cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Petauroidea Bonaparte 1832
Creators: name: Beck, Robin M. D.
name: Voss, Robert S.
name: Jansa, Sharon A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Diprotodontia

description: Petauroidea Bonaparte, 1832  CONTENTS: Acrobatidae, Petauridae, Pseudocheiridae, and Tarsipedidae.
STEM AGE: 33.0 Mya (95% HPD: 29.3–37.7 Mya).
CROWN AGE: 29.0 Mya (95% HPD: 26.4–32.7 Mya).
UNAMBIGUOUS CRANIODENTAL SYNAPOMORPHIES: Maxillary foramen bordered by lacrimal (char. 14: 1→0; ci = 0.200); postorbital process formed by frontal and parietal (char. 19: 1→0; ci = 0.400); scars of M. temporalis origin on braincase not fused middorsally to form sagittal crest in adults (char. 27: 1→0; ci = 0.059); dP3 very small, nonoccluding, and structurally simplified or absent (char. 120: 0→2; ci = 0.118); and third upper premolar (P3) conventionally premolariform (char. 123: 2→0; ci = 0.385).
COMMENTS: The superfamily Petauroidea comprises four morphologically disparate families of phalangeridans: Acrobatidae, Tarsipedidae, Petauridae, and Pseudocheiridae. Nevertheless, petauroid monophyly is strongly supported in our molecular (figs. 27–29) and total-evidence (figs. 32, 33) analyses, as it has also been in other recent molecular studies (Phillips and Pratt, 2008; Meredith et al., 2009a, 2009 c, 2011; Mitchell et al., 2014; May-Collado et al., 2015; Duchêne et al., 2018; Álvarez-Carretero et al., 2021). One of the five unambiguous craniodental synapomorphies found to support Petauroidea is a reversal, namely reacquisition of a conventionally premolariform morphology of the third upper premolar from a fully sectorial precursor that is inferred as having evolved deeper within Diprotodontia.
The branching order within Petauroidea recovered in both of our total-evidence analyses (figs. 32, 33)—with Petauridae and Pseudocheiridae forming a clade, Tarsipedidae sister to this, and Acrobatidae the first family to diverge—is congruent with the results of recent molecular studies (Phillips and Pratt, 2008; Meredith et al., 2009a, 2009 c, 2011; Mitchell et al., 2014; May-Collado et al., 2015; Duchêne et al., 2018; Álvarez-Carretero et al., 2021). The oldest described petauroids are pseudocheirids from the late Oligocene of central Australia and Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Archer et al., 1999; Long et al., 2002; Archer and Hand, 2006; Roberts, 2008; Roberts et al., 2009; Black et al., 2012b), indicating that the petauroid crown clade had already begun to diversify by this time; our estimated divergence times imply that the first split within Petauroidea occurred during the Oligocene.
description: Published as part of Beck, Robin M. D., Voss, Robert S. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2022, Craniodental Morphology And Phylogeny Of Marsupials, pp. 1-353 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (457) on pages 239-240, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6971356
Single photons on demand from 3D photonic band-gap structures
Creators: name: Florescu, Marian
name: Scheel, Stefan
name: Haeffner, Hartmut
name: Lee, Hwang
name: Strekalov, Dmitry V.
name: Knight, Peter L.
name: Dowling, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a practical implementation of a (semi-deterministic) photon gun based on stimulated Raman adiabatic passage pumping and the strong enhancement of the photonic density of states in a photonic band-gap material. We show that this device allows {\em deterministic} and {\em unidirectional} production of single photons with a high repetition rate of the order of 100kHz. We also discuss specific 3D photonic microstructure architectures in which our model can be realized and the feasibility of implementing such a device using ${Er}^{3+}$ ions that produce single photons at the telecommunication wavelength of $1.55 μ$m.
description: 4 pages, 4 EPS figures
Use of Anti-Depressants for Individuals without a DSM-IV Diagnosis
Creators: Mogilevsky, Zara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The current study aimed to examine the effects of Prozac (Fluoxetine) on individuals who displayed mild symptoms of mental illness- but did not qualify for a DSM-IV diagnosis. The effects of the medication were measured through responses to several questionnaires over six months concerning mood, productivity, and anxiety.  The results indicated that Prozac helped to ease the suffering of those individuals who had mild symptoms of mental illness.  Individuals in this group showed a great improvement in mood and productivity and a lessening in their daily anxiety when compared to the control group.  Healthy individuals who did not display mild symptoms of mental illness did not show improvement in anxiety, mood or productivity after taking Prozac for six months.  These findings are congruent with the descriptions presented by Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac.  This study has significant implications for the field of Neuro-Ethics and enhancement.  More specifically, if individuals who are suffering can be helped through the administration of medications then serious considerations must be made by health care professionals.  Medicine aims to heal, and it is not the job of the psychiatrist to judge the amount of suffering felt by the patient.  Rather, if psychiatrist encounter patients who do not qualify for a DSM-IV diagnosis, yet still have mild symptoms of mental illness then anti-depressants such as Prozac should be administered to them.
Coping with hunger? Visions of a global food system, 1930–1960
Creators: name: Jachertz, Ruth
name: Nützenadel, Alexander
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agriculture
subject: Food
subject: Food and Agriculture Organization
subject: Hunger
subject: Inequality
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Nahrung
subject: Ungleichheit
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie

description: AbstractThe 1930s and 1940s saw the rise of a new model of global food politics. This model was strongly moulded by the experiences of the Great Depression and the two world wars, all of which had brought hunger and malnutrition back to Europe. Whereas until the nineteenth century famines and food shortages had commonly been interpreted as regional Malthusian crises, they were now attributed to global economic disturbances and imbalances. This article explores how the far-reaching plans of a World Food Board, advocated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization under John Boyd Orr, were abandoned and supplanted by a new approach that focused on technical aid and the distribution of surpluses. Moreover, the problems of hunger and malnutrition were embedded in a larger discourse on world population and economic development.
Stability of Quantum Dynamics under Constant Hamiltonian Perturbations
Creators: name: Knipschild, Lars
name: Gemmer, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Concepts like `typicality' and the `eigenstate thermalization hypothesis' aim at explaining the apparent equilibration of quantum systems, possibly after a very long time. However, these concepts are not concerned with the specific way in which this equilibrium is approached. Our point of departure is the (evident) observation that some forms of the approach to equilibrium, such as, e.g., exponential decay of observables, are much more common then others. We suggest to trace this dominance of certain decay dynamics back to a larger stability with respect to generic Hamiltonian perturbations. A numerical study of a number of examples in which both, the unperturbed Hamiltonians as well as the perturbations are modeled by partially random matrices is presented. We furthermore develop a simple heuristic, mathematical scheme that describes the result of the numerical investigations remarkably well. According to those investigations the exponential decay indeed appears to be most stable. Dynamics that are in a certain sense at odds with the arrow of time are found to be very unstable.
description: To appear in Physical Review E 9 pages, 4 figures
Urban Forestry Visioning Project
Creators: name: Du, Denny
name: Sangha, Tasha
name: Smith, Ivy
name: Yu, Hui
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
A $q$-continued fraction
Creators: name: Bowman, Douglas
name: Laughlin, James Mc
name: Wyshinski, Nancy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33D15, 11A55, 11B65, 30B70

description: We use the method of generating functions to find the limit of a $q$-continued fraction, with 4 parameters, as a ratio of certain $q$-series. We then use this result to give new proofs of several known continued fraction identities, including Ramanujan's continued fraction expansions for $(q^2;q^3)_{\infty}/(q;q^3)_{\infty}$ and $(q;q^2)_\infty / (q^{3};q^{6})_\infty^3$. In addition, we give a new proof of the famous Rogers-Ramanujan identities. We also use our main result to derive two generalizations of another continued fraction due to Ramanujan.
description: 23 pages
Relation Between Einstein And Quantum Field Equations
Creators: name: Parker, Leonard
name: Raval, Alpan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that there exists a choice of scalar field modes, such that the evolution of the quantum field in the zero-mass and large-mass limits is consistent with the Einstein equations for the background geometry. This choice of modes is also consistent with zero production of these particles and thus corresponds to a preferred vacuum state preserved by the evolution. In the zero-mass limit, we find that the quantum field equation implies the Einstein equation for the scale factor of a radiation-dominated universe; in the large-mass case, it implies the corresponding Einstein equation for a matter-dominated universe. Conversely, if the classical radiation-dominated or matter-dominated Einstein equations hold, there is no production of scalar particles in the zero and large mass limits, respectively. The suppression of particle production in the large mass limit is over and above the expected suppression at large mass. Our results hold for a certain class of conformally ultrastatic background geometries and therefore generalize previous results by one of us for spatially flat Robertson-Walker background geometries. In these geometries, we find that the temporal part of the graviton equations reduces to the temporal equation for a massless minimally coupled scalar field, and therefore the results for massless particle production hold also for gravitons. Within the class of modes we study, we also find that the requirement of zero production of massless scalar particles is not consistent with a non-zero cosmological constant. Possible implications are discussed.
description: Latex, 24 pages. Minor changes in text from original version
The Effect Of Heptachlor Contamination On Dairy Sales In Oahu
Creators: name: Ravenswaay, Eileen Van
name: Smith, Mark E.
name: Thompson, Stanley R.
name: Ravenswaay, Eileen Van
name: Smith, Mark E.
name: Thompson, Stanley R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Chemical contamination of livestock can have a number of economic impacts on producers. One of these is lost sales due to consumer reaction to news of a contamination incident. This paper reports a procedure that can be used to estimate this type of sales loss and applies it to the 1982 case of heptachlor contamination of milk on Oahu, Hawaii.
Beauty and Nation: Miss Romania as International Ambassador
Creators: name: Andras, Sonia-Doris
Publisher: name: Arhipelag XXI Press
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Group identity
subject: Fashion
subject: Romania
subject: History
subject: Women

description: My paper will use gender studies and theories about nation and nationhood in order to explain the argument that beauty queens are viewed by the pageant organizers and aficionados as ambassadors not only of local, regional and national beauty, but also representatives of their cultures and nations. Therefore, they not only function as objects for contemplation and judgement, but also as powerful political, cultural, social and economic symbols. The newly born and prosperous Greater Romania sought to establish itself as an equal among the more powerful and certainly older Western European and non-European nations. One of the means to reach this goal, and arguably one of the most widespread and popular in Romania and abroad was using example citizens to showcase Romania's qualities. RealitateaIlustrată and IlustraţiuneaRomână were the two magazines that organized two parallel Miss Romania pageants. Despite their rivalry and affiliation to two equally rival Miss Universe pageants, the idea of Miss Romania as an ambassador was the creed of both magazines. Miss Romania was warned that she is now the image of her whole nation and that it is her responsibility to represent Romania in all its greatness and beauty. Her role would be described as important as a sportsman representing their country abroad. The idea of Miss Romania as viewed in Interwar Romania was a very complex one. She could be described as a harbinger of feminine emancipation (both as an accolade and as a patriarchal critique), a pawn in an eugenics game fed to the masses as a means to control and reinvent the population, or a object used as a symbolic currency in political and capitalist exchanges. Her role as an ambassador is the most articulated and recognizable purpose of Miss Romania and can therefore be described as an excuse or starting point to every other aspect related to beauty pageants.
Non-Perturbative Models For The Quantum Gravitational Back-Reaction On Inflation
Creators: name: Tsamis, N. C.
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a universe in which inflation commences because of a positive cosmological constant, the effect of which is progressively screened by the interaction between virtual gravitons that become trapped in the expansion of spacetime. Perturbative calculations have shown that screening becomes non-perturbatively large at late times. In this paper we consider effective field equations which can be evolved numerically to provide a non-perturbative description of the process. The induced stress tensor is that of an effective scalar field which is a non-local functional of the metric. We use the known perturbative result, constrained by general principles and guided by a physical description of the screening mechanism, to formulate a class of ansatze for this functional. A scheme is given for numerically evolving the field equations which result from a simple ansatz, from the beginning of inflation past the time when it ends. We find that inflation comes to a sudden end, producing a system whose equation of state rapidly approaches that of radiation. Explicit numerical results are presented.
description: 50 pages, LaTeX 2 epsilon, 11 Postscript files, uses psfig.sty
Additional file 1: of Prediction of life-story narrative for end-of-life surrogateâ s decision-making is inadequate: a Q-methodology study
Creators: name: Hammami, Muhammad
name: Kafa Abuhdeeb
name: Padua, Sophia
name: Areej Al-Balkhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Q-Set Statements and Domains (DOC 34 kb)
Use of an Animated Video for Child Oral Health Education as a Brief Online Intervention Designed for Parent-child Dyads: Predictors of Parental Self-efficacy to Engage in Recommended Behaviors
Creators: Alrqiq, Hosam M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health education
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Animated films
subject: Teeth--Care and hygiene--Audio-visual aids
subject: Parent and child

description: Since dental caries in children remains a significant public health problem, this study developed a brief cartoon video e-health intervention focused on parents’ ensuring their children’s engagement in three key oral health behaviors: brushing twice a day with fluoridated toothpaste, avoiding the consumption of large quantities of sugar-containing foods and beverages, and visiting the dentist every six months. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the cartoon video as a brief e-health intervention, and to identify significant predictors of parental self-efficacy to ensure their children’s engagement in recommended oral health behaviors after viewing an animated video with their child. The sample included 75 parents with a child aged six to eight years. Parents were mostly female (85%, n = 63), white (84.0%, n = 63), with a mean age of 35.2 years (SD = 5.5), mean educational level between a two- and four-years of college, and mean household income of $20,000 to $39,000 per year. Parents had one or two children (51.8%, n = 39) with a mean age of 6.72 years who were mostly boys (65.3%, n = 49) in public school (80.0%, n = 60). Findings indicated the brief e-health cartoon was an effective intervention, given significant changes from pre-video to post-video in mean scores for: parent oral health knowledge (t = –5.437, df = 74, p = 0.000); global stage of change for performing all three key oral health behaviors (t = –1.804, df = 74, p = 0.000); and, global self-efficacy for performing all three key oral health behaviors (t = –3.838, df = 74, p = 0.000). Further, most parents rated the cartoon highly and indicated they would recommend it to other parents and children. Backwards stepwise regression, controlling for social desirability, indicated higher post-video parental self-efficacy for the three recommended oral health behaviors post-video was significantly predicted by: parent female gender (B = 1.072, p = 0.000); parent was not born in the U.S. (B = –0.544, p = 0.028); parent had a partner (yes) (B = 0.707, p = 0.000); parent was a student (yes) (B = 0.933, p = 0.001); lower parent education level (B = –0.142, p = 0.021); child was not in public school (B = –0.427, p = 0.028); higher Parental Intention Scale (PI-S-3) score (B = 0.302, p = 0.011); and higher parent pre-video oral health knowledge (B = 0.313, p = 0.000)—with 55.2% of variance predicted (R2 = 0.608, adjusted R2 = 0.552) by the model.
Use of Monotonic Static Logic in Scaled, Leaky CMOS Technologies
Creators: Irez, Kagan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Metal oxide semiconductors, Complementary--Testing
Electric circuits
Electric leakage
Metal oxide semiconductors, Complementary
Electrical engineering

description: This dissertation explores the characteristics of Monotonic-Static CMOS and its potential applications in leakage reduction in ultra scaled Bulk-Si technology with significant gate leakage currents. Using test circuits consisting of different configurations of 16-bit lookahead adders, we performed a comparison among static, monotonic static and domino logic in terms of various properties including power, delay, noise margin and area. Comparisons were done over a wide range of possible transistor widths to fully characterize the tradeoffs for each circuit type. Experimental results show that MS-CMOS has potential advantages in some situations in terms of stand-by power, evaluation speed and noise margin in such a technology.
title: Grundlagenversuche zum Verhalten von Konstruktionsleichtbeton unter Brandbeanspruchung bei Verwendung als Konstruktions- oder Vorsatzbeton unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse beim Schutzbau
Creators: name: Krampf, Lore
Publisher: name: Institut für Baustoffkunde und Stahlbetonbau
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Forschungsbericht
subject: Brandschutz
subject: Leichtbetonkonstruktion
subject: Beton
subject: IBMB
subject: 620

description: Grundlagenversuche zum Verhalten von Konstruktionsleichtbeton unter Brandbeanspruchung bei Verwendung als Konstruktionsoder Vorsatzbeton unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse beim Schutzbau, vol. 1
Towards an anagraphical picture of high-energy Galactic neutrinos
Creators: name: Marinelli, Antonio
name: Grasso, Dario
name: Ventura, Sofia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The TeV/PeV neutrino emission from our Galaxy is related to the distribution of cosmic-ray accelerators, their maximal energy of injection as well as the propagation of injected particles and their interaction with molecular gas. In the last years Interesting upper limits on the diffuse hadronic emission from the whole Galaxy, massive molecular clouds and Fermi Bubbles were set by the IceCube and ANTARES as well as HAWC and Fermi-LAT observations. On the other hand no evidence of Galactic point-like excess has been observed up to now by high-energy neutrino telescopes. This result can be related to the short duration of the PeV hadronic activity of the sources responsible for the acceleration of primary protons, possibly including supernova remnants. All these aspects will be discussed in this work.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 7th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics
Use of Rights Language at the International Criminal Court: A Revealing Closer Look at ICC Transcripts
Creators: Bailoun, Zeinab
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Human rights
subject: International Criminal Court
subject: Law--Language
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper studies the use of rights language at the International Criminal Court (ICC), in the context of situations from the Central African Republic (CAR) and Uganda. The research looks firsthand at transcripts from court proceedings and extracts references to the term “right.” The results reveal that rights are referenced most often in the context of “general” rights, and that there is much greater emphasis on rights in the context of due process, as opposed to rights of victims of the original abuses. This paper proposes that the ICC should adopt a human rights based framework that (1) encourages judges, victims, the prosecution, and the defense to use specific human rights rhetoric that references particular, justiciable rights, and (2) encourages actors within the criminal justice process to attempt to give near-equal weight to the rights of the various parties. The framework’s priorities should be: (1) promoting and protecting human rights within the International Criminal Court; (2) ensuring that rights of all parties in the criminal justice process are recognized and appropriately addressed; (3) enhancing the likelihood that a party with a specific grievance will raise the grievance in the form of a reference to an explicit right; and (4) enforcing the responsibility of duty-bearers to meet their obligations with regard to rights-holders’ particular claims.
Additional file 1 of FastqPuri: high-performance preprocessing of RNA-seq data
Creators: name: PĂŠrez-Rubio, Paula
name: Lottaz, Claudio
name: Engelmann, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
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: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary text with details on feature implementation and benchmarking. (PDF 758 kb)
Use of Teams to Accomplish Radical Organization Change: Examining the Influence of Team Cognitive Style and Leader Emotional Intelligence
Creators: Cahill, Alice Marie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Organizational behavior
subject: Psychology, Industrial

description: As organizations continue to experience external pressures and uncertainties regarding their future viability, they are increasingly choosing to engage in some form of inter-organizational restructuring in order to survive (Burke, 2011; Campbell, 2009; Kohm & La Piana, 2003). Mergers, the combination of two separate organizations into a single new entity, are occurring more often, especially in the non-profit sector.  A merger represents a radical, transformational change for each of the organizations involved and success requires careful planning and implementation, a significant amount of time and energy, and attention to the profound loss and emotional reactions experienced by organization members. The use of teams within organizations to address these requirements and accomplish the merger implementation has been recommended by organizational scholars (Marks & Mirvis, 2001), but the conditions necessary for teams to be successful in this type of situation are not clear. However, it is expected that the composition of merger teams and the ability of the leader to create conditions that support the team members and their work together are critical to the success of a merger as a radical change strategy. Based on adaption-innovation theory (Kirton, 1976) and the ability- based theory of emotional intelligence (Mayer, Salovey & Caruso, 1991), this study proposed that teams that are heterogeneous and innovative with respect to cognitive style will be most successful in accomplishing a merger implementation and that the emotional intelligence of the team leader has a direct effect on the team's success. Using data collected from 26 parish merger teams in a large Catholic diocese, support was found for hypotheses relating to the composition of the team with respect to cognitive style, but not for hypotheses related to leader emotional intelligence. Results of regression analyses testing the predicted relationships confirmed that teams that were more diverse and innovative were more effective in accomplishing a merger implementation; however, the predictions related to leader emotional intelligence were not supported. In contrast, analysis of qualitative data provided support for the critical influence of the team leader, specifically with respect to relationship-oriented leader behavior and its effect on team work processes and outcomes. Implications for the use of teams to accomplish mergers as well as future research are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Formative acceptance of ingestible biosensors to measure adherence to TB medications
Creators: name: Vaz, Clint
name: Jose, Nisha K.
name: Tom, Jeremiah Jacob
name: Goodman, Georgia R.
name: Lee, Jasper S.
name: Padappayil, Rana Prathap
name: Madathil, Manjunath
name: O’Cleirigh, Conall
name: Rodrigues, Rashmi
name: Chai, Peter R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Recorded video demonstrating the functionality of the digital pill system used as part of the quantitative assessment.
Cosmic scenarios in $f(R)$ gravity: a complete evolution
Creators: name: Das, Dipanjana
name: Dutta, Sourav
name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper deals with $f(R)$ gravity theory in the background of inhomogeneous FLRW--type space time model. With proper choice of the inhomogeneous metric function it is possible to have an emergent scenario for the $f(R)$--cosmology. Explicit form of $f(R)$ is obtained for power law expansion. It has been shown that the present $f(R)$ gravity model is equivalent to some particle creation mechanism in Einstein gravity. Further a complete cosmic evolution from inflation to present late time acceleration is possible with proper continuous choices of the $f(R)$--functions. Finally, in the perspective of thermodynamical analysis a form of $f(R)$ has been evaluated using the unified first law.
Erfassung der SARS-CoV-2-PCR-Testzahlen in Deutschland
Creators: name: Willrich, Niklas
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Böttcher, Sindy
name: Biegala, Weronika
name: Albrecht, Stefan
name: Oh, Djin-Ye
name: Abu Sin, Muna
name: Mielke, Martin
name: Rexroth, Ute
name: Eckmanns, Tim
name: Hamouda, Osamah
name: Seifried, Janna
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: PCR-Test
subject: Meldedaten
subject: Surveillance
subject: Teststrategie
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Das RKI erfasst wöchentlich die Anzahl der in Deutschland durchgeführten SARS-CoV-2-Tests, sowie einige Begleitinformationen wie wöchentliche Testkapazitäten, Liefereng¬pässe und Probenrückstaus. Hierfür werden deutschlandweit Daten von Universitätskliniken, Forschungseinrichtungen sowie klinischen und in der ambulanten Versorgung tätigen Laboren zusam¬mengeführt. Diese aggregierte Erfassung der Tests liefert Hinweise zur aktuellen Situation in den Laboren, erlaubt aber keine detaillierten Auswertungen oder direkte Vergleiche mit den gemeldeten SARS-CoV-2-Fallzahlen. Der Beitrag gibt u. a. einen Überblick über den zeitlichen Verlauf von Testzahlen und Positivenanteilen in der Laborbasierten Surveillance SARS-CoV-2, die Sensitivität und Spezifität der diagnostischen Tests und die Rolle falsch-positiver Testergebnisse für die Bewertung der Lage in Deutschland.
Asymptotic Hodge theory and quantum products
Creators: name: Cattani, Eduardo
name: Fernandez, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D07, 14N35 (Primary) 32G20, 14J32 (Secondary)

description: Assuming suitable convergence properties for the Gromov-Witten potential of a Calabi-Yau manifold $X$ one may construct a polarized variation of Hodge structure over the complexified Kähler cone of $X$. In this paper we show that, in the case of fourfolds, there is a correspondence between ``quantum potentials'' and polarized variations of Hodge structures that degenerate to a maximally unipotent boundary point. Under this correspondence, the WDVV equations are seen to be equivalent to the Griffiths' trasversality property of a variation of Hodge structure.
description: References and comments added. To appear in "Advances in Algebraic Geometry Motivated by Physics", Ed. E. Previatto, Contemporary Mathematics
title: Grundlagenversuche zum Verhalten von Konstruktionsleichtbeton unter Brandbeanspruchung bei Verwendung als Konstruktions- oder Vorsatzbeton unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse beim Schutzbau
Creators: name: Krampf, Lore
Publisher: name: Institut für Baustoffkunde und Stahlbetonbau
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Forschungsbericht
subject: Brand
subject: Leichtbetonkonstruktion
subject: Schutzraumbau
subject: IBMB
subject: 620

description: Grundlagenversuche zum Verhalten von Konstruktionsleichtbeton unter Brandbeanspruchung bei Verwendung als Konstruktionsoder Vorsatzbeton unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse beim Schutzbau, vol. 2
A quasi-Lagrangian moving mesh discontinuous Galerkin method for hyperbolic conservation laws
Creators: name: Luo, Dongmi
name: Huang, Weizhang
name: Qiu, Jianxian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M60, 35L65

description: A moving mesh discontinuous Galerkin method is presented for the numerical solution of hyperbolic conservation laws. The method is a combination of the discontinuous Galerkin method and the mesh movement strategy which is based on the moving mesh partial differential equation approach and moves the mesh continuously in time and orderly in space. It discretizes hyperbolic conservation laws on moving meshes in the quasi-Lagrangian fashion with which the mesh movement is treated continuously and no interpolation is needed for physical variables from the old mesh to the new one. Two convection terms are induced by the mesh movement and their discretization is incorporated naturally in the DG formulation. Numerical results for a selection of one- and two-dimensional scalar and system conservation laws are presented. It is shown that the moving mesh DG method achieves the theoretically predicted order of convergence for problems with smooth solutions and is able to capture shocks and concentrate mesh points in non-smooth regions. Its advantage over uniform meshes and its insensitiveness to mesh smoothness are also demonstrated.
description: 41 pages
Quantum teleportation of light beams
Creators: name: Zhang, T. C.
name: Goh, K. W.
name: Chou, C. W.
name: Lodahl, P.
name: Kimble, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate quantum teleportation for continuous variables using squeezed-state entanglement. The teleportation fidelity for a real experimental system is calculated explicitly, including relevant imperfection factors such as propagation losses, detection inefficiencies and phase fluctuations. The inferred fidelity for input coherent states is F = 0.61 +- 0.02, which when corrected for the efficiency of detection by the output observer, gives a fidelity of 0.62. By contrast, the projected result based on the independently measured entanglement and efficiencies is 0.69. The teleportation protocol is explained in detail, including a discussion of discrepancy between experiment and theory, as well as of the limitations of the current apparatus.
description: 17 pages, 19 figures, submitted to PRA
On the Interplay between Robustness and Dynamic Planning for Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Creators: name: Böck, Michelle
name: Eriksson, Kjell
name: Forsgren, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interfractional geometric uncertainties can lead to deviations of the actual delivered dose from the prescribed dose distribution. To better handle these uncertainties during treatment, the authors propose a dynamic framework for robust adaptive radiation therapy in which a variety of robust adaptive treatment strategies are introduced and evaluated. This variety is a result of optimization variables with various degrees of freedom within robust optimization models that vary in their grade of conservativeness. We formulate an adaptive framework with dependence on time and/or uncertainty or neither. The framework is evaluated with either expected-value-, worst-case-, or conditional-value-at-risk-(CVaR)-optimization. The goal of this study is to identify the mathematical properties of the proposed robust adaptive strategies in order to restore the planned dose distribution. We apply a result from convex analysis to show that in our framework, the time-dependent problem has a time-independent optimal solution. This implies that the time-dependent problem can be solved by dynamically solving the corresponding time-independent problem. This is especially relevant in a clinical context, since it implies that adaptive radiation therapy can be implemented in clinical practice using commercially available treatment planning systems. We demonstrate that time-and-scenario-dependent variables are most compatible with worst-case-optimization and that including dose prediction potentially improves treatment compared to non-adaptive planning. Contrarily, time-and-scenario-independent variables appear most compatible with expected-value-optimization. Non-adaptive robust strategies may provide sufficient target coverage, comparable to robust adaptive strategies, if the occurring uncertainties follow the same distribution as those included in the robust model.
Additional file 1: of Safety and clinical activity of PD-L1 blockade in patients with aggressive recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
Creators: name: Allen, Clint
name: Sunmin Lee
name: Norberg, Scott
name: Kovalovsky, Damian
name: Ye, Hong
name: Clavijo, Paul
name: Siwen Hu-Lieskovan
name: Schlegel, Richard
name: Schlom, Jeffrey
name: Strauss, Julius
name: Gulley, James
name: Trepel, Jane
name: Hinrichs, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S1. Contingency plot of HPV subtype and development of a partial response to avelumab. Assessed for statistical significance with the Fisher’s exact test. Figure S2. Contingency plot of HPV subtype and the presence of pulmonary disease. Assessed for statistical significance with the Fisher’s exact test. Figure S3. Contingency plot of patients who received polyvalent HPV vaccine prior to enrollment and patients who experienced a partial response to avelumab. Assessed for statistical significance with the Fisher’s exact test. Figure S4. Expression of individual HPV 6 or 11 genes. Expression of individual HPV 6 (patients 5, 7, and 8) or HPV 11 (patient 9) genes in papilloma and normal mucosa was measured by droplet digital polymerase chain reaction. Figure S5. Baseline representative immunohistochemistry photomicrographs and quantification of percentage of papilloma infiltrating CD8+ cells and total PD-L1+ cells. Percentage of positive cells inset within photomicrographs. Quantification of staining in eleven of twelve patients with evaluable biopsies represent percentage of total cells in the entire section. Assessed for statistical significance with the Mann-Whitney test. Figure S6. Gene expression profiling of papillomas and normal tissue. A heatmap demonstrating unsupervised hierarchical clustering of expression of individual genes or gene signatures is shown. Gene expression was measured by NanoString IO 360 analysis in pre-treatment (pre), on-treatment (2wk) and post-treatment (off) papilloma and normal mucosa biopsies. Each horizontal row represents a separate biopsy. Each unit increase of expression on the heatmap scale is a doubling of the biologic process it represents. The red box highlights differences in TGFβ gene expression between papilloma and normal mucosa biopsies. (DOCX 3090 kb)
Effect of Void Network on CMB Anisotropy
Creators: name: Sakai, Nobuyuki
name: Sugiyama, Naoshi
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of a void network on the CMB anisotropy in the Einstein-de Sitter background using Thompson &Vishniac's model. We consider comprehensively the Sacks-Wolfe effect, the Rees-Sciama effect and the gravitational lensing effect. Our analysis includes the model of primordial voids existing at recombination, which is realized in some inflationary models associated with a first-order phase transition. If there exist primordial voids whose comoving radius is larger than $\sim10h^{-1}$Mpc at recombination, not only the Sachs-Wolfe effect but also the Rees-Sciama effect is appreciable even for multipoles $l\lsim1000$ of the anisotropy spectrum. The gravitational lensing effect, on the other hand, slightly smoothes the primary anisotropy; quantitatively, our results for the void model are similar to the previous results for a CDM model. All the effects, together, would give some constraints on the configuration or origin of voids with high-resolution data of the CMB anisotropy.
description: 23 pages, latex, 12 eps figures, some calculations and discussions are added, to appear in ApJ 510 (1999)
Bird Collision Reporting Mobile App : A Partner Project Between FLAP Canada and UBC SEEDS Program
Creators: name: Crombie, Merle
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Bird collisions with urban structures is a widespread phenomenon in North America (and internationally), and represents the 2nd leading cause of bird mortality, killing an estimated 365 – 998 million birds annually (Loss et al., 2014). A recent investigation of bird collision frequencies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC, Canada, showed that birds frequently collide with campus structures (Porter and Huang, 2015). In response to this finding, UBC’s SEEDs Program (Social Ecological Economic Development Studies) partnered with FLAP Canada (Fatal Light Awareness Program), to launch a mobile application to facilitate citizen-collected bird collision data with hopes that this information could be used to reduce collision-related mortality in birds, including at UBC. FLAP Canada is a non-profit organization aimed at conserving birds through reducing collision rates with urban structures via education, outreach, research, and consulting (FLAP Canada 2016). The overall goal of this project was to launch a mobile application of a currently existing website hosted by FLAP Canada called FLAP Mapper, which is a web-based tool to report bird collisions. It was anticipated that this goal would be met by the recruitment of a volunteer skilled in app development, and/or by hiring a private app developer, conditional on funding. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
title: Mittheilungen für den Gewerbe-Verein des Herzogthums Braunschweig, Jg. 1842
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Vieweg
Year: 1842
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Wirtschaft, Handel und Justiz
subject: 902

description: Mittheilungen für den Gewerbe-Verein des Herzogthums Braunschweig, vol. 1842
Useful Works: Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Education
Creators: North, Samuel Joseph
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Literature

description: This dissertation identifies the scholarly historicist/contextualist paradigm on the basis of which most work in the discipline of English Literature now proceeds, and proposes a critical and materialist paradigm as an alternative. The first two chapters offer a new reading of the history of the discipline of English Literature. Chapter one traces the early history of the discipline from the 1920s through to the mid twentieth century, focussing on the project of literary criticism, as distinct from the project of literary scholarship. It demonstrates that literary criticism's characteristic methodologies of "close reading" and "practical criticism" were initially created as the tools of a broader project of aesthetic education, where the category of the aesthetic was being rethought in instrumental or incipiently materialist terms. This model of criticism was then turned to quite different purposes by later critics, who were committed to an idealist account of the aesthetic. Chapter two traces the history of the discipline from the late 1970s to the present, identifying a "scholarly turn" that transformed it from a discipline housing both the project of literary criticism and the project of literary scholarship, into a discipline that housed the project of literary scholarship alone. On the basis of this history, the dissertation goes on to argue for the development of a new project of literary criticism, understood as the close engagement with literary texts for the purposes of cultivating readers' aesthetic sensibilities. The third and fourth chapters begin to lay the foundation for such a project. Chapter three attempts to provide criticism with both a new philosophical basis in a materialist account of the aesthetic, and a new way to conceptualise its institutional site as a site of radical, rather than liberal, education. Chapter four attempts to provide criticism with the first elements of a methodology of reading by way of a case study of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925). The dissertation thus has four elements: in chapters one and two, a historical element; in chapter three, philosophical and institutional elements; and in chapter four, a methodological element. Taken together, these provide at least the few first sketches of a foundation on which a project of materialist aesthetic criticism might seek to establish itself today.
Kinetic Theory of Dynamical Systems
Creators: name: van Zon, R.
name: van Beijeren, H.
name: Dorfman, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally believed that the dynamics of simple fluids can be considered to be chaotic, at least to the extent that they can be modeled as classical systems of particles interacting with short range, repulsive forces. Here we give a brief introduction to those parts of chaos theory that are relevant for understanding some features of non-equilibrium processes in fluids. We introduce the notions of Lyapunov exponents, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and related quantities using some simple low-dimensional systems as "toy" models of the more complicated systems encountered in the study of fluids. We then show how familiar methods used in the kinetic theory of gases can be employed for explicit, analytical calculations of the largest Lyapunov exponent and KS entropy for dilute gases composed of hard spheres in d dimensions. We conclude with a brief discussion of interesting, open problems.
description: 35 pages, 10 figures (eps) + 1 LaTeX figure. Part of the proceedings of the 1998 NATO-ASI "Dynamics: Models and Kinetic Methods for Non-equilibrium Many-Body Systems." (see http://www.phys.uu.nl/~zon/leiden.html)