cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pooled analysis of bleeding profile, efficacy and safety of oral oestradiol valerate/dienogest in women aged 25 and under
Creators: name: Jensen, Jeffrey T.
name: Bitzer, Johannes
name: Nappi, Rossella E.
name: Ahlers, Christiane
name: Bannemerschult, Ralf
name: Parke, Susanne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Purpose: To evaluate differences in key outcomes between younger and older women receiving the oral contraceptive oestradiol valerate/dienogest (E2V/DNG). Methods: We conducted a pooled post hoc analysis of primary data from 12 studies of E2V/DNG, stratified by age (≤25 [n = 1309] and >25 [n = 2132] years). Outcomes included safety, efficacy, bleeding profile and hormone-withdrawal-associated symptoms (HWAS). Bleeding and HWAS analyses are also presented for women aged ≤20 years (n = 362). Discontinuations were considered a proxy for patient satisfaction. Results: Results were generally similar for younger and older women. The percentage of women aged ≤25 and >25 years experiencing intracyclic bleeding did not differ between groups (13.4% and 12.8% at cycle 12, respectively), with similar results in women aged ≤20 years (12.7%, cycle 12). Rates of withdrawal bleeding were very similar in women aged ≤25 and >25 years (78.5% and 78.9%, respectively, cycle 12). We also found a similar adjusted Pearl index in the two age groups (0.45 vs 0.57, respectively), similar rates of AEs and HWAS and no difference in discontinuations. Conclusions: Women aged ≤25 and >25 years have a similar experience with an E2V/DNV oral contraceptive, supporting this as an appropriate contraceptive option in younger and older women.
title: Repetition and Defamiliarization in AI Dungeon and Project December
Creators: name: Mitchell, Alex
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2022

description: Alex Mitchell (leader of the Narrative and Play Research Group at the National University of Singapore) shows how, while generative text adventure AI Dungeon allows players to uncritically interact with the AI system as they co-create a story, Project December instead primes the player for reflection and interpretation. Unlike most digital games, which emphasize immersion, this brings forward the problematic nature of their technology platforms: foregrounding rather than normalizing the strangeness of the experience, or even generating a kind of "spooky magic," as Project December creator Jason Roher puts it.
CHARACTERISTICS OF LANDOWNERS CONVERTING LAND IN THE WESTERN GREAT PLAINS, 1975-1977
Creators: name: Heimlich, Ralph E.
name: Heimlich, Ralph E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Great Plains
subject: cropland
subject: cropland addition
subject: landownership
subject: erosion

description: This study examines a comprehensive sample of farm and ranch landowners in seven Western Great Plains States. The sample is classified by land conversion activity between 1975 and 1977. More than 40,000 landowners (18 percent) in this area added cropland. The Northern Plains accounted for two-thirds of owners adding cropland. Operations adding cropland were of two types: new, expanding operations owned by younger, better educated, full-time farmers and established, speculative operations owned by older, less educated operators with a variety of nonfarm occupations. Soil erosion on land owned by those who converted land is little different than erosion on all land.
Identifying barriers to post-placental intrauterine device placement: male partners’ views
Creators: name: Yates, Melanie
name: Styles, Demetrius
name: Janes, Jessica
name: DeLozier, Sarah
name: Furman, Lydia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: The use of post-placental intrauterine devices (IUDs) has potential to address the health issues of suboptimal breastfeeding rates and short inter-pregnancy intervals. An understudied factor that may influence choice of breastfeeding-compatible contraception among postpartum women is their romantic partner. We aimed to identify male partner influences on women’s postpartum breastfeeding-compatible contraception choices. Methods: Questionnaires were administered to 75 men in Cleveland, OH, USA. Data on partner priorities, opinions and knowledge about breastfeeding and contraception, and barriers to partner IUD receipt were collected. Survey data were summarised using frequencies and percentages, and univariate logistic regression models were used to explore associations between responses. Results: Participants were predominantly African American, unmarried and had at least one child. Twenty-six participants (36%) reported using contraception with their current partner; men who had discussions and agreed about contraception with their partner were more likely to use it. Thirty-nine men (54%) intended for a future child to breastfeed; this intention was more likely for men who had a child that was breastfed previously and for those with knowledge of breastfeeding benefits. Only 25 (35%) thought a post-placental IUD was safe for breastfeeding mothers; correct IUD knowledge and a partner’s positive IUD experience were significantly associated with this response. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that knowledge about breastfeeding and contraception as well as experiential learning regarding breastfeeding and contraception within a partnered relationship are important and that minimal prior experience and low knowledge in these areas may be a male partner barrier to post-placental IUD placement for breastfeeding mothers.
PRICE ELASTICITIES FROM THE IIASA WORLD AGRICULTURE MODEL
Creators: name: Seeley, Ralph
name: Seeley, Ralph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Price elasticities
subject: world-to-domestic price transmission
subject: net trade
subject: cumulative response elasticities
subject: supply
subject: demand
subject: IIASA world agriculture model
subject: 1978 GOL model
subject: simulation

description: Implied 2-year to 10-year price responses from the May 1984 IIASA world agriculture model are described. Net trade quantity changes with respect to percent world price changes are presented, as well as elasticities of supply, demand, net trade, and world-to-domestic price transmission. The regions include the EEC, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Thailand, India, Egypt, Nigeria, and the world less the United States. Commodities shown are wheat, coarse grains, protein feed, ruminant meat, dairy, and other animal products. Implied second-year elasticities of net export demand facing the United States for wheat, coarse grains, and protein feed are -1.5, -1.7, and -1.5, respectively. Selected elasticities are compared with those from the 1978 GOL (grains, oilseeds, and livestock) model. Differences, particularly concerning price transmission and protein feed, are noted.
Additional file 3 of Differential methylation EPIC analysis discloses cisplatin-resistance related hypermethylation and tumor-specific heterogeneity within matched primary and metastatic testicular germ cell tumor patient tissue samples
Creators: name: Lobo, João
name: Constâncio, Vera
name: Leite-Silva, Pedro
name: Guimarães, Rita
name: Cantante, Mariana
name: Braga, Isaac
name: Maurício, Joaquina
name: Looijenga, Leendert H. J.
name: Henrique, Rui
name: Jerónimo, Carmen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Scatterplots of the mean beta values (A, C, E, G) and volcano plots of each pairwise comparison (B, D, F, H) related to differential methylation among matched primary and metastatic samples, at the CpG site level. A-B) patient #1; C-D) patient #2; E-F) patient #3; G-H) patient #4. In the scatterplots, the transparency corresponds to point density. Blue points represent differentially methylated sites (according to the combined rank criteria, see Methods). Red dots represent the 1000 best ranking sites. In the volcano plots, dots are colored according to combined rank, and the yy axis represents the combined p-values (or the mean quotient log2 when comparing two samples). Abbreviations: Met – metastatic samples; Prim – primary tumor samples.
HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS
Creators: name: Vankai, Thomas A.
name: Vankai, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Reforms
subject: agricultural production
subject: food consumption
subject: agricultural trade
subject: outlook
subject: implications

description: Hungary's market-oriented economic reforms in 1968 were followed from 1973 through 1978 by strict Government controls, centralization of enterprises, and heavy foreign borrowing. The expansionary policy financed with foreign loans brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy. An austerity program introduced in 1979 with return to the 1968 reform principles led to significant reduction of rate of economic growth. After a financial turnaround, the policymakers initiated a management reform in 1985 with emphasis on workers' participation. In contrast with industry, the agricultural sector operated under the reform principles throughout the seventies and enjoyed fast production growth. But since 1979, because of higher production cost and reduced investment, the rate of growth and profits declined.
The Magnetized Vlasov-Ampère system and the Bernstein-Landau paradox
Creators: name: Charles, Frédérique
name: Després, Bruno
name: Rege, Alexandre
name: Weder, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35P10, 35P15, 35Q83

description: We study the Bernstein-Landau paradox in the collisionless motion of an electrostatic plasma in the presence of a constant external magnetic field. The Bernstein-Landau paradox consists in that in the presence of the magnetic field, the electric field and the charge density fluctuation have an oscillatory behavior in time. This is radically different from Landau damping, in the case without magnetic field, where the electric field tends to zero for large times. We consider this problem from a new point of view. Instead of analyzing the linear magnetized Vlasov-Poisson system, as it is usually done, we study the linear magnetized Vlasov-Ampère system. We formulate the magnetized Vlasov-Ampère system as a Schrödinger equation with a selfadjoint magnetized Vlasov-Ampère operator in the Hilbert space of states with finite energy. The magnetized Vlasov-Ampère operator has a complete set of orthonormal eigenfunctions, that include the Bernstein modes. The expansion of the solution of the magnetized Vlasov-Ampère system in the eigenfunctions shows the oscillatory behavior in time. We prove the convergence of the expansion under optimal conditions, assuming only that the initial state has finite energy. This solves a problem that was recently posed in the literature. The Bernstein modes are not complete. To have a complete system it is necessary to add eigenfunctions that are associated with eigenvalues at all the integer multiples of the cyclotron frequency. These special plasma oscillations actually exist on their own, without the excitation of the other modes. In the limit when the magnetic fields goes to zero the spectrum of the magnetized Vlasov-Ampère operator changes drastically from pure point to absolutely continuous in the orthogonal complement to its kernel, due to a sharp change on its domain. This explains the Bernstein-Landau paradox.
description: We have edited the paper to include new results and to add details that improve the presentation. Further, we have added the word magnetized to the title
N=2 Super Yang Mills Action and BRST Cohomology
Creators: name: Ulker, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extended BRST cohomology of N=2 super Yang-Mills theory is discussed in the framework of Algebraic Renormalization. In particular, N=2 supersymmetric descent equations are derived from the cohomological analysis of linearized Slavnov-Taylor operator $\B$. It is then shown that both off- and on-shell N=2 super Yang-Mills actions are related to a lower-dimensional gauge invariant field polynomial $Tr\f^2$ by solving these descent equations. Moreover, it is found that these off- and on-shell solutions differ only by a $\B-$exact term, which can be interprated as a consequence of the fact that the cohomology of both cases are the same.
description: Latex, 1+13 pages
NATURAL RESOURCE ISSUES AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY: IDEAS FROM A SYMPOSIUM
Creators: name: Christensen, Lee A.
name: Christensen, Lee A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Natural resources
subject: conservation
subject: food policy
subject: agricultural policy

description: This report summarizes ideas from a symposium at the 1984 summer meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association. The symposium addressed the interaction of natural resources and food policy issues in the formulation of government policy. Attention focused on the role of natural resources, in the policy formulation process and on likely impacts of alternative policies. Issues addressed included specific resource topics such as soil conservation and water use and conservation. Also addressed were broader issues such as the appropriate roles of government in influencing resource use. Papers also addressed the interactions and conflicts inherent in the policy formulation process and the implications of alternative approaches.
Nature Prescription and Health Outcomes : Grounding Exercise
Creators: name: Kim, Dan
name: Madhani, Divija
name: Boevink, Gijs
name: Sierra, Jimena Zamora
name: Saldana, Maria
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
U.S. COTTON PRODUCTION PRACTICES AND COSTS
Creators: name: McArthur, W. C.
name: Cooke, F. T.
name: Krenz, R. D.
name: Garst, D. G.
name: McArthur, W. C.
name: Cooke, F. T.
name: Krenz, R. D.
name: Garst, D. G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Cotton
subject: production costs
subject: production practices
subject: production inputs

description: ids report summarizes cotton production practices and costs in the United States. Results show marked regional differences in cotton production practices and costs. Fertilizer and chemical inputs are major components of total cash expenses for producing cotton in the Southeast. Chemical inputs and irrigation are major cost items for cotton in the West. Most of the data were obtained from a survey of cotton producers in the major cotton producing regions.]
Epimachus astrapioides Rothschild
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Paradisaeidae
Epimachus
Epimachus astrapioides

description: Epimachus astrapioides Rothschild
Epimachus astrapioides Rothschild, 1897d: 22 (Dutch New Guinea).
Now considered a hybrid Epimachus fastosus X Astrapia nigra. See Hartert, 1911a: 604, pl. 7; Hartert, 1919: 129; Stresemann, 1930: 13; Rothschild, 1930: 16–17; Mayr, 1962d: 203; Gilliard, 1969: 63–65; Fuller, 1995: 50–53; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 508.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679119, [adult male], purchased from van Renesse van Duivenbode, collected somewhere in Papua Province, Indonesia (formerly Dutch New Guinea). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: This specimen is generally accepted as a hybrid between Epimachus fastosus and Astrapia nigra (Stresemann, 1930: 13). It is illustrated by Hartert (1911a: 604 and pl. 7), by Fuller (1995: pl. 7), and by Frith and Beehler (1998: pl. 14, no. 1). Although nothing is known about where this single specimen was collected, it was presumably from somewhere on the Vogelkop as its putative parents occur there.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 110, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
title: Indian Solo Electronic Writing and its Modernist Print Anxiety
Creators: name: Roy, Samya Brata
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2022

description: Building on the work of Souvik Mukherjee (2017), T. Shanmugapriya and Nirmala Menon (2018, 2019), Samya Brata Roy identifies emergent elements of a multimodal E-Lit tradition in India.
An Exact Formula to Describe the Amplification Process in a Photomultiplier Tube
Creators: name: Rademacker, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical function is derived that exactly describes the amplification process due to a series of discrete, Poisson-like amplifications like those in a photo multiplier tube (PMT). A numerical recipe is provided that implements this function as a computer program. It is shown how the program can be used as the core-element of a faster, simplified routine to fit PMT spectra with high efficiency. The functionality of the method is demonstrated by fitting both, Monte Carlo generated and measured PMT spectra.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, with cut-and-paste FORTRAN implementation
Velocity correlations in type Ia supernovae
Creators: name: Dettman, Kyle G.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), the result of exploding carbon/oxygen white dwarfs, are powerful cosmological distance indicators. They are excellent standardizable candles, which must be corrected using parameters such as their lightcurve shape, color, or host galaxy properties. Properly standardizing SNe Ia is essential as there is currently a tension in the measurement of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, between local and early Universe measurements. In this thesis I will present work done with the Foundation Supernova Survey to investigate previously seen correlations between ejecta velocity and other supernova properties. Additionally, I will re-analyze previous results through the use of the lightcurve fitter SALT2 to create a uniform comparison. We find that while the previous results still show a clear offset in color between high-velocity and normal-velocity SNe, the Foundation data do not. Additionally, the Foundation data do not show a significant split in Hubble diagram residual either. Intriguingly, we find that SN Ia ejecta velocity information can possibly be determined from photometry, in the reddest bands, alone. For high-redshift SNe, these rest-frame wavelengths will be observed by the future Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Our results are in line with work which suggests that SN Ia host-galaxy mass is correlated with ejecta velocity: high-velocity SNe Ia are nearly exclusively found in high-mass hosts. However, host-galaxy properties alone cannot clear the discrepancy between Foundation and the older data. Finally, I discuss the ongoing Hubble Space Telescope (HST) survey, Supernova in the Infrared avec Hubble (SIRAH). This low-redshift, infrared (IR) survey aims to create a legacy sample of high quality IR lightcurves and spectra to be used in future IR space and ground based surveys, most notably the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope which will observe thousands of SNe across a variety of redshifts and rest-frame bands. I present preliminary data from the SIRAH survey including two serendipitous observations. SN~2020bpi was the first object observed with SIRAH and was also observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which obtained extremely high cadence photometry of SN~2020bpi's explosion. Using this data, we can look for evidence of a companion star through excess flux. We have found no significant excess flux signature in SN~2020bpi, effectively putting an upper limit on the size of any possible companion. SN~2021hpr is a more recent SIRAH SN which exploded in the same galaxy as another SN already under observation. We were therefore able to obtain extremely early ($sim-18$ days) color information which is largely unprecedented in the field. I compare this early photometry to existing models of the similar SN~2018oh to attempt to draw conclusions as to the nature of its progenitor.
Open loci results for commutative DG-rings
Creators: name: Shaul, Liran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13H10, 14M05, 16E45

description: Given a commutative noetherian non-positive DG-ring with bounded cohomology which has a dualizing DG-module, we study its regular, Gorenstein and Cohen-Macaulay loci. We give a sufficient condition for the regular locus to be open, and show that the Gorenstein locus is always open. However, both of these loci are often empty: we show that no matter how nice $\mathrm{H}^0(A)$ is, there are examples where the Gorenstein locus of $A$ is empty. We then show that the Cohen-Macaulay locus of a commutative noetherian DG-ring with bounded cohomology which has a dualizing DG-module always contains a dense open set. Our results imply that under mild hypothesis, eventually coconnective locally noetherian derived schemes are generically Cohen-Macaulay, but that even in very nice cases, they need not be generically Gorenstein.
description: 10 pages, final version, to appear in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
title: Appropriationist Practices and Processes of De/Subjectivation: Charly.gr, Matías Buonfrate and C0d3 P03try in the age of algorithmic governance
Creators: name: Mugica, Fernanda
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2022

description: For Saint Augustine, biblical scripture was indispensible to his being able to finish the final draft of his life story. Hemingway advocated stopping midway in a sentence, to ensure a fresh start tomorrow. For us today in the age of algorithmic governance, our stories are more likely to be generated continuously through the words of others using Google search, autocomplete and the algorithm’s statistically-informed guess. In this article, Fernanda Mugica explores the real time writing in charly.gr’s Peronismo (spam), from 2010, a visual poem that combines music and text; Matías Buonfrate's “No poseas un miedo” (2020); and Argentine poet Francisco López Merino's C0d3 P03try.
Coarse grained and fine dynamics in trapped ion Raman schemes
Creators: name: Militello, B.
name: Aniello, P.
name: Messina, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel result concerning Raman coupling schemes in the context of trapped ions is obtained. By means of an operator perturbative approach, it is shown that the complete time evolution of these systems (in the interaction picture) can be expressed, with a high degree of accuracy, as the product of two unitary evolutions. The first one describes the time evolution related to an effective coarse grained dynamics. The second is a suitable correction restoring the {\em fine} dynamics suppressed by the coarse graining performed to adiabatically eliminate the nonresonantly coupled atomic level.
description: 12 pages, no figures
Natural and anthropogenic causes of mortality in wild birds in a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Northern Portugal: a ten-year study
Creators: name: Garcês, Andreia
name: Pires, Isabel
name: Pacheco, Fernando
name: Fernandes, Luís Sanches
name: Soeiro, Vanessa
name: Lóio, Sara
name: Prada, Justina
name: Cortes, Rui
name: Felisbina Queiroga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: 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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Capsule: A ten-year study of the causes of mortality in birds brought to a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Portugal, reveals that most deaths were due to trauma. Aims: This study aims to identify the main causes of morbidity and mortality in wild birds admitted to a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Northern Portugal, from 2008 to 2017. Methods: A total of 6058 records of admittance and necropsy were examined. Results: In the 24 orders present in the study, the most commonly reported were the Charadriiformes (34.1%) and Passeriformes (28.7%). The majority were adult individuals (80%) and most admissions were in the summer (43.1%). The main causes of admission were birds being injured (57%) and orphaned (18.3%). Trauma was also the most important cause of death (57%), followed by predation (1.6%) and collision with buildings (1.6%). The non-traumatic causes of death (2606, 43%) were mainly of unknown origin (22.2%) and infectious diseases (10%). Conclusion: The data analysed in our study allowed us to conclude that the main causes of morbidity and mortality of the birds admitted was due to trauma. This kind of study can provide useful information on population and ecosystem health to inform conservation practices.
Additional file 4 of Differential methylation EPIC analysis discloses cisplatin-resistance related hypermethylation and tumor-specific heterogeneity within matched primary and metastatic testicular germ cell tumor patient tissue samples
Creators: name: Lobo, João
name: Constâncio, Vera
name: Leite-Silva, Pedro
name: Guimarães, Rita
name: Cantante, Mariana
name: Braga, Isaac
name: Maurício, Joaquina
name: Looijenga, Leendert H. J.
name: Henrique, Rui
name: Jerónimo, Carmen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Scatterplot of the of the mean beta values (A) and volcano plot of the pairwise comparison (B) related to differential methylation among embryonal carcinoma patients with different outcome and response to cisplatin, at the CpG site level. In the scatterplot, the transparency corresponds to point density. Blue points represent differentially methylated sites (according to the combined rank criteria, see Methods). Red dots represent the 1000 best ranking sites. In the volcano plot, dots are colored according to combined rank, and the yy axis represents the combined p-values of a given site. Abbreviations: CispR – cisplatin resistant behavior; CispS – cisplatin sensitive behavior.
Encryption without Centralization: Distributing DNS Queries Across Recursive Resolvers
Creators: name: Hounsel, Austin
name: Schmitt, Paul
name: Borgolte, Kevin
name: Feamster, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Emerging protocols such as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) improve the privacy of DNS queries and responses. While this trend towards encryption is positive, deployment of these protocols has in some cases resulted in further centralization of the DNS, which introduces new challenges. In particular, centralization has consequences for performance, privacy, and availability; a potentially greater concern is that it has become more difficult to control the choice of DNS recursive resolver, particularly for IoT devices. Ultimately, the best strategy for selecting among one or more recursive resolvers may ultimately depend on circumstance, user, and even device. Accordingly, the DNS architecture must permit flexibility in allowing users, devices, and applications to specify these strategies. Towards this goal of increased de-centralization and improved flexibility, this paper presents the design and implementation of a refactored DNS resolver architecture that allows for de-centralized name resolution, preserving the benefits of encrypted DNS while satisfying other desirable properties, including performance and privacy.
description: Presented at the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop 2021 (ANRW '21)
Spectral Polyhedra
Creators: name: Sanyal, Raman
name: Saunderson, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A "spectral convex set" is a collection of symmetric matrices whose range of eigenvalues form a symmetric convex set. Spectral convex sets generalize the Schur-Horn orbitopes studied by Sanyal-Sottile-Sturmfels (2011). We study this class of convex bodies, which is closed under intersections, polarity, and Minkowski sums. We describe orbits of faces and give a formula for their Steiner polynomials. We then focus on spectral polyhedra. We prove that spectral polyhedra are spectrahedra and give small representations as spectrahedral shadows. We close with observations and questions regarding hyperbolicity cones, polar convex bodies, and spectral zonotopes.
description: 13 pages; v2 minor updates
WCE2011_pp247-251.pdf
Creators: name: Kocacoban, Durdane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Burger-Fisher equations occur in various areas of applied sciences and physical applications, such as modeling of gas dynamics, financial mathematics and fluid mechanics. In this paper, this equation has been solved by using a different numerical approach that shows rather rapid convergence than other methods. Illustrative examples suggest that it is a powerful series approach to find numerical solutions of Burger-Fisher equations.
Fractional supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics as a set of replicas of ordinary supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Daoud, M.
name: Kibler, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A connection between fractional supersymmetric quantum mechanics and ordinary supersymmetric quantum mechanics is established in this Letter.
description: Paper accepted for publication in Physics Letters A
Bisimilarity in fresh-register automata
Creators: name: Murawski, Andrzej S.
name: Ramsay, Steven J.
name: Tzevelekos, Nikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Register automata are a basic model of computation over infinite alphabets. Fresh-register automata extend register automata with the capability to generate fresh symbols in order to model computational scenarios involving name creation. This paper investigates the complexity of the bisimilarity problem for classes of register and fresh-register automata. We examine all main disciplines that have appeared in the literature: general register assignments; assignments where duplicate register values are disallowed; and assignments without duplicates in which registers cannot be empty. In the general case, we show that the problem is EXPTIME-complete. However, the absence of duplicate values in registers enables us to identify inherent symmetries inside the associated bisimulation relations, which can be used to establish a polynomial bound on the depth of Attacker-winning strategies. Furthermore, they enable a highly succinct representation of the corresponding bisimulations. By exploiting results from group theory and computational group theory, we can then show solvability in PSPACE and NP respectively for the latter two register disciplines. In each case, we find that freshness does not affect the complexity class of the problem. The results allow us to close a complexity gap for language equivalence of deterministic register automata. We show that deterministic language inequivalence for the no-duplicates fragment is NP-complete, which disproves an old conjecture of Sakamoto. Finally, we discover that, unlike in the finite-alphabet case, the addition of pushdown store makes bisimilarity undecidable, even in the case of visibly pushdown storage.
Ghosts of the Milky Way: a search for topology in new quasar catalogues
Creators: name: Weatherley, S. J.
name: Warren, S. J.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Smith, R. J.
name: Boyle, B. J.
name: Shanks, T.
name: Millar, L.
name: Baltovic, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the possibility that we inhabit a compact multi-connected flat, or nearly-flat, Universe. Analysis of COBE data has shown that, for such a case, the size of the fundamental domain must be a substantial fraction of the horizon size. Nevertheless, there could be several copies of the Universe within the horizon. If the Milky Way was once a quasar we might detect its `ghost' images. Using new large quasar catalogues we repeat the search by Fagundes & Wichoski for antipodal quasar pairs. By applying linear theory to account for the peculiar velocity of the local group, we are able to narrow the search radius to 134 arcsec. We find seven candidate antipodal quasar pairs within this search radius. However, a similar number would be expected by chance. We argue that, even with larger quasar catalogues, and more accurate values of the cosmological parameters, it is unlikely to be possible to identify putative ghost pairs unambiguously, because of the uncertainty of the correction for peculiar motion of the Milky Way.
description: MNRAS Letters, Accepted, 5 pages, 3 figures
Truncated Moments of Nonsinglet Parton Distributions in the double logarithmic $ln^2x$ approximation
Creators: name: Kotlorz, D.
name: Kotlorz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of truncated Mellin moments in a solving QCD evolution equations of the nonsinglet structure functions $F_2^{NS}(x,Q^2)$ and $g_1^{NS}(x,Q^2)$ is presented. All calculations are performed within double logarithmic $ln^2x$ approximation. An equation for truncated moments which incorporates $ln^2x$ effects is formulated and solved for the unintegrated structure function $f^{NS}(x,Q^2)$. The contribution to the Bjorken sum rule coming from the region of very small $x$ is quantified. Further possible improvement of this approach is also discussed.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
Batch norm with entropic regularization turns deterministic autoencoders into generative models
Creators: name: Ghose, Amur
name: Rashwan, Abdullah
name: Poupart, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The variational autoencoder is a well defined deep generative model that utilizes an encoder-decoder framework where an encoding neural network outputs a non-deterministic code for reconstructing an input. The encoder achieves this by sampling from a distribution for every input, instead of outputting a deterministic code per input. The great advantage of this process is that it allows the use of the network as a generative model for sampling from the data distribution beyond provided samples for training. We show in this work that utilizing batch normalization as a source for non-determinism suffices to turn deterministic autoencoders into generative models on par with variational ones, so long as we add a suitable entropic regularization to the training objective.
Zero products of Toeplitz operators on Reinhardt domains
Creators: name: Cuckovic, Zeljko
name: Huo, Zhenghui
name: Sahutoglu, Sonmez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47B35, 32A36

description: Let $Ω$ be a bounded Reinhardt domain in $\mathbb{C}^n$ and $ϕ_1,\ldots,ϕ_m$ be finite sums of bounded quasi-homogeneous functions. We show that if the product of Toeplitz operators $T_{ϕ_m}\cdots T_{ϕ_1}=0$ on the Bergman space on $Ω$, then $ϕ_j=0$ for some $j$.
description: to appear in Can. Math. Bull., 11 pages
BoMuDANet: Unsupervised Adaptation for Visual Scene Understanding in Unstructured Driving Environments
Creators: name: Kothandaraman, Divya
name: Chandra, Rohan
name: Manocha, Dinesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present an unsupervised adaptation approach for visual scene understanding in unstructured traffic environments. Our method is designed for unstructured real-world scenarios with dense and heterogeneous traffic consisting of cars, trucks, two-and three-wheelers, and pedestrians. We describe a new semantic segmentation technique based on unsupervised domain adaptation (DA), that can identify the class or category of each region in RGB images or videos. We also present a novel self-training algorithm (Alt-Inc) for multi-source DA that improves the accuracy. Our overall approach is a deep learning-based technique and consists of an unsupervised neural network that achieves 87.18% accuracy on the challenging India Driving Dataset. Our method works well on roads that may not be well-marked or may include dirt, unidentifiable debris, potholes, etc. A key aspect of our approach is that it can also identify objects that are encountered by the model for the fist time during the testing phase. We compare our method against the state-of-the-art methods and show an improvement of 5.17% - 42.9%. Furthermore, we also conduct user studies that qualitatively validate the improvements in visual scene understanding of unstructured driving environments.
Asymptotic properties of Dirichlet kernel density estimators
Creators: name: Ouimet, Frédéric
name: Tolosana-Delgado, Raimon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G07, 62G05, 62G20

description: We study theoretically, for the first time, the Dirichlet kernel estimator introduced by Aitchison and Lauder (1985) for the estimation of multivariate densities supported on the $d$-dimensional simplex. The simplex is an important case as it is the natural domain of compositional data and has been neglected in the literature on asymmetric kernels. The Dirichlet kernel estimator, which generalizes the (non-modified) unidimensional Beta kernel estimator from Chen (1999), is free of boundary bias and non-negative everywhere on the simplex. We show that it achieves the optimal convergence rate $O(n^{-4/(d+4)})$ for the mean squared error and the mean integrated squared error, we prove its asymptotic normality and uniform strong consistency, and we also find an asymptotic expression for the mean integrated absolute error. To illustrate the Dirichlet kernel method and its favorable boundary properties, we present a case study on minerals processing.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures; v4: final version
Magnetic Driving of Relativistic Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Interpretation of Parsec-Scale Accelerations
Creators: name: Vlahakis, Nektarios
name: Konigl, Arieh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is growing evidence that relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei undergo extended (parsec-scale) acceleration. We argue that, contrary to some suggestions in the literature, this acceleration cannot be purely hydrodynamic. Using exact semianalytic solutions of the relativistic MHD equations, we demonstrate that the parsec-scale acceleration to relativistic speeds inferred in sources like the radio galaxy NGC 6251 and the quasar 3C 345 can be attributed to magnetic driving. Additional observational implications of this model will be explored in future papers in this series.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ
Additional file 5 of Differential methylation EPIC analysis discloses cisplatin-resistance related hypermethylation and tumor-specific heterogeneity within matched primary and metastatic testicular germ cell tumor patient tissue samples
Creators: name: Lobo, João
name: Constâncio, Vera
name: Leite-Silva, Pedro
name: Guimarães, Rita
name: Cantante, Mariana
name: Braga, Isaac
name: Maurício, Joaquina
name: Looijenga, Leendert H. J.
name: Henrique, Rui
name: Jerónimo, Carmen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Molecular functions related to differentially hypermethylated (A) and hypomethylated (B) promoters. Statistically significant and top hits (odds ratio) are illustrated.
Profit Efficiency of Farm Credit System Associations
Creators: name: Collender, Robert N.
name: Nehring, Richard
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Collender, Robert N.
name: Nehring, Richard
name: Somwaru, Agapi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Farm Credit System
subject: Production Credit Associations
subject: Agricultural Credit Associations
subject: Federal Land Credit Associations
subject: efficiency
subject: data envelope analysis

description: Nonparametric profit frontiers are used to measure economic efficiency of Farm Credit System associations. Evidence of inefficiencies among Farm Credit System associations is evaluated by geographic regions. Results indicate that many associations are efficient given shortrun constraints imposed by fixed investments and nonaccrual loans. However, further consolidation of associations may result in savings to taxpayers and borrowers. Associations generally appear to be too small and too numerous for the system to attain longrun profit efficiency, despite considerable consolidation over the past decade. Legislative history of the Farm Credit System indicates that profit inefficiencies would be politically acceptable if they were the price of increased credit availability to the agricultural sector. However, profit-inefficient associations, except those in Texas, are not characterized by excessive lending, compared with profit-efficient associations.
Paradisea minor subsp. jobiensis Rothschild
Creators: name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Paradisaeidae
Paradisea
Paradisea minor
Paradisea minor jobiensis rothschild

description: Paradisea minor jobiensis Rothschild
Paradisea minor jobiensis Rothschild, 1897b: 46 (Jobi Island in Geelvink Bay).
Now Paradisaea minor jobiensis Rothschild, 1897. See Hartert, 1919: 129; Mayr, 1962d: 201; Gilliard, 1969: 229–236; Cracraft, 1992: 37; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 439–448; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 487.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 678912, adult male, collected on Yapen (= Japen, or Jobi) Island, 01.05S, 136.02E (Frith and Beehler, 1998:
572), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 9 November 1883, from the F.H.H. Guillemard Collection. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Only adult males were mentioned in the original description, where Rothschild was said to have five specimens ‘‘collected by Dr. Guillemard and others.’’ No type was designated. Hartert (1919: 129), by listing as type the unique specimen collected on 9 November 1883 and bearing Guilemard’s label, designated it the lectotype.
The four paralectotypes, all adult males from Yapen Island, are: AMNH 678911, undated, from the Guillemard Collection; AMNH 678913, 10 November 1883, from the Guillemard Collection; AMNH 678914, 9 November 1883, collected by R. ff. Powell; AMNH 678915, undated, collector unknown. Other Yapen specimens that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection were either collected after the description was published or were not fully adult.
Guillemard (1885c: 651–652) reported on the specimens of P. minor collected on Yapen; the extemely large number of specimens collected may or may not have included any collected by Lt. R. ff. Powell, who was aboard the yacht Marchesa, owned by C.T. Kettlewell, on which the Guillemard party was traveling (Guillemard, 1889: 286). Powell’s label is similar to Guillemard’s but has only his name printed on it.
description: Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 109, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
Nature’s Prescription : Chalk Drawing
Creators: name: Slay, Shelby
name: Newland, Jessica
name: Wang, Karen
name: Dadgar, Korey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

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