cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
RNGSSELIB: Program library for random number generation. More generators, parallel streams of random numbers and Fortran compatibility
Creators: name: Barash, L. Yu.
name: Shchur, L. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this update, we present the new version of the random number generator (RNG) library RNGSSELIB, which, in particular, contains fast SSE realizations of a number of modern and most reliable generators \cite{RNGSSELIB1}. The new features are: i) Fortran compatibility and examples of using the library in Fortran; ii) new modern and reliable generators; iii) the abilities to jump ahead inside RNG sequence and to initialize up to $10^{19}$ independent random number streams with block splitting method.
description: 6 pages, 1 table
Progress and gaps in reproductive health services in three humanitarian settings: mixed-methods case studies
Creators: name: Casey, Sara E.
name: Chynoweth, Sarah K.
name: Cornier, Nadine
name: Gallagher, Meghan C.
name: Wheeler, Erin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Humanitarian assistance
Reproductive health services
Health services administration
Medical care
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Public health

description: Background
Reproductive health (RH) care is an essential component of humanitarian response. Women and girls living in humanitarian settings often face high maternal mortality and are vulnerable to unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and sexual violence. This study explored the availability and quality of, and access barriers to RH services in three humanitarian settings in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and South Sudan.

Methods
Data collection was conducted between July and October 2013. In total, 63 purposively selected health facilities were assessed: 28 in Burkina Faso, 25 in DRC, and nine in South Sudan, and 42 providers completed a questionnaire to assess RH knowledge and attitudes. Thirty-four focus group discussions were conducted with 29 members of the host communities and 273 displaced married and unmarried women and men to understand access barriers.

Results
All facilities reported providing some RH services in the prior three months. Five health facilities in Burkina Faso, six in DRC, and none in South Sudan met the criteria as a family planning service delivery point. Two health facilities in Burkina Faso, one in DRC, and two in South Sudan met the criteria as an emergency obstetric and newborn care service delivery point. Across settings, three facilities in DRC adequately provided selected elements of clinical management of rape. Safe abortion was unavailable. Many providers lacked essential knowledge and skills. Focus groups revealed limited knowledge of available RH services and socio-cultural barriers to accessing them, although participants reported a remarkable increase in use of facility-based delivery services.

Conclusion
Although RH services are being provided, the availability of good quality RH services was inconsistent across settings. Commodity management and security must be prioritized to ensure consistent availability of essential supplies. It is critical to improve the attitudes, managerial and technical capacity of providers to ensure that RH services are delivered respectfully and efficiently. In addition to ensuring systematic implementation of good quality RH services, humanitarian health actors should meaningfully engage crisis-affected communities in RH programming to increase understanding and use of this life-saving care.
Review: Leonardo Giustiniani, venezianischer Staatsmann, Humanist und Vulgardichter, Maffio Venier, arcivescovo e letterato veneziano del Cinqucento, Le commedie veneziane di Riccardo Selvatico
Creators: name: Livingston, Arthur
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Italian poetry
subject: Italian language--Diction
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: A review of: Leonardo Giustiniani, venezianischer Staatsmann, Humanist und Vulgardichter, by B. Fenigstein, Maffio Venier, arcivescovo e letterato veneziano del Cinqucento, by N. Ruggieri, and Le commedie veneziane di Riccardo Selvatico, by A. Fradeletto.
Two Lately-Discovered Letters of Foscolo
Creators: name: Weston, George B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Letters
subject: European literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: In a recent number of the Fanfulla della Domenica (March 27, 1910), Professor Eugenia Levi, of the R. Istituto superiore di Magistero, Florence, deals with two letters of Foscolo that came to light not long ago in London. Having traced them to Boston, and obtained copies from the dealer by whom they had been acquired, Professor Levi, in the above-mentioned paper, after summarizing the shorter, less important letter, which is in English, publishes, with biographical and literary notes, the longer and highly interesting one (addressed to Lord Holland), according to her copy. The latter, as results from comparing the published version with the original letter, is in many places incorrect the punctuation being frequently altered, and words interpolated, omitted, changed and disfigured.
The Devil as a Dramatic Figure in the Spanish Religious Drama before Lope de Vega
Creators: name: Crawford, J. P. Wickersham
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Devil in literature
subject: Religious drama, Spanish
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: While many Spanish plays of the sixteenth century have recently been published, comparatively little attention has been paid to some of the characters which constantly appear in these plays. In the drama of the sixteenth century we find many characters which were developed by the more skillful dramatists of the following century and a study of these earlier plays is necessary to a complete understanding of the more finished products. It is the purpose of this article to study the Devil as a dramatic figure in the Spanish religious drama before Lope de Vega. Appended is a list of the plays which were accessible to me in which the Devil appears, and they are grouped for the sake of convenience into Mysteries, Plays on the Lives of Saints and Moralities.
Viverra tangalunga Gray 1832
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Viverridae
Viverra
Viverra tangalunga

description: Viverra tangalunga Gray, 1832. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832:63. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, W. Sumatra. DISTRIBUTION: Malaya; Sumatra; Rhio-Lingga Arch.; Bangka Isl.; Borneo; Karimata IsL; Sulawesi; Buru; Amboina; Philippine Isis.; Langkawi Isl. COMMENT: Introduced to many S. E. Asian Isis (WCW). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005005003001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 270, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Global Regularity of 2D Generalized MHD Equations with Magnetic Diffusion
Creators: name: Jiu, Quansen
name: Zhao, Jiefeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is concerned with the global regularity of the 2D (two-dimensional) generalized magnetohydrodynamic equations with only magnetic diffusion $Λ^{2β} b$. It is proved that when $β>1 $ there exists a unique global regular solution for this equations. The obtained result improves the previous known one which requires that $β>\frac32$.
description: 6 pages
Concerning Some Lines of the Siege d'Orange
Creators: name: Weeks, Raymond
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Criticism
subject: French literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: Time has been lacking me to notice the comment of Mr. G. Bertoni with regard to my collation of the 651 lines of the Siège d'Orange, which were published by Mr. A. Fichtner. In the article to which Mr. Bertoni refers, I made perhaps two dozen or more suggestions about the textual readings of Mr. Fichtner. Some of these suggestions were of course syntactical, but half of them probably were criticisms of the readings given supposedly as existing in the manuscript. It will be remembered that the copy of the manuscript was made by Mr. Suchier. Mr. Bertoni has made a new collation of the manuscript, and has succeeded in making out a number of words that had been considered hitherto illegible, for which skill and patience he deserves commendation.
Herrn Davach de la Riviere, der Arzneykunst Doctors und Leibarztes des durchlauchtigsten Prinzen von Conde, wohlgegründeter Urinspiegel, worinnen nach Erfahrung der berühmtesten sowohl alten als auch neuern Aerzten die verschiedenen Temperamente, vordringende Feuchtigkeiten des Geblüts, und Ursprung der Krankheiten zu ersehen; 1777
Creators: name: Davach de la Riviere, Jean
name: Essich, Johann Gottfried
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2009

description: Rückseite des Titelblatts unbedruckt
Possible Traces of Huon de Bordeaux in the English Ballad of Sir Aldingar
Creators: name: Kinney, Muriel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Mythology, Celtic
subject: English literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: The first appearance of Huon de Bordeaux in England, so far as we know, is in Sir John Bourchier's translation of the French prose version of the fifteenth century. The unique copy of the supposed first edition of this translation is in the possession of the Earl of Cranford and Balcarros and bears the following on its title page: the Boke of Duke Huon of Burdeux done into English by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners, and printed by Wynkyn de Worde about 1534 A. D.

To trace the influence of Huon through the literature of the sixteenth century in England is an intricate and bewildering undertaking. There is a very large amount of literary material of this period in England which contains Celtic fairy lore. Huon of Bordeaux contains Celtic fairy lore.
Viverra zibetha Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Viverridae
Viverra
Viverra zibetha

description: Viverra zibetha Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., lOth ed., 1:43. TYPE LOCALITY: India. DISTRIBUTION: N. India; Nepal; Burma; Indochina; Malay Peninsula; north to Anhwei, Shensi, Chekiang and Kiangsu (China)(SW). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005005004001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 271, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Viverricula Hodgson 1838
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Viverridae
Viverricula

description: Viverricula Hodgson, 1838. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 1:152. COMMENT: Subfamily Viverrinae; see Gill, 1872, 1 1 (1):4. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005006000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 271, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Gill, T. 1872. Arrangement of the families of mammals with analytical tables. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 11: 1 - 98."]}
title: The Impact of Wood Biochar on the Plant Uptake of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products from Reclaimed Wastewater
Creators: name: Flashinski, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Reclaimed water (treated water discharged from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)) is increasingly used in drier regions for irrigation purposes. This effectively increases the water supply and reduces the amount of WWTP discharge into surface waters but it creates the potential for contaminants in the reclaimed water, such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), to accumulate in exposed crops. The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) considers PPCPs contaminants of emerging concern due to their near universal presence in the environment and their potential for endocrine disruption. Biochar is gaining attention as a soil amendment and could potentially be used to sequester contaminants in the soil thereby reducing the contaminant uptake in crops.
The main objective of this study was to investigate the impact of wood biochar on the corn uptake of PPCPs originating from reclaimed water. Biochars derived from regional trees were chosen because they are rapidly expanding and represent a source of forest fire fuel (pinyon and juniper trees) or because they are frequently attacked by insects (lodgepole pine). The impact of biochar on contaminant uptake was tested by growing corn in non-amended soil and soil amended with biochar while being watered with reclaimed water supplemented with PPCPs (1 mg/L). Sand was also used for comparison since it is a less sorptive growth media. After a 28- day growing period, the corn leaves were dried, extracted, and analyzed for PPCPs.
Gonzalo de Berceo in Spanish Literary Criticism before 1780
Creators: name: Fitz-Gerald, J. D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Spanish literature
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: In Spanish literature the first poet whose name we know with certainty is Gonzalo de Berceo, who flourished in the first half of the thirteenth century. The first complete edition of his works did not appear until toward the end of the eighteenth century. What happened to them and what was thought of them during the five centuries that intervened between the death of the poet and the year 1780, when the learned Librarian of the King, Don Tomás Antonio Sánchez, published the second volume of his Collección de Poesías Castellanas Anteriores al Siglo XV giving it the subtitle of Poesías de Don Gonzalo de Berceo?

The question is not without interest; neither are the results of the investigations that lead us toward the possibility of answering it. Consequently, I propose setting forth with the utmost brevity the results that I have so far been able to obtain from my investigations. In citing the texts that speak of Berceo, I shall not stop to comment on them, nor even to correct the errors–sometimes rather serious-they may contain.
Predictive Utility of Apolipoprotein E Genotype for Alzheimer Disease in Outpatients With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Creators: name: Devanand, Devangere P.
name: Pelton, Gregory
name: Zamora, Diana
name: Liu, Xinhua
name: Tabert, Matthias H.
name: Goodkind, Madaleine
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Braun, Ilana
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Apolipoprotein E
subject: Mild cognitive impairment
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Cognition
subject: Older people--Mental health
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Genetic aspects
subject: Dementia
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Mental health
subject: Gerontology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: In cognitively impaired patients without dementia, the utility of apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotyping is unclear. Objective: To evaluate the predictive utility of the APOE ε4 genotype for conversion to probable Alzheimer disease (AD). Design: Naturalistic, longitudinal study. Setting: Memory disorders outpatient clinic. Patients: A total of 136 patients with memory complaints were determined to have mild cognitive impairment and were evaluated every 6 months. Fifty-seven age- and sex-matched healthy controls were evaluated annually. Main Outcome Measures: Primary outcome measures included conversion to AD. Secondary outcome measures included change over time in Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score and Selective Reminding Test (SRT) delayed recall score. Results: The APOE ε4 allele was present in 25% of patients and 21% of healthy controls. During a mean ± SD follow-up of 35.2 ± 24.3 months, 35 of 136 patients converted to AD. APOE ε4 carrier status did not differ between converters (31%) and nonconverters to AD (23%, P = .3) and did not affect the time trend in MMSE or SRT scores in the entire sample. Four of 5 APOE ε4 homozygotes converted to AD compared with 7 of 29 heterozygotes (P = .02). In a Cox proportional hazards model stratified by age quartiles, after controlling for sex, education, MMSE score, and SRT delayed recall score, APOE ε4 increased the risk of AD in patients 70 to 85 years old (n = 57; risk ratio, 2.77; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-7.3; P = .03) but not in patients 55 to 69 years old (n = 79; P = .7). Conclusions: APOE ε4 carrier status was associated with conversion to AD in older outpatients after controlling for known demographic and clinical risk factors, and APOE ε4 homozygosity was associated with increased risk of conversion to AD. However, APOE ε4 carrier status by itself did not predict cognitive decline or conversion to AD, indicating that APOE genotyping in patients with mild cognitive impairment may have limited clinical applicability for prediction of outcome.
title: The Effect of "Drought Tolerant" Plant Labeling on Consumers' Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Ornamental Plants
Creators: name: Cenador, Susanne Tábara
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Utah’s water resources are endangered by low rainfall rates, high per capita water consumption and a strong projected increase of residents. The irrigation of ornamental plant landscaping is estimated to account for 60% of residential water use, and is, therefore, a target of education programs in the effort to promote water conservancy. The water-wise “Yellow Tag” program developed by the Utah Division of Water Resources seeks to provide retail nurseries with free tags for labeling plants which are considered low water use with the objective of promoting water conservation. The objective of this study is to determine consumer preferences for plants labeled with the Yellow Tag.
As a means of measuring consumer preference we use willingness-to-pay (WTP). We give participants the choice between daylily, spiderwort and neither. Choice alternatives differ in flower color, purported irrigation need, production location and price. The data for this study was collected through an online survey instrument applied to 463 participants residing in the state of Utah.
Our results show that consumers prefer daylilies labeled with the Yellow Tag, and dislike spiderwort labeled with a high irrigation need. Special preference for Yellow Tag labeled ornamentals was found for respondents who are female, living in single houses, are concerned about the price of water and are drought aware. We do not find a preference for flower color or production location. These promising results may encourage Utah governmental and education agencies to continue the Water-Wise program, expand educational programs to increase drought awareness and help retailers optimize their future product mixes.
Restricted Likelihood Ratio Tests for Linearity in Scalar-on-Function Regression
Creators: name: McLean, Mathew W.
name: Hooker, Giles
name: Ruppert, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a procedure for testing the linearity of a scalar-on-function regression relationship. To do so, we use the functional generalized additive model (FGAM), a recently developed extension of the functional linear model. For a functional covariate X(t), the FGAM models the mean response as the integral with respect to t of F{X(t),t} where F is an unknown bivariate function. The FGAM can be viewed as the natural functional extension of generalized additive models. We show how the functional linear model can be represented as a simple mixed model nested within the FGAM. Using this representation, we then consider restricted likelihood ratio tests for zero variance components in mixed models to test the null hypothesis that the functional linear model holds. The methods are general and can also be applied to testing for interactions in a multivariate additive model or for testing for no effect in the functional linear model. The performance of the proposed tests is assessed on simulated data and in an application to measuring diesel truck emissions, where strong evidence of nonlinearities in the relationship between the functional predictor and the response are found.
Arthurian Literature–II
Creators: name: Curdy, A. E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: European literature
subject: Arthurian romances
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: Mention has already been made of the rapid decrease in the number of writers and versions in the seventeenth century—the period, indeed, in which the lowest point of Arthurian production was reached. This sudden decline in interest is amazing, and there is no direct testimony as to the cause. The suggestion has been made, that the intellectual struggles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are accountable for this state of affairs. Possibly there were other reasons, which do not appear. The attention of the literary world was strongly drawn toward the drama during this century, and the whole subject of the construction of stage productions was fought out with a vehemence that left nothing to the imagination. As a result of this interest in the stage we find that Arthurian subjects appear for the first time in dramatic form, but in a very small number of cases. The first piece was that of John Dryden, King Arthur, or The British Worthy, which was acted and published; then Desmarres wrote La Dragonne, ou Merlin Dragon. Francis Bacon wrote The Misfortunes of Arthur, a drama based on Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. There were redactions and alterations in the following century and these probably gave the impulse for dramatic handling of the various subjects of the Arthurian tradition.
Bufo Spixii Fitzinger 1826
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Bufonidae
Bufo

description: Bufo Spixii Fitzinger, 1826
 Fitzinger, 1826. Neue Class. Rept.: 65. Current name: Chaunus ornatus (Spix, 1824)
 Paralectotype: RMNH 2190, 1 spec. Loc.: “Provincia Rio de Janeiro” [Brazil]. Leg.: J.B. von Spix. Remarks. The lectotype (ZSM 1343/0) was designated by Hoogmoed & Gruber (1983: 373) and is in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, together with paralectotypes (ZSM 1343/0).
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
title: Effect of Physical Stimuli on Angiogenic Factor Expression in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
Creators: name: Farjood, Farhad
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of blindness in adults. Abnormal growth of blood vessels in the eye during the course of AMD causes damage to the retina, resulting in irreversible blindness. The goal of this research was to determine whether physical pressure on retinal cells can contribute to the increased blood vessel formation. To replicate the tears in the cell layers, a micropatterning method was used as a means of detaching cells from each other. Two new devices were also developed to mimic slow and fast increases in mechanical pressure on cell layers of the eye. After detaching cells from each other and adding mechanical stress to cells, the levels of angiogenic proteins secreted by retinal cells were measured. The results showed that both cell-cell detachment and mechanical stress can increase the secretion of angiogenic proteins. After adding mechanical stress, we also added the secreted proteins to blood vessel cells and observed an increase in blood vessel formation, indicating that mechanical stress can independently induce angiogenesis. These results suggest that physical stimuli in the eye can contribute to the aberrant blood vessel formation in AMD.
title: Hrn. Samuel Richardsons, Verfassers der Pamela, der Clarissa und des Grandisons Sittenlehre für die Jugend in den auserlesensten Aesopischen Fabeln; 1757
title: mit dienlichen Betrachtungen zur Beförderung der Religion und der allgemeinen Menschenliebe vorgestellet ; mit Kupfern
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Richardson, Samuel
name: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2009

description: In Fraktur. - Übers. ermittelt
Neuropsychological Prediction of Conversion to Alzheimer Disease in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Creators: name: Tabert, Matthias H.
name: Manly, Jennifer J.
name: Liu, Xinhua
name: Pelton, Gregory
name: Rosenblum, Sara
name: Jacobs, Marni
name: Zamora, Diana
name: Goodkind, Madeleine
name: Bell, Karen L.
name: Stern, Yaakov
name: Devanand, Devangere P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mild cognitive impairment
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Cognition
subject: Older people--Mental health
subject: Amnestic mild cognitive impairment
subject: Neuropsychology
subject: Dementia
subject: Mental health
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Gerontology

description: Context: The likelihood of conversion to Alzheimer disease (AD) in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the “optimal” early markers of conversion need to be established. Objectives: To evaluate conversion rates to AD in subtypes of MCI and to identify neuropsychological measures most predictive of the time to conversion. Design: Patients were followed up semiannually and controls annually. Subtypes of MCI were determined by using demographically adjusted regression norms on neuropsychological tests. Survival analysis was used to identify the most predictive neuropsychological measures. Setting: Memory disorders clinic. Participants: One hundred forty-eight patients reporting memory problems and 63 group-matched controls. Main Outcome Measure: A consensus diagnosis of probable AD. Results: At baseline, 108 patients met criteria for amnestic MCI: 87 had memory plus other cognitive domain deficits and 21 had pure memory deficits. The mean duration of follow-up for the 148 patients was 46.6 ± 24.6 months. In 3 years, 32 (50.0%) of 64 amnestic-“plus” and 2 (10.0%) of 20 “pure” amnestic patients converted to AD (P = .001). In 148 patients, of 5 a priori predictors, the percent savings from immediate to delayed recall on the Selective Reminding Test and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Revised Digit Symbol Test were the strongest predictors of time to conversion. From the entire neuropsychological test battery, a stepwise selection procedure retained 2 measures in the final model: total immediate recall on the Selective Reminding Test (odds ratio per 1-point decrease, 1.10; 95% confidence interval, 1.05-1.14; P
title: Youth Prevention Programs: A Framework for Conducting Mediation Meta-Analyses
Creators: name: Kawamura, Morgan A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Often for prevention program designs, researchers are interested in understanding the processes through which a program impacts a targeted outcome. Mediation analysis assists in identifying not only how a program influences an outcome, but also which intermediate variables (i.e., mediators) cause the effects between a program and an outcome to occur. Mediation analysis explains why a program works, which is useful for program developers in creating effective prevention and intervention-based programs.
To make use of mediation analysis findings for preventive intervention programs, researchers need a comprehensive understanding of the mediators between various programs and outcomes. However, a comprehensive examination into which mediators are most effective has yet to take place. This is likely due to the lack of theoretical and quantitative guidance on conducting a comprehensive comparison study for mediated effects. As such, this work establishes a framework for measuring mediated effects in a comprehensive context. This thesis establishes a framework under which to evaluate mediated effects across multiple studies, demonstrates the application of this framework, and discusses the broader implications of this approach. Identifying the most effective mediators through the proposed approach lends a valuable understanding to practitioners and policymakers about critical actions for preventing a given outcome.
title: Error-Floors of the 802.3an LDPC Code for Noise Assisted Decoding
Creators: name: Tithi, Tasnuva Tarannum
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: In digital communication, information is sent as bits, which is corrupted by the noise present in wired/wireless medium known as the channel. The Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are a family of error correction codes used in communication systems to detect and correct erroneous data at the receiver. Data is encoded with error correction coding at the transmitter and decoded at the receiver. The Noisy Gradient Descent BitFlip (NGDBF) decoding algorithm is a new algorithm with excellent decoding performance with relatively low implementation requirements. This dissertation aims to characterize the performance of the NGDBF algorithm. A simple improvement over NGDBF called the Re-decoded NGDBF (R-NGDBF) is proposed to enhance the performance of NGDBF decoding algorithm. A general method to estimate the decoding parameters of NGDBF is presented. The estimated parameters are then verified in a hardware implementation of the decoder to validate the accuracy of the estimation technique.
title: Estimating Suspended Solids and Phosphorus Loading in Urban Stormwater Systems Using High-Frequency, Continuous Data
Creators: name: Melcher, Anthony A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The introduction of pavement, buildings, and other impervious surfaces to urban landscapes greatly influences the quantity and quality of urban stormwater runoff. In this study, we designed and implemented modern stormwater monitoring technologies to establish a “smart” stormwater sensor network within the Northwest Field Canal (NWFC), an urban water conveyance located in Logan, Utah, USA. This network was designed to collect flow and water quality data at high frequencies and simultaneously at multiple locations. The observatory’s innovative method of inter-site communication and changing sampling frequencies during storm events was able to capture short duration events at the upstream and downstream ends of the NWFC and at multiple outfalls in the canal simultaneously without human intervention. We then investigated statistical regression models between turbidity and TSS so as to predict TSS at high frequencies. Finally, the addition of the high-frequency discharge data in the calibration procedure for a stormwater simulation model developed using the Environmental Protection Agency’s Stormwater Management Model did little to improve model performance at the downstream end of the canal, but did provide important insight into the overall contribution of discharge from individual stormwater outfalls to the NWFC. The results of this study inform water professionals on how to build and operate automated monitoring systems and how to create high-frequency estimates of TSS and TP loads in urban water systems.
Barthelemy Aneau: A Study in Humanism
Creators: name: Gerig, John L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Humanism in literature
subject: French poetry
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: The literary activity of Aneau really begins with his election to the principalship of the Collège de la Trinité. Before 1540, literature was for him mainly a subject for the class-room. The few poems that he composed were either a diversion or intended to inspire his pupils. But after his election to this high position, he enjoyed greater influence in the social life of the city. The successful production of the Mystère de la nativité had indeed made of him a well-known local character; but now it devolved upon him to take part in all the important civic functions and write epigrams on contemporary events. He was placed on reception committees, and was usually requested, when the city welcomed a notable, to write a poem or play commemorating the occasion.
Feasibility of Lithium Storage on Graphene and Its Derivatives
Creators: name: Liu, Yuanyue
name: Artyukhov, Vasilii I.
name: Liu, Mingjie
name: Harutyunyan, Avetik R.
name: Yakobson, Boris I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanomaterials are anticipated to be promising storage media, owing to their high surface-to-mass ratio. The high hydrogen capacity achieved by using graphene has reinforced this opinion and motivated investigations of the possibility to use it to store another important energy carrier - lithium (Li). While the first-principles computations show that the Li capacity of pristine graphene, limited by Li clustering and phase separation, is lower than that offered by Li intercalation in graphite, we explore the feasibility of modifying graphene for better Li storage. It is found that certain structural defects in graphene can bind Li stably, yet more efficacious approach is through substitution doping with boron (B). In particular, the layered C3B compound stands out as a promising Li storage medium. The monolayer C3B has a capacity of 714 mAh/g (as Li1.25C3B), and the capacity of stacked C3B is 857 mAh/g (as Li1.5C3B), which is about twice as large as graphite's 372 mAh/g (as LiC6). Our results help clarify the mechanism of Li storage in low-dimensional materials, and shed light on the rational design of nano-architectures for energy storage.
Viverricula indica
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Viverridae
Viverricula
Viverricula indica

description: Viverricula indica (Desmarest, 1817). Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Paris, 7: 170. TYPE LOCALITY: India. DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka; India to S. China and Hainan IsL, and Malay Peninsula; Taiwan; Java; Kangean IsL; Sumbawa; Bali. Introduced to Madagascar. COMMENT: V. malaccensis is invalid; see Pocock, 1933, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 36:629. Scattered distribution on many S. E. Asian Isis, due to frequent introductions (WCW). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005006001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 271, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
The Progression of Cognition, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Functional Abilities in Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Alzheimer Disease
Creators: name: Stavitsky, Karina
name: Brickman, Adam M.
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Torgan, Rebecca L.
name: Tang, Mingxin
name: Albert, Marilyn
name: Brandt, Jason
name: Blacker, Deborah
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Alzheimer's disease--Pathophysiology
subject: Lewy body dementia
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
subject: Dementia
subject: Mental health
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Although dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) may be one of most common forms of dementia, relatively little is known about its cognitive and functional course. Objective: To compare change over time in general cognitive status, memory test performance, psychiatric symptoms, neurological signs, and functional abilities in patients with probable DLB and probable Alzheimer disease (AD). Design: Twenty-eight patients who met diagnostic criteria for DLB were recruited into the study from 3 sites. Patients with AD (n = 55) were selected from a larger cohort and matched 2 to 1 to the patients with DLB on age and baseline global cognitive status. Patients were followed up at 6-month intervals for an average of 6.2 visits and assessed at each visit with tests of global cognitive functioning and verbal learning and memory and measures of psychiatric, neurological, and functional status. Results: At the baseline evaluation, patients with DLB performed more poorly on a measure of constructional praxis and all measures of functional status. They also had more severe psychiatric symptoms and neurological signs than the AD group. Despite these initial differences, generalized estimating equations applied to regression analyses with repeated measures determined that the only difference between the 2 groups in change in cognitive test performance was on a measure of recognition memory; patients with AD declined, while patients with DLB remained relatively stable. Patients with DLB had relatively stable behavioral symptoms and visual illusions, whereas patients with AD had a significant increase in these symptoms over time. Neurological and functional changes over time were similar in the 2 groups. Conclusions: Both baseline and longitudinal differences between patients with DLB and patients with AD were noted; these have implications for clinical diagnosis and treatment.
Notice to Peggy Pemberton-Carter from Consel-General of Japan
Creators: name: Consul-General Of Japan
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Prisoner-of-war camps
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1746580
subject: Prisoners of war
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077227
subject: Women prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178398
subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Women prisoners of war
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1739042

description: A notice from Consel-General of Japan to order Peggy Pemberton-Carter to live in Civil Assembly Centre in Shanghai in 1943. Includes rules and regulations for things like what to do with the dwelling you are leaving behind and what personal property can and should be brought into the Assembly Centre.
Homological algebra for osp(1/2n)
Creators: name: Coulembier, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B55, 18G10, 17B10

description: We discuss several topics of homological algebra for the Lie superalgebra osp(1|2n). First we focus on Bott-Kostant cohomology, which yields classical results although the cohomology is not given by the kernel of the Kostant quabla operator. Based on this cohomology we can derive strong Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand resolutions for finite dimensional osp(1|2n)-modules. Then we state the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem which follows immediately from the Bott-Kostant cohomology by using the Peter-Weyl theorem for osp(1|2n). Finally we calculate the projective dimension of irreducible and Verma modules in the category O.
An Observational Study of Cognitive Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Creators: name: Rippon, Gregory A.
name: Scarmeas, Nikolaos
name: Gordon, Paul H.
name: Murphy, Peregrine L.
name: Albert, Steven M.
name: Mitsumoto, Hiroshi
name: Marder, Karen
name: Rowland, Lewis P.
name: Stern, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
subject: Cognition
subject: Frontotemporal dementia
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
subject: Dementia
subject: Mental health
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Cognitive impairment is increasingly recognized in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Clinical and pathologic features overlap in frontotemporal lobar dementia and ALS. Demographics, respiratory status, bulbar site of onset, and disease severity are potential risk factors for cognitive impairment in ALS. Objectives: To further delineate the frequency, nature, and implications of cognitive impairment in ALS and to assess previously identified risk factors. Design: Case-control and retrospective cohort study. Setting: Academic referral center. Participants: Forty consecutive patients with ALS underwent baseline neurologic and neuropsychologic examinations. Cognitive test performance was compared in patients with ALS and matched controls. An exploratory analysis of the relationship between cognitive performance and ALS survival was performed. Main Outcome Measures: Neuropsychologic test performance, ALS severity, and survival. Results: Twelve patients (30%) showed evidence of cognitive impairment, including 9 (23%) who met the neuropsychologic criteria for dementia. No statistically significant differences were found between demented and nondemented ALS groups regarding demographics, family history, site of onset, bulbar dysfunction, or ALS severity. Only 1 patient with dementia had bulbar-onset disease. An association was observed between increasing ALS severity and declining verbal fluency performance. Demented patients with ALS showed predominant impairment in free recall, executive function, and naming, with relative preservation of attention, psychomotor speed, and visuospatial function. No association was observed between cognition and survival, controlling for ALS severity. Conclusions: Nearly a third of the patients with ALS showed evidence of cognitive impairment in a pattern consistent with frontotemporal lobar dementia. Cognitive performance was not related to site of onset or survival.
Honor in the Spanish Drama
Creators: name: Stuart, Donald Clive
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1910
Subjects: subject: Honor in literature
subject: Spanish drama
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Europeans
subject: Romance literature

description: The origin of the ideal of honor which makes its appearance in the plays of Lope de Vega and Calderón bas not been discovered. Ticknor says in discussing the point of honor found in Calderón:

Here, therefore, we find pressed upon us the question, What was the origin of these extravagant ideas of domestic honor and domestic rights, which are found in the old Spanish drama from the beginning of the full length plays of Torres Naharro, and which are thus exhibited in all their excess in the plays of Calderón? The question is certainly difficult to answer, as are all like it that depend on the origin and traditions of national character.

He then proceeds to show that the rigorous laws which permitted a swift vengeance on an erring woman were in vogue from Gothic times; and he sets aside as groundless the assertion that the Spanish ideals of domestic authority might be derived from the Arabs.
Bufo vulgaris var. japonicus Temminck & Schlegel 1838
Creators: name: Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó
name: Van, Lars W.
name: Ostende, Den Hoek
name: Arntzen, Jan Willem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Bufonidae
Bufo
Bufo vulgaris
Bufo vulgaris var. japonicus temminck & schlegel, 1838

description: Bufo vulgaris var. japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1838
 Temminck & Schlegel, 1838. Fauna Japonica, 3: 106; pl. II, fig. 5, 6. Current name: Bufo japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1838
Lectotype: RMNH 2119 A, 1 spec. Loc.: “ Japon ”. Leg.: Ph.F. von Siebold.
Paralectotypes: RMNH 2119 B, 1 spec. Loc.: “ Japon ”. Leg.: Ph.F. von Siebold. RMNH 2109, 6 spec.; RMNH 2115, 3 spec. Loc.: “ Japon ”. Leg.: Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger. RMNH 2116, 2 spec.; RMNH 2117, 4 spec. Loc.: “ Japon ”. Leg.: H. Bürger.
 Remarks. The lectotype was designated by Matsui (1984: 407).
description: Published as part of Miracle, Eulàlia Gassó, Van, Lars W., Ostende, Den Hoek & Arntzen, Jan Willem, 2007, Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 25-68 in Zootaxa 1482 on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176896
title: Advancing Streamflow Forecasts Through the Application of a Physically Based Energy Balance Snowmelt Model With Data Assimilation and Cyberinfrastructure Resources
Creators: name: Gichamo, Tseganeh Zekiewos
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) provides forecasts of streamflow for purposes such as flood warning and water supply. Much of the water in these basins comes from spring snowmelt, and the forecasters at CBRFC currently employ a suite of models that include a temperature-index snowmelt model. While the temperature-index snowmelt model works well for weather and land cover conditions that do not deviate from those historically observed, the changing climate and alterations in land use necessitate the use of models that do not depend on calibrations based on past data. This dissertation reports work done to overcome these limitations through using a snowmelt model based on physically invariant principles that depends less on calibration and can directly accommodate weather and land use changes. The first part of the work developed an ability to update the conditions represented in the model based on observations, a process referred to as data assimilation, and evaluated resulting improvements to the snowmelt driven streamflow forecasts. The second part of the research was the development of web services that enable automated and efficient access to and processing of input data to the hydrological models as well as parallel processing methods that speed up model executions. These tasks enable the more detailed models and data assimilation methods to be more efficiently used for streamflow forecasts.