cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, the prohibition on inhuman and degrading treatment, and asylum: new legal implications for Dublin 2.?
Creators: name: Stubberfield, Catherine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: asylum
European Union
Greece
European Convention on Human Rights - Article 3

description: Second semester University: Université de Strasbourg
description: This thesis will examine the expected positive obligations of the European Union following EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. It will argue that in currently dysfunctional areas of EU regulation, concrete policy improvements will be required in order to meet the standard imposed by existing ECtHR case law. In support of this view, the paper will focus on current asylum conditions in Greece as inhuman and degrading treatment, and the return of asylum seekers to such conditions by other member states (under current EU Law) as violations of Article 3 of the ECHR. The thesis will begin with an overview of the European asylum regime, and the prohibition against inhuman and degrading treatment, before reflecting upon current obligations of the Union itself. It will outline the status of positive obligations within the EU human rights framework, before proceeding to the instant case of Article 3 violations in Greece. The paper will also consider the EU-Member State relationship, and its interpretation by the two European courts, in speculating as to how future ECHR obligations are likely to be determined and applied. Ultimately, the paper will seek to demonstrate that the practice of Dublin returns to Greece in the recent past is legally attributable under the Convention not only to the relevant Member State, but also to the Union in so far as it fails to meet its positive obligations. In order to avoid condemnation by the Strasbourg Court, the Union must therefore enact the proposed suspension of returns mechanism as soon as possible. As this paper will argue, the relevant changes to the existing Dublin system are no longer merely a moral imperative but indeed a concrete and legal one.
(500685) Fanny Amelia Gaiger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Astrometry From Hipparcos to Gaia: Parallax Discrepancy
Creators: name: Al-Wardat, Mashhoor
name: Hussein, Abdallah
name: Abu-Alrob, Enas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In spite of the fact that Gaia astrometric space mission promises a dramatic improvement in the available data of the parallax measurements, we still find discrepancy in the measurements between Gaia and Hipparcos catalogues that cannot be ignored. We present the results of comparing parallax measurements given by the catalogues of Hipparcos 2, Gaia DR2, and Gaia EDR3.
 We focused on stars with parallax discrepancy between Hip 2 and Gaia DR2 greater than 5 mas, as clear cases which need to be solved using either new measurements or another computational technique. Among a sample of around 1700 BMSSS, with known orbits from the sixth.., we found that there are 55 systems have parallax discrepancies between Gaia DR2 and Hip 2. 10 of these these systems have no parallax measurements in Gaia EDR3.
 The study shows that there is a clear problem in Gaia DR2 parallax measurements for BMSSs. And in spite of the fact that Gaia ERD3 improved the measurements, there are still some systems with a clear problems in their parallaxes, with favoring to Hip 2.
 We present a solution for one of these cases as an example. It is the stellar system Hip 45858. Where we found that Hip 2 parallax measurement is the closest to the dynamical one calculated in this work, which is the best way for identifying parallaxes of BMSSs.
 Our main recommendation is that Gaia parallax measurements of BMSSs need special attention in the data reduction process.
(500682) John William Tanner Gaiger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Finding humor in human rights
Creators: name: Macaitė, Aistė Marija
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: human rights
freedom of expression
European Convention on Human Rights - Article 10
European Convention on Human Rights - Article 17
freedom of religion
journalism
France

description: Second semester University: KU Leuven
description: Humour as a form of freedom of expression plays a vital role in the framework of human rights (in Europe.) This is especially true in cases where the freedom of expression potentially interferes or contradicts other rights, for instance, the freedom of religion. Therefore, in order to find suitable and encouraging limitations of ‘comic acts’, this paper begins with a theoretical study of the use of humour. However, the legal limits of acceptable expressions of humour have been defined in the European Court of Human Rights' jurisprudence related to Article 10 of ECHR (and in particular cases under Article 17), and so an examination of this case law is performed. Finally, a case study of France is completed as an example of how satirical journalism is handled within the coherent jurisprudence of the ECHR, in a jurisdiction where people, but not religious institutions, have rights.
title: Development of the first selective proteolysis targeting chimera for the FK506-binding protein 51
Creators: name: Walz, Michael
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2023

description: Because of its various potential applications, FKBP51 emerged as an interesting target protein for pharmacological research. In spite of many attempts, however, no conventional ligand with a sufficient pharmacological profile has yet been developed. Since the synthesis of such a ligand proved to be challenging and moreover it is still not exactly explored which domain is responsible for which function of the protein, the recently developed concept of PROTACs seemed to be an interesting possibility to investigate these problems. Moreover, due to the recently clarified interactions of FKBP51 with GR by Baischew et al.1, PROTACs prove to be a highly interesting target for the treatment of GR-mediated stress-related disorders. In her doctoral thesis2, Dr. Tianqi Mao was able to show that the degradation of FKBP51 by the use of a PROTAC is feasible in general. However, no PROTAC synthesized in the course of her work showed sufficient activity or selectivity. Therefore, the PROTAC library synthesized by Dr. Mao should be extended and screened for potential hits within the scope of this work. If possible, conclusions about structure-activity relationships should be drawn and then used for optimization of the PROTACs. The aim was to develop a highly active and selective PROTAC for FKBP51.
Clustering Boolean Tensors
Creators: name: Metzler, Saskia
name: Miettinen, Pauli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tensor factorizations are computationally hard problems, and in particular, are often significantly harder than their matrix counterparts. In case of Boolean tensor factorizations -- where the input tensor and all the factors are required to be binary and we use Boolean algebra -- much of that hardness comes from the possibility of overlapping components. Yet, in many applications we are perfectly happy to partition at least one of the modes. In this paper we investigate what consequences does this partitioning have on the computational complexity of the Boolean tensor factorizations and present a new algorithm for the resulting clustering problem. This algorithm can alternatively be seen as a particularly regularized clustering algorithm that can handle extremely high-dimensional observations. We analyse our algorithms with the goal of maximizing the similarity and argue that this is more meaningful than minimizing the dissimilarity. As a by-product we obtain a PTAS and an efficient 0.828-approximation algorithm for rank-1 binary factorizations. Our algorithm for Boolean tensor clustering achieves high scalability, high similarity, and good generalization to unseen data with both synthetic and real-world data sets.
The right to freedom of expression of the media in transitional justice process
Creators: name: Zarate Zarate, Franklin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: European Convention on Human Rights - Article 10
freedom of expression
media
transitional justice

description: Second semester University: University of Latvia.
description: The achievement of peace, reconciliation and the establishment of the rule of law in transitional justice processes requires of communication means to mediate and democratize the process. The media in its roles of watchdog and educator of the public is a key factor in transitional justice processes and one that need to be considered in transition settings given its power to influence and shape public opinions. On the other hand the scope of application of right to freedom of expression of the press and its limitations is an issue that demands especial attention in transitional justice processes because of the complexity of its strategies and the high polarization in which commonly they are unfolded. On this regard this work constitutes an approach to the application of the right to freedom of expression of the media and its limitations in transitional settings. Through the analysis of the general theories outlining the right, practical cases and case law of the European Court of Human Rights, this work will come to the conclusion that no limitations on the right to freedom of expression of the media may be imposed solely on the base of transitional justice issues. Nonetheless interventions aiming to guarantee an unbiased and pluralistic media are necessary in order to avoid polarization and lack of information about the methods and strategies of transitional justice processes.
Stakeholder perceptions of key aspects of high-quality cancer care to assess with patient reported outcome measures: A systematic review
Creators: name: Ellis, C.T.
name: Jansen, J.
name: Turner, K.
name: Atkinson, T.
name: Basch, E.M.
name: Stover, A.M.
name: Freeman, A.T.
name: Carr, P.
name: Kurtzman, R.
name: Walker Bissram, J.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2021

description: Performance measurement is the process of collecting, analyzing, and reporting standard-ized measures of clinical performance that can be compared across practices to evaluate how well care was provided. We conducted a systematic review to identify stakeholder perceptions of key symptoms and health domains to test as patient-reported performance measures in oncology. Stakeholders included cancer patients, caregivers, clinicians, and healthcare administrators. Standard review methodology was used, consistent with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library were searched to identify relevant studies through August 2020. Four coders independently reviewed entries and con-flicts were resolved by a fifth coder. Efficacy and effectiveness studies, and studies focused exclusively on patient experiences of care (e.g., communication skills of providers) were excluded. Searches generated 1813 articles and 1779 were coded as not relevant, leaving 34 international articles for extraction. Patients, caregivers, clinicians, and healthcare administrators prioritize psychosocial care (e.g., distress) and symptom management for patient-reported performance measures. Patients and caregivers also perceive that maintaining physical function and daily activities are critical. Clinicians and administrators perceive control of specific symptoms to be critical (gastrointestinal symptoms, pain, poor sleep). Results were used to inform testing at six US cancer centers.
The Illusion of Absoluteness? Theory and Practice of the Absolute prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under the European Convention of Human Rights
Creators: name: Bulthuis, Marloes Susanna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: torture
European Convention on Human Rights - Article 3

description: Second semester University: Université du Luxembourg
description: The present dissertation elucidates the principle of absoluteness and revisits the question as to whether the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment as enshrined Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights is truly absolute or not. It does so from both a theoretical and practical point of view. While setting up the theoretical framework in which it defines the underlying principles, it has regard the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights in this complex and interesting field of law. This dissertation demonstrates that, while the Court is a staunch advocate of the so-called “principle of absoluteness”, some flaws can be detected in its jurisprudence on Article 3 of the Convention. Indeed, scholarship shows that the Court uses elements of legitimacy, proportionality and balancing while adjudicating on this absolute prohibition. In addition, both the conundrum of conflicts of rights or obligations under this provision and the preconceived legitimacy inherent in the concepts of “punishment” and the “use of force” leave the Court with some challenges. It will be demonstrated that the threshold of application, the minimum threshold of severity and the process of contextualisation are of utmost importance in order to provide for an answer to the question whether Article 3 ECHR is truly absolute. In the end, it appears that this question is one of definition and that the Court should start to devote some of its time to define the “principle of absoluteness” in the context of the absolute prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Overview and recent progress of JASMINE near-infrared space astrometry mission
Creators: name: Gouda, Naoteru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: JASMINE is a satellite mission to perform infrared astrometric observations in the direction of the Galactic nuclear bulge. The telescope has a circular primary mirror of about 40 cm diameter. JASMINE uses the infrared Hw-band, whose wavelength extends from 1.1 micron to 1.6 micron (TBD). JASMINE will determine positions and parallaxes accurate to between 25 μas and 125 μas, depending mainly on the star magnitude. The magnitude range of the stars is planned to be between 9.5 and 14.5 magnitude. The precision of the proper motions is expected to be between 25 μas per year and 125 μas per year. The number of stars to be downloaded to the ground is expected to be about 10,000 with the magnitudes mentioned above with high frequency. More than 100,000 fainter stars will be observed, and their data sent to the ground, with a lower frequency. This mission is unique in that the same astronomical object can be observed frequently, and observation will be performed in the near-infrared band, in which the effect of absorption by dust is weak.
 JASMINE (“Small-JASMINE mission”)was selected by ISAS/JAXA (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) in May 2019 for the JAXA Competitive Middle-Class Science Missions No.3. At the present, according to the progress schedule in the Space Basic Plan determined by Japanese government in December 2021, the launch of JASMINE is scheduled for 2028. After nominal 3 years of operation, the final catalog will be released in around 2033. We are promoting the JASMINE mission with the aim of gradually improving the development stage at JAXA.
 This mission will help to achieve revolutionary breakthroughs in astronomy and basic physics, including the formation history of the Galactic nuclear bulge (Galactic Center Archeology) and the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center etc. Although the Galactic center region covers only a small part of the sky, in terms of understanding our Galaxy’s structure, and its formation and evolution, it is particularly important region because stars of various ages have different spatial distributions and motions according to their ages in this region. It’s like having different strata in geology. I will talk about the brief overview and recent progress of the JASMINE mission.
The protection of social rights under article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights: the right to respect for private and family life
Creators: name: Aizpurua Alquezar, Irati
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: European Convention on Human Rights - Article 8
social rights

description: Second semester University: Université de Strasbourg
description: The protection of human rights is divided into two parallel systems within the framework of the Council of Europe. The main shortcoming of the European Convention on Human Rights is that it provides almost exclusively for civil and political rights. Therefore, the protection of social rights comes up against the substantive limits of the text. Social rights are guaranteed under the European Social Charter, which should be complementary to the Convention in the social field. Nonetheless, applicants lodge individual complaints before the Court and although the vast majority of the applications directly concerned with social rights have been declared inadmissible, in other cases the Court has ruled on social matters. The right to respect for private and family life as enshrined in Article 8 of the ECHR would be the adequate framework to encompass social rights and, in the light of the case law, there are already some social rights that can be considered as enforceable under that provision . This raises questions about the limits of the Convention interpretation by European judges and demonstrates that a deep debate on the links between two control organs, the European Committee of Social Rights and the European Court on Human Rights, is needed towards an effective enjoyment and protection of social rights within the Council of Europe.
Use of an Analytics and Electronic Health Record-Based Approach for Targeted COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach to Marginalized Populations
Creators: name: Cheek, S.
name: Charlot, M.
name: Daguerre, K.J.
name: Fasold, M.
name: Richardson, J.
name: Basch, E.
name: Stein, J.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2021

description: Equity in vaccine outreach and delivery has been prioritized given the disproportionate harms of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color and those with lower socioeconomic status. Health systems have largely communicated availability or signup for vaccines to patients through electronic patient portal messages, emails, or online materials; however, rates of portal use and internet access are limited among rural populations, individualswith lower socioeconomic status, and racial and ethnic minority patients. For purposes of this analysis, these groups are referred collectively as marginalized populations. Reliance on these media as the primary means for communication may inadvertently widen vaccination disparities.
(500683) Henry Charles Gaiger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Axial anomaly and longitudinal magnetoresistance of a generic three dimensional metal
Creators: name: Goswami, Pallab
name: Pixley, J. H.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the emergence of the axial anomaly is a universal phenomenon for a generic three dimensional metal in the presence of parallel electric ($E$) and magnetic ($B$) fields. In contrast to the expectations of the classical theory of magnetotransport, this intrinsically quantum mechanical phenomenon gives rise to the longitudinal magnetoresistance for any three dimensional metal. However, the emergence of the axial anomaly does not guarantee the existence of negative longitudinal magnetoresistance. We show this through an explicit calculation of the longitudinal magnetoconductivity in the quantum limit using the Boltzmann equation, for both short-range neutral and long-range ionic impurity scattering processes. We demonstrate that the ionic scattering contributes a large positive magnetoconductivity $\propto B^2$ in the quantum limit, which can cause a strong negative magnetoresistance for any three dimensional or quasi-two dimensional metal. In contrast, the finite range neutral impurities and zero range point impurities can lead to both positive and negative longitudinal magnetoresistance depending on the underlying band structure. In the presence of both neutral and ionic impurities, the longitudinal magnetoresistance of a generic metal in the quantum limit initially becomes negative, and ultimately becomes positive after passing through a minimum. We discuss in detail the qualitative agreement between our theory and recent observations of negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in Weyl semimetals TaAs and TaP, Dirac semimetals Na$_3$Bi, Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_x$, and ZrTe$_5$, and quasi-two dimensional metals PdCoO$_2$, $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ which do not possess any bulk three dimensional Dirac or Weyl quasiparticles.
description: replaced by the version published in Phys. Rev. B; 24 pages, 8 figures
Presentation: The Role Of Cognitive Conflict As A Moderating Variable Influence Of Organizational Commitment And Attitudes On Implementation Of Good Governance And Impact On Fraud Prevention
Creators: name: Simanjuntak, Arthur
name: Erlina
name: Zulkarnain
name: Abdhy Aulia Adnans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This material presented in VCOSPILED 2020
Tin(II) and Tin(IV) complexes incorporating the oxygen tripodal ligands [(η5-C5R5)Co{P(OEt)2O}3] −, (R = H, Me;Et = -C2H5) as potent inflammatory mediator inhibitors:cytotoxic properties and biological activities against theplatelet-activating factor (PAF) and thrombin
Creators: name: Kalampalidis, Alexandros
name: Damati, Artemis
name: Matthopoulos, Demetrios
name: TSOUPRAS, ALEXANDROS
name: Demopoulos, Constantinos A.
name: Schnakenburg, Gregor
name: Philippopoulos, Athanassios I.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Metal complexes displaying antiplatelet properties is a promising research area. In our methodology, Platelet-Activating Factor (PAF), the most potent lipid pro-inflammatory mediator, serves as a biological probe. The antiplatelet activity is exerted by the inhibition of the PAF-induced aggregation in washed rabbit platelets (WRPs) and in rabbit plasma rich in platelets (rPRPs). Herein, the synthesis and biological investigation of a series of organometallic tin(II) and tin(IV) complexes, featuring the oxygen tripodal Kläui ligands [(η 5 -C5R5 )Co{P(OEt)2O}3 ] −, {R = H, (LOEt −); Me (L*OEt −)}, are reported. Reaction of NaLOEt (1a) and NaL*OEt (1b) with SnCl2 , yielded the rare four-coordinate LOEtSnCl (2a) and L*OEtSnCl (2b) complexes. Accordingly, LOEtSnPh3 (3a) and L*OEtSnPh3 (3b) were prepared, starting from Ph3SnCl. Characterization includes spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies for 2a, 2b and 3b. The antiplatelet activity of the lead complexes 2b and 3a (IC50 = 0.5 µM) is superior compared to that of 1a and 1b, while both complexes display a pronounced inhibitory activity against thrombin (IC50 = 1.8 µM and 0.6 µM). The in vitro cytotoxic activities of 3a and 2b on human Jurkat T lymphoblastic tumor cell line is higher than that of cisplatin.
Comparing Clinician-Assessed and Patient-Reported Performance Status for Predicting Morbidity and Mortality in Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy
Creators: name: Basch, E.
name: Deal, A.M.
name: Stover, A.M.
name: Wood, W.A.
Publisher: name: NLM (Medline)
Year: 2021

description: PURPOSE: Performance status (PS) is assessed during cancer treatment to determine clinical trial eligibility, appropriateness for treatment, and need for supportive care. There is rising interest for patients to report this information directly. We determined whether clinician- and patient-reported PS were equally associated with mortality and service utilization in patients with cancer. METHODS: A secondary analysis was conducted using data from an radiotherapy plus chemotherapy in which 441 patients with advanced cancer and clinicians reported PS using the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group scale. Simple kappa statistics measured agreement between clinician-reported performance status (cPS) and patient-reported performance status (pPS). Associations of cPS and pPS with emergency department (ED) and hospital visits and overall survival were evaluated via Cox regression, competing risk regression, and Fisher's exact tests. RESULTS: cPS and pPS correlated weakly (kappa = 0.27). Both pPS and cPS were associated with survival, ED visits, and hospitalizations, but only cPS remained associated after adjustment (survival: HR, 1.75; P < .0001). The first available cPS predicted mortality more strongly than the first available pPS (HR for death, comparing PS ≥ 1 v 0: 2.05 for cPS and 1.41 for pPS). When pPS questionnaires were repeated over time and averaged, associations with outcomes were stronger as measured by AIC model fit. Both pPS and cPS were associated with EQ-5D subcomponents (eg, 75%-77% with no usual activity deficits for PS 0, v 42%-51% for PS ≥ 1). CONCLUSION: Both clinician-reported PS and patient-reported PS provide useful information and can be considered for clinical trials and routine care.
Effective actions for relativistic fluids from holography
Creators: name: de Boer, Jan
name: Heller, Michal P.
name: Pinzani-Fokeeva, Natalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent progress in developing action formulations of relativistic hydrodynamics, we use holography to derive the low energy dissipationless effective action for strongly coupled conformal fluids. Our analysis is based on the study of novel double Dirichlet problems for the gravitational field, in which the boundary conditions are set on two codimension one timelike hypersurfaces (branes). We provide a geometric interpretation of the Goldstone bosons appearing in such constructions in terms of a family of spatial geodesics extending between the ultraviolet and the infrared brane. Furthermore, we discuss supplementing double Dirichlet problems with information about the near-horizon geometry. We show that upon coupling to a membrane paradigm boundary condition, our approach reproduces correctly the complex dispersion relation for both sound and shear waves. We also demonstrate that upon a Wick rotation, our formulation reproduces the equilibrium partition function formalism, provided the near-horizon geometry is properly accounted for. Finally, we define the conserved hydrodynamic entropy current as the Noether current associated with a particular transformation of the Goldstone bosons.
description: 1+36 pages, v2: minor improvements and references added
Electronic symptom monitoring in pediatric patients hospitalized for chemotherapy
Creators: name: Schwartz, L.A.
name: Bekelman, J.E.
name: Aplenc, R.
name: Li, Y.
name: Basch, E.M.
name: Reeve, B.B.
name: Leahy, A.B.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2021

description: Background: Using patient-reported outcomes for symptom monitoring in oncology has resulted in significant benefits for adult patients with cancer. The feasibility of this approach has not been established in the routine care of children with cancer. Methods: The Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (Ped-PRO-CTCAE) is an item library that enables children and caregivers to self-report symptoms. Ten symptom items from the Ped-PRO-CTCAE were uploaded to an online platform. Patients at least 7 years old and their caregivers were prompted by text/email message to electronically self-report daily during a planned hospitalization for chemotherapy administration. Symptom reports were emailed to the clinical team caring for the patient, but no instructions were given regarding the use of this information. Rates of patient participation and clinician responses to reports were systematically tracked. Results: The median age of the participating patients (n = 52) was 11 years (range, 7-18 years). All patients and caregivers completed an initial login, with 92% of dyads completing at least 1 additional symptom assessment during hospitalization (median, 3 assessments; range, 0-40). Eighty-one percent of participating dyads submitted symptom reports on at least half of hospital days, and 54% submitted reports on all hospital days. Clinical actions were taken in response to symptom reports 21% of the time. Most patients felt that the system was easy (73%) and important (79%). Most clinicians found symptom reports easy to understand and useful (97%). Conclusions: Symptom monitoring using patient-reported outcome measures for hospitalized pediatric oncology patients is feasible and generates data valued by clinicians and patients.
Data and reproducibility management with DataLad
Creators: name: Wagner, Adina S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Reproducibilty
Data Management
DataLad
Version Control

description: Slides for a two-hour workshop "Data and reproducibility management with DataLad", part of the "Love your Data? Make it reproducible?" Helmholtz Community Workshop in the International Love Data Week on February 14th, 2023. www.helmholtz-hida.de/en/events/love-your-data-make-it-reproducible/ The slide sources can be found at github.com/datalad-handbook/datalad-course, and a rendering of the slides is at files.inm7.de/adina/talks/html/love-your-data-2023.
Oral oncology parity laws, medication use, and out-of-pocket spending for patients with blood cancers
Creators: name: Dusetzina, S.B.
name: Winn, A.N.
name: Wood, W.A.
name: Olszewski, A.
name: Basch, E.
name: Jazowski, S.A.
name: Keating, N.L.
name: Huskamp, H.A.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2020

description: Background: In this study, we sought to estimate the association between oral oncology parity law adoption and anticancer medication use for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia or multiple myeloma. Methods: This was an observational study of administrative claims from 2008 to 2017. Among individuals initiating tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) for chronic myeloid leukemia or immunomodulatory drugs for multiple myeloma, we compared out-of-pocket spending, adherence, and discontinuation before and after parity among individuals in fully insured plans (subject to parity) vs self-funded plans (exempt from parity) using propensity-score weighted difference-in-differences regression models. Results: Among patients initiating TKIs (N = 2082) or immunomodulatory drugs (N = 3326) there were no statistically significant differences in adherence or discontinuation associated with parity. The proportion of patients with initial out-of-pocket payments of $0 increased in fully insured plans after parity from 5.7% to 46.1% for TKIs and from 10.9% to 48.8% for immunomodulatory drugs. Relative to changes in self-funded plans, those in fully insured plans were 4.27 (95% CI = 2.20 to 8.27) times as likely to pay nothing for TKIs and 1.96 (95% CI = 1.40 to 2.73) times as likely to pay nothing for immunomodulatory drugs after parity. Similarly, the proportion paying more than $100 decreased from 30.3% to 24.7% for TKIs and 30.6% to 27.5% for immunomodulatory drugs in fully insured plans after parity. Relative to changes in self-funded plans, those in fully insured plans were 0.74 (95% CI = 0.54 to 1.01) times as likely to pay more than $100 for TKIs and 0.85 (95% CI = 0.68 to 1.06) times as likely to pay more than $100 for immunomodulatory drugs after parity. Conclusions: Among patients initiating TKIs or immunomodulatory drugs, parity was not associated with better adherence or less discontinuation of therapy but yielded decreased patient out-of-pocket payments for some patients.
NASA Planetary Data System's Small Bodies Node Distribution of the Minor Planet Center Database and the SBN/MPC Annex
Creators: name: Bauer, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Minor Planet Center (MPC) based at Harvard University's Center for Astrophysics is the IAU-sanctioned clearing house of small-body positional data and is responsible for classification of these asteroids and cometary objects by type. Currently, the observed data, orbital elements, and MPC-generated products have been made publically available through a variety of web-posted files and tools and through a live exported database that is populated as part of each submission's end-processing. In order to speed processing to increase capacity for future planned surveys, the MPC is switching to a relational database processing system, and will export their live database for public consumption.
 The MPC's overseeing organization, the NASA Planetary Data System's Small Bodies Node, using its hardware resources in support of the MPC, will be responsible for the distribution of the live copies of the MPC-generated database to interested users. SBN already exports a Beta-release version, and provides products to report the status, health, and growth of the database to its user base through the SBN's MPC Annex website. We will provide a description of the available MPC database Beta-release, as well as the plans for the imminent future developments, and the current and future features within the SBN's MPC Annex.
Differential effects of an electronic symptom monitoring intervention based on the age of patients with advanced cancer
Creators: name: El-Jawahri, A.
name: Fuh, C.
name: Greer, J.A.
name: Basch, E.
name: Dueck, A.C.
name: Rogak, L.J.
name: Horick, N.K.
name: Nipp, R.D.
name: Temel, J.S.
name: Deal, A.M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2020

description: Background: Symptom monitoring interventions enhance patient outcomes, including quality of life (QoL), health care utilization, and survival, but it remains unclear whether older and younger patients with cancer derive similar benefits. We explored whether age moderates the improved outcomes seen with an outpatient electronic symptom monitoring intervention. Patients and methods: We carried out a secondary analysis of data from a randomized trial of 766 patients receiving chemotherapy for metastatic solid tumors. Patients received an electronic symptom monitoring intervention integrated with oncology care or usual oncology care alone. The intervention consisted of patients reporting their symptoms, which were provided to their physicians at clinic visits, and nurses receiving alerts for severe/worsening symptoms. We used regression models to determine whether age (older or younger than 70 years) moderated the effects of the intervention on QoL (EuroQol EQ-5D), emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and survival outcomes. Results: Enrollment rates for younger (589/777 = 75.8%) and older (177/230 = 77.0%) patients did not differ. Older patients (median age = 75 years, range 70–91 years) were more likely to have an education level of high school or less (26.6% versus 20.9%, P = 0.029) and to be computer inexperienced (50.3% versus 23.4%, P < 0.001) compared with younger patients (median age = 58 years, range 26–69 years). Younger patients receiving the symptom monitoring intervention experienced lower risk of ER visits [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.74, P = 0.011] and improved survival (HR = 0.76, P = 0.011) compared with younger patients receiving usual care. However, older patients did not experience significantly lower risk of ER visits (HR = 0.90, P = 0.613) or improved survival (HR = 1.06, P = 0.753) with the intervention. We found no moderation effects based on age for QoL and risk of hospitalizations. Conclusions: Among patients with advanced cancer, age moderated the effects of an electronic symptom monitoring intervention on the risk of ER visits and survival, but not QoL. Symptom monitoring interventions may need to be tailored to the unique needs of older adults with cancer.
(500678) Ann Harbottle
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Electrical and Thermal Transport in Inhomogeneous Luttinger Liquids
Creators: name: DeGottardi, Wade
name: Matveev, K. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transport properties of long quantum wires by generalizing the Luttinger liquid approach to allow for the finite lifetime of the bosonic excitations. Our theory accounts for long-range disorder and strong electron interactions, both of which are common features of experiments with quantum wires. We obtain the electrical and thermal resistances and thermoelectric properties of such quantum wires. We cast our results in terms of the thermal conductivity and bulk viscosity of the electron liquid and give the temperature scale above which the transport can be described by classical hydrodynamics.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Gaia EDR3's Reanalysis of Galactic Open Star Cluster NGC752
Creators: name: Hojaev, Alisher
name: Gaysin, R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: We present the results of deep study of the open star cluster NGC752 based on our analysis of the Gaia EDR3 data (A.G.A. Brown, et al., A&A, vol. 649, A1,2021). An angular radius of NGC752, its distance from the Sun and the age are estimated as ~ 0.5∘, ~ 450 pc and 1.3–1.5 Gyr (M.A. Agüeros, et al., ApJ, vol. 862, 33 (2018), respectively, based on its known members (M. Agarwal, et al., MNRAS, vol. 502, 2582, 2021; S. Bhattacharya, et al., MNRAS, vol. 505, 1607, 2021). The ASteCA package (G.I. Perren, R.A. Vázquez, and A.E. Piatti, A&A, vol. 576, A6, 2015) was used for automated analysis of the main parameters of the cluster for statistical verification of the physical cluster true allocation from random super densities of field stars. The set of functions included in the code applies astrometric and photometric data to obtain objective precise values for the given coordinates of the cluster center, radius, luminosity function and integral value of the color index, accurate estimations of metallicity, age, redness and distance to the cluster by the isochron selection method based on the generation of synthetic cluster on the base of theoretical isochrones and the selection of the maximum match using a genetic algorithm. 44 new members of the cluster were reliably detected with a membership probability in the range from 0.81 to 1 (302 stars in total), which supplement the number of known member stars (258) within NGC 752 (M. Agarwal, et al., MNRAS, vol. 502, 2582, 2021; S. Bhattacharya, et al., MNRAS, vol. 505, 1607, 2021). We considered the stellar density profile from the center, the diagram of proper motions of the stars of the cluster NGC752 with mean values 𝜇𝛼cos𝛿 = 9.790 mas / yr, 𝜇𝛿= -11.784 mas / yr; the comparative histogram of parallaxes of the identified probable cluster members and the field stars and the initial mass function (IMF) with cluster z(metallicity)= 0.00797± 0.00087, log(age)=9.352±0.030 , distance modulus (m-M)0=8.258±0.023.
(500677) Maria Edney
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Surface Versus Bulk Dirac States Tuning in a Three-Dimensional Topological Dirac Semimetal
Creators: name: Neupane, Madhab
name: Xu, Su-Yang
name: Alidoust, Nasser
name: Sankar, Raman
name: Belopolski, Ilya
name: Bian, Guang
name: Sanchez, Daniel S.
name: Liu, Chang
name: Chang, Tay-Rong
name: Jeng, Horng-Tay
name: Wang, BaoKai
name: Chang, Guoqing
name: Lin, Hsin
name: Bansil, Arun
name: Chou, Fangcheng
name: Hasan, M. Zahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, crystalline-symmetry-protected three-dimensional (3D) bulk Dirac semimetal phase has been experimentally identified in a stoichiometric high-mobility compound, Cd3As2. The Dirac state observed in Cd3As2 has been attributed to originate mostly from the bulk state while calculations show that the bulk and surface states overlap over the entire Dirac dispersion energy range. In this study, we unambiguously reveal doping induced evolution of the ground state of surface and bulk electron dynamics in a 3D Dirac semimetal. We develop a systematic technique to isolate the surface and bulk states in Cd3As2, by simultaneously utilizing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and in-situ surface deposition. Our experimental results provide a method for tuning the chemical potential as well as to observe surface states degenerate with bulk states, which will be useful for future applications of 3D Dirac semimetal.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Ground based meteor radar of Kazan Federal University
Creators: name: Kalabanov, Sergei
name: Korotyshkin, Dimitri
name: Sherstyukov, Oleg
name: Valiullin, Fargat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Currently, sources of meteor particles that fall into the upper atmosphere when the Earth moves in its orbit are being actively investigated. For this, the radiometric method is very actively used. This method is based on the radiolacation of meteor trails that appear as a result of the ionization of air in the mesosphere – the lower thermosphere (75-110 km) during the combustion of meteors. Radiometric observations of meteor showers are actively conducted at Kazan Federal University. Regular observations began in 1978, and the first data measuring the heights of meteor combustion began in 1985. In 2015, a Skiymet-type meteor radar of joint Canadian and Australian production was installed. The KFU meteor radar consists of a phase interferometer (five two-element crossed receiving antennas of the Yagi-Udo type) with bases of wavelengths 2 and 2.5, a transmitting antenna (crossed three-element antennas), as well as a transmitter with a power of 15 kW per pulse (average power of about 1 kW) with a carrier frequency of 29.75 MHz and a pulse repetition frequency of 1594 Hz.
 The meteor radar of Kazan Federal University (56N, 49E) is constantly being upgraded. The results of modernization are presented: a significant increase in the number of meteors and the accuracy of the estimation of angular coordinates and heights.
The Relationship between Illusory Crescents and the Stream/Bounce Effect
Creators: name: A-Izzeddin, Emily J.
name: Grove, Philip M.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We conducted two experiments to evaluate Meyerhoff and Scholl’s (2018, Cognition 170, 88–94) hypothesis that illusory crescents contribute to resolutions in audiovisual stream/bounce displays. In Experiment 1, we measured illusory crescent size in the launching effect as a function of speed, overlap, and sound. In Experiment 2, we tabulated stream and bounce responses to similar stimuli with the same speed, sound, and overlap conditions as Experiment 1. Our critical manipulation of target speed spanned the range of values from typical stream/bounce investigations of ~5 degrees/s up to the target speeds employed by Meyerhoff and Scholl ~38 degrees/s. We replicated Meyerhoff and Scholl’s findings at higher speeds, but not at slower speeds. Critically, we found that speed influenced crescent size judgements and bouncing responses in opposite directions. As target speed increased, illusory crescent size increased (Experiment 1), but the overall percentage of bounce responses decreased (Experiment 2). Additionally, we found that sound failed to enhance illusory crescent size at slower speeds but promotes bouncing responses at all speeds. The disassociation of the effects of speed and sound on illusory crescents with those effects on reported streaming/bouncing in similar displays provides compelling evidence against Meyerhoff and Scholl’s hypothesis. Therefore, we conclude that illusory crescents do not account for the pattern of responses attributed to the stream/bounce effect.