cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ALS-associated mutant FUS induces selective motor neuron degeneration through toxic gain of function
Creators: name: Sharma, Aarti
name: Lyashchenko, Alexander K.
name: Lu, Lei
name: Ebrahimi Nasrabady, Sara
name: Elmaleh, Margot
name: Mendelsohn, Monica
name: Nemes, Adriana
name: Tapia, Juan Carlos
name: Mentis, George Z.
name: Shneider, Neil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nervous system--Degeneration--Molecular aspects
subject: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
subject: Neurology
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Mutations in FUS cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), including some of the most aggressive, juvenile-onset forms of the disease. FUS loss-of-function and toxic gain-of-function mechanisms have been proposed to explain how mutant FUS leads to motor neuron degeneration, but neither has been firmly established in the pathogenesis of ALS. Here we characterize a series of transgenic FUS mouse lines that manifest progressive, mutant-dependent motor neuron degeneration preceded by early, structural and functional abnormalities at the neuromuscular junction. A novel, conditional FUS knockout mutant reveals that postnatal elimination of FUS has no effect on motor neuron survival or function. Moreover, endogenous FUS does not contribute to the onset of the ALS phenotype induced by mutant FUS. These findings demonstrate that FUS-dependent motor degeneration is not due to loss of FUS function, but to the gain of toxic properties conferred by ALS mutations.
Spalacopus Wagler 1832
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
Octodontidae
Spalacopus

description: Spalacopus Wagler, 1832. Isis, 25: 1219. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410026005000000.
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 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1903-11)
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.
Numerical and analytical tests of quasi-integrability in modified Sine-Gordon models
Creators: name: Ferreira, L. A.
name: Zakrzewski, Wojtek J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following our attempts to define quasi-integrability in which we related this concept to a particular symmetry of the two-soliton function we check this condition in three classes of modified Sine-Gordon models in (1+1) dimensions. We find that the numerical results seen in various scatterings of two solitons and in the time evolution of breather-like structures support our ideas about the symmetry of the field configurations and its effects on the anomalies of the conservation laws of the charges.
description: 33 pages, 19 figures, Reference added
mTORC1-independent Raptor prevents hepatic steatosis by stabilizing PHLPP2
Creators: name: Kim, Kyeong Jin
name: Qiang, Li
name: Hayden, Matthew S.
name: Sparling, David P.
name: Purcell, Nicole H.
name: Pajvani, Utpal B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fatty degeneration
subject: Cells--Growth--Regulation
subject: Liver--Diseases
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular biology

description: Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1), defined by the presence of Raptor, is an evolutionarily conserved and nutrient-sensitive regulator of cellular growth and other metabolic processes. To date, all known functions of Raptor involve its scaffolding mTOR kinase with substrate. Here we report that mTORC1-independent (‘free’) Raptor negatively regulates hepatic Akt activity and lipogenesis. Free Raptor levels in liver decline with age and in obesity; restoration of free Raptor levels reduces liver triglyceride content, through reduced β-TrCP-mediated degradation of the Akt phosphatase, PHLPP2. Commensurately, forced PHLPP2 expression ameliorates hepatic steatosis in diet-induced obese mice. These data suggest that the balance of free and mTORC1-associated Raptor governs hepatic lipid accumulation, and uncover the potentially therapeutic role of PHLPP2 activators in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Theses Ex Universa Theologia Canonico-Scholastica Juxta Miram Doctoris Angelici Divi Thomae Aquinatis Doctrinam, Ac Ordinem, Quas Fratres Discalceati B. V. Mariae De Monte Carmelo Collegii Augustani Publicae Disputationi Exponunt In Ecclesia Ad SS. Sacramentum Anno 1760. Die [...] Augusti ...; 1760
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Typis Josephi Antonii Labhart p.m. Viduae, Reverendiss. ac Sereniss. Princ. & Episc. August. Typographiae. - Im Ex. der UB München handschriftl. ergänzt: "Die 5. Augusti"
Dynamics of cancer recurrence
Creators: name: Foo, Jasmine
name: Leder, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Mutation-induced drug resistance in cancer often causes the failure of therapies and cancer recurrence, despite an initial tumor reduction. The timing of such cancer recurrence is governed by a balance between several factors such as initial tumor size, mutation rates and growth kinetics of drug-sensitive and resistance cells. To study this phenomenon we characterize the dynamics of escape from extinction of a subcritical branching process, where the establishment of a clone of escape mutants can lead to total population growth after the initial decline. We derive uniform in-time approximations for the paths of the escape process and its components, in the limit as the initial population size tends to infinity and the mutation rate tends to zero. In addition, two stochastic times important in cancer recurrence will be characterized: (i) the time at which the total population size first begins to rebound (i.e., become supercritical) during treatment, and (ii) the first time at which the resistant cell population begins to dominate the tumor.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP876 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Spalacopus cyanus
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
Octodontidae
Spalacopus
Spalacopus cyanus

description: Spalacopus cyanus (Molina, 1782). Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile, p. 300. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Valparaiso Prov. DISTRIBUTION: Chile, west of the Andes. COMMENT: Includes tabanus; see Cabrera, 1961:517. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410026005002001 as S. cyanus. 5301410026005001001 as S. tabanus.
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 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Temporal trends in symptom experience predict the accuracy of recall PROs
Creators: name: Schneider, Stefan
name: Broderick, Joan E.
name: Junghaenel, Doerte U.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Stone, Arthur A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Outcome assessment (Medical care)
subject: Recollection (Psychology)
subject: Psychometrics
subject: Medicine
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Objective - Patient-reported outcome measures with reporting periods of a week or more are often used to evaluate the change of symptoms over time, but the accuracy of recall in the context of change is not well understood. This study examined whether temporal trends in symptoms that occur during the reporting period impact the accuracy of 7-day recall reports.

Methods - Women with premenstrual symptoms (n = 95) completed daily reports of anger, depression, fatigue, and pain intensity for 4 weeks, as well as 7-day recall reports at the end of each week. Latent class growth analysis was used to categorize recall periods based on the direction and rate of change in the daily reports. Agreement (level differences and correlations) between 7-day recall and aggregated daily scores was compared for recall periods with different temporal trends.

Results - Recall periods with positive, negative, and flat temporal trends were identified and they varied in accordance with weeks of the menstrual cycle. Replicating previous research, 7-day recall scores were consistently higher than aggregated daily scores, but this level difference was more pronounced for recall periods involving positive and negative trends compared with flat trends. Moreover, correlations between 7-day recall and aggregated daily scores were lower in the presence of positive and negative trends compared with flat trends. These findings were largely consistent for anger, depression, fatigue, and pain intensity.

Conclusion - Temporal trends in symptoms can influence the accuracy of recall reports and this should be considered in research designs involving change.
Widowhood and Mortality: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression
Creators: name: Shor, Eran
name: Roelfs, David
name: Curreli, Misty
name: Clemow, Lynn
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Mortality
Widowhood
Meta-analysis
Medical sciences
Epidemiology

description: The study of spousal bereavement and mortality has long been a major topic of interest for social scientists, but much remains unknown with respect to important moderating factors, such as age, follow-up duration, and geographic region. The present study examines these factors using meta-analysis. Keyword searches were conducted in multiple electronic databases, supplemented by extensive iterative hand searches. We extracted 1,377 mortality risk estimates from 123 publications, providing data on more than 500 million persons. Compared with married people, widowers had a mean hazard ratio (HR) of 1.23 (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.19–1.28) among HRs adjusted for age and additional covariates and a high subjective quality score. The mean HR was higher for men (HR, 1.27; 95% CI, 1.19–1.35) than for women (HR, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.08–1.22). A significant interaction effect was found between gender and mean age, with HRs decreasing more rapidly for men than for women as age increased. Other significant predictors of HR magnitude included sample size, geographic region, level of statistical adjustment, and study quality.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1903-10)
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.
Exact solution of the 1D Hubbard model with NN and NNN interactions in the narrow-band limit
Creators: name: Mancini, Ferdinando
name: Plekhanov, Evgeny
name: Sica, Gerardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the exact solution, obtained by means of the Transfer Matrix (TM) method, of the 1D Hubbard model with nearest-neighbor (NN) and next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) Coulomb interactions in the atomic limit (t=0). The competition among the interactions ($U$, $V_1$, and $V_2$) generates a plethora of T=0 phases in the whole range of fillings. $U$, $V_1$, and $V_2$ are the intensities of the local, NN and NNN interactions, respectively. We report the T=0 phase diagram, in which the phases are classified according to the behavior of the principal correlation functions, and reconstruct a representative electronic configuration for each phase. In order to do that, we make an analytic limit $T\to 0$ in the transfer matrix, which allows us to obtain analytic expressions for the ground state energies even for extended transfer matrices. Such an extension of the standard TM technique can be easily applied to a wide class of 1D models with the interaction range beyond NN distance, allowing for a complete determination of the T=0 phase diagrams.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, to appear in European Physical Journal B
Telemedicine Home Blood Pressure Measurements and Progression of Albuminuria in Elderly People With Diabetes
Creators: name: Palmas, Walter R.
name: Pickering, Thomas G.
name: Teresi, Jeanne A.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Field, Lesley
name: Weinstock, Ruth S.
name: Shea, Steven J. C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Patient self-monitoring
Albuminuria
Diabetes in old age
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Medicine
Health services administration
Medical care

description: We assessed whether home blood pressure monitoring improved the prediction of progression of albuminuria when added to office measurements and compared it with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in a multiethnic cohort of older people (n=392) with diabetes mellitus, without macroalbuminuria, participating in the telemedicine arm of the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine Study. Albuminuria was assessed by measuring the spot urine albumin:creatinine ratio at baseline and annually for 3 years. The ambulatory sleep:wake systolic blood pressure ratio was categorized as dipping (ratio: ≤0.9), nondipping (ratio: >0.9 to 1.0), and nocturnal rise (ratio: >1.0). In a repeated-measures mixed linear model, after adjustment that included office pulse pressure, home pulse pressure was independently associated with a higher follow-up albumin:creatinine ratio (P=0.001). That association persisted (P=0.01) after adjusting for 24-hour pulse pressure and nocturnal rise, which were also independent predictors (P=0.02 and P=0.03, respectively). Cox proportional hazards models examined the progression of albuminuria (n=74) as defined by cutoff values used by clinicians. After the adjustment for office pulse pressure, the hazards ratio (95% CI) per 10-mm Hg increment of home pulse pressure was 1.34 (range: 1.1 to 1.7; P=0.01). Home pulse pressure was not an independent predictor in the model including ambulatory monitoring data; a nocturnal rise was the only independent predictor (P=0.035). Cox models built separately for home pulse pressure and ambulatory monitoring exhibited similar calibration and discrimination. In conclusion, nocturnal blood pressure elevation was the strongest predictor of worsening albuminuria. Home blood pressure measurements added to office measurements and may constitute an adequate substitute for ambulatory monitoring.
Chiral Phonons Enhance Ferromagnetism
Creators: name: Fransson, Jonas
name: Kapon, Yael
name: Brann, Lilach
name: Yochelis, Shira
name: Sasselov, Dimitar D.
name: Paltiel, Yossi
name: Ozturk, S. Furkan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments suggest that the conditions for ferromagnetic order in, e.g., magnetite, can be modified by adsorption of chiral molecules. Especially, the coercivity of magnetite was increased by nearly 100 \%, or 20 times the earth magnetic flux density, at room temperature. The coercivity was, moreover, demonstrated to increase linearly with temperature in a finite range around room temperature. Based on these results, a mechanism is proposed for providing the necessary enhancement of the magnetic anisotropy. It is shown that nuclear vibrations (phonons) coupled to ferromagnetic spin excitations (magnons) absorb the thermal energy in the system, thereby diverting the excess energy that otherwise would excite magnons in the ferromagnet. This energy diversion, not only restores the ferromagnetic order but also enhances its stability by increasing the anisotropy energy for magnon excitations. The coupling between phonons with magnons is enabled by chirality due to the lack of inversion symmetry.
Calculating two-strand jellyfish relations
Creators: name: Penneys, David
name: Peters, Emily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L37 (Primary), 18D05, 57M20 (Secondary)

description: We construct subfactors where one of the principal graphs is a spoke graph using an algorithm which computes two-strand jellyfish relations. One of the subfactors we construct is a 3^{Z/4} subfactor known to Izumi, which has not previously appeared in the literature. To do so, we provide a systematic treatment of the space of second annular consequences, which is analogous to Jones' treatment of the space of first annular consequences in his quadratic tangles article. This article is the natural followup to two recent articles on spoke subfactor planar algebras and the jellyfish algorithm. Work of Bigelow-Penneys explains the connection between spoke subfactor planar algebras and the jellyfish algorithm, and work of Morrison-Penneys automates the construction of subfactors where both principal graphs are spoke graphs using one-strand jellyfish.
description: 57 pages, many figures
Positiones Theologicae Scholastico-Dogmatico-Morales De Vitiis & Peccatis Ex Prima Secundae, Summae Divi Thomae Aquinatis, Angelici & Quinti Ecclesiae Doctoris à Quaestione 71. usque ad Quaestionem 90. exclusivè; 1755
Creators: name: Reichard, Dominicus
name: Kremer, Augustin
name: Fleck, Hyacinth
name: Güssregen, Wolfgang
name: Zetti, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Typis Viduae Georgii Andreae Gertner, Principalis Aulae, & Reverend. Capituli Typographi
Refining the M_BH-V_c scaling relation with HI rotation curves of water megamaser galaxies
Creators: name: Sun, Ai-Lei
name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette
name: Kuo, Cheng-Yu
name: Braatz, James A.
name: Tuttle, Sarah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black hole - galaxy scaling relations provide information about the coevolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. We compare the black hole mass - circular velocity (MBH - Vc) relation with the black hole mass - bulge stellar velocity dispersion (MBH - sigma) relation, to see whether the scaling relations can passively emerge from a large number of mergers, or require a physical mechanism, such as feedback from an active nucleus. We present VLA H I observations of five galaxies, including three water megamaser galaxies, to measure the circular velocity. Using twenty-two galaxies with dynamical MBH measurements and Vc measurements extending to large radius, our best-fit MBH - Vc relation, log MBH = alpha + beta log(Vc /200 km s^-1), yields alpha = 7.43+/-0.13, beta = 3.68+1.23/-1.20, and intrinsic scatter epsilon_int = 0.51+0.11/-0.09. The intrinsic scatter may well be higher than 0.51, as we take great care to ascribe conservatively large observational errors. We find comparable scatter in the MBH - sigma relations, epsilon_int = 0.48+0.10/-0.08, while pure merging scenarios would likely result in a tighter scaling with the dark halo (as traced by Vc) than baryonic (sigma) properties. Instead, feedback from the active nucleus may act on bulge scales to tighten the MBH - sigma relation with respect to the MBH - Vc relation, as observed.
description: 27 pages, 15 figures, ApJ accepted
Linking financial development and economic growth: do we have new evidence of the role of institutions in CFA countries?
Creators: name: Meniago, Christelle
name: Mazorodze, Brian Tavonga
name: Mah, Gisele
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Communauté Financière Africaine (CFA) countries from the period 2003 to 2018. Drawing from a diverse dataset covering 13 countries, this research utilizes the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares technique to analyze the data. The findings reveal a significant positive relationship between financial development and economic growth, underscoring the importance of effective financial systems in fostering economic growth. Furthermore, the results emphasize the pivotal role of institutional quality on this relationship further demonstrating that while financial development acts as a catalyst for growth, its impact also relies on the quality of institutions. On the policy and practical front, the study suggests that policymakers in CFA countries should focus on expanding financial services and improving financial infrastructure. This could include making banking and credit more accessible for individuals and businesses, developing better financial markets, and making financial services more efficient. Additionally, the study recommends that improvements in the financial sector should go together with broader reforms in institutions. This means implementing policies that not only boost financial development but also strengthen institutional quality, thereby creating a strong and supportive environment for economic growth. This research investigates the relationship between financial development and economic growth in CFA countries, with a particular focus on the role of institutional quality. By analyzing data from 13 countries between 2003 and 2018, the study provides valuable insights into how financial development contribute to economic growth, while also emphasizing that the effectiveness of financial development is closely linked to the strength of institutions. The findings underscore the need for policymakers to enhance financial services, improve infrastructure, and strengthen institutional frameworks. This work is significant as it offers practical guidance for fostering sustainable economic growth in CFA African countries by highlighting the interconnectedness of financial development and institutional quality.
Site-Selective Electronic Correlation in alpha-Plutonium Metal
Creators: name: Zhu, Jian-Xin
name: Albers, R. C.
name: Haule, K.
name: Kotliar, G.
name: Wills, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An understanding of the phase diagram of elemental plutonium (Pu) must include both the effects of the strong directional bonding and the high density of states of the Pu 5f electrons, as well as how that bonding weakens under the influence of strong electronic correlations. We present for the first time electronic-structure calculations of the full 16-atom per unit cell alpha-phase structure within the framework of density functional theory (DFT) together with dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). Our calculations demonstrate that Pu atoms sitting on different sites within the alpha-Pu crystal structure have a strongly varying site dependence of the localization-delocalization correlation effects of their 5f electrons and a corresponding effect on the bonding and electronic properties of this complicated metal. In short, alpha-Pu has the capacity to simultaneously have multiple degrees of electron localization/delocalization of Pu 5f electrons within a pure single-element material.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures
Ctenomyidae Lesson 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
Ctenomyidae

description: Family Ctenomyidae REVIEWED BY: M. A. Mares (MAM); C. A. Woods (CAW). COMMENT: Considered a distinct family by Packard, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 278-280, and Cabrera, 1961:546; but also see Ellerman, 1940:158, Landry, 1957, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 56:1 -118, Pasqual et al., 1965, Ameghiniana, 4: 19-30, and Reig, 1970, J. Mammal., 51: 592-601, who placed it as a subfamily of Octodontidae. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027000000000.
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 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp.", "Landry, S. O. 1957. The interrelationships of the New and Old World hystricognath rodents. University of California Publications in Zoology, 56: 1 - 118."]}
Urinary cell mRNA profiles predictive of human kidney allograft status
Creators: name: Lee, John R.
name: Muthukumar, Thangamani
name: Dadhania, Darshana M.
name: Ding, Ruchuang
name: Sharma, Vijay K.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Suthanthiran, Manikkam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Homografts
Messenger RNA--Analysis
Pulmonary fibrosis
Kidneys--Transplantation
Surgery
Molecular biology

description: Kidney allograft status is currently characterized using the invasive percutaneous needle core biopsy procedure. The procedure has become safer over the years, but challenges and complications still exist including sampling error, interobserver variability, bleeding, arteriovenous fistula, graft loss, and even death. Because the most common type of acute rejection is distinguished by inflammatory cells exiting the intravascular compartment and gaining access to the renal tubular space, we reasoned that a kidney allograft may function as an in vivo flow cytometer and sort cells involved in rejection into urine. To test this idea, we developed quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for absolute quantification of mRNA and pre-amplification protocols to overcome the low RNA yield from urine. Here, we review our single center urinary cell mRNA profiling studies that led to the multicenter Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation (CTOT-04) study and the discovery and validation of a 3-gene signature of 18S rRNA-normalized measures of CD3ε mRNA and IP-10 mRNA and 18S rRNA that is diagnostic and predictive of acute cellular rejection in the kidney allograft. We also review our development of a 4-gene signature of mRNAs for vimentin, NKCC2, E-cadherin, and 18S rRNA diagnostic of interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy (IF/TA).
The Mara-Lago Indictments. Trump on Trial. A Briefing
Creators: name: Stockton, Ronald
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: NARA, Espionage Act, Walt Nauta, FBI, Donald Trump, DOJ, Jack Smith, David Petraeus, Presidential Daily Briefing, Peter Bergen, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Jonathan Jay Pollard, Sandy Berger, Reality Winner, Jack Teixeria, Material evidence, Aileen Connor, Federalist Society, Crime-fraud exception, Pardon Power, Plea agreement
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Text of Podcast (Stocktonafterclass)
description: This is a summary of the Trump Indictment document related to the Mara-Lago documents case. It discusses the context for the prosecution, some history of espioinage cases, and some legal complications with the prosecution.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1903-09)
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: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

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.
AJP-Galactose Manuscript Supplemental Data
Creators: name: Skolik, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This is the supplemental file for the manuscript titled - "Global Changes To HepG2 Cell Metabolism in Response to Galactose Treatment" by Skolik et al.
Soluble P-Selectin and the Risk of Primary Graft Dysfunction After Lung Transplantation
Creators: name: Kawut, Steven M.
name: Okun, Jeffrey
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Lederer, David J.
name: De Andrade, Joao
name: Lama, Vibha
name: Shah, Ashish
name: Milstone, Aaron
name: Ware, Lorraine B.
name: Weinacker, Ann
name: Demissie, Ejigayehu
name: Christie, Jason D.
name: Lung Transplant Outcomes Group
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Selectins
Lungs--Transplantation
Lungs--Wounds and injuries
Medicine
Surgery

description: Background - Platelet activation with subsequent neutrophilic adherence to the vasculature initiates ischemia-reperfusion injury. We hypothesized that higher plasma P-selectin levels reflecting platelet activation would therefore be associated with primary graft dysfunction (PGD) after lung transplantation.

Methods - In a prospective, multicenter cohort study of 376 patients who had undergone lung transplantation between 2002 and 2007, we measured soluble P-selectin levels before lung transplantation and at 6 and 24 h after lung reperfusion in 20 patients with grade III PGD (Pao2/fraction of inspired oxygen, < 200 mm Hg [with alveolar infiltrates seen on chest radiographs]) at 72 h after transplantation and 61 control subjects without PGD.

Results - Higher postoperative soluble P-selectin levels were associated with an increased risk of PGD at 72 h after transplantation (odds ratio [OR] per 1 natural log increase in soluble P-selectin at 6 h after lung allograft reperfusion, 3.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01 to 11.8; p = 0.048) and at 24 h after lung allograft reperfusion (OR, 4.8; 95% CI, 1.4 to 16.1; p = 0.01). Higher preoperative mean pulmonary artery pressure and the use of cardiopulmonary bypass were also associated with an increased risk of PGD.

Conclusion - Higher postoperative soluble P-selectin levels were associated with an increased risk of PGD at 72 h following lung transplantation.
Usual and Unusual Care: Existing Practice Control Groups in Randomized Controlled Trials of Behavioral Interventions
Creators: name: Freedland, Kenneth E.
name: Mohr, David C.
name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Clinical trials--Methodology
subject: Medicine, Psychosomatic--Research
subject: Evidence-based medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Objective: To evaluate the use of existing practice control groups in randomized controlled trials of behavioral interventions and the role of extrinsic health care services in the design and conduct of behavioral trials.

Method: Selective qualitative review.

Results: Extrinsic health care services, also known as nonstudy care, have important but under-recognized effects on the design and conduct of behavioral trials. Usual care, treatment-as-usual, standard of care, and other existing practice control groups pose a variety of methodological and ethical challenges, but they play a vital role in behavioral intervention research.

Conclusions: This review highlights the need for a scientific consensus statement on control groups in behavioral trials.
Rankin-Selberg methods for closed string amplitudes
Creators: name: Pioline, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After integrating over supermoduli and vertex operator positions, scattering amplitudes in superstring theory at genus $h\leq 3$ are reduced to an integral of a Siegel modular function of degree $h$ on a fundamental domain of the Siegel upper half plane. A direct computation is in general unwieldy, but becomes feasible if the integrand can be expressed as a sum over images under a suitable subgroup of the Siegel modular group: if so, the integration domain can be extended to a simpler domain at the expense of keeping a single term in each orbit -- a technique known as the Rankin-Selberg method. Motivated by applications to BPS-saturated amplitudes, Angelantonj, Florakis and I have applied this technique to one-loop modular integrals where the integrand is the product of a Siegel-Narain theta function times a weakly, almost holomorphic modular form. I survey our main results, and take some steps in extending this method to genus greater than one.
description: 24 pages, contribution to the proceedings of String-math 2013; v2: minor corrections and improvements, especially in section 4, more references
Feasibility and performance evaluation of solar photovoltaic systems in diverse climatic regions of Algeria: energy, exergy, environmental, and economic approaches
Creators: name: Harby, K.
name: Attia, Mohammed El Hadi
name: Khelifa, Abdelkrim
name: Abdelgaied, Mohamed
name: Abd-Elhami, Hany F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Solar energy systems, particularly photovoltaic (PV) technology, still require some improvement based on weather data to effectively tackle challenges related to the energy crisis, costs, climate, and environmental changes. Algeria enjoys high solar intensity and ideal weather conditions throughout the day, but they are not effectively exploited yet. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the economic and environmental feasibility of solar PV systems under the climatic conditions of different regions in Algeria including Ghardaïa, Djelfa, and Algiers. These regions represent the different climatic conditions of Algeria because of their different climate and geographical location. Results showed that the maximum power output from the PV system was obtained in June for tested regions Algiers, Djelfa, and Ghardaïa with 14.64, 14.80, and 14.81 kW/month, respectively. In addition, Ghardaïa has the lowest unit cost of energy (0.24 USD/kWh), followed by Djelfa (0.2582 USD/kWh) and then Algiers (0.2587 USD/kWh) with rates of 7.58 and 7.79%, respectively. The minimum CO2 emissions were obtained during December, reaching 0.18, 0.16, and 0.20 kg CO2 in Ghardaïa, Djelfa, and Algiers, respectively. Finally, the analysis demonstrated that solar PV systems rare economically feasible, profitable, and environmentally friendly in Algeria, especially in the Ghardaïa region.
Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from the lattice
Creators: name: Allton, Chris
name: Aarts, Gert
name: Amato, Alessandro
name: Evans, Wynne
name: Giudice, Pietro
name: Hands, Simon
name: Kelly, Aoife
name: Kim, Seyong
name: Lombardo, Maria-Paola
name: Ryan, Sinead
name: Skullerud, Jon-Ivar
name: Harris, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The FASTSUM Collaboration has calculated several quantities relevant for QCD studies at non-zero temperature using the lattice technique. We report here our results for the (i) interquark potential in charmonium; (ii) bottomonium spectral functions; and (iii) electrical conductivity. All results were obtained with 2+1 flavours of dynamical fermions on an anisotropic lattice which allows greater resolution in the temporal direction.
description: Plenary talk presented at the Strangeness in Quark Matter SQM 2013, Birmingham UK, 21-27 July 2013
Ctenomys Blainville 1826
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
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys

description: Ctenomys Blainville, 1826. Bull. Sei. Soc. Philom. Paris, p. 62. COMMENT: Revision of this genus may reduce the number of species recognized; see Packard, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 280. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001000000.
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 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Ctenomys australis Rusconi 1934
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
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys australis

description: Ctenomys australis Rusconi, 1934. Rev. Chil. Nat. Hist., 38: 108. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires Prov. DISTRIBUTION: E. Argentina. COMMENT: Considered distinct from porteousi by Contreras and Reig, 1965, Physis, 25(3):62, and Roig and Reig, 1969, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 30:670.
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 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Contreras, J. R., and O. A. Reig. 1965. Datos sobre la distribucion del genero Ctenomys (Rodentia, Octodontidae) en la zona costera de la Provincia Buenos Aires comprendida entre Necocea y Bahia Blanca. Physis, Buenos Aires, 25 (69): 169 - 186.", "Roig, V. G., and O. A. Reig. 1969. Precipitin test relationships among Argentinian species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia, Octodontidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 30: 665 - 672."]}
Model-based clustering for conditionally correlated categorical data
Creators: name: Marbac, Matthieu
name: Biernacki, Christophe
name: Vandewalle, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62H30, 62F15, 62-07, 62F07

description: An extension of the latent class model is presented for clustering categorical data by relaxing the classical "class conditional independence assumption" of variables. This model consists in grouping the variables into inter-independent and intra-dependent blocks, in order to consider the main intra-class correlations. The dependency between variables grouped inside the same block of a class is taken into account by mixing two extreme distributions, which are respectively the independence and the maximum dependency. When the variables are dependent given the class, this approach is expected to reduce the biases of the latent class model. Indeed, it produces a meaningful dependency model with only a few additional parameters. The parameters are estimated, by maximum likelihood, by means of an EM algorithm. Moreover, a Gibbs sampler is used for model selection in order to overcome the computational intractability of the combinatorial problems involved by the block structure search. Two applications on medical and biological data sets show the relevance of this new model. The results strengthen the view that this model is meaningful and that it reduces the biases induced by the conditional independence assumption of the latent class model.
What is the optimal interval between successive home blood pressure readings using an automated oscillometric device?
Creators: name: Eguchi, Kazuo
name: Kuruvilla, Sujith
name: Ogedegbe, Gbenga
name: Gerin, William
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Pickering, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Blood pressure--Measurement
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Medicine

description: Objectives: To clarify whether a shorter interval between three successive home blood pressure (HBP) readings (10 s vs. 1 min) taken twice a day gives a better prediction of the average 24-h BP and better patient compliance.

Design: We enrolled 56 patients from a hypertension clinic (mean age: 60 ± 14 years; 54% female patients). The study consisted of three clinic visits, with two 4-week periods of self-monitoring of HBP between them, and a 24-h ambulatory BP monitoring at the second visit. Using a crossover design, with order randomized, the oscillometric HBP device (HEM-5001) could be programmed to take three consecutive readings at either 10-s or 1-min intervals, each of which was done for 4 weeks. Patients were asked to measure three HBP readings in the morning and evening. All the readings were stored in the memory of the monitors.

Results: The analyses were performed using the second–third HBP readings. The average systolic BP/diastolic BP for the 10-s and 1-min intervals at home were 136.1 ± 15.8/77.5 ± 9.5 and 133.2 ± 15.5/76.9 ± 9.3 mmHg (P = 0.001/0.19 for the differences in systolic BP and diastolic BP), respectively. The 1-min BP readings were significantly closer to the average of awake ambulatory BP (131 ± 14/79 ± 10 mmHg) than the 10-s interval readings. There was no significant difference in patients' compliance in taking adequate numbers of readings at the different time intervals.

Conclusion: The 1-min interval between HBP readings gave a closer agreement with the daytime average BP than the 10-s interval.
Critical behavior of nanocrystalline gadolinium: Evidence for a new universality class
Creators: name: Ferdinand, A.
name: Probst, A. -C.
name: Michels, A.
name: Birringer, R.
name: Kaul, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on how nanocrystal size affects the critical behavior of the rare-earth metal Gd near the ferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic phase transition. The asymptotic critical behavior of the coarse-grained polycrystalline sample (with an average crystallite size of $L \cong \unit[100]{μm}$) is that of a (pure) \textsl{uniaxial dipolar} ferromagnet, as is the case with single-crystal Gd, albeit the width of the asymptotic critical region (ACR) is reduced. As the grain size approaches $\sim \unit[30]{nm}$, the ACR is so narrow that it could not be accessed in the present experiments. Inaccessibly narrow ACR for $L \sim \unit[30]{nm}$ and the continuous increase in the width of ACR as $L$ decreases from $\unit[16]{nm}$ to $\unit[9.5]{nm}$ basically reflects a crossover to the \textsl{random uniaxial dipolar} fixed point caused by the quenched random-exchange disorder prevalent at the internal interfaces (grain boundaries).