cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Black Strings from Minimal Geometric Deformation in a Variable Tension Brane-World
Creators: name: Casadio, Roberto
name: Ovalle, Jorge
name: da Rocha, Roldao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study brane-world models with variable brane tension and compute corrections to the horizon of a black string along the extra dimension. The four-dimensional geometry of the black string on the brane is obtained by means of the minimal geometric deformation approach, and the bulk corrections are then encoded in additional terms involving the covariant derivatives of the variable brane tension. Our investigation shows that the variable brane tension strongly affects the shape and evolution of the black string horizon along the extra dimension, at least in a near-brane expansion. In particular, we apply our general analysis to a model motivated by the Eötvös branes, where the variable brane tension is related to the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker brane-world cosmology. We show that for some stages in the evolution of the universe, the black string warped horizon collapses to a point and the black string has correspondingly finite extent along the extra dimension. Furthermore, we show that in the minimal geometric deformation of a black hole on the variable tension brane, the black string has a throat along the extra dimension, whose area tends to zero as time goes to infinity.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Effective Management of Upper Limb Parkinsonian Tremor by IncobotulinumtoxinA Injections Using Sensor-based Biomechanical Patterns
Creators: name: Rahimi, Fariborz
name: Samotus, Olivia
name: Lee, Jack
name: Jog, Mandar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Botulinum toxin
subject: Parkinson's disease--Treatment
subject: Biomechanics
subject: Movement disorders
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Focal treatment of Parkinson’s disease tremor by botulinum toxin type A incobotulinumtoxinA (BoNT-A) injections has been inadequately investigated and at best provides modest relief with significant muscle weakness. Complexity of multi-joint tremulous movements results in non-individualized dosing regimens. This 38-week open-label study used kinematic technology to guide muscle selection and improve efficacy of incobotulinumtoxinA (BoNT-A) injections for Parkinson’s disease tremor.

Methods: Participants (n=28) attended study visits at weeks 0, 6, 16, 22, 32, and 38, and were injected with BoNT-A at weeks 0, 16, and 32. During each visit, clinical tremor scales, the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) and the Fahn–Tolosa–Marin (FTM), and kinematic assessments were conducted. Participants performed rest and postural scripted tasks with motion sensors placed over the wrist, elbow, and shoulder joints where tremor was quantified by angular root mean square (RMS) amplitude in multiple degrees of freedom at each joint. Injection parameters were determined using the clinician’s interpretation of which muscles would contribute to the upper limb tremor biomechanics analyzed kinematically.

Results: Kinematic measures of tremor amplitude allowed detailed segmentation of tremor into directional components at each arm joint permitting a statistically significant decrease in mean UPDRS item 20 (rest tremor) at week 16 (p=0.006) and at week 32 (p=0.014), and in FTM tremor severity scores at week 6 (p=0.024). Ten participants perceived mild muscle weakness following the third treatment, which did not interfere with performing activities of daily living.

Discussion: Kinematics is a simple method for standardizing assessments and treatment of upper limb Parkinson’s disease tremor, thereby personalizing tremor therapy and optimizing the effect of BoNT-A injections for Parkinson’s disease tremor.
Food Combination and Alzheimer Disease Risk: A Protective Diet
Creators: name: Gu, Yian
name: Nieves, Jeri W.
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Luchsinger, Jose A.
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease--Etiology
Nutritionally induced diseases
Diet
Food combining
Alzheimer's disease
Mental health
Nutrition
Food--Analysis
Epidemiology

description: Objective: To assess the association between food combination and Alzheimer disease (AD) risk. Because foods are not consumed in isolation, dietary pattern (DP) analysis of food combination, taking into account the interactions among food components, may offer methodological advantages. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Northern Manhattan, New York, New York. Patients or Other Participants: Two thousand one hundred forty-eight community-based elderly subjects (aged ≥65 years) without dementia in New York provided dietary information and were prospectively evaluated with the same standardized neurological and neuropsychological measures approximately every 1.5 years. Using reduced rank regression, we calculated DPs based on their ability to explain variation in 7 potentially AD-related nutrients: saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E, vitamin B12, and folate. The associations of reduced rank regression–derived DPs with AD risk were then examined using a Cox proportional hazards model. Main Outcome Measure: Incident AD risk. Results: Two hundred fifty-three subjects developed AD during a follow-up of 3.9 years. We identified a DP strongly associated with lower AD risk: compared with subjects in the lowest tertile of adherence to this pattern, the AD hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) for subjects in the highest DP tertile was 0.62 (0.43-0.89) after multivariable adjustment (P for trend = .01). This DP was characterized by higher intakes of salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes, poultry, cruciferous vegetables, fruits, and dark and green leafy vegetables and a lower intake of high-fat dairy products, red meat, organ meat, and butter. Conclusion: Simultaneous consideration of previous knowledge regarding potentially AD-related nutrients and multiple food groups can aid in identifying food combinations that are associated with AD risk.
Proteles cristatus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Protelidae
Proteles
Proteles cristatus

description: Proteles cristatus (Sparrman, 1783). Bull. Sei. Soc. Philom. Paris, p. 139. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Somerset East, near Little Fish River. DISTRIBUTION: Sudan; Ethiopia; Somalia; Central African Republic; E. and S. Africa. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Botswana). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412006003001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
title: Shyness in the Classroom
title: A Study in Nonverbal Communication Codes
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Radway, Nora E.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This study examined the experiences of shy, introverted, and apprehensive students in the college classroom. This study was framed by multiple goals theory to discover how these students use nonverbal communication to achieve their task, identity, and relational goals in the classroom. Shy, introverted, and apprehensive students face challenges in the classroom especially when asked to verbally participate or give presentations that their more outgoing classmates may not face. Participants (N = 16) participated in focus groups where they discussed their experiences, perceptions, and feelings about participation in their college courses. Results showed that these students do experience apprehension in communication situations, often avoiding participation when possible, and that they do use nonverbal communication to meet their task, identity, and relational
goals in the classroom. Implications for theory and for both students and instructors, limitations, and future directions for research are discussed.
description: Copyright © Nora E. Radway, 2019
Systematic Literature Review of AbobotulinumtoxinA in Clinical Trials for Blepharospasm and Hemifacial Spasm
Creators: name: Dashtipour, Khashayar
name: Chen, Jack J.
name: Frei, Karen
name: Nahab, Fatta
name: Tagliati, Michelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tic disorders--Alternative treatment
subject: Eyelids--Diseases
subject: Movement disorders
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Background: The aim was to elucidate clinical trial efficacy, safety, and dosing practices of abobotulinumtoxinA (ABO) treatment in adult patients with blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm. To date, most literature reviews for blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm have examined the effectiveness of all botulinum neurotoxin type A products as a class. However, differences in dosing units and recommended schemes provide a clear rationale for reviewing each product separately.

Methods: A systematic literature review was performed to identify randomized controlled trials and other comparative clinical studies of ABO in the treatment of blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm published in English between January 1991 and March 2015. Medical literature databases (PubMed, Cochrane library, EMBASE) were searched. A total of five primary publications that evaluated ABO for the management of blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm were identified and summarized.

Results: Data included 374 subjects with blepharospasm and 172 subjects with hemifacial spasm treated with ABO. Total ABO doses ranged between 80 and 340 U for blepharospasm and 25 and 85 U for hemifacial spasm, depending on the severity of the clinical condition. All studies showed statistically significant benefits for the treatment of blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm. ABO was generally well tolerated across the individual studies. Adverse events considered to be associated with ABO treatment included: ptosis, tearing, blurred vision, double vision, dry eyes, and facial weakness.

Discussion: These data from 5 randomized clinical studies represents the available evidence base of ABO in blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm. Future studies in this area will add to this evidence base.
Improvement of Primary Writing Tremor in Parkinson’s Disease with Carbidopa/Levodopa
Creators: name: Battista, James P.
name: Greene, Paule E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Parkinson's disease--Treatment
subject: Dopa
subject: Movement disorders
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Primary writing tremor is a task-specific phenomenon that has been described as variants of essential tremor or dystonia.

Phenomenology Shown: We describe the case of a 63-year-old female who initially had primary writing tremor, later developed Parkinson’s disease, and once initiated on carbidopa/levodopa had improvement in her parkinsonism and her writing tremor.

Educational Value: As neither essential tremor nor typical brachial dystonia respond to carbidopa/levodopa, our case documents that at least some cases of primary writing tremor are not variants of either dystonia or essential tremor.
Surface Defects and Resolvents
Creators: name: Gaiotto, Davide
name: Gukov, Sergei
name: Seiberg, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a large class of BPS surface defects in 4d N=2 gauge theories. They are defined by coupling a 2d N=(2,2) gauged linear sigma model to the 4d bulk degrees of freedom. Our main result is an efficient computation of the effective twisted superpotential for all these models in terms of a basic object closely related to the resolvent of the 4d gauge theory, which encodes the curve describing the 4d low energy dynamics. We reproduce and extend the results of brane constructions and compute the effective twisted superpotential for general monodromy surface defects. We encounter novel, puzzling field theory phenomena in the low energy dynamics of the simplest surface defects and we propose some local models to explain them. We also study in some detail the behavior of surface defects near monopole points of the bulk theory's Coulomb branch. Finally, we explore the effect on the defect of breaking the bulk supersymmetry from N=2 to N=1 and show that certain quantities are independent of this breaking.
description: 59 pages, 8 figures, references added
Hyaenidae Gray 1821
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Hyaenidae

description: Family Hyaenidae REVIEWED BY: I. Rieger (IR); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR) (U.S. S.R.); H. J. Stains (HJS). COMMENT: Formerly included Protelidae; see Ansell, 1978:44; Coetzee, 1977, Part 8:35; but also see Stains, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 343; Corbet and Hill, 1980:103. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412006000000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.", "Stains, H. J. 1967. Carnivores, Pp. 325 - 354, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 453 pp.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
Evolution of the Superconductivity Dome in the two dimensional Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Chen, Kuang-Shing
name: Meng, Zi Yang
name: Yang, Shu-Xiang
name: Pruschke, Thomas
name: Moreno, Juana
name: Jarrell, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent publication [Chen et al., Phys. Rev. B 86, 165136 (2012)], we identified a line of Lifshitz transition points separating the Fermi liquid and pseudogap regions in the hole-doped two dimensional Hubbard model. Here we extend the study to further determine the superconducting transition temperature in the phase diagram. By means of large-scale dynamical cluster quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we are able to identify the evolution of the d-wave superconducting dome in the hole-dope side of the phase diagram, with next-nearest-neighbor hopping (t'), chemical potential and temperature as control parameters. To obtain the superconducting transition temperature Tc, we employ two-particle measurements of the pairing susceptibilities. As t' goes from positive to negative values, we find the d-wave projected irreducible pairing vertex function is enhanced, and the curvature of its doping dependence changes from convex to concave, which fixes the position of the maximum superconducting temperature at the same filling (n close to 0.85) and constraints the dome from precisely following the Lifshitz line. We furthermore decompose the irreducible vertex function into fully irreducible, charge and spin components via the parquet equations, and consistently find that the spin component dominates the pairing vertex function in the doping range where the dome is located. Our investigations deepen the understanding of the phase diagram of the two dimensional Hubbard model.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Hyla aurifasciata Schlegel 1837
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hylidae
Hyla
Hyla aurifasciata

description: Hyla aurifasciata Schlegel, 1837
 Schlegel, 1837 -1844. Abbild. Neuer Unvollst. Amph., 1: 27; tab. IX, fig. 4. Current name: Philautus aurifasciatus (Schlegel, 1837)
Lectotype: RMNH 4266 A, 1 spec. Loc.: “innern bergigen Gegenden der Insel Java” [Indonesia]. Leg.: S. Müller.
Paralectotypes: RMNH 4266 B-F, 5 spec. Loc.: “innern bergigen Gegenden der Insel Java” [Indonesia]. Leg.: S. Müller.
 Remarks. RMNH 4266 A was designated lectotype by Bossuyt & Dubois (2001: 12). Though the publication date on the first page of Schlegel’s Abbildungen is 1837-1844, the work was issued in parts. See Stejneger’s Herpetology of Japan (1907: 540) for the publication dates.
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
Management of Neuroacanthocytosis Syndromes
Creators: name: Walker, Ruth H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nervous system--Degeneration
subject: Dystonia
subject: Movement disorders
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine

description: Background: The two core neuroacanthocytosis (NA) syndromes, chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc) and McLeod syndrome, are progressive neurodegenerative disorders that primarily affect the basal ganglia. The characteristic phenotype comprises a variety of movement disorders including chorea, dystonia, and parkinsonism, as well as psychiatric and cognitive symptoms attributable to basal ganglia dysfunction. These disorders are symptomatically managed on a case-by-case basis, with very few practitioners seeing more than a single case in their careers.

Methods: A literature search was performed on PubMed utilizing the terms neuroacanthocytosis, chorea-acanthocytosis, and McLeod syndrome, and articles were reviewed for mentions of therapies, successful or otherwise.

Results: There have been no blinded, controlled trials and only one retrospective case series describing ChAc. The various therapies that have been used in patients with NA syndromes are summarized.

Discussion: Management remains at present purely symptomatic, which is similar in principle to other more common basal ganglia neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington’s disease (HD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, there are some specific issues particular to NA syndromes that merit attention. An integrated multidisciplinary approach is the ideal management strategy for these complex and multifaceted neurodegenerative disorders.
High resolution photoassociation spectroscopy of the $^{6}$Li$_2$ $A(1^1Σ_u^+)$ state
Creators: name: Gunton, Will
name: Semczuk, Mariusz
name: Dattani, Nikesh S.
name: Madison, Kirk W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic measurements of seven vibrational levels $v=29-35$ of the $A(1^1Σ_u^+)$ excited state of Li$_2$ molecules by the photoassociation of a degenerate Fermi gas of $^6$Li atoms. The absolute uncertainty of our measurements is $\pm 0.00002$ cm$^{-1}$ ($\pm 600$ kHz) and we use these new data to further refine an analytic potential for this state. This work provides high accuracy photo-association resonance locations essential for the eventual high resolution mapping of the $X(1^1Σ_g^+)$ state enabling further improvements to the s-wave scattering length determination of Li and enabling the eventual creation of ultra-cold ground state $^6$Li$_2$ molecules.
title: An Assessment of Historical Traffic Forecast Accuracy and Sources of Forecast Error
Creators: name: Hoque, Jawad Mahmud
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Transportation infrastructure improvement projects are typically huge and have significant economic and environmental effects. Forecasts of demand of the facility in the form of traffic level help size the project as well as choose between several alternatives. Inaccuracy in these forecasts can thus have a great impact on the efficiency of the operational design and the benefits accrued from the project against the cost. Despite this understanding, evaluation of traffic forecast inaccuracy has been too few, especially for un-tolled roads in the United States. This study, part of a National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) funded project, bridges this gap in knowledge by analyzing the historical inaccuracy of the traffic forecasts based on a database created as part of the project. The results show a general over-prediction of traffic with actual traffic deviating from forecast by about 17.29% on an average. The study also compares the relative accuracy of forecasts on several categorical variables. Besides enumerating the error in forecasts, this exploration presents the potential factors influencing accuracy. The results from this analysis can help create an uncertainty window around the forecast based on the explanatory variables, which can be an alternate risk analysis technique to sensitivity testing.
description: Copyright © Jawad Mahmud Hoque 2019
description: Funding Information:
This research is sponsored by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) project 08-110: Traffic Forecast Accuracy Assessment Research
Buff notebooks [Langrishe, Go Down] (01)
Creators: name: Higgins, Aidan, 1927-2015
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Authorship
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/822442
subject: Authors, Irish
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/822116
subject: Fiction
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787
subject: Literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/999953
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: English literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/911989
subject: English literature--Irish authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/912074
subject: Modernism (Literature)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172

description: First of three bound journal/notebooks containing handwritten notes and drawings by Aidan Higgins for his novel "Langrishe, Go Down" (1966).
Topological changes in data-driven dynamic security assessment for power system control
Creators: name: Bellizio, Federica
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: The integration of renewable energy sources into the power system requires new operating paradigms. The higher uncertainty in generation and demand makes the operations much more dynamic than in the past. Novel operating approaches that consider these new dynamics are needed to operate the system close to its physical limits and fully utilise the existing grid assets. Otherwise, expensive investments in redundant grid infrastructure become necessary. This thesis reviews the key role of digitalisation in the shift toward a decarbonised and decentralised power system. Algorithms based on advanced data analytic techniques and machine learning are investigated to operate the system assets at the full capacity while continuously assessing and controlling security. The impact of topological changes on the performance of these data-driven approaches is studied and algorithms to mitigate this impact are proposed. The relevance of this study resides in the increasingly higher frequency of topological changes in modern power systems and in the need to improve the reliability of digitalised approaches against such changes to reduce the risks of relying on them. A novel physics-informed approach to select the most relevant variables (or features) to the dynamic security of the system is first proposed and then used in two different three-stages workflows. In the first workflow, the proposed feature selection approach allows to train classification models from machine learning (or classifiers) close to real-time operation improving their accuracy and robustness against uncertainty. In the second workflow, the selected features are used to define a new metric to detect high-impact topological changes and train new classifiers in response to such changes. Subsequently, the potential of corrective control for a dynamically secure operation is investigated. By using a neural network to learn the safety certificates for the post-fault system, the corrective control is combined with preventive control strategies to maintain the system security and at the same time reduce operational costs and carbon emissions. Finally, exemplary changes in assumptions for data-driven dynamic security assessment when moving from high inertia to low inertia systems are questioned, confirming that using machine learning based models will make significantly more sense in future systems. Future research directions in terms of data generation and model reliability of advanced digitalised approaches for dynamic security assessment and control are finally indicated.
Quantifying non-classical and beyond-quantum correlations in the unified operator formalism
Creators: name: Geller, J.
name: Piani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Acin et al. introduced a unified framework for the study of no-signalling correlations. Such a framework is based on the notion of local quantum measurements, but, in order to account for beyond-quantum correlations, global pseudo-states that are not positive semidefinite are allowed. After a short review of the formalism, we consider its use in the quantification of both general non-local and beyond-quantum correlations. We argue that the unified framework for correlations provides a simple approach to such a quantification, in particular when the quantification is meant to be operational and meaningful in a resource-theory scenario, i.e., when considering the processing of resources by means of non-resources. We relate different notions of robustness of correlations, both at the level of (pseudo-)states and abstract probability distributions, with particular focus on the beyond-quantum robustness of correlations and pseudo-states. We revisit known results and argue that, within the unified framework, the relation between the two levels---that of operators and that of probability distributions---is very strict. We point out how the consideration of robustness at the two levels leads to a natural framework for the quantification of entanglement in a device-independent way. Finally, we show that the beyond-quantum robustness of the non-positive operators needed to achieve beyond-quantum correlations coincides with their negativity and their distance from the set of quantum states. As an example, we calculate the beyond-quantum robustness for the case of a noisy Popescu-Rohrlich box.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, several open boxes and refurbished operators; contribution to the special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical for the 50 years since Bell's theorem; uses the Institute of Physics Latex class
title: Application of Boolean Logic to Natural Language Complexity in Political Discourse
Creators: name: Taing, Austin
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Press releases serve as a major influence on public opinion of a politician, since they are a primary means of communicating with the public and directing discussion. Thus, the public’s ability to digest them is an important factor for politicians to consider. This study employs several well-studied measures of linguistic complexity and proposes a new one to examine whether politicians change their language to become more or less difficult to parse in different situations. This study uses 27,500 press releases from the US Senate between 2004–2008 and examines election cycles and natural disasters, namely hurricanes, as situations where politicians’ language may change. We calculate the syntactic complexity measures clauses per sentence, T-unit length, and complex-T ratio, as well as the Automated Readability Index and Flesch Reading Ease of each press release. We also propose a proof-of-concept measure called logical complexity to find if classical Boolean logic can be applied as a practical linguistic complexity measure. We find that language becomes more complex in coastal senators’ press releases concerning hurricanes, but see no significant change for those in election cycles. Our measure shows similar results to the well-established ones, showing that logical complexity is a useful lens for measuring linguistic complexity.
description: Copyright c ©Austin Taing 2019
Hyla Bernsteini Horst 1883
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hylidae
Hyla

description: Hyla Bernsteini Horst, 1883
 Horst, 1883. Notes Leyden Mus., 5: 241. Current name: Litoria nigropunctata (Meyer, 1874).
Syntype: RMNH 4421, 1 spec. Loc.: “Gebeh” [Irian Jaya, Indonesia]. Leg.: H.A. Bernstein.
 Remarks. According to Duellman (1977: 135) there is only one type specimen, whereas Horst (1883: 241) referred to “Two specimens from Salawattie and Gebeh collected by Bernstein”. A second specimen from Salawatti could not be located in the Leiden musem.
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
Inflation Indexed Bond Explained
Creators: name: Xiao, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: inflation linked bond, inflation indexed bond, real return bond, bond valuation

description: Inflation-linked bonds have historically been purchased by investors who focus on returns over a relatively long horizon or are looking for an inflation hedge. On the other hand, inflation-linked bonds have also had a relatively low correlation with the fixed-income, equity and commodities markets, and can therefore be used to reduce portfolio variance.
description: https://ia903408.us.archive.org/33/items/fi-inflation-bond-15/FiInflationBond-archive.pdf
Plasma {beta}-amyloid and cognitive decline
Creators: name: Cosentino, Stephanie
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Sokolov, Elizaveta
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Manly, Jennifer J.
name: Tang, Mingxin
name: Schupf, Nicole
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mild cognitive impairment
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Amyloid beta-protein precursor
subject: Glycoproteins
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Etiology
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
subject: Dementia
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental health

description: The amyloid cascade hypothesis suggests that aberrant metabolism of the amyloid precursor glycoprotein, and subsequent accumulation of soluble oligomers β-amyloid 40 (Aβ40) and 42 (Aβ42), is the primary trigger for the development of Alzheimer disease (AD). The Tg2576 mouse model of AD has shown that plasma Aβ levels decrease as brain Aβ levels increase, generating interest in the suitability of plasma Aβ level as a risk biomarker for AD. Indeed, we have reported that elevated plasma Aβ42 at baseline and decreasing levels over time predict conversion to AD, and other studies support these findings. The current study sought to specify existing work by investigating the extent to which plasma Aβ levels (1) can be linked to specific cognitive changes that constitute conversion to AD and (2) may be relevant for cognition independent of dementia.
Explaining Inflation Indexed Bond Valuation and Risk
Creators: name: Xiao, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: inflation linked bond, inflation indexed bond, real return bond, bond valuation

description: Inflation indexed bonds, also called inflation linked bonds or real return bonds, are bonds where the principal is indexed to inflation or deflation on a daily basis in terms of a reference index, such as Consumer Price Index (CPI). The CPI is the proxy for inflation that measures price changes in a basket of goods and services.
description: https://ia903408.us.archive.org/33/items/fi-inflation-bond-15/FiInflationBond-archive.pdf
Crocuta Kaup 1828
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Hyaenidae
Crocuta

description: Crocuta Kaup, 1828. Oken's Isis. Encyclop. Zeit, 21(11), column 1145. COMMENT: Antedated by Crocuta Meigen, 1800 (an insect), but this name has been suppressed in Opinion 678 of the ICZN, 1963, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 20:339-342. Reviewed by Ronnefeld, 1969, Saugetierk. Mitt., 17:285-350. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412006001000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 276, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Meigen, J. W. 1800. Nouvelle classification des mouches a deux ailes, (Diptera L.) d'apres un plan tout nouveau [ICZN Opinion 678 suppressed for nomenclatural purposes.] Paris, J. J. Fuchs. 40 pp.", "Ronnefeld, U. 1969. Verbreitung und Lebensweise afrikanischer Feloidea (Felidae et Hyaenidae). Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 17 (4): 285 - 350."]}
title: Use of Functionalized Bimetallic Membranes for Treatment of Contaminated Groundwater at a Hazardous Waste Site in Kentucky
Creators: name: Pacholik, Lucy C.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Providing access to clean drinking water will continue to be a challenge for civil engineers for generations to come. Since many communities around the world rely on groundwater as a source of drinking water, remediation technologies must be implemented at sites where groundwater contamination exists due to years of mismanagement of hazardous waste. Using nanosized zero-valent metals such as iron and zinc embedded within and on the surface of functionalized (PAA) membrane filters has shown to be an effective dechlorination technique for contaminated groundwater. Introducing a noble metal such as Pd or Ni increases reaction rates by acting a catalyst for the dechlorination reaction.
This study focuses on the treatment of contaminated groundwater at a hazardous waste site in Louisville, Kentucky. Once a chlorinated organic chemical manufacturing plant, the site now operates a treatment system for the contaminated groundwater to prevent migration into the nearby Ohio River. A portable membrane treatment system, built at the University of Kentucky, incorporates this functionalized bimetallic membrane technology for treatment of the groundwater found at the former manufacturing plant. Three bench scale tests were performed with membrane treatment system using DI water spiked with the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE). Results showed that using the functionalized Fe/Pd membranes significant decreased TCE concentrations over time. While further tests should be conducted to verify the results of the preliminary bench-scale tests, the membrane treatment system shows potential for use at the hazardous waste site in Kentucky.
description: Copyright © Lucy Cinson Pacholik 2019
description: Funding information: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (NIEHS-SRP) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number P42ES007380.
Shot Noise in Lithographically Patterned Graphene Nanoribbons
Creators: name: Tan, Z. B.
name: Puska, A.
name: Nieminen, T.
name: Duerr, F.
name: Gould, C.
name: Molenkamp, L. W.
name: Trauzettel, B.
name: Hakonen, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated shot noise and conductance of multi-terminal graphene nanoribbon devices at temperatures down to 50 mK. Away from the charge neutrality point, we find a Fano factor $F \approx 0.4$, nearly independent of the charge density. Our shot noise results are consistent with theoretical models for disordered graphene ribbons with a dimensionless scattering strength $K_0 \approx 10$ corresponding to rather strong disorder. Close to charge neutrality, an increase in $F$ up to $\sim 0.7$ is found, which indicates the presence of a dominant Coulomb gap possibly due to a single quantum dot in the transport gap.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Refined position angle measurements for galaxies of the SDSS Stripe 82 co-added dataset
Creators: name: Varga, József
name: Csabai, István
name: Dobos, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Position angle measurements of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies, as measured by the surface brightness profile fitting code of the SDSS photometric pipeline (Lupton 2001), are known to be strongly biased, especially in the case of almost face-on and highly inclined galaxies. To address this issue we developed a reliable algorithm which determines position angles by means of isophote fitting. In this paper we present our algorithm and a catalogue of position angles for 26397 SDSS galaxies taken from the deep co-added Stripe 82 (equatorial stripe) images.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Data are published on-line at http://www.vo.elte.hu/galmorph
Guest Editorial: Special issue Rescuing Legacy data for Future Science
Creators: name: Wyborn, Lesley
name: Hsu, Leslie
name: Lehnert, Kerstin A.
name: Parsons, Mark A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Information science
Digital preservation
Communication in science
Information storage and retrieval systems

description: Research and discovery in the natural sciences, particularly for documenting changes in our planet, is empowered by gathering, mining, and reusing observational data. However much of the data required, particularly data from the pre-digital era, are no longer accessible to science. The data are hidden away in investigators’ desks on printed paper records, or are no longer readable as they are on deteriorating or outdated media, and are not documented in a way that makes them re-usable. Special initiatives are required to rescue them and preserve such data so that they can contribute to the scientific debates of today and those of the future. Data rescue efforts are key to making data resources accessible that are at risk of being lost forever when researchers retire or die, or when data formats or storage media are obsolete and unreadable.
A non-linear irreversible thermodynamic perspective on organic pigment proliferation and biological evolution
Creators: name: Michaelian, Karo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most important thermodynamic work performed by life today is the dissipation of the solar photon flux into heat through organic pigments in water. From this thermodynamic perspective, biological evolution is thus just the dispersal of organic pigments and water throughout Earth's surface, while adjusting the gases of Earth's atmosphere to allow the most intense part of the solar spectrum to penetrate the atmosphere and reach the surface to be intercepted by these pigments. The covalent bonding of atoms in organic pigments provides excited levels compatible with the energies of these photons. Internal conversion through vibrational relaxation to the ground state of these excited molecules when in water leads to rapid dissipation of the solar photons into heat, and this is the major source of entropy production on Earth. A non-linear irreversible thermodynamic analysis shows that the proliferation of organic pigments on Earth is a direct consequence of the pigments catalytic properties in dissipating the solar photon flux. A small part of the energy of the photon goes into the production of more organic pigments and supporting biomass, while most of the energy is dissipated and channeled into the hydrological cycle through the latent heat of vaporization of surface water. By dissipating the surface to atmosphere temperature gradient, the hydrological cycle further increases the entropy production of Earth. This thermodynamic perspective of solar photon dissipation by life has implications to the possibility of finding extra-terrestrial life in our solar system and the Universe.
description: 13 pages, no figures
Crocuta crocuta
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Hyaenidae
Crocuta
Crocuta crocuta

description: Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben, 1777). Syst. Regn. Anim., p. 578. TYPE LOCALITY: Senegambia. DISTRIBUTION: S. and E. Africa, west to Senegal. COMMENT: Subspecies reviewed by Matthews, 1939, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1939:237-260. Type locality restricted by Cabrera, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911:95. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412006001001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 277, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Cabrera, A. 1911. On the specimens of spotted hyaenas in the British Museum (Natural History). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 93 - 99."]}
title: Image-Based Roadway Assessment Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Song, Weilian
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Road crashes are one of the main causes of death in the United States. To reduce the number of accidents, roadway assessment programs take a proactive approach, collecting data and identifying high-risk roads before crashes occur. However, the cost of data acquisition and manual annotation has restricted the effect of these programs. In this thesis, we propose methods to automate the task of roadway safety assessment using deep learning. Specifically, we trained convolutional neural networks on publicly available roadway images to predict safety-related metrics: the star rating score and free-flow speed. Inference speeds for our methods are mere milliseconds, enabling large-scale roadway study at a fraction of the cost of manual approaches.
description: Copyright © Weilian Song 2019
Training cognitive control in older adults with the space fortress game: the role of training instructions and basic motor ability
Creators: name: Blumen, Helena M.
name: Gopher, Daniel
name: Steinerman, Joshua R.
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Older people--Health and hygiene
subject: Motor ability
subject: Learning
subject: Computer games
subject: Aging
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Gerontology

description: This study examined if and how cognitively healthy older adults can learn to play a complex computer-based action game called the Space Fortress (SF) as a function of training instructions [Standard vs. Emphasis Change (EC); e.g., Gopher et al., 1989] and basic motor ability. A total of 35 cognitively healthy older adults completed a 3-month SF training program with three SF sessions weekly. Twelve 3-min games were played during each session. Basic motor ability was assessed with an aiming task, which required rapidly rotating a spaceship to shoot targets. Older adults showed improved performance on the SF task over time, but did not perform at the same level as younger adults. Unlike studies of younger adults, overall SF performance in older adults was greater following standard instructions than following EC instructions. However, this advantage was primarily due to collecting more bonus points and not – the primary goal of the game – shooting and destroying the fortress, which in contrast benefited from EC instructions. Basic motor ability was low and influenced many different aspects of SF game learning, often interacted with learning rate, and influenced overall SF performance. These findings show that older adults can be trained to deal with the complexity of the SF task but that overall SF performance, and the ability to capitalize on EC instructions, differs when a basic ability such as motor control is low. Hence, the development of this training program as a cognitive intervention that can potentially compensate for age-related cognitive decline should consider that basic motor ability can interact with the efficiency of training instructions that promote the use of cognitive control (e.g., EC instructions) – and the confluence between such basic abilities and higher-level cognitive control abilities should be further examined.
Hyaena Brunnich 1771
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Hyaenidae
Hyaena

description: Hyaena Brunnich, 1771. Zool. Fundamenta, p. 34, 42, 43. COMMENT: Reviewed by Pocock, 1934, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1934:825; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:299. Brisson, 1762, where Hyaena was first used, is unavailable; see Hemming, 1955, Bull. ICZN, 1 1 (6):197. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412006002000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 277, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Brisson, M. J. 1762. Le regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem dibvisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species. T. Haak, Paris, 296 pp."]}