cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From Logic-respecting Efficacy Estimands to Logic-ensuring Analysis Principle for Time-to-event Endpoint in Randomized Clinical Trials with Subgroups
Creators: name: Liu, Yi
name: Yang, Miao
name: Kil, Siyoen
name: Li, Jiang
name: Mondal, Shoubhik
name: Shentu, Yue
name: Tian, Hong
name: Wang, Liwei
name: Yung, Godwin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: An important goal of precision medicine is to identify biomarkers that are predictive, and tailor the treatment according to the biomarker levels of individual patients. Differentiating prognostic vs. predictive biomarkers impacts important decision makings for patients and treating physicians. Using hazard ratio (HR) can mistake a purely prognostic biomarker for a predictive one leading to a disheartening possibility of depriving patients of beneficial treatment as demonstrated in the OAK trial. This stems from the illogical issue of HR at population level where marginal HR in the overall population can be larger than those in both subgroups. Instead of trying to circumvent this issue by discouraging comparisons between marginal and conditional HRs, we propose to directly fix it by using alternative logic-respecting efficacy estimands such as ratio of medians, ratio and difference of restricted mean survival times and milestone probabilities. These measures are straightforward, easy to interpret and clinically meaningful. More importantly, they will guarantee agreement between marginal and conditional efficacy and provide cohesive message around efficacy profile of the drug in the presence of subgroups. A step further is the application of Subgroup Mixable Estimation (SME) principle to ensure logical estimates when analyzing real clinical trial data. Detailed guidance is provided for the aforementioned logic-respecting estimands using either parametric, semi-parametric or non-parametric approaches. Simultaneous inference can be provided with proper multiplicity adjustment to facilitate joint decision making with user-friendly apps.
The carbon-to-oxygen ratio: implications for the spectra of hydrogen-dominated exoplanet atmospheres
Creators: name: Drummond, Benjamin
name: Carter, Aarynn L.
name: Hébrard, Eric
name: Mayne, Nathan J.
name: Sing, David K.
name: Evans, Thomas M.
name: Goyal, Jayesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from one-dimensional atmospheric simulations investigating the effect of varying the carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio on the thermal structure, chemical composition and transmission and emission spectra, for irradiated hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. We find that each of these properties of the atmosphere are strongly dependent on the individual abundances (relative to hydrogen) of carbon and oxygen. We confirm previous findings that different chemical equilibrium compositions result from different sets of element abundances but with the same C/O ratio. We investigate the effect of this difference in composition on the thermal structure and simulated spectra. We also simulate observations using the PandExo tool and show that these differences are observationally significant with current (i.e. Hubble Space Telescope) and future (i.e. James Webb Space Telescope) instruments. We conclude that it is important to consider the full set of individual element abundances, with respect to hydrogen, rather than the ratios of only two elements, such as the C/O ratio, particularly when comparing model predictions with observed transmission and emission spectra.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
MOESM1 of Robust hematopoietic specification requires the ubiquitous Sp1 and Sp3 transcription factors
Creators: name: Gilmour, Jane
name: OâConnor, Leigh
name: Middleton, Christopher
name: Keane, Peter
name: Gillemans, Nynke
name: Jean-Baptiste Cazier
name: Philipsen, Sjaak
name: Bonifer, Constanze
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Methods and Figures.
Exactly solvable chaos and addition theorems of elliptic functions
Creators: name: Umeno, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A unified view is given to recent developments about a systematic method of constructing rational mappings as ergodic transformations with non-uniform invariant measures on the unit interval I=[0,1]. All of the rational ergodic mappings of I with explicit non-uniform invariant densities can be obtained by addition theorems of elliptic functions. It is shown here that the class of the rational ergodic mappings I->I are essentially same as the permutable rational functions obtained by J. F. Ritt.
description: 14 pages, Latex. typos corrected, comments related to permutable rational functions of J.F. Ritt added
Bifurcations in planar, quadratic mass-action networks with few reactions and low molecularity
Creators: name: Banaji, Murad
name: Boros, Balázs
name: Hofbauer, Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study bifurcations in mass-action networks with two chemical species and reactant complexes of molecularity no more than two. We refer to these as planar, quadratic networks as they give rise to (at most) quadratic differential equations on the nonnegative quadrant of the plane. Our aim is to study bifurcations in networks in this class with the fewest possible reactions, and the lowest possible product molecularity. We fully characterise generic bifurcations of positive equilibria in such networks with up to four reactions, and product molecularity no higher than three. In these networks we find fold, Andronov--Hopf, Bogdanov--Takens and Bautin bifurcations, and prove the non-occurrence of any other generic bifurcations of positive equilibria. In addition, we present a number of results which go beyond planar, quadratic networks. For example, we show that mass-action networks without conservation laws admit no bifurcations of codimension greater than $m-2$, where $m$ is the number of reactions; we fully characterise quadratic, rank-one mass-action networks admitting fold bifurcations; and we write down some necessary conditions for Andronov--Hopf and cusp bifurcations in mass-action networks. Finally, we draw connections with a number of previous results in the literature on nontrivial dynamics, bifurcations, and inheritance in mass-action networks.
title: Detritivory in the Mangrove Sesarmid Crab Parasesarma Erythodactyla
Creators: name: Bui, Thi Hong Hanh
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sesarmid crabs
subject: Indo-west-Pacific biogeographic region
subject: Sesarmid crabs ecology
subject: Parasesarma erythodactyla

description: Sesarmid crabs have important ecological roles in the mangroves of the Indo-west-Pacific biogeographic region. By processing large amount of leaf litter, these crabs retain organic matter in the mangroves, increase the rate of mineralisation, and fuel additional trophic links with the processed material. However, the dietary composition of the mangrove sesarmids is still a controversy. Gut content analyses suggest a dominant contribution of mangrove leaf litter in the crab diet but stable isotope data seem to support the assimilation of organic matter derived from the microphytobenthos but not mangrove litter. In addition, ability of the sesarmid crabs to obtain sufficient nutrition from mangrove litter, which is rich in structural carbon (cellulose) but poor in other nutrients such as nitrogen, has been questioned. The over-arching goal of this thesis was to fill these gaps of knowledge in detritivory of the mangrove sesarmids, using Parasesarma erythodactyla (Hess, 1865), the dominant shredder in sub-tropical Australian mangroves, as an animal model.
title: Nietzsche, Care of Self and the Risk of Dionysian Transfiguration
Creators: name: Ercole, Venessa
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nietzsche
subject: Dionysian transfiguration
subject: Care of self
subject: Risking
subject: Sacrificing

description: Recent interpretations of Nietzsche have focused on his revival of a kind of Ancient “care of self,” a move which is most often attributed to his middle period. The Nietzsche depicted in these readings is a moderate, Stoic-Epicurean seemingly at odds with the “disciple of Dionysus” he claims to be by his mature period. However, following Foucault’s close reading of Hellenic and Roman “care of self,” we can see that, especially in Cynicism, the “care of self” was closely connected to a parrhēsía (“courage of truth”) that involved risking, maybe even sacrificing, the self. By examining this neglected component of Ancient ethics, we find a form of the “care of self” that is compatible with Nietzsche’s Dionysianism. Indeed, in Nietzsche’s philosophy taken as a whole, we find that, for those who would stand “in a Dionysian relationship to existence,” risk is absolutely necessary to the process of self-transfiguration.
2.12_A Near Wake model for the aerodynamic modelling of swept and non-planar Wind Turbine Blades
Creators: name: Li, Ang
name: Pirrung, Georg
name: Gaunaa, Mac
name: Madsen, Helge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Presentation from WESC 2019 in the session 2.12a "Aerodynamic Models".
Calogero-Moser Models II: Symmetries and Foldings
Creators: name: Bordner, A. J.
name: Sasaki, R.
name: Takasaki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Universal Lax pairs (the root type and the minimal type) are presented for Calogero-Moser models based on simply laced root systems, including E_8. They exist with and without spectral parameter and they work for all of the four choices of potentials: the rational, trigonometric, hyperbolic and elliptic. For the elliptic potential, the discrete symmetries of the simply laced models, originating from the automorphism of the extended Dynkin diagrams, are combined with the periodicity of the potential to derive a class of Calogero-Moser models known as the `twisted non-simply laced models'. For untwisted non-simply laced models, two kinds of root type Lax pairs (based on long roots and short roots) are derived which contain independent coupling constants for the long and short roots. The BC_n model contains three independent couplings, for the long, middle and short roots. The G_2 model based on long roots exhibits a new feature which deserves further study.
description: 36 pages, LaTeX2e with amsfonts.sty, no figures
The Complexity of Approximately Counting Retractions to Square-Free Graphs
Creators: name: Focke, Jacob
name: Goldberg, Leslie Ann
name: Živný, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2; G.2.1

description: A retraction is a homomorphism from a graph $G$ to an induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ that is the identity on $H$. In a long line of research, retractions have been studied under various algorithmic settings. Recently, the problem of approximately counting retractions was considered. We give a complete trichotomy for the complexity of approximately counting retractions to all square-free graphs (graphs that do not contain a cycle of length $4$). It turns out there is a rich and interesting class of graphs for which this problem is complete in the class $\#\mathrm{BIS}$. As retractions generalise homomorphisms, our easiness results extend to the important problem of approximately counting homomorphisms. By giving new $\#\mathrm{BIS}$-easiness results we now settle the complexity of approximately counting homomorphisms for a whole class of non-trivial graphs which were previously unresolved.
Non-Markovian noise that cannot be dynamically decoupled by periodic spin echo pulses
Creators: name: Burgarth, Daniel
name: Facchi, Paolo
name: Fraas, Martin
name: Hillier, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical decoupling is the leading technique to remove unwanted interactions in a vast range of quantum systems through fast rotations. But what determines the time-scale of such rotations in order to achieve good decoupling? By providing an explicit counterexample of a qubit coupled to a charged particle and magnetic monopole, we show that such time-scales cannot be decided by the decay profile induced by the noise: even though the system shows a quadratic decay (a Zeno region revealing non-Markovian noise), it cannot be decoupled by periodic spin echo pulses, no matter how fast the rotations.
description: minor revision
Generalized $ \widetilde{W} $ algebras
Creators: name: Drachov, Yaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a new generalized family of infinite-dimensional $ \widetilde{W} $ algebras, each associated with a particular element of a commutative subalgebra of the $ W_{1+\infty} $ algebra, was described. This paper provides a comprehensive account of the aforementioned association, accompanied by the requisite proofs and illustrative examples. This approach allows a derivation of Ward identities for selected WLZZ matrix models and the expansion of corresponding $ W $-operators in terms of an infinite set of variables $ p_k $.
description: 47 pages, 2 figures
The metastate approach to thermodynamic chaos
Creators: name: Newman, C. M.
name: Stein, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In realistic disordered systems, such as the Edwards-Anderson (EA) spin glass, no order parameter, such as the Parisi overlap distribution, can be both translation-invariant and non-self-averaging. The standard mean-field picture of the EA spin glass phase can therefore not be valid in any dimension and at any temperature. Further analysis shows that, in general, when systems have many competing (pure) thermodynamic states, a single state which is a mixture of many of them (as in the standard mean-field picture) contains insufficient information to reveal the full thermodynamic structure. We propose a different approach, in which an appropriate thermodynamic description of such a system is instead based on a metastate, which is an ensemble of (possibly mixed) thermodynamic states. This approach, modelled on chaotic dynamical systems, is needed when chaotic size dependence (of finite volume correlations) is present. Here replicas arise in a natural way, when a metastate is specified by its (meta)correlations. The metastate approach explains, connects, and unifies such concepts as replica symmetry breaking, chaotic size dependence and replica non-independence. Furthermore, it replaces the older idea of non-self-averaging as dependence on the bulk couplings with the concept of dependence on the state within the metastate at fixed coupling realization. We use these ideas to classify possible metastates for the EA model, and discuss two scenarios introduced by us earlier --- a nonstandard mean-field picture and a picture intermediate between that and the usual scaling/droplet picture.
description: LaTeX file, 49 pages
Squark-pair annihilation into quarks at next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Schmiemann, S.
name: Harz, J.
name: Herrmann, B.
name: Klasen, M.
name: Kovařík, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is under intense scrutiny at the LHC and in dark matter searches. Interestingly, scenarios with light squarks of the third generation remain not only viable, but also well motivated by the observed Standard-Model-like Higgs boson mass and dark matter relic density. The latter often requires important contributions from squark pair annihilation. Following up on previous work, we present in this paper a precision analysis of squark pair annihilation into quarks at next-to-leading order of QCD including Sommerfeld enhancement effects. We discuss all technical details of our one-loop, real emission and resummation calculations, their implementation in the precision tool DM@NLO, as well as the numerical impact on the annihilation cross section and cosmological relic density in phenomenological MSSM scenarios respecting in particular current LHC constraints. We demonstrate that including these radiative corrections leads to substantial shifts in the preferred parameter regions by up to 20 GeV.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures
Additional file 8: of Determination of developmental and ripening stages of whole tomato fruit using portable infrared spectroscopy and Chemometrics
Creators: name: Skolik, Paul
name: Morais, Camilo
name: Martin, Francis
name: McAinsh, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S6. Percentage of variance for PCA-LDA models varying the number of PCs. (DOCX 17 kb)
Two disjoint aspects of the deformation programme: quantizing Nambu mechanics; singleton physics
Creators: name: Flato, Moshe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present briefly the deformation philosophy and indicate, with references, how it was applied to the quantization of Nambu mechanics and to particle physics in anti De Sitter space.
description: 4 pages; to be published with AIP Press in Proceedings of the 1998 Lodz conference "Particles, Fields and Gravitation". LaTeX (compatibility mode) with aipproc style
Plane symmetric gravitational fields in (D+1)-dimensional General Relativity
Creators: name: Avagyan, R. M.
name: Petrosyan, T. A.
name: Saharian, A. A.
name: Harutyunyan, G. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider plane symmetric gravitational fields within the framework of General Relativity in (D+1)-dimensional spacetime. Two classes of vacuum solutions correspond to higher-dimensional generalizations of the Rindler and Taub spacetimes. The general solutions are presented for a positive and negative cosmological constant as the only source of the gravity. Matching conditions on a planar boundary between two regions with distinct plane symmetric metric tensors are discussed. An example is considered with Rindler and Taub geometries in neighboring half-spaces. As another example, we discuss a finite thickness cosmological constant slab embedded into the Minkowski, Rindler and Taub spacetimes. The corresponding surface energy-momentum tensor is found required for matching the exterior and interior geometries.
description: 12 pages
Optimal control of a phase field system modelling tumor growth with chemotaxis and singular potentials
Creators: name: Colli, Pierluigi
name: Signori, Andrea
name: Sprekels, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A distributed optimal control problem for an extended model of phase field type for tumor growth is addressed. In this model, the chemotaxis effects are also taken into account. The control is realized by two control variables that design the dispensation of some drugs to the patient. The cost functional is of tracking type, whereas the potential setting has been kept quite general in order to allow regular and singular potentials to be considered. In this direction, some relaxation terms have been introduced in the system. We show the well-posedness of the state system, the Fréchet differentiability of the control-to-state operator in a suitable functional analytic framework, and, lastly, we characterize the first-order necessary conditions of optimality in terms of a variational inequality involving the adjoint variables.
title: Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Mansf.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Lentilactobacillus buchneri Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus buchneri

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS BUCHNERI COMB. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus buchneri (buch’ne.ri. N.L. gen. n. buchneri of Buchner, referring to the German microbiologist Buchner).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus buchneri (Bacillus buchneri [sic] Henneberg 1903, 163) Bergey et al. 1923, 251 (Approved Lists)
 Biochemical characteristics of L. buchneri were described as being similar to L. brevis [11, 231] but L. buchneri differs with regards to the production of 1,2 propanediol from lactate. The genome size of the type strain is 2.45 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 44.4.
 Isolated from pressed yeast, milk, cheese, fermenting plant material and the human mouth. L. buchneri is used commercially as silage inoculant.
 The type strain is ATCC 4005 T = CCUG 21532 T = CIP 103023 T = DSM 20057 T = JCM 1115 T = LMG 6892 T = NCAIM B.01145 T = NRRL B-1837 T = VKM B-1599 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZDM00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AB205055.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2844, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Gravitation and Multimessenger Astrophysics
Creators: Bartos, Imre
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Physics
Astrophysics

description: Gravitational waves originate from the most violent cosmic events, which are often hidden from traditional means of observation. Starting with the first direct observation of gravitational waves in the coming years, astronomy will become richer with a new messenger that can help unravel many of the yet unanswered questions on various cosmic phenomena.
The ongoing construction of advanced gravitational wave observatories requires disruptive innovations in many aspects of detector technology in order to achieve the sensitivity that lets us reach cosmic events. We present the development of a component of this technology, the Advanced LIGO Optical Timing Distribution System. This technology aids the detection of relativistic phenomena through ensuring that time, at least for the observatories, is absolute.
Gravitational waves will be used to look into the depth of cosmic events and understand the engines behind the observed phenomena. As an example, we examine some of the plausible engines behind the creation of gamma ray bursts. We anticipate that, by reaching through shrouding blastwaves, efficiently discovering off-axis events, and observing the central engine at work, gravitational wave detectors will soon transform the study of gamma ray bursts. We discuss how the detection of gravitational waves could revolutionize our understanding of the progenitors of gamma ray bursts, as well as related phenomena such as the properties of neutron stars.
One of the most intriguing directions in utilizing gravitational waves is their combination with other cosmic messengers such as photons or neutrinos. We discuss the strategies and ongoing efforts in this direction. Further, we present the first observational constraints on joint sources of gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos, the latter of which is created in relativistic plasma outflows, e.g., in gamma ray burst progenitors.
High energy neutrinos may be created inside a relativistic outflow burrowing its way out of a massive star from the star's collapsed core. We demonstrate how the detection of high energy neutrinos can be used to extract important information about the supernova/gamma-ray burst progenitor structure. We show that, under favorable conditions, even a few neutrinos are sufficient to probe the progenitor structure, opening up new possibilities for the first detections, as well for progenitor population studies.
We present the science reach and method of an ongoing search for common sources of gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using the initial LIGO/Virgo detectors and the partially completed IceCube detector. We also present results on the sensitivity of the search. We argue that such searches will open the window onto source populations whose electromagnetic emission is hardly detectable.
Reproductive empowerment and contraceptive self-care: a systematic review
Creators: name: Burke, Holly M.
name: Williams, Katie
name: Murray, Kate
name: Ridgeway, Kathleen
name: Thomas, Reana
name: Mickler, Alexandria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022

description:
Contraceptive self-care interventions are a promising approach to improving reproductive health. Reproductive empowerment, the capacity of individuals to achieve their reproductive goals, is recognised as a component of self-care. An improved understanding of the relationship between self-care and empowerment is needed to advance the design, implementation and scale-up of self-care interventions. We conducted a systematic review of the peer-reviewed and grey literature published from 2010 through 2020 to assess the relationship between reproductive empowerment and access, acceptability, use or intention to use contraceptive self-care. Our review adheres to PRISMA guidelines and is registered in PROSPERO (ID CRD42020205235). A total of 3036 unique records were screened and 37 studies met our inclusion criteria. Most studies were conducted in high-income countries, were cross-sectional and had high risk of bias. Almost half included only women. Over 80% investigated male condoms. All but one study focused on use of self-care. We found positive relationships between condom use self-efficacy and use of/intention to use condoms. We found similar evidence for other self-care contraceptive methods, but the low number of studies and quality of the evidence precludes drawing strong conclusions. Few studies assessed causal relationships between empowerment and self-care, indicating that further research is warranted. Other underexplored areas include research on power with influential groups besides sexual partners, methods other than condoms, and access and acceptability of contraceptive self-care. Research using validated empowerment measures should be conducted in diverse geographies and populations including adolescents and men.
Who Wins Domineering on Rectangular Boards?
Creators: name: Lachmann, Michael
name: Moore, Cristopher
name: Rapaport, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using mostly elementary considerations, we find out who wins the game of Domineering on all rectangular boards of width 2, 3, 5, and 7. We obtain bounds on other boards as well, and prove the existence of polynomial-time strategies for playing on all boards of width 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11. We also comment briefly on toroidal and cylindrical boards.
Coloring the Voronoi tessellation of lattices
Creators: name: Sikirić, Mathieu Dutour
name: Madore, David
name: Moustrou, Philippe
name: Vallentin, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15, 52C07

description: In this paper we define the chromatic number of a lattice: It is the least number of colors one needs to color the interiors of the cells of the Voronoi tessellation of a lattice so that no two cells sharing a facet are of the same color. We compute the chromatic number of the root lattices, their duals, and of the Leech lattice, we consider the chromatic number of lattices of Voronoi's first kind, and we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the chromatic number of lattices when the dimension tends to infinity. We introduce a spectral lower bound for the chromatic number of lattices in spirit of Hoffman's bound for finite graphs. We compute this bound for the root lattices and relate it to the character theory of the corresponding Lie groups.
description: (v2) 40 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, suggestions of referee incorporated, to appear in Journal of the London Mathematical Society
Rigorous analysis of discontinuous phase transitions via mean-field bounds
Creators: name: Biskup, Marek
name: Chayes, Lincoln
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B05; 82B26; 82B20

description: We consider a variety of nearest-neighbor spin models defined on the d-dimensional hypercubic lattice Z^d. Our essential assumption is that these models satisfy the condition of reflection positivity. We prove that whenever the associated mean-field theory predicts a discontinuous transition, the actual model also undergoes a discontinuous transition (which occurs near the mean-field transition temperature), provided the dimension is sufficiently large or the first-order transition in the mean-field model is sufficiently strong. As an application of our general theory, we show that for d sufficiently large, the 3-state Potts ferromagnet on Z^d undergoes a first-order phase transition as the temperature varies. Similar results are established for all q-state Potts models with q>=3, the r-component cubic models with r>=4 and the O(N)-nematic liquid-crystal models with N>=3.
description: 41 pages
Derivatives of normal functions in reverse mathematics
Creators: name: Freund, Anton
name: Rathjen, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03F15, 03F35, 03D60, 03E10

description: Consider a normal function $f$ on the ordinals (i. e. a function $f$ that is strictly increasing and continuous at limit stages). By enumerating the fixed points of $f$ we obtain a faster normal function $f'$, called the derivative of $f$. The present paper investigates this important construction from the viewpoint of reverse mathematics. Within this framework we must restrict our attention to normal functions $f:\aleph_1\rightarrow\aleph_1$ that are represented by dilators (i. e. particularly uniform endofunctors on the category of well-orders, as introduced by J.-Y. Girard). Due to a categorical construction of P. Aczel, each normal dilator $T$ has a derivative $\partial T$. We will give a new construction of the derivative, which shows that the existence and fundamental properties of $\partial T$ can already be established in the theory $\mathbf{RCA}_0$. The latter does not prove, however, that $\partial T$ preserves well-foundedness. Our main result shows that the statement ``for every normal dilator $T$, its derivative $\partial T$ preserves well-foundedness'' is $\mathbf{ACA}_0$-provably equivalent to $Π^1_1$-bar induction (and hence to $Σ^1_1$-dependent choice and to $Π^1_2$-reflection for $ω$-models).
title: Claytonia perfoliata Donn. ex Willd.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Quantum topological transitions and spinons in metallic ferro- and antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Irkhin, V. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An effective Hamiltonian describing fluctuation effects in the magnetic phases of the Hubbard model in terms of spinon excitations is derived. A comparison of spin-rotational Kotliar-Ruckenstein slave boson and Ribeiro-Wen dopon representations is performed. The quantum transition into the half-metallic ferromagnetic state with vanishing of spin-down Fermi surface is treated as the topological Lifshitz transition in the quasimomentum space. The itinerant-localized magnetism transitions and Mott transition in antiferromagnetic state are considered in the topological context. Related metal-insulator transitions in Heusler alloys are discussed.
description: 5 pages, Physics Letters A, the printed version is slightly corrected and extended
Additional file 7: of Determination of developmental and ripening stages of whole tomato fruit using portable infrared spectroscopy and Chemometrics
Creators: name: Skolik, Paul
name: Morais, Camilo
name: Martin, Francis
name: McAinsh, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S5. Ripening stages of tomato fruit S. lycopersicum (cv. Moneymaker), corresponding AMS (USDA) ripening and spectral class designation (Sargent [43]; Maul et al. [42]). Fruit used for ripening stages had an average diameter of 7.31 ± 0.24 cm. (DOCX 12 kb)
Faddeev calculations of low-energy $Λ$-deuteron scattering and momentum correlation function
Creators: name: Kohno, M.
name: Kamada, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Faddeev calculations of low-energy $Λ$-deuteron elastic scattering are performed up to $E_{cm}=20$ MeV across the deuteron threshold. Phase shifts of the $s$-wave with $J=1/2$ and $J=3/2$ are calculated using strangeness $S=-1$ hyperon-nucleon interactions in chiral effective field theory NLO13 and NLO19 parametrized by the J{ü}lich-Bonn group. Effective range parameters, such as a scattering length and an effective range, are determined through the calculated phase shifts. $Λ$-deuteron momentum correlation functions are evaluated using the $Λ$-deuteron relative wave function constructed from half-off-shell $t$-matrices. They are compared with those evaluated using an approximate formula.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Ginzburg-Landau equation for steps on creep curve
Creators: name: Bekele, Mulugeta
name: Ananthakrishna, G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a model proposed earlier by us for describing a form of plastic instability found in creep experiments . The model consists of three types of dislocations and some transformations between them. The model is known to reproduce a number of experimentally observed features. The mechanism for the phenomenon has been shown to be Hopf bifurcation with respect to physically relevant drive parameters. Here, we present a mathematical analysis of adiabatically eliminating the fast mode and obtaining a Ginzburg-Landau equation for the slow modes associated with the steps on creep curve. The transition to the instability region is found to be one of subcritical bifurcation over most of the interval of one of the parameters while supercritical bifurcation is found in a narrow mid-range of the parameter. This result is consistent with experiments. The dependence of the amplitude and the period of strain jumps on stress and temperature derived from the Ginzburg-Landau equation are also consistent with experiments. On the basis of detailed numerical solution via power series expansion, we show that high order nonlinearities control a large portion of the subcritical domain.
description: 21 Pages, 8 Figures (To be published in Int. J. of Bif. & Chaos)
Green Governmentality: China and the Environmental Politics of Pastoralism
Creators: Pierre, Naika C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Human rights
Forced migration
Tibetans
Evacuation of civilians
Communism

description: Over the past decade, the Chinese government has embarked on a massive campaign of relocation and rehousing targeted at Tibetan nomads, which has resulted in claims of human rights violations dealing with forcible evictions, lack of transparency, and consultation, as well as with the preservation of indigenous culture, identity, land, and knowledge. Attributing the degradation of the grasslands across the Tibetan Plateau to overgrazing, the government has framed the forced sedentarization of nomads as a prerequisite to ecological and developmental progress. Utilizing the framework of green governmentality, this thesis will research the construction of the Communist Party’s creation of environmental truths, linking the governing of nature with the governing of people as a means of population control. Through the examination of government policies and statements, it will document the process of subject forming that relegates Tibetan nomads into a population needing to be governed over, while justifying and promoting the necessity of the Chinese government to exist in the role of governor.
Präsentation zur Veranstaltung "Bildungsraum Digital: Rückblick und Perspektiven"
Creators: name: Lucke, Ulrike
name: Erdmann, Sönke
name: Wiencke, Benja
name: von der Heyde, Markus
name: Oellers, Manuel
name: Hartmann, Andreas
name: Zimmermann, Holger
name: Reger, Martin
name: Gornizki, Alexander
name: Nguyen, Duy
name: Weidner, Stefan
name: Peters, Leo
name: Geßner, Hendrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: BIRD
Bildungsraum Digital
Vernetzungsinfrastruktur
Veranstaltung
Präsentation

description: Präsentation zur Veranstaltung “Bildungsraum Digital: Rückblick und Perspektiven” am 25. Februar 2025 im dbb forum Berlin. 

Zum Ende des Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekts BIRD - Bildungsraum Digital haben wir die Gelegenheit genutzt, um gemeinsam mit Wegbegleiterinnen und Wegbegleitern des Projekts die Erkenntnisse und Entwicklungen der letzten vier Jahre Revue passieren zu lassen und die wichtigsten Projektergebnisse der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren. Das Veranstaltungsprogramm und die gezeigten Präsentationen finden Sie auf der Veranstaltungswebseite.

Das BIRD-Projekt – kurz für Bildungsraum Digital – ist ein vom BMBF und dem NextGenerationEU Fund gefördertes Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt, das von der Universität Potsdam geleitet wird. Im Rahmen der Entwicklung eines technischen Prototyps und weiteren Begleitstudien und -maßnahmen erforscht das Projektkonsortium, bestehend aus elf Organisationen verschiedener Forschungs- und Gesellschaftsbereiche, die technischen und organisatorischenAnforderungen für einen digital vernetzten Bildungsraum in Deutschland. So fungiert das BIRD-Projekt als experimenteller Vorläufer zur Entwicklung einer zukünftigen bundesweiten Vernetzungsinfrastruktur für die Bildung.

Weitere Informationen zum BIRD-Projekt auf daad.de/bird.
Lentilactobacillus curieae Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus curieae

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS CURIEAE COMB. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus curieae (cu.rie’ae. N.L. fem. gen. n. curieae of Curie, named after Marie Curie, to acknowledge a role model for women in science).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus curieae Lei et al. 2013, 2504 VP
Description: Growth is observed at 15 and 45°C and up to 8 % NaCl [327]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.10 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 39.8.
Isolated from a stinky tofu brine, cocoa bean fermentations and from cheese curd powder.
 The type strain is CCTCC M 2011381 T = S1L19 T = JCM 18524 T.
Genome sequence accession number: CP018906.
16S rRNA gene accession number: JQ086550.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2844, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
title: The diplomacy of Pope Francis: His influences, strategies, and relationships
Creators: name: Tsakas, Dimitri
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: diplomacy
subject: Pope Francis
subject: international relations

description: This thesis investigates the traditions that influence Pope Francis' international diplomacy and how these shape his conduct of the Vatican's relations with China, Russia, and the United States. It argues that chief among these is the Jesuit tradition, aspects of the Peronist tradition and the tradition of the Church's Second Vatican Council. These have helped generated a process-orientated pope who emphasises inter-civilisational encounter underpinned by progressive and unhurried dialogue. This is important because Francis is head of an absolutist religious institution but overtly seeks to transcend this in diplomacy. This thesis investigates how he does this and what traditions and influences equip him to do so. Following a review of sources and methods, the thesis firstly examines the historical evolution of papal diplomacy with the aim of contextualising Francis. Secondly, Francis' worldview is considered through the prism of his Latin-American, and more specifically, Argentinian background where the Peronist tradition was potent during his formative years. Thirdly, the thesis explores Ignatian traditions for discernment in decision-making and its process-orientated method for action emanating from a focus upon pragmatism. Fourthly, the thesis directs attention to the Second Vatican Council and its profound effect upon Francis' thought. Finally, three case studies of Francis' diplomacy are examined. The conclusion of this thesis is that Pope Francis' diplomatic style is positioned firmly within the Jesuit tradition, and within the tradition and spirit of the Second Vatican Council. In addition, the Latin American theological tradition, in conjunction with the thought of Romano Guardini, and some aspects of the Peronist tradition all contribute to how Francis perceives and interacts in his diplomacy. Francis draws upon these traditions as he seeks new frontiers for his Church in the religious and temporal world. He is long-term and process-orientated in his commitment to multipolarity. Pope Francis values dialogue and encounter diplomacy above other forms. However, as the case studies in this thesis show, the results of Francis' diplomacy are mixed and at times the pope's moral credibility bears a high degree of risk.
Symmetries and Fixed Point Stability of Stochastic Differential Equations Modeling Self-Organized Criticality
Creators: name: Corral, Alvaro
name: Diaz-Guilera, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A stochastic nonlinear partial differential equation is built for two different models exhibiting self-organized criticality, the Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld (BTW) sandpile model and the Zhang's model. The dynamic renormalization group (DRG) enables to compute the critical exponents. However, the nontrivial stable fixed point of the DRG transformation is unreachable for the original parameters of the models. We introduce an alternative regularization of the step function involved in the threshold condition, which breaks the symmetry of the BTW model. Although the symmetry properties of the two models are different, it is shown that they both belong to the same universality class. In this case the DRG procedure leads to a symmetric behavior for both models, restoring the broken symmetry, and makes accessible the nontrivial fixed point. This technique could also be applied to other problems with threshold dynamics.
description: 19 pages, RevTex, includes 6 PostScript figures, Phys. Rev. E (March 97?)