cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Regularization in Relevance Learning Vector Quantization Using l one Norms
Creators: name: Riedel, Martin
name: Kästner, Marika
name: Rossi, Fabrice
name: Villmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose in this contribution a method for l one regularization in prototype based relevance learning vector quantization (LVQ) for sparse relevance profiles. Sparse relevance profiles in hyperspectral data analysis fade down those spectral bands which are not necessary for classification. In particular, we consider the sparsity in the relevance profile enforced by LASSO optimization. The latter one is obtained by a gradient learning scheme using a differentiable parametrized approximation of the $l_{1}$-norm, which has an upper error bound. We extend this regularization idea also to the matrix learning variant of LVQ as the natural generalization of relevance learning.
Dasyprocta pryntnolopha Wagler 1831
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta
Dasyprocta pryntnolopha

description: Dasyprocta pryntnolopha Wagler, 1831. Isis, 24:619. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Para. DISTRIBUTION: N.E. Brazil. COMMENT: Original type locality designation of Guyana was probably an error; see Cabrera, 1961:588. Ojasti, 1972, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 32: 164, considered the status of this form uncertain.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Ojasti, J. 1972. Revision preliminar de los picures o agutis de Venezuela (Rodentia: Dasyproctidae). Memorias Sociedad Ciencias Naturales La Salle, 32: 159 - 204."]}
A Kinetic Study of Amyloid Formation: Fibril Growth and Length Distributions
Creators: name: Schreck, John S.
name: Yuan, Jian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We propose a kinetic model for the self-aggregation by amyloid proteins. By extending several well-known models for protein aggregation, the time evolution of aggregate concentrations containing $r$ proteins, denoted $c_r(t)$, can be written in terms of generalized Smoluchowski kinetics. With this approach we take into account all possible aggregation and fragmentation reactions involving clusters of any size. Correspondingly, an aggregate of size x+y could be formed by or break-up into two smaller constituent aggregates of sizes x and y. The rates of each aggregation or fragmentation reaction, called kernels, are specified in terms of the aggregate size, and we solve $c_r(t)$ for large cluster sizes using numerical techniques. We show that by using Smoluchowski kinetics many pathways to fibrillation are possible and quantities, such as the aggregate length distribution at an arbitrary time, can be calculated. We show that the predicted results of the model are in agreement with the experimental observations.
Abstraction and Learning for Infinite-State Compositional Verification
Creators: name: Giannakopoulou, Dimitra
name: Păsăreanu, Corina S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite many advances that enable the application of model checking techniques to the verification of large systems, the state-explosion problem remains the main challenge for scalability. Compositional verification addresses this challenge by decomposing the verification of a large system into the verification of its components. Recent techniques use learning-based approaches to automate compositional verification based on the assume-guarantee style reasoning. However, these techniques are only applicable to finite-state systems. In this work, we propose a new framework that interleaves abstraction and learning to perform automated compositional verification of infinite-state systems. We also discuss the role of learning and abstraction in the related context of interface generation for infinite-state components.
description: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.4557
Epilepsy Surgery for Pharmacoresistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Decision Analysis
Creators: name: Choi, Hyunmi
name: Sell, Randall L.
name: Lenert, Leslie
name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Goodman, Robert R.
name: Gilliam, Frank G.
name: Wong, John B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Temporal lobes--Surgery
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Medical care--Decision making
Excision (Surgery)
Epilepsy--Surgery
Medicine
Surgery

description: Context Patients with pharmacoresistant epilepsy have increased mortality compared with the general population, but patients with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy who meet criteria for surgery and who become seizure-free after anterior temporal lobe resection have reduced excess mortality vs those with persistent seizures.

Objective To quantify the potential survival benefit of anterior temporal lobe resection for patients with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy vs continued medical management.

Design Monte Carlo simulation model that incorporates possible surgical complications and seizure status, with 10 000 runs. The model was populated with health-related quality-of-life data obtained directly from patients and data from the medical literature. Insufficient data were available to assess gamma-knife radiosurgery or vagal nerve stimulation.

Main Outcome Measures Life expectancy and quality-adjusted life expectancy.

Results Compared with medical management, anterior temporal lobe resection for a 35-year-old patient with an epileptogenic zone identified in the anterior temporal lobe would increase survival by 5.0 years (95% CI, 2.1-9.2) with surgery preferred in 100% of the simulations. Anterior temporal lobe resection would increase quality-adjusted life expectancy by 7.5 quality-adjusted life-years (95%, CI, −0.8 to 17.4) with surgery preferred in 96.5% of the simulations, primarily due to increased years spent without disabling seizures, thereby reducing seizure-related excess mortality and improving quality of life. The results were robust to sensitivity analyses.

Conclusion The decision analysis model suggests that on average anterior temporal lobe resection should provide substantial gains in life expectancy and quality-adjusted life expectancy for surgically eligible patients with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy compared with medical management.
Cost-Effectiveness of Vaccination versus Treatment of Influenza in Healthy Adolescents and Adults
Creators: name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Khan, Kamran
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Public health--Cost effectiveness
Epidemiology
Vaccination--Cost effectiveness
Influenza--Prevention
Influenza--Vaccination
Influenza--Treatment
Medical care--Cost effectiveness
Public health
Medicine

description: At present time, there is uncertainty regarding whether influenza-like illness in healthy adults is best managed by preventive efforts that use the trivalent influenza vaccine, administration of neuraminidase inhibitors at the onset of illness, or recommendation of supportive care alone at the onset of illness. We conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis that examined these 3 strategies for managing influenza-like illness. Vaccination with inactivated trivalent vaccine would save approximately $25 per person while resulting in a net gain of ∼3.2 quality-adjusted hours relative to providing treatment with the neuraminidase inhibitor oseltamivir. A quality-adjusted hour is a fraction of a quality-adjusted life-year, which is the equivalent of 1 year lived in perfect health. Treatment with oseltamivir was associated with an incremental cost-effectiveness of approximately $27,619 per quality-adjusted life-year gained relative to providing supportive care. Vaccination is cost-saving relative to providing either treatment with oseltamivir or providing supportive care alone.
An exact framework for uncertainty quantification in Monte Carlo simulation
Creators: name: Saracco, Paolo
name: Pia, Maria Grazia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of particle transport Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) addresses the issue of predicting non statistical errors affecting the physical results, i.e. errors deriving mainly from uncertainties in the physics data and/or in the model they embed. In the case of a single uncertainty a simple analytical relation exists among its the Probability Density Function (PDF) and the corresponding PDF for the output of the simulation: this allows a complete statistical analysis of the results of the simulation. We examine the extension of this result to the multi-variate case, when more than one of the physical input parameters are affected by uncertainties: a typical scenario is the prediction of the dependence of the simulation on input cross section tabulations.
description: presented at CHEP 2013
Measure-Dependent Variation in Burden of Disease Estimates: Implications for Policy
Creators: name: Gold, Marthe
name: Muennig, Peter A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Public health--Cost effectiveness
Quality of life--Measurement
Public health--Research--Methodology
Medical policy--Decision making
Public health--Research
Medical care
Medical care--Cost effectiveness
Public health
Medicine

description: Background. Health adjusted life years (HALYs) are used for estimating burden of disease and as outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses of medical care and public health interventions.

Objectives. The impact of use of health-related quality of life (HRQL) scores associated with the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), the quality-adjusted life year (QALY), and the years of healthy life (YHL) measure on burden of disease estimates by income and race for five illnesses was studied.

Research Design. Abridged life tables were constructed using 1997 death certificate data from the National Center for Health Statistics. These tables were then quality-adjusted using prevalence data from the National Health Interview Survey and HRQL scores obtained using the Quality of Well-Being scale, the DALY, and the YHL measure to estimate burden of disease for five common diseases. Separate estimates were made for low and higher income families as well as black persons and white persons.

Results. Measure-related burden of disease estimates differed substantially from one another. Rank order of disease burden was not maintained across measures. Discrepancies in the rank order of disease were greater when different sociodemographic groups were examined.

Conclusions. Diseases and demographic groups will receive differing priorities for intervention or research depending on which measurement system is used to inform decision-making. Refinement and standardization of measures is necessary to enhance their utility for medical care and public health policy applications.
DEPE bulletin 1991 August - December
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1991

description: The DEPE bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1894-11)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Dasyprocta punctata Gray 1842
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta
Dasyprocta punctata

description: Dasyprocta punctata Gray, 1842. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10:264. REVIEWED BY: J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP). TYPE LOCALITY: Nicaragua, Chinadega, El Realejo. DISTRIBUTION: Chiapas and Yucatan Peninsula (S. Mexico) to S. Bolivia, N. Argentina, and S.W. Brazil. Introduced into Cuba and the Cayman Isis. COMMENT: Includes variegata; see Goldman, 1913, Smithson. Misc. Coll., 60(22): ll; but see Handley, 1976, Brigham Young Univ. Sci. Bull. Biol. Ser., 20(5):56, who listed variegata as a distinct species. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410022003011001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Goldman, E. A. 1913. Descriptions of new mammals from Panama and Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 60 (22): 1 - 20.", "Handley, C. O., Jr. 1976. Mammals of the Smithsonian Venezuelan Project. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series, 20: 1 - 91."]}
Conformal Invariance and the Four Point Scalar Correlator in Slow-Roll Inflation
Creators: name: Ghosh, Archisman
name: Kundu, Nilay
name: Raju, Suvrat
name: Trivedi, Sandip P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the four point correlation function for scalar perturbations in the canonical model of slow-roll inflation. We work in the leading slow-roll approximation where the calculation can be done in de Sitter space. Our calculation uses techniques drawn from the AdS/CFT correspondence to find the wave function at late times and then calculate the four point function from it. The answer we get agrees with an earlier result in the literature, obtained using different methods. Our analysis reveals a subtlety with regard to the Ward identities for conformal invariance, which arises in de Sitter space and has no analogue in AdS space. This subtlety arises because in de Sitter space the metric at late times is a genuine degree of freedom, and hence to calculate correlation functions from the wave function of the Universe at late times, one must fix gauge completely. The resulting correlators are then invariant under a conformal transformation accompanied by a compensating coordinate transformation which restores the gauge.
description: 66 pages, 2 figures, The version published in JHEP: Extra references added and minor typos corrected
The Cost Effectiveness of Health Insurance
Creators: name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Franks, Peter
name: Gold, Marthe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Health insurance
Medically uninsured persons
Health insurance--Costs
Health insurance--Economic aspects
Health insurance--Cost effectiveness
Public health--Economic aspects
Public health

description: Background: Although studies have examined both the adverse consequences of lacking health insurance and the costs of insuring the uninsured, there are no estimates of the value of providing health insurance to those currently uninsured. Objective: To examine the value associated with providing insurance to those currently uninsured through an incremental cost-effectiveness analysis. Methods: People aged 25 to 64 in both the National Health Interview Survey (with 2-year mortality follow-up) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were examined to estimate the contribution of sociodemographic, health, and health behavior characteristics on insured persons’ quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and healthcare costs. Parameter estimates from these regression models were used to predict QALYs and costs associated with insuring the uninsured, given their characteristics for 1996. Markov decision-analysis modeling was then employed to calculate incremental cost-effectiveness ratios. Results: The incremental cost-effectiveness of insurance for the average 25-year-old adult (through age 64) is approximately $35,000 per QALY gained (range $21,000 to $48,000). The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio becomes more favorable as people approach age 65. Conclusions: The additional health care purchased with health insurance provides gains in quality-adjusted life at costs that compare favorably to those of other programs and medical interventions society now chooses to fund.
title: Signum Salutis. Blau aufgehender Regen-Bogen Das ist Neu aufgerichte Verbindnus des Himmelblauen Scapuliers Unter dem Gnaden vollen Titul Der Unbefleckten Empfängnus Mariä in der uralten Wallfarth, genandt Ave Maria; 1744
title: Nechst Marckt Deggingen, in der Frey-Reichs Graffschafft Wisenstaig an der Vilß. Mit Consens Ihro Hochfürstl. Gnaden Joannis Francisci Bischoffen zu Constantz den 19ten Aug. 1723. Felic. Mem.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Regeln, Satzungen und Gebete der "Bruderschaft unter dem himmelblauen Skapulier" in der Wallfahrtskirche Ave Maria in Deggingen
Psychological factors associated with distress and wellbeing in dystonia
Creators: name: Gowling, Helen
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis examines the psychological factors involved in distress and wellbeing for people living with dystonia. Section one reports on a systematic literature review of quantitative studies examining the relationship between psychological factors and anxiety and depression in dystonia. A systematic search using key words relating to dystonia and concepts of psychological distress was conducted on four academic databases. Findings suggest that a number of psychological factors were related to anxiety and depression in dystonia. These included body concept, coping, personality traits, self-esteem, psychosocial domains of quality of life, and somatic complaints. The limited number of papers suggests that psychological factors are an under researched area when understanding the distress experienced in dystonia; nonetheless, the findings support a biopsychosocial model of understanding. This has clinical implications for the psychological management of distress for those living with dystonia and future research should seek to expand on this knowledge. Section two reports on an empirical study examining the role of coping strategies in the relationship between stigma and psychological wellbeing in people living with cervical dystonia. Individuals with cervical dystonia completed an online survey including measures of stigma, coping strategies, quality of life, psychological distress and wellbeing. A series of parallel mediation models were conducted to explore the relationships between stigma, coping strategies and distress and wellbeing. Findings indicated that maladaptive coping strategies mediated the relationship between stigma and psychological distress and wellbeing. Adaptive coping strategies did not mediate the relationship between stigma and psychological distress and wellbeing. These findings support the need for holistic psychological formulations for individuals with cervical dystonia who are also experiencing psychological distress. Section three includes the critical appraisal which reflected on the process of conducting this project. It discusses key decision points and critically evaluates some of the decisions made.
Dasyprocta ruatanica Thomas 1901
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta
Dasyprocta ruatanica

description: Dasyprocta ruatanica Thomas, 1901. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 8:272. TYPE LOCALITY: Honduras, Roatan Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Roatan Isl. (Honduras). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410022003012001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Cost-Effectiveness of Needle and Syringe Exchange for the Prevention of HIV in New York City
Creators: name: Belani, Hrishikesh K.
name: Muennig, Peter A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: HIV infections--Transmission
Needle sharing
Medical care--Cost effectiveness
HIV (Viruses)--Transmission
HIV (Viruses)--Transmission--Prevention
HIV infections--Epidemiology
Public health
Epidemiology

description: Shared needle and syringe use among injection drug users continues to be a major mode of transmission of HIV. Needle and syringe exchange (NSE) may be a viable strategy to reduce the transmission of the virus; yet the difficulty in measuring the actual efficacy of NSE has limited attempts to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the intervention. Using data specific to the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center in New York City, we assessed the cost-effectiveness of NSE over a range of conservative estimates of efficacy, obtained from both longitudinal and small-area studies. A decision-analysis model was created to compare the outcomes and costs associated with NSE. Model inputs included the cost of living with HIV and the seroprevalence of HIV among injection drug users in New York City. This analysis was conducted from both the government and societal perspectives. Tested over a range of conservative parameter estimates, NSE appears to save money and lives. The NSE program we evaluated cost $502 per client and produced a gain of 0.01 quality adjusted life years per client. It also reduced HIV treatment costs by $325,000 per case of HIV averted, and averted 4–7 HIV infections per 1000 clients, producing a net cost savings.
Effect of covalency and interactions on the trigonal splitting in NaxCoO2
Creators: name: Aligia, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the effective trigonal crystal field Delta which splits the t2g levels of effective models for NaxCoO2 as the local symmetry around a Co ion is reduced from Oh to D3d. To this end we solve numerically a CoO6 cluster containing a Co ion with all 3d states and their interactions included, and its six nearest-neighbor O atoms, with the geometry of the system, in which the CoO6 octahedron is compressed along a C3 axis. We obtain Delta near 130 meV, with the sign that agrees with previous quantum chemistry calculations, but disagrees with first-principles results in the local density approximation (LDA). We find that Delta is very sensitive to a Coulomb parameter which controls the Hund coupling and charge distribution among the d orbitals. The origin of the discrepancy with LDA results is discussed.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Myoprocta Thomas 1903
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dasyproctidae
Myoprocta

description: Myoprocta Thomas, 1903. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 12:464. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410022004000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Benefits and Costs of Interventions to Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes in African American Women
Creators: name: Mandelblatt, Jeanne A.
name: Schechter, Clyde B.
name: Yabroff, K. Robin
name: Lawrence, William
name: Dignam, James
name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Chavez, Yoko
name: Cullen, Jennifer
name: Fahs, Marianne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: African American women
African American women--Health and hygiene
Breast--Cancer
Breast--Cancer--Diagnosis
Breast--Cancer--Social aspects
Medical screening
Public health
Oncology

description: Purpose Historically, African American women have experienced higher breast cancer mortality than white women, despite lower incidence. Our objective was to evaluate whether costs of increasing rates of screening or application of intensive treatment will be off-set by survival benefits for African American women.

Methods We use a stochastic simulation model of the natural history of breast cancer to evaluate the incremental societal costs and benefits of status quo versus targeted biennial screening or treatment improvements among African Americans 40 years of age and older. Main outcome measures were number of mammograms, stage, all-cause mortality, and discounted costs per life year saved (LYS).

Results At the current screening rate of 76%, there is little incremental benefit associated with further increasing screening, and the costs are high: $124,053 and $124,217 per LYS for lay health worker and patient reminder interventions, respectively, compared with the status quo. Using reminders would cost $51,537 per LYS if targeted to virtually unscreened women or $78,130 per LYS if targeted to women with a two-fold increase in baseline risk. If all patients received the most intensive treatment recommended, costs increase but deaths decrease, for a cost of $52,678 per LYS. Investments of up to $6,000 per breast cancer patient could be used to enhance treatment and still yield cost-effectiveness ratios of less than $75,000 per LYS.

Conclusion Except in pockets of unscreened or high-risk women, further investments in interventions to increase screening are unlikely to be an efficient use of resources. Ensuring that African American women receive intensive treatment seems to be the most cost-effective approach to decreasing the disproportionate mortality experienced by this population.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1893-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Danger: Lungs at Work
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1984
Subjects: Lungs--Dust diseases
Indoor air pollution
Occupational diseases
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Fact sheet on lung contaminants produced by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC). The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
On the Outer Edges of Protoplanetary Dust Disks
Creators: name: Birnstiel, Tilman
name: Andrews, Sean M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The expectation that aerodynamic drag will force the solids in a gas-rich protoplanetary disk to spiral in toward the host star on short timescales is one of the fundamental problems in planet formation theory. The nominal efficiency of this radial drift process is in conflict with observations, suggesting that an empirical calibration of solid transport mechanisms in a disk is highly desirable. However, the fact that both radial drift and grain growth produce a similar particle size segregation in a disk (such that larger particles are preferentially concentrated closer to the star) makes it difficult to disentangle a clear signature of drift alone. We highlight a new approach, by showing that radial drift leaves a distinctive "fingerprint" in the dust surface density profile that is directly accessible to current observational facilities. Using an analytical framework for dust evolution, we demonstrate that the combined effects of drift and (viscous) gas drag naturally produce a sharp outer edge in the dust distribution (or, equivalently, a sharp decrease in the dust-to-gas mass ratio). This edge feature forms during the earliest phase in the evolution of disk solids, before grain growth in the outer disk has made much progress, and is preserved over longer timescales when both growth and transport effects are more substantial. The key features of these analytical models are reproduced in detailed numerical simulations, and are qualitatively consistent with recent millimeter-wave observations that find gas/dust size discrepancies and steep declines in dust continuum emission in the outer regions of protoplanetary disks.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ
Review of Erik Kwakkel's Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200
Creators: name: Riedel, Dagmar A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Social history--Medieval
Transcribing
Middle Ages
History

description: Review of Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200, ed. Erik Kwakkel (Leiden 2015), in: SHARP News Online, 25 no. 3 (2016). The paperback presents six case studies of medieval manuscript copies of Latin works that were composed between the first century BCE and the fifth century CE. It is edited by the medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel and presents one of the outcomes of his NOW-VIDI project, “Turning over a New Leaf” (2010-2015).
Myoprocta acouchy
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dasyproctidae
Myoprocta
Myoprocta acouchy

description: Myoprocta acouchy (Erxleben, 1777). Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:354. TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne. DISTRIBUTION: Guianas; Amazonian Brazil; Ecuador; N. Peru; S. Venezuela; S. Colombia. COMMENT: Includes pratti; see Husson, 1978:471-472. Formerly included exilis; see Husson, 1978:468. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410022004001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls."]}
title: Des Herrn Diderots Klagen über seinen alten Schlafrock; 1772
title: Aus dem Französischen übersetzt
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Diderot, Denis
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: In Fraktur. - Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: 1772
The burden of disease associated with being African-American in the United States and the contribution of socio-economic status
Creators: name: Franks, Peter
name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Lubetkin, Erica
name: Jia, Haomiao
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Social status
African Americans--Health and hygiene
Public health--Economic aspects
African Americans--Mortality
Health and race
Public health

description: The burden of disease associated with being African-American in the US, and the contribution of socio-economic status (SES) to that burden have not been quantified. We derived burden of disease estimates for African-Americans and whites by age group, with and without adjustment for SES (income and education). We used (1) EQ-5D Index scores from the 2000 US Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to derive quality-adjusted life year (QALY) compatible estimates of health-related quality of life (HRQL); (2) 1990–1992 US National Health Interview Survey data linked to National Death Index data through 1995 to derive mortality risks; and (3) 2000 US mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics to derive current mortality estimates for the US population. We found that relative to whites, African-Americans suffer 67,000 more deaths annually, resulting in 2.2 million years of life lost, and 1.1 million years after SES adjustment. Total QALYs lost (HRQL and mortality) dropped from 2.3 million to 902,000 after SES adjustment. SES differences between African-Americans and whites appear to explain all the HRQL disparity but only half the mortality disparity. Better understanding of the disparate effects of SES may inform interventions to address health disparities adversely affecting African-Americans.
Denotational Semantics of A User-Oriented, Domain-Specific Language
Creators: name: Mercadal, Julien
name: Drey, Zoé
name: Consel, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents the formal definition of a domain-specific language, named Pantagruel, following the methodology proposed by David Schmidt for language development. This language is dedicated to programming applications that orchestrate networked entities. It targets developers that are professionals in such domains as building management and assisted living, and want to leverage networked entities to support daily tasks. Pantagruel has a number of features that address the requirements of the domain of entity orchestration. Furthermore, Pantagruel provides high-level constructs that make it accessible to developers that do not necessarily have programming skills. It has been used to develop a number of applications by non-programmers. We show how the user-oriented programming concepts of Pantagruel are expressed in the denotational semantics of Pantagruel. This formal definition has been used to derive an interpreter for Pantagruel and to provide a basis to reason about Pantagruel programs.
description: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.4557
Myoprocta exilis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dasyproctidae
Myoprocta
Myoprocta exilis

description: Myoprocta exilis (Wagner, 1831). Isis, 24:621. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, mouth of Rio Negro. DISTRIBUTION: Guianas; S. Venezuela and Colombia; E. Ecuador; N. Peru; Amazon Basin (Brazil). COMMENT: Listed by Cabrera, 1961:591, as M. acouchy exilis. Considered a species by Husson, 1978:468-472, and Tate, 1939, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 76:151-229. The type locality was reviewed by Allen, 1916, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 35:559-610.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls.", "Tate, G. H. H. 1939. The mammals of the Guiana region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 76: 151 - 229.", "Allen, J. A. 1916. Mammals collected on the Roosevelt Brazilian Expedition, with field notes by Leo E. Miller. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 35: 559 - 610, 6 pls."]}
Librarians: Potential Hazards of Library Work
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1981
Subjects: Librarians
Health risk communication
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Fact sheet on heath risks for librarians produced by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC). The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
Evidence for Solar Tether-cutting Magnetic Reconnection from Coronal Field Extrapolations
Creators: name: Liu, Chang
name: Deng, Na
name: Lee, Jeongwoo
name: Wiegelmann, Thomas
name: Moore, Ronald L.
name: Wang, Haimin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic reconnection is one of the primary mechanisms for triggering solar eruptive events, but direct observation of its rapid process has been of challenge. In this Letter we present, using a nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) extrapolation technique, a visualization of field line connectivity changes resulting from tether-cutting reconnection over about 30 minutes during the 2011 February 13 M6.6 flare in NOAA AR 11158. Evidence for the tether-cutting reconnection was first collected through multiwavelength observations and then by the analysis of the field lines traced from positions of four conspicuous flare 1700 A footpoints observed at the event onset. Right before the flare, the four footpoints are located very close to the regions of local maxima of magnetic twist index. Especially, the field lines from the inner two footpoints form two strongly twisted flux bundles (up to ~1.2 turns), which shear past each other and reach out close to the outer two footpoints, respectively. Immediately after the flare, the twist index of regions around the footpoints greatly diminish and the above field lines become low lying and less twisted (~0.6 turns), overarched by loops linking the later formed two flare ribbons. About 10% of the flux (~3x10^19 Mx) from the inner footpoints has undergone a footpoint exchange. This portion of flux originates from the edge regions of the inner footpoints that are brightened first. These rapid changes of magnetic field connectivity inferred from the NLFFF extrapolation are consistent with the tether-cutting magnetic reconnection model.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Partition Functions in Even Dimensional AdS via Quasinormal Mode Methods
Creators: name: Keeler, Cynthia
name: Ng, Gim Seng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note, we calculate the one-loop determinant for a massive scalar (with conformal dimension $Δ$) in even-dimensional AdS$_{d+1}$ space, using the quasinormal mode method developed in arXiv:0908.2657 by Denef, Hartnoll, and Sachdev. Working first in two dimensions on the related Euclidean hyperbolic plane $H_2$, we find a series of zero modes for negative real values of $Δ$ whose presence indicates a series of poles in the one-loop partition function $Z(Δ)$ in the $Δ$ complex plane; these poles contribute temperature-independent terms to the thermal AdS partition function computed in arXiv:0908.2657. Our results match those in a series of papers by Camporesi and Higuchi, as well as Gopakumar et al. in arXiv:1103.3627 and Banerjee et al. in arXiv:1005.3044. We additionally examine the meaning of these zero modes, finding that they Wick-rotate to quasinormal modes of the AdS$_2$ black hole. They are also interpretable as matrix elements of the discrete series representations of $SO(2,1)$ in the space of smooth functions on $S^1$. We generalize our results to general even dimensional AdS$_{2n}$, again finding a series of zero modes which are related to discrete series representations of $SO(2n,1)$, the motion group of $H_{2n}$.
description: 27 pages; v2: minor updates and JHEP version
Chinchillidae Bennett 1833
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Chinchillidae

description: Family Chinchillidae REVIEWED BY: M. A. Mares (MAM); T. Pearson (TP); C. A. Woods (CAW). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410023000000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Quantitative magnetic imaging at the nanometer scale by ballistic electron magnetic microscopy
Creators: name: Hervé, Marie
name: Tricot, Sylvain
name: Guézo, Sophie
name: Delhaye, Gabriel
name: Lépine, Bruno
name: Schieffer, Philippe
name: Turban, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate quantitative ballistic electron magnetic microscopy (BEMM) imaging of simple model Fe(001) nanostructures. We use in situ nanostencil shadow mask resistless patterning combined with molecular beam epitaxy deposition to prepare under ultra-high vacuum conditions nanostructured epitaxial Fe/Au/Fe/GaAs(001) spin-valves. In this epitaxial system, the magnetization of the bottom Fe/GaAs(001) electrode is parallel to the [110] direction, defining accurately the analysis direction for the BEMM experiments. The large hot-electron magnetoresistance of the Fe/Au/Fe/GaAs(001) epitaxial spin-valve allows us to image various stable magnetic configurations on the as-grown Fe(001) microstructures with a high sensitivity, even for small misalignments of both magnetic electrodes. The angular dependence of the hot-electron magnetocurrent is used to convert magnetization maps calculated by micromagnetic simulations into simulated BEMM images. The calculated BEMM images and magnetization rotation profiles show quantitative agreement with experiments and allow us to investigate the magnetic phase diagram of these model Fe(001) microstructures. Finally, magnetic domain reversals are observed under high current density pulses. This opens the way for further BEMM investigations of current-induced magnetization dynamics.
Chinchilla Bennett 1829
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Chinchillidae
Chinchilla

description: Chinchilla Bennett, 1829. Gard. Menag. Zool. Soc., 1: 1. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Chinchilla spp., South American populations only. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410023001000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 577, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039