cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sedentary behavior and subclinical atherosclerosis in African Americans: cross-sectional analysis of the Jackson heart study
Creators: name: Diaz, Keith
name: Booth III, John N.
name: Seals, Samantha R.
name: Hooker, Steven P.
name: Sims, Mario
name: Dubbert, Patricia M.
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Shimbo, Daichi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: African Americans--Health and hygiene
Sedentary behavior
Atherosclerosis
Epidemiology

description: BACKGROUND: Previous studies have reported conflicting results as to whether an association exists between sedentary time and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among African Americans. These studies, however, were limited by lack of consideration of sedentary behavior in leisure versus non-leisure settings. To elucidate this relation, we investigated the associations of television (TV) viewing time and occupational sitting with carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), a subclinical atherosclerosis measure, in a community-based sample of African Americans. METHODS: We studied 3410 participants from the Jackson Heart Study, a single-site, community-based study of African Americans residing in Jackson, MS. CIMT was assessed by ultrasonography and represented mean far-wall thickness across right and left sides of the common carotid artery. TV viewing time, a measure of leisure sedentary behavior, and occupational sitting, a measure of non-leisure sedentary behavior, were assessed by questionnaire. RESULTS: In a multivariable regression model that included physical activity and CVD risk factors, longer TV viewing time (2-4 h/day and >4 h/day) was associated with greater CIMT (adjusted mean ± SE difference from referent [<2 h/day] of 0.009 ± 0.008 mm for 2-4 h/day, and 0.028 ± 0.009 mm for >4 h/day; P-trend =0.001). In contrast, more frequent occupational sitting ('sometimes' and 'often/always') was associated with lower CIMT (adjusted mean ± SE difference from referent ['never/seldom']:-0.021 ± 0.009 mm for 'sometimes', and-0.018 ± 0.008 mm for 'often/always'; P-trend = 0.042). CONCLUSIONS: Longer TV viewing time was associated with greater CIMT, while occupational sitting was associated with lower CIMT. These findings suggest the role of sedentary behaviors in the pathogenesis of CVD among African Americans may vary by whether individuals engage in leisure versus non-leisure sedentary behaviors.
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Individuals with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Kent, Shia T.
name: Bromfield, Samantha G.
name: Burkholder, Greer A.
name: Falzon, Louise
name: Oparil, Suzanne
name: Overton, Edgar T.
name: Mugavero, Michael J.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Muntner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
HIV-positive persons
Database searching
Meta-analysis
Medical sciences
Public health
Epidemiology

description: Introduction

Abnormal diurnal blood pressure (BP) rhythms may contribute to the high cardiovascular disease risk in HIV-positive (HIV+) individuals. To synthesize the current literature on ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) in HIV+ individuals, a systematic literature review and meta-analysis were performed.

Methods

Medical databases were searched through November 11, 2015 for studies that reported ABPM results in HIV+ individuals. Data were extracted by 2 reviewers and pooled differences between HIV+ and HIV-negative (HIV-) individuals in clinic BP and ABPM measures were calculated using random-effects inverse variance weighted models.

Results

Of 597 abstracts reviewed, 8 studies with HIV+ cohorts met the inclusion criteria. The 420 HIV+ and 714 HIV- individuals in 7 studies with HIV- comparison groups were pooled for analyses. The pooled absolute nocturnal systolic and diastolic BP declines were 3.16% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.13%, 5.20%) and 2.92% (95% CI: 1.64%, 4.19%) less, respectively, in HIV+ versus HIV- individuals. The pooled odds ratio for non-dipping systolic BP (nocturnal systolic BP decline <10%) in HIV+ versus HIV- individuals was 2.72 (95% CI: 1.92, 3.85). Differences in mean clinic, 24-hour, daytime, or nighttime BP were not statistically significant. I2 and heterogeneity chi-squared statistics indicated the presence of high heterogeneity for all outcomes except percent DBP dipping and non-dipping SBP pattern.

Conclusions

An abnormal diurnal BP pattern may be more common among HIV+ versus HIV- individuals. However, results were heterogeneous for most BP measures, suggesting more research in this area is needed.
Modular Matrices as Topological Order Parameter by Gauge Symmetry Preserved Tensor Renormalization Approach
Creators: name: He, Huan
name: Moradi, Heidar
name: Wen, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological order has been proposed to go beyond Landau symmetry breaking theory for more than twenty years. But it is still a challenging problem to generally detect it in a generic many-body state. In this paper, we will introduce a systematic numerical method based on tensor network to calculate modular matrices in 2D systems, which can fully identify topological order with gapped edge. Moreover, it is shown numerically that modular matrices, including S and T matrices, are robust characterization to describe phase transitions between topologically ordered states and trivial states, which can work as topological order parameters. This method only requires local information of one ground state in the form of a tensor network, and directly provides the universal data (S and T matrices), without any non-universal contributions. Furthermore it is generalizable to higher dimensions. Unlike calculating topological entanglement entropy by extrapolating, which numerical complexity is exponentially high, this method extracts a much more complete set of topological data (modular matrices) with much lower numerical cost.
description: 5+3 pages; 4+2 figures; One more appendix is added
Bassaricyon J. A. Allen 1876
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Procyonidae
Bassaricyon

description: Bassaricyon J. A. Allen, 1876. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 28:20, pl. 1; text 1877, 267-268, pl. 2. ‘ COMMENT: The several named forms of Bassaricyon are probably conspecific; see Stains, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 335. This genus is being revised by SK. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412003002000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 252, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Stains, H. J. 1967. Carnivores, Pp. 325 - 354, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 453 pp."]}
Additional file 1 of CCL2 is associated with microglia and macrophage recruitment in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Creators: name: Cherry, Jonathan D.
name: Gaoyuan Meng
name: Daley, Sarah
name: Weiming Xia
name: Svirsky, Sarah
name: Alvarez, Victor E.
name: Nicks, Raymond
name: Pothast, Morgan
name: Kelley, Hunter
name: Huber, Bertrand
name: Yorghos Tripodis
name: Alosco, Michael L.
name: Mez, Jesse
name: McKee, Ann C.
name: Stein, Thor D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure 1. Distribution of age at death across sample groups. Histogram showing the distribution of the ages at death for A) Control, B) RHI without CTE, C) Low CTE, D) High CTE, E) Low AD, F) Intermediate AD, and G) High AD. Cases are binned for ever 5 years.
Additional file 2 of Quality control and evaluation of Inonotus obliquus using HPLC method with novel marker compounds
Creators: name: Kim, Jin Hyeok
name: Seol Kyu Park
name: Cho, Chong Woon
name: Le, Ba Vinh
name: Kim, Young Ho
name: Haiying Bao
name: Kim, Kyung Tae
name: Kang, Jong Seong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Morphologies of (a) I. obliquus mushroom, (b) commercial I. obliquus product, (c) A. auricula-judae mushroom, (d) G. lucidum mushroom, (e) L edodes mushroom, (f) P. linteus mushroom and (g) I. hispidus mushroom. Figure S2. Chromatograms of (a) blank, (b) inotodiol and (c) 3β-hydroxylanosta-8,24-dien-21-al. HPLC conditions: Column; HECTOR-M C18 (250 x 4.6 mm, 5 μm), eluent; 99 % acetonitrile, flow rate of 1mL/min, injection volume of 10 μL. Figure S3. Extraction efficiency compounds depending on various solvents. Figure S4. Extraction efficiency of marker depending on extraction method. Figure S5. Extraction efficiency of marker compounds depending on extraction time by sonication. Figure S6. Comparison of UV spectra between sample and standards : (a) inotodiol and (b) 3β-hydroxylanosta-8,24-dien-21-al. Figure S7. Calibration curves for (a) inotodiol and (b) 3β-hydroxylanosta-8,24-dien-21-al.
Multinational evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis and management of gout: integrating systematic literature review and expert opinion of a broad panel of rheumatologists in the 3e initiative
Creators: name: Sivera, Francisca
name: Andrés, Mariano
name: Carmona, Loreto
name: Kydd, Alison S. R.
name: Moi, John
name: Seth, Rakhi
name: Sriranganathan, Melonie
name: Van Durme, Caroline
name: Van Echteld, Irene
name: Vinik, Ophir
name: Wechalekar, Mihir D.
name: Aletaha, Daniel
name: Bombardier, Claire
name: Buchbinder, Rachelle
name: Edwards, Christopher J.
name: Landewé, Robert B.
name: Bijlsma, Johannes W.
name: Branco, Jaime C.
name: Burgos-Vargas, Rubén
name: Catrina, Anca I.
name: Elewaut, Dirk
name: Ferrari, Antonio J. L.
name: Kiely, Patrick
name: Leeb, Burkhard F.
name: Montecucco, Carlomaurizio
name: Müller-Ladner, Ulf
name: Østergaard, Mikkel
name: Zochling, Jane
name: Falzon, Louise
name: Van Der Heijde, Désirée M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Evidence-based medicine
Gout--Treatment
Rheumatology
Medical policy--International cooperation
Medicine
Health services administration
Medical care
Information science

description: We aimed to develop evidence-based multinational recommendations for the diagnosis and management of gout. Using a formal voting process, a panel of 78 international rheumatologists developed 10 key clinical questions pertinent to the diagnosis and management of gout. Each question was investigated with a systematic literature review. Medline, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL and abstracts from 2010–2011 European League Against Rheumatism and American College of Rheumatology meetings were searched in each review. Relevant studies were independently reviewed by two individuals for data extraction and synthesis and risk of bias assessment. Using this evidence, rheumatologists from 14 countries (Europe, South America and Australasia) developed national recommendations. After rounds of discussion and voting, multinational recommendations were formulated. Each recommendation was graded according to the level of evidence. Agreement and potential impact on clinical practice were assessed. Combining evidence and clinical expertise, 10 recommendations were produced. One recommendation referred to the diagnosis of gout, two referred to cardiovascular and renal comorbidities, six focused on different aspects of the management of gout (including drug treatment and monitoring), and the last recommendation referred to the management of asymptomatic hyperuricaemia. The level of agreement with the recommendations ranged from 8.1 to 9.2 (mean 8.7) on a 1–10 scale, with 10 representing full agreement. Ten recommendations on the diagnosis and management of gout were established. They are evidence-based and supported by a large panel of rheumatologists from 14 countries, enhancing their utility in clinical practice.
Transnational Access to magnet testing facilities
Creators: name: ARIES WP9 Members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The transnational access MagNet fulfilled the engagements by giving 1932 access for 6 different projects. Unfortunately, GERSEMI due to delays in the infrastructure preparation and problems encountered in the user’s side could not be operational.
description: {"references": ["ARIES Del9.1"]}
Devnagari Handwritten Numeral Recognition using Geometric Features and Statistical Combination Classifier
Creators: name: Dongre, Vikas J.
name: Mankar, Vijay H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a Devnagari Numerical recognition method based on statistical discriminant functions. 17 geometric features based on pixel connectivity, lines, line directions, holes, image area, perimeter, eccentricity, solidity, orientation etc. are used for representing the numerals. Five discriminant functions viz. Linear, Quadratic, Diaglinear, Diagquadratic and Mahalanobis distance are used for classification. 1500 handwritten numerals are used for training. Another 1500 handwritten numerals are used for testing. Experimental results show that Linear, Quadratic and Mahalanobis discriminant functions provide better results. Results of these three Discriminants are fed to a majority voting type Combination classifier. It is found that Combination classifier offers better results over individual classifiers.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, journal paper
23 TrainingThings For Effective Webinars
Creators: name: Hausen, Daniela Adele
name: Jordan, Sabrina
name: Manske, Antje
name: Schröter, Annett
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: 23 TrainingThings for Effective Webinars is a practical guide offering proven strategies for planning and delivering successful webinars. It covers key aspects such as setting clear objectives, identifying target audiences, choosing the right tools, and engaging participants effectively. Designed for technical experts with limited teaching experience, this guide helps improve webinar quality, ensuring sessions are focused, interactive, and professionally executed. While based on experiences from research data management training, the tips are adaptable to any webinar context.

There is a one-page version for even the busiest expert and an extended guide if you want to discover even more best practices.
The Cochrane review of assistive technology for rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Tuntland, H.
name: Kjeken, I.
name: Nordheim, L.
name: Falzon, Louise
name: Jamtvedt, G.
name: Hagen, K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Self-help devices for people with disabilities
Rheumatoid arthritis--Patients
Systematic reviews (Medical research)
Health services administration
Medical care
Physical therapy

description: AIM:
The aim of this systematic review is to summarise the available evidence on the effectiveness of assistive technology for adults with rheumatoid arthritis in terms of improving functional ability and reducing pain, and to assess potential adverse effects related to device use.
METHODS:
In this review, randomised controlled trials, clinical controlled trials, controlled before and after studies and interrupted time series available through systematic searches (electronic databases, grey literature, contact with authors, reference lists) up to October 2008 were included. Two reviewers independently selected trials for inclusion, assessed the validity of included trials, and extracted data. Investigators were contacted to obtain missing information.
RESULTS:
Out of 7177 hits, 13 articles were reviewed in full text and only one trial was finally included (N.=29). The study was a randomised crossover trial, in which the use of an eye drop device was compared to a standard bottle in people with rheumatoid arthritis suffering from persistent dry eyes. The results show that the eye drop device improved application of eye drops and prevented adverse effects in terms of touching the eye with the bottle tip. The study was considered to have low quality of evidence.
CONCLUSION:
Since only one trial met the inclusion criteria for this review, there is very limited evidence for the effect of assistive technology for adults with rheumatoid arthritis. There is an urgent need for high-quality research in this field, in order to reach sufficient evidence on the effectiveness of this commonly used intervention.
N-of-1 randomized trials for psychological and health behavior outcomes: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Shaffer, Jonathan A.
name: Falzon, Louise
name: Cheung, Ken
name: Davidson, Karina W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Clinical psychology--Research--Methodology
Clinical trials--Methodology
Systematic reviews (Medical research)
Medicine and psychology
Biometry
Clinical psychology

description: Background
Randomized controlled trials are the sine qua non of causal inference; however, heterogeneity of treatment effects for many chronic conditions and for many symptoms often limits their utility. Single-patient studies in which patients select a treatment after trying a randomized sequence of treatments (i.e., multiple crossover trials) offer an alternative to traditional randomized controlled trials by providing scientifically valid results in a practical manner that can be used by patients and their providers to decide upon their personally optimal treatment. Although N-of-1 trials have been used in the medical literature, their use for interventions that consist of psychological or health behavior outcomes is unknown. This systematic review thus aims to describe the interventions and outcomes and assess the quality of N-of-1 trials for psychological or health behavior outcomes.

Methods/Design
Electronic databases (Ovid MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and the six databases in the Cochrane Library) will be searched using all relevant subject headings and free-text terms to represent N-of-1 trials and psychological or behavioral interventions. Full text review and bibliography searching will be conducted. Unpublished studies will be sought by searching trial registries and contacting authors of included studies. Eligibility criteria are the following: population, all human participants for whom N-of-1 trials with psychological or health behavior outcomes have been conducted; interventions, all interventions for which N-of-1 trials have been conducted; comparison, placebo or active treatment control; and outcome, psychological and health behavior outcomes including self-perceived disease severity and psychological phenomena such as mood and affect. Studies that do not contain sufficient trial detail, describe only design or statistical analytic issues in N-of-1 trials without presentation of an N-of-1 trial itself, and/or are not written in the English language are ineligible. Screening, data extraction, and quality assessment will be conducted by two independent reviewers with disagreements resolved through discussion.

Discussion
This systematic review will describe the interventions and outcomes and assess the quality of N-of-1 trials for psychological or health behavior outcomes. The results will clarify the use of this research methodology in the health psychology and behavioral medicine literature and may pave the way for additional N-of-1 trials to be conducted.
Detection of H-alpha emission from z>3.5 submillimetre luminous galaxies with AKARI-FUHYU spectroscopy
Creators: name: Sedgwick, Chris
name: Serjeant, Stephen
name: Pearson, Chris
name: Smail, Ian
name: Im, Myungshin
name: Oyabu, Shinki
name: Takagi, Toshinobu
name: Matsuhara, Hideo
name: Wada, Takehiko
name: Lee, Hyung Mok
name: Jeong, Woong-Seob
name: White, Glenn J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present tentative H-alpha emission line detections of four submillimetre-detected galaxies at z>3.5: the radio galaxies 8C1909+722 and 4C60.07 at signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of 3.1 and 2.5, and two submillimetre-selected galaxies (SMGs) near the first of these at SNRs of 10.0 and 2.4, made with the AKARI Space Telescope as part of the FUHYU mission program. These are the highest-redshift H-alpha detections in such galaxies, made possible by AKARI's unique near-infrared spectroscopic capability. The two radio galaxies had known redshifts and surrounding structure, and we have detected broad H-alpha components indicating the presence of dust-shrouded quasars. We conclude that powerful AGNs at z>3.5 occur in peaks of the star-formation density fields, supporting a close connection between stellar mass build-up and black hole mass assembly at this redshift. We also show that 4C60.07 is a binary AGN. The H-alpha detections of the two SMGs are the first redshift determinations for these sources, confirming their physical association around their companion radio galaxy. The H-alpha-derived star formation rates (SFRs) for the SMGs are lower than their far-infrared derived SFRs by a factor of ~10, suggesting a level of dust obscuration similar to that found in studies at ~1
description: 7 pages. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Expanding the Repertoire of Optogenetically Targeted Cells with an Enhanced Gene Expression System
Creators: name: Tanaka, Kenji F.
name: Matsui, Ko
name: Sasaki, Takuya
name: Sano, Hiromi
name: Sugio, Shouta
name: Fan, Kai
name: Hen, Rene
name: Nakai, Junichi
name: Yanagawa, Yuchio
name: Hasuwa, Hidetoshi
name: Okabe, Masaru
name: Deisseroth, Karl
name: Ikenaka, Kazuhiro
name: Yamanaka, Akihiro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Tetracycline
subject: Optogenetics
subject: Gene expression
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Cytology

description: Optogenetics has been enthusiastically pursued in recent neuroscience research, and the causal relationship between neural activity and behavior is becoming ever more accessible. Here, we established knockin-mediated enhanced gene expression by improved tetracycline-controlled gene induction (KENGE-tet) and succeeded in generating transgenic mice expressing a highly light-sensitive channelrhodopsin-2 mutant at levels sufficient to drive the activities of multiple cell types. This method requires two lines of mice: one that controls the pattern of expression and another that determines the protein to be produced. The generation of new lines of either type readily expands the repertoire to choose from. In addition to neurons, we were able to manipulate the activity of nonexcitable glial cells in vivo. This shows that our system is applicable not only to neuroscience but also to any biomedical study that requires understanding of how the activity of a selected population of cells propagates through the intricate organic systems.
SOME FEATURES OF THE CLINICAL COURSE OF COLOSTASIS IN CHILDREN
Creators: name: Nuriddinov, Sadriddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article discusses the main points and causative factors of colostasis in children. Conductedanalysis of anamnestic data of 149 patients, study of the results of clinical and anamnestic data and a comprehensive clinical examination,
Resolved photometry of Young Massive Clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 4214
Creators: name: Sollima, A.
name: Cignoni, M.
name: Gratton, R. G.
name: Tosi, M.
name: Bragaglia, A.
name: Lucatello, S.
name: Meurer, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of deep high resolution imaging performed with ACS/HRC@HST in the most active region of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4214. We resolved the stellar populations of five Young Massive Clusters and their surrounding galactic field. The star formation history of this region is characterized by two main bursts occurred within the last 500 Myr, with the oldest episode spread out across an area larger than that covered by the most recent one. The ages derived for the analysed clusters cover a wide range between 6.4
description: 17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS
Are there educational and psychological benefits from parental school involvement for early adolescents? Evidence from the China Educational Panel Survey(CEPS)
Creators: name: Zhang, Yushu
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Parental school involvement
subject: Early adolescents
subject: Achievement gap
subject: Propensity score
subject: Hierarchical linear model
subject: Educational equity

description: This study focuses on adolescents in China and examines the educational and psychological effects of parental participation in school meetings. Applying propensity score stratification and hierarchical linear modeling, this study shows a positive impact of parental participation (versus non-participation) on students’ cognitive scores and psychological well-being. While advantaged parents are more likely to attend the meetings, parental participation may have added rewards for students with lower pre-test achievement and at schools with lower-SES parents. This finding is in line with earlier research, suggesting that the children who would benefit most from parental involvement are those who are least likely to receive it. Such findings reveal the unique barriers faced by disadvantaged families, highlighting the imperative of policies or programs to identify strategies to increase participation. Moreover, despite the positive influence, the small effect size on students' outcomes indicates the necessity of considering the characteristics of early adolescent development and unique family dynamics during adolescence to promote developmentally appropriate and effective parental involvement.
Survey of Climate Change Considerations in Federal Environmental Impact Statements, 2012-2014
Creators: name: Wentz, Jessica A.
name: Glovin, Grant
name: Ang, Adrian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Environmental impact statements--Law and legislation
Environmental law
Climatic changes

description: Climate change will have a profound effect on humans and our environment. Recognizing this, federal agencies have begun to incorporate a more detailed discussion of climate change considerations into the Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) that they prepare for major federal actions, such as the approval of resource management plans and public infrastructure projects, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has also issued draft guidance on how agencies should evaluate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change effects in NEPA reviews. To provide insight into how federal agencies are accounting for climate change in the environmental review process, the Sabin Center conducted a survey of federal EISs published from July 2012 through December 2014. First, we divided the EISs into twelve project categories: electric generation; electric transmission; fossil fuel development; mining; forestry; parks and wildlife; other land management; marine management; public works; transportation; buildings and real estate; and military, space and government research. We then evaluated whether the EISs discussed ten topics related to climate change (all emissions refer to GHG emissions): Mitigation Considerations: (1) Direct operational emissions (2) Emissions from construction (3) Emissions from induced trips (4) Emissions from purchased electricity (5) Other emissions (6) Comparison of emissions from alternatives;  Adaptation Considerations: (7) Impact of climate change on the proposed action (8) Impact of climate change on water resources; Efficiency Considerations: (9) Energy efficiency (10) Water efficiency. This survey is a follow-up to a prior assessment of climate change considerations in EISs published from January 2009 through July 2012, which found that most federal agencies addressed climate change to some extent in EISs, but that the specific impacts considered and methodology used to evaluate those impacts varied greatly between agencies. Excel databases with the results from both surveys are available on our website.
World Food: Prices and the Poor
Creators: name: Schertz, Lyle P.
name: Schertz, Lyle P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Security and Poverty

description: Based on “World Food: Prices and the Poor," by Lyle P. Schertz, Deputy Administrator, Economic Research Service, published in Foreign Affairs, April 1974.
description: Reprinted from the August 1974 Farm Index magazine.
Transnational Access to material testing facilities
Creators: name: ARIES WP10 Members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In this report, the activities of WP10 and transnational access to material testing facilities offered by the ARIES project are summarised. The report includes descriptions of HiRadMat and M-Branch infrastructures and description of the procedure for user selection. Provided transnational access and highlights of the results are cited in detail.
 The estimated quantity of access units to be provided was 664 for HiRadMat and 768 for M-Branch. The overall quantity of access units that was provided throughout the duration of the project far exceeded the expectations, reaching 2426 for HiRadMat and 944 for M-Branch.
description: {"references": ["ARIES Del10.1"]}
Additional file 1 of Diabetes and Covid-19 among hospitalized patients in Saudi Arabia: a single-centre retrospective study
Creators: name: Alguwaihes, Abdullah M.
name: Al-Sofiani, Mohammed E.
name: Maram Megdad
name: Sakhar S. Albader
name: Alsari, Mohammad H.
name: Alelayan, Ali
name: Alzahrani, Saad H.
name: Sabico, Shaun
name: Al-Daghri, Nasser M.
name: Jammah, Anwar A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Presenting symptoms and vital signs of Covid-19 patients according to severity and final outcome.
On the computation of directional scale-discretized wavelet transforms on the sphere
Creators: name: McEwen, J. D.
name: Vandergheynst, P.
name: Wiaux, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review scale-discretized wavelets on the sphere, which are directional and allow one to probe oriented structure in data defined on the sphere. Furthermore, scale-discretized wavelets allow in practice the exact synthesis of a signal from its wavelet coefficients. We present exact and efficient algorithms to compute the scale-discretized wavelet transform of band-limited signals on the sphere. These algorithms are implemented in the publicly available S2DW code. We release a new version of S2DW that is parallelized and contains additional code optimizations. Note that scale-discretized wavelets can be viewed as a directional generalization of needlets. Finally, we outline future improvements to the algorithms presented, which can be achieved by exploiting a new sampling theorem on the sphere developed recently by some of the authors.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of Wavelets and Sparsity XV, SPIE Optics and Photonics 2013, Code is publicly available at http://www.s2dw.org/
Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Brazilian Law
Creators: name: Wedy, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Greenhouse gases--Law and legislation
Climatic changes
Environmental law

description: This article describes Brazil's 2009 National Policy for Climate Change (NPCC) and explores how the principle of sustainable development provided for in the Brazilian Federal Constitution can be used to correct omissions and imperfections in the NPCC's application when NPCC provisions come before the Judiciary branch, the Executive branch and regulatory agencies.
Ontario’s Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon Economy Act: Pious Aspirations or New Dawn?
Creators: name: Olawuyi, Damilola
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Greenhouse gases--Law and legislation
subject: Climatic changes
subject: Environmental law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper assess Ontario's proposed cap and trade program for effectiveness; comprehensiveness; transparency and fairness; and offset eligibility. It identifies its areas of innovation and strengths, key implementation and logistical questions that may arise, and offers perspectives on how to address such gaps.
Additional file 1 of Emotional empowerment through information research and communication to reduce fear of COVID-19 among nursing students: a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Mayor-Silva, L. Iván
name: Moreno, Guillermo
name: Girón-Daviña, Pedro R.
name: Mohamedi-Abdelkader, Samir
name: Hernández-Martín, Marta M.
name: Moreno-Pimentel, Antonio G.
name: Meneses-Monroy, Alfonso
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
X-ray and UV correlation in the quiescent emission of Cen X-4, evidence of accretion and reprocessing
Creators: name: Bernardini, F.
name: Cackett, E. M.
name: Brown, E. F.
name: D'Angelo, C.
name: Degenaar, N.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Reynolds, M.
name: Wijnands, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted the first long-term (60 days), multiwavelength (optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray) simultaneous monitoring of Cen X-4 with daily Swift observations, with the goal of understanding variability in the low mass X-ray binary Cen X-4 during quiescence. We found Cen X-4 to be highly variable in all energy bands on timescales from days to months, with the strongest quiescent variability a factor of 22 drop in the X-ray count rate in only 4 days. The X-ray, UV and optical (V band) emission are correlated on timescales down to less than 110 s. The shape of the correlation is a power law with index gamma about 0.2-0.6. The X-ray spectrum is well fitted by a hydrogen NS atmosphere (kT=59-80 eV) and a power law (with spectral index Gamma=1.4-2.0), with the spectral shape remaining constant as the flux varies. Both components vary in tandem, with each responsible for about 50% of the total X-ray flux, implying that they are physically linked. We conclude that the X-rays are likely generated by matter accreting down to the NS surface. Moreover, based on the short timescale of the correlation, we also unambiguously demonstrate that the UV emission can not be due to either thermal emission from the stream impact point, or a standard optically thick, geometrically thin disc. The spectral energy distribution shows a small UV emitting region, too hot to arise from the accretion disk, that we identified as a hot spot on the companion star. Therefore, the UV emission is most likely produced by reprocessing from the companion star, indeed the vertical size of the disc is small and can only reprocess a marginal fraction of the X-ray emission. We also found the accretion disc in quiescence to likely be UV faint, with a minimal contribution to the whole UV flux.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Proc. Int. Conf. Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary, Geneva, Switzerland (25-28 June, 2013)
Bassaricyon alleni Thomas 1880
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Procyonidae
Bassaricyon
Bassaricyon alleni

description: Bassaricyon alleni Thomas, 1880. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880:397. TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Napo-Pastaza Prov., Sarayacu, near the Rio Bobonazo. DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador east of the Andes, and Peru to Cuzco Prov.; Bolivia; possibly into Venezuela. COMMENT: See comment under Bassaricyon. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412003002001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 252, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Micropolar effect on the cataclastic flow and brittle-ductile transition in high-porosity rocks
Creators: name: Zheng, Zheyuan
name: Sun, WaiChing
name: Fish, Jacob
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials--Computer simulation
subject: Plasticity--Mathematical models
subject: Mechanics, Applied
subject: Discrete element method
subject: Rock mechanics
subject: Materials--Mathematical models
subject: Materials science
subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: A micromechanical distinct element method (DEM) model is adopted to analyze the grain-scale mechanism that leads to the brittle-ductile transition in cohesive-frictional materials. The cohesive-frictional materials are idealized as particulate assemblies of circular disks. While the frictional sliding of disks is sensitive to the normal compressive stress exerted on contacts, normal force can be both caused by interpenetration and long-range cohesive bonding between two particles. Our numerical simulations indicate that the proposed DEM model is able to replicate the gradual shift of porosity change from dilation to compaction and failure pattern from localized failures to cataclastic flow upon rising confining pressure in 2-D biaxial tests. More importantly, the micropolar effect is examined by tracking couple stress and microcrack initiation to interpret the transition mechanism. Numerical results indicate that the first invariant of the couple stress remains small for specimen sheared under low confining pressure but increases rapidly when subjected to higher confining pressure. The micropolar responses inferred from DEM simulations reveal that microcracking may occur in a more diffuse and stable manner when the first invariant of the macroscopic couple stress are of higher magnitudes.
On Efficiency and Validity of Previous Homeplug MAC Performance Analysis
Creators: name: Cano, Cristina
name: Malone, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Medium Access Control protocol of Power Line Communication networks (defined in Homeplug and IEEE 1901 standards) has received relatively modest attention from the research community. As a consequence, there is only one analytic model that complies with the standardised MAC procedures and considers unsaturated conditions. We identify two important limitations of the existing analytic model: high computational expense and predicted results just prior to the predicted saturation point do not correspond to long-term network performance. In this work, we present a simplification of the previously defined analytic model of Homeplug MAC able to substantially reduce its complexity and demonstrate that the previous performance results just before predicted saturation correspond to a transitory phase. We determine that the causes of previous misprediction are common analytical assumptions and the potential occurrence of a transitory phase, that we show to be of extremely long duration under certain circumstances. We also provide techniques, both analytical and experimental, to correctly predict long-term behaviour and analyse the effect of specific Homeplug/IEEE 1901 features on the magnitude of misprediction errors.
Transnational Access to electron and proton eam testing facilities
Creators: name: ARIES WP11 Members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: - The ARIES partners KIT, CEA, DESY and STFC of the work package WP11 (electron and
 proton beam testing) provided Transnational Access at five accelerator test facilities, named:
 - ANKA/KARA @ KIT enabled 2746 hours TNA in 7 Projects for 27 users in 5 years
 - FLUTE @ KIT enabled 456 hours TNA in 2 projects for 9 users in 5 years
 - IPHI @ CEA enabled 72 hours TNA in 2 projects for 13 users in 4 years
 - SINBAD @ DESY enabled 242 hours TNA in 2 projects for 5 users in period P3
 - VELA @ STFC enables 184 hours in 4 projects for 16 users in 5 years
description: {"references": ["ARIES Del11.1"]}
Magnetic quantum oscillations in the charge-density-wave state of the organic metals $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$MHg(SCN)$_4$ with M = K and Tl
Creators: name: Kartsovnik, M. V.
name: Zverev, V. N.
name: Andres, D.
name: Biberacher, W.
name: Helm, T.
name: Grigoriev, P. D.
name: Ramazashvili, R.
name: Kushch, N. D.
name: Müller, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-temperature charge-density-wave (CDW) state in the layered organic metals $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$MHg(SCN)$_4$ has been studied by means of the Shubnikov -- de Haas and de Haas -- van Alphen effects. In addition to the dominant alpha-frequency, which is also observed in the normal state, both the magnetoresistance and magnetic torque possess a slowly oscillating component. These slow oscillations provide a firm evidence for the CDW-induced reconstruction of the original cylindrical Fermi surface. The alpha-oscillations of the interlayer magnetoresistance exhibit an anomalous phase inversion in the CDW state, whereas the de Haas -- van Alphen signal maintains the normal phase. We argue that the anomaly may be attributed to the magnetic-breakdown origin of the alpha-oscillations in the CDW state. A theoretical model illustrating the possibility of a phase inversion in the oscillating interlayer conductivity in the presence of a spatially fluctuating magnetic breakdown gap is proposed.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Low Temperature Physics, special issue "New Trends of Fermiology" dedicated to the 60-th anniversary of the Lifshitz-Kosevich theory
A strong geometric hyperbolicity property for directed graphs and monoids
Creators: name: Gray, Robert
name: Kambites, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20M05, 05C20

description: We introduce and study a strong "thin triangle"' condition for directed graphs, which generalises the usual notion of hyperbolicity for a metric space. We prove that finitely generated left cancellative monoids whose right Cayley graphs satisfy this condition must be finitely presented with polynomial Dehn functions, and hence word problems in NP. Under the additional assumption of right cancellativity (or in some cases the weaker condition of bounded indegree), they also admit algorithms for more fundamentally semigroup-theoretic decision problems such as Green's relations L, R, J, D and the corresponding pre-orders. In contrast, we exhibit a right cancellative (but not left cancellative) finitely generated monoid (in fact, an infinite class of them) whose Cayley graph is a essentially a tree (hence hyperbolic in our sense and probably any reasonable sense), but which is not even recursively presentable. This seems to be strong evidence that no geometric notion of hyperbolicity will be strong enough to yield much information about finitely generated monoids in absolute generality.
description: Exposition improved. Results unchanged
ANSCRing the question: A hands-on approach to sound recording classification for college libraries
Creators: name: Price, Charlotte E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Library circulation and loans
Music libraries
Library science

description: A recently conducted survey affirmed that a majority of music libraries use an accession-based and closed-stacks system for sound recordings. Yet with CD circulation dwindling, these systems make our collections even less accessible to patrons. This poster will demonstrate the benefits of a genre-based classification system and open stacks for music libraries, and present a roadmap for those interested in a similar switch. Using the example of an accession-to-ANSCR migration at Sarah Lawrence College, a small liberal arts school in New York, this poster discusses the benefits to user confidence, serendipitous discovery, and challenges such a change can bring.
Probing the effect of gravitational microlensing on the measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Creators: name: Oshagh, M.
name: Boué, G.
name: Figueira, P.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Haghighipour, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In general, in the studies of transit light-curves and the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM), the contribution of the planet's gravitational microlensing is neglected. Theoretical studies, have, however shown that the planet's microlensing can affect the transit light-curve and in some extreme cases cause the transit depth to vanish. In this letter, we present the results of our quantitative analysis of microlening on the RM effect. Results indicate that for massive planets in on long period orbits, the planet's microlensing will have considerable contribution to the star's RV measurements. We present the details of our study, and discuss our analysis and results.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics