cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"We know them all as men who shall receive the protection of the law": Chinese Participants in the Courts of Port Townsend, Washington Territory
Creators: name: Kirchmeier, Glynnis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Studies of the relationship between American law and Chinese migrants in the nineteenth century have focused upon the legal, administrative, and social effects of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), elite merchant use of contract law, and the failure of law enforcement to address or prevent mass anti-Chinese violence by whites in the mid-1880s. The literature has neglected, however, detailed inquiry into the practices of everyday law, or the legal resolutions of mundane, small stakes conflicts in specific local contexts. For Port Townsend, Washington Territory, study of the practice of law during the territorial period reveals that in this locality, Chinese litigants of transient or labourer status could access the court to recoup unpaid debts and, rarely, to redress instances of everyday violence. The professionals of the courts - judges, clerks, and lawyers - as well as juries of whites from the community, all regularly granted Chinese defendants and litigants their rights to testimony and due process throughout the territorial period. This is significant because the court system granted the rights even during moments of anti-Chinese political power, which shielded some defendants from the effects of racially targeted municipal ordinances. The evidence also shows that coercive and punitive aspects of migrant-official legal relations, including the refusal to grant a defendant's rights, did not enter into other areas of law beyond the charges under the Exclusion Act. It is also significant because indigenous peoples in Washington Territory (and, in Port Townsend itself, the Klallam and Chimakum) consistently endured far fewer rights and rights which changed more drastically within the American legal system at the same time, thus signalling that white Americans judged Chinese to be more like themselves than indigenous peoples. The unenthusiastic efforts of law enforcement to punish everyday violence against Chinese victims, however, shows that whites did not consider Chinese victims worth protecting except in cases where community actions clearly sanctioned official action.
Il caso Grzymała Lubański
Creators: name: Cifariello, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Studi Slavistici
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this article is to examine the personal and professional life of Henryk Grzymała Lubański. A Polish Garibaldian who was completely erased from public memory after his death, Lubański was extremely active in promoting the Russian and Polish languages and Russian and Polish literature among Italians. This article, which is based on a variety of unpublished archival sources, is the first to be entirely dedicated to this subject. This work contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the history of Slavic studies and Russian studies in Italy in the second half of the 19thcentury.
description: Studi Slavistici, Studi Slavistici XV, 2018, 2
BIOLOGIYA FANINI O'QITISH JARAYONIDA INNOVATION METODLAR
Creators: name: Abdurayeva, Parizoda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada biologiya oʻqitish jarayonida innovatsion metodlar yordamida ushbu fanini o'qitishning xususiyatlari yoritib berilgan.
Outcomes After Laparoscopic Enucleation of Pancreatic Neoplasms at a Single High Volume Italian Institution
Creators: name: Daskalaki, Despoina
name: Marchegiani, Giovanni
name: Damoli, Isacco
name: Malleo, Giuseppe
name: Bassi, Claudio
name: Butturini, Giovanni
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Pancreatic enucleation is the best procedure for removing small, benign, solid pancreatic tumors but it can increase the post-operative morbidity. Objective The aim of this study was to analyze our results with 10 consecutive laparoscopic enucleations. Methods The analyzed data were retrospectively collected from 10 consecutive patients who underwent laparoscopic enucleation of a pancreatic neoplasm. Results The mean age was 52.5 years (median 46.3 years). The mass was localized at the body-tail of the pancreas in 90% of the patients and at the head in 10%. The mean operative time was 121 minutes. Intraoperative ultrasonography was performed in 6 cases (60%). One patient (10%) developed a grade A fistula. No other post-operative complications occurred. The conversion and mortality rates were both nil. The mean hospital stay was 6.3 days (median 6 days; range 5-8 days). Histologically all 10 specimens were neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors. The median follow-up was 39 months (range 4-74 months) and no patient has presented tumor recurrence or port site hernia. Conclusions Benign tumors of the pancreas can be radically treated with laparoscopic enucleation. It reduces operative time, hospital stay and overall complication rates. This approach should become the gold standard when there is intent to enucleate a small and presumably benign pancreatic tumor.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Comparing RECIST and Choi’s Criteria to Evaluate Radiological Response to Chemotherapy in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Vecchiarelli, Silvia
name: Macchini, Marina
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: D'Ambra, Marielda
name: Casadei, Riccardo
name: Calculli, Lucia
name: Ferroni, Fabio
name: Pezzilli, Raffaele
name: Grassi, Elisa
name: Minni, Francesco
name: Biasco, Guido
name: Di Marco, Mariacristina
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Assessment of response after chemotherapy (CTH) for pancreatic cancer (PC) is currently based on RECIST criteria. In 2007 Choi et al. published a new classification system. Objectives To evaluate the accuracy of the two classification systems for radiological response to CTH in patients affected by advanced PC. Methods From 2006 to 2011, 61 untreated patients affected by advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma underwent palliative CTH. Thirty-seven (60.7 %) had a locally advanced PC and 24 (39.3%) a metastatic disease. All patients were treated with a bemcitabine-based CTH. We assessed radiological response after three months of first-line therapy applying both RECIST criteria and Choi’s criteria, which consider changes both in size and in density at CT. We evaluated the accuracy in restaging, comparing the class of response with overall survival (OS). OS was calculated with Kaplan-Meier method. The concordance with the two classification systems was evaluated with Kendall’s test. The accuracy in restaging was assessed through log rank test. Results At restaging, using RECIST criteria, we registered 6 (9.8%) patients with partial response (PR), 32 (52.5%) with stable disease (SD), and 23 (37.7%) with disease progression (PD). Instead Choi’s criteria assessed 18 PR (29.5%), 12 SD (19.7%) and 31 PD (50.8%). The concordance test showed that the two systems matched (P<0.001). Comparing each classification with OS, we observed that patients with different prognosis were better stratified with Choi’s criteria. Using RECIST criteria we did not found any significant difference in OS between patients with PR (12 months), SD (16 months) and PD (10 months). Using Choi’s criteria we found that OS in patients with PR was similar to patients with SD with 16 and 19 months (P=0.634). Patients with PR had an OS significantly higher than patients with PD (16 vs. 9 months; P=0.009; RR=2.3). Conclusions Choi’s criteria seem to better assess radiological response of CTH in PC patients than RECIST criteria. Due to the small number of patients, larger prospective studies are needed.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Sphaerotrochalus Brenske 1900
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Sphaerotrochalus

description: Sphaerotrochalus Brenske, 1900b
[12 species].
Type species Pseudotrochalus boehmi Quedenfeldt, 1888, by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2000).
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
Dorsal Pancreatectomy: An Alternative to the Total Pancreatectomy. Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Iacono, Calogero
name: Ruzzenente, Andrea
name: Valdegamberi, Alessandro
name: Bertuzzo, Francesca
name: Conci, Simone
name: Bagante, Fabio
name: Xillo, Laura
name: Guglielmi, Alfredo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context For the last three decades several advances in technique in pancreatic surgery have been performed in order to preserve pancreatic parenchyma. Dorsal pancreatectomy is a parenchyma-sparing segmental pancreatic resection, carried out to avoid exocrine or endocrine failure or biliary and gastrointestinal reconstruction. Case reports In this paper two cases of dorsal pancreatectomy were reported. In both cases, the excision of the entire dorsal pancreas was performed with preservation of the biliary duct and the spleen, the gastroduodenal artery was preserved to avoid ischemia of the bile duct and duodenum. The first patient was a 71-year-old female affected by IPMN of the tail of pancreas with a small liver metastasis intra-operatively detected and removed. The post-operative course was uneventful. The patient was discharged 13 days after surgery and then submitted to systemic and intra-arterial regional chemotherapy (FLEC regimen). This patient died 30 months after surgery for liver and peritoneal recurrences, without signs of endocrine insufficiency but with necessity to intake a low-dose pancreatic enzymes. The second patient was a 35-year-old female affected by solid pseudopapillary tumor involving the head and the neck of the pancreas with atrophy of the distal part of pancreatic parenchyma. The post-operative course was uneventful and the patient was released on the 11th post-operative day. Seventy-five months after surgery the patient is still alive, in absence of diabetes or exocrine impairment.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Model of collective modes in three-band superconductors with repulsive interband interactions
Creators: name: Stanev, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I consider a simple model of a three-band superconductor with repulsive interband interactions. The frustration, associated with the odd number of bands, leads to the possible existence of an intrinsically complex time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) order parameter. In such state the fluctuations of the different gaps are strongly coupled, and this leads to the development of novel collective modes, which mix phase and amplitude oscillations. I study these fluctuations using a simple microscopic model and derive the dispersion for two physically distinct modes, which are gapped by energy less than twice the gap, and apparently present for all values of interband couplings.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Hymenocephalus longipes Smith & Radcliffe 1912
Creators: name: Schwarzhans, Werner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Hymenocephalus
Hymenocephalus longipes

description: Hymenocephalus longipes Smith & Radcliffe, 1912
Figs. 9A–G, 12
 Hymenocephalus longipes Smith & Radcliffe, 1912: 109 (type locality: 09°38’N, 121°11’E).
 Hymenocephalus longipes: Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920: 527.
 Material examined. 6 specimens; 1 specimen MNHN 2011–0226, 146 mm TL, 11°57’N, 121°28’E, 388–404 m; 2 specimens (otoliths only) USNM 99474, 11°10’N, 121°28’E; 1 specimen USNM 150156, 137 mm TL, 10°08’N, 123°52’E; 1 specimen (otolith only) USNM 150157, 10°10’N, 123°53’E; 1 specimen USNM 150158, 155 mm TL, 08°48’N, 123°35’E; 1 specimen (otolith only) USNM 150160, 12°52’N, 123°23’E.
 Diagnosis. Pelvic fin rays 8; pectoral fin rays 13–15; pelvic fins with black-colored tips; snout barely projecting; head bones rather firm; barbel absent; orbit diameter 28–33% HL; interorbital width 40–50% HW; gill rakers 19–21; ventral striae reaching close to periproct; OL:OH = 1.1–1.25; TCL:PCL = 1.7–2.1.
 Comparison. See H. longibarbis.
 Description. Head morphology (n = 3) (Fig. 9A–C): Head with rounded, soft-tipped snout, not projecting. Snout length 15% HL, orbit diameter 28–33% HL, interorbital width 40–50% HW. Barbel absent. Head canals well developed, infraorbital width 10–12% HL, supraorbital canal with 6 segments, width 5–10% HL, supratemporal canal indistinct, preopercular canal width 7–12% HL, postorbital-preopercular interspace 11–13% HL. Infranasal supporter small; infraorbital supporter moderately widened throughout length below orbit, expanding beyond rear part of orbit, 80–100% OD; preopercular supporter broad, blunt, with straight rear margin short (3–5% HL).
Otolith morphology (n = 7) (Fig. 9D–G): Otolith moderately high bodied; OL:OH = 1.1–1.25; OL:OT about 4. Predorsal lobe large, with pointed tip, triangular in shape, rather gently inclining towards rear part of otolith with some undulation. Anterior rim irregular, broadly rounded to blunt; posterior tip moderately pointed. Ventral rim deep, smooth and regularly curved, deepest anterior of middle. Inner face very slightly convex along horizontal axis, with median sulcus. Ostial and caudal colliculi moderately large, narrowly placed at collum, terminating at considerable distance from anterior and posterior tips of otolith; pseudocolliculum moderately enlarged. CCL:OCL = 0.9–1.0; TCL:PCL = 1.7–2.1. Dorsal depression wide; ventral furrow thin, close to ventral rim.
 Distribution (Fig. 12). Known from a relatively small area within the Sulu Sea and southern Luzon to northern Mindanao.
description: Published as part of Schwarzhans, Werner, 2014, Head and otolith morphology of the genera Hymenocephalus, Hymenogadus and Spicomacrurus (Macrouridae), with the description of three new species, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 3888 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3888.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086415
Changes in MicroRNAs Expression and Clinical Associations in Patients with Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Tumors
Creators: name: Tavano, Francesca
name: Di Mola, Fabio Francesco
name: Burbaci, Francesca Paola
name: Lombardi, Lucia
name: Copetti, Massimiliano
name: Piepoli, Ada
name: Andriulli, Angelo
name: Maiello, Evaristo
name: Di Sebastiano, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context In a previously study, we analyzed associations between altered expression of 13 microRNAs (miR-145, miR-23a, miR-455-3p, miR-708, miR-151-5p, miR-30c, miR-let-7i, miR-199a-5p, miR-30a, miR-143, miR-21, miR-155*, and miR-31) and clinical variables in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Objective Here, expression levels of these miRNAs were analyzed to evaluate their possible associations with clinical-pathological features in patients underwent surgical resection for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PETs). Methods miRNAs expression levels in tumors compared to matched-pairs non-cancerous tissue samples, were analyzed by using TaqMan MicroRNA Assay. Association analysis was performed by means of Spearman correlation coefficient and Mann-Whitney U-test. Results No significant association was found between miR-145, miR-23a, miR-455-3p, and miR-708 levels and patients sub-phenotypes. Conversely, miR-151-5p expression was inversely correlated with age at diagnosis (rs=-0.77, P=0.009), both miR-30a and miR-let-7i levels were positively associated with tumor size (rs=0.69, P=0.027 and rs=0.67, P=0.034), while over-expression of either miR-199a-5p and miR-30c was associate with male gender (P=0.046 and P=0.003). Further original finding was the association between miR-143, miR-21 and miR-155* levels and tumor mitotic index (P=0.04, P=0.0002, and P<0.0001, respectively), while expression of both miR-31 and miR-30c was associated with tumor proliferation index (P=0.003 and P=0.01, respectively). In addition, miRNAs expression levels were also found to be correlated with each others in PETs tissue samples. Conclusions These data suggest a prognostic significance for specific miRNAs in PETs. Understanding the associations between miRNAs expression levels could help identify novel regulatory network involved biology of PETs.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Laparoscopic Surgery for Solid Pseudopapillary Pancreatic Tumor in a Pediatric Patient
Creators: name: Sartori, Paola V
name: Miranda, Angelo
name: Costanzi, Andrea T
name: Valenti, Francesco
name: Prada, Massimo
name: Leone, Biagio E
name: Maggioni, Dario
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Solid pseudopapillary pancreatic tumor is a rare pancreatic malignancy affecting mainly young females and quite often pediatric population. In literature there is no consensus about its management especially regarding surgical approach. We report our experience in treating one case occurred in a pediatric patient. Case report A 14-year-old female was admitted at Pediatric Department complaining of abdominal pain in lower quadrants associated to repeated vomiting. Biochemistry was normal except for leucocytosis. Abdominal ultrasound scan shown a 7 cm isoechoic epigastric lesion lateral but contiguous to the stomach and gallstones. The patient was submitted to a nuclear magnetic resonance which shown a 76 mm round lesion involving the pancreatic tail with sharp margins, without contrast enhancement and with fibrolipidic content. She underwent laparoscopic spleen preserving distal pancreatectomy and synchronous cholecystectomy. Postoperative course was uneventful and she was discharged after ten days. At histology the neoplasm proved to be a solid pseudopapillary pancreatic tumor mainly composed by round or polygonal cells with pseudopapillary areas. It stained positively for cytokeratin, vimentin, CD10 and had progesterone receptors. There was no vascular invasion. The patient is currently disease free after 12 months. Conclusions Since these tumors occur mainly in young females, laparoscopic resection, especially for lesions of the distal pancreas, is a valid treatment option provided safe margins can be achieved. In facts this neoplasm has been recently upgraded from borderline pancreatic lesions to malignancies.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Laparoscopic Surgery for Endocrine Pancreatic Tumors: Experience of a Referral Center
Creators: name: Boniardi, Marco
name: Sartori, Paola V
name: Andreani, Sara
name: Pauna, Juliana
name: Ferrari, Giovanni C
name: Mutignani, Massimiliano
name: Pugliese, Raffaele
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Laparoscopic pancreatic surgery is not common practice in Italy and is carried out in few centers. The reasons for this are manifold, such as the current selection of patients and both skills in laparoscopic and pancreatic surgery, are necessary to perform this operation safely. Objective We report the experience of a referral center for laparoscopic surgery comparing outcomes of laparoscopic and open procedures for endocrine pancreatic neoplasms. Materials Thirty patients (10 males and 20 females aged 57±14 years) were submitted to surgery for neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors from 2001 to 2010. Apart of 7 patients undergone duodenopancreatectomy, 13 patients received laparoscopic surgery and 10 open surgery. Results Mean overall operating time and postoperative hospital staying were 268±97 minutes and 26±28 days, respectively. Mortality was nil; overall morbidity was 56.5%. When comparing laparoscopy and open procedures operating time, postoperative hospital staying and even morbidity rate were similar (P>0.05). Conclusions Laparoscopic pancreatic surgery for endocrine tumors is safe and boasts a complication rate similar to that of open surgery. However, since it is a demanding procedure, it should be performed only in selected centers with a consolidated experience in laparoscopic and pancreatic surgery.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
Supergoop Dynamics
Creators: name: Anninos, Dionysios
name: Anous, Tarek
name: Denef, Frederik
name: Konstantinidis, George
name: Shaghoulian, Edgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We initiate a systematic study of the dynamics of multi-particle systems with supersymmetric Van der Waals and electron-monopole type interactions. The static interaction allows a complex continuum of ground state configurations, while the Lorentz interaction tends to counteract this configurational fluidity by magnetic trapping, thus producing an exotic low temperature phase of matter aptly named supergoop. Such systems arise naturally in $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories as monopole-dyon mixtures, and in string theory as collections of particles or black holes obtained by wrapping D-branes on internal space cycles. After discussing the general system and its relation to quiver quantum mechanics, we focus on the case of three particles. We give an exhaustive enumeration of the classical and quantum ground states of a probe in an arbitrary background with two fixed centers. We uncover a hidden conserved charge and show that the dynamics of the probe is classically integrable. In contrast, the dynamics of one heavy and two light particles moving on a line shows a nontrivial transition to chaos, which we exhibit by studying the Poincaré sections. Finally we explore the complex dynamics of a probe particle in a background with a large number of centers, observing hints of ergodicity breaking. We conclude by discussing possible implications in a holographic context.
description: 35 pages,11 figures. v2: updated references to include a previous proof of classical integrability, exchanged a figure for a prettier version
Microtubules immuno-labeled with Alexa 647 with widefield images 70-75
Creators: name: Manish SINGH,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: shareloc.xyz
shareloc.xyz:dataset
dstorm
u373
microtubules
alexa-647
indirect-immuno-labeling
alpha-tubulin
em-ccd
thunderstorm
gluox
pfa+gluta
2d
smlm

description: Open in Shareloc.XYZ

description: dSTORM images of microtubules with widefield images, Alpha-tubulin immuno-labeled with Alexa 647 in U373 cells, reconstructed by ThunderSTORM plugin (Uploaded via https://shareloc.xyz)
Sphecoserica Brenske 1899
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Sphecoserica

description: Sphecoserica Brenske, 1899c
[1 species].
Type species Sphecoserica gracilipennis Brenske, 1899, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Autologous Islet Transplantation to Improve Glycemic Control Following Extended Pancreatectomy: Indications and Outcome
Creators: name: Carvello, Michele Maria
name: Ariotti, Riccardo
name: Nano, Rita
name: Maffi, Paola
name: Braga, Marco
name: Staudacher, Carlo
name: Gilardini, Cristina
name: Piemonti, Lorenzo
name: Balzano, Gianpaolo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Autologous islet transplantation is performed to improve glycemic control after extended pancreatectomy. In such cases, islet cells are isolated from non-neoplastic pancreatic parenchyma (resected for technical reason) and then re-infused. Methods From November 2008 to present, 31 patients (out of 36 candidates) underwent autologous islet transplantation. Indications for autologous islet transplantation were: completion pancreatectomy (CP) for fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy (13 patients, Group A); CP as an alternative to high-risk anastomosis during pancreaticoduodenectomy (14 patients, Group B); distal pancreatectomy for benign lesion of pancreatic neck (9 patients, Group C), near-total pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis (1 patient). Results Five out of 36 candidates did not received transplantation for: inadequate islet mass (2 patients), patient instability (2 patients), high contamination of islet culture (1 patient). Islet were infused into the portal vein in 27 patients and into the bone marrow in 4 patients. Median islet equivalents per kilogram (IE/kg) was 2,060 (534-4,780). Complications occurred in 6 patients (19%): 2 bleeding, 1 sepsis, 3 portal thrombosis (1 complete, 2 partial). After a median follow up of 18 months, 24% of patients with total pancreatectomy (group A-B) are insulin-independent, 52% developed diabetes (non brittle-diabetes); 24% had loss of graft function (C-peptide <0.3 ng/mL). This event was associated with poor islet mass (3/4 patients with <1,500 IE/kg had function loss). Nine out of 10 patients with residual pancreas are insulin-independent. Conclusions Autologous islet transplantation allowed insulin-independency in 24% of patients with total pancreatectomy and 90% of patients with distal or near-total pancreatectomy. Islet mass (IE/kg) could be a criterion to select patients for transplantation.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
title:  A Review of Distributed Identity Technology in IoT Devices
Creators: name: Perry, Myles
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Distributed identity technology provides solutions to many of the faults currently found in federated identity systems. Applying this technology to internet of things devices has many possible benefits in the realm of device authentication. However, this also provides new challenges not present in existing distributed identity systems. The large number of devices that would enter and leave the system means balancing sybil attack vulnerability and linkage attack vulnerability becomes challenging. Internet of things devices also have less memory and computing power than a standard personal computer or phone. This means any protocol to execute distributed identity in these devices must not be computationally taxing on the devices. As well, if the internet of things devices should provide data from their sensors to the chain, the protocol must have a method to verify the validity of the data. The existing protocols that have been developed each target these issues in different ways, but none design a protocol perfect for all desired use-cases.
Hymenocephalus barbatulus Gilbert & Hubbs 1920
Creators: name: Schwarzhans, Werner
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Gadiformes
Macrouridae
Hymenocephalus
Hymenocephalus barbatulus

description: Hymenocephalus barbatulus Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920
Figs. 14A–B, 16
 Hymenocephalus (Papyrocephalus) barbatulus Gilbert & Hubbs, 1920: 539 (type locality: 07°35’S, 126°38’E).
 Discussion. Hymenocephalus barbatulus was described based on the holotype and one paratype from the same location off eastern Mindanao, Philippines, from 695 m. It differs from the other species in the aterrimus Group in the low pelvic and pectoral fin ray counts (7 and 10). Neither holotype nor paratype was located in the collection of USNM. According to information provided by S. Raredon (USNM) they were last checked in 1980. The figures shown are copies of the original drawing by Gilbert & Hubbs (1920: fig. 34) (Fig. 14A) and a secondary drawing in Cohen et al. (1990: fig. 511) (Fig. 14B); both depict an overall head morphology similar to that of H. aterrimus.
description: Published as part of Schwarzhans, Werner, 2014, Head and otolith morphology of the genera Hymenocephalus, Hymenogadus and Spicomacrurus (Macrouridae), with the description of three new species, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 3888 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3888.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086415
Stenoserica Brenske 1900
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Stenoserica

description: Stenoserica Brenske, 1900b
[8 species].
Type species Stenoserica kolbei Brenske, 1901, by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2007a).
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
Discrete-Time Path Distributions on Hilbert Space
Creators: name: Beau, Mathieu
name: Dorlas, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct a path distribution representing the kinetic part of the Feynman path integral at discrete times similar to that defined by Thomas [1], but on a Hilbert space of paths rather than a nuclear sequence space. We also consider different boundary conditions and show that the discrete-time Feynman path integral is well-defined for suitably smooth potentials.
Stilbotrochalus Kolbe 1914
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Stilbotrochalus

description: Stilbotrochalus Kolbe, 1914
[1 species].
Type species Stilbotrochalus nitens Kolbe, 1914, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Local and distal origins of limbic-related projections to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus
Creators: name: Anonuevo, Adam Manuel Smith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Cortico-limbic circuits are often activated in response to emotional stress to provide salient information about individual stimuli. This allows organisms to recruit adequate response mechanisms, one of which is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Cellular groups directly adjacent to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) are in position to integrate and relay cortico-limbic projections to the PVN directly. Using a neuroanatomical approach we discovered unique patterns and strengths of cortico-limbic projections to separate cell groups in the PVN surround. Further, in response to restraint stress, dual retrograde labeling with the cellular activation marker FOS suggests these PVN surround circuits are involved in adaptive responses to emotional stress. Of the PVN surround subregions, the zona incerta (ZI) showed particularly dense connectivity with the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), lateral septum, and paraventricular thalamus. Due to the strength of this connectivity we sought to confirm that it can act as a relay site to the PVN through targeted injections of anterograde tracer. ZI injections of anterograde tracer led to terminally labeled fibers in the PVN confirming the capacity to influence hypophysiotropic neurons of the PVN. Additionally, there is the potential for the ZI to share functional cross-talk with other PVN surround subregions. In our final experiment we directed injections of retrograde tracer into the PVN in concert with anterograde injections in the mPFC resulting in convergence of tracer labeling within the ZI. The abutted signals strongly indicate the PVN surround is a promising site for limbic influence on HPA.
Straliga Fairmaire 1901
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Straliga

description: Straliga Fairmaire, 1901b
[1 species].
Type species Straliga croceicollis Fairmaire, 1901, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 147, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
de Sitter Symmetry and Quantum Theory
Creators: name: Lev, Felix M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: de Sitter symmetry on quantum level implies that operators describing a given system satisfy commutation relations of the de Sitter algebra. This approach gives a new perspective on fundamental notions of quantum theory. We discuss applications of the approach to the cosmological constant problem, gravity, and particle theory.
description: 14 pages, no figures. A revised version published in Physical Review D
Experimental Upconversion of Images
Creators: name: Ding, Dong-Sheng
name: Zhou, Zhi-Yuan
name: Huang, Wen
name: Shi, Bao-Sen
name: Zou, Xu-Bo
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate the up-conversion of light carrying an image from the infrared spectrum to the visible spectrum using four-wave mixing via a ladder-type configuration in an atomic vapor. The results we obtained show the high correlation between the input image and the up-converted image. We also discuss the possible influences of experimental parameters on the resolution. Our work might be useful for research in astrophysics, night-vision technology, and chemical sensing.
description: Accepted by PRA
A study of Lambda hypernuclei within the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock Model
Creators: name: Guleria, Neelam
name: Dhiman, Shashi K.
name: Shyam, Radhey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of the single Lambda hypernuclei within a Skyrme-Hartree-Fock (SHF) model. The parameters of the Skyrme type effective lambda-nucleon (Lambda N) interaction are obtained by fitting to the experimental Lambda binding energies of hypernuclei with masses spanning a wide range of the periodic table. Alternative parameter sets are also obtained by omitting nuclei below mass number 16 from the fitting procedure. The SHF calculations are performed for the binding energies of the Lambda single-particle states over a full mass range using the best fit parameter sets obtained in these fitting procedures and the results are compared with the available experimental data. The data show some sensitivity to the parameter sets obtained with or without including the nuclei below mass 16. The radii of the Lambda orbits in the hypernuclear ground states and the Lambda effective mass in nuclear matter show some dependence on different parameter sets. We present results for the total binding energy per baryon of the hypernuclei over a large mass region to elucidate their stability as a function of the baryon number. We have also employed the our best fit Lambda N parameter sets to investigate the role of hyperons in some key properties of neutron stars.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures, revised and extended version, to appear in Nuclear Physics A
SNP-Array High Resolution Cytogenetic Analysis of Resectable and Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Macchini, Marina
name: Astolfi, Annalisa
name: Casadei, Riccardo
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: Indio, Valentina
name: Vecchiarelli, Silvia
name: D’Ambra, Marielda
name: Grassi, Elisa
name: Santini, Donatella
name: Serra, Carla
name: Pezzilli, Raffaele
name: Minni, Francesco
name: Biasco, Guido
name: Di Marco, Mariacristina
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths. The molecular mechanisms involved in the high tumorigenicity of PC are not yet well-known. Methods Pancreatic tumor samples from 14 patients were collected by ultrasound-guided biopsy and used for DNA extraction. High resolution copy number analysis was performed on Affymetrix SNP array 6.0 and analyzed with segmentation algorithm against a reference of 270 Ceu HapMap individuals (Partek Genomic Suite). Results Nine out of 14 patients exhibited both macroscopic and cryptic cytogenetic alterations, with a mean of 10 copy number alterations (CNA) per patient, while 5 patients did not show any copy number gain or loss. Deletions outnumbered amplifications by more than 2 folds. The chromosomes showing more copy number gains were chromosomes 12, 18, 19, while chromosomes 6, 9, 17 and 18 were most frequently deleted. In particular, deletions on 9p21 encompassed CDKN2A and 2B tumor suppressor genes, that on chromosome 18q21 overlapped with SMAD4, the one on chromosome 6p21 included RUNX2, while TP53 and MAP2K4 were the target genes deleted on chromosome 17p13. Amplified regions on chromosome 12p12 encompassed KRAS and ETV6 genes, the one on chromosome 18q11 overlapped with GATA6, while that on 19q13 included AKT2. We observed that the number of alterations correlates with the clinical course, and in particular that patients with none to few alterations (≤6) showed a median time to disease progression and a median overall survival significantly longer than those having a high number of CNA (>6), with a time to disease progression of 13.7 vs. 4.1 months (P=0.015) and an overall survival of 14.6 vs. 4.8 months (P=0.035). Conclusions High resolution cytogenetic analysis by SNP-array has the potential to uncover the genetic alterations carried by pancreatic tumors, and find new markers related to patient prognosis.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650
New Two-Dimensional Models of Supernova Explosions by the Neutrino-Heating Mechanism: Evidence for Different Instability Regimes in Collapsing Stellar Cores
Creators: name: Mueller, B.
name: Janka, H. -Th.
name: Heger, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutrino-driven explosion mechanism for core-collapse supernovae in its modern flavor relies on the additional support of hydrodynamical instabilities in achieving shock revival. Two possible candidates, convection and the so-called standing accretion shock instability (SASI), have been proposed for this role. In this paper, we discuss new successful simulations of supernova explosions that shed light on the relative importance of these two instabilities. While convection has so far been observed to grow first in self-consistent hydrodynamical models with multi-group neutrino transport, we here present the first such simulation in which the SASI grows faster while the development of convection is initially inhibited. We illustrate the features of this SASI-dominated regime using an explosion model of a 27 solar mass progenitor, which is contrasted with a convectively-dominated model of an 8.1 solar mass progenitor with subsolar metallicity, whose early post-bounce behavior is more in line with previous 11.2 and 15 solar mass explosion models. We analyze the conditions discriminating between the two different regimes, showing that a high mass-accretion rate and a short advection time-scale are conducive for strong SASI activity. We also briefly discuss some important factors for capturing the SASI-driven regime, such as general relativity, the progenitor structure, a nuclear equation of state leading to a compact proto-neutron star, and the neutrino treatment. Finally, we evaluate possible implications of our findings for 2D and 3D supernova simulations. Our results show that a better understanding of the SASI and convection in the non-linear regime is required.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures; revised version accepted for publication in ApJ
Evolution of inspiral orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Warburton, Niels
name: Akcay, Sarp
name: Barack, Leor
name: Gair, Jonathan R.
name: Sago, Norichika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from calculations of the orbital evolution in eccentric binaries of nonrotating black holes with extreme mass-ratios. Our inspiral model is based on the method of osculating geodesics, and is the first to incorporate the full gravitational self-force (GSF) effect, including conservative corrections. The GSF information is encapsulated in an analytic interpolation formula based on numerical GSF data for over a thousand sample geodesic orbits. We assess the importance of including conservative GSF corrections in waveform models for gravitational-wave searches.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Fast GSF calculator code available at: http://www.nielswarburton.net/lib_Sch_GSF/
Symmela Erichson 1835
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Symmela

description: Symmela Erichson, 1835
[29 species].
Type species Symmela instabilis Erichson, 1835, by subsequent designation of Evans (2003).
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
Local Electronic Correlation at the Two-Particle Level
Creators: name: Rohringer, Georg
name: Valli, Angelo
name: Toschi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic correlated systems are often well described by dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). While DMFT studies have mainly focused hitherto on one-particle properties, valuable information is also enclosed into local two-particle Green's functions and vertices. They represent the main ingredient to compute momentum-dependent response functions at the DMFT level and to treat non-local spatial correlations at all length scales by means of diagrammatic extensions of DMFT. The aim of this paper is to present a DMFT analysis of the local reducible and irreducible two-particle vertex functions for the Hubbard model in the context of an unified diagrammatic formalism. An interpretation of the observed frequency structures is also given in terms of perturbation theory, of the comparison with the atomic limit, and of the mapping onto the attractive Hubbard model.
description: 29 pages, 26 Figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer Liver Metastases. Navigating Uncharted Territory
Creators: name: Zanini, Nicola
name: Lombardi, Raffaele
name: Masetti, Michele
name: Fabbri, Carlo
name: Fornelli, Adele
name: Baccarini, Paola
name: Fiscaletti, Marta
name: Cennamo, Vincenzo
name: Jovine, Elio
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Meeting Abstracts; Pancreas

description: Context Studies on kinetics of metastases revealed that pancreatic cancer should be considered a systemic disease at the time of diagnosis, regardless of tumor stage at imaging. Surgery is generally not indicated for metastatic pancreatic cancer because it is supposed not to improve survival. Objective Is metastasis from periampullary cancer an absolute contraindication to surgery? Could someone benefit from liver resection? Who? Methods Our prospectively collected database (2003-2012) lists 20 patients who underwent liver resection for metastases from periampullary, non-endocrine cancer. Generally, resection was offered in young patient, fit for surgery, with few metastases. Fourteen patients were affected by synchronous metastases and they underwent simultaneous pancreatectomy and liver resection, 6 patients experienced metachronous metastases. Results Median age was 60 years (IQR: 52-65 years). Pancreatic ductal carcinoma was the primary tumor in 15 patients, the remaining patients were affected by ampullary carcinoma or distal bile duct carcinoma. One right hepatectomy, 2 bisegmentectomies and 17 atypical resections were performed. Simultaneous liver and pancreatic resections did not improve postoperative morbidity and mortality if compared to standard pancreatic resections. Median follow-up was 47 months. Median overall survival (OS) was 15 months (95%CI: 8-22 months). Median OS in patients with synchronous metastases was 12 months (95%CI: 7-17 months). Median OS in patients with metachronous metastases was 28 months (95%CI: 2-55 months) from liver resection, 38 months from pancreatectomy. Conclusion Surgery for liver metastases from periampullary tumors is a minefield. It is a wrong step for most patients and death may occur even earlier if compared to palliative cure. However, a small group of patients could benefit from surgery and find a path to long-term survival.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 5S (2012): September (Suppl.) - p. 548-650