cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Primordial Power Spectrum features and $f_{NL}$ constraints
Creators: name: Gariazzo, Stefano
name: Lopez-Honorez, Laura
name: Mena, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simplest models of inflation predict small non-gaussianities and a featureless power spectrum. However, there exist a large number of well-motivated theoretical scenarios in which large non-gaussianties could be generated. In general, in these scenarios the primordial power spectrum will deviate from its standard power law shape. We study, in a model-independent manner, the constraints from future large scale structure surveys on the local non-gaussianity parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ when the standard power law assumption for the primordial power spectrum is relaxed. If the analyses are restricted to the large scale-dependent bias induced in the linear matter power spectrum by non-gaussianites, the errors on the $f_{\rm NL}$ parameter could be increased by $60\%$ when exploiting data from the future DESI survey, if dealing with only one possible dark matter tracer. In the same context, a nontrivial bias $|δf_{\rm NL}| \sim 2.5$ could be induced if future data are fitted to the wrong primordial power spectrum. Combining all the possible DESI objects slightly ameliorates the problem, as the forecasted errors on $f_{\rm NL}$ would be degraded by $40\%$ when relaxing the assumptions concerning the primordial power spectrum shape. Also the shift on the non-gaussianity parameter is reduced in this case, $|δf_{\rm NL}| \sim 1.6$. The addition of Cosmic Microwave Background priors ensure robust future $f_{\rm NL}$ bounds, as the forecasted errors obtained including these measurements are almost independent on the primordial power spectrum features, and $|δf_{\rm NL}| \sim 0.2$, close to the standard single-field slow-roll paradigm prediction.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Admixture mapping in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos reveals regions of genetic associations with blood pressure traits
Creators: name: Kobes, Sayuko
name: Baier, Leslie J.
name: Thornton, Timothy A.
name: Hanson, Robert
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Reiner, Alex P.
name: Franceschini, Nora
name: Daviglus, Martha L.
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia
name: Sofer, Tamar
name: Browning, Sharon R.
name: Levy, Daniel
name: Cooper, Richard S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Admixture mapping can be used to detect genetic association regions in admixed populations, such as Hispanics/Latinos, by estimating associations between local ancestry allele counts and the trait of interest. We performed admixture mapping of the blood pressure traits systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), and pulse pressure (PP), in a dataset of 12,116 participants from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Hispanics/Latinos have three predominant ancestral populations (European, African, and Amerindian), for each of which we separately tested local ancestry intervals across the genome. We identified four regions that were significantly associated with a blood pressure trait at the genome-wide admixture mapping level. A 6p21.31 Amerindian ancestry association region has multiple known associations, but none explained the admixture mapping signal. We identified variants that completely explained this signal. One of these variants had p-values of 0.02 (MAP) and 0.04 (SBP) in replication testing in Pima Indians. A 11q13.4 Amerindian ancestry association region spans a variant that was previously reported (p-value = 0.001) in a targeted association study of Blood Pressure (BP) traits and variants in the vitamin D pathway. There was no replication evidence supporting an association in the identified 17q25.3 Amerindian ancestry association region. For a region on 6p12.3, associated with African ancestry, we did not identify any candidate variants driving the association. It may be driven by rare variants. Whole genome sequence data may be necessary to fine map these association signals, which may contribute to disparities in BP traits between diverse populations.
title: Hyperthermale intravesikale Chemotherapie mit Mitomycin 40 mg (HIVEC) als alternative Behandlungsstrategie bei nichtmuskelinvasivem Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase
Creators: name: Dimitroulis, Pantelis
name: Nzeh, Cajetan
name: Planz, Bernhard
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Das Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase stellt den zweithäufigsten Urogenitaltumor dar. Das Erkrankungsrisiko bis 75 Jahre beträgt 2–3% für Männer und 0,5–1% für Frauen und die Rezidivrate bis zu 70%. Die hyperthermale intravesikale Chemotherapie[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
El beso de la mujer araña, de Manuel Puig. Píldora audiovisual
Creators: name: Noguerol Jiménez, Francisca
name: Sánchez-Aparicio, Vega
name: Elvira-Navarro, Andrea
name: Paniagua García, José Antonio
name: Cano Vidal, José Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Material docente elaborado en el seno del proyecto de Innovación Docente «Elaboración de píldoras audiovisuales para la enseñanza de la literatura hispanoamericana» (ID2021/076) concedido en la Universidad de Salamanca durante el curso académico 2021/2022
Graph kernels encoding features of all subgraphs by quantum superposition
Creators: name: Kishi, Kaito
name: Satoh, Takahiko
name: Raymond, Rudy
name: Yamamoto, Naoki
name: Sakakibara, Yasubumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graph kernels are often used in bioinformatics and network applications to measure the similarity between graphs; therefore, they may be used to construct efficient graph classifiers. Many graph kernels have been developed thus far, but to the best of our knowledge there is no existing graph kernel that considers all subgraphs to measure similarity. We propose a novel graph kernel that applies a quantum computer to measure the graph similarity taking all subgraphs into account by fully exploiting the power of quantum superposition to encode every subgraph into a feature. For the construction of the quantum kernel, we develop an efficient protocol that removes the index information of subgraphs encoded in the quantum state. We also prove that the quantum computer requires less query complexity to construct the feature vector than the classical sampler used to approximate the same vector. A detailed numerical simulation of a bioinformatics problem is presented to demonstrate that, in many cases, the proposed quantum kernel achieves better classification accuracy than existing graph kernels.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
Additional file 2 of Key subdomains of mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor attenuate myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury by JAK1/STAT1/NF-κB signaling pathway
Creators: name: Dong, Haibin
name: Jia, Wenjuan
name: Wang, Chunxiao
name: Teng, Da
name: Xu, Bowen
name: Ding, Xiaoning
name: Yang, Jun
name: Zhong, Lin
name: Gong, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Einfluss von adjuvanter Chemotherapie nach radikaler Zystektomie bei Patienten mit muskelinvasivem Harnblasentumor und histologischen Varianten: Welche Rolle spielt der histologische Subtyp?
Creators: name: Berg, Sebastian
name: Hanske, Julian
name: von Landenberg, Nicolas
name: Reicherz, Alina
name: Häuser, Lorine
name: Roghmann, Florian
name: Brock, Marko
name: Noldus, Joachim
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die adjuvante Chemotherapie (AC) bei Patienten mit einem reinen Urothelkarzinom ist fester Bestandteil der Therapie nach radikaler Zystektomie (RZ). Bei Harnblasentumoren mit anderen histologischen Varianten hingegen herrscht Unklarheit. Ziel unserer Studie war die Untersuchung des Einflusses[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
Transforming Collaborative Governing Bodies for Immigrants’ Authentic Engagement
Creators: name: Meléndez, José W.
name: Hoff, Calvin G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Mental Health
Cardiology

description: In the Pacific Northwest, immigration has brought about unprecedented demographic changes. In this study we investigated the urban governance practice of including members of the public on collaborative governing bodies (e.g., committees, boards, planning commissions) among first- and second-generation immigrants in Oregon. We conducted 46 semistructured interviews with immigrant members of collaborative governing bodies throughout Oregon and found that the culture of a body has multiple impacts on a participant’s satisfaction and productivity. Evidence of the mitigating role culture plays (related to an individual’s sense of accomplishment and positive association) centered on participants’ reported influence on the body itself and on the practices and policies of the community at large during their service. The findings also suggest that informal activities before, in between, or after official business were equally as important to building a culture of productivity as any formal training that members received. Planners must encourage body members and others in leadership roles to develop a core belief that nurturing the culture of the body is key to enhancing members’ feelings of influence. This approach should include an investment of resources in hosting extensive orientations that acquaint new members with the technical components of the work and with meeting procedures, and existing members with the value of storytelling during deliberation. The results of this study can inform future planners about the intricate qualities that make or break the culture of a governing body, including its members and staff.
Greece, an early analysis of the provisional results of 2021 census
Creators: name: Demo, Dirap
name: KOTZAMANIS, BYRON
name: Pappas, Vassilis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160399 Demography not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The recently communicated provisional results of the 2021 census in Greece confirm the expected population decline during the last decade which was marked by three separate crises: the economic, the "refugee" and the epidemiological. This decrease (-384 thousand or -3.55%) is lower than expected (-485 thousand) by an estimation based on the natural and migratory balance. At the same time, drawing solid conclusions based on the temporary data at lower than national levels requires special attention as the coverage error probably differs from the respective 2011 value. The rates of population change in NUTS 2 and 3 levels are affected by this factor (as well as by the differentiated percentage in the last two censuses of people declaring a municipality of permanent residence different from the real one). Thus, while the basic trends in the large NUTS 2 and 3 units cannot probably be disputed, the same is not necessarily true for small Prefectures and especially for Municipalities, as results from the analysis of their growth rates, while taking into account the natural balance.
Integrable semi-discretization of a multi-component short pulse equation
Creators: name: Feng, Bao-Feng
name: Maruno, Ken-ichi
name: Ohta, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper, we mainly study the integrable semi-discretization of a multi-component short pulse equation. Firstly, we briefly review the bilinear equations for a multi-component short pulse equation proposed by Matsuno (J. Math. Phys. \textbf{52} 123705) and reaffirm its $N$-soliton solution in terms of pfaffians. Then by using a Bäcklund transformation of the bilinear equations and defining a discrete hodograph (reciprocal) transformation, an integrable semi-discrete multi-component short pulse equation is constructed. Meanwhile, its $N$-soliton solution in terms of pfaffians is also proved.
description: J. Math. Phys., to appear, 22 pages, 2 figures
Admixture mapping of pelvic organ prolapse in African Americans from the Women’s Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trial
Creators: name: North, Kari E.
name: Edwards, Todd L.
name: Giri, Ayush
name: O'Sullivan, Mary J.
name: Hartmann, Katherine E.
name: Qi, Lihong
name: Edwards, Digna R. Velez
name: Ward, Renee M.
name: Wallace, Robert B.
name: Wu, Jennifer M.
name: Gr, Mariaelisa
name: Nassir, Rami
name: Park, Amy J.
name: Aldrich, Melinda C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Evidence suggests European American (EA) women have two- to five-fold increased odds of having pelvic organ prolapse (POP) when compared with African American (AA) women. However, the role of genetic ancestry in relation to POP risk is not clear. Here we evaluate the association between genetic ancestry and POP in AA women from the Women’s Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trial. Women with grade 1 or higher classification, and grade 2 or higher classification for uterine prolapse, cystocele or rectocele at baseline or during follow-up were considered to have any POP (N = 805) and moderate/severe POP (N = 156), respectively. Women with at least two pelvic exams with no indication for POP served as controls (N = 344). We performed case-only, and case-control admixture-mapping analyses using multiple logistic regression while adjusting for age, BMI, parity and global ancestry. We evaluated the association between global ancestry and POP using multiple logistic regression. European ancestry at the individual level was not associated with POP risk. Case-only and case-control local ancestry analyses identified two ancestry-specific loci that may be associated with POP. One locus (Chromosome 15q26.2) achieved empirically-estimated statistical significance and was associated with decreased POP odds (considering grade ≥2 POP) with each unit increase in European ancestry (OR: 0.35; 95% CI: 0.30, 0.57; p-value = 1.48x10-5). This region includes RGMA, a potent regulator of the BMP family of genes. The second locus (Chromosome 1q42.1-q42.3) was associated with increased POP odds with each unit increase in European ancestry (Odds ratio [OR]: 1.69; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.28, 2.22; p-value = 1.93x10-4). Although this region did not reach statistical significance after considering multiple comparisons, it includes potentially relevant genes including TBCE, and ACTA1. Unique non-overlapping European and African ancestry-specific susceptibility loci may be associated with increased POP risk.
Some noncommutative subsequential weighted individual ergodic theorems
Creators: name: O'Brien, Morgan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article is devoted to studying individual ergodic theorems for subsequential weighted ergodic averages on the noncommutative Lp-spaces associated to a semifinite von Neumann algebra M. In particular, we establish the convergence of these averages along sequences with density one and certain types of block sequences with positive lower density, and we extend known results along uniform sequences in the sense of Brunel and Keane.
description: 15 pages
title: Wie viel Diagnostik lohnt sich vor TUR-Blase?
Creators: name: Seyd, Ceylan
name: Walter, Lisa
name: Waldner, Michael
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die allgemeine Diagnostik vor transurethraler Resektion eines vermeintlichen Blasentumors ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten immer mehr reduziert worden. Im Allgemeinen werden im ambulanten Sektor eine Sonographie und eine Cystoskopie durchgeführt. Bei Tumorverdacht erfolgt direkt die Einweisung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
Engineering and performance of a contactless linear slider based on superconducting magnetic levitation for precision positioning
Creators: name: Valiente-Blanco, Ignacio
name: Jimenez, Efren Diez
name: Perez-Diaz, Jose Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a contactless linear slider for precision positioning able to operate in cryogenic environments is presented. The device, based on superconducting magnetic levitation, does not present contact between the slider (composed of a permanent magnet) and the guideline (made of high-temperature superconducting disks) of the mechanism, thereby avoiding any tribological problems. Moreover, the slider is self-stable and the superconductors provide inherent guidance to the permanent magnet in the sliding DoF due to the high translational symmetry of the magnetic field that leads to low power consumption. A sub-micrometre resolution and a symmetric stroke over 9 mm have been demonstrated at cryogenic temperatures. In addition, a set of design rules for this kind of mechanism has been proposed and experimentally validated. These rules demonstrate that the performance of the device can be tuned just by modifying some geometrical parameters of the mechanism. In this way, the sensitivity and stiffness, resolution, angular run outs and power consumption can be adjusted for different applications and requirements.
description: Accepted paper after embargo period
Stable Degeneracies for Ising Models
Creators: name: Knauf, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82-XX

description: We introduce and consider the notion of stable degeneracies of translation invariant energy functions for finite Ising models. By this term we mean the lack of injectivity that cannot be lifted by changing the interaction. We show that besides the symmetry-induced degeneracies, related to spin flip, translation and reflection, there exist additional stable degeneracies, due to more subtle symmetries. One such symmetry is the one of the Singer group of a finite projective plane. Others are described by combinatorial relations akin to trace identities. Our results resemble traits of the length spectrum for closed geodesics on a Riemannian surface of constant negative curvature. There stable degeneracy is defined w.r.t. Teichmüller space as parameter space.
description: 26 pages
Additional file 2 of Regulatory T cells limit age-associated retinal inflammation and neurodegeneration
Creators: name: Llorián-Salvador, María
name: de la Fuente, Alerie G.
name: McMurran, Christopher E.
name: Dashwood, Amy
name: Dooley, James
name: Liston, Adrian
name: Penalva, Rosana
name: Dombrowski, Yvonne
name: Stitt, Alan W.
name: Fitzgerald, Denise C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2. Fig. 2 Additional Neuroretinal Characterization. A, B Hematoxylin and eosin analysis of retinal thickness. Representative images showing hematoxylin and eosin staining (A) of young and aged retinas in the different treatment groups (scale bar = 50 µm). Quantification of the total retinal layer thickness as well as the thickness of the different cell layers (B). C-E Determination of RGC number in young and aged retinas. Representative image (C) (scale bar = 25 µm) and quantification of retinal ganglion cells identified by BRN3A+ (D) and DAPI+ staining in GCL (E). F-H Determination of T cell infiltration in the neuroretina of aged mice upon Treg depletion. Quantification of the presence of CD3+ T cells (F), CD3+ CD4+ T cells (G) and CD3+CD4− T cells (H) per area of the neuroretina. J Quantification of the purity of the adoptively transferred Tregs shown as the percentage of CD4+ T cells expressing Foxp3. Data information: A, B n = 4-7 mice, C-E n = 3-6, F-H n = 2-7mice, J n = 4-5 isolations. B-J data presented as mean ± s.e.m. *P < 0.05; ** P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001; 1-way ANOVA followed by Bonferroni's multiple comparisons test (B-H), while U-Mann Whitney test was performed in J.
ALC1/CHD1L, a chromatin-remodeling enzyme, is required for efficient base excision repair
Creators: name: Nakamura, Jun
name: Shimizu, Naoto
name: Nakazawa, Yuka
name: Harada, Hiroshi
name: Tsuda, Masataka
name: Yamamoto, Takashi
name: Hirota, Kouji
name: Agama, Keli
name: Pommier, Yves
name: Sakuma, Tetsushi
name: Asada, Ryuta
name: Takeda, Shunichi
name: Yasui, Akira
name: Ooka, Masato
name: Koike, Kaoru
name: Cho, Kosai
name: Murai, Junko
name: Fujiike, Haruna
name: Ogi, Tomoo
name: Hiraoka, Masahiro
name: Watanabe, Reiko
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: ALC1/CHD1L is a member of the SNF2 superfamily of ATPases carrying a macrodomain that binds poly(ADP-ribose). Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) 1 and 2 synthesize poly(ADP-ribose) at DNA-strand cleavage sites, promoting base excision repair (BER). Although depletion of ALC1 causes increased sensitivity to various DNA-damaging agents (H2O2, UV, and phleomycin), the role played by ALC1 in BER has not yet been established. To explore this role, as well as the role of ALC1’s ATPase activity in BER, we disrupted the ALC1 gene and inserted the ATPase-dead (E165Q) mutation into the ALC1 gene in chicken DT40 cells, which do not express PARP2. The resulting ALC1-/- and ALC1-/E165Q cells displayed an indistinguishable hypersensitivity to methylmethane sulfonate (MMS), an alkylating agent, and to H2O2, indicating that ATPase plays an essential role in the DNA-damage response. PARP1-/- and ALC1-/-/PARP1-/- cells exhibited a very similar sensitivity to MMS, suggesting that ALC1 and PARP1 collaborate in BER. Following pulse-exposure to H2O2, PARP1-/- and ALC1-/-/PARP1-/- cells showed similarly delayed kinetics in the repair of single-strand breaks, which arise as BER intermediates. To ascertain ALC1’s role in BER in mammalian cells, we disrupted the ALC1 gene in human TK6 cells. Following exposure to MMS and to H2O2, the ALC1-/- TK6 cell line showed a delay in single-strand-break repair. We therefore conclude that ALC1 plays a role in BER. Following exposure to H2O2,ALC1-/- cells showed compromised chromatin relaxation. We thus propose that ALC1 is a unique BER factor that functions in a chromatin context, most likely as a chromatin-remodeling enzyme.
CLEAR: Spatially Resolved Emission Lines and Active Galactic Nuclei at $0.6
Creators: name: Backhaus, Bren E.
name: Bridge, Joanna S.
name: Trump, Jonathan R.
name: Cleri, Nikko J.
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Simons, Raymond C.
name: Momcheva, Ivelina
name: Holwerda, Benne W.
name: Ji, Zhiyuan
name: Jung, Intae
name: Matharu, Jasleen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate spatially-resolved emission-line ratios in a sample of 219 galaxies ($0.6
description: 16 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables
Differential Harnack Estimates for Fisher's Equation
Creators: name: Cao, Xiaodong
name: Liu, Bowei
name: Pendleton, Ian
name: Ward, Abigail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we derive several differential Harnack estimates (also known as Li-Yau-Hamilton-type estimates) for positive solutions of Fisher's equation. We use the estimates to obtain lower bounds on the speed of traveling wave solutions and to construct classical Harnack inequalities.
The Invest in Youth Long Beach Coalition
Creators: name: Lin, May
name: Patraporn, R. Varisa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Broader power imbalances across race, class, and age hamper anti-racism in planning. Here, we show how the youth of color–led Invest in Youth Coalition in Long Beach (CA; IIY-LB) pushed the city to implement co-production and youth co-governance in budget planning, strategic planning, and city program development. We drew from participant observation, semistructured interviews, and secondary sources to highlight youth organizing (YO) strategies, including leadership development, political education, electoral organizing, and storytelling. Youth leaders redefined budgetary agendas through participatory research and other strategies that highlighted disinvestment in, and criminalization of, youth and communities of color. They successfully won city attention and resources for positive youth development. Building on partnerships cultivated with the city, IIY-LB also secured more equitable representation and decision-making power of low-income queer youth and youth of color in strategic planning processes. The coalition amassed and flexed electoral power of systemically disenfranchized communities, winning a local ballot measure to secure and fund an Office of Youth Development. Finally, IIY-LB has collaborated with the city to enact youth co-governance in the office’s implementation. This case study advances co-production and youth engagement literatures by illuminating specific YO strategies to achieve elusive models of authentic community collaboration and co-governance. IIY-LB shows how planners can concretely share power with youth and communities of color, especially YO groups, at all stages of planning. Funders and planners can divert resources directly to youth and community organizing groups, whether via multiyear, unrestricted grants or directly resourcing YO groups to lead capacity building. Planners should build longer, more flexible timelines and collaborative spaces to support substantive youth decision making. Planning educators can support promote service learning and internships with YO groups to develop planners’ understanding of organizing.
Prevalence of alcohol among drivers, riders and pedestrians injured in road traffic crashes in Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Oyono, Yannick
name: Gjerde, Hallvard
name: Kelley-Baker, Tara
name: Asongalem, Emmanuel Acha
name: Nteungue, Boris Arnaud Kouomogne
name: Tayimetha, Carolle Yanique
name: Momo, Olivier Djouyep
name: Biwole, Claude Patrick Biwole
name: Owandja, David Mekolo
name: Ngono, Valerie
name: Djakari, Yaouba
name: Ramaekers, Johannes G.
name: Akum, Eric Achidi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The use of alcohol among road users injured in road traffic crashes and admitted to three major hospitals in Cameroon was studied. Alcohol use was measured using breathalyzers, and data on age, gender, education level, religion, type of road user, time of the crash, crash characteristics, and injury severity were recorded using a questionnaire. Of the 350 participants, 30.9% had blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) above 0.08% (legal limit for drivers); the proportion was highest among motorcycle riders (36.5%), followed by pedestrians (24.8%) and motor vehicle drivers (18.9%). The proportion with BAC above 0.08% was highest on weekend nights and among those who were most seriously injured. Those who reported being Muslims had a lower prevalence of alcohol. Multivariable logistic regression analysis confirmed those associations. Many road traffic injuries could have been avoided if the patient had not consumed alcohol. Actions should therefore be taken to reduce the proportion of alcohol-impaired road users. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2022.2030365 .
Risk-sensitive optimal stopping with unbounded terminal cost function
Creators: name: Jelito, Damian
name: Stettner, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93E20, 60G40, 49J21

description: In this paper we consider an infinite time horizon risk-sensitive optimal stopping problem for a Feller--Markov process with an unbounded terminal cost function. We show that in the unbounded case an associated Bellman equation may have multiple solutions and we give a probabilistic interpretation for the minimal and the maximal one. Also, we show how to approximate them using finite time horizon problems. The analysis, covering both discrete and continuous time case, is supported with illustrative examples.
description: 32 pages, added Example 7, several rearrangements
title: Single-Center Analyse der perioperativen Morbidität und Mortalität der radikalen Zystektomie
Creators: name: Grzella, Corinn
name: Kress, Alexander
name: Kreutzer, Niklas
name: Truß, Michael
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die radikale Zystektomie ist ein Eingriff mit signifikanter Morbidität und Mortalität. Wir haben unsere Ergebnisse deshalb retrospektiv ausgewertet. Methode: Die Datenbank umfasst Eingriffe von 2004–2018 (n=593). Die aktuelle Analyse bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
title: Temporary Implantable Nitinol Device (iTIND) zur Therapie des Benignen Prostatasyndroms
Creators: name: Salem, Johannes
name: Heidenreich, Axel
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Zunehmend besteht Interesse an minimalinvasiven Verfahren zur Therapie der Benignes Prostatahyperplasie und zur Protektion der Ejakulation. Eines der neuen Verfahren stellt das temporär implantierbare Nitinolkörbchen, iTIND (TIND; Medi-Tate, Or Akiva, Israel), dar. Methode:[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
Alterations in airway microbiota in patients with PaO2/FiO2 ratio ≤ 300 after burn and inhalation injury
Creators: name: Jones, Corbin D.
name: Yourstone, Scott
name: Diaz-Sanchez, David
name: Jones, Samuel W.
name: Cairns, Bruce A.
name: McCullough, Shaun D.
name: Walsh, Dana M.
name: Jaspers, Ilona
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Injury to the airways after smoke inhalation is a major mortality risk factor in victims of burn injuries, resulting in a 15–45% increase in patient deaths. Damage to the airways by smoke may induce acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is partly characterized by hypoxemia in the airways. While ARDS has been associated with bacterial infection, the impact of hypoxemia on airway microbiota is unknown. Our objective was to identify differences in microbiota within the airways of burn patients who develop hypoxemia early after inhalation injury and those that do not using next-generation sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes.
Evolution of the ionic polarization in multiple sequential ionization: general equations and an illustrative example
Creators: name: Gryzlova, Elena V.
name: Grum-Grzhimailo, Alexei N.
name: Kiselev, Maksim D.
name: Popova, Maria M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modern Free-Electron-Lasers generate a highly intense polarized radiation which initiate a sequence of ionization and decay events. Their probability depends on the polarization of each state as function of time. Its complete accounting is limited by the fact that a state can be formed in various ways. Here we present the equivalent of rate equations for population that completely accounts polarization of radiation and formulated in terms of the statistical tensors. To illustrate our approach we theoretically consider sequential photoionization of krypton by an intense extreme ultraviolet femtosecond pulse for the photon energies below the 3d-shell excitation threshold. The calculations of the ion yields, photoelectron spectra and ionic polarization for various photon fluence are presented and role of polarization is discussed.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
From Infrastructural Repair to Reparative Planning
Creators: name: Song, Lily
name: Mizrahi, Elifmina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Planners face great urgency to account for the field’s entanglement with White supremacy and rebuild from harm. Yet the actual practice of reparative planning in political communities still mired in racial inequalities and public institutions entangled in the production of racialized space is hardly straightforward. Anti-racist reckonings and reparations measures occurring within institutionalized venues are necessary starting points for reparative planning that can be further supplemented and amplified by anti-racist struggles and social practices in different arenas. Using a multimethod research design combining direct participation and nonparticipant observation with document-based research using primary and secondary sources and interviews, this case study of Alliance for Community Transit–Los Angeles (ACT-LA) explores infrastructural systems as key areas of racial harm, focal points of anti-racist resistance, and keystones for reparative planning. The substantive analysis focuses on ACT-LA’s Reimagining Safety initiative, which seeks to replace Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s racialized policing practices with public investments in community-based systems of safety. Case findings help expand points of entry and paths for reparative planning, inform strategies by planners embracing the reparative turn, and strengthen connections between community-based mobilizations and reparative planning. Planners can advocate for institutionalized and social practices of reparative planning in the issue areas, sectors, and organizations in which we work, in solidarity with the reparations movement and other anti-racist struggles.
Theory of tunneling spectra for a few-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot
Creators: name: Knothe, Angelika
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
name: Fal'ko, Vladimir I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tuneability and control of quantum nanostructures in two-dimensional materials offer promising perspectives for their use in future electronics. It is hence necessary to analyze quantum transport in such nanostructures. Material properties such as a complex dispersion, topology, and charge carriers with multiple degrees of freedom, are appealing for novel device functionalities but complicate their theoretical description. Here, we study quantum tunnelling transport across a few-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot. We demonstrate how to uniquely identify single- and two-electron dot states' orbital, spin, and valley composition from differential conductance in a finite magnetic field. Furthermore, we show that the transport features manifest splittings in the dot's spin and valley multiplets induced by interactions and magnetic field (the latter splittings being a consequence of bilayer graphene's Berry curvature). Our results elucidate spin- and valley-dependent tunnelling mechanisms and will help to utilize bilayer graphene quantum dots, e.g., as spin and valley qubits.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
When Diversity Lost the Beat
Creators: name: Kenyatta, Matthew Jordan-Miller
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Since the 1960s, African Americans have advocated to be systematically represented and addressed in planning education and practice. Despite burgeoning diversity work, it is unclear how specifically planning scholars have listened. Using a bibliometric and content analysis of the 21 oldest and most-cited planning journals, I analyzed the presence of race, diversity, and African Americans in 19,645 peer-reviewed research articles published between 1990 and 2020. Of these articles, only 4.8% focused explicitly on racial diversity in the abstracts, titles, keywords, or within their main text. Within these 944 U.S. diversity articles, nearly one-fourth (24.47%, n = 231) focused on African Americans. Overall, just 1.17% of the total U.S.-focused planning research in these journals focused on African Americans in this 3-decade period. Of these Black urbanism research articles, an evolving set of 34 themes and 105 story beats built on each other in six story arcs: a) Black housing, segregation, and gentrification; b) Black entrepreneurship and employment; c) Black ecology and environmentalism; d) Black arts, culture, and politics; and e) Black intersectionality. In addition to offering the first quantitative study on Black urbanism since 1990, two main analytical insights are that Black urbanism is a small literature, and specific contours exist to grow Black urbanism beyond its small canon in planning. Limitations to these findings include the small literature size, the lack of engagement with Black urbanism in a broader context than planning, technological barriers for mining older articles from archived databases, and understanding Black urbanism beyond a provincial focus on the United States. I offer two suggestions for planning scholars and practitioners: Avoid race-neutral diversity language when practicing in or publishing about Black contexts and recognize that a canon of Black urbanism exists.
title: Aqua-Ablation der Prostata: Technik und erste Ergebnisse
Creators: name: Paulics, Laszlo
name: Boy, Anselm
name: Roosen, Alexander
name: Ubrig, Burkhard
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die Wasserstrahlablation der Prostata ist ein neuartiges, robotisch-assistiertes Verfahren zur transurethralen Therapie der Obstruktion der prostatischen Harnröhre. Unter Verzicht auf thermische Energie wird das Prostatagewebe durch einen Hochdruck-Wasserstrahl entfernt. Die Planung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 65. Kongress der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Urologie
Existence of solutions for the Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis with measures as initial data
Creators: name: Biler, Piotr
name: Zienkiewicz, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q92, 35B44, 35K55

description: A simple proof of the existence of solutions for the two-dimensional Keller-Segel model with measures with all the atoms less than $8π$ as the initial data is given. This result has been obtained by Senba--Suzuki and Bedrossian--Masmoudi using different arguments. Moreover, we show a uniform bound for the existence time of solutions as well as an optimal hypercontractivity estimate.
Photons' scattering in a relativistic plasma with velocity shear: generation of high energy power-law spectra
Creators: name: Vyas, Mukesh K.
name: Pe'er, Asaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A high energy power law is a common feature in the spectra of many astrophysical objects. We show that the photons in a relativistic plasma with a variable Lorentz factor go through repeated scattering with electrons to gain energy. The escaped population of photons naturally produces a power-law-shaped spectrum making it an anisotropic analogue to the conventional Fermi acceleration mechanism of charged particles. Thus, this mechanism provides a natural alternative to current explanations of high energy power-law spectra via synchrotron or thermal Comptonization. The model is applicable to any relativistic plasma beam with an arbitrary Lorentz factor profile. We implement the theory to GRB prompt phase and show that the obtained range of the photon indices is compatible with the observed values. Therefore, the observed high energy spectral indices provide a unique indicator of the jet structure.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to PRL
Sixty Years of Racial Equity Planning
Creators: name: Arroyo, John C.
name: Sandoval, Gerard F.
name: Bernstein, Joanna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Mental Health

description: Debates about race in the United States are front and center in the 21st century. From the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to the caging of indigenous migrant children from Mexico and Central America to rising Asian American and Pacific Islander discrimination during COVID-19, the urgency for an explicit definition of racial equity planning and examples of how the ethic evolved could not be more pressing. Historically, social justice–oriented planners focused efforts on racial equity despite a lack of a collective understanding of the topic. By demonstrating diverse, applied approaches through an analysis of 17 municipal and community-led plans at various scales, we traced the primacy of race in equity planning through four key eras: civil rights, Model Cities and successive programs, HOPE VI and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Sustainable Cities Regional Planning Grants, and contemporary. How and why has racial equity planning evolved in the academic planning literature and representative racial equity plans in the last 60 years? Racial equity planning has always been a cornerstone of the field, and lessons from the literature and relevant plans merit deeper attention, especially as White supremacy gains stronger ground. Planners should affirm a unified definition of racial equity planning informed by relevant scholarship and operationalize its tenets in their work. Recognizing key milestones where racial equity has successfully informed contemporary urban policies offers progressive planners a rich set of alternative policies, strategies, and programs to use across diverse communities.
Optimal Epidemic Control in Equilibrium with Imperfect Testing and Enforcement
Creators: name: Phelan, Thomas
name: Toda, Alexis Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We analyze equilibrium behavior and optimal policy within a Susceptible-Infected-Recovered epidemic model augmented with potentially undiagnosed agents who infer their health status and a social planner with imperfect enforcement of social distancing. We define and prove the existence of a perfect Bayesian Markov competitive equilibrium and contrast it with the efficient allocation subject to the same informational constraints. We identify two externalities, static (individual actions affect current risk of infection) and dynamic (individual actions affect future disease prevalence), and study how they are affected by limitations on testing and enforcement. We prove that a planner with imperfect enforcement will always wish to curtail activity, but that its incentives to do so vanish as testing becomes perfect. When a vaccine arrives far into the future, the planner with perfect enforcement may encourage activity before herd immunity. We find that lockdown policies have modest welfare gains, whereas quarantine policies are effective even with imperfect testing.
An evidence-based evaluation of transferrable skills and job satisfaction for science PhDs
Creators: name: Cook, Jeanette Gowen
name: Brennwald, Patrick J.
name: Freeman, Ashalla M.
name: Layton, Rebekah L.
name: Harrell, Jessica R.
name: Brandt, Patrick D.
name: Sinche, Melanie
name: Hall, Joshua D.
name: O'Connell, Anna B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: PhD recipients acquire discipline-specific knowledge and a range of relevant skills during their training in the life sciences, physical sciences, computational sciences, social sciences, and engineering. Empirically testing the applicability of these skills to various careers held by graduates will help assess the value of current training models. This report details results of an Internet survey of science PhDs (n = 8099) who provided ratings for fifteen transferrable skills. Indeed, analyses indicated that doctoral training develops these transferrable skills, crucial to success in a wide range of careers including research-intensive (RI) and non-research-intensive (NRI) careers. Notably, the vast majority of skills were transferrable across both RI and NRI careers, with the exception of three skills that favored RI careers (creativity/innovative thinking, career planning and awareness skills, and ability to work with people outside the organization) and three skills that favored NRI careers (time management, ability to learn quickly, ability to manage a project). High overall rankings suggested that graduate training imparted transferrable skills broadly. Nonetheless, we identified gaps between career skills needed and skills developed in PhD training that suggest potential areas for improvement in graduate training. Therefore, we suggest that a two-pronged approach is crucial to maximizing existing career opportunities for PhDs and developing a career-conscious training model: 1) encouraging trainees to recognize their existing individual skill sets, and 2) increasing resources and programmatic interventions at the institutional level to address skill gaps. Lastly, comparison of job satisfaction ratings between PhD-trained employees in both career categories indicated that those in NRI career paths were just as satisfied in their work as their RI counterparts. We conclude that PhD training prepares graduates for a broad range of satisfying careers, potentially more than trainees and program leaders currently appreciate.