cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constraints on the distance to SGR 1806-20 from HI absorption
Creators: name: McClure-Griffiths, N. M.
name: Gaensler, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The giant flare detected from the magnetar SGR 1806-20 on 2004 December 27 had a fluence more than 100 times higher than the only two other SGR flares ever recorded. Whereas the fluence is independent of distance, an estimate for the luminosity of the burst depends on the source's distance, which has previously been argued to be ~15 kpc. The burst produced a bright radio afterglow, against which Cameron et al. (2005) have measured an HI absorption spectrum. This has been used to propose a revised distance to SGR 1806-20 of between 6.4 and 9.8 kpc. Here we analyze this absorption spectrum, and compare it both to HI emission data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey and to archival 12-CO survey data. We confirm ~6 kpc, as a likely lower limit on the distance to SGR 1806-20, but argue that it is difficult to place an upper limit on the distance to SGR 1806-20 from the HI data currently available. The previous value of ~15 kpc thus remains the best estimate of the distance to the source.
description: 3 pages, 1 embedded EPS figure. Added sentences to end of Abstract and Conclusion, clarifying that most likely distance is 15 kpc. ApJ Letters, in press
The adoption of Bt-maize in Germany: An econometric analysis
Creators: name: Consmuller, Nicola
name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Petrick, Martin
name: Consmuller, Nicola
name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Petrick, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: GMO crops
subject: Germany
subject: panel data analysis

description: In this study, we theoretically and empirically investigate the determinants of Bt-maize adoption in German regions. Specifically, we ask how the regulatory framework, the farm structures as well as the socio-political environment of GM expansion in Germany have influenced regional adoption rates. Following a description of the relevant legal and economic framework in Germany, we develop theoretical hypotheses concerning regional variation in Bt-maize adoption and test them econometrically with unique data at the Federal States (Länder) and County (Landkreis) level. The study provides evidence that the adoption of Bt-maize in different regions is positively affected by the amount of maize grown per farm and by the European Corn Borer (ECB) infestation rates. There is also some evidence that the Btmaize adoption is negatively affected by the activities of the anti-GMO movement and the establishment of GMO-free zones.
title: « La mémoire du contraire » : les rhétoriques du changement normatif et procédural dans le sud-ouest du royaume de France, 1451-1475
Creators: name: Prétou, Pierre
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2020

description: Au lendemain de sa conquête militaire de la Guyenne, la souveraineté des Valois entreprend son implantation juridique et normative. Toutefois, à partir de 1452, les usages hérités de la couronne anglaise demeurent vivaces. Il en résulte un conflit de normes majeur opposant des acteurs qui invoquaient tour à tour les traditions françaises ou anglaises de gouvernement. La documentation qui en témoigne enregistre alors quantité de discours fondés sur la « mémoire du contraire » comme autant d’arguments qui signalaient en réalité leur exact inverse. Au final, cette émergence rhétorique favorisa l’acclimatation du « stille » de France à la Guyenne conquise et, partant, la résolution du conflit de normes.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 03 (2014): La vie des normes
Additional file 3 of Significance of body temperature in elderly patients with sepsis
Creators: name: Shimazui, Takashi
name: Nakada, Taka-Aki
name: Walley, Keith R.
name: Oshima, Taku
name: Abe, Toshikazu
name: Ogura, Hiroshi
name: Shiraishi, Atsushi
name: Kushimoto, Shigeki
name: Daizoh Saitoh
name: Seitaro Fujishima
name: Mayumi, Toshihiko
name: Shiino, Yasukazu
name: Tarui, Takehiko
name: Hifumi, Toru
name: Otomo, Yasuhiro
name: Okamoto, Kohji
name: Umemura, Yutaka
name: Kotani, Joji
name: Sakamoto, Yuichiro
name: Sasaki, Junichi
name: Shin-Ichiro Shiraishi
name: Takuma, Kiyotsugu
name: Tsuruta, Ryosuke
name: Hagiwara, Akiyoshi
name: Yamakawa, Kazuma
name: Masuno, Tomohiko
name: Naoshi Takeyama
name: Yamashita, Norio
name: Ikeda, Hiroto
name: Ueyama, Masashi
name: Fujimi, Satoshi
name: Gando, Satoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Associations between the body temperature
Additional file 2 of Significance of body temperature in elderly patients with sepsis
Creators: name: Shimazui, Takashi
name: Nakada, Taka-Aki
name: Walley, Keith R.
name: Oshima, Taku
name: Abe, Toshikazu
name: Ogura, Hiroshi
name: Shiraishi, Atsushi
name: Kushimoto, Shigeki
name: Daizoh Saitoh
name: Seitaro Fujishima
name: Mayumi, Toshihiko
name: Shiino, Yasukazu
name: Tarui, Takehiko
name: Hifumi, Toru
name: Otomo, Yasuhiro
name: Okamoto, Kohji
name: Umemura, Yutaka
name: Kotani, Joji
name: Sakamoto, Yuichiro
name: Sasaki, Junichi
name: Shin-Ichiro Shiraishi
name: Takuma, Kiyotsugu
name: Tsuruta, Ryosuke
name: Hagiwara, Akiyoshi
name: Yamakawa, Kazuma
name: Masuno, Tomohiko
name: Naoshi Takeyama
name: Yamashita, Norio
name: Ikeda, Hiroto
name: Ueyama, Masashi
name: Fujimi, Satoshi
name: Gando, Satoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Associations between the vital signs and 90-day in-hospital mortality adjusted with additional covariates which associated with age related-changes. a. Discovery analysis (FORECAST cohort). b. Validation analyses (JAAMSR cohort and SPH cohort).
From effective actions to the background geometry
Creators: name: Gorsky, A.
name: Lysov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how the background geometry can be traced from the one-loop effective actions in nonsupersymmetric theories in the external abelian fields. It is shown that upon the proper identification of the Schwinger parameter the Heisenberg-Euler abelian effective action involves the integration over the $AdS_3$, $S_3$ and $T^{*}S^3$ geometries, depending on the type of the external field. The interpretation of the effective action in the sefdual field in terms of the topological strings is found and the corresponding matrix model description is suggested. It is shown that the low energy abelian MHV one-loop amplitudes are expressed in terms of the type B topological string amplitudes in mirror to $T^{*}S^3$ manifold. We also make some comments on the relation between the imaginary part of the effective action and the branes in SU(2) as well as on the geometry of the contours relevant for the path integral.
description: Latex. 40 pages, typos corrected, references added
Additional file 1 of A novel therapeutic approach targeting PD-L1 in HNSCC and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells hampers pro-metastatic features in vitro: perspectives for blocking tumor-stroma communication and signaling
Creators: name: Ferrara, Ylenia
name: Latino, Debora
name: Costagliola di Polidoro, Angela
name: Oliver, Angela
name: Sarnella, Annachiara
name: Caprio, Maria Grazia
name: Cerchia, Laura
name: Ruvo, Menotti
name: Sandomenico, Annamaria
name: Zannetti, Antonella
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
The role of zero-mode contributions in the matching for the twist-3 PDFs $e(x)$ and $h_{L}(x)$
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Shohini
name: Cichy, Krzysztof
name: Constantinou, Martha
name: Metz, Andreas
name: Scapellato, Aurora
name: Steffens, Fernanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The perturbative procedure of matching was proposed to connect parton quasi-distributions that are calculable in lattice QCD to the corresponding light-cone distributions which enter physical processes. Such a matching procedure has so far been limited to the twist-2 distributions. Recently, we addressed the matching for the twist-3 PDF $g_T(x)$. In this work, we extend our perturbative calculations to the remaining twist-3 PDFs, $e(x)$ and $h_{L}(x)$. In particular, we discuss the non-trivialities involved in the calculation of the singular zero-mode contributions for the quasi-PDFs.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures, results for zero-mode contributions partly revised, associated discussion modified
Additional file 2 of A novel therapeutic approach targeting PD-L1 in HNSCC and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells hampers pro-metastatic features in vitro: perspectives for blocking tumor-stroma communication and signaling
Creators: name: Ferrara, Ylenia
name: Latino, Debora
name: Costagliola di Polidoro, Angela
name: Oliver, Angela
name: Sarnella, Annachiara
name: Caprio, Maria Grazia
name: Cerchia, Laura
name: Ruvo, Menotti
name: Sandomenico, Annamaria
name: Zannetti, Antonella
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Analytical approach to SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics
Creators: name: Hofmann, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an analytical approach to SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics. The existence of a macroscopic and rigid adjoint Higgs field, generated by dilute trivial-holonomy calorons at large temperature $T$ (electric phase), implies a twofold degeneracy of the ground state which signals a broken electric $Z_2$ symmetry. A finite energy density $\propto T$ of the ground state arises due to caloron interaction. An evolution equation for the effective gauge coupling, derived from thermodynamical self-consistency, predicts a second-order like transition (seen in lattice simulations) at $T_c$ to a phase where monopoles are condensed and off-Cartan excitations decoupled. In this magnetic phase the ground state is unique and dominates the pressure (negative total pressure). While the magnetic phase has a massive, propagating 'photon' it confines fundamental matter (pre-confinement). The temperature dependence of the magnetic gauge coupling predicts the transition to the confining phase at $T_C\sim \frac{T_c}{1.9}$ where center-vortex loops condense and the 'photon' decouples. We believe that this transition is 'swallowed' by finite-size artefacts in lattice simulations. No thermodynamical connection exists between the confining and the magnetic phase.
description: 5 pages, no figure, contribution to proceedings of SEWM 2004
DIE VAK LANDBOU-EKONOMIE, LANDBOU-EKONOMIESE NAVORSING, INTERNASIONALE KONVENSIES EN PLANTGENE BRONNE
Creators: name: Blignaut, C.S.
name: Blignaut, C.S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: A cryptic historic background is given of the International Undertaking for Plant Genetic Resources and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Issues evolving from these international deliberations, eg the divide between developed and developing countries are highlighted. An overview is given of the present FAO effort to reconcile the two within the context of Farmers’ Rights, Scope and Access to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Attention is paid to real and potential clashes between Farmers’ Rights and farmers’ privileges with Plant Breeders Rights and Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights under UPOV and the WTO. An overview is given of Agenda-21’s multidimensional, conservationistic, developmental and research goals, linked with The International Undertaking and the CBD. This was done to indicate that agricultural economics is well equipped and has the responsibility to research the effects of these Conventions on rural communities and the economy in South Africa in general.
Additional file 1 of Alcohol use disorders and the risk of progression of liver disease in people with hepatitis C virus infection – a systematic review
Creators: name: Llamosas-Falcón, Laura
name: Shield, Kevin D.
name: Gelovany, Maya
name: Manthey, Jakob
name: Rehm, Jürgen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary materials.
Evaluating Benefits from Subsistence Pearl Millet Production in the Northern Communal Area of Namibia
Creators: name: Matanyaire, C.M.
name: Matanyaire, C.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Using experimental data from the northern Namibia pearl millet based subsistence sector the gross margins (GM) and savings on food expenditure (SFE) were computed and compared. The value to cost ratios from the SFE approach were higher than those from the GM approach implying that investment into the selected technologies would be more attractive under subsistence production than under commercial production. This underlines the importance of change agents not to change the farmers' target for farming. Furthermore, it helps explain why subsistence farmers continue to farm when all GM calculations show that they are always loosing money.
The Impact of Trade Barriers on Mandated Biofuel Consumption in Canada
Creators: name: Le Roy, Danny G.
name: Elobeid, Amani E.
name: Klein, Kurt K.
name: Le Roy, Danny G.
name: Elobeid, Amani E.
name: Klein, Kurt K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: biofuel trade policy ethanol canada

description: In 2008 the Canadian government passed amendments to the Environmental Protection Act requiring five percent ethanol in transportation fuels sold in Canada by 2010 and two percent renewable content in diesel and heating fuels by 2012. Agricultural commodity and other groups have lobbied for further marketplace intervention that would ensure the biofuel needed to meet the legislated requirement be produced from domestic sources. Indeed, many of these special interests would like the biofuels content increased from five to ten percent and for the increase to be met by domestic firms only. The objective of this study is to compare the relative economic impacts in Canada of achieving a ten percent biofuel content either through increased imports or by substituting domestic production in place of increased imports.
Improvvisazione e contraffatti. Circa il primato della prassi in ontologia della musica
Creators: name: Bertinetto, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2014

description: In this paper I discuss a particular musical practice, the contrafacture, as an interesting case of artistic appropriation. I argue that musical contrafacture, especially in the jazz field, may deflate some biased assumptions that sometimes are taken for granted – mostly in the ontologies of music based on the type/token dichotomy. The case of contrafacture may support the philosophical views endorsing the link between ontology and social-artistic practices and accepting that the ontological constructions presuppose the different practices in which they arise. I strengthen my view of the link between musical artistic practices and musical ontology by considering the nominal ontological paradox generated by improvising on jazz contrafacts.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2013): Vol 6 (2013) Special Issue – Ontologie musicali
Additional file 2 of Alcohol use disorders and the risk of progression of liver disease in people with hepatitis C virus infection – a systematic review
Creators: name: Llamosas-Falcón, Laura
name: Shield, Kevin D.
name: Gelovany, Maya
name: Manthey, Jakob
name: Rehm, Jürgen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Forest plot for risk of negative course of liver disease associated with alcohol use disorder.
Transition Radiation in QCD matter
Creators: name: Djordjevic, Magdalena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions a finite size QCD medium is created. In this paper we compute radiative energy loss to zeroth order in opacity by taking into account finite size effects. Transition radiation occurs on the boundary between the finite size medium and the vacuum, and we show that it lowers the difference between medium and vacuum zeroth order radiative energy loss relative to the infinite size medium case. Further, in all previous computations of light parton radiation to zeroth order in opacity, there was a divergence caused by the fact that the energy loss is infinite in the vacuum and finite in the QCD medium. We show that this infinite discontinuity is naturally regulated by including the transition radiation.
description: 21 page, 22 figures
Simultaneous compression and opacity data from time-series radiography with a Lagrangian marker
Creators: name: Swift, Damian C.
name: Kritcher, Andrea L.
name: Hawreliak, James A.
name: Gaffney, James
name: Lazicki, Amy
name: MacPhee, Andrew
name: Bachmann, Benjamin
name: Doeppner, Tilo
name: Nilsen, Joseph
name: Whitley, Heather D.
name: Collins, Gilbert W.
name: Glenzer, Siegfried
name: Rothman, Stephen D.
name: Kraus, Dominik
name: Falcone, Roger W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-resolved radiography can be used to obtain absolute shock Hugoniot states by simultaneously measuring at least two mechanical parameters of the shock, and this technique is particularly suitable for one-dimensional converging shocks where a single experiment probes a range of pressures as the converging shock strengthens. However, at sufficiently high pressures, the shocked material becomes hot enough that the x-ray opacity falls significantly. If the system includes a Lagrangian marker, such that the mass within the marker is known, this additional information can be used to constrain the opacity as well as the Hugoniot state. In the limit that the opacity changes only on shock heating, and not significantly on subsequent isentropic compression, the opacity of shocked material can be determined uniquely. More generally, it is necessary to assume the form of the variation of opacity with isentropic compression, or to introduce multiple marker layers. Alternatively, assuming either the equation of state or the opacity, the presence of a marker layer in such experiments enables the non-assumed property to be deduced more accurately than from the radiographic density reconstruction alone. An example analysis is shown for measurements of a converging shock wave in polystyrene, at the National Ignition Facility.
Fundamental study of the controlled-potential leaching of chalcopyrite
Creators: name: Lai, Jerry Cheng-Yen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: There is a well-established trend in copper hydrometallurgy to develop processes for the treatment of chalcopyrite ( CuFeS₂ ). Chalcopyrite receives considerable attention not only because of its relative abundance and widespread distribution in almost all sulfide deposits, but also because it is the most recalcitrant copper sulfide to leaching in most practical systems, particularly in sulfate media. The main practical difficulty encountered in the commercial acid ferric sulfate leaching of chalcopyrite (in heaps, dumps or concentrates) is its slow rate of reaction, which renders a long residence time and/or incomplete copper extractions. Chalcopyrite is generally agreed to be "passivated" in some fashion, exhibiting slow leaching kinetics and low copper extraction in sulfate media. This thesis work investigated the oxidation of chalcopyrite through the application of controlled-potential at different potentials (0.400-0.600 V[sub Ag/AgCl]) and temperatures (60-78°C). All experiments were carried out in a compact bench-scale 3-L glass jacketed bioreactor equipped with a servo motor and speed controller. Since the solution redox potential is dependent on the concentrations of ferric and ferrous ions in solution, a constant redox potential was maintained by controlled addition of potassium permanganate using an automatic titration unit. Chalcopyrite leaching in sulfuric acid is shown to be dependent on solution redox potential determined by the concentration ratio of ferric to ferrous ions and temperature. The most significant finding in this thesis work is the fact that the leaching; rate increases with increasing potentials but decreases above a critical potential under the reaction conditions studied. This critical potential is in the vicinity of 0.500 V[sub Ag/AgCl] and is within the mid-potential range of 0.45 to 0.55 V[sub Ag/AgCl] at which the leaching rate is maximal from 60 to 78°C. Leaching rates increase with increasing temperature. The leach residues contain sulfate (5- 33%), but primarily elemental sulfur (46-78%). XRD analysis confirmed the presence of sulfate sulfur, jarosite, and elemental sulfur in the leach residues. SEM analysis suggests that neither jarosite nor elemental sulfur is responsible for surface passivation or for preventing, the dissolution of chalcopyrite.
Superdipole Liquid Scenario for the Dielectric Primary Relaxation in Supercooled Polar liquids
Creators: name: Huang, Y. N.
name: Wang, C. J.
name: Riande, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a dynamic structure of coupled dynamic molecular strings for supercooled small polar molecule liquids and accordingly we obtain the Hamiltonian of the rotational degrees of freedom of the system. From the Hamiltonian, the strongly correlated supercooled polar liquid state is renormalized to a normal superdipole (SD) liquid state. This scenario describes the following main features of the primary or a-relaxation dynamics in supercooled polar liquids: (1) the average relaxation time evolves from a high temperature Arrhenius to a low temperature non-Arrhenius or super-Arrhenius behavior; (2) the relaxation function crosses over from the high temperature exponential to low temperature non-exponential form; and (3) the temperature dependence of the relaxation strength shows non-Curie features. According to the present model, the crossover phenomena of the first two characteristics arise from the transition between the superdipole gas and the superdipole liquid. The model predictions are quantitatively compared with the experimental results of glycerol, a typical glass-former.
description: 40 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Significance of body temperature in elderly patients with sepsis
Creators: name: Shimazui, Takashi
name: Nakada, Taka-Aki
name: Walley, Keith R.
name: Oshima, Taku
name: Abe, Toshikazu
name: Ogura, Hiroshi
name: Shiraishi, Atsushi
name: Kushimoto, Shigeki
name: Daizoh Saitoh
name: Seitaro Fujishima
name: Mayumi, Toshihiko
name: Shiino, Yasukazu
name: Tarui, Takehiko
name: Hifumi, Toru
name: Otomo, Yasuhiro
name: Okamoto, Kohji
name: Umemura, Yutaka
name: Kotani, Joji
name: Sakamoto, Yuichiro
name: Sasaki, Junichi
name: Shin-Ichiro Shiraishi
name: Takuma, Kiyotsugu
name: Tsuruta, Ryosuke
name: Hagiwara, Akiyoshi
name: Yamakawa, Kazuma
name: Masuno, Tomohiko
name: Naoshi Takeyama
name: Yamashita, Norio
name: Ikeda, Hiroto
name: Ueyama, Masashi
name: Fujimi, Satoshi
name: Gando, Satoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Cut-off values of the vital signs. Table S2. Correlation analysis between APACHE II score and vital signs. Table S3. Baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes between the subgroups of 90-day in-hospital survivors and non-survivors in nonelderly and elderly patients of derivation cohort (FORECAST cohort). Table S4. Baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes in validation cohort 1 (JAAMSR cohort). Table S5. Baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes in validation cohort 2 (SPH cohort).
Contre le pragmatisme en ontologie de la musique
Creators: name: Pouivet, Roger
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2014

description: Pragmatism in the philosophy of music claims that “musical work” does not mean a kind of things in the world. For the Pragmatist, the title of a musical work does not designate a single entity in the world. Therefore, the possibility of identifying a musical work and to understand its essential characteristics is related to a social practice, largely conventional. But the Pragmatist is wrong. Artworks are ontologically dependant on what we believe, our practices; but is does not imply that artworks do not exist as such in the inventory of the world. It is precisely their (quasi-) nature to depend on us. But to have a depending-existence, it is nonetheless really to exist.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2013): Vol 6 (2013) Special Issue – Ontologie musicali
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DEMAND FOR BEEF, MUTTON/GOAT, PORK AND CHICKEN IN KENYA, 1961-1991
Creators: name: Chanyalew, Demese
name: Belete, Abenet
name: Chanyalew, Demese
name: Belete, Abenet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This study examines the demand for beef, mutton/goat, pork and chicken in Kenya for the period 1961 to 1991. A log linear function was used to estimate direct, cross and income elasticities. The analysis reveals that the demand for beef and mutton/goat is elastic while the demand for pork and chicken is inelastic. The results of further analyses indicate that mutton/goat is a substitute to beef while pork and chicken are complements to it. In the mutton/goat equation, beef is a substitute to mutton/goat while pork and chicken are complements to it. Both the beef and the mutton/goat equations indicated an income elasticity of more than one. High income elasticities for these two types of meat perhaps indicate that if improvements can be made in both production and marketing, more of these meat types would be consumed at every increase in income. In both the pork and chicken equations, beef and mutton/goat are found to be complements of these meat types. Pork and chicken are substitutes to each other.
Mechanical memories in solids, from disorder to design
Creators: name: Paulsen, Joseph D.
name: Keim, Nathan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solids are rigid, which means that when left undisturbed, their structures are nearly static. It follows that these structures depend on history -- but it is surprising that they hold readable memories of past events. Here we review the research that has recently flourished around mechanical memory formation, beginning with amorphous solids' various memories of deformation and mesoscopic models based on particle rearrangements. We describe how these concepts apply to a much wider range of solids and glassy matter -- and how they are a bridge to memory and physical computing in mechanical metamaterials. An understanding of memory in all these solids can potentially be the basis for designing or training functionality into materials. Just as important is memory's value for understanding matter whenever it is complex, frustrated, and out of equilibrium.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures. Invited submission to Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Vol 16
Leggett-Garg inequality with a kicked quantum pump
Creators: name: Jordan, Andrew N.
name: Korotkov, Alexander N.
name: Buttiker, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A kicked quantum nondemolition measurement is introduced, where a qubit is weakly measured by pumping current. Measurement statistics are derived for weak measurements combined with single qubit unitary operations. These results are applied to violate a generalization of Leggett and Garg's inequality. The violation is related to the failure of the noninvasive detector assumption, and may be interpreted as either intrinsic detector backaction, or the qubit entangling the microscopic detector excitations. The results are discussed in terms of a quantum point contact kicked by a pulse generator, measuring a double quantum dot.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, published version
title: L' effondrement de l’arène de Paris Garden en 1583
Creators: name: Spina, Olivier
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2020

description: En janvier 1583, le Bear Garden, l’arène de combat d’animaux de Londres, s’effondre en pleine représentation dominicale. Dans les jours qui suivent, le prédicateur godly, John Field, publie un sermon, la Godly Exhortation, pour dénoncer les spectacles qui se déroulent le dimanche à Londres en violation du Sixième commandement et de la législation Tudor. Cet accident est l’occasion pour les godlies de contester publiquement la Réforme telle que menée par les rois Tudors. Field pointe leur incapacité à faire respecter le sabbat, afin de contester l’autorité religieuse que se sont arrogés les souverains Tudors, « Chefs suprêmes de l’Église sur terre ». À ses yeux, seuls les pasteurs, les véritables hommes de Dieu, peuvent définir l’architecture des normes dans la société anglaise. La critique de Field s’inscrit dans une conception calvinienne de la foi, puisque les « vraies » normes religieuses, telles qu’édictées par les pasteurs-prophètes, ne pourraient être entendues que d’un petit nombre d’élus, dont sont exclus la majorité des Londoniens.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 03 (2014): La vie des normes
Additional file 1 of Regional disparities in the flow of access to breast cancer hospitalizations in Brazil in 2004 and 2014
Creators: name: Souza, Beatriz Castro De
name: Figueiredo, Francisco Winter Dos Santos
name: Luiz Vinicius De Alcantara Sousa
name: Maciel, Erika Da Silva
name: Adami, Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix A. Distribution, frequency and movement of hospital admissions for breast cancer between the regions and Brazil, 2004 and 2014.
Lefschetz-Pontrjagin Duality for Differential Characters
Creators: name: Harvey, F. Reese
name: Lawson, H. Blaine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58A25, 49Q15, 14F40

description: A theory of differential characters is developed for manifolds with boundary. This is done from both the Cheeger-Simons and the deRham-Federer viewpoints. The central result of the paper is the formulation and proof of a Lefschetz-Pontrjagin Duality Theorem, which asserts that the pairing: Ch^k(X,dX) x Ch^{n-k-1}(X) --> S^1, given by (a,b) l-->(a*b)[X], induces isomorphisms: D : Ch^k(X,dX) --> Hom^{smooth}(Ch^{n-k-1}(X), S^1) D': Ch^{n-k-1}(X) --> Hom^{smooth}(Ch^k(X, dX), S^1) onto the smooth Pontrjagin duals. In particular, D and D' are injective with dense range in the group of all continuous homomorphisms into the circle. A coboundary map is introduced which yields a long sequence for the character groups associated to the pair (X,dX). The relation of the sequence to the duality mappings is analyzed.
Generalized Model of Interacting Dark Energy and Dark Matter : Phase Portrait Analysis of Evolving Universe
Creators: name: Deogharia, Giridhari
name: Bandyopadhyay, Mayukh
name: Biswas, Ritabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Main aim of this work is to give a suitable explanation of present accelerating universe through an acceptable interactive dynamical cosmological model. A three-fluid cosmological model is introduced in the background of Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker asymptotically flat spacetime. This model consists of interactive dark matter and dark energy with baryonic matter taken as perfect fluid satisfying barotropic equation of state. We consider dust as the candidate of dark matter. A scalar field $ϕ$ represents dark energy with potential $V(ϕ)$. Einstein's field equations are utilised to construct a three-dimensional interactive autonomous system by choosing suitable interaction between dark energy and dark matter. We take the interaction kernel as $Q = 3β^{2γ} Hρ_d$. In order to explain the stability of this system, we obtained some suitable critical points. We analyse stability of obtained critical points to show the different phases of universe and cosmological implications. Surprisingly, we find some stable critical points which represent late time dark energy dominated era when a model parameter $α=-5.05$. In order to explain both the energy dominated era as well as the late-time acceleration of the universe at same time, we introduce a two-dimensional interactive autonomous system. After graphical analysis of two-dimensional system, we get several stable points which represent dark energy dominated era and the late-time cosmic acceleration both at the same time. We also show the variation in interaction at vicinity of phantom barrier ($ω_{eff}=-1$). From our work we can also predict the future phase evolution of the universe. No tendency for future deceleration is detected so far.
description: 12 page, 12 figures
Additional file 2 of Regional disparities in the flow of access to breast cancer hospitalizations in Brazil in 2004 and 2014
Creators: name: Souza, Beatriz Castro De
name: Figueiredo, Francisco Winter Dos Santos
name: Luiz Vinicius De Alcantara Sousa
name: Maciel, Erika Da Silva
name: Adami, Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Appendix B. Distribution, frequency and movement of hospital admissions for breast cancer between the federative units of Brazil, 2004 and 2014.
SUSY transformations between digonalizable and non-diagonalizable Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Samsonov, B F
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently (see quant-ph/0503040) an explicit example has been given of a PT-symmetric non-diagonalizable Hamiltonian. In this paper we show that such Hamiltonians appear as supersymmetric (SUSY) partners of Hermitian (hence diagonalizable) Hamiltonians and they can be turned back to diagonalizable forms by appropriate SUSY transformations.
A note on an example by van Mill
Creators: name: Hart, K. P.
name: Ridderbos, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 54G20. Secondary: 03E50, 54A25, 54B99

description: Improving on an earlier example by J. van Mill, we prove that there exists a zero-dimensional compact space of countable pi-weight and uncountable character which is homogeneous under MA+notCH, but not under CH.
description: Revision after referee's comments
Is Betelgeuse the Outcome of a Past Merger?
Creators: name: Chatzopoulos, E.
name: Frank, Juhan
name: Marcello, Dominic C.
name: Clayton, Geoffrey C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility that the star alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse) is the outcome of a merger that occurred in a low mass ratio (q = M2/M1 = 0.07 - 0.25) binary system some time in the past hundreds of thousands of years. To that goal, we present a simple analytical model to approximate the perturbed internal structure of a post-merger object following the coalescence of a secondary in the mass range 1-4 Msun into the envelope of a 15-17 Msun primary. We then compute the long-term evolution of post-merger objects for a grid of initial conditions and make predictions about their surface properties for evolutionary stages that are consistent with the observed location of Betelgeuse in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. We find that if a merger occurred after the end of the primary's main-sequence phase, while it was expanding toward becoming a red supergiant star and typically with radius ~200 - 300 Rsun, then it's envelope is spun-up to values which remain in a range consistent with the Betelgeuse observations for thousands of years of evolution. We argue that the best scenario that can explain both the fast rotation of Betelgeuse and its observed large space velocity is one where a binary was dynamically ejected by its parent cluster a few million years ago and then subsequently merged. An alternative scenario in which the progenitor of Betelgeuse was spun up by accretion in a binary and released by the supernova explosion of the companion requires a finely tuned set of conditions but cannot be ruled out.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Is there an Ontological Musical Common Sense?
Creators: name: Ruta, Marcello
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2014

description: The more or less explicitly formulated identification between ordinary beliefs about music and musical common sense is one of the key assumptions of the descriptivist party of ontology of music. The assumed commonsensical status of such beliefs is what confers on them a sort of “preliminary authority” in the formulation of any descriptivist ontology of music. This article intends to criticize this identification and to cast into doubt the very existence of a musical common sense, at least in relation to ontological questions. This endeavour entails a short analysis of the notion of common sense and an examination of some key notions of musical ontology, traditionally considered as commonsensical ones, which will be shown to be historically and culturally conditioned, and therefore far from exhibiting a commonsensical status.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2013): Vol 6 (2013) Special Issue – Ontologie musicali
Phonological Features for 0-shot Multilingual Speech Synthesis
Creators: name: Staib, Marlene
name: Teh, Tian Huey
name: Torresquintero, Alexandra
name: Mohan, Devang S Ram
name: Foglianti, Lorenzo
name: Lenain, Raphael
name: Gao, Jiameng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Code-switching---the intra-utterance use of multiple languages---is prevalent across the world. Within text-to-speech (TTS), multilingual models have been found to enable code-switching. By modifying the linguistic input to sequence-to-sequence TTS, we show that code-switching is possible for languages unseen during training, even within monolingual models. We use a small set of phonological features derived from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), such as vowel height and frontness, consonant place and manner. This allows the model topology to stay unchanged for different languages, and enables new, previously unseen feature combinations to be interpreted by the model. We show that this allows us to generate intelligible, code-switched speech in a new language at test time, including the approximation of sounds never seen in training.
description: 5 pages, to be presented at INTERSPEECH 2020
ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF WATER TREATMENT COSTS AT THE DV HARRIS PLANT IN THE UMGENI CATCHMENT AREA.
Creators: name: Dennison, D.B.
name: Lyne, Michael C.
name: Dennison, D.B.
name: Lyne, Michael C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper has two objectives: first, to identify the main contaminants responsible for high treatment costs in the Umgeni catchment area, and second, to predict treatment costs from observed levels of contaminants. A partial adjustment model of treatment costs is estimated for the DV Harris plant, which draws water from Midmar Dam, using ordinary least squares regression and principal component analysis. The model highlights important policy issues and explains 61% of the variation in chemical treatment costs. Environmental contaminants have a marked impact on treatment costs. Treatment costs increase when levels of alkalinity, sodium and turbidity fall. Conversely, costs rise with higher levels of dissolved oxygen and water stability. Paradoxically, clean water - typical of Midmar Dam - is expensive to treat. Treatment costs also rise when concentrations of the algae, Chlorella, decline. Apparently the level of Chlorella varies inversely with the level of other, more harmful, contaminants.
Additional file 1 of Behavioral, neuronal, and physiological facets of multidimensional body image in anorexia nervosa: a scoping review
Creators: name: Di Giuliano, Monica
name: de la Cruz, Feliberto
name: Schumann, Andy
name: Zopf, Regine
name: Bär, Karl-Jürgen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1.
Non-perturbative renormalization of Phi-derivable approximations in theories with multiple fields
Creators: name: Reinosa, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a renormalization procedure for Phi-derivable approximations in theories coupling different types of fields. We illustrate our approach on a scalar phi^4 theory coupled to fermions via a Yukawa-like interaction. The non-perturbative renormalization amounts to fixing the scalar coupling via a set of nested Bethe-Salpeter equations coupling fermions to scalars.
description: 4 pages, poster contribution at the Workshop on Quark Gluon Plasma Thermalization, Vienna, August 10-12, 2005 Minor changes: added reference and definition
A Solution to the Problem of Phaseless Mapping for a High-Orbit Space-Ground Radio Interferometer
Creators: name: Bajkova, Anisa T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of mapping with ultra-high angular resolution using a space-ground radio interferometer with a space antenna in a high orbit,whose apogee height exceeds the radius of the Earth by a factor of ten. In this case, a multielement interferometer essentially degenerates into a two-element interferometer. The degeneracy of the close-phase relations prevents the use of standard methods for hybrid mapping and self-calibration for the correct reconstruction of images. We propose a new phaseless mapping method based on methods for the reconstruction of images in the complete absence of phase information, using only the amplitudes of the spatial-coherence function of the source. In connection with this problem, we propose a new method for the reliable solution of the phase problem, based on optimizing information-carrying nonlinear functionals, in particular, the Shannon entropy. Results of simulations of mapping radio sources with various structures with ultra-high angular resolution in the framework of the RADIOASTRON mission are presented.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures