cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electrical Control of the Superconducting-to-Insulating Transition in Graphene/Metal Hybrids
Creators: name: Allain, Adrien
name: Han, Zheng
name: Bouchiat, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of adsorbates, or on multilayered structures. These systems have exhibited novel tunable electronic properties such as bandgap- engineering, reversible metal/insulating transition or supramolecular spintronics. Tunable superconductivity is expected as well, but experimental realization is lacking. Here, we show experiments based on me tal/graphene hybrid composites, enabling the control of proximity coupling of an array of superconducting nanoparticles onto a macroscopic graphene sheet. This material allows at low temperature to tune the superconductivity down to a strongly insulating state. It results from the combination of a proximity-induced superconductivity generated by the metallic nanoparticles array with the two-dimensional and tunable metallicity of graphene. The resulting hybrid material behaves, as a whole, like a granular 2D superconductor showing universal transition threshold and localization of Cooper pairs in the insulating phase. This experiment sheds light on the emergence of superconductivity in inhomogeneous superconduc- tors, and more generally it demonstrates the potential of graphene as a versatile building-block for the realization of novel superconducting materials.
Age Differences of Multivariate Network Expressions During Task-Switching and Their Associations with Behavior
Creators: name: Gazes, Yunglin
name: Rakitin, Brian C.
name: Habeck, Christian G.
name: Steffener, Jason
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Neuropsychiatry
Task analysis
Brain--Magnetic resonance imaging
Multivariate analysis

description: The effect of aging on functional network activation associated with task-switching was examined in 24 young (age=25.2+/-2.73 years) and 23 older adults (age=65.2+/-2.65 years) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The study goals were to (1) identify a network shared by both young and older adults, (2) identify additional networks in each age group, and (3) examine the relationship between the networks identified and behavioral performance in task-switching. Ordinal trend covariance analysis was used to identify the networks, which takes advantage of increasing activation with greater task demand to isolate the network of regions recruited by task-switching. Two task-related networks were found: a shared network that was strongly expressed by both young and older adults and a second network identified in the young data that was residualized from the shared network. Both networks consisted of regions associated with task-switching in previous studies including the middle frontal gyrus, the precentral gyrus, the anterior cingulate, and the superior parietal lobule. Not only was pattern expression of the shared network associated with reaction time in both age groups, the difference in the pattern expression across task conditions (task-switch minus single-task) was also correlated with the difference in RT across task conditions. On the contrary, expression of the young-residual network showed a large age effect such that older adults do not increase expression of the network with greater task demand as young adults do and correlation between expression and accuracy was significant only for young adults. Thus, while a network related to RT is preserved in older adults, a different network related to accuracy is disrupted.
Superradiant instability of charged massive scalar field in Kerr-Newman-anti-de Sitter black hole
Creators: name: Li, Ran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the superradiance instability of charged massive scalar field in the background of Kerr-Newman-anti-de Sitter black hole. By employing the asymptotic matching technique to solve Klein-Gordon equation analytically, the complex parts of quasinormal frequencies are shown to be positive in the regime of superradiance. Because the calculation is performed in the approximation of small black hole, the result indicates that small Kerr-Newman-anti-de Sitter black hole is unstable against the massive scalar field perturbation with small charge.
description: 13 pages, no figure, comments are welcome! Revised version accepted by PLB
APOE Genotype and Cerebral Blood Flow in Healthy Young Individuals
Creators: name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Habeck, Christian G.
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Anderson, Karen E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Neurology
Apolipoprotein E
Cerebral circulation
Youth

description: To the Editor: Several epidemiologic studies have found an association between the presence of an apolipoprotein E (APOE) ∊4 allele and increased risk for Alzheimer disease (AD). Although 2 brain imaging studies of middle-aged and elderly individuals have found that the ∊4 allele is associated with an AD-like pattern on positron emission tomogrophy (PET) brain scans,1,2 we are not aware of any study has that has examined this association in young individuals.
Turdus amaurochalinus Cabanis 1850
Creators: name: Fischer, Wagner
name: Faria de Godoi, Raquel
name: Conceição Paranhos Filho, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Turdidae
Turdus
Turdus amaurochalinus

description: Turdus amaurochalinus Cabanis, 1850 Record. Table 3. The road-killed Creamy-bellied Thrush individual was distinguished by its brownish plumage, which was olivebrown above, brown-streaked white throat, and creamy white belly, and by the yellowish bill, and black lores.
description: Published as part of Fischer, Wagner, Faria de Godoi, Raquel & Conceição Paranhos Filho, Antonio, 2018, Roadkill records of reptiles and birds in Cerrado and Pantanal landscapes, pp. 845-876 in Check List 14 (5) on page 873, DOI: 10.15560/14.5.845
Surface Terms of Quasitopological Gravity and Thermodynamics of Charged Rotating Black Branes
Creators: name: Dehghani, M. H.
name: Vahidinia, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the surface term for quasitopological gravity in order to make the variational principle of the action well-defined. We also introduce the charged black branes of quasitopological gravity and calculate the finite action through the use of counterterm method. Then we compute the thermodynamic quantities of the black brane solution by use of Gibbs free energy and investigate the first law of thermodynamics by introducing a Smarr-type formula. Finally, we generalize our solutions to the case of rotating charged solutions.
description: Latex, one figure
Non-Uniform Adversarially Robust Pruning
Creators: name: Zhao, Qi
name: Königl, Tim
name: Wressnegger, Christian
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: SECML
AutoML
Neural Networks
Compression
Robustness

description: Neural networks often are highly redundant and can thus be effectively compressed to a fraction of their initial size using model pruning techniques without harming the overall prediction accuracy. Additionally, pruned networks need to maintain robustness against attacks such as adversarial examples. Recent research on combining all these objectives has shown significant advances using uniform compression strategies, that is, parameters are compressed equally according to a preset compression ratio. In this paper, we show that employing non-uniform compression strategies allows to improve clean data accuracy as well as adversarial robustness under high overall compression—in particular using channel pruning. We leverage reinforcement learning for finding an optimal trade-off and demonstrate that the resulting compression strategy can be used as a plug-in replacement for uniform compression ratios of existing state-of-the-art approaches.
Mesoplophora (Mesoplophora) parapulchra Niedbała 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Niedbała, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Mesoplophoridae
Mesoplophora
Mesoplophora parapulchra

description: Mesoplophora (Mesoplophora) parapulchra n. sp. (Figures 1 A-D) Material examined — Holotype: ANIC-1546, Mt. Kosciuszko National Park (NP), 13 km Northwest of Jindabyne, 1 km West of Sawpit Creek Campground, alt. 1240 m, 36°21’S, 148°35’E, Eucalyptus dalrympleana rotten log litter, 2 May 1993, coll. D.S. Chandler. Measurements of holotype — Prodorsum: length 263, width 182, height 106, sensillum 106, setae: in 139, le 114, ro 86, ex 12; notogaster: length 364, width 298, height 197, setae: c 1 53, d 1 58, d 2 88, e 1 76; genitoaggenital plate 76 × 51, anoadanal plate 88 × 48, distance between genitoaggenital and anoadanal plates 23. Description — Colour yellow. Surface of body punctate. Prodorsum without lateral carinae. Sensilla long, smooth, slightly swollen at distal end. Setae smooth, long, flagellate, rostral setae shorter than interlamellar and lateral setae, exobothridial setae minute, shorter than diameter of bothridium. Notogaster with 8 pairs of setae, dorsal setae and setae c 2 rigid, rough and shorter than smooth and flagellate ventral setae c 3 and cp; setae c 2 more remote from anterior margin than setae c 1 and c 3 . Ventral side — One pair of short setae h on the level of genital plates present. Ventral plate with nine pairs of smooth, rather short setae, only one pair of median setae longer than other setae. Formula of genital setae: 5+2. Anoadanal plates with two pairs of smooth setae. Etymology — The name alludes to some resemblance to Mesoplophora pulchra. Comparison to related species — The new species is similar to the palaearctic species Mesoplophora pulchra Sellnick, 1928 but differs from it by the presence of two pairs of anal setae and presence of nine pairs of ventral setae with one pair longer median setae (versus 10 pairs of ventral setae with two pairs of longer median setae).
description: Published as part of Niedbała, W., 2012, An Updated Study Of Ptyctimous Mite Fauna (Acari: Oribatida) Of The Australasian Region With A Description Of Thirteen New Species, pp. 183-228 in Acarologia 52 (2) on page 190, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122049, http://zenodo.org/record/5402447
Transparency in language. A typological study
Creators: name: Leufkens, Sterre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: transparency
simplicity
complexity
typology
learnability
implicational hierarchy

description: In this thesis I investigate the degree of transparency of 22 languages. Transparency is defined as the extent to which a language maintains one-to-one relations between units at different levels of organisation, i.e. pragmatics, semantics, morphosyntax and phonology. Languages are compared not only as regards the amount of non-transparent phenomena in their grammars, so as to rank them from relatively transparent to relatively non-transparent, but also to uncover an implicational pattern in the distribution of non-transparent features across languages.

Transparency is discussed in connection to the notions of simplicity and learnability. Simplicity and transparency are shown to be different concepts that are both relevant in accounting for acquisition data. Whereas most definitions of simplicity take it to apply to particular domains of grammar, transparency is defined as a property of interfaces between levels within the grammar. The term is further operationalised using the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar.

It turns out that all languages have at least some non-transparent features, most notably of the redundancy type. Fusion and domain disintegration are less commonly attested, but the non-transparent features that are found only in the least transparent languages are so-called form-based forms: highly syntacticised forms and structures, that have no pragmatic or semantic motivation. Furthermore, non-transparent relations at the interfaces of the phonological and pragmatic levels are found in many languages, whereas it is less common to violate transparency at morphosyntactic and semantic interfaces. The attested implicational hierarchy of transparency proves that transparency is a relevant typological notion.
MPEC 2023-H172 : 2023 HN4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HN4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Estimation and Validation of a Multiattribute Model of Alzheimer Disease Progression
Creators: name: Stallard, Eric
name: Kinosian, Bruce
name: Zbrozek, Arthur S.
name: Yashin, Anatoliy I.
name: Glick, Henry A.
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Neurology
Alzheimer's disease
Medical care, Cost of
Multiple criteria decision making

description: OBJECTIVES: To estimate and validate a multiattribute model of the clinical course of Alzheimer disease (AD) from mild AD to death in a high-quality prospective cohort study, and to estimate the impact of hypothetical modifications to AD progression rates on costs associated with Medicare and Medicaid services. DATA AND METHODS: The authors estimated sex-specific longitudinal Grade of Membership (GoM) models for AD patients (103 men, 149 women) in the initial cohort of the Predictors Study (1989-2001) based on 80 individual measures obtained every 6 mo for 10 y. These models were replicated for AD patients (106 men, 148 women) in the 2nd Predictors Study cohort (1997-2007). Model validation required that the disease-specific transition parameters be identical for both Predictors Study cohorts. Medicare costs were estimated from the National Long Term Care Survey. RESULTS: Sex-specific models were validated using the 2nd Predictors Study cohort with the GoM transition parameters constrained to the values estimated for the 1st Predictors Study cohort; 57 to 61 of the 80 individual measures contributed significantly to the GoM models. Simulated, cost-free interventions in the rate of progression of AD indicated that large potential cost offsets could occur for patients at the earliest stages of AD. CONCLUSIONS: AD progression is characterized by a small number of parameters governing changes in large numbers of correlated indicators of AD severity. The analysis confirmed that the progression of AD represents a complex multidimensional physiological process that is similar across different study cohorts. The estimates suggested that there could be large cost offsets to Medicare and Medicaid from the slowing of AD progression among patients with mild AD. The methodology appears generally applicable in AD modeling.
Acrotritia paraspiculifera Niedbała 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Niedbała, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Euphthiracaridae
Acrotritia
Acrotritia paraspiculifera

description: Acrotritia paraspiculifera n. sp. (Figures 2 A-C) Material examined — Holotype and two paratypes (one in ANIC, one in NHC): ANIC-1058 9 km Northest of Mt. Tozer, rainforest litter, 12°43’S 143°17’E, 5-10 July 1986, coll. T. Weir Measurements of holotype — Prodorsum: length 263, height 114, width 190, sensillum 45, setae: interlamellar 131, lamellar 83, rostral 66, exobothridial 15; notogaster: length 545, height 348, width 313, setae: c 1 66, h 1 81, p 1 76; length of genitoaggenital plate 202, length of anoadanal plate 263. Description — Colour yellow, surface of body punctate. Prodorsum with one pair of distinct long lateral carinae. Sensilla with plum-stone shaped head. Interlamellar, lamellar and rostral setae erect and spinose in distal half. Distance between lamellar setae larger than between rostral setae. Notogastral setae rather short, spinose in distal half, c 1 < c 1 -d 1 . Ventral region — Nine pairs of minute genital and two pair of minute aggenital setae present. Three pairs of anal and three pairs of adanal setae present. All setae, except an 3 setae of similar length. Lyrifissures iad located between an 3 and ad 3 setae. Legs — Tarsi with variable number of claws. Tarsi formula in holotype: left leg 2-3-3-1, right leg 1-3-3-1, while in paratype I the formula is 2-3-3-1 and 2-3-3-2, and in paratype II it is 2-3-3-3 and 2-3- 3-3. Etymology — The prefix para is Latin meaning near and refers to the similarity the new species with to Acrotritia spiculifera. Comparison to related species — The new species is similar to Acrotritia spiculifera (Mahunka, 1991) in the plum-stone shape of sensilla, length and proportion of setae, number nine pairs of genital and two pairs of adanal setae. It is slightly bigger and distinguished from the above species by the presence of variable number of claws on the legs (all legs in A. spiculifera are monodactylous), larger distance between lamellar setae than between rostral setae (in A. spiculifera these distance is similar) and a similar length of setae on anoadanal plates, except setae an 3 (in A. spiculifera setae an 1 and an 2 are shorter than adanal setae).
description: Published as part of Niedbała, W., 2012, An Updated Study Of Ptyctimous Mite Fauna (Acari: Oribatida) Of The Australasian Region With A Description Of Thirteen New Species, pp. 183-228 in Acarologia 52 (2) on page 193, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122049, http://zenodo.org/record/5402447
description: {"references": ["Mahunka, S. 1991 - New and interesting mites from the Geneva Museum LXVII. Soil inhabiting Ptychoid Oribatids from Malaysia (Acari: Oribatida) - Rev. Suisse Zool., 98: 325 - 354."]}
NEXUS BETWEEN EARNING MANAGEMENT AND WASTE MANAGEMENT COST OF LISTED OIL AND GAS FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Ugwueze, Catherine Amaka (Ph.D)
name: Nwachukwu, Basilia Chiamaka (Ph.D)
Publisher: name: SADI Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cost
Earning
Management
Waste

description: The study examined the Nexus between Earning Management and Waste Management Cost of Listed Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study sought to; evaluate the relationship between earnings per share and waste management cost and assess the relationship between return on equity and waste management cost of listed Oil and Gas firms in Nigeria. The study adopts an ex-post facto research design. The study adopts a secondary source of data. the data was obtained from the financial statements and annual accounts of the selected oil and gas firms. The data was analysis using panel data regression technique. The panel data include observations on N cross section units (i.e., firms) over T time-periods. The result revealed that earnings per share have positive and insignificant relationship with waste management cost of listed Oil and Gas firms in Nigeria (r-value 0.1578). while return on equity has positive and significant relationship with waste management cost of listed Oil and Gas firms in Nigeria (r-value 0.8684). The study concluded that Earning Management has significant positive relationship with Waste Management Cost of Listed Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria. The study recommended that Government should set standards as industrial average amounts that corporate organizations within such industrial sector must spend on CSR in each financial year of operation
Relativistic X-Ray Free Electron Lasers in the Quantum Regime
Creators: name: Eliasson, Bengt
name: Shukla, Padma Kant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a nonlinear theory for relativistic X-ray free electron lasers in the quantum regime, using a collective Klein-Gordon (KG) equation (for relativistic electrons), which is coupled with the Maxwell-Poisson equations for the electromagnetic and electrostatic fields. In our model, an intense electromagnetic wave is used as a wiggler which interacts with a relativistic electron beam to produce coherent tunable radiation. The KG-Maxwell-Poisson model is used to derive a general nonlinear dispersion relation for parametric instabilities in three-space-dimensions, including an arbitrarily large amplitude electromagnetic wiggler field. The nonlinear dispersion relation reveals the importance of quantum recoil effects and oblique scattering of the radiation that can be tuned by varying the beam energy.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Epidemiology of Alzheimer Disease
Creators: name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Neurology
Alzheimer's disease
Epidemiology
Dementia

description: The global prevalence of dementia has been estimated to be as high as 24 million, and is predicted to double every 20 years until at least 2040. As the population worldwide continues to age, the number of individuals at risk will also increase, particularly among the very old. Alzheimer disease is the leading cause of dementia beginning with impaired memory. The neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer disease include diffuse and neuritic extracellular amyloid plaques in brain that are frequently surrounded by dystrophic neurites and intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles. The etiology of Alzheimer disease remains unclear, but it is likely to be the result of both genetic and environmental factors. In this review we discuss the prevalence and incidence rates, the established environmental risk factors, and the protective factors, and briefly review genetic variants predisposing to disease.
Additional file 2 of Clinical and molecular features of NDM-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a multicenter study in Israel
Creators: name: Adler, Amos
name: Ghosh, Hiren
name: Gross, Andrea
name: Rechavi, Amit
name: Lasnoy, Michal
name: Assous, Marc V.
name: Geffen, Yuval
name: Darawsha, Basel
name: Wiener-Well, Yonit
name: Alony, Anat
name: Grundmann, Hajo
name: Reuter, Sandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 60506
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
APOE Epsilon 4 Allele Predicts Faster Cognitive Decline in Mild Alzheimer Disease
Creators: name: Cosentino, Stephanie
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Helzner, Elizabeth P.
name: Glymour, M. Maria
name: Brandt, Jason
name: Albert, Marilyn
name: Blacker, Deborah
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Neurology
Apolipoprotein E
Alzheimer's disease
Cognition

description: OBJECTIVE: To determine whether APOE epsilon 4 predicts rate of cognitive change in incident and prevalent Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: Individuals were recruited from two longitudinal cohort studies-the Washington Heights and Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP; population-based) and the Predictors Study (clinic-based)--and were followed for an average of 4 years. Three samples of participants diagnosed with AD, with diverse demographic characteristics and baseline cognitive functioning, were studied: 1) 199 (48%) of the incident WHICAP cases; 2) 215 (54%) of the prevalent WHICAP cases; and 3) 156 (71%) of the individuals diagnosed with AD in the Predictors Study. Generalized estimating equations were used to test whether rate of cognitive change, measured using a composite cognitive score in WHICAP and the Mini-Mental State Examination in Predictors, varied as a function of epsilon 4 status in each sample. RESULTS: The presence of at least one epsilon 4 allele was associated with faster cognitive decline in the incident population-based AD group (p = 0.01). Parallel results were produced for the two prevalent dementia samples only when adjusting for disease severity or excluding the most impaired participants from the analyses. CONCLUSION: APOE epsilon 4 may influence rate of cognitive decline most significantly in the earliest stages of Alzheimer disease.
Arphthicarus trivestigius Niedbała 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Niedbała, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Oribatida
Phthiracaridae
Arphthicarus
Arphthicarus trivestigius

description: Arphthicarus trivestigius n. sp. (Figure 6 A-F) Material examined — Holotype and 37 paratypes (19 in ANIC, 18 in NHC): ANIC- 357, 12 km South of Ravenshoe, 1000 m, rainforest, 17°43’S 145°30’E, 3 July 1971, coll. R. W. Taylor and J. Feehan. Measurements of holotype — Prodorsum: length 318, width 212, height 96, sensillum 53, setae: interlamellar 126, rostral 61; notogaster: length 540, width 399, height 394, c 1 169, c 2 101, cp 94, h 1 177, p 1 164, c 1 / c 1 - d 1 = 1.2; genitoaggenital plate 215 × 119, anoadanal plate 190 × 101. Description — Colour brown light. Cuticle well sculptured with weak concavities. Prodorsum with sigillar fields not very distinct but narrow. Lateral carinae absent. Sensilla with long, narrow pedicel enlarged towards distal end with indistinct rough head. Interlamellar setae erect, strong, thick covered sparsely by barbs, similar to notogastral setae, lamellar and exobothridial setae vestigial, rostral setae erect, spiniform, rough. Notogaster with 15 pairs of very thick, spiniform setae covered sparsely by barbs, median setae longer than lateral ones. Setae c 1 and c 3 remote from anterior border, setae c 2 far from border. Vestigial setae f 1 posteriorly of h 1 setae. Four pairs of lyrifissures ia, im, ip and ips present. Ventral region — Setae h of mentum considerably longer than distance between them. Genitoaggenital plates with nine pairs of genital setae with arrangement: 4+1: 4. Aggenital setae long. Anoadanal plates each with five setae, anal setae smallest, adanal setae ad 2 situated near anal setae, setae ad 3 vestigial. Legs — Formulae of setae and solenidia of complete type. Setae d of femora I forked distally and remote from distal end of article. Etymology — The name of species alludes to the three different vestigial setae: lamellar, exobothridial and adanal setae ad 3 . Comparison to related species — The new species is distinguishable by the presence of three pairs of setae vestigial: lamellar, exobothridial and adanal setae ad 3 , while its sensilla are long and narrow, enlarged towards distal end, median setae of notogaster longer than ventral setae, short anal setae and position of adanal setae ad 2 near anal setae.
description: Published as part of Niedbała, W., 2012, An Updated Study Of Ptyctimous Mite Fauna (Acari: Oribatida) Of The Australasian Region With A Description Of Thirteen New Species, pp. 183-228 in Acarologia 52 (2) on page 201, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122049, http://zenodo.org/record/5402447
Study of droplet splitting in an electrowetting based digital microfluidic system
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Biddut
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis focuses on the symmetric and asymmetric splitting of droplets, which is a prominent fluidic operation in a digital microfluidic system (DMFS). The prerequisite part of the investigation of droplet splitting is to understand the electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) based droplet actuation. This thesis demonstrates that not only the EWOD actuation is a self-feedback system - implying that the actuation force depends on the position of the droplet, but also the size of the droplet affects the magnitude of actuation force. However, a sensing mechanism is essential for complex operations, e.g. dispensing and splitting. One contribution of this thesis is a novel method of sensing the droplet position that requires connections to the two adjacent electrodes in the lower plate only. For the fabrication of prototype DMFS, a new polymeric material, cyanoethyl pullulan (CEP), is proposed as the dielectric layer resulting in a simple and low-cost fabrication of DMFS. The required voltage for droplet manipulation is drastically reduced owing to high relative permittivity of CEP. Droplet splitting is investigated both numerically and experimentally. Numerical investigation of droplet splitting in FLOW-3D®, a commercial computational fluid dynamics software, revealed that the strength of viscous forces relative to the surface tension force determines the success of splitting. For successful asymmetric splitting, performed by applying voltages of unequal magnitude to left-hand and right-hand sides of the droplet, there exists a minimum voltage for the low-voltage side that guarantees splitting. This minimum voltage increases if the aspect ratio (i.e., diameter to height) of the droplet is reduced while keeping the diameter of the droplet constant. Investigation of the asymmetric splitting with different ratios of applied voltage revealed that the ratio between the volumes of accumulated liquid on either sides increases with voltage ratio. The feasibility of asymmetric splitting as well as the effects of different ratios of applied voltages were studied in prototype DMFS. The results verify the existence of a minimum voltage for successful splitting. The ratio between the volumes of the sister droplets increases with that of the applied voltages. Moreover, the general characteristics of flow-rates and liquid accumulation were found to be similar to those in simulations.
Additional file 1 of Association between the age at onset of overweight and obesity and the subsequent risk of hypertension in Chinese adults
Creators: name: Fan, Hui
name: Zhang, Xingyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 19999
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: supplement Figure S1, and Table S1-S9
MPEC 2023-H173 : 2023 HO4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HO4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
A Prospective Controlled Study of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Gay Men and Parenteral Drug Users with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Creators: name: Dooneief, George
name: Bello, Jacqueline
name: Todak, George
name: Mun, In K.
name: Marder, Karen
name: Malouf, Renee
name: Gorman, Jack M.
name: Hilal, Sadek
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Neurology
Gay men
Intravenous drug abusers
Brain--Magnetic resonance imaging
HIV-positive persons

description: To detect the earliest structural changes in the brain in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, 118 gay men and 115 parenteral drug users enrolled in a study of the natural history of HIV infection underwent magnetic resonance imaging evaluations. Routine T2-weighted and heavily T2-weighted scans for quantification of brain water were obtained, blinded to HIV serostatus. Atrophy and foci of increased signal did not correlate with any medical, immunologic, neurologic, or neuropsychologic parameters in the group as a whole, or in the gay men or parenteral drug user subgroups. Three subjects had progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and one had central nervous system lymphoma. In a subgroup in whom intracranial water percent was calculated, correlations were found with CD4 counts and CD4/CD8 ratios. We conclude that standard magnetic resonance imaging of the brain does not differentiate asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic HIV-positive individuals from HIV-negative individuals, regardless of risk group. However, intracranial water percent may distinguish HIV-positive from HIV-negative individuals because it correlates with raw CD4 counts and CD4/CD8 ratios.
A Functional Decline Model for Prevalent Cohort Data
Creators: name: Liu, Xinhua
name: Tsai, Wei-Yann
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Medical statistics
Cognition--Mathematical models

description: Longitudinal designs are often used for studying the natural history of diseases. Data sets typically consist of short series of repeated measures on prevalent cases. We propose a growth model approach to the analysis of follow-up data to describe functional decline and associated risk factors in disease progression. We illustrate the model with an application to longitudinal data that describe the time-evolution of cognitive decline in a cohort of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
IMPROVEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING ON THE BASIS OF KARAKALPAK FOLK ORIGINAL MUSIC
Creators: name: Nuratdinov, Zinatdin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This thesis covers the issues of improving the professional training of future music teachers by introducing samples of oral musical creativity of the Karakalpak people into musical and pedagogical activities. The specific artistic and aesthetic features of folk oral creativity, their educational significance and practical possibilities in the educational process are analyzed. The thesis also shows effective ways to increase interest in national musical culture, develop creative and performing skills, and develop teaching methods based on oral musical heritage. The results of the research serve to increase the professional competence of students through folk music.
AQLLI DEHQONCHILIK DASTURIY TA'MINOT VA SENSORLAR YORDAMIDA HOSILDORLIKNI OSHIRISH
Creators: name: Qodirov, Farrux
name: Turayeva, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Zamonaviy qishloq xo‘jaligi innovatsiyalar bilan boyib, hosildorlikni oshirish va resurslardan samarali foydalanishga qaratilgan. Aqlli dehqonchilik (Smart Farming) — axborot texnologiyalari, sensorlar, sun’iy intellekt va boshqa ilg‘or yechimlar orqali dehqonchilik jarayonlarini optimallashtirishga asoslanadi. Ushbu maqolada dasturiy ta’minot va sensorlar yordamida hosildorlikni oshirish usullari tahlil qilinadi.
Roles of Artificial Intelligence in the Production of Poultry Birds
Creators: name: Okonkwo, Ngozi Ukamaka
name: Simon, Chinonso
Publisher: name: International Society for Computers and their Applications
Year: 2023

description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought about a revolutionary transformation in the poultry industry, leading to heightened efficiency and enhanced profitability for farmers. Through the utilization of AI technology, farmers are now empowered to continuously monitor the health and growth of their poultry in real time, thereby facilitating well-informed decisions pertaining to essential aspects such as feeding, watering, and medication. By harnessing the capabilities of AI-powered sensors, any unusual behavior or symptoms exhibited by the birds can be swiftly detected, enabling prompt isolation and treatment of sick poultry to prevent the occurrence of widespread disease outbreaks. The incorporation of automated feeding and watering systems, facilitated by AI, ensures that the birds consistently receive optimal quantities of nourishment and hydration, effectively economizing both time and financial resources for the farmers.
The implementation of AI within the poultry industry has yielded remarkable benefits, significantly elevating operational efficiency, productivity, and overall profitability. Beyond these advantages, it is worth noting that the integration of AI has also contributed to the enhancement of the welfare of the birds themselves, as it guarantees the provision of adequate care and attention that they require.
MACSUR SciPol Policy Brief 8: Knowledge Exchange at the Science Policy Interface to Support Climate Action in the European Agri Food System
Creators: name: Jost, Elisabeth
name: Kiran Bandru, Keerthi
name: Sinabell, Franz
name: Helming, Katharina
name: Erjavec, Emil
name: Schönhart, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This policy brief is based on results derived from the thematic workshop "Effective strategies for science policy knowledge transfer to support climate action in the European agri food system", held at the Joint Conference of the Slovenian Association of Agricultural Economists and the Austrian Association of Agricultural Economists on September 22 nd 2022 in LjubljanaThis policy brief presents best practices of knowledge exchange for different science policy interfaces within European agri food systems. 
The MACSUR SciPol knowledge forum is a pilot exercise initiated by the Joint Programming Initiative for Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE JPI) to bring science and policy actors together for the strategic design of climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions in the agri-food sector in Europe. This policy brief contributes to this mission by providing evidence-based information to policy for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, adapting to climate change and understanding synergies and trade-offs in achieving these targets.
Additional file 1 of Deconvolution of whole blood transcriptomics identifies changes in immune cell composition in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated with mycophenolate mofetil
Creators: name: Akhtar, Mumina
name: Nair, Nisha
name: Carter, Lucy M.
name: Vital, Edward M.
name: Sutton, Emily
name: McHugh, Neil
name: Bruce, Ian N.
name: Reynolds, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1.
A Forward Application of Age Associated Gray and White Matter Networks
Creators: name: Brickman, Adam M.
name: Habeck, Christian G.
name: Ramos, Marco A.
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neurology
subject: Aging
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Brain mapping

description: To capture patterns of normal age-associated atrophy, we previously used a multivariate statistical approach applied to voxel based morphometry that identified age-associated gray and white matter covariance networks (Brickman et al. [2007]: Neurobiol Aging 28:284-295). The current study sought to examine the stability of these patterns by forward applying the identified networks to an independent sample of neurologically healthy younger and older adults. Forty-two younger and 35 older adults were imaged with standard high-resolution structural magnetic resonance imaging. Individual images were spatially normalized and segmented into gray and white matter. Covariance patterns that were previously identified with scaled subprofile model analyses were prospectively applied to the current sample to identify to what degree the age-associated patterns were manifested. Older individuals were also assessed with a modified version of the Mini Mental State Examination (mMMSE). Gray matter covariance pattern expression discriminated between younger and older participants with high optimal sensitivity (100%) and specificity (90.5%). While the two groups differed in the degree of white matter pattern expression (t (75) = 5.26, P < 0.001), classification based on white matter expression was relatively low (sensitivity = 80% and specificity = 61.9%). Among older adults, chronological age was significantly associated with increased gray matter pattern expression (r (32) = 0.591, P < 0.001) but not with performance on the mMMSE (r (31) = -0.314, P = 0.085). However, gray matter pattern expression was significantly associated with performance on the mMMSE (r (31) = -0.405, P = 0.024). The findings suggest that the previously derived age-associated covariance pattern for gray matter is reliable and may provide information that is more functionally meaningful than chronological age.
Probing two topological surface bands of Sb2Te3 by spin-polarized photoemission spectroscopy
Creators: name: Pauly, C.
name: Bihlmayer, G.
name: Liebmann, M.
name: Grob, M.
name: Georgi, A.
name: Subramaniam, D.
name: Scholz, M. R.
name: Sánchez-Barriga, J.
name: Varykhalov, A.
name: Blügel, S.
name: Rader, O.
name: Morgenstern, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using high resolution spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we map the electronic structure and spin texture of the surface states of the topological insulator Sb2Te3. In combination with density functional calculations (DFT), we directly show that Sb2Te3 exhibits a partially occupied, single spin-Dirac cone around the Fermi energy, which is topologically protected. DFT obtains a spin polarization of the occupied Dirac cone states of 80-90%, which is in reasonable agreement with the experimental data after careful background subtraction. Furthermore, we observe a strongly spin-orbit split surface band at lower energy. This state is found at 0.8eV below the Fermi level at the gamma-point, disperses upwards, and disappears at about 0.4eV below the Fermi level into two different bulk bands. Along the gamma-K direction, the band is located within a spin-orbit gap. According to an argument given by Pendry and Gurman in 1975, such a gap must contain a surface state, if it is located away from the high symmetry points of the Brillouin zone. Thus, the novel spin-split state is protected by symmetry, too.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures
PRESSING MATTERS: ANALYZING WORLD CANCER DAY COVERAGE IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS
Creators: name: Ngozi, Chinwe Eze
name: Emeka, Chukwudi Okafor
Publisher: name: AMERICAN SERIAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cancer
global burden
mortality
epidemiology
public health

description: Cancer remains a formidable public health challenge worldwide, characterized by uncontrolled abnormal cell growth leading to the formation of tumors with potentially devastating consequences. Despite significant advancements in diagnosis and treatment, the global burden of cancer continues to escalate, with profound implications for individuals and societies alike. Drawing on insights from The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 2020 report and findings by Mahesar et al. (2021), this study underscores the urgency of addressing cancer as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The IARC report highlights alarming statistics, revealing that one in five individuals will confront cancer in their lifetime, with staggering mortality rates affecting millions globally. Moreover, Mahesar et al. (2021) shed light on the enduring impact of cancer, indicating that over 50 million individuals live within five years of a cancer diagnosis, emphasizing the imperative for comprehensive survivorship care. Against this backdrop, this study delves into the multifaceted dimensions of the global cancer epidemic, elucidating key factors contributing to its prevalence and impact. By synthesizing empirical evidence and epidemiological data, the research offers valuable insights into the complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors driving cancer incidence and mortality rates. Furthermore, the study explores the implications of the growing cancer burden on healthcare systems, economies, and social well-being, emphasizing the need for concerted efforts to mitigate its impact. Through an interdisciplinary approach encompassing public health, oncology, and health policy, this research aims to inform evidence-based strategies for cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment, ultimately striving towards a future where cancer is no longer a leading cause of suffering and premature death.
Temperature dependence of electronic transport through molecular magnets in the Kondo regime
Creators: name: Misiorny, Maciej
name: Weymann, Ireneusz
name: Barnaś, Józef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of finite temperature in transport through nanoscopic systems exhibiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy D, such as molecular magnets, adatoms, or quantum dots side-coupled to a large spin are analyzed in the Kondo regime. The linear-response conductance is calculated by means of the full density-matrix numerical renormalization group method as a function of temperature T, magnetic anisotropy D, and exchange coupling J between the molecule's core spin and the orbital level. It is shown that such system displays a two-stage Kondo effect as a function of temperature and a quantum phase transition as a function of the exchange coupling J. Moreover, additional peaks are found in the linear conductance for temperatures of the order of T\sim|J| and T\simD. It is also shown that the conductance variation with T remarkably depends on the sign of the exchange coupling J.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures (version as accepted for publication in Physical Review B)