cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reconstructing the impasse in the transfer of delta plans: evaluating the translation of Dutch water management strategies to Jakarta, Indonesia
Creators: name: Minkman, Ellen
name: Letitre, Peter
name: Buuren, Arwin Van
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: This study takes the stagnation in the transfer of knowledge about strategic delta planning as a starting point and identifies the interplay of constraining factors. We conclude that the way the process of policy transfer is executed is crucial. The Dutch government aims to transfer the Dutch approach to delta planning (labelled ‘the Dutch Delta Approach’) to other – often developing – countries. However, policy transfer is a complex process that depends on a variety of factors. Deadlocks can occur when the transferred knowledge and the corresponding policy ideas are neither adopted nor rejected. Taking the impasse in the transfer process in the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development project in Jakarta as a case study, we demonstrate that fundamental policy change is needed to adopt strategic delta planning in Jakarta and present three interrelated explanations, related to the policy transfer process, that illustrate why this change is not yet observed.
Ferromagnetic Liquid Thin Films Under Applied Field
Creators: name: Banerjee, S.
name: Widom, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical calculations, computer simulations and experiments indicate the possible existence of a ferromagnetic liquid state, although definitive experimental evidence is lacking. Should such a state exist, demagnetization effects would force a nontrivial magnetization texture. Since liquid droplets are deformable, the droplet shape is coupled with the magnetization texture. In a thin-film geometry in zero applied field, the droplet has a circular shape and a rotating magnetization texture with a point vortex at the center. We calculate the elongation and magnetization texture of such ferromagnetic thin film liquid droplet confined between two parallel plates under a weak applied magnetic field. The vortex stretches into a domain wall and exchange forces break the reflection symmetry. This behavior contrasts qualitatively and quantitatively with the elongation of paramagnetic thin films.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
title: Option pricing and portfolio choice
Creators: name: Aramonte, Sirio
Publisher: name: London Business School
Year: 2009

description: The focus of this dissertation is on option pricing, in particular on the economic determinants of option risk premia, and on the interaction between investor sentiment and innovation in the context of technology diffusion. The rest of the three chapters empirically investigates whether macroeconomic uncertainty is a priced risk factor in the cross-section of equity option returns. The analysis employs a factor model, estimated with the Fama-MacBeth methodology, and the macroeconomic uncertainty factor is based on options' "excess" pricing errors on days immediately before scheduled macroeconomic announcements. I find that macroeconomic uncertainty is priced in the cross-section of equity option returns, even after controlling for a large set of relevant factors. In addition, introducing the macroeconomic uncertainty factor affects the estimated risk premia on the market, the volatility of volatility and the volatility of jumps. The results are robust to measurement error in stock and option prices, to possible biases generated by the non-linearity of option returns and by non-randomly missing returns, and to several methods of measuring macroeconomic uncertainty and expected volatility. The second chapter studies how the interaction between technological innovation and investor sentiment affects firm-level investment and aggregate productivity growth. When firms face the decision to adopt a new technology with uncertain productivity, small scale experimentation is a direct way of obtaining information useful to evaluate full-scale adoption. If such information is not appropriable, a free-rider problem arises and the aggregate level of investment is sub-optimal. I hypothesize that investor sentiment mitigates the effect of informational externalities, which would make investor sentiment socially valuable in the context of technology diffusion. I find that investor sentiment increases the effect of technological innovation on investment for firms more susceptible to informational externalities, and that investor sentiment also raises the impact of technological innovation on productivity growth. The third chapter focuses on portfolio choice, investigating whether distributions implied in option prices can help reducing estimation error for expected returns, given that the cross-section of option prices contains information about the moments of expected returns that is not available in the underlying's prices. I study the performance of portfolio strategies based on option-implied distributions relative to that of the robust 1/N allocation rule, and I find that option-based models outperform the 1/N strategy, especially with (limited) short-selling. Transaction costs are relatively high for option-based strategies, and they reduce, but do not eliminate, the economic significance of the results.
Eudorylas flavitibia
Creators: name: Rafael, José Albertino
name: González, Christian Raúl
name: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Eudorylas
Eudorylas flavitibia

description: Eudorylas flavitibia (Rafael, 1990)
 Metadorylas flavitibia Rafael, 1990c: 143, figs. 40-43, 104. Eudorylas flavitibia; Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 439.
 Holotype: Male (LEP, type specimen not located), Chile, Ñuble, Las Trancas.
 Distribution: Chile: Región Metropolitana de Santiago: Chacabuco Province:Til-Til;Cordillera Province:Cordillera Las Vizcachas. Región de Ñuble: Diguillín Province: Las Trancas.
 References: Rafael (1990c); De Meyer (1996); Skevington & Yeates (2001); Rodríguez & Rafael (2012).
description: Published as part of Rafael, José Albertino, González, Christian Raúl & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2023, A catalog of Pipunculidae of Chile (Diptera), pp. 1-9 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 4, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.017, http://zenodo.org/record/8109959
Domain Wall Spacetimes: Instability of Cosmological Event and Cauchy Horizons
Creators: name: Wang, Anzhong
name: Letelier, Patricio S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of cosmological event and Cauchy horizons of spacetimes associated with plane symmetric domain walls are studied. It is found that both horizons are not stable against perturbations of null fluids and massless scalar fields; they are turned into curvature singularities. These singularities are light-like and strong in the sense that both the tidal forces and distortions acting on test particles become unbounded when theses singularities are approached.
description: Latex, 3 figures not included in the text but available upon request
Evolving Space-Time Neural Architectures for Videos
Creators: name: Piergiovanni, AJ
name: Angelova, Anelia
name: Toshev, Alexander
name: Ryoo, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a new method for finding video CNN architectures that capture rich spatio-temporal information in videos. Previous work, taking advantage of 3D convolutions, obtained promising results by manually designing video CNN architectures. We here develop a novel evolutionary search algorithm that automatically explores models with different types and combinations of layers to jointly learn interactions between spatial and temporal aspects of video representations. We demonstrate the generality of this algorithm by applying it to two meta-architectures, obtaining new architectures superior to manually designed architectures. Further, we propose a new component, the iTGM layer, which more efficiently utilizes its parameters to allow learning of space-time interactions over longer time horizons. The iTGM layer is often preferred by the evolutionary algorithm and allows building cost-efficient networks. The proposed approach discovers new and diverse video architectures that were previously unknown. More importantly they are both more accurate and faster than prior models, and outperform the state-of-the-art results on multiple datasets we test, including HMDB, Kinetics, and Moments in Time. We will open source the code and models, to encourage future model development.
Hadronic Axion Model in Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Asaka, T.
name: Yamaguchi, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple hadronic axion model is proposed in the framework of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. Dynamics of Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking is governed by supersymmetry breaking effects and the Peccei-Quinn breaking scale $f_{PQ}$ is inversely proportional to the gravitino mass. The gravitino mass range which corresponds to the axion window $f_{PQ} \simeq 10^{9}$ GeV -- $10^{13}$ GeV lies in the region predicted by gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking models. The model is also shown to be cosmologically viable.
description: 20 pages including seven postscript figures, reviced version to be published in Physics Letters B
Ordering effect of Coulomb interaction in ballistic double-ring systems
Creators: name: Canali, C. M.
name: Stephan, W.
name: Gorelik, L. Y.
name: Shekhter, R. I.
name: Jonson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of two concentric onedimensional rings with incommensurate areas $A_1$ and $A_2$, in a constant magnetic field. The two rings are coupled by a nonhomogeneous inter-ring tunneling amplitude, which makes the one-particle spectrum chaotic. For noninteracting particles the energy of the many-body ground state and the first excited state exhibit random fluctuations characterized by the Wigner-Dyson statistics. In contrast, we show that the electron-electron interaction orders the magnetic field dependence of these quantities, forcing them to become periodic functions, with period $ \propto 1/(A_1 + A_2)$. In such a strongly correlated system the only possible source of disorder comes from charge fluctuations, which can be controlled by a tunable inter-ring gate voltage.
description: 4 pages, 4 eps figures, revised text and new figures (as published)
Molecular interaction studies in binary mixtures of tetrahydrofuran with arene-substituted alcohols: acoustic and volumetric study
Creators: name: A. Shakila
name: R. Raju
name: T. Srinivasa Krishna
name: Dey, Ranjan
name: V. Pandiyan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In the present investigation, density and speed of sound have been reported for binary liquid mixtures of tetrahydrofuran with benzyl alcohol and 4-methoxybenzyl alcohol over the entire composition range at T = 303.15, 308.15 and 313.15 K. From the experimental data, excess molar volume (VmE), excess isentropic compressibility (κsE), excess molar isentropic compressibility (κs,mE), and excess speed of sound (uE) of liquid mixtures have been calculated. The excess partial molar volume,Vˉm,1E, Vˉm,2E, excess partial molar isentropic compressibility, Kˉs,m,1EKˉs,m,2E, over the whole composition range together with partial molar volume,Vˉm,10, Vˉm,20, partial molar isentropic compressibility Kˉs,m,10,Kˉs,m,20, excess partial molar volume,Vˉm,10E, Vˉm,20E, and excess partial molar isentropic compressibility, Kˉs,m,10E,Kˉs,m,20E at inﬁnite dilution have also been calculated. All excess properties have been correlated using Redlich–Kister smoothing polynomial equation.
AC susceptibility in deoxygenated YBCO single crystals
Creators: name: Moreno, A. J.
name: Bekeris, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured the first and third harmonic of the complex AC susceptibility in YBCO single crystals with different oxygen content. The amplitude of the AC field was varied in presence of an external DC field both applied parallel to the c axis of the crystals. We show evidence that deoxygenation leads to a reduction of bulk pinning strength and consequently to a stronger contribution of geometrical barriers.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication on Physica C
Local triviality for G-torsors
Creators: name: Gille, Philippe
name: Parimala, Raman
name: Suresh, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let C $\rightarrow$ Spec(R) be a relative proper flat curve over an henselian base. Let G be a reductive C-group scheme. Under mild technical assumptions, we show that a G-torsor over C which is trivial on the closed fiber of C is locally trivial for the Zariski topology.
Coexistent quantum and classical aspects of magnetization plateaux in alternating-spin chains
Creators: name: Sakai, Toru
name: Yamamoto, Shoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetization process of ferrimagnetic Heisenberg chains of alternating spins are theoretically studied. The size scaling analysis with the exact diagonalization of finite systems for ($S$,$s$)=(3/2,1) and (2,1) indicates a multi-plateau structure in the ground-state magnetization curve for $S$ and $s$ $>1/2$. The first plateau at the spontaneous magnetization can be explained by a classical origin, that is the Ising gap. In contrast, the second or higher one must be originated to the quantization of the magnetization. It is also found that all the $2s$ plateaux, including the classical and quantum ones, appear even in the isotropic case with no bond alternation.
description: 7 pages, Revtex, with 14 eps figures, to appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
The acceptability of intimate partner violence screening and response among refugee women accessing Australian resettlement services.
Creators: name: Spence, Nigel
name: Spangaro, Jo
name: Man, Nicola
name: Cameron, Jacqui
name: Hegarty, Kelsey
name: Koziol-McLain, Jane
name: McMahon, Tadgh
name: Perry-Indermaur, Astrid
name: Toole-Anstey, Chye
name: Walsh, Jeannette
name: Zwi, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025

description: Screening and response for intimate partner violence (IPV) is recommended for women in priority populations and is implemented in health services across diverse jurisdictions. Most women experiencing IPV strongly support screening, however this is untested with refugee women in resettlement contexts. Around one third of refugee women in Australia experience IPV and face multiple post-migration challenges. SAHAR (Safety and Health after Arrival) tested IPV screening using the ACTS tool, brief intervention, and referral with women accessing four settlement support services. Women attending sites during the study period were invited to participate in a three month follow up survey with participation by 321/375 women recruited (86%). Acceptability of IPV screening was assessed against (i) levels of comfort with the IPV screening questions and (ii) strength of agreement/disagreement with settlement services asking women about being frightened, controlled or hurt by their partners. Of participants who recalled the screening, 93% reported being very or moderately comfortable with being asked the questions (89% who had experienced IPV; 94% of those with no IPV identified). For all participants, 84% strongly or somewhat agreed with services asking the questions, with no significant difference in agreement between disclosing and non-disclosing groups. Those with no recall of the questions had lower overall agreement and higher disagreement than those who recalled the questions (88% and 10%). Acceptability was not associated with age, country of origin, household composition, time since arrival or number of prior service visits. Participants identified 'care shown by the worker', 'talking to someone in my own language', 'trust in the privacy of the service', and 'talking to a female worker' as the factors most important for encouraging discussion of IPV. High acceptance of IPV screening by refugee women supports consideration of implementation across settlement services, a key access point for refugee women with diverse needs.
Search for plasmons in isotropic Luttinger semimetals
Creators: name: Mandal, Ipsita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Luttinger semimetals include materials like gray tin ($α$-Sn) and mercury telluride, which are three-dimensional gapless semiconductors having a quadratic band crossing point (QBCP). Due to a growing interest in QBCPs and new experimental efforts, it is essential to study the finite-temperature properties of such systems. In this paper, we investigate the emergence of plasmons in the presence of Coulomb interactions in isotropic Luttinger semimetals, for zero as well as generic nonzero temperatures. When the Fermi level lies right at the QBCP, which is the point where twofold degenerate conduction and valence bands touch each other quadratically, we find that plasmons cannot appear at zero temperature. However, for nonzero temperatures, thermal plasmons are generated. Whether they are long-lived or not depends on the values of temperature, effective electron mass and effective fine-structure constant, and the number of fermion flavors. We also numerically estimate the behavior of the inelastic scattering rate at nonzero temperatures, as a function of energy, where the signatures of the QBCP thermal plasmons show up as a sharp peak. Our results will thus serve as a guide to experimental probes on these systems.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures; journal version accepted in Annals of Physics
Lettre de Esprit-Claude-François Calvet à Jean-François Séguier, 1777-03-21
Creators: name: Calvet, Esprit-Claude-François
name: Esprit-Claude-François Calvet
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Librairie
Numismatique

description: [transcription] Je vous remercie, monsieur et cher ami, des renseignements que vous avez bien voulu me donner sur la bibliothèque de M. d’Aubais. Vous vous doutez bien que ce n’est pas sans motif que je vous les ai demandés, M. Niel libraire distingué de cette ville a des projets d’acquisition sur ces livres, c’est luy-même qui doit vous présenter cette lettre, vous m’obligerez sensiblement si vous luy donnez quelque notice là-dessus et si vous luy procurez des facilités pour cet objet; il est de mes amis et à ce titre je prendrai sur mon compte tous les services que vous luy rendrez; vous verrez d’ailleurs, indépendamment de cette considération, qu’il mérite à tous égards qu’on l’oblige.

Je ne peux pas trouver une plus belle occasion de vous mettre sous les yeux la médaille fourrée en fer de mon cabinet, j’en profite d’autant plus volontiers que vous pourrez la remettre à M. Niel à son retour, et que de cette manière vous n’aurez point le souci du renvoi.

Je suis avec mes sentimens ordinaires,

Monsieur et cher ami,

Votre très humble et très obéissant serviteur.
Calvet.
Avignon, ce 21 mars 1777.
description: [personnes citées] Charles de Baschi, marquis d' Aubais, Jean-Joseph Niel
description: Source: ark:/12148/btv1b10015185m
description: Source: [lieu de Conservation] Nîmes, Bibliothèque Carré d'Art [cote]ms. 140, fol. 196
Investigation of conduction band structure, electron scattering mechanisms and phase transitions in indium selenide by means of transport measurements under pressure
Creators: name: Errandonea, D.
name: Segura, A.
name: Sánchez-Royo, J. F.
name: Muñoz, V.
name: Grima, P.
name: Chevy, A.
name: Ulrich, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we report on Hall effect, resistivity and thermopower measurements in n-type indium selenide at room temperature under either hydrostatic and quasi-hydrostatic pressure. Up to 40 kbar (= 4 GPa), the decrease of carrier concentration as the pressure increases is explained through the existence of a subsidiary minimum in the conduction band. This minimum shifts towards lower energies under pressure, with a pressure coefficient of about -105 meV/GPa, and its related impurity level traps electrons as it reaches the band gap and approaches the Fermi level. The pressure value at which the electron trapping starts is shown to depend on the electron concentration at ambient pressure and the dimensionality of the electron gas. At low pressures the electron mobility increases under pressure for both 3D and 2D electrons, the increase rate being higher for 2D electrons, which is shown to be coherent with previous scattering mechanisms models. The phase transition from the semiconductor layered phase to the metallic sodium cloride phase is observed as a drop in resistivity around 105 kbar, but above 40 kbar a sharp nonreversible increase of the carrier concentration is observed, which is attributed to the formation of donor defects as precursors of the phase transition.
description: 18 pages, Latex, 10 postscript figures
Eudorylas fuscitibia
Creators: name: Rafael, José Albertino
name: González, Christian Raúl
name: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Eudorylas
Eudorylas fuscitibia

description: Eudorylas fuscitibia (Rafael, 1990)
 Eudorylas fuscitibia Rafael, 1990c: 145, figs. 46-48, 105. Eudorylas fuscitibia; Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 439.
 Holotype: Male (LEP, type specimen not located). Chile, Ñuble, Las Trancas.
 Distribution: Chile: Región de Valparaíso: Valparaíso Province:Río Marga-Marga,Los Perales.Región de Ñuble: Diguillín Province: Las Trancas. Región del Biobío: Biobío Province: La Polcura.
 References: Rafael (1990c); De Meyer (1996); Skevington & Yeates (2001); Rodríguez & Rafael (2012).
description: Published as part of Rafael, José Albertino, González, Christian Raúl & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2023, A catalog of Pipunculidae of Chile (Diptera), pp. 1-9 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 4, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.017, http://zenodo.org/record/8109959
Intermittency analysis in diffractive DIS processes
Creators: name: Yang, Zhang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is pointed out in this talk that ``the colorless objects'' in diffractive scattering in the small-$x_B$ region can be probed by measuring the scaled factorial moments of final-state-hadrons and the dependence of their scaling behavior upon the diffractive kinematic variables. The Monte Carlo implementation of RAPGAP and JETSET are discussed as illustrative examples. The results of these model-calculations show in particular that inclusion of the contributions from the photon gluon fusion processes can considerably enlarge the power of the scaled factorial moments. The significant $x_B$-dependence of intermittency index in small-$x_B$ region in this MC analyses shows the hadronic final states depend very much on the lifetime of the exchanged colorless object $c_0^*$. The dependence of the intermittency index upon $x_\pomeron$, $Q^2$ and $β$ are also discussed.
description: 6 pages, 3 Postscript Figures, uses espcrc2.sty. Presented at the XXVII Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, September 8-12, 1997 Frascati-Rome, Italy
title: Komorbiditätsprofil der chronischen Nierenkrankheit - Erkenntnisse aus der vertragsärztlichen Versorgung
Creators: name: Holstiege, Jakob
name: Kohring, Claudia
name: Dammertz, Lotte
name: v. Samson-Himmelstjerna, Friedrich A.
name: Akmatov, Manas K.
name: Müller, Doreen
Publisher: name: Zentralinstitut für die Kassenärztliche Versorgung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gx8zb05
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Hintergrund
Die chronische Nierenkrankheit ist mit einer erhöhten Morbidität aller Körpersysteme assoziiert. Ziel dieser Studie war die Quantifizierung der Komorbiditätslast bei Menschen mit diagnostizierter chronischer Nierenkrankheit in der vertragsärztlichen Versorgung.

Methoden
Die Datengrundlage dieser Fall-Kontroll-Studie bildeten bundesweite pseudonymisierte kranken-kassenübergreifende vertragsärztliche Abrechnungsdaten gemäß § 295 SGB V. Eingeschlossen wurden Personen im Alter ab 40 Jahren, bei denen in zumindest zwei Quartalen im Jahr 2022 eine chronische Nierenkrankheit diagnostiziert wurde. Als Kontrollen wurden Patientinnen und Patienten ohne Diagnose einer chronischen Nierenkrankheit nach Alter, Geschlecht und Regionen der kassenärztlichen Vereinigungen (17 räumliche Einheiten) 1:1 zu Fällen gematcht. Unterschiede in der Prävalenz von 13 chronischen Erkrankungen und Multimorbidität, d.h. des gemeinsamen Auftretens von ≥3, ≥5 und ≥7 dieser Erkrankungen, wurden anhand von Prävalenz-Ratios (PR; Quotient aus Prävalenz bei Fällen und Kontrollen) untersucht.

Ergebnisse
Insgesamt jeweils 2.938.114 Personen im Alter ab 40 Jahren mit (Fälle) und ohne (Kontrollen) diag-nostizierter chronischer Nierenkrankheit konnten gematcht nach Alter, Geschlecht und Region ein-geschlossen werden (N= 5.876.228). Alle untersuchten Komorbiditäten traten bei Fällen relevant häufiger auf als bei Kontrollen. Das höchste PR von 17,7 (99 %-KI: 17,3-18,2) wurde für glomeruläre Erkrankungen beobachtet, gefolgt von Herzinsuffizienz (PR: 2,90, 99 %-KI: 2,88-2,93). Insgesamt 67,4 % der Fälle waren zusätzlich von ≥3 der hier berücksichtigten chronischen Erkrankungen betroffen (PR: 2,18, 99 %-KI: 2,17-2,18). Mit dem Ausmaß der Nierenschädigung ansteigende PR zeigten sich für kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen, autoimmune Systemerkrankungen, die zystische Nierenkrankheit und alle Operationalisierungen für Multimorbidität.

Schlussfolgerung
Menschen mit diagnostizierter chronischer Nierenkrankheit weisen gegenüber Kontrollen eine sub-stanziell erhöhte Komorbiditätslast auf. Diese steigt mit dem Erkrankungsstadium schrittweise an und begründet einen hohen Komplexitätsgrad ihrer medizinischen Versorgung.

Schlagwörter
Chronische Nierenkrankheit, Fall-Kontroll-Studie, Nierenversagen, kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen, Komorbidität, Prävalenz, Risikofaktoren
Phytotoxic analysis of coastal medicinal plants and quantification of phenolic compounds using HPLC
Creators: name: Qasim, Muhammad
name: Fujii, Yoshiharu
name: Ahmed, Muhammad Zaheer
name: Aziz, Irfan
name: Watanabe, Kazuo N.
name: M. Ajmal Khan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Medicinal plants are rich sources of bioactive phytochemicals. Production of such chemicals usually increased under unfavorable conditions. This study investigated the phytotoxic potential of 105 medicinal plants distributed in arid/semiarid areas along Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan. Total polyphenols, flavonoids, tannins and composition of individual phenolic compounds were also determined in species which showed high phytotoxic potential. Sandwich method was used to determine the phytotoxicity of medicinal plants on the growth of lettuce seedlings. Radicle growth was inhibited more than the hypocotyl growth. In general, halophytes showed higher phytotoxic potential than non-halophytes. Capparis cartilaginea, Indigofera hochstetteri, Parkinsonia aculeata and Prosopis glandulosa showed highest degree of inhibition. Higher amount of total phenols (16.35–25.33 mg GAE g−1), flavonoids (3.32-6.41 mg QE g−1) and tannins (1.54–2.54 mg TAE g−1) were found in these species. Pyrocatechol, quercetin, gallic, hydroxybenzoic and ferulic acids were detected as major phytotoxins, of which, gallic acid, pyrocatechol and quercetin were most abundant. These phytochemicals could be used for the production of natural, safe, healthy and eco-friendly agro-chemicals. Furthermore, these plants can be grown without encroaching agricultural lands, and can convert vast areas of arid/saline lands into economically viable resources, which also helps to halt climate change and desertification.
The complete chloroplast genome of Cynoglossum amabile Stapf & J. R. Drumm., 1906 (Boraginaceae), a traditional Chinese herbal medicine
Creators: name: Zhao, Zhen-Ning
name: Yu, Xiao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Cynoglossum amabile Stapf & J. R. Drumm., 1906 is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine from southwest China. To better determine its phylogenetic relatedness to other Boraginaceae species, the chloroplast (cp) genome of C. amabile was sequenced. The complete cp genome of C. amabile is 151,532 bp in length, containing a small single-copy (SSC) region with a length of 17,366 bp, a large single-copy (LSC) region with a length of 82,902 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) regions each with a length of 25,632 bp. The overall GC content of the cp genome is 37.4%. The maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree showed that Bothriospermum zeylanicum (J. Jacq.) Druce, 1917 was closely related to C. amabile.
Tidal deformability with sharp phase transitions in (binary) neutron stars
Creators: name: Han, Sophia
name: Steiner, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutron star tidal deformability is a critical parameter which determines the pre-merger gravitational-wave signal in a neutron star merger. In this article, we show how neutron star tidal deformabilities behave in the presence of one or two sharp phase transition(s). We characterize how the tidal deformability changes when the properties of these phase transitions are modified in dense matter equation of state (EoS). Sharp phase transitions lead to the smallest possible tidal deformabilities and also induce discontinuities in the relation between tidal deformability and gravitational mass. These results are qualitatively unmodified by a modest softening of the phase transition. Finally, we test two universal relations involving the tidal deformability and show that their accuracy is limited by sharp phase transitions.
description: 20 pages, 18 figures; accepted for publication in PRD
Dark Matter Bars in Spinning Halos
Creators: name: Collier, Angela
name: Shlosman, Isaac
name: Heller, Clayton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study nonlinear response of spinning dark matter (DM) halos to dynamic and secular evolution of stellar bars in the embedded galactic disks, using high-resolution numerical simulations. For a sequence of halos with the cosmological spin parameter lambda=0-0.09, and a representative angular momentum distribution, we analyze evolution of induced DM bars amplitude and quantify parameters of the response as well as trapping of DM orbits and angular momentum transfer by the main and secondary resonances. We find that (1) maximal amplitude of DM bars depends strongly on `lambda', while that of the stellar bars is indifferent to `lambda'; (2) Efficiency of resonance trapping of DM orbits by the bar increases with `lambda', and so is the mass and the volume of DM bars; (3) Contribution of resonance transfer of angular momentum to the DM halo increases with `lambda', and for larger spin, the DM halo `talks' to itself, by moving the angular momentum to larger radii --- this process is maintained by resonances; (4) Prograde and retrograde DM orbits play different roles in angular momentum transfer. The `active' part of the halo extends well beyond the bar region, up to few times the bar length in equatorial plane and away from this plane. (5) We model evolution of diskless DM halos and halos with frozen disks, and found them to be perfectly stable to any Fourier modes. Finally, further studies adopting a range of mass and specific angular momentum distributions of the DM halo will generalize the dependence of DM response on the halo spin and important implications for direct detection of DM and that of the associated stellar tracers, such as streamers.
description: MNRAS, in press, 15 pages, 12 figures
The AI president: a country governed byartificial intelligence
Creators: name: Al Lily, Miriam
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: AbstractPurpose – This paper aims to explore the possible forms and characteristics of an artificial intelligence (AI) leader and discuss the potential applications of AI in political leadership and governance.Design/methodology/approach – A categorization system consisting of three categories – the level of responsibility, the voting system and the bindingness of the AI’s decisions – was developed to better understand the various types of AI leaders. Additionally, to identify the main characteristics of an AI leader, a comprehensive literature review was conducted. The themes from the literature were then categorized and supplemented with additional discussions.Findings – This paper identifies several potential AI leaders, including the AI President, the AI Dictator, the AI Minister and the AI Consultant. The key characteristics of an AI leader were also discussed. The primary strengths of AI lie in their intelligence and rationality, which could potentially lead our societies toward a peaceful and prosperous future. However, a significant drawback of AI is that it will always be limited by the capabilities and intentions of its programmer, whether human or AI.Practical implications – Understanding the forms and characteristics of AI leaders may help policymakers and decision-makers explore the possibilities of integrating AI into political leadership and governance.Originality/value – This paper contributes to the emerging field of AI in governance by exploring the forms and characteristics of AI leaders and discussing their potential applications in political leadership.
Eudorylas macrocercus Rafael 1997
Creators: name: Rafael, José Albertino
name: González, Christian Raúl
name: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Eudorylas
Eudorylas macrocercus

description: Eudorylas macrocercus Rafael, 1997
 Eudorylas macrocercus Rafael,1997: 33, figs. 1-7. In: Rafael & Ale-Rocha (1997).
 Holotype: Male (CMNH), Chile, Chiloé, Isla Chiloé, Ahoni Alto.
 Distribution: Chile: Región de Los Lagos: Chiloé Province: Ahoni Alto.
 References: Rafael & Ale-Rocha (1997); De Meyer & Skevington (2000); Rodríguez & Rafael (2012).
description: Published as part of Rafael, José Albertino, González, Christian Raúl & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2023, A catalog of Pipunculidae of Chile (Diptera), pp. 1-9 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 4, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.017, http://zenodo.org/record/8109959
Aberrant integration of Hepatitis B virus DNA promotes major restructuring of human hepatocellular carcinoma genome architecture
Creators: name: Álvarez, Eva G
name: Demeulemeester, Jonas
name: Otero, Paula
name: Jolly, Clemency
name: García-Souto, Daniel
name: Pequeño-Valtierra, Ana
name: Zamora, Jorge
name: Tojo, Marta
name: Temes, Javier
name: Baez-Ortega, Adrian
name: Rodriguez-Martin, Bernardo
name: Oitaben, Ana
name: Bruzos, Alicia L
name: Martínez-Fernández, Mónica
name: Haase, Kerstin
name: Zumalave, Sonia
name: Abal, Rosanna
name: Rodríguez-Castro, Jorge
name: Rodriguez-Casanova, Aitor
name: Diaz-Lagares, Angel
name: Li, Yilong
name: Raine, Keiran M
name: Butler, Adam P
name: Otero, Iago
name: Ono, Atsushi
name: Aikata, Hiroshi
name: Chayama, Kazuaki
name: Ueno, Masaki
name: Hayami, Shinya
name: Yamaue, Hiroki
name: Maejima, Kazuhiro
name: Blanco, Miguel G
name: Forns, Xavier
name: Rivas, Carmen
name: Ruiz-Bañobre, Juan
name: Pérez-del-Pulgar, Sofía
name: Torres-Ruiz, Raúl
name: Rodriguez-Perales, Sandra
name: Garaigorta, Urtzi
name: Campbell, Peter J
name: Nakagawa, Hidewaki
name: Van Loo, Peter
name: Tubio, Jose MC
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: Tumour Biology
subject: Tumour Biology
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics
classificationCode: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
classificationCode: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
subject: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology

description: Most cancers are characterized by the somatic acquisition of genomic rearrangements during tumour evolution that eventually drive the oncogenesis. Here, using multiplatform sequencing technologies, we identify and characterize a remarkable mutational mechanism in human hepatocellular carcinoma caused by Hepatitis B virus, by which DNA molecules from the virus are inserted into the tumour genome causing dramatic changes in its configuration, including non-homologous chromosomal fusions, dicentric chromosomes and megabase-size telomeric deletions. This aberrant mutational mechanism, present in at least 8% of all HCC tumours, can provide the driver rearrangements that a cancer clone requires to survive and grow, including loss of relevant tumour suppressor genes. Most of these events are clonal and occur early during liver cancer evolution. Real-time timing estimation reveals some HBV-mediated rearrangements occur as early as two decades before cancer diagnosis. Overall, these data underscore the importance of characterising liver cancer genomes for patterns of HBV integration.
DNA barcoding as a tool for early warning and monitoring alien duckweeds (Lemna sp.pl.): the case of Central Italy
Creators: name: Marconi, Gianpiero
name: Landucci, Flavia
name: Rosellini, Daniele
name: Venanzoni, Roberto
name: Albertini, Emidio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Aquatic habitats are vulnerable to the invasion of alien species, so early warning protocols are necessary for eradication. The presence in Italy of two alien duckweeds in freshwaters has been documented: Lemna minuta, that showed high invasivity, and L. valdiviana, still confined to south Lazio. These two species may be mistaken for each other and for the domestic L. minor and L. gibba due to morphological variation. Here, we assess the applicability of DNA barcoding as a complement to morphological analysis for monitoring the spread of alien Lemna. We chose two chloroplast genome sequences for their ability to discriminate all Lemna species: the 5’ intron of the trnK gene and the matK gene. Among 48 samples of Lemna collected at 20 sites in Central Italy, 20 were identified as L. minor, 19 as L. minuta, five as L. trisulca and four as L. gibba. L. minuta was present at most sampling sites; in particular, at six locations of Lake Trasimeno, eight L. minuta samples were found. We demonstrate that DNA sequence analyses with cost-effective barcoding techniques can effectively support expert efforts in species determination for an early alert system of invasive Lemna species.
Eudorylas penai Rafael 1995
Creators: name: Rafael, José Albertino
name: González, Christian Raúl
name: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Eudorylas
Eudorylas penai

description: Eudorylas penai Rafael, 1995
 Eudorylas penai Rafael, 1995: 820, figs. 128-132, 212.
 Holotype: Male (originally at LEP; presently at FMNH), Chile, Ñuble, Chillán, Shangrila.
 Distribution: Chile: Región Metropolitana de Santiago: Santiago Province: Quebrada de la Plata. Región del Maule:Curicó Province:Estero la Palma at Río Teno,Fundo la Montaña. Región de Ñuble: Diguillín Province: Chillán, Las Trancas, Shangrila. Región de Los Lagos: Osorno Province: Purranque; Llanquihue Province: N Correntoso Horno Huinco; Chiloé Province: Dalcahue,Tepuhueico.
 References: Rafael (1995); De Meyer (1996); Rodríguez & Rafael (2012).
description: Published as part of Rafael, José Albertino, González, Christian Raúl & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2023, A catalog of Pipunculidae of Chile (Diptera), pp. 1-9 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 5, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.017, http://zenodo.org/record/8109959
Inflationary Cosmology from Noncommutative Geometry
Creators: name: Lizzi, F.
name: Mangano, G.
name: Miele, G.
name: Sparano, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the Connes-Lott model based on noncommutative geometry, the basic features of a gauge theory in the presence of gravity are reviewed, in order to show the possible physical relevance of this scheme for inflationary cosmology. These models naturally contain at least two scalar fields, interacting with each other whenever more than one fermion generation is assumed. In this paper we propose to investigate the behaviour of these two fields (one of which represents the distance between the copies of a two-sheeted space-time) in the early stages of the universe evolution. In particular the simplest abelian model, which preserves the main characteristics of more complicate gauge theories, is considered and the corresponding inflationary dynamics is studied. We find that a chaotic inflation is naturally favoured, leading to a field configuration in which no symmetry breaking occurs and the final distance between the two sheets of space-time is smaller the greater the number of $e$-fold in each sheet.
description: 29 pages, plain Latex, + 2 figures as uuencoded postscript files, substantially revised version to appear in the Int. Jour. Mod. Phys. A
A Short Guide to Orbifold Deconstruction
Creators: name: Bantay, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of orbifold deconstruction, i.e., the process of recognizing, using only readily available information, whether a given conformal model can be realized as an orbifold, and the identification of the twist group and the original conformal model.
Plant composition and diversity in a semi-natural Mediterranean island landscape: the importance of environmental factors
Creators: name: Drissen, Tim
name: Faust, Christopher
name: Stadtmann, Robin
name: Treitler, Julia T.
name: Zerbe, Stefan
name: Mantilla-Contreras, Jasmin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Islands crucially contribute to the Mediterranean Basin’s high floristic diversity, which, however, is at risk facing climate and land-use changes. Besides the identification of highly diverse areas, the knowledge about factors favouring diversity is of great importance. We analysed plant species diversity and composition related to environmental factors over varied vegetation units on a former Italian prison island in the northwest of Sardinia. Due to a long history of land use with grazing and later abandonment the nowadays protected island features a semi-natural landscape and can serve as an example for strongly anthropogenic altered insular ecosystems. Floristic composition, soil properties, microclimate and ungulate abundance were assessed. Relationships of vegetation composition and diversity with abiotic variables were examined by Canonical Correspondence Analysis, which indicated the importance of air temperature, soil moisture, slope gradient and C/N ratio for floristic differentiation. Most important abiotic factors for plant species richness were relative air humidity and soil moisture, while floristic diversity was mainly determined by air temperature and pH. Furthermore, observation data pointed to an adverse influence of ungulate abundance for plant species diversity. Regarding nature conservation, grazing intensity thus must be critically taken into account, especially for sensitive vegetation units like the coastal garrigue.
The spin parity of $Z_c^-$(4100), $Z_1^+$(4050) and $Z_2^+$(4250)
Creators: name: Cao, Xu
name: Dai, Jian-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conjecture that $Z_c^-$(4100) found by LHCb group from a Dalitz plot analysis of $B^0\to η_c K^+π^-$ decay is the charge conjugate of $Z_1^+$(4050) observed in $χ_{c1}π^+$ distribution from Belle collaboration. Some interesting conclusions are inferred from this assumption. The $Z_2$(4250) would be assigned to be a $J^P = 1^+$ or $1^-$ state because of its absence in $η_{c}π^-$ invariant mass distribution, while $Z_1^+$(4050)/$Z_c^-$(4100) could be a $0^+$ or $1^-$ state but $2^+$ is unfavored because it would be coupled to $η_{c}π$ in $D$-wave. The null observation of $Z_1 Z_2$, $Z_1 Z_1$ and $Z_2 Z_2$ production in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation and $Υ(1S,2S)$ decay by Belle collaboration would further allocate the spin parity combination of $Z_1^+$(4050)/$Z_c^-$(4100) and $Z_2$(4250). Our deductions can be used to exclude a set of proposed models and could be further tested by future experiment, e.g. in $γγ$ collisions.
description: 10 pages,published version