cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Role of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in the Management of Follicular Lymphoma
Creators: name: Foster, M.
name: Shea, T.
name: Gabriel, D. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Despite decades of published data regarding the application of autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplant in patients with follicular lymphoma, there remain no uniform indications for its use in this disease. Autologous transplant has been shown to lead to longer progression-free survival times in randomized trials when compared with postremission interferon-based chemo-immunotherapy. However, the development of rituximab and its use in frontline, salvage, and maintenance therapy complicates the decision to pursue autologous transplant, a modality developed prior to the advent of anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies. Allogeneic transplant offers the advantages of lymphoma-free grafts and the immunologic graft-versus-lymphoma effect. These factors may confer the possibility of long-term remission, though historically they have been accompanied by high rates of upfront morbidity and mortality, especially in heavily pretreated patients with a poor performance status or chemotherapy-refractory disease. Advances in patient selection, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching, conditioning regimens, and supportive care have reduced transplant-related mortality and the incidence of graft-versus-host disease.
Additional file 3 of Impaired response of blood neutrophils to cell-death stimulus differentiates AQP4-IgG-seropositive NMOSD from MOGAD
Creators: name: Schroeder-Castagno, Maria
name: Del Rio-Serrato, Alba
name: Wilhelm, Andreas
name: Romero-Suárez, Silvina
name: Schindler, Patrick
name: Alvarez-González, Cesar
name: Duchow, Ankelien-Solveig
name: Bellmann-Strobl, Judith
name: Ruprecht, Klemens
name: Hastermann, Maria
name: Grütz, Gerald
name: Wildemann, Brigitte
name: Jarius, Sven
name: Schmitz-Hübsch, Tanja
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Infante-Duarte, Carmen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Evaluation of serum cytokines and chemokines in AQP4 + NMOSD, MOGAD patients and HC. Levels of GM-CSF (A), IL-6 (B), IL-8 (C), IL-15 (D), TNF-alpha (E) and IL-10 (F) were investigated using the Meso Scale Diagnostics MULTISPOT Assay System in serum samples from AQP4 + NMOSD (left panel) and MOGAD (right panel) patients compared with their respective HC. Data are represented as median and IQR in scatter plot with a bar graph. Each dot represents an individual subject. HC: n = 37; AQP4 + NMOSD: n = 24; MOGAD: n = 13.
Genetic polymorphisms of 17 X-STR loci in two Tunisian populations from Sousse and Makthar
Creators: name: Mejri, Abir
name: Baeta, Miriam
name: Al-Haj-Taib, Rim
name: Herrera, Rene J.
name: Benammar-Elgaaied, Amel
name: de Pancorbo, Marian M.
name: Fadhlaoui-Zid, Karima
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Tunisia has a complex demographic history of migrations from within Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. However, only one population study based on X-STR markers has been reported so far. To investigate the genetic polymorphisms of 17 X-STRs in two Tunisian populations from the cities of Sousse and Makthar, and to reveal the genetic relationships with other reference populations. A total of 194 unrelated healthy individuals were analysed for 17 X-STR markers. Our results indicate that DXS6809 is the most polymorphic locus, whereas DXS6807 is the least informative marker in the populations of Sousse and Makthar. In addition, forensic statistical parameters, such as the power of discrimination in males and females, as well as the mean of exclusion in duos and trios, reveal that the panel of 17 X-STRs is highly informative and useful in different forensic applications. Overall, pairwise genetic distances (Fst) and non-metric MDS plots demonstrate clustering of different populations according to their geographic locations and their historical relationships. Overall, the study of X-STR markers of the Tunisian populations can help to promote the establishment of a forensic DNA reference database in Tunisia and provide reference for future anthropological research.
Variable Outer Disk Shadowing Around the Dipper Star J160421.7-213028
Creators: name: Pinilla, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: In this talk, I will present recent results from SPHERE/VLT and complementary ALMA observations of the disk around the dipper star J160421.7-213028. This is one of the brightest and most massive disk detected in the old star forming region, Upper Sco (~10Myr old). It is a transition disk, with a depleted inner cavity and a ring-like structure, which might indicate the presence of a massive planet inside the cavity. Our observations using SPHERE in 2015, allowed to detect the ring in scattered light and showed the presence of a dark dip, and of a possible secondary one. These two dark regions are thought to be due to a highly misaligned inner disk, with respect to the outer disk. In 2016 and 2017, we followed-up the disk with infrared scattered light images obtained at 9 epochs, obtaining a sample separated by days, weeks, months, and years. In our images, we clearly detect two shadows along the ring, and found that they are variable in both amplitude and morphology. This indicates that the innermost regions are highly dynamic and complex, which is likely connected to the origin of the variable, aperiodic, and dimming events obtained from the K2 light curve.
Interview - Julian Murphy
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
name: Murphy, Julian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This dataset 'Interview - Julian Murphy’ is a component of a Doctor Of Philosophy conducted by candidate Alexander Hayes (3919493) titled 'The Socioethical Implications Of Body Worn Computers: An Ethnographic Study'.
The full thesis can be accessed at https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/853
This research was conducted in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Systems, School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT), University of Wollongong with research strength Innovation in Business & Social Research under Principal Supervisor Professor Katina Michael (University of Wollongong) and Associate Supervisor Dr Teemu Leinonen (Aalto University Finland). This thesis explores the socioethical implications of body worn computers (BWC) using an ethnographic approach. Furthermore, a subset, body worn cameras (BWCs), combines data with value added constancy through Location Based Services (LBS) over wireless network connections. The aim of this investigation was to engage global leaders from transdisciplinary stakeholder groups in semi-structured interviews, conversations and events, situating a review of the social impact and ethical implications of BWCs. A critical discourse analysis using a Foucauldian approach reveals power relations, which are then infused through narrative with unique intercultural perspectives, differentiating ‘location’ from ‘place’. The author of this study has subsequently identified through Grounded Theory that BWCs are causal agency for disconnect from proper culture which can be addressed through the application of Ngikalikarra, a unique framework for empathetic understanding of place and community engagement.
Regular and irregular dynamics of Dirac-Weyl wavepackets in a mesoscopic quantum dot at the edge of topological insulator
Creators: name: Khomitsky, D. V.
name: Chubanov, A. A.
name: Konakov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of Dirac-Weyl spin-polarized wavepackets driven by periodic electric field is considered for the electrons in a mesoscopic quantum dot formed at the edge of two-dimensional HgTe/CdTe topological insulator with Dirac-Weyl massless energy spectra, where the motion of carriers is less sensitive to disorder and impurity potentials. It was observed that the interplay of strongly coupled spin and charge degrees of freedom creates the regimes of irregular dynamics both in coordinate and spin channels. The border between the regular and irregular regimes determined by the strength and frequency of the driving field is found analytically within the quasiclassical approach by means of the Ince-Strutt diagram for Mathieu equation, and is supported by full quantum mechanical simulations of the driven dynamics. The investigation of quasienergy spectrum by Floquet approach reveals the presence of non-Poissonian level statistics which indicates the possibility of chaotic quantum dynamics and corresponds to the areas of parameters for irregular regimes within the quasiclassical approach. We found that the influence of weak disorder leads to partial suppression of the dynamical chaos. Our findings are of interest both for progress in a fundamental field of quantum chaotic dynamics and for further experimental and technological applications of spin-dependent phenomena in nanostructures based on topological insulators.
description: Revised version: 38 pages, 4 figures, Section III "Quasiclassical dynamics" is added. Resubmitted to Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
Imaging the inner regions of proto-planetary disks with sub-millimeter and millimeter interferometry
Creators: name: Ricci, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Interferometric observations at sub-millimeter/millimeter wavelengths can provide images of nearby young disks with spatial resolutions of a few astronomical units. I will present the recent results obtained from the ALMA Large Program of proto-planetary disks, which have identified a number of disk substructures in the dust continuum emission all the way down to a few au from the central star. Some of these substructures are likely associated with the presence of one or more proto-planets in the disk. I will also describe the potential of the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) in the study of the disk inner regions. The ngVLA is a future large interferometric array that will investigate the structure of disks with spatial resolutions < 1 au in nearby star forming regions.
title: Konstruktionen des „Anderen“
Creators: name: Hagn, Virginia
Year: 2022

description: Dass der Orient im Wesentlich eine Konstruktion des Westens bzw. Europas ist, um sich selbst anhand eines Anderen zu definieren, ist seit Saids Werk „Orientalismus“ als Grundannahme aus der historischen Forschung kaum mehr wegzudenken. Diese Arbeit knüpft an die von Said hinterlassenen Leerstellen hinsichtlich der Orientwahrnehmungen im deutschsprachigen Raum sowie der Rolle von Geschlecht, Körperlichkeit und Sexualität in der Orientkonstruktion an. Anhand einer, an der Historischen Semantik orientierten und konkret mittels Codierung in MAXQDA umgesetzten, Analyse von zwölf Reiseberichten deutschsprachiger Reisender im 19. Jahrhundert soll das, in Summe bereits sehr dichte, Forschungsfeld um spezifische Aspekte ergänzt werden. Der analytische Fokus richtet sich in diesem Sinn insbesondere auf die Herausarbeitung von Wahrnehmungsmustern und Zuschreibungslogiken in Bezug auf Weiblichkeits- und Männlichkeitsbilder, Sexualitätsvorstellungen und körperliche Zuschreibungen aus weiblicher und männlicher Sicht sowie Wechselwirkungen mit anderen kulturellen/religiösen/ethnischen/sozialen Zuschreibungen in der Beschreibung von Oriental*innen. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit widmet sich somit konkret der Frage, auf welche Weise Oriental*innen in deutschsprachigen Reiseberichten des 19. Jahrhunderts Geschlecht, Körperlichkeit und Sexualität zugeschrieben wird und welche Rückschlüsse sich daraus auf die „eigene“, kulturelle Identität der Reisenden hinsichtlich geschlechtlich-sexueller Wertehaltungen im deutschsprachigen Raum ziehen lassen. Begleitend wird das Quellenmaterial zudem danach befragt, inwiefern sich Unterschiede zwischen männlichen und weiblichen Reisenden sowie zwischen Forschungs-, Pilger- und Abenteuerreisen zeigen und inwiefern sich im zeitlichen Verlauf Veränderungen in den Wahrnehmungs- und Zuschreibungsmustern erkennen lassen.
Fast accretion onto a weakly magnetized star
Creators: name: Takasao, Shinsuke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Generally it has been assumed that the presence of a fast (close to the escape velocity) accretion is an indication of the magnetospheric accretion. However, observations indicate that fast accretion also occurs even in a weakly magnetized stars like Herbig Ae stars, which poses a question about the picture of accretion we have developed. We performed 3D MHD simulations by using the Athena++ code, and analyzed the accretion from an MRI (Magneto-Rotational Instability)-active disk onto a weakly magnetized star. As a result, we found that fast accretion to a high-latitude, which is similar to the magnetospheric accretion, is possible even without the stellar magnetosphere. Our results suggest a possibility that stars without the magnetosphere can show a violent accretion behavior associated with X-ray activities. We will discuss the physics of the accretion on the basis of our simulations.
Cosmological constraints on deviations from Lorentz invariance in gravity and dark matter
Creators: name: Audren, B.
name: Blas, D.
name: Ivanov, M. M.
name: Lesgourgues, J.
name: Sibiryakov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a scenario where local Lorentz invariance is violated by the existence of a preferred time direction at every space-time point. This scenario can arise in the context of quantum gravity and its description at low energies contains a unit time-like vector field which parameterizes the preferred direction. The particle physics tests of Lorentz invariance preclude a direct coupling of this vector to the fields of the Standard Model, but do not bear implications for dark matter. We discuss how the presence of this vector and its possible coupling to dark matter affect the evolution of the Universe. At the level of homogeneous cosmology the only effect of Lorentz invariance violation is a rescaling of the expansion rate. The physics is richer at the level of perturbations. We identify three effects crucial for observations: the rescaling of the matter contribution to the Poisson equation, the appearance of an extra contribution to the anisotropic stress and the scale-dependent enhancement of dark matter clustering. These effects result in distinctive features in the power spectra of the CMB and density fluctuations. Making use of the data from Planck and WiggleZ we obtain the most stringent cosmological constraints to date on departures from Lorentz symmetry. Our analysis provides the first direct bounds on deviations from Lorentz invariance in the dark matter sector.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, revtex; footnote on isocurvature modes added, discussion on the decoupling of the Standard Model fields from the aether extended, a reference added; version to be published in JCAP
Observations of star-disk interaction and link to disk evolution at the epoch of planet formation
Creators: name: Venuti, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Our view of the star-disk interaction has recently been revolutionized by space-borne missions like CoRoT and Kepler/K2. Thanks to their sub-1% photometric precision, sub-hour sampling, and continuous monitoring for weeks to months, these campaigns have provided first detailed atlases of the short- to mid-term variability of young stars, thus revealing the manifold photometric behaviors of disk-bearing objects. In this review, we explore the observational signatures and intrinsic timescales of the various physical processes at play in young star-disk systems. At least two distinct paradigms of star-disk interaction emerge: i) the unstable regime, characterized by stochastic, short-lived accretion bursts and rapidly evolving accretion features; ii) the stable regime, with ordered accretion streams from the inner disk to the star, and accretion features that persist over many rotational cycles. These distinct scenarios may be related to different stages of the inner disk evolution. The mechanisms which regulate the star-disk interaction on timescales of days typically exhibit a relatively stable nature on timescales of years, although with a more erratic behavior on the shorter term.
Self-reported dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are associated with adipose tissue markers and glucose metabolism in apparently healthy subjects
Creators: name: Reyes-Barrera, Juan
name: Medina-Urrutia, Aida X.
name: Osorio-Alonso, Horacio
name: Jorge-Galarza, Esteban
name: Olvera-Mayorga, Gabriela
name: Sánchez-Ortiz, Néstor A.
name: Arellano-Buendía, Abraham S.
name: Márquez-García, José E.
name: Santibáñez-Escobar, Felipe
name: Pérez-Rodríguez, Elizabeth
name: Torres-Tamayo, Margarita
name: Granados-Portillo, Omar
name: Torre-Villalvazo, Ivan
name: Juárez-Rojas, Juan G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) and resistin are associated with dysfunctional adipose tissue (AT)-related metabolic complications. The role of dietary eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) fatty acids in this relationship is unknown. To investigate the association of EPA and DHA with PAI-1 and resistin, as well as the role of this association on the glucose metabolism of apparently healthy subjects. Thirty-six healthy individuals were included. Validated food frequency questionnaires were used to analyse dietary habits. Inflammatory and glucose metabolism markers were quantified. Subcutaneous AT samples were obtained, and adipocyte number, area, and macrophage content were assessed. In 36 subjects aged 56 ± 8 years and with a body mass index of 26 ± 4 kg/m2, logEPA, and logDHA showed significant association with logresistin and a marginal association with PAI-1. Adipocyte number, area, and lognumber of macrophages per adipocyte significantly correlated with PAI-1 but not with logresistin. Although logEPA and logDHA were independently associated with loginsulin, loginsulin resistance, and C-Peptide, the addition of logresistin, but not of PAI-1, into the multivariable model, abolished the associations. EPA and DHA could modulate glucose metabolism across AT functional states. Our data indicate that this association is independent of other metabolic risk factors.
Measurement of the pp to ZZ production cross section and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings in four-lepton final states at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of inclusive ZZ production cross section and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV are presented. A data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 inverse femtobarns was collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The measurements are performed in the leptonic decay modes ZZ to lll'l', where l = e, mu and l' = e, mu, tau. The measured total cross section, sigma(pp to ZZ) = 7.7 +/- 0.5 (stat.) +0.5-0.4 (syst.) +/- 0.4 (theo.) +/- 0.2 (lum.) pb for both Z bosons produced in the mass range 60 < m[Z] < 120 GeV, is consistent with standard model predictions. Differential cross sections are measured and well described by the theoretical predictions. The invariant mass distribution of the four-lepton system is used to set limits on anomalous ZZZ and ZZ gamma couplings at the 95% confidence level: -0.004 < f[4,Z] < 0.004, -0.004 < f[5,Z] < 0.004, -0.005 < f[4,gamma] < 0.005, and -0.005 < f[5,gamma] < 0.005.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
Clues on grain size and settling in protoplanetary disks from ALMA polarimetric studies
Creators: name: Bacciotti, Francesca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: We have obtained ALMA polarimetric data at 870 microns (Band 7) and 0."2 resolution for the protoplanetary disks around DG Tau and CW Tau, two T Tauri systems with well known jets. In both targets the results are consistent with dust self-scattering being at the origin of the polarization pattern. The polarization maps highlight structural details not derivable from the analysis of the total emission alone. Such substructures are likely related to changes in the optical depth, and can betray a change in the physical structure of the disk. The measured values of the polarization fraction give constraints to the maximum size of the grains giving rise to observed patterns. This size is found to be in the range 50 - 150 microns in our targets. Meanwhile, the polarization maps combined with dust opacity estimates give constraints on the scale height of such grains. Overall, we find that these grains are larger and more settled toward the midplane in CW Tau than in DG Tau. These results confirm that polarization can be a fundamental complement to observations in total emission, for the investigation of the structure and of the evolution of protoplanetary disks.
A Cancer and Leukemia Group B Phase II Study of Sunitinib Malate in Patients with Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (CALGB 80603)
Creators: name: Schilsky, R. L.
name: Goldberg, R. M.
name: Abou-Alfa, G. K.
name: Niedzwiecki, D.
name: Bekaii-Saab, T.
name: Hollis, D.
name: O'Reilly, E. M.
name: Kindler, H. L.
name: Douglas, K.
name: Hall, M.
name: Pluard, T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) conducted a phase II study evaluating sunitinib in patients with progressive metastatic pancreas adenocarcinoma following prior gemcitabine-based therapy (trial CALGB 80603; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, NCT00397787). The primary endpoint was to determine the disease control rate (DCR) as measured by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (complete response, partial response [PR], and stable disease) at 6 weeks.
title: Schreiben ist Handeln
Creators: name: Bründl, Hannah
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit „Schreiben ist Handeln“ von Hannah Bründl untersucht mittels fünf aktueller deutschsprachiger Buchveröffentlichungen die Darstellung von, wie es der Untertitel verdeutlicht, „Identität und Politik in der Gegenwartslyrik“. Ausgehend von der Annahme eines impliziten politischen Potenzials in der neuesten Lyrik wird anhand von Publikationen von Sandra Gugić, Jan Kuhlbrodt, Zoltán Lesi, Marion Poschmann und Lisa Jeschke der Formen- pluralität von Identität nachgegangen. Close-Reading-Einzelanalysen arbeiten dabei die inhalt- lichen Ausformungen von Identitäten als feststehend, prozesshaft oder auch stark fragmentiert heraus und machen deren politische Qualitäten und Einschlüsse sichtbar. Die Berücksichtigung inhaltlicher wie auch formaler Aspekte erlaubt darüber hinaus eine Verknüpfung der Frage nach den jeweiligen Identitäten – die stets Momente des Feministischen, Postkolonialen als auch des aktuellen Kritikverständnisses mitverhandelt – mit der untersuchten literarischen Gattung an sich. In der Verbindung der Analysen wird deutlich, dass momentaner lyrischer Ausdruck für politische Äußerungen und die kritische Reflexion gesellschaftlicher Realitäten geradezu prä- destiniert ist und die untersuchten Veröffentlichungen mehrheitlich ein eigenständiges, vorsätz- liches Anschließen an Momente der engagierten Literatur vollziehen. Das Zusammendenken von Identität und Politik wird in Bezug auf deutschsprachige Gegenwartslyrik somit zur unbe- dingten Notwendigkeit im Sinne von Gegenwärtigkeit und Relevanz.
description: The thesis „Writing is Acting“ by Hannah Bründl examines the representation of, as the subtitle states, „identity and politics in contemporary poetry“ based on five recent German- language book publications. Starting with the assumption of an implicit political potential in the latest contemporary poetry, the plurality of forms of identity is explored in publications by Sandra Gugić, Jan Kuhlbrodt, Zoltán Lesi, Marion Poschmann and Lisa Jeschke. Using close reading analyses, the content-related formations of identity can be described as fixed, proces- sual or strongly fragmented. With regard to their political qualities and inclinations, these texts are distinct. The consideration of both content-related and formal aspects also allows for a link- ing of the question of identities - which always negotiate moments of the feminist and post- colonial as well as current understandings of critique - with the literary genre itself. By com- bining the individual analyses, it becomes evident that the most current lyrical expression is virtually predestined for political statements and the critical reflection of social realities. The majority of the publications examined strengthen an independent, intentional connection to mo- ments of engaged literature. In relation to contemporary German-language poetry, associating identity and politics thus becomes an absolute necessity in the sense of presence and relevance.
Bayesian inference for a covariance matrix
Creators: name: Alvarez, Ignacio
name: Niemi, Jarad
name: Simpson, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Covariance matrix estimation arises in multivariate problems including multivariate normal sampling models and regression models where random effects are jointly modeled, e.g. random-intercept, random-slope models. A Bayesian analysis of these problems requires a prior on the covariance matrix. Here we assess, through a simulation study and a real data set, the impact this prior choice has on posterior inference of the covariance matrix. Inverse Wishart distribution is the natural choice for a covariance matrix prior because its conjugacy on normal model and simplicity, is usually available in Bayesian statistical software. However inverse Wishart distribution presents some undesirable properties from a modeling point of view. It can be too restrictive because assume the same amount of prior information about every variance parameters and, more important, it shows a prior relationship between the variances and correlations. Some alternatives distributions has been proposed. The scaled inverse Wishart distribution, which give more flexibility on the variance priors conserving the conjugacy property but does not eliminate the prior relationship between variances and correlations. Secondly, it is possible to fit separate priors for individual correlations and standard deviations. This strategy eliminates any prior relationship within the covariance matrix parameters, but it is not conjugate and therefore computationally slow.
description: Final version, already published in proceedings, Proceedings of 26th Annual Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture. April 27-29, 2014
Additional file 1 of Improving the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial of the 'Your Care Needs You' intervention versus usual care
Creators: name: Baxter, Ruth
name: Murray, Jenni
name: Cockayne, Sarah
name: Baird, Kalpita
name: Mandefield, Laura
name: Mills, Thomas
name: Lawton, Rebecca
name: Hewitt, Catherine
name: Richardson, Gerry
name: Sheard, Laura
name: O’Hara, Jane K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1. CONSORT 2010 checklist of information to include when reporting a pilot or feasibility trial.
Additional file 2 of Improving the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial of the 'Your Care Needs You' intervention versus usual care
Creators: name: Baxter, Ruth
name: Murray, Jenni
name: Cockayne, Sarah
name: Baird, Kalpita
name: Mandefield, Laura
name: Mills, Thomas
name: Lawton, Rebecca
name: Hewitt, Catherine
name: Richardson, Gerry
name: Sheard, Laura
name: O’Hara, Jane K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary file 2: Summary of ward level baseline data over the previous 12 month period
Take a closer look at... the SPIDI project
Creators: name: Bouvier, Jerome
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The "Star-Inner Disk-Planets Interactions" (SPIDI) project aims at detecting nascent inner planets still embedded in the circumstellar disk of young stars and orbiting close to the magnetospheric truncation radius. The poster will describe the motivations and recent progresses that led to the SPIDI project and the approaches that we will follow to address the challenge of isolating a planetary signal buried in the large variability of young stars induced by the magnetic star-disk interaction. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 742095)
Plasmonic Light Trapping in an Ultrathin Photovoltaic Layer with Film-Coupled Metamaterial Structures
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
name: Wang, Liping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A film-coupled metamaterial structure is numerically investigated for enhancing the light absorption in an ultrathin photovoltaic layer of crystalline gallium arsenide (GaAs). The top subwavelength concave grating and the bottom metallic film could not only effectively trap light with the help of wave interference and magnetic resonance effects excited above the bandgap, but also practically serve as electrical contacts for photon-generated charge collection. The energy absorbed by the active layer is greatly enhanced in the film-coupled metamaterial structure, resulting in significant enhancement on the short-circuit current density by three times over a free-standing GaAs layer at the same thickness. The results would facilitate the development of next-generation ultrathin solar cells with lower cost and higher efficiency.
Dynamical competition between Quantum Hall and Quantum Spin Hall effects
Creators: name: Quelle, Anton
name: Smith, Cristiane Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the occurrence of quantum phase transitions in topological systems out of equi- librium. More specifically, we consider graphene with a sizable spin-orbit coupling, irradiated by circularly- polarized light. In the absence of light, the spin-orbit coupling drives a quantum spin Hall phase where edge currents with opposite spins counter-propagate. On the other hand, the light generates a time-dependent vector potential, which leads to a hopping parameter with staggered time-dependent phases around the benzene ring. The model is a dynamical version of the Haldane model, which considers a static staggered flux with zero total flux through each plaquette. Since the light breaks time-reversal symmetry, a quantum Hall phase protected by an integer topological invariant arises. By numerically solving the complete problem, with spin-orbit coupling and light, and investigating different values of the driving frequency ω, we show that the spectrum exhibits non-trivial gaps not only at zero energy, but also at ω/2. This additional gap is created by photon resonances between the valence and conduction band of graphene, and the symmetry of the spectrum forces it to lie at ω/2. By increasing the intensity of the irradiation, the topological state in the zero energy gap undergoes a dynamical phase transition from a quantum spin Hall to a quantum Hall phase, whereas the gap around ω/2 remains in the quantum Hall regime.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Effect of Exercise Training on Peak Oxygen Consumption in Patients with Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Liang, Y.
name: Scott, J. M.
name: Battaglini, C. L.
name: Hornsby, W. E.
name: Pituskin, E. N.
name: Jones, L. W.
name: Haykowsky, M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: We conducted a meta-analysis to determine the effects of supervised exercise training on peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak) in adults with cancer.
Symptom Management in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Muss, H. B.
name: Mayer, D. K.
name: Irvin, W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Approximately 40,000 women die as a result of breast cancer each year and many more live with advanced disease. When breast cancer recurs, the goals of treatment often shift from one of cure to controlling the disease for as long as possible while palliating symptoms interfering with the patient's functional status and quality of life. This requires ongoing discussions with the patient and family about the goals of care. Many symptoms depend on the site of metastasis, with bone being the most frequent, and commonly occur with fatigue, depression, insomnia, and pain. The purpose of this paper is to identify and provide an overview of the management of the most common symptoms in patients with breast cancer metastases.
Additional file 3 of Improving the safety and experience of transitions from hospital to home: a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial of the 'Your Care Needs You' intervention versus usual care
Creators: name: Baxter, Ruth
name: Murray, Jenni
name: Cockayne, Sarah
name: Baird, Kalpita
name: Mandefield, Laura
name: Mills, Thomas
name: Lawton, Rebecca
name: Hewitt, Catherine
name: Richardson, Gerry
name: Sheard, Laura
name: O’Hara, Jane K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary file 3: Completion rates. Table 1: Data completeness of outcome measures collected at baseline. Table 2: Summary of data completeness for measures included in the T1 assessment for those who have completed a T1 questionnaire.Table 3: Summary of data completeness for measures included in the T2 assessment for those who have completed a T2 questionnaire.Table 4: Summary of data completeness for measures included in the T3 assessment for those who have completed a T3 questionnaire.
Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents
Creators: name: Christen, Ramona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Resolving the scope of a negation within a sentence is a challenging NLP task. The complexity of legal texts and the lack of annotated in-domain negation corpora pose challenges for state-of-the-art (SotA) models when performing negation scope resolution on multilingual legal data. Our experiments demonstrate that models pre-trained without legal data under perform in the task of negation scope resolution compared to cross-domain experiments conducted between different domains such as medical data and literary texts. We release a new set of annotated court decisions in German, French, and Italian and use it to improve negation scope resolution in both zero-shot and multilingual settings. We achieve a token-level F1-score of 86.7% in our zero-shot cross-lingual experiments, where the models are trained on two languages and evaluated on the third. Our multilingual experiments, where the models were trained on all available negation data and evaluated on our legal datasets, resulted in an F1-score of 91.1%.
A closer look at the circumbinary cavity of the V892 Tau system through multiepoch MIDI observations
Creators: name: Cahuasquí, Juan Andrés
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: V892 Tau, in the Taurus-Auriga star forming region at 140 pc, is a Herbig AeBe binary system with a separation of ca. 50 mas (~7 AU) and a 13-year period. The pair is surrounded by a large circumbinary disk truncated at a radius of ca. 18 AU. To resolve the nature of the IR flux lacking in the SED of the system, the 9-year baseline observations with MIDI/VLTI, distributed into two epochs in 2004, one in 2009 and two in 2013, were analyzed with a temperature gradient model aiming at simultaneously reproducing the mid-infrared visibilities, differential phases and SED for three different scenarios: 1) binary pair + circumbinary disk; 2) binary pair + circumbinary disk + circumstellar disk surrounding one component; and 3) binary pair + circumbinary disk + hot component. Our model coupled to the fit optimizer MAGIX reveals that the observational measurements are best reproduced by the configuration that includes the hot component in the neighborhood of the central pair, and whose location is well determined by the sensitivity of the differential phases. We discuss the possible nature and morphology of this additional component and its observational role in our interferometric data.
Topological properties of the bond-modulated honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Grandi, F.
name: Manghi, F.
name: Corradini, O.
name: Bertoni, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the combined effects of lattice deformation, e-e interaction and spin-orbit coupling in a two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattice. We adopt different kinds of hopping modulation--generalized dimerization and a Kekule distortion--and calculate topological invariants for the non-interacting system and for the interacting system. We identify the parameter range (Hubbard U, hopping modulation, spin-orbit coupling) where the 2D system behaves as a trivial insulator or Quantum Spin Hall Insulator.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures: discussion improved, typos corrected, references updated. Matches version published in PRB
title: L’arte dell’improvvisazione. Un sapere nel mentre si fa
Creators: name: Damiani , Paolo
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2010

description: Nel corso della storia, ogni civiltà musicale ha conosciuto quell'insieme di pratiche immemorabili chiamate oggi per semplicità "improvvisazione". Improvvisare è certamente il modo più antico di far musica, tuttavia su quest'arte misteriosa gli studi musicologici scientificamente rilevanti sono apparsi soltanto negli ultimi trent'anni. La scomparsa dell'improvvisazione fu dovuta senz'altro, tra le altre cose, all'avvento della scrittura musicale, dimodoché la dicotomia tra composizione e improvvisazione si è risolta tutta a vantaggio della prima.

description: B@belonline vol. 8 Musica e Bildung. Saper suonare e imparare ad ascoltare
The shadowed ring of DoAr44
Creators: name: Casassus, Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Optical/IR images of transition disks (TDs) have revealed deep decrements in the outer regions of HAeBes HD142527 and HD100453, that can be interpreted as shadowing from sharply tilted inner disks, such that the outer disks are directly exposed to stellar light. We report similar dips in SPHERE+IRDIS differential polarized imaging (DPI) of TTauri DoAr44. With a fairly axially symmetric and face-on ring in the sub~mm radio continuum, we propose that DoAr~44 is also a warped system. We constrain the warp geometry by comparing radiative transfer predictions with the DPI data in H band. An inner disk tilt of 30+-5deg accounts for the shape of the DPI decrements. The observed DPI shadows are much deeper than in the radio: while the intensity drops by ~88% in the DPI images, the radio decrements are relatively shallow with a drop of ~25% at 330GHz. This is consistent with the RT predictions. ALMA long-baseline observations should allow the observation of the warped gas kinematics inside the cavity of DoAr44.
Additional file 1 of Overexpression of CYP11A1 recovers cell cycle distribution in renal cell carcinoma Caki-1
Creators: name: Ong, Hien Thi My
name: Kim, Tae-Hun
name: Ates, Eda
name: Pyun, Jae-Chul
name: Kang, Min-Jung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. CYP11A1-overexpression in HEK293 (A) and Caki-1 (B) cells. CYP11A1 was performed with green color while blue color indicated nucleus. Figure S2. Western blotting performed to determine the expression level of caspase-3,7,9 and PARP.
Introduction to Nonabelian Hodge Theory: flat connections, Higgs bundles and complex variations of Hodge structure
Creators: name: Garcia-Raboso, Alberto
name: Rayan, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58-01 (Primary), 14D07, 14H60, 53C07, 58A14 (Secondary)

description: Lecture notes from the Concentrated Graduate Course preceding the Workshop on Hodge Theory in String Theory at the Fields Institute in Toronto, November 11--15, 2013.
description: 41 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. To appear in the Fields Institute Monograph Series. v2: added references. v3: corrections, clarifications and more references. v4: minor clarifications
The Effect of the 'Improper Solicitation and Graft Act' on Fruit Demand
Creators: name: Kang, Minseong
name: Kang, Minseong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: The Improper Solicitation and Graft Act
subject: IAIDS
subject: Demand Analysis

description: This study focused on the possibility that the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act may have caused a structural change in Korea’s fruit demand. We simulated the LA/IAIDS model using monthly data from 2000 to 2019 to analyze changes indomestic fruit demand caused by the enforcement of the law. According to the LA/IAIDS result, its implementation resulted in structural changes in apples and pears, decreasing own-price flexibility. The price volatility of apples and pears has also widened. Based on the results, this study concludes that policy enforcement has worsened domestic orchards’ management stability by inducing structural changes in demand for apples and pears.
FFT, FMM, or Multigrid? A comparative Study of State-Of-the-Art Poisson Solvers for Uniform and Nonuniform Grids in the Unit Cube
Creators: name: Gholami, Amir
name: Malhotra, Dhairya
name: Sundar, Hari
name: Biros, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B63, 65T50, 65T40, 78M16, 65N55, 65Y05

description: In this work, we benchmark and discuss the performance of the scalable methods for the Poisson problem which are used widely in practice: the fast Fourier transform (FFT), the fast multipole method (FMM), the geometric multigrid (GMG), and algebraic multigrid (AMG). In total we compare five different codes, three of which are developed in our group. Our FFT, GMG, and FMM are parallel solvers that use high-order approximation schemes for Poisson problems with continuous forcing functions (the source or right-hand side). We examine and report results for weak scaling, strong scaling, and time to solution for uniform and highly refined grids. We present results on the Stampede system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and on the Titan system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In our largest test case, we solved a problem with 600 billion unknowns on 229,379 cores of Titan. Overall, all methods scale quite well to these problem sizes. We have tested all of the methods with different source functions (the right-hand side in the Poisson problem). Our results indicate that FFT is the method of choice for smooth source functions that require uniform resolution. However, FFT loses its performance advantage when the source function has highly localized features like internal sharp layers. FMM and GMG considerably outperform FFT for those cases. The distinction between FMM and GMG is less pronounced and is sensitive to the quality (from a performance point of view) of the underlying implementations. The high-order accurate versions of GMG and FMM significantly outperform their low-order accurate counterparts.
description: 25 pages; accepted paper in SISC journal
Topical Testosterone for Breast Cancer Patients with Vaginal Atrophy Related to Aromatase Inhibitors: A Phase I/II Study
Creators: name: Wood, M.
name: Mount, S.
name: Muss, H.
name: Witherby, S.
name: Johnson, J.
name: Maclean, C. D.
name: Demers, L.
name: Littenberg, B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: After completing this course, the reader will be able to:
Rings, rings, rings: What does CN tell us?
Creators: name: Cazzoletti, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: CN emission lines are among the brightest, and have been observed in the last 20 years with single dish observations. With modern interferometers, we are now able to spatially resolve CN emission, which often shows ring-like structures. We investigate whether such structures trace the morphology of the disks, or if they have a chemical origin. By using the thermochemical code DALI, we conclude that CN formation is triggered by the existence of vibrationally excited H∗2, produced by FUV pumping of H2. Herbig stars therefore generally have larger rings and higher CN fluxes than T Tauri. Disks with higher masses and flaring also show stronger CN emission and larger rings. CN observations could in the future provide important constraints on some important disk physical parameters, and in particular CN flux and ring size will help to put constraints on the FUV flux from the central star, a critical parameter for the evolution of the inner disk.
Additional file 2 of Overexpression of CYP11A1 recovers cell cycle distribution in renal cell carcinoma Caki-1
Creators: name: Ong, Hien Thi My
name: Kim, Tae-Hun
name: Ates, Eda
name: Pyun, Jae-Chul
name: Kang, Min-Jung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Tumor Status at 12 Weeks Predicts Survival in Advanced Colorectal Cancer: Findings from NCCTG N9741
Creators: name: Branda, M. E.
name: Goldberg, R. M.
name: Heun, J. M.
name: Grothey, A.
name: Sargent, D. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: After completing this course, the reader will be able to: