cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Promoting Female Condom Use to Heterosexual Couples: Findings from a Randomized Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Witte, Susan S.
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Chang, Mingway P.
name: Hill, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Female condoms
Condom use
Sexually transmitted diseases--Prevention
Couples--Sexual behavior
Sexual health

description: CONTEXT: The female condom remains the only female‐initiated method for preventing pregnancy and STDs, including HIV. Innovative methods for promoting its use, and for involving male partners in its use, are needed.

METHODS: A sample of 217 women and their main male sexual partners were randomly assigned to one of three study conditions: a six‐session relationship‐based STD prevention intervention provided to the couple together, the same intervention provided to the woman only or a single‐session education control provided to the woman only. Assessments were conducted at baseline and three months postintervention. Contrast coding was used to examine whether the effects of the two active interventions differed from those of the control intervention, and whether the effects of the two active interventions differed from each other. Regression analyses were used to estimate treatment effects.

RESULTS: During follow‐up, participants in either active intervention were more likely to use a female condom with their study partner and with all partners, and used female condoms at a higher rate with all partners, than individuals assigned to the control intervention; at the end of three months, they were more likely to intend to use the condom in the next 90 days. No significant differences in outcomes were found between the active intervention groups.

CONCLUSIONS: Focusing on both a woman and her main male sexual partner is efficacious in increasing female condom use and intention to use among heterosexual couples at risk for HIV and other STDs.
interTwin D4.5 Final Architecture design of the DTs capabilities for climate change and impact decision support tools
Creators: name: Elia, Donatello
name: Donno, Davide
name: Donno, Emanuele
name: Ferrario, Iacopo
name: Fronza, Massimiliano
name: Backeberg, Björn
name: Tromp, Willem
name: Pagé, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: design
subject: capabilities
subject: Digital Twin Engine
subject: climate change
subject: impact decision
subject: support tools

description: This deliverable describes the final architecture design of the digital twin application for climate change and impact decision support tools. For each application it depicts their main capabilities and requirements, as well as the different steps included in their workflows. It highlights, thus, the needs of the climate change use cases from the interTwin Digital Twin Engine (DTE). To this end, links with the different components from the DTE are also presented in the document and showcased in workflow diagrams.
Few electron double quantum dot in an isotopically purified $^{28}$Si quantum well
Creators: name: Wild, Andreas
name: Kierig, Johannes
name: Sailer, Jürgen
name: Ager, Joel
name: Haller, Eugene
name: Abstreiter, Gerhard
name: Ludwig, Stefan
name: Bougeard, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a few electron double quantum dot (QD) device defined in an isotopically purified $^{28}$Si quantum well (QW). An electron mobility of $5.5 \cdot 10^4 cm^2(Vs)^{-1}$ is observed in the QW which is the highest mobility ever reported for a 2D electron system in $^{28}$Si. The residual concentration of $^{29}$Si nuclei in the $^{28}$Si QW is lower than $10^{3} ppm$, at the verge where the hyperfine interaction is theoretically no longer expected to dominantly limit the $T_{2}$ spin dephasing time. We also demonstrate a complete suppression of hysteretic gate behavior and charge noise using a negatively biased global top gate.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
DeltaM Non-perturbative parameter sum rules
Creators: name: Mannel, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In this talk I report on a recent sum rule calculation of the bag parameter for B Bbar mixing. We show that for this particular case the sum rule calculation yields a result with a precision that is competitive to the one of the most recent lattice calculations. The reason for this is that the QCD sum rule computes the deviation of the bag parameter from unity, which is small. Although the QCD sum rule has an accuracy limited to about twenty percent, it is in this case the precision on the deviation form unity. I present the results and compare to the most recent lattice calculations. Finally I present a second result needed to proceed to NNLO precision, which is the calculation of the matching coefficients from QCD to HQET at NNLO.
Suicidal Plans and Attempts Among Adolescents in Mongolia: Urban Versus Rural Differences
Creators: name: Davaasambuu, Sarantsetseg
name: Batbaatar, Suvd
name: Witte, Susan S.
name: Hamid, Phillip
name: Oquendo, Maria A.
name: Kleinman, Marjorie
name: Olivares, Michael
name: Gould, Madelyn S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Teenagers--Mental health
Teenagers--Suicidal behavior
Psychiatry
Epidemiology

description: Background: Although 75% of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries, few studies have examined suicidal behaviors among young people in these countries. Aims: This study aimed to examine what individual characteristics were associated with suicidal plans and attempts among Mongolian youth and whether suicidal risks and behaviors varied by urban and rural locations. Method: Logistic regression analyses were utilized to investigate suicidal plans and attempts among 5,393 adolescents using the Global Student Health Survey – 2013. Results: Adolescents who lived in urban areas were at higher risk for suicidal plans and behaviors than those who lived in rural areas; however, the patterns of suicidal risks were similar. Specifically, individual characteristics, such as being female, feeling lonely and worried, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and having fights at school, were associated with suicidal plans and behaviors regardless of the residential places. Limitations: A number of important variables have not been included in the questionnaire such as depression, family and parental support, household income, family constructs etc. Conclusion: Given the comparable patterns of risk between urban and rural adolescents and the relatively high rates of suicidal plans and attempts, similar mental health services and interventions are necessitated for both urban and rural areas.
Compendiario: Conference Summary: Le Vie Congrès International sur la Cèramique Médiévale en Méditerranée, Aix-En-Provence
Creators: name: Demians D'Archimbaud, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 19, 100-102
B->D* form factors at non-zero recoil
Creators: name: Avilés-Casco, Alejandro Vaquero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Inclusive and exclusive semileptonic decays of the B meson to D and D^* mesons yield inconsistent values of Vcb. This tension might be understood with knowledge of the behavior of the form factor as a function of the recoil parameter. However, experimental measurements can't disentangle the form factor from the differential decay rate, and lattice QCD calculations for the D^* final state have so far provided results only at zero recoil. We present preliminary blinded results from our analysis of the form factors for B¯→D⋆ℓν¯ decay at non-zero recoil from the lattice using 15 MILC asqtad ensembles with Nf=2+1 flavors of sea quarks and lattice spacings ranging from a≈0.15~fm down to 0.045~fm. We discuss the impact that our results will have on |V_cb| and R(D*).
HealthData@EU pilot project - Milestone 7.1 Legal landscape analysis
Creators: name: Health Data Hub
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This document is a milestone of the HealthData@EU pilot project, part of Work Package 7 "Regulatory and legal compliance" (WP7). Prepared by BBMRI-ERIC, this document provides an overview of the legal and regulatory similarities and differences observed within the network of the project. The analysis identifies common elements and key differences among national health data access bodies, research infrastructures, and EU agencies involved in the project, which are responsible for gathering and providing health data (nodes) and associated documentation (e.g., data application forms, data use policies).

The findings have supported the activities of WP7, including the development of a common data application form and aligned conditions for data use. The analysis is based on a questionnaire completed by the following nodes: BBMRI-ERIC (European Research Infrastructure), Health Data Lab (Germany), Danish Health Data Authority (Denmark), Findata (Finland), Health Data Hub (France), Sciensano (Belgium), Norwegian Directorate of eHealth (Norway), and Croatian Institute of Public Health (Croatia).
A Higgs boson near 125 GeV with enhanced di-photon signal in the NMSSM
Creators: name: Ellwanger, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A natural region in the parameter space of the NMSSM can accomodate a CP-even Higgs boson with a mass of about 125 GeV and, simultaneously, an enhanced cross section times branching ratio in the di-photon channel. This happens in the case of strong singlet-doublet mixing, when the partial width of a 125 GeV Higgs boson into bb is strongly reduced. In this case, a second lighter CP-even Higgs boson is potentially also observable at the LHC.
description: 10pages, 2 Figures, comments on the values of the parameters at the GUT scale added. Accepted for publication in JHEP
Validation of the Rapid MEDTOXScan Drug Screening Method for Emergency Department Patients Presenting at Satellite Hospitals
Creators: name: Tran, Ngoc; Blick, Ken
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: MedTox
validation
Drug screening

description: Objective: While rapid drug screening is routinely available in large medical center core laboratories, satellite hospitals must rely on accurate point-of-care (POC) drug screening methods for emergency department (ED) patients. However, with adoption of such drug screening methods, care must be taken to ensure that results obtained correlate closely with those observed in the core laboratory. Indeed, due to variations in methodologies, cross-reactivities, and cutoffs, a clear understanding of the degree of agreement between POC testing and core lab drug screening is essential. Hence, we present a comparison study of a rapid POC drug screen method with our existing core laboratory ultraviolet kinetic method.

Method: We examined 71 ED patient samples (351 individual drug assays) with the PROFILE®-V MEDTOXScan® Drugs of Abuse Test System (MEDTOX, Burlington, NC) a one-step, rapid, qualitative immunochromatographic test with results in 10 minutes comparing the latter with the ADVIA® 1800 Clinical Chemistry System (Siemens, Malvern, PA). Eleven drug classes were tested including amphetamine(AMP), barbiturate(BAR), benzodiazepines(BZO), cocaine(COC), methamphetamine(MAMP), opiates(OPI) including methadone(MTD) and oxycodone, phencyclidine(PCP), tricyclics(TCA), and cannabinoids(THC). Data were statistically analyzed using McNemar’s exact test.

Results: While we observed 17(4.8%) discrepant results in 351 individual drug assays, statistically there were no significant differences (p>0.05) between individual and pooled MEDTOX and ADVIA tests (see table). Also, MEDTOX appeared to be more sensitive than ADVIA for BZO, oxycodone, TCA, and MAMP. Discrepancies between methods were largely due to differences in cutoff levels with cross-reactivity differences also playing a role.

Conclusions: Rapid urine testing for drugs of abuse plays an essential role in ED patient care regardless of the hospital setting. We observed that the MEDTOX method for drug screening on ED patients seen at our satellite hospitals compares favorably with results obtained on our presumably more sophisticated ultraviolet core laboratory method.
description: https://www.2019aacc.org/abstracts/annual-meeting-abstract-archive/2015-annual-meeting-archive
Cumulative occupational physical load as a risk factor for knee osteoarthritis in men and women
Creators: name: Ezzat, Allison Mairi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Objective: To determine the association between cumulative occupational physical load (COPL) to the knee and the presence of symptomatic osteoarthritis (SOA) and magnetic resonance imaging–defined osteoarthritis (MRI-OA). Methods: Cross-sectional analyses of symptomatic and asymptomatic (n=327) individuals were performed. Inclusion criteria for the symptomatic participants were: 1) having pain, aching, or discomfort in or around the knee on most days of the month at any time in the past; 2) having any pain, aching, or discomfort in or around the knee in the past 12 months. Asymptomatic participants responded “no” to both knee pain questions. COPL was calculated using a self-reported level of activity (five levels) and participation in knee bending/kneeling tasks (three levels) for each occupation held. SOA was defined by the Kellgren Lawrence x-ray grade ≥2, plus the presence of knee pain, as defined by the study inclusion pain criteria. MRI-OA was defined using the criteria specified by Hunter and associates. Logistic regression analyses, adjusted with population weights, were used to examine the associations between COPL (reference group=the lowest COPL quarter) and the presence of SOA and MRI-OA, respectively, after controlling for age, female sex, body mass index, and two-way interactions. Results: Participants (women=167, men=160) were on average 58.5 (SD=11.0) years old with a BMI of 26.3 (SD=4.7). Of those, 102 (31.2%) participants had SOA. For SOA, a monotonic statistically significant relationship was found between COPL 4 (highest quarter; odds ratio (OR)=8.16; 95% CI=1.89, 35.27) and COPL 3 (OR=5.73; 95% CI=1.36, 24.12) versus COPL 1. For MRI-OA, monotonic and statistically significant associations were found in COPL 4 versus 1 (OR=9.54; 95% CI=2.65, 34.27); COPL 3 versus 1 (OR=9.04; 95% CI=2.65, 30.88); COPL 2 versus 1 (OR=7.18; 95% CI=2.17, 23.70). Conclusion: COPL is a significant risk factor for knee OA. Dose response relationships between COPL and both SOA and MRI-OA were found. This study provides new insight into the role of occupation in knee OA, although the results should be interpreted cautiously due to limitations associated with the cross-sectional study design.
Assessing the risk for alkalinity loss due to carbonate precipitation on particles after an ocean alkalinity enhancement operation
Creators: name: Lenc, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Climate change continues to pose a significant threat to humanity and the planet, especially with net anthropogenic CO2 emission peaking at 59 (+/- 6.6) gigatons in 2019, which was 54% high than the previous decade. Fossil fuel Emissions cumulated between 1850 to 2020 reached 455+- 25GtC of which 42% occurred from 1990 to 2019 and 17% from 2010 to 2019. The budget imbalance during this time amounted to 25GtC (Friedlingstein et al. 2022, Working Group III to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report et al. 2022). Based on global current trends (from 2015 to 2100), it is projected that the Earth’s average temperature will increase by 2.8oC by the year 2100 (Liu & Raftery 2021). There is wide agreement among scholars that achieving net zero emissions is unlikely without significant and rapid changes in our approach to mitigation. According to Liu & Raftery (2021) achieving net-zero emissions by 2030 is considered unattainable at the current levels. However, to meet this target by 2050, it has been proposed that 0.4GtC needs to be removed every year (Friedlingstein et al. 2022). Estimates show that global CO2 emissions are likely to lead to a temperature rise of over 1.5oC (Working Group III to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report et al. 2022). Achieving the target of limiting the temperature increase to 1.5oC or 2oC after 2030 remains increasingly urgent. To compensate for the necessary reduction in emissions, carbon dioxide removal mitigation will be required to compensate for necessary reduction emissions (Rogelj, Shindell, et al. 2018).
Predictors of Discordant Reports of Sexual and HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk Behaviors Among Heterosexual Couples
Creators: name: Witte, Susan S.
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Chang, Mingway P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases--Prevention
Couples--Sexual behavior
Couples--Health and hygiene
HIV infections--Risk factors
Epidemiology

description: Objectives: Assessments undertaken as part of couple-based HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention intervention studies offer opportunities to expand our understanding of couple reporting of sexual and HIV/STI risk behavior. Increases in heterosexual transmission of HIV worldwide support more attention on the quality and use of couple-level sexual risk assessment.

Study Design: This study examined interpartner concordance of self-reported sexual behaviors and HIV/STI risk behaviors among 217 women and their main male sexual partners at high risk for HIV/STI transmission and further explored specific individual and relationship characteristics by partner gender associated with discordant reporting of sexual and HIV/STI risk behaviors.

Results: Consistent with prior studies, findings suggest fair to substantial agreement between partners on reports of most sexual and HIV/STI risk behavior, but only poor to fair agreement on reports of concurrent sexual behaviors and drug or alcohol use. Factors significantly associated with discordant reporting of sexual behaviors included length of couple relationship, level of relationship satisfaction, female partner’s marital status, and male partner’s HIV status, ethnicity, and age.

Conclusions: Individual- and relationship-level factors predicting discordant partner reports of sexual and sexual risk behaviors highlight an opportunity to improve couple assessment by anticipating such discrepancies and developing effective mechanisms of quality assurance to avoid, address, or better explain such discordance in couple data sets.
Loophole-free Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment via quantum steering
Creators: name: Wittmann, Bernhard
name: Ramelow, Sven
name: Steinlechner, Fabian
name: Langford, Nathan K.
name: Brunner, Nicolas
name: Wiseman, Howard
name: Ursin, Rupert
name: Zeilinger, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tests of the predictions of quantum mechanics for entangled systems have provided increasing evidence against local realistic theories. However, there still remains the crucial challenge of simultaneously closing all major loopholes - the locality, freedom-of-choice, and detection loopholes - in a single experiment. An important sub-class of local realistic theories can be tested with the concept of "steering". The term steering was introduced by Schrödinger in 1935 for the fact that entanglement would seem to allow an experimenter to remotely steer the state of a distant system as in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) argument. Einstein called this "spooky action at a distance". EPR-Steering has recently been rigorously formulated as a quantum information task opening it up to new experimental tests. Here, we present the first loophole-free demonstration of EPR-steering by violating three-setting quadratic steering inequality, tested with polarization entangled photons shared between two distant laboratories. Our experiment demonstrates this effect while simultaneously closing all loopholes: both the locality loophole and a specific form of the freedom-of-choice loophole are closed by having a large separation of the parties and using fast quantum random number generators, and the fair-sampling loophole is closed by having high overall detection efficiency. Thereby, we exclude - for the first time loophole-free - an important class of local realistic theories considered by EPR. As well as its foundational importance, loop-hole-free steering also allows the distribution of quantum entanglement secure from an untrusted party.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Couple-Based HIV Prevention in the United States: Advantages, Gaps, and Future Directions
Creators: name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Witte, Susan S.
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Hunt, Timothy
name: Remien, Robert Howard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Couples--Sexual behavior
HIV infections—Prevention
Epidemiology
Couples--Health and hygiene

description: This article presents an overview of couple-based HIV prevention research to date, advantages of using and core components of couple-based interventions, gaps in the current understanding of couple-based HIV prevention, status of dissemination research and the transportability of effective couple-based HIV prevention and treatment to real-world settings, and recommendations for future directions in couple-based prevention and treatment. Couple-based studies conducted among several populations—heterosexuals, men who have sex with men, and drug users—reported in the research literature were reviewed. Commonalities and limitations were noted in customary focus areas of the couple-based approaches: sexual and drug risk reduction, HIV testing behaviors, adherence to HIV treatment, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. Couple-based intervention strategies have been rigorously tested and are a valuable addition to the arsenal of HIV prevention strategies.
Immediate needs and opportunities include couple-based intervention strategies for prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among serodiscordant couples, couples who do not know their HIV status, and couples in whom both partners are HIV negative, but at risk of HIV infection. There is a particular need to develop couple-based intervention strategies for men who have sex with men and for drug-involved couples.
HealthData@EU pilot project - Deliverable 3.1 Evaluation report
Creators: name: Health Data Hub
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This Evaluation Report is a deliverable of the HealthData@EU project, due on 31 December 2024. It assesses the project's performance, evaluates its impact, and provides recommendations for future European initiatives of a similar nature.

Data for the evaluation was collected through a structured questionnaire and supplemented by semi-structured interviews. Key Performance Indicators, established at the project's outset, were used to track and measure progress across all work packages.

The report offers a comprehensive overview of the HealthData@EU pilot project, which started on 1 October 2022 with a duration of 27 months. The project brought together 17 partners from diverse sectors and countries. Its objectives were twofold:

To develop and deploy an IT infrastructure establishing a network of nodes that provides services to data users, such as streamlined data discovery, data access applications, and data usage capabilities, in collaboration with the European Commission.

To run multi-country research projects aimed at testing the feasibility of these initiatives, identifying key challenges, and gathering insights to enhance the future HealthData@EU IT infrastructure.

The evaluation covers various aspects of the project, including coordination and management, activity execution, communication and dissemination efforts, and the project's impact and sustainability. It also provides actionable recommendations for future European projects. These include enhancing project management practices, fostering stakeholder engagement, prioritizing communication and dissemination activities, adopting a flexible approach, and implementing an organizational development framework.
Prompt heavy quarkonium production in association with a massive (anti)bottom quark at the LHC
Creators: name: Gang, Li
name: ShuangTe, Wang
name: Mao, Song
name: JiPing, Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate the associated production of prompt heavy quarkonium with a massive (anti)bottom quark to leading order in the NRQCD factorization formalism at the LHC. We present numerical results for the processes involving $J/ψ,χ_{cJ},Υ$ and $χ_{bJ}$. From our work, we find that the production rates of these processes are quite large, and these processes have the potential to be detected at the LHC. When $p_T$ is smaller than about 10 GeV, the $c\bar{c} [ ^1S_0^{(8)} ]$ state give the main contribution to the $p_T$ distribution of prompt $J/ψ$ with a (anti)bottom quark production. For the process of $pp \to Υ+b(\bar{b})$, the contribution of the CSM is larger than that in the COM at low $p_T$ region. We also investigate the processes of $pp\to χ_{cJ}+b(\bar{b})$ and $pp \to χ_{bJ}+b(\bar{b})$, in these processes, the $p_T$ distribution are dominated by the CO Fock state contribution at the large $p_T$ region. These processes provide an interesting signature that could be studied at the LHC, and the measurement of these processes is useful to test the CSM and COM.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted by Phys.Rev.D
Structure of Elementary Particles: The Hypothesis of Standing Energy Waves
Creators: name: Skrynnik, Sergey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Dark matter
gravity
Antigravity
spin
baryon asymmetry
standing wave
quantization

description: This paper explores the hypothesis that elementary particles are structured as standing energy waves in space. The study discusses the relationship of this model to quantization, mass formation, gravity, and the distinction between matter and antimatter. A possible explanation for the nature of dark matter is presented through large-scale energy redistribution in the universe. Introducing this model allows for the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity theory while also resolving the problem of baryon asymmetry.

 

Данная статья рассматривает гипотезу строения элементарных частиц как стоячих волн энергии в пространстве. В работе обсуждается связь этой модели с квантованием, формированием массы, гравитацией и различием между материей и антиматерией. Описывается возможное объяснение природы тёмной материи через перераспределение энергии в масштабах Вселенной. Введение данной модели позволяет объединить представления квантовой механики и теории относительности, а также устранить проблему барионной асимметрии.
title: 10 Jahre Forschung und Lehre zur Energieraumplanung am Institut für Raumplanung an der TU Wien: Erfahrungen und Ausblick
Creators: name: Dumke, Hartmut
name: Giffinger, Rudolf
name: Weninger, Kurt
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: Energieraumplanung
Institut für Raumplanung
ERP Forschungsprojekte und -lehrveranstaltungen
Modellierungen
Serialität
Verbindlichkeit

description: Nicht erst seit 10 Jahren sind die Anforderungen an die Energiewende verschärft worden, aber seit etwa 10 Jahren ist „Energieraumplanung“ (ERP) ein wichtiger Forschungs- und Lehrschwerpunkt am Institut für Raumplanung der TU Wien geworden. Der vorliegende Artikel zeigt dazu zunächst die Konsolidierung im Verständnis der Energieraumplanung in Österreich auf und gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältige, aber auch sehr heterogene Situation im Umgang mit dem Steuerungsinstrumentarium, der Institutionalisierung und den Formen ihrer Verbindlichkeit in den Bundesländern. Danach folgt ein Überblick der wichtigsten Projekte und Lehraktivitäten zum Thema ERP seit 2011 am Institut für Raum-planung. Der Artikel schließt mit zwei Anforderungen zur verbesserten Wirksamkeit in Hinblick auf Ziele der Klimapolitik – dies vor allem aufgrund unbefriedigender Qualität und Verfügbarkeit von Grundlagendaten und bislang unzureichender Serialität und Verbindlichkeit bisheriger ERP-Erfolge.
Shell-Tempered Ware from the Frisian Coastal Area
Creators: name: Stilke, H
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 19, 11-18
description: The use of shell for temper in the early medieval period was not confined to English pottery, for a group of similar material was produced in the Frisian coastal area. This paper outlines the main features of the Frisian ware and the current state of research. It has become clear that this continental ware is essentially distinguishable from the English fabrics and has an almost separate distribution. In the wake of trade across the North Sea, however, pottery from both provenances reached some of the same trade centres, where it is particularly important to consider typological details in order to make a positive attribution.
Fractional topological superconductors with fractionalized Majorana fermions
Creators: name: Vaezi, Abolhassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce a two-dimensional fractional topological superconductor (FTSC) as a strongly correlated topological state which can be achieved by inducing superconductivity into an Abelian fractional quantum Hall state, through the proximity effect. When the proximity coupling is weak, the FTSC has the same topological order as its parent state and is thus Abelian. However, upon increasing the proximity coupling, the bulk gap of such an Abelian FTSC closes and reopens resulting in a new topological order: a non-Abelian FTSC. Using several arguments we will conjecture that the conformal field theory (CFT) that describes the edge state of the non-Abelian FTSC is $U(1)/Z_2$ orbifold theory and use this to write down the ground-state wave function. Further, we predict FTSC based on the Laughlin state at $ν=1/m$ filling to host fractionalized Majorana zero modes bound to superconducting vortices. These zero modes are non-Abelian quasiparticles which is evident in their quantum dimension of $d_m=\sqrt{2m}$. Using the multi-quasi-particle wave function based on the edge CFT, we derive the projective braid matrix for the zero modes. Finally, the connection between the non-Abelian FTSCs and the $Z_{2m}$ rotor model with a similar topological order is illustrated.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
title: Datenlandschaft der Energieraumplanung – eine Standortbestimmung
Creators: name: Kalasek, Robert
name: Pühringer, Florian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: Datengrundlagen
Datenqualität
Informationsaustausch
Räumliche Analyse

description: Räumliche differenzierte und treffsichere Entscheidungen im Bereich der Energieraumplanung benötigen als Fundament inhaltlich adäquate und räumlich hoch aufgelöste Informationsgrundlagen. Die Anforderungen an den Detaillierungsgrad hängen von der Maßstabsebene des Tätigkeitsfeldes ab. Auf Basis der Erfahrungen aus mehreren Forschungsprojekten werden die Ansprüche an Datengrundlagen und Datenqualität der unterschiedlichen Akteure im Prozess von der (Energie-)Raumplanung über den Bau bis zum Betrieb von Gebäuden reflektiert. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auch auf dem Aspekt des Informationsaustausches zwischen den unterschiedlichen Themenfeldern und Rollen der im Prozess auftretenden Akteuren wie der öffentlichen Verwaltung oder Unternehmen aus dem privaten Sektor. Dabei wird die Bedeutung des themenspezifischen Detaillierungsgrades, der räumlichen Granularität sowie der Aktualität der Informationsgrundlagen deutlich. Die Anforderungen einer evidenzbasierten und effektiven Energieraumplanung an die Datenqualität werden als hoch eingeschätzt, während die derzeit bestehende Verfügbarkeit und Qualität aktueller Daten sehr kritisch beurteilt wird.
Standing waves of energy density and particle structure
Creators: name: Skrynnik, Sergey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Elementary particles
Элементарные частицы
standing waves
стоячие волны
energy density
плотность энергии
charge
заряд
mass
масса
tempo
темп
electromagnetic waves
электромагнитные волны
quarks
кварки
proton
протон
electron
электрон
positron
позитрон
antimatter
антиматерия
wave model
волновая модель

description: This paper explores the hypothesis that elementary particles can be represented as standing waves of energy density. A mechanism linking electric charge to the characteristics of these waves is proposed, along with an explanation of mass and tempo (the inverse of velocity). The relationship between particle structure and properties such as charge and mass is substantiated, and an interpretation of quarks as half-waves of energy density variation is presented. A model is discussed in which electrons and positrons, as well as protons and antiprotons, can be explained through wave processes. The study offers an alternative perspective on the structure of matter, integrating principles of quantum mechanics and relativity theory.

 

В данной работе рассматривается гипотеза, согласно которой элементарные частицы могут быть представлены как стоячие волны плотности энергии. Предложен механизм связи электрического заряда с характеристиками этих волн, а также объясняется природа массы и темпа (величины, обратной скорости). Обоснована связь структуры частиц с их свойствами, такими как заряд и масса, а также представлена интерпретация кварков как полуволн изменения плотности энергии. Рассматривается модель, в которой электрон и позитрон, а также протон и антипротон могут быть объяснены через волновые процессы. Работа предлагает альтернативный взгляд на строение материи, объединяющий свойства квантовой механики и теории относительности.
Limit theorems for long memory stochastic volatility models with infinite variance: Partial Sums and Sample Covariances
Creators: name: Kulik, Rafal
name: Soulier, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Long Memory Stochastic volatility (LMSV) models capture two standardized features of financial data: the log-returns are uncorrelated, but their squares, or absolute values are (highly) dependent and they may have heavy tails. EGARCH and related models were introduced to model leverage, i.e. negative dependence between previous returns and future volatility. Limit theorems for partial sums, sample variance and sample covariances are basic tools to investigate the presence of long memory and heavy tails and their consequences. In this paper we extend the existing literature on the asymptotic behaviour of the partial sums and the sample covariances of long memory stochastic volatility models in the case of infinite variance. We also consider models with leverage, for which our results are entirely new in the infinite variance case. Depending on the nterplay between the tail behaviour and the intensity of dependence, wo types of convergence rates and limiting distributions can arise. In articular, we show that the asymptotic behaviour of partial sums is the same for both LMSV and models with leverage, whereas there is a crucial difference when sample covariances are considered.
Lack of Awareness of Partner STD Risk Among Heterosexual Couples
Creators: name: Witte, Susan S.
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Chang, Mingway P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases--Prevention
Non-monogamous relationships
Risk-taking (Psychology)
Sexual health
Couples--Health and hygiene

description: CONTEXT: Individuals’ accurate assessment of their exposure to the risk of HIV and other STDs requires awareness of their sexual partners’ risk behaviors and disease status.

METHODS: In a sample of 217 couples enrolled in a risk intervention trial in 1997–2002, both partners reported on their own risk behaviors and their perceptions of their partner's behavior; concordance of partners’ reports was examined using kappa statistics. Individual and relationship characteristics predicting lack of awareness of a partner's risk behavior were explored using multivariate logistic regression.

RESULTS: Three percent of women and 14% of men were unaware that their partner had recently had a concurrent partner. Eleven percent and 12%, respectively, were unaware that their partner had ever injected drugs; 10% and 12% were unaware that their partner had recently received an STD diagnosis; and 2% and 4% were unaware that their partner was HIV‐positive. Women's lack of awareness of partner risk was associated with increasing age (odds ratio, 1.1), being of a race or ethnicity other than black or Latina (15.8) and having a Latino partner (3.7); it was positively associated with a man's report that he was married (4.4) and with relationship satisfaction as reported by both the woman and her partner (1.2 for each). Among men, lack of awareness was positively associated with partner's age (1.1) and with having a partner who was formerly married (8.2).

CONCLUSIONS: Couple‐based interventions that assess each partner's awareness of the other's risk behavior may help programs better target couples’ STD prevention needs.
Nonlocal dielectric response of water
Creators: name: Badali, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Water, possessing a permanent dipolar moment, generates a peculiar potential of mean force between solvated ions, the investigation of which is the goal of this thesis. Other authors have observed overscreening between two charges in water, leading to attractive regimes in otherwise repulsive potentials, and vice versa. In this thesis, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of Extended Simple Point Charge (SPC/E) water are used to generate a nonlocal dielectric function that matches with other computational and experimental results from literature. Nonlocality means the consideration of the orientation of neighbouring water molecules when finding the displacement field caused by an electric field. Specifically, instead of the displacement field at a given point depending only on the electric field at that point, with nonlocality the displacement field involves an integral of the electric field over all space. To compare to this nonlocal dielectric function derived from simulations of only water, simulations of water with ions are performed. Simulations of two ions in water demonstrate the existence of nonlocality, also in agreement with current scientific understanding. Further, simulations of three ions show that the effective mean force in more complicated systems is not simply a summation of pair-wise forces but instead must account for multi-body effects.
Additional file 1 of Determination of adrenal hypersecretion in primary Aldosteronism without aldosterone-production adenomas
Creators: name: Sun, Fang
name: Hong, Yangning
name: Zhang, Hexuan
name: Liu, Xiaoli
name: Zhao, Zhigang
name: He, Hongbo
name: Yan, Zhencheng
name: Zhu, Zhiming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1.Comparison of different clinical prediction scores in PA patients with and without ARR greater than 10 after confirmatory test.
Peanuts and prestige on the Peruvian North Coast : the archaeology of peanuts at Huaca Gallinazo (V-59) and Huaca Santa Clara (V-67).
Creators: name: Masur, Lindi Jaclyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis explores the role that a single species of plant, the peanut (Arachis hypogaea), played in pre-Hispanic North Coast communities of the Andes. Through a literature review of ethnohistoric accounts, Moche iconographic interpretation, and nutritional analysis, I explore the symbolic importance of the peanut, as well as other special properties that may have contributed to peanuts’ luxury status in the pre-Hispanic North Coast. This study documents the peanut’s use not only as a comestible, but also as a prestige good used in competitive feasts and for veneration of the dead. I show how the peanut was used both practically and symbolically in order to create and reify status differences between elites and commoners, and how this trend extends into the South Coast. Finally, I provide evidence for peanuts’ prestige association through a case study of the archaeobotanical remains from Huaca Gallinazo (V-59) and Huaca Santa Clara (V-67), two important Early Intermediate Period sites located in the Virú Valley and that were part of the Virú polity.
Ranking hubs and authorities using matrix functions
Creators: name: Benzi, Michele
name: Estrada, Ernesto
name: Klymko, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05C50, 15A16, 65F60, 90B10

description: The notions of subgraph centrality and communicability, based on the exponential of the adjacency matrix of the underlying graph, have been effectively used in the analysis of undirected networks. In this paper we propose an extension of these measures to directed networks, and we apply them to the problem of ranking hubs and authorities. The extension is achieved by bipartization, i.e., the directed network is mapped onto a bipartite undirected network with twice as many nodes in order to obtain a network with a symmetric adjacency matrix. We explicitly determine the exponential of this adjacency matrix in terms of the adjacency matrix of the original, directed network, and we give an interpretation of centrality and communicability in this new context, leading to a technique for ranking hubs and authorities. The matrix exponential method for computing hubs and authorities is compared to the well known HITS algorithm, both on small artificial examples and on more realistic real-world networks. A few other ranking algorithms are also discussed and compared with our technique. The use of Gaussian quadrature rules for calculating hub and authority scores is discussed.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures
Enhanced entrainability of genetic oscillators by period mismatch
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Yoshihiko
name: Arita, Masanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Biological oscillators coordinate individual cellular components so that they function coherently and collectively. They are typically composed of multiple feedback loops, and period mismatch is unavoidable in biological implementations. We investigated the advantageous effect of this period mismatch in terms of a synchronization response to external stimuli. Specifically, we considered two fundamental models of genetic circuits: smooth- and relaxation oscillators. Using phase reduction and Floquet multipliers, we numerically analyzed their entrainability under different coupling strengths and period ratios. We found that a period mismatch induces better entrainment in both types of oscillator; the enhancement occurs in the vicinity of the bifurcation on their limit cycles. In the smooth oscillator, the optimal period ratio for the enhancement coincides with the experimentally observed ratio, which suggests biological exploitation of the period mismatch. Although the origin of multiple feedback loops is often explained as a passive mechanism to ensure robustness against perturbation, we study the active benefits of the period mismatch, which include increasing the efficiency of the genetic oscillators. Our findings show a qualitatively different perspective for both the inherent advantages of multiple loops and their essentiality.
description: 28 pages, 13 figures
A Map of the Brazilian Stock Market
Creators: name: Junior, Leonidas Sandoval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We use the correlation matrix of stocks returns in order to create maps of the São Paulo Stock Exchange (BM&F-Bovespa), Brazil's main stock exchange. The data reffer to the year 2010, and the correlations between stock returns lead to the construction of a minimum spanning tree and of asset graphs with a variety of threshold values. The results are analised using techniques of network theory.
Couple-Based HIV Prevention for Low-Income Drug Users From New York City: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Dual Risks
Creators: name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Gilbert, Louisa
name: Wu, Elwin
name: Witte, Susan S.
name: Chang, Mingway P.
name: Hill, Jennifer
name: Remien, Robert Howard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: HIV infections—Prevention
Intravenous drug abusers
Poor
Couples--Health and hygiene

description: Objective: Dual threats of injection drug use and risky sexual practices continue to increase transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted Infections (STIs) among drug-using couples in low-income communities in the United States. Two hypotheses were tested: (1) “intervention effect”—whether the HIV risk-reduction intervention provided to the couple or individual partners would be more efficacious in decreasing number of unprotected sexual acts and having a lower cumulative incidence of biologically confirmed STIs over the 12-month follow-up period compared with the attention control condition; and (2) “modality effect”—whether the HIV risk-reduction intervention would be more likely to decrease the number of unprotected sexual acts and have a lower cumulative STI incidence when delivered to a couple compared with the same intervention delivered to an individual.

Design: Using a randomized controlled trial, 282 HIV-negative drug-using couples (564 individuals) were randomly assigned to receive either of the following: (1) couple-based risk reduction; (2) individual-based HIV risk reduction, or (3) couple-based wellness promotion, which served as an attention control condition.

Results: Over 12-month follow-up, there was a 30% reduction in the incidence rate of unprotected acts of intercourse with the study partners compared with participants in the attention control arm. Moreover, over 12-month follow-up there was a 29% reduction in the same outcome in the couple arm compared with the individual arm with a 41% reduction at the 12-month follow-up.

Conclusion: A couple-based approach that addresses drug and sexual risks and targets low-income active drug users may help curb the HIV epidemic.
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide identification and analysis of bZIP gene family reveal their roles during development and drought stress in Wheel Wingnut (Cyclocarya paliurus)
Creators: name: Tao, Yu-Tian
name: Chen, Lu-Xi
name: Jin, Jie
name: Du, Zhao-Kui
name: Li, Jun-Min
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Molecular weight (kDa) vs. isoelectric point for CpbZIP genes.