cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Clinical features and treatment of endolymphatic sac tumor
Creators: name: Bae, Seong Hoon
name: Seung-Seob Kim
name: Kwak, Sang Hyun
name: Jung, Jin Sei
name: Choi, Jae Young
name: Moon, In Seok
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Endolymphatic sac tumor (ELST) is an extremely rare disease that does not have established clinical guidelines. Objective: To provide guidance for the diagnosis and management of ELSTs. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who were suspected to have a lesion in the location of endolymphatic sac. Seven patients were included. Histopathologic diagnosis confirmed five ELSTs and two other diseases. Results: All of the enrolled patients had hearing impairment. Facial palsy was found in four out of five patients with ELST, whereas none of the patients in other disease group showed facial palsy. CT and MRI findings were consistent with those in previous literatures; however, angiographic findings were not consistent with those previously reported. All patients underwent surgery. Recurrence occurred in two patients with ELST, although there was no visible remnant tumor after the operation. These patients were treated with stereotactic radiosurgery. Conclusion: Hearing impairment and facial palsy were representative symptoms of ELST. All ELSTs showed ‘salt and pepper’ signal in MRI T1-weighted images, and smaller tumors could have blood supply from AICA in the radiologic study. Complete surgical resection with optional stereotactic radiosurgery should be considered in ELST.HighlightsHearing impairment and facial weakness are remarkable symptoms of ELST compared to other diseases that invade the endolymphatic sac.All ELSTs showed ‘salt and pepper’ signal in MRI T1-weighted images.ELST less than 3 cm in diameter could have blood supply from AICA.A complete surgical excision with optional stereotactic radiosurgery is required. Hearing impairment and facial weakness are remarkable symptoms of ELST compared to other diseases that invade the endolymphatic sac. All ELSTs showed ‘salt and pepper’ signal in MRI T1-weighted images. ELST less than 3 cm in diameter could have blood supply from AICA. A complete surgical excision with optional stereotactic radiosurgery is required.
Preventing RA - What treatments do people at risk of rheumatoid arthritis prefer?
Creators: name: Simons, Gwenda
name: Johansson, Eva C.
name: Thomas, Susan
name: Esterine, Tom
name: Veldwijk, Jorien
name: DiSantostefano, Rachael
name: Raza, Karim
name: Falahee, Marie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Patient Preference
Rheumatoid arthritis

description: Rheumatoid arthritis, often referred to as RA, is a long-term condition that mainly affects the joints. RA causes pain, swelling, stiffness and often fatigue. If patients are not treated, their joints can suffer permanent damage, which can lead to disability. Having RA can also lead to other conditions, for example inflammation in other parts of the body like the lungs, heart or eyes. Most patients need long-term treatment with medicines that come with the risk of side effects that can be serious. This case study was conducted within the PREFER project.
Opening Area Effect of Shear Wall in Multistorey Building under Seismic Loading
Creators: name: Jamle, Sagar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: To reduce the overall cost of the project, it is highly recommend reducing the cost in different manner. To make economic structure, the cost cutting should be done in every construction stages. The dual systems in building structure consist of structural walls and moment resisting frames. The walls are made up of RCC, which is a costly material used. The purpose of current study is to explore the reduction in shear wall area in multistorey building to reduce cost. Total 5 buildings framed in Staad pro software abbreviated as SA, SB, SC, SD, SE supposed to be situated at Seismic Zone III. Post parametric analysis results shows that, the reduction in shear wall area should be adapted to a certain limit up to 20 % for cost cutting.
Triple-Product Correlations in B -> V1 V2$ Decays and New Physics
Creators: name: Datta, Alakabha
name: London, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we examine T-violating triple-product correlations (TP's) in B -> V1 V2 decays. TP's are excellent probes of physics beyond the standard model (SM) for two reasons: (i) within the SM, most TP's are expected to be tiny, and (ii) unlike direct CP asymmetries, TP's are not suppressed by the small strong phases which are expected in B decays. TP's are obtained via the angular analysis of B -> V1 V2. In a general analysis based on factorization, we demonstrate that the most promising decays for measuring TP's in the SM involve excited final-state vector mesons, and we provide estimates of such TP's. We find that there are only a handful of decays in which large TP's are possible, and the size of these TP's depends strongly on the size of nonfactorizable effects. We show that TP's which vanish in the SM can be very large in models with new physics. The measurement of a nonzero TP asymmetry in a decay where none is expected would specifically point to new physics involving large couplings to the right-handed b-quark.
description: 42 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Title changed, several explanatory paragraphs added, references added, analysis and conclusions unchanged
MRQy: An Open-Source Tool for Quality Control of MR Imaging Data
Creators: name: Sadri, Amir Reza
name: Janowczyk, Andrew
name: Zou, Ren
name: Verma, Ruchika
name: Beig, Niha
name: Antunes, Jacob
name: Madabhushi, Anant
name: Tiwari, Pallavi
name: Viswanath, Satish E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We sought to develop a quantitative tool to quickly determine relative differences in MRI volumes both within and between large MR imaging cohorts (such as available in The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)), in order to help determine the generalizability of radiomics and machine learning schemes to unseen datasets. The tool is intended to help quantify presence of (a) site- or scanner-specific variations in image resolution, field-of-view, or image contrast, or (b) imaging artifacts such as noise, motion, inhomogeneity, ringing, or aliasing; which can adversely affect relative image quality between data cohorts. We present MRQy, a new open-source quality control tool to (a) interrogate MRI cohorts for site- or equipment-based differences, and (b) quantify the impact of MRI artifacts on relative image quality; to help determine how to correct for these variations prior to model development. MRQy extracts a series of quality measures (e.g. noise ratios, variation metrics, entropy and energy criteria) and MR image metadata (e.g. voxel resolution, image dimensions) for subsequent interrogation via a specialized HTML5 based front-end designed for real-time filtering and trend visualization. MRQy was used to evaluate (a) n=133 brain MRIs from TCIA (7 sites), and (b) n=104 rectal MRIs (3 local sites). MRQy measures revealed significant site-specific variations in both cohorts, indicating potential batch effects. Marked differences in specific MRQy measures were also able to identify outlier MRI datasets that needed to be corrected for common MR imaging artifacts. MRQy is designed to be a standalone, unsupervised tool that can be efficiently run on a standard desktop computer. It has been made freely accessible at \url{http://github.com/ccipd/MRQy} for wider community use and feedback.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Medical Physics
Additional file 3 of DNA methylation and gene expression integration in cardiovascular disease
Creators: name: Palou-Márquez, Guillermo
name: Subirana, Isaac
name: Nonell, Lara
name: Fernández-Sanlés, Alba
name: Elosua, Roberto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary material and methods.
VLTI/VINCI observations of the nucleus of NGC 1068 using the adaptive optics system MACAO
Creators: name: Wittkowski, M.
name: Kervella, P.
name: Arsenault, R.
name: Paresce, F.
name: Beckert, T.
name: Weigelt, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first near-infrared K-band long-baseline interferometric measurement of the prototype Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 with resolution lambda/B \~ 10 mas obtained with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and the two 8.2m Unit Telescopes UT2 and UT3. The adaptive optics system MACAO was employed to deliver wavefront-corrected beams to the K-band commissioning instrument VINCI. A squared visibility amplitude of 16.3 +/- 4.3 % was measured for NGC 1068 at a sky-projected baseline length of 45.8 m and azimuth angle 44.9 deg. This value corresponds to a FWHM of the K-band intensity distribution of 5.0 +/- 0.5 mas (0.4 +/- 0.04 pc) at the distance of NGC 1068) if it consists of a single Gaussian component. Taking into account K-band speckle interferometry observations (Wittkowski et al. 1998; Weinberger et al. 1999; Weigelt et al. 2004), we favor a multi-component model for the intensity distribution where a part of the flux originates from scales clearly smaller than about 5 mas (<0.4 pc), and another part of the flux from larger scales. The K-band emission from the small (< 5 mas) scales might arise from substructure of the dusty nuclear torus, or directly from the central accretion flow viewed through only moderate extinction.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters
The String Geometry Behind Topological Amplitudes
Creators: name: Angelantonj, Carlo
name: Antoniadis, Ignatios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the generating function of $\mathscr{N}=2$ topological strings, in the heterotic weak coupling limit, is identified with the partition function of a six-dimensional Melvin background. This background, which corresponds to an exact CFT, realises in string theory the six-dimensional $\varOmega$-background of Nekrasov, in the case of opposite deformation parameters $ε_1=-ε_2$, thus providing the known perturbative part of the Nekrasov partition function in the field theory limit. The analysis is performed on both heterotic and type I strings and for the cases of ordinary $\mathscr{N}=2$ and $\mathscr{N}=2^*$ theories.
description: 28 pages
Precision SUSY Physics
Creators: name: Heinemeyer, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the theoretical status and the future perspectives of the most important electroweak precision observables in the MSSM. This comprises the mass of the W boson, M_W, the effective leptonic mixing angle, sin^2(theta_eff), the mass of the lightest MSSM Higgs boson, m_h, and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, a_μ. The impact of the parametric uncertainties from the experimental errors of the input parameters is studied, and an estimate for the remaining uncertainties from unknown higher-order corrections is given. The need for future improvements in the theory predictions is investigated.
description: 6 pages, invited talk at "Loops & Legs in Quantum Field Theory 2004", Zinnowitz, Germany, April 2004
‘Party competition and dual accountability in multi-level systems’ the independence echo: the rise of the constitutional question in Scottish election manifestos and voter behaviour
Creators: name: Greene, Zachary
name: McMillan, Fraser
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Since the formation of the Scottish Parliament, the idea of Scottish independence increased in salience and popularity among Scottish voters to such an extent that it now constitutes the country’s defining political cleavage. Given that Scottish politics is increasingly organized around this constitutional question, support for either side of the debate among voters and elites drives political engagement, election turnout and public attitudes to other major issues. Although much popular and academic work has sought to explain the rise of support for independence, few scholars have explored changes in elite behaviour or its consequences for public opinion. From an elite-driven perspective, the increased salience of independence may be but an echo of elite and partisan attention. Developing hypotheses from this approach, we predict that voters identifying with parties developed stronger views on independence following increased attention in parties’ campaigns. We examine these hypotheses by performing computer assisted, unsupervised content analysis of Scottish Parties’ election manifestos. We then use estimates from a structural topic model to predict change in voter support for independence from the British Election Study. The theory and results suggest that increasing salience on alternative dimensions of politics likely closely relates to elite-driven choices in their election campaigns.
Revisiting the Returns to Education in Thailand: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Creators: name: Fuwa, Nobuhiko
name: Korwatanasakul, Upalat
name: Fuwa, Nobuhiko
name: Korwatanasakul, Upalat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: returns to education
subject: Mincer equation
subject: ability bias
subject: regression discontinuity
subject: Thailand

description: This paper estimates returns to schooling in Thailand using a regression discontinuity approach applied to the change in compulsory schooling law in 1978. We find that the compulsory schooling law played a role in enhancing human capital investment in the eve of the rapid structural transformation in the 1980s, that the returns to schooling based on our IV estimation was round eight percent, while OLS somewhat overestimates (by 20%) such returns, and that returns were higher in urban areas, in services (than in agricultural) sectors and, surprisingly, in underdeveloped Northern regions. Our findings are in sharp contrast with most of the recent studies exploiting similar institutional changes from developed countries, where OLS estimates tend to under-estimate returns to schooling with the implication that those school drop-outs (whose behavior is altered by compulsory schooling) tend to have higher returns than those already in school even before the law change. The conventional notion of ‘ability bias’ (which we confirm) are more likely to arise in developing (but not so much in developed) countries possibly because parents could be forced to keep only those (among many) of their children with higher ability in school, thereby reinforcing (rather than compensating) inequality among children within the household.
One or two arenas? The break-up between national and regional elections
Creators: name: Amat, Francesc
name: Jurado, Ignacio
name: León, Sandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plasma Physics

description: This paper shows that the role of national electoral dynamics on regional elections is highly mediated by institutional and electoral constraints at the regional level. Using data on statewide parties’ electoral competition in regional and national elections in Spain and Italy, results show that the contamination of regional elections is lower in regions where decentralization has travelled further and where strong regionalist parties dominate electoral competition. The paper also shows that these two channels -more regional authority and more regionalist competition- shape the regional manifestos of statewide parties by increasing their pro-regional positions. These findings represent a contribution to a better understanding of the extent to which regional elections are a separate electoral arena from the national one.
Prafoolla Thakre1, Sagar Jamle2, Kundan Meshram3
Creators: name: Jamle, Sagar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: To reduce the overall cost of the project, it is highly recommend reducing the cost in different manner. To make economic structure, the cost cutting should be done in every construction stages. The dual systems in building structure consist of structural walls and moment resisting frames. The walls are made up of RCC, which is a costly material used. The purpose of current study is to explore the reduction in shear wall area in multistorey building to reduce cost. Total 5 buildings framed in Staad pro software abbreviated as SA, SB, SC, SD, SE supposed to be situated at Seismic Zone III. Post parametric analysis results shows that, the reduction in shear wall area should be adapted to a certain limit up to 20 % for cost cutting.
EFT for electroweak processes of light nuclei
Creators: name: Park, Tae-Sun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently we succeeded to make a reliable EFT prediction in a totally parameter-free manner for the $S$ factors for the solar $pp$ and $hep$ processes, $p+p\to d + e^+ +ν_e$ and $\He3+p \to \He4 + e^+ + ν_e$. The strategy used in there is to embed a highly sophisticated standard nuclear physics approach (SNPA) exploiting realistic potentials into an EFT framework, that we refer to as EFT*. Up to next-next-to-leading order in chiral expansion, it turnes out that there is effectively only one counter-term relevant to this process, the coefficient of which -- ($\hat d^R$) -- has been renormalized to reproduce the experimental value of the tritium-beta decay. Our study has also led to {\em very} accurate EFT calculations on two-body weak processes that also receive contributions from the $\hat d^R$ term, $μ-d$ capture rate, and $ν-d$ scattering cross section.
description: Invited talk at the 17th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body^M Problems in Physics (FB17), Durham, North Carolina, USA, June 5-10, 2003
A 64-core mixed-signal in-memory compute chip based on phase-change memory for deep neural network inference
Creators: name: Gallo, Manuel Le
name: Khaddam-Aljameh, Riduan
name: Stanisavljevic, Milos
name: Vasilopoulos, Athanasios
name: Kersting, Benedikt
name: Dazzi, Martino
name: Karunaratne, Geethan
name: Braendli, Matthias
name: Singh, Abhairaj
name: Mueller, Silvia M.
name: Buechel, Julian
name: Timoneda, Xavier
name: Joshi, Vinay
name: Egger, Urs
name: Garofalo, Angelo
name: Petropoulos, Anastasios
name: Antonakopoulos, Theodore
name: Brew, Kevin
name: Choi, Samuel
name: Ok, Injo
name: Philip, Timothy
name: Chan, Victor
name: Silvestre, Claire
name: Ahsan, Ishtiaq
name: Saulnier, Nicole
name: Narayanan, Vijay
name: Francese, Pier Andrea
name: Eleftheriou, Evangelos
name: Sebastian, Abu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The need to repeatedly shuttle around synaptic weight values from memory to processing units has been a key source of energy inefficiency associated with hardware implementation of artificial neural networks. Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) with spatially instantiated synaptic weights holds high promise to overcome this challenge, by performing matrix-vector multiplications (MVMs) directly within the network weights stored on a chip to execute an inference workload. However, to achieve end-to-end improvements in latency and energy consumption, AIMC must be combined with on-chip digital operations and communication to move towards configurations in which a full inference workload is realized entirely on-chip. Moreover, it is highly desirable to achieve high MVM and inference accuracy without application-wise re-tuning of the chip. Here, we present a multi-core AIMC chip designed and fabricated in 14-nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology with backend-integrated phase-change memory (PCM). The fully-integrated chip features 64 256x256 AIMC cores interconnected via an on-chip communication network. It also implements the digital activation functions and processing involved in ResNet convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. We demonstrate near software-equivalent inference accuracy with ResNet and LSTM networks while implementing all the computations associated with the weight layers and the activation functions on-chip. The chip can achieve a maximal throughput of 63.1 TOPS at an energy efficiency of 9.76 TOPS/W for 8-bit input/output matrix-vector multiplications.
Research on Social Psychology and Young People's Action in the Construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Creators: name: Liao, Yang
name: Meng, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Based on a review of relevant literature, this article analyzes how different administrative management entities "same frequency resonance" from the perspective of symbiosis, and makes a "market theory" of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area proposed by Professor Zheng Yongnian of the National University of Singapore A simple response. At the same time, the article also discusses the possibility and method of "same frequency" in the innovation-driven development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It is believed that the “same frequency” in the innovation-driven development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area may come from the scientific and technological fields or intellectuals in areas such as technology, education and medicine where young people are concentrated. To this end, it is necessary to focus on investigating the attitudes, opinions, and action practices of young people in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, especially those in colleges and universities, and responding to the demands of young people, in order to better help the effective realization of national strategic goals. When discussing the issue of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, "one country, two systems" is a topic that cannot be bypassed. The implementation of "one country, two systems" is a pioneering initiative to solve China's sovereignty. However, the governance of state sovereignty is different from the governance of SAR affairs. From the perspective of social ecology and governance, "one country" should be the governance of state sovereignty, and "two systems" should be the governance of the SAR society. The different social ecology of Hong Kong and Macau affects different social attitudes and action practices of young people.
Identification of assessment criteria used at decision points throughout the medical product lifecycle
Creators: name: Veldwijk, Jorien
name: Hermann, Richard
name: Bywall, Karin Schölin
name: Whichello, Chiara
name: Watt, Stephen
name: Mauer, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Patient Preference
medical product life cycle

description: The pharmaceutical industry, regulatory authorities, and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies in general agree that the use of patient preference information might benefit decision-making throughout the medical product lifecycle (MPLC). However, to date there is no clear overview which integrates the critical decision points along the MPLC for the different stakeholders involved. It is also unclear how and based on what information and criteria, these stakeholders make their decisions. If the role of patient preference information (PPI) in decision-making should increase, a clear overview of where such information is most useful is crucial. This task aims to characterize (1) the decision points throughout the MPLC, (2) the activities that are carried out during these decision points, (3) the types of assessments made at these points, (4) the assessment criteria used to make decisions at these points separately for the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory authorities and HTA bodies and (5) at which decision points there is a potential role to include PPI.
The Contextualization of the Nilotic Pastoralist Conflicts in Northern Kenya
Creators: name: Ltipalei, Jonathan
name: Kivuva, Joshua
name: Jonyo, Fred O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This article gives a critical look at the genesis of protracted conflict in northern Kenya but more specifically among the Turkana, Pokot and Samburu Nilotic pastoral communities. To achieve this, the article progresses as follows; first, the chapter discusses the communities involved in the conflict. These are the Turkana, the Pokot and the Samburu. Second, the article discusses traditional cattle raiding and the role of age in the conflict sets paying special attention to the institution of Moranism. Lastly, the article discusses traditional coping mechanisms that have been employed throughout generations followed by how this ‘normal’ raiding was transformed with the advent of the British rule and the independent state to become a deadly affairs where lives are lost and properly destroyed.
[Queridos hermanos: Soy Yolanda Huerga Cedeño, esposa del poeta y periodista]
Creators: name: Yolanda, Huerga Cedeño
name: Huerga Cedeño, Yolanda
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: Lutte politique

description: Destinataire : Acosta, Juan Carlos
description: Description : Lettre de l'épouse de Manuel Vázquez Portal au Directeur exécutif de Acción Democrática Cubana. L'auteure de la lettre les remercie pour leur appui et leur aide économique concernant l'incarcération et la condamnation à 18 ans de prison de son mari, le journaliste et poète Manuel Vázquez Portal.
description: Notes : none
description: Source: Cote : MVP-B-2004-02-26
description: Source: Localisation du document : États-Unis, Miami (Floride)
Ehrenfest time dependent suppression of weak localization
Creators: name: Adagideli, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ehrenfest time dependence of the suppression of the weak localization correction to the conductance of a {\em clean} chaotic cavity is calculated. Unlike in earlier work, no impurity scattering is invoked to imitate diffraction effects. The calculation extends the semiclassical theory of K. Richter and M. Sieber [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 89}, 206801 (2002)] to include the effect of a finite Ehrenfest time.
description: 3 Pages, 1 Figure, RevTeX
Marginality Hotspots with Agricultural Potentials in Bangladesh: Technology Innovations, Barriers and Willingness to Pay of Poor Smallholders
Creators: name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
name: Haque, Latiful
name: Moniruzzaman, Shaikh
name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
name: Haque, Latiful
name: Moniruzzaman, Shaikh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Marginality hotspot
subject: technology
subject: willingness to pay
subject: poor smallholder

description: Following marginality approach developed at ZEF, Bonn we identified five marginal sub-districts in Bangladesh i.e. underperforming areas since in such areas yield gaps (potential minus actual yields) are high and productivity gains (of main staple crops) are likely to be achieved. Then we conducted qualitative and quantitative sample survey of 313 poor Smallholders and used livelihood assets and need assessment, Principal component analysis (PCA), logit regression model and cluster analysis to draw the conclusion. Results suggest that only cereal based growth productivity program could not improve food and livelihood security of the poor SHs in the study areas and thus we find that intensive crop system, hybrid seeds, water management technologies, non-crop farming, non-farm enterprise/business, etc. are the suggested potential technology innovations. However, there is very limited availability of extension services among the poor SHs in the study areas and thus despite being poor, the poor SHs have high willingness to pay for extension services, say, awareness and motivation building for increasing agricultural intensification, knowledge service for crop related agricultural production and agriculture related business. Regression results show that household head education, length of the permanent residency in the locality, land ownership, farm size, availability of seeds, having fair price, geographical locations are important determinants for willingness to pay for agricultural extension services. We finally suggest that creating an agricultural technology cum business promoter at the village level address the generalized barriers for the poor SHs for adopting those technology innovations, that is, low level of motivation for the poor SHs, lack of appropriate information, technical knowledge and extension/rural business services/networking, lack of credit and liquid money, etc.
Diagnostics of low-pressure hydrogen discharge created in a 13.56 MHz RF plasma reactor
Creators: name: Krištof, J
name: Annušová, A
name: Anguš, M
name: Veis, P.
name: Yang, X
name: Angot, T
name: Roubin, P.
name: Cartry, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A 13.56 MHz RF discharge in hydrogen was studied within the pressure range of 1-17 10 Pa, and at power range of 400-1000 W. The electron energy distribution function and 18 electron density were measured by a Langmuir probe. The gas temperature was determined by 19 the Fulcher-$α$ system in pure H2, and by the second positive system of nitrogen using N2 as the 20 probing gas. The gas temperature was constant and equal to 450 $\pm$ 50 K in the Capacitively 21 Coupled Plasma mode (CCP), and it was increasing with pressure and power in the Inductively 22 Coupled Plasma mode (ICP). Also the vibrational temperature of ground state of hydrogen 23 molecules was determined to be around 3100 and 2000 $\pm$ 500 K in ICP and CCP mode, 24 respectively. The concentration of atomic hydrogen was determined by means of actinometry, 25 either by using Ar (5 %) as the probing gas, or by using H2 as the actinometer in pure hydrogen 26 (Q1 rotational line of Fulcher-$α$ system) The concentration of hydrogen density was increasing 27 with pressure in both modes, but with a dissociation degree slightly higher in the ICP mode (a 28 factor 2). 29 30 Submitted to Physica Scripta 31
Platicrista Pilato 1987
Creators: name: Marley, Nigel J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Platicrista

description: Key to the species of the genus Platicrista
1. With additional cuticular bar on legs............................................................................. 2
­ Without additional cuticular bars on legs..................................................................... 3
 2. Legs I–III with an oblique cuticular bar on the internal side of the leg from near the base of the internal claw. All legs with a small transverse cuticular bar, positioned between the base of the internal and external claws, but not touching the bases. Cuticle with polygonal pattern ..................................................................... Platicrista cheleusis
 ­ Legs I–III with oblique cuticular bar on the internal side of the leg from near the base of the internal claw. No small transverse cuticular bar present positioned between bases of the internal and external claws on any of the legs. Cuticle without polygonal pattern ............................................................................................... Platicrista ramsayi
 3. Claws on leg IV with an additional small basal spur ............ Platicrista itaquasconoide
­ Claws on leg IV without an additional small basal spur............................................... 4
 4. Claws on leg IV with dentate lunules ............................................. Platicrista horribilis
 ­ Claws on leg IV without lunules but with smooth expanded bases................................ ....................................................................................................... Platicrista angustata
description: Published as part of Marley, Nigel J., 2006, A new species of Tardigrada, Platicrista ramsayi sp. nov. from the páramo of Volcán Chiles, Ecuador, pp. 35-48 in Zootaxa 1166 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1166.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5058468
Chiral 4d string vacua with D-branes and NSNS and RR fluxes
Creators: name: Cascales, Juan F. G.
name: Uranga, Angel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss type IIB orientifolds with D-branes, and NSNS and RR field strength fluxes. The D-brane sectors lead to open string spectra with non-abelian gauge symmetry and charged chiral fermions. The closed string field strengths generate a scalar potential stabilizing most moduli. We describe the construction of N=1 supersymmetric models in the context of orientifolds of IIB theory on T^6/Z_2 x Z_2, containing D9-branes with world-volume magnetic fluxes, and illustrate model building possibilities with several explicit examples. We comment on a T-dual picture with D8-branes on non-Calabi-Yau half-flat geometries, and discuss some of the topological properties of such configurations. We also explore the construction of models with fluxes and with D3-branes at singularities and present a non-supersymmetric 3-family SU(5) model.
description: latex, 49 pages, 2 figures
Emigration, Wages, and Agricultural Transformation in Myanmar’s Mon State
Creators: name: Filipski, Mateusz
name: Lim Lee, Hak
name: Hein, Aung
name: Mischan, Ulrike
name: Filipski, Mateusz
name: Lim Lee, Hak
name: Hein, Aung
name: Mischan, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: migration
subject: labor
subject: mechanization
subject: rural transformation
subject: Burma

description: As it emerges from decades of military rule and international economic sanctions, the country of Myanmar ranks among the least advanced economies on the South-East Asian peninsula. Low wages and lack of prospects have long prompted the Burmese to seek income opportunities in neighboring countries, but this outflow of labor force has greatly intensified over the past decade. In the migrant-sending economy, this can result in significant labormarket pressures which raise wages and erode farmer profits. Using primary household data from Mon State, a southern state neighboring Thailand, we provide insights into these phenomena. We document the extent of migration flows, finding that almost a third of the labor force of Mon State is currently away (mostly in Thailand). Regression estimates reveal a significant relationship between migration and wage levels. We use past propensity to migrate as an instrument for current migration to demonstrate that the relationship between migration and high wages is causal. Finally, we further apply this methodology to explore the relationship between migration and changes in agricultural practices, and find that migration is prompting farmers to abandon labor-intensive technologies, thus precipitating transformation in the rural economy of Mon State.
High efficiency end-fire 3-D optical phased array based on multi-layers Si3N4/SiO2 platform
Creators: name: Wu, Dachuan
name: Yi, Yasha
name: Zhang, Yuxiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Beam steering device such as optical phased array (OPA) is a key component in applications of solid-state Lidar and wireless communication. The traditional single-layer optical phased array (OPA) results in a significant energy loss due to the substrate leakage caused by the downward coupling from the grating coupler structure. In this work we have investigated a structure based on multi-layers Si3N4/SiO2 platform that can form a 3-D OPA to emit the light from the edge of the device with high efficiency, a 2-D converged out-coupling beam will be end-fired to the air. The high efficiency and wide horizontal beam steering are demonstrated numerically, the influence of vertical cross-talk, the delay length, number of waveguide layers, and the fabrication feasibility are also discussed.
Determinant Return on Assets and Its Impact on Assets Growth (Case Study of Sharia General Banks in Indonesia)
Creators: name: M. Noor Salim
name: Hardian Arief Winanto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This study aims to examine and analyze the determinants that influence Return on Assets (ROA) and their impact on Asset Growth (AG) partially or simultaneously. Factors affecting ROA and also Asset Growth are specific to Human Capital efficiency (HCE), Structure Capital efficiency (SCE) Capital Employed Efficiency (CEE), Board of Education (BED), and Board of Evaluation (BEV) on Return On Assets (ROA) and Asset Growth (AG). The population of this study is Sharia commercial bank companies in Indonesia with an observation period from 2014 to 2018 consisting of a sample of 12 Sharia Commercial Bank companies. The data analysis techniques in this study used Multiple Linear Regression analysis by analyzing the effect of corporate governance and Intellectual Capital to the Return On Asset and Asset Growth of the corporate partially and simultaneously. The results of data analysis showed that ROA was partially influenced by a significant positive of HCE and AG was significantly positive by ROA. While simultaneously, all variables significantly influence positively on ROA and Asset Growth.
Government termination in multilevel settings. How party congruence affects the survival of sub-national governments in Germany and Spain
Creators: name: Martínez-Cantó, Javier
name: Bergmann, Henning
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Past studies on government survival in parliamentary democracies have been limited to national governments. However, most societies live in a multilevel polity where different policies are decided at distinct governmental layers. So far, the conditions triggering sub-national governments’ termination have remained unexplored. Our paper makes a twofold contribution to the literature. First, we explicitly focus our analysis on the sub-national government level. Second, we expand the analytical scope by assuming a multilevel setting, in which the survival of sub-national governments is dependent on both the party composition of the national government (vertical congruence) and their sub-national peers (horizontal congruence). We test the impact of both congruence measures on the early termination risk of regional governments. Our analysis is complemented by including “traditional” factors from national government termination literature, such as structural attributes of governments and their bargaining environment, into empirical modelling. Analysing a novel dataset on 494 regional governments in Germany and Spain we find that the risk of sub-national government termination is related to varying levels of vertical congruence. Furthermore, we find interesting explanatory variation between the two countries with regard to the effect size of economic performance, regional authority and congruence.
Rice Quality Defined by Urban Consumers and Value Chain Actors in South and Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Custodio, Marie Claire
name: Demont, Matty
name: Laborte, Alice
name: Velasco, Ma. Lourdes
name: Jhoanne
name: Ynion
name: Custodio, Marie Claire
name: Demont, Matty
name: Laborte, Alice
name: Velasco, Ma. Lourdes
name: Jhoanne
name: Ynion
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: rice quality
subject: value chain upgrading
subject: urban consumers

description: Quality is a powerful engine in food value chain (VC) upgrading in developing countries. However, the concept is abstract. In the rice sector, for instance, there is currently no uniformly applicable definition of “rice quality” and there is even less unanimity on how it should be measured. Understanding how the market and industry perceives and differentiates rice quality could contribute to more efficient, demand-driven, and sustainable rice VCs. To assess how rice quality is perceived and defined by consumers and the industry, we review evidences from multi-country urban consumer surveys and key informant interviews with industry stakeholders conducted in selected countries in Southeast Asia (SEA) and South Asia (SA) in 2013–2014. We conclude that the specificity and heterogeneity of consumer perception of rice quality can guide rice breeders in incorporating grain quality improvements in varietal development programs relevant to target markets. And that rice quality is further reinforced through labeling, branding, and packaging. These results provide valuable insights that can be used by the rice industry stakeholders and policymakers in formulating value chain upgrading initiatives in Asia.
Charged Kerr-de Sitter Black Holes in Five Dimensions
Creators: name: Cvetic, M.
name: Lu, H.
name: Pope, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a general class of non-extremal charged Kerr-de Sitter black holes in five dimensions, in which the two rotation parameters are set equal. There are three non-trivial parameters, namely the mass, charge and angular momentum. All previously-known cases, supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric, that have equal angular momenta are encompassed as special cases.
description: Statements about extra parameter \beta corrected to reflect the fact that it is always trivial. 11 pages
Additional file 1 of Which nurses are victims of bullying: the role of negative affect, core self-evaluations, role conflict and bullying in the nursing staff
Creators: name: Atefeh Homayuni
name: Hosseini, Zahra
name: Teamur Aghamolaei
name: Shahini, Shirin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Existence theorems of fold-maps
Creators: name: Ando, Yoshifumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58A20, 57R45

description: A smooth map having only fold singularities is called a fold-map. We will give effective conditions for a continuous map to be homotopic to a fold-map from the viewpoint of the homotopy principle.
Processes, conditions and contextual factors that influence the utility and role of patient preference studies
Creators: name: Huys, Isabelle
name: De Bekker-Grob, Esther
name: Levitan, Bennett
name: Kübler, Jürgen
name: Van Overbeeke, Eline
name: Whichello, Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Patient Preference
benefit-risk
medical product life cycle

description: The aim of this study was to identify conditions and contextual factors that have a broad and meaningful influence on the utility and role of patient preference studies. Additionally, it was sought to identify existing processes integrating patient preferences in decision making throughout the development, approval and post-approval stages of medical products.
Large scale structure in non-standard cosmologies
Creators: name: Multamaki, T.
name: Gaztanaga, E.
name: Manera, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the growth of large scale structure in two recently proposed non-standard cosmological models: the brane induced gravity model of Dvali, Gabadadze and Porrati (DGP) and the Cardassian models of Freese and Lewis. A general formalism for calculating the growth of fluctuations in models with a non-standard Friedman equation and a normal continuity equation of energy density is discussed. Both linear and non-linear growth are studied, together with their observational signatures on higher order statistics and abundance of collapsed objects. In general, models which show similar cosmic acceleration at z ~ 1, can produce quite different normalization for large scale density fluctuations, ie sigma_8, cluster abundance or higher order statistics, such as the normalized skewness S_3, which is independent of the linear normalization. For example, for a flat universe with Omega_M ~ 0.22, DGP and standard Cardassian cosmologies predict about 2 and 3 times more clusters respectively than the standard Lambda model at z=1.5. When normalized to CMB fluctuations the sigma_8 amplitude turns out to be lower by a few tens of a percent. We also find that, for a limited red-shift range, the linear growth rate can be faster in some models (eg modified polytropic Cardassian with q>1) than in the Einstein-deSitter universe. The value of the skewness S_3 is found to have up to ~10 percent variations (up or down) from model to model.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS