cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
1-- and 0++ heavy four-quark and molecule states in QCD
Creators: name: Albuquerque, R. M.
name: Fanomezana, F.
name: Narison, S.
name: Rabemananjara, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the masses of the 1^{--} heavy four-quark and molecule states by combining exponential Laplace (LSR) and finite energy (FESR) sum rules known perturbatively to lowest order (LO) in alpha_s but including non-perturbative terms up to the complete dimension-six condensate contributions. This approach allows to fix more precisely the value of the QCD continuum threshold (often taken ad hoc) at which the optimal result is extracted. We use double ratio of sum rules (DRSR) for determining the SU(3) breakings terms. We also study the effects of the heavy quark mass definitions on these LO results. The SU(3) mass-splittings of about (50 - 110) MeV and the ones of about (250 - 300) MeV between the lowest ground states and their 1st radial excitations are (almost) heavy-flavour independent. The mass predictions summarized in Table 4 are compared with the ones in the literature (when available) and with the three Y_c(4260,~4360,~4660) and Y_b(10890) 1^{--} experimental candidates. We conclude (to this order approximation) that the lowest observed state cannot be a pure 1^{--} four-quark nor a pure molecule but may result from their mixings. We extend the above analyzes to the 0^{++} four-quark and molecule states which are about (0.5-1) GeV heavier than the corresponding 1^{--} states, while the splittings between the 0^{++} lowest ground state and the 1st radial excitation is about (300-500) MeV. We complete the analysis by estimating the decay constants of the 1^{--} and 0^{++} four-quark states which are tiny and which exhibit a 1/M_Q behaviour. Our predictions can be further tested using some alternative non-perturbative approaches or/and at LHCb and some other hadron factories.
description: 13 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables, version to appear in PLB (more general choice of the interpolating currents, estimate of the four-quark meson decay constants, new references added, slight numerical changes for the 0++ mass predictions)
title: Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat Significantly Correlated to Parameters of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction using Static MRI Imaging in Healthy Women.
Creators: name: Sudo, Satoko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genitourinary
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Pelvic floor dysfunction
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) is a serious disorder compromising women’s QOL with nonspecific symptoms, including urinary and/or fecal incontinence, chronic constipation, pelvic pain, and organ prolapse 1),2) , affecting up to 50% of women at...
title: Why it's important and how resilience thinking can help us get it done
title: Special considerations of resilience thinking applied to examples of collaborative conservation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jones, Mike
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: collaborative conservation
resilience thinking
natural resource management

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. The presenter is affiliated with Sand County Foundation and Resilience Alliance Network.
Reverse engineering gene regulatory networks from measurement with missing values
Creators: name: Ogundijo, Oyetunji Enoch
name: Elmas, Abdulkadir
name: Wang, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Missing observations (Statistics)
Gene expression
Mathematical statistics
Gene regulatory networks
Reverse engineering

description: Background
                Gene expression time series data are usually in the form of high-dimensional arrays. Unfortunately, the data may sometimes contain missing values: for either the expression values of some genes at some time points or the entire expression values of a single time point or some sets of consecutive time points. This significantly affects the performance of many algorithms for gene expression analysis that take as an input, the complete matrix of gene expression measurement. For instance, previous works have shown that gene regulatory interactions can be estimated from the complete matrix of gene expression measurement. Yet, till date, few algorithms have been proposed for the inference of gene regulatory network from gene expression data with missing values.

                Results
                We describe a nonlinear dynamic stochastic model for the evolution of gene expression. The model captures the structural, dynamical, and the nonlinear natures of the underlying biomolecular systems. We present point-based Gaussian approximation (PBGA) filters for joint state and parameter estimation of the system with one-step or two-step missing measurements. The PBGA filters use Gaussian approximation and various quadrature rules, such as the unscented transform (UT), the third-degree cubature rule and the central difference rule for computing the related posteriors. The proposed algorithm is evaluated with satisfying results for synthetic networks, in silico networks released as a part of the DREAM project, and the real biological network, the in vivo reverse engineering and modeling assessment (IRMA) network of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

                Conclusion
                PBGA filters are proposed to elucidate the underlying gene regulatory network (GRN) from time series gene expression data that contain missing values. In our state-space model, we proposed a measurement model that incorporates the effect of the missing data points into the sequential algorithm. This approach produces a better inference of the model parameters and hence, more accurate prediction of the underlying GRN compared to when using the conventional Gaussian approximation (GA) filters ignoring the missing data points.
title: Ankylosing spondylitis : Correlation between spine radiologic scoring methods and spinopelvic parameters of sagittal balance using EOS® imaging system.
Creators: name: Matri, Mohamed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Screening
subject: Arthritides
subject: Inflammation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Multicentre study

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The major cause of marked functional impairment in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is disorders of the sagittal balance of the spine. However, Few data are available on the correlation between sagittal spinopelvic parameters and spine radiologic scoring...
Trichrysis scioensis
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Trichrysis
Trichrysis scioensis

description: Trichrysis scioensis (GRIBODO, 1879)
Chrysis scioensis GRIBODO, 1879: DU BUYSSON 1898b: 525 (Obock).
Chrysis scioensis GRIBODO, 1879: DU BUYSSON 1898c: 272 (cat. Djibouti).
Chrysis scioensis GRIBODO, 1879: DU BUYSSON 1899: 164 (Obock, cat. MNHN).
Chrysis (Trichrysis) scioensis GRIBODO, 1897: BISCHOFF 1913: 46 (world cat.).
Trichrysis scioensis (GRIBODO, 1879): KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 573 (world cat.).
Trichrysis scioensis (GRIBODO, 1879): MADL & ROSA 2012: 130 (cat. Afr. reg.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Obock.
Trichrysis scioensis is recorded from the Afrotropical (Cameroon, Djibouti, Ethiopia) and Palaearctic (Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen) regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 917, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on cancer mortality in Mexico, 2003–2013
Creators: name: Lichtenberg, Frank R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cancer--Mortality
Pharmaceutical technology
Drugs--Effectiveness
Drugs--Cost effectiveness
Medical innovations

description: I assess the impact that pharmaceutical innovation had on cancer mortality in Mexico during the period 2003–2013, by investigating whether there were larger declines in the age-standardized mortality rate of cancer sites (breast, lung, colon, etc.) that were subject to more pharmaceutical innovation, controlling for changes in the age-standardized cancer incidence rate. The estimates indicate that new drugs launched during 1991–2001 reduced the age-standardized cancer mortality rate by 16%, i.e., at an average annual rate of about 1.6%. I estimate that 105,661 life-years before age 70 were gained in 2013 due to cancer drugs launched during 1991–2001, and that the cost per life-year gained was in the neighborhood of $2146. By the standards of the World Health Organization, new cancer drugs have been very cost-effective in Mexico. The contribution of cancer drug innovation to Mexican longevity growth has been valuable, but, perhaps, it could have been even larger. Only half as many new cancer drugs were launched in Mexico during 2010–2014 as were launched in the US. In addition, when new drugs are launched in Mexico, their diffusion tends to be quite slow.
Measurement of the isolated diphoton cross-section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ATLAS experiment has measured the production cross-section of events with two isolated photons in the final state, in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The full data set acquired in 2010 is used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 37 pb^-1. The background, consisting of hadronic jets and isolated electrons, is estimated with fully data-driven techniques and subtracted. The differential cross-sections, as functions of the di-photon mass, total transverse momentum and azimuthal separation, are presented and compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD.
description: 15 pages plus author list (27 pages total), 9 figures, 2 tables, final version to appear in Physical Review D
title: Irreversible electroporation for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Creators: name: Collado Torres, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Outcomes
subject: Metastases
subject: Cancer
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Abdomen
subject: Interventional Radiology

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To describe our experience in percutaneous treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with irreversible electroporation...
Rethinking maritime delimitation and promoting joint development of petroleum: the Nigeria-Sao-Tome and Principe joint development model
Creators: name: Eze, Nicholas Chinedu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In an era when maritime delimitation disputes abound because of the perceived and actual presence of valuable natural resources in the disputed boundaries, this thesis seeks to examine a particular alternative way of resolving maritime disputes called joint development. A good number of states are, expectedly, unable to resolve their maritime disputes say by a successful bilateral mutual agreement where natural resources capable of changing their economic fate are found to straddle such disputed area(s). Maritime disputes already abound with potential ones breeding. Resorting to third party dispute resolution is certainly better than aggression and intimidation, but may either be counterproductive or unpredictable with the state of international judicial precedents on the matter. Indeed, even after a bona fide judicial settlement, there is no guarantee of peace and security in such troubled waters. This is traceable to the winner-takes-all nature of a third party settlement of disputes- be it arbitration or adjudication. It is in recognition of this situation that this thesis seeks to promote joint development in the absence of a mutual delimitation and deemphasizes third party dispute resolution and outright delimitation for such situations. The thesis focuses on the nature and merits of joint development of straddling resources over outright judicial or arbitral delimitation with practical and existing scenarios. The presence of existing joint developments around the world and in particular the Nigeria-Sao-Tome Principe Joint Development effort, as a model of joint development, is elucidated in this work and the features that have made it work. This thesis is concluded by a discourse of what the writer considers to be the gains of joint development which third party dispute resolution and outright delimitation do not offer in straddling or disputed resources development and management.
Building the foundation for successful collaboration and partnerships - "Hey .... you're not so bad pardner!"
Creators: name: Rogers, Rox
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: leadership
community-based conservation
collaborative conservation
strategies

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas.
description: Christoffersen is the executive director for Wallowa Resources. He has a bachelor's in Economics from Williams, and a Masters in Forestry from Oxford University. His work experience includes six years in eastern and southern Africa on forestry and wildlife management issues, with an emphasis on community-based natural resource management. Previously, Christoffersen has served as executive director for the U.S. Office of Africa Resources Trust and regional program coordinator for the IUCN Regional Office in Southern Africa. Other work includes policy work with the European Commission on matters related to CITES and natural resource management, and short-term field work in Australia (livestock), U.K. (forestry), Norway (forestry and fishing), and Israel (agriculture). Since working in Oregon, Christoffersen has served on the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry and he chaired the Governor of Oregon's Eastside Forest Advisory Panel from 2003 to 2005.
description: PowerPoint presention
description: Presentation discusses the partnership between Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, Mountain-Prairie Region and private landowners and the Partner's program cornerstones for a successful partnership. Based upon the Partner's program the presenter discusses how to develop a successful collaboration.
title: Renal Cell Cancer: analysis of some predictive factors for perinephric fat invasion -Diagnostic Value of Multidetector Computed Tomography-
Creators: name: Dulgheriu, Ioana-Teofana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Management
subject: Kidney
subject: Oncologic Imaging

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Renal cancer accounts for 5% of the malignant pathology in men, 3% in women [1]. Renal cell cancer (RCC) accounts for about 80% of all malignant renal tumors [2]. A great number of renal cell cancer tumors are now diagnosed in early stages,...
The extinction map of the OMC-1 molecular cloud behind the Orion Nebula
Creators: name: Scandariato, Gaetano
name: Robberto, Massimo
name: Pagano, Isabella
name: Hillenbrand, Lynne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our main goal is to derive a new extinction map of the OMC-1, obtaining information about the structure of the OMC-1 and the Orion Nebula Cluster. The most recent near-infrared catalog of stars is used to study the distribution of reddening across a ~0.3 deg^2 area covering the Orion Nebula Cluster. On the basis of the observed (H,H-K_S) diagram, we establish a criterion for disentangling contaminants from bona-fide cluster members. For contaminant stars, interstellar reddenings are estimated by comparison with a synthetic galactic model. A statistical analysis is then performed to consistently account for local extinction, reddening and star-counts analysis. We derive the extinction map of the OMC-1 with angular resolution <5'. We also assemble a sample of candidate cluster members, for which we measure the extinction provided by the nebular environment. These extinction measurements are analyzed similarly to the contaminant sample, and an extinction map of the Orion Nebula is derived. The extinction provided by the OMC-1 is variable on spatial scales of a few arcminutes, while showing a general increase from the outskirts (A_V~6) to the direction of the Trapezium asterism (A_V>30). The Orion Nebula extinction map is more irregular and optically thinner, with A_V of the order of a few magnitudes. Both maps are consistent with the optical morphology, in particular the Dark Bay to the north-east of the Trapezium. Both maps also show the presence of a north-south high-density ridge, which confirms the filamentary structure of the Orion molecular complex inside which star formation is still taking place.
description: Published in the electronic edition of Astronomy & Astrophysics. It is available on http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116554
Modification of the association between recreational physical activity and survival after breast cancer by promoter methylation in breast cancer-related genes
Creators: name: McCullough, Lauren E.
name: Chen, Jia
name: Cho, Yoon H.
name: Khankari, Nikhil K.
name: Bradshaw, Patrick T.
name: White, Alexandra J.
name: Teitelbaum, Susan L.
name: Terry, Mary Beth
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Hibshoosh, Hanina
name: Santella, Regina M.
name: Gammon, Marilie D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Methylation
Epigenetics
Breast--Cancer
Breast--Cancer--Mortality
Exercise
Oncology

description: Background: Mechanisms underlying the inverse association between physical activity and survival after breast cancer are unresolved, but DNA methylation may play a role. We hypothesized that promoter methylation of breast cancer-related genes, as well as global methylation, may modify the association between prediagnostic recreational physical activity (RPA) and breast cancer mortality.

Methods: Using a population-based sample of 1254 women diagnosed with first primary breast cancer, we examined modification of the RPA-mortality association by gene-specific promoter methylation and global methylation. Average lifetime RPA was assessed from menarche to diagnosis through structured in-home interviews. Promoter methylation of 13 breast cancer-related genes was evaluated in archived tumor by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction and MethyLight assay. Global methylation in white blood cell DNA was determined at long interspersed nucleotide element 1 and by the luminometric methylation assay. After approximately 15 years of follow-up, 486 patients had died, and 186 of the deaths were breast cancer-related. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate HRs and 95% CIs as well as likelihood ratio tests to assess multiplicative interactions.

Results: All-cause mortality was lower only among physically active women with methylated promoter of APC (HR 0.60, 95% CI 0.40–0.80), CCND2 (HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.32–0.99), HIN (HR 0.55, 95% CI 0.38–0.80), and TWIST1 (HR 0.28, 95% CI 0.14–0.56) in tumors, but not among those with unmethylated tumors (significant interaction p
Yellow supergiants as supernova progenitors: an indication of strong mass loss for red supergiants?
Creators: name: Georgy, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The increasing observed number of supernova events allows for finding ever more frequently the progenitor star in archive images. In a few cases, the progenitor star is a yellow supergiant star. The estimated position in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of these stars is not compatible with the theoretical tracks of classical single star models. According to several authors, the mass-loss rates during the red supergiant phase could be underestimated. We study the impact of an increase of these mass-loss rates on the position of 12 to 15 M\odot stars at the end of their nuclear life, in order to reconcile the theoretical tracks with the observed yellow supergiant progenitors. We perform calculations of 12 to 15 M\odot rotating stellar models using the Geneva stellar evolution code. To account for the uncertainties in the mass-loss rates during the RSG phase, we increase the mass-loss rate of the star (between 3 and 10 times the standard one) during that phase and compare the evolution of stars undergoing such high mass-loss rates with models computed with the standard mass-loss prescription. We show that the final position of the models in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram depends on the mass loss they undergo during the red supergiant phase. With an increased mass-loss rate, we find that some models end their nuclear life at positions that are compatible with the observed position of several supernova progenitors. We conclude that an increased mass-loss rate (whom physical mechanism still need to be clarified) allows single star models to reproduce simultaneously the estimated position in the HRD of the YSG SN progenitors, as well as the SN type.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
title: Abnormal origin of the left coronary artery: prevalence and anatomic characteristics in 33,361 patients undergoing coronary CTA
Creators: name: Han, Peilun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Congenital
subject: Screening
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CAD
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Vascular
subject: Cardiac
subject: Vascular

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To access the prevalence of abnormal origin of left coronary arteries (ALCA) and compare coronary artery features among ALCA patients with different anatomic...
Pathogen communities of songbird-derived ticks in Europe’s low countries
Creators: name: Heylen, Dieter
name: Fonville, Manoj
name: Docters Van Leeuwen, Arieke
name: Stroo, Arjan
name: Duisterwinkel, Martin
name: Van Wieren, Sip
name: Diuk-Wasser, Maria
name: De Bruin, Arnout
name: Sprong, Hein
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Borrelia burgdorferi
Rickettsiales
Birds--Parasites
Castor bean tick
Pathogenic microorganisms

description: Background:
                Birds play a major role in the maintenance of enzootic cycles of pathogens transmitted by ticks. Due to their mobility, they affect the spatial distribution and abundance of both ticks and pathogens. In the present study, we aim to identify members of a pathogen community [Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.), B. miyamotoi, ‘Ca. Neoehrlichia mikurensis’, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia helvetica] in songbird-derived ticks from 11 locations in the Netherlands and Belgium (2012–2014).

                Results:
                Overall, 375 infested songbird individuals were captured, belonging to 35 species. Thrushes (Turdus iliacus, T. merula and T. philomelos) were trapped most often and had the highest mean infestation intensity for both Ixodes ricinus and I. frontalis. Of the 671 bird-derived ticks, 51% contained DNA of at least one pathogenic agent and 13% showed co-infections with two or more pathogens. Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) DNA was found in 34% of the ticks of which majority belong to so-called avian Borrelia species (distribution in Borrelia-infected ticks: 47% B. garinii, 34% B. valaisiana, 3% B. turdi), but also the mammal-associated B. afzelii (16%) was detected. The occurrence of B. miyamotoi was low (1%). Prevalence of R. helvetica in ticks was high (22%), while A. phagocytophilum and ‘Ca. N. mikurensis’ prevalences were 5% and 4%, respectively. The occurrence of B. burgdorferi (s.l.) was positively correlated with the occurrence of ‘Ca. N. mikurensis’, reflecting variation in susceptibility among birds and/or suggesting transmission facilitation due to interactions between pathogens.

                Conclusions:
                Our findings highlight the contribution of European songbirds to co-infections in tick individuals and consequently to the exposure of humans to multiple pathogens during a tick bite. Although poorly studied, exposure to and possibly also infection with multiple tick-borne pathogens in humans seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
First-principles Electronic Structure of Superconductor Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$P$_2$: Comparison with LaFePO and Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$As$_2$
Creators: name: Kosugi, Taichi
name: Miyake, Takashi
name: Ishibashi, Shoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electronic structures of iron-based superconductors having perovskite-like blocking layers, %Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$ from first principles. Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$P$_2$ and Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$As$_2$ from first principles. Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$P$_2$ is found to have two hole-like Fermi surfaces around $Γ$, and one hole-like Fermi surface around M in the unfolded Brillouin zone. This is in contrast with LaFePO, where no Fermi surface is found around M. The relationship of their band structures and measured transition temperatures of superconductivity is discussed. The number of Fermi surfaces in Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$P$_2$ is also different from that of Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$As$_2$, in which only one Fermi surface is formed around $Γ$. Analysis using maximally localized Wannier functions clarifies that the differences between their band structures originate mainly from the pnictogen height. We then analyze the alloying effect on the electronic structure of Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$AsP. It is found that its electronic structure is similar to that of Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$P$_2$ and Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$As$_2$ with the average crystal structure, though Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$AsP contains the pnictogen height disorder. We calculate the generalized susceptibility for Ca$_4$Al$_2$O$_6$Fe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$ and clarify the factors determining its tendency.
description: 5 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
A sufficient condition for de Sitter vacua in type IIB string theory
Creators: name: Rummel, Markus
name: Westphal, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a sufficient condition for realizing meta-stable de Sitter vacua with small positive cosmological constant within type IIB string theory flux compactifications with spontaneously broken supersymmetry. There are a number of `lamp post' constructions of de Sitter vacua in type IIB string theory and supergravity. We show that one of them -- the method of `Kähler uplifting' by F-terms from an interplay between non-perturbative effects and the leading $α'$-correction -- allows for a more general parametric understanding of the existence of de Sitter vacua. The result is a condition on the values of the flux induced superpotential and the topological data of the Calabi-Yau compactification, which guarantees the existence of a meta-stable de Sitter vacuum if met. Our analysis explicitly includes the stabilization of all moduli, i.e. the Kähler, dilaton and complex structure moduli, by the interplay of the leading perturbative and non-perturbative effects at parametrically large volume.
description: 53 pages, latex, 5 figures, accepted to JHEP
Acceptability and effectiveness of a web-based psychosocial intervention among criminal justice involved adults
Creators: name: Lee, J. D.
name: Tofighi, B.
name: McDonald, R.
name: Campbell, Aimee C.
name: Hu, Mei-Chen
name: Nunes Jr, Edward V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Criminals--Mental health services
Drug addiction--Treatment
Community-based corrections
Alternatives to imprisonment
Psychiatry

description: Background:
                The acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of web-based interventions among criminal justice involved populations are understudied. This study is a secondary analysis of baseline characteristics associated with criminal justice system (CJS) status as treatment outcome moderators among participants enrolling in a large randomized trial of a web-based psychosocial intervention (Therapeutic Education System [TES]) as part of outpatient addiction treatment.

                Methods:
                We compared demographic and clinical characteristics, TES participation rates, and the trial’s two co-primary outcomes, end of treatment abstinence and treatment retention, by self-reported CJS status at baseline: 1) CJS-mandated to community treatment (CJS-mandated), 2) CJS-recommended to treatment (CJS-recommended), 3) no CJS treatment mandate (CJS-none).

                Results:
                CJS-mandated (n = 107) and CJS-recommended (n = 69) participants differed from CJS-none (n = 331) at baseline: CJS-mandated were significantly more likely to be male, uninsured, report cannabis as the primary drug problem, report fewer days of drug use at baseline, screen negative for depression, and score lower for psychological distress and higher on physical health status; CJS-recommended were younger, more likely single, less likely to report no regular Internet use, and to report cannabis as the primary drug problem. Both CJS-involved (CJS -recommended and -mandated) groups were more likely to have been recently incarcerated. Among participants randomized to the TES arm, module completion was similar across the CJS subgroups. A three-way interaction of treatment, baseline abstinence and CJS status showed no associations with the study’s primary abstinence outcome.

                Conclusions:
                Overall, CJS-involved participants in this study tended to be young, male, and in treatment for a primary cannabis problem. The feasibility and effectiveness of the web-based psychosocial intervention, TES, did not vary by CJS-mandated or CJS-recommended participants compared to CJS-none. Web-based counseling interventions may be effective interventions as US public safety policies begin to emphasize supervised community drug treatment over incarceration.
Collaborative conservation in action: a real-time Colorado case study
Creators: name: Erdmann, Dieter
name: Palmer, Carl
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: South Park
Tarryall Creek Ranch
Park County
Colorado Open Lands
Beartooth Capital
landscape-scale conservation

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. Carl Palmer is co-founder of Beartooth Capital Partners. Dieter Erdmann is Director of Conservation Operations for Colorado Open Lands.
description: Colorado Open Lands, Park County, and Beartooth Capital (a private investment fund) have been collaborating to conserve and restore top priority conservation properties in South Park for the past several years, building on the more than 10-year track record of partnership between Park County and Colorado Open Lands. Beartooth Capital is a private investment fund dedicated to making investments that conserve important ranches while generating returns for investors, and its involvement is enabling the partnership to extend its reach and achieve conservation goals that had been thought out of reach. In this session, Dieter Erdmann, Director of Conservation Operations for Colorado Open Lands, and Carl Palmer, co-founder of Beartooth Capital, will introduce their organizations and each party's role in the partnership, exploring the details, strengths and challenges to this kind of innovative approach to landscape-scale conservation.
Closely-related Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu stricto) strains exhibit similar fitness in single infections and asymmetric competition in multiple infections
Creators: name: Rynkiewicz, Evelyn C.
name: Brown, Julia
name: Tufts, Danielle M.
name: Huang, Ching-I
name: Kampen, Helge
name: Bent, Stephen J.
name: Fish, Durland
name: Diuk-Wasser, Maria
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ixodes scapularis
subject: Peromyscus leucopus
subject: Borrelia burgdorferi
subject: Parasitology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background:
                Wild hosts are commonly co-infected with complex, genetically diverse, pathogen communities. Competition is expected between genetically or ecologically similar pathogen strains which may influence patterns of coexistence. However, there is little data on how specific strains of these diverse pathogen species interact within the host and how this impacts pathogen persistence in nature. Ticks are the most common disease vector in temperate regions with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, being the most common vector-borne pathogen in North America. Borrelia burgdorferi is a pathogen of high public health concern and there is significant variation in infection phenotype between strains, which influences predictions of pathogen dynamics and spread.

                Methods:
                In a laboratory experiment, we investigated whether two closely-related strains of B. burgdorferi (sensu stricto) showed similar transmission phenotypes, how the transmission of these strains changed when a host was infected with one strain, re-infected with the same strain, or co-infected with two strains. Ixodes scapularis, the black-legged tick, nymphs were used to sequentially infect laboratory-bred Peromyscus leucopus, white-footed mice, with one strain only, homologous infection with the same stain, or heterologous infection with both strains. We used the results of this laboratory experiment to simulate long-term persistence and maintenance of each strain in a simple simulation model.

                Results:
                Strain LG734 was more competitive than BL206, showing no difference in transmission between the heterologous infection groups and single-infection controls, while strain BL206 transmission was significantly reduced when strain LG734 infected first. The results of the model show that this asymmetry in competition could lead to extinction of strain BL206 unless there was a tick-to-host transmission advantage to this less competitive strain.

                Conclusions:
                This asymmetric competitive interaction suggests that strain identity and the biotic context of co-infection is important to predict strain dynamics and persistence.
Laplace transformation of Lie class ω=1 overdetermined systems
Creators: name: Kruglikov, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we investigate overdetermined systems of scalar PDEs on the plane with one common characteristic, whose general solution depends on 1 function of 1 variable. We describe linearization of such systems and their integration via Laplace transformation, relating this to Lie's integration theorem and formal theory of PDEs.
Is Turing's Thesis the Consequence of a More General Physical Principle?
Creators: name: Szudzik, Matthew P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 03A10 (Primary) 03D80, 03D78 (Secondary)

description: We discuss historical attempts to formulate a physical hypothesis from which Turing's thesis may be derived, and also discuss some related attempts to establish the computability of mathematical models in physics. We show that these attempts are all related to a single, unified hypothesis.
description: 10 pages, 0 figures; section 1 revised, other minor changes
Trimmed trees and embedded particle systems
Creators: name: Fleischmann, Klaus
name: Swart, Jan
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: (Historical) superprocess
subject: binary branching
subject: Poissonization
subject: embedded particle system
subject: trimmed tree
subject: compensated h-transform
subject: finite ancestry property
subject: 60J80
subject: 60G57
subject: 60J60
subject: 60K35

description: In a supercritical branching particle system, the trimmed tree consists of those particles which have descendants at all times. We develop this concept in the superprocess setting. For a class of continuous superprocesses, we identify the trimmed tree, which turns out to be a binary splitting particle system with a new underlying motion that is a compensated h-transform of the old one. We show how trimmed trees may be estimated from above by embedded binary branching particle systems.
Complete Residue Systems: A Primer and an Application
Creators: name: Paparella, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Complete residue systems play an integral role in abstract algebra and number theory, and a description is typically found in any number theory textbook. This note provides a concise overview of complete residue systems, including a robust definition, several well-known results, a proof to the converse of a well-known theorem, ancillary results pertaining to an application arising from the study of the roots of nonnegative matrices, and extends our knowledge of complete residue systems in relation to complete sets of roots of unity.
Placental phenotypes associated with abnormal genomic imprinting on distal mouse chromosome 7
Creators: name: Oh-McGinnis, Rosemary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Imprinted genes are expressed either from the maternal or paternal allele during development and tend to be found in clusters throughout the mammalian genome, suggesting they may be regulated by long-range mechanisms. Many of them have important roles in placental development. The Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS) region on human chromosome 11p15.5 contains two imprinted subdomains each regulated by their own differentially methylated regions, known as imprinting centres (IC1 and IC2). These two imprinted subdomains are separated by an evolutionarily conserved region of about 300 kilobases. Distal mouse chromosome 7 (MMU7) shares syntenic homology with the human BWS region. Since the mechanisms by which imprinting occurs are unclear, we sought to characterize this region further using two mouse lines carrying deletions within the BWS imprinted region. The first mouse line, called DelTel7/IC2KO, allows us to dissect out the role of imprinting centre 2 in the silencing of imprinted genes. We demonstrate that all of the distal MMU7 imprinted genes implicated in placental function are silenced by IC2 and the noncoding RNA Kcnq1ot1. The second mouse line, called Del⁷AI, allows us to determine whether placental imprinting is perturbed when the region between IC1 and IC2 is deleted. We found that maternal inheritance of Del⁷AI leads to partial loss of the gene Ascl2, and we show that this affects all three layers of the mature mouse placenta. We found that paternal inheritance of Del⁷AI leads to partial loss of Ascl2 imprinting. Detailed investigation of the underlying mechanisms of imprinting and phenotypes in these mouse lines provides us with new fundamental insights into placental biology and the regulation of gene expression by imprinting centres on distal mouse chromosome 7.
title: Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory: conserving birds and their habitats
title: Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory: raising awareness and opening doors for conserving birds and their habitats
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Quattrini, Laura
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: bird conservation
Prairie Partners
RMBO
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory
Private Lands Wildlife Biologist Program
PLWB

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. The presenter is affiliated with Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
description: The mission of the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) is to conserve birds and their habitats of the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and Intermountain West. We accomplish our mission through science, education and stewardship. RMBO's science provides the knowledge to drive conservation action. Our Education Program instills a conservation ethic and uses birds as a tool to engage youth and adults in the outdoors. Our stewardship works with agricultural producers to increase awareness of wildlife and implements on-the-ground conservation.
title: Novel segmentation method using a self-organizing neural network for spectral CT
Creators: name: Yoneyama, Akio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics in Medical Imaging
subject: Computer applications
subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Physics
subject: Segmentation
subject: Image registration
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Prospective
subject: Experimental
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Spectral (multi-energy) CT (SCT) is currently being developed and is expected to obtain precise pseudo monochromatic images, images free from metal artifacts and beam hardenings, images enhanced with contrast agents, and fine segmented images by...
The natural and capital infrastructure of potential post-electrification wealth creation in Kenya
Creators: name: Ponce De Leon Barido, Diego
name: Fobi Nsutezo, Sally Simone
name: Taneja, Jay
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Rural electrification--Economic aspects
Sustainable development
Infrastructure (Economics)
Entrepreneurship

description: Background:
                It is widely accepted that electricity is an important element for improving levels of human development and wealth creation in rural areas. Yet, little research has explored the conditions under which electrification could lead to wealth creation post-electrification. Using Kenya as a case study, this paper uses natural capital (NC) and infrastructural capital (IC) data to compare the enabling environments under which electrification could lead to wealth creation (and persistent demand for electricity) post-electrification.

                Methods:
                We use multiple spatial data sets to create three different metrics for NC and IC and use them to create a micro-enterprise development index (MED index). NC data is composed of water body data (major rivers and access to irrigation infrastructure), soil data (soil quality and agro-ecological potential), and agricultural data (crop intensity and diversity). IC is composed of spatial data spanning major towns, first and second tier roads, electricity infrastructure (transmission grid, location of government, and entrepreneur run off-grid electrification projects), population density, access to education, trade centers (markets), healthcare, and access to financial services. We perform feature scaling on NC and IC data and use them to create a MED index, which we use to represent the potential for rural micro-enterprises to create wealth, post-electrification. We compare this spatial proxy to a nightlights GDP per capita proxy developed by the World Bank in 2015 and provide a discussion highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of our approach and of using nightlights as a single metric for wealth in rural areas.

                Results:
                In Kenya, infrastructural capital follows natural capital. Regions with greater natural capital have relatively higher development and penetration of infrastructural capital. We observe a large discrepancy between our MED index and the nightlights income proxy, which could be caused by an underestimate of economic activity by nightlights, and an overestimate by the MED index, being that it is a measure of “potential” wealth (as opposed to current wealth).

                Conclusions:
                A spatial aggregation of natural and infrastructural capital, and nightlights data, could be an accurate demand-side input for electrification supply-side models including grid-expansion and off-grid strategies.