cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Theorizing from Literature Reviews
Creators: name: Garg, Siddharth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 220311 Philosophical Psychology (incl. Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 170107 Industrial and Organisational Psychology
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: 170111 Psychology of Religion
subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Applied Psychology
subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: 170105 Gender Psychology
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology
subject: 170108 Kaupapa Maori Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 170102 Developmental Psychology and Ageing
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology

description: These are notes on different approaches to develop theories from literature review, and subsequently how to develop empirical papers from those theories or theoretical models.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Medication Nonadherence in Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension
Creators: name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Lin, Jenny J.
name: Cohen, Beth E.
name: Voils, Corrine I.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment
Hypertension--Treatment
Patient compliance
Medicine
Medical sciences
Mental health

description: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common in primary care patients and is associated with psychological distress, suicide risk, and disability. Posttraumatic stress disorder also increases risk of incident and recurrent cardiovascular events, possibly by reducing medication adherence. Prior studies showing an association between PTSD and medication nonadherence are limited by their use of self-report to measure adherence as PTSD can bias reporting of negative behaviors. We evaluated the association between PTSD and antihypertensive medication adherence using electronic monitoring in primary care patients with uncontrolled hypertension.
Anomalous Nernst Effects of [CoSiB/Pt] Multilayer Films
Creators: name: Kelekci, O.
name: Lee, H. N.
name: Kim, T. W.
name: Noh, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement for the anomalous Nernst effects induced by a temperature gradient in [CoSiB/Pt] multilayer films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The Nernst voltage shows a characteristic hysteresis which reflects the magnetization of the film as in the case of the anomalous Hall effects. With a local heating geometry, we also measure the dependence of the anomalous Nernst voltage on the distance d from the heating element. It is roughly proportional to 1/d^1.3, which can be conjectured from the expected temperature gradient along the sample from the heat equation.
description: 4 figures
How to find a measure from its potential
Creators: name: Pritsker, Igor E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 31A25, Secondary 30E20, 31A10

description: We consider the problem of finding a measure from the given values of its logarithmic potential on the support. It is well known that a solution to this problem is given by the generalized Laplacian. The case of our main interest is when the support is contained in a rectifiable curve, and the measure is absolutely continuous with respect to the arclength on this curve. Then the generalized Laplacian is expressed by a sum of normal derivatives of the potential. Such representation was available for smooth curves, and we show it holds for any rectifiable curve in the plane. We also relax the assumptions imposed on the potential. Finding a measure from its potential often leads to another closely related problem of solving a singular integral equation with Cauchy kernel. The theory of such equations is well developed for smooth curves. We generalize this theory to the class of Ahlfors regular curves and arcs, and characterize the bounded solutions on arcs.
Resetting Asynchronous QDI Systems
Creators: name: Chang, Xiaofei
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2014
Subjects: Digital Circuit Design
Reset
QDI Systems
Asynchronous Systems
Computer Science

description: Quasi Delay-Insensitive (QDI) systems must be reset into a valid initial state before normal operation can start. Otherwise, deadlock may occur due to wrong handshake communication between processes. This thesis first reviews the traditional Global Reset Schemes (GRS). It then proposes a new Wave Reset Schemes (WRS). By utilizing the third possible value of QDI data codes - reset value, WRS propagates the data with reset value and triggers Local Reset (LR) sequentially. The global reset network for GRS can be removed and all reset signals are generated locally for each process. Circuits templates as well as some special blocks are modified to accommodate the reset value in WRS. An algorithm is proposed to choose the proper Local Reset Input (LRI) in order to shorten reset time. WRS is then applied to an iterative multiplier. The multiplier is proved working under different operating conditions.
Exact sum rules for inhomogeneous systems containing a zero mode
Creators: name: Amore, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the formulas for the sum rules for the eigenvalues of inhomogeneous systems that we have obtained in two recent papers are incomplete when the system contains a zero mode. We prove that there are finite contributions of the zero mode to the sum rules and we explicitly calculate the expressions for the sum rules of order one and two. The previous results for systems that do not contain a zero mode are unaffected.
description: 14 pages, one figure
Understanding Minority Patients’ Beliefs About Hypertension to Reduce Gaps in Communication Between Patients and Clinicians
Creators: name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Leventhal, Howard
name: Horowitz, Carol R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Minorities--Health and hygiene
Hypertension
Patient compliance
Physician and patient
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: The authors’ objective was to gain a better understanding of minority patients’ beliefs about hypertension and to use this understanding to develop a model to explain gaps in communication between patients and clinicians. Eighty-eight hypertensive black and Latino adults from 4 inner-city primary care clinics participated in focus groups to elucidate views on hypertension. Participants believed that hypertension was a serious illness in need of treatment. Participants’ diverged from the medical model in their beliefs about the time-course of hypertension (believed hypertension was intermittent); causes of hypertension (believed stress, racism, pollution, and poverty were the important causes); symptoms of hypertension (believed hypertension was primarily present when symptomatic); and treatments for hypertension (preferred alternative treatments that reduced stress over prescription medications). Participants distrusted clinicians who prioritized medications that did not directly address their understanding of the causes or symptoms of hypertension. Patients’ models of understanding chronic asymptomatic illnesses such as hypertension challenge the legitimacy of lifelong, pill-centered treatment. Listening to patients’ beliefs about hypertension may increase trust, improve communication, and encourage better self-management of hypertension.
Bridge 2D-3D: Uncertainty-aware Hierarchical Registration Network with Domain Alignment
Creators: name: Cheng, Zhixin
name: Deng, Jiacheng
name: Li, Xinjun
name: Yin, Baoqun
name: Zhang, Tianzhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The method for image-to-point cloud registration typically determines the rigid transformation using a coarse-to-fine pipeline. However, directly and uniformly matching image patches with point cloud patches may lead to focusing on incorrect noise patches during matching while ignoring key ones. Moreover, due to the significant differences between image and point cloud modalities, it may be challenging to bridge the domain gap without specific improvements in design. To address the above issues, we innovatively propose the Uncertainty-aware Hierarchical Matching Module (UHMM) and the Adversarial Modal Alignment Module (AMAM). Within the UHMM, we model the uncertainty of critical information in image patches and facilitate multi-level fusion interactions between image and point cloud features. In the AMAM, we design an adversarial approach to reduce the domain gap between image and point cloud. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on RGB-D Scene V2 and 7-Scenes benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our method, making it a state-of-the-art approach for image-to-point cloud registration tasks.
description: AAAI2025accept
PFA reconstruction algorithms
Creators: name: J. Back
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: WP12

description: We summarise the developments that have been made in Particle Flow Algorithms (PFAs) for reconstructing particles using the Pandora software framework for three next-generation detector topics: the emerging technology of dual-readout calorimeters; improving the reconstruction of hadronic jets for the future linear collider; and using new 3D-readout liquid argon detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
Improved light quark masses from pseudoscalar sum rules
Creators: name: Narison, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using ratios of the inverse Laplace transform sum rules within stability criteria for the subtraction point μin addition to the ones of the usual tau spectral sum rule variable and continuum threshold t_c, we extract the π(1300) and K(1460) decay constants to order α_s^4 of perturbative QCD by including power corrections up to dimension-six condensates, tachyonic gluon mass, instanton and finite width corrections. Using these inputs with enlarged generous errors, we extract, in a model-independent and conservative ways, the sum of the scale-independent renormalization group invariant (RGI) quark masses (m_u+ m_q):q\equiv d,s and the corresponding running masses (m_u+m_q) evaluated at 2 GeV. By giving the value of the ratio m_u/m_d, we deduce the running quark masses m_{u,d,s} and condensate and the scale-independent mass ratios : 2m_s/(m_u+m_d) and m_s/m_d. Using the positivity of the QCD continuum contribution to the spectral function, we also deduce, from the inverse Laplace transform sum rules, for the first time to order α_s^4, new lower bounds on the RGI masses which are translated into the running masses at 2 GeV and into upper bounds on the running quark condensate . Our results summarized in Table 2 and compared with our previous results and with recent lattice averages suggest that precise phenomenological determinations of the sum of light quark masses require improved experimental measurements of the π(1.3) and K(1.46) hadronic widths and/or decay constants which are the dominant sources of errors in the analysis.
description: 16 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables. Strongly improved version. Some comments and references added. Extended discussions. Slight changes in the values of the light quark masses
Long range order in a hard disk model in statistical mechanics
Creators: name: Gaál, Alexisz Tamás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model two-dimensional crystals by a configuration space in which every admissible configuration is a hard disk configuration and a perturbed version of some triangular lattice with side length one. In this model we show that, under the uniform distribution, expected configurations in a given box are arbitrarily close to some triangular lattice whenever the particle density is chosen sufficiently high. This choice can be made independent of the box size.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1951-03)
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.
Suaeda linifolia Pall.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Suaeda
Suaeda linifolia

description: Suaeda linifolia Pall.
Suaeda linifolia Pall., Ill. Pl.: 47 (1803).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Data Deficient (DD).
A threatened category has not been assigned due to the absence of recent collections.
Distribution
Orenburg Region: Svetlyi District (Fig. 47).
Previous reports: Ryabinina (1998).
The species occurs on saline substrates. It is known from a single locality.
The species is distributed in Eastern Europe (south-eastern part), south-western Siberia, West and Central Asia, Iran, western China. It is known as alien in the western part of North America.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
Allocreadiidae Looss 1902
Creators: name: Lunaschi, Lía I.
name: Drago, Fabiana B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Allocreadiidae

description: Family Allocreadiidae Looss, 1902   Creptotrema Travassos, Artigas & Pereira, 1928
 Creptotrema sp.
 Host and locality record: Dendropsophus nanus (Boulenger, 1889) (C). Site of infection: small intestine.
Reference: Hamann & Kehr (1998).
description: Published as part of Lunaschi, Lía I. & Drago, Fabiana B., 2007, Checklist of digenean parasites of amphibians and reptiles from Argentina, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1476 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176772
Finding RR Lyrae Stars with SkyMapper: an Observational Test
Creators: name: Akhter, S.
name: Da Costa, G. S.
name: Keller, S. C.
name: Schmidt, B. P.
name: Bessell, M. S.
name: Tisserand, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the major science goals of the SkyMapper Survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky is the determination of the shape and extent of the halo of the Galaxy. In this paper we quantify the likely efficiency and completeness of the survey as regards the detection of RR Lyrae variable stars, which are excellent tracers of the halo stellar population. We have accomplished this via observations of the RR Lyrae-rich globular cluster NGC 3201. We find that for single epoch uvgri observations followed by two further epochs of g, r imaging, as per the intended three-epoch survey strategy, we recover known RR Lyraes with a completeness exceeding 90%. We also investigate boundaries in the gravity-sensitive single-epoch two-color diagram that yield high completeness and high efficiency (i.e., minimal contamination by non-RR Lyraes) and the general usefulness of this diagram in separating populations.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA), published by Cambridge University Press
L'organisation internationale Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology et le chapitre français
Creators: name: Bellat, Mathias
name: Gravier, Julie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Archaeology/organization & administration
subject: Archaeology/statistics & numerical data

description: Poster presenting CAA's international organization, national/macro-regional chapters and the French chapter (CAA-FR).
A Speleothem Record of Hydroclimate Variability in Northwestern Madagascar during the Mid-Late Holocene
Creators: name: Williams, Raspberry
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: We present a continuous high-resolution precisely dated multiproxy record of hydroclimate variability at Anjohibe in northwestern Madagascar using speleothem AB13. The record spanned ~4,484 to ~2,863 years BP and showed general agreement with previously published speleothem records from the same approximate location. However, a speleothem record from Rodrigues Island, located ~1,600 km to the east of Madagascar, did not align, suggesting that paleoclimate records from Rodrigues Island may not serve as accurate proxies for northwestern Madagascar, as has been previously suggested. Stalagmite AB13 also provides a detailed record of rainfall variability during the 4.2 ka event, the abrupt climate disturbance associated with the collapse of several early human civilizations. Between ~3,900 – 4,300 years BP, Anjohibe experienced two periods of moderate drying. The most significant climate perturbation in the record was a drought that lasted ~300 years with peak dryness at ~3,000 years BP. This extended drought may have contributed to the reduction of the local perennial wetland environments and thus may have implications for the extirpation of Malagasy pygmy hippopotamuses in this part of the dry deciduous forest.
Maximal neutron star mass and the resolution of hyperon puzzle in modified gravity
Creators: name: Astashenok, Artyom V.
name: Capozziello, Salvatore
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The so-called hyperon puzzle in the theory of neutron stars is considered in the framework of modified $f(R)$ gravity. We show that for simple hyperon equations of state, it is possible to obtain the maximal neutron star mass which satisfies the recent observational data for PSR J1614-2230, in higher-derivative models with power-law terms as $f(R) = R+αR^2+ βR^3$. The soft hyperon equation of state under consideration is usually treated as non-realistic in the standard General Relativity. The numerical analysis of Mass-Radius relation for massive neutron stars with hyperon equation of state in modified gravity turns out to be consistent with observations. Thus, we show that the same modified gravity can solve at once three problems: consistent description of the maximal mass of neutron star, realistic Mass-Radius relation and account for hyperons in equation of state.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, some misprints are fixed
Erdozáin, Luís, La función del signo en la fe según el cuarto evangelio. Estúdio critico exegético de las perícopas Jn IV, 46-54 y Jn XX, 24-29. Ed. do Pontifício Instituto Bíblico. Vol. de 56 ps. 165x240. Roma 1968
Creators: name: Faria, Adão Salgado Vaz De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1970

description: Theologica, v. 5 n. 2 (1970)
Making Coasean Property More Coasean
Creators: name: Merrill, Thomas W.
name: Smith, Henry E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Right of property--Economic aspects
subject: Law and economics
subject: Real property
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Economics

description: In his pioneering work on transaction costs, Ronald Coase presupposed a picture of property as a bundle of government-prescribed use rights. Not only is this picture not essential to Coase’s purpose, but its limitations emerge when we apply Coase’s central insights to analyze the structure of property itself. This leads to the Coase corollary: in a world of zero transaction costs, the nature of property does not matter to allocative efficiency. However, as with the Coase theorem, the real implication is for our world of positive transaction costs: we need to subject the notion of property to a comparative institutional analysis. Because transaction costs are positive, property is initially defined in terms of things, uses are grouped under exclusion rights, and in rem rights are widely employed. A more thoroughly Coasean approach points back to a picture of property more like the traditional one furnished by the law.
Pseudospin symmetry: Recent progress with supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Liang, Haozhao
name: Meng, Jie
name: Shen, Shihang
name: Van Giai, Nguyen
name: Zhang, Shuangquan
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Zhao, Pengwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is an interesting and open problem to trace the origin of the pseudospin symmetry in nuclear single-particle spectra and its symmetry breaking mechanism in actual nuclei. In this report, we mainly focus on our recent progress on this topic by combining the similarity renormalization group technique, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, and perturbation theory. We found that it is a promising direction to understand the pseudospin symmetry in a quantitative way.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the XX International School on Nuclear Physics, Neutron Physics and Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, 16-22 September, 2013
Equal-time Consistency Relations in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
Creators: name: Kehagias, Alex
name: Perrier, Hideki
name: Riotto, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the consistency relations involving the soft limit of the (n + 1)-correlator functions of dark matter at equal times and their consequences for the halo model.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1205.2015
Post-Fire Damage Inspection of Concrete Tunnel Structures
Creators: name: Viglas, James
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: In general, tunnels are designed with an abundance of safety regarding structural integrity, however, there can be uncertainty related to structural performance after a fire event. The residual condition of a tunnel after a fire is dependent on fire intensity and duration. The goal of this study is to correlate visual and material characteristics of structural and non-structural components of tunnels with fire temperature and exposure time. This can be further related to the residual capacity of structural members in a tunnel, providing insight into safety and overall functionality. Experimental results show that the visual response of materials with heat exposure is variable and dependent on a number of factors. A wide range of materials were studied to establish a well-versed collection of data that may be used in a post-fire inspection. In addition, mechanical testing of three configurations of structural slabs exposed to different heating regimens was conducted. The influence of heat on a structural member may be complex, and was found to be minimal for the heating regimens and loading procedures applied. This work can serve as an aid for post-fire investigation by providing methods to estimate fire intensity and duration through visual observation and mechanical testing.
Supporting Information from Habitat fragmentation shapes natal dispersal and sociality in an Afrotropical cooperative breeder
Creators: name: Cousseau, Laurence
name: Hammers, Martijn
name: Loock, Dries Van De
name: Apfelbeck, Beate
name: Mwangi Githiru
name: Matthysen, Erik
name: Lens, Luc
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary figures, graphical representation of the model, R script and supplementary results
The effects of a fast-turning trajectory in multiple-field inflation
Creators: name: Konieczka, Maciej
name: Ribeiro, Raquel H.
name: Turzynski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The latest results from PLANCK impose strong constraints on features in the spectrum of the curvature perturbations from inflation. We analyse the possibility of particle production induced by sharp turns of the trajectory in field space in inflation models with multiple fields. Although the evolution of the background fields can be altered by particle production, we find rather modest changes in the power spectrum even for the most extreme case in which the entire kinetic energy of the scalar fields is converted into particles.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures, matches published version
The Effects of Hurricane Wind Field Characteristics on Wind Blade Loads
Creators: name: Tsai, Michael S.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Over recent years, offshore wind energy has been growing around the world. This necessitates placing wind turbines directly in or near the oceans where hurricanes can be. Previous research has suggested that hurricane wind veer and direction change can have adverse loading effects on the turbine. Such effects can create damage to the blade or worsen existing ones. Currently, there is no known design standard for addressing wind veer and direction change specifically from hurricanes. Quantifying the loading contribution from these phenomena is not abundant either.
This thesis seeks to demonstrate a proposed procedure for defining design veer profiles and direction changes from hurricanes using statistical averages and percentiles of veer and direction change magnitudes. Using simulated wind field data that describes a stationary Category 5 hurricane, the maximum veer profiles and direction changes will first be determined. Methods for statistically characterizing these wind field phenomena will be applied to provide design veer profiles and direction changes. These maximum and design veer profiles and direction changes will be applied to a feathered IEA-15MW turbine blade at 0 and 180 degrees azimuth, and the effects on the static blade loadings will be examined using blade element theory.
Baseline scale factors describing the loading increase from veer or direction change will be established for the maximum and design veer profiles and direction changes. Rated scale factors describing the loading increase from veer and wind speed or direction change and wind speed relative to the rated condition loadings will also be established. The purpose of these scale factors is to estimate increases in loads from these wind field characteristics and not be directly used in any serious wind blade design.
This thesis will show that hurricane wind veer and direction change can each, individually, increase the blade loading greater than the wind velocity can on a feathered blade. The wind speed/wind veer loadings can induce resultant moments up to 2.5 times rated with veer contributing 87.5% of the increased loading while the wind speed / direction change loadings can induce resultant moments up to 2.8 times rated with direction change contributing 88.8%.
How Should We Treat Depression in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease?
Creators: name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Krupka, David
name: Davidson, Karina W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cardiovascular system--Diseases
Antidepressants
Depression, Mental--Treatment
Medicine
Mental health
Medical sciences

description: Among patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), depression is highly prevalent and is associated with worse cardiovascular prognosis and lower quality of life. Treatments for depression in CVD patients produce modest, but clinically significant reductions in depressive symptoms and show promise for improving cardiovascular prognosis. While tricyclics should generally be avoided, antidepressants from multiple other classes appear to be safe in cardiac patients. A strategy of engaging patients in choosing medications or psychotherapy and then intensifying treatment to therapeutic goal appears to be more effective at reducing depression than single mode interventions. Recommendations for screening all CVD patients for depression may be premature given increased costs associated with screening and gaps in knowledge about the risk-benefit ratio of depression treatment in mild and moderately depressed patients.
Anger Versus Fear: Perceptions of Terrorism Among the American Public
Creators: name: Sury, Jonathan
name: Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Terrorism--Prevention
Public opinion
Islamophobia
Terrorism
Public policy (Law)

description: With recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; San Bernardino, California and elsewhere, the rhetoric for addressing the issue of terrorism has grown more polarized. In particular we have seen increasingly aggressive statements demanding limits to immigration, increasing vigilance against Muslim communities, and calling for more direct military action against terrorist organizations.The tone of these statements has prompted an important question as to the underlying reason for the desire for more aggressive policing and military tactics. It has also raised critical questions regarding surveillance and data privacy rights via encryption backdoors on every day technologies. Is this desire for action driven more by a sense of fear and anxiety? Or is this driven by anger and humiliation?The answer to these questions may help understand which groups of individuals are likely to support or reject various approaches to combatting terrorism, as well as their perceptions of the kind of leadership needed.
Quantum hyperbolic geometry in loop quantum gravity with cosmological constant
Creators: name: Dupuis, Maite
name: Girelli, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is an attempt to describe the quantum gravity regime. Introducing a non-zero cosmological constant $Λ$ in this context has been a withstanding problem. Other approaches, such as Chern-Simons gravity, suggest that quantum groups can be used to introduce $Λ$ in the game. Not much is known when defining LQG with a quantum group. Tensor operators can be used to construct observables in any type of discrete quantum gauge theory with a classical/quantum gauge group. We illustrate this by constructing explicitly geometric observables for LQG defined with a quantum group and show for the first time that they encode a quantized hyperbolic geometry. This is a novel argument pointing out the usefulness of quantum groups as encoding a non-zero cosmological constant. We conclude by discussing how tensor operators provide the right formalism to unlock the LQG formulation with a non-zero cosmological constant.
description: 6pages, 1 figure
Suaeda physophora Pall.
Creators: name: Sukhorukov, Alexander P.
name: Kushunina, Maria A.
name: Stepanova, Nina Yu.
name: Kalmykova, Olga G.
name: Golovanov, Yaroslav M.
name: Sennikov, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Suaeda
Suaeda physophora

description: Suaeda physophora Pall.
Suaeda physophora Pall., Ill. Pl.: 51 (1803).
Native status
Native.
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC).
EOO 28,800 km 2, AOO 32 km 2. The species was found in several localities, without a tendency to decline.
Distribution
Orenburg Region (southern and eastern districts): Dombarovka, Gai, Kvarkeno, Sol' - Iletsk, Svetlyi Districts, Orsk Town (Fig. 48).
Previous reports: Iljin (1930), Ryabinina (1998), Knjazev (2009).
The species occurs on saline substrates. It is rare in the southern and eastern parts of the Region.
The species is distributed in Eastern Europe (south-east European Russia), the Caucasus (eastern part), Iran (northern part), Kazakhstan, western China.
description: Published as part of Sukhorukov, Alexander P., Kushunina, Maria A., Stepanova, Nina Yu., Kalmykova, Olga G., Golovanov, Yaroslav M. & Sennikov, Alexander N., 2024, Taxonomic inventory and distributions of Chenopodiaceae (Amaranthaceae s. l.) in Orenburg Region, Russia, pp. e 121541 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e121541, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e121541
The Food Hub as a Social Infrastructure Framework: Restitching Communities in Boston After the Pandemic
Creators: name: Tiches, Connor J
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Food culture has long been a fundamental part of the city; as a culturally cohesive urban infrastructure, food culture creates integral shared experiences and is a generator of socioeconomic opportunity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, existing systemic issues of racial segregation and isolation have exacerbated growing concerns of food insecurity within prominent minority neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. The instability created by the lockdown and consequential work-life culture shift reinforces the importance of establishing and maintaining equitable and sustainable pathways of access to food resources and the socioeconomic opportunities food culture can create.
To promote resilience in the post-COVID-19 lockdown city, urban environments will need to be reimagined to incorporate social and economic infrastructures that promote flexibility and maximize entrepreneurial equity, diversity, and opportunity.  As a driving force of this equitable change in Jamaica Plain and the surrounding neighborhoods, this thesis proposes a new sustainable food system that is in tune with the regions storied ecological landscapes as well as the current need for mobility in post-COVID-19 urban life. To bridge the gap between historically fragmented regions of the urban fabric, this thesis will propose an infrastructural landmark designed to support the proliferation of food cultures, enhance housing, industrial, and ecological infrastructures, as well as bike and pedestrian mobility to restitch the greater urban fabric of the city of Boston.
This thesis explores the reorganization of a range of modalities of urban food culture into a comprehensive food hub. The Food Hub and associated program will serve as an incubator of socioeconomic opportunity as well as operate as a system of sustainable production and distribution aimed at creating food sovereignty amongst members of the community.
The resolution of these analyses will culminate in an architectonic framework for food culture programs that are primed to support the sustainable and equitable flow of resources, users, and ideas between disparate communities.
Gorgoderidae (Looss, 1899) Looss 1901
Creators: name: Lunaschi, Lía I.
name: Drago, Fabiana B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Gorgoderidae

description: Family Gorgoderidae (Looss, 1899) Looss, 1901   Gorgodera Looss, 1899
 Gorgodera australiensis Johnston, 1912
 Host and record: Leptodactylus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (BA).
Site of infection: urinary bladder.
 References: Suriano (1965b, 1970). Gorgoderina Looss, 1902
 Gorgoderina parvicava Travassos, 1920
 Host and record: Leptodactylus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (BA).
Site of infection: urinary bladder.
 References: Suriano (1965a, 1970). Gorgoderina sp.
 Host and record: Pseudopaludicola boliviana Parker, 1927 (C).
Site of infection: urinary bladder.
 Reference: Duré et al. (2004).
description: Published as part of Lunaschi, Lía I. & Drago, Fabiana B., 2007, Checklist of digenean parasites of amphibians and reptiles from Argentina, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1476 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176772
A flexible framework for early power and timing comparison of time-multiplexed CGRA kernel executions
Creators: name: Aspros, Maxime Henri
name: Sapriza, Juan
name: Ansaloni, Giovanni
name: Atienza, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.3; B.7.1; I.6.5

description: At the intersection between traditional CPU architectures and more specialized options such as FPGAs or ASICs lies the family of reconfigurable hardware architectures, termed Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs). CGRAs are composed of a 2-dimensional array of processing elements (PE), tightly integrated with each other, each capable of performing arithmetic and logic operations. The vast design space of CGRA implementations poses a challenge, which calls for fast exploration tools to prune it in advance of time-consuming syntheses. The proposed tool aims to simplify this process by simulating kernel execution and providing a characterization framework. The estimator returns energy and latency values otherwise only available through a time-consuming post-synthesis simulation, allowing for instantaneous comparative analysis between different kernels and hardware configurations.
description: 22nd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF Companion '25), May 28--30, 2025, Cagliari, Italy
Anticipatory Remedies for Takings
Creators: name: Merrill, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Constitutional amendments
subject: Judicial process
subject: Real property
subject: Eminent domain
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The Supreme Court has rendered two lines of decisions about the remedies available for a violation of the Takings Clause. One line holds that courts have no authority to enter anticipatory decrees in takings cases if the claimant can obtain compensation elsewhere. The other line, which includes three of the Court's most recent takings cases, results in the entry of an anticipatory decree about takings liability. This Essay argues that the second line is the correct one. Courts should be allowed to enter declaratory or other anticipatory judgments about takings liability, as long as they respect the limited nature of the right created by the Takings Clause and do not usurp the limited waivers of sovereign immunity for actions to recover compensation from the government. Anticipatory litigation should not be routine. In ordinary condemnation cases and in most regulatory takings cases that turn on the particular facts presented, the action seeking compensation should provide complete and adequate relief. But where remitting property owners to an action for compensation will result in an incomplete, impractical, or inefficient outcome, anticipatory relief about whether a taking has occurred is appropriate and should be permissible. The Essay argues that recognizing the appropriate role for anticipatory remedies under the Takings Clause would help reduce the many pitfalls of litigating takings claims, and provide more consistent and effective enforcement of this constitutional right.
Scaling Green-Kubo relation and application to three aging systems
Creators: name: Dechant, A.
name: Lutz, E.
name: Kessler, D. A.
name: Barkai, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Green-Kubo formula relates the spatial diffusion coefficient to the stationary velocity autocorrelation function. We derive a generalization of the Green-Kubo formula valid for systems with long-range or nonstationary correlations for which the standard approach is no longer valid. For the systems under consideration, the velocity autocorrelation function $\langle v(t+τ) v(t) \rangle$ asymptotically exhibits a certain scaling behavior and the diffusion is anomalous $\langle x^2(t) \rangle \simeq 2 D_νt^ν$. We show how both the anomalous diffusion coefficient $D_ν$ and exponent $ν$ can be extracted from this scaling form. Our scaling Green-Kubo relation thus extends an important relation between transport properties and correlation functions to generic systems with scale invariant dynamics. This includes stationary systems with slowly decaying power law correlations as well as aging systems, whose properties depend on the the age of the system. Even for systems that are stationary in the long time limit, we find that the long time diffusive behavior can strongly depend on the initial preparation of the system. In these cases, the diffusivity $D_ν$ is not unique and we determine its values for a stationary respectively nonstationary initial state. We discuss three applications of the scaling Green-Kubo relation: Free diffusion with nonlinear friction corresponding to cold atoms diffusing in optical lattices, the fractional Langevin equation with external noise recently suggested to model active transport in cells and the Lévy walk with numerous applications, in particular blinking quantum dots. These examples underline the wide applicability of our approach, which is able to treat very different mechanisms of anomalous diffusion.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Impact of Animal Protein and Plant Protein on the Gut Microbiota and Metabolites of C57BL/6J Mice
Creators: name: Soetyono, Levina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Plant-derived protein has gained popularity in recent years due to its health and environmental impact. Studies comparing the health benefits of animal and plant protein have mostly focused on soy as a plant protein representative due to its popularity. Demand for other protein sources such as peas and fava beans has been increasing; thus, the health impact of plant protein sources other than soy must be assessed. Evidence has shown that diet influences the gut microbiota and the metabolites in the body. Metabolites associated with amino acids are strong contributors to the metabolite distinction between dietary animal and plant foods. Certain gut bacteria are also known to be able to metabolize amino acids, thus influencing their survival in the gut. To discern the impact of plant and animal-based proteins, namely soy, pea, faba bean, beef, chicken, and pork, on the host gut microbiota as well as the metabolic profile, male C57BL/6J mice were fed with the proteins for 8 weeks. Results showed that each protein source influenced the gut microbiota and metabolic profile differently. However, these impacts were not caused by the amino acid profile alone. Other factors, such as myoglobin in meats and phenolic compounds in plant proteins, also play a role.
A standardized exercise intervention differentially affects premenopausal and postmenopausal African-American women
Creators: name: Kretzschmar, Jan
name: Babbitt, Dianne M.
name: Diaz, Keith
name: Feairheller, Deborah L.
name: Sturgeon, Kathleen M.
name: Perkins, Amanda M.
name: Veerabhadrappa, Praveen
name: Williamson, Sheara T.
name: Ling, Chenyi
name: Lee, Hojun
name: Grimm, Heather
name: Thakkar, Sunny R.
name: Crabbe, Deborah L.
name: Kashem, Mohammed A.
name: Brown, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: African American women--Health and hygiene
Aerobic exercises--Physiological aspects
Menopause
Medical sciences
Kinesiology
Medicine

description: Objective: African-American women represent an understudied population in menopause research yet face greater postmenopausal challenges associated with mortality than their white peers. We investigated the effects of a mild-intensity aerobic exercise training program on markers of mortality risk in both premenopausal and postmenopausal African-American women.

Methods: Sixteen premenopausal women and 19 postmenopausal women underwent 6 months of mild-intensity aerobic exercise training. Measurements included markers of blood lipid and glucose profile, inflammation, kidney function, vascular health, and aerobic fitness before and after the exercise intervention.

Results: Before the exercise intervention, the premenopausal and postmenopausal groups only differed in age, low-density lipoprotein, and total cholesterol levels, with the latter two being higher in the postmenopausal group. Both triglycerides and markers of early-stage endothelial dysfunction (CD62E+ endothelial microparticles) improved in both groups with aerobic exercise training. Aerobic fitness, glomerular filtration rate, body mass index, plasma glucose levels, and markers of late-stage endothelial dysfunction (CD31+/CD42b- endothelial microparticles) only improved in the premenopausal group.

Conclusions: Mild-intensity aerobic exercise training succeeds in improving some markers of cardiovascular disease and mortality in postmenopausal women. Higher levels of exercise intensity or perhaps additional interventions may need to be considered to further decrease mortality risk in this population.
Figures S1-S3 from Sedimentation and overfishing drive changes in early succession and coral recruitment
Creators: name: Ama Wakwella
name: Mumby, Peter J.
name: Roff, George
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Figures