cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Age structuring and spatial heterogeneity in prion protein gene (PRNP) polymorphism in white-tailed deer
Creators: name: Chafin, Tyler K.
name: Douglas, Marlis R.
name: Martin, Bradley T.
name: Zbinden, Zachery D.
name: Middaugh, Christopher R.
name: Ballard, Jennifer R.
name: M. Cory Gray
name: White, Don
name: Douglas, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Chronic-wasting disease (CWD) is a prion-derived fatal neurodegenerative disease that has affected wild cervid populations on a global scale. Susceptibility has been linked unambiguously to several amino acid variants within the prion protein gene (PRNP). Quantifying their distribution across landscapes can provide critical information for agencies attempting to adaptively manage CWD. Here we attempt to further define management implications of PRNP polymorphism by quantifying the contemporary geographic distribution (i.e., phylogeography) of PRNP variants in hunter-harvested white-tailed deer (WTD; Odocoileus virginianus, N = 1433) distributed across Arkansas (USA), including a focal spot for CWD since detection of the disease in February 2016. Of these, PRNP variants associated with the well-characterized 96S non-synonymous substitution showed a significant increase in relative frequency among older CWD-positive cohorts. We interpreted this pattern as reflective of a longer life expectancy for 96S genotypes in a CWD-endemic region, suggesting either decreased probabilities of infection or reduced disease progression. Other variants showing statistical signatures of potential increased susceptibility, however, seemingly reflect an artefact of population structure. We also showed marked heterogeneity across the landscape in the prevalence of ‘reduced susceptibility’ genotypes. This may indicate, in turn, that differences in disease susceptibility among WTD in Arkansas are an innate, population-level characteristic that is detectable through phylogeographic analysis.
Primitive Trigeminal Artery
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: A 29-year-old woman presented with a near-syncopal event, followed by right-sided weakness and numbness as well as dysarthria. The symptoms resolved over several hours. The patient had a history of migraine and cleidocranial dysostosis. Her work-up was negative for stroke and dissection. Computed tomographic angiography (Figure 1, A and B) showed a carotid to basilar artery anastomosis (persistent primitive trigeminal artery). This variant is present in 0.1% to 0.6% of angiograms1. Patients with cleidocranial synostosis may be prone to anomalies of the circle of Willis since they are more likely to harbor cerebral aneurysms (26%)
Breaking long-period resonance chains with stellar flybys
Creators: name: Charalambous, C.
name: Cuello, N.
name: Petrovich, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Planetary migration models predict multiple planets captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances during the disk phase. Over a dozen systems have been observed in these configurations, nearly all close-in planets, with a lack of resonant chains for planets with orbital periods larger than ~300 days. Aims. Dynamical studies often overlook the fact that stars do not evolve in isolation. In this work, we explore the possibility that the absence of giant planets in long-period resonant chains may be due to post-formation disruption caused by stellar flybys. Methods. For planets in the 2:1-2:1 and 3:2-3:2 resonant chains, we evaluate the long-term stability after varying parameters such as the planet masses, as well as the inclination, pericentric distance, and mass of the flyby star. Results. Our integrations show that the 2:1-2:1 resonant chain is significantly more resilient to a stellar flyby than for the 3:2-3:2 configuration. The nature of the instability is different in both scenarios, the 2:1-2:1 becomes unstable quickly, soon after a penetrative close encounter. Instead, planets in the 3:2-3:2 chain become unstable in long timescales due to more distant flybys (up to q/a_out ~ 25 for Jupiter-mass planets) that only provide small perturbations for the system to chaotically dissolve. Conclusions. If an encounter occurs between a star hosting planets and a passing star, Jupiter-mass systems with 3 planets in a 3:2-3:2 resonant chain or more compact initial configurations are likely to be disrupted.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Supplementary Figures from Models of benthic bipedalism
Creators: name: Giardina, F.
name: Mahadevan, L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Figures S1 - S4
Composition of quantum operations and products of random matrices
Creators: name: Roga, Wojciech
name: Smaczynski, Marek
name: Zyczkowski, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectral properties of evolution operators corresponding to random maps and quantized chaotic systems strongly interacting with an environment can be described by the ensemble of non-hermitian random matrices from the real Ginibre ensemble. We analyze evolution operators Psi=Psi_s...Psi_1 representing the composition of s random maps and demonstrate that their complex eigenvalues are asymptotically described by the law of Burda et al. obtained for a product of s independent random complex Ginibre matrices. Numerical data support the conjecture that the same results are applicable to characterize the distribution of eigenvalues of the s-th power of a random Ginibre matrix. Squared singular values of Psi are shown to be described by the Fuss-Catalan distribution of order s. Results obtained for products of random Ginibre matrices are also capable to describe the s-step evolution operator for a model deterministic dynamical system - a generalized quantum baker map subjected to strong interaction with an environment.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
Modulation Induced Phase Transition from Fractional Quantum Hall to Stripe State at nu=5/3
Creators: name: Endo, Akira
name: Shibata, Naokazu
name: Iye, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the effect of unidirectional periodic potential modulation on the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state at filling factors nu=5/3 and 4/3. For large enough modulation amplitude, we find that the resistivity minimum at nu=5/3 gives way to a peak that grows with decreasing temperature. Density matrix renormalization group calculation reveals that phase transition from FQH state to unidirectional striped state having a period sim 4 l (with l the magnetic length) takes place at nu=1/3 (equivalent to nu=5/3 by the particle-hole symmetry) with the increase of the modulation amplitude, suggesting that the observed peak is the manifestation of the stripe phase.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures; minor revision
TaleStream: Supporting Story Ideation with Trope Knowledge
Creators: name: Chou, Jean-Peïc
name: Siu, Alexa
name: Lipka, Nedim
name: Rossi, Ryan
name: Dernoncourt, Franck
name: Agrawala, Maneesh
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Storytelling
subject: Tropes
subject: Recommender systems
subject: Knowledge graph
subject: Creativity Support Tool

description: Story ideation is a critical and creative part of the story-writing process. It is challenging to support it computationally due to its exploratory and subjective nature. Tropes, which are narrative elements recurring across stories, are essential in stories as they shape the structure of narratives and our understanding of them. In this paper, we propose to use tropes as an intermediate representation of stories to approach narrative design. We present TaleStream, a canvas system that uses tropes as building blocks of stories and provides steerable suggestions of story ideas in the form of tropes. Our suggestion methods leverage data from the tvtropes.org wiki. We find that 97% of the time, trope suggestions generated by our methods provide better story materials than random tropes. Our system evaluation suggests that TaleStream can support writers’ creative flow and greatly facilitates developing stories. Tropes, as a rich lexicon of narratives with available examples, play a key role in TaleStream and hold promise for story ideation.
Figure S1 from On the relationship between serial interval, infectiousness profile and generation time
Creators: name: Lehtinen, Sonja
name: Ashcroft, Peter
name: Bonhoeffer, Sebastian
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Schematic illustrating how symptom onset affecting transmission leads to a positive correlation between incubation period and generation time.
Group-Decodable Space-Time Block Codes with Code Rate > 1
Creators: name: Ren, Tian Peng
name: Guan, Yong Liang
name: Yuen, Chau
name: Gunawan, Erry
name: Zhang, Er Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High-rate space-time block codes (STBC with code rate > 1) in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems are able to provide both spatial multiplexing gain and diversity gain, but have high maximum likelihood (ML) decoding complexity. Since group-decodable (quasi-orthogonal) code structure can reduce the decoding complexity, we present in this paper systematic methods to construct group-decodable high-rate STBC with full symbol-wise diversity gain for arbitrary transmit antenna number and code length. We show that the proposed group-decodable STBC can achieve high code rate that increases almost linearly with the transmit antenna number, and the slope of this near-linear dependence increases with the code length. Comparisons with existing low-rate and high-rate codes (such as orthogonal STBC and algebraic STBC) are conducted to show the decoding complexity reduction and good code performance achieved by the proposed codes.
description: Accepted by IEEE Trans. Commun., including 25 pages, 6 figures and 2 tables
Dinelytron unilineatus Heleodoro & Rafael 2020, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Heleodoro, Raphael Aquino
name: Rafael, Jose Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Phasmida
Prisopodidae
Dinelytron
Dinelytron unilineatus

description: Dinelytron unilineatus (Redtenbacher, 1906) comb. nov. Fig. 26A, C. Damasippus unilineatus Redtenbacher, 1906: 149; Brock et al., 2017 (Phasmatodea world catalog). Examined material. Lectotype _ (Fig. 26A) (present designation, examined by photo): “Mus. Caes. Vind., Neu Freibrug [Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro], Bras. [Brazil], Thorey”, “ det. Redtenb. [acher], D. unilineatus ” (MNHN France). Paralectotype _ (Fig. 26C) (present designation, examined by photo): same as holotype. Diagnosis. Posterior wing with basal and medial third of costal area copper-colored (Fig. 26A-C). Vomer with basal third widened, gradually narrowing towards apex, without lateral indentation (Fig. 26B). Type condition. Lectotype (present designation): in good conditions, except for the fact that the body is covered entirely by fungi. Paralectotype (present designation): missing approximately half the length of the left antenna. Left anterior and posterior legs both missing. Body covered by fungus. Geographical records. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Nova Friburgo. Remarks. This species was transferred from Damasippus to Dinelytron due to the types (the only known specimens) having the head opaque, dorsally flattened and posterior wing with anal area entirely hyaline, characters that are diagnostic of Dinelytron.
description: Published as part of Heleodoro, Raphael Aquino & Rafael, Jose Albertino, 2020, Review of the genus Dinelytron Gray (Prisopodidae: Prisopodinae: Prisopodini), with a phylogenetic analysis of the genera of the Prisopodini, including the description of a new genus, pp. 37-80 in Zoologischer Anzeiger 285 on pages 57-58, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.01.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3711292
description: {"references": ["Redtenbacher, J., 1906. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. I. Phasmidae, Areolatae. Verlag W. Engelmann, Leipzig."]}
Effects of many-electron jumps in relaxation and conductivity of Coulomb glasses
Creators: name: Bergli, J.
name: Somoza, A. M.
name: Ortuno, ans M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical study of the energy relaxation and conductivity of the Coulomb glass is presented. The role of many-electron transitions is studied by two complementary methods: a kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm and a master equation in configuration space method. A calculation of the transition rate for two-electron transitions is presented, and the proper extension of this to multi-electron transitions is discussed. It is shown that two-electron transitions are important in bypassing energy barriers which effectively block sequential one-electron transitions. The effect of two-electron transitions is also discussed.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Outsourcing the border : recruiters and sovereign power in labour migration to Canada
Creators: name: Zell, Sarah Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Drawing on multi-sited qualitative fieldwork, this dissertation examines the recruitment and migration process of temporary migrants through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program for work in lower-skilled jobs in Western Canada. Situated in an understanding of Canada as a recruited nation, I trace shifts in immigration policy that prioritize economic development and which have led to more market-driven and temporary migration flows. With a focus on recruitment practices, the dissertation contributes to theorizations of the “migration industry.” I take third-party recruiters, labour market intermediaries who facilitate and regulate migrant flows, as an entry point for considering how practices of gatekeeping and brokering (re)produce migrant subjects and the borders of the state. My analysis focuses on more “legitimate” recruiters because of an interest in disclosing power relationships in the legal, everyday business of recruitment. It reveals that even as some recruiters provide significant assistance and care, their actions and motivations can also produce and intensify precarity for migrant workers vis-à-vis their employers and the state. At the heart of this dissertation is an argument about configurations of state power—specifically, about forms and spatializations of sovereign power. My analysis examines the position of recruiters within the labour migration cycle and how their interactions with the state enable their legitimation as mobile bordering agents. I posit that recruiters are “petty sovereigns,” who make largely unsupervised and discretionary decisions that impact migrant access to the transnational labour market and the Canadian nation-state. These decisions play out in a transnational sphere, at the front-end of the migration process, and in spaces beyond Canadian jurisdiction. In a market-driven context, the devolution and outsourcing of migrant selection and admission from the state to employers, and employers to contracted third-party recruiters, effectively contributes to the contracting out of accountability. While they are integral to the regulation of labour markets and cross-border flows, recruiters remain largely invisible in many accounts of migration, and one objective of this dissertation is to write these agential actors into larger discourses on neoliberal governance and migration management.
Diagnosing Deconfinement and Topological Order
Creators: name: Gregor, K.
name: Huse, David A.
name: Moessner, R.
name: Sondhi, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological or deconfined phases are characterized by emergent, weakly fluctuating, gauge fields. In condensed matter settings they inevitably come coupled to excitations that carry the corresponding gauge charges which invalidate the standard diagnostic of deconfinement---the Wilson loop. Inspired by a mapping between symmetric sponges and the deconfined phase of the $Z_2$ gauge theory, we construct a diagnostic for deconfinement that has the interpretation of a line tension. One operator version of this diagnostic turns out to be the Fredenhagen-Marcu order parameter known to lattice gauge theorists and we show that a different version is best suited to condensed matter systems. We discuss generalizations of the diagnostic, use it to establish the existence of finite temperature topological phases in $d \ge 3$ dimensions and show that multiplets of the diagnostic are useful in settings with multiple phases such as $U(1)$ gauge theories with charge $q$ matter. [Additionally we present an exact reduction of the partition function of the toric code in general dimensions to a well studied problem.]
description: 11 pages, several figures
Role of Multimodal Evaluation of Cerebral Hemodynamics in Selecting Patients with Symptomatic Carotid or Middle Cerebral Artery Steno-occlusive Disease for Revascularization
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Background:
The circle of Willis provides collateral pathways to perfuse the affected vascular territories in patients with severe stenoocclusive disease of major arteries. The collateral perfusion may become insufficient in certain physiological circumstances due to failed vasodilatory reserve and intracranial steal phenomenon, so-called 'Reversed-Robinhood syndrome'. We evaluated cerebral hemodynamics and vasodilatory reserve in patients with symptomatic distal internal carotid (ICA) or middle cerebral artery (MCA) severe steno-occlusive disease.
Methods:
Diagnostic transcranial Doppler (TCD) and TCD-monitoring with voluntary breath-holding according to a standard scanning protocol were performed in patients with severe ICA or MCA steno-occlusive disease. The steal phenomenon was detected as transient, spontaneous, or vasodilatory stimuli-induced velocity reductions in affected arteries at the time of velocity increase in normal vessels. Patients with exhausted vasomotor reactivity and intracranial steal phenomenon during breath-holding were further evaluated by 99technetiumm-hexamethyl propylene amine oxime single photon emission computed tomography (HMPAO-SPECT) with acetazolamide challenge.
Results:
Sixteen patients (age 27–74 years, 11 men) fulfilled our TCD criteria for exhausted vasomotor reactivity and intracranial steal phenomenon during the standard vasomotor testing by breath holding. Acetazolamide-challenged HMPAO-SPECT demonstrated significant hypoperfusion in 12 patients in affected arterial territories, suggestive of failed vasodilatory reserve. A breath-holding index of ≤0.3 on TCD was associated with an abnormal HMPAO-SPECT with acetazolamide challenge. TCD findings of a breath holding index of ≤0.3 and intracranial steal during the procedure were determinants of a significant abnormality on HMPAO-SPECT with acetazolamide challenge.
Typical models: minimizing false beliefs
Creators: name: Lozinskii, Eliezer L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.3; F.4.1

description: A knowledge system S describing a part of real world does in general not contain complete information. Reasoning with incomplete information is prone to errors since any belief derived from S may be false in the present state of the world. A false belief may suggest wrong decisions and lead to harmful actions. So an important goal is to make false beliefs as unlikely as possible. This work introduces the notions of "typical atoms" and "typical models", and shows that reasoning with typical models minimizes the expected number of false beliefs over all ways of using incomplete information. Various properties of typical models are studied, in particular, correctness and stability of beliefs suggested by typical models, and their connection to oblivious reasoning.
Energy-Efficient Scheduling and Power Allocation in Downlink OFDMA Networks with Base Station Coordination
Creators: name: Venturino, Luca
name: Zappone, Alessio
name: Risi, Chiara
name: Buzzi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the problem of energy-efficient resource allocation in the downlink of a cellular OFDMA system. Three definitions of the energy efficiency are considered for system design, accounting for both the radiated and the circuit power. User scheduling and power allocation are optimized across a cluster of coordinated base stations with a constraint on the maximum transmit power (either per subcarrier or per base station). The asymptotic noise-limited regime is discussed as a special case. %The performance of both an isolated and a non-isolated cluster of coordinated base stations is examined in the numerical experiments. Results show that the maximization of the energy efficiency is approximately equivalent to the maximization of the spectral efficiency for small values of the maximum transmit power, while there is a wide range of values of the maximum transmit power for which a moderate reduction of the data rate provides a large saving in terms of dissipated energy. Also, the performance gap among the considered resource allocation strategies reduces as the out-of-cluster interference increases.
description: to appear on IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
title: DEPRECATED: ECONOMIC LINKAGES WITHIN THE RURAL ECONOMY: THE CASE OF PRODUCER SERVICES
Creators: name: MILLS, BRYAN KEITH
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002
Subjects: Producer Services
Economic Linkages
Rural SMEs
Decision-making
Indigeneity
Virtual Employees
Quasi-Products
Market Towns
Indigenous Growth

description: Merged with duplicate record: 10026.1/1615 on 01.02.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: This research seeks to contribute towards the understanding of economic linkage within the rural context by exploring the relationship between rurally located small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their purchase of producer (business) services. In addition, the work considers other inter-rural and intra-rural differences, in both firm (SME) behaviour and firm characteristics. Whilst the subject of linkages has been explored by other researchers, the market town and SME focus of this thesis provides a more spatially contained framework than is often encountered within this type of research. By using four towns of similar size and structure contained within two noticeably different counties, the work is able to explore difference within the rural setting. Given its emphasis on market towns, rural areas, SMEs, the service sector and indigenous growth potential, the work contributes to current debates in both academia and in national and European government policy. The underlying hypothesis is that integration, in terms of local spending on producer services, is a function of a firm's characteristics. In order to test this hypothesis, data was collected from four rural towns, and a logistic regression model was constructed using variables that described both firms' characteristics and proportion of spend on services in their resident town. The model was then tested using data collected firom a further two towns. This thesis shows that there is a relationship between a firm's characteristics and the location of the firm's producer service spending, enhancing our understanding of firms operating within the rural context. Key characteristic variables that are shown to have a relationship with producer service spend location are: firm Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), size (in terms of total sales, total number of hours worked by all staff), total spend on producer services by firm and distance that the current location is from the firm's previous location. Given the changing role and nature of rural firms, this research provides timely information concerning the relationship between firms and service providers.
Observing other universe through ringholes and Klein-bottle holes
Creators: name: González-Díaz, Pedro F.
name: Alonso-Serrano, Ana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is argued that whereas the Shatskiy single rings produced by the gravitational inner field of a spherically symmetric wormhole and the concentric double Einstein rings generated by a toroidal ringhole could not be used without some uncertainty to identify the presence of such tunnelings in the universe or the existence of a parallel universe, the image which the inner gravitational field of a non orientable Klein-bottle hole tunneling would leave by lensing a single luminous source is that of a truncated double spiral, which is a signature that cannot be attributed to any other single or composite astronomical object in whichever universe it may be placed. In this report we argue some more reasons to predict that such a signature would imply the discovery of one such non orientable tunneling in our or other universe. After all, a nonorientable Klein-bottle hole is also a perfectly valid solution to the Einstein equations and the stuff which would make it feasible is becoming more and more familiar in cosmology.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, Latex
Bilateral Tri-Arterial Embolization for the Treatment of Epistaxis
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Background:
Intractable epistaxis is treated by ipsilateral trans-arterial embolization of the internal maxillary artery, but there is 13–26% recurrence of bleeding. Preemptive embolization of both internal maxillary arteries along with the ipsilateral facial artery could provide maximal protection against recurrent epistaxis. We report our experience with 8 patients treated with bilateral tri-arterial embolization.
Methods:
We performed a retrospective review of the patients who were treated with bilateral internal maxillary artery and ipsilateral facial artery embolization from January 2005 to January 2007. All patients had bleeding that was refractory to nasal packing.
Results:
Eight patients were treated with bilateral tri-arterial embolization. The median age was 65 years (range, 35–90 years). Risk factors included hypertension (n=4), smoking (n=2), alcohol (n=2), and use of anticoagulation (n=2). All but 2 of the patients were treated under local anesthesia. All patients had complete obliteration of bleeding during the procedure, with no residual vascular blush. No major peri- or post-procedural complications were noted. Patients stayed in the hospital for 2–4 days (average 2.6 days). One patient developed ipsilateral temporofacial pain which resolved during hospitalization. Another patient had minor recurrent epistaxis on post operative day 2 which resolved with temporary repacking and the patient was discharged the next day.
Conclusion:
In our experience with 8 cases, bilateral internal maxillary artery and/or ipsilateral facial artery embolization was achieved without complication and was associated with complete obliteration of vascular blush and no significant recurrent epistaxis.
Keywords: Epistaxis, arterial embolization, internal maxillary artery, polyvinyl alcohol particles
title: Some Highlights from The Documents of Egypt under the Reign of Maximinus Thrax (Mid-March /25 March 235 C.E. – 10 May 238 C.E.)
Creators: name: Ismail, Hanan M. I.
Publisher: name: Hyperboreus 26:2 (2020) 320–340
Year: 2020

description: This paper focuses on some aspects of Egypt’s history in the reign of Maximinus Thrax (Mid-March/25 March AD 235 – 10 May 238). The author argues that the economic repercussions and the political upheaval in Egypt were tightly interwoven with the beginning of the Third Century Crisis. The article surveys forty-three documents (papyri and ostraca), through which new findings regarding the history of Egypt can be attained.
description: В статье рассматриваются некоторые аспекты египетской истории в правление Максимина Фракийца (сер. марта / 25 марта 235 – 1 мая 238). Автор показывает, что экономические потрясения и политические беспорядки в Египте были тесно связаны с началом кризиса III в. н. э. Приводится обзор 43 документов (папирусов и остраконов), позволяющих получить новые сведения о социально-экономическом положении Египта в это время.
Phenomenological constraints on light mixed sneutrino dark matter scenarios
Creators: name: Kakizaki, Mitsuru
name: Park, Eun-Kyung
name: Park, Jae-hyeon
name: Santa, Akiteru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In supersymmetric models with Dirac neutrinos, the lightest sneutrino can be an excellent thermal dark matter candidate when the soft sneutrino trilinear parameter is large. We focus on scenarios where the mass of the mixed sneutrino is of the order of GeV and sensitivity of dark matter direct detection is weak. We investigate phenomenological constraints on the model parameter space including the vacuum stability bound. We show that the allowed regions can be explored by measuring Higgs boson properties at future collider experiments.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Accuracy of Self-Perception of Cardiovascular Risk in the Community
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Assessment of individual risk is an important part of the primary prevention of coronary disease and stroke. The accuracy by which individuals perceive their risk is unclear. We aimed to explore the accuracy of self-perceived cardiovascular risk in the community, and the value of one-to-one interview, using a risk assessment tool, in increasing the accuracy.
Methods:
Participants in 2 community health fair events in 2006 were asked to assign their 5-year cardiovascular risk to one of 3 categories (high, moderate and low), before and after being counseled about their risk using a Framingham-based risk calculator. Agreement between perceived risk and calculated risk was studied using kappa analysis. Change in perception was the indicator of response to the study intervention. Predictors of accuracy, underestimation, and responsiveness to the study intervention were identified using logistic regression.
Results:
There were 146 participants that were included in the analysis (mean age±SD, 47±15; 64% women). Rate of inaccuracy was 66% (mainly due to underestimation of risk n=86 participants). Agreement between perceived and objective risk was poor (kappa±standard error [SE] 09.0±4.3%). After the study intervention, the rate of accuracy significantly increased to 74% (n=108, p<0.0001). Post intervention kappa±SE 60.9±5.7%. Age >45 years predicted inaccuracy. Age > 45 years, non-African-American race, and alcohol use predicted underestimation. Family history of cardiovascular diseases or risk factors predicted responsiveness.
Conclusion:
Self perception of the 5-year risk of cardiovascular events is inaccurate, mainly due to underestimation. A targeted educational session using a risk assessment tool improved the accuracy.
Supplemental Materials from Endothelial cells do not align with the mean wall shear stress vector
Creators: name: Mehwish Arshad
name: Mean Ghim
name: Yumnah Mohamied
name: Sherwin, Spencer J.
name: Weinberg, Peter D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Engineering
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The alignment of arterial endothelial cells (ECs) with the mean wall shear stress (WSS) vector is the prototypical example of their responsiveness to flow. However, evidence for this behaviour rests on experiments where many WSS metrics had the same orientation or where they were incompletely characterized. In the present study, we tested the phenomenon more rigorously. Aortic ECs were cultured in cylindrical wells on the platform of an orbital shaker. In this system, orientation would differ depending on the WSS metric to which the cells aligned. Variation in flow features and hence in possible orientations was further enhanced by altering the viscosity of the medium. Orientation of endothelial nuclei was compared with WSS characteristics obtained by computational fluid dynamics. At low mean WSS magnitudes, ECs aligned with the modal WSS vector, while at high mean WSS magnitudes they aligned so as to minimize the shear acting across their long axis (transverse WSS). Their failure to align with the mean WSS vector implies that other aspects of endothelial behaviour attributed to this metric require re-examination. The evolution of a mechanism for minimizing transverse WSS is consistent with it having detrimental effects on the cells and with its putative role in atherogenesis.
The child guidance clinic with special reference to a local situation
Creators: name: Knight, James
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1929
Subjects: subject: Child guidance clinics
subject: Psychiatric clinics
subject: Child development
subject: Child psychology
subject: Child psychiatric clinics
subject: Child psychiatry
subject: Child psychiatric treatment
subject: Juvenile delinquency
subject: Juvenile delinquents
subject: Conduct disorders in children
subject: Texas
subject: Child guidance clinics
subject: Psychiatric clinics
subject: Child guidance clinics--Texas
subject: Psychiatric clinics--Texas
subject: Conduct disorders in children
subject: Juvenile delinquency
subject: Child development
subject: Child psychology

description: The psychiatric clinic has great promise as an agency for treating the personality and conduct disorders of children. Evidence is increasing which tends to indicate that the methods of the clinic will save many children to useful and happy lives who might otherwise be social failures. But there can never be enough child guidance clinics to treat all the problem children. It is left, then, to transmit so far as possible, the techniques of the clinic to parents and teachers. This, it seems to me, can best be done in clinics whose services are not restricted to a single community. I have tried throughout this thesis to keep a Texas-wide point of view. Of what follows it might be said: An effort has been made to collect the main facts about the child guidance clinic and to estimate the need for such clinics in Texas. Finally, a plan is presented to show the possibility of securing a State clinic to serve Texas children, parents, and teachers
Dependence of elastic hadron collisions on impact parameter
Creators: name: Prochazka, Jiri
name: Lokajicek, Milos V.
name: Kundrat, Vojtech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elastic proton-proton collisions represent probably the greatest ensemble of available measured data, the analysis of which may provide large amount of new physical results concerning fundamental particles. It is, however, necessary to analyze first some conclusions concerning pp collisions and their interpretations differing fundamentally from our common macroscopic experience. It has been argued, e.g., that elastic hadron collisions have been more central than inelastic ones, even if any explanation of the existence of so different process, i.e., elastic and inelastic (with hundreds of secondary particles) collisions, under the same conditions has not been given until now. The given conclusion has been based on a greater number of simplifying mathematical assumptions (done already in earlier calculations), without their influence on physical interpretation being analyzed and entitled; the corresponding influence has started to be studied in the approach based on eikonal model. The possibility of peripheral interpretation of elastic collisions will be demonstrated and corresponding results summarized. The arguments will be given why no preference may be given to the mentioned centrality against the standard peripheral behaviour. The corresponding discussion of contemporary description of elastic hadronic collision in dependence on impact parameter will be summarized and the justification of some important assumptions will be considered.
description: 24 pages, final version
Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice - OpenAIRE webinar
Creators: name: England, Jonathan
name: Tsoukala, Victoria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OpenAIRE
Horizon Europe
Open Science
OpenAIRE services
Open Access
FAIR data
European Commission

description: This webinar was organised to help project coordinators, researchers and research support staff on the European Commission's requirements for Open Science. Requirements for Open Access to scientific publications and Research Data Management are presented, not only during and after the project but as well at the grant proposal stage.
An overview of the European Commission's publishing platform - Open Research Europe - was also presented, along some other useful tools such as Argos (Data Management Plan), Amnesia (data anonymisation), OpenAIRE Explore, etc.
Learn about: 

Mandatory and recommended Open Science requirements in Horizon Europe (HE)
Compliance with the HE Open Access to publications mandate
Managing and sharing Research Data in HE projects
Delivering Data Management Plans and reporting publications and datasets in HE
OpenAIRE tools and services to support HE projects
Target audience: project coordinators, researchers, research managers, librarians and data stewards.
Recordings: https://youtu.be/U8JwQUejpCw (16/11/2023 session)
Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice - OpenAIRE webinar
Creators: name: England, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: OpenAIRE
Horizon Europe
Open Science
OpenAIRE services
Open Access
FAIR data
European Commission

description: This webinar was organised to help project coordinators, researchers and research support staff on the European Commission's requirements for Open Science. Requirements for Open Access to scientific publications and Research Data Management are presented, not only during and after the project but as well at the grant proposal stage.

An overview of the European Commission's publishing platform - Open Research Europe - was also presented, along some other useful tools such as Argos (Data Management Plan), Amnesia (data anonymisation), OpenAIRE Explore, etc.

Learn about: 

Mandatory and recommended Open Science requirements in Horizon Europe (HE)

Compliance with the HE Open Access to publications mandate

Managing and sharing Research Data in HE projects

Delivering Data Management Plans and reporting publications and datasets in HE

OpenAIRE tools and services to support HE projects

Target audience: project coordinators, researchers, research managers, librarians and data stewards.

Recordings: https://youtu.be/rQUZc7qvOa0 (19/03/2024 session)
The faintest galaxies
Creators: name: Salvadori, Stefania
name: Ferrara, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the nature of Ultra Faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies (UF dSphs) in a general cosmological context, simultaneously accounting for various "classical" dSphs and Milky Way (MW) properties, including their Metallicity Distribution Function (MDF). The model successfully reproduces both the observed [Fe/H]-Luminosity relation and the mean MDF of UFs. According to our results UFs are the living fossils of H2-cooling minihaloes formed at z>8.5, i.e. before the end of reionization. They are the oldest and the most dark matter-dominated (M/L > 100) dSphs in the MW system, with a total mass of M = 10^(7-8) Msun. The model allows to interpret the different shape of UFs and classical dSphs MDF, along with the frequency of extremely metal-poor stars in these objects. We discuss the "missing satellites problem" by comparing the UF star formation efficiencies with those derived for minihaloes in the Via Lactea simulation.
description: To appear in the conference proceeding: "First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges in the Next Decade" . Publisher: American Institute of Physics. Editors: V. Bromm, D. Whalen, N. Yoshida
Laboratory Studies of Lead Removal from Liquid Scintillator in Preparation for KamLAND's Low Background Phase
Creators: name: Keefer, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The removal of Radon induced Lead from liquid scintillator was extensively studied in preparation for KamLAND's low background phase. This work presents the results from laboratory experiments performed at the University of Alabama and their implications for KamLAND and future low background experiments using carbon based liquid scintillator. It was observed that distillation was the most effective purification procedure and that one must consider a non-polar and non-ionic component of Lead in order to reach the levels of radio-purity required for these new class of ultra-low background experiments.
description: 4 pages, 2 tables, Proceedings Paper from the Third Topical Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT-2010), Submitted to AIP Conference Proceedings and will be published in volume 1338
A Multiple-Choice Test Recognition System based on the Gamera Framework
Creators: name: Spadaccini, Andrea
name: Rizzo, Vanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article describes JECT-OMR, a system that analyzes digital images representing scans of multiple-choice tests compiled by students. The system performs a structural analysis of the document in order to get the chosen answer for each question, and it also contains a bar-code decoder, used for the identification of additional information encoded in the document. JECT-OMR was implemented using the Python programming language, and leverages the power of the Gamera framework in order to accomplish its task. The system exhibits an accuracy of over 99% in the recognition of marked and non-marked squares representing answers, thus making it suitable for real world applications
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice - OpenAIRE webinar
Creators: name: England, Jonathan
name: Tsoukala, Victoria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: OpenAIRE
Horizon Europe
Open Science
OpenAIRE services
Open Access
FAIR data
European Commission

description: This webinar was organised to help project coordinators, researchers and research support staff on the European Commission's requirements for Open Science. Requirements for Open Access to scientific publications and Research Data Management are presented, not only during and after the project but as well at the grant proposal stage.

An overview of the European Commission's publishing platform - Open Research Europe - was also presented, along some other useful tools such as Argos (Data Management Plan), Amnesia (data anonymisation), OpenAIRE Explore, etc.

Learn about: 

Mandatory and recommended Open Science requirements in Horizon Europe (HE)

Compliance with the HE Open Access to publications mandate

Managing and sharing Research Data in HE projects

Delivering Data Management Plans and reporting publications and datasets in HE

OpenAIRE tools and services to support HE projects

Target audience: project coordinators, researchers, research managers, librarians and data stewards.

Recordings: https://youtu.be/wcuuW-cWEIM (22/11/2024 session)
Repeated Dosing of 23.4% Hypertonic Saline for Refractory Intracranial Hypertension. A Case Report
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Hypertonic saline (HTS) at a concentration of 23.4% is an emerging therapy for intracranial hypertension. Compared to mannitol which can be given as a single bolus or as repeated bolus dosing, little data exists regarding safety or efficacy of repeated dosing of 23.4% HTS. We report the first case of 16 doses of 23.4% HTS over a 5 day period in a patient with refractory intracranial hypertension.
Eikonal model analysis of elastic proton-proton collisions at 52.8 GeV and 8 TeV
Creators: name: Prochazka, Jiri
name: Kundrat, Vojtech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the influence of standardly used description of Coulomb-hadronic interference proposed by West and Yennie the protons have been interpreted as transparent objects; elastic events have been interpreted as more central than inelastic ones. It will be shown that using eikonal model the protons may be interpreted in agreement with usual ontological conception; elastic processes being more peripheral than inelastic ones. The corresponding results (differing fundamentally from the suggested hitherto models) will be presented by analyzing the most ample elastic data set measured at the ISR energy of 52.8 GeV and the LHC energy of 8 TeV. Detailed analysis of measured differential cross section will be performed and possibility of peripheral behavior on the basis of eikonal model will be presented. The impact of recently established electromagnetic form factors on determination of quantities specifying hadron interaction determined from the fits of experimental elastic data will be analyzed. The influence of some other assumptions on proton characteristics derived from elastic hadronic amplitude determined on the basis of experimental data will be studied, too.
description: 31 pages, 37 figures, 2 tables