cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Statistical anisotropy of CMB as a probe of conformal rolling scenario
Creators: name: Ramazanov, S. R.
name: Rubtsov, G. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85-02

description: Search for the statistical anisotropy in the CMB data is a powerful tool for constraining models of the early Universe. In this paper we focus on the recently proposed cosmological scenario with conformal rolling. We consider two sub-scenarios, one of which involves a long intermediate stage between conformal rolling and conventional hot epoch. Primordial scalar perturbations generated within these sub-scenarios have different direction-dependent power spectra, both characterized by a single parameter h^2. We search for the signatures of this anisotropy in the seven-year WMAP data using quadratic maximum likelihood method, first applied for similar purposes by Hanson and Lewis. We confirm the large quadrupole anisotropy detected in V and W bands, which has been argued to originate from systematic effects rather than from cosmology. We construct an estimator for the parameter h^2. In the case of the sub-scenario with the intermediate stage we set an upper limit h^2 < 0.045 at the 95% confidence level. The constraint on h^2 is much weaker in the case of another sub-scenario, where the intermediate stage is absent.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures. Stronger constraint in case of sub-scenario A obtained. Version accepted for publication in JCAP
title: Louis Ellies? Du Pin
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Louis Ellies? Du Pin as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Is Tourism Allowing Entrepreneurs to Have a Higher Likelihood of Evading Poverty in St. Lucia?
Creators: name: Charles, Abigail S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Recreation
Economics
Entrepreneurship

description: The Caribbean islands have long been associated with sun, sea and sand, i.e. a prime vacation destination. Indeed, tourism can be boasted as one of, if not the key economic- growth engines for many of the islands. Furthermore, it has been argued that it actually helps to keep the self-employed survive above the poverty line. If this is the case, then it is interesting to know what are the key components that capitalize on the opportunities that tourism provide, and transforms them into economic growth. The island of St. Lucia is a perfect example for such an investigation. In the 2005 Budget address made by the Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Dr. the Honourable Kenny Anthony, to Cabinet asserted that the Government was fully aware of the economic potential of the tourism sector, and as such, has made moves to develop incentives aimed at encouraging investments and on-going advancements within the industry. These moves included loans on preferential terms to entrepreneurs starting up businesses within the range of entertainment, accommodations and the restaurant business. Additionally, since the economy of St. Lucia has been long sustained by agriculture, Dr. Anthony made it a point to clarify that the tourism industry is positioned not to over-throw the agricultural industry, but rather to establish a symbiotic relationship. Indeed, while confirming that tourism holds the greatest potential for growth and development, the Government of St. Lucia has also agreed that unemployment is one of its greatest concerns. If this is the case, it becomes obvious that the tourism sector is the one which, consequently, has the greatest potential to help in reducing unemployment (as well as lifting many persons out of poverty). Noting this, the need for the analyses and discussion is surrounded by investigating ways in which the tourist industry can contribute to the growth of the St. Lucian economy.
Additional file 1: of Exploration of exosomal microRNA expression profiles in pigeon ‘Milk’ during the lactation period
Creators: name: Ma, Yao
name: Feng, Siyuan
name: Wang, Xun
name: Qazi, Izhar
name: Long, Keren
name: Luo, Yi
name: Li, Guojun
name: Ning, Chunyou
name: Wang, Yixin
name: Hu, Silu
name: Xiao, Juan
name: Li, Xiaokai
name: Lan, Dan
name: Hu, Yaodong
name: Tang, Qianzi
name: Ma, Jideng
name: Jin, Long
name: Jiang, Anan
name: Li, Mingzhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S1. Agilent 2100 analysis of total RNA from exosomes in PM. (PDF 952 kb)
Cooling of a mirror in cavity optomechanics with a chirped pulse
Creators: name: Liao, Jie-Qiao
name: Law, C. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the response of a harmonically confined mirror to an optical pulse in cavity optomechanics. We show that when the pulsed coupling strength takes the form of a chirped pulse, thermal fluctuations of the mirror can be significantly transferred to the cavity field. In addition, the frequency modulation of the pulse could enable a better cooling performance by suppressing the sensitivity of the dependence of detuning and pulse areas. Using numerical investigations, we find that the pulsed-cooling is mainly limited by the cavity-field decay rate.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Revisiting Urban Planning in Latin America and the Caribbean
Creators: name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: City planning
Latin Americans

description: This regional study reviews urban planning conditions and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is one of eight regional studies that will serve as inputs into the various chapters of the 2009 Global Report on Human Settlements. The report is organized into nine chapters. Chapter 1 identifies recent fundamental challenges faced by urban areas in the region. Chapter 2 describes the varying nature of the urban context within which planning takes place, with emphasis on the socio-spatial issues which are of concern to urban planning. Chapter 3 reviews the emergence of contemporary or modern urban planning. A discussion of the nature of the institutional and regulatory framework for urban planning is then provided in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 examines the extent to which the planning process is inclusive of relevant stakeholders and communities (participatory/collaborative planning). Chapter 6 considers the role of urban planning in promoting sustainable urban development. An assessment of planning responses to informality in cities including the emergence of related processes (peri-urbanization, urban sprawl, metropolitanization and rural densification) is undertaken in Chapter 7. In Chapter 8, the effects of infrastructure provision on the spatial structure of cities and the implications for planning are reviewed. Chapter 9 discusses the extent to which monitoring and evaluation of urban plans is an integral part of planning processes. Lastly, the final Chapter focuses on the trends in planning education within the region.
Studies in Small Field Inflation
Creators: name: Dine, Michael
name: Pack, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore some issues in slow roll inflation in situations where field excursions are small compared to $M_p$. We argue that for small field inflation, minimizing fine tuning requires low energy supersymmetry and a tightly constrained structure. Hybrid inflation is {\it almost} an inevitable outcome. The resulting theory can be described in terms of a supersymmetric low energy effective action and inflation completely characterized in terms of a small number of parameters. Demanding slow roll inflation significantly constrains these parameters. In this context, the generic level of fine tuning can be described as a function of the number of light fields, there is an upper bound on the scale of inflation, and an (almost) universal prediction for the spectral index. Models of this type need not suffer from a cosmological moduli problem.
description: 16 pages. issues with single field inflation identified and clarified; role of discrete R symmetries clarified; error in discussion of a non-hybrid model corrected
Increasing IT Value for Customers: A Challenge for Higher Education
Creators: name: Beeby, Daniel J.
name: Jelinkova, Klara
name: Donenfeld, Sunny
name: Knox, Jim
name: Palenchar, Eileen
name: Rini, Joseph T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Educational technology
Information technology

description: This research bulletin strives to answer the question, What must a central IT organization in an academic environment do to increase its value to its clients and its institution? It is not a cookbook for how to create a successful IT organization, but rather a discussion of considerations for increasing value. Treacy and Wiersema suggest that successful IT organizations choose to focus almost exclusively on one value proposition from among these three: product leadership, operational excellence, and customer intimacy. While these three areas offered us a good starting point, our research suggested that a single focus was less applicable for a central IT organization in higher education. Rather, we discovered that a combination of slightly modified propositions is more suited to the academic environment: operational excellence, organizational management, and client partnership. We concluded that an organization that excels in these three areas will be highly valued by the people who use its services. In this way, IT can make a dramatic shift from being regarded on campus as an expense that needs to be controlled to being viewed as a strategic partner in addressing and solving academic and business problems.
Hopf Galois (Co)Extensions In Noncommutative Geometry
Creators: name: Hassanzadeh, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce an alternative proof, with the use of tools and notions for Hopf algebras, to show that Hopf Galois coextensions of coalgebras are the sources of stable anti Yetter-Drinfeld modules. Furthermore we show that two natural cohomology theories related to a Hopf Galois coextension are isomorphic.
description: 20 pages
FCS Multiple Imputation Template.pdf
Creators: name: Oremus, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420204
subject: Epidemiological methods

description: This document is a step-by-step guide to conducting multiple imputation using Fully Conditional Speciﬁcation (FCS) with Linear Multilevel Mixed Effects. The code was developed specifically for a research program in social support, depressive symptoms, and cognitive function, conducted using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, and based in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Meira Golberg (MSc) and Leilei Zeng (PhD), Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, University of Waterloo, developed the code.
Constraints on formation of columnar joints in basaltic lava
Creators: name: Woodell, Daniel Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Columnar joints form as a brittle relaxation response to tensile stresses within cooling lava flows and magma bodies, and are found in lavas that vary greatly in chemistry and outcrop geometry. However, columnar joints do not form in all cooling igneous rocks, and the specific conditions under which columnar joints form are unknown. In this study, outcrops containing columns in the Cheakamus Valley basalt flows near Whistler, BC are studied, and the size, orientation, and distribution of columns is recorded. Forward numerical models using the finite element method are created with Matlab using the Partial Differential Equation Toolbox to model the outcrops in the Whistler field area, and determine the cooling rates (∂T/∂t) and thermal gradients (∂T/∂x) experienced by the lava flows during their formation. High temperature experimentation involving basalt rock samples is then used to determine the cooling rates and thermal gradients present during the cooling of these samples under a variety of naturally occurring conditions. This study finds that noticeable differences in the distribution of columns within an outcrop occur only when there are large differences in cooling rates between the upper and lower outcrop surfaces. Modeling shows that the cooling rates must differ by approximately an order of magnitude. High temperature experiments show that extremely high cooling rates (especially in the small sample sizes used in this study) between approximately 700 to 800 ˚C are necessary for the formation of columnar joints.
Determining the velocity dispersion of the thick disc
Creators: name: Sanders, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We attempt to recover the mean vertical velocity and vertical velocity dispersion as a function of the Galactic height for a sample drawn from a realistic Galaxy distribution function by following the method presented in Moni Bidin et al. (2012). We find that, for the sample size used, the observational error in the velocities is much smaller than the Poisson noise which has not been accounted for by Moni Bidin et al. We repeat the analysis on a large number of samples to estimate the contribution of the Poisson noise and to uncover any systematics. We find that the dispersion is systematically overestimated at low Galactic heights and slightly underestimated at high Galactic heights leading to an underestimate of the gradient of the dispersion with Galactic height. The causes of the systematics are revealed by repeating the calculation using a method inspired by Girard et al. (2006). This method recovers the expected dispersion much more successfully and in particular yields a gradient of the dispersion with Galactic height which is approximately three times that found using the method presented by Moni Bidin et al.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS - included more information on DF, small change to DF has slightly altered the results
Differentiating SIADH from Cerebral/Renal Salt Wasting: Failure of the Volume Approach and Need for a New Approach to Hyponatremia
Creators: name: Maesaka, John K.
name: Imbriano, Louis
name: Mattana, Joseph
name: Gallagher, Dympna
name: Bade, Naveen
name: Sharif, Sairah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Water-electrolyte imbalances
Water-electrolyte balance (Physiology)--Endocrine aspects
Vasopressin
Hyponatremia
Medicine

description: Hyponatremia is the most common electrolyte abnormality. Its diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are in a state of flux. It is evident that hyponatremic patients are symptomatic with a potential for serious consequences at sodium levels that were once considered trivial. The recommendation to treat virtually all hyponatremics exposes the need to resolve the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma of deciding whether to water restrict a patient with the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) or administer salt and water to a renal salt waster. In this review, we briefly discuss the pathophysiology of SIADH and renal salt wasting (RSW), and the difficulty in differentiating SIADH from RSW, and review the origin of the perceived rarity of RSW, as well as the value of determining fractional excretion of urate (FEurate) in differentiating both syndromes, the high prevalence of RSW which highlights the inadequacy of the volume approach to hyponatremia, the importance of changing cerebral salt wasting to RSW, and the proposal to eliminate reset osmostat as a subtype of SIADH, and finally propose a new algorithm to replace the outmoded volume approach by highlighting FEurate. This algorithm eliminates the need to assess the volume status with less reliance on determining urine sodium concentration, plasma renin, aldosterone and atrial/brain natriuretic peptide or the BUN to creatinine ratio.
O3 RoboSTEAM Environment – First overview and discussions
Creators: name: García-Peñalvo, F. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RoboSTEAM, Erasmus+, STEAM, Robots, Computational Thinking, Technological Ecosystem, EU

description: First overview and proposal about the Technological Ecosystem for the RoboSTEAM Erasmus+ project presented in the RoboSTEAM Kick-off meeting held in Bragança, Portugal, February15-16, 2019.
Diversity of the insect pathogenic fungi in the genus Metarhizium in New Zealand
Creators: name: Glare, Travis R.
name: Reimer, Yvonne Scholte Op
name: Cummings, Nicholas
name: Rivas-Franco, Federico
name: Nelson, Tracey L.
name: Zimmermann, Gisbert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Invertebrate-pathogenic fungi in the genus Metarhizium are commonly found throughout the world on a wide range of different arthropod hosts. Some strains have been developed as biopesticides and many others have shown potential for controlling important insect pests. Given the current interest in using these fungi, precise identification at species level is crucial, both for understanding their diversity and ecology and for regulatory approval and monitoring of new biopesticides. Metarhizium has undergone extensive systematic revision over the last decade, resulting in a large number of name changes and new species. This has created regulatory issues in New Zealand and importation of biocontrol strains has become difficult due to a lack of knowledge of which Metarhizium species are present in the country. This study identified Metarhizium isolates held in culture collections in New Zealand following analysis of sequence data from the ef-1α, β-tubulin, rpb1, and ITS regions. Our results show that M. anisopliae, M. brunneum, M. frigidum, M. novozealandicum, M. pemphigi, M. rileyi and M. robertsii occur naturally in New Zealand on native and introduced insect hosts. Exotic Metarhizium species from several countries, stored in New Zealand collections, include M. acridum, M. lepidiotae, M. majus and M. pingshaense.
title: Louis Paul Du Vaucel (Du Bois)
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Louis Paul Du Vaucel (Du Bois) as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Analysis of the medium (M) segment sequence of Guaroa virus and its comparison to other orthobunyaviruses
Creators: name: Briese, Thomas
name: Rambaut, Andrew
name: Lipkin, W. Ian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Epidemiology
Virology

description: Guaroa virus (GROV), a segmented virus in the genus Orthobunyavirus, has been linked to the Bunyamwera serogroup (BUN) through cross-reactivity in complement fixation assays of S segment-encoded nucleocapsid protein determinants, and also to the California serogroup (CAL) through cross-reactivity in neutralization assays of M segment-encoded glycoprotein determinants. Phylogenetic analysis of the S-segment sequence supported a closer relationship to the BUN serogroup for this segment and it was hypothesized that the serological reaction may indicate genome-segment reassortment. Here, cloning and sequencing of the GROV M segment are reported. Sequence analysis indicates an organization similar to that of other orthobunyaviruses, with genes in the order GNâ€“nsmâ€“gC, and mature proteins generated by protease cleavage at one, and by signalase at possibly three, sites. A potential role of motifs that are more similar to CAL than to BUN virus sequences with respect to the serological reaction is discussed. No discernable evidence for reassortment was identified.
Anti-D3's - Singular to the Bitter End
Creators: name: Bena, Iosif
name: Grana, Mariana
name: Kuperstein, Stanislav
name: Massai, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the full backreaction of anti-D3 branes smeared over the tip of the deformed conifold. Requiring the 5-form flux and warp factor at the tip to be that of anti-D3 branes, we find a simple power counting argument showing that if the three-form fluxes have no IR singularity, they will be necessarily imaginary-anti-self-dual. Hence the only solution with anti-D3 branes at the tip of the conifold that is regular in the IR and the UV is the anti-Klebanov-Strassler solution, and there is no regular solution whose D3-charge is negative in the IR and positive in the UV.
description: 4 pages (for obvious reasons), revtex; v2: minor improvements
title: Heinrich Christoph Ebell
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Heinrich Christoph Ebell as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Isolated head tremor : part of the clinical spectrum of essential tremor? data from population-based and clinic-based case samples
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Dogu, Okan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Essential tremor (ET) still remains a clinical diagnosis. Nonetheless, it is misdiagnosed in 30 to 50% of cases. There are a number of areas of diagnostic uncertainty. One of these is isolated head tremor, on which published data are limited and at variance. We studied the prevalence of isolated head (i.e., neck) tremor in ET in two population-based studies (Turkey and New York) and a large clinical sample (New York); these 583 ET cases all received the same detailed tremor examination. Head tremor with mild arm tremor occurred in a very small percentage of cases in each sample (1.9 - 3.1%, overall 2.7%). Nearly all of them were women. Head tremor in the complete absence of arm tremor was not observed in any cases (0.0%). These clinical data may be of value to clinicians in practice settings and researchers in phenotyping efforts in the emerging field of ET genetics.
Torpedoes in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, essential tremor, and control brains
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Faust, Phyllis L.
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
name: Honig, Lawrence S.
name: Rajput, Alex
name: Rajput, Ali
name: Pahwa, Rajesh
name: Lyons, Kelly E.
name: Ross, G. Webster
name: Elble, Rodger J.
name: Erickson-Davis, Cordelia
name: Moskowitz, Carol Brown
name: Lawton, Arlene
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Purkinje cell axonal swellings ("torpedoes"), described in several cerebellar
disorders as well as essential tremor (ET), have not been quantified in common neurodegenerative
conditions.
title: Gottfried Ebersbach
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Gottfried Ebersbach as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Last-ditch medical therapy : revisiting lobotomy
Creators: name: Lerner, Barron H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Science
History
Public health

description: Desperate times call for desperate measures. So thought Walter J. Freeman, a neurologist who became the United States's staunchest advocate of the lobotomy between the 1930s and the 1970s. A new book, The Lobotomist, by journalist Jack El-Hai,1 chronicles Freeman's advocacy of a procedure that was viewed by many, and continues to be viewed, as barbaric. In exploring the ways in which lobotomy became part of common medical practice, El-Hai raises questions not only about how we should judge the procedure in retrospect, but also about what lobotomy teaches us about last-ditch medical interventions.
title: Georg Christoph von Ebertz
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Georg Christoph von Ebertz as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Construction of wedge-local nets of observables through Longo-Witten endomorphisms
Creators: name: Tanimoto, Yoh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81T05 (81T40 81U40)

description: A convenient framework to treat massless two-dimensional scattering theories has been established by Buchholz. In this framework, we show that the asymptotic algebra and the scattering matrix completely characterize the given theory under asymptotic completeness and standard assumptions. Then we obtain several families of interacting wedge-local nets by a purely von Neumann algebraic procedure. One particular case of them coincides with the deformation of chiral CFT by Buchholz-Lechner-Summers. In another case, we manage to determine completely the strictly local elements. Finally, using Longo-Witten endomorphisms on the U(1)-current net and the free fermion net, a large family of wedge-local nets is constructed.
description: 33 pages, no figure. The final version is available under Open Access. CC-BY
Anchocerus giganteus Hu, Li & Zhao 2010
Creators: name: Lin, Xiao-Bin
name: Hu, Jia-Yao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Anchocerus
Anchocerus giganteus

description: Anchocerus giganteus Hu, Li & Zhao, 2010 (Fig. 11) Additional material examined. CHINA: Shanghai City: 1 male, Shanghai Zoo, 9.IX.2017, Xiao-Bin Song leg. (SNUC); Zhejiang Prov.: 1 male, Longquan City, Fengyang Shan N. R., Mihougu, 27°55’00’’N, 119°11’52’’E, mixed leaf litter, sifted, 1116 m, 03.v.2016, Jiang, Liu & Zhou leg. (SNUC); Jiangxi Prov.: 1 male, Ji’an City, Jinggang Shan, Huangyangjie, 26°37’25’’N, 114°06’58’’E, Cunninghamia lanceolata leaf litter, sifted, 1240 m, 28.vii.2014, Chen, Hu, Lv & Yu leg. (SNUC); 1 female, Ji’an City, Jinggang Shan, Bijia Shan, 26°30’19’’N, 114°09’25’’E, mixed leaf litter, sifted, 1330 m, 25.vii.2014, Chen, Hu, Lv & Yu leg. (SNUC); 1 female, Yichun City, Fengxin County, Jiuling Shan, 28°41’57’’N, 114°44’33’’E, pine leaf litter, sifted, 1250 m, 19.vii.2013, Hu & Lv leg. (SNUC); Guangxi Prov.: 1 male, Jinxiu County, Dayao Mt., 16 km, 24°08’25’’N, 110°15’38’’E, beech forest, mixed leaf litter, sifted, 960 m, 13.vii.2014, Peng, Song, Yu & Yan, leg. (SNUC); Guangdong Prov.: 1 male, Shaoguan City, Ruyuan, Nanling N. R., Shikengkong, 24°55’33’’N, 112°59’29’’E, bamboo forest, leaf litter, sifted, 1820 m, 30.iv.2015, Peng, Tu & Zhou leg. (SNUC); 1 female, Shaoguan City, Ruyuan, Nanling N. R., Qingshui Valley, 24°54’57’’N, 113°01’55’’E, mixed leaf litter, sifted, 900 m, 04.v.2015, Peng, Tu & Zhou leg. (SNUC); 2 males, Shaoguan City, Ruyuan, Nanling, nr, Ruyang, 24°55’42.9’’N, 113°0’59.05’’E, 680–780 m, 04.v.2021, Hu, Lin, Zhou & Li leg. (SNUC). Comparative notes. Anchocerus giganteus is similar to A. pengzhongi Hu & Li, 2012 in general appearance, but can be separated by coarser punctation of the head, by the shorter temples (twice as long as eyes) and by the paramere of the aedeagus with two short branches. Distribution. The species is widely distributed in southeast China, in the following city or provinces: Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi and Guangdong.
description: Published as part of Lin, Xiao-Bin & Hu, Jia-Yao, 2021, New species and records of Anchocerus Fauvel in China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), pp. 290-294 in Zootaxa 5032 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5032.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/5486991
description: {"references": ["Hu, J. Y., Li, L. Z. & Zhao, Y. L. (2010) A new species of the genus Anchocerus Fauvel, 1905 from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Zootaxa, 2523 (1), 65 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2523.1.5", "Hu, J. Y., Li, L. Z. & Zhao, Y. L. (2012) Three new species of Anchocerus Fauvel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), with an updated key to Chinese species. Zootaxa, 3318 (1), 57 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3318.1.4"]}
Additional file 1 of Patient-reported outcomes before treatment for localized prostate cancer: are there differences among countries? Data from the True North Global Registry
Creators: name: Garin, O.
name: Kowalski, C.
name: Zamora, V.
name: Roth, R.
name: Ferrer, M.
name: Breidenbach, C.
name: Pont, A.
name: Belin, T. R.
name: Elashoff, D.
name: Wilhalme, H.
name: Nguyen, A. V.
name: Kwan, L.
name: Pearman, E. K.
name: Bolagani, A.
name: Sampurno, F.
name: Papa, N.
name: Moore, C.
name: Millar, J.
name: Connor, S. E.
name: Villanti, P.
name: Litwin, M. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Antihypertensive agents and risk of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and dementia : a population-based prospective study (NEDICES)
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Benito-Leon, Julian
name: Bermejo-Pareja, Felix
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Recent interest in antihypertensive agents, especially calcium channel blockers, has been sparked by the notion that these medications may be neuroprotective. A modest literature, with mixed results, has examined whether these medications might lower the odds or risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) or dementia. There are no data for essential tremor (ET). Objective: To examine the association between antihypertensive use (defined broadly and by individual subclasses) and ET, PD and dementia. For each disorder, we used cross-sectional data (association with prevalent disease) and prospective data (association with incident disease). Methods: Prospective population-based study in Spain enrolling 5,278 participants at baseline. Results: Use of antihypertensive medications (aside from Î²-blockers) was similar in prevalent ET cases and controls. Baseline use of antihypertensive agents was not associated with reduced risk of incident ET. Antihypertensive medication use was not associated with prevalent or incident PD. Calcium channel blocker use was marginally reduced in prevalent dementia cases (ORadjusted = 0.63, p = 0.06) but was not associated with reduced risk of incident dementia (RRadjusted = 1.02, p = 0.95). Conclusions: We did not find evidence of a protective effect of antihypertensive medications in these three neurodegenerative disorders.
Vitamin D-conjugated gold nanoparticles as functional carriers to enhancing osteogenic differentiation
Creators: name: Nah, Haram
name: Lee, Donghyun
name: Heo, Min
name: Lee, Jae Seo
name: Lee, Sang Jin
name: Heo, Dong Nyoung
name: Seong, Jeongmin
name: Lim, Ho-Nam
name: Lee, Yeon-Hee
name: Moon, Ho-Jin
name: Hwang, Yu-Shik
name: Kwon, Il Keun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: In an aging society, bone disorders such as osteopenia, osteoporosis, and degenerative arthritis cause serious public health problems. In order to solve these problems, researchers continue to develop therapeutic agents, increase the efficacy of developed therapeutic agents, and reduce side effects. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are widely used in tissue engineering applications as biosensors, drug delivery carriers, and bioactive materials. Their special surface property enables easy conjugation with ligands including functional groups such as thiols, phosphines, and amines. This creates an attractive advantage to GNPs for use in the bone tissue engineering field. However, GNPs alone are limited in their biological effects. In this study, we used thiol-PEG-vitamin D (SPVD) to conjugate vitamin D, an essential nutrient critical for maintaining normal skeletal homeostasis, to GNPs. To characterize vitamin D-conjugated GNPs (VGNPs), field emission transmission electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, and ultraviolet/visible absorption analysis were carried out. The developed VGNPs were well bound through the thiol groups between GNPs and vitamin D, and were fabricated in size of 60 nm. Moreover, to demonstrate VGNPs osteogenic differentiation effect, various assays were carried out through cell viability test, alkaline phosphatase assay, calcium deposition assay, real-time polymerase chain reaction, and immunofluorescence staining. As a result, the fabricated VGNPs were found to effectively enhance osteogenic differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells (hADSCs) in vitro. Based on these results, VGNPs can be utilized as functional nanomaterials for bone regeneration in the tissue engineering field.
Unimodular conformal and projective relativity
Creators: name: Bradonjić, Kaća
name: Stachel, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We outline unimodular conformal and projective relativity (UCPR), an extension of unimodular relativity in which the conformal and projective structures play central roles. Under $SL(4,\mathbb{R})$ symmetry group, the pseudo-Riemannian metric naturally decomposes into a four-volume element and a conformal metric; and the affine connection decomposes into a one-form and a trace-free projective connection. In UCPR, these four space-time structures are treated as independent fields that have clear physical interpretations. A Palatini-type variational principle for the usual general relativity Lagrangian leads to a breakup of the Einstein field equations and the compatibility conditions between the metric and connection. We indicate how new gravitational theories may be generated by modifications of this Lagrangian and discuss two such cases. Finally, we discuss possible physical consequences of our results for quantum gravity.
description: 6 pages. To appear in EPL. Abstract shortened. Equation typos fixed. Two references added since v1
Hypoxia tolerance and anaerobic capacity in Danio and Devario
Creators: name: Yao, Lili
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: It has been long suggested that hypoxia tolerant species should have a great capacity to generate energy through anaerobic pathways to maintain energy balance when oxygen is limited; however, this assertion has not been rigorously tested. In the present study, I characterized hypoxia tolerance in 12 groups representing 10 species from the genera Danio and Devario (with three strains of D. rerio) and examined whether there is a phylogenetically independent relationship between variation in hypoxia tolerance and anaerobic capacity as judged by enzyme activity and anaerobic substrate concentrations present in various tissues. Hypoxia tolerance was assessed using two measures: time to loss of equilibrium (LOE) and the oxygen tension that yields 50% LOE in a group of fish over 8 hr (TLE₅₀). Time to LOE to low oxygen was very sensitive to changes in water PO₂, with no LOE seen over 8 hr in some species at 16 torr (2.1 kPa) and complete LOE within 30 min at 8 torr (1.1 kPa). At 12 torr (1.6 kPa) however, there was significant variation in time to LOE among all the species investigated. In three species (Danio rerio, Danio albolineatus and Danio choprai) time to LOE at 12 torr showed the same pattern of hypoxia tolerance as TLE₅₀. Despite the variation in hypoxia tolerance seen among the species under study, there was very little variation in the critical oxygen tension (Pcrit), which is the environmental PO₂ at which fish transition from an oxyregulating strategy to an oxyconforming strategy. Routine Ṁ₀₂ varied between the species, but the variation was primarily explained by body size and not hypoxia tolerance. Anaerobic energy capacity was estimated by measuring maximal enzyme activities of pyruvate kinase (PK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and creatine phosphokinase (CPK), and concentrations of glycogen and glucose in muscle, liver and brain, plus creatine phosphate (CrP) and ATP in muscle. Through comparative analysis, I showed that the variation in hypoxia tolerance seen among species was related to some aspects of anaerobic energy metabolism, but not in a consistent fashion, indicating that other factors contribute to describing the variation in hypoxia tolerance.
Sphere paths in outer space
Creators: name: Horbez, Camille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give estimates on the length of paths defined in the sphere model of outer space using a surgery process, and show that they make definite progress in some sense when they remain in some thick part of outer space. To do so, we relate the Lipschitz metric on outer space to a notion of intersection numbers.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures ; statement of the result slightly modified, a mistake in the proof is corrected ; accepted in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
Constitutional Reforms in Venezuela Foretell a Planning Revolution
Creators: name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: City planning
Public policy (Law)

description: The National Assembly of Venezuela is discussing a proposal by President Hugo Chávez to change thirty-three of the 350 articles of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The proposed changes would create new forms of land tenure and restructure the nation’s governance system, both of which are essential to urban planning. The changes attempt to address the obstacles posed by a corrupt and ineffective bureaucracy created largely as a result of the huge surplus from Venezuela’s petroleum- dependent economy. The bureaucracy has often paralyzed and sabotaged the revolutionary process. The Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution has often been criticized for both continuing the corrupt, bureaucratic status quo and consolidating state power in the hands of a single individual. While both these conditions exist, they do not account for the most significant element of the revolutionary process, what George Ciccariello-Maher calls “the explosion of communal power.” Communal power is to be found in the dynamic community-based movements that make up the largest base of power for Chávez, including new “community councils” being formed in many neighborhoods. The constitutional reform seeks to consolidate and expand communal power, transform the bureaucracy and provide the president with more ways to maneuver around the obstacles to decentralization, devolution and socialization of the economy.
Rovibrational dynamics of the strontium molecule in the A^1Σ_u^+, c^3Π_u, and a^3Σ_u^+ manifold from state-of-the-art ab initio calculations
Creators: name: Skomorowski, Wojciech
name: Pawlowski, Filip
name: Koch, Christiane P.
name: Moszynski, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: State-of-the-art ab initio techniques have been applied to compute the potential energy curves for the electronic states in the A^1Σ_u^+, c^3Π_u, and a^3Σ_u^+ manifold of the strontium dimer, the spin-orbit and nonadiabatic coupling matrix elements between the states in the manifold, and the electric transition dipole moment from the ground X^1Σ_g^+ to the nonrelativistic and relativistic states in the A+c+a manifold. The potential energy curves and transition moments were obtained with the linear response (equation of motion) coupled cluster method limited to single, double, and linear triple excitations for the potentials and limited to single and double excitations for the transition moments. The spin-orbit and nonadiabatic coupling matrix elements were computed with the multireference configuration interaction method limited to single and double excitations. Our results for the nonrelativistic and relativistic (spin-orbit coupled) potentials deviate substantially from recent ab initio calculations. The potential energy curve for the spectroscopically active (1)0_u^+ state is in quantitative agreement with the empirical potential fitted to high-resolution Fourier transform spectra [A. Stein, H. Knoeckel, and E. Tiemann, Eur. Phys. J. D 64, 227 (2011)]. The computed ab initio points were fitted to physically sound analytical expressions, and used in converged coupled channel calculations of the rovibrational energy levels in the A+c+a manifold and line strengths for the A^1Σ_u^+
description: Final version, accepted for publication in Journal of Chemical Physics
Seeking common ground : a history of labor and Blue Cross
Creators: name: Markowitz, Gerald E.
name: Rosner, David K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Industrial relations

description: In recent years, voluntary health insurance costs have become a major source of friction in labor-management negotiations. What was once a "fringe" has led to job actions, strikes, and intensive bargaining. We examine the history of labor's participation in New York Blue Cross from the 1930s to the recent past and show that labor's participation in the plan was crucial to Blue Cross's success in the plan's early decades. By the late 1950s, serious tensions developed over rate increases and the participation of labor in Blue Cross governance. Ultimately, the issue was one of the control over what was provided by the plans and who would pay for the costs of care. We posit that labor was never able to achieve an important role in the control of the third-party payer, and in the antilabor environment of the 1980s this proved detrimental to labor's interests.
title: Rosina Elisabeth Eckhart
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Rosina Elisabeth Eckhart as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Consumption, silicosis, and the social construction of industrial disease
Creators: name: Rosner, David K.
name: Markowitz, Gerald E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Medicine, Industrial
Science
History

description: In the wake of the bacterial revolution after Robert Koch identified the tuberculosis bacillus, medical and public health professionals classified the various forms of consumption and phthisis as a single disease--tuberculosis. In large measure, historians have adopted that perspective. While there is undoubtedly a great deal of truth in this conceptualization, we argue that it obscures almost as much as it illuminates. By collapsing the nineteenth-century terms phthisis and consumption into tuberculosis, we maintain that historians have not understood the effect of non-bacterial consumption on working-class populations who suffered from the symptoms of coughing, wasting away, and losing weight. In this essay, we explore how, in the nineteenth century, what we now recognize as silicosis was referred to as miners' "con," stonecutters' phthisis, and other industry-specific forms of phthisis and consumption. We examine how the later and narrower view of the bacterial origins of tuberculosis limited the medical professions' ability to diagnose and understand diseases caused by industrial dust. This paper explores the contention that developed at the turn of the century over occupational lung disease and tuberculosis and the circumstances that led to the unmasking of silicosis as a disease category.
title: Esdras Edzard
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Esdras Edzard as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
A new arenavirus in a cluster of fatal transplant-associated diseases
Creators: name: Palacios, Gustavo F.
name: Druce, Julian
name: Du, Lei
name: Tran, Thomas
name: Birch, Chris
name: Briese, Thomas
name: Conlan, Sean
name: Quan, Phuong-Lan
name: Hui, Jeffrey
name: Marshall, John
name: Simons, Jan Fredrik
name: Egholm, Michael
name: Paddock, Christopher D.
name: Shieh, Wun-Ju
name: Goldsmith, Cynthia S.
name: Zaki, Sherif R.
name: Catton, Mike
name: Lipkin, W. Ian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Epidemiology
Virology

description: Three patients who received visceral-organ transplants from a single donor on the same day died of a febrile illness 4 to 6 weeks after transplantation. Culture, polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) and serologic assays, and oligonucleotide microarray analysis for a wide range of infectious agents were not informative. We evaluated RNA obtained from the liver and kidney transplant recipients. Unbiased high-throughput sequencing was used to identify microbial sequences not found by means of other methods. The specificity of sequences for a new candidate pathogen was confirmed by means of culture and by means of PCR, immunohistochemical, and serologic analyses. High-throughput sequencing yielded 103,632 sequences, of which 14 represented an Old World arenavirus. Additional sequence analysis showed that this new arenavirus was related to lymphocytic choriomeningitis viruses. Specific PCR assays based on a unique sequence confirmed the presence of the virus in the kidneys, liver, blood, and cerebrospinal fluid of the recipients. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed arenavirus antigen in the liver and kidney transplants in the recipients. IgM and IgG antiviral antibodies were detected in the serum of the donor. Seroconversion was evident in serum specimens obtained from one recipient at two time points.
Study of high-pT charged particle suppression in PbPb compared to pp collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse momentum spectra of charged particles have been measured in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In the transverse momentum range pt = 5-10 GeV/c, the charged particle yield in the most central PbPb collisions is suppressed by up to a factor of 5 compared to the pp yield scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. At higher pt, this suppression is significantly reduced, approaching roughly a factor of 2 for particles with pt in the range pt=40-100 GeV/c.
description: Submitted to EPJC