cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Balabag Tailings Storage Facility : Successful Construction Monitoring and Supervision
Creators: name: Daliri, Farzad
name: Longey, Rob
name: Brett, David
name: James, Cliff
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The Balabag Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) is a 80 m high zoned earth and rockfill embankment with a central clay core transitioning to upstream for Stage 2 with filter drains. The tailings dam has been raised in three stages, first with a starter dam to crest RL442.5 (stage 1), and then to stage 2 RL465 and stage 3 RL482 by the downstream construction method. Several construction monitoring technologies and instrumentation methods have been used to provide better supervision and monitor the construction stages, including vibrating wire piezometers, settlement monitoring points, bathymetric surveys, and drone videos. Drone video has been used successfully for weekly surveillance of the TSF as part of an overall technical review role for the project. The construction monitoring role included full-time technical support by in-country personnel, with an annual in-person field inspection by senior personnel from Australia and Canada. The bathymetric survey included the impoundment survey presenting the tailings level, pond water level, tailings volume and longitudinal cross-sections providing the tailings pond profile and tailings beach slopes. This paper reviews the construction supervision, monitoring technologies, and the organization used to monitor the Balabag TSF construction stages, as an example of a successful supervision of a challenging Extreme consequence category tailings dam in a remote area.
Контроль якості стану підземних трубопроводів за допомогою нейронних мереж
Creators: name: Юзевич
name: , Лозован
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Підземні трубопроводи
Нейронні мережі
Метод Елмана
Контроль якості

description: Володимир Юзевич, Віталій Лозован // Контроль якості стану підземних трубопроводів за допомогою нейронних мереж // Управління якістю в освіті та промисловості: досвід, проблеми та перспективи // IV міжнародна науково - практична конференція 16–17 травня 2019 р. // Львів, Україна. С. 152-153. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3433081
Supply Chain Management: Supplier Financing Schemes and Inventory Strategies
Creators: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Business
Operations research

description: This dissertation addresses a few fundamental questions on the interface between supplier financing schemes and inventory management. Traditionally, retailers finance their inventories through an independent financing institution or by drawing from their own cash reserves, without any supplier involvement (Independent Financing). However, suppliers may reduce their buyers' costs and stimulate sales and associated revenues and profits, by either (i) adopting the financing function themselves (Trade Credit), or (ii) subsidizing the inventory costs (Inventory Subsidies). In the first part (Chapter 2) we analyze and compare the equilibrium performance of supply chains under these three basic financing schemes. The objective is to compare the equilibrium profits of the individual chain members, the aggregate supply chain profits, the equilibrium wholesale price, the expected sales volumes and the average inventory levels under the three financing options, and thus provide important insights for the selection and implementation of supply chain financing mechanisms. Several of the financing schemes introduce a new type of inventory control problem for the retailers in response to terms specified by their suppliers. In Chapter 3 we therefore consider the inventory management problem of a firm which incurs inventory carrying costs with a general shelf age dependent structure and, even more generally, that of a firm with shelf age and delay dependent inventory and backlogging costs. Beyond identifying the structure of optimal replenishment strategies and corresponding algorithms to compute them, it is often important to understand how changes in various primitives of the inventory model impact on the optimal policy parameters and performance measures. In spite of a voluminous literature over more than fifty years, very little is known about this area. In Chapter 4, we therefore study monotonicity properties of stochastic inventory systems governed by an (r; q) or (r; nq) policy and apply the results in our general theorems both to standard inventory models and to those with general shelf age and delay dependent inventory costs.
Mentha longifolia (L.) L.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Mentha
Mentha longifolia

description: Mentha longifolia (L.) L.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; 1 600–2 500 m. Distribution: I.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Bussmann (1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Uniting the wave and the particle in quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Holland, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a unified field theory of wave and particle in quantum mechanics. This emerges from an investigation of three weaknesses in the de Broglie-Bohm (deBB) theory: its reliance on the quantum probability formula to justify the particle law; its insouciance regarding the absence of reciprocal action of the particle on the guiding wave; and its lack of a unified model to represent its inseparable components. These problems are resolved within an analytical framework by requiring that the wave-particle composite exhibits no observable differences with a quantum system. This scheme is implemented by appealing to symmetries (global gauge and spacetime translations) and imposing equality of the corresponding conserved Noether densities (matter, momentum and energy) with their Schrodinger counterparts. In conjunction with the condition of time reversal covariance this implies the deBB law for the particle where the quantum potential mediates the wave-particle interaction (we also show how the time reversal assumption may be replaced by a statistical condition). The method clarifies the nature of the mass of the composite, and its energy-momentum conservation laws. Our principal result is the unification of the Schrodinger equation and the deBB law in an inhomogeneous equation whose solution amalgamates the wavefunction and a singular soliton model of the particle in a unified spacetime field. The wavefunction suffers no reaction from the particle since it is the homogeneous part of the unified field to whose source the particle contributes. The theory applies to many-body systems. We review the objections of de Broglie to the pilot-wave theory and suggest that our field-theoretic model provides a realization of his hitherto unfulfilled double-solution programme. A revised set of postulates for the deBB theory is given in which the unified field is taken as the basic descriptive element.
description: v3: published version, background material and proofs moved to appendices, results unchanged
title: ГЕОИНФОРМАЦИОННОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО ТЕРРИТОРИИ КАК МОДЕЛЬ ЦЕЛОСТНОЙ САМООРГАНИЗУЮЩЕЙСЯ SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
title: Статья
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Горбачева, А.А.
name: Храмов, В.В.
Publisher: name: "Южный Университет (ИУБиП)"
Year: 2020
Subjects: ГЕОИНФОРМАЦИОННОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО
ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ПОДСИСТЕМА
ИНТЕРОПЕРАБЕЛЬНОСТЬ
IT - МЕТОДЫ И МОДЕЛИ

Abstract
Antimatter in the Universe
Creators: name: Dolgov, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different scenarios of baryogenesis are briefly reviewed from the point of view of possibility of generation of cosmologically interesting amount of antimatter. It is argued that creation of antimatter is possible and natural in many models. In some models not only anti-helium may be produced but also a heavier anti-elements and future observations of the latter would be critical for discovery or establishing stronger upper limits on existence of antimatter. Incidentally a recent observation of iron-rich quasar may present a support to one special model of antimatter creation.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures; invited talks presented at Rencontres of La Thuile, 2002 and at SpacePart 2002, to be oublished in the Proceedings
Supervised Design-Space Exploration
Creators: Liu, Hung-Yi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Computer science
Electrical engineering

description: Low-cost Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) electronics have revolutionized daily life and expanded the role of computation in science and engineering. Meanwhile, process-technology scaling has changed VLSI design to an exploration process that strives for the optimal balance among multiple objectives, such as power, performance, and area, i.e. multi-objective Pareto-set optimization. Besides, modern VLSI design has shifted to synthesis-centric methodologies in order to boost the design productivity, which leads to better design quality given limited time and resources. However, current decade-old synthesis-centric design methodologies suffer from: (i) long synthesis tool runtime, (ii) elusive optimal setting of many synthesis knobs, (iii) limitation to one design implementation per synthesis run, and (iv) limited capability of digesting only component-level designs as opposed to holistic system-wide synthesis. These challenges make Design Space Exploration (DSE) with synthesis tools a daunting task for both novice and experienced VLSI designers, thus stagnating the development of more powerful (i.e. more complex) computer systems.
      To address these challenges, I propose Supervised Design-Space Exploration (SDSE), an abstraction layer between a designer and a synthesis tool, aiming to autonomously supervise synthesis jobs for DSE. For system-level exploration, SDSE can approximate a system Pareto set given limited information: only lightweight component characterization is required, yet the necessary component synthesis jobs are discovered on-the-fly in order to compose the system Pareto set. For component-level exploration, SDSE can approximate a component Pareto set by iteratively refining the approximation with promising knob settings, guided by synthesis-result estimation with machine-learning models. Combined, SDSE has been applied with the three major synthesis stages, namely high-level, logic, and physical synthesis, to the design of heterogeneous accelerator cores as well as high-performance processor cores. In particular, SDSE has been successfully integrated into the IBM Synthesis Tuning System, yielding 20% better circuit performance than the original system on the design of a 22nm server processor that is currently in production.
      Looking ahead, SDSE can be applied to other VLSI designs beyond the accelerator and the programmable cores. Moreover, SDSE opens several research avenues for: (i) new development and deployment platforms of synthesis tools, (ii) large-scale collaborative design engineering, and (iii) new computer-aided design approaches for new classes of systems beyond VLSI chips.
An investigation of pre-crystalline order, ruling out Pauli crystals and introducing Pauli anti-crystals
Creators: name: Fremling, Mikael
name: Slingerland, Joost
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluid states of matter can locally exhibit characteristics of the onset of crystalline order. Traditionally this has been theoretically investigated using multipoint correlation functions. However new measurement techniques now allow multiparticle configurations of cold atomic systems to be observed directly. This has led to a search for new techniques to characterize the configurations that are likely to be observed. One of these techniques is the configuration density (CD), which has been used to argue for the formation of "Pauli crystals" by non-interacting electrons in e.g. a harmonic trap. We show here that such Pauli crystals do not exist, but that other other interesting spatial structures can occur in the form of an "anti-Crystal", where the fermions preferentially avoid a lattice of positions surrounding any given fermion. Further, we show that configuration densities must be treated with great care as naive application can lead to the identification of crystalline structures which are artifacts of the method and of no physical significance. We analyze the failure of the CD and suggest methods that might be more suitable for characterizing multiparticle correlations which may signal the onset of crystalline order. In particular, we introduce neighbour counting statistics (NCS), which is the full counting statistics of the particle number in a neighborhood of a given particle. We test this on two dimensional systems with emerging triangular and square crystal structures.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures; v2 Title change
Mesosphaerum pectinatum (L.) Kuntze
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Mesosphaerum
Mesosphaerum pectinatum

description: * Mesosphaerum pectinatum (L.) Kuntze  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF. Distribution: IV.
 Voucher: Lower Imenti Forest Station, Alt. 1 379 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003864 (HIB).
Reference: Fries & Fries (1930b).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Topology by Dissipation: Transport properties
Creators: name: Shavit, Gal
name: Goldstein, Moshe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological phases of matter are the center of much current interest, with promising potential applications in, e.g., topologically-protected transport and quantum computing. Traditionally such states are prepared by tuning the system Hamiltonian while coupling it to a generic bath at very low temperatures; This approach is often ineffective, especially in cold-atom systems. It was recently shown that topological phases can emerge much more efficiently even in the absence of a Hamiltonian, by properly engineering the interaction of the system with its environment, to directly drive the system into the desired state. Here we concentrate on dissipatively-induced 2D Chern insulator (lattice quantum Hall) states. We employ open quantum systems tools to explore their transport properties, such as persistent currents and the conductance in the steady state, in the presence of various Hamiltonians. We find that, in contrast with equilibrium systems, the usual relation between the Chern topological number and the Hall conductance is broken. We explore the intriguing edge behaviors and elucidate under which conditions the Hall conductance is quantized.
description: Published version. 14 pages, 12 figures
Spectral Properties of Accretion Disks Around Black Holes II -- Sub-Keplerian Flows With and Without Shocks
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, Sandip K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Close to a black hole, the density of the sub-Keplerian accreting matter becomes higher compared to a spherical flow due to the presence of a centrifugal barrier independent of whether or not a standing shock actually forms. This hot dense flow intercepts soft photons from a cold Keplerian disk and reprocesses them to form high energy X-rays and gamma rays. We study the spectral properties of various models of accretion disks where a Keplerian disk on the equatorial plane may or may not be flanked by a sub-Keplerian disk and the sub-Keplerian flow may or may not possess standing shocks. From comparison with the spectra, we believe that the observed properties could be explained better when both the components (Keplerian and sub-Keplerian) are simultaneously present close to a black hole, even though the sub-Keplerian halo component may have been produced out of the Keplerian disk itself at larger radii. We are able to understand soft and hard states of black hole candidates, properties of X-ray novae outbursts, and quasi-periodic oscillations of black hole candidates using these two component models. We fit spectra of X-ray novae GS1124-68 and GS2000+25 and satisfactorily reproduce the light curves of these objects.
description: 15 Latex pages plus 12 figures. Macros included. Astrophysical Journal (In press)
Upper gastrointestinal symptoms and associated endoscopic and histological features in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors
Creators: name: Tenglong Tang
name: Hamzah Abu-Sbeih
name: Wenyi Luo
name: Lum, Phillip
name: Qiao, Wei
name: Bresalier, Robert S.
name: Richards, David M.
name: Yinghong Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have demonstrated effectiveness in treating many malignancies. Gastrointestinal (GI) adverse events are commonly reported; however, few reports describe upper GI tract toxic effects. We aimed to describe clinical features of upper GI injury related to ICI. Methods: We studied consecutive patients who received ICIs between April 2011 and March 2018 and developed upper GI symptoms requiring esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). Results: Sixty patients developed upper GI symptoms between ICI initiation and 6 months after the last infusion. Among patients who had both EGD and colonoscopy (n = 38), 21 had endoscopic evidence of inflammation involving both the upper and lower GI tract. Overall, histological signs of inflammation of the stomach were evident in 83% of patients, but inflammation of the duodenum in 38%. Total of 42 patients had other risk factors of gastritis, i.e., chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Only isolated gastric inflammation was seen on endoscopy in patients without these risk factors. The rates of ulceration were similar in the cohorts with and without other risk factors for gastritis. Isolated upper GI inflammation was related to anti-PD-1/L1 in 47% of patients. Immunosuppressive therapy in our cohort with upper GI toxicity consisted of steroids (42%) and infliximab or vedolizumab (23%). Most isolated upper GI symptoms were treated with proton pump inhibitors (65%) or H2 blockers (35%). Conclusion: We observed a correlation between ICI use and onset of upper GI inflammation even when other risk factors were excluded. Gastric involvement was evident more often than duodenal involvement on endoscopic and histological level.
On the Complexity of the k-Level in Arrangements of Pseudoplanes
Creators: name: Sharir, M.
name: Ziv, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Q25

description: A classical open problem in combinatorial geometry is to obtain tight asymptotic bounds on the maximum number of k-level vertices in an arrangement of n hyperplanes in d dimensions (vertices with exactly k of the hyperplanes passing below them). This is a dual version of the k-set problem, which, in a primal setting, seeks bounds for the maximum number of k-sets determined by n points in d dimensions, where a k-set is a subset of size k that can be separated from its complement by a hyperplane. The k-set problem is still wide open even in the plane, with a substantial gap between the best known upper and lower bounds. The gap gets larger as the dimension grows. In three dimensions, the best known upper bound is O(nk^(3/2)). In its dual version, the problem can be generalized by replacing hyperplanes by other families of surfaces (or curves in the planes). Reasonably sharp bounds have been obtained for curves in the plane, but the known upper bounds are rather weak for more general surfaces, already in three dimensions, except for the case of triangles. The best known general bound, due to Chan is O(n^2.997), for families of surfaces that satisfy certain (fairly weak) properties. In this paper we consider the case of pseudoplanes in 3 dimensions (defined in detail in the introduction), and establish the upper bound O(nk^(5/3)) for the number of k-level vertices in an arrangement of n pseudoplanes. The bound is obtained by establishing suitable (and nontrivial) extensions of dual versions of classical tools that have been used in studying the primal k-set problem, such as the Lova'sz Lemma and the Crossing Lemma.
description: 23 pages, 13 figures
Additional file 1 of The risk of incident atrial fibrillation in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors: a nationwide cohort study
Creators: name: Chan, Yi-Hsin
name: Chao, Tze-Fan
name: Chen, Shao-Wei
name: Lee, Hsin-Fu
name: Li, Pei-Ru
name: Chen, Wei-Min
name: Yeh, Yung-Hsin
name: Kuo, Chi-Tai
name: See, Lai-Chu
name: Lip, Gregory Y. H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 International Classification of Diseases (10th edition) Clinical Modification (ICD 10-CM) codes used to define comorbidities and clinical outcomes in this study.
The targum (1959:May 1 - 1959:May 18)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1959

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Micromeria imbricata var. imbricata C. Chr. var. imbricata
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Micromeria
Micromeria imbricata
Micromeria imbricata (forssk.) c.chr. var. imbricata

description: Micromeria imbricata (Forssk.) C.Chr. var. imbricata  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ; up to 4 100 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Near Meru Mount Kenya Lodge, Alt. 2 994 m, 21 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 001950 (HIB) & CPG 28508 (HIB, PE).
References: Fries & Fries (1930b), Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Complexity spectrum of some discrete dynamical systems
Creators: name: Abarenkova, N.
name: d'Auriac, J-. Ch. Anglès
name: Boukraa, S.
name: Maillard, J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first study birational mappings generated by the composition of the matrix inversion and of a permutation of the entries of $ 3 \times 3 $ matrices. We introduce a semi-numerical analysis which enables to compute the Arnold complexities for all the $9!$ possible birational transformations. These complexities correspond to a spectrum of eighteen algebraic values. We then drastically generalize these results, replacing permutations of the entries by homogeneous polynomial transformations of the entries possibly depending on many parameters. Again it is shown that the associated birational, or even rational, transformations yield algebraic values for their complexities.
description: 1 LaTex file
An Introduction to the Neutrosophic Probability Applied in Quantum Physics
Creators: name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60A99, 81-05

description: In this paper one generalizes the classical probability and imprecise probability to the notion of "neutrosophic probability" in order to be able to model Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of a particle's behavior, Schr"dinger's Cat Theory, and the state of bosons which do not obey Pauli's Exclusion Principle (in quantum physics). Neutrosophic probability is close related to neutrosophic logic and neutrosophic set, and etymologically derived from "neutrosophy".
description: 11 pages, no figures. Presented the "Amiral Vasile Urseanu" National Observatory in Bucharest, 20 May 2000. In "Collected Papers", Vol. III, book by Florentin Smarandache, Abaddaba, Oradea, 2000
Upper gastrointestinal symptoms and associated endoscopic and histological features in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors
Creators: name: Tenglong Tang
name: Hamzah Abu-Sbeih
name: Wenyi Luo
name: Lum, Phillip
name: Qiao, Wei
name: Bresalier, Robert S.
name: Richards, David M.
name: Yinghong Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have demonstrated effectiveness in treating many malignancies. Gastrointestinal (GI) adverse events are commonly reported; however, few reports describe upper GI tract toxic effects. We aimed to describe clinical features of upper GI injury related to ICI. Methods: We studied consecutive patients who received ICIs between April 2011 and March 2018 and developed upper GI symptoms requiring esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). Results: Sixty patients developed upper GI symptoms between ICI initiation and 6 months after the last infusion. Among patients who had both EGD and colonoscopy (n = 38), 21 had endoscopic evidence of inflammation involving both the upper and lower GI tract. Overall, histological signs of inflammation of the stomach were evident in 83% of patients, but inflammation of the duodenum in 38%. Total of 42 patients had other risk factors of gastritis, i.e., chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Only isolated gastric inflammation was seen on endoscopy in patients without these risk factors. The rates of ulceration were similar in the cohorts with and without other risk factors for gastritis. Isolated upper GI inflammation was related to anti-PD-1/L1 in 47% of patients. Immunosuppressive therapy in our cohort with upper GI toxicity consisted of steroids (42%) and infliximab or vedolizumab (23%). Most isolated upper GI symptoms were treated with proton pump inhibitors (65%) or H2 blockers (35%). Conclusion: We observed a correlation between ICI use and onset of upper GI inflammation even when other risk factors were excluded. Gastric involvement was evident more often than duodenal involvement on endoscopic and histological level.
NLO differential distributions of massive lepton-pair production in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions
Creators: name: Ravindran, V.
name: Smith, J.
name: van Neerven, W. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the full next-to-leading order (NLO) corrected inclusive cross section $d^3Δσ/dQ^2/dy/dp_T$ for massive lepton pair production in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions $p + p\to l^+l^- + 'X'$. Here $'X'$ denotes any inclusive hadronic state and Q represents the invariant mass of the lepton pair which has transverse momentum p_T and rapidity y. All QCD partonic subprocesses have been included provided the lepton pair is created by a virtual photon, which is a valid approximation for $Q<50{\rm GeV}$. Like in unpolarized proton-proton scattering the dominant subprocess is given by $q(\bar q) + g \to γ^* + 'X'$ so that massive lepton pair production provides us with an excellent method to measure the spin density of the gluon. Our calculations are carried out using the method of n-dimensional regularization by making a special choice for the $γ_5$-matrix. Like in the case of many other prescriptions evanescent counter terms appear. They are determined by computing the NLO coefficient functions for $dΔσ/dQ^2$ and the polarized cross section for Higgs production using both n-dimensional regularization and a four dimensional regularization technique in which the $γ_5$-matrix is uniquely defined. Our calculations reveal that the non-singlet polarized coefficient function equals the unpolarized one up to a minus sign. We give predictions for double longitudinal spin asymmetry measurements at the RHIC.
description: 56 pages, LaTeX, 20 postscript figures. We have changed the discussion of the various regularization schemes in the penultimate paragraph of section 1 and in the text between Eq. (2.17) and Eq. (2.18). Furthermore a more careful comparison between our results and those in refs. [13],[14] for the quark-anti-quark channel reveals that we have full agreement. Further some misprints like the ones occuring in Eq. (2.61) and table 1 in section 4 are corrected
Latency supplementary information from Sexual selection drives the evolution of male wing interference patterns
Creators: name: M. F. Hawkes
name: E. Duffy
name: R. Joag
name: A. Skeats
name: J. Radwan
name: N. Wedell
name: M. D. Sharma
name: D. J. Hosken
name: J. Troscianko
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Attractiveness data distribution and means errors etc
A Holomorphic Point of View about Geodesic Completeness
Creators: name: Meneghini, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53z05

description: We propose to apply the idea of analytical continuation in the complex domain to the problem of geodesic completeness. We shall analyse rather in detail the cases of analytical warped products of real lines, these ones in parallel with their complex counterparts, and of Clifton-Pohl torus, to show that our definition sheds a bit of new light on the behaviour of 'singularities' of geodesics in space-time. We also show that some geodesics, which 'end' at finite time in the classical sense, can be naturally continued besides their ends. As a matter of fact, complex metrics naturally show a meromorphic behaviour, or a degenerating one, so we shall study also this fact in detail.
description: Completely revised version - mistakes fixed - 38 pages - LaTeX Please note that the author is also known as "Claudi Meneghin"
Micromeria imbricata var. villosa Ryding
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Micromeria
Micromeria imbricata
Micromeria imbricata var. villosa (elly walther & k.h.walther) ryding

description: Micromeria imbricata var. villosa (Elly Walther & K.H.Walther) Ryding  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: UMF, HZ, AZ, NZ; 1 800–4 800 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Timau Track, Alt. 3 249 m, 20 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002741 (HIB).
 Reference: Paton et al. (2009).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
On Frequency-Dependent Dispersion Measures and Extreme Scattering Events
Creators: name: Lam, M. T.
name: Lazio, T. J. W.
name: Dolch, T.
name: Jones, M. L.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Stinebring, D. R.
name: Surnis, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio emission propagating over an Earth-pulsar line of sight provides a unique probe of the intervening ionized interstellar medium (ISM). Variations in the integrated electron column density along this line of sight, or dispersion measure (DM), have been observed since shortly after the discovery of pulsars. As early as 2006, frequency-dependent dispersion measures have been observed and attributed to several possible causes. Ray-path averaging over different effective light-cone volumes through the turbulent ISM contributes to this effect as will DM misestimation due to radio propagation across compact lensing structures such as those caused by "extreme scattering events". We present methods to assess the variations in frequency-dependent dispersion measures due to the turbulent ISM versus these compact lensing structures along the line of sight. We analyze recent Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) observations of PSR J2219+4754 to test the underlying physical mechanism of the observed frequency-dependent DM. Previous analyses have indicated the presence of strong lensing due to compact overdensities halfway between the Earth and pulsar. Instead we find the frequency dependence of the DM timeseries for PSR J2219+4754 is consistent with being due solely to ISM turbulence and there is no evidence for any extreme scattering event or small-scale lensing structure. The data show possible deviations from a uniform turbulent medium, suggesting that there may be an enhanced scattering screen near one of the two ends of the line of sight. We present this analysis as an example of the power of low-frequency observations to distinguish the underlying mechanisms in frequency-dependent propagation effects.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ApJ
A note on shell models for MHD Turbulence
Creators: name: Giuliani, P.
name: Carbone, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the time evolution of two different (GOY-like) shell models which have been recently proposed to describe the gross features of MHD turbulence. We see that, even if they are formally of the same type sharing with MHD equations quadratic couplings and similar conserved quantities, fundamental differences exist which are related to the ideal invariants.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures.eps, to appear in Europhysics Letters
Nepeta azurea Benth.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Nepeta
Nepeta azurea

description: Nepeta azurea R.Br. ex Benth.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF, BZ, UMF; 1 600–3 800 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Near Ontulili Forest Station, Alt. 2 198 m, 5 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003125 (HIB).
References: Fries & Fries (1930b), Blundell (1987), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Advancing the Power and Utility of Server-Side Aggregation
Creators: name: Ramamurthy, Mohan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: This presentation was given as part of a panel session during the 2015 ESIP Summer meeting in Pacific Grove, CA on July 16. The Session was called: "Advancing the Power and Utility of Server-Side Aggregation". 

Summary of the presentation: 

Unidata, established in 1984 and primarily funded by NSF/AGS, provides comprehensive data services for the atmospheric and related sciences, including data, software, training, and support. Their services include over 30 real-time data streams, software tools for data distribution, remote access, management, analysis, visualization, and GIS support. They offer user support through email, community mailing lists, and annual training workshops.

Aggregation plays a crucial role in weather and climate model output, where datasets consist of 4D variables (latitude, longitude, vertical level, and time). Unidata has been working on data aggregation services for nearly 15 years, starting with OPeNDAP and then THREDDS Data Server APIs. Initially, basic concatenation along the array index associated with a coordinate variable was used, with later advancements in semantic understanding to handle heterogeneous datasets better.

Different types of aggregation have been developed, including Union, JoinExisting, JoinNew, and FMRC aggregation. To handle larger collections and scaling issues, TDS started building indexes for data collections, enabling server-side, pre-generated aggregation. Incremental updating and semantic aggregation have also been implemented to address the challenges of handling massive collections and coordinate system irregularities. The current effort in TDS version 5 focuses on the NCSS and the new CDM Feature Service, allowing only coordinate subsetting for improved efficiency.

Sesssion Abstract:

Tying this session to the overall ESIP-Summer-Meeting theme of "data-driven community resilience," we enlist speakers with expertise on: the diverse ways that large collections of data granules can now or potentially be used for scientific, economic or societal advancement.

We specifically will aim to enlist speakers from communities where important needs for data (such as very long time series, e.g.) may be orthogonal to how the data are collected and stored.

To set the stage for discussion, we describe new OpenDAP aggregation features (developed for NASA/ESDIS) that we think may open doors to unprecedented forms of data-mining and statistical supports for resiliency.
The Handbag Contribution to Two-Photon Annihilation Into Meson Pairs
Creators: name: Vogt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the handbag contribution to two-photon annihilation into pion and kaon pairs at large energy and momentum transfer. The underlying physics of the mechanism is outlined and characteristic features and predictions are presented.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, uses ws-procs9x6.cls. Talk presented at workshops QCD-N'02, Ferrara, Italy, April 3-6, and Exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, USA, May 15-18, 2002
Soda Ash Leaching of Cantung Mine Tailings for Tungsten Recovery and Desulfurization
Creators: name: Cheng, Terry C.
name: Soriano, Ceferino
name: Smith, Derek
name: Jamieson, Heather
name: Falck, Hendrik
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The leaching of the Cantung mine (scheelite) tailings in soda ash (sodium carbonate) solutions was investigated at low temperatures (25 – 75 °C) for its potential use as a tailings reprocessing option targeting tungsten recovery and desulfurization. Two tailings samples were used: one of higher tungsten content and smaller particle size (0.387%WO₃; P₈₀ of 118 µm) and the other of lower tungsten content and larger particle size (0.275% WO₃; P₈₀ of 228 µm). The retention time for the leaching tests conducted at 25 and 50 °C was for 45 days and those at 75 °C was for 20 days. The tungsten recovery rate (X) was reported as the fraction of tungsten extracted from the tailings while the desulfurization rate (Y) was the fraction of total sulfur removed. At 25 and 50 °C, X values were consistently higher for the leach tests conducted with the sample of higher tungsten content and smaller particle size (X = 0.52 vs. 0.27 at 25 °C and 0.73 vs. 0.51 at 50 °C). At 75 °C, X values were found to be over 0.95 (> 95% tungsten recovery) regardless of which tailings sample was used in the leach tests. The desulfurization rates, Y, increased with increasing agitation speed: Y values increased from around 0.45 to over 0.90 (90% sulfur removal) when the agitation speed increased from 100 to 600 rpm at 50 °C. The concentration of sodium carbonate solutions in the range of 1.0 and 2.5 M had limited effects on both the tungsten recovery and desulfurization rates.
Supra-Characteristic-Frequency Response in Gerbil Auditory Nerve Frequency Tuning Curves
Creators: Huang, Stanley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biomechanics
Biomedical engineering
Medical sciences

description: Sound arriving at the ear causes the vibration of the sensory tissues, including the basilar membrane (BM), inside the cochlea and, in turn, leads to inner hair cell excitation and auditory nerve fiber (ANF) responses. The goal of this study is to better understand the mechanics of inner hair cell excitation which leads to hearing. BM motion and ANF tuning are generally very similar, but the ANF had appeared to be unresponsive to a plateau mode of BM motion that occurs at frequencies above an ANF's characteristic frequency (CF). We recorded ANF responses from the gerbil, concentrating on this supra-CF region. We observed a supra-CF plateau in ANF responses at high stimulus level, indicating that the plateau mode of BM motion can be excitatory. Quantitative aspects of our findings suggest that the differential longitudinal motion that occurs within the traveling wave but not the plateau mode increases the sensitivity of inner hair cell excitation. The main findings of this study include: The detection of the plateau threshold within the supra-CF region of the ANF tuning curve. A larger BM motion was necessary for an ANF to reach a threshold response within the plateau region than the traveling wave region, based on the previous lack of ANF plateau threshold detection and a comparison to the BM plateau levels in the literature. Stimuli used in this study, even though unnaturally high in level, advanced our understanding of cochlear mechanics. However, at high sound pressure levels used, the middle ear generated subharmonic distortions that could produce confounding effects in the plateau responses. Hence, we also characterized the subharmonics and were able to rule out the possibility that they were solely responsible for the plateau responses we observed.
Diffusion $K$-means clustering on manifolds: provable exact recovery via semidefinite relaxations
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaohui
name: Yang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Primary: 62H30, Secondary: 90C22

description: We introduce the {\it diffusion $K$-means} clustering method on Riemannian submanifolds, which maximizes the within-cluster connectedness based on the diffusion distance. The diffusion $K$-means constructs a random walk on the similarity graph with vertices as data points randomly sampled on the manifolds and edges as similarities given by a kernel that captures the local geometry of manifolds. The diffusion $K$-means is a multi-scale clustering tool that is suitable for data with non-linear and non-Euclidean geometric features in mixed dimensions. Given the number of clusters, we propose a polynomial-time convex relaxation algorithm via the semidefinite programming (SDP) to solve the diffusion $K$-means. In addition, we also propose a nuclear norm regularized SDP that is adaptive to the number of clusters. In both cases, we show that exact recovery of the SDPs for diffusion $K$-means can be achieved under suitable between-cluster separability and within-cluster connectedness of the submanifolds, which together quantify the hardness of the manifold clustering problem. We further propose the {\it localized diffusion $K$-means} by using the local adaptive bandwidth estimated from the nearest neighbors. We show that exact recovery of the localized diffusion $K$-means is fully adaptive to the local probability density and geometric structures of the underlying submanifolds.
description: accepted to Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis
title: Indian Media Narratives in Gang Rape
Creators: name: Bhandari, Astha
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Violence against women is a worldwide phenomenon, and while brutal crimes shock us, it is nothing exceptional. This social construction of violence against women is displayed through the media's language. The language then portrays structures of power dynamics, fueling patriarchal discourse, where masculinity becomes the king, and femininity denigrated, birthing a rape culture. This study explores the impact of media reporting of gang rape cases of women in India and investigates the media reporting of nine different gang rape cases, post 2012 Delhi gangrape.

The research looks to identify the media semantics used in portraying the victims in the print media. This qualitative study follows content analysis as its method of research to examine the relationship between the gang rape cases, and the type of information published in the newspaper articles. The study uses framing analysis and intersectionality framework and finds that the Indian media’s treatment towards reporting of gang rape differs significantly along with the socio-economic status of the victims. Results show that lower the victim in the social hierarchy of stratification, class and caste, lesser the positive media coverage, and higher the victim blaming and doubting language.