cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nonpositively curved 2-complexes with isolated flats
Creators: name: Hruska, G Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F67, 20F06, 57M20

description: We introduce the class of nonpositively curved 2-complexes with the Isolated Flats Property. These 2-complexes are, in a sense, hyperbolic relative to their flats. More precisely, we show that several important properties of Gromov-hyperbolic spaces hold `relative to flats' in nonpositively curved 2-complexes with the Isolated Flats Property. We introduce the Relatively Thin Triangle Property, which states roughly that the fat part of a geodesic triangle lies near a single flat. We also introduce the Relative Fellow Traveller Property, which states that pairs of quasigeodesics with common endpoints fellow travel relative to flats, in a suitable sense. The main result of this paper states that in the setting of CAT(0) 2-complexes, the Isolated Flats Property is equivalent to the Relatively Thin Triangle Property and is also equivalent to the Relative Fellow Traveller Property.
description: Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol8/paper5.abs.html
Twisted form hierarchies, Killing-Yano equations and supersymmetric backgrounds
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Killing spinor equations of all supergravity theories which may include higher order corrections on a (r,s)-signature spacetime are associated with twisted covariant form hierarchies. These hierarchies are characterized by a connection on the space of forms which may not be degree preserving. As a consequence we demonstrate that the form Killing spinor bi-linears of all supersymmetric backgrounds satisfy a suitable generalization of conformal Killing-Yano equation with respect to this connection. To illustrate the general proof the twisted covariant form hierarchies of some supergravity theories in 4, 5, 6, 10 and 11 dimensions are also presented.
description: 15 pages, minor corrections, a reference added
The Multi-Tracer Optimal Estimator applied to VIPERS
Creators: name: Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.
name: Abramo, L. Raul
name: Granett, Benjamin R.
name: de la Torre, Sylvain
name: Guzzo, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use mock galaxy data from the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) to test the performance of the Multi-Tracer Optimal Estimator (MTOE) of Abramo et al. as a tool to measure the monopoles of the power spectra of multiple tracers of the large-scale structure, $P^{(0)}_α(k)$. We show that MTOE provides more accurate measurements than the standard technique of Feldman, Kaiser & Peacock (FKP), independently of the tracer-selection strategy adopted, on both small and large scales. The largest improvements on individual $P^{(0)}_α(k)$ are obtained using a colour-magnitude selection on small scales, due to MTOE being naturally better equipped to deal with shot noise: we report an average error reduction with respect to FKP of $\sim$ 40$\%$ at $k \, [h$ Mpc$^{-1}]\gtrsim 0.3$. On large scales ($k[h$ Mpc$^{-1}]\lesssim0.1$), the gain in accuracy resulting from cosmic-variance cancellation is $\sim$ 10$\%$ for the ratios of $P^{(0)}_α(k)$. We have carried out a Monte-Carlo Markov Chain analysis to determine the impact of these gains on several quantities derived from $P^{(0)}_α(k)$. If we push the measurement to scales $0.3 < k \, [h$ Mpc$^{-1}]< 0.5$, the average improvements are $\sim$ 30 $\%$ for the amplitudes of the monopoles, $\sim$ 70 $\%$ for the monopole ratios, and $\sim$ 20 $\%$ for the galaxy biases. Our results highlight the potential of MTOE to shed light upon the physics that operate both on large and small cosmological scales. The effect of MTOE on cosmological constraints using VIPERS data will be addressed in a separate paper.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures; submitted to MNRAS
Are Futures Prices Good Price Forecasts? Nonlinearities in Efficiency and Risk Premiums in the Soybean Futures Market
Creators: name: Huang, Joshua
name: Serra, Teresa
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Huang, Joshua
name: Serra, Teresa
name: Garcia, Philip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Recent research has pointed to a reduction in predictive content in several agricultural futures markets. We investigate short-run forecast in the soybean futures market complex to identify predictive content and the sources of forecast errors. A non-parametric local linear regression framework is first applied to investigate biasness, and to guide the specification of parametric regime-switching models in which we perform statistical testing. To identify effects of risk premiums, we use a nonlinear realized volatility framework. Our non-parametric and parametric findings indicate nonlinearities in efficiency and risk premiums are present. Depending on the level of futures prices, thresholds or regimes of predictive performance exist. Evidence of market exuberance/pessimism emerges as many of the pricing errors occur at the extremes of the price distribution. Our research demonstrates that failure to account for these non-linear relationships can distort our understanding of market effectiveness. Finally, we show that the use of higher frequency data can be useful in identifying the presence and magnitude of risk premiums. This finding may make uncovering risk premiums in agricultural commodity markets more tractable in the future.
Anabolic drugs to prevent fractures in women with or without osteoporotic vertebral fractures: a network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Qiu, Mei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111402 Obstetrics and Gynaecology

description: Three supplementary materials (Appendix 1 – Appendix 3) for the paper.
Measurement of the $Ω_c^0$ Lifetime
Creators: name: FOCUS Collaboration
name: Link, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The FOCUS experiment(FNAL-E831) has used two channels, $Ω^- π^+$ and $Ξ^-K^- π^+ π^+$,to measure the lifetime of the $Ω_c^0$ charmed baryon. From a sample of $64 \pm 14$ signal events at a mass of 2.698 GeV/$c^2$, we measure an $Ω_c^0$ lifetime of $72 \pm 11$ (stat.) $\pm 11$ (sys.) fs, substantially improving upon the current world average.
description: 12 pages and 5 figures
The Effects of Microstructure Noise on Realized Volatility in the Live Cattle Futures Market
Creators: name: Couleau, Anabelle
name: Serra, Teresa
name: Couleau, Anabelle
name: Serra, Teresa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Recently, U.S. live cattle futures prices have experienced high levels volatility which has raised concerns about the impact of high frequency trading. This paper identifies the market microstructure noise present in high frequency data and its implications for realized volatility of returns in live cattle futures markets from 2011 to 2015. Short- and long-term components of volatility are identified using nonparametric and semi-parametric procedures. While market microstructure noise is found to increase realized volatility when the sampling frequency is below 4-minute time intervals, the particularly high volatility in live cattle markets in 2015 is found to be strongly driven by market fundamentals, affected by supply and demand shocks. Important policy implications from the results are drawn.
Hydrophis Latreille 1801
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Elapidae
Hydrophis

description: Genus Hydrophis Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1801 (5 species)
Hydrophis Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1801: 193–195 (type species: Hydrus fasciatus Schneider, 1799, by subsequent designation by ICZN [1982: 21]; gender masculine).
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 194, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Assessing the Accuracy of USDA’s Farm Income Forecasts: The Impact of ARMS
Creators: name: Kuethe, Todd H.
name: Hubbs, Todd
name: Kuethe, Todd H.
name: Hubbs, Todd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: The USDA’s forecasts for net farm income are important inputs for businesses, legislators, economists, and other policy-makers. While the USDA has been providing forecasts for net farm income for over 50 years, they have not been rigorously analyzed in regards to bias and efficiency. Here, the USDA’s net farm income forecasts from 1975-2015 are evaluated along a number of dimensions. The results show that the USDA’s initial forecasts for net farm income are downward bias. This bias is corrected as the forecasts evolve through the year. Moreover, upward revisions tend to lead to negative forecast errors or overestimates. Consistent with that finding, there is a tendency for reversals in the forecasts. That is, upward revisions tend to be corrected in subsequent revisions. Despite these inefficiencies, the forecasts provide remarkably good directional guidance by predicting growth or contraction correctly over 80% of the time. There was no evidence that forecast accuracy improved through time or with the availability of ARMS data.
D-brane effective action and tachyon condensation in topological minimal models
Creators: name: Herbst, Manfred
name: Lazaroiu, Calin-Iuliu
name: Lerche, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study D-brane moduli spaces and tachyon condensation in B-type topological minimal models and their massive deformations. We show that any B-type brane is isomorphic with a direct sum of `minimal' branes, and that its moduli space is stratified according to the type of such decompositions. Using the Landau-Ginzburg formulation, we propose a closed formula for the effective deformation potential, defined as the generating function of tree-level open string amplitudes in the presence of D-branes. This provides a direct link to the categorical description, and can be formulated in terms of holomorphic matrix models. We also check that the critical locus of this potential reproduces the D-branes' moduli space as expected from general considerations. Using these tools, we perform a detailed analysis of a few examples, for which we obtain a complete algebro-geometric description of moduli spaces and strata.
description: 36 pages
Canonical quantum gravity and consistent discretizations
Creators: name: Gambini, Rodolfo
name: Pullin, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a summary of the talk presented by JP at ICGC2004. It covered some developments in canonical quantum gravity occurred since ICGC2000, emphasizing the recently introduced consistent discretizations of general relativity.
description: 8 pages, to appear in Pramana
Additional file 2 of Exploring the mechanism of Taohong Siwu Decoction on the treatment of blood deficiency and blood stasis syndrome by gut microbiota combined with metabolomics
Creators: name: He, Yao
name: Jiang, Huajuan
name: Du, Kequn
name: Wang, Shengju
name: Li, Minmin
name: Ma, Chuan
name: Liu, Fang
name: Dong, Yan
name: Fu, Chaomei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. MS/MS mapping of twenty-three different metabolites.
Solution sets of systems of equations over finite lattices and semilattices
Creators: name: Tóth, Endre
name: Waldhauser, Tamás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 08A40, 06A12, 06B99, 06D99, 06E99, 03C10

description: Solution sets of systems of homogeneous linear equations over fields are characterized as being subspaces, i.e., sets that are closed under linear combinations. Our goal is to characterize solution sets of systems of equations over arbitrary finite algebras by a similar closure condition. We show that solution sets are always closed under the centralizer of the clone of term operations of the given algebra; moreover, the centralizer is the only clone that could characterize solution sets. If every centralizer-closed set is the set of all solutions of a system of equations over a finite algebra, then we say that the algebra has Property (SDC). Our main result is the description of finite lattices and semilattices with Property (SDC): we prove that a finite lattice has Property (SDC) if and only if it is a Boolean lattice, and a finite semilattice has Property (SDC) if and only if it is distributive.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, minor corrections
Resonant scattering of solitons
Creators: name: Miroshnichenko, A. E.
name: Flach, S.
name: Malomed, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the scattering of solitons in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation on local inhomogeneities which may give rise to resonant transmission and reflection. In both cases, we derive resonance conditions for the soliton's velocity. The analytical predictions are tested numerically in regimes characterized by various time scales. Special attention is paid to intermode interactions and their effect on coherence, decoherence and dephasing of plane-wave modes which build up the soliton.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Measuring Statistical isotropy of the CMB anisotropy
Creators: name: Hajian, Amir
name: Souradeep, Tarun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistical expectation values of the temperature fluctuations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) are assumed to be preserved under rotations of the sky. This assumption of {\em statistical isotropy} (SI) of the CMB anisotropy should be observationally verified since detection of violation of SI could have profound implications for cosmology. We propose a set of measures, $κ_\ell$ ($\ell=1,2,3, ...$) for detecting violation of statistical isotropy in an observed CMB anisotropy sky map indicated by non zero $κ_\ell$. We define an estimator for the $κ_\ell$ spectrum and analytically compute its cosmic bias and cosmic variance. The results match those obtained by measuring $κ_\ell$ using simulated sky maps. Non-zero (bias corrected) $κ_\ell$ larger than the SI cosmic variance will imply violation of SI. The SI measure proposed in this paper is an appropriate statistics to investigate preliminary indication of SI violation in the recently released WMAP data.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, Style file changed, figure enhanced and references updated
Additional file 5 of Exploring the mechanism of Taohong Siwu Decoction on the treatment of blood deficiency and blood stasis syndrome by gut microbiota combined with metabolomics
Creators: name: He, Yao
name: Jiang, Huajuan
name: Du, Kequn
name: Wang, Shengju
name: Li, Minmin
name: Ma, Chuan
name: Liu, Fang
name: Dong, Yan
name: Fu, Chaomei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 5. Species accumulation boxplot.
Parholaspulus liaoningensis Ma 1998
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Parholaspulus
Parholaspulus liaoningensis

description: 130. Parholaspulus liaoningensis Ma, 1998
 Parholaspulus liaoningensis Ma, 1998: 81.
 Type locality and habitat: China, Liaoning province, Dandong, soil.
 Type depository: CDC.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 433, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926
Additional file 1: of Factors associated with under-five mortality in Bhutan: an analysis of the Bhutan National Health Survey 2012
Creators: name: Dendup, Tashi
name: Zhao, Yun
name: Dema, Deki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Comparison of odds ratio estimates in final model with bootstrapped estimates from 200 replications. (DOCX 19 kb)
Stellar cosmic rays as an important source of ionisation in protoplanetary disks: a disk mass dependent process
Creators: name: Rodgers-Lee, D.
name: Taylor, A. M.
name: Downes, T. P.
name: Ray, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assess the ionising effect of low energy protostellar cosmic rays in protoplanetary disks around a young solar mass star for a wide range of disk parameters. We assume a source of low energy cosmic rays located close to the young star which travel diffusively through the protoplanetary disk. We use observationally inferred values from nearby star-forming regions for the total disk mass and the radial density profile. We investigate the influence of varying the disk mass within the observed scatter for a solar mass star. We find that for a large range of disk masses and density profiles that protoplanetary disks are "optically thin" to low energy ($\sim$3 GeV) cosmic rays. At $R\sim10$au, for all of the disks that we consider ($M_\mathrm{disk}=6.0\times10^{-4} - 2.4\times 10^{-2}M_\odot$), the ionisation rate due to low energy stellar cosmic rays is larger than that expected from unmodulated galactic cosmic rays. This is in contrast to our previous results which assumed a much denser disk which may be appropriate for a more embedded source. At $R\sim70$au, the ionisation rate due to stellar cosmic rays dominates in $\sim$50% of the disks. These are the less massive disks with less steep density profiles. At this radius there is at least an order of magnitude difference in the ionisation rate between the least and most massive disk that we consider. Our results indicate, for a wide range of disk masses, that low energy stellar cosmic rays provide an important source of ionisation at the disk midplane at large radii ($\sim$70au).
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE To Be Negotiated Bilaterally And Regionally In Next Century: U.S. Farm Exports To Hold Up Well
Creators: name: Breimyer, Harold F.
name: Breimyer, Harold F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agribusiness
International Relations/Trade

description: International trade has devolved in the 20th century into climate- and resource-controlled exchange between temperate and tropical zones, and intra-temperate zone trade dominated by technology. Nations of temperate zones have been highly inventive of trade-influencing devices. Prospects are that ineffectual efforts to ease trade barriers multilaterally will give way to bilateral and regional trade compacts, which will mark the early 21st century. Later in the century, raw material shortages will scramble relations among nations, including those of trade. Technology yet to be developed could affect the balance among nations, even dramatically.
Optimizing DSD for Urban People Living with HIV in Zimbabwe Results.zip
Creators: name: Zech, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The zip file includes transcripts and survey/discrete choice experiment results from the Optimizing DSD for Urban People Living with HIV in Zimbabwe.
Parholaspulus marinus Ishikawa 1980
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Parholaspulus
Parholaspulus marinus

description: 131. Parholaspulus marinus Ishikawa, 1980
 Parholaspulus marinus Ishikawa, 1980a: 2.
 Parholaspulus marinus.— Ishikawa, 1980c: 184; Ishikawa, 1987b: 91.
 Type locality and habitat: Japan, Ehime Prefecture, Matsuyama, Shiraishinohana, in soil.
 Type depository: NSMT.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 433, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926
Measurement of inclusive jet cross sections in photoproduction at HERA
Creators: name: H1 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inclusive jet cross sections are measured in photoproduction at HERA using the H1 detector. The data sample of e+ p -> e+ + jet + X events in the kinematic range of photon virtualities Q^2 < 1 GeV^2 and photon-proton centre-of-mass energies 95 < W_gammap < 285 GeV represents an integrated luminosity of 24.1 pb^-1. Jets are defined using the inclusive k_T algorithm. Single- and multi-differential cross sections are measured as functions of jet transverse energy E_T^jet and pseudorapidity η^jet in the domain 5 < E_T^jet < 75 GeV and -1 < η^jet < 2.5. The cross sections are found to be in good agreement with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations corrected for fragmentation and underlying event effects. The cross section differential in E_T^jet, which varies by six orders of magnitude over the measured range, is compared with similar distributions from p pbar colliders at equal and higher energies.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures and 7 tables
Flowers of Edo - Life of Japanese courtesans
Creators: name: Mazay Selimov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210202 Heritage and Cultural Conservation
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: History

description: This article is about «Courtesans of Edo». The world of courtesans was formed one of the most peaceful periods of Japan history – times of Tokugawa. Because of these new Edo period's laws economical spheres of Japan began to prosper at this period of time, including prostitution. There were organized the first «pleasure quarters» – the prostitution was distinguished as a separate public institute. The article consists from six parts in which courtesan’s life of «pleasure quarters» of Yoshiwara in Edo is examined. In the first part are fundamentals of appearing first licenses’ quarters discussed. In the second part is reviewed the system of relations in the quarter of Yoshiwara, special attention is being paid to the System of Yoshiwaras’ courtesans. The third part is about the system of relations in the quarter of Yoshiwara after 1760 year. In the fourth part are reviewed the courtesan’s life and traditions. The fifth part is about elite young courtesan's training. In the sixth part are discussed different aspects of influence social status in society on the clothes and hair style of courtesans and geisha.
Stewardship Values: Still Valid for the 21st Century?
Creators: name: Browne, William P.
name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Swanson, Louis E.
name: Thompson, Paul B.
name: Unnevehr, Laurian J.
name: Browne, William P.
name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Swanson, Louis E.
name: Thompson, Paul B.
name: Unnevehr, Laurian J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: Many Americans believe that farmers place great value on stewardship and accordingly follow sound environmental practices. This belief has become a stumbling block to developing policies that address environmental issues. The stewardship myth, having evolved from the earliest days of our nation has many outmoded elements. Belief and behavior diverge for several reasons, none of which is unique to agriculture.
Serious adverse events and deaths in PCSK9 inhibitor trials reported on ClinicalTrials.gov: a systematic review
Creators: name: F. H. Van Bruggen
name: G. B. J. Nijhuis
name: S. U. Zuidema
name: Luijendijk, Hendrika
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Previous reviews of PCSK9 inhibitor trials are limited by a focus on composite cardiovascular outcomes. ClinicalTrials.gov provides trial results for individual clinical outcomes. Aim of this systematic review was to assess the effect of PCSK9 inhibitors on the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke/TIA, heart failure, diabetes mellitus, neurocognitive events, all-cause serious adverse events (SAE), and all-cause deaths as registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. PubMed, regulatory reports, ClinicalTrials.gov, and company websites were used to search studies. Randomized trials comparing PCSK9 inhibitor with placebo in participants with hypercholesterolemia were eligible. Study characteristics, risk of bias, and numbers of participants with the outcomes of interest were collected. We identified 33 lipid-lowering and 4 clinical outcomes trials with results on ClinicalTrials.gov (n = 16,958 and n = 73,836, respectively). Risk of bias was generally high. PCSK9 inhibitors did not affect the risk of any of the investigated outcomes in either type of trial. However, in clinical outcomes studies, alirocumab decreased the risk of all-cause SAE (OR 0.92; 95% CI 0.86–0.98), and evolocumab probably increased the risk of mortality (OR 1.12; 95% CI 1.00–1.25). Our meta-analysis of clinical events registered on ClinicalTrials.gov did not show that PCSK9 inhibitors improve cardiovascular health. Evolocumab increased the risk of all-cause mortality.
A Chandra X-ray Survey of Optically Selected AGN Pairs
Creators: name: Hou, Meicun
name: Li, Zhiyuan
name: Liu, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Chandra archival study of optically selected AGN pairs at a median redshift $\bar{z} \sim$ 0.1. Out of 1286 AGN pairs (with projected separations $r_p < 100$ kpc and velocity offsets $Δv < 600$ km s$^{-1}$) optically identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release, we find 67 systems with archival Chandra observations, which represent the largest sample of optically selected AGN pairs studied in the X-ray. Among the 67 AGN pairs, 21 systems have both nuclei detected in the X-rays, 36 have one nucleus detected in the X-rays, whereas 10 have no X-ray detection. The X-ray detection rate, 78/134 = 58% ($\pm 7$% 1$σ$ Poisson errors), is significantly higher than that (23/134 = $17\% \pm 4\%$) of a comparison sample of star-forming galaxy pairs, lending support to the optical AGN classification. In the conservative case where X-ray contamination from star formation is removed, the X-ray detection rate becomes $27\% \pm 4\%$, consistent with predictions from latest galaxy merger simulations. The 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity $L_{2-10~{\rm keV}}$ increases with decreasing projected separation in AGN pairs for $r_p \gtrsim 15$ kpc, suggesting an enhancement of black hole accretion even in early-stage mergers. On the other hand, $L_{2-10~{\rm keV}}$ appears to decrease with decreasing projected separation at $r_p \lesssim 15$ kpc, which is contradictory to predictions from merger simulations. The apparent decrease in $L_{2-10~{\rm keV}}$ of AGN pairs at $r_p \lesssim 15$ kpc may be caused by: (i) enhanced absorbing columns from merger-induced gas inflows, (ii) feedback effects from early-stage mergers, and/or (iii) small number statistics. Future X-ray studies with larger samples are needed to put our results on firmer statistical ground.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Comments welcome
Hydrophis schistosus
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Elapidae
Hydrophis
Hydrophis schistosus

description: Hydrophis schistosus (Daudin, 1803) — Native; Indeterminate.
Hydrophis schistosus Daudin, 1803f: 386–387. Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.10.7 (formerly RCSM & BMNH 1921.7.28.1), by original designation. Type locality: “Bengale” (= Bangladesh and India); later restricted to “Tranquebar” (= Tharangambadi), India, by Smith (1926: 39).
Beaked Sea Snake
(Figures 22F & 22G)
Singapore records.
Hydrus schistosus — Cantor, 1847c: 1057.
Enhydrina velakadien — Flower, 1899: 688.
Enhydrina valakadyn —Stejneger, 1907: 438.— de Rooij, 1917: 221.—Sworder, 1923: 70.
Enhydrina valakadien — Boulenger, 1912: 194.
Enhydrina schistosa — de Haas, 1950: 590.— Horwood, 1968: 34.—Sharma, 1973: 237.— Gremli, 1988: 60.—F.L.K. Lim & M.T.-M. Lee, 1989: 115.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 54.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 148.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.— Cox et al., 1998: 35.— Iskandar & Colijn, 2001: 131.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 148.— Das, 2010: 318.— Das, 2012a: 93.— Wallach et al., 2014: 269.—Chan-ard et al., 2015: 313.— Das, 2018: 115.
“ Enhydrina ” —P.K.L. Ng et al., 2011: 302.
Hydrophis (Enhydrina) schistosus — Leviton et al., 2018: 466.
Hydrophis schistosus — Charlton, 2020: 74.
Remarks. Voris and Jeffries collected the only specimen of H. schistosus from Singapore from a kelong at LCK on 28 July 1981 (Fig. 22F). This specimen was deposited at the Raffles Museum and is catalogued under ZRC.2.2047. Cantor (1847c) was the first to report H. schistosus from Singapore, and in his account of the species he stated that it was the most abundant sea snake in Singapore, as did Horwood (1968). Sharma (1973) and Gremli (1988c) also both declared that H. schistosus was common in Singapore, and Shelford (1916) recounted H. schistosus as one of the most common sea snakes in the South China Sea between Singapore and Sarawak, Malaysia, and Borneo. However, neither of these authors provided any evidence. Thus, it appears that H. schistosus may be common in the waters surrounding Singapore, but the Voris and Jeffries specimen is the only record from Singapore.
Occurrence. Known from one specimen from LCK in 1981. Rare.
Singapore conservation status. Not Evaluated.
Conservation priority. Highest.
IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2018].
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Lim Chu Kang: ZRC.2.2047 (28-Jul-1981).
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Singapore localities. Lim Chu Kang.
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on pages 196-197, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Food Crisis in the 21st Century: Specter or Reality?
Creators: name: Chuang, Liu-Hsiung
name: Chuang, Liu-Hsiung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The world's population in the last half of the 21 st century will be huge, likely double the current 5.5 billion, entailing a tremendous increase in food needs. However, due to past degradation of resources, unpredictability of technological progress, vicissitudes of climate, and inadequate incomes, many of these people may be hungry, especially in the less developed areas of the world where high population growth rates will still continue well into the coming century. Therefore, now is the time for a renewed concern about food security for all people. Major attention should particularly be directed to the currently food-short low income countries, which need to increase their food production and improve its distribution. And international negotiations like the current GATT negotiations should explicitly focus on the food security needs of these countries.
Parholaspulus maturovae Petrova 1967
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Parholaspulus
Parholaspulus maturovae

description: 132. Parholaspulus maturovae Petrova, 1967
 Parholaspulus maturovae.— Petrova, 1967a: 40 (nomen nudum)
 Parholaspulus (Parholaspidellus) maturovae Petrova, 1967b: 20.
 Parholaspulus (Parholaspidellus) maturovae.— Petrova, 1968a: 669; Petrova, 1968b: 409; Petrova-Nikitina, 1969: 187; Petrova, 1977: 332.
 Type locality and habitat: Russia, Chitinskaya Oblast, Karymsky District, in litter.
 Type depository: ZMUM.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 433, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926
Finite Size Effect on Correlation Functions of a Bose Gas in a Trap and Destruction of the Order Parameter by Phase Fluctuations
Creators: name: Babichenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the finite sizes on the coherent properties of 3D Bose systems is considered. As is shown, the correlation functions of a Bose gas in a trap have essential differences from analogous correlation functions in an infinite system. Thus, the anomalous correlation function vanishes due to the divergency of phase fluctuations which destruct the order parameter too. The normal correlation function decays exponentially in time for sufficiently large time interval.
description: 10 pages, RevTex4, some references have been added some changes in text are made
The Long, Slow Slide Into Economic Mediocrity
Creators: name: Cochrane, Willard W.
name: Von Witzke, Harald
name: Cochrane, Willard W.
name: Von Witzke, Harald
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Public Economics
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The U.S. economy is undergoing structural changes that have led to a slow but steady decline in economic performance. This long, slow slide into economic mediocrity can only be reversed by significantly increasing investments in physical capital, research and development, human capital, and public goods. For example, it is time for the federal government to develop "pro-children and youth" programs comparable in scope to the programs we provide senior citizens.
HETDEX Pilot Survey. VI. [OIII] Emitters and Expectations for a Local Sample of Star Forming Galaxies in HETDEX
Creators: name: Indahl, Briana
name: Zeimann, Greg
name: Hill, Gary J.
name: Finkelstein, Steven L.
name: Ciardullo, Robin
name: Bridge, Joanna S.
name: Chonis, Taylor
name: Drory, Niv
name: Gronwall, Caryl
name: Lee, Hanshin
name: McQuinn, Kristen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assemble an unbiased sample of 29 galaxies with [O II] $λ3727$ and/or [O III] $λ5007$ detections at $z < 0.15$ from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Pilot Survey (HPS). HPS finds galaxies without pre-selection based on their detected emission lines via integral field spectroscopy. Sixteen of these objects were followed up with the second-generation, low resolution spectrograph (LRS2) on the upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Oxygen abundances were then derived via strong emission lines using a Bayesian approach. We find most of the galaxies fall along the mass-metallicity relation derived from photometrically selected star forming galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). However, two of these galaxies have low metallicity (similar to the very rare green pea galaxies in mass-metallicity space). The star formation rates of this sample fall in an intermediate space between the SDSS star forming main sequence and the extreme green pea galaxies. We conclude that spectroscopic selection fills part of the mass-metallicity-SFR phase space that is missed in photometric surveys with pre-selection like SDSS, i.e., we find galaxies that are actively forming stars but are faint in continuum. We use the results of this pilot investigation to make predictions for the upcoming unbiased, large spectroscopic sample of local line emitters from HETDEX. With the larger HETDEX survey we will determine if galaxies selected spectroscopically without continuum brightness pre-selection have metallicities that fall on a continuum that bridges typical star forming and rarer, more extreme systems like green peas.
Intrinsic transverse field in frustrated quantum Ising magnets: its physical origin and quantum effects
Creators: name: Chen, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse field Ising model is a common model in quantum magnetism and is often illustrated as an example for quantum phase transition. Its physical origin in quantum magnets, however, is actually not quite well-understood. The quantum mechanical properties of this model on frustrated systems are not well-understood either. We here clarify the physical origin, both extrinsic one and intrinsic one, for the transverse field of the quantum Ising model, and then explain the quantum effects in the Kagome system. We discuss the quantum plaquette order and the quantum phase transition out of this ordered state in the rare-earth Kagome magnets. Our specific results can find their relevance in the rare-earth tripod Kagome magnets.
description: 10 pages
Serious adverse events and deaths in PCSK9 inhibitor trials reported on ClinicalTrials.gov: a systematic review
Creators: name: F. H. Van Bruggen
name: G. B. J. Nijhuis
name: S. U. Zuidema
name: H. J. Luijendijk
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Previous reviews of PCSK9 inhibitor trials are limited by a focus on composite cardiovascular outcomes. ClinicalTrials.gov provides trial results for individual clinical outcomes. Aim of this systematic review was to assess the effect of PCSK9 inhibitors on the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke/TIA, heart failure, diabetes mellitus, neurocognitive events, all-cause serious adverse events (SAE), and all-cause deaths as registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. PubMed, regulatory reports, ClinicalTrials.gov, and company websites were used to search studies. Randomized trials comparing PCSK9 inhibitor with placebo in participants with hypercholesterolemia were eligible. Study characteristics, risk of bias, and numbers of participants with the outcomes of interest were collected. We identified 33 lipid-lowering and 4 clinical outcomes trials with results on ClinicalTrials.gov (n = 16,958 and n = 73,836, respectively). Risk of bias was generally high. PCSK9 inhibitors did not affect the risk of any of the investigated outcomes in either type of trial. However, in clinical outcomes studies, alirocumab decreased the risk of all-cause SAE (OR 0.92; 95% CI 0.86–0.98), and evolocumab probably increased the risk of mortality (OR 1.12; 95% CI 1.00–1.25). Our meta-analysis of clinical events registered on ClinicalTrials.gov did not show that PCSK9 inhibitors improve cardiovascular health. Evolocumab increased the risk of all-cause mortality.
Flowers_of_Edo_-_Life_of_Japanese_courte.pdf
Creators: name: Mazay Selimov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210202 Heritage and Cultural Conservation
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: History

description: This article is about «Courtesans of Edo». The world of courtesans was formed one of the most peaceful periods of Japan history – times of Tokugawa. Because of these new Edo period's laws economical spheres of Japan began to prosper at this period of time, including prostitution. There were organized the first «pleasure quarters» – the prostitution was distinguished as a separate public institute. The article consists from six parts in which courtesan’s life of «pleasure quarters» of Yoshiwara in Edo is examined. In the first part are fundamentals of appearing first licenses’ quarters discussed. In the second part is reviewed the system of relations in the quarter of Yoshiwara, special attention is being paid to the System of Yoshiwaras’ courtesans. The third part is about the system of relations in the quarter of Yoshiwara after 1760 year. In the fourth part are reviewed the courtesan’s life and traditions. The fifth part is about elite young courtesan's training. In the sixth part are discussed different aspects of influence social status in society on the clothes and hair style of courtesans and geisha.
Parholaspulus nobilis Petrova 1977
Creators: name: Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier
name: Halliday, Bruce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Parholaspididae
Parholaspulus
Parholaspulus nobilis

description: 136. Parholaspulus nobilis Petrova, 1977
 Parholaspulus nobilis Petrova, 1977: 323.
 Type locality and habitat: Russia, Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve, in diverse subforest.
 Type depository: ZMUM.
description: Published as part of Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 5005 (4) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5141926
AGRICULTURAL CHOICES IN THE WAR ON DRUGS: Pay or Play?
Creators: name: Fairchild, Dean G.
name: Fairchild, Dean G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Illegal drugs have enormous significance for world trade, consumer safety, and the social and natural environment. Thus, drug policy is one of the principal policy choices society faces as the new century approaches. Numerous skirmishes in the War on Drugs are being fought on an agricultural battlefield. But the combat strategies for these skirmishes lack tactical support from the scientific agricultural establishment even though agriculture's unique perspective could contribute new weapons and maneuvers with which the war could be pursued.
title: Anti-leucine-rich glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1) encephalitis
Creators: name: Thamilarasu, Veerasamy
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 53-year-old male developed memory disturbance in the form of misplacing things, way finding difficulty, repeatedly asking the same questions, not being able to identify relatives, behavioural disturbance such as wandering behaviour, irrelevant talk, and recurrent episodes of focal seizures involving the face for 6 months duration. Initially, he was treated as dementia with behavioural disturbance.

description: 53 years, male
Randomized, placebo-controlled trial of xyloglucan and gelose for the treatment of acute diarrhea in children
Creators: name: Santos, Javier
name: Musta, Virgil
name: Luca, Catalina Mihaela
name: Belei, Oana Andreea
name: Cambrea, Simona Claudia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Oral rehydration is the main treatment of acute diarrhea in children. This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy and safety of xyloglucan and gelose (agar-agar) plus oral rehydration solution (ORS) compared with placebo and ORS for reduction of acute diarrhea symptoms in children. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, children with acute gastroenteritis received xyloglucan/gelose plus ORS (n = 50) or placebo plus ORS (n = 50) for 5 days. Demographic, clinical, anthropometric and laboratory parameters were recorded and analyzed. Xyloglucan/gelose plus ORS reduced the total number of type 7 and 6 stools on the Bristol Stool Form scale (p = 0.040 and p = 0.015, respectively, compared to placebo plus ORS), and had a rapid onset of action, evident 6 hours post-treatment. Xyloglucan/gelose plus ORS also improved associated clinical symptoms (apathy, vomiting, flatulence, and blood in stool). compared with placebo plus ORS. Except for a generalized rash of unknown causality in a patient receiving placebo plus ORS, all other adverse events (dehydration, n = 7, cough, n = 1, exacerbation of vomiting, n = 1) were deemed unrelated to study medication. Xyloglucan/gelose plus ORS was effective and safe in treating acute diarrhea in children.
New Algorithm for Parallel Laplacian Growth by Iterated Conformal Maps
Creators: name: Levermann, Anders
name: Procaccia, Itamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a new algorithm to generate Laplacian Growth Patterns using iterated conformal maps. The difficulty of growing a complete layer with local width proportional to the gradient of the Laplacian field is overcome. The resulting growth patterns are compared to those obtained by the best algorithms of direct numerical solutions. The fractal dimension of the patterns is discussed.
description: Sumitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Further details at http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~anders