cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Aspergillus oryzae and Beauveria bassiana as entomopathogenic fungi of Spodoptera litura Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) infesting corn in Lampung, Indonesia
Creators: name: Fitriana, Yuyun
name: Suharjo, Radix
name: Swibawa, I. Gede
name: Semenguk, Bihikmi
name: Pasaribu, Lita Theresia
name: Hartaman, Maman
name: Rwandini, Ruruh Anjar
name: Indriyati, Indriyati
name: Purnomo, Purnomo
name: Solikhin, Solikhin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Reference strains used in this study.
An upper bound on the Kaon B-parameter and Re(epsilon_K)
Creators: name: Gerard, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New precise data in B physics and theoretical developments in K physics lead us to reconsider the weak K^0-\bar{K}^0 transition from a large-N_c viewpoint, N_c being the number of colors. In this framework, we infer an upper limit on \hat{B}_K and the Kaon indirect CP violation.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. V2 : Minor corrections, final version accepted for publication in JHEP
Theoretical study of the role of the tip in enhancing the sensitivity of differential conductance tunneling spectroscopy on magnetic surfaces
Creators: name: Palotás, Krisztián
name: Hofer, Werner A.
name: Szunyogh, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a simple model for spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy (SP-STS) we study how tip magnetization and electronic structure affects the differential conductance (dI/dV) tunneling spectrum of an Fe(001) surface. We take into account energy dependence of the vacuum decay of electron states, and tip electronic structure either using an ideal model or based on ab initio electronic structure calculation. In the STS approach, topographic and magnetic contributions to dI/dV can clearly be distinguished and analyzed separately. Our results suggest that the sensitivity of STS on a magnetic sample can be tuned and even enhanced by choosing the appropriate magnetic tip and bias setpoint, and the effect is governed by the effective spin-polarization.
description: 22 pages manuscript, 4 figures; http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.214410
Habitat specificity among ground squirrel populations at multiple spatial scales
Creators: name: Werner, Jeffery Ross
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii; AGS) comprised 17% of the herbivore biomass in the Yukon boreal forest during the summer months from 1987 to 1996 and accounted for 23% of the energy flow at the herbivore level. By 2000 these ground squirrel populations had collapsed to nearly zero and today they comprise ~1% of the herbivore biomass in this zone. Most forest populations (~95%) are extirpated, whereas only 65% of low-elevation meadow populations are extirpated. AGS remain abundant in alpine (93% occupancy) and in human altered habitats (97% occupancy). During spring, postpartum females in forests weighed less and were in poorer condition than females in meadows. However, by onset of hibernation, forest squirrels had reached parity with meadow squirrels in mass and condition. For squirrels in formerly occupied boreal forests a) poor spring body condition likely decreased reproductive success, and b) achieving compensatory growth, via increased foraging, may result in higher predation risk. These costs likely contributed to the recent local extinctions of AGS in boreal forest habitat. Population densities of AGS and snowshoe hares were estimated over a 25-year period encompassing two snowshoe hare cycles. A hyperbolic curve best describes the per capita rate of increase of ground squirrels relative to their population size, with a single stable equilibrium and a lower critical threshold below which populations drift to extinction. The crossing of this unstable boundary resulted in the subsequent uncoupling of ground squirrel and hare abundance following their mutual declines in 1998. Sustained top-down control of AGS, via a Type II predator response, probably led to their local extinction. Fine scale habitat features of 138 AGS colonies were measured over a 25,000 km² region of the southern Yukon, 2013-2015. Logistic regression models were constructed to determine which food, soil, and visibility characteristics best explain colony persistence. Habitat characteristics associated with food, predation risk, and overwinter survival jointly influence the distribution of colony extinctions over large spatial scales. Evidence for multi-factor control of the distribution of this important northern herbivore at the southern portion of its range indicate that numerical responses to environmental change will not be uniform.
Convection in an ideal gas at high Rayleigh numbers
Creators: name: Tilgner, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical simulations of convection in a layer filled with ideal gas are presented. The control parameters are chosen such that there is a significant variation of density of the gas in going from the bottom to the top of the layer. The relations between the Rayleigh, Peclet and Nusselt numbers depend on the density stratification. It is proposed to use a data reduction which accounts for the variable density by introducing into the scaling laws an effective density. The relevant density is the geometric mean of the maximum and minimum densities in the layer. A good fit to the data is then obtained with power laws with the same exponent as for fluids in the Boussinesq limit. Two relations connect the top and bottom boundary layers: The kinetic energy densities computed from free fall velocities are equal at the top and bottom, and the products of free fall velocities and maximum horizontal velocities are equal for both boundaries.
Additional file 2 of Aspergillus oryzae and Beauveria bassiana as entomopathogenic fungi of Spodoptera litura Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) infesting corn in Lampung, Indonesia
Creators: name: Fitriana, Yuyun
name: Suharjo, Radix
name: Swibawa, I. Gede
name: Semenguk, Bihikmi
name: Pasaribu, Lita Theresia
name: Hartaman, Maman
name: Rwandini, Ruruh Anjar
name: Indriyati, Indriyati
name: Purnomo, Purnomo
name: Solikhin, Solikhin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Infected Tenebrio molitor cadaver at 14 days after laid on each of soil samples.
The Role of University Policies and Practices in Student Behavior and Achievement
Creators: name: Cline, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation examines the roles that three university-level policies or practices play in student behavior and decision making. The first chapter examines the practice of providing letter grades to students near the middle of the semester. Many institutions now give first-year students midterm grade reports to allow students to alter their behavior before the official end of course grades are entered onto their transcript. I use a regression discontinuity design to provide the first causal evidence on how students respond to information regarding their midterm grades. To do so, I merge institutional administrative data with information I collected on detailed intra-course grades for approximately six thousand economics and physics students. Consistent with the related literature, I find that lower course grades in economics and physics appear to discourage women and cause them to perform worse in the remainder of the semester. There is no similar effect among men. The second chapter studies the influence of roommate assignment on student academic performance. Many applied microeconomists have used randomly assigned college roommates to study peer effects. To date, almost all of these studies have examined students in contexts that are not very representative of the average U.S. college student, despite an emerging consensus from the literature that peer effects are highly context-specific. In this chapter, I study roommates at a large, public, urban university that is arguably more representative. Using a linear-in-means model, I find no evidence or peer effects at relatively precise levels, which is consistent with much of the extant research on the topic. Using non-linear modeling of peer effects, I find no strong evidence that either a student’s or roommate’s position in the pre-college academic ability distribution matter for the magnitude of the peer effect – a departure from many of the findings in past work. The final chapter examines the effects of academic probation. Specifically, we use a regression discontinuity design to study how academic probation affects outcomes and course-taking behaviors at a large public university in the US. Consistent with past work, students placed on probation improve their GPA in the subsequent semester. We document that part of this GPA improvement is attributable to strategic course-taking, and there is significant heterogeneity in these behaviors across race. Non-minority students placed on probation attempt fewer credits, easier courses, and are more likely to withdraw from courses in the following term. In contrast, underrepresented minorities exhibit few of these behaviors, consistent with past work that suggests black and Hispanic students are less likely to possess helpful institutional knowledge and use available support systems such as academic counseling.
Blackfolds in (Anti)-de Sitter Backgrounds
Creators: name: Armas, Jay
name: Obers, Niels A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct different neutral blackfold solutions in Anti-de Sitter and de Sitter background spacetimes in the limit where the cosmological scale is taken to be much larger than the transverse horizon size. This includes a class of blackfolds with horizons that are products of odd-spheres times a transverse sphere, for which the thermodynamic stability is also studied. Moreover, we exhibit a specific case in which the same blackfold solution can describe different limiting black hole spacetimes therefore illustrating the geometric character of the blackfold approach. Furthermore, we show that the higher-dimensional Kerr-(Anti)-de Sitter black hole allows for ultra-spinning regimes in the relevant limit of large cosmological scale, and demonstrate that this is correctly described by a pancaked blackfold geometry. We also give evidence for the possibility of saturating the rigidity theorem in these backgrounds.
description: v1: 1+29 pages, latex. v2: cosmetic changes. v3: .pdf file corrected
Transition between phantom and non-phantom phases with time dependent cosmological constant and Cardy-Verlinde formula
Creators: name: Houndjo, M. J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the transition phenomenon of the universe between a phantom and a non-phantom phases. Particular attention is devoted to the case in which the cosmological constant depends on time and is proportional to the square of the Hubble parameter. Inhomogeneous equations of state are used and the equation of motion is solved. We find that, depending on the choice of the input parameters, the universe can transit from the non-phantom to the phantom phase leading to the appearance of singularities. In particular, we find that the phantom universe ends in the singularity of type III, unlike the case without variable cosmological constant in which the phantom phase ends exclusively in the big rip (singularity of type I). The Cardy-Verlinde formula is also introduced for inhomogeneous equation of state and we find that its equivalence with the total entropy of the universe, coming from the Friedmann equations, occurs only for special choice of the input parameter $m$ at the present time.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Can the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) checklist be utilized to predict emergency department visits among children and adolescents?
Creators: name: Bhattarai, Asmita
name: Dimitropoulos, Gina
name: Marriott, Brian
name: Paget, Jaime
name: Bulloch, Andrew G. M.
name: Tough, Suzanne C.
name: Patten, Scott B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Coefficients selected by the LASSO models.
Interculturalidad from below : an Indigenous movement's encounter with Peruvian intercultural education policy
Creators: name: Sarmiento, Paola
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: This study examines the discursive encounter about the notion of Interculturalidad between the Chirapaq Indigenous organization of Peru and the official Peruvian intercultural education policy. Taking a multi-perspective approach, it addresses how an Indigenous organization discursively (re)constructs the notion of Interculturalidad and how this (re)construction challenges and resists the Peruvian government’s dominant construction reflected in an official policy. The study draws on a hybrid decolonial theoretical framework, which is informed by decolonial theory, conceptualizations of Interculturalidad, and the principle of interrelatedness of Indigenous knowledges. In terms of methodology, the study utilizes a dual Foucauldian-inspired critical discourse analysis approaches. This dual discourse analysis is applied to the Indigenous organization’s written and spoken texts on intercultural education and the text-based official policy document. The findings demonstrate that the Peruvian intercultural education policy is principally dominated by an instrumental conception of cultural diversity, one which does not address the root causes of racism, marginalization, exclusion, and social asymmetries in Peru. Furthermore, the study found that the policy language fails to recognize the holistic nature of Indigenous knowledge systems. On the other hand, the Indigenous organization’s intercultural discourse was found to be intrinsically related to the problem of the colonial power structures that have subordinated all dimension of Indigenous peoples’ lives, while its (re)conceptualization of Interculturalidad constitutes an opportunity to centre Indigenous views on knowledge, language, and territory. The gulf between these divergent intercultural discourses speaks to the different frameworks in which each is grounded and their different conceptions of education for Indigenous students in the Peruvian context. Taking this Indigenous organization’s conceptions and the study’s findings into account, recommendations are made for improving the Peruvian intercultural education policy. Some of these recommendations are to affirm the inseparability of Indigenous knowledge, language, and territory within the intercultural education policy, and to ground it in a decolonial framework.
Additional file 1 of Periostin expression and its supposed roles in benign and malignant thyroid nodules: an immunohistochemical study of 105 cases
Creators: name: Kusafuka, Kimihide
name: Yamashita, Masaru
name: Iwasaki, Tomohiro
name: Tsuchiya, Chinatsu
name: Kubota, Aki
name: Hirata, Kazuki
name: Murakami, Akinori
name: Muramatsu, Aya
name: Arai, Kazumori
name: Suzuki, Makoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental table 1. Clinicopathological characteristics of thyroid nodules examined in the present study.
HepData reloaded: reinventing the HEP data archive
Creators: name: Buckley, Andy
name: Whalley, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe the status of the HepData database system, following a major re-development in time for the advent of LHC data. The new HepData system benefits from use of modern database and programming language technologies, as well as a variety of high-quality tools for interfacing the data sources and their presentation, primarily via the Web. The new back-end provides much more flexible and semantic data representations than before, on which new external applications can be built to respond to the data demands of the LHC experimental era. The HepData re-development was largely motivated by a desire to have a single source of reference data for Monte Carlo validation and tuning tools, whose status and connection to HepData we also briefly review.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, Presented at 13th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2010), February 22-27, 2010, Jaipur, India
Additional file 1 of Human pluripotent stem cell-derived cartilaginous organoids promote scaffold-free healing of critical size long bone defects
Creators: name: Tam, Wai Long
name: Freitas Mendes, Luís
name: Chen, Xike
name: Lesage, Raphaëlle
name: Van Hoven, Inge
name: Leysen, Elke
name: Kerckhofs, Greet
name: Bosmans, Kathleen
name: Chai, Yoke Chin
name: Yamashita, Akihiro
name: Tsumaki, Noriyuki
name: Geris, Liesbet
name: Roberts, Scott J.
name: Luyten, Frank P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Primer sequences for gene expression analysis.
A laser system for the excitation of rubidium Rydberg states using second harmonic generation in a PPLN waveguide crystal
Creators: name: Koglbauer, Andreas
name: Würtz, Peter
name: Gericke, Tatjana
name: Ott, Herwig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a laser system at a wavelength of 495 nm which is suitable for the excitations of low lying Rydberg states of rubidium atoms. The system is based on frequency doubling of a seeded diode laser in a periodically poled waveguide crystal. We achieve an output power of up to 35 mW and prove the single frequency performance by direct two photon laser spectroscopy of the rubidium 14D_5/2 and 14D_3/2 states. The measured fine structure splitting is consistent with quantum defect theory calculations.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 4 of Evaluating the use of a recommender system for selecting optimal messages for smoking cessation: patterns and effects of user-system engagement
Creators: name: Chen, Jinying
name: Houston, Thomas K.
name: Faro, Jamie M.
name: Nagawa, Catherine S.
name: Orvek, Elizabeth A.
name: Blok, Amanda C.
name: Allison, Jeroan J.
name: Person, Sharina D.
name: Smith, Bridget M.
name: Sadasivam, Rajani S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Top-10 high-impact messages sent by the recommender system.
Additional file 2 of Human pluripotent stem cell-derived cartilaginous organoids promote scaffold-free healing of critical size long bone defects
Creators: name: Tam, Wai Long
name: Freitas Mendes, Luís
name: Chen, Xike
name: Lesage, Raphaëlle
name: Van Hoven, Inge
name: Leysen, Elke
name: Kerckhofs, Greet
name: Bosmans, Kathleen
name: Chai, Yoke Chin
name: Yamashita, Akihiro
name: Tsumaki, Noriyuki
name: Geris, Liesbet
name: Roberts, Scott J.
name: Luyten, Frank P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Description of the modelling workflow with the in silico regulatory network model of chondrocyte differentiation and full simulation results.
Heavy-flavour production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC, measured with the ALICE detector
Creators: name: Dainese, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from the ALICE experiment on the nuclear modification factors for heavy-flavour hadron production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=2.76 TeV. Using proton-proton and lead-lead collision samples at sqrt{s}=7 TeV and sqrt{s_NN}=2.76 TeV, respectively, nuclear modification factors R_AA(pt) were measured for D mesons at central rapidity (via displaced decay vertex reconstruction), and for electrons and muons, at central and forward rapidity, respectively.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, plenary talk at Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France
Particle acceleration by collisionless shocks containing large-scale magnetic-field variations
Creators: name: Guo, F.
name: Jokipii, J. R.
name: Kota, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffusive shock acceleration at collisionless shocks is thought to be the source of many of the energetic particles observed in space. Large-scale spatial variations of the magnetic field has been shown to be important in understanding observations. The effects are complex, so here we consider a simple, illustrative model. Here, we solve numerically the Parker transport equation for a shock in the presence of large-scale sinusoidal magnetic-field variations. We demonstrate that the familiar planar-shock results can be significantly altered as a consequence of large-scale, meandering magnetic lines of force. Because perpendicular diffusion coefficient $κ_\perp$ is generally much smaller than parallel diffusion coefficient $κ_\parallel$, the energetic charged particles are trapped and preferentially accelerated along the shock front in the regions where the connection points of magnetic field lines intersecting the shock surface converge, and thus create the "hot spots" of the accelerated particles. For the regions where the connection points separate from each other, the acceleration to high energies will be suppressed. Further, the particles diffuse away from the "hot spot" regions and modify the spectra of downstream particle distribution. These features are qualitatively similar to the recent Voyager's observation in the Heliosheath. These results are potentially important for particle acceleration at shocks propagating in turbulent magnetized plasmas as well as those which contain large-scale nonplanar structures. Examples include anomalous cosmic rays accelerated by the solar wind termination shock, energetic particles observed in propagating heliospheric shocks, and galactic cosmic rays accelerated by supernova blast waves, etc.
description: accepted to ApJ
Additional file 1 of The effect of treatment with pimobendan in dogs with preclinical mitral valve disease – a placebo-controlled double-blinded crossover study
Creators: name: Klein, Stephanie
name: Nolte, Ingo
name: Rumstedt, Katja
name: Sehn, Maximiliane
name: Raue, Jonathan Friedemann
name: Weiner, Franziska
name: Treese, Julia Sophie
name: Beyerbach, Martin
name: Bach, Jan-Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire.
Tight-binding Hamiltonian for LaOFeAs
Creators: name: Papaconstantopoulos, D. A.
name: Mehl, M. J.
name: Johannes, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principles electronic structure calculations have been very useful in understanding some of the properties of the new iron-based superconductors. Further explorations of the role of the individual atomic orbitals in explaining various aspects of research in these materials, including experimental work, would benefit from the availability of a tight-binding(TB) Hamiltonian that reproduces accurately the first-principles band structure results. In this work we have used the NRL-TB method to construct a TB Hamiltonian from Linearized Augmented Plane Wave(LAPW) results. Our TB model includes the Fe d-orbitals, and the p-orbitals from both As and O for the prototype material LaOFeAs. The resulting TB band structure agrees well with that of the LAPW calculations in from 2.7 eV below to 0.8 eV above the Fermi level, epsilon_F, and the Fermi surface matches perfectly to that of the LAPW. The TB densities of states(DOS) are also in very good agreement with those from the LAPW in the above energy range, including the per orbital decomposition. We use our results to provide insights on the existence of a pseudogap in the DOS just above the Fermi level. We have also performed a separate TB fit to a database of LAPW results as a function of volume and with variations of the As positions. This fit although less accurate regarding the band structure near epsilon_F, reproduces the LAPW total energies very well and has transferability to non-fitted energies.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Slepton Mass Matrices, mu -> e gamma Decay and EDM in SUSY S4 Flavor Model
Creators: name: Ishimori, Hajime
name: Tanimoto, Morimitsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss slepton mass matrices in the $S_4$ flavor model with SUSY SU(5) GUT. By considering the gravity mediation within the framework of supergravity theory, we estimate the SUSY breaking terms in the slepton mass matrices, which contribute to the $μ\rightarrow e + γ$ decay. We obtain a lower bound for the ratio of $μ\rightarrow eγ$ as $10^{-13}$ if $m_{\text{SUSY}}$ and $m_{1/2}$ are below 500GeV. The off diagonal terms of slepton mass matrices also contribute to EDM of leptons. The predicted electron EDM is around $10^{-29}-10^{-28}$cm. Our predictions are expected to be tested in the near future experiment.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures
(De)Constructing a Natural and Flavorful Supersymmetric Standard Model
Creators: name: Craig, Nathaniel
name: Green, Daniel
name: Katz, Andrey
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: Using the framework of deconstruction, we construct simple, weakly-coupled supersymmetric models that explain the Standard Model flavor hierarchy and produce a flavorful soft spectrum compatible with precision limits. Electroweak symmetry breaking is fully natural; the mu-term is dynamically generated with no B mu-problem and the Higgs mass is easily raised above LEP limits without reliance on large radiative corrections. These models possess the distinctive spectrum of superpartners characteristic of "effective supersymmetry": the third generation superpartners tend to be light, while the rest of the scalars are heavy.
description: 36 pages, 4 figures ; v2: references added, expanded discussion of FCNCs
Genes, Environmental Pollutants, and Endocrine System Disruption
Creators: name: Kyeezu Kim
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this study, we explored the associations between endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and endocrine system disruption including hyperglycemic outcomes, lipid profiles, and thyroid hormone levels. We aimed to investigate the associations considering interrelationships between EDCs and genetic predisposition, potential reverse causality in cross-sectional study, and collective effects of environmental mixtures. In the first paper, we evaluated interactions between genetic polymorphisms and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on hyperglycemic outcomes using polygenic risk scores (PRS) for diabetes. We observed associations between the PRS and incident diabetes and prediabetes, but not with POPs. Yet, we found significant gene-environment interaction between PRS and POPs among individuals with higher exposure to POPs. The results of the first paper implied that managing modifiable risk factors can contribute to decrease risk of adverse health outcomes attributed to unmodifiable genetic risk. In the second paper, we assessed the associations between POPs and longitudinal change of lipid profiles. We observed associations between POPs and lower HDL cholesterol in longitudinal analyses. Our findings with longitudinal analyses deviated from cross-sectional analyses, which suggested that the results from cross-sectional studies might be biased and emphasized the importance of longitudinal studies in this field of study. In the third paper, we investigated the association of exposure to multiple metals with thyroid hormones. We used quantile g-computation (QGCOMP) to address the collective effects of metals as a mixture. We observed monotonic and non-monotonic associations between single metals and thyroid hormones. Moreover, our results from mixture analyses suggested that the single metal associations with thyroid hormones may be modified under the existence of concentrations of other metals. Our findings suggest the necessity of extending traditional regressions with mixtures analyses. We anticipate our study will contribute to understanding the associations between EDCs and adverse health outcomes, and current challenges in epidemiologic methods.
Additional file 3 of Evaluating the use of a recommender system for selecting optimal messages for smoking cessation: patterns and effects of user-system engagement
Creators: name: Chen, Jinying
name: Houston, Thomas K.
name: Faro, Jamie M.
name: Nagawa, Catherine S.
name: Orvek, Elizabeth A.
name: Blok, Amanda C.
name: Allison, Jeroan J.
name: Person, Sharina D.
name: Smith, Bridget M.
name: Sadasivam, Rajani S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Impact of demographic factors on user-system engagement.
title: 'I’m not injured, this is just my life': an exploration of the experiences of conservatoire students with chronic playing-related musculoskeletal disorders
Creators: name: Austin, C.
Publisher: name: Royal College of Music
Year: 2020

description: Playing-related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMDs) are a notably common problem among both professional musicians and conservatoire students. However, the primary focus of PRMD literature is on professional musicians. In addition, the word ‘chronic’ is rarely used in relation to musicians despite nearly two thirds of professional musicians displaying long-term or chronic PRMDs (symptoms lasting over 3 months). PRMDs affect musicians physically, psychologically and socially, particularly in the case of chronic conditions. There are limited qualitative studies regarding PRMDs, meaning the lived experiences of musicians with these conditions are often overlooked. This project aimed to begin filling a gap in the literature by holistically exploring the experiences of conservatoire students suffering from chronic PRMDs. This study used a qualitative approach and phenomenological methodology. Participants were recruited from conservatoires in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted with 5 students who self-reported to be suffering from a chronic PRMD. The interview schedule was informed by the biopsychosocial model, ensuring that pain was explored in a holistic way. Interview transcripts were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and preliminary findings were cross-checked with participants. Four key themes emerged from the data 1) Adapting to a new lifestyle 2) Dealing with internal and external pressures 3) Searching for guidance and support and 4) Living with stress and insecurities. The key findings support and elaborate on previous studies and are discussed in relation to existing literature and the biopsychosocial model. Using the biopsychosocial model in conjunction with IPA explored the individual holistic experiences of conservatoire students with chronic PRMD. The findings highlighted how physical, psychological and social aspects were all interconnected and constructed each participant’s individual chronic PRMD experience. Based on the key findings, implications for further research and recommendations for injury assessment and management in conservatoires are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones for the treatment of macrolide-refractory Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ahn, Jong Gyun
name: Cho, Hye-Kyung
name: Li, Donghe
name: Choi, Miyoung
name: Lee, Jina
name: Eun, Byung-Wook
name: Jo, Dae Sun
name: Park, Su Eun
name: Choi, Eun Hwa
name: Yang, Hyeon-Jong
name: Kim, Ki Hwan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Search strategies for database searching.
Trigonometric Parallax of W51 Main/South
Creators: name: Sato, M.
name: Reid, M. J.
name: Brunthaler, A.
name: Menten, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurement of the trigonometric parallax of W51 Main/South using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). We measure a value of 0.185 +/- 0.010 mas, corresponding to a distance of 5.41 (+0.31/-0.28) kpc. W51 Main/South is a well-known massive star-forming region near the tangent point of the Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way. Our distance to W51 yields an estimate of the distance to the Galactic center of Ro = 8.3 +/- 0.46 (statistical) +/- 1.0 (systematic) kpc by simple geometry. Combining the parallax and proper motion measurements for W51, we obtained the full-space motion of this massive star forming region. We find W51 is in a nearly circular orbit about the Galactic center. The H2O masers used for our parallax measurements trace four powerful bipolar outflows within a 0.4 pc size region, some of which are associated with dusty molecular hot cores and/or hyper- or ultra-compact HII regions.
description: Accepted to ApJ; 32 pages; 6 tables; 5 figures
Latina Community-Engaged Artists in Chicago: Practices, (Il)legibility, and Third Spaces
Creators: name: Muniz, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Latina artists contribute to murals, parades, festivals, graffiti, sculptures, galleries, and museums that make up the cultural fabrics of Latina/x/o communities around the United States. In this dissertation, I examine the cultural and spatial politics of Latina artists who regularly produce art for and with Chicago’s Latina/x/o communities. Drawing from over two years of ethnographic and visual methods, I argue that their practices entail the blurring, challenging, and transcendence of dominant social and spatial boundaries. I find that Latina community-engaged artists’ artistic development is directly related to their race, gender, and class backgrounds and this leads them to practice and understand art in ways that run counter to dominant artistic ideologies. Due to their subjectivities and practices, they often have their labor devalued, are denied access to artistic spaces, must contend with stereotypes and pigeonholing, and have their work rendered illegible by others in the arts. They resist their marginalization and systems of oppression by simultaneously engaging with and working against hegemonic discourses and institutions. Their strategies generate the conditions by which it becomes possible and necessary for Latina community-engaged artists to construct and work in alternative community spaces, or “third spaces”. These physical and non-physical spaces use ephemerality, fluidity, collectivity, and accessibility to produce spaces where alternative ways of being in community are possible and reflect the complex relationships between art, politics, and everyday life. Overall, my research highlights the work and knowledge of artists who receive scan attention in the sociology of art and Latina/x/o communities. More broadly, it illustrates the role that artists play in creating alternative relationships to dominant discourses and institutions.
Immigration Status and Medication Use for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the United States
Creators: name: Guadamuz, Jenny S
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The adult immigrant population has doubled from approximately 19 million in 1990 to 42 million in 2017, accounting for 17% of all US adults. However, noncitizens, which account for half of all immigrants, encounter significant barriers to healthcare access. For example, noncitizens without documentation (or undocumented immigrants) are ineligible for publicly funded health insurance, as are many documented immigrants, their eligibility depends on their specific visa status. Noncitizens also disproportionately face structural factors, such as poverty and residence in segregated, underserved communities, that adversely impact health and healthcare access. Therefore, immigration status, conceptualized using both citizenship and documentation status, may contribute to disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in this population. Despite the critical role of immigration status and community characteristics on CVD risk factors and their treatment and control, these determinants have largely been ignored in immigrant health research. The dissertation attempts to fill this knowledge gap by investigating: (1) the association between immigration status and the prevalence, treatment, and control of CVD risk factors, (2) the relationship between living in Latino noncitizen communities and preventative cardiovascular medication use, and (3) individual and community level factors that confound these relationships. Using nationally representative data, I found that high cholesterol, hypertension, and diabetes were commonly prevalent among immigrants regardless of citizenship status yet, noncitizens are less likely to be treated or achieve control of these CVD risk factors. Using a population-based cohort of Latino immigrants, I found that undocumented immigrants are less likely to be treated for CVD risk factors. Finally, using all-payer administrative claims in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, I found that living in Latino communities with a greater proportion of noncitizens (i.e., noncitizen communities) is associated with greater nonadherence to statins. Differences in the treatment of CVD risk factors may lead to disparities in CVD morbidity and mortality as immigrants age in the US, therefore, these studies have important implications for policies that intend to reduce the CVD burden among immigrants. More importantly, this research has the potential to shift the line of questioning in immigrant health, a field that has mainly focused on the influence of racial/ethnic, cultural, or behavioral differences. Instead, this work acknowledges the influence of immigration status as a structural factor that can deeply influence health inequities, regardless of these factors. I hope this work broadens the focus of immigrant health research as policymakers need to understand the root causes of disparities in order to design effective interventions.
Unified theory for external and internal attributes and symmetries of fundamental fermions
Creators: name: Sogami, Ikuo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An unorthodox unified theory is developed to describe external and internal attributes and symmetries of fundamental fermions, quarks and leptons. Basic ingredients of the theory are an algebra which consists of all the triple-direct-products of Dirac gamma-matrices and a triple-spinor-field, called a triplet field, defined on the algebra. The algebra possesses three commutative sub-algebras which describe, respectively, the external space-time symmetry, the family structure and the internal color symmetry of quarks and leptons. The triplet field includes threefold (fourfold) repetitionary modes of spin 1/2 component fields with SU(3) (SU(4)) color symmetry. It is possible to qualify the Yukawa interaction and to make a new interpretation of its coupling constants naturally in an intrinsic mechanism of the triplet field formalism. The Dirac mass matrices with quasi-democratic structure are derived as an illustration.
Polytypes of long-period stacking structures synchronized with chemical order in a dilute Mg-Zn-Y alloy
Creators: name: Abe, E.
name: Ono, A.
name: Itoi, T.
name: Yamasaki, M.
name: Kawamura, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A series of structural polytypes formed in an Mg-1at.%Zn-2at.%Y alloy has been identified, which are reasonably viewed as long-period stacking derivatives of the hcp Mg structure with alternate AB stacking of the close-packed atomic layers. Atomic-resolution Z-contrast imaging clearly revealed that the structures are long-period chemical-ordered as well as stacking-ordered; unique chemical order along the stacking direction occurs as being synchronized with a local faulted stacking of AB'C'A, where B' and C' layers are commonly enriched by Zn/Y atoms.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Philosophical Magazine Letters
Permanent monitoring of the reference point at the 20m radio telescope Wettzell
Creators: name: Neidhardt, Alexander
name: Lösler, Michael
name: Eschelbach, Cornelia
name: Schenk, Andreas
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010

description: To achieve the aims of the VLBI2010 agenda and of the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) an automated monitoring of the reference points of different geodetic space techniques, such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), is desirable. The resulting permanent monitoring of the local-tie vectors at co-location stations are essential to obtain the sub-millimeter level in the combinations. For this reason a monitoring system was installed by the Geodetic institute of the University of Karlsruhe (GIK) to observe the 20m radio telescope for VLBI at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell from May to August. 
A specially developed software from the Geodetic Institute of the university collected data from automated total station measurements, meteorological sensors, and sensors in the telescope monument (e.g., Invar cable data). A real-time visualization directly offered a live view of the measurements during the regular observation operations. Additional scintillometer measurements allowed refraction corrections during the post-processing. This project is one of the first feasibility studies aimed at determining significant deformations of the VLBI antenna due to, for instance, changes in temperature.
Ion Transport in Nano-Engineered Ion Exchange Membranes and Their Applications for Redox Flow Batteries
Creators: name: Tongshuai Wang
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Work presented in this dissertation focused on developing nano-engineered membranes to overcome the trade-off limitation between ion selectivity and permeability, as well as establishing a fundamental understanding on the correlation between membrane structure and its ion transport/electrochemical performance.
Ein neuer Systemansatz für die Fahrerwarnung bei Nacht
Creators: name: Arnon, Marc
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010
Subjects: Nachtsicht
Situationsbewusstsein
HMI
Warnung
Radarsensor

description: Die Arbeit stellt ein Konzept für ein warnendes Nachtsichtsystem mit einem HMI dar, das daraufhin optimiert ist, dass der Fahrer einerseits so früh wie möglich gewarnt wird und andererseits Fehlwarnungen sein Systemvertrauen kaum beeinträchtigen. Zusätzlich werden die zur Realisierung des Gesamtsystems erforderlichen Softwaremodule für die Datenverarbeitung der Umfeldsensorik entwickelt. Das System wird in Fahrsimulationen und in Fahrzeugtests mit Probanden eingehend untersucht.
Entwicklung und Anwendung elektrostatischer Phasenplatten in der Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie
Creators: name: Schultheiß, Katrin
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010
Subjects: Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie
Phasenplatten
Phasenkontrast
Objektwellenrekonstruktion

description: In der Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie gibt es Proben, die nur schwachen Kontrast erzeugen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden Phasenplatten entwickelt, die durch elektrostatische Potentiale eine Kontrastverbesserung ermöglichen. Die Anwendung der Phasenplatten wurde anhand verschiedender Proben und Mikroskopparameter untersucht. Mithilfe der so gewonnen Aufnahmen wird es ermöglicht, die komplexe Objektwellenfunktion zu rekonstruieren und damit wichtige Eigenschaften der Probe zu bestimmen.