cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX Mission
Creators: name: Barthelmy, S. D.
name: Barbier, L. M.
name: Cummings, J. R.
name: Fenimore, E. E.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Hullinger, D.
name: Krimm, H. A.
name: Markwardt, C. B.
name: Palmer, D. M.
name: Parsons, A.
name: Sato, G.
name: Suzuki, M.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Tashiro, M.
name: Tueller, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is one of 3 instruments on the Swift MIDEX spacecraft to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The BAT first detects the GRB and localizes the burst direction to an accuracy of 1-4 arcmin within 20 sec after the start of the event. The GRB trigger initiates an autonomous spacecraft slew to point the two narrow field-of-view (FOV) instruments at the burst location within 20-70 sec so to make follow-up x-ray and optical observations. The BAT is a wide-FOV, coded-aperture instrument with a CdZnTe detector plane. The detector plane is composed of 32,768 pieces of CdZnTe (4x4x2mm), and the coded-aperture mask is composed of approximately 52,000 pieces of lead (5x5x1mm) with a 1-m separation between mask and detector plane. The BAT operates over the 15-150 keV energy range with approximately 7 keV resolution, a sensitivity of approximately 10E-8 erg*cm^-2*s^-1, and a 1.4 sr (half-coded) FOV. We expect to detect >100 GRBs/yr for a 2-year mission. The BAT also performs an all-sky hard x-ray survey with a sensitivity of approximately 2 mCrab (systematic limit) and it serves as a hard x-ray transient monitor.
description: 18 Pages, 12 Figures, To be published in Space Science Reviews
QCD recursion relations from the largest time equation
Creators: name: Vaman, Diana
name: Yao, York-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how by reassembling the tree level gluon Feynman diagrams in a convenient gauge, space-cone, we can explicitly derive the BCFW recursion relations. Moreover, the proof of the gluon recursion relations hinges on an identity in momentum space which we show to be nothing but the Fourier transform of the largest time equation. Our approach lends itself to natural generalizations to include massive scalars and even fermions.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures, minor changes to Sect.8
Observation of Low-$γ$ Quadrupolar Nuclei by Surface-Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Nagashima, Hiroki
name: Trébosc, Julien
name: Kon, Yoshihiro
name: Sato, Kazuhiko
name: Lafon, Olivier
name: Amoureux, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a novel NMR approach that extends the capabilities of indirect dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) under magic-angle spinning to probe the local environment of half-integer spin quadrupolar nuclei. Compared to cross-polarization, this novel method based on the refocused INEPT scheme with adiabatic dipolar recoupling is easier to optimize and does not distort the quadrupolar line shapes. Furthermore, the use of this technique, instead of the PRESTO (Phase-shifted Recoupling Effects a Smooth Transfer of Order) scheme or direct DNP, greatly improves the sensitivity of DNP-NMR for the detection of quadrupolar isotopes with small dipolar couplings to protons, including notably those located in the subsurface of inorganic materials or with low gyromagnetic ratio ($γ$). This technique has been applied to identify the atomic-level structure of Brønsted acid sites of hydrated titania-supported MoO${}_3$, MoO${}_3$/TiO${}_2$, a widely used heterogeneous catalyst. The spectra of protonated and unprotonated ${}^{17}$O sites, acquired in natural abundance, indicate the presence of various oxomolybdate species as well as HOMo${}_2$ and HOMo${}_3$ Brønsted acid sites. The enhanced sensitivity of this new method has also enabled the acquisition of the first DNP-enhanced spectra of ${}^{95}$Mo and ${}^{47,49}$Ti low-$γ$ quadrupolar isotopes. The proposed polarization transfer is also employed to acquire the first DNPenhanced spectrum of ${}^{67}$Zn, another low-$γ$ quadrupolar isotope. This possibility is demonstrated for Al-doped ZnO nanoparticles used in optoelectronic devices. The obtained ${}^{17}$O, ${}^{27}$Al, and ${}^{67}$Zn DNP-NMR data prove that the surface region of these nanoparticles contains ZnO phase as well as secondary phases, such as $α$-Al${}_2$O${}_3$ and partially inverse ZnAl${}_2$O${}_4$ spinel.
On the Toda Lattice Equation with Self-Consistent Sources
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaojun
name: Zeng, Yunbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Toda lattice hierarchy with self-consistent sources and their Lax representation are derived. We construct a forward Darboux transformation (FDT) with arbitrary functions of time and a generalized forward Darboux transformation (GFDT) for Toda lattice with self-consistent sources (TLSCS), which can serve as a non-auto-Backlund transformation between TLSCS with different degrees of sources. With the help of such DT, we can construct many type of solutions to TLSCS, such as rational solution, solitons, positons, negetons, and soliton-positons, soliton-negatons, positon-negatons etc., and study properties and interactions of these solutions.
description: 20 pages
The 'ethic of care' : its promise and its problems
Creators: name: Fisher, Johnna Elizabeth Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Ethic of Care began as a theory of moral development, but many have accepted it as if it were a normative moral theory, either alone or in conjunction with the Ethic of Justice. This project determines whether or not the Ethic of Care actually can constitute a comprehensive moral theory. I begin with the history of the development of the Ethic of Care. I then examine the widely-held view that moral relations are freely-chosen contractual agreements occurring between rational equals in order to manage the problem of public competition of interests and to protect individual rights. I suggest that this view of morality, its associated moral theory, the Ethic of Justice, and its criterion of impartiality do not represent the totality of moral experience and they mandate unpalatable outcomes in some private moral situations. As a result, I contend that the impartiality requirement should not be a criterion for judging the adequacy of a theory governing personal (private) moral relations. I suggest a list of appropriate criteria and compare the Ethic of Care with the list in order to determine whether it can act as a theory governing this realm. I argue that the Ethic of Care is a theory of personal morality, that the Ethic of Justice is a theory of impersonal morality, and that the quest for a comprehensive moral theory that accounts for the totality of moral relations must integrate these two perspectives in a way that overcomes the problem of prioritization. Various integration options from the current philosophical literature are explained and rejected before I provide my own account of how the Ethic of Care and the Ethic of Justice can interact, together providing a comprehensive moral theory capable of guiding action for the entire range of moral relations.
Intertidal, Subtidal and Beach Ecosystems
Creators: name: Chatziefthimiou, Dr. Aspa
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences
classificationCode: 3708
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4102
subject: Ecological applications

description: As with the other ecosystems of the Gulf, where communities of organisms thrive despite extreme conditions, here too, one can find a colorful community with its own set of adaptations to the set of tidal extremes. A very successful behavioral adaptation to desiccation is burrowing (making holes/homes in the sediment/sand) in deeper, moister depths. Swimming crabs are masters in digging up burrows and pushing off sand with their claws, not only to make their home in, but to quickly hide themselves from lurking predators like herons. Vertical movement is also used by photosynthetic cyanobacteria in microbial mats that most lusciously line the intertidal and subtidal areas of Khor Al Adaid. This movement can only be perceived by time-lapse microscopy, where cyanobacterial filaments move in any each direction to find optimum light and oxygen levels, and to untrap themselves from sand particles brought on by the tide. Cyanobacteria also produce a dark pigment called scytonemin, similar to our sun-screen lotions, which helps protect them from the rays of the sun at low tide. Gastropods (sea snails) of many species, that feed on microbial mats as part of their diet, perform horizontal migration, which is again in sync with the tidal cycle.Other InformationPublished in: Earthna publications reports
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
See educational resource on publisher's website: https://www.earthna.qa/publications/educational-materials/qatar-marine-ecosystem-lesson-plans
Editor: Ruba Hinnawi
Editorial board: Dr. Gonzalo Castro de la Mata, Sebastien P. Turbot, Dr. Alexandre Amato, Nihal. Mohamed Al-Saleh, Dr. Mona Matar Al-Kuwari
Project Identifier (PI): EEF-2023-003
Additional file 1 of Effect of dexmedetomidine on inflammation in patients with sepsis requiring mechanical ventilation: a sub-analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Ohta, Yoshinori
name: Miyamoto, Kyohei
name: Kawazoe, Yu
name: Yamamura, Hitoshi
name: Morimoto, Takeshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Methods. Table S1. Scoring system for DIC. Table S2. Changes in DIC and DIC-associated variables. Figure S1. Flow of Participants in the DESIRE trial.
ARPES on HTSC: simplicity vs. complexity
Creators: name: Kordyuk, A. A.
name: Borisenko, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A notable role in understanding of microscopic electronic properties of high temperature superconductors (HTSC) belongs to angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). This technique supplies a direct window into reciprocal space of solids: the momentum-energy space where quasiparticles (the electrons dressed in clouds of interactions) dwell. Any interaction in the electronic system, e.g. superconducting pairing, leads to modification of the quasi-particle spectrum--to redistribution of the spectral weight over the momentum-energy space probed by ARPES. A continued development of the technique had an effect that the picture seen through the ARPES window became clearer and sharper until the complexity of the electronic band structure of the cuprates had been resolved. Now, in an optimal for superconductivity doping range, the cuprates much resemble a normal metal with well predicted electronic structure, though with rather strong electron-electron interaction. This principal disentanglement of the complex physics from complex structure reduced the mystery of HTSC to a tangible problem of interaction responsible for quasi-particle formation. Here we present a short overview of resent ARPES results, which, we believe, denote a way to resolve the HTSC puzzle.
description: A review written for a special issue of FNT
Line-of-Sight MIMO for High Capacity Millimeter Wave Backhaul in FDD Systems
Creators: name: Xue, Ye
name: Zheng, Xuanyu
name: Lau, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless backhaul is considered to be the key part of the future wireless network with dense small cell traffic and high capacity demand. In this paper, we focus on the design of a high spectral efficiency line-of-sight (LoS) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system for millimeter wave (mmWave) backhaul using dual-polarized frequency division duplex (FDD). High spectral efficiency is very challenging to achieve for the system due to various physical impairments such as phase noise (PHN), timing offset (TO) as well as the poor condition number of the LoS MIMO. In this paper, we propose a holistic solution containing TO compensation, PHN estimation, precoder/decorrelator optimization of the LoS MIMO for wireless backhaul, and the interleaving of each part. We show that the proposed solution has robust performance with end-to-end spectral efficiency of 60 bits/s/Hz for 8x8 MIMO.
Neutral Theory and Relative Species Abundance in Ecology
Creators: name: Volkov, Igor
name: Banavar, Jayanth R.
name: Hubbell, Stephen P.
name: Maritan, Amos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The theory of island biogeography[1] asserts that an island or a local community approaches an equilibrium species richness as a result of the interplay between the immigration of species from the much larger metacommunity source area and local extinction of species on the island (local community). Hubbell[2] generalized this neutral theory to explore the expected steady-state distribution of relative species abundance (RSA) in the local community under restricted immigration. Here we present a theoretical framework for the unified neutral theory of biodiversity[2] and an analytical solution for the distribution of the RSA both in the metacommunity (Fisher's logseries) and in the local community, where there are fewer rare species. Rare species are more extinction-prone, and once they go locally extinct, they take longer to re-immigrate than do common species. Contrary to recent assertions[3], we show that the analytical solution provides a better fit, with fewer free parameters, to the RSA distribution of tree species on Barro Colorado Island (BCI)[4] than the lognormal distribution[5,6].
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Broad-band electromagnetic radiation from microquasars interacting with ISM
Creators: name: Bosch-Ramon, V.
name: Aharonian, F. A.
name: Paredes, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microquasars (MQs) are galactic objects with relativistic jets that constitute a source population which can be responsible for production of a non-negligible fraction of the observed galactic cosmic rays. These relativistic protons, associated with the termination of the jet, interact with the interstellar medium and, at certain surrounding conditions, may lead to production of detectable fluxes of high-energy and very high-energy gamma-rays. This radiation is accompanied by the broad-band emission of secondary electrons from decays of $π^\pm$-mesons produced through synchrotron, bremstrahlung and inverse Compton process. The features of broad-band emission initiated by proton-proton (pp) interactions in such a scenario is discussed in the context of the strategy of search for counterparts of high-energy and very high-energy gamma-ray sources in the galactic plane.
description: High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: 2nd International Symposium, Proceedings of the conference held 26-30 July 2004 in Heidelberg (Germany). Edited by Felix A. Aharonian, Heinz J. Volk, and Dieter Horns. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 745. New York: American Institute of Physics, 2005., p.317-322
THE SUPPLY OF NON-DEGRADED AGRICULTURAL LAND
Creators: name: Clarke, Harry R.
name: Clarke, Harry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Profitability increases because of favourable product or factor price changes provide incentives for profit-maximising farmers, who use soils in conjunction with other cooperant inputs, to increase their investment in the preservation of soil-quality, whenever there exist economically viable technologies for preserving soils. However, when such technologies do not exist, regardless of whether farmers utilise soils as non-renewable or renewable resources, such profitability increases are associated with a long-run deterioration in soil quality.
Direct Imaging of Periodic Sub-wavelength Patterns of Total Atomic Density
Creators: name: Tonyushkin, Alexei
name: Sleator, Tycho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interference fringes of total atomic density with period $λ/4$ and $λ/2$ for optical wavelength $λ$, have been produced in de Broglie atom interferometer and directly imaged by means of an ``optical mask'' technique. The imaging technique allowed us to observe sub-wavelength periodic patterns with a resolution of $λ/16$. The quantum dynamics near the interference times as a function of the recoil phase and pulse areas has been investigated.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. A; order rearranged, references replaced and added, corrected typos
AN ANALYSIS OF WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR CROP INSURANCE
Creators: name: Fraser, Rob W.
name: Fraser, Rob W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: In this paper a method for estimating a producer's willingness-to-pay for crop insurance is presented. The method includes formulae to capture the impact of crop insurance on the producer's expected income and variance of income. These impacts are evaluated in the context of a model of producer welfare which features both price and yield uncertainty, as well as risk aversion on the part of the producer. The method is applied to the Australian wheat industry and estimates of willingness-to-pay are shown to be relatively sensitive to the levels of coverage and yield variability.
From AdS to dS Exchanges: Spectral Representation, Mellin Amplitudes and Crossing
Creators: name: Sleight, Charlotte
name: Taronna, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple general relation between tree-level exchanges in AdS and dS. This relation allows to directly import techniques and results for AdS Witten diagrams, both in position and momentum space, to boundary correlation functions in dS. In this work we apply this relation to define Mellin amplitudes and a spectral representation for exchanges in dS. We also derive the conformal block decomposition of a dS exchange, both in the direct and crossed channels, from their AdS counterparts. The relation between AdS and dS exchanges itself is derived using a recently introduced Mellin-Barnes representation for boundary correlators in momentum space, where (A)dS exchanges are straightforwardly fixed by a combination of factorisation, conformal symmetry and boundary conditions.
description: 13 pages
Measurement of the muon anomaly to high and even higher precision
Creators: name: Hertzog, David W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our recent series of measurements at Brookhaven National Laboratory determined the muon anomalous magnetic moment \amu to a precision of 0.5 ppm. The final result--representing the average of five running periods using both positive and negative muons--is $\amu ^\pm = 11 659 208(6) \times 10^{-10}$. It lies 2.7 standard deviations above the standard model expectation, which is based on updates given at this Workshop. Importantly, only the $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilation and new KLOE radiative return data are used for the hadronic vacuum polarization input. Because the systematic limit has not been reached in the experiment, a new effort has been proposed and approved with the highest scientific priority at Brookhaven. The goal is an experimental uncertainty of 0.2 ppm, a 2.5-fold reduction in the overall experimental uncertainty. To do so will require a suite of upgrades and several qualitative changes in the philosophy of how the measurement is carried out. I discuss the old and new experiments with a particular emphasis on the technical matters that require change for the future.
description: 10 pages, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Tau-Lepton Physics
DO INCREASED COMMODITY PRICES LEAD TO MORE OR LESS SOIL DEGRADATION?
Creators: name: LaFrance, Jeffrey T.
name: LaFrance, Jeffrey T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: In this paper, a dynamic economic model is used to analyze the conflicting impacts of crop increasing/land degrading inputs with those of soil conserving/crop reducing inputs in problems of soil degradation in agriculture. Soil is a renewable resource that is generated naturally at a slow, essentially autonomous rate. Cultivation enhances crop production and degrades the soil, while conservation is unproductive for the crop but improves the soil resource. If the effects of cultivation dominate the effects of conservation in the soil dynamics, an increase in the price of the crop accelerates the rate of soil degradation In the short-run and decreases the long-run stock of the soil resource. On the other hand, if the effects of conservation dominate the effects of cultivation, an increase in the price of the crop decelerates the rate of soil degradation in the short run and increases the long-run stock of the soil resource. It is shown that subsidies on conservation activities or taxes on cultivation intensity may well decrease the long-run soil stock, although strong conditions must be satisfied for either of these results to hold. It also is shown that a reduction in the real discount rate or a direct per unit tax on soil losses is certain to increase the long-run soil stock and reduce the short-run rate of soil degradation.
ON THE COMPETITIVE FIRM UNDER PRODUCTION UNCERTAINTY
Creators: name: Pope, Rulon D.
name: Just, Richard E.
name: Pope, Rulon D.
name: Just, Richard E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Production Economics

description: Risky production functions which are commonly in use are shown to be very restrictive. In particular, such functions cannot describe technologies where inputs marginally reduce risk. A simple production function which avoids these restrictions is posited and alternative estimation procedures are discussed. Both maximum likelihood and multistage estimators are discussed.
FACTOR SUBSTITUTION IN AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Vincent, David P.
name: Vincent, David P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Production Economics

description: Studies of the ease of substitution between inputs in production have generally been carried out within a production framework of an explicit functional form. In this study, a somewhat different approach is followed. A model of derived demand for primary factors of production, land, labour and capital is formulated to enable inferences to be made about the characteristics of the unspecified production function. The model is used to obtain estimates of the pairwise Allen-Uzawa substitution elasticities which are secondary parameters of the underlying production function. The reported FIML estimates from aggregate time series data for the period 1920/21 to 1969/70 indicate very low and marginally different substitution elasticities between different pairs of factors, suggesting that both the Cobb-Douglas and CES production function specifications for the Australian agricultural sector are inappropriate.
Solving the Cosmic Lithium Problems with Gravitino Dark Matter in the CMSSM
Creators: name: Jedamzik, Karsten
name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Roszkowski, Leszek
name: de Austri, Roberto Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis at baryonic density as inferred by WMAP implies a primordial Li7 abundance factor of two to three larger than that inferred by observations of low--metallicity halo stars. Recent observations of Li6 in halo stars suggest a pre--galactic origin of this isotope, which is exceedingly difficult to explain by putative high redshift cosmic ray populations. We investigate if one or both of these lithium problems may be solved by late decaying relic particles in the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (CMSSM) coupled to gravity. Assuming that the gravitino is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) we find that in large parts of the CMSSM parameter space either of these problems can be potentially solved. In particular, we also find solutions where both lithium problems may be solved simultaneously. These entail the hadronic decay of relic 1 TeV staus into 100 GeV gravitinos at 1000 sec after the Big Bang, as proposed by one of us before. Moreover, the produced gravitinos naturally contribute a large fraction, or all, to the by WMAP required dark matter density. A prediction of this model is the dark matter to be lukewarm with free--streaming lengths of the order of a 4 keV early freezing--out relic particle. Such lukewarm gravitino dark matter may have beneficial effects to the formation of galactic structures and may be constrained by the reionisation history of the Universe. The current version of the paper presents results for both cases (a) when catalytic nuclear reations are included and (b) when they are neglected.
description: catalytic effects are fully included in revised version, results are shown with and without catalytic effects, conclusions hardly changed
Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) peptide activated Natural Killer (NK) cells for the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after radiochemotherapy (RCTx) – from preclinical studies to a clinical phase II trial
Creators: name: Specht, Hanno M.
name: Ahrens, Norbert
name: Blankenstein, Christiane
name: Duell, Thomas
name: Fietkau, Rainer
name: Gaipl, Udo S.
name: Günther, Christine
name: Gunther, Sophie
name: Habl, Gregor
name: Hautmann, Hubert
name: Hautmann, Matthias
name: Huber, Rudolf Maria
name: Molls, Michael
name: Offner, Robert
name: Rödel, Claus
name: Rödel, Franz
name: Schütz, Martin
name: Combs, Stephanie E.
name: Multhoff, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hsp70-based immunotherapy, NSCLC patients, radiochemotherapy clinical trial, clinical phase II, NK cells
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) is frequently overexpressed in tumor cells. An unusual cell surface localization could be demonstrated on a large variety of solid tumors including lung, colorectal, breast, squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck, prostate and pancreatic carcinomas, glioblastomas, sarcomas and hematological malignancies, but not on corresponding normal tissues. A membrane (m)Hsp70-positive phenotype can be determined either directly on single cell suspensions of tumor biopsies by flow cytometry using cmHsp70.1 monoclonal antibody or indirectly in the serum of patients using a novel lipHsp70 ELISA. A mHsp70-positive tumor phenotype has been associated with highly aggressive tumors, causing invasion and metastases and resistance to cell death. However, natural killer (NK), but not T cells were found to kill mHsp70-positive tumor cells after activation with a naturally occurring Hsp70 peptide (TKD) plus low dose IL-2 (TKD/IL-2). Safety and tolerability of ex vivo TKD/IL-2 stimulated, autologous NK cells has been demonstrated in patients with metastasized colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a phase I clinical trial. Based on promising clinical results of the previous study, a phase II randomized clinical study was initiated in 2014. The primary objective of this multicenter proof-of-concept trial is to examine whether an adjuvant treatment of NSCLC patients after platinum-based radiochemotherapy (RCTx) with TKD/IL-2 activated, autologous NK cells is clinically effective. As a mHsp70-positive tumor phenotype is associated with poor clinical outcome only mHsp70-positive tumor patients will be recruited into the trial. The primary endpoint of this study will be the comparison of the progression-free survival of patients treated with ex vivo activated NK cells compared to patients who were treated with RCTx alone. As secondary endpoints overall survival, toxicity, quality-of-life, and biological responses will be determined in both study groups.
A NOTE ON THE PIG CYCLE IN AUSTRALIA
Creators: name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Spectral analysis is used to test hypotheses relating to regular four-year cycles in the Australian pig industry. The data point to the existence of annual cycles in production, slaughterings and prices, but four-year cycles are only evident in pig prices. Relationships between these series are also examined by cross-spectral analysis
Impact on percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndromes during the COVID-19 outbreak in a non-overwhelmed European healthcare system: COVID-19 ACS-PCI experience in Ireland
Creators: name: Patrick Connolly, Niall
name: Simpkin, Andrew
name: Mylotte, Darren
name: Crowley, James
name: O'Connor, Stephen
name: AlHarbi, Khalid
name: Kiernan, Thomas J.
name: Arockiam, Sacchin
name: Owens, Patrick
name: John, Amal
name: J Blake, Gavin
name: Fitzgerald, Sean
name: Cadogan, Diarmaid
name: Rosseel, Liesbeth
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Aims To evaluate temporal trends of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) treated via percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) throughout the COVID-19 outbreak in a European healthcare system affected but not overwhelmed by COVID-19-related pathology.Methods and results We performed a retrospective multicentre analysis of the rates of PCI for the treatment of ACS within the period 2months pre and post the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Ireland, as well as comparing PCI for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with the corresponding period in 2019. During the 2020 COVID-19 period (29 February–30 April 2020), there was a 24% decline in PCI for overall ACS (incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.76; 95% CI 0.65 to 0.88; p<0.001), including a 29% reduction in PCI for non-ST-elevation ACS (IRR 0.71; 95%CI 0.57 to 0.88; p=0.002) and an 18% reduction in PCI for STEMI (IRR 0.82; 95%CI 0.67 to 1.01; p=0.061), as compared with the 2020 pre-COVID-19 period (1 January–28 February 2020). A 22% (IRR 0.78; 95%CI 0.65 to 0.93; p=0.005) reduction of PCI for STEMI was seen as compared with the 2019 reference period.Conclusion This study demonstrates a significant reduction in PCI procedures for the treatment of ACS since the COVID-19 outbreak in Ireland. The reasons for this decline are still unclear but patients need to be encouraged to seek medical attention when cardiac symptoms appear, in order to avoid incremental cardiac morbidity and mortality due to a reduction in coronary revascularisation for the treatment of ACS.
U.S. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES OF LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES: A DYNAMIC APPROACH
Creators: name: Skripnitchenko, Anatoliy
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Skripnitchenko, Anatoliy
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: foreign direct investment
subject: dynamic
subject: Latin America
subject: adjustment costs
subject: processed food
subject: Euler equation

description: In this report, we apply a dynamic cost minimization model of U.S. foreign direct investment in food processing industries to nine Latin American countries. Estimation of the first order condition (Euler equation) using a consistent rational expectation assumption showed that dynamic structure explains the investment process in food processing industries quite well. U.S. food processors in Latin America are driven by the host country?s level of demand and by labor cost considerations. They can adjust their investment position quickly. We also quantified short and long-run effects of shocks to exogenous variables on foreign direct investment position.
Gospels and grit : subtitle work and labour from Thomas Carlyle to George Orwell
Creators: name: Breton, Rob
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines a group of writers from Thomas Carlyle to Joseph Conrad to George Orwell. Though Orwell receives the majority of coverage, my argument has to do with the group: its character, or the attitudes these figures share that can justify the grouping. Carlyle, Conrad, and Orwell mostly, but also many other Victorians and post-Victorians (though, importantly, not the 'high' Modernists), preach the Gospel of Work. In turn, they vilify work rationalization, implicitly condemn the theory of disutility, and rage against economism. They extol the intrinsic value of work and imagine a moral economy. But these same thinkers deal pragmatically with the specific, concrete, historical conditions of modern work: with such practical issues as wages. 'Inside the Whale' of rationalism they struggle, but they also concede to the reality and size of the beast. The expression of that pragmatism, however, is kept far away from the Gospel of Work. The latter is treated as a point of transcendence, a refuge to withdraw into and thus bypass the real properties of society. In the texts I examine, the contradictions between a pragmatic concession to modern economic modes or relations and sermons on Work remain non-dialectical: neither of the two discourses is qualified or challenged by its opposite. They exist side by side, on paths set for a collision, but they do not encounter each other. Orwell epitomizes the split because he swings harder, faster, and farther than those before him between claiming the unqualified abstract and negotiating the problematic concrete, between representing work as subjectively good and objectively perverted. I make three major but interconnected arguments: one, about the anti-rationalist or anti-utilitarian tradition; two, about the relationship between economic theory and culture; and three, the most important, about the rifts, impasses, or glitches between moral and pragmatic work. I argue that those spaces primarily signify attitudes toward class, praxis, and moralism.
R code on "Reconciling carbon quality with availability predicts temperature sensitivity of global soil carbon mineralization"
Creators: name: Zhang, Shuai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370203
subject: Greenhouse gas inventories and fluxes

description: R scripts were used to generate the results in the paper entitled "Reconciling carbon quality with availability predicts temperature sensitivity of global soil carbon mineralization". The title of each R script provides a brief introduction of the purpose of the code.
Additional file 1 of The impact of a hands-on arthrocentesis workshop in undergraduate medical education
Creators: name: Ladurner, Andreas
name: Nijman, Thomas
name: Gill, Tiffany K.
name: Smitham, Peter J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Practical skills development form (Knee)
PRODUCER CONTRACT STRATEGIES IN GM CROPS
Creators: name: Maxwell, Brett J.
name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Maxwell, Brett J.
name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: contracts
subject: genetically modified crops

description: A number of challenges exist for genetically modified (GM) crop development at the production level. Contract strategies can resolve some of these challenges. Contracts can be designed to induce legal adoption of GM crops by varying technology fees, violation detection, and penalties. The objective of this research is to analyze contracting strategies to determine terms to induce legal adoption of GM wheat and to minimize technology agreement violations. A simulation model of the prospective introduction of GM technology into hard red spring wheat was developed. Results illustrate that contracts can be designed to induce desired behavior. Technology fees, probability of detection, and the level of non-GM premium were the most notable factors influencing adoption decisions.
No approximate complex fermion coherent states
Creators: name: Tyc, Tomas
name: Hamilton, Brett
name: Sanders, Barry C.
name: Oliver, William D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Whereas boson coherent states with complex parametrization provide an elegant, and intuitive representation, there is no counterpart for fermions using complex parametrization. However, a complex parametrization provides a valuable way to describe amplitude and phase of a coherent beam. Thus we pose the question of whether a fermionic beam can be described, even approximately, by a complex-parametrized coherent state and define, in a natural way, approximate complex-parametrized fermion coherent states. Then we identify four appealing properties of boson coherent states (eigenstate of annihilation operator, displaced vacuum state, preservation of product states under linear coupling, and factorization of correlators) and show that these approximate complex fermion coherent states fail all four criteria. The inapplicability of complex parametrization supports the use of Grassman algebras as an appropriate alternative.
description: Argumentation made clearer
Additional file 2 of The impact of a hands-on arthrocentesis workshop in undergraduate medical education
Creators: name: Ladurner, Andreas
name: Nijman, Thomas
name: Gill, Tiffany K.
name: Smitham, Peter J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Self-assessment questionnaire
Intertidal, Subtidal and Beach Ecosystems
Creators: name: Chatziefthimiou, Dr. Aspa
name: Hinnawi, Ruba
name: Castro de la Mata, Dr. Gonzalo
name: P. Turbot, Sebastien
name: Amato, Dr. Alexandre
name: Mohamed Al-Saleh, Nihal.
name: Matar Al-Kuwari, Dr. Mona
name: Cohen, Raviv
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences
classificationCode: 3708
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4102
subject: Ecological applications

description: As with the other ecosystems of the Gulf, where communities of organisms thrive despite extreme conditions, here too, one can find a colorful community with its own set of adaptations to the set of tidal extremes. A very successful behavioral adaptation to desiccation is burrowing (making holes/homes in the sediment/sand) in deeper, moister depths. Swimming crabs are masters in digging up burrows and pushing off sand with their claws, not only to make their home in, but to quickly hide themselves from lurking predators like herons. Vertical movement is also used by photosynthetic cyanobacteria in microbial mats that most lusciously line the intertidal and subtidal areas of Khor Al Adaid. This movement can only be perceived by time-lapse microscopy, where cyanobacterial filaments move in any each direction to find optimum light and oxygen levels, and to untrap themselves from sand particles brought on by the tide. Cyanobacteria also produce a dark pigment called scytonemin, similar to our sun-screen lotions, which helps protect them from the rays of the sun at low tide. Gastropods (sea snails) of many species, that feed on microbial mats as part of their diet, perform horizontal migration, which is again in sync with the tidal cycle.Other InformationPublished in: Earthna publications reports
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
See educational resource on publisher's website: https://www.earthna.qa/publications/educational-materials/qatar-marine-ecosystem-lesson-plans
Project Identifier (PI): EEF-2023-003
CONTRACTING STRATEGIES FOR EU TRACEABILITY REQUIREMENTS
Creators: name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Traceability
subject: Principal-Agent
subject: Contracting
subject: Genetically Modified
subject: Wheat
subject: European Union

description: A principal-agent problem was specified to define the equilibrium solution of a contracting strategy for a U.S. supplier exporting wheat to meet EU traceability requirements. The buyer (principal) offers a contract, the supplier (agent) accepts the contract, and then the supplier decides whether to offer a contract to the farmer. Nature at each level of the supply chain represents uncertainty due to adventitious commingling and imperfect information. Results indicate farmers would require 9 c/bu and suppliers 8 c/bu to induce their participation in the contracting strategy.
Carbon quality-availability tradeoffs govern the temperature sensitivity of global soil carbon mineralization
Creators: name: Zhang, Shuai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370203
subject: Greenhouse gas inventories and fluxes

description:  R scripts were used to generate the results in the paper entitled "  
 Carbon quality-availability tradeoffs govern the temperature sensitivity of global soil carbon mineralization ". The title of each R script provides a brief introduction of the purpose of the code.
Strange quark mass from e+e- revisited and present status of light quark masses
Creators: name: Narison, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the determinations of the strange quark mass m_s from e+e- into hadrons data using a new combination of FESR and revisiting the existing tau-like sum rules by including non-resonant contributions to the spectral functions. To order alpha_s^3 and including the tachyonic gluon mass lambda^2 contribution, which phenomenologically parametrizes the UV renormalon effect into the PT series, we obtain the invariant mass m_s=(119 +- 17)MeV leading to: m_s(2 GeV)=(104+- 15)MeV. Combining this value with the recent and independent phenomenological determinations from some other channels, to order alpha_s^3 and including lambda^2, we deduce the weighted average: m_s (2 GeV)=(96.1 +- 4.8)MeV . The positivity of the spectral functions in the (pseudo)scalar [resp. vector] channels leads to the lower [resp. upper] bounds of m_s(2 GeV): (71 +- 4) MeV < m_s(2 GeV) < (151 +- 14) MeV, to order alpha_s^3. Using the ChPT mass ratio r_3 = 2m_s/(m_u+m_d)=24.2 +- 1.5, and the average value of m_s, we deduce: (m_u+m_d)(2 GeV)=(7.9 +- 0.6) MeV, consistent with the pion sum rule result, which, combined with the ChPT value for m_u/m_d, gives: m_d(2 GeV)=(5.1 +- 0.4)MeV and m_u(2 GeV)=(2.8 +- 0.2)MeV. Finally, using (m_u+m_d) from the pion sum rule and the average value of m_s (without the pion sum rule), the method gives: r_3= 23.5 +- 5.8 in perfect agreement with the ChPT ratio, indicating the self-consistency of the sum rule results. Using the value: m_b(m_b)=(4.23 +- 0.06) GeV, we also obtain the model-building useful scale-independent mass ratio: m_b/m_s=50 +- 3.
description: Updated and improved average values. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Marketing Sustainable and/or Organic Products in Small Metro Areas
Creators: name: Nelson, William C.
name: Coyle, Kathy
name: Nelson, William C.
name: Coyle, Kathy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Substantial progress was made to establish a market for organic and non-certified organic produce in the Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN area. Partnerships were established early-on with two local grocery store chains, in part, due to professionally produced sales material from an already established organic marketing group. Local farmers improved sales through direct methods -- a farmers market and farm stands -- as well as through retailers - two local grocery store chains. Initial retail sales of certified organic products at grocery stores was promising, and served to demonstrate to produce managers that demands for organics does exist in Fargo-Moorhead. Labeling and packaging local organic products proved difficult because only bulk quantities of bar codes are available. Three to four grocery stores are now carrying organic produce on a regular basis, consequently, the project leader believes he accomplished the group's goal to develop a mainstream market for organic produce. Producers learned many new skills through this project. They attended conferences and farm tours that gave them the knowledge to solve problems in their own operations, as well as share skills and information they discovered. Market power through joint sales proved significant, but the failure to sustain that alliance is a disappointment. The grocers and the public appreciated the organic product, but ironically, the producer-supplier proved to be the main factor that was unsustainable.