970. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 14: 271. Holotype: ♀, Taiwan: Shinchu (TARI). Diagnosis. Face with small punctures; propodeum with area superomedia partly or completely separate from second lateral area; mesoscutum medially with three separated black spots; femur black apically; ovipositor sheath 0.5x hind tibia. Distribution. Previously recorded from China, Taiwan, Laos, Thailand and Malaysia (Yu et al. 2005), this is the first record of X. pulvinaris from Vietnam (Fig. 21). Material examined. Dak Lak, Ea So NP: 1♂ (IEBR), 300 m a.s.l, 12°55.93’N 108°37.96’E, 27.vii.2008, H. T. Ngo leg.; Phu Tho, Thanh Son, Xuan Son NP: 1♂ (IEBR), 200 m a.s.l., 04–09.i.2009; 1♀ (IEBR), 19–24.vi.2009; 1♀ (IEBR), 05–10.vii.2009, L. D. Khuat leg.
description: Published as part of Pham, Nhi Thi, Broad, Gavin R., Matsumoto, Rikio & Wägele, Wolfgang J., 2011, 3056, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3056 on page 18
description: {"references": ["Townes, H. K. & Chiu, S. C. (1970) The Indo-Australian species of Xanthopimpla (Ichneumonidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 14, 1 - 372 pp.", "Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. (2005) World Ichneumonoidea 2004 - Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. DVD / CD. Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada."]}
The bicomplex quantum Coulomb potential problem
Creators: name: Mathieu, J.
name: Marchildon, L.
name: Rochon, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalizations of the complex number system underlying the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics have been known for some time, but the use of the commutative ring of bicomplex numbers for that purpose is relatively new. This paper provides an analytical solution of the quantum Coulomb potential problem formulated in terms of bicomplex numbers. We define the problem by introducing a bicomplex hamiltonian operator and extending the canonical commutation relations to the form [X_i,P_k] = i_1 hbar xi delta_{ik}, where xi is a bicomplex number. Following Pauli's algebraic method, we find the eigenvalues of the bicomplex hamiltonian. These eigenvalues are also obtained, along with appropriate eigenfunctions, by solving the extension of Schrodinger's time-independent differential equation. Examples of solutions are displayed. There is an orthonormal system of solutions that belongs to a bicomplex Hilbert space.
description: Clarifications; some figures removed; version to appear in Can. J. Phys
Oblique Corrections in the MSSM at One Loop. I. Scalars
Creators: name: Yu, Yao
name: Zheng, Sibo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to reconsider the one-loop oblique corrections arising from the scalar superpartners in the MSSM, i.e, the squarks, the sleptons and the scalars in Higgs sector. We explicitly present the complete one-loop forms of self-energy corrections to the gauge bosons of SM electroweak gauge groups, as well as their descendants the $S$, $T$ and $U$ parameters, which can be directly applied to constrain the parameter space of the MSSM. Our results about one-loop self energies are found to agree with Drees, Hagiwara, and Yamada (1992), Pierce et al. (1997). Nevertheless, the $S$, $T$ and $U$ parameters aren't in agreement with Dobado, Herrero and Penaranda (1999).
description: short version to appear in Advances in High Energy Physics
„Epoka się skończyła” – Józef Czapski wobec nowego malarstwa polskiego lat 80. XX wieku
Creators: name: Markowska, Anna
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2019

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 28 Nr. 2 (2013): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
Stein's method for Brownian approximations
Creators: name: Coutin, Laure
name: Decreusefond, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Motivated by a theorem of Barbour, we revisit some of the classical limit theorems in probability from the viewpoint of the Stein method. We setup the framework to bound Wasserstein distances between some distributions on infinite dimensional spaces. We show that the convergence rate for the Poisson approximation of the Brownian motion is as expected proportional to $λ^{-1/2}$ where $λ$ is the intensity of the Poisson process. We also exhibit the speed of convergence for the Donsker Theorem and for the linear interpolation of the Brownian motion. By iterating the procedure, we give Edgeworth expansions with precise error bounds.
description: Communications on Stochastic Analysis (2013)
Insights into cardiovascular risk and nutritional status in subjects with wheat-related disorders
Creators: name: Siriwardhane, Thushani
name: Krishna, Karthik
name: Devarajan, Koushik
name: Ranganathan, Vinodh
name: Jayaraman, Vasanth
name: Wang, Tianhao
name: Bei, Kang
name: Rajasekaran, John J.
name: Krishnamurthy, Hari
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Objective: Wheat-related disorders are a spectrum of disorders associated with different autoimmune and non-autoimmune diseases. However, it is unclear whether these wheat-related disorders lead to adverse health effects such as cardiovascular risk, nutritional deficiencies etc. The objective of the study was to explore the lipid profiles and the nutritional status of subjects with wheat-related disorders to understand the potential threat of wheat on cardiovascular risk and nutritional deficiency. Method: A total of 1041 subjects who showed wheat-related symptoms were initially tested for the wheat protein antibody panel (Wheat Zoomer (WZ) panel and Coeliac Disease (CD) panel), then for cardiovascular panel and the micronutrient panel at Vibrant America Clinical Laboratory. Results: Subjects with both Wheat Zoomer positivity (WZ+) and Coeliac Disease positivity (CD+) had significantly low levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDL) (279/483(57.8%) and 29/47(61.7%) respectively), but only subjects with WZ + had low levels of Apo A1 (44/424(9.5%)), and high levels of Omega 6 fatty acids (53/334(15.9%)). None of the micronutrients tested showed a significant imbalance in WZ + subjects. Conclusion: Subjects with positive serology for WZ have deranged blood lipid profiles but did not show any significant micronutrient deficiency. Hence, our results showcase a significant association of wheat-related disorders to cardiovascular risk.
Repressing Anarchy in Neutrino Mass Textures
Creators: name: Altarelli, Guido
name: Feruglio, Ferruccio
name: Masina, Isabella
name: Merlo, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent results that $θ_{13}$ is relatively large, of the order of the previous upper bound, and the indications of a sizable deviation of $θ_{23}$ from the maximal value are in agreement with the predictions of Anarchy in the lepton sector. The quark and charged lepton hierarchies can then be reproduced in a SU(5) GUT context by attributing non-vanishing $U(1)_{FN}$ charges, different for each family, only to the SU(5) tenplet states. The fact that the observed mass hierarchies are stronger for up quarks than for down quarks and charged leptons supports this idea. As discussed in the past, in the flexible context of $SU(5)\otimes U(1)_{FN}$, different patterns of charges can be adopted going from Anarchy to various types of hierarchy. We revisit this approach by also considering new models and we compare all versions to the present data. As a result we confirm that, by relaxing the extreme ansatz of equal $U(1)_{FN}$ charges for all SU(5) pentaplets and singlets, better agreement with the data than for Anarchy is obtained without increasing the model complexity. We also present the distributions obtained in the different models for the Dirac CP-violating phase. Finally we discuss the relative merits of these simple models.
description: v1: 12 pages, 3 figures; v2: 13 pages, 3 figures, text improved, matches version accepted for publication; v3: submitted to add an acknowledgment to a network
Iruplinalkib: First Approval
Creators: name: Keam, Susan
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine

description: Declarations Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Authorship and Conflict of interest During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Susan J. Keam is a contracted employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to this article and are responsible for its content. Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable. Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here. Abstract Iruplinalkib (Trade name: 启欣可®; Code name: WX-0593), a highly selective oral anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and c-ros oncogene 1 (ROS1) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), is being developed by Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for the treatment of ALK-positive (ALK+) or ROS1-positive (ROS1+) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In June 2023, iruplinalkib was approved in China for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic ALK+ NSCLC who have progressed after prior crizotinib therapy or are intolerant to crizotinib. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of iruplinalkib leading to this first approval for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic ALK+ NSCLC. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Additional electron pairing in a d-wave superconductor driven by nematic order
Creators: name: Wang, Jing-Rong
name: Liu, Guo-Zhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a non-perturbative analysis of the strong interaction between gapless nodal fermions and the nematic order parameter in two-dimensional d_{x^2-y^2} superconductors. We predict that the critical nematic fluctuation can generate a dynamical nodal gap if the fermion flavor N is smaller than a threshold N_c. Such gap generation leads to an additional is-wave Cooper pairing instability, which induces a fully gapped d_{x^2-y^2}+is superconducting dome in the vicinity of the nematic quantum critical point. The opening of a dynamical gap has important consequences, including the saturation of fermion velocity renormalization, a weak confinement of fermions and the suppression of observable quantities.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Drugie Sympozjum im. Victora Papanka: „Emerging and Alternative Economies of Design. The Social Imperative of Global Design”, Wiedeń, 14–15 XI 2013
Creators: name: Płazowska, Anna
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2019

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 33 Nr. 3 (2014): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
Xanthopimpla stricta Townes & Chiu 1970
Creators: name: Pham, Nhi Thi
name: Broad, Gavin R.
name: Matsumoto, Rikio
name: Wägele, Wolfgang J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Xanthopimpla
Xanthopimpla stricta

description: Xanthopimpla stricta Townes & Chiu, 1970 Xanthopimpla stricta Townes & Chiu, 1970. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst, 14: 53. Holotype: ♀, Indonesia: Sandakan, Borneo (USNM). Diagnosis. Median black mark on mesoscutum broadly joined posteriorly to black mark in front of scutellum; scutellum more or less conical; tergite 3 with relatively sparse, coarse punctures; ovipositor sheath about 1.7x hind tibia; ovipositor distinctly decurved. Distribution. Previously recorded from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore (Yu et al. 2005), this is the first record of X. stricta Townes & Chiu from Vietnam (Fig. 24). Material examined. Vinh Phuc, Tam Dao NP: 1♀ (OMNH), 1,000 m a.s.l, 01.vi.1997, R. Matsumoto leg.; Hoa Binh, Yen Thuy, Lac Thinh: 1♀ (IEBR), 01–10.vi.2002; 1♀ (ZFMK), 10–20.vii.2002; Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong NP: 1♀ (IEBR), 20–30.vi.2002; 1♀ (IEBR), 20–30.xi.2002, L. D. Khuat leg.; Kien Giang, U Minh Thuong NP: 1♀ (IEBR), 01.xii.2003, L. P. T. Nguyen leg.; Thai Nguyen, Dinh Hoa, Phu Dinh: 1♂ (IEBR), 100 m a.s.l, 02.iv.2005; 1♂ (IEBR), 150 m a.s.l, 03.iv.2005, T. V. Hoang leg.; Thai Nguyen, Dai Tu, Cat Ne: 1♀ (IEBR), 25–30.xii.2007, L. D. Khuat leg.; Bac Can, Ba Be NP: 1♀ (OMNH), 200m a.s.l, 22°23’N 105°37’E, 01.v.2006; 1♀ 1♂ (OMNH), same locality, 02.v.2006; R. Matsumoto leg.; Phu Tho, Xuan Son NP: 1♂ (IEBR), 300 m a.s.l, 25.ix.2005, L. P. T. Nguyen leg.; 1♀ (IEBR), 10–15.v.2009; 1♀ (IEBR), 15–20.v.2009; 1♂ (IEBR), 05–10.vii.2009, L. D. Khuat leg.; Dak Lak, Ea So NP: 1♀ (IEBR), 310 m a.s.l, 12°55.93’N 108°36.96’E, 27.vii.2008, H. T. Ngo leg.
description: Published as part of Pham, Nhi Thi, Broad, Gavin R., Matsumoto, Rikio & Wägele, Wolfgang J., 2011, 3056, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3056 on page 31
description: {"references": ["Townes, H. K. & Chiu, S. C. (1970) The Indo-Australian species of Xanthopimpla (Ichneumonidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 14, 1 - 372 pp.", "Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. (2005) World Ichneumonoidea 2004 - Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. DVD / CD. Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada."]}
Evidence for a vortex-glass transition in superconducting Ba(Fe$_{0.9}$Co$_{0.1}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$
Creators: name: Prando, G.
name: Giraud, R.
name: Aswartham, S.
name: Vakaliuk, O.
name: Abdel-Hafiez, M.
name: Hess, C.
name: Wurmehl, S.
name: Wolter, A. U. B.
name: Büchner, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of magneto-resistivity and magnetic susceptibility were performed on single crystals of superconducting Ba(Fe$_{0.9}$Co$_{0.1}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$ close to the conditions of optimal doping. The high quality of the investigated samples allows us to reveal a dynamic scaling behaviour associated with a vortex-glass phase transition in the limit of weak degree of quenched disorder. Accordingly, the dissipative component of the ac susceptibility is well reproduced within the framework of Havriliak-Negami relaxation, assuming a critical power-law divergence for the characteristic correlation time $τ$ of the vortex dynamics. Remarkably, the random disorder introduced by the Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$ chemical substitution is found to act on the vortices as a much weaker quenched disorder than previously reported for cuprate superconductors such as, e.g., Y$_{1-x}$Pr$_{x}$Ba$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-δ}$.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Xanthopimpla atriclunis Townes & Chiu 1970
Creators: name: Pham, Nhi Thi
name: Broad, Gavin R.
name: Matsumoto, Rikio
name: Wägele, Wolfgang J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Xanthopimpla
Xanthopimpla atriclunis

description: Xanthopimpla atriclunis Townes & Chiu, 1970 Xanthopimpla atriclunis Townes & Chiu, 1970. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 14: 157. Holotype: ♀, the Philippines: Alcate, Victoria, Mindoro Oriental (AEIC). Diagnosis. Hind slope of vertex and occipital area widely black; mesoscutum with three continuous black spots; hind tibia black apically; propodeum with area superomedia receiving basal transverse carina near its basal 0.3; ovipositor sheath 0.33x hind tibia. Distribution. Previously recorded from the Philippines (Yu et al. 2005), this is the first record of X. atriclunis from Vietnam (Fig. 24). Material examined. Dong Nai, Cat Tien NP: 1♀ (RMNH), 100 m a.s.l, 20.v.2005, leg. C. v. Achterberg & R. de Vries; Thua Thien-Hue, Nam Dong, Tra Mang: 1♂ (IEBR), 20–27.viii.2005, T. Q. Nguyen leg.; Dak Lak, Ea So NR: 1♀ 2♂ (IEBR), 1♂ (ZFMK), 1♀ (BMNH), 310 m a.s.l, 12°55.93’N 108°37.96’E, 27.vii.2008, H. T. Ngo leg.
description: Published as part of Pham, Nhi Thi, Broad, Gavin R., Matsumoto, Rikio & Wägele, Wolfgang J., 2011, 3056, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3056 on page 34
description: {"references": ["Townes, H. K. & Chiu, S. C. (1970) The Indo-Australian species of Xanthopimpla (Ichneumonidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 14, 1 - 372 pp.", "Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. (2005) World Ichneumonoidea 2004 - Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. DVD / CD. Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada."]}
Dynamics of correlations in a dilute Bose gas following an interaction quench
Creators: name: Natu, Stefan S.
name: Mueller, Erich J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the dynamics of the one and two body correlation functions in a homogeneous Bose gas at zero temperature following a sudden change in the interaction strength, with and without an underlying lattice. We focus on conceptually simple examples that highlight the features arising separately from interactions and band structure. In the continuum, we show that the Bogoliubov spectrum leads to a diffusive evolution of density correlations for short times, and ballistic at long times. In the lattice we find that the correlation functions develop additional oscillations. Moreover, the lattice dispersion induces an additional velocity scale, and some features instead propagate with that velocity. Finally, we discuss the time-evolution of the contact following a quench. Our predictions, which can be readily tested in experiments, serve as a benchmark for considering the dynamics of more complicated systems.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Detection and analysis of endogenous polar volatile organic compounds (PVOCs) in urine for human exposome research
Creators: name: O’Lenick, Cassandra R.
name: Pleil, Joachim D.
name: Stiegel, Matthew A.
name: Sobus, Jon R.
name: Wallace, M. Ariel Geer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: The human exposome, defined as ‘…everything that is not the genome’, comprises all chemicals in the body interacting with life processes. The exposome drives genes x environment (GxE) interactions that can cause long-term latency and chronic diseases. The exposome constantly changes in response to external exposures and internal metabolism. Different types of compounds are found in different biological media. Objective: Measure polar volatile organic compounds (PVOCs) excreted in urine to document endogenous metabolites and exogenous compounds from environmental exposures. Methods: Use headspace collection and sorbent tube thermal desorption coupled with bench-top gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) for targeted and non-targeted approaches. Identify and categorize PVOCs that may distinguish among healthy and affected individuals. Results: Method is successfully demonstrated to tabulate a series of 28 PVOCs detected in human urine across 120 samples from 28 human subjects. Median concentrations range from below detect to 165 ng/mL. Certain PVOCs have potential health implications. Conclusions: Headspace collection with sorbent tubes is an effective method for documenting PVOCs in urine that are otherwise difficult to measure. This methodology can provide probative information regarding biochemical processes and adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) for toxicity testing.
Confidence-based Optimization for the Newsvendor Problem
Creators: name: Rossi, Roberto
name: Prestwich, Steven
name: Tarim, S. Armagan
name: Hnich, Brahim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a novel strategy to address the issue of demand estimation in single-item single-period stochastic inventory optimisation problems. Our strategy analytically combines confidence interval analysis and inventory optimisation. We assume that the decision maker is given a set of past demand samples and we employ confidence interval analysis in order to identify a range of candidate order quantities that, with prescribed confidence probability, includes the real optimal order quantity for the underlying stochastic demand process with unknown stationary parameter(s). In addition, for each candidate order quantity that is identified, our approach can produce an upper and a lower bound for the associated cost. We apply our novel approach to three demand distribution in the exponential family: binomial, Poisson, and exponential. For two of these distributions we also discuss the extension to the case of unobserved lost sales. Numerical examples are presented in which we show how our approach complements existing frequentist - e.g. based on maximum likelihood estimators - or Bayesian strategies.
description: Working draft
Metafora „statku głupców” oraz inne inspiracje Boschowskie w pismach Stanisława Lema
Creators: name: Baranowa, Anna
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2019

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 37/38 Nr. 3/4 (2015): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
Xanthopimpla calva Townes & Chiu 1970
Creators: name: Pham, Nhi Thi
name: Broad, Gavin R.
name: Matsumoto, Rikio
name: Wägele, Wolfgang J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Xanthopimpla
Xanthopimpla calva

description: Xanthopimpla calva Townes & Chiu, 1970 Xanthopimpla calva Townes & Chiu, 1970. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 14: 240. Holotype: ♀, the Philippines: Gapan, Nueva Ecija (AEIC). Xanthopimpla calva sexcincta Townes & Chiu, 1970. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst., 14: 241. Holotype: ♂, Malaysia: North Borneo (BPBM). Diagnosis. Propodeum without carinae, except apical part of lateral longitudinal carina present; first tergite broad, shorter than apical width; metasomal tergites 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 each with two black spots; ovipositor sheath 0.35x hind tibia. Distribution. Pham & Le (2007) have recently recorded X. calva from Nghe An Province, Central Vietnam. Outside Vietnam, this species has been recorded from India, Myanmar, Malaysia and the Philippines (Yu et al. 2005). Remarks. Four subspecies are currently recognised: X. calva calva, X. calva calcis Townes & Chiu, X. calva periscelis Townes & Chiu from the Philippines, and X. calva sexcincta Townes & Chiu from India, Myanmar and Malaysia. The specimens recorded from Vietnam belong to X. calva sexcincta, which differs from the nominate subspecies and from X. calva periscelis by the presence of black marks on the first tergite, and can be distinguished from X. calva calcis by the apically black mid and hind tibiae. Material examined. Nghe An, Pu Mat NP: 1♂ (IEBR), 300−400 m a.s.l, 23.iv.2006, H. X. Le leg.; Dak Lak, Ea So NR: 1♀ (IEBR), 310 m a.s.l, 12°55.93’N 108°37.96’E, 27.vii.2008, H. T. Ngo leg.
description: Published as part of Pham, Nhi Thi, Broad, Gavin R., Matsumoto, Rikio & Wägele, Wolfgang J., 2011, 3056, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3056 on page 39
description: {"references": ["Townes, H. K. & Chiu, S. C. (1970) The Indo-Australian species of Xanthopimpla (Ichneumonidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 14, 1 - 372 pp.", "Pham, T. N. & Le, X. H. (2007) Species composition of the genus Xanthopimpla de Saussure, 1892 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae, Pimplini) in the Pu Mat National Park, Nghe An Province. Journal of Biology, 29 (1), 14 - 19.", "Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. (2005) World Ichneumonoidea 2004 - Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. DVD / CD. Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada."]}
TeV cosmic-ray proton and helium spectra in the myriad model
Creators: name: Bernard, Guilhem
name: Delahaye, Timur
name: Keum, Yong-Yeon
name: Liu, Wei
name: Salati, Pierre
name: Taillet, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent measurements of cosmic ray proton and helium spectra show a hardening above a few hundreds of GeV. This excess is hard to understand in the framework of the conventional models of Galactic cosmic ray production and propagation. We propose here to explain this anomaly by the presence of local sources (myriad model). Cosmic ray propagation is described as a diffusion process taking place inside a two-zone magnetic halo. We calculate the proton and helium fluxes at the Earth between 50 GeV and 100 TeV. Improving over a similar analysis, we consistently derive these fluxes by taking into account both local and remote sources for which a unique injection rate is assumed. We find cosmic ray propagation parameters compatible with B/C measurements and for which the proton and helium spectra remarkably agree with the PAMELA and CREAM measurements over four decades in energy.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
On the Capacity of the Two-user Gaussian Causal Cognitive Interference Channel
Creators: name: Cardone, Martina
name: Tuninetti, Daniela
name: Knopp, Raymond
name: Salim, Umer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers the two-user Gaussian Causal Cognitive Interference Channel (GCCIC), which consists of two source-destination pairs that share the same channel and where one full-duplex cognitive source can causally learn the message of the primary source through a noisy link. The GCCIC is an interference channel with unilateral source cooperation that better models practical cognitive radio networks than the commonly used model which assumes that one source has perfect non-causal knowledge of the other source's message. First the sum-capacity of the symmetric GCCIC is determined to within a constant gap. Then, the insights gained from the derivation of the symmetric sum-capacity are extended to characterize the whole capacity region to within a constant gap for more general cases. In particular, the capacity is determined (a) to within 2 bits for the fully connected GCCIC when, roughly speaking, the interference is not weak at both receivers, (b) to within 2 bits for the Z-channel, i.e., when there is no interference from the primary user, and (c) to within 2 bits for the S-channel, i.e., when there is no interference from the secondary user. The parameter regimes where the GCCIC is equivalent, in terms of generalized degrees-of-freedom, to the noncooperative interference channel (i.e., unilateral causal cooperation is not useful), to the non-causal cognitive interference channel (i.e., causal cooperation attains the ultimate limit of cognitive radio technology), and to bilateral source cooperation are identified. These comparisons shed lights into the parameter regimes and network topologies that in practice might provide an unbounded throughput gain compared to currently available (non cognitive) technologies.
description: Under second round review in IEEE Transactions in Information Theory - Submitted September 2013
Modular representations of the special linear groups with small weight multiplicities
Creators: name: Baranov, Alexander
name: Osinovskaya, Anna
name: Suprunenko, Irina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G05

description: We classify irreducible representations of the special linear groups in positive characteristic with small weight multiplicities with respect to the group rank and give estimates for the maximal weight multiplicities. For the natural embeddings of the classical groups, inductive systems of representations with totally bounded weight multiplicities are classified. An analogue of the Steinberg tensor product theorem for arbitrary indecomposable inductive systems for such embeddings is proved.
Discord and quantum computational resources
Creators: name: Brodutch, Aharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discordant states appear in a large number of quantum phenomena and seem to be a good indicator of divergence from classicality. While there is evidence that they are essential for a quantum algorithm to have an advantage over a classical one, their precise role is unclear. We examine the role of discord in quantum algorithms using the paradigmatic framework of `restricted distributed quantum gates' and show that manipulating discordant states using local operations has an associated cost in terms of entanglement and communication resources. Changing discord reduces the total correlations and reversible operations on discordant states usually require non-local resources. Discord alone is, however, not enough to determine the need for entanglement. A more general type of similar quantities, which we call K-discord, is introduced as a further constraint on the kinds of operations that can be performed without entanglement resources.
description: Closer to published version
D2.2 Pilots' Masterplans Analyses
Creators: name: Berrens, Karla
name: Ribera-Fumaz, Ramon
name: Boixet, Blanca Calvo
name: Niaros, Vasilis
name: Aiste Eidukeviciute
name: Senkiene, Karolina
name: Valusyte, Ruta
name: Jurate Tutlyte
name: Zaleckis, Kestutis
name: Peccini, Angelica
name: Julien, Chris
name: Bak, Rosalie
name: Rhianon Morgan Hatch
name: Dodd, Melanie
name: Thorpe, Adam
name: Rebernak, Jerneja
name: Bologna, Elena
name: Soliano, Valeria
name: Costa, Guilherme Teixeira
name: Larrinaga, Asier
name: Blanco, María Jesús Del
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: temporary urbanism
urban regeneration
temporary uses
urban masterplan
placemaking

description: This document outlines the key points for the planning and implementation of meanwhile uses in the context of six early-stage regeneration projects across different European cities. It results from research work developed in T-Factor, a Horizon 2020 project that seeks to boost temporary uses as a driving force for more sustainable, thriving, and resilient urban regeneration. The document dives into the masterplan vision and local context of these urban redevelopments, namely the Aleksotas Innovation Industry Park in Kaunas, Amsterdam Science Park, Euston in London, MIND Milan Innovation District, Trafaria in Lisbon and Zorrotzaurre in Bilbao. In T-Factor, these are the so-called Pilots: historical urban areas characterised by different degrees and forms of abandonment and decay in the past decades, and now under early stages of regeneration processes that will transform them into cultural and creative hubs, though with different positionings and connotations of ‘culture’ and ‘creativity’. These areas are about to be impacted upon by an overall financial investment that exceeds ten billion euros, providing an indication of the breadth of the physical interventions envisaged and the variety and complexity of interests, challenges, risks, and opportunities at play. Developing an international platform of meanwhile city-making support, mentoring and knowledge exchange and engaging with local partners and stakeholders, T-Factor will co-produce temporary or meanwhile spaces in these six regeneration areas through participatory methodologies. These meanwhile spaces will turn the waiting time in urban regeneration into a transformative time of innovative placemaking.
Tradycje i problemy sztuki antycznej jako struktura dramatu Marka Ravenhilla 'Shopping and Fucking'
Creators: name: Wąs, Cezary
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2019

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 40 Nr. 2 (2016): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
Signal Estimation with Additive Error Metrics in Compressed Sensing
Creators: name: Tan, Jin
name: Carmon, Danielle
name: Baron, Dror
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Compressed sensing typically deals with the estimation of a system input from its noise-corrupted linear measurements, where the number of measurements is smaller than the number of input components. The performance of the estimation process is usually quantified by some standard error metric such as squared error or support set error. In this correspondence, we consider a noisy compressed sensing problem with any arbitrary error metric. We propose a simple, fast, and highly general algorithm that estimates the original signal by minimizing the error metric defined by the user. We verify that our algorithm is optimal owing to the decoupling principle, and we describe a general method to compute the fundamental information-theoretic performance limit for any error metric. We provide two example metrics --- minimum mean absolute error and minimum mean support error --- and give the theoretical performance limits for these two cases. Experimental results show that our algorithm outperforms methods such as relaxed belief propagation (relaxed BP) and compressive sampling matching pursuit (CoSaMP), and reaches the suggested theoretical limits for our two example metrics.
description: to appear in IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Conseils pour la gestion du patrimoine artistique de la Suisse
Creators: name: Keller Dubach, Anne
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2019

description: L’art contemporain est appelé, tôt ou tard, à devenir un art du passé. Le conserver, en tant qu’élément vivant de notre mémoire culturelle, constitue un véritable défi. SIK-ISEA n’a pas de solution miracle, mais souhaite néanmoins contribuer à la conservation du patrimoine artistique, de manière compétente et indépendante grâce à la création d’un Centre suisse de conseil en matière de successions d’artistes.
description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2017: Jahresbericht 2016 SIK-ISEA
title: Trends and patterns in Chopin’s evolving compositional conception of rhythm and metre practice: a case study of the 17 waltzes (ca. 1829-1847)
Creators: name: Monteiro, John Richard Ling
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation examines Chopin’s 17 waltzes as a collection of miniature works, which I broadly categorise into either ‘Virtuosic’ or ‘Sentimental’ pieces, while also paying attention to the melancholic subset found within the sentimental waltzes. Musicologists and analysts have paid limited emphasis on these waltzes, only singling out and focusing on Chopin’s published waltzes, with limited scrutiny of his unpublished dances. I derive five rhythmic and metric principles which this study centres around: ‘Unity and Contrast’, ‘Vibrancy’, and ‘Tension and Release’. Trends and patterns are uncovered while tracing the evolutionary journey that Chopin undertook in composing his waltzes from 1828 to 1847. These 20 years are broken down into three periods: Warsaw, mature, and the later years. I further argue that the Warsaw waltzes play significant roles in how musical ideas originate, which Chopin uses in his later works, whilst varying them in his terms. As such, insights are drawn, enriching, and enhancing our understanding of Chopin’s compositional practice of these waltzes. I also draw parallels between his waltzes and his miniature works found in his other genres (e.g., Mazurkas, Nocturnes, Preludes), and the works of other nineteenth-century composers. Lastly, I establish a weighted hierarchy comprising three levels (essential, frequent, and idiosyncratic), distinguishing how often Chopin uses these stylistic features. This study raises several insights when examining Chopin’s waltzes as a collection of dances, which otherwise would not have been brought to clarity. Key findings include how Chopin recollects distinct patterns when he wrote his waltzes, often culminating in more sophisticated ideas in the later waltzes like those in Op. 64. The melancholic subset including Chopin’s own favourite (Op. 34, No. 2) comprise distinct rhythmic ideas used exclusively. Likewise, Chopin favoured the use of single-tone repetitions, acciaccatura motifs and multi-bar trills in the virtuosic waltzes. The oompah-pah was often varied in all his waltzes, while various metrical dissonances were used in both groups. Within the waltz oeuvre, Chopin’s compositional thought process is clearly mapped out through thoroughly investigating his more recognised published pieces and those in his private collections. This study affirms his relentless drive toward reinventing his rhythmic and metric ideas, while at the same time, opening possibilities for how he interpenetrates these notions across his other miniature works.
Quantum Probabilities for Inflation from Holography
Creators: name: Hartle, James B.
name: Hawking, S. W.
name: Hertog, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of the universe is determined by its quantum state. The wave function of the universe obeys the constraints of general relativity and in particular the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE). For non-zero Λ, we show that solutions of the WDWE at large volume have two domains in which geometries and fields are asymptotically real. In one the histories are Euclidean asymptotically anti-de Sitter, in the other they are Lorentzian asymptotically classical de Sitter. Further, the universal complex semiclassical asymptotic structure of solutions of the WDWE implies that the leading order in \hbar quantum probabilities for classical, asymptotically de Sitter histories can be obtained from the action of asymptotically anti-de Sitter configurations. This leads to a promising, universal connection between quantum cosmology and holography.
description: 11 pages, 1 fig; v2:changes to emphasize connection with holography
The use of Bad Primes in Rational Reconstruction
Creators: name: Boehm, Janko
name: Decker, Wolfram
name: Fieker, Claus
name: Pfister, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13P10 (Primary) 68W10, 52C05 (Secondary)

description: A standard method for finding a rational number from its values modulo a collection of primes is to determine its value modulo the product of the primes via Chinese remaindering, and then use Farey sequences for rational reconstruction. Successively enlarging the set of primes if needed, this method is guaranteed to work if we restrict ourselves to good primes. Depending on the particular application, however, there may be no efficient way of identifying good primes. In the algebraic and geometric applications we have in mind, the final result consists of an a priori unknown ideal (or module) which is found via a construction yielding the (reduced) Groebner basis of the ideal. In this context, we discuss a general setup for modular and, thus, potentially parallel algorithms which can handle bad primes. A key new ingredient is an error tolerant algorithm for rational reconstruction via Gaussian reduction.
description: 15 pages; added a section on types of bad primes, and an example
Niklaus Manuel. Catalogue raisonné
Creators: name: Ammann, Katharina
name: Egli, Michael
Publisher: name: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Year: 2019

description: Niklaus Manuel (vers 1484–1530) est l’une des personnalités marquantes des débuts de l’époque moderne en Suisse. Sa production artistique intéresse par ailleurs depuis de nombreuses années la recherche internationale. SIK-ISEA présente aujourd’hui une étude systématique de son oeuvre.
description: Jahresbericht SIK-ISEA / Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 2017: Jahresbericht 2016 SIK-ISEA
Estimation of the intensity parameter of the germ-grain Quermass-interaction model when the number of germs is not observed
Creators: name: Dereudre, David
name: Lavancier, Frédéric
name: Stankova, Katerina Helisova
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Quermass-interaction model allows to generalise the classical germ-grain Boolean model in adding a morphological interaction between the grains. It enables to model random structures with specific morphologies which are unlikely to be generated from a Boolean model. The Quermass-interaction model depends in particular on an intensity parameter, which is impossible to estimate from classical likelihood or pseudo-likelihood approaches because the number of points is not observable from a germ-grain set. In this paper, we present a procedure based on the Takacs-Fiksel method which is able to estimate all parameters of the Quermass-interaction model, including the intensity. An intensive simulation study is conducted to assess the efficiency of the procedure and to provide practical recommendations. It also illustrates that the estimation of the intensity parameter is crucial in order to identify the model. The Quermass-interaction model is finally fitted by our method to P. Diggle's heather dataset.
Self-collimated axial jets seeds from thin accretion disks
Creators: name: Tirabassi, Giulio
name: Montani, Giovanni
name: Carlevaro, Nakia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how an appropriate stationary crystalline structure of the magnetic field can induce a partial fragmentation of the accretion disk, generating an axial jet seed composed of hot plasma twisted in a funnel-like structure due to the rotation of the system. The most important feature we outline is the high degree of collimation, naturally following from the basic assumptions underlying the crystalline structure. The presence of non-zero dissipative effects allows the plasma ejection throughout the axial jet seed and the predicted values of the accretion rate are in agreement with observations.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures