cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Valuing Avoided Soil Erosion by Considering Private and Public Net Benefits
Creators: name: Barry, Luke E.
name: Paragahawewa, Upananda Herath
name: Yao, Richard T.
name: Turner, James A.
name: Barry, Luke E.
name: Paragahawewa, Upananda Herath
name: Yao, Richard T.
name: Turner, James A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: The population in New Zealand is expected to increase to over five million by the mid 2020’s from the current level of 4.3 million (Statistics New Zealand, 2009). An increasing demand for primary produce as a result may put pressure on marginal land to be farmed. Understanding the economic value of avoided erosion in New Zealand is therefore an important factor in policy making to optimise the soil related activities in the economy. Establishing a methodology for estimating the economic value of avoided soil erosion is the first step in assessing the problem. This study uses the future forest scenarios developed by Scion to identify potential afforestation areas and thereby compare the current erosion/sedimentation status under current land-use (non woody vegetation) with potential future afforestation. The study aims to quantify the incremental public and private net benefits from the change in scenario. The notion has come under different headings in the literature, such as on-site and off-site erosion effects or sediment and soil erosion effects, all of which recognize the importance of separation of effects to avoid double-counting. The separation into public and private benefits and costs in this case, while avoiding double-counting, will also help identify appropriate policy instruments to avoid soil erosion damage using the private and public net benefit framework (Pannell, 2008).
title: FLLITE Project Website
Creators: name: Blyth, Carl
name: Luks, Joanna
name: Warner, Chantelle
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Language Learning, Language Teaching

description: The FLLITE Project website published openly-licensed lessons based on authentic texts in both commonly and less-commonly taught languages. Educators were invited to submit lessons that were reviewed by the FLLITE editorial board and published on the website. Lessons were published for languages including Chinese, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
One loop MSbar gluon pole mass from the LCO formalism
Creators: name: Browne, R. E.
name: Gracey, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the one loop corrections to the pole mass of the gluon in the MSbar scheme in the Landau gauge in both the Curci-Ferrari model and the local composite operator formalism with Nf flavours of massless quarks. For the latter we determine an estimate for the gluon mass using the effective potential of a local dimension two composite operator and find, for example, m_{gluon} = 2.10 Lambda_MSbar in Yang-Mills theory.
description: 7 latex pages
Additional file 2 of Effect of irradiation on the survival and susceptibility of female Anopheles arabiensis to natural isolates of Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Guissou, Edwige
name: Poda, Serge
name: Domombabele François De Sales Hien
name: Yerbanga, Serge Rakiswende
name: Dari Frédéric Da
name: Cohuet, Anna
name: Fournet, Florence
name: Roux, Olivier
name: Hamidou Maiga
name: Abdoulaye Diabaté
name: Gilles, Jeremie
name: Bouyer, Jérémy
name: Ouédraogo, Anicet G.
name: Jean-Baptiste Rayaissé
name: Lefèvre, Thierry
name: Kounbobr Roch Dabiré
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Text S2. Oocyst rupture assay. Figure S3. Effect of irradiation on P. falciparum oocyst rupture in mosquito guts and sporozoite dissemination in head/thoraces on day 14 post-infection for 6 parasite isolates. a Proportion of infected mosquitoes with ruptured oocysts (± 95% CI), expressed as the number of mosquitoes with at least one ruptured oocyst out of the total number of oocyst-infected mosquitoes for each treatment (white bars: control mosquitoes; grey bars: irradiated mosquitoes). b Proportion of ruptured oocysts (± 95% CI), expressed as the number of ruptured oocysts out of the total number of oocysts (intact + ruptured) for each treatment. c Proportion of oocyst-infected mosquitoes with sporozoites in their head and thorax (± 95% CI), for each treatment. *P < 0.05; ***P < 0.001; NS: not significant. Figure S4. Immature developing oocysts. Figure S5. Mature and immature oocysts. Figure S6. Ruptured and unruptured mature oocysts. Figure S7. Ruptured oocysts. Table S1. Summary description of the experiments.
Economics of Controlling Invasive Species: A Stochastic Optimisation Model for a Spatial-Dynamic Process
Creators: name: Chalak, Morteza
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Polyakov, Maksym
name: Chalak, Morteza
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Polyakov, Maksym
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: Invasive species are significant threats to biodiversity, natural ecosystems and agriculture leading to large worldwide economic and environmental damage. Spread and control of invasive species are stochastic processes with important spatial dimensions. Most economic studies of invasive species control ignore spatial and stochastic aspects. This paper covers this gap in the previous studies by analysing a spatially explicit dynamic process of controlling invasive species in a stochastic setting. We show how stochasticity, spatial location of infestation and control can influence the spread, control efficiency and optimal control strategies. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between economic parameters and stochastic spatial characteristics of infestation and control. In the model used, there are two ways to control infestation: border control, under which the spread of invasive species from any of its infested neighbouring cell is prevented, and cell control, which removes the infestation from the existing cell. An integer optimisation model is applied to find the optimal strategies to deal with invasive species. Results show that it is optimal to eradicate or contain for a larger range of border control and cell control costs when the invasion is in the corner or on the edge as compared to the case where the initial infestation is in the middle of the landscape. Decrease in the probability of successful border control makes containment an unfavourable control option even for low border control costs. We show that decrease in the rate of spread can result in switching optimal strategies from containment to abandonment of control, or from eradication to containment. We also showed when the probability of successful cell control decreases, a lower eradication cost is required for eradication to remain the optimal strategy. In summary, this paper shows that in order to avoid providing misleading recommendations to environmental managers, it is important to include uncertainty in the spatial dynamic analysis of invasive species control.
The Local Partial Autocorrelation Function and Some Applications
Creators: name: Killick, Rebecca
name: Knight, Marina I.
name: Nason, Guy P.
name: Eckley, Idris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62M10

description: The classical regular and partial autocorrelation functions are powerful tools for stationary time series modelling and analysis. However, it is increasingly recognized that many time series are not stationary and the use of classical global autocorrelations can give misleading answers. This article introduces two estimators of the local partial autocorrelation function and establishes their asymptotic properties. The article then illustrates the use of these new estimators on both simulated and real time series. The examples clearly demonstrate the strong practical benefits of local estimators for time series that exhibit nonstationarities.
Valuing Trout Angling Benefits of Water Quality Improvements while Accounting for Unobserved Lake Characteristics: An Application to the Rotorua Lakes
Creators: name: Mkwara, Lena Asimenye
name: Marsh, Dan
name: Mkwara, Lena Asimenye
name: Marsh, Dan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Trout angling is one of the most popular water-based recreational activities in the Rotorua Lakes. Despite the high demand for trout angling and other recreational purposes, water quality in some of these lakes has been declining over the past decades and initiatives to try to restore the lakes are underway. To compliment these efforts, this study uses the travel cost random utility models to explore how changes in water quality would impact upon angler’s choice of fishing destinations. The welfare impacts due to water quality changes and possible lake closures are also explored. These findings highlight the importance of discrete choice random utility models as a policy decision making tool for recreational-based natural resource managers in New Zealand. Additionally, this study represents one of the unique cases in travel cost random utility applications that accounts fully for unobserved site effects.
title: Pediatric Food Hypersensitivities: Are Parental Concerns Validated by Clinical Diagnoses?
Creators: name: Baldridge, Tyler
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: allergies
subject: pediatrics
subject: food hypersensitivities
subject: elimination diet
subject: Immunocap

description: Recent literature has described a disproportionate number of parents self-reporting food hypersensitivities in their children that are not clinically verified. Parents who self-diagnose food hypersensitivity are also likely to self-manage their children’ s suspected diagnosis—namely, elimination diets—without clinical counseling or oversight. Consequently, children may be exposed to the potential risks of elimination diets (decreased health-related quality of life and nutritional deficiencies) unnecessarily. However, a significant proportion of literature describing the burden and scale of perceived food hypersensitivities have studied European patient populations. In this thesis, I examine the current literature surrounding pediatric food hypersensitivities with special attention to the discrepancy between self-reported rates and clinically diagnosed rates. I then conduct a chart review of a Central Texas pediatric practice examining patients for whom their provider ordered an Immunocap allergy panel. In our sample, 37.1% of parents reported already eliminating a suspected allergen from their child’ s diet. Furthermore, two of the symptoms that were significant predictors of parents eliminating foods from their child’ s diets were either insignificant or negative predictors of a positive allergy test. Ultimately, further research is necessary to evaluate the scale of self-diagnosed and self-managed food hypersensitivities in the U.S. pediatric population, with an emphasis on potential education efforts for both providers and parents to curtail elimination diets performed without clinical oversight.
Optical bistability in semiconductor microcavities in the nondegenerate parametric oscillation regime: analogy with the optical parametric oscillator
Creators: name: Baas, A.
name: Karr, J. -Ph.
name: Romanelli, M.
name: Bramati, A.
name: Giacobino, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of optical bistability in a microcavity pumped at the "magic angle". Experimental evidence is given in the form of a hysteresis cycle of the nonlinear emission as a function of the pump intensity or the position of the excitation spot. The results can be well understood with simple theoretical considerations that underline the fundamental analogy between our system and an optical parametric oscillator.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of Effect of irradiation on the survival and susceptibility of female Anopheles arabiensis to natural isolates of Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Guissou, Edwige
name: Poda, Serge
name: Domombabele François De Sales Hien
name: Yerbanga, Serge Rakiswende
name: Dari Frédéric Da
name: Cohuet, Anna
name: Fournet, Florence
name: Roux, Olivier
name: Hamidou Maiga
name: Abdoulaye Diabaté
name: Gilles, Jeremie
name: Bouyer, Jérémy
name: Ouédraogo, Anicet G.
name: Jean-Baptiste Rayaissé
name: Lefèvre, Thierry
name: Kounbobr Roch Dabiré
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Text S1. Serum replacement assay. Figure S1. Relationship between sporozoite prevalence and gametocytemia (number of gametocytes/µl of blood) (a) and between Cq and gametocytemia (b). Blue lines indicate isolates for which the plasma was kept unchanged and black lines indicate isolates with naïve AB serum. Figure S2. Effect of irradiation on sporozoite prevalence (± 95 % CI) at 14 dpbm (a), expressed as the number of mosquito head/thoraces detected positive to Plasmodium falciparum using qPCR out of the total number of dissected head/thoraces, for each treatment and for 10 parasite isolates; and on sporozoite intensity at 14 dpbm (b), expressed as the mean number (± SE) of amplification cycle during qPCR (the lower the Cq, the higher the sporozoite intensity) for each treatment and for 10 parasite isolates. NS: not significant.
Re-locating Japanese Canadian history : sugar beet farms as carceral sites in Alberta and Manitoba, February 1942-January 1943
Creators: name: Ketchell, Shelly D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines Alberta and Manitoba sugar beet farms as carceral sites for displaced Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Previous literature has focused on the relocation of Japanese Canadians but has not addressed the many distinct sites that marked the boundaries of incarceration for Japanese Canadians. By exploring issues of citizenship and history, this thesis examines the many ways that regulation was imposed on Japanese Canadians by state and extra-state organizations and individuals. This subject was explored using critical discourse analysis of the Calgary Herald and the Winnipeg Free Press for a twelve month period beginning February 1, 1942, two months prior to the announcement of the Sugar Beet Programme and ending January 31, 1943, as original beet contracts covered only the 1942 crop year. My analysis follows two major themes: sugar beet farms as carceral sites and the use of citizenship narratives to both legitimize and erase Japanese Canadian labour. Utilizing Fbucault's notion of 'carceral', I show how disciplinary strategies were used to strip Japanese Canadians of their social, economic and political citizenship. While Japanese Canadians were never formally incarcerated, I argue that the term carceral needs to be reworked in order to include losses of liberty that are not formally sanctioned. I examine newspaper reports regarding official state policy, local community responses, protests and individual letters to the editors, and conclude that, indeed, Japanese Canadians underwent surveillance, supervision, constraint and coercion, all markers of incarceration. Citizenship discourses were a crucial tool of both state and non-state agencies. Further, 'whiteness' was central to these discourses. Citizenship discourses such as patriotism and duty were directed at 'white' citizens to encourage their acceptance of Japanese Canadian relocation. Further, these same discourses were used to recruit a volunteer 'white' labour force. However, despite the significant contributions of Japanese Canadians to this wartime industry, never were these types of discursive rewards or the subsequent material benefits offered to them. Further, the voices of Japanese Canadians were also silenced by the media. Thus, Japanese Canadians became invisible and silent workers who could claim no voice and thus, no membership in the nation.
On ultrafast polarization switching in ferroelectrics
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Yukalova, E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a method of ultrafast polarization switching in ferroelectrics has been suggested. The basic idea of the method is to employ the effect of self-acceleration of polarization dynamics due to a resonator feedback field. This is the idea of principle whose efficiency is demonstrated by an Ising-type model in a transverse field. Of course, the practical realization of the method requires the choice of appropriate materials, which is a separate problem. For example, the standard order-disorder ferroelectrics with spatially symmetric double-well potentials cannot be used for this purpose, since, because of the symmetry, they lack the transverse polarization. However, ferroelectrics with asymmetric potentials, possessing this polarization, can be used. Moreover, if the potential asymmetry, hence the transverse polarization, could be regulated, e.g., by shear stress or shear strain, this could provide a tool for governing the process of polarization switching.
description: Latex file, 3 pages
title: Self-evaluation of the product development process
Creators: name: Muller, M.H.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Operations research.

description: An evaluation method for self-assessment of the product development process (PDP) has been developed and tested. A number of research issues have been identified and resolved. These are: the industrial approach, identifying important product issues (the determinants of profit), modelling the PDP, assessing activity effectiveness, and determining correlation factors. A solution to each of these issues was either tested by trials in industry, tested against current literature, or both. Test findings indicate that the designed solutions meet requirements. Trials of the whole evaluation method at industrial sites indicate that the method has attained the primary objective of the research project. Namely, to provide companies with a method to enable them to assess for themselves the effectiveness of their current or proposed PDP. It is a quantified method that forces company practitioners to think about issues, so that results of the assessment can be used effectively to support argument for change. The method is non-prescriptive, accounts for the uniqueness of each company, and draws out and utilises company knowledge within a framework of current best practice in new product development (NPD) management. No other method achieves this objective in the same manner. The following aspects of the evaluation method demonstrate more specific areas of innovation and novelty: The concept of determinants of profit (DoP) and their use as criteria against which the effectiveness of PDP activities is assessed. The generic model of the PDP meets all the identified requirements. It is novel in the way it is structured (i.e. activities and GEs at like level of abstraction) and the purpose it serves in the evaluation method i.e. to provide a non-prescriptive model, which provides a framework onto which the particular PDP activities of a company can be mapped to produce a company specific PDP model. The manner in which activity effectiveness is assessed i.e. by making judgements about the quality of activity characteristics in the context of realising each DoP. The manner in which the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to determine DoP impact on profit whilst accounting for DoP interactions.
Secure Coherent-state Quantum Key Distribution Protocols with Efficient Reconciliation
Creators: name: Van Assche, G.
name: Iblisdir, S.
name: Cerf, N. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the equivalence between a realistic quantum key distribution protocol using coherent states and homodyne detection and a formal entanglement purification protocol. Maximally-entangled qubit pairs that one can extract in the formal protocol correspond to secret key bits in the realistic protocol. More specifically, we define a qubit encoding scheme that allows the formal protocol to produce more than one entangled qubit pair per coherent state, or equivalently for the realistic protocol, more than one secret key bit. The entanglement parameters are estimated using quantum tomography. We analyze the properties of the encoding scheme and investigate its application to the important case of the attenuation channel.
description: REVTeX, 11 pages, 2 figures
Supplementary Material from Functionality mediated colour shifting gels from cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and 6-amino caproic acid
Creators: name: Chapireddy, Nagarjuna
name: Illa, Ramakanth
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 340399
subject: Macromolecular and materials chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: CTAB 6-ACA_Supp Information 11-11-2024.docx
Machinery Investment Decision and Off-Farm Employment in Rural China
Creators: name: Ji, Yueqing
name: Zhong, Funing
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Ji, Yueqing
name: Zhong, Funing
name: Yu, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Small-size Machinery
subject: Off-Farm Employment
subject: Complements
subject: China

description: This paper investigates the linkages between farmers’ machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricultural labor input and small-size machinery investment are gross complements rather than substitutes when machinery service is available in the market. Consequently, farmers with small machinery are more likely to reduce their off-time employment time.
Accounting for Social Spending Escalation in Rural China
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Social Network
subject: Peer Effect
subject: Risk pooling
subject: Status Seeking
subject: Ceremony

description: It has been widely recognized that the poor spends a significant proportion of their income on social spending even at the expense of basic consumption. What are the motives behind the observed lavish social spending among the poor? We attempt to test three competing explanations at the social link level, risk pooling, peer effect, and status concern, via a uniform framework based on a unique primary dataset. The data set include household information from a three wave census type household survey as well as a long term gift record for all households in three villages in a poor region in rural China. Our dyadic estimations confirm the prevalence of peer influence and the status seeking motive in shaping gift spending and its rapid growth, while risking pooling is not a significant explanatory factor. A 1% increase in peers’ gift spending per occasion leads to a 0.13% 0.34% increase in one’s own gift per occasion, depending on whether household fixed effect or pairwise fixed effect dyadic model is estimated. Status seeking for the bottom 25% and the middle 50% groups significantly pushes up gift expenditure. Moreover, large windfall income and marriage market pressure further intensify status competition, escalating gift giving behavior.
Finite difference lattice Boltzmann model with flux limiters for liquid-vapor systems
Creators: name: Sofonea, V.
name: Lamura, A.
name: Gonnella, G.
name: Cristea, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we apply a finite difference lattice Boltzmann model to study the phase separation in a two-dimensional liquid-vapor system. Spurious numerical effects in macroscopic equations are discussed and an appropriate numerical scheme involving flux limiter techniques is proposed to minimize them and guarantee a better numerical stability at very low viscosity. The phase separation kinetics is investigated and we find evidence of two different growth regimes depending on the value of the fluid viscosity as well as on the liquid-vapor ratio.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E
Additional file 1 of Smoking habits in HIV-infected people compared with the general population in Italy: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Socio, Giuseppe Vittorio De
name: Pasqualini, Marta
name: Ricci, Elena
name: Maggi, Paolo
name: Orofino, Giancarlo
name: Squillace, Nicola
name: Menzaghi, Barbara
name: Madeddu, Giordano
name: Taramasso, Lucia
name: Francisci, Daniela
name: Bonfanti, Paolo
name: Vichi, Francesca
name: Dell’Omo, Marco
name: Pieroni, Luca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. STOPSHIV questionnaire
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) levels in mice exposed to positive and negative controls from Impacts of predation risk on learning and memory of free-living mice
Creators: name: Ganci, Carolina
name: McKay, Leah
name: Hunninck, Louis
name: Sheriff, Michael
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Gancietal_TableS1_FigureS1_ESM1.docx
Boron Liquid Metal Alloy Ion Sources For Special FIB Applications
Creators: name: Bischoff, Lothar
name: Klingner, Nico
name: Mazarov, Paul
name: Pilz, Wolfgang
name: Meyer, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Focused Ion Beam (FIB) processing has been established as a well-suited and promising technique in R&D in nearly all fields of nanotechnology for patterning and prototyping on the micro and nanometer scale and below. Among other concepts, liquid metal alloy ion sources (LMAIS) are one of the alternatives to conventional gallium beams to extend the FIB application field. To meet the rising demand for light ions, different boron containing alloys were investigated in this work. A promising solution was found in a Co31Nd64B5 based LMAIS which will be introduced in more detail. Besides cobalt as a ferromagnetic element and the rare earth element neodymium, boron in particular is of interest for special FIB applications like local p-type doping, for which resolution of about 30 nm has been achieved so far.
Asymptotic global robustness in bayesian decision theory
Creators: name: Abraham, Christophe
name: Cadre, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F15, 62C10. (Primary)

description: In Bayesian decision theory, it is known that robustness with respect to the loss and the prior can be improved by adding new observations. In this article we study the rate of robustness improvement with respect to the number of observations n. Three usual measures of posterior global robustness are considered: the (range of the) Bayes actions set derived from a class of loss functions, the maximum regret of using a particular loss when the subjective loss belongs to a given class and the range of the posterior expected loss when the loss function ranges over a class. We show that the rate of convergence of the first measure of robustness is \sqrtn, while it is n for the other measures under reasonable assumptions on the class of loss functions. We begin with the study of two particular cases to illustrate our results.
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000562
Additional file 2 of Does suboptimal household flooring increase the risk of diarrhoea and intestinal parasite infection in low and middle income endemic settings? A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
Creators: name: Sartorius, Benn
name: Legge, Hugo
name: Pullan, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary material 2. Draft search using PubMed/MEDLINE, including planned temporal limits.
Functional equations for regularized zeta-functions and diffusion processes
Creators: name: Saldivar, Alexis
name: Svaiter, Nami F.
name: Zarro, Carlos A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss modifications in the integral representation of the Riemann zeta-function that lead to generalizations of the Riemann functional equation that preserves the symmetry $s\to (1-s)$ in the critical strip. By modifying one integral representation of the zeta-function with a cut-off that does exhibit the symmetry $x\mapsto 1/x$, we obtain a generalized functional equation involving Bessel functions of second kind. Next, with another cut-off that does exhibit the same symmetry, we obtain a generalization for the functional equation involving only one Bessel function of second kind. Some connection between one regularized zeta-function and the Laplace transform of the heat kernel for the Euclidean and hyperbolic space is discussed.
description: Version to match the one to appear in Journal of Physics A
Additional file 2 of Smoking habits in HIV-infected people compared with the general population in Italy: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Socio, Giuseppe Vittorio De
name: Pasqualini, Marta
name: Ricci, Elena
name: Maggi, Paolo
name: Orofino, Giancarlo
name: Squillace, Nicola
name: Menzaghi, Barbara
name: Madeddu, Giordano
name: Taramasso, Lucia
name: Francisci, Daniela
name: Bonfanti, Paolo
name: Vichi, Francesca
name: Dell’Omo, Marco
name: Pieroni, Luca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Prevalence of comorbidities in strata of smoking habits. Table S2. Crude Odds Ratios and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) for smoking outcome measures of 1087 people living with HIV (PLWH) and 2218 subjects from the Italian general population. Table S3. Fully adjusted association between hypertension and smoking habits in strata of study (no hypertension is the reference category). Table S4. Fully adjusted association between diabetes and smoking habits in strata of study (no diabetes is the reference category). Table S5. Fully adjusted association between extreme obesity and smoking habits in strata of study (no extreme obesity is the reference category). Table S6. Fully adjusted association between study population and smoking habits in strata of hypertension (general population is the reference category). Table S7. Fully adjusted association between study population and smoking habits in strata of diabetes (general population is the reference category). Table S8. Fully adjusted association between study population and smoking habits in strata of extreme obesity (general population is the reference category).
Plexin expression in axotomized rubrospinal and facial motoneurons
Creators: name: Spinelli, Egidio
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Injuries to the central nervous system (CNS) are characterized by the inability of most axons to regenerate to their respective target tissues leading to permanent loss of sensory/motor function, while following peripheral nervous system (PNS) injuries, regeneration can occur. The failure of CNS nerve regeneration is partly attributed to the inhibitory nature of the CNS injury site. Apart from their roles in nervous system patterning during development, inhibitory guidance molecules present at the spinal cord injury site, such as semaphorins, have been suggested to contribute to the inhibitory nature of the CNS injury site. Secreted class 3 semaphorins bind to a receptor complex composed of neuropilins, the ligand binding subunit, and plexins, the signal transducing component. Although injured CNS and PNS neurons continue to express neuropilins, little is known about the expression patterns of plexins by axotomized neurons. This study analyzes class-A plexins and plexin-Bl expression in injured CNS (rubrospinal) and PNS (facial) neurons. Plexin mRNA and protein expression were analyzed over a period of 2 weeks in injured mouse rubrospinal and facial motoneurons after cervical spinal cord hemisection and facial nerve resection, respectively. In rubrospinal neurons, Plxn-Al mRNA and protein and Plxn-A4 mRNA expression did not differ between injured and uninjured neurons while Plxn-A2 mRNA expression increased in injured compared to uninjured rubrospinal neurons. Plxn-A3 mRNA was not detected in rubrospinal neurons. In facial motoneurons, Plxn-Al, -A3 and -A4 mRNA expression was higher in injured compared to uninjured motoneurons, although Plxn-Al protein expression did not change between injured and uninjured neurons. Plxn-A2 mRNA, on the other hand, decreased in injured facial motoneurons. Plxn-Bl mRNA expression was absent from both rubrospinal and facial neurons. Therefore, most class-A plexins continue to be expressed in both rubrospinal and facial motoneurons after injury, suggesting that these neuronal populations will remain responsive to semaphorins present at the injury site. This study provides a crucial step in understanding how injured neurons may respond to semaphorins and which components of the semaphorin response; either plexins, neuropilins or semaphorins, may be targeted to promote successful CNS nerve regeneration.
Ghosts in higher derivative Maxwell-Chern-Simon's theory and $\mathcal{PT}-$symmetry
Creators: name: Paul, Biswajit
name: Dhar, Himangshu
name: Saha, Biswajit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ghost fields in quantum field theory have been a long-standing problem. Specifically, theories with higher derivatives involve ghosts that appear in the Hamiltonian in the form of linear momenta term, which is commonly known as the Ostrogradski ghost. Higher derivative theories may involve both types of constraints i.e. first class and second class. Interestingly, these higher derivative theories may have non-Hermitian Hamiltonian respecting $\mathcal{PT}-$symmetries. In this paper, we have considered the $\mathcal{PT}-$symmetric nature of the extended Maxwell-Chern-Simon's theory and employed the second class constraints to remove the linear momenta terms causing the instabilities. We found that the removal is not complete rather conditions arise among the coefficients of the operator ${Q}$.
description: 11 page, Latex
title: The aged patient in Early Modern England: perceptions and experiences of health and medicine in old age, c.1570-1730
Creators: name: Bolissian, Amie
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: This thesis investigates medical understandings of old age, and the impact of illness and infirmity on the
lives of older people, and their caregivers in England, c.1570-1730. During this period, approximately
twenty percent of adults were aged over sixty, and yet the health of this demographic has attracted
little attention; perhaps due to assumptions that older people and their families were resigned to their
‘decays’. Through an analysis of a wide variety of sources, this study challenges this idea, and in-sodoing sheds fresh light on early modern ageing. It shows that old age was intimately tied to illness:
people considered themselves ‘old’ as ailments and weaknesses accrued. There existed a deeply
pessimistic understanding of the archetypal ‘aged patient’ in medical literature: ‘old’ bodies were
depicted as cold, dry, and clogged, debilitated by diseases and sensory impairments, and unable to
withstand strong curative remedies. However, evidence from life-writings and casebooks reveals that
older people themselves frequently contested this bleak paradigm. They felt part of an aged health
cohort, but this could provide comfort through companionship, and favourable comparisons of their
own health against other ‘old folk’. While they undeniably felt burdened by accumulating infirmities,
they also sought cures, and hoped for recovery. The experiences of older patients and their caregivers
were thus multi-layered and often paradoxical: infirmity brought grief and pain, but also spiritual hopes,
thankfulness, and social intimacy. This research highlights the importance of under-explored
characteristics of ageing, including humoral wetness, depleted spirits, and poor ‘concoction’, and
examines older people’s relationships with their chronic diseases. It also demonstrates, for the first
time, the role of age in conceptions of cure and recovery, and challenges the historiographical notion
that women became ‘manly’ after menopause. This study thereby contributes to a variety of
historiographical fields, including emotions, religion, bodies, disability, and gender.
Relativistic description of exotic collective excitation phenomena in atomic nuclei
Creators: name: Paar, N.
name: Niksic, T.
name: Vretenar, D.
name: Ring, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-lying dipole and quadrupole states in neutron rich nuclei, are studied within the fully self-consistent relativistic quasiparticle random-phase approximation (RQRPA), formulated in the canonical basis of the Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov model (RHB), which is extended to include the density dependent interactions. In heavier nuclei, the low-lying E1 excited state is identified as a pygmy dipole resonance (PDR), i.e. as a collective mode of excess neutrons oscillating against a proton-neutron core. Isotopic dependence of the PDR is characterized by a crossing between the PDR and one-neutron separation energies. Already at moderate proton-neutron asymmetry the PDR peak is calculated above the neutron emission threshold, indicating important implications for the observation of the PDR in (gamma,gamma') scattering, and on the theoretical predictions of the radiative neutron capture rates in neutron-rich nuclei. In addition, a novel method is suggested for determining the neutron skin of nuclei, based on measurement of excitation energies of the Gamow-Teller resonance relative to the isobaric analog state.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at the international workshop "Blueprints for the nucleus: From First Principles to Collective Motion", May 17-22. 2004, Istanbul, Turkey; to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. E
Semantic Neighborhood-Aware Deep Facial Expression Recognition
Creators: name: Fu, Yongjian
name: Wu, Xintian
name: Li, Xi
name: Pan, Zhijie
name: Luo, Daxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Different from many other attributes, facial expression can change in a continuous way, and therefore, a slight semantic change of input should also lead to the output fluctuation limited in a small scale. This consistency is important. However, current Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets may have the extreme imbalance problem, as well as the lack of data and the excessive amounts of noise, hindering this consistency and leading to a performance decreasing when testing. In this paper, we not only consider the prediction accuracy on sample points, but also take the neighborhood smoothness of them into consideration, focusing on the stability of the output with respect to slight semantic perturbations of the input. A novel method is proposed to formulate semantic perturbation and select unreliable samples during training, reducing the bad effect of them. Experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed method and state-of-the-art results are reported, getting closer to an upper limit than the state-of-the-art methods by a factor of 30\% in AffectNet, the largest in-the-wild FER database by now.
On the problem of basis for hyperquasivarieties
Creators: name: Graczynska, Ewa Wanda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 08C15, 08C99

description: In the paper we presnt a solution of problem 31 of chaptr 8 of the monograph of K. Denecke and S. L. Wismath: Hypridentities and clones, Gordon & Breach, 2000, by presnting two main theorems on hyperbasis for hypervarieties and hyperquasivarieties.
description: the paper is submitted to Contributions to General Algebra 16
Costly Posturing: Relative Status, Ceremonies and Early Child Development
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
name: Chen, Xi
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Relative Status
subject: Squeeze Effect
subject: Nutrients Intake
subject: Stunting
subject: Underweight
subject: Gender

description: Though social spending facilitates risk‐pooling in the impoverished regions, too many resources devoted to social occasions may impose negative externalities and hinder efforts to alleviate poverty for households living close to subsistence. Conducting three waves census‐type panel survey in rural western China with well‐defined reference groups and detailed information on social occasions, gift exchanges, nutrients intake and health outcomes, we find that the squeeze effect originated from lavish ceremonies is associated with lower height‐for‐age zscore, higher probability of stunting and underweight in early child development. The lasting impact suggests that “catch up” is limited. The squeeze is stronger for the fetal period and towards the lower tail of the distribution. Specifically, 39.2%, 33.3% and 64.6% of the sampled households suffer from net squeeze effect on stunting, underweight and lower height‐for‐age zscore, respectively. The squeeze effect is stronger for 1‐3 age cohorts and between 2007 and 2009. We provide suggestive evidence on the intermediate pathways linking social events with poor health outcomes, such as share of food expenditure and basic nutrients intake. Our findings suggest more efficient policy interventions that target the households with pregnant women and of lower social rankings.
Experiment timeline and sample size for mice tested in the Morris Water Maze per treatment from Impacts of predation risk on learning and memory of free-living mice
Creators: name: Ganci, Carolina
name: McKay, Leah
name: Hunninck, Louis
name: Sheriff, Michael
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Gancietal_TableS2_FigureS2_ESM2.docx
Making Agricultural Support more Objective Oriented: Linear Programming Approach for Ukraine
Creators: name: Vysotskyi, Taras
name: Vysotskyi, Taras
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural support
subject: impact assessment
subject: Linear Programming

description: In this article we investigate how to integrate the experience and knowledge of local agricultural experts in order to facilitate more objective-oriented use of the agricultural support funds. For this purpose we apply the Linear Programming methodological approach. Within this approach the model for calculating the optimum allocation of agricultural budget is developed. The evaluations criterions, which are used in the modeling, are derived during the interviews with agricultural experts who work at the Zdolbuniv district agricultural department in Ukraine. The outcomes show that the agricultural support should have been redistributed in a slightly different way from the district perspective. However, the calculated changes in most cases match with the overall development directions in the Ukrainian agricultural support policy. Furthermore, the developed model has proved to be a useful and, at the same time, quite simple in application support tool, which could have been used by the agricultural decision-makers in the process of agricultural support distribution.
Additional file 1 of Loneliness as a predictor of outcomes in mental disorders among people who have experienced a mental health crisis: a 4-month prospective study
Creators: name: Wang, Jingyi
name: Brynmor Lloyd-Evans
name: Marston, Louise
name: Mann, Farhana
name: Ruimin Ma
name: Johnson, Sonia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Flowchart of participants at inclusion and follow-up and supplementary results tables.
Additional file 1 of Does suboptimal household flooring increase the risk of diarrhoea and intestinal parasite infection in low and middle income endemic settings? A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
Creators: name: Sartorius, Benn
name: Legge, Hugo
name: Pullan, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Material 1. PRISMA-P 2015 Checklist.
Star formation in thin disks of spiral galaxies seen face-on
Creators: name: Karachentseva, V. E.
name: Karachentsev, I. D.
name: Kashibadze, O. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Estimates of the integrated (SFR) and specific (sSFR) rates of star formation are given for 181 galaxies of later Sc, Scd, and Sd types seen almost face-on. Their SFRs were determined from FUV fluxes in the GALEX survey. The median values of the sSFR are: -10.66 dex for Sc, -10.44 dex for Scd, and -10.40 dex for Sd types in units of yr-1. The average value of the sSFR for these galaxies falls off smoothly from lowmass to giant disks. After accounting for photometric errors, the specific star formation rate has a small cosmic variation of 0.16 dex. In order to reproduce the observed stellar mass on a cosmic time of 13.8 Gyr, the galaxies without bulges viewed face-on must have had an SFR two-three times higher in the past than observed now.
description: Published in Astrophysics, 2020, v.63, pp.151-165