cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of Occurrence of anterior uveitis in patients with spondyloarthritis treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors: comparing the soluble receptor to monoclonal antibodies in a large observational cohort
Creators: name: Khoury, Gisèle
name: Morel, Jacques
name: Combe, Bernard
name: Lukas, Cédric
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary figure 2: Propensity score distribution in the two groups of patients (monoclonal antibodies or soluble receptor at baseline).
Study of the pion trajectory in the photoproduction of leading neutrons at HERA
Creators: name: ZEUS Collaboration
name: Chekanov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energetic neutrons produced in $ep$ collisions at HERA have been studied with the ZEUS detector in the photoproduction regime at a mean photon-proton center-of-mass energy of 220 GeV. The neutrons carry a large fraction $0.64 < x_L <0.925$ of the incoming proton energy, and the four-momentum-transfer squared at the proton-neutron vertex is small, $|t|<0.425$ GeV$^2$. The $x_L$ distribution of the neutrons is measured in bins of $t$. The $(1-x_L)$ distributions in the $t$ bins studied satisfy a power law $dN/dx_L \propto (1-x_L)^{a(t)}$, with the powers $a(t)$ following a linear function of $t$: \mbox{$a(t)=0.88\pm 0.09 ({\rm stat.})^{+0.34}_{-0.39}({\rm syst.})-(2.81\pm 0.42({\rm stat.})^{+1.13}_{-0.62}({\rm syst.}) {\rm Ge V}^{-2})t$.} This result is consistent with the expectations of pion-exchange models, in which the incoming proton fluctuates to a neutron-pion state, and the electron interacts with the pion.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; revised analysis
Policy analysis of perennial energy crops cultivation at the farm level: the case of short rotation coppice in Germany
Creators: name: Spiegel, Alisa
name: Britz, Wolfgang
name: Djanibekov, Utkur
name: Finger, Robert
name: Spiegel, Alisa
name: Britz, Wolfgang
name: Djanibekov, Utkur
name: Finger, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: biomass
subject: policy regulation
subject: real options
subject: stochastic programming
subject: uncertainty

description: Perennial energy crops, in particular short rotation coppice (SRC), have gained an interest among both farmers and policy makers. SRC is characterized by fast growing nature, low-input production and managerial flexibility. In addition, SRC provides environmental benefits compared with competing crops and is essential for the transition process towards renewable energy sources. Yet, the combination of high irreversible costs and uncertainties hampers SRC adoption by farmers. Currently implemented policy instruments have failed to foster large scale SRC adoption. Although a number of policy instruments have been discussed in the literature, there is a lack of studies providing a comprehensive policy analysis. We contribute filling this gap by assessing different policies in terms of their efficiency and farm-level effect, using the real options theory and hence taking into account uncertainties related to SRC cultivation. In particular, we analyse four policy instruments toward SRC cultivation, such as a planting subsidy, a price floor, a fixed price, and increasing the “Ecological Focus Area” weighting coefficient. Our results show that the recently implemented planting subsidy could indeed create incentives to adopt short rotation coppice and increase the farm income; yet other policy instruments are more efficient.
IL-10 regulates macrophage activation through activation of SHIP
Creators: name: Ghanipour, Ali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: IL-10 is a potent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive cytokine, which regulates macrophages by activation of the STAT3 pathway. However, several lines of evidence suggest that IL-10 can inhibit macrophage activation independent of STAT3 through currently unknown mechanisms and pathways. Here for the first time, we show that in murine macrophages, IL-10 activates Src Homology 2 Domain-containing Inositol 5'-Phosphatase (SHIP), a molecule with reported anti-inflammatory effects. Activation of SHIP by IL-10 is required for inhibition of Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) in macrophages. Additional experiments revealed that IL-10 activation of SHIP acted at the post-transcriptional level and inhibited translation of TNFα . Using a novel small molecule activator of SHIP, AQX-016A, we further confirmed that activation of SHIP alone could inhibit TNFα translation. IL-10 activation of SHIP results in the inhibition of the LPS induced increase in the PI3K product, PIP3, at the membrane. However, conflicting data as to the role of PI3K in regulation of TNFα have been presented. Our studies show that PI3K inhibition downregulates TNFα production in peritoneal and several other macrophage lines, and upregulates it bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDM). Interestingly, this difference is due to the increased amount of autocrine negative regulators produced in BMDM, removal of which exposes the positive role PI3K plays in regulation of TNFα. Therefore, our studies confirm that PI3K activity positively regulates TNFα production in macrophages and that inhibition of TNFα by IL-10 or AQX-016A through activation of SHIP is likely due to SHIP'S ability to antagonize this pathway. The importance of this pathway is further highlighted as IL-10 inhibition of LPS-induced septic shock in mice lacking one allele of SHIP is significantly attenuated. Furthermore, activation of SHIP by AQX-016A inhibits TNFα production in septic mice. We also found that IL-10 inhibited LPS induced p38 activity in a cell-dependent manner. However in all cells tested, IL-10 activated p38 rapidly. We identified several IL-10 induced genes including CRIM1, a transmembrane protein with no previous report of involvement in the immune system. We found that IL-10 induction of CRIM1 was partly dependent on the activity of p38. However, expression of CRIM1 does not seem to be involved in the anti-inflammatory effects of IL-10.
Isothermic submanifolds of Euclidean space
Creators: name: Tojeiro, Ruy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B25

description: We study the problem posed by F. Burstall of developing a theory of isothermic Euclidean submanifolds of dimension greater than or equal to three. As a natural extension of the definition in the surface case, we call a Euclidean submanifold {\it isothermic} if it is locally the image of a conformal immersion of a Riemannian product of Riemannian manifolds whose second fundamental form is adapted to the product net of the manifold. Our main result is a complete classification of all such conformal immersions of Riemannian products of dimension greater than or equal to three. We derive several consequences of this result. We also study whether the classical characterizations of isothermic surfaces as solutions of Christoffel's problem and as envelopes of nontrivial conformal sphere congruences extend to higher dimensions.
description: 25 pages
Put, call or strangle? About the challenges in designing weather index insurances to hedge performance risk in agriculture
Creators: name: Doms, Juliane
name: Doms, Juliane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: performance risk
subject: risk management
subject: weather index insurances
subject: contract structure
subject: hedging efficiency
subject: historic simulation

description: Due to an expected increase of extreme weather events caused by climate change, weather index insurances (WII), which can be used to hedge weather-related income fluctuations, are shifting into the spotlight. Most previous studies focus on the index design as it is an important part of a weather index insurance. Nevertheless, also of main importance is the general contract structure. This holds especially true for farms in regions, which are not characterized by extreme climatic conditions. In the present study, it is investigated whether precipitation and soil moisture index based put- and call-options as well as strangles reduce the volatility of total gross margins (hedging efficiency) of 20 German farms in regions with moderate natural conditions. In particular, the hedging efficiency of standardized and customized WII are analyzed. It could be found that customized contracts are better suitable to reduce performance risk than standardized contracts. Further, although the hedging efficiency varies considerably from farm to farm and depends highly on the contract type, the analyzed customized call-options and strangles clearly outperform the customized put-options.
Ashcan Betty
Creators: name: Arobateau, Red Jordan
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Transgender people's writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743060
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Ragpickers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1198516
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Authors, American--Homes and haunts
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821779
subject: Poverty
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1074093
subject: Transgender people's writings, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743061
subject: Older women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1199159
subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Poor women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1071229
subject: Dumpster diving
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1893571
subject: Transgender authors
subject: LGBTQ+ fiction
subject: LGBTQ+ authors

description: Fictionalized account of the author's own experiences. Story focuses on Betty, a 60 year old self-sufficient "poor white sister" and "nun of the common world" and how she survives in a "world of waste". This novel is part of the "Scavenger Trilogy", consisting of three novels Fleamarket Molly (December 1978), Garbage Can Sally (April 1979), and Ashcan Betty (February 1980).
SDSSJ102111.02+491330.4: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar
Creators: name: Pindor, Bart
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Gregg, Michael D.
name: Becker, Robert H.
name: Inada, Naohisa
name: Oguri, Masamune
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Johnston, David E.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Turner, Edwin L.
name: Brasi, Guido
name: Hinz, Philip M.
name: Kenworthy, Matthew A.
name: Miller, Doug
name: Barentine, J. C.
name: Brewington, Howard J.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Harvanek, Michael
name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Krzesinski, Jurek
name: Long, Dan
name: Neilsen,, Eric H.
name: Newman, Peter R.
name: Nitta, Atsuko
name: Snedden, Stephanie A.
name: York, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report follow-up observations of two gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) dataset. We have confirmed that SDSS J102111.02+491330.4 is a previously unknown gravitationally lensed quasar. This lens system exhibits two images of a $z = 1.72$ quasar, with an image separation of $1{\farcs}14 \pm 0.04$. Optical and near-IR imaging of the system reveals the presence of the lensing galaxy between the two quasar images. Observations of SDSS J112012.12+671116.0 indicate that it is more likely a binary quasar than a gravitational lens. This system has two quasars at a redshift of $z = 1.49$, with an angular separation of $1{\farcs}49 \pm 0.02$. However, the two quasars have markedly different SEDs and no lens galaxy is apparent in optical and near-IR images of this system. We also present a list of 31 SDSS lens candidates which follow-up observations have confirmed are \textit{not} gravitational lenses.
description: 26 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ
Saphonecrus barbotini Pujade-Villar & Nieves-Aldrey 1986
Creators: name: Pujade-Villar, Juli
name: Villemant, Claire
name: Andreï-Ruiz, Marie-Cécile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Cynipidae
Saphonecrus
Saphonecrus barbotini

description: Saphonecrus barbotini Pujade-Villar & Nieves-Aldrey, 1986
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Pirio. Malaise trap, 22- 29.VII.1997, 2 agamic ♀ ♀ (MNHN).
REMARKS
Species known from Andorra, Spain, France and Portugal (Nieves-Aldrey & Pujade-Villar in press).
 This species is associated with Plagiotrochus galls on Q. ilex and Q. coccifera; it is usually reared from unilocular short galls developed on leaves and buds induced by Plagiotrochus coriaceus male and P. britaniae agamic female (Pujade-Villar & Ros-Farré 1998).
description: Published as part of Pujade-Villar, Juli, Villemant, Claire & Andreï-Ruiz, Marie-Cécile, 2000, Cynipidae associated with Quercus collected in Corsica with the description of a new Plagiotrochus species (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea), pp. 835-846 in Zoosystema 22 (4) on page 844, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4524758
Illuminating the Digital Landscape: Distilling Digital Privacy Privacy and Online Identity
Creators: name: Dabecki, Alex
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2024
Subjects: Data privacy
Extranets (Computer networks)
Internet
Data sovereignty

description: This thesis examines the commodification of user data by corporations like Facebook and Google. It proposes a user-centric approach to online privacy through a prototype application that visualizes and empowers users to manage their data footprint. The research assesses the effectiveness of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and argues that browser extensions and HTTPS browsing offer sufficient protection for most users. Furthermore, it explores methods for fragmenting digital identity, analyzing anonymous email forwarding services and password-less login protocols. While acknowledging the comprehensive privacy suite offered by Apple, the thesis cautions against vendor lock-in. An analysis of privacy solutions reveals limitations in both VPNs and App Tracking Transparency (ATT) initiatives. This emphasizes the need for stricter data practices and user control mechanisms within app ecosystems. The thesis recognizes the importance of user education, but highlights the limitations imposed by complex legal frameworks and a lack of stringent data privacy laws in the United States. It emphasizes the crucial role of individual knowledge in safeguarding personal data. The research concludes by reframing online privacy as the user's right to control, rather than anonymize, their digital identity and data. It underscores the importance of data literacy and informed decision-making regarding privacy settings. Ultimately, the thesis advocates for a balanced approach that empowers users to navigate the online world with both security and convenience, fostering a sense of data ownership over mere anonymity.
description: Internet privacy
description: VPN efficacy
description: Data commodification
description: Digital identity fragmentation
description: Online privacy vs. anonymity
description: Informed user choice
description: Data ownership
Modellbasierte Standortoptimierung von Konversionsanlagen für landwirtschaftliche Biomasse in Baden-Württemberg am Beispiel der Strohverbrennung
Creators: name: Petig, Eckart
name: Rudi, Andreas
name: Angenendt, Elisabeth
name: Schultmann, Frank
name: Bahrs, Enno
name: Petig, Eckart
name: Rudi, Andreas
name: Angenendt, Elisabeth
name: Schultmann, Frank
name: Bahrs, Enno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Modellierung
subject: Bioenergie
subject: Bioökonomie
subject: Flächenkonkurrenz
subject: techno-ökonomische Bewertung

description: Die Transformation einer erdölbasierten zu einer biobasierten Wirtschaft ist auf Rohstoffe aus der Landwirtschaft angewiesen. Dies kann die Konkurrenzsituation zwischen den verschiedenen Nutzungspfaden für landwirtschaftliche Biomassen (food, feed, fuel, fibre) verschärfen. Da viele Technologien und mögliche Absatzwege einer sich entwickelnden Bioökonomie derzeit noch nicht bekannt sind, können Simulationsmodelle Entwicklungspfade, Potenziale, Chancen und Risiken aufzeigen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird ein Modellverbund aus einem landwirtschaftlichen Angebotsmodell und einem techno-ökonomischen Standortoptimierungsmodell vorgestellt und die Vorgehensweise am Beispiel der optimalen räumlichen Verteilung von Strohverbrennungsanlagen in Baden-Württemberg aufgezeigt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Strohverbrennung ca. 2,3 % des Bruttostromverbrauchs Baden-Württembergs decken könnte. Insgesamt führen die untersuchten Szenarien zu einer Erhöhung der landwirtschaftlichen Deckungsbeiträge. Darüber hinaus zeigt sich, dass der Ausbau der Strohverbrennung sowohl einen Rückgang der Biogassubstratproduktion zur Folge hätte, als auch die Futtermittelzukäufe der landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe in Baden-Württemberg erhöhen würde. Der hier vorgestellte Modellverbund kann für die Analyse weiterer land- und forstwirtschaftlicher Biomassearten für die energetische Verwertung und mögliche Technologien der stofflichen Nutzung, wie z.B. die Produktion von biobasierten Grundstoffen angewendet werden. Darüber hinaus lassen sich weitere Modelle, wie z.B. partielle und allgemeine Gleichgewichtsmodelle, aber auch Modelle zur Bewertung von ökologischen Wirkungen, wie Ökobilanzierungsmodelle, integrieren.
Microscopic models for Kitaev's sixteenfold way of anyon theories
Creators: name: Chulliparambil, Sreejith
name: Seifert, Urban F. P.
name: Vojta, Matthias
name: Janssen, Lukas
name: Tu, Hong-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In two dimensions, the topological order described by $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge theory coupled to free or weakly interacting fermions with a nonzero spectral Chern number $ν$ is classified by $ν\; \mathrm{mod}\; 16$ as predicted by Kitaev [Ann. Phys. 321, 2 (2006)]. Here we provide a systematic and complete construction of microscopic models realizing this so-called sixteenfold way of anyon theories. These models are defined by $Γ$ matrices satisfying the Clifford algebra, enjoy a global $\mathrm{SO}(ν)$ symmetry, and live on either square or honeycomb lattices depending on the parity of $ν$. We show that all these models are exactly solvable by using a Majorana representation and characterize the topological order by calculating the topological spin of an anyonic quasiparticle and the ground-state degeneracy. The possible relevance of the $ν=2$ and $ν=3$ models to materials with Kugel-Khomskii-type spin-orbital interactions is discussed.
description: 6+9 pages, 2+1 figures, published version
Ommatocarcinus fibriophthalmus Yokoya 1933
Creators: name: Castro, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Goneplacidae
Ommatocarcinus
Ommatocarcinus fibriophthalmus

description: Ommatocarcinus fibriophthalmus Yokoya, 1933
 Ommatocarcinus fibriophthalmus Yokoya, 1933: 199, 217, fig. 66 [Japan]. — Sakai 1934: 314 [in list]; 1939: 565, 722; 1940: 57 [in list]; 1956: 47 [in list]; 1976: 539, fig. 286 [Japan]. — Takeda & Miyake 1969b: 174 [in list]. — Guinot 1971: 1082 [in list]. — Serène & Vadon 1981: 119, 122, 126, 134 [discussion], pl. 2, figs E, F [Philippine Is]. — Miyake 1991: 220 [in list] [Japan].
TYPE MATERIAL. — Unknown deposit.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Japan, Goto Is, 146 m.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Philippine Islands. Bohol, Balicasag I., off Panglao I., PANGLAO 2004, stn T27, Panglao I., Pamilacan, 09°33.421’N, 123°51.017’E, 106-137 m, fine sand and mud, 25.VI.2004, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (ZRC 2004.0789), 1 ♂ parasitised by Sacculina (ZRC 2004.0790).
PANGLAO 2005, stn DW 2339, off Balicasag I., 09°31.9’S, 123°47.1’E, 164-176 m, 23.V.2005, 1 ♀ (MNHN-B 30248).
 Indonesia. Kai Is, KARUBAR, stn DW 29, 05°36’S, 132°56’E, 181-184 m, 26.X.1991, 1 ♂ (MNHN-B 29214).
 Tonga. BORDAU 2, stn CP 1545, 21°15’S, 175°14’W, 319-333 m, 5.VI.2000, 1 ♂ (MNHN-B 29565).
DISTRIBUTION. — Japan (Yokoya 1933) and the Philippine Is (Serène & Vadon 1981) and now from Indonesia (Kai Is) and Tonga. Depth: 106- 333 m.
REMARKS
 The material examined shares the key diagnostic characters of O. fibriophthalmus Yokoya, 1933: eye peduncles that extend a long distance beyond the distal margin of the orbits, granular surface of the quadrate carapace, presence of one anterolateral prominence on each side of the carapace, and the absence of a distal tooth on the dorsal margin of the meri of the slender ambulatory legs (see Yokoya 1933: fig. 66; Serène & Vadon 1981: pl. 2, figs E, F). The G1 is slender, with a long, straight tip; the G2 slightly longer than the G1 and with a slightly curved flagellum.
The stridulating mechanism of the species has been described by Guinot-Dumortier & Dumortier (1960: 121, fig. 3).
description: Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, pp. 609-774 in Zoosystema 29 (4) on pages 736-737, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525564
Hydrogel Technology: A Step towards Futuristic Farming
Creators: name: Kadam, Aditya
name: Joshi, Akanksha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 79901 Agricultural Hydrology (Drainage, Flooding, Irrigation, Quality, etc.)
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: A new technology is rising which could be beneficial for farmers in arid and semi-arid regions. Hydrogels were reported for the first time by Wichterle and Lím in 1960. Water must constitute at least 10% of the total volume or total weight of a substance to be a hydrogel. It is understood by very other names like Polyter, water crystals, hydrosource, water drops, root watering crystals, superabsorbent polymers, water retention granules, hydrating crystals, water beads, water pebbles, hydrobeads etc. but chemically it is a non-fluid polymer network that is expanded throughout its whole volume by a fluid such as water.
Constructing alternating 2-cocycles on Fourier algebras
Creators: name: Choi, Yemon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16E40, 46J10, 46L07 (primary), 43A30, 46M05 (secondary)

description: Building on recent progress in constructing derivations on Fourier algebras, we provide the first examples of locally compact groups whose Fourier algebras support non-zero, alternating 2-cocycles; this is the first step in a larger project. Although such 2-cocycles can never be completely bounded, the operator space structure on the Fourier algebra plays a crucial role in our construction, as does the opposite operator space structure. Our construction has two main technical ingredients: we observe that certain estimates from [H. H. Lee, J. Ludwig, E. Samei, N. Spronk, Weak amenability of Fourier algebras and local synthesis of the anti-diagonal, Adv. Math., 292 (2016); arXiv 1502.05214] yield derivations that are "co-completely bounded" as maps from various Fourier algebras to their duals; and we establish a twisted inclusion result for certain operator space tensor products, which may be of independent interest.
description: AMS-LaTeX, 24 pages, 2 figures. Uses mathabx fonts for widecheck and Paul Taylor's diagrams.sty macros for one diagram. Includes an improved version of some material from arXiv 1606.06287v2 which will not be submitted for publication. v4: keywords removed, some typos fixed. A few minor differences of phrasing and formatting from the published version
Non-Laplace type Operators on Manifolds with Boundary
Creators: name: Avramidi, Ivan G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J32, 58J50, 58J37

description: We study second-order elliptic partial differential operators acting on sections of vector bundles over a compact manifold with boundary with a non-scalar positive definite leading symbol. Such operators, called non-Laplace type operators, appear, in particular, in gauge field theories, string theory as well as models of non-commutative gravity theories, when instead of a Riemannian metric there is a matrix valued self-adjoint symmetric two-tensor that plays the role of a ``non-commutative'' metric. It is well known that there is a small-time asymptotic expansion of the trace of the corresponding heat kernel in half-integer powers of time. We initiate the development of a systematic approach for the explicit calculation of these coefficients, construct the corresponding parametrix of the heat equation and compute explicitly the first two heat trace coefficients.
description: Introduction and bibliography significantly expanded. 39 pages, no figures, to be published in: Proceedings of the Workshop ``Krzysztof Wojciechowski 50 years - Analysis and Geometry of Boundary Value Problems'', Roskilde, Denmark, 20-22 May, 2005; Minor cosmetic changes in version 3
MIGNEX Handbook Chapter 11 - Documentation of qualitative data collection
Creators: name: Erdal, Marta Bivand
name: Fitzmaurice, Maisie
name: Ivanova, Mira
name: Lise Endregard Hemat
name: Karl, Elinor
Publisher: name: Peace Research Institute Oslo
Year: 2023

description: This MIGNEX handbook chapter documents the qualitative data and the data collection process. This includes experiences from the fieldwork, which was conducted in 26 research areas, in 10 different countries. The data was collected by MIGNEX researchers, who were working in close collaboration with local research assistants and other facilitators, who all together played indispensable roles.

Key Takeaways

The MIGNEX qualitative data collection in 26 research areas in 10 countries, using the same methods and tools, allows reflection on collaborative research, ethical dilemmas and lessons learnt.

The qualitative data is documented in the (internal) Research Area Interim Reports, the MIGNEX focus group data set, and with photographs of the research areas and of doors in each area.

The metadata describing each of the 104 transcribed focus group discussions that make up the MIGNEX focus group data set, can be found in the Appendix.
Light-by-light scattering sum rule for radiative transitions of bottomonia
Creators: name: Ananyev, Victor
name: Danilkin, Igor
name: Vanderhaeghen, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize a forward light-by-light scattering sum rule to the case of heavy quarkonium radiative transitions. We apply such sum rule to the bottomonium states, and use available data on radiative transitions in its evaluation. For the transitions that are not known experimentally, we provide theoretical estimates within a potential model, and consider the spread between similar approaches in the literature as an estimate for the model error. For the $Υ(1S)$, $Υ(2S)$, and $Υ(3S)$ states we observe that, due to a cancellation between transitions involving $χ_{b0}, χ_{b1}$, and $χ_{b2}$ states, the sum rule is satisfied within experimental and theoretical error estimates. Having tested this sum rule for the low-lying bottomonium states, it may be used as a tool to investigate the nature of exotic states in the charmonium and bottomonium spectrum through the corresponding radiative transitions.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Elastic graphs with clamped boundary and length constraints
Creators: name: Dall’Acqua, Anna
name: Deckelnick, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Elastic energy
subject: Helfrich energy
subject: Uniqueness of minimizers
subject: Noether identities
subject: 49J05
subject: 49J45
subject: 53A04
subject: 53C21
subject: DDC 510 / Mathematics

description: Abstract We study two minimization problems concerning the elastic energy on curves given by graphs subject to symmetric clamped boundary conditions. In the first, the inextensible problem, we fix the length of the curves while in the second, the extensible problem, we add a term penalizing the length. This can be considered as a one-dimensional version of the Helfrich energy. In both cases, we prove existence, uniqueness and qualitative properties of the minimizers. A key ingredient in our analysis is the use of Noether identities valid for critical points of the energy and derived from the invariance of the energy functional with respect to translations. These identities allow us also to prove curvature bounds and ordering of the minimizers even though the problem is of fourth order and hence in general does not allow for comparison principles.
An XML based Document Suite
Creators: name: Roesner, Dietmar
name: Kunze, Manuela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; H.3.1

description: We report about the current state of development of a document suite and its applications. This collection of tools for the flexible and robust processing of documents in German is based on the use of XML as unifying formalism for encoding input and output data as well as process information. It is organized in modules with limited responsibilities that can easily be combined into pipelines to solve complex tasks. Strong emphasis is laid on a number of techniques to deal with lexical and conceptual gaps that are typical when starting a new application.
The inner potential in electrochemistry
Creators: name: Santos, Elizabeth
name: Schmickler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Inner potential
subject: Electrochemical potential
subject: Density functional theory
subject: Electron scattering
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences

description: Abstract Although the inner potential plays a fundamental role in electrochemistry, its precise definition is not clear. In fact, there are two different concepts: a physical quantity which can be measured by high energy electron scattering and calculated by density functional theory. For water, it is of the order of 4 V, and it is irrelevant for electrochemistry. For our purpose, the relevant quantity is the electrostatic potential experienced by an ion, which enters into the electrochemical potential. This is of the order of 0 to -0.5 V, and may be slightly different for different ions.
The Local Star Formation Rate Surface Density And Metallicity Relation For Star-forming Galaxies
Creators: name: Teklu, Berzaf B.
name: Gao, Yulong
name: Kong, Xu
name: Lin, Zesen
name: Liang, Zhixiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relations between gas-phase metallicity ($Z$), local stellar mass surface density ($Σ_*$), and the local star formation surface density ($Σ_{\rm SFR}$) in a sample of 1120 star-forming galaxies from the MaNGA survey. At fixed $Σ_{*}$ the local metallicity increases as decreasing of $Σ_{\rm SFR}$ or vice versa for metallicity calibrators of N2 and O3N2. Alternatively, at fixed $Σ_{\rm SFR}$ metallicity increases as increasing of $Σ_{*}$, but at high mass region, the trend is flatter. However, the dependence of metallicity on $Σ_{\rm SFR}$ is nearly disappeared for N2O2 and N2S2 calibrators. We investigate the local metallicity against $Σ_{\rm SFR}$ with different metallicity calibrators, and find negative/positive correlations depending on the choice of the calibrator. We demonstrate that the O32 ratio (or ionization parameter) is probably dependent on star formation rate at fixed local stellar mass surface density. Additional, the shape of $Σ_*$ -- $Z$ -- $Σ_{\rm SFR}$ (FMR) depends on metallicity calibrator and stellar mass range. Since the large discrepancy between the empirical fitting-based (N2, O3N2) to electronic temperature metallicity and the photoionization model-dependent (N2O2, N2S2) metallicity calibrations, we conclude that the selection of metallicity calibration affects the existence of FMR on $Σ_{\rm SFR}$.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 2020ApJ...897...61T
Use of angioembolization, treatment modalities and mortality in association with blunt liver trauma in Germany — a data analysis of the TraumaRegister DGU®
Creators: name: Beltzer, Christian
name: Imach, Sebastian
name: Wafaisade, Arasch
name: Lefering, Rolf
name: Kölbel, Benny
name: TraumaRegister DGU
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Liver trauma
subject: Angioembolization
subject: Perihepatic packing
subject: Non-operative management
subject: Mortality
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract Purpose Angioembolization (ANGIO) is highly valued in national and international guideline recommendations as a treatment adjunct with blunt liver trauma (BLT). The literature on BLT shows that treatment, regardless of the severity of liver injury, can be accomplished with a high success rate using nonoperative management (NOM). An indication for surgical therapy (SURG) is only seen in hemodynamically instable patients. For Germany, it is unclear how frequently NOM ±ANGIO is actually used, and what mortality is associated with BLT. Methods A retrospective systematic data analysis of patients with BLT from the TraumaRegister DGU® was performed. All patients with liver injury AIS ≥ 2 between 2015 and 2020 were included. The focus was to evaluate the use ANGIO as well as treatment selection (NOM vs. SURG) and mortality in relation to liver injury severity. Furthermore, independent risk factors influencing mortality were identified, using multivariate logistic regression. Results A total of 2353 patients with BLT were included in the analysis. ANGIO was used in 18 cases (0.8%). NOM was performed in 70.9% of all cases, but mainly in less severe liver trauma (AIS ≤ 2, abbreviated injury scale). Liver injuries AIS ≥ 3 were predominantly treated surgically (64.6%). Overall mortality associated with BLT was 16%. Severity of liver injury ≥ AIS 3, age > 60 years, hemodynamic instability (INSTBL), and mass transfusion (≥ 10 packed red blood cells/pRBC) were identified as independent risk factors contributing to mortality in BLT. Conclusion ANGIO is rarely used in BLT, contrary to national and international guideline recommendations. In Germany, liver injuries AIS ≥ 3 are still predominantly treated surgically. BLT is associated with considerable mortality, depending on the presence of specific contributing risk factors.
Additional file 2 of Occurrence of anterior uveitis in patients with spondyloarthritis treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors: comparing the soluble receptor to monoclonal antibodies in a large observational cohort
Creators: name: Khoury, Gisèle
name: Morel, Jacques
name: Combe, Bernard
name: Lukas, Cédric
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary table S1: Statistical associations of patient characteristics at baseline with the first TNF inhibitor choice and with occurrence of at least 1 uveitis during first-line TNF inhibitor treatment.
Ommatocarcinus granulatus Chen 1998
Creators: name: Castro, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Goneplacidae
Ommatocarcinus
Ommatocarcinus granulatus

description: Ommatocarcinus granulatus Chen, 1998
 Ommatocarcinus granulatus Chen, 1998: 285, 310 [in list], 312, fig. 13.
TYPE MATERIAL. — ♀ holotype (IOAS SSIVB45-30).
TYPE LOCALITY. — South China Sea, Nansha Is, 04°26.0’N, 111°0’E, 107 m.
DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from the South China Sea. Depth: 107 m.
REMARKS
 Male specimens and additional material of O. granulatus, which is known only from the female holotype from the South China Sea, should be examined and compared to the other known species of Ommatocarcinus. The illustration and English description by Chen (1998: 312, fig. 13), however, show clear differences from O. fibriophthalmus: absence of anterolateral teeth or prominences, a wider carapace, and the presence of a small distal tooth on the meri of each of the ambulatory legs (P2-P5). These characters, however, are also present in O. macgillivrayi, and Chen (1998: 313) contrasts her new species with O. pulcher Barnard, 1950 but not with O. macgillivrayi. Ommatocarcinus granulatus can be differentiated from O. macgillivrayi by the relative length of their eye peduncles. The peduncles extend a considerable distance, about a third of its total length, beyond the outer orbital teeth in O. granulatus (Chen 1998: fig. 13-1) but only the distal margin of the eye itself extends beyond the outer orbital teeth in O. macgillivrayi. The cheliped (P1) merus has small teeth along the dorsal border and another small tooth on the distal border of the cheliped in O. granulatus (Chen 1998: fig. 13-4), in contrast to a large obtuse tooth on the median portion of the outer (dorsal) margin of the merus in O. macgillivrayi. The carapace is noticeably narrower in O. granulatus: “1.82-1.86 times as broad as long” (Chen 1998: 313) but wider, carapace width 2.3 times carapace length, in O. macgillivrayi.
description: Published as part of Castro, Peter, 2007, A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species, pp. 609-774 in Zoosystema 29 (4) on page 737, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4525564
From Chiral Kinetic Theory To Relativistic Viscous Spin Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Shi, Shuzhe
name: Gale, Charles
name: Jeon, Sangyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we start with chiral kinetic theory and construct the spin hydrodynamic framework for a chiral spinor system. Using the 14-moment expansion formalism, we obtain the equations of motion of second-order dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics with non-trivial spin polarization density. In a chiral spinor system, the spin alignment effect could be treated in the same framework as the Chiral Vortical Effect (CVE). However, the quantum corrections due to fluid vorticity induce not only CVE terms in the vector/axial charge currents but also corrections to the stress tensor. In this framework, viscous corrections to the hadron spin polarization are self-consistently obtained, which will be important for the precise prediction of the polarization rate for the observed hadrons, e.g. $Λ$-hyperon.
description: 17 pages; publish version
N=2 Supersymmetric U(1) Gauge Theory in Noncommutative Harmonic Superspace
Creators: name: Araki, Takeo
name: Ito, Katsushi
name: Ohtsuka, Akihisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study N=2 supersymmetric U(1) gauge theory in the noncommutative harmonic superspace with nonanticommutative fermionic coordinates. We examine the gauge transformation which preserves the Wess-Zumino gauge by harmonic expansions of component fields. The gauge transformation is shown to depend on the deformation parameters and the anti-holomorphic scalar field. We compute the action explicitly up to the third order in component fields and discuss the field redefinitions so that the component fields transform canonically.
description: 42 pages, LaTeX, v2: references added, v3: minor corrections
On the Hodge-Newton decomposition for split groups
Creators: name: Kottwitz, Robert E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11S25 (Primary); 14L05, 14F30 (Secondary)

description: The main purpose of this paper is to prove a group-theoretic generalization of a theorem of Katz on isocrystals. Along the way we reprove the group-theoretic generalization of Mazur's inequality for isocrystals due to Rapoport-Richartz, and generalize from split groups to unramified groups a result of Kottwitz-Rapoport which determines when an affine Deligne-Lusztig subset of the affine Grassmannian is non-empty.
CMR reveals myocardial damage from cardiotoxic oncologic therapies in breast cancer patients
Creators: name: Kersten, Johannes
name: Fink, Visnja
name: Kersten, Maria
name: May, Lisa
name: Nunn, Samuel
name: Tadic, Marijana
name: Huober, Jens
name: Bekes, Inga
name: Radermacher, Michael
name: Hombach, Vinzenz
name: Rottbauer, Wolfgang
name: Buckert, Dominik
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD)
subject: Cardiotoxicity
subject: CMR
subject: Feature tracking
subject: Parametric mapping
subject: Strain
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract Background Breast cancer is a common and increasingly treatable disease. However, survivors have a significantly elevated risk of cardiac events afterwards. This study aimed to characterise cardiac changes during cardiotoxic cancer therapy using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. Methods This study involved 34 patients with histologically proven breast cancer and planned cardiotoxic therapy. All patients underwent CMR before starting therapy, and 6 and 12 months thereafter. The CMR protocol included volumetric and functional analyses, parametric mapping, and deformation analysis using feature tracking. As the control group, 10 healthy female volunteers were scanned using the same protocol. Results With therapy, there was a significant reduction of left ventricular and right ventricular ejection fractions (both p < 0.05) without reaching pathologic values. Left ventricular radial (p = 0.008), circumferential (p = 0.010), and longitudinal strain (p = 0.036) were also reduced at follow-up. In the parametric mapping, there was a significant increase in native T1 time (start: 1037 ± 41 ms vs. 6 months: 1068 ± 51 ms vs. 12 months: 1017 ± 57 ms, p < 0.001) and T2 time (start: 55 ± 4 ms vs. 6 months: 59 ± 3 ms vs. 12 months: 57 ± 3 ms, p = 0.001), with unchanged extracellular volume and relative late gadolinium enhancement. Twelve months after cancer diagnosis, the breast cancer patients exhibited significant impairments in left ventricular global radial (p = 0.001), circumferential (p = 0.001), and longitudinal strain (p = 0.002) and T2 time (p = 0.008) compared to the healthy controls. Discussion Breast cancer patients receiving cardiotoxic chemotherapy show persistent deterioration in left ventricular strain values. This is accompanied by inflammatory changes in non-invasive tissue characterisation. Larger studies with longer follow-up periods are needed to identify patients at risk and establish preventive and therapeutic approaches.
Additional file 1 of Study design factors influencing patients’ willingness to participate in clinical research: a randomised vignette-based study
Creators: name: Gayet-Ageron, Angèle
name: Rudaz, Sandrine
name: Perneger, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Detailed wording of research vignettes, translated from French.
Covariant kinetic theory and transport coefficients for Gribov plasma
Creators: name: Jaiswal, Amaresh
name: Haque, Najmul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gribov quantization is a method to improve the infrared dynamics of Yang-Mills theory. We study the thermodynamics and transport properties of a plasma consisting of gluons whose propagator is improved by the Gribov prescription. We first construct thermodynamics of Gribov plasma using the gauge invariant Gribov dispersion relation for interacting gluons. When the Gribov parameter in the dispersion relation is temperature dependent, one expects a mean field correction to the Boltzmann equation. We formulate covariant kinetic theory for the Gribov plasma and determine the mean-field contribution in the Boltzmann equation. This leads to a quasiparticle like framework with a bag correction to pressure and energy density which mimics confinement. The temperature dependence of the Gribov parameter and bag pressure is fixed by matching with lattice results for a system of gluons. Finally we calculate the temperature dependence of the transport coefficients, i.e., bulk and shear viscosities.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures; v2, published version
title: Changing Human Impact On The Montane Forests Of The Eastern Andean Flank, Ecuador
Creators: name: Loughlin, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: The montane cloud forests of South America are some of the most biodiverse habitats in the world, whilst also being especially vulnerable to climate change and human disturbance. Today much of this landscape has been transformed into a mosaic of secondary forest and agricultural fields. This thesis uses palaeoecological proxies (pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal, organic content) to interpret ecosystem dynamics during the late Quaternary, unravelling the vegetation history of the landscape and the relationship between people and the montane cloud forest of the eastern Andean flank of Ecuador. Two new sedimentary records are examined from the montane forest adjacent to the Río Cosanga (Vinillos) and in the Quijos Valley (Huila). These sites characterise the natural dynamics of a pre-human arrival montane forest and reveal how vegetation responded during historical changes in local human populations. Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are employed in a novel approach to analyse a forest cover gradient across these sites. The analysis identifies a distinctive NPP assemblage connected to low forest cover and increased regional burning. Investigation into the late Pleistocene Vinillos sediments show volcanic activity to be the primary landscape-scale driver of ecosystem dynamics prior to human arrival, influencing montane forest populations but having little effect on vegetation composition. Lake sediments at Huila from the last 700 years indicate the presence of pre-Hispanic peoples, managing and cultivating an open landscape. The subsequent colonization of the region by Europeans in the late 1500’s decimated the indigenous population, leading to the abandonment of the region in conjunction with an expansion in forest cover ca. 1588 CE. After approximately 130 years of vegetation recovery, montane cloud forest reached a stage of structural maturity comparable to that seen in the pre-human arrival forest. The following 100 years (1718-1822 CE) of low human population and minimal human impact in the region is proposed as a shifted ecological baseline for future restoration and conservation goals. This ‘cultural ecological baseline’ features a landscape that retains many of the ecosystem service provided by a pristine montane forest, while retaining the cultural history of its indigenous people within the vegetation.