cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Combining quantitative and qualitative breast density measures to assess breast cancer risk
Creators: name: Henderson, Louise
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Accurately identifying women with dense breasts (Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System [BI-RADS] heterogeneously or extremely dense) who are at high breast cancer risk will facilitate discussions of supplemental imaging and primary prevention. We examined the independent contribution of dense breast volume and BI-RADS breast density to predict invasive breast cancer and whether dense breast volume combined with Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) risk model factors (age, race/ethnicity, family history of breast cancer, history of breast biopsy, and BI-RADS breast density) improves identifying women with dense breasts at high breast cancer risk. Methods We conducted a case-control study of 1720 women with invasive cancer and 3686 control subjects. We calculated ORs and 95% CIs for the effect of BI-RADS breast density and Volpara™ automated dense breast volume on invasive cancer risk, adjusting for other BCSC risk model factors plus body mass index (BMI), and we compared C-statistics between models. We calculated BCSC 5-year breast cancer risk, incorporating the adjusted ORs associated with dense breast volume. Results Compared with women with BI-RADS scattered fibroglandular densities and second-quartile dense breast volume, women with BI-RADS extremely dense breasts and third- or fourth-quartile dense breast volume (75% of women with extremely dense breasts) had high breast cancer risk (OR 2.87, 95% CI 1.84–4.47, and OR 2.56, 95% CI 1.87–3.52, respectively), whereas women with extremely dense breasts and first- or second-quartile dense breast volume were not at significantly increased breast cancer risk (OR 1.53, 95% CI 0.75–3.09, and OR 1.50, 95% CI 0.82–2.73, respectively). Adding continuous dense breast volume to a model with BCSC risk model factors and BMI increased discriminatory accuracy compared with a model with only BCSC risk model factors (C-statistic 0.639, 95% CI 0.623–0.654, vs. C-statistic 0.614, 95% CI 0.598–0.630, respectively; P < 0.001). Women with dense breasts and fourth-quartile dense breast volume had a BCSC 5-year risk of 2.5%, whereas women with dense breasts and first-quartile dense breast volume had a 5-year risk ≤ 1.8%. Conclusions Risk models with automated dense breast volume combined with BI-RADS breast density may better identify women with dense breasts at high breast cancer risk than risk models with either measure alone.
Resonant wavepackets and shock waves in an atomtronic SQUID
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Hsieh
name: Kumar, A.
name: Jendrzejewski, F.
name: Wilson, Ryan M.
name: Edwards, Mark
name: Eckel, S.
name: Campbell, G. K.
name: Clark, Charles W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fundamental dynamics of ultracold atomtronic devices are reflected in their phonon modes of excitation. We probe such a spectrum by applying a harmonically driven potential barrier to a $^{23}$Na Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring-shaped trap. This perturbation excites phonon wavepackets. When excited resonantly, these wavepackets display a regular periodic structure. The resonant frequencies depend upon the particular configuration of the barrier, but are commensurate with the orbital frequency of a Bogoliubov sound wave traveling around the ring. Energy transfer to the condensate over many cycles of the periodic wavepacket motion causes enhanced atom loss from the trap at resonant frequencies. Solutions of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation exhibit quantitative agreement with the experimental data. We also observe the generation of supersonic shock waves under conditions of strong excitation, and collisions of two shock wavepackets.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Declaration of Intention of Charles Skinner
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1915

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Charles Skinner Applicant age: 49Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin: EnglandDate of Birth: 26th November 1865Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: from Toronto by rail to Buffalo NY -Grand Trunk RailroadCity of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 9th August 1915
Declaration of Intention of Rudolph Loewe
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1911

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Rudolph LoeweApplicant age:43Occupation: Poultry raiserCountry of Origin:Germany Date of Birth: 30 December 1867Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: S.S. Suevia City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:13 October 1911
Disparities in lipid management for African Americans and Caucasians with coronary artery disease: A national cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Massing, Mark W
name: Carter-Edwards, Lori
name: Sueta, Carla A.
name: Simpson, Ross, Jr.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2004

description: Abstract Background Individuals with coronary artery disease are at high risk for adverse health outcomes. This risk can be diminished by aggressive lipid management, but adherence to lipid management guidelines is far from ideal and substantial racial disparities in care have been reported. Lipid treatment and goal attainment information is not readily available for large patient populations seen in the fee-for-service setting. As a result, national programs to improve lipid management in this setting may focus on lipid testing as an indicator of lipid management. We describe the detection, treatment, and control of dyslipdemia for African Americans and Caucasians with coronary artery disease to evaluate whether public health programs focusing on lipid testing can eliminate racial disparities in lipid management. Methods Physicians and medical practices with high numbers of prescriptions for coronary artery disease medications were invited to participate in the Quality Assurance Program. Medical records were reviewed from a random sample of patients with coronary artery disease seen from 1995 through 1998. Data related to the detection, treatment, and control of dyslipidemia were abstracted from the medical record and evaluated in cross-sectional stratified and logistic regression analyses using generalized estimation equations. Results Data from the medical records of 1,046 African Americans and 22,077 Caucasians seen in outpatient medical practices in 23 states were analyzed. African-American patients were younger, more likely to be women and to have diabetes, heart failure, and hypertension. The low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) testing rate for Caucasian men was over 1.4 times higher than that for African-American women and about 1.3 times higher than that for African-American men. Almost 60% of tested Caucasian men and less than half of tested African Americans were prescribed lipid-lowering drugs. Tested and treated Caucasian men had the highest LDL-C goal attainment (35%) and African-American men the lowest (21%). Conclusions Although increased lipid testing is clearly needed for African Americans, improvements in treatment and control are also necessary to eliminate racial disparities in lipid management. Disparities in treatment and goal attainment must be better understood and reflected in policy to improve the health of underserved populations.
Declaration of Intention of Frederick William Ratsch
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1916

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Frederick William RatschApplicant age: 23 Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin: Germany Date of Birth: 31 October 1892Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: ZiteirCity of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City,NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 17 August 1916
A new structural relaxation pathway of low-density amorphous ice
Creators: name: Shephard, Jacob J.
name: Klotz, Stefan
name: Vickers, Martin
name: Salzmann, Christoph G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-density amorphous ice (LDA) is involved in critical cosmological processes and has gained prominence as one of the at least two distinct amorphous forms of ice. Despite these accolades, we still have an incomplete understanding of the structural diversity that is encompassed within the LDA state and the dynamic processes that take place upon heating LDA. Heating the high-pressure ice VIII phase at ambient pressure is a remarkable example of temperature-induced amorphisation yielding LDA. We investigate this process in detail using X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, and show that the LDA obtained from ice VIII is structurally different from the more 'traditional' states of LDA which are approached upon thermal annealing. This new structural relaxation pathway involves an increase of structural order on the intermediate range length scale. In contrast with other LDA materials the local structure is more ordered initially and becomes slightly more disordered upon annealing. We also show that the cascade of phase transitions upon heating ice VIII at ambient pressure includes the formation of ice IX which may be connected with the structural peculiarities of LDA from ice VIII. Overall, this study shows that LDA is a structurally more diverse material than previously appreciated.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Declaration of Intention of John Sokalski
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: John Sokalski Applicant age:49Occupation: WeaverCountry of Origin:AustriaDate of Birth: 23 August 1867Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:H.H. MayerCity of residence at time of declaration: Mays Landing NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:16 March 1917
An approach for pH-independent release of poorly soluble ionizable drugs using hot-melt extrusion
Creators: name: Darwich, May
name: Mohylyuk, Valentyn
name: Kolter, Karl
name: Bodmeier, Roland
name: Dashevskiy, Andriy
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solid solution
subject: Hot-melt extrusion
subject: Soluplus®
subject: Itraconazole
subject: Mefenamic acid
subject: Aqoat® AS-LF
subject: Eudragit® E PO
subject: pH-independent release
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Hot melt extrudates with combinations of Soluplus® and Aqoat® AS-LF or Eudragit® E PO were investigated to improve drug release and to overcome the pH-dependent release of poorly water-soluble basic (itraconazole, ITZ) and acidic (mefenamic acid, MFA) drugs. The release of ITZ was improved in both 0.1 N HCl and PBS pH 6.8 by hot-melt extrusion with combinations of Soluplus®:Aqoat® AS-LF and can be adjusted by varying the ratio of the polymers. At the ratio Soluplus®:Aqoat® AS®LF 75:25, an almost pH-independent release was achieved without any drop in the drug concentration within 24 h. A pH-independent and extended release (over 24 h) was obtained from milled extrudates when formulated in erodible matrix tablets using 15 % Methocel® K15M as the carrier. The release of MFA from extrudates with Soluplus® was immediate only in PBS pH 6.8. From extrudates with cationic Eudragit® E PO the release of MFA was slow in 0.1 N HCl and PBS pH 6.8, due to poor drug solubility and insoluble Eudragit® EPO, respectively. However, in the medium with an intermediate pH of 5.5, both MFA and Eudragit® E PO are highly ionized, and the release was fast, complete, and stable within 24 h. These release behaviors could be to some degree applicable for immediate or enteric, but not for extended-release formulations.
Declaration of Intention of Adam Olubowicz
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Adam Olubowicz Applicant age: 51Occupation: FarmerCountry of Origin:RussiaDate of Birth: 23rd December 1865Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:Marsdam City of residence at time of declaration: Pomona NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 1st August 1917
Essays in Empirical Tax Policy: Taxpayers' Responses to the Australian Personal Taxation System
Creators: name: Johnson, Shane
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis provides the first detailed examination of taxpayers' responses to and understanding of the Australian personal income tax system. Improving our understanding of the behavioural responses to the tax system is important for welfare analysis and tax and transfer system design. The thesis makes several important contributions to the empirical literature examining taxpayer response to personal taxation systems. First, we develop a new data asset, the Australian Taxation Office Longitudinal Information Files: Individuals (ALife: Individuals), a comprehensive tax administrative dataset for the Australian personal income tax system (Chapter 2). We also develop a static tax microsimulation model for use with ALife: Individuals, the Australian Tax Simulation (AusTaxSim) model, and highlight its usefulness in calculating average and effective marginal tax rates and undertaking policy costings and related distributional analysis (Chapter 3). Drawing on the ALife dataset, we examine taxpayer responses to kinks (Chapter 4) and notches (Chapter 5) in the Australian personal tax system. Unlike studies for other countries, we find sharp and significant bunching at all kink points in the Australian personal income tax system. Observed elasticities of taxable income range from effectively zero for wage and salary earners to around 0.23 for self employed taxpayers, although there is significant heterogeneity across subgroups of the population with notably higher elasticities for those with greater opportunity to shift income within the household. Analysing taxpayer behaviour around a notch created by Australia's higher education income contingent loan scheme, we find a large share of individuals face significant frictions and are unable to optimise their income despite the strong inventive to do so. Such optimisation frictions (or costs) likely explain the modest behavioural responses and low estimates of the observed elasticity of taxable income found in studies using kinks. The structural elasticity of taxable income, unattenuated by frictions, ranges from a lower bound of 0.05 for wage and salary earners and up to 0.638 for self-employed taxpayers. The analysis also highlights further evidence to suggest that taxpayer responsiveness is not only a function of marginal tax rates but also both the structure and the administration of the tax system.
La ceinture verte : une figure de l’aménagement réactualisée ? Réflexions à partir du cas francilien
Creators: name: Flégeau, Morgane
Publisher: name: Collectif Inventer le Grand Paris
Year: 2023

description: Les ceintures vertes, d’abord conçues pour limiter l’extension des villes, connaissent un grand succès dans la première moitié du XXe siècle (Amati, 2008). Le cas de la Green Belt londonienne est certainement aujourd’hui l’exemple le plus connu. En Île-de-France, une ceinture verte est mise en place sur ce modèle de planification urbaine, mais de manière tardive et timide. L’institution régionale l’utilise dans les années 1980 dans l’optique de contrôler l’urbanisation, en entourant le cœur de l’agglomération d’une ceinture d’espaces agricoles, forestiers et naturels. La Ceinture verte d’Île-de-France n’a pas été accompagnée de contraintes règlementaires et n’a pas fait l’objet d’un projet global, ce qui explique son existence en demi-teinte. Pourtant cet outil d’aménagement est aujourd’hui convoqué dans les projets d’aménagement métropolitains, en particulier dans le cadre du Grand Paris.
Declaration of Intention of Alfred Smith
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1918

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Alfred Smith Applicant age: 29Occupation: MachinistCountry of Origin:EnglandDate of Birth: 25th November 1888Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Celtic City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 1st July 1918
Declaration of Intention of Paul Manneck
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1908

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Paul Manneck Applicant age:29Occupation:head waiter Country of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth:12 September 1878Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:Pretoria City of residence at time of declaration:Atlantic City, NJ Declaration submitted and sworn on date:4 June 1908
Randomized controlled pilot study of an educational video plus telecare for the early outpatient management of musculoskeletal pain among older emergency department patients
Creators: name: Zimmerman, Sheryl
name: Platts-Mills, Timothy
name: Burke, Gary F
name: Weaver, Mark
name: Hollowell, Allison G
name: Bush, Montika
name: Quigley, Benjamin R
name: Dayaa, Joseph A
name: Weinberger, Morris
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract Background Musculoskeletal pain is a common reason for emergency department (ED) visits. Following discharge from the ED, patients, particularly older patients, often have difficulty controlling their pain and managing analgesic side effects. We conducted a pilot study of an educational video about pain management with and without follow-up telephone support for older adults presenting to the ED with musculoskeletal pain. Methods ED patients aged 50 years and older with musculoskeletal pain were randomized to: (1) usual care, (2) a brief educational video only, or (3) a brief educational video plus a protocol-guided follow-up telephone call from a physician 48–72 hours after discharge (telecare). The primary outcome was the change from the average pain severity before the ED visit to the average pain severity during the past week assessed one month after the ED visit. Pain was assessed using a 0–10 numerical rating scale. Results Of 75 patients randomized (mean age 64 years), 57 (76%) completed follow up at one month. Of the 18 patients lost to follow up, 12 (67%) had non-working phone numbers. Among patients randomized to the video (arms 2 and 3), 46/50 viewed the entire video; among the 25 patients randomized to the video plus telecare (arm 3), 23 were reached for telecare. Baseline pain scores for the usual care, video, and video plus telecare groups were 7.3, 7.1, and 7.5. At one month, pain scores were 5.8, 4.9, and 4.5, corresponding to average decreases in pain of -1.5, -2.2, and -3.0, respectively. In the pairwise comparison between intervention groups, the video plus telecare group had a 1.7-point (95% CI 1.2, 2.1) greater decrease in pain compared to usual care, and the video group had a 1.1-point (95% CI 0.6, 1.6) greater decrease in pain compared to usual care after adjustment for baseline pain, age, and gender. At one month, clinically important differences were also observed between the video plus telecare and usual care groups for analgesic side effects, ongoing opioid use, and physical function. Conclusion Results of this pilot trial suggest the potential value of an educational video plus telecare to improve outcomes for older adults presenting to the ED with musculoskeletal pain. Changes to the protocol are identified to increase retention for assessment of outcomes. Trials registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02438384 . Registered on 5 May 2015.
Qualitative systematic review of the experience of the nursing student workforce during COVID-19
Creators: name: Delloso, Thomson
name: Wiechula, Richard
name: Everett, Iain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nursing workforce
Health systems

description: A qualitative systematic review titled 'The experience of the paid and unpaid nursing student workforce during COVID-19, a qualitative systematic review'
Tissue fusion over non-adhering surfaces
Creators: name: Nier, V.
name: Deforet, M.
name: Duclos, G.
name: Yevick, H. G.
name: Cochet-Escartin, O.
name: Marcq, P.
name: Silberzan, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tissue fusion eliminates physical voids in a tissue to form a continuous structure and is central to many processes in development and repair. Fusion events in vivo, particularly in embryonic development, often involve the purse-string contraction of a pluricellular actomyosin cable at the free edge. However in vitro, adhesion of the cells to their substrate favors a closure mechanism mediated by lamellipodial protrusions, which has prevented a systematic study of the purse-string mechanism. Here, we show that monolayers can cover well-controlled mesoscopic non-adherent areas much larger than a cell size by purse-string closure and that active epithelial fluctuations are required for this process. We have formulated a simple stochastic model that includes purse-string contractility, tissue fluctuations and effective friction to qualitatively and quantitatively account for the dynamics of closure. Our data suggest that, in vivo, tissue fusion adapts to the local environment by coordinating lamellipodial protrusions and purse-string contractions.
Transition operators assigned to physical systems
Creators: name: Chajda, Ivan
name: Paseka, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03B44, 03G25, 06A11, 06B23

description: By a physical system we recognize a set of propositions about a given system with their truth-values depending on the states of the system. Since every physical system can go from one state in another one, there exists a binary relation on the set of states describing this transition. Our aim is to assign to every such system an operator on the set of propositions which is fully determined by the mentioned relation. We establish conditions under which the given relation can be recovered by means of this transition operator.
Using mobile devices to engage students in attaining and self-reporting the new B.C. core competencies
Creators: name: Hills, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Blended learning
subject: Core competencies

description: British Columbia is currently implementing a new curriculum. The B.C. Ministry of Education (2015b) is working to develop “Educated Citizens” capable of meeting the demands of the 21st Century. In designing the new curriculum, the Ministry seeks to create flexible learning environments capable of supporting the variety of needs modern students have. Technology plays a role in this new flexible learning environment. Mobile learning (M-Learning), as a subset of electronic learning (E-Learning), can provide a powerful tool that many students already possess. Underpinning the new B.C. Curriculum are six Core Competencies; Communication, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Positive Personal & Cultural Identity, Personal Awareness & Responsibility and Social Responsibility. As part of the new curriculum, the B.C. Ministry of Education (2015b) requires students to self-report on their attainment of the Core Competencies. M-Learning creates an opportunity for “in your pocket learning” (Quinn, 2000). Be it in the traditional classroom or in an anytime, anyplace basis, M-Learning can deliver and evidence learning beyond the traditional brick and mortar school (Peters, 2007). The Critical Challenge Question, ‘How can students be engaged in their own learning by using mobile devices to self-assess the new BC Curriculum’s Core Competencies?’ is informed by the findings of this paper and has been applied in the creation of a M-Learning website. The website is intended to provide resources to B.C. teachers regarding M-Learning and how mobile devices can be used by students to self-report the new Core Competences.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6125/Hills.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
Declaration of Intention of Friederikea Dvorak
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1924

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Friederikea Dvorak Applicant age:50Occupation: housewifeCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 11 July 1874Sailed to the US aboard the vessel:Bremen Loyd City of residence at time of declaration: Dorothy NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:28 November 1924
Declaration of Intention of Robert Daddario
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1915

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Robert Daddario Applicant age: 21Occupation: BarberCountry of Origin: ItalyDate of Birth: 23rd August 1893Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Patracia City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City NJ Declaration submitted and sworn on date: 15th June 1915
Declaration of Intention of Georg Teodor Herman Wessel
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1912

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by:Georg Teodor Herman Wessel Applicant age:32Occupation: farmerCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth:9 September 1884 Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Fatherland City of residence at time of declaration:Pleasantville, NJ Declaration submitted and sworn on date:12 February 1912
Construction of hyperbolic hypersurfaces of low degree in $\mathbb{p}^n(\mathbb{c})$
Creators: name: Huynh, Dinh Tuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct families of hyperbolic hypersurfaces $X_d\subset\mathbb{P}^{n+1}(\mathbb{C})$ of degree $d\geq {\textstyle{(\frac{n+3}{2})^2}}$.
description: 7 pages, application of the method used in our previous paper arXiv:1507.03542 to any dimension, new references are added, minor changes, to appear in International Journal of Mathematics
Women's Influence in Decision-Making in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Tararia, Almah
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: This study is about women's influence in local-level decision-making in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. It examines how and from where women derive the authority and power to exercise influence and the circumstances or contexts in which they do so. The varied and complex settings in which women act are often misunderstood to lack power. This thesis argues that understanding such contexts requires a reconceptualising of women's influence to capture the everyday lived experiences of women in their communities. Using rich ethnography, this thesis demonstrates that women's influence is nuanced and allows for in-depth exploration of the multiple and diverse ways that women negotiate gender relations, individually and/or collectively, and exercise their voices and agency. Five key themes emerged from the different contexts identified as spheres of influence and the range of acts of influence studied in this research. Women influencers act to extend and/or protect their interests and those of their communities by speaking up (and/or strategically choosing to keep silent), dispersing resources, advising others and defending kastam (custom). These acts require further analysis through several interrelated factors, identified by the study as women's place (women are either of the place (asples) or not (waira)), respect (sem), knowledge and space. This research shows how women's influence occurs through the claiming of cultural space to act, speak and/or mobilise. Women tailor their strategies against the cultural and social dynamics of male power and authority. An understanding of women's influence in localised contexts can contribute to a more comprehensive understanding and resolving of women's underrepresentation by acknowledging cultural legitimacy as a fundamental source of women's power.
Neural Network Coding of Difference Updates for Efficient Distributed Learning Communication
Creators: name: Becking, Daniel
name: Müller, Karsten
name: Haase, Paul
name: Kirchhoffer, Heiner
name: Tech, Gerhard
name: Samek, Wojciech
name: Schwarz, Heiko
name: Marpe, Detlev
name: Wiegand, Thomas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural network coding
subject: federated learning
subject: transfer learning
subject: split learning
subject: efficient NN communication
subject: ISO/IEC MPEG standards
subject: federated batchnorm folding
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: Distributed learning requires a frequent communication of neural network update data. For this, we present a set of new compression tools, jointly called differential neural network coding (dNNC). dNNC is specifically tailored to efficiently code incremental neural network updates and includes tools for federated BatchNorm folding (FedBNF), structured and unstructured sparsification, tensor row skipping, quantization optimization and temporal adaptation for improved context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC). Furthermore, dNNC provides a new parameter update tree (PUT) mechanism, which allows to identify updates for different neural network parameter sub-sets and their relationship in synchronous and asynchronous neural network communication scenarios. Most of these tools have been included into the standardization process of the NNC standard (ISO/IEC 15938-17) edition 2. We benchmark dNNC in multiple federated and split learning scenarios using a variety of NN models and data including vision transformers and large-scale ImageNet experiments: It achieves compression efficiencies of 60% in comparison to the NNC standard edition 1 for transparent coding cases, i.e., without degrading the inference or training performance. This corresponds to a reduction in the size of the NN updates to less than 1% of their original size. Moreover, dNNC reduces the overall energy consumption required for communication in federated learning systems by up to 94%.
Beyond the present, the nation, and Europe: Three different uses of history in reflexive migration studies
Creators: name: Reinecke, Christiane
name: Löhr, Isabella
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: reflexive migration research
subject: global history
subject: colonialism
subject: decolonization
subject: racism
subject: Eurocentrism
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::940 Geschichte Europas::940 Geschichte Europas

description: Interdisciplinary migration research is currently witnessing an increased interest in the impact of colonialism, decolonization, and expertization on present-day integrationism and racism. Tracing the genealogy of current ways of framing, categorizing, and governing groups viewed as “migrant Others” forms part of a reflexive research agenda that analyses migration as a product of changing constellations and categorizations. The article takes up this interest in the recent (and sometimes less recent) past in migration research. Bringing this interdisciplinary body of work into conversation with historical scholarship, we discuss how migration scholars make use of historical genealogies and we identify three different ways of relating the past to the present in debates about current migration and border regimes: We distinguish between what we term an anthropological “deep history” mode, a “genealogical” mode, and a “contrapuntal” or “disruptive” mode. This article argues for a careful, reflexive use of the past. We contend that both the alterity of past discourses and practices and their persistence and lasting impact can help us better make sense of the present in critical migration research.
Schizophrenia and the dynamic genome
Creators: name: Sullivan, Patrick
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Copy number variation (CNV) is a widely replicated risk factor for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, although the mechanisms by which CNVs confer risk are currently unclear. Recent studies have provided robust evidence of CNVs associated with schizophrenia and have highlighted a potential role for schizophrenia risk-associated CNVs in impairing inhibitory learning; these studies highlight how insights can be gained into the associations of CNVs with schizophrenia.
Declaration of Intention of Charles August Roth
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1914

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Charles August Roth Applicant age: 26Occupation: BartenderCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 13th December 1887Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Furnessia City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic CityDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:1st October 1914
How Thick is the Air–Water Interface?─A Direct Experimental Measurement of the Decay Length of the Interfacial Structural Anisotropy
Creators: name: Fellows, Alexander P.
name: Díaz Duque, Álvaro
name: Balos, Vasileios
name: Lehmann, Louis
name: Netz, Roland R.
name: Wolf, Martin
name: Thämer, Martin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Interfaces
subject: Magnetic properties
subject: Molecules
subject: Noncovalent interactions
subject: Nonlinear optics
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The air–water interface is a highly prevalent phase boundary impacting many natural and artificial processes. The significance of this interface arises from the unique properties of water molecules within the interfacial region, with a crucial parameter being the thickness of its structural anisotropy, or “healing depth”. This quantity has been extensively assessed by various simulations which have converged to a prediction of a remarkably short length of ∼6 Å. Despite the absence of any direct experimental measurement of this quantity, this predicted value has surprisingly become widely accepted as fact. Using an advancement in nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy, we provide the first measurement of this thickness and, indeed, find it to be ∼6–8 Å, finally confirming the prior predictions. Lastly, by combining the experimental results with depth-dependent second-order spectra calculated from ab initio parametrized molecular dynamics simulations, which are also in excellent agreement with this experimental result, we shed light on this surprisingly short correlation length of molecular orientations at the interface.
Higgs Pseudo Observables and Radiative Corrections
Creators: name: Bordone, Marzia
name: Greljo, Admir
name: Isidori, Gino
name: Marzocca, David
name: Pattori, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how leading radiative corrections can be implemented in the general description of $h\to 4\ell$ decays by means of Pseudo Observables (PO). With the inclusion of such corrections, the PO description of $h\to 4\ell$ decays can be matched to next-to-leading-order electroweak calculations both within and beyond the Standard Model (SM). In particular, we demonstrate that with the inclusion of such corrections the complete next-to-leading-order Standard Model prediction for the $h\to 2e2μ$ dilepton mass spectrum is recovered within 1% accuracy. The impact of radiative corrections for non-standard PO is also briefly discussed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
supplement.docx
Creators: name: Sun, Yungang
name: Sun, Qiaoling
name: Tian, Jinyu
name: He, Xiaochuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Predictive and prognostic markers

description: Supplemental materials for "Impact of waiting time for radioactive iodine therapy on outcome in N1 stage papillary thyroid cancer"
Discussion-3
Creators: name: Tiry-Ono, Corinne
Publisher: name: Collectif Inventer le Grand Paris
Year: 2023

description: Dans la salle : Existe-t-il, dans le cadre des relations entre l'État, les villes nouvelles, et la Ceinture verte, des procédures d'agréments préfectoraux pour la construction dans la Ceinture verte ? J'étais chargé de mission paysage pour la Région Île-de-France, et nous avons souvent donné des avis contre la construction dans la Ceinture verte, souvent de grosses opérations d'au moins 300 000 m2 pour des entrepôts de logistique par exemple... C'est la direction régionale de l'équipement et de l'aménagement et du territoire, qui s'occupe de ces agréments. C'est la dernière instance d'urbanisme gérée par l'État. Morgane Flégeau : Cette question est intéressante...
Declaration of Intention of Richard Emil Hadecke
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1924

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by:Richard Emil Hadecke Applicant age:39Occupation:merchant Country of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 7 July 1885Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Manchuria City of residence at time of declaration: Absecon NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:10 November 1924
Policy di Ateneo sulla Scienza Aperta - Università di Trento (2022)
Creators: name: Senato Accedemico Dell'Università Di Trento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Università di Trento
Policy
Open Science

description: Consolidata l'esperienza maturata sin dal 2014 con la prima policy sull'accesso aperto alla letteratura scientifica, l'Università di Trento si dota di una nuova policy sulla Scienza Aperta. Riconosce e persegue tutti i principi della Scienza Aperta - quali la trasparenza, la condivisione e il riutilizzo di tutti i prodotti della ricerca - così come promossi e declinati dalla “Raccomandazione della Commissione [Europea] sull’accesso all’informazione scientifica e sulla sua conservazione” del 25 aprile 2018, nonché dalla Raccomandazione UNESCO del 23 novembre 2021. A favore della Scienza Aperta, l'Università di Trento si impegna e investe nel potenziamento delle necessarie e adeguate infrastrutture, competenze e incentivazioni. Con particolare riguardo ai dati della ricerca, UniTrento applica anche la “Direttiva 2019/1024/UE del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio del 20 giugno 2019, relativa all’apertura dei dati e al riutilizzo dell’informazione del settore pubblico” e il Decreto legislativo 8 novembre 2021 n. 200, in sua attuazione. Nell’ambito del Programma Nazionale della Ricerca PNR 2021-2027, l'Università di Trento definisce le proprie priorità in base a quanto indicato dal “Piano nazionale per la scienza aperta” del MUR (febbraio 2022).
Genetic diversity of the grass frog (Fejervarya limnocharis, Gravenhorst, 1829) in northeastern Thailand using PCR-RFLP
Creators: name: Bungorn Thaewnon-Ngiw
Publisher: name: Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2561
Subjects: grass frog, genetic diversity, COI, Fejervarya limnocharis, PCR-RFLP

description: Journal of Thai Interdisciplinary Research, Vol.13, No.1, 1
The stumbling block of the Gibbs entropy: the reality of the negative absolute temperatures
Creators: name: Anghel, Dragos-Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The second Tisza-Callen postulate of equilibrium thermodynamics states that for any system exists a function of the system's extensive parameters, called entropy, defined for all equilibrium states and having the property that the values assumed by the extensive parameters in the absence of a constraint are those that maximize the entropy over the manifold of constrained equilibrium states. By analyzing the evolution of systems of positive and negative absolute temperatures, we show that this postulate is satisfied by the Boltzmann formula for the entropy and is violated by the Gibbs formula. Therefore the Gibbs formula is not a generally valid expression for the entropy. Viceversa, if we assume, by reductio ad absurdum, that for some thermodynamic systems the equilibrium state is determined by the Gibbs' prescription and not by Boltzmann's, this implies that such systems have macroscopic fluctuations and therefore do not reach thermodynamic equilibrium.
description: 6 pages, submitted for "Mathematical Modeling and Computational Physics 2015" Conference
Declaration of Intention of Fredrick John Hubner
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1908

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Fredrick John Hubner Applicant age: 31Occupation: ButcherCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 29 October, 1876Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: St. Paul City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 9 September, 1908
Declaration of Intention of Christian George Breuninger
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1914

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Christian George Breuninger Applicant age:26Occupation: DriverCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 16th November 1887Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Switzerland City of residence at time of declaration: Pleasantville NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date: 23rd January 1914
The effect of performance-based financing on illness, care-seeking and treatment among children: an impact evaluation in Rwanda
Creators: name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
name: Curtis, Sian
name: Skiles, Martha P
name: Angeles, Gustavo
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background Performance-based financing (PBF) strategies are promoted as a supply-side, results-based financing mechanism to improve primary health care. This study estimated the effects of Rwanda’s PBF program on less-incentivized child health services and examined the differential program impact by household poverty. Methods Districts were allocated to intervention and comparison for PBF implementation in Rwanda. Using Demographic Health Survey data from 2005 to 2007–08, a community-level panel dataset of 5781 children less than 5 years of age from intervention and comparison districts was created. The impacts of PBF on reported childhood illness, facility care-seeking, and treatment received were estimated using a difference-in-differences model with community fixed effects. An interaction term between poverty and the program was estimated to identify the differential effect of PBF among children from poorer families. Results There was no measurable difference in estimated probability of reporting illness with diarrhea, fever or acute respiratory infections between the intervention and comparison groups. Seeking care at a facility for these illnesses increased over time, however no differential effect by PBF was seen. The estimated effect of PBF on receipt of treatment for poor children is 45 percentage points higher (p = 0.047) compared to the non-poor children seeking care for diarrhea or fever. Conclusions PBF, a supply-side incentive program, improved the quality of treatment received by poor children conditional on patients seeking care, but it did not impact the propensity to seek care. These findings provide additional evidence that PBF incentivizes the critical role staff play in assuring quality services, but does little to influence consumer demand for these services. Efforts to improve child health need to address both supply and demand, with additional attention to barriers due to poverty if equity in service use is a concern.
Fairness and competition in a bilateral matching market
Creators: name: Bester, Helmut
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fairness
subject: Ultimatum game
subject: Matching market
subject: Search costs
subject: Competition
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft

description: This paper analyzes fairness and bargaining in a dynamic bilateral matching market. Traders from both sides of the market are pairwise matched to share the gains from trade. The bargaining outcome depends on the traders' fairness attitudes. In equilibrium fairness matters because of market frictions. But, when these frictions become negligible, the equilibrium approaches the Walrasian competitive equilibrium, independently of the traders' inequity aversion. Fairness may yield a Pareto improvement; but also the contrary is possible. Overall, the market implications of fairness are very different from its effects in isolated bilateral bargaining.
The limits of sportswashing. How the 2022 FIFA World Cup affected attitudes about Qatar
Creators: name: Gerschewski, Johannes
name: Giebler, Heiko
name: Hellmeier, Sebastian
name: Keremoğlu, Eda
name: Zürn, Michael
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sports
subject: Qatar
subject: Human rights
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: Non-democratic regimes have increasingly been hosting major sports events to boost their visibility and image abroad, which sparked debates about the potential for “sportswashing”. Using the case of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar we examine how the framing of the tournament influenced opinions about Qatar abroad. Our pre-registered survey experiment with more than 14,000 respondents in eight European countries conducted before the tournament shows that framing it in light of human rights issues in Qatar leads to more negative attitudes towards the host of the World Cup. In contrast, frames emphasizing Qatar’s organizational capacity improve respondents’ attitudes. The heterogeneity of effects across countries highlights the relevance of the national information environment for the effects of major sports events on public opinion. These findings suggest that critical media coverage could potentially mitigate sportswashing efforts while uncritical coverage can increase the legitimacy of autocracies.
Declaration of Intention of Paul Wilhelm Stiemerling
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Paul Wilhelm Stiemerling Applicant age:28Occupation: BakerCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 27 January 1889Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: FatherlandCity of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:22 March 1917