cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Centralized, Stepped, Patient Preference–Based Treatment for Patients With Post–Acute Coronary Syndrome Depression
Creators: name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Bigger, J. Thomas
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Carney, Robert M.
name: Chaplin, William F.
name: Czajkowski, Susan
name: Dornelas, Ellen
name: Duer-Hefele, Joan
name: Frasure-Smith, Nancy
name: Freedland, Kenneth E.
name: Haas, Donald C.
name: Jaffe, Allan S.
name: Ladapo, Joseph A.
name: Lespérance, Francois
name: Medina, Vivian M.
name: Newman, Jonathan D.
name: Osorio, Gabrielle A.
name: Parsons, Faith E.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Shaffer, Jonathan A.
name: Shapiro, Peter A.
name: Sheps, David S.
name: Vaccarino, Viola
name: Whang, William
name: Ye, Siqin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Depression, Mental
Medical care, Cost of
Mental health services--Cost effectiveness
Coronary heart disease--Risk factors
Mental health

description: IMPORTANCE: Controversy remains about whether depression can be successfully managed after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and the costs and benefits of doing so. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of providing post-ACS depression care on depressive symptoms and health care costs. DESIGN: Multicenter randomized controlled trial. SETTING: Patients were recruited from 2 private and 5 academic ambulatory centers across the United States. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 150 patients with elevated depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory [BDI] score ≥10) 2 to 6 months after an ACS, recruited between March 18, 2010, and January 9, 2012. INTERVENTIONS: Patients were randomized to 6 months of centralized depression care (patient preference for problem-solving treatment given via telephone or the Internet, pharmacotherapy, both, or neither), stepped every 6 to 8 weeks (active treatment group; n = 73), or to locally determined depression care after physician notification about the patient's depressive symptoms (usual care group; n = 77). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Change in depressive symptoms during 6 months and total health care costs. RESULTS: Depressive symptoms decreased significantly more in the active treatment group than in the usual care group (differential change between groups, -3.5 BDI points; 95% CI, -6.1 to -0.7; P = .01). Although mental health care estimated costs were higher for active treatment than for usual care, overall health care estimated costs were not significantly different (difference adjusting for confounding, -$325; 95% CI, -$2639 to $1989; P = .78). CONCLUSIONS: For patients with post-ACS depression, active treatment had a substantial beneficial effect on depressive symptoms. This kind of depression care is feasible, effective, and may be cost-neutral within 6 months; therefore, it should be tested in a large phase 3 pragmatic trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01032018.
title: Patient–Therapist Expectancy Convergence and Outcome in Naturalistic Psychotherapy
Creators: name: Gaines, Averi N.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Aim: Research on close relationships demonstrates that dyadic convergence, or two people becoming more concordant in their experiences and/or beliefs over time, is commonplace and adaptive. As psychotherapy involves a close relationship, patient–therapist convergence processes may influence treatment-specific outcomes. Although prior research supports that patients and therapists tend to converge on their alliance perspectives over time, which associates with subsequent patient improvement, no research has similarly examined belief convergence during therapy. Accordingly, this study focused on patient–therapist convergence in their outcome expectation (OE), a belief variable associated with patient improvement when measured from individual participant perspectives. I predicted both that significant OE convergence would occur and relate to better posttreatment outcome. Method: Data derived from a trial of naturalistic psychotherapy. Patients and therapists repeatedly rated their respective OE through treatment, and patients rated their symptom/functional outcomes at posttreatment. For dyads (N = 154) with the requisite OE data, I tested my questions using multilevel structural equation modeling. Results: There was no discernable OE convergence pattern over treatment (g100 = 0.02, SE = 0.04, p = .275) and OE convergence was unrelated to outcome at the between-dyad (b02k = 1.86, SD = 10.08, p = .406) and between-therapist (g002 = -0.06, SD = 3.54, p = .473) levels. However, higher early patient OE was significantly associated with better outcome at the between-dyad level (b05k = -0.04, SD = 0.01, p < .001). Discussion: Results suggest that OE may be more of a facilitative patient versus relational process factor.
Emotional predictors and behavioral triggers of acute coronary syndrome
Creators: name: Davidson, Karina W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Depression, Mental
Stress (Psychology)
Anxiety
Anger
Coronary heart disease--Risk factors
Mental health

description: Mounting evidence suggests that depression, anxiety, and hostility/anger may each be an independent risk factor for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) occurrence. Data specific to the role of these negative emotional states in predisposing to imminent ACS risk are limited, however. Additionally, a number of studies have indicated that certain situational triggers (such as intense physical exertion) and behavioral triggers (such as acute anxiety or anger) are predictive of imminent occurrence of an ACS. Despite these findings, the use of emotional or behavioral information to identify persons at high risk for imminent ACS onset is not yet practical. Further research is needed to facilitate such patient identification.
Stabilizer formalism for generalized concatenated quantum codes
Creators: name: Wang, Yun-Jiang
name: Zeng, Bei
name: Grassl, Markus
name: Sanders, Barry C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The concept of generalized concatenated quantum codes (GCQC) provides a systematic way for constructing good quantum codes from short component codes. We introduce a stabilizer formalism for GCQCs, which is achieved by defining quantum coset codes. This formalism offers a new perspective for GCQCs and enables us to derive a lower bound on the code distance of stabilizer GCQCs from component codes parameters,for both non-degenerate and degenerate component codes. Our formalism also shows how to exploit the error-correcting capacity of component codes to design good GCQCs efficiently.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, International Symposium on Information Theory, 7 July - 12 July 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
title: Planar Ultra-Wideband Modular Antenna (PUMA) Arrays for High-Volume Manufacturing on Organic Laminates and BGA Interfaces
Creators: name: LaCroix, James
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: This work proposes wideband and broadband Planar Ultra-wideband Modular Antenna (PUMA) arrays designed to improve cost and reliability for high production volume commercial and military applications. The designs feature simplified PCB stack-ups with high dielectric constant (Dk) dimensionally stable materials to improve the manufacturing cost and yield. Additionally, the packages use ball grid array (BGA) interconnects, commonly used in digital electronics, for simple solder reflow integration with radio frequency (RF) electronics. While high Dk materials present practical manufacturing benefits, theoretical background will show how and why PUMA arrays lose frequency bandwidth and scan volume with high Dk materials. Further, a band limiting cavity mode will be shown to encroach into the frequency band of high Dk PUMA arrays due to a higher order common mode. PUMA arrays designed on several high Dk materials (Dk = {2.55, 3, 3.7}) will be presented to characterize this reduction in bandwidth. A wideband 7.25-31 GHz (4.3:1) PUMA array-on-package designed on Rogers RO4725JXR (Dk = 2.55) is presented with infinite array simulation results showing good active impedance match, port isolation and cross-polarization performance out to q = 45°. A simplified broadband 15-21 GHz (30%) PUMA array on a thin (λ/11) single layer of Isola FR408HR (Dk = 3.7) is proposed with infinite array results predicting strong active impedance, port isolation and cross-polarization performance with better port isolation and cross-polarization levels than a similar dual-polarized probe fed patch array.
The ‘Perfect Storm’ and Acute Coronary Syndrome Onset: Do Psychosocial Factors Play a Role?
Creators: name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Shaffer, Jonathan
name: Kronish, Ian M.
name: Whang, William
name: Alcantara, Carmela
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Davidson, Karina W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Depression, Mental
Stress (Psychology)
Atherosclerotic plaque
Neurohormones
Coronary heart disease
Mental health

description: The revolution in cardiac care over the past two decades, characterized by emergent revascularization, drug eluting stents, anti-platelet medications, and advanced imaging has had little impact on overall ACS recurrence, or ACS prevention. The “Perfect Storm” refers to a confluence of events and processes, including atherosclerotic plaque, coronary flow dynamics, hemostatic and fibrinolytic function, metabolic and inflammatory conditions, neurohormonal dysregulation, and environmental events that give rise to, and result in an ACS event. In this article we illustrate the limits of the traditional main effect research model, giving a brief description of the current state of knowledge regarding the development of atherosclerotic plaque and the rupturing of these plaques that defines an ACS event. We then apply the Perfect Storm conceptualization to describe a program of research concerning a psychosocial vulnerability factor that contributes to increased risk of recurrent ACS and early mortality, and that has defied our efforts to identify underlying pathophysiology and successfully mount efforts to fully mitigate this risk.
Perturbative $O(α_s)$ corrections to the correlation functions of light tetraquark currents
Creators: name: Groote, S.
name: Körner, J. G.
name: Niinepuu, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the perturbative term in the operator product expansion of the spectral functions of light tetraquark currents. By using also configuration space methods we keep the momentum space four-loop calculation to a manageable level. We find that the next-to-leading order corrections to the perturbative term are large and can amount to $O(100\%)$. The corrections to the corresponding Borel sum rules, however, are small since the nonperturbative condensate contributions dominate the Borel sum rules.
description: 31 pages, 2 figures and 2 tables
title: Euplectella Aspergillum’s Natural Lattice Structure for Structural Design & Stability Landscape of Thin Cylindrical Shells with Dimple Imperfections
Creators: name: Sloane, Zoe Y.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: The first portion of this thesis assesses the structural application of a bracing design inspired by the deep-sea sponge, Euplectella Aspergillum. Many studies have investigated the natural strength found in the unique skeletal structure of this species. The braced design inspired by the sponge features square frames with two sets of cross-braces that are offset from the corners of each frame, creating a pattern of open and closed cells. This study reports the results of multiple Finite Element Analysis (FEA) computations that compare the described bracing pattern to a more common bracing design used in structural design. The designs are compared in two configurations; the first is a simplified tall building design, and the second is a slender plate design. Results indicate that the sponge’s natural pattern produces considerable mechanical benefit when only considering elastic behavior. However, the same was not true when considering plastic material properties. In conclusion to these observations, the sponge-inspired lattice design is determined to be an efficient alternative to slender-solid plates but not for lateral-resisting systems intended for tall building design.
The second topic of discussion in this thesis concerns the stability of thin cylindrical shells with imperfections. The structural stability of these members is highly sensitive to the size and shape of an imperfection. An accurate prediction of the capacity of an imperfect cylindrical shell can be determined using non-destructive testing techniques. This method does require previous knowledge of the characteristics of the imperfection, which realistically is unknown. In the hope of creating a technique to find the location of an imperfection, this study analyzes the trends in the stability landscapes of the surrounding area of an imperfection. The imperfection of interest in this study has an amplitude equivalent to the thickness of the shell. Using FEA to simulate non-destructive probing tests, it is established that there is a distinct area surrounding the imperfection where the axial load and peak probe force curves show the influence of the imperfection. This area is referred to as the zone of influence and can be used to create an efficient process to locate an imperfection on a thin cylindrical shell.
The Energetics of El Niño and La Niña
Creators: name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Philander, S. George
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Long-range weather forecasting
Atmosphere

description: Data from a realistic model of the ocean, forced with observed atmospheric conditions for the period 1953–92, are analyzed to determine the energetics of interannual variability in the tropical Pacific. The work done by the winds on the ocean, rather than generating kinetic energy, does work against pressure gradients and generates buoyancy power, which in turn is responsible for the rate of change of available potential energy (APE). This means interannual fluctuations in work done by the wind have a phase that leads variations in APE. Variations in the sea surface temperature (SST) of the eastern equatorial Pacific and in APE are highly correlated and in phase so that changes in the work done by the wind are precursors of El Niño. The wind does positive work on the ocean during the half cycle that starts with the peak of El Niño and continues into La Niña; it does negative work during the remaining half cycle. The results corroborate the delayed oscillator mechanism that qualitatively describes the deterministic behavior of ENSO. In that paradigm, a thermocline perturbation appearing in the western equatorial Pacific affects the transition from one phase of ENSO to the next when that perturbation arrives in the eastern equatorial Pacific where it influences SST. The analysis of energetics indicates that the transition starts earlier, during La Niña, when the perturbation is still in the far western equatorial Pacific. Although the perturbation at that stage affects the thermal structure mainly in the thermocline, at depth, the associated currents are manifest at the surface and immediately affect work done by the wind. For the simulation presented here, the change in energy resulting from adjustment processes far outweighs that due to stochastic processes, such as intraseasonal wind bursts, at least during periods of successive El Niño and La Niña events.
Grundriss der glorieusen Action, welche in der Gegend Pultawa in d[er] Ucraine zwischen der Armee Sner. Czarische[n] Maÿ. Petri dess Ersten Keÿsern von Gross-Russland u[nd] Seiner Königl. May. in Schwede[n] Caroli XII. den 27 Juny, 8. Juli Annô 1709 vorgegangen; [nach 1709]
Creators: name: Leopold, Joseph Friderich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2012

description: NO oben. - Mit 2 Nebenkt. - Titelkartusche oben rechts
Changes in the Spread of the Variability of the Seasonal Mean Atmospheric States Associated with ENSO
Creators: name: Kumar, Arun
name: Barnston, Anthony G.
name: Peng, Peitao
name: Hoerling, Martin P.
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Ocean temperature
Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Long-range weather forecasting
Atmospheric circulation--Models
Atmosphere

description: For a fixed sea surface temperature (SST) forcing, the variability of the observed seasonal mean atmospheric states in the extratropical latitudes can be characterized in terms of probability distribution functions (PDFs). Predictability of the seasonal mean anomalies related to interannual variations in the SSTs, therefore, entails understanding the influence of SST forcing on various moments of the probability distribution that characterize the variability of the seasonal means. Such an understanding for changes in the first moment of the PDF for the seasonal means with SSTs is well documented. In this paper the analysis is extended to include also the impact of SST forcing on the second moment of the PDFs. The analysis is primarily based on ensemble atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) simulations forced with observed SSTs for the period 1950–94. To establish the robustness of the results and to ensure that they are not unduly affected by biases in a particular AGCM, the analysis is based on simulations from four different AGCMs. The analysis of AGCM simulations indicates that over the Pacific–North American region, the impact of interannual variations in SSTs on the spread of the seasonal mean atmospheric states (i.e., the second moment of the PDFs) may be small. This is in contrast to their well-defined impact on the first moment of the PDF for the seasonal mean atmospheric state that is manifested as an anomalous wave train over this region. For seasonal predictions, the results imply that the dominant contribution to seasonal predictability comes from the impact of SSTs on the first moment of the PDF, with the impact of SSTs on the second moment of the PDFs playing a secondary role.
Vulpes zerda
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
Canidae
Vulpes
Vulpes zerda

description: Vulpes zerda (Zimmermann, 1780). Geogr. Gesch. Mensch. Vierf. Thiere, 2: 247. REVIEWED BY: H. E. Evans (HEE). TYPE LOCALITY: Sahara. DISTRIBUTION: Morocco to Arabia. COMMENT:: Placed in genus Canis, subgenus Vulpes by Van Gelder, 1978:8. Vulpes includes Fennecus which is often treated as a separate genus; see Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3): 117-199; Clutton-Brock and Corbet, 1979, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 36. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III as Fennecus zerda (Tunisia). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001008001001 as Fennecus zerda.
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 250, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.", "Clutton-Brock, J., G. B. Corbet, and M. Hills. 1976. A review of the family Canidae, with classification by numerical methods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 29 (3): 119 - 199.", "Corbet, G. B. 1979. The taxonomy of Procavia capensis in Ethiopia, with special reference to the aberrant tusks of P. c. capillosa Brauer (Mammalia, Hyracoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 36 (4): 251 - 259."]}
The Trilinear Higgs Self-Couplings at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_t^2)$ in the CP-Violating NMSSM
Creators: name: Borschensky, Christoph
name: Dao, Thi Nhung
name: Gabelmann, Martin
name: Müuhlleitner, Margarete
name: Rzehak, Heidi
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: correction, higher-order
potential, Higgs
Higgs particle, mass
mass, correction
momentum, external
gluon, fusion
CP, violation
minimal supersymmetric standard model
Higgs mechanism
electroweak interaction
supersymmetry

description: In supersymmetric theories the Higgs boson masses are derivedquantities where higher-order corrections have to be included in orderto match the measured Higgs mass value and the precision ofexperiment. Intimately related through the Higgs potential are the Higgs self-interactions. The measurement ofthe trilinear Higgs self-coupling provides the first step towards thereconstruction of the Higgs potential and the experimentalverification of the Higgs mechanism $\textit{sui generis}$. In this paper, we advance ourprediction of the trilinear Higgs self-couplings in the CP-violatingNext-to-Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the SM (NMSSM). We provide the${\cal O}(\alpha_t^2)$ corrections in the gaugeless limit at vanishingexternal momenta. The higher-order corrections turn out to be largerthan the corresponding mass corrections but show the expectedperturbative convergence. The inclusion of the loop-correctedeffective trilinear Higgs self-coupling in gluon fusion into Higgspairs and the estimate of the theoretical uncertainty due to missinghigher-order corrections indicates that the missing electroweak higher-ordercorrections may be significant.
Model of deep non-volcanic tremor part I: ambient and triggered tremor
Creators: name: Gershenzon, Naum I.
name: Bambakidis, Gust
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is evidence of triggering of tremor by seismic waves emanating from distant large earthquakes. The frequency contents of triggered and ambient tremor are largely identical, suggesting that tremor does not depend directly on the nature of the source. We show here that the model of plate dynamics developed earlier by us is an appropriate tool for describing the onset of tremor. In the framework of this model, tremor is an internal response of a fault to a failure triggered by external disturbances. The model predicts generation of radiation in a frequency range defined by the fault parameters. Other specific features predicted are: the upper limit of the size of the emitting area is a few dozen km; tremor accompanies earthquakes and aseismic slip; the frequency content of tremor depends on the type of failure. The model also explains why a tremor has no clear impulsive phase, in contrast to earthquakes. A comparatively small effective normal stress (hence a high fluid pressure) is required to make the model consistent with observed tremor parameters. Our model indicates that tremor is not necessarily a superposition of low frequency earthquakes, as commonly assumed, although the latter may trigger them. The approach developed complements the conventional viewpoint which assumes that tremor reflects a frictional process with low rupture speed. Essentially our model adds the hypothesis that resonant-type oscillations exist inside a fault. This addition may change our understanding of the nature of tremor in general, and the methods of its identification and location in particular.
description: 32 pages, 16 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1202.0912
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1968-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
title: Heavy Metal in Medieval Europe
Creators: name: Klimmek, Sean M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: How and why did plate armor come to be widely used in Medieval Europe? I trace the historical development of armor in Europe from antiquity to the middle ages, and then identify the main causes that pushed European warriors to develop and adopt plate armor from the 14th to the 16th centuries. I rely on prior research by scholars and historians of arms and armor, as well as primary source documents that describe arms and armor and their use in tournaments and on the battlefield. I conclude that a combination of social, political, military, and technical factors pushed European warriors to adopt plate armor. I also briefly discuss the demise of plate armor due to increasing use of firearms in the 16th century and the growth of professional armies.
Guía de cooperación tecnológica transfronteriza Andalucía – Marruecos
Creators: name: Ruiz Coupeau, Stephane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: cooperación tecnológica internacional, cooperación transfronteriza, centros tecnológicos

description: Dado que el concepto de cooperación es heterogéneo y que los procesos de cooperación son múltiples y diversos, la presente guía se elabora con objeto de proporcionar una serie de pautas para optimizar unas relaciones de cooperación concretas en un ámbito geográfico concreto. La "guía para la cooperación tecnológica transfronteriza entre centros tecnológicos y otros agentes del conocimiento de Andalucía y de Marruecos", se realiza en el marco del proyecto de cooperación territorial europea “Cooperación transfronteriza entre centros tecnológicos para la dinamización empresarial de Andalucía y Marruecos (Acrónimo: “ReTCETEC”), liderado por la Agencia de Innovación y Desarrollo de Andalucía IDEA, organismo adscrito a la Consejería de Economía, Innovación, Ciencia y Empleo de la Junta de Andalucía. En la ejecución de este proyecto también participan como socios y beneficiarios el Centro Tecnológico Andaluz de la Piedra (CTAP), el Centro Tecnológico Andaluz del Sector Cárnico (TEICA), la Fundación para las Tecnologías Auxiliares de la Agricultura (TECNOVA), el Centro de Innovación y Tecnología del Olivar y Aceite (CITOLIVA), el Centro Tecnológico Acuicultura Andalucía (CTAQUA) y el Centro Tecnológico de la Agroindustria Onubense (CITADESVA).
description: El proyecto ReTCETEC se desarrolla entre los años 2012 y 2014 en el marco de la segunda convocatoria del Programa Operativo de Cooperación Transfronteriza España-Fronteras Exteriores (POCTEFEX) y está cofinanciado en un 75% por el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER).
title: Screening for Binding Partners and Protein-Protein Interactions of a Fungal Transcription Factor- XDR1
Creators: name: Gallala Gamage, Nishadi Punsara
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: larireedia spp. (formerly Sclerotinia homoeocarpaF.T. Bennett) is the causal agent dollar spot, the most economically important turfgrass disease impacting golf courses in North America. The most effective strategy for dollar spot control is repeated application of multiple classes of fungicides. However, reliance on chemical application has led to resistance to four classes of fungicides as well as multidrug resistance (MDR). Fungi are known to detoxify xenobiotics, like fungicides, through transcriptional regulation of three detoxification phases: modification, conjugation and secretion. Little is known, however, of the protein-protein interactions that facilitate these pathways. Following next-generation RNA sequencing of Clarireedia spp., a fungus-specific transcription factor, XDR1, was determined to play a role in constitutive and induced overexpression of phases I and III genes of xenobiotic detoxification. Further, a novel activation domain (AD) on XDR1 that does not directly bind with xenobiotics was confirmed to be highly conserved among fungal species. Therefore, we hypothesize that XDR1 must be activated by interacting with other binding partners at this AD in order to regulate downstream xenobiotic detoxification pathways. The main objective of this study is to identify additional proteins/ co-repressors that activate XDR1 in order to gain a better understanding of how transcriptional regulation of xenobiotic detoxification pathways leads to MDR.

In order to test the hypothesis, fungicide sensitive strain (HRS10) and fungicide resistant strain (HRI11) were transformed and tagged with xdr1/XDR1 and the 3xFLAG tag. As a result, four fungal transformants were generated and those are HRS10-XDR1-3xFLAG, HRS10-xdr1- 3xFLAG, HRI11-XDR1-3xFLAG, and HRI11-xdr1-3xFLAG. The total protein extractions (whole cell lysates) were subjected to co-immunoprecipitation and the samples were analyzed using LC-MS/MS. According to the set of results, more than 50 proteins were detected with HRS10-XDR1-3xFLAG with and most of these binding partners having functions related to post translational modification, protein turnover, intracellular trafficking, secretion and vascular transport. Going forward, information gained from this experiment could be used to explore how XDR1 interacts with its binding partners to facilitate the transcription of drug metabolizing genes responsible for multidrug resistance. This information could also help identify additional fungicide metabolism pathways in filamentous fungi.
Generalizing Zeckendorf's Theorem to f-decompositions
Creators: name: Demontigny, Philippe
name: Do, Thao
name: Kulkarni, Archit
name: Miller, Steven J.
name: Moon, David
name: Varma, Umang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B39, 11B05 (primary) 65Q30, 60B10 (secondary)

description: A beautiful theorem of Zeckendorf states that every positive integer can be uniquely decomposed as a sum of non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers $\{F_n\}$, where $F_1 = 1$, $F_2 = 2$ and $F_{n+1} = F_n + F_{n-1}$. For general recurrences $\{G_n\}$ with non-negative coefficients, there is a notion of a legal decomposition which again leads to a unique representation, and the number of summands in the representations of uniformly randomly chosen $m \in [G_n, G_{n+1})$ converges to a normal distribution as $n \to \infty$. We consider the converse question: given a notion of legal decomposition, is it possible to construct a sequence $\{a_n\}$ such that every positive integer can be decomposed as a sum of terms from the sequence? We encode a notion of legal decomposition as a function $f:\N_0\to\N_0$ and say that if $a_n$ is in an "$f$-decomposition", then the decomposition cannot contain the $f(n)$ terms immediately before $a_n$ in the sequence; special choices of $f$ yield many well known decompositions (including base-$b$, Zeckendorf and factorial). We prove that for any $f:\N_0\to\N_0$, there exists a sequence $\{a_n\}_{n=0}^\infty$ such that every positive integer has a unique $f$-decomposition using $\{a_n\}$. Further, if $f$ is periodic, then the unique increasing sequence $\{a_n\}$ that corresponds to $f$ satisfies a linear recurrence relation. Previous research only handled recurrence relations with no negative coefficients. We find a function $f$ that yields a sequence that cannot be described by such a recurrence relation. Finally, for a class of functions $f$, we prove that the number of summands in the $f$-decomposition of integers between two consecutive terms of the sequence converges to a normal distribution.
description: Version 1.0, 18 pages, keywords: Zeckendorf decompositions, recurrence relations, Stirling numbers of the first kind, Gaussian behavior
Concurrent Stress and Depressive Symptoms Increase Risk of Myocardial Infarction or Death
Creators: name: Alcantara, Carmela
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Edmondson, Donald E.
name: Safford, Monika M.
name: Redmond, Nicole
name: Colantonio, Lisandro D.
name: Davidson, Karina W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Depression, Mental
Myocardial infarction--Risk factors
Stress (Psychology)
Coronary heart disease
Mental health

description: BACKGROUND: Depression and stress have each been found to be associated with poor prognosis in patients with coronary heart disease. A recently offered psychosocial perfect storm conceptual model hypothesizes amplified risk will occur in those with concurrent stress and depressive symptoms. We tested this hypothesis in a large sample of US adults with coronary heart disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: Participants included 4487 adults with coronary heart disease from the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study, a prospective cohort study of 30,239 black and white adults. We conducted Cox proportional hazards regression with the composite outcome of myocardial infarction or death and adjustment for demographic, clinical, and behavioral factors. Overall, 6.1% reported concurrent high stress and high depressive symptoms at baseline. During a median 5.95 years of follow-up, 1337 events occurred. In the first 2.5 years of follow-up, participants with concurrent high stress and high depressive symptoms had increased risk for myocardial infarction or death (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.48 [95% confidence interval, 1.08-2.02]) relative to those with low stress and low depressive symptoms. Those with low stress and high depressive symptoms (hazard ratio, 0.92 [95% confidence interval, 0.66-1.28]) or high stress and low depressive symptoms (hazard ratio, 0.86 [95% confidence interval, 0.57-1.29]) were not at increased risk. The association on myocardial infarction or death was not significant after the initial 2.5 years of follow-up (hazard ratio, 0.89 [95% confidence interval, 0.65-1.22]). CONCLUSIONS: Our results provide initial support for a psychosocial perfect storm conceptual model; the confluence of depressive symptoms and stress on medical prognosis in adults with coronary heart disease may be particularly destructive in the shorter term.
Controlled nucleation of topological defects in the stripe domain patterns of Lateral multilayers with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy: competition between magnetostatic, exchange and misfit interactions
Creators: name: Hierro-Rodriguez, A.
name: Velez, M.
name: Morales, R.
name: Soriano, N.
name: Rodriguez-Rodriguez, G.
name: Alvarez-Prado, L. M.
name: Martin, J. I.
name: Alameda, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic lateral multilayers have been fabricated on weak perpendicular magnetic anisotropy amorphous Nd-Co films in order to perform a systematic study on the conditions for controlled nucleation of topological defects within their magnetic stripe domain pattern. A lateral thickness modulation of period $w$ is defined on the nanostructured samples that, in turn, induces a lateral modulation of both magnetic stripe domain periods $λ$ and average in-plane magnetization component $M_{inplane}$. Depending on lateral multilayer period and in-plane applied field, thin and thick regions switch independently during in-plane magnetization reversal and domain walls are created within the in-plane magnetization configuration coupled to variable angle grain boundaries and disclinations within the magnetic stripe domain patterns. This process is mainly driven by the competition between rotatable anisotropy (that couples the magnetic stripe pattern to in-plane magnetization) and in-plane shape anisotropy induced by the periodic thickness modulation. However, as the structural period $w$ becomes comparable to magnetic stripe period $λ$, the nucleation of topological defects at the interfaces between thin and thick regions is hindered by a size effect and stripe domains in the different thickness regions become strongly coupled.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physical Review B
Mn-doped Thiolated Au$_{25}$ Nanoclusters: Atomic Configuration, Magnetic Properties, and A Possible High-performance Spin Filter
Creators: name: Zhou, Miao
name: Cai, Yongqin
name: Zeng, Minggang
name: Zhang, Chun
name: Feng, Yuan Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an \emph{ab inito} investigation on the ground-state atomic configuration, electronic structures, magnetic and spin-dependent transport properties of Mn-doped Au$_{25}$ nanoclusters protected by thiolate. It is found that the most stable dopant sites are near surfaces, rather than the center positions of the nanoparticles. Transport calculations show that high-performance spin filters can be achieved by sandwiching these doped clusters between two nonmagnetic Au electrodes. The nearly perfect spin filtering originates from localized magnetic moments of these clusters that are well protected by ligands from the presence of electrodes.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Statistical Recalibration of GCM Forecasts over Southern Africa Using Model Output Statistics
Creators: name: Landman, Willem A.
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Atmospheric circulation--Models
Precipitation forecasting--Statistical methods
Atmosphere

description: A technique for producing regional rainfall forecasts for southern Africa is developed that statistically maps or “recalibrates” large-scale circulation features produced by the ECHAM3.6 general circulation model (GCM) to observed regional rainfall for the December–February (DJF) season. The recalibration technique, model output statistics (MOS), relates archived records of GCM fields to observed DJF rainfall through a set of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) equations. After screening several potential predictor fields, the 850-hPa geopotential height field is selected as the single predictor field in the CCA equations that is subsequently used to produce MOS-recalibrated rainfall patterns. The recalibrated forecasts outscore area-averaged GCM-simulated rainfall anomalies, as well as forecasts produced using a simple linear forecast model. The MOS recalibration is applied to two sets of GCM experiments: for the “simulation” experiment, simultaneous observed sea surface temperature (SST) serves as the lower boundary forcing; for the “hindcast” experiment, the prescribed SSTs are obtained by persisting the previous month's SST anomaly through the forecast period. Pattern analyses performed on the predictor–predictand pairs confirm a robust relationship between the GCM 850-hPa height fields and the rainfall fields. The structure and variability of the large-scale circulation is well characterized by the GCM in both simulation and hindcast mode. Measures of retroactive skill for a 9-yr independent period (1991/92–1999/2000) using the hindcast MOS are obtained for both deterministic and probabilistic forecasts, suggesting that a probabilistic representation of MOS forecasts is potentially more valuable. Finally, MOS is employed to investigate its potential to downscale the GCM large-scale circulation to more specific forecasts of land surface characteristics such as streamflow.
Laudi Ed Altre Orazioni Ad Uso Delle Sacre Missioni; 1748
Creators: name: Leonardo Da Porto Maurizio
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2011

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Si vendono in Roma da Giuseppe Vaccari Librajo incontro il Palazzo di Venezia con Privilegio Pontificio. In Roma MDCCXLVIII. Per Ottavio Puccinelli ...
title: Coping with Climate Change
Creators: name: Mah, Andrea YJ
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

description: Climate change is a source of anxiety and stress. To be resilient to the changes that are occurring, individuals must cope with that stress. Because there are many ways that people might manage stress we examined variation in coping strategy use among Americans who reported some concern about climate change to understand generally how people cope with such stress, and whether it can be predicted from individual difference factors, namely degree of climate change concern and political ideology. We examined these variables specifically because in the study of responses to climate change, conservatives and liberals often report divergent beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. To investigate these questions, we conducted two studies, recruiting American adults via MTurk (Study 1 N = 425, Study 2 N = 247). Participants completed online surveys with measures of how concerned they were about climate change, what they were stressed about in relation to climate change, how they cope with such stress, using the Brief COPE inventory (Carver, 1997), and political ideology. A variety of stressful experiences were reported, ranging from observations about changing weather to concerns about political inaction. We find that certain coping strategies (e.g., acceptance and active coping) are highly reported, whereas some strategies are less used (e.g., substance use). Overall, use of almost all coping strategies was found to be related to levels of concern about climate change – greater concern predicted greater use of most strategies. However, political ideology moderated the relationships between concern and use of certain coping strategies – conservatives who are more concerned were using more avoidant strategies to cope (i.e., disengagement), whereas the relationship was positive, but weaker for liberals. We did not observe such an interaction for problem-focused or social-focused coping strategies. The implications of these findings around coping responses to climate change in relation to the need for resilience are discussed.
Experimental Demonstration of Energy Chirp Compensation by a Tunable Dielectric Based Structure
Creators: name: Antipov, S.
name: Baturin, S.
name: Jing, C.
name: Fedurin, M.
name: Kanareykin, A.
name: Swinson, C.
name: Schoessow, P.
name: Gai, W.
name: Zholents, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A 60 MeV beam at the BNL Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) was manipulated by a planar tunable de-chirper made out of two 10 cm long dielectric slabs with copper plated backs. While the gap was changed from 5.8 mm to 1 mm, the correlated energy chirp of the low charge electron bunch was reduced from approximately 330 keV/mm to zero. This result is in agreement with simulations. Calculations show that similar devices, properly scaled to account for the expected electron bunch charge and length, can be used to remove residual correlated energy spread at the end of the linacs used for free-electron lasers (FEL). Potentially, this technique could significantly simplify linac design and improve FEL performance.
Servicios avanzados para la cooperación empresarial transfronteriza como instrumento de apoyo a la internacionalización de las pymes andaluzas en Marruecos: Proyecto "ReTSE Servicios Avanzados"
Creators: name: Villanueva González, David
name: Ruiz Coupeau, Stephane
name: Rodríguez Díaz, Roberto
name: Trujillo López, Cristina
name: Villén Medina, Nuria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: cooperación empresarial transfronteriza, internacionalización, cooperación territorial europea

description: El objeto de este trabajo consiste en difundir los resultados de la evaluación interna y externa de los servicios y acciones de cooperación transfronteriza desarrollados en el marco del proyecto de cooperación territorial europea ReTSE Servicios Avanzados como acción de comunicación de los resultados de los proyectos de la iniciativa RETSE de la Agencia IDEA. La valoración es altamente positiva y se debe, entre otros, a que las herramientas y la propia prestación de los servicios se han adaptado a las necesidades de las pymes andaluzas participantes y han resultado eminentemente prácticos y a la adecuada programación de las acciones de promoción teniendo en cuenta en los sectores más dinámicos de ambos
 territorios. Aparte de los resultados, este proyecto se considera de utilidad ya que se contribuye al cambio de mentalidad en el empresariado andaluz y normaliza los procesos de internacionalización. El proyecto aporta una visión que facilita el cambio en la percepción de la internacionalización de un enfoque táctico a un enfoque estratégico. El seguimiento, monitoreo y evaluación de los resultados constituyen la base de la aportación del proyecto “ReTSE Servicios Avanzados” para el fomento de relaciones de colaboración para la internacionalización.
description: El proyecto "ReTSE Servicios Avanzados" se desarrolla entre los años 2012 y 2014 en el marco de la segunda convocatoria del Programa Operativo de Cooperación Transfronteriza España-Fronteras Exteriores (POCTEFEX) y está cofinanciado en un 75% por el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER).
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1968-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.