cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Le roman catholique contemporain
Creators: name: Pesseat, Joseph Jean-Marie Andre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Entreprenant l'étude du Roman Catholique Contemporain, nous nous sommes heurté à plusieurs difficultés. Comment maintenir un titre que renieraient les auteurs des romans que nous abordions? Uhamimement, faisant écho à la voix de Francois Mauriac, quelques décades plus tôt ils, déclarent qu'ils ne sont pas des romanciers catholiques mais des catholiques qui font des romans, rejetant une étiquette qui engagerait d'autres que leur propre personne. Comment, pourtant, choisir un titre qui ne correspondît pas à la vraie nature de ce qui devait être exposé? Nous avons donc décidé de nous en tenir à notre idée première, tout en avertissant qu'un romancier catholique ne se veut pas le porte-parole certifié de l'Eglise mais est un écrivain qui transpose dans son oeuvre le résultat de son experience et sa réflexion personnelle, éclairée à la lumiere de sa foi. Le second probleme était celui des limites à imposer à ce travail. II s'est révélé impossible d'examiner d'une facon exhaustive, une production littéraire trop vaste. Un choix s'est imposé. Nous avons, en accord avec les critiques éprouvés, résolu de porter notre attention sur les cinq auteurs les plus marquants: Roger Bésus, Jean Cayrol, Gilbert Cesbron, Luc Estang, et Paul-André Lesort. Là encore, le champ se découvrait trop vaste et il fallait se restreindre. Une nouvelle question surgissait: "Quels romans retenir dans la sélection définitive?" Nous avons inclus délibérément les premiers ouvrages en date, lorsque la critique, ne les présentait pas comme médiocres. Nous avons inscrit aussi les derniers, puisque celui qui fait le point, prolonge toujours sa courbe jusqu'aux données les plus récentes. Pour le reste, nous avons fait fond sur le jugement des sociétés littéraires et nous avons opté pour les publications primées par leur jury. Lorsque ce procédé restait insuffisant, nous nous en sommes encore remis, pour les additions supplémentaires, à l'opinion de la critique, conditionnant autant que possible notre choix au pro-rata de la production romanesque totale de chaque auteur, et prenant soin de ne mutiler en aucun cas un diptyque ou un triptyque. C'est ainsi que la liste des ouvrages sélectionnés se présente comme suit: [ … ]
The development of integrated schooling for British Columbia Indian children
Creators: name: Parminter, Alfred Vye
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In the era preceding European contact there were many cultural and linguistic sub-groups within the Indian population of the North West Coast area of North America. Intercommunication among the several sub-groups appears to have been limited. Although these people had varying attitudes to their young and although their training devices were informal, they educated their children systematically and with objectives which encompassed more than mere race survival. They taught the children practical and social skills and inculcated moral values by techniques common in modern times. The first non-Indians to arrive in the area widened the horizons of the inhabitants somewhat, and had the Indians not been subsequently overwhelmed by waves of settlers, their adoption of a new and broader culture might have progressed more rapidly. They were, however, isolated by a system of reserves and relegated to an inferior social and economic status which tended to aggravate their time-honoured distrust for outsiders. The missionaries, with financial assistance from the Federal Government, first provided the children of British Columbia's Indians with a measure of segregated, formal education. Their efforts met with limited success. Some literacy, nevertheless, was achieved enabling the majority to accept the Christian religion and providing a foundation for the better organized education program which was to develop. After World War II when the Indians themselves began to remonstrate, other citizens became concerned about the ineffectual education being provided to Indian children. Two results of these protests developed concurrently—the Government of Canada took a series of steps which vastly improved the existing system of segregated schools and the public school authorities, with the active support of federal officials, aggressively undertook to integrate the Indian children into non-Indian schools. With the full consent of their parents, almost half of the Indian pupils have now been integrated; the remainder continue to receive their education separated from other Canadian children. There are two major difficulties in increasing the proportion of Indian children attending the public schools: [ ... ]
An assessment of South Africa’s non-genetically modified maize export potential
Creators: name: Mawasha, Joseph Leshasha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: GM and non-GM maize
subject: Indicative Trade Potential Analysis
subject: Growth Share Matrix and Gravity Model

description: The study endeavoured to determine South Africa’s export potential in non-genetically modified maize markets using a three pronged methodological approach. The Genetically Modified (GM) status of South African maize has been observed as a challenge restraining the extent of South Africa's maize exports to major maize importing markets. The study thus sought to quantify South Africa's maize export potential to non-GM maize markets. Firstly, the study identified South Africa’s non-GM maize markets using a growth share matrix. Secondly, South Africa’s non-GM maize export markets with high trade potential were identified using an Indicative Potential analysis. A gravity model was then used to determine potential export markets with trade stimulating and restraining effects. The study finds that Italy, Angola, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Greece, Zambia and Austria exhibited the highest trade potential among the identified potential non-GM maize markets. Based on the three pronged approach employed by the study, it was concluded that despite the limited scope for non-GM maize market penetration, there are markets which displayed greater potential for expansion as they were part of the most desirable markets, exhibited high trade potential and had trade stimulating effects. These markets include; Italy, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Angola. It was recommended that farmers who choose to engage in large scale non-GM maize production should thus be guided by the forces of demand and supply in the non-GM maize export market and react to favourable opportunities as presented. Moreover, the government of South Africa needs to maintain a regulatory system that enables for segregation v of non-GM and GMO maize along the maize value chain to allow for preference for South African non-GM maize by major non-GM maize importers.
Robust states in semiconductor quantum dot molecules
Creators: name: Borges, H. S.
name: Sanz, L.
name: Villas-Boas, J. M.
name: Alcalde, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiconductor quantum dots coherently driven by pulsed laser are fundamental physical systems which allow studying the dynamical properties of confined quantum states. These systems are attractive candidates for a solid-state qubit, which open the possibility for several investigations in quantum information processing. In this work we study the effects of a specific decoherence process, the spontaneous emission of excitonic states, in a quantum dot molecule. We model our system considering a three-level Hamiltonian and solve the corresponding master equation in the Lindblad form. Our results show that the spontaneous emission associated with the direct exciton helps to build up a robust indirect exciton state. This robustness against decoherence allows potential applications in quantum memories and quantum gate architectures. We further investigate several regimes of physical parameters, showing that this process is easily controlled by tuning of external fields.
description: To appear in Physical Review B
Additional file 1 of Development and feasibility of a mobile phone application designed to support physically inactive employees to increase walking
Creators: name: Nicholas, Joanna Catherine
name: Ntoumanis, Nikos
name: Smith, Brendan John
name: Quested, Eleanor
name: Stamatakis, Emmanuel
name: Thøgersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT checklist.
Operation of a 1-Liter-Volume Gaseous Argon Scintillation Counter
Creators: name: Kazkaz, Kareem
name: Foxe, Michael
name: Bernstein, Adam
name: Hagmann, Christian
name: Jovanovic, Igor
name: Sorensen, Peter
name: Stoeffl, Wolfgang S.
name: Winant, Celeste D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have built a gas-phase argon ionization detector to measure small nuclear recoil energies (< 10 keVee). In this paper, we describe the detector response to X-ray and gamma calibration sources, including analysis of pulse shapes, software triggers, optimization of gas content, and energy- and position-dependence of the signal. We compare our experimental results against simulation using a 5.9-keV X-ray source, as well as higher-energy gamma sources up to 1332 keV. We conclude with a description of the detector, DAQ, and software settings optimized for a measurement of the low-energy nuclear quenching factor in gaseous argon. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in part under Contract W-7405-Eng-48 and in part under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. Funded by Lab-wide LDRD. LLNL-JRNL-415990-DRAFT.
description: 29 pages, single-column, double-spaced, 21 figures
title: 2007 Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey: Use of and Support for Emergency Medical Services Systems [Traffic Safety Facts]
title: Traffic safety facts : research note
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90861
subject: Emergency medical services
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91545
subject: Public opinion
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97433
subject: Surveys

description: Traffic safety facts. Research note;4p. in various pagings
description: The Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey (MVOSS) is a national telephone survey administered by NHTSA on a periodic basis to obtain data on attitudes, knowledge, and self-reported behavior primarily in areas of occupant protection. The sample is composed of randomly selected people 16 and older residing in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. People 16 to 39 are over-sampled to obtain more seat belt nonusers and more adults with children who should be using child restraints. The survey was first administered in 1994 and has been conducted five times since then. The most recent survey took place from January 9, 2007, to April 30, 2007.
Additional file 3 of An across-breed validation study of 46 genetic markers in canine hip dysplasia
Creators: name: Mikkola, Lea
name: Kyöstilä, Kaisa
name: Donner, Jonas
name: Lappalainen, Anu K.
name: Hytönen, Marjo K.
name: Lohi, Hannes
name: Iivanainen, Antti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Quantile-Quantile plots of the within-breed association analyses. The image shows breed-wise comparisons of P-values (−log10) from a logistic regression model (logistic) or basic association analysis (X2 test; assoc).
Automated Detection of Filaments and their Disappearance using Full Disc H-alpha Images
Creators: name: Joshi, Anand D.
name: Srivastava, Nandita
name: Mathew, Shibu K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new algorithm is developed that automatically detects filaments on the solar disc in H-alpha images. Preprocessing of H-alpha images include corrections for limb darkening and foreshortening. Further, by applying suitable intensity and size thresholds, filaments are extracted, while other solar features e.g. sunspots and plages are removed. Filaments attributes such as their position on the solar disc, total area, length, and number of fragments are determined. In addition, every filament is also labelled with a unique number. The algorithm is capable of following a particular filament through successive images which allows us to detect the changes and disappearance of the same, and thus provides a real-time warning of eruptive filaments. This aspect would prove to be of particular importance in studies pertaining to space weather. The algorithm will eventually be integrated with an upcoming telescope at Udaipur Solar Observatory for real time monitoring of activated/eruptive filaments.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures. Several figures rendered improperly in PDF of previous version
Congenital Pericardial Defect
Creators: name: Penha, Diana
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Genetic defects

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 42 years
description: Clinical History: A 42-year-old man with intermittent chest pain on exertion and no relevant previous medical nor trauma history, was referred for calcium score evaluation and coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA).The patient had no relevant results on prev... Final Diagnosis: Congenital partial absence of the pericardium
Impact evaluation of conservation agriculture on smallholder farmers’ livelihood in Zambia and Tanzania
Creators: name: Sankhulani, Linda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: propensity score matching
subject: impact
subject: conservation agriculture
subject: Tanzania
subject: Zambia

description: Based on cross-sectional data drawn from 135 treated and 68 control farmers in Tanzania, and 133 treated and 71 control farmers in Zambia, this study uses propensity score matching to test whether conservation agriculture (CA) improves smallholder farmers’ welfare, in response to the policy objective of enhancing their resilience in the face of climate change. Farmers in Tanzania assess CA as having statistically significant impacts on increasing total agricultural yield, adaptation to climate change impacts, resilience to droughts, increasing maize production, enhancing household food security, increasing number of meals per day, increasing household income, accumulation of productive assets , addressing gender disparity and social cohesion, and improving soil health . However, CA had no impact on reducing the forest area cleared per year and total agricultural costs. Farmers in Zambia assess CA as having statistically significant impacts on increasing total agricultural yield , adaptation to climate change impacts, resilience to droughts, increasing maize production, enhancing household food security, increasing number of meals per day, decreasing number of food insecure months, increasing household income, accumulation of productive assets, addressing agricultural calendar bottlenecks, increasing total agricultural costs, addressing gender disparity and social cohesion, and decreasing soil health. However, CA had no impact on reducing forest area cleared per year. Policy could use such evidence to leverage CA adoption in support of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and Africa Agenda 2063, although its potential to sequester carbon and provide ecosystem services comes into question.
Impact of string and monopole-type junctions on domain wall dynamics: implications for dark energy
Creators: name: Sousa, L.
name: Avelino, P. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the potential role of string and monopole-type junctions in the frustration of domain wall networks using a velocity-dependent one-scale model for the characteristic velocity, $v$, and the characteristic length, $L$, of the network. We show that, except for very special network configurations, $v^2 \lsim (HL)^2 \lsim (ρ_σ+ ρ_μ)/ρ_m$ where $H$ is the Hubble parameter and $ρ_σ$, $ρ_μ$ and $ρ_m$ are the average density of domain walls, strings and monopole-type junctions. We further show that if domain walls are to provide a significant contribution to the dark energy without generating exceedingly large CMB temperature fluctuations then, at the present time, the network must have a characteristic length $ L_0 \lsim 10 Ω_{σ0}^{-2/3} {\rm kpc}$ and a characteristic velocity $v_0 \lsim 10^{-5} Ω_{σ0}^{-2/3}$ where $Ω_{σ0}=ρ_{σ0}/ρ_{c 0}$ and $ρ_c$ is the critical density. In order to satisfy these constraints with $Ω_{σ0} \sim 1$, $ρ_{m 0}$ would have to be at least 10 orders of magnitude larger than $ρ_{σ0}$, which would be in complete disagreement with observations. This result provides very strong additional support for the conjecture that no natural frustration mechanism, which could lead to a significant contribution of domain walls to the dark energy budget, exists.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
title: Weiblichkeit im Widerspruch : Spannungsverhältnisse in der Beauty-Community
Creators: name: Richter, Susanne
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: Körper
subject: Gender
subject: Medien

description: Die Beauty-Community boomt auf der Videoplattform YouTube. Die sich dort präsentierenden „Schminkmädchen“ und „Beauty-Tussis“ werden nicht nur häufig belächelt, sondern auch dafür kritisiert, dass sie hohe normative Schönheitsanforderungen und tradierte Geschlechterrollen reproduzieren und mit kommerziellem Interesse kombinieren. Seltener gerät in den Blick, dass mit dem Schönheitshandeln öffentlich gemacht wird, was für viele eine tägliche Anforderung und übliche Praxis darstellt – insbesondere für diejenigen, die sich als ‚weiblich‘ vergeschlechtlicht positionieren.
Additional file 1 of Lung retention and particokinetics of silver and gold nanoparticles in rats following subacute inhalation co-exposure
Creators: name: Kim, Jin Kwon
name: Kim, Hoi Pin
name: Park, Jung Duck
name: Kangho Ahn
name: Kim, Woo Young
name: Gulumian, Mary
name: Oberdörster, Günter
name: Yu, Il Je
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplement 1. Schematic of exposure system for generating AuNPs, AgNPs, and AuNP+AgNP co-exposure for nose only exposure chambers. Supplement 2. Spiked standard curve and recovery detection for Au and Ag in lung tissue. Range of Au, 2 – 100 ng/g ; range of Ag, 0.2 – 5 ng/g. Supplement 3. Particle distribution in exposure chambers based on DMAS and FE-TEM. Supplement 4. The particle mass concentration of single of AgNP and AuNP using by DMAS. The particle mass concentrations were calculated based on DMAS data of number concentration and average of diameter and particle density following under formula. Supplement 5. Deposition and retention of Au. Supplement 6. Deposition and retention of Au in case of co-exposure with AgNPs. Supplement 7. Deposition and retention of Ag. Supplement 8. Deposition and retention of Ag in case of co-exposure with AuNPs.
The impact of public agricultural investment on food security and nutrition in ECOWAS
Creators: name: Kamenya, Madalitso A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: ECOWAS
subject: public agricultural expenditure
subject: food security and nutrition
subject: panel data method
subject: fixed effect generalised least squares model

description: Public agriculture expenditure is an important growth catalyst. According to Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and its Malabo Declaration, a 10% increase in public expenditure in agriculture should stimulate a 6% productivity growth in agriculture, leading to widespread development benefits including improving food security and nutrition. However, evaluation of the impact of public agriculture expenditure on food security and nutrition remains scanty. This study evaluated the impact of public agriculture expenditure on food security and nutrition using panel data of nine ECOWAS countries, which are Benin, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo. This was achieved by evaluating the trends of public agriculture expenditure and food security and nutrition in the nine countries between the year 2000 and 2017. Further, assessing the impact of public agricultural expenditure on food security and nutrition using panel data from 2000 and 2016, controlling for other factors that affect food security and nutrition at the national level. The trends revealed that public expenditure has improved in the nine ECOWAS countries as several countries have met the Comprehensive African Agriculture Programme’s target of investing at least 10% of the national budget on the agricultural sector in several years. Likewise, food supply has improved and the levels of undernourishment has reduced. However, stunting, underweight and wasting are still high in these nine countries. Using the fixed effect generalised least squares model, it was found that a one-unit increase in public agriculture expenditure reduced undernourishment and improved average dietary energy supply adequacy each by 0.2%. The study concluded that public agriculture expenditure had an impact on food security. However, the impact may lag depending on the type of expenditure on agriculture. The study recommended disaggregating public expenditure data to isolate their impact. The analysis could be conducted in the design of national food security investment plans and to help identify strategies to accelerate improvements in food security and nutrition in African countries.
New Caledonia and Bougainville: Towards a New Political Status?
Creators: name: Maclellan, Nic
name: Regan, Anthony
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: Over the next few years, major political — and possibly constitutional — changes can be expected in two of Australia’s closest neighbours, as New Caledonia and Bougainville move towards a new political status. Both sets of islands suffered periods of armed conflict — in the 1980s for New Caledonia and in the 1990s for Bougainville. In spite of the widespread calls for independence, there were significant divisions within the population and both conflicts ended with innovative political and constitutional agreements, including delayed referendums on their final political status. Since 1998, each has undertaken a lengthy transition towards a decision on self‑determination and the possible creation of a new sovereign and independent nation. These transitional periods of economic and political reformation are now coming to a head. Under the 1998 Noumea Accord, New Caledonia is scheduled to hold up to three referendums between 2018 and 2022 to determine a new political status, with the first vote to be held in November 2018. After a decade‑long transition following the 2005 election of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG), and 2015 elections that resulted in the return to office of President John Momis, there are currently plans to hold a referendum in Bougainville in June 2019.
Hitler and the churches, 1933-1939
Creators: name: Taylor, Robert R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: For purposes of this thesis, we accept the view that the Christian Church's power declined after the Middle Ages, and a secular, industrial, mass society developed in Western Europe, a society which, by the nineteenth century, had begun to deprive men--particularly the proletariat—of their spiritual roots, and which created the need for a new faith. In Germany, this situation, especially acute after the first World War, was conditioned by the peculiar history of church-state relations there as well as by the weakened position of the middle classes. For a variety of reasons, young Germans in the first decades of this century were in a "revolutionary" mood. Adolf Hitler himself was such a young person, raised in a bourgeois Christian environment, yet strongly affected by the political and social trends of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. National Socialism, with its anti-Semitism and its call for national regeneration, became the substitute faith of Germans and was directed by cynical politicians. Much of this "theology" was determined by political considerations; that is, by what appealed to non-Nazi Germans. It demanded, for example, a total commitment which many were ready to give. The religious trappings of this Weltanschauung were manufactured by Nazi leaders, who did not themselves believe in them. Seeking to win the nation's youth, Hitler found himself in conflict with orthodox faith, but he knew that, if the Party was permanently to dominate Germany, Christianity would have to be eliminated. The Christian attitude, however, aided the Nazis in consolidating their power. The Lutheran view of the state, especially that of the "German Christians", offered little resistance. The Catholic attitude was more hostile, but ultimately did not prevent German Catholics from rivalling their Protestant colleagues in enthusiasm for Nazi reforms. [ ... ]
A4-based tri-bimaximal mixing within inverse and linear seesaw schemes
Creators: name: Hirsch, M.
name: Morisi, S.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider tri-bimaximal lepton mixing within low-scale seesaw schemes where light neutrino masses arise from TeV scale physics, potentially accessible at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Two examples are considered, based on the A4 flavor symmetry realized within the inverse or the linear seesaw mechanisms. Both are highly predictive so that in both the light neutrino sector effectively depends only on three mass parameters and one Majorana phase, with no CP violation in neutrino oscillations. We find that the linear seesaw leads to a lower bound for neutrinoless double beta decay while the inverse seesaw does not. The models also lead to potentially sizeable decay rates for lepton flavor violating processes, tightly related by the assumed flavor symmetry.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. Experimental references added and figure 1 updated
Additional file 1 of Dental caries experience and associated factors in adults: a cross-sectional community survey within Ethiopia
Creators: name: Bogale, Birke
name: Fasikawit Engida
name: Hanlon, Charlotte
name: Prince, Martin J.
name: Gallagher, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Oral Health Questionnaire for Adults. Questionnaire utilised for the dental/surgical survey within in the ASSET project in Ethiopia.
Additional file 1 of Effects of programmatic interventions to improve the management of latent tuberculosis: a follow up study up to five months after implementation
Creators: name: Yanes-Lane, Mercedes
name: Trajman, Anete
name: Mayara Lisboa Bastos
name: Oxlade, Olivia
name: Valiquette, Chantal
name: Rufino, Nathalia
name: Fregonese, Federica
name: Menzies, Dick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. Steps in the LTBI cascade of care. Supplementary Methods 1. Questionnaire for adult household contacts. Supplementary Methods 2. Questionnaire for TB patients. Supplementary Methods 3. Questionnaire for health care workers. Supplementary Table 1. Odds of answering “yes” to a given question in the interventions trial’s questionnaires compared to the odds of answering “yes” in the follow-up study’s questionnaires. Supplementary Table 2. Main themes identified in open ended questions from the HCW questionnaires
Additional file 1 of Individualized quality of life benefit and cost-effectiveness estimates of proton therapy for patients with oropharyngeal cancer
Creators: name: N. Patrik Brodin
name: Kabarriti, Rafi
name: Schechter, Clyde B.
name: Pankuch, Mark
name: Vinai Gondi
name: Kalnicki, Shalom
name: Madhur K. Garg
name: Tomé, Wolfgang A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary tables and figures.
Booms and Busts: the Burstiness of Star Formation in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
Creators: name: Cole, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review I summarise recent advances in our understanding of the importance of starburst events to the evolutionary histories of nearby galaxies. Ongoing bursts are easily diagnosed in emission-line surveys, but assessing the timing and intensity of fossil bursts requires more effort, usually demanding color-magnitude diagrams or spectroscopy of individual stars. For ages older than ~1 Gyr, this type of observation is currently limited to the Local Group and its immediate surroundings. However, if the Local Volume is representative of the Universe as a whole, then studies of the age and metallicity distributions of star clusters and resolved stellar populations should give statistical clues as to the frequency and importance of bursts to the histories of galaxies in general. Based on starburst statistics in the literature and synthetic colour-magnitude diagram studies of Local Group galaxies, I attempt to distinguish between systemic starbursts that strongly impact galaxy evolution and stochastic bursts that can appear impressive but are ultimately of little significance on gigayear timescales. As a specific case, it appears as though IC 10, the only starburst galaxy in the Local Group, falls into the latter category and is not fundamentally different from other nearby dwarf irregular galaxies.
description: Accepted by the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA). Summary of a review talk given at the Southern Cross Astrophysics Conference on "Galaxy Metabolism" held in Sydney, 22-26 June 2009. 9 pages, 2 figures
Relaxation and Dephasing in a Two-electron 13C Nanotube Double Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Churchill, H. O. H.
name: Kuemmeth, F.
name: Harlow, J. W.
name: Bestwick, A. J.
name: Rashba, E. I.
name: Flensberg, K.
name: Stwertka, C. H.
name: Taychatanapat, T.
name: Watson, S. K.
name: Marcus, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use charge sensing of Pauli blockade (including spin and isospin) in a two-electron 13C nanotube double quantum dot to measure relaxation and dephasing times. The relaxation time, T1, first decreases with parallel magnetic field then goes through a minimum in a field of 1.4 T. We attribute both results to the spin-orbit-modified electronic spectrum of carbon nanotubes, which suppresses hyperfine mediated relaxation and enhances relaxation due to soft phonons. The inhomogeneous dephasing time, T2*, is consistent with previous data on hyperfine coupling strength in 13C nanotubes.
description: related papers at http://marcuslab.harvard.edu
The entropic origin of disassortativity in complex networks
Creators: name: Johnson, Samuel
name: Torres, Joaquin J.
name: Marro, J.
name: Munoz, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Why are most empirical networks, with the prominent exception of social ones, generically degree-degree anticorrelated, i.e. disassortative? With a view to answering this long-standing question, we define a general class of degree-degree correlated networks and obtain the associated Shannon entropy as a function of parameters. It turns out that the maximum entropy does not typically correspond to uncorrelated networks, but to either assortative (correlated) or disassortative (anticorrelated) ones. More specifically, for highly heterogeneous (scale-free) networks, the maximum entropy principle usually leads to disassortativity, providing a parsimonious explanation to the question above. Furthermore, by comparing the correlations measured in some real-world networks with those yielding maximum entropy for the same degree sequence, we find a remarkable agreement in various cases. Our approach provides a neutral model from which, in the absence of further knowledge regarding network evolution, one can obtain the expected value of correlations. In cases in which empirical observations deviate from the neutral predictions -- as happens in social networks -- one can then infer that there are specific correlating mechanisms at work.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010)
Additional file 1 of An evaluation of cascading mentorship as advocacy training in undergraduate medical education
Creators: name: Patel, Mitesh
name: Aitken, Devon
name: Yunlin Xue
name: Sockalingam, Sanjeev
name: Simpson, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional File 1. Questionnaires. This file contains the questionnaires provided to medical student mentors prior to and following participation in the Advocacy Mentorship Initiative.
A simple thermodynamical witness showing universality of macroscopic entanglement
Creators: name: Vedral, Vlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that if the ground state entanglement exceeds the total entropy of a given system, then this system is in an entangled state. This is a universal entanglement witness that applies to any physical system and yields a temperature below which we are certain to find some entanglement. Our witness is then applied to generic bosonic and fermionic many body systems to derive the corresponding "critical" temperatures that have a very broad validity.
description: 3 pages, Torun conference, June 25-28, 2008
Constraining chameleon field theories using the GammeV afterglow experiments
Creators: name: Upadhye, A.
name: Steffen, J. H.
name: Weltman, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GammeV experiment has constrained the couplings of chameleon scalar fields to matter and photons. Here we present a detailed calculation of the chameleon afterglow rate underlying these constraints. The dependence of GammeV constraints on various assumptions in the calculation is studied. We discuss GammeV--CHASE, a second-generation GammeV experiment, which will improve upon GammeV in several major ways. Using our calculation of the chameleon afterglow rate, we forecast model-independent constraints achievable by GammeV--CHASE. We then apply these constraints to a variety of chameleon models, including quartic chameleons and chameleon dark energy models. The new experiment will be able to probe a large region of parameter space that is beyond the reach of current tests, such as fifth force searches, constraints on the dimming of distant astrophysical objects, and bounds on the variation of the fine structure constant.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables
The key determinants of food inflation in the Kingdom of Eswatini
Creators: name: Mndzebele, Mancoba Knowledge
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: food inflation
subject: cointegration
subject: error correction

description: It is important to track food inflation from a development perspective as it is indicative of food access for the poor. Discussions on food inflation in Eswatini have gained traction due to its effects on welfare erosion of lower income groups. Eswatini is faced with a problem of periods with high food inflation which hampers food access and affordability for low income groups. Patterns of high food inflation in Eswatini persists yet the drivers of food inflation remain unknown. A thorough understanding of these drivers is the first step towards sound policy intervention related to inflation management. This study drew on literature on food inflation in other countries to identify energy and agricultural prices and inflation dynamics of key importing partners as potential drivers of food inflation. An Autoregressive Distributed Lag model was implemented to determine the key determinants of food inflation in the Kingdom of Eswatini using monthly time series data from January 2009 to January 2020. The GregoryHansen technique was used to test for structural breaks in the series as numerous changes related to climate and political circumstances could have impacted relationships over the long run. The Gregory-Hansen technique facilitated the identification of this which ultimately allowed for more accurate estimation. The study found that all variables considered in the study had a positive and significant effect on Eswatini’s food inflation at 5% confidence level and further unveiled that a 10% change in South African food inflation is associated with a 16.1% increase in Eswatini’s food inflation while a 10% change in global oil prices increases Eswatini’s food inflation by 56.7%. The results also revealed that a 10% change in global agricultural prices is associated with a 17.7% increase in Eswatini’s food inflation. The error correction model was used to determine the magnitude and speed of adjustment of Eswatini’s vii food inflation after a shock to the long run equilibrium. The results from the error correction show that the speed of adjustment for Eswatini’s food inflation shock in the long run relationship is almost instantaneous at 96.6% per month. This suggests that food inflation in Eswatini reflects changes in global oil prices, agricultural prices and inflationary changes in South Africa fully and immediately. The Toda Yamamoto Granger causality test revealed that South African food prices granger causes food prices in Eswatini at 5% confidence interval. Based on these findings, policy interventions focusing on curbing food inflation would include ensuring the efficiency of food production and distribution in Eswatini so that exogenous shocks can be buffered by high level of local production and availability.
Gestion del tratamiento de residuos solidos y su influencia en la conservacion del medio ambiente y el ecosistema en la provicnia de Huánuco
Creators: name: Rivas, Jorge Luis Hilario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Residuos solidos
Tratamiento
Contaminación ambiental
Caracterización

description: La tesis de maestria, propone una adecuada gestión del tratamiento de residuos solidos, con el proposito de mitigar la contaminación ambiental, mediante la caracterizacion, adaptarse a una buena practica de manejo de los residuos solictos, hasta la disposición final, en una ciudad con un numero significativo de habitantes.
Complete, Single-Horizon Quantum Corrected Black Hole Spacetime
Creators: name: Peltola, A.
name: Kunstatter, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a semi-classical polymerization of the interior of Schwarzschild black holes gives rise to a tantalizing candidate for a non-singular, single horizon black hole spacetime. The exterior has non-zero quantum stress energy but closely approximates the classical spacetime for macroscopic black holes. The interior exhibits a bounce at a microscopic scale and then expands indefinitely to a Kantowski-Sachs spacetime. Polymerization therefore removes the singularity and produces a scenario reminiscent of past proposals for universe creation via quantum effects inside a black hole.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. A shortened version with some new references
Stakeholder perceptions of raw water quality and its management in Fetakgomo and Maruleng municipalities of Limpopo Province
Creators: name: Namakando, Namakando
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This study applied the Q methodology to investigate stakeholders’ perceptions about the most important ecosystem services provided by the Olifants River, and the management strategies that could potentially improve the river’s raw water quality. This is because deteriorating water quality is an issue of concern amongst the different stakeholders who, directly or indirectly, derive utility from the Olifants River. The river is an important source of raw water and other ecosystem services used for environmental, domestic and commercial purposes to support wildlife, households and drive production in South Africa. As a public good, the Olifants River is of interest to both private and public stakeholders with different interests in the resource, some of which may be conflicting. Since stakeholder perceptions influence environmental outcomes, the need to account for stakeholder perceptions is an important step to integrate and coordinate efforts to improve the management of raw water. Using 27 statements and 14 stakeholders drawn from Maruleng and Fetakgomo municipalities of Limpopo Province, the results show that stakeholders held three distinct viewpoints about the most important ecosystem services produced by the Olifants River: ecosystem services that are sources of employment-creation; ecosystem services that provide direct goods/services; and a mixed/holistic perspective that placed importance on all categories of ecosystem services. Using 31 statements and 16 stakeholders drawn from Maruleng and Fetakgomo municipalities, the results showed that stakeholders held four distinct perspectives about solutions to improve water quality: polluters must be made accountable through monitoring and enforcement of regulations; more organisation and coordination is needed in water quality iv management; innovation, and creativity in water resources the management through capacity building; and major changes have to be made in how things are currently done. The policy implications for the study findings are that the results can be used to: (a) inform policy about integrated water resource management; and (b) help in designing non-market valuation studies of the Olifants River that include outcomes that are most meaningful to stakeholders.
Cervical Intradural Meningioma Presenting as Brown-SÃ©quard Syndrome
Creators: name: Diogo, Mariana
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 61 years
description: Clinical History: Patient presents to the emergency department with a 1-month history of left hemiparesis and loss of proprioception, and loss of sensation on the right hemibody, with a level in the C3 region. Final Diagnosis: Cervical intradural extramedullary meningioma (Grade I WHO)
Geometrically induced modification of surface plasmons in the optical and telecom regimes
Creators: name: Nesterov, M. L.
name: Martin-Cano, D.
name: Fernandez-Dominguez, A. I.
name: Moreno, E.
name: Martin-Moreno, L.
name: Garcia-Vidal, F. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the introduction of a subwavelength periodic modulation into a metallic structure strongly modifies the guiding characteristics of the surface plasmon modes supported by the system. Moreover, it is also shown how a new type of a tightly confined surface plasmon polariton mode can be created by just milling a periodic corrugation into a metallic ridge placed on top of a metal surface.
âOrbitinig aroundâ the diagnosis: pseudotumor cerebri
Creators: name: Jablonska, Justyna
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 20 years
description: Clinical History: Chronic daily headache and visual disorders (Right Eye(RE):3/10, Left Eye(LE):6/10). MRI(carried out elsewhere)-diagnosi: pseudotumor cerebri. CSF opening pressure >40 cm of water, without cytological abnormalities.  Treatment with acetazolamide and or... Final Diagnosis: Pseudotumor cerebri