cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence
Creators: name: Scully, Richard
name: Quartly, Marian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210305 British History
subject: 190599 Visual Arts and Crafts not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Art
subject: 210302 Asian History

description: Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence brings together essays from international scholars working with cartoons in their research and teaching. It is a showcase for some of the best recent scholarship in this field, with articles exploring racial and ethnic stereotypes, as well as representations of youth, gender and class across a number of key historical epochs. Cartoons are among the most vivid and familiar images of past politics and opinion, but tend to be used merely as ‘illustrations’ for historical works. Drawing the Line, however, provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of cartoons as sources in their own right. The British Regency Crisis, post-Civil War US politics, Anglo-Iraqi interaction in the Second World War, and Yugoslav Communist propaganda are just some of the themes through which the effective use of cartoons in historical writing is explored. Readers will also find guidance and suggestions for further research on cartoons in the extensive introductory and concluding sections. The book includes more than one hundred examples of the most brilliant cartoon art of the past, from eighteenth-century satirical prints, to the formalised satire of Punch, to the new and ever-evolving medium of webcomics. It will be an essential resource for students and teachers wanting to explore visual representations of the past, and will appeal to all readers interested in innovative ways of writing history.
[Brev til DKNVS]
Creators: name: Den Hjelmstjerne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse. Directionen
name: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1858

description: Vedrørende stiftelsen
description: Div. datoer 1858. Polydoc nr. 1: 681.
Additional file 2 of Saccharide analysis of onion outer epidermal walls
Creators: name: Wilson, Liza A.
name: Deligey, Fabien
name: Wang, Tuo
name: Cosgrove, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Procedures for spectral deconvolution.
Predicting Clinical Diagnosis from Patients Electronic Health Records Using BERT-based Neural Networks
Creators: name: Blinov, Pavel
name: Avetisian, Manvel
name: Kokh, Vladimir
name: Umerenkov, Dmitry
name: Tuzhilin, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we study the problem of predicting clinical diagnoses from textual Electronic Health Records (EHR) data. We show the importance of this problem in medical community and present comprehensive historical review of the problem and proposed methods. As the main scientific contributions we present a modification of Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model for sequence classification that implements a novel way of Fully-Connected (FC) layer composition and a BERT model pretrained only on domain data. To empirically validate our model, we use a large-scale Russian EHR dataset consisting of about 4 million unique patient visits. This is the largest such study for the Russian language and one of the largest globally. We performed a number of comparative experiments with other text representation models on the task of multiclass classification for 265 disease subset of ICD-10. The experiments demonstrate improved performance of our models compared to other baselines, including a fine-tuned Russian BERT (RuBERT) variant. We also show comparable performance of our model with a panel of experienced medical experts. This allows us to hope that implementation of this system will reduce misdiagnosis.
description: To be published in the proceedings of 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Minneapolis MN, USA
Learning Part Boundaries from 3D Point Clouds
Creators: name: Loizou, Marios
name: Averkiou, Melinos
name: Kalogerakis, Evangelos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a method that detects boundaries of parts in 3D shapes represented as point clouds. Our method is based on a graph convolutional network architecture that outputs a probability for a point to lie in an area that separates two or more parts in a 3D shape. Our boundary detector is quite generic: it can be trained to localize boundaries of semantic parts or geometric primitives commonly used in 3D modeling. Our experiments demonstrate that our method can extract more accurate boundaries that are closer to ground-truth ones compared to alternatives. We also demonstrate an application of our network to fine-grained semantic shape segmentation, where we also show improvements in terms of part labeling performance.
description: Appeared in Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2020
The Advantage of Cooperatives under Asymmetric Cost Information
Creators: name: Bogetoft, Peter
name: Jensen, Peter Max Friis
name: Olsen, Rene H.
name: Bogetoft, Peter
name: Jensen, Peter Max Friis
name: Olsen, Rene H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: economics of cooperatives
subject: asymmetric information
subject: incentives

description: We consider how to organize the processing and marketing of an agricultural product when farming costs are known only by the individual farmers. We show that when marginal costs are un-correlated and the market for final goods is competitive, the socially optimal production levels may be sustained by a cooperative and a cooperative only. We show also that the cooperative form is particularly useful when the uncertainty is large and the net revenue product is small.
Tensor charge and anomalous magnetic moment correlation
Creators: name: Mekhfi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a generalization of the upgraded Karl- Sehgal formula which relates baryon magnetic moments to the spin structure of constituent quarks, by adding anomalous magnetic moments of quarks. We first argue that relativistic nature of quarks inside baryons requires introduction of two kinds of magnetisms, one axial and the other tensoriel. The first one is associated with integrated quark helicity distributions (standard) and the second with integrated transversity distributions . The weight of each contribution is controlled by the combination of two parameters, xi the ratio of the quark mass to the average kinetic energy Ei and ai the quark anomalous magnetic moment. The quark anomalous magnetic moment is correlated to transversity and both are necessary ingredients in describing relativistic quarks. The proposed formula, then when confronted with baryon magnetic moments data with reasonable inputs, yields beside quark magnetic densities, anomalous magnetic moments enough large to not be ignored.
description: 26 pages, PDF format only
title: Harnessing borane-potassium cooperativity for sulfurated ring-opening copolymerisation
Creators: name: Manjunatha, Bhargav R.
name: Marcus, Kailey Sun
name: Gomila, Rosa M.
name: Frontera, Antonio
name: Plajer, Alex J.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: sulfur-containing polymers
subject: ring-opening copolymerization
subject: sustainable materials
classificationCode: 540
subject: Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Sulfur-containing polymers, such as thioesters and thiocarbonates, can exhibit improved thermal properties and degradability compared to their all-oxygen analogues, yet their synthesis remains challenging. In this respect, ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) offers access to sulfur-containing polymers; however, the catalysts used for this process often rely on toxic, expensive or synthetically complex components. Here, we demonstrate that combining commercial borane Lewis acids with easily accessible potassium acetate crown ether complexes highly selectively mediates the ring-opening copolymerization of oxetanes with a wide range of sulfur-containing monomers. Mechanistic investigations clearly indicate a cooperative mode of action between boron and potassium, yielding high-melting, semicrystalline materials that exhibit improved thermal stability compared to those generated via chromium catalysis. Our study establishes new concepts in cooperative catalysis to produce sustainable materials that are otherwise difficult to access.
title: Leveraging large language models for data analysis automation
Creators: name: Jansen, Jacqueline A.
name: Manukyan, Artur
name: Al Khoury, Nour
name: Akalin, Altuna
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Data visualization
subject: Genome complexity
classificationCode: 004
subject: Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: Data analysis is constrained by a shortage of skilled experts, particularly in biology, where detailed data analysis and subsequent interpretation is vital for understanding complex biological processes and developing new treatments and diagnostics. One possible solution to this shortage in experts would be making use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating data analysis pipelines. However, although LLMs have shown great potential when used for code generation tasks, questions regarding the accuracy of LLMs when prompted with domain expert questions such as omics related data analysis questions, remain unanswered. To address this, we developed mergen, an R package that leverages LLMs for data analysis code generation and execution. We evaluated the performance of this data analysis system using various data analysis tasks for genomics. Our primary goal is to enable researchers to conduct data analysis by simply describing their objectives and the desired analyses for specific datasets through clear text. Our approach improves code generation via specialized prompt engineering and error feedback mechanisms. In addition, our system can execute the data analysis workflows prescribed by the LLM providing the results of the data analysis workflow for human review. Our evaluation of this system reveals that while LLMs effectively generate code for some data analysis tasks, challenges remain in executable code generation, especially for complex data analysis tasks. The best performance was seen with the self-correction mechanism, in which self-correct was able to increase the percentage of executable code when compared to the simple strategy by 22.5% for tasks of complexity 2. For tasks for complexity 3, 4 and 5, this increase was 52.5%, 27.5% and 15% respectively. Using a chi-squared test, it was shown that significant differences could be found using the different prompting strategies. Our study contributes to a better understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations, providing software infrastructure and practical insights for their effective integration into data analysis workflows.
Systematic and intuitive approach for separation of variables in the Dirac equation for a class of noncentral electromagnetic potentials
Creators: name: Alhaidari, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence such that the Dirac equation is separable in all coordinates. We obtain exact solutions for the case where the potential satisfies the Lorentz gauge fixing condition and its time component is the Coulomb potential. The relativistic energy spectrum and corresponding spinor wavefunctions are obtained. The Aharonov-Bohm and magnetic monopole potentials are included in these solutions. The conventional relativistic units, $\hbar$ = c = 1, are used.
description: This is a modified version of the manuscript hep-th/0501004 rewritten in the conventional relativistic units, $\hbar$ = c = 1. Consequently, most of the equations and all results that were previously written in the atomic units $\hbar$ = m =1, are now reformulated in the new units
title: Unlocking New Frontiers: Photo-Isomerism and Magnetic Properties in Multifunctional Hetero-Tetra-Metallic Complexes
Creators: name: Suzana, Ingrid
name: Forté, Jérémy
name: Pillet, Sébastien
name: Bendeif, El-Eulmi
name: Malischewski, Moritz
name: Marvaud, Valérie
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Hetero-poly-metallic
subject: Multifunctionality
subject: High-Spin molecules
subject: Single-molecule magnet
subject: Photo-isomerism
classificationCode: 540
subject: Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Hetero-tetra-metallic complexes, FeNOCuLnCo (Ln=Gd, Tb, Dy), combining magnetic properties and photo-isomerism, were obtained through the rational assembly of the photo-switching nitroprusside anion FeNO with new magnetic Schiff base CuLnCo precursors. Herein, we describe the synthesis and characterisation of these compounds followed by a demonstration of their multifunctional character. Particularly noteworthy is the FeNOCuTbCo complex which is one of the few examples of a photo-isomerisable SMM.
Quantum automorphism groups of vertex-transitive graphs of order $\leq 11$
Creators: name: Banica, Teodor
name: Bichon, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W30 ; 05C25

description: We study quantum automorphism groups of vertex-transitive graphs having less than 11 vertices. With one possible exception, these can be obtained from cyclic groups ${\mathbb Z}_n$, symmetric groups $S_n$ and quantum symmetric groups $\mathcal Q_n$, by using various product operations. The exceptional case is that of the Petersen graph, and we present some questions about it.
description: 20 pages, final version
title: Enhanced and idiosyncratic neural representations of personally typical scenes
Creators: name: Wang, Gongting
name: Chen, Lixiang
name: Cichy, Radoslaw Martin
name: Kaiser, Daniel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: scene perception
subject: typicality
subject: individual differences
subject: drawing
subject: electroencephalography
subject: deep neural networks
classificationCode: 150
subject: Psychologie

description: Previous research shows that the typicality of visual scenes (i.e. if they are good examples of a category) determines how easily they can be perceived and represented in the brain. However, the unique visual diets individuals are exposed to across their lifetimes should sculpt very personal notions of typicality. Here, we thus investigated whether scenes that are more typical to individual observers are more accurately perceived and represented in the brain. We used drawings to enable participants to describe typical scenes (e.g. a kitchen) and converted these drawings into three-dimensional renders. These renders were used as stimuli in a scene categorization task, during which we recorded electroencephalography (EEG). In line with previous findings, categorization was most accurate for renders resembling the typical scene drawings of individual participants. Our EEG analyses reveal two critical insights on how these individual differences emerge on the neural level. First, personally typical scenes yielded enhanced neural representations from around 200 ms after onset. Second, personally typical scenes were represented in idiosyncratic ways, with reduced dependence on high-level visual features. We interpret these findings in a predictive processing framework, where individual differences in internal models of scene categories formed through experience shape visual analysis in idiosyncratic ways.
The Dynamics of Brane-World Cosmological Models
Creators: name: Coley, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Brane-world cosmology is motivated by recent developments in string/M-theory and offers a new perspective on the hierarchy problem. In the brane-world scenario, our Universe is a four-dimensional subspace or {\em brane} embedded in a higher-dimensional {\em bulk} spacetime. Ordinary matter fields are confined to the brane while the gravitational field can also propagate in the bulk, leading to modifications of Einstein's theory of general relativity at high energies. In particular, the Randall-Sundrum-type models are self-consistent and simple and allow for an investigation of the essential non-linear gravitational dynamics. The governing field equations induced on the brane differ from the general relativistic equations in that there are nonlocal effects from the free gravitational field in the bulk, transmitted via the projection of the bulk Weyl tensor, and the local quadratic energy-momentum corrections, which are significant in the high-energy regime close to the initial singularity. In this review we discuss the asymptotic dynamical evolution of spatially homogeneous brane-world cosmological models containing both a perfect fluid and a scalar field close to the initial singularity. Using dynamical systems techniques it is found that, for models with a physically relevant equation of state, an isotropic singularity is a past-attractor in all orthogonal spatially homogeneous models (including Bianchi type IX models). In addition, we describe the dynamics in a class of inhomogeneous brane-world models, and show that these models also have an isotropic initial singularity. These results provide support for the conjecture that typically the initial cosmological singularity is isotropic in brane-world cosmology.
description: Einstein Centennial Review Article: to appear in CJP
Additional file 3 of Saccharide analysis of onion outer epidermal walls
Creators: name: Wilson, Liza A.
name: Deligey, Fabien
name: Wang, Tuo
name: Cosgrove, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Parameters used for the fit of 13C MultiCP spectrum in Fig. 3b, c. The relatively well resolved resonances (underlined) are used for estimating polysaccharide composition.
The Distribution of Dark Matter in Spirals
Creators: name: Salucci, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the past years a wealth of observations allowed to unravel the structural properties of the Dark Matter Halos around spirals. First, their rotation curves follow an Universal profile (URC) that can be described in terms of an exponential thin stellar disk and a dark halo with a constant density core, whose relative importance increases with galaxy luminosity. Careful studies of individual objects reveal that dark halos have a core, whose size $r_0$ correlates with the central density $ρ_0$. These properties are in serious discrepancy with the cuspy density distribution predicted by N-body simulations in collisionless $Λ$CDM Cosmology.
description: 6 pages, 5 Fig. Invited Talk at 21st IAP Colloquium." Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures", 4-9 July 2005
Strategic Choice of Domestic Environmental Policy Instrument and International Emissions Trading Scheme in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition
Creators: name: Boom, Jan Tjeerd
name: Boom, Jan Tjeerd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmental policy
subject: emissions trading
subject: credit trading
subject: international trade
subject: imperfect competition
subject: strategic behavior

description: This paper presents a model of imperfect international competition. Within this framework, the optimal choice of national environmental policy instrument and international emissions trading scheme is discussed. The choice of national instrument is restricted to absolute and relative standards, which form the basis for permit and credit trading respectively. It is shown that relatives standards and credit trading lead to higher output than emission ceilings and permit trading. I find that governments want to increase production beyond the level reached with emission ceilings and therefore prefer relative standards. Furthermore, international emissions trading is only optimal when the country imports emission quotas, and in several cases, governments will choose not to allow international emissions trading.
Additional file 4 of Saccharide analysis of onion outer epidermal walls
Creators: name: Wilson, Liza A.
name: Deligey, Fabien
name: Wang, Tuo
name: Cosgrove, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S3. Molecular composition derived from 13C MultiCP spectrum in Fig. 3b, c. The relatively well resolved resonances (underlined) are used for estimating polysaccharide composition. Carbohydrate peaks account for 85% of total intensity and lipid polymers account for 15% of all carbons.
Systembeskrivelse af bedriftsdelen i KRAM
Creators: name: Risager, Klaus
name: Risager, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: CRAM is an aggregate holding based sector model of Danish agriculture. The model is developed at Unit of Economics (now dissolved) at KVL. The purpose of CRAM is to analyse how Danish agriculture reacts to various socio-political measures. CRAM describes Danish agriculture for every year over a ten year period. The model is made up of a series of sub-models, sketched in Figure ref.: MODELOPBYGNING. The submodels can be divided into two parts. One part consists of three sub-models; a farm animal, a crop and a sector sub-model. These three sub-models together make up that part of CRAM describing the internal relations for the agricultural holdings and the trading between the holdings. Therefore the three sub-models are referred to as one as the holding part in this paper. The other part consists of the market, the price and the investment structure of the sub-model. The latter three sub-models are solved between each of the ten years CRAM simulates. Therefore this part in the following is referred to as the middle period part of CRAM. The mutual connection between the sub-models to the middle period part is not further described in the paper. Instead the paper offers a detailed description of the connections between respectively the crop sub-model, the livestock sub-model and the sector submodel in CRAM. The purpose of the paper is to provide an understanding of the systematic correlation between the sub-models in the holding part of CRAM. The link between the sub-models is described, and a sketch of the respective exogenous and endogenous variables is outlined, which enters into the sub-models. An account is given of, which sub-models the variables enter into as endogenous variables (dependent variables), and which they are exogenous variables (independent variables) to. In connection to the choice of model type adhered to, other types advanced in agriculture all round the world are considered. Amongst others we could mention the Danish sector model ESMERALDA237, an econometric regionalised sector model in Danish agriculture. In respect of various types of mathematical programming models there are the Canadian sector model CRAM119, the Swedish sector model SASM120, the Dutch sector model DRAM118 and the Danish model FASSET130.
Some Empirical Evidence on the Impact of Measurement Errors in Making Ecological Inferences
Creators: name: Cho, Wendy K.
name: Judge, George G.
name: Cho, Wendy K.
name: Judge, George G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: ecological inference
subject: maximum entropy
subject: voting rights

description: We seek to identify the impact of data measurement error problems in the context of ecological inference applications. We explore the statistical and substantive implications of using inaccurate proxy variables in the estimation and inference process. The focus of our analysis is on applications of ecological inference in cases involving the Voting Rights Act. We demonstrate our findings with a unique data set on racial registration and turnout in Louisiana and South Carolina.
ESTIMATING THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF FIRMS USING GOVERNMENT SUMMARY STATISTICS
Creators: name: Golan, Amos
name: Judge, George G.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Golan, Amos
name: Judge, George G.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Using a maximum entropy technique, we estimate the market shares of each firm in an industry using the available government summary statistics such as the four-firm concentration ratio (C4) and the Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index (HHI). We show that our technique is very effective in estimating the distribution of market shares in 20 industries. Our results provide support for the recent practice of using HHI rather than C4 as the key explanatory variable in many market power studies, if only one measure is to be used.
The Environmental Impacts of Subsidized Crop Insurance
Creators: name: LaFrance, Jeffrey T.
name: Shimshack, Jay P.
name: Wu, Steven Y.
name: LaFrance, Jeffrey T.
name: Shimshack, Jay P.
name: Wu, Steven Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: A partial equilibrium model of stochastic crop production is used to analyze the environmental impacts of popular subsidized crop insurance programs. Land use is unchanged only when an actuarially fair, perfectly separating insurance contract is offered. For the more typical pooling equilibrium contracts, however, land with a minimum quality that is strictly lower than the minimum quality without insurance will be added to production. In such cases, the environment will be adversely effected. If economically marginal land is also environmentally marginal, pooling crop insurance policies disproportionately contribute to the degradation of the environment. Popular subsidies merely exacerbate the problem.
Additional file 5 of Saccharide analysis of onion outer epidermal walls
Creators: name: Wilson, Liza A.
name: Deligey, Fabien
name: Wang, Tuo
name: Cosgrove, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S1. MultiCP integration models.
Binary Disruption by Massive Black Holes in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Pfahl, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A massive (~10^2-10^4 Msun) black hole at the center of a globular cluster will tidally disrupt binaries that pass sufficiently close. Such an encounter results in the capture of one binary component by the black hole and ejection of the other star. A 10^3 Msun black hole disrupts one binary every 1-10 Myr; captured stars orbit with initial periods of days to decades. Although >~100 stars are captured in only 1 Gyr, the number with periods of <10 yr at any one time is probably less than 10, regulated by stellar interactions and tidal disruption by the black hole. Binary disruption and stellar capture should be critically examined with detailed numerical simulations, in order to corroborate the analytic results given here and to weigh possible observational consequences.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, Accepted by ApJ, minor corrections
The effect of nursery cultural and handling techniques on Douglas-Fir seedling quality
Creators: name: Turner, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study investigated the effects of nursery cultural regime on the quality of coastal Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco var. menziesii) container seedlings. Douglas-Fir seedlings from Oregon and Vancouver Island provenances (i.e. populations) were lifted in the 1999/2000 winter on four dates, subjected to four cold storage lengths at a temperature of -2°C or +1°C, and thawed (-2°C storage only) for one or three weeks. The three-week thawing period decreased root growth capacity and chlorophyll fluorescence measures of initial survival potential below their quality thresholds. Degree-days to terminal bud break decreased with the later lift dates, longer storage lengths, and the longer thaw duration. Field survival and growth were high for all treatments tested. Only chlorophyll fluorescence was correlated with a field performance measure (relative height increment). Up to four blackout treatments that started on one of three dates in the summer of 2000 with 10 or 20 days between multiple blackouts were tested on Douglas-Fir seedlings from a Washington provenance. A Vancouver Island provenance, given a blackout dormancy induction regime commonly used at Pelton Reforestation, was also included for comparison. Increasing the number of blackout treatments resulted in lower caliper increment, lower days to terminal bud break in winter, and higher cold hardiness on October 12. Early blackout start dates decreased the overall height increment and root growth capacity. The Vancouver Island provenance developed cold hardiness later in the fall and lost cold hardiness sooner in early spring than did the Washington provenance. The normal lift/cold storage regime used by the nurseries does not adversely affect seedling quality. However, an extended thawing period upon cold storage removal or extended on-site storage is detrimental to seedling quality. Although measures of initial survival potential and dormancy were correlated with each other, only a weak correlation was found between initial survival potential and field performance under the field conditions in this study. Blackout regimes commonly used by British Columbia nurseries can decrease the RGC in late fall, cause quicker dormancy release and decrease the caliper.
Digital Divas: Putting the Wow into Computing for Girls
Creators: name: Fisher, Julie
name: Lang, Catherine
name: Craig, Annemieke
name: Forgasz, Helen
name: McLeod, Amber
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Humanities
subject: Education
subject: 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: 130308 Gender, Sexuality and Education

description: As is well documented, there is a distinct under-representation of girls studying computing at high school level and, correspondingly, going on to have careers in IT. To address this problem, in 2007 the authors of this book, with backgrounds in secondary teaching or IT, trialled a new and revolutionary program in schools: ‘Digital Divas’. Based on the idea that it was possible to change girls’ perceptions of IT careers with educationally sound materials that tapped into their interests, and that were delivered in all-girl classes within the school curriculum, the Digital Divas program was a great success. In Digital Divas: Putting the Wow into Computing for Girls, Fischer, Lang, Craig and Forgasz recount what they did and how they did it, and reflect on the significance of this program, which has indisputably led to an increased self-sufficiency with IT amongst girls, challenged stereotyped understandings of IT as a male activity, and increased the pursuit of IT careers by young women.
Creativity Crisis: Toward a Post-constructivist Educational Future
Creators: name: Nelson, Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: In Creativity Crisis Robert Nelson argues that university education is systematically uncreative and suggests how this might be changed. Constructive alignment, the centrepiece of today’s university pedagogy, promotes mechanistic thinking and the anxious gathering of manipulative skills. Learning happens more effectively when students take their study in new directions derived from their intimate, imagined relations with the new material they are encountering. Richly steeped in the history of ideas, from ancient Greece to the present, this book radically revises the concept of student-centredness, explores the language that encourages creativity, and helps teachers cultivate imaginative enthusiasm. Creativity Crisis is essential reading for those concerned with the nature and quality of instruction at university level.
title: Adverse Events Associated with Prolonged Antibiotic Therapy for Periprosthetic Joint Infections—A Prospective Study with a Special Focus on Rifampin
Creators: name: Reinecke, Pia
name: Morovic, Paula
name: Niemann, Marcel
name: Renz, Nora
name: Perka, Carsten
name: Trampuz, Andrej
name: Meller, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: periprosthetic joint infection
subject: arthroplasty
subject: antibiotics
subject: long-term antibiotic therapy
subject: adverse events
subject: rifampin
classificationCode: 610
subject: Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Periprosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) is a significant contributor to patient morbidity and mortality, and it can be addressed through a range of surgical interventions coupled with antibiotic therapies. Following surgical intervention(s), prolonged administration of oral antibiotics is recommended to cure PJI. There is a lack of reports on the adverse events (AEs) associated with oral antibiotics, particularly rifampin. This investigation sought to elucidate the occurrence of antibiotic-related AEs after an initial regimen of intravenous antibiotic administration, supplemented by an extended course of oral antibiotics. A prospective study of patients diagnosed with PJI of the hip, knee, or shoulder who underwent single-stage exchange arthroplasty (SSE) (10%), two-stage exchange arthroplasty (TSE) (81%), or debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention (DAIR) (6%) was performed. The primary outcome of interest was the detection of AEs, the secondary outcome the detection of a correlation between rifampin use and the incidence of AEs, and the tertiary outcome was whether oral antibiotic treatment needed to be adjusted or discontinued due to AEs. In addition, subjective tolerability was monitored throughout the study. A total of 336 events were identified for 73 out of 80 patients. The most frequently used antibiotics were rifampin and co-trimoxazole. Most AEs occurred in the gastrointestinal tract (46%). The most frequent AEs were nausea, inappetence, diarrhea, and skin rash. In 6% of cases, the AEs led to antibiotic discontinuation, and in 29% of cases, a dose adjustment of the oral therapy occurred, mainly with amoxicillin or co-trimoxazole. The majority of patients (55%) rated the subjective tolerability as good. In conclusion, AEs during antibiotic treatment for PJI are common. They mainly affect the gastrointestinal tract. Rifampin use might be a reason for the higher incidence of AEs compared to non-rifampin antibiotic treatment.
Dietary Patterns and Glucoregulation: Their Role in Neurocognitive Health and Age-Related Decline
Creators: name: Arnoldy, Lizanne
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates the relationship between dietary patterns, glucose regulation, and neurocognitive decline in aging populations. It addresses mixed findings in diet-brain health research through a systematic review, develops a reproducible dietary scoring workflow, and examines white matter microstructure using advanced neuroimaging. Two empirical studies explore the impact of healthy dietary patterns on cognitive aging and brain connectivity differences associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus. While age correlated with poorer cognitive function and white matter integrity, dietary adherence showed inconsistent effects. The thesis emphasizes the need for standardized methods and reproducibility in future large-scale studies to better understand the complex interplay between diet, glucoregulation, and brain integrity in aging.
Non-Commutative Geometry and Twisted Conformal Symmetry
Creators: name: Matlock, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The twist-deformed conformal algebra is constructed as a Hopf algebra with twisted co-product. This allows for the definition of conformal symmetry in a non-commutative background geometry. The twisted co-product is reviewed for the Poincaré algebra and the construction is then extended to the full conformal algebra. It is demonstrated that conformal invariance need not be viewed as incompatible with non-commutative geometry; the non-commutativity of the coordinates appears as a consequence of the twisting, as has been shown in the literature in the case of the twisted Poincaré algebra.
description: 8 pages; REVTeX; V2: Reference added
title: Knock-in mice expressing a humanized arachidonic acid 15-lipoxygenase (Alox15) carry a partly dysfunctional erythropoietic system
Creators: name: Reisch, Florian
name: Heydeck, Dagmar
name: Schäfer, Marjann
name: Rothe, Michael
name: Yang, Jiaxing
name: Stehling, Sabine
name: Püschel, Gerhard P.
name: Kuhn, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Eicosanoids
subject: Lipid peroxidation
subject: Oxidative stress
subject: Polyenoic fatty acids
subject: Erythropoiesis
classificationCode: 610
subject: Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Arachidonic acid 15-lipoxygenases (ALOX15) play a role in mammalian erythropoiesis but they have also been implicated in inflammatory processes. Seven intact Alox genes have been detected in the mouse reference genome and the mouse Alox15 gene is structurally similar to the orthologous genes of other mammals. However, mouse and human ALOX15 orthologs have different functional characteristics. Human ALOX15 converts C20 polyenoic fatty acids like arachidonic acid mainly to the n-6 hydroperoxide. In contrast, the n-9 hydroperoxide is the major oxygenation product formed by mouse Alox15. Previous experiments indicated that Leu353Phe exchange in recombinant mouse Alox15 humanized the catalytic properties of the enzyme. To investigate whether this functional humanization might also work in vivo and to characterize the functional consequences of mouse Alox15 humanization we generated Alox15 knock-in mice (Alox15-KI), in which the Alox15 gene was modified in such a way that the animals express the arachidonic acid 15-lipoxygenating Leu353Phe mutant instead of the arachidonic acid 12-lipoxygenating wildtype enzyme. These mice develop normally, they are fully fertile but display modified plasma oxylipidomes. In young individuals, the basic hematological parameters were not different when Alox15-KI mice and outbred wildtype controls were compared. However, when growing older male Alox15-KI mice develop signs of dysfunctional erythropoiesis such as reduced hematocrit, lower erythrocyte counts and attenuated hemoglobin concentration. These differences were paralleled by an improved ex vivo osmotic resistance of the peripheral red blood cells. Interestingly, such differences were not observed in female individuals suggesting gender specific effects. In summary, these data indicated that functional humanization of mouse Alox15 induces defective erythropoiesis in aged male individuals.
Non-Laplacian growth, algebraic domains and finite reflection groups
Creators: name: Loutsenko, Igor
name: Yermolayeva, Oksana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30E25, 35J10, 35Q40, 37K10, 76D27

description: Dynamics of planar domains with moving boundaries driven by the gradient of a scalar field that satisfies an elliptic PDE is studied. We consider the question: For which kind of PDEs the domains are algebraic, provided the field has singularities at a fixed point inside the domain? The construction reveals a direct connection with the theory of the Calogero-Moser systems related to finite reflection groups and their integrable deformations.
An Upper Bound on the Error Induced by Saddlepoint Approximations -- Applications to Information Theory
Creators: name: Anade, Dadja
name: Gorce, Jean-Marie
name: Mary, Philippe
name: Perlaza, Samir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces an upper bound on the absolute difference between: (a) the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the sum of a finite number of independent and identically distributed random variables with finite absolute third moment; and (b) a saddlepoint approximation of such CDF. This upper bound, which is particularly precise in the regime of large deviations, is used to study the dependence testing (DT) bound and the meta converse (MC) bound on the decoding error probability (DEP) in point-to-point memoryless channels. Often, these bounds cannot be analytically calculated and thus lower and upper bounds become particularly useful. Within this context, the main results include, respectively, new upper and lower bounds on the DT and MC bounds. A numerical experimentation of these bounds is presented in the case of the binary symmetric channel, the additive white Gaussian noise channel, and the additive symmetric $α$-stable noise channel.
Closing the Gap in Education? Improving Outcomes in Southern World Societies
Creators: name: Snyder, Ilana
name: Nieuwenhuysen, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: 130106 Secondary Education
subject: 130104 Kura Kaupapa Maori (Maori Primary Education)
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The education of marginalised peoples and communities is a topic of great contemporary importance. Closing the Gap in Education? increases our understanding of the nature and challenges of marginalisation in southern world societies. The book also canvasses possible directions for change that might improve the social participation of young people. It is both timely and distinctive. Closing the Gap in Education? emanates from a conference organised by the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, in partnership with Monash South Africa, held in 2009 at Monash’s Johannesburg campus. Leading scholars and public figures from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand participated. The authors provide illuminating accounts of marginalisation which point to the inadequacy of many current educational policies. Several contributors question the usefulness of notions of closing gaps and bridging divides, suggesting alternative ways to frame the debates. In explaining the key terms – marginalisation, gaps, divides, peripheries – the contributors consider capabilities, social practices, neo-liberalism, human capital theory, raciology, redistribution, the education debt, the politics of hope, history as a cultural resource and other concepts. They do so as academics and activists committed to social justice in education. The achievement of social transformation is particularly emphasised. Closing the Gap in Education? makes a most important contribution to understanding education in marginalised communities. It is a thought-provoking work, relevant to all readers interested in education, policy, government, global, media and indigenous studies.
Large Deviations Theory and Empirical Estimator Choice
Creators: name: Grendar, Marian
name: Judge, George G.
name: Grendar, Marian
name: Judge, George G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Criterion choice is such a hard problem in information recovery and in estimation and inference. In the case of inverse problems with noise, can probabilistic laws provide a basis for empirical estimator choice? That is the problem we investigate in this paper. Large Deviations Theory is used to evaluate the choice of estimator in the case of two fundamental situations-problems in modelling data. The probabilistic laws developed demonstrate that each problem has a unique solution-empirical estimator. Whether other members of the empirical estimator family can be associated a particular problem and conditional limit theorem, is an open question.
Pachner Move 3->3 and Affine Volume-Preserving Geometry in R^3
Creators: name: Korepanov, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Pachner move 3 ->3 deals with triangulations of four-dimensional manifolds. We present an algebraic relation corresponding in a natural way to this move and based, a bit paradoxically, on three-dimensional geometry.
description: Published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/