cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dexketoprofen/tramadol 25/75mg combination analgesic efficacy evaluated through the use of rescue medication in comparison to dexketoprofen, tramadol and placebo
Creators: name: Bertolotti, Monica
name: Cuadripani, Susanna
name: Bartomeu Pizà-Vallespir
name: Bayón, Cristina Guerrero
name: Contini, Maria Paola
name: Scartoni, Simona
name: Nizzardo, Andrea
name: Madami, Andrea
name: Borràs, Liset
name: Creus, Laura
name: Lario, Isabel Paredes
name: McQuay, Henry J
name: R Andrew Moore
name: Capriati, Angela
name: Maggi, Carlo Alberto
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Moderate-to-severe pain often requires multimodal analgesia by combining drugs with different mechanisms of action in order to optimise efficacy (and possibly lowering the dose of single components) and to avoid/minimise the use of additional drugs as rescue medication. The consumption of rescue medication is therefore an important parameter to be considered along the assessment of an efficacious analgesia. The aim of this analysis is to evaluate the efficacy of dexketoprofen trometamol/tramadol hydrochloride 25mg/75mg (DKP/TRAM 25/75mg) fixed-dose combination formulated as oral tablet in comparison to the single components, dexketoprofen trometamol 25mg (DKP 25mg) and tramadol hydrochloride 100mg (TRAM 100mg), as well as placebo, through the use of rescue medication, in the treatment of moderate-to-severe somatic and visceral acute pain.
On the role of memory errors in quantum repeaters
Creators: name: Hartmann, L.
name: Kraus, B.
name: Briegel, H. -J.
name: Dür, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the influence of memory errors in the quantum repeater scheme for long-range quantum communication. We show that the communication distance is limited in standard operation mode due to memory errors resulting from unavoidable waiting times for classical signals. We show how to overcome these limitations by (i) improving local memory, and (ii) introducing two new operational modes of the quantum repeater. In both operational modes, the repeater is run blindly, i.e. without waiting for classical signals to arrive. In the first scheme, entanglement purification protocols based on one-way classical communication are used allowing to communicate over arbitrary distances. However, the error thresholds for noise in local control operations are very stringent. The second scheme makes use of entanglement purification protocols with two-way classical communication and inherits the favorable error thresholds of the repeater run in standard mode. One can increase the possible communication distance by an order of magnitude with reasonable overhead in physical resources. We outline the architecture of a quantum repeater that can possibly ensure intercontinental quantum communication.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables; V2: references updated
Towards Accurate Human Pose Estimation in Videos of Crowded Scenes
Creators: name: Yuan, Li
name: Chang, Shuning
name: Nie, Xuecheng
name: Huang, Ziyuan
name: Zhou, Yichen
name: Chen, Yunpeng
name: Feng, Jiashi
name: Yan, Shuicheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Video-based human pose estimation in crowded scenes is a challenging problem due to occlusion, motion blur, scale variation and viewpoint change, etc. Prior approaches always fail to deal with this problem because of (1) lacking of usage of temporal information; (2) lacking of training data in crowded scenes. In this paper, we focus on improving human pose estimation in videos of crowded scenes from the perspectives of exploiting temporal context and collecting new data. In particular, we first follow the top-down strategy to detect persons and perform single-person pose estimation for each frame. Then, we refine the frame-based pose estimation with temporal contexts deriving from the optical-flow. Specifically, for one frame, we forward the historical poses from the previous frames and backward the future poses from the subsequent frames to current frame, leading to stable and accurate human pose estimation in videos. In addition, we mine new data of similar scenes to HIE dataset from the Internet for improving the diversity of training set. In this way, our model achieves best performance on 7 out of 13 videos and 56.33 average w\_AP on test dataset of HIE challenge.
description: 2nd Place in ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge: Human in Events, Track2: Crowd Pose Estimation in Complex Events. ACM Multimedia 2020. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2010.08365, arXiv:2010.10007
Transcription of a story about a truck breaking down
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Begay, Kayla
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-160711-01a/c and VP-160711-02: Transcription of a story about a truck breaking down in a remote area (file VP-020906-02), from 25:04 to 26:16 (VP-160711-01a/c) and from 26:16 to the end of the story at 27:24 (VP-160711-02).
Lundström, Klas, Gospel and Culture in the World Council of Churches and in the Lausanne Movement with Particular Focus on the Period 1973-1996
Creators: name: Klaiber, Walter
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 57 Nr. 3 (2008): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 57, Heft 3
Belief Propagation and Loop Series on Planar Graphs
Creators: name: Chertkov, Michael
name: Chernyak, Vladimir Y.
name: Teodorescu, Razvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We discuss a generic model of Bayesian inference with binary variables defined on edges of a planar graph. The Loop Calculus approach of [1, 2] is used to evaluate the resulting series expansion for the partition function. We show that, for planar graphs, truncating the series at single-connected loops reduces, via a map reminiscent of the Fisher transformation [3], to evaluating the partition function of the dimer matching model on an auxiliary planar graph. Thus, the truncated series can be easily re-summed, using the Pfaffian formula of Kasteleyn [4]. This allows to identify a big class of computationally tractable planar models reducible to a dimer model via the Belief Propagation (gauge) transformation. The Pfaffian representation can also be extended to the full Loop Series, in which case the expansion becomes a sum of Pfaffian contributions, each associated with dimer matchings on an extension to a subgraph of the original graph. Algorithmic consequences of the Pfaffian representation, as well as relations to quantum and non-planar models, are discussed.
description: Accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: theory and experiment
Reduced Total Airway Count and Airway Wall Tapering after Three-Years in Ex-Smokers
Creators: name: Wyszkiewicz, Paulina V.
name: Sharma, Maksym
name: Desaigoudar, Vedanth
name: Cunningham, Ian A.
name: McCormack, David G.
name: Abdelrazek, Mohamed A.
name: Kirby, Miranda
name: Parraga, Grace
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Computed tomography (CT) total-airway-count (TAC) and airway wall-thickness differ across chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) severities, but longitudinal insights are lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate longitudinal CT airway measurements over three-years in ex-smokers. In this prospective convenience sample study, ex-smokers with (n = 50; 13 female; age = 70 ± 9 years; pack-years = 43 ± 26) and without (n = 40; 17 female; age = 69 ± 10 years; pack-years = 31 ± 17) COPD completed CT, 3He magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and pulmonary function tests at baseline and three-year follow-up. CT TAC, airway wall-area (WA), lumen-area (LA), and wall-area percent (WA%) were generated. Emphysema was quantified as the relative-area-of-the-lung with attenuation < –950 Hounsfield-units (RA950). MRI ventilation-defect-percent (VDP) was also quantified. Differences over time were evaluated using paired-samples t tests. Multivariable prediction models using the backwards approach were generated. After three-years, forced-expiratory-volume in 1-second (FEV1) was not different in ex-smokers with (p = 0.4) and without (p = 0.5) COPD, whereas RA950 was (p < 0.001, p = 0.02, respectively). In ex-smokers without COPD, there was no change in TAC (p = 0.2); however, LA (p = 0.009) and WA% (p = 0.01) were significantly different. In ex-smokers with COPD, TAC (p < 0.001), WA (p = 0.04), LA (p < 0.001), and WA% (p < 0.001) were significantly different. In all ex-smokers, TAC was related to VDP (baseline: ρ = –0.30, p = 0.005; follow-up: ρ = –0.33, p = 0.002). In significant multivariable models, baseline airway wall-thickness was predictive of TAC worsening. After three-years, in the absence of FEV1 worsening, TAC diminished only in ex-smokers with COPD and airway walls were thinner in all ex-smokers. These longitudinal findings suggest that the evaluation of CT airway remodeling may be a useful clinical tool for predicting disease progression and managing COPD. Clinical trial registration:www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT02279329
Tipps fuer den Anbau von Ackerbohnen und Koernererbsen
Creators: name: Roth, Philipp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: 1

description: Körnerleguminosen können bei pflanzenbaulichen Problemen wie Herbizidresistenzen und abfallenden Erträgen von Winterraps in engen, winterfruchtlastigen Fruchtfolgen eine Alternative darstellen. Als Blattfrüchte und Stickstoff sammelnde Arten ist der Vorfruchtwert von Ackerbohnen und Körnererbsen dem von Winterraps durchaus gleichzusetzen. Außerdem können diese heimischen Körnerleguminosen in der zunehmend geforderten gentechnikfreien Fütterung unserer Nutztiere, unter Berücksichtigung von Höchsteinsatzgrenzen, sinnvoll innerbetrieblich verwertet werden. Auch die Absatzmöglichkeiten bzw. der Marktpreis, insbesondere von Ackerbohnen, hat sich in den letzten Jahren leicht positiv entwickelt. Dies kann auch mit der zunehmenden Nachfrage nach einheimischen Hülsenfrüchten für die menschliche Ernährung erklärt werden. Im Rahmen des hessischen Agrarumweltprogramms „HALM“ wird der Anbau von Leguminosen über die Maßnahme C.1. – Vielfältige Kulturen im Ackerbau, die einen Anbau von Leguminosen auf mindestens 10% der Ackerfläche verlangt, gefördert. Um einen erfolgreichen Anbau realisieren zu können, müssen jedoch einige Grundsätze beachtet werden, welche im Folgenden erläutert werden.
On bi-hamiltonian geometry of the Lagrange top
Creators: name: Tsiganov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider three different incompatible bi-Hamiltonian structures for the Lagrange top, which have the same foliation by symplectic leaves. These bivectors may be associated with the different 2-coboundaries in the Poisson-Lichnerowicz cohomology defined by canonical bivector on $e^*(3)$.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX with AMS fonts
Transcription of a story about a truck breaking down
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-150711-10a/c: Transcription of a story about a truck breaking down in a remote area (file VP-020906-02), from the beginning of the story at 22:30 to 25:11. A file VP-150711-09 was created with the microphone turned off, so no sound was recorded and the file was subsequently deleted, leading to the gap in the numbering sequence (VP-150711-08 to VP-150711-10a/c).
Isothermic surfaces in sphere geometries as Moutard nets
Creators: name: Bobenko, Alexander I.
name: Suris, Yuri B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give an elaborated treatment of discrete isothermic surfaces and their analogs in different geometries (projective, Möbius, Laguerre, Lie). We find the core of the theory to be a novel projective characterization of discrete isothermic nets as Moutard nets. The latter belong to projective geometry and are nets with planar faces defined through a five-point property: a vertex and its four diagonal neighbors span a three dimensional space. Analytically this property is equivalent to the existence of representatives in the space of homogeneous coordinates satisfying the discrete Moutard equation. Restricting the projective theory to quadrics, we obtain Moutard nets in sphere geometries. In particular, Moutard nets in Möbius geometry are shown to coincide with discrete isothermic nets. The five-point property in this particular case says that a vertex and its four diagonal neighbors lie on a common sphere, which is a novel characterization of discrete isothermic surfaces. Discrete Laguerre isothermic surfaces are defined through the corresponding five-plane property which requires that a plane and its four diagonal neighbors share a common touching sphere. Equivalently, Laguerre isothermic surfaces are characterized by having an isothermic Gauss map. We conclude with Moutard nets in Lie geometry.
description: 29 pages, 8 figures
Solutions for 80 km DWDM Systems
Creators: name: Dochhan, Annika
name: Griesser, Helmut
name: Eiselt, Michael
name: Elbers, Jörg-Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We review currently discussed solutions for 80 km DWDM transmission targeting inter data-center connections at 100G and 400G line rates. PDM-64QAM, PAM4 and DMT are investigated, while the focus lies on directly detected solutions.
description: The results were obtained in the framework of the SASER-ADVAntage-NET project, partly funded by the German ministry of education and research (BMBF) under contract 16BP12400
Discomorphella pectinata Corliss 1960
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Spirotrichea
Odontostomatida
Discomorphellidae
Discomorphella
Discomorphella pectinata

description: Discomorphella pectinata (Levander, 1894) Corliss, 1960
Distribution. BRAZIL: Paraná River between the Nupelia’s Field Station and the district of Porto São José, São Pedro do Paraná (Buosi et al. 2014 b, 2015), (Ad).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Photometric and spectroscopic analysis of Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 activity
Creators: name: Ivanova, O. V.
name: Luk'yanyk, I. V.
name: Kiselev, N. N.
name: Afanasiev, V. L.
name: Picazzi, E.
name: Cavichia, O.
name: de Almeida, A. A.
name: Andrievsky, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at the 6-m BTA telescope (SAO RAS, Russia) and the 1.6-m telescope of the National Laboratory for Astro-physics (LNA, Brazil) on February 20, 2012, and on May 31, 2011, respectively. The spectra revealed the presence of CO+ and N2+ emissions in the cometary coma at a distance of 5.25 AU from the Sun. The ratio [N2+]/[CO+] within the projected slit is 0.013. The images obtained through BVR filters showed a bright, dust coma, indicating a high level of activity. We estimated a colour index and a colour excess for the comet. The parameter Af\r{ho}, which is used as an indicator of a cometary activity, was measured to be 2584 cm in the reference optical aperture of \r{ho}=10^4 km. The dust production constituted 33 kg/s and 9.3*10^3 kg/s, it was obtained using different methods. We also investigated the morphology of the comet using image enhancement techniques and found two jets in the coma.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Self-similar asymptotics for a class of Hele-Shaw flows driven solely by surface tension
Creators: name: Meerson, Baruch
name: Sasorov, Pavel V.
name: Vilenkin, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of relaxation, by surface tension, of a family of curved interfaces between an inviscid and viscous fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell. At t=0 the interface is assumed to be of the form |y|=A x^m, where A>0, m \geq 0, and x>0. The case of 01 corresponds to a cusp, whereas m=1 corresponds to a wedge. The inviscid fluid tip retreats in the process of relaxation, forming a lobe which size grows with time. Combining analytical and numerical methods we find that, for any m, the relaxation dynamics exhibit self-similar behavior. For m\neq 1 this behavior arises as an intermediate asymptotics: at late times for 0\leq m<1, and at early times for m>1. In both cases the retreat distance and the lobe size exhibit power law behaviors in time with different dynamic exponents, uniquely determined by the value of m. In the special case of m=1 (the wedge) the similarity is exact and holds for the whole interface at all times t>0, while the two dynamic exponents merge to become 1/3. Surprisingly, when m\neq 1, the interface shape, rescaled to the local maximum elevation of the interface, turns out to be universal (that is, independent of m) in the similarity region. Even more remarkably, the same rescaled interface shape emerges in the case of m=1 in the limit of zero wedge angle.
description: 10 pages, 14 figures, to appear in a special issue of Physica D entitled "Physics and Mathematics of Growing Interfaces"
Delta Expansion on the Lattice and Dilated Scaling Region
Creators: name: Yamada, Hirofumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new kind of delta expansion is applied on the lattice to the d=2 non-linear sigma model at N=infinity and N=1 which corresponds to the Ising model. We introduce the parameter delta for the dilation of the scaling region of the model with the replacement of the lattice spacing a to (1-delta)^{1/2}a. Then, we demonstrate that the expansion in delta admits an approximation of the scaling behavior of the model at both limits of N from the information at a large lattice spacing a.
description: 11 pages, 18 figures
Analgesic efficacy of dexketoprofen/tramadol versus dexketoprofen, tramadol and placebo: analyses by pain response rate
Creators: name: Bartomeu Pizà-Vallespir
name: Cuadripani, Susanna
name: Bertolotti, Monica
name: Bayón, Cristina Guerrero
name: Contini, Maria Paola
name: Scartoni, Simona
name: Nizzardo, Andrea
name: Madami, Andrea
name: Borràs, Liset
name: Creus, Laura
name: Lario, Isabel Paredes
name: McQuay, Henry J
name: R Andrew Moore
name: Capriati, Angela
name: Maggi, Carlo Alberto
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Two randomised clinical trials (DEX-TRA-04 and DEX-TRA-05) assessed the analgesic efficacy of a new oral fixed combination tablet of dexketoprofen trometamol/tramadol hydrochloride 25mg/75mg (DKP/TRAM 25/75mg) in comparison to dexketoprofen trometamol 25mg (DKP 25mg), tramadol hydrochloride 100mg (TRAM 100mg) and placebo for the relief of moderate-to-severe acute pain. In the studies, patients were considered as “responder to treatment” if the mean pain intensity (PI) over 8 hours post-dose, measured on a 0-100 visual analogue scale (VAS), was lower than moderate (PI-VAS <40). Additional analyses according to more restrictive criteria of response to treatment (PI-VAS <30 and <20) were performed in order to further differentiate the treatments and confirm the superior  analgesic benefit of DKP/TRAM 25/75mg.
Sex-Specific Genetic Determinants of Asthma-COPD Phenotype and COPD in Middle-Aged and Older Canadian Adults: An Analysis of CLSA Data
Creators: name: Odimba, Ugochukwu
name: Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan
name: Farrell, Jamie
name: Gao, Zhiwei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The etiology of sex differences in the risk of asthma-COPD phenotype and COPD is still not completely understood. Genetic and environmental risk factors are commonly believed to play an important role. This study aims to identify sex-specific genetic markers associated with asthma-COPD phenotype and COPD using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Baseline Comprehensive and Genomic data. There were a total of 1,415 COPD cases. Out of them, 504 asthma-COPD phenotype cases were identified. 20,524 participants without a diagnosis of asthma and COPD served as controls. We performed genome-wide SNP-by-sex interaction analysis. SNPs with an interaction p-value < 10−5 were included in a sex-stratified multivariable logistic regression for asthma-COPD phenotype and COPD outcomes. 18 and 28 SNPs had a significant interaction term p-value < 10−5 with sex in the regression analyses of asthma-COPD phenotype and COPD outcomes, respectively. Sex-stratified multivariable analysis of asthma-COPD phenotype showed that 7 SNPs in/near SMYD3, FHIT, ZNF608, RIMBP2, ZNF133, BPIFB1, and S100B loci were significant in males. Sex-stratified multivariable analysis of COPD showed that 8 SNPs in/near MAGI1, COX18, OSTC, ELOVL5, C7orf72 FGF14, and NKAIN4 were significant in males, and 4 SNPs in/near genes CAMTA1, SATB2, PDE10A, and LINC00908 were significant in females. An SNP in the ZPBP gene was associated with COPD in both males and females. Identification of sex-specific loci associated with asthma-COPD phenotype and COPD may offer valuable evidence toward a better understanding of the sex-specific differences in the pathophysiology of the diseases.
Super-Weyl invariance in 5D supergravity
Creators: name: Kuzenko, Sergei M.
name: Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a superspace formulation for the Weyl multiplet of N=1 conformal supergravity in five dimensions. The corresponding superspace constraints are invariant under super-Weyl transformations generated by a real scalar parameter. The minimal supergravity multiplet, which was introduced by Howe in 1981, emerges if one couples the Weyl multiplet to an Abelian vector multiplet and then breaks the super-Weyl invariance by imposing the gauge condition W=1, with W the field strength of the vector multiplet. The geometry of superspace is shown to allow the existence of a large family of off-shell supermultiplets that possess uniquely determined super-Weyl transformation laws and can be used to describe supersymmetric matter. Many of these supermultiplets have not appeared within the superconformal tensor calculus. We formulate a manifestly locally supersymmetric and super-Weyl invariant action principle. In the super-Weyl gauge W=1, this action reduces to that constructed in arXiv:0712.3102. We also present a superspace formulation for the dilaton Weyl multiplet.
description: 20 pages, LaTex, no figures; V2: typos corrected, version to appear in JHEP; V3: typo above eq. (5.21) corrected
Non-destructive interferometric characterization of an optical dipole trap
Creators: name: Petrov, Plamen G.
name: Oblak, Daniel
name: Alzar, Carlos L. Garrido
name: Kjaergaard, Niels
name: Polzik, Eugene S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for non-destructive characterization of a dipole trapped atomic sample is presented. It relies on a measurement of the phase-shift imposed by cold atoms on an optical pulse that propagates through a free space Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Using this technique we are able to determine, with very good accuracy, relevant trap parameters such as the atomic sample temperature, trap oscillation frequencies and loss rates. Another important feature is that our method is faster than conventional absorption or fluorescence techniques, allowing the combination of high-dynamical range measurements and a reduced number of spontaneous emission events per atom.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRA
Pooled Data of randomised trials of dexketoprofen/tramadol 25/75mg on moderate-to-severe acute pain: the analgesic efficacy by eight-hour TOTPAR
Creators: name: Cuadripani, Susanna
name: Bertolotti, Monica
name: Bartomeu Pizà-Vallespir
name: Bayón, Cristina Guerrero
name: Contini, Maria Paola
name: Scartoni, Simona
name: Nizzardo, Andrea
name: Madami, Andrea
name: Borràs, Liset
name: Creus, Laura
name: Lario, Isabel Paredes
name: McQuay, Henry J
name: R Andrew Moore
name: Capriati, Angela
name: Maggi, Carlo Alberto
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: The aim of the investigation was to explore the analgesic efficacy of dexketoprofen trometamol 25mg/tramadol hydrochloride 75mg (DKP/TRAM 25/75mg) fixed-dose combination versus DKP 25mg and TRAM 75 or 100mg to treat moderate-to-severe acute pain in different well-sized subgroups, particularly those with severe pain.

Considering that the results of subgroups analysis are usually not conclusive due to the limited number of patients in the subgroups, the data of three previously
conducted double blind, randomised and placebo-controlled clinical trials testing the analgesic efficacy of DKP/TRAM 25/75mg in comparison to the monocomponents were pooled and re-analysed.

These three studies were conducted in different models of moderate-to-severe acute pain (namely, impacted third molar extraction, major gynaecological surgery
and major orthopaedic surgery).

In all three studies only patients with at least moderate initial pain [i.e. having a pain intensity (PI) of ≥40 on a 0-100 visual-analogue scale (VAS)] were randomised.
In the three studies considered, pain relief (PAR) was assessed by patients at predefined time points on a five-point verbal rating scale (VRS, 0=none, 1=slight,
2=moderate, 3=good, 4=complete). Total pain relief (TOTPAR) score for a given time interval was calculated as the sum of the PAR scores at each time point over
that interval multiplied by the amount of time (in hours) since the prior assessment.

TOTPAR8 reflects the cumulative treatment response over 8 hours after first study drug intake (area under the curve for PAR against time).
Ultracold heteronuclear molecules and ferroelectric superfluids
Creators: name: Iskin, M.
name: de Melo, C. A. R. Sa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the possibility of a ferroelectric transition in heteronuclear molecules consisting of Bose-Bose, Bose-Fermi or Fermi-Fermi atom pairs. This transition is characterized by the appearance of a spontaneous electric polarization below a critical temperature. We discuss the existence of a ferroelectric Fermi liquid phase for Fermi molecules and the existence of a ferroelectric superfluid phase for Bose molecules characterized by the coexistence of ferroelectric and superfluid orders. Lastly, we propose an experiment to detect ferroelectric correlations through the observation of coherent dipole radiation pulses during time of flight.
description: 4 pages and 3 figures
Personal Data Access Control Through Distributed Authorization
Creators: name: Zichichi, Mirko
name: Ferretti, Stefano
name: D'Angelo, Gabriele
name: Rodríguez-Doncel, Víctor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an architecture of a Personal Information Management System, in which individuals can define the access to their personal data by means of smart contracts. These smart contracts, running on the Ethereum blockchain, implement access control lists and grant immutability, traceability and verifiability of the references to personal data, which is stored itself in a (possibly distributed) file system. A distributed authorization mechanism is devised, where trust from multiple network nodes is necessary to grant the access to the data. To this aim, two possible alternatives are described: a Secret Sharing scheme and Threshold Proxy Re-Encryption scheme. The performance of these alternatives is experimentally compared in terms of execution time. Threshold Proxy Re-Encryption appears to be faster in different scenarios, in particular when increasing message size, number of nodes and the threshold value, i.e. number of nodes needed to grant the data disclosure.
Transcription of "Verdena's Life story, Part 2"
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Newbold, Lindsey
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-150711-08: Transcription of Verdena's Life Story, Part 2 (file VP-041009-02), from 29:19 to the end of the file. A file VP-150711-09 was created with the microphone turned off, so no sound was recorded and the file was subsequently deleted, leading to the gap in the numbering sequence (VP-150711-08 to VP-150711-10a/c).
Tau Functions of (n,1) curves and Soliton Solutions on Non-Zero Constant Backgrounds
Creators: name: Nakayashiki, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37K40, 35C08, 14H70

description: We study the tau function of the KP-hierarchy associated with an (n,1) curve $y^n=x-α$. If $α=0$ the corresponding tau function is 1. On the other hand if $α\neq 0$ the tau function becomes the exponential of a quadratic function of the time variables. By applying vertex opertaors to the latter we obtain soliton solutions on non-zero constant backgrounds.
description: 27 pages, no figure
Dirac particles tunneling from BTZ black hole
Creators: name: Li, Ran
name: Ren, Ji-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated the Dirac Particles' Hawking radiation from the outer horizon of BTZ black hole via tunneling formalism. Applying WKB approximation to the Dirac equation in (2+1) dimensional BTZ spacetime background, we obtain the radiation spectrum for fermions and Hawking temperature of BTZ black hole. The results obtained by taking the fermion tunneling into account is consistent with the previous literatures.
description: 7 pages, no figure, accepted by PLB
Facilitators and Barriers of Adherence to Multi-Disease Exacerbation Action Plans in COPD Patients – A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Schrijver, J.
name: Effing, T.
name: Brusse-Keizer, M.
name: van der Palen, J.
name: van der Valk, P.
name: Lenferink, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Whereas exacerbation action plans to self-manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) significantly improve health outcomes, patients’ adherence to those action plans is often poor. This study aimed to identify facilitators and barriers of adherence to tailored multi-disease exacerbation action plans. We also explored patients’ perspectives toward disease management roles. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of COPD patients who completed a Dutch-Australian self-management intervention evaluating tailored exacerbation action plans for COPD and relevant comorbidities. Interviews were thematically analyzed using a deductive approach guided by the Capability, Opportunity and Motivation of Behavior (COM-B) model. In 2016, ten patients (5 Australian; 5 Dutch; 6 men; age 59-83 years) were interviewed at the end of their one-year follow-up. Facilitators of adherence included improved patients’ comprehension of disease and treatment, positive feelings about the intervention, improved self-confidence, and professional support. Barriers included difficulties to recognize symptoms, dislike toward daily symptom monitoring, negative feelings about the intervention, negative mood state, and complexity of symptom diaries and action plans. Patients indicated three distinctive perspectives of their own and their healthcare professional’s role in their disease management: 1) patients felt mainly responsible; 2) patients felt shared responsibility with their healthcare professional; and 3) patients felt not responsible as they perceived their healthcare professional to be mainly responsible. We successfully used the COM-B model as a guide to identify facilitators and barriers of patients’ adherence to multi-disease exacerbation action plans. Improving patients’ adherence in future self-management interventions by targeting specific facilitators or barriers should be considered.
title: Cold Water Immersion Enhanced Athletes’ Wellness and 10-m Short Sprint Performance 24-h After a Simulated Mixed Martial Arts Combat
Creators: name: Tabben, Montassar
name: Ihsan, Mohammed
name: Ghoul, Nihel
name: Coquart, Jeremy
name: Chaouachi, Anis
name: Chaabene, Helmi
name: Tourny, Claire
name: Chamari, Karim
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of Cold Water Immersion (CWI) on the recovery of physical performance, hematological stress markers and perceived wellness (i.e., Hooper scores) following a simulated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competition. Methods: Participants completed two experimental sessions in a counter-balanced order (CWI or passive recovery for control condition: CON), after a simulated MMAs competition (3 x 5-min MMA rounds separated by 1-min of passive rest). During CWI, athletes were required to submerge their bodies, except the trunk, neck and head, in the seated position in a temperature-controlled bath (similar to 10 degrees C) for 15-min. During CON, athletes were required to be in a seated position for 15-min in same room ambient temperature. Venous blood samples (creatine kinase, cortisol, and testosterone concentrations) were collected at rest (PRE-EX, i.e., before MMAs), immediately following MMAs (POST-EX), immediately following recovery (POST-R) and 24 h post MMAs (POST-24), whilst physical fitness (squat jump, countermovement-jump and 5- and 10-m sprints) and perceptual measures (well-being Hooper index: fatigue, stress, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), and sleep) were collected at PRE-EX, POST-R and POST-24, and at PRE-EX and POST-24, respectively. Results: The main results indicate that POST-R sprint (5- and 10-m) performances were 'likely to very likely' (d = 0.64 and 0.65) impaired by prior CWI. However, moderate improvements were in 10-m sprint performance were 'likely' evident at POST-24 after CWI compared with CON (d = 0.53). Additionally, the use of CWI 'almost certainly' resulted in a large overall improvement in Hooper scores (d = 1.93). Specifically, CWI 'almost certainly' resulted in improved sleep quality (d = 1.36), stress (d = 1.56) and perceived fatigue (d = 1.51), and 'likely' resulted in a moderate decrease in DOMS (d = 0.60). Conclusion: The use of CWI resulted in an enhanced recovery of 10-m sprint performance, as well as improved perceived wellness 24-h following simulated MMA competition.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 707
Disaggregate dynamics and economic growth in Canada
Creators: name: Wakerly, Elizabeth Clare
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis takes the form of three essays in which I use disaggregate and aggregate information to examine Canadian economic growth. In the first essay, I present evidence that the process of economic growth differs for low income per capita provinces and industries. This contrasts with results from traditional studies of economic convergence. In those papers, estimates of a rate of convergence suggest that poor provinces eventually "catch up" to rich provinces by growing faster. Unfortunately, this approach ignores the pattern of economic growth within the cross-section distribution. Explicitly modelling the evolving distribution, I find little mobility in the cross-sectional ordering and some evidence of divergence. In the long run, the poor stay (relatively) poor and the rich remain (relatively) rich. In the second essay, I examine the dynamic effects of aggregate and disaggregate disturbances on both economic growth and the interaction between disaggregates. The approach is motivated by the class of models which predict two-way interaction between aggregate and disaggregate behaviour, such as Durlauf [28]. The disaggregate disturbance is identified as having no long-run impact on aggregate economic growth. I find that the aggregate shock has a large impact on aggregate income in both the short and long run; and accounts for most of its variation. The disaggregate shock contains some information for aggregate activity at business cycle horizons. Most interaction is explained by the disaggregate disturbance; the aggregate shock contributes little. In the third essay, I present results from a variety of unit root tests on provincial and manufacturing industry panel income data. Standard Dickey- Fuller unit root tests applied to panels require averaging of data across the cross-section. More powerful tests allow pooling of cross-section and time-series information. Using these methods, I find that the null hypothesis of a unit root is rejected—strongly contrasting with results obtained using the standard Dickey-Fuller methodology.
Comparing inclination dependent analyses of kilonova transients
Creators: name: Heinzel, J.
name: Coughlin, M. W.
name: Dietrich, T.
name: Bulla, M.
name: Antier, S.
name: Christensen, N.
name: Coulter, D. A.
name: Foley, R. J.
name: Issa, L.
name: Khetan, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of AT2017gfo proved that binary neutron star mergers are progenitors of kilonovae. Using a combination of numerical-relativity and radiative-transfer simulations, the community has developed sophisticated models for these transients for a wide portion of the expected parameter space. Using these simulations and surrogate models made from them, it has been possible to perform Bayesian inference of the observed signals to infer properties of the ejected matter. It has been pointed out that combining inclination constraints derived from the kilonova with gravitational-wave measurements increases the accuracy with which binary parameters can be measured and allows a more accurate inference of the Hubble Constant. In order to not introduce biases, constraints on the inclination angle for AT2017gfo should be insensitive to the employed models. In this work, we compare different assumptions about the ejecta and radiative reprocesses used by the community and we investigate their impact on the parameter inference. While most inferred parameters agree, we find disagreement between posteriors for the inclination angle for different geometries that have been used in the literature. According to our study, the inclusion of reprocessing of the photons between different ejecta types improves the modeling fits to AT2017gfo and in some cases affects the inferred constraints. Our study motivates the inclusion of large $\sim$ 1 mag uncertainties in the kilonova models employed for Bayesian analysis to capture yet unknown systematics, especially when inferring inclination angles, although smaller uncertainties seem appropriate to capture model systematics for other parameters. We also use this method to impose soft constraints on the ejecta geometry of the kilonova AT2017gfo.
Swarat, Uwe / Oeldemann, Johannes / Heller, Dagmar (Hrsg.), Von Gott angenommen - in Christus verwandelt
Creators: name: Hoff, Gregor Maria
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 57 Nr. 3 (2008): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 57, Heft 3
Anaesthetic effects in thalamocortical neurons
Creators: name: Ries, Craig Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The perturbation that is responsible for the anaesthetic-induced unconscious state remains undefined because of an incomplete understanding of awareness and the non-specific nature of anaesthetic actions. Recent investigations into sleep mechanisms show that thalamocortical neurons prevent throughput-gating of sensory information to the cerebral cortex, yet orchestrate oscillating cortical activity as part of consciousness. Extrinsic neuromodulation of membrane potential and intrinsic voltage-dependent firing patterns regulate this gating during wakefulness and sleep. The objective was to determine the effects of inhalational anaesthetics on intrinsic firing activities of thalamocortical neurons. Investigations were carried out on ventrobasal neurons from thalamic brain slices of juvenile rats. The whole-cell patch-clamp method was used with current-clamp and voltage-clamp recording techniques. Aqueous applications of the inhalational anaesthetic, isoflurane (IFL), were studied in detail at 22°C to determine concentration-response relations, to approximate in vivo potencies at 31°C, to compare effects of IFL with halothane and enflurane, and to assess the universality of anaesthetic action in thalamic neurons. IFL inhibited evoked tonic firing of action potentials (wakefulness mode) by increasing membrane conductance and inducing hyperpolarization in a reversible and concentrationdependent manner. IFL, halothane and enflurane were equipotent in producing similar effects, whereas IFL concentrations, that were proportionate to in vivo concentrations, increased conductance by 15-30%. Despite the hyperpolarization, IFL also suppressed burst firing (sleep mode). The inhibition of firing was mainly due to a shunt, as the increased conductance "shortcircuited" the effectiveness of DC current injections which thereby reduced the spatial distribution of voltage responses. The increased conductance was direct (postsynaptic) and voltage-independent, reversing near the calculated equilibrium potential for K⁺. The IFL-induced conductance increase was dependent on the external [K⁺] and was suppressed by either external Ba2⁺ or internal Cs⁺ applications. In summary, IFL inhibited thalamic relay neuron excitabilities by increasing a K⁺ leak conductance. Together with the thalamic roles in consciousness of cortical gateway and orchestrator, suppression of the activities of thalamocortical neurons may be critically important to the production of in vivo anaesthesia.
Saprodinium dentatum Lauterborn 1908
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Spirotrichea
Odontostomatida
Epalxellidae
Saprodinium
Saprodinium dentatum

description: Saprodinium dentatum (Lauterborn, 1901) Lauterborn, 1908
Distribution. BRAZIL: Paraná River between the Nupelia’s Field Station and the district of Porto São José, São Pedro do Paraná (Buosi et al. 2014 b, 2015), (Ad).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Asteroseismological constraints on the pulsating planetary nebula nucleus (PG1159-type) RX J2117.1+3412
Creators: name: Córsico, A. H.
name: Althaus, L. G.
name: Bertolami, M. M. Miller
name: Werner, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present asteroseismological inferences on RX J2117.1+3412, the hottest known pulsating PG1159 star. Our results are based on full PG1159 evolutionary models recently presented by Miller Bertolami & Althaus (2006). We performed extensive computations of adiabatic g-mode pulsation periods on PG1159 evolutionary models with stellar masses ranging from 0.530 to 0.741 Mo. PG1159 stellar models are extracted from the complete evolution of progenitor stars started from the ZAMS, through the thermally pulsing AGB and born-again phases to the domain of the PG 1159 stars. We constrained the stellar mass of RX J2117.1+3412 by comparing the observed period spacing with the asymptotic period spacing and with the average of the computed period spacings. We also employed the individual observed periods to find a representative seismological model. We derive a stellar mass of 0.56-0.57 Mo from the period spacing data alone. In addition, we found a best-fit model representative for RX J2117.1+3412 with an effective temperature of 163,400 K, a stellar mass of 0.565 Mo, and a surface gravity log g= 6.61. The derived stellar luminosity and radius are log(L/Lo)= 3.36 and log(R/Ro)= -1.23, respectively, and the He-rich envelope thickness is Menv= 0.02 Mo. We derive a seismic distance of 452 pc and a linear size of the planetary nebula of 1.72 pc. These inferences seem to solve the discrepancy between the RX J2117.1+3412 evolutionary timescale and the size of the nebula. All of the seismological tools we use concur to the conclusion that RX J2117.1+3412 must have a stellar mass of 0.565 Mo much in agreement with recent asteroseismology studies and in clear conflict with the predictions of spectroscopy plus evolutionary tracks.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Erratum available as a separate file