cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Association between body mass index and severe infection in older adults with microscopic polyangiitis: a retrospective cohort in Japan
Creators: name: Sugiyama, Hirokazu
name: Yamaguchi, Makoto
name: Katsuno, Takayuki
name: Iwagaitsu, Shiho
name: Nobata, Hironobu
name: Kinashi, Hiroshi
name: Banno, Shogo
name: Ando, Masahiko
name: Kubo, Yoko
name: Ishimoto, Takuji
name: Ito, Yasuhiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Comparison between MPA patients with low BMI with and without severe infection.
USE OF INDICES IN MODELING CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN MALI
Creators: name: Light, Sarah Kaye
name: Light, Sarah Kaye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: While Mali has experienced agricultural growth in recent years, child malnutrition has remained alarmingly high. This thesis examines the contributions that including indices can make in modeling child nutritional status. All indices are derived from three index categories: childcare, sanitation, and feeding. Four indices are constructed through two methods: factor analysis and ad hoc. The models with indices are compared to a preexisting model in order to identify immediate and underlying determinants of height-for-age (HAZ) Z-scores (an indicator of long-term health and nutritional status) in rural Mali and examine the relative impact that changes in these factors will have on average HAZ scores for rural children. Though the original model has a larger number of observations and will, ceteris paribus, have a larger R-squared value, the higher R2 does not necessarily signify that the model is an accurate reflection of the underlying relationships. Explanatory power of the individual indices varies. Coefficients of four of the indices are not significant in the regression. Four of the indices are significant and deal with care and feeding. None of the sanitation indices are significant.
Application of Gravity and Intervening Opportunities Models to Recreational Travel in Kentucky
Creators: name: Kaltenbach, Kenneth D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Weekend outdoor recreational travel has a major impact on the highway network in Kentucky. Data from a previous study (1) indicate that the number of people visiting 42 typical Kentucky outdoor recreation areas on an average summer Sunday in 1970 was approximately 260,000. Most of these 42 areas, by virtue of their outdoor nature, are located in rural settings. Most have access to major arterial highways only by means of narrow, low standard rural roads. Traffic generated by the recreation areas and their associated developments severely strains these secondary access highways and places a significant additional load on the rural arterial network.  Construction of man-made lakes often inundates a portion of the highway network. It has been the policy of federal and state agencies to reconstruct these displaced highways to the same standards as the original facilities. However, increased traffic due to development of the area for recreational purposes often renders the old standards inadequate. In addition, development of even non-water-based areas sometimes necessitates construction of new access roads. Too often these roads are constructed to handle an insufficient volume of traffic either because of funding limitations or because of an inadequate assessment of travel demands and characteristics.  The purpose of this study was the development of a method for modeling Kentucky's outdoor recreational travel (APPENDIX I contains an outline of the major phases of the study). This information can be used for predicting future travel patterns which allows intelligent planning of highway facilities to accommodate traffic generated by future outdoor recreation developments. As such, this study represents an extension of analyses completed earlier by Pigman (1). It utilizes the same data base but concentrates on the application of gravity and intervening opportunities models to Kentucky's outdoor recreational travel.
Hans-Peter Kuhnen, Wüstengrenze des Imperium Romanum. Der römische Limes in Israel und Jordanien
Creators: name: Parker, S. Thomas
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Hans-Peter Kuhnen, Wüstengrenze des Imperium Romanum. Der römische Limes in Israel und Jordanien. Mit Beiträgen von Johanna Ritter-Burkert und Stefan F. Pfahl. Archäologischer Führer zum Nahen Osten 2. Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag, Mainz 2018. ISBN 978-3-96176-010-7. 224 pages with 213 illustrations and one map
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
The symbol and alphabet of two-loop NMHV amplitudes from $\bar{Q}$ equations
Creators: name: He, Song
name: Li, Zhenjie
name: Zhang, Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the symbol and the alphabet for two-loop NMHV amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills from the $\bar{Q}$ equations, which provide a first-principle method for computing multi-loop amplitudes. Starting from one-loop N${}^2$MHV ratio functions, we explain in detail how to use $\bar{Q}$ equations to obtain the total differential of two-loop $n$-point NMHV amplitudes, whose symbol contains letters that are algebraic functions of kinematics for $n\geq 8$. We present explicit formula with nice patterns for the part of the symbol involving algebraic letters for all multiplicities, and we find $17-2m$ multiplicative-independent letters for a given square root of Gram determinant, with $0\leq m\leq 4$ depending on the number of particles involved in the square root. We also observe that these algebraic letters can be found as poles of one-loop four-mass leading singularities with MHV or NMHV trees. As a byproduct of our algebraic results, we find a large class of components of two-loop NMHV, which can be written as differences of two double-pentagon integrals, particularly simple and absent of square roots. As an example, we present the complete symbol for $n=9$ whose alphabet contains $59\times 9$ rational letters, in addition to the $11 \times 9$ independent algebraic ones. We also give all-loop NMHV last-entry conditions for all multiplicities.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure, revised version, typo corrected, accepted in JHEP
Holger Riesch, Pfeil und Bogen in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Originäre und überkulturelle Aspekte der Bogenwaffe während der Antike und Spätantike
Creators: name: Junkelmann, Marcus
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Holger Riesch, Pfeil und Bogen in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Originäre und überkulturelle Aspekte der Bogenwaffe während der Antike und Spätantike. Verlag Angelika Hörnig, Ludwigshafen 2017. ISBN 978-3-938921-50-0. 299 pages with 200 illustrations
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Kantzenbach, Friedrich-Wilhelm: Einheitsbestrebungen im Wandel der Kirchengeschichte
Creators: name: Kg.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 4 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 4
Endothelial Nitric Oxide synthase (eNOS) in Preeclampsia: An Update.
Creators: name: Maeda-Smithies, Nobuyo
name: Li, Feng
name: Wang, Yuye
name: Ssengonzi, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Gavin Publishers
Year: 2024

description: Preeclampsia (PE) is a common pregnancy-related hypertensive disorder and is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. The incidence of PE and its associated health care costs have been increasing in the United States over the past three decades. Pregnancies complicated by PE put both the mother and child at increased risk for chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and cognitive impairment later in life. To date, there is no effective treatment for PE and the etiology of PE is largely unknown. While human epidemiological studies have established an association between various genetic factors and PE, a causative link between genes associated with PE and PE development has been difficult to establish. Human studies have shown that variants in eNOS (endothelial nitric oxide synthase, also known as NOS3) gene are associated with PE, and animal experimental studies have provided evidence to show the potential functional connection between the eNOS gene and PE. Here we review several studies that investigated the role of eNOS in PE, as well as studies that described how manipulating the eNOS/NO pathway could aid in disease intervention.
PRODUCTION PLANNING AND INCOME VARIABILITY ANALYSIS FOR ALTERNATIVE SAGINAW VALLEY NAVY BEAN CROPPING SEQUENCES
Creators: name: Marquez, Jorge E.
name: Marquez, Jorge E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Acreage allocation decisions by farmers have been identified as one of the causes of the decline in Michigan's navy bean production. Growing navy beans in successive years or in short rotation with other crops that return little organic matter to the soil has been shown to adversely affect soil structure, depletion of organic matter, and increase disease and pest problems. Furthermore, a large portion of the instability present in the quantity of navy beans produces, and therefore in prices and revenue, is directly related to variability in acreage allocation decisions of growers. In consequence, the problem as it is seen in this paper is one of resource allocation decisions by farmers. There is a need for defining a navy bean production strategy, which takes into consideration the overall crop production system. Given the importance of the navy bean sector in Michigan and its continuous decline in production, this paper focuses on risk and farm planning issues associated with rotations in which this crop is grown. In addition, it investigates a point raised regarding assessing the correlation between instability of other crops in the grower's rotation with navy bean instability. The general approach taken in this paper is that of a "system management perspective" where the goal is to determine system inputs given a system structure and a set of desired system outputs. The specific objectives are: (1) To analyze the degree of income variability associated with the most common field crops grown in Michigan's Saginaw Valley, and the rotations in which they are grown; (2) To investigate the relationship between stability and level of farm income for different navy bean cropping sequences; and (3) To determine the optimum continuously repeatable crop sequence mix and the optimum time for field operations for a 400 acre Saginaw Valley farm growing navy beans in rotation with sugar beets, corn, wheat, and soybeans.
Quantum Cosmology of Classically Constrained Gravity
Creators: name: Gabadadze, Gregory
name: Shang, Yanwen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In hep-th/0506040 we discussed a classically constrained model of gravity. This theory contains known solutions of General Relativity (GR), and admits solutions that are absent in GR. Here we study cosmological implications of some of these new solutions. We show that a spatially-flat de Sitter universe can be created from ``nothing''. This universe has boundaries, and its total energy equals to zero. Although the probability to create such a universe is exponentially suppressed, it favors initial conditions suitable for inflation. Then we discuss a finite-energy solution with a nonzero cosmological constant and zero space-time curvature. There is no tunneling suppression to fluctuate into this state. We show that for a positive cosmological constant this state is unstable -- it can rapidly transition to a de Sitter universe providing a new unsuppressed channel for inflation. For a negative cosmological constant the space-time flat solutions is stable.
description: 17 pages; 6 figures
Scaling Relations in the Vortex State of Nodal Superconductors
Creators: name: Maki, K.
name: Parker, D.
name: Won, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to multigap superconductors (e.g. MgB$_{2}$), the low-temperature properties of nodal superconductors are dominated by nodal excitations. Here we extend for a variety of nodal superocnductors the earlier work by Simon and Lee and Kübert and Hirschfeld. The scaling relations seen in the thermodynamics and the thermal conductivity will provide an unequivocal test of nodal superconductivity.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
José Remesal Rodríguez (Hrsg.), Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten) y el mediterráneo. El comercio de alimentos
Creators: name: Ehmig, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: José Remesal Rodríguez (Hrsg.), Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten) y el mediterráneo. El comercio de alimentos. Col lecció Instrumenta 63 = Corpus international des timbres amphoriques 26. Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2018. ISBN 978-84-9168-197-7. 513 Seiten mit zahlreichen Tabellen, Zeichnungen und Abbildungen in Farbe und Schwarz-Weiß
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
FARM TRANSFERS IN SWITZERLAND: WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS UPON FARM APPRAISALS
Creators: name: Gantner, Urs
name: Gantner, Urs
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Farm Management

description: In Switzerland it is common for the farm businesses to be transferred within the family because the law provides that the heir can purchase the business at its investment value. The investment value is arrived at by an income capitalization approach. The investment values of farm businesses are well below corresponding market values. The purpose of these regulations is to avoid the division of the land among the heirs and excessive debts for the young farm family. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the transfer of farms, to explain the present method of appraising farms, to evaluate a number of alternative methods of farm appraisal, and to make some new proposals within the given legal framework. The transfer of farms involves issues such as the goals of transfer, the time of transfer, father-son arrangements, and problems related to father-son arrangements.
[Cupeño XII: Vocabulary, sentences, transcriptions]
Creators: name: Bosley, Frances
name: Brittian, Jim
name: Leir, Venturo
name: Nolasquez, Roscinda
name: Hill, Jane
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: chl
subject: cup

description: Transcriptions include stories about Eagle and making wiwiš, calendar song, and conversation. After the Cupeño material, two pages contain some Cahuilla vocabulary and sentences from Venturo Leir.
Generational differences in latent classes of exposure to adverse childhood experiences
Creators: name: Hughes, Phillip M.
name: Thomas, Kathleen C.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have increased across generations; however, it is unclear how ACE exposure clusters into classes and how exposure differs by generation. To examine this clustering, we used data from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (n = 56,262). We identified ACEs exposure classes and examined the probability of belonging to each ACEs exposure class by birth generation, sex assigned at birth, race/ethnicity, and LGBTQ+ identity. We identified three ACEs exposure classes: Low ACEs, High ACEs without Sexual Abuse, and High ACEs with Sexual Abuse. Findings demonstrate that, relative to Baby Boomers, the probability of experiencing High ACEs without Sexual Abuse was 5 % higher for Gen X and 11 % for both Millennials and Gen Z. The probability of experiencing High ACEs with Sexual Abuse was highest for Gen X and lowest for Gen Z. Significant intersectional relationships were found between LGBTQ+ identity and both generation and sex assigned at birth. These findings have implications for health policy.
XMM-Newton observations of the extremely X-ray luminous quasar CFHQS J142952+544717=SRGE J142952.1+544716 at redshift z=6.18
Creators: name: Medvedev, P.
name: Gilfanov, M.
name: Sazonov, S.
name: Schartel, N.
name: Sunyaev, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a 20 ks XMM-Newton DDT observation of the radio-load quasar CFHQS J142952+544717 at z=6.18, whose extreme X-ray luminosity was recently revealed by the SRG/eROSITA telescope in the course of its first all-sky survey. The quasar has been confidently detected with a total of $\sim 1400$ net counts in the 0.2-10 keV energy band (1.4 to 72 keV in the object's rest frame). Its measured spectrum is unusually soft and can be described by an absorbed power-law model with a photon index of $Γ= 2.5\pm0.2$. There are no signs of a high-energy cutoff or reflected component, with an 90 % upper limit on the fluorescence iron K$α$ equivalent width of $\approx 290$ eV and the corresponding upper limit on the iron K-edge absorption depth of 0.6. We have detected, at the $> 95\%$ confidence level, an excess absorption above the Galactic value, corresponding to a column density $N_H= 3\pm2 \times 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$ of material located at z=6.18. The intrinsic luminosity of CFHQS J142952+544717 in the 1.4 to 72 keV energy band is found to be $5.5_{-0.6}^{+0.8} \times 10^{46}$ erg s$^{-1}$. We did not detect statistically significant flux changes between two SRG scans and the XMM-Newton observation, spanning over $\sim 7.5$ months, implying that the quasar remained at this extremely high luminosity level for at least a month in its rest frame. We put forward the hypothesis that the extreme X-ray properties of CFHQS J142952+544717 are associated with inverse Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background photons (at z=6.18) in its relativistic jets.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Published in MNRAS
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: THE FARM AND FOOD SYSTEM IN TRANSITION
Creators: name: Treadway, Nathaniel Starr
name: Treadway, Nathaniel Starr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The paper gives an overview of the impact of new technologies on the performance of the farm and food system in the United States. A theoretical framework is outlined. Two major technological frontiers are then discussed. Microbiological breakthroughs are representative of technologies which shift the production function. Computer and communication advances help management by reducing transaction costs. These and other new technologies are discussed at each level of the farm and food system. Key policy issues and future research topics are finally addressed.
Simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the blazar 1ES1959+650 at a low TeV flux
Creators: name: Tagliaferri, G.
name: Foschini, L.
name: Ghisellini, G.
name: Maraschi, L.
name: Tosti, G.
name: Albert, J.
name: Aliu, E.
name: Anderhub, H.
name: Antoranz, P.
name: Baixeras, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from a multiwavelength campaign on the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650, performed in May, 2006. Data from the optical, UV, soft- and hard-X-ray and very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray (E > 100 GeV) bands were obtained with the SUZAKU and SWIFT satellites, with the MAGIC telescope and other ground based facilities. The source spectral energy distribution (SED), derived from SUZAKU and MAGIC observations at the end of May 2006, shows the usual double hump shape, with the synchrotron peak at a higher flux level than the Compton peak. With respect to historical values, during our campaign the source exhibited a relatively high state in X-rays and optical, while in the VHE band it was at one of the lowest level so far recorded. We also monitored the source for flux-spectral variability on a time window of 10 days in the optical-UV and X-ray bands and 7 days in the VHE band. The source varies more in the X-ray, than in the optical band, with the 2-10 keV X-ray flux varying by a factor of ~2. The synchrotron peak is located in the X-ray band and moves to higher energies as the source gets brighter, with the X-ray fluxes above it varying more rapidly than the X-ray fluxes at lower energies. The variability behaviour observed in the X-ray band cannot be produced by emitting regions varying independently, and suggests instead some sort of ``standing shock'' scenario. The overall SED is well represented by an homogeneous one-zone synchrotron inverse Compton emission model, from which we derive physical parameters that are typical of high energy peaked blazars.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Martin Auer, Municipium Claudium Aguntum. Keramikregionen als Interaktionsräume. Eine westnorische Perspektive
Creators: name: Bagley, Jennifer M.
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Martin Auer, Municipium Claudium Aguntum. Keramikregionen als Interaktionsräume. Eine westnorische Perspektive. Ager Aguntinus. Historisch-archäologische Forschungen 2. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019. ISBN 978-3-447-11173-7. VI + 370 pages with 78 figures, 37 graphs, 1 map, and 57 plates
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
A note on operator inequalities of Tsallis relative operator entropy
Creators: name: Furuichi, Shigeru
name: Yanagi, Kenjiro
name: Kuriyama, Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A63, 94A17, 15A39

description: Tsallis relative operator entropy was defined as a parametric extension of relative operator entropy and the generalized Shannon inequalities were shown in the previous paper. After the review of some fundamental properties of Tsallis relative operator entropy, some operator inequalities related to Tsallis relative operator entropy are shown in the present paper. Our inequalities give the upper and lower bounds of Tsallis relative operator entropy. The operator equality on Tsallis relative operator entropy is also shown by considering the tensor product. This relation generalizes the pseudoadditivity for Tsallis entropy. As a corollary of our operator equality derived from the tensor product manipulation, we show several operator inequalities including the superadditivity and the subadditivity for Tsallis relative operator entropy. Our results are generalizations of the superadditivity and the subadditivity for Tsallis entropy.
description: to appear in Linear Algebra Appl
LABOR ALLOCATION STRATEGIES OF SEMI-SUBSISTENCE HOUSEHOLDS IN WEST AFRICA: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIOLAS OF THE LOWER CASAMANCE REGION OF SENEGAL
Creators: name: Dedegbe, Danielle
name: Dedegbe, Danielle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Labor and Human Capital

description: For the great majority of small scale farming households in West Africa, labor is one of their most crucial factors of production. Yet, the dynamics behind these households' patterns of labor allocation are not well understood by planners and policy makers. This study argues that (a) a household's labor allocation behavior is determined by its real opportunity set vis-a-vis the household's basic objectives, (b) a household's real opportunity set is the sum of its main constraints and opportunities after all environmental dimensions have been simultaneously considered, (c) male and female household members do not have the same opportunity sets. The environmental circumstances of the Diola and Mandingized Diola farm households from the Casamance region of Senegal provide the quantitative foundation of the analysis. For each group, an opportunity set for an average household is derived with a special emphasis on gender differentiations. Based on these derived opportunity sets, a household's behavior regarding labor allocation is hypothesized. Hypothesized behaviors are then checked against observed behaviors of labor allocation. Among both groups, household labor allocation strategies seem to reflect a desire of farmers to use their comparative advantage to reduce the adverse effects of their main binding constraints. With respect to farmers' ability to fulfill their basic objectives, the Mandingized Diolas appear to be better off than the Diolas and within each group, men appear to be better off than women.
Origin of the Large Negative Electrocaloric Effect in Antiferroelectric PbZrO3
Creators: name: Vales-Castro, Pablo
name: Faye, Romain
name: Vellvehi, Miquel
name: Nouchokgwe, Youri
name: Perpinà, Xavier
name: Caicedo, J. M.
name: Jordà, Xavier
name: Roleder, Krystian
name: Kajewski, Dariusz
name: Perez-Tomas, Amador
name: Defay, Emmanuel
name: Catalan, Gustau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the electrocaloric response of the archetypal antiferroelectric PbZrO3 as a function of voltage and temperature in the vicinity of its antiferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition. Large electrocaloric effects of opposite signs, ranging from an electro-cooling of -3.5 K to an electro-heating of +5.5 K, were directly measured with an infrared camera. We show by calorimetric and electromechanical measurements that the large negative electrocaloric effect comes from an endothermic antiferroelectric-ferroelectric switching, in contrast to dipole destabilization of the antiparallel lattice, previously proposed as an explanation for the negative electrocaloric effect of antiferroelectrics.
description: Article (17 pages) and supplemental material (12 pages) present in .pdf file
A New Stability Result for Viscosity Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations with Weak Convergence in Time
Creators: name: Barles, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K10 ; 49L25

description: We present a new stability result for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear parabolic equations which allows to pass to the limit when one has only weak convergence in time of the nonlinearities.
Association of Average Daily Morphine Milligram Equivalents and Falls in Older Adult Chronic Opioid Users
Creators: name: Hwang, Stephanie
name: Ferreri, Stefanie P.
name: Niznik, Joshua
name: Hughes, Tamera D.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Opioids remain commonly prescribed in older adults, despite the known association with falls and fall-related injuries. This retrospective cohort study sought to determine the association of opioid use and falls in older adult opioid users. Using a one-year lookback period in electronic health records, daily morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) were calculated using prescription orders. Fall history was based on patient self-reporting. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to identify the threshold of average daily MMEs at which the likelihood of falls was increased. Older opioid users were most often women and White, with 30% having fallen in the prior year. In ROC analyses (n = 590), the threshold where fall risk increased was 37 MMEs (p = 0.07). Older adults prescribed more than 37 MMEs daily may be at increased fall risk and should be targeted for deprescribing interventions. Additionally, analysis on patient characteristics and covariates suggest that sex, age, COPD, sleep apnea, cancer, and psychiatric conditions may indicate an increased risk of falls in older adults taking chronic opioids (p < 0.05). Multifactorial interventions may be needed to modify fall risk beyond medication use alone.
A relativistic two-nucleon model for $A(p,K^+){_Λ}B$ reaction
Creators: name: Shyam, R.
name: Lenske, H.
name: Mosel, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the $A(p,K^+){_Λ}B$ reaction within a covariant two nucleon model. We focus on amplitudes which are described by creation, propagation and decay into relevant channel of $N^*$(1650), $N^*$(1710), and $N^*$(1720) intermediate baryonic resonance states in the initial collision of the projectile nucleon with one of its target counterparts. This collision is modeled by the exchange of $π$ as well as $ρ$ and $ω$ mesons. The bound state nucleon and hyperon wave functions are obtained by solving the Dirac equation with appropriate scalar and vector potentials. Expressions for the reaction amplitudes are derived taking continuum particle wave functions in both distorted wave and plane wave approximations. Detailed numerical results are presented in the plane wave approximation; estimates of the effects of the initial and final state interactions are given in the eikonal approximation. Cross sections of 1 - 2 nb/sr at the peak positions, are obtained for favored transitions in case of heavier targets.
description: 36 pages including 14 figures, revised version, more discussions added, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A
Wolfgang Czysz, Handbuch der Provinzialrömischen Archäologie. I. Quellen, Methoden, Ziele
Creators: name: Lawrence, Andrew
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Wolfgang Czysz, Handbuch der Provinzialrömischen Archäologie. I. Quellen, Methoden, Ziele. Münchner Beiträge zur Provinzialrömischen Archäologie. Ergänzungsband 1. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2019. ISBN 978-3-95490-355-9 (Hardcover). ISBN 978-3-95490-621-5 (E-book). doi: https://doi.org/10.29091/9783954906215. 344 pages with 28 illustrations (b/w)
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 98 2020(2021)
Supersymmetric Benchmarks with Non-Universal Scalar Masses or Gravitino Dark Matter
Creators: name: De Roeck, A.
name: Ellis, J.
name: Gianotti, F.
name: Moortgat, F.
name: Olive, K. A.
name: Pape, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and examine a new set of benchmark supersymmetric scenarios, some of which have non-universal Higgs scalar masses (NUHM) and others have gravitino dark matter (GDM). The scalar masses in these models are either considerably larger or smaller than the narrow range allowed for the same gaugino mass m_{1/2} in the constrained MSSM (CMSSM) with universal scalar masses m_0 and neutralino dark matter. The NUHM and GDM models with larger m_0 may have large branching ratios for Higgs and/or $Z$ production in the cascade decays of heavier sparticles, whose detection we discuss. The phenomenology of the GDM models depends on the nature of the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle (NLSP), which has a lifetime exceeding 10^4 seconds in the proposed benchmark scenarios. In one GDM scenario the NLSP is the lightest neutralino χ, and the supersymmetric collider signatures are similar to those in previous CMSSM benchmarks, but with a distinctive spectrum. In the other GDM scenarios based on minimal supergravity (mSUGRA), the NLSP is the lighter stau slepton {\tilde τ}_1, with a lifetime between ~ 10^4 and 3 X 10^6 seconds. Every supersymmetric cascade would end in a {\tilde τ}_1, which would have a distinctive time-of-flight signature. Slow-moving {\tilde τ}_1's might be trapped in a collider detector or outside it, and the preferred detection strategy would depend on the {\tilde τ}_1 lifetime. We discuss the extent to which these mSUGRA GDM scenarios could be distinguished from gauge-mediated models.
description: 52 pages LaTeX, 13 figures
INTERNAL STRUCTURE, ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT AND EFFICIENCY IN THE USE OF RESOURCES IN SEMI-COLLECTIVE PRODUCTION COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF THE ASENTAMIENTOS CAMPESINOS IN PANAMA
Creators: name: Cedeno, Augusto A.
name: Cedeno, Augusto A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1976
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: This paper has been elaborated in an effort to set the basis for a research on a semi-collective production cooperative program in Panama. Three aspects are considered to be important when studying the program: the internal organization of the semi-collective cooperatives to be analyzed; the role of the government in promoting and supporting the program; and the efficiency in the use of resources that the new type of agricultural organization will bring. Thus, these are the elements on which the present proposal emphasizes. A general explanation of the program to be analyzed is presented in Chapter II, section C. Due to some difficulties regarding the sources of information, a very detailed explanation about the nature of the program is not included in the proposal. The omitted information is mostly related to the specific way in which the semi-collective cooperatives are internally organized and the specific governmental policies regarding the program. Therefore, the questionnaires presented in this proposal are considered to be tentative and subject to modification once a complete and detailed picture of all the aspects of the program is obtained. The questionnaires presented at this time are based, mainly, on the ideas and facts obtained through the overall Latin American experience presented in Chapter I.
Generation of current vortex by spin current in Rashba systems
Creators: name: Lange, Florian
name: Ejima, Satoshi
name: Fujimoto, Junji
name: Shirakawa, Tomonori
name: Fehske, Holger
name: Yunoki, Seiji
name: Maekawa, Sadamichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing unbiased large-scale time-dependent density-matrix renormalization-group simulations, we demonstrate the generation of a charge-current vortex via spin injection in the Rashba system. The spin current is polarized perpendicular to the system plane and injected from an attached antiferromagnetic spin chain. We discuss the conversion between spin and orbital angular momentum in the current vortex that occurs because of the conservation of the total angular momentum and the spin-orbit interaction. This is in contrast to the spin Hall effect, in which the angular-momentum conservation is violated. Finally, we predict the electromagnetic field that accompanies the vortex with regard to possible future experiments.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 1 of Clinical validation of a novel quantitative assay for the detection of MGMT methylation in glioblastoma patients
Creators: name: Rocio Rosas-Alonso
name: Colmenarejo-Fernandez, Julian
name: Pernia, Olga
name: Rodriguez-Antolín, Carlos
name: Esteban, Isabel
name: Ghanem, Ismael
name: Sanchez-Cabrero, Dario
name: Losantos-Garcia, Itsaso
name: Palacios-Zambrano, Sara
name: Moreno-Bueno, Gema
name: Castro, Javier De
name: Martinez-Marin, Virginia
name: Ibanez-De-Caceres, Inmaculada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Uncropped gel from Fig. 2.
A RECURSIVE MODEL FOR FORECASTING QUARTERLY AND MONTHLY U.S. HOG PRICES
Creators: name: Do Canto, Wilson Leite
name: Do Canto, Wilson Leite
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1972
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Institutions such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, universities and private firms have published regularly current and outlook information to the participants of the livestock market. Information about short-run future tendencies in the market place is a necessary tool used in the decision making process, by hog producers, wholesalers, retailers and others operating in the hog and pork markets. The forecasting techniques which have been used range from very sophisticated ones to simple "rules of thumb" or purely guesses. Many forecasters use their own procedures and techniques developed after long experience in operating in the market, and they only get their results after much "pencil and paper" work, and frequently the techniques used are known only to the forecasters.
Thermal X-rays from Millisecond Pulsars: Constraining the Fundamental Properties of Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Bogdanov, Slavko
name: Grindlay, Jonathan E.
name: Rybicki, George B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abridged) We model the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) by considering hot spot emission from a weakly magnetized rotating neutron star (NS) covered by an optically-thick hydrogen atmosphere. We investigate the limitations of using the thermal X-ray pulse profiles of MSPs to constrain the mass-to-radius ($M/R$) ratio of the underlying NS. The accuracy is strongly dependent on the viewing angle and magnetic inclination. For certain systems, the accuracy is ultimately limited only by photon statistics implying that future X-ray observatories could, in principle, achieve constraints on $M/R$ and hence the NS equation of state to better than $\sim$5%. We demonstrate that valuable information regarding the basic properties of the NS can be extracted even from X-ray data of fairly limited photon statistics through modeling of archival spectroscopic and timing observations of the nearby isolated PSRs J0030+0451 and J2124--3358. The X-ray emission from these pulsars is consistent with the presence of a hydrogen atmosphere and a dipolar magnetic field configuration, in agreement with previous findings for PSR J0437--4715. For both MSPs, the favorable geometry allows us to place interesting limits on the allowed $M/R$ of NSs. Assuming 1.4 M$_{\odot}$, the stellar radius is constrained to be $R > 9.4$ km and $R > 7.8$ km (68% confidence) for PSRs J0030+0451 and J2124--3358, respectively. We explore the prospects of using future observatories such as \textit{Constellation-X} and \textit{XEUS} to conduct blind X-ray timing searches for MSPs not detectable at radio wavelengths due to unfavorable viewing geometry. Using the observational constraints on the pulsar obliquities we are also able to place strong constraints on the magnetic field evolution model proposed by Ruderman.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, published in the Astrophysical Journal (Volume 689, Issue 1, pp. 407-415)
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LATIN AMERICA
Creators: name: Carvajalino-Arevalo, Mario
name: Carvajalino-Arevalo, Mario
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This annotated bibliography on agricultural marketing and economic development has been compiled with two objectives in mind. First, to contribute to the understanding of the role that agricultural marketing can play in the process of developing countries. As the reader will see many authors agree that marketing is "the most backward of all areas of economic life". There are several explanations for this particular situation. Because of socio-political reasons, people in planning roles prefer to allocate resources to the production of physical goods and not of services, which is what marketing mainly provides. Others believe that an adequate marketing system will spring up automatically with the progress of the country in the road of development. In spite of this relative less attention devoted to marketing, most of the people in all countries have been engaged in trade activities more than once in their lives; some people even get so used to trade that they don't consider trade as one of their main activities. Marketing should have a greater role in development plans. The second objective has been to provide researchers and people with marketing responsibilities in the Latin American countries. With a list of some of the studies that have been written on agricultural marketing for that specific country. It is not unusual in developing countries, that an outstanding marketing study passes directly from the author's hand to a government office file, where it will remain forever without further analysis of its recommendations. One of the causes for such situations is the high rate of personnel turnover in the country, without adequate feedback information for the person taking over the job.
Findings From a National Survey of Older US Adults on Patient Willingness to Use Telehealth Services: Cross-Sectional Survey
Creators: name: Urick, Benjamin Y
name: Waters, Austin R
name: Odebunmi, Olufeyisayo O
name: Ferrari, Renée M
name: Hughes, Tamera D
name: Rohweder, Catherine
name: Wangen, Mary
name: Herron, Caroline
name: Brenner, Alison T
name: Shah, Parth D
name: Wheeler, Stephanie B
name: Marciniak, Macary W
Publisher: name: JMIR Publications
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: Telehealth (telemedicine and telepharmacy) services increase access to patient services and ensure continuity of care. However, few studies have assessed factors that influence patients' willingness to use telehealth services, and we sought to investigate this.
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine respondents' (aged between 45 and 75 years) willingness to use telehealth services (telepharmacy and telemedicine) and the correlates of the willingness to use telehealth services.
METHODS: We administered a cross-sectional national survey of 1045 noninstitutionalized US adults aged between 45 and 75 years in March and April 2021. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to identify demographic and health service use correlates of self-reported willingness to use telehealth services.
RESULTS: Overall willingness to use telemedicine was high (674/1045, 64.5%). Adults aged 55 years and older were less willing to use telemedicine (aged between 55 and 64 years: odds ratio [OR] 0.61, 95% CI 0.42-0.86; aged 65 years or older: OR 0.33, 95% CI 0.22-0.49) than those younger than 55 years. Those with a regular provider (OR 1.01, 95% CI 1-1.02) and long travel times (OR 1.75, 95% CI 1.03-2.98) were more willing to use telemedicine compared to those without a regular provider and had shorter travel times, respectively. Willingness to use telemedicine services increased from 64.5% (674/1045) to 83% (867/1045) if the service was low-cost or insurance-covered, was with their existing health care provider, or was easy-to-use. Overall willingness to use telepharmacy was 76.7% (801/1045). Adults aged older than 55 years were less willing to use telepharmacy (aged between 55 and 64 years: OR 0.57, 95% CI 0.38-0.86; aged 65 years or older: OR 0.24, 95% CI 0.15-0.37) than those younger than 55 years. Those who rated pharmacy service quality higher were more willing to use telepharmacy (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.03-1.09) than those who did not.
CONCLUSIONS: Respondents were generally willing to use telehealth (telemedicine and telepharmacy) services, but the likelihood of their being willing to use telehealth decreased as they were older. For those initially unwilling (aged 55 years or older) to use telemedicine services, inexpensive or insurance-covered services were acceptable.
Wasserstein barycenters are NP-hard to compute
Creators: name: Altschuler, Jason M.
name: Boix-Adsera, Enric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computing Wasserstein barycenters (a.k.a. Optimal Transport barycenters) is a fundamental problem in geometry which has recently attracted considerable attention due to many applications in data science. While there exist polynomial-time algorithms in any fixed dimension, all known running times suffer exponentially in the dimension. It is an open question whether this exponential dependence is improvable to a polynomial dependence. This paper proves that unless P=NP, the answer is no. This uncovers a "curse of dimensionality" for Wasserstein barycenter computation which does not occur for Optimal Transport computation. Moreover, our hardness results for computing Wasserstein barycenters extend to approximate computation, to seemingly simple cases of the problem, and to averaging probability distributions in other Optimal Transport metrics.
description: to appear in SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science (SIMODS)
[Handwritten transcriptions of stories]
Creators: name: Bosley, Frances
name: Brittian, Jim
name: Nolasquez, Roscinda
name: Hill, Jane
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cup

description: Includes table of contents to more than 38 stories, with partial guide to associated original reels. Contains some grammatical notes and word lists at the end.
An Operational Analysis of the I 64, I 65, I 71 Route Junction in Louisville
Creators: name: Pigman, Jerry G.
name: Seymour, William M.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Cornette, Don L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The Kennedy Interchange in Louisville is the most geometrically complicated of any in Kentucky; it is the junction of three interstate routes, I 64, I 65, and I 71. The many diverging, weaving, and merging movements demand a driver's attention. One merging situation collapses into an impasse during peak-hour traffic. This study is responsive to certain inquiries by the Department concerning safety and possible discovery of design deficiencies at this interchange. It was not intended to be an in-depth study but rather an exploratory identification of problems and their locations; more comprehensive studies, by others, would ensue if needed. The specific objectives were to discover conflicts and erratic movements and to locate and analyze high-frequency accident sites.