cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rotavirus NSP1 Inhibits Type I and Type III Interferon Induction
Creators: name: Iaconis, Gennaro
name: Jackson, Ben
name: Childs, Kay
name: Boyce, Mark
name: Goodbourn, Stephen
name: Blake, Neil
name: Iturriza-Gomara, Miren
name: Seago, Julian
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: rotavirus
type I interferon
type III interferon
NSP1
IRF-1
IRF-3
IRF-7
NF-κB

description: Type I interferons (IFNs) are produced by most cells in response to virus infection and stimulate a program of anti-viral gene expression in neighboring cells to suppress virus replication. Type III IFNs have similar properties, however their effects are limited to epithelial cells at mucosal surfaces due to restricted expression of the type III IFN receptor. Rotavirus (RV) replicates in intestinal epithelial cells that respond predominantly to type III IFNs, and it has been shown that type III rather than type I IFNs are important for controlling RV infections in vivo. The RV NSP1 protein antagonizes the host type I IFN response by targeting IRF-3, IRF-5, IRF-7, or β-TrCP for proteasome-mediated degradation in a strain-specific manner. Here we provide the first demonstration that NSP1 proteins from several human and animal RV strains antagonize type III as well as type I IFN induction. We also show that NSP1 is a potent inhibitor of IRF-1, a previously undescribed property of NSP1 which is conserved among human and animal RVs. Interestingly, all NSP1 proteins were substantially more effective inhibitors of IRF-1 than either IRF-3 or IRF-7 which has significance for evasion of basal anti-viral immunity and type III IFN induction in the intestinal epithelium.
Additional file 1 of An evaluation of inverse probability weighting using the propensity score for baseline covariate adjustment in smaller population randomised controlled trials with a continuous outcome
Creators: name: Hanaya Raad
name: Cornelius, Victoria
name: Chan, Susan
name: Williamson, Elizabeth
name: Cro, Suzie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Appendix A. The IPTW treatment and variance estimator. Appendix B. Additional simulation methods and results.
Linear Momentum Density in Quasistatic Electromagnetic Systems
Creators: name: Aguirregabiria, J. M.
name: Hernandez, A.
name: Rivas, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a couple of simple quasistatic electromagnetic systems in which the density of electromagnetic linear momentum can be easily computed. The examples are also used to illustrate how the total electromagnetic linear momentum, which may also be calculated by using the vector potential, can be understood as a consequence of the violation of the action-reaction principle, because a non-null external force is required to maintain constant the mechanical linear momentum. We show how one can avoid the divergence in the interaction linear electromagnetic momentum of a system composed by an idealization often used in textbooks (an infinite straight current) and a point charge.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Eur. J. Phys
Antenatal Determinants of Childhood Obesity in High-Risk Offspring: Protocol for the DiGest Follow-Up Study
Creators: name: Jones, Danielle
name: De Lucia Rolfe, Emanuella
name: Rennie, Kirsten L.
name: Griep, Linda M. Oude
name: Kusinski, Laura C.
name: Hughes, Deborah J.
name: Brage, Soren
name: Ong, Ken K.
name: Beardsall, Kathryn
name: Meek, Claire L.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: gestational diabetes mellitus
pregnancy
study protocol
randomised controlled trial
large for gestational age
complex intervention
calorie restriction
maternal weight gain
childhood obesity
adiposity
type 2 diabetes
prevention

description: Childhood obesity is an area of intense concern internationally and is influenced by events during antenatal and postnatal life. Although pregnancy complications, such as gestational diabetes and large-for-gestational-age birthweight have been associated with increased obesity risk in offspring, very few successful interventions in pregnancy have been identified. We describe a study protocol to identify if a reduced calorie diet in pregnancy can reduce adiposity in children to 3 years of age. The dietary intervention in gestational diabetes (DiGest) study is a randomised, controlled trial of a reduced calorie diet provided by a whole-diet replacement in pregnant women with gestational diabetes. Women receive a weekly dietbox intervention from enrolment until delivery and are blinded to calorie allocation. This follow-up study will assess associations between a reduced calorie diet in pregnancy with offspring adiposity and maternal weight and glycaemia. Anthropometry will be performed in infants and mothers at 3 months, 1, 2 and 3 years post-birth. Glycaemia will be assessed using bloodspot C-peptide in infants and continuous glucose monitoring with HbA1c in mothers. Data regarding maternal glycaemia in pregnancy, maternal nutrition, infant birthweight, offspring feeding behaviour and milk composition will also be collected. The DiGest follow-up study is expected to take 5 years, with recruitment finishing in 2026.
Intrinsic quantum anomalous Hall phase induced by proximity in germanene/Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ van der Waals heterostructure
Creators: name: Zou, Ruiling
name: Zhan, Fangyang
name: Zheng, Baobing
name: Wu, Xiaozhi
name: Fan, Jing
name: Wang, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A van der Waals heterostructure combined with intrinsic magnetism and topological orders have recently paved attractive avenues to realize quantum anomalous Hall effects. In this work, using first-principles calculations and effective model analysis, we propose that the robust quantum anomalous Hall states with sizable band gaps emerge in the van der Waals heterostructure of germanene/Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$. This heterostructure possesses high thermodynamic stability, thus facilitating its experimental fabrication. Furthermore, we uncover that the proximity effect enhances the coupling between the germanene and Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ layers, inducing the nontrivial band gaps in a wide range from 29 meV to 72 meV. The chiral edge states inside the band gap, leading to Hall conductance quantized to $-e^2/h$, are clearly visible. This findings provide an ideal candidate to detect the quantum anomalous Hall states and realize further applications to nontrivial quantum transport at a high temperature.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
City water works of Jacksonville, Illinois
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1884
Subjects: subject: Water Supply
subject: Literary Union (Jacksonville, Ill.)
subject: Jacksonville (Ill.)
subject: Water Supply
subject: Jacksonville (Ill.)

description: Presented to the Literary Union of Jacksonville, Ill., 1884
Coastal state control and the global ocean harvest
Creators: name: Monroe, Frederick Fales
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The evolution of coastal state extensions of maritime jurisdiction over adjacent living marine resources is reviewed to the present. Subsequently, a hypothetical relationship between the harvest and export of those resources and states' level of economic development is explored and tested over the 1970-1985 period. Preextension and post-extension catch data for 87 countries were compared relative to average GDP/capita/year. Special geographic circumstances of the new zones of jurisdiction--"zone-locking," continental shelf width, and the presence or absence of highly biologically productive water--were taken into account. The results indicate that, while most states harvested more after extension than before, wealthier countries (with GDP/capita/year greater than $3,000) coped better with negative geographic situations, but exports of high value species helped many developing states. Apparent effects of extended jurisdiction on the global harvest and potential future sources of conflict are also examined.
Pathophysiological Relevance of Renal Medullary Conditions on the Behaviour of Red Cells From Patients With Sickle Cell Anaemia
Creators: name: Lu, David C.-Y.
name: Wadud, Rasiqh
name: Hannemann, Anke
name: Rees, David C.
name: Brewin, John N.
name: Gibson, John Stanley
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: HbS polymerisation
subject: sickling
subject: phosphatidylserine
subject: renal medulla
subject: hypoxia
subject: pH
subject: hypertonicity
subject: urea

description: Red cells from patients with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) contain the abnormal haemoglobin HbS. Under hypoxic conditions, HbS polymerises and causes red cell sickling, a rise in intracellular Ca2+ and exposure of phosphatidylserine (PS). These changes make sickle cells sticky and liable to lodge in the microvasculature, and so reduce their lifespan. The aim of the present work was to investigate how the peculiar conditions found in the renal medulla – hypoxia, acidosis, lactate, hypertonicity and high levels of urea – affect red cell behaviour. Results show that the first four conditions all increased sickling and PS exposure. The presence of urea at levels found in a healthy medulla during antidiuresis, however, markedly reduced sickling and PS exposure and would therefore protect against red cell adherence. Loss of the ability to concentrate urine, which occurs in sickle cell nephropathy would obviate this protective effect and may therefore contribute to pathogenesis.
Additional file 2 of An evaluation of inverse probability weighting using the propensity score for baseline covariate adjustment in smaller population randomised controlled trials with a continuous outcome
Creators: name: Hanaya Raad
name: Cornelius, Victoria
name: Chan, Susan
name: Williamson, Elizabeth
name: Cro, Suzie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Stata code for case study: the ADAPT trial.
Coastal state control and the global ocean harvest
Creators: name: Monroe, Frederick Fales
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The evolution of coastal state extensions of maritime jurisdiction over adjacent living marine resources is reviewed to the present. Subsequently, a hypothetical relationship between the harvest and export of those resources and states' level of economic development is explored and tested over the 1970-1985 period. Preextension and post-extension catch data for 87 countries were compared relative to average GDP/capita/year. Special geographic circumstances of the new zones of jurisdiction--"zone-locking," continental shelf width, and the presence or absence of highly biologically productive water--were taken into account. The results indicate that, while most states harvested more after extension than before, wealthier countries (with GDP/capita/year greater than $3,000) coped better with negative geographic situations, but exports of high value species helped many developing states. Apparent effects of extended jurisdiction on the global harvest and potential future sources of conflict are also examined.
Trade and Industrial Policy for a 'Declining?' Industry: the case of the U.S. Steel Industry
Creators: name: Harris, Richard G.
name: Harris, Richard G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Development

description: An intertemporal partial equilibrium model of the U.S. steel industry is developed which stresses imperfect competition, and the interaction between the large declining integrated steel producers and the entry of the new efficient mini-mills. A central question is whether trade and industrial policy should favour one sector at the expense of another. The existing policy of 'IRA's on steel is estimated to have a welfare cost of equal to 6.5 percent of the present value of base consumption. Furthermore, it is shown that the joint presence of imperfect competition and rent-shifting 'IRA's implies that a partial tightening of the steeel quotas would lead ,to an improvement in national welfare which si quantitatively significant, even though free trade in steel is the globally optimal policy.
Immune dysregulation among students exposed to exam stress and its mitigation by mindfulness training: findings from an exploratory randomised trial
Creators: name: Turner, Lorinda
name: Galante, Julieta
name: Vainre, Maris
name: Stochl, Jan
name: Dufour, Géraldine
name: Jones, Peter B.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
/631/250
/631/477
/13
/13/31
article

description: Abstract: Psychological distress persisting for weeks or more promotes pro-inflammatory immune dysregulation, a risk factor for a range of chronic diseases. We have recently shown that mindfulness training reduces distress among university students. Here we present an exploratory trial to study immune dysregulation in a cohort of students who were exposed to progressively greater stress as the exam period approached, and to explore whether mindfulness training mitigated this dysregulation. Healthy University of Cambridge students were randomised to join an 8-week mindfulness course (N = 27), or to mental health support as usual (N = 27). Psychological distress, immune cell proportions, cytokines, CRP and serum cortisol were measured at baseline and during the exam period. Increased distress was associated with statistically significant increases in the proportion of B cells, regardless of trial arm (*p = 0.027). There were no other associations between any of the measured parameters, distress or mindfulness. Our finding that the proportion of B cells increases with psychological distress supports the findings of other studies. However, we found no evidence that mindfulness training is able to buffer the effects of psychological distress on healthy participants’ immune system. In order to detect these effects, should they exist, larger randomised trials will be required.
An umbrella review comparing computer-assisted and conventional total joint arthroplasty: quality assessment and summary of evidence
Creators: name: Hasan, Mohamed Mosaad Ismail
name: Zhang, Manrui
name: Beal, Matthew
name: Ghomrawi, Hassan
Publisher: name: BMJ Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: overview of systematic review
subject: total joint arthroplasty
subject: computer-assisted surgery
subject: meta-analysis
subject: Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
subject: Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip
subject: Surgery, Computer-Assisted

description: Background Systematic reviews (SRs) of computer-assisted (CA) total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) report conflicting evidence on its superiority over conventional surgery. Little is known about the quality of these SRs; variability in their methodological quality may be a contributing factor. We evaluated the methodological quality of all published SRs to date, summarized and examined the consistency of the evidence generated by these SRs.Methods We searched four databases through December 31, 2018. A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews 2 (AMSTAR 2) was applied to assess the methodological quality. Evidence from included meta-analyses on functional, radiological and patient-safety outcomes was summarized. The corrected covered area was calculated to assess the overlap between SRs in including the primary studies.Results Based on AMSTAR 2, confidence was critically low in 39 of the 42 included SRs and low in 3 SRs. Low rating was mainly due to failure in developing a review protocol (90.5%); providing a list of excluded studies (81%); accounting for risk of bias when discussing the results (67%); using a comprehensive search strategy (50%); and investigating publication bias (50%). Despite inconsistency between SR findings comparing functional, radiological and patient safety outcomes for CA and conventional procedures, most TKA meta-analyses favored CA TKA, whereas most THA meta-analyses showed no difference. Moderate overlap was observed among TKA SRs and high overlap among THA SRs.Conclusions Despite conclusions of meta-analyses favoring CA arthroplasty, decision makers adopting this technology should be aware of the low confidence in the results of the included SRs. To improve confidence in future SRs, journals should consider using a methodological assessment tool to evaluate the SRs prior to making a publication decision.
description: original_citation: Hasan MM, Zhang M, Beal M, et al. An umbrella review comparing computer-assisted and conventional total joint arthroplasty: quality assessment and summaryof evidence. BMJ Surg Interv Health Technologies2020;2:e000016. doi:10.1136/bmjsit-2019-000016
The Effects of Information in Contingent Markets for Environmental Goods: A Survey and Some New Evidence
Creators: name: Hanley, Nick
name: Munro, Alistair
name: Hanley, Nick
name: Munro, Alistair
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper considers the ways in which information can impact contingent valuation estimates of environmental values. The Hoehn/Randall distinction between value formulation and value statement is employed. We distinguish several ways information should be expected to effect true Willingness to Pay, and survey past contingent valuation work in the area. A model of information impacts is used to set up a series of testable hypotheses. These are then tested using data from a contingent valuation survey of the benefits of heathland preservation.
Catalogue of averaged stellar effective magnetic fields. I. Chemically peculiar A and B type stars
Creators: name: Bychkov, V. D.
name: Bychkova, L. V.
name: Madej, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the catalogue and the method of determination of averaged quadratic effective magnetic fields B_e for 596 main sequence and giant stars. the catalogue is based on measurements of the stellar effective (or mean longitudinal) magnetic field strengths B_e, which were compiled from the existing literature. We analysed the properties of 352 chemically peculiar A and B stars in the catalogue, including Am, ApSi, He-weak, He-rich, HgMn, ApSrCrEu, and all ApSr type stars. We have found, that the number distribution of all chemically peculiar (CP) stars vs. averaged magnetic field strength is described by a decreasing exponential function. Relations of this type hold also for stars of all the analysed subclasses of chemical peculiarity. The exponential form of the above distribution function can break down below about 100 Gs, the latter value representing approximately the resolution of our analysis for A type stars.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures, Astron. Astrophys. (2003) in print
The Valuation of Forest Characteristics
Creators: name: Hanley, Nick
name: Ruffell, Robin
name: Hanley, Nick
name: Ruffell, Robin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Financial Economics
subject: non-market good valuation
subject: consumers surplus
subject: forestry economics

description: Most work on valuing the recreational benefits of public forests has concentrated on arriving at consumers surplus per visit figures, using either the travel cost method, or contingent valuation. We use both methods to try and explain the variation in consumers surplus across different forest types, by placing values on the physical characteristics of individual forests. These characteristics are also used to explain total visits to a given forest. Both maximum likelihood and ordinary least squares estimates are presented.
Group photograph of the participants in the World's Columbian Dental Congress, 1893
Creators: name: Photographer not identified.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1893
Subjects: subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: World's Columbian Dental Congress (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
subject: Dentistry
subject: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915

description: Dr. Black is in the back row, indicated by the red arrow.
Stabilization in the braid groups I: MTWS
Creators: name: Birman, Joan S
name: Menasco, William W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M50

description: Choose any oriented link type X and closed braid representatives X[+], X[-] of X, where X[-] has minimal braid index among all closed braid representatives of X. The main result of this paper is a `Markov theorem without stabilization'. It asserts that there is a complexity function and a finite set of `templates' such that (possibly after initial complexity-reducing modifications in the choice of X[+] and X[-]which replace them with closed braids X[+]', X[-]') there is a sequence of closed braid representatives X[+]' = X^1->X^2->...->X^r = X[-]' such that each passage X^i->X^i+1 is strictly complexity reducing and non-increasing on braid index. The templates which define the passages X^i->X^i+1 include 3 familiar ones, the destabilization, exchange move and flype templates, and in addition, for each braid index m>= 4 a finite set T(m) of new ones. The number of templates in T(m) is a non-decreasing function of m. We give examples of members of T(m), m>= 4, but not a complete listing. There are applications to contact geometry, which will be given in a separate paper.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology on 27 April 2006; part II (arXiv:math/0310280) is also published in GT volume 10
Agrypon flexorioides SCHNEE 1989
Creators: name: Schnee, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Agrypon
Agrypon flexorioides

description: Agrypon flexorioides SCHNEE, 1989
5 , 1 , 1 Ex.: „Rh. Pr. 9.73“ und o. F.
Es handelt sich hier um die bisher nördlichsten Funde der überwiegend südlich (bis Rumänien und Frankreich) verbreiteten Art. In Deutschland ist sie ansonsten in Bayern und Thüringen nachgewiesen. Die Wirte sind bisher noch nicht bekannt.
description: Published as part of Schnee, Heinz, 2008, Die Anomaloninae der Sammlung A F - Typenrevision und faunistische Anmerkungen (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 249-266 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 259, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.249-266, http://zenodo.org/record/4779375
Resummation of QED radiative corrections in a strong constant crossed field
Creators: name: Mironov, A. A.
name: Meuren, S.
name: Fedotov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By considering radiative corrections of up to 3rd-loop order, Ritus and Narozhny conjectured that the proper expansion parameter for QED in a strong constant crossed field is $g=αχ^{2/3}$, where the dynamical quantum parameter $χ=e\sqrt{-(Fp)^2}/m^3$ combines the particle momentum $p$ with the external field strength tensor $F$. Here we present and discuss the first non-perturbative result in this context, the resummed bubble-type polarization corrections to the electron self-energy in a constant crossed field. Our analysis confirms the relevance of the scaling parameter $g$ to the enhancement of bubble-type radiative corrections. This parameter actually represents the characteristic value of the ratio of the 1-loop polarization bubble to the photon virtuality. After an all-order resummation we identify and discuss two contributions to the self-energy with different formation regions and asymptotic behavior for $g\gg1$. Whereas the breakdown of perturbation theory occurs already for $g\gtrsim1$, the leading-order result remains dominant until the asymptotic regime $g\gg 1$ is reached. However, the latter is specific to processes like elastic scattering or photon emission and does not have to remain true for general higher-order QED processes.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. A deep revision was made: Sections III A and Section V are completely rewritten [in particular, by including the new Eqs. (28), (56), (57) and Table II]; Figure 3 is modified; the Appendix is extended with new Eqs. (A.1), (A.10), (A.11) and Figure 8; new references are added, a lot of other small improvements are implemented
The calibration of the RGB Tip as a Standard Candle: Extension to Near Infrared colors and higher metallicity
Creators: name: Bellazzini, M.
name: Ferraro, F. R.
name: Sollima, A.
name: Pancino, E.
name: Origlia, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New empirical calibrations of the Red Giant Branch Tip in the I,J,H and K bands based on two fundamental pillars, namely omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae, have been obtained by using a large optical and near infrared photometric database. Our best estimates give M_I(TRGB)= -4.05 pm 0.12, M_J(TRGB)= -5.20 pm 0.16, M_H(TRGB)= -5.94 pm 0.18 and M_K(TRGB) = -6.04 pm 0.16 at [M/H]=-1.5 (omega Cen) and M_I(TRGB)= -3.91 pm 0.13, M_J(TRGB)= -5.47 pm 0.25, M_H(TRGB)= -6.35 pm 0.30 and M_K(TRGB)= -6.56 pm 0.20 at [M/H]=-0.6 (47 Tuc). With these new empirical calibrations we also provide robust relations of the TRGB magnitude in I, J, H and K bands as a function of the global metallicity ([M/H]). It has also been shown that our calibrations self-consistently provide a distance modulus of the Large Magellanic Cloud in good agreement with the standard value ((m-M)_0 = 18.50)).
description: A&A latex, 14 pages, 7 .ps figures (fig. 1 and fig. 3 provided in low resolution version). Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics Correction of a typographical error in Fig. 7; M_I vs [M/H] relation
The 1958 United States intervention in Lebanon
Creators: name: Alin, Erika Gerd
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: The 1958 United States intervention in Lebanon was a direct result of the failure of American policy to achieve the objectives established by the Eisenhower Administration for the Middle East. Partly as a result of its preoccupation with Cold War concerns, the Eisenhower Administration failed to devise a regional policy capable of coping with the rapid political changes that swept the Arab world in the post-World War II period. The absence of a coherent regional policy provides the key to resolving the paradox of why the United States chose to use such overwhelming military force to quell a crisis in a country that was, in and of itself, neither politically nor strategically important to Western interests. This study relies on an examination of recently declassified primary source material at the National Archives (Washington, D.C.) and the Eisenhower Presidential Library (Abilene, KA) to determine the policy process and the course of events surrounding the 1958 United States intervention in Lebanon. Intra-Administration documents reveal that the decision to respond favorably to a Lebanese request for external intervention was made in mid-May of 1958, two months before the July 14 Iraqi coup prompted the actual intervention. As a consequence, political options to resolve the crisis were never fully explored. The Eisenhower Administration saw the crisis in Lebanon, a country peripheral to Arab and superpower interests, as an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to safeguarding Western interests in the Middle East without incurring any substantial political costs or military risks. This study concludes that the Lebanon intervention did not have lasting consequences for either political developments within Lebanon or the Middle East as a whole. It did not significantly retard the progress of the Arab nationalist movement, which was the Eisenhower Administration's primary objective. Nor did the use of military force advance the United States relationship with the Arab world. Perhaps more importantly, the intervention did not constitute a precondition for peacefully resolving the Lebanese crisis and it did not provide the basis for a continuation of Lebanon's pro-Western foreign policy orientation.
Post-Newtonian limit of Teleparallel Horndeski gravity
Creators: name: Bahamonde, Sebastian
name: Dialektopoulos, Konstantinos F.
name: Hohmann, Manuel
name: Said, Jackson Levi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the newly proposed Bahamonde-Dialektopoulos-Levi Said (BDLS) theory, that is the Horndeski analog in the teleparallel framework and thus contains a non-minimally coupled scalar field, including higher order derivatives, that leads however to second order field equations both for the tetrad and the scalar field. This theory was mostly constructed to revive those models that were severely constrained in the scalar-tensor version of the theory from the GW170817, but includes also much richer phenomenology because of the nature of the torsion tensor. For this theory we determine the parametrized post-Newtonian limit, calculate the full set of post-Newtonian parameters and highlight some special cases.
description: LaTeX, 22 pages, no figures; version accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity
Data over dialogue: Why artificial intelligence is unlikely to humanise medicine
Creators: name: Hatherley, Joshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, a growing number of experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine have be-gun to suggest that the use of AI systems, particularly machine learning (ML) systems, is likely to humanise the practice of medicine by substantially improving the quality of clinician-patient relationships. In this thesis, however, I argue that medical ML systems are more likely to negatively impact these relationships than to improve them. In particular, I argue that the use of medical ML systems is likely to comprise the quality of trust, care, empathy, understanding, and communication between clinicians and patients.
INCORPORATING ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTIES IN A RANCH SIMULATION
Creators: name: VanTassell, L. W.
name: Richardson, J. W.
name: Conner, J. R.
name: VanTassell, L. W.
name: Richardson, J. W.
name: Conner, J. R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Livestock Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Cattle producers' risk ensuing from uncertain environmental conditions was quantified using a stochastic simulation model. The ability of three grazing strategies (yearlong continuous, deferred rotational, and rotational) to increase the success and survivability of ranches were evaluated. Results indicated the traditional yearlong continuous strategy was most desirable for ranchers in all risk aversion categories.
Supersoft Stops
Creators: name: Cohen, Timothy
name: Craig, Nathaniel
name: Koren, Seth
name: McCullough, Matthew
name: Tooby-Smith, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a supersymmetric (SUSY) theory, the IR-contributions to the Higgs mass are calculable below the mediation scale $Λ_{\text{UV}}$ in terms of the IR field content and parameters. However, logarithmic sensitivity to physics at $Λ_{\text{UV}}$ remains. In this work we present a first example of a framework, dictated by symmetries, to supersoften these logarithms from the matter sector. The result is a model with finite, IR-calculable corrections to the Higgs mass. This requires the introduction of new fields -- the `lumberjacks' -- whose role is to screen the UV-sensitive logs. These models have considerably reduced fine-tuning, by more than an order of magnitude for high scale supersymmetry. This impacts interpretations of the natural parameter space, suggesting it may be premature to declare a naturalness crisis for high-scale SUSY.
description: 5 pages
EFFECTS OF PUBLIC STOCK.HOLDING PROGRAMS UPON GRAIN STOCK ENHANCEMENT
Creators: name: Hoffman, Linwood
name: Glauber, Joseph
name: Hoffman, Linwood
name: Glauber, Joseph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Public Economics

description: Effects of public grain stocks upon total stock enhancement were estimated for wheat and feed grains, 1973-85. Results indicate that government stocks have had a small or negligible effect upon enhancement of total carryover stocks of grain. The substitution effects ranged from 0.66 bushels for sorghum to 0.86 for barley.
The 1958 United States intervention in Lebanon
Creators: name: Alin, Erika Gerd
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The 1958 United States intervention in Lebanon was a direct result of the failure of American policy to achieve the objectives established by the Eisenhower Administration for the Middle East. Partly as a result of its preoccupation with Cold War concerns, the Eisenhower Administration failed to devise a regional policy capable of coping with the rapid political changes that swept the Arab world in the post-World War II period. The absence of a coherent regional policy provides the key to resolving the paradox of why the United States chose to use such overwhelming military force to quell a crisis in a country that was, in and of itself, neither politically nor strategically important to Western interests. This study relies on an examination of recently declassified primary source material at the National Archives (Washington, D.C.) and the Eisenhower Presidential Library (Abilene, KA) to determine the policy process and the course of events surrounding the 1958 United States intervention in Lebanon. Intra-Administration documents reveal that the decision to respond favorably to a Lebanese request for external intervention was made in mid-May of 1958, two months before the July 14 Iraqi coup prompted the actual intervention. As a consequence, political options to resolve the crisis were never fully explored. The Eisenhower Administration saw the crisis in Lebanon, a country peripheral to Arab and superpower interests, as an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to safeguarding Western interests in the Middle East without incurring any substantial political costs or military risks. This study concludes that the Lebanon intervention did not have lasting consequences for either political developments within Lebanon or the Middle East as a whole. It did not significantly retard the progress of the Arab nationalist movement, which was the Eisenhower Administration's primary objective. Nor did the use of military force advance the United States relationship with the Arab world. Perhaps more importantly, the intervention did not constitute a precondition for peacefully resolving the Lebanese crisis and it did not provide the basis for a continuation of Lebanon's pro-Western foreign policy orientation.
Agrypon flexorium
Creators: name: Schnee, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Agrypon
Agrypon flexorium

description: Agrypon flexorium (THUNBERG, 1822)
18  : „Aachen Juni 74-76“, „Aachen Mai 75-76“, „Aachen Aug. 75“, „Saisser Alp“ und o. F.
Die sehr polyphage Art hat zwei Generationen im Jahr, wie auch die Fangdaten aus Aachen andeuten.Sie ist sowohl morphologisch als auch farblich sehr variabel, hat ein breites Wirtsspektrum aus einigen Lepidopteren-Familien und gehört zu den häufigsten Anomaloninen in Europa. Ihr Areal erstreckt sich bis zur Ostpaläarktis.
description: Published as part of Schnee, Heinz, 2008, Die Anomaloninae der Sammlung A F - Typenrevision und faunistische Anmerkungen (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 249-266 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 259, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.249-266, http://zenodo.org/record/4779375
Morphological and molecular species boundaries in the Hyalella species flock of Lake Titicaca (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Creators: name: Jurado-Rivera, José A.
name: Zapelloni, Francesco
name: Pons, Joan
name: Juan, Carlos
name: Damià Jaume
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: Paleontology

description: The Hyalella species diversity in the high-altitude water bodies of the Andean Altiplano is addressed using mitochondrial cox1 sequences and implementing different molecular species delimitation criteria. We have recorded the presence of five major genetic lineages in the Altiplano, of which one seems to be exclusive to Lake Titicaca and nearby areas, whereas the rest occur also in other regions of South America. Eleven out of 36 South American entities diagnosed by molecular delimitation criteria in our study are likely endemic to the Titicaca and neighbouring water bodies. We have detected a remarkable disagreement between morphology and genetic data in the Titicacan Hyalella , with occurrence of several cases of the same morpho-species corresponding to several Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs), some even distantly related, and other instances where a particular MOTU is shared by a morphologically heterogeneous array of species, including species with body smooth and others with body heavily armoured. Species diversification and incongruence between morphological and molecular boundaries within this species assemblage may be associated to the sharp changes in hydrological conditions experienced by the water bodies of the Altiplano in the past, which included dramatic fluctuations in water level and salinity of Lake Titicaca. Such environmental shifts could have triggered rapid morphological changes and ecological differentiation within the Hyalella assemblage, followed by phenotypic convergence among the diverse lineages. Factors such as phenotypic plasticity, incomplete lineage sorting or admixture between divergent lineages might lie also at the root of the morphological-genetic incongruence described herein.
Cross-correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: weak gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Hirata, Christopher M.
name: Padmanabhan, Nikhil
name: Seljak, Uros
name: Schlegel, David
name: Brinkmann, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in cross-correlation with the projected density of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The CMB lensing reconstruction is performed using the first year of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data, and the galaxy maps are obtained using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. We find no detection of lensing; our constraint on the galaxy bias derived from the galaxy-convergence cross-spectrum is $b_g=1.81\pm 1.92$ ($1σ$, statistical), as compared to the expected result of $b_g\sim 1.8$ for this sample. We discuss possible instrument-related systematic errors and show that the Galactic foregrounds are not important. We do not find any evidence for point source or thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect contamination.
description: 24 pages, 13 figs; matches PRD accepted version
Extended data_Figshare.docx
Creators: name: Comfort Rutty Phiri
name: Sturt, Amy
name: Webb, Emily L
name: Namakau Chola
name: Ayles, Helen
name: Hayes, Richard
name: Kwame Shanaube
name: Hansingo, Isaiah
name: Bustinduy, Amaya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110803 Medical Parasitology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Extended data for manuscript entitled 'Acceptability and feasibility of genital self-sampling for the diagnosis of female genital schistosomiasis: a cross-sectional study in Zambia'
AuthorsPhiri CR, Sturt AS, Webb EL, Chola, N, Hayes R, Shanaube K, Ayles H, Hansingo I, Bustinduy AL on behalf of the BILHIV study team

Journal: Wellcome Open Research
A model displaying extremely inhomogeneous matter distribution in General Relativity
Creators: name: Abdalla, Elcio
name: Chirenti, Cecilia B. M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a toy metric in four dimensional space-time defined in terms of a recursive hierarchical prescription. The matter distribution turns out to be extremely inhomogeneous. Surprisingly, for very large samples the average mass density tends (very slowly) to a constant. There is no trace of fractal dimension left.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Agrypon gracilipes
Creators: name: Schnee, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Agrypon
Agrypon gracilipes

description: Agrypon gracilipes (CURTIS, 1839)
2 , 4 , 5 Ex.: „Aachen Juni“, „Aachen Sept.“, „7.6.62 Ld.“ und o. F.
 FÖRSTERS Exemplare stellen den ersten Fund der seltenen Art für Deutschland dar. Es existieren bisher Wirtsnachweise aus einer Depressaria -Art (Depressariidae) in Österreich und aus dem Maiszünsler [Ostrinia nubilalis (HÜBNER)] (Pyralidae) in Spanien.
description: Published as part of Schnee, Heinz, 2008, Die Anomaloninae der Sammlung A F - Typenrevision und faunistische Anmerkungen (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 249-266 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 58 (2) on page 260, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.58.2.249-266, http://zenodo.org/record/4779375
The management education and training needs of Army head nurses
Creators: name: Beeman, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to identify the management education and training needs of head nurses in the Army. Army head nurses and nurse supervisors were surveyed to identify those needs and to determine if there were differences between head nurses and supervisors, and among head nurses related to different factors. Factors considered were: sex, age, rank, degrees held, certifications, continuing education credit, Army course attendance, type of area managed, time in the job, number of personnel managed, and size of hospital. The sample consisted of 175 head nurses and 39 supervisors assigned to randomly selected Army hospitals. Thirty-five management topics were placed in a typology representing Mintzberg's three major managerial roles. Head nurses and supervisors indicated on a Likert scale their perception of head nurses' management education and training needs. Head nurses also reported their education and training in the topics. A Johari Window was constructed to depict the needs reported by supervisors and head nurses. The greatest needs reported and shared by the head nurses and supervisors were: leadership skills, counseling and guidance, performance evaluations, quality assurance, and problem solving. A simple test of frequency indicated over 50% of head nurses reported having had education and/or training in each of the shared needs. No significant differences were found between head nurses' and supervisors' perceived needs. Using a chi-square analysis, significance at the 0.05 level was found related to the head nurses attendance at the Army Head Nurse Course, and in the type of clinical area managed. Based on the study findings, the following recommendations were made: explore the effects of higher education on meeting needs related to head nurse performance; conduct research to determine the effectiveness of the Army Head Nurse Course; and conduct research to explore the differences in the management needs and preparation for different clinical specialities; and a job analysis should be done on the head nurse position.
Modulated Amplitude Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Porter, Mason A.
name: Cvitanovic, Predrag
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze spatio-temporal structures in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study the dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with mean-field interactions. A coherent structure ansatz yields a parametrically forced nonlinear oscillator, to which we apply Lindstedt's method and multiple-scale perturbation theory to determine the dependence of the intensity of periodic orbits (``modulated amplitude waves'') on their wave number. We explore BEC band structure in detail using Hamiltonian perturbation theory and supporting numerical simulations.
description: 5 pages, 4 figs, revtex, final form of paper, to appear in PRE (forgot to include \bibliography command in last update, so this is a correction of that; the bibliography is hence present again)
The Milky Way's bar structural properties from gravitational waves
Creators: name: Wilhelm, Martijn J. C.
name: Korol, Valeriya
name: Rossi, Elena M.
name: D'Onghia, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable Galactic gravitational wave (GW) astronomy by individually resolving $ > 10^4$ signals from double white dwarf (DWD) binaries throughout the Milky Way. In this work we assess for the first time the potential of LISA data to map the Galactic stellar bar and spiral arms, since GWs are unaffected by stellar crowding and dust extinction unlike optical observations of the bulge region. To achieve this goal we combine a realistic population of Galactic DWDs with a high-resolution N-Body simulation a galaxy in good agreement with the Milky Way. We then model GW signals from our synthetic DWD population and reconstruct the structure of the simulated Galaxy from mock LISA observations. Our results show that while the low signal contrast between the background disc and the spiral arms hampers our ability to characterise the spiral structure, the stellar bar will instead clearly appear in the GW map of the bulge. The bar length and bar width derived from these synthetic observations are underestimated, respectively within $1σ$ and at a level greater than $2σ$, but the resulting axis ratio agrees to well within $1σ$, while the viewing angle is recovered to within one degree. These are competitive constraints compared to those from electromagnetic tracers, and they are obtained with a completely independent method. We therefore foresee that the synergistic use of GWs and electromagnetic tracers will be a powerful strategy to map the bar and the bulge of the Milky Way.
description: Accepted by MNRAS, 14 pages, 11 figures, 1 table