cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The PENELOPE Project. A Case Study in Computational Thinking
Creators: name: Harlizius-Klück, Ellen
name: McLean, Alex
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: weaving
computational thinking
pattern weaving
digital art
ancient weaving
live coding
history of digital technology

description: Weaving is presented in this paper with relation to the four key categories of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms. The role of weaving for the development of theoretical concepts is underestimated, because we perceive weaving as a minor craft with little technological challenge and impact. Where technological progress is measured in terms of gaining time from dull and tedious repetitive tasks, weaving appears to be the archetype of such repetitive work and thus as the more technological the faster it goes. We address this framing of perception by presenting ancient weaving as the earliest binary and digital technology. The PENELOPE project (ERC CoGrant no. 682711) aims to develop a theory of weaving as part of a deep history and epistemology for digital technology. In explicating the mathematical and computing principles invoked in weaving, we furthermore explore weaving as a kind of education that has the potential to engage tacit knowledge that is necessary to make technical and aesthetic choices in coding. By this, we argue for an alternative history of digital art.
Kosovo - architektura niepodległości
Creators: name: Powirska, Lidia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Proklamacja niepodległości przez Kosowo stała się największym, a jednocześnie najbardziej kontrowersyjnym wydarzeniem początku 2008 roku. Kwestia statusu już dawnej prowincji Serbii od blisko roku dominowała w dyskusjach prowadzonych na forum międzynarodowym. Początkowo ich punktem wyjścia była przedstawiona Radzie Bezpieczeństwa ONZ, w marcu 2007 roku Propozycja dla Rozwiązania Kwestii Statusu Kosowa, której autorem był Specjalny Wysłannik Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych ds. Przyszłego Statusu Kosowa, Martti Ahtisaari. Wobec weta Rosji plan ten nie został zaaprobowany na forum Rady Bezpieczeństwa ONZ, co uniemożliwiło jego implementację oraz przesądziło o ponownym podjęciu negocjacji w kwestii statusu prowincji. Albańsko – serbskie negocjacje przebiegały przy udziale Grupy Kontaktowej, tzw. Trojki, w której znaleźli się przedstawiciele Unii Europejskiej, Stanów Zjednoczonych oraz Rosji. Pomimo zaangażowania wielu państw trzecich, zarówno Serbowie jak i kosowscy Albańczycy prezentowali nieugięte stanowiska, wobec czego proces negocjacyjny skazany był na porażkę. Celem artykułu jest analiza okoliczności, w których doszło do deklaracji przez Kosowo niepodległości oraz perspektyw jego funkcjonowania.
Shallow impurity band in ZrNiSn
Creators: name: Schrade, Matthias
name: Berland, Kristian
name: Kosinskiy, Andrey
name: Heremans, Joseph P.
name: Finstad, Terje G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ZrNiSn and related half Heusler compounds are candidate materials for efficient thermoelectric energy conversion with a reported thermoelectric figure-of-merit of n-type ZrNiSn exceeding unity. Progress on p-type materials has been more limited, which has been attributed to the presence of an impurity band, possibly related to the presence of Ni interstitials in nominally vacant 4d position. The specific energetic position of this band, however, has not been resolved. Here, we report results of a concerted theory-experiment investigation for a nominally undoped ZrNiSn, based on measurements of electrical resistivity, Hall coefficient, Seebeck coefficient and Nernst coefficient, measured in a temperature range from 80 to 420 K. The results are analyzed with a semi-analytical model combining a density functional theory (DFT) description for ideal ZrNiSn, with a simple analytical correction for the impurity band. The model provides a good quantitative agreement with experiment, describing all salient features in the full temperature span for the Hall, conductivity, and Seebeck measurements, while also reproducing key trends in the Nernst results. This comparison pinpoints the impurity band edge to 40 meV below the conduction band edge, which agrees well with a separate DFT study of a supercell containing Ni interstitials. Moreover, we corroborate our result with a separate study of ZrNiSn0.9Pb0.1 sample showing similar agreement with an impurity band edge shifted to 32 meV below the conduction band.
M51 revisited: a genetic algorithm approach of its interaction history
Creators: name: Theis, Ch.
name: Spinneker, Ch.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detailed models of observed interacting galaxies suffer from the extended parameter space. Here, we present results from our code MINGA which couples an evolutionary optimization strategy (a genetic algorithm) with a fast N-body method. MINGA allows for an automatic search of the optimal region(s) in parameter space within a few hours to a few days of CPU time on a modern PC by investigating of the order of 10^5 models. We demonstrate its applicability by modelling the HI intensity and velocity maps of the interacting system M51 and NGC 5195. We get a good fit for the HI intensity map and we can reproduce the counter-rotation feature of the HI arm. Our result corroborates the results of Salo & Laurikainen (2000) who favour a model with multiple passages through M51's disk.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Proc. of "Evolution of Galaxies. III. From Simple Approaches to Self-Consistent Models", Kiel, 2002, G. Hensler et al. (eds.), Kluwer, in press
Magnetic properties and magnetostructural phase transitions in Ni2+xMn1-xGa shape memory alloys
Creators: name: Khovailo, V. V.
name: Novosad, V.
name: Takagi, T.
name: Filippov, D. A.
name: Levitin, R. Z.
name: Vasilev, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic study of magnetic properties of Ni2+xMn1-xGa (0 \le x \le 0.19) Heusler alloys undergoing structural martensite-austenite transformations while in ferromagnetic state has been performed. From measurements of spontaneous magnetization, Ms(T), jumps ΔM at structural phase transitions were determined. Virtual Curie temperatures of the martensite were estimated from the comparison of magnetization in martensitic and austenitic phases. Both saturation magnetic moments in ferromagnetic state and effective magnetic moments in paramagnetic state of Mn and Ni atoms were estimated and the influence of delocalization effects on magnetism in these alloys was discussed. The experimental results obtained show that the shift of martensitic transition temperature depends weakly on composition. The values of this shift are in good correspondence with Clapeyron-Clausius formalism taking into account the experimental data on latent heat at martensite-austenite transformations.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Interactions in information spread: quantification and interpretation using stochastic block models
Creators: name: Poux-Médard, Gaël
name: Velcin, Julien
name: Loudcher, Sabine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In most real-world applications, it is seldom the case that a given observable evolves independently of its environment. In social networks, users' behavior results from the people they interact with, news in their feed, or trending topics. In natural language, the meaning of phrases emerges from the combination of words. In general medicine, a diagnosis is established on the basis of the interaction of symptoms. Here, we propose a new model, the Interactive Mixed Membership Stochastic Block Model (IMMSBM), which investigates the role of interactions between entities (hashtags, words, memes, etc.) and quantifies their importance within the aforementioned corpora. We find that interactions play an important role in those corpora. In inference tasks, taking them into account leads to average relative changes with respect to non-interactive models of up to 150\% in the probability of an outcome. Furthermore, their role greatly improves the predictive power of the model. Our findings suggest that neglecting interactions when modeling real-world phenomena might lead to incorrect conclusions being drawn.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures, RecSys'21
Chain stiffness bridges conventional polymer and bio-molecular phases}
Creators: name: Skrbic, Tatjana
name: Banavar, Jayanth R.
name: Giacometti, Achille
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chain molecules play important roles in industry and in living cells. Our focus here is on distinct ways of modeling the stiffness inherent in a chain molecule. We consider three types of stiffnesses -- one yielding an energy penalty for local bends (energetic stiffness) and the other two forbidding certain classes of chain conformations (entropic stiffness). Using detailed Wang-Landau microcanonical Monte Carlo simulations, we study the interplay between the nature of the stiffness and the ground state conformation of a self-attracting chain. We find a wide range of ground state conformations including a coil, a globule, a toroid, rods, helices, zig-zag strands resembling $β$-sheets, as well as knotted conformations allowing us to bridge conventional polymer phases and biomolecular phases. An analytical mapping is derived between the persistence lengths stemming from energetic and entropic stiffness. Our study shows unambiguously that different stiffness play different physical roles and have very distinct effects on the nature of the ground state of the conformation of a chain, even if they lead to identical persistence lengths.
description: 15 pages, 8 Figures, in press in Journal of Chemical Physics
Tomosvaryella inopinata De Meyer 1995
Creators: name: Motamedinia, Behnam
name: Skevington, Jeffrey H.
name: Kelso, Scott
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Tomosvaryella
Tomosvaryella inopinata

description: Tomosvaryella inopinata De Meyer, 1995
Figs 19A–E, 56
 Diagnosis: This species is related to T. oligoseta De Meyer, 1993 from Botswana (South Africa). Both have rather symmetrical surstyli in dorsal view, broadened at base and apically, constricted at middle (Fig. 19A); epandrium wider than long (Fig. 19A). It slightly differs by the shape of surstyli in dorsal view, the bristling of the phallus and lateral setae in tergite 1, being completely reduced in T. oligoseta.
 Specimens examined: ISRAEL: Nahal Oren, 32°43’N, 35°01’E, 25.vii.2002, A. Freidberg, JSS52071 (1♂, TAU); Nahal Oren, S. facing slope, 32°43’N, 35°01’E, 2.vii.1998, A. Freidberg, JSS52081 (1♂, TAU); Nizzanim, A. Dunes, 31°43’N, 34°38’E, 6.iv.2009, A. Freidberg, JSS52068–9 (2♂, TAU); UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Wadi Safad, 25°07’N, 56°11’E; 26.xii.2005 – 2.i.2006, A. van Harten, CNCD8963, CNCD8969 (2♂, CNC).
 Distribution: Egypt, Israel (Skevington 2020) (Fig. 56).
 Note: T. inopinata is genetically similar to T. dentiterebra, differing by 3.9% (pairwise divergence) (Supplementary Table 1).
description: Published as part of Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2021, Revision of Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with description of 19 new species, pp. 1-103 in Zootaxa 5002 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5002.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122655
Selenium Deficiency Is Associated with Mortality Risk from COVID-19
Creators: name: Moghaddam, Arash
name: Heller, Raban Arved
name: Sun, Qian
name: Seelig, Julian
name: Cherkezov, Asan
name: Seibert, Linda
name: Hackler, Julian
name: Seemann, Petra
name: Diegmann, Joachim
name: Pilz, Maximilian
name: Bachmann, Manuel
name: Minich, Waldemar B.
name: Schomburg, Lutz
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: trace element
subject: inflammation
subject: selenoprotein P
subject: micronutrient
subject: COVID-19
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: SARS-CoV-2 infections underlie the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and are causative for a high death toll particularly among elderly subjects and those with comorbidities. Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element of high importance for human health and particularly for a well-balanced immune response. The mortality risk from a severe disease like sepsis or polytrauma is inversely related to Se status. We hypothesized that this relation also applies to COVID-19. Serum samples (n = 166) from COVID-19 patients (n = 33) were collected consecutively and analyzed for total Se by X-ray fluorescence and selenoprotein P (SELENOP) by a validated ELISA. Both biomarkers showed the expected strong correlation (r = 0.7758, p < 0.001), pointing to an insufficient Se availability for optimal selenoprotein expression. In comparison with reference data from a European cross-sectional analysis (EPIC, n = 1915), the patients showed a pronounced deficit in total serum Se (mean ± SD, 50.8 ± 15.7 vs. 84.4 ± 23.4 µg/L) and SELENOP (3.0 ± 1.4 vs. 4.3 ± 1.0 mg/L) concentrations. A Se status below the 2.5th percentile of the reference population, i.e., [Se] < 45.7 µg/L and [SELENOP] < 2.56 mg/L, was present in 43.4% and 39.2% of COVID samples, respectively. The Se status was significantly higher in samples from surviving COVID patients as compared with non-survivors (Se; 53.3 ± 16.2 vs. 40.8 ± 8.1 µg/L, SELENOP; 3.3 ± 1.3 vs. 2.1 ± 0.9 mg/L), recovering with time in survivors while remaining low or even declining in non-survivors. We conclude that Se status analysis in COVID patients provides diagnostic information. However, causality remains unknown due to the observational nature of this study. Nevertheless, the findings strengthen the notion of a relevant role of Se for COVID convalescence and support the discussion on adjuvant Se supplementation in severely diseased and Se-deficient patients.
Additional file 1 of Global, regional, and national prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Li, Minmin
name: Chen, Tao
name: Hua, Zhongqiu
name: Yan, Hong
name: Wang, Duolao
name: Li, Zhaoqing
name: Kang, Yijun
name: Zhu, Ni
name: Li, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Electronic bibliographic databases and keywords used in the comprehensive systematic literature search. Box S1. Search strategy to identify studies on the association of pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus. Questionnaire. The questionnaire of national, regional, and global prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Table S2. Sample size of the included studies and the reported prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, by country and WHO region. Table S3. Result of the quality appraisal of the included studies. Table S4. The estimated prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, by country and WHO region. Table S5. Results of the test of heterogeneity and publication bias for the meta-analysis of the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, by country and WHO region.
Holography and hydrodynamics: diffusion on stretched horizons
Creators: name: Kovtun, Pavel
name: Son, Dam T.
name: Starinets, Andrei O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that long-time, long-distance fluctuations of plane-symmetric horizons exhibit universal hydrodynamic behavior. By considering classical fluctuations around black-brane backgrounds, we find both diffusive and shear modes. The diffusion constant and the shear viscosity are given by simple formulas, in terms of metric components. For a given metric, the answers can be interpreted as corresponding kinetic coefficients in the holographically dual theory. For the near-extremal Dp, M2 and M5 branes, the computed kinetic coefficients coincide with the results of independent AdS/CFT calculations. In all the examples, the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density is equal to \hbar/(4πk_B), suggesting a special meaning of this value.
description: 27 pages
Visuohaptic augmented feedback for enhancing motor skills acquisition
Creators: name: Asadipour, Ali
name: Debattista, Kurt
name: Chalmers, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: H.5.2; D.2.2; H.1.2; I.3.6

description: Serious games are accepted as an effective approach to deliver augmented feedback in motor (re-) learning processes. The multi-modal nature of the conventional computer games (e.g. audiovisual representation) plus the ability to interact via haptic-enabled inputs provides a more immersive experience. Thus, particular disciplines such as medical education in which frequent hands on rehearsals play a key role in learning core motor skills (e.g. physical palpations) may benefit from this technique. Challenges such as the impracticality of verbalising palpation experience by tutors and ethical considerations may prevent the medical students from correctly learning core palpation skills. This work presents a new data glove, built from off-the-shelf components which captures pressure sensitivity designed to provide feedback for palpation tasks. In this work the data glove is used to control a serious game adapted from the infinite runner genre to improve motor skill acquisition. A comparative evaluation on usability and effectiveness of the method using multimodal visualisations, as part of a larger study to enhance pressure sensitivity, is presented. Thirty participants divided into a game-playing group (n = 15) and a control group (n = 15) were invited to perform a simple palpation task. The game-playing group significantly outperformed the control group in which abstract visualisation of force was provided to the users in a blind-folded transfer test. The game-based training approach was positively described by the game-playing group as enjoyable and engaging.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
Tomosvaryella israelensis De Meyer 1995
Creators: name: Motamedinia, Behnam
name: Skevington, Jeffrey H.
name: Kelso, Scott
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Tomosvaryella
Tomosvaryella israelensis

description: Tomosvaryella israelensis De Meyer, 1995
Figs 20A–E, 55
 Diagnosis: Based on the shape of the surstyli in dorsal view, this species is related to the kuthyi species group (Tomosvaryella emaratensis sp. nov. T. cyprusensis sp. nov., T. freidbergi, T. hispanica, T. kuthyi and T. parakuthyi). It differs from these species by the shape of the surstyli in lateral view, broadened, being normally curved (Fig. 20D–E). This species also can be recognized by the shape of phallus, with three ejaculatory ducts, one with more than eight small spines in basal two thirds in lateral view (Fig. 20D–E); epandrium longer than wide (Fig. 20A), gonopods equal in height (Fig. 20B). See diagnosis of T. emaratensis sp. nov. and T. cyprusensis sp. nov. for more details.
 Specimens examined: HOLOTYPE: ISRAEL: Kfar Shamai, 32°57’N, 35°27’E, 30.ix.1975. A. Freidberg, JSS52377 (1♂, TAU); PARATYPE: ISRAEL: Mt. Hermon, 33°25’N, 35°51’E, 1300 m a.s.l., 22.v.1973, A. Freidberg, JSS52378 (1♂, CNC).
 Distribution: Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Syria (Skevington 2020) (Fig. 55).
description: Published as part of Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2021, Revision of Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with description of 19 new species, pp. 1-103 in Zootaxa 5002 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5002.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122655
Utilization of a poison control center by critical access hospitals—one state’s experience
Creators: name: Bowman, Connor
name: Thornton, Stephen
name: Oller, Lisa
name: Silver, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Critical access hospitals (CAH) are an important source of exposures for poison control centers (PCC), yet there is a paucity of literature on how these calls differ from larger, more urban hospitals (UH). This study aimed to compare call characteristics from CAH and UH received by a regional PCC. This retrospective chart review used the Toxicall® database of the Kansas PCC. All cases involving calls from a health care facility from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2017 were identified. Cases were then identified as either from a CAH or from one of the four largest UH in Kansas for comparison. CAH were defined using the criteria from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. All information was de-identified in REDCAPS and analyzed in Microsoft Excel. A total of 12,469 unique patient cases were identified, including 6392 CAH and 6077 UH cases. Patients at UH were more likely to have longer duration of medical effects and experience more severe medical effects. Significant differences in the unique exposures, rates of intentional overdose, routes, and number of exposures were found. Patients at CAH were more likely to receive activated charcoal, flumazenil, and be transferred to another healthcare facility, but were less likely to have been referred by the PCC, need an ICU admission, or require consultation with a toxicologist. PCC calls from CAHs were common and resulted in significant differences when compared to UH calls. Future research is warranted to optimize PCC services for rural hospitals.
Quantum advantage does not survive in the presence of a corrupt source: Optimal strategies in simultaneous move games
Creators: name: Ozdemir, Sahin Kaya
name: Shimamura, Junichi
name: Imoto, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of a corrupt source on the dynamics of simultaneous move strategic games are analyzed both for classical and quantum settings. The corruption rate dependent changes in the payoffs and strategies of the players are observed. It is shown that there is a critical corruption rate at which the players lose their quantum advantage, and that the classical strategies are more robust to the corruption in the source. Moreover, it is understood that the information on the corruption rate of the source may help the players choose their optimal strategy for resolving the dilemma and increase their payoffs. The study is carried out in two different corruption scenarios for Prisoner's Dilemma, Samaritan's Dilemma, and Battle of Sexes.
La protection des données pertinentes de la FSSF sous la loupe
Creators: name: Weber-Käser, Andrea
name: Grylka, Susanne
name: Fillistorf, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Schweizerischer Hebammenverband
Year: 2018
Subjects: 342: Öffentliches Recht (CH), Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht
618: Geburtsmedizin und Hebammenarbeit

description: La Fédération suisse des sages-femmes a analysé ses procédures internes, en adaptant celles qui le nécessitaient à la future version révisée de la loi fédérale sur la protection des données. Comment l’Université des sciences appliquées de Zurich protège-t-elle les données lorsqu’elle interprète la statistique des sages-femmes indépendantes? Et comment le prestataire du logiciel MoonCare procède-t-il?
Kosovo - archotektura niepodległości
Creators: name: Powirska, Lidia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Proklamacja niepodległości przez Kosowo stała się największym, a jednocześnie najbardziej kontrowersyjnym wydarzeniem początku 2008 roku. Kwestia statusu już dawnej prowincji Serbii od blisko roku dominowała w dyskusjach prowadzonych na forum międzynarodowym. Początkowo ich punktem wyjścia była przedstawiona Radzie Bezpieczeństwa ONZ, w marcu 2007 roku Propozycja dla Rozwiązania Kwestii Statusu Kosowa, której autorem był Specjalny Wysłannik Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych ds. Przyszłego Statusu Kosowa, Martti Ahtisaari. Wobec weta Rosji plan ten nie został zaaprobowany na forum Rady Bezpieczeństwa ONZ, co uniemożliwiło jego implementację oraz przesądziło o ponownym podjęciu negocjacji w kwestii statusu prowincji. Albańsko – serbskie negocjacje przebiegały przy udziale Grupy Kontaktowej, tzw. Trojki, w której znaleźli się przedstawiciele Unii Europejskiej, Stanów Zjednoczonych oraz Rosji. Pomimo zaangażowania wielu państw trzecich, zarówno Serbowie jak i kosowscy Albańczycy prezentowali nieugięte stanowiska, wobec czego proces negocjacyjny skazany był na porażkę. Celem artykułu jest analiza okoliczności, w których doszło do deklaracji przez Kosowo niepodległości oraz perspektyw jego funkcjonowania.
Prevention and Management of CMV Infections after Liver Transplantation: Current Practice in German Transplant Centers
Creators: name: Engelmann, Cornelius
name: Sterneck, Martina
name: Weiss, Karl Heinz
name: Templin, Silke
name: Zopf, Steffen
name: Denk, Gerald
name: Eurich, Dennis
name: Pratschke, Johann
name: Weiss, Johannes
name: Braun, Felix
name: Welker, Martin-Walter
name: Zimmermann, Tim
name: Knipper, Petra
name: Nierhof, Dirk
name: Lorf, Thomas
name: Jäckel, Elmar
name: Hau, Hans-Michael
name: Tsui, Tung Yu
name: Perrakis, Aristoteles
name: Schlitt, Hans-Jürgen
name: Herzer, Kerstin
name: Tacke, Frank
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: OLT
subject: ganciclovir
subject: valganciclovir
subject: mTOR inhibitor
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity in human liver transplant recipients. Anti-CMV therapeutics can be used to prevent or treat CMV in liver transplant recipients, but their toxicity needs to be balanced against the benefits. The choice of prevention strategy (prophylaxis or preemptive treatment) depends on the donor/recipient sero-status but may vary between institutions. We conducted a series of consultations and roundtable discussions with German liver transplant center representatives. Based on 20 out of 22 centers, we herein summarize the current approaches to CMV prevention and treatment in the context of liver transplantation in Germany. In 90% of centers, transient prophylaxis with ganciclovir or valganciclovir was standard of care in high-risk (donor CMV positive, recipient CMV naive) settings, while preemptive therapy (based on CMV viremia detected during (bi) weekly PCR testing for circulating CMV-DNA) was preferred in moderate- and low-risk settings. Duration of prophylaxis or intense surveillance was 3-6 months. In the case of CMV infection, immunosuppression was adapted. In most centers, antiviral treatment was initiated based on PCR results (median threshold value of 1000 copies/mL) with or without symptoms. Therefore, German transplant centers report similar approaches to the prevention and management of CMV infection in liver transplantation.
Machen telefonische Nachgespräche die Hebammen zufriedener?
Creators: name: Grylka, Susanne
name: Aeberli, Regula
name: Meier Käppeli, Barbara
name: Pehlke-Milde, Jessica
Publisher: name: Schweizerischer Hebammenverband
Year: 2019
Subjects: Arbeitszufriedenheit
Hebammengeleitete Geburtshilfe
331: Arbeitsökonomie
618: Geburtsmedizin und Hebammenarbeit

description: Von Hebammen initiierte und selbstständig geleitete Projekte können die Berufszufriedenheit positiv beeinflussen. In einer Studie der Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften mit dem Hebammenteam am UniversitätsSpital Zürich wurde die Berufszufriedenheit vor und nach Einführung des hebammengeleiteten Projekts «Telefonischen Nachgespräche mit Wöchnerinnen» erhoben. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen keine kurzfristige Verbesserung der Berufszufriedenheit.
Piractwo morskie u wybrzeży Somalii. Przyczyny i perspektywy rozwiązania problemu.
Creators: name: Powirska, Lidia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Jak podaje Międzynarodowe Biuro Morskie z siedzibą w Londynie do końca września 2008 roku u wybrzeży Somalii oraz na wodach Zatoki Adeńskiej doszło do 63 incydentów. W samym trzecim kwartale 2008 roku somalijscy piraci uprowadzili 26 jednostek. Na dzień 30 września br. przestępcy byli w trakcie negocjacji okupów za 12 przetrzymywanych statków z ponad 259 członkami załogi. Celem artykułu jest analiza przyczyn i perspektyw rozwiązania problemu piractwa morskiego u wybrzeży Somalii.
Certifiable Robustness to Adversarial State Uncertainty in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Everett, Michael
name: Lutjens, Bjorn
name: How, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs (from noise or adversarial examples) are often enough to change network-based decisions, which was recently shown to cause an autonomous vehicle to swerve into another lane. In light of these dangers, numerous algorithms have been developed as defensive mechanisms from these adversarial inputs, some of which provide formal robustness guarantees or certificates. This work leverages research on certified adversarial robustness to develop an online certifiably robust for deep reinforcement learning algorithms. The proposed defense computes guaranteed lower bounds on state-action values during execution to identify and choose a robust action under a worst-case deviation in input space due to possible adversaries or noise. Moreover, the resulting policy comes with a certificate of solution quality, even though the true state and optimal action are unknown to the certifier due to the perturbations. The approach is demonstrated on a Deep Q-Network policy and is shown to increase robustness to noise and adversaries in pedestrian collision avoidance scenarios and a classic control task. This work extends one of our prior works with new performance guarantees, extensions to other RL algorithms, expanded results aggregated across more scenarios, an extension into scenarios with adversarial behavior, comparisons with a more computationally expensive method, and visualizations that provide intuition about the robustness algorithm.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.12908
The peak algebra and the descent algebras of types B and D
Creators: name: Aguiar, Marcelo
name: Bergeron, Nantel
name: Nyman, Kathryn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E99, 20F55, 16W30

description: We show the existence of a unital subalgebra of the symmetric group algebra linearly spanned by sums of permutations with a common peak set, which we call the peak algebra. We show that this algebra is the image of the descent algebra of type B under the map to the descent algebra of type A which forgets the signs, and also the image of the descent algebra of type D. The peak algebra contains a two sided ideal which is defined in terms of interior peaks. This object was introduced in previous work by Nyman; we find that it is the image of certain ideals of the descent algebras of types B and D introduced in previous work of N. Bergeron et al. We derive an exact sequence involving the peak ideal and the peak algebras of degrees $n$ and $n-2$. We obtain this and many other properties of the peak algebra and its peak ideal by first establishing analogous results for signed permutations and then forgetting the signs. In particular, we construct two new commutative semisimple subalgebras of the descent algebra by grouping permutations according to their number of peaks or interior peaks. We discuss the Hopf algebraic structures that exist on the direct sums of these spaces over $n\geq 0$ and explain the connection with previous work of Stembridge; we also obtain new properties of his descents-to-peaks map and construct a type B analog.
description: 45 pages
Time-dependence in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks: Theory of the Variable "Wisps" in the Crab Nebula
Creators: name: Spitkovsky, Anatoly
name: Arons, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe results from time-dependent numerical modeling of the collisionless reverse shock terminating the pulsar wind in the Crab Nebula. We treat the upstream relativistic wind as composed of ions and electron-positron plasma embedded in a toroidal magnetic field, flowing radially outward from the pulsar in a sector around the rotational equator. The relativistic cyclotron instability of the ion gyrational orbit downstream of the leading shock in the electron-positron pairs launches outward propagating magnetosonic waves. Because of the fresh supply of ions crossing the shock, this time-dependent process achieves a limit-cycle, in which the waves are launched with periodicity on the order of the ion Larmor time. Compressions in the magnetic field and pair density associated with these waves, as well as their propagation speed, semi-quantitatively reproduce the behavior of the wisp and ring features described in recent observations obtained using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. By selecting the parameters of the ion orbits to fit the spatial separation of the wisps, we predict the period of time variability of the wisps that is consistent with the data. When coupled with a mechanism for non-thermal acceleration of the pairs, the compressions in the magnetic field and plasma density associated with the optical wisp structure naturally account for the location of X-ray features in the Crab. We also discuss the origin of the high energy ions and their acceleration in the equatorial current sheet of the pulsar wind.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJ. High-resolution figures and mpeg movies available at http://astron.berkeley.edu/~anatoly/wisp/
Tomosvaryella jubata De Meyer 1995
Creators: name: Motamedinia, Behnam
name: Skevington, Jeffrey H.
name: Kelso, Scott
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Tomosvaryella
Tomosvaryella jubata

description: Tomosvaryella jubata De Meyer, 1995
Figs 21A–E, 47A, 53
 Diagnosis: This species can be recognized by the small epandrium, wider than long (Fig. 21A); both surstyli rather straight in lateral view (Fig. 21D–E); phallus with three ejaculatory ducts, one with some long spines towards surstyli in lateral view (Fig. 21D); subepandrial sclerite long, both sides with about seven setae apically (Fig. 21B); gonopods broad, equal in height (Fig. 21B); hind trochanter with a small projection (Fig. 47A).
 Specimens examined: IRAN: Khuzestan: Shush, 32°06’N, 48°26’E, 68 m a.s.l., 11.iii–10.v.2015, E. Gilasian, Malaise trap, JSS52231, JSS 52203 (1♂, ♀, CNC).
 Distribution: Israel, Iran (De Meyer, 1995) (Fig. 53).
 Note: Based on DNA barcoding, T. jubata is very similar to T. bistounensis sp. nov., differing by 1.9% (pairwise divergence) (Supplementary Table 1).
description: Published as part of Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2021, Revision of Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with description of 19 new species, pp. 1-103 in Zootaxa 5002 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5002.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122655
Unia Europejska wobec napadów pirackich i rabunkowych u wybrzeży Somalii
Creators: name: Powirska, Lidia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: W artykule analizuję ewolucję działań Unii Europejskiej w odniesieniu do zapobiegania i zwalczania napaści pirackich i rabunkowych u wybrzeży Somalii. Tekst podzielony jest na cztery części. Część pierwsza tekstu dotyczy kształtowania polityki Unii Europejskiej wobec problemu, a mianowicie ewolucji ram formalnoprawnych misji EU NAVFOR Atalanta, natomiast część druga jej zdolności operacyjnych. Kolejne części dotyczą kwestii: jurysdykcji podejrzanych o piractwo i napady rabunkowe u wybrzeży Somalii oraz operacji Atalanta jako części ram strategicznych Unii Europejskiej w Rogu Afryki. W artykule przedstawiam przede wszystkim decyzje i działania Rady Unii Europejskiej w ramach Wspólnej Polityki Bezpieczeństwa i Obrony, gdyż jest ona jej głównym organem decyzyjnym. Celem analizy jest próba oceny skuteczności oraz funkcjonowania rozwiązań zastosowanych przez Unię Europejską wobec procederów piractwa oraz rabunku zbrojnego u wybrzeży Somalii.
Slow Spin Relaxation in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems with Antidots
Creators: name: Pershin, Yuriy V.
name: Privman, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a Monte Carlo investigation of the effect of a lattice of antidots on spin relaxation in twodimensional electron systems. The spin relaxation time is calculated as a function of geometrical parameters describing the antidot lattice, namely, the antidot radius and the distance between their centers. It is shown that spin polarization relaxation can be efficiently suppressed by the chaotic spatial motion due to the antidot lattice. This phenomenon offers a new approach to spin coherence manipulation in spintronics devices.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Lense-Thirring frame dragging induced by a fast-rotating white dwarf in a binary pulsar system
Creators: name: Krishnan, V. Venkatraman
name: Bailes, M.
name: van Straten, W.
name: Wex, N.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Keane, E. F.
name: Tauris, T. M.
name: Rosado, P. A.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Flynn, C.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Osłowski, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio pulsars in short-period eccentric binary orbits can be used to study both gravitational dynamics and binary evolution. The binary system containing PSR J1141$-$6545 includes a massive white dwarf (WD) companion that formed before the gravitationally bound young radio pulsar. We observe a temporal evolution of the orbital inclination of this pulsar that we infer is caused by a combination of a Newtonian quadrupole moment and Lense-Thirring precession of the orbit resulting from rapid rotation of the WD. Lense-Thirring precession, an effect of relativistic frame-dragging, is a prediction of general relativity. This detection is consistent with the evolutionary scenario in which the WD accreted matter from the pulsar progenitor, spinning up the WD to a period $< 200$ seconds.
description: Accepted for publication in Science
DEPRECATED
Creators: name: DEPRECATED
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Entomobryidae
Pseudosinella
Pseudosinella dodecopsis
Pseudosinella dodecopsis caerulea gisin & gama, 1970

description: DEPRECATED
The Innate Immune Response to Infection Induces Erythropoietin-Dependent Replenishment of the Dendritic Cell Compartment
Creators: name: Einwächter, Henrik
name: Heiseke, Alexander
name: Schlitzer, Andreas
name: Gasteiger, Georg
name: Adler, Heiko
name: Voehringer, David
name: Manz, Markus G.
name: Ruzsics, Zsolt
name: Dölken, Lars
name: Koszinowski, Ulrich H.
name: Sparwasser, Tim
name: Reindl, Wolfgang
name: Jordan, Stefan
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: infection
subject: inflammation
subject: erythropoietin
subject: dendritic cell
subject: extramedullary hematopoiesis
subject: TER119
subject: toll-like receptor
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Dendritic cells (DC) play a key role in the adaptive immune response due to their ability to present antigens and stimulate naïve T cells. Many bacteria and viruses can efficiently target DC, resulting in impairment of their immunostimulatory function or elimination. Hence, the DC compartment requires replenishment following infection to ensure continued operational readiness of the adaptive immune system. Here, we investigated the molecular and cellular mechanisms of inflammation-induced DC generation. We found that infection with viral and bacterial pathogens as well as Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) ligation with CpG-oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG-ODN) expanded an erythropoietin (EPO)-dependent TER119+CD11a+ cell population in the spleen that had the capacity to differentiate into TER119+CD11chigh and TER119−CD11chigh cells both in vitro and in vivo. TER119+CD11chigh cells contributed to the conventional DC pool in the spleen and specifically increased in lymph nodes draining the site of local inflammation. Our results reveal a so far undescribed inflammatory EPO-dependent pathway of DC differentiation and establish a mechanistic link between innate immune recognition of potential immunosuppressive pathogens and the maintenance of the DC pool during and after infection.
Population pharmacokinetics of Pseudechis porphyriacus (red-bellied black snake) venom in snakebite patients
Creators: name: Sanhajariya, Suchaya
name: Duffull, Stephen B.
name: Isbister, Geoffrey K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Understanding the time course of venom exposure in snakebite patients is important for the optimisation of treatment including antivenom dose and timing. We aimed to investigate the pharmacokinetics of red-bellied black snake (RBBS; Pseudechis porphyriacus) venom in envenomed patients. Timed venom concentration data were obtained from patients with RBBS envenomation recruited to the Australian Snakebite Project (ASP), including demographics and antivenom treatment. Venom concentrations were measured using an enzyme immunoassay. Data were modelled using NONMEM version 7.3. Uncertainty in venom “dose” was accounted for by arbitrarily fixing the average amount to 1 mg and incorporating between-subject variability on relative bioavailability. A scale parameter for venom clearance was implemented to account for the rapid venom clearance following antivenom dosing. A sensitivity analysis was performed to determine the magnitude of venom clearance amplification. There were 457 venom concentrations in 114 patients (median age 41, 2–90 y; 80 male). Antivenom was administered to 54 patients a median of 4.2 h post-bite (0.67 to 32 h). A one-compartment model with first-order absorption and elimination provided the best description of the data. The estimated clearance and volume of distribution were 5.21 L/h and 39.9 L, respectively. The calculated elimination half-life of P. porphyriacus venom from the final pharmacokinetic model was 5.35 ± 0.36 h. The variability in the relative dose of injected venom was 140%. Antivenom administration increased venom clearance by 40-fold. Ten patients showed evidence of a double peak in the absorption profile. The information on the exposure time of venom in the body following envenomation will help improve treatment and the timing of antivenom.
Die Hebamme in der globalen Welt
Creators: name: Schläppy, Franziska
name: Ammann-Fiechter, Silvia
name: Graf Heule, Petra
Publisher: name: Schweizerischer Hebammenverband
Year: 2020
Subjects: Globalisierung
Interkulturelle Kompetenz
303: Soziale Prozesse
618: Geburtsmedizin und Hebammenarbeit

description: Die Globalisierung ist eine Realität, auch im Gesundheitswesen. Das Jahr 2020 wurde von der Weltgesundheitsorganisaion zum Internationalen Jahr der Pflegefachpersonen und Hebammen erklärt. Dieser Artikel soll aufzeigen, was Globalisierung  und Internationalisierung beinhalten und wie sie das schweizerische Gesundheitspersonal und die Hebammen direkt tangieren. Arbeiten im globalen Umfeld ist anspruchsvoll, daher werden auch einige Aspekte zur interkulturellen Kompetenz aufgezeigt.
Tomosvaryella nigronitida
Creators: name: Motamedinia, Behnam
name: Skevington, Jeffrey H.
name: Kelso, Scott
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Tomosvaryella
Tomosvaryella nigronitida

description: Tomosvaryella nigronitida (Collin, 1958)
Fig. 53
 Distribution: Croatia, Israel (De Meyer, 1995; Skevington 2020) (Fig. 53).
 Notes: This species was described based on a female, and the male sex is unknown. The female can be identified by the black halter and long piercer reaching the first abdominal sternite (De Meyer, 1995). It may be synonymous with T. cilifemorata (Földvári & De Meyer (1999).
description: Published as part of Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2021, Revision of Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with description of 19 new species, pp. 1-103 in Zootaxa 5002 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5002.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122655