cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scale Invariance and Vacuum Energy
Creators: name: Guendelman, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of mass in the context of scale-invariant, generally covariant theories, is discussed. Scale invariance is considered in the context of a gravitational theory where the action, in the first order formalism, is of the form $S = \int L_{1} Φd^4x$ + $\int L_{2}\sqrt{-g}d^4x$ where $Φ$ is a density built out of degrees of freedom independent of the metric. For global scale invariance, a "dilaton" $ϕ$ has to be introduced, with non-trivial potentials $V(ϕ)$ = $f_{1}e^{αϕ}$ in $L_1$ and $U(ϕ)$ = $f_{2}e^{2αϕ}$ in $L_2$. This leads to non-trivial mass generation and a potential for $ϕ$ which is interesting for new inflation. Scale invariant mass terms for fermions lead to a possible explanation of the present day accelerated universe and of cosmic coincidences.
description: Essay awarded an honorable mention in the 1999 Gravity Research Foundation Competition, Published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A14: 1397 (1999)
Pretherapeutic FDG-PET total metabolic tumor volume predicts response to induction therapy in pediatric Hodgkin's lymphoma
Creators: name: Rogasch, Julian M. M.
name: Hundsdoerfer, Patrick
name: Hofheinz, Frank
name: Wedel, Florian
name: Schatka, Imke
name: Amthauer, Holger
name: Furth, Christian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Pediatric Hodgkin's lymphoma
subject: Early response assessment
subject: FDG-PET
subject: Metabolic tumor volume
subject: Asphericity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Standardized treatment in pediatric patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) follows risk stratification by tumor stage, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and tumor bulk. We aimed to identify quantitative parameters from pretherapeutic FDG-PET to assist prediction of response to induction chemotherapy. Methods: Retrospective analysis in 50 children with HL (f:18; m:32; median age, 14.8 [4-18] a) consecutively treated according to EuroNet-PHL-C1 (n = 42) or -C2 treatment protocol (n = 8). Total metabolic tumor volume (MTV) in pretherapeutic FDG-PET was defined using a semi-automated, background-adapted threshold. Metabolic (SUVmax, SUVmean, SUVpeak, total lesion glycolysis [MTV*SUVmean]) and heterogeneity parameters (asphericity [ASP], entropy, contrast, local homogeneity, energy, and cumulative SUV-volume histograms) were derived. Early response assessment (ERA) was performed after 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy according to treatment protocol and verified by reference rating. Prediction of inadequate response (IR) in ERA was based on ROC analysis separated by stage I/II (1 and 26 patients) and stage III/IV disease (7 and 16 patients) or treatment group/level (TG/TL) 1 to 3. Results: IR was seen in 28/50 patients (TG/TL 1, 6/12 patients; TG/TL 2, 10/17; TG/TL 3, 12/21). Among all PET parameters, MTV best predicted IR; ASP was the best heterogeneity parameter. AUC of MTV was 0.84 (95%-confidence interval, 0.69-0.99) in stage I/II and 0.86 (0.7-1.0) in stage III/IV. In patients of TG/TL 1, AUC of MTV was 0.92 (0.74-1.0); in TG/TL 2 0.71 (0.44-0.99), and in TG/TL 3 0.85 (0.69-1.0). Patients with high vs. low MTV had IR in 86 vs. 0% in TG/TL 1, 80 vs. 29% in TG/TL 2, and 90 vs. 27% in TG/TL 3 (cut-off, > 80 ml, > 160 ml, > 410 ml). Conclusions: In this explorative study, high total MTV best predicted inadequate response to induction therapy in pediatric HL of all pretherapeutic FDG-PET parameters - in both low and high stages as well as the 3 different TG/TL.
Drell-Yan production with the CCFM-K evolution
Creators: name: Golec-Biernat, Krzysztof
name: Stebel, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the Drell-Yan dilepton production using the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions evolved with the Catani-Ciafaloni-Fiorani-Marchesini-Kwieciński (CCFM-K) equations in the single loop approximation. Such equations are obtained assuming angular ordering of emitted partons (coherence) for $x\sim 1$ and transverse momentum ordering for $x \ll 1$. This evolution scheme also contains the Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) soft gluon resummation. We make a comparison with a broad class of data on transverse momentum spectra of low mass Drell-Yan dileptons.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures
QGP Theory: Status and Perspectives
Creators: name: Bass, Steffen A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current status of Quark-Gluon-Plasma Theory is reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on QGP signatures, the interpretation of current data and what to expect from RHIC in the near future.
description: 20 pages, invited overview talk at the 4th International Conference on the Physcis and Astrophysics of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma, November 2001, Jaipur, India, to appear in Pramana
SU(3) Breaking and D0-D0bar Mixing
Creators: name: Falk, Adam F.
name: Grossman, Yuval
name: Ligeti, Zoltan
name: Petrov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main challenge in the Standard Model calculation of the mass and width difference in the D0-D0bar system is to estimate the size of SU(3) breaking effects. We prove that D meson mixing occurs in the Standard Model only at second order in SU(3) violation. We consider the possibility that phase space effects may be the dominant source of SU(3) breaking. We find that y=(Delta Gamma)/(2Gamma) of the order of one percent is natural in the Standard Model, potentially reducing the sensitivity to new physics of measurements of D meson mixing.
description: 18 pages; minor corrections, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 1 of Roles of eIF3m in the tumorigenesis of triple negative breast cancer
Creators: name: Han, Wei
name: Zhang, Cong
name: Shi, Chun-tao
name: Gao, Xiao-jiao
name: Zhou, Ming-hui
name: Shao, Qi-xiang
name: Shen, Xiao-jun
name: Wu, Cheng-jiang
name: Cao, Fang
name: Hu, Yong-wei
name: Yuan, Jian-liang
name: Ding, Hou-zhong
name: Wang, Qing-hua
name: Wang, Hao-nan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The primer design of co-expressed genes.
Renal cell carcinoma with venous extension: prediction of inferior vena cava wall invasion by MRI
Creators: name: Adams, Lisa C.
name: Ralla, Bernhard
name: Bender, Yi-Na Y.
name: Bressem, Keno
name: Hamm, Bernd
name: Busch, Jonas
name: Fuller, Florian
name: Makowski, Marcus R.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Renal cell carcinoma
subject: Inferior vena cava thrombus
subject: Magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Preoperative planning
subject: Sensitivity and specificity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are accompanied by inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombus in up to 10% of the cases, with surgical resection remaining the only curative option. In case of IVC wall invasion, the operative procedure is more challenging and may even require IVC resection. This study aims to determine the diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the assessment of wall invasion by IVC thrombus in patients with RCC, validated with intraoperative findings. Methods: Data were collected on 81 patients with RCC and IVC thrombus, who received a radical nephrectomy and vena cava thrombectomy between February 2008 and November 2017. Forty eight patients met the inclusion criteria. Sensitivity and specificity as well as the positive and negative predictive values were calculated for preoperative MRI, based on the assessments of the two readers for visual wall invasion. Furthermore, a logistic regression model was used to determine if there was an association between intraoperative wall adherence and IVC diameter. Results: Complete occlusion of the IVC lumen or vessel breach could reliably assess IVC wall invasion with a sensitivity of 92.3% (95%-CI: 0.75-0.99) and a specificity of 86.4% (95%-CI: 0.65-0.97) (Fisher-test: p-value<0.001). The positive predictive value (PPV) was 88.9% (95%-CI: 0.71-0.98) and the negative predictive value reached 90.5% (95%-CI: 0.70-0.99). There was an excellent interobserver agreement for determining IVC wall invasion with a kappa coefficient of 0.90 (95% CI: 0.79-1.00). Conclusions: The present study indicates that standard preoperative MR imaging can be used to reliably assess IVC wall invasion, evaluating morphologic features such as the complete occlusion of the IVC lumen or vessel breach. Increases in IVC diameter are associated with a higher probability of IVC wall invasion.
Exchange bias in [Co2MnGe/Au],[Co2MnGe/Cr] and [Co2MnGe/Cu2MnAl] multilayers
Creators: name: Westerholt, K.
name: Geiersbach, U.
name: Bergmann, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report structural and magnetic properties of multilayers composed of thin layers of the half metallic ferromagnetic Heusler compound Co2MnGe and layers of Au, Cr and the Heusler compound Cu2MnAl. The hysteresis loops measured at low temperatures reveal the existence of an exchange bias field HEB in all of these multilayers. For the [Co2MnGe/Au] multilayer system HEB is largest reaching up to 1 kOe at a temperature of 2 K. We characterize the exchange bias phenomenon in detail and show that it originates from a spin glass type of magnetic order for a thin interlayer at the interfaces. We discuss the results in the light of different models proposed for the explanation of the exchange bias effect.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures
How to define core entrustable professional activities for entry into residency?
Creators: name: Holzhausen, Ylva
name: Maaz, Asja
name: Renz, Anna
name: Bosch, Josefin
name: Peters, Harm
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Entrustable Professional Activities
subject: Curriculum development
subject: Undergraduate medical education
subject: Consensus methods
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Institutions considering to employ core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for entry into postgraduate training as outcomes for their undergraduate medical programs can partly build on published examples, but also have to undergo their own content validation process to take their specific context into consideration. This process involves several challenges and is not well-described in the literature. Here, we report in detail on a systematic, literature-based approach we recently utilised at our institution to define core EPAs for entry into residency. Main body: Central to the process was a modified Delphi consent procedure. It involved a multistep interaction between a writing team and a multidisciplinary panel of experienced physicians. Panel members provided both quantitative ratings and qualitative feedback on the EPA categories title, specification/limitations, conditions and implications of entrustment decision, knowledge, skills, and attitude. Consent was achieved when a Content Validity Index (CVI) of >= 80% was reached. The writing team adjusted the EPA category descriptions on the basis of panel members ' ratings and comments, and specified the EPA categories' link to competencies and assessment sources. This process produced a description and definition of a full set of core EPAs for entry into residency adapted to our context. Conclusions: This process description for locally adapted core EPAs for entry into residency may support and guide other medical schools in the development and implementation of EPAs into their programs.
Weighted Lépingle inequality
Creators: name: Zorin-Kranich, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G17 (Primary) 60G42 (Secondary)

description: We prove an estimate for weighted $p$-th moments of the pathwise $r$-variation of a martingale in terms of the $A_{p}$ characteristic of the weight. The novelty of the proof is that we avoid real interpolation techniques.
description: v2: 6 pages, added statement of the vector-valued L\'epingle inequality in Remark 3.5
NAD(P)H Oxidase Activity in the Small Intestine Is Predominantly Found in Enterocytes, Not Professional Phagocytes
Creators: name: Lindquist, Randall L.
name: Bayat-Sarmadi, Jannike
name: Leben, Ruth
name: Niesner, Raluca
name: Hauser, Anja E.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: mucosal immunology
subject: fluorescence lifetime imaging
subject: intravital imaging
subject: metabolism
subject: NADPH oxidase
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The balance between various cellular subsets of the innate and adaptive immune system and microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract is carefully regulated to maintain tolerance to the normal flora and dietary antigens, while protecting against pathogens. The intestinal epithelial cells and the network of dendritic cells and macrophages in the lamina propria are crucial lines of defense that regulate this balance. The complex relationship between the myeloid compartment (dendritic cells and macrophages) and lymphocyte compartment (T cells and innate lymphoid cells), as well as the impact of the epithelial cell layer have been studied in depth in recent years, revealing that the regulatory and effector functions of both innate and adaptive immune compartments exhibit more plasticity than had been previously appreciated. However, little is known about the metabolic activity of these cellular compartments, which is the basic function underlying all other additional tasks the cells perform. Here we perform intravital NAD(P)H fluorescence lifetime imaging in the small intestine of fluorescent reporter mice to monitor the NAD(P)H-dependent metabolism of epithelial and myeloid cells. The majority of myeloid cells which comprise the surveilling network in the lamina propria have a low metabolic activity and remain resting even upon stimulation. Only a few myeloid cells, typically localized at the tip of the villi, are metabolically active and are able to activate NADPH oxidases upon stimulation, leading to an oxidative burst. In contrast, the epithelial cells are metabolically highly active and, although not considered professional phagocytes, are also able to activate NADPH oxidases, leading to massive production of reactive oxygen species. Whereas the oxidative burst in myeloid cells is mainly catalyzed by the NOX2 isotype, in epithelial cells other isotypes of the NADPH oxidases family are involved, especially NOX4. They are constitutively expressed by the epithelial cells, but activated only on demand to ensure rapid defense against pathogens. This minimizes the potential for inadvertent damage from resting NOX activation, while maintaining the capacity to respond quickly if needed.
Does Cosmic No-Hair Conjecture in Brane Scenarios follow from General Relativity?
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
name: Debnath, Ujjal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we examine the Cosmic No-Hair Conjecture (CNHC) in brane world scenarios. For the validity of this conjecture, in addition to the strong and weak energy conditions for the matter field, a similar type of assumption is to be made on the quadratic correction term and there is a restriction on the non-local term. It is shown by examples with realistic fluid models that strong and weak energy conditions are sufficient for CNHC in brane world.
description: 4 Latex pages, No figure, Revtex style
Laticorona Cai 1994
Creators: name: Jones, Joshua R.
name: Deitz, Lewis L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Laticorona

description: Genus Laticorona Cai
 Laticorona Cai, 1994b: 205, 208.
 Type species. L. aequata Cai, 1994b: 205, 208, fig. 1, A–L, by original designation.
 Synonymy. None.
 Description. Cai (1994b): “The new genus…closely resembles to [sic] Petalocephala Stål, but differs in every element of the male genitalia, especially in the pygofer with apex bifurcated, the aedeagus with a pair [of] long processes, and the style with a long spin on apex, also by the pattern of the crown.”
 Species. [2]: aequata Cai; longa Cai.
 Range. China (Fujian: Sangang; Sichuan: Emei Mts; Zhejiang: Longquan: Fengyang Mt.).
 Host plants. Unknown.
 Material examined. None.
 Remarks. Cai stated that the type specimen of L. aequata is located at the Anhui Agricultural College (now Anhui Agricultural University). It was unavailable for this study.
 The aedeagal processes shown in Cai’s (1994b) illustrations are very unusual in that they arise from near the base of the shaft, close to the connective. They are flat, slender, and acuminate, and twist on their axis at midlength. It is not yet clear how much variation in aedeagal structure occurs within Petalocephala; among the specimens directly examined in this analysis, the subapical processes were short and flat (Pl. 16H_2), but illustrations of other described Petalocephala species shows a range of variation in subapical process expression. Those of the closely related genus Neotituria are situated medially and only somewhat flattened. Auxiliary processes were also observed rising from the base of the aedeagus in J. grisea and Platyledra caldida Evans, but those were interpreted to be different structures, the paraphyses; they are thick and medially articulated.
 The phylogenetic independence of Laticorona from Petalocephala is uncertain. The shape of its head (narrowing in front of eyes), pronotum (shallowly curving between the eyes), and especially its face (unproduced inner margins of antennal pit, long and narrow frontoclypeus without distinct lateral muscle ridges, unproduced lora/genae) are like those of the genera in the Petalocephala genus group. At present, differentiation of Laticorona from Petalocephala appears to only be possible by dissection and examination of male genitalia.
description: Published as part of Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 2186 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2186.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311592
Additional file 10 of Transcriptomic analysis of flower induction for long-day pitaya by supplementary lighting in short-day winter season
Creators: name: Xiong, Rui
name: Liu, Chengli
name: Xu, Min
name: Wei, Shuang-shuang
name: Huang, Jia-quan
name: Tang, Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 10: Supplemental S10. The DEGs of CO and FT.
The $\varepsilon-\varepsilon^β$ property in the isoperimetric problem with double density, and the regularity of isoperimetric sets
Creators: name: Pratelli, Aldo
name: Saracco, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove the validity of the $\varepsilon-\varepsilon^β$ property in the isoperimetric problem with double density, generalising the known properties for the case of single density. As a consequence, we derive regularity for isoperimetric sets.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Some pricing tools for the Variance Gamma model
Creators: name: Aguilar, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We establish several closed pricing formula for various path-independent payoffs, under an exponential Lévy model driven by the Variance Gamma process. These formulas take the form of quickly convergent series and are obtained via tools from Mellin transform theory as well as from multidimensional complex analysis. Particular focus is made on the symmetric process, but extension to the asymmetric process is also provided. Speed of convergence and comparison with numerical methods (Fourier transform, quadrature approximations, Monte Carlo simulations) are also discussed; notable feature is the accelerated convergence of the series for short term options, which constitutes an interesting improvement of numerical Fourier inversion techniques.
description: Minor typos corrected - DOI added - 38 pages
Eta Meson Production in NN Collisions
Creators: name: Nakayama, K.
name: Speth, J.
name: Lee, T. -S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eta meson production in both proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions is investigated within a relativistic meson exchange model of hadronic interactions. It is found that the available cross section data can be described equally well by either the vector or pseudoscalar meson exchange mechanism for exciting the S_{11}(1535) resonance. It is shown that the analyzing power data can potentially be very useful in distinguishing these two scenarios for the excitaion of the S_{11}(1535) resonance.
description: Revtex, 35 pages, 8 figures
Numbers for Pascal: Explaining differences in the Estimated Benefited of the Doha Developing Agenda
Creators: name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan Von
name: Sperlich
name: Hess, Sebastian
name: Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan Von
name: Sperlich
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Public Economics
subject: Trade Liberalisation
subject: Global Welfare Gain
subject: Applied Trade Model
subject: Meta-Analysis

description: Economists use partial and general equilibrium trade simulation models to estimate the impact of changes in domestic policies and international trade rules. During the WTO Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations economists have produced many different estimates of the gains that would result from global trade liberalisation scenarios. However, these estimates differ quite widely even for apparently similar liberalisation scenarios. The result is confusion about the true magnitude of the gains from trade liberalisation, and a reduction in the perceived credibility of the theories and models that economists use. We apply meta-analysis to a dataset extracted from 110 studies that present simulated assessments of global trade liberalisation scenarios under the DDA. Initial meta-regression analysis demonstrates that covariates that capture model characteristics, the nature of the data used in the modelling exercise, and the nature of the simulated liberalisation scenarios can explain roughly one-third of the variance in the dependent variable „simulated global welfare change‟. We test whether additional explanatory power can be obtained by adding information about the authors of the simulation studies. We find significant fixed effects for the top 20 authors in the field. We interpret this as evidence that leading authors in the field employ model specifications that reflect their individual preferences and beliefs about how economies function and the impact of liberalisation, specifications that are hidden in the complex interactions of simulations models and therefore difficult to capture in a meta-analysis. We use these results to generate a confidence interval for the gains that would result from trade liberalisation under the DDA.
A Class D Power Amplifier for Multi-Frequency Eddy Current Testing Based on Multi-Simultaneous-Frequency Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation
Creators: name: Tao, Yang
name: Ktistis, Christos
name: Zhao, Yifei
name: Yin, Wuliang
name: Peyton, Anthony J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficiency and multisimultaneous-frequency (MSF) output capability are two major criteria characterizing the performance of a power amplifier in the application of multifrequency eddy current testing (MECT). Switch-mode power amplifiers are known to have a very high efficiency, yet they have rarely been adopted in the instrumental development of MECT. In addition, switch-mode power amplifiers themselves are lacking in the research literature for MSF capability. In this article, a Class D power amplifier is designed so as to address the two issues. An MSF selective harmonic elimination pulsewidth modulation method is proposed to generate alternating magnetic fields, which are rich in selected harmonics. A field-programmable-gate-array-based experimental system has been developed to verify the design. Results show that the proposed methodology is capable of generating high MSF currents in the transmitting coil with a low distortion of signal.
Additional file 1 of Better pulmonary function is associated with greater handgrip strength in a healthy Chinese Han population
Creators: name: Chen, Liangmei
name: Liu, Xiaomin
name: Wang, Qian
name: Jia, Linpei
name: Song, Kangkang
name: Nie, Sasa
name: Zhang, Yinping
name: Cao, Dan
name: Zhao, Delong
name: Li, Zuoxiang
name: Dong, Zheyi
name: Zheng, Ying
name: Duan, Shuwei
name: Sun, Xuefeng
name: Feng, Zhe
name: Cai, Guangyan
name: Zhang, Weiguang
name: Chen, Xiangmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire used in this study.
Transdisciplinarity and Action Research to Address the Complex Issues of Urban Agriculture
Creators: name: Maria, Gerster-Bentaya
name: Natacha, Crozet
name: Maria, Gerster-Bentaya
name: Natacha, Crozet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Transdiciplinarity
subject: action research
subject: pilot project
subject: urban agriculture

description: The BMBF project “Urban Agriculture as integrative element of a climate-optimized urban development” was designed as a inter- transdisciplinary research project, generating target and transformation knowledge in the field of multifunctional open space systems in the context of emerging megacities and the challenges going along with this development. One component of it is the is the Pilot Project “Peri-urban tourism and agriculture” exploring on possibilities on how to conserve and further develop the recreational benefit of small scale agriculture while improving the livelihoods of the farming families linking local tourism and peri-urban agriculture, processing and direct marketing. This article tries to link selected challenges of a transdisciplinary research approach: framing the problem, dealing with a multitude of actors, defining the types of knowledge and following the principle of recursiveness to the almost six year lasting research process. It describes the methods that were used during the main two phases of the action research process and describes the various types of knowledge generated. The conclusions reflect the application of the transdisciplinary approach itself, insights gained, and some limitations that the project team experienced during the application of the methods and collaboration with the various actors.
Sabrina: Modeling and Visualization of Economy Data with Incremental Domain Knowledge
Creators: name: Arleo, Alessio
name: Tsigkanos, Christos
name: Jia, Chao
name: Leite, Roger A.
name: Murturi, Ilir
name: Klaffenboeck, Manfred
name: Dustdar, Schahram
name: Wimmer, Michael
name: Miksch, Silvia
name: Sorger, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Investment planning requires knowledge of the financial landscape on a large scale, both in terms of geo-spatial and industry sector distribution. There is plenty of data available, but it is scattered across heterogeneous sources (newspapers, open data, etc.), which makes it difficult for financial analysts to understand the big picture. In this paper, we present Sabrina, a financial data analysis and visualization approach that incorporates a pipeline for the generation of firm-to-firm financial transaction networks. The pipeline is capable of fusing the ground truth on individual firms in a region with (incremental) domain knowledge on general macroscopic aspects of the economy. Sabrina unites these heterogeneous data sources within a uniform visual interface that enables the visual analysis process. In a user study with three domain experts, we illustrate the usefulness of Sabrina, which eases their analysis process.
Latycephala McKamey 2006
Creators: name: Jones, Joshua R.
name: Deitz, Lewis L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Latycephala

description: Genus Latycephala McKamey
 Latycephala McKamey, 2005: 506 (replacement name for Platycephala Kuoh).
 Type species. Platycephala tortilla Kuoh, 1992: 251, 306, fig. 9, by original designation.
 Synonymy. Platycephala Kuoh, 1992: 250 (type species Platycephala tortilla Kuoh, 1992:0251), preoccupied (by Platycephala Fallén, 1820).
 Description. Ge (1992): “This genus most closely resembles Petalocephala Stål, but can be readily distinguished by the vertex of the head much shorter than breadth between eyes, the lateral margins of vertex arched, the anterior margin upturned and ventrally longitudinally carinate raised, by the basal area of face without a strong central ridge, the anteclypeus rectangle, especially in the pygofer, which has a process, the aedeagus with long laminate processes in pairs and in the styli with some denticles near apex.”
 Range. China (Sichuan; Yunnan).
 Species. [6]: decussata (Kuoh); graminea (Kuoh); laminata (Kuoh); sanguineomarginata (Kuoh); tortilla (Kuoh); viridula (Kuoh).
 Host plants. Unknown.
 Material examined. None.
 Remarks. The type specimen of P. tortilla may be located in either The Institute of Zoology, Academica Sinica, Beijing, or in “ Anhui Agricultural College”, Anhui, China.
 Kuoh (Ge 1992) stated that this genus is “near to” Arenoledra and Petalocephala. From Kuoh’s drawings, the key features distinguishing Latycephala seem to be the crown being shorter than the distance betwen the eyes, the presence of denticles on the styli, and the highly developed paired processes of the adeagus. This genus seems to be very similar to Arenoledra Kuoh and Midoria Kato.
 McKamey (2005), when he provided the replacement name Latycephala, appears to have omitted two species included by Ge (1992) in Platycephala as new combinations. Their corrected new combinations follow.
 Latycephala sanguineomarginata (Kuoh [Ge in Chen, 1992]), NEW COMBINATION.
 Synonymy. Petalocephala sanguineomarginata Kuoh 1985: 273, 278, new species; Platycephala sanguineomarginata (Ge, 1992: 254, 307), new combination.
 Latycephala viridula (Kuoh [Ge in Chen, 1992]), NEW COMBINATION.
 Synonymy. Petalocephala viridula Kuoh 1985: 274, 278, new species; Platycephala viridula (Ge, 1992: 254, 307), new combination.
description: Published as part of Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 2186 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2186.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311592
Multimodal Assessment of Recurrent mTBI across the Lifespan
Creators: name: Wilke, Skadi
name: Prehn, Kristin
name: Taud, Benedikt
name: List, Jonathan
name: Flöel, Agnes
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: concussion
subject: diffusion tensor imaging
subject: voxel-based morphometry
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Recurrent mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) and its neurological sequelae have been the focus of a large number of studies, indicating cognitive, structural, and functional brain alterations. However, studies often focused on single outcome measures in small cohorts of specific populations only. We conducted a multimodal evaluation of the impact of recurrent mTBI on a broad range of cognitive functions, regional brain volume, white matter integrity, and resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) in young and older adults in the chronic stage (>6 months after the last mTBI). Seventeen young participants with mTBI (age: 24.2 +/- 2.8 (mean +/- SD)) and 21 group-wise matched healthy controls (age: 25.8 +/- 5.4 (mean +/- SD)), as well as 17 older participants with mTBI (age: 62.7 +/- 7.7 (mean +/- SD)) and 16 group-wise matched healthy controls (age: 61.7 +/- 5.9 (mean +/- SD)) were evaluated. We found significant differences in the verbal fluency between young participants with mTBI and young healthy controls. Furthermore, differences in the regional volume of precuneus and medial orbitofrontal gyrus between participants with mTBI and controls for both age groups were seen. A significant age by group interaction for the right hippocampal volume was noted, indicating an accelerated hippocampal volume loss in older participants with mTBI. Other cognitive parameters, white matter integrity, and RSFC showed no significant differences. We confirmed some of the previously reported detrimental effects of recurrent mTBI, but also demonstrated inconspicuous findings for the majority of parameters.
Analyse Des Einstellungs-Verhaltens-Zusammenhangs Bei Fair Gehandelter Schokolade
Creators: name: Empen, Lena
name: Schulze, Birgit
name: Empen, Lena
name: Schulze, Birgit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Theorie des geplanten Verhaltens
subject: Fair Trade
subject: ethische Verpflichtung

description: Vor dem Hintergrund eines zunehmenden ethischen Bewusstseins seitens der Verbraucher untersucht dieser Beitrag die Einstellungs-Verhaltens-Beziehung im Kontext des sozial ver-antwortlichen Kaufverhaltens. Im Rahmen einer empirischen Untersuchung wird das Produkt Fair-Trade-Schokolade gewählt und die Theorie des geplanten Verhaltens als empirisches Ausgangsmodell zugrunde gelegt. Das Untersuchungsmodell bezieht zusätzlich die ethische Verpflichtung, das vergangene Kaufverhalten und die Glaubwürdigkeit als Determinanten der Kaufabsicht mit ein. Auch ein geschlechterspezifischer Zusammenhang wird vermutet. Dane-ben wird das Konstrukt der Einstellung gegenüber dem Verhalten hinsichtlich seiner Prä-diktoren genauer analysiert. Durch eine qualitative Vorstudie werden wichtige Informationen für die anschließende quantitative Hauptstudie gewonnen. Die Ergebnisse der Hauptbefra-gung zeigen, dass insbesondere die Einstellung zu dem Verhalten sowie die wahrgenommene Verhaltenskontrolle das ethische Konsumverhalten erklären. Darüber hinaus haben die wahr-genommene ethische Verpflichtung und das vergangenen Kaufverhaltens einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Kaufabsicht. Außerdem lassen sich signifikante Unterschiede zwischen den regelmäßigen Käufern von Fair-Trade-Schokolade und den selten/niemals Käufern aufzeigen. Praktische und theoretische Implikationen der Ergebnisse werden abschließend diskutiert.
Comparison of non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency using magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) Quantification, and 2D-shear wave elastography (2D-SWE)
Creators: name: Reiter, Rolf
name: Wetzel, Martin
name: Hamesch, Karim
name: Strnad, Pavel
name: Asbach, Patrick
name: Haas, Matthias
name: Siegmund, Britta
name: Trautwein, Christian
name: Hamm, Bernd
name: Klatt, Dieter
name: Braun, Jürgen
name: Sack, Ingolf
name: Tzschätzsch, Heiko
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
subject: disease
subject: biopsy
subject: adults
subject: sensitivity
subject: hepatitis
subject: cirrhosis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Purpose: Although it has been known for decades that patients with alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) have an increased risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, limited data exist on non-invasive imaging-based methods for assessing liver fibrosis such as magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) quantification, and no data exist on 2D-shear wave elastography (2D-SWE). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the applicability of different elastography methods for the assessment of AATD-related liver fibrosis. Methods: Fifteen clinically asymptomatic AATD patients (11 homozygous PiZZ, 4 heterozygous PiMZ) and 16 matched healthy volunteers were examined using MRE and ARFI quantification. Additionally, patients were examined with 2D-SWE. Results: A high correlation is evident for the shear wave speed (SWS) determined with different elastography methods in AATD patients: 2D-SWE/MRE, ARFI quantification/2D-SWE, and ARFI quantification/MRE (R = 0.8587, 0.7425, and 0.6914, respectively; P <= 0.0089). Four AATD patients with pathologically increased SWS were consistently identified with all three methods-MRE, ARFI quantification, and 2D-SWE. Conclusion: The high correlation and consistent identification of patients with pathologically increased SWS using MRE, ARFI quantification, and 2D-SWE suggest that elastography has the potential to become a suitable imaging tool for the assessment of AATD-related liver fibrosis. These promising results provide motivation for further investigation of non-invasive assessment of AATD-related liver fibrosis using elastography.
Midoria Kato
Creators: name: Jones, Joshua R.
name: Deitz, Lewis L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Midoria

description: Genus Midoria Kato
 Midoria Kato, 1931: 439.
 Type species. M. capitata Kato, 1931: 439, fig. 1, by original designation.
 Synonymy. None.
 Description. Kato (1931): “Closely allied to Daimachus DIST, but differs as follows: —Vertex of head at base twice as broad as long, anteriorly obtusely pointed, the lateral margins truncate, base convexly sinuate, frons about as long as broad, somewhat prominent; ocelli placed middle of vertex, nearer to each other than to eyes and just on a line drawn through the anterior margin of eyes; pronotum convex, about twice as long as vertex, slightly broadened posteriorly; scutellum triangular, at base about as broad as long; posterior tibieae somewhat widened, outer edge neither expanded nor foliaceous, outwardly strongly spinose.”
 Species. [3]: annulata Cai & Jiang; capitata Kato; hei Cai & Jiang.
 Range. Taiwan (Koshun [Kankau])
 Host plants. Oak (Quercus sp.).
 Material examined. None.
 Remarks. Kato’s remark that Midoria is closely allied to Daimachus (not available for examination) is probably misleading— Daimachus is currently placed in the Ulopinae (Oman et al. 1990). While ulopines and ledrines share many characters (reduced leg spinulation, crown sometimes produced or flattened, texture of the dorsum sometimes punctate), they are clearly distinct from one another. Kato’s characters (ocelli position, metathoracic tibia) and illustration for Midoria suggest it is a ledrine, perhaps proximate to Hangklipia or Parapetalocephala.
 The location of the type specimen for M. capitata is unknown.
description: Published as part of Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 2186 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2186.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311592
Footprints of Doppler and Aberration Effects in CMB Experiments: Statistical and Cosmological Implications
Creators: name: Yasini, Siavash
name: Pierpaoli, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the frame of the Solar System, the Doppler and aberration effects cause distortions in the form of mode couplings in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra and hence impose biases on the statistics derived by the moving observer. We explore several aspects of such biases and pay close attention to their effects on CMB polarization which previously have not been examined in detail. A potentially important bias that we introduce here is $\textit{boost variance}$---an additional term in cosmic variance, induced by the observer's motion. Although this additional term is negligible for whole-sky experiments, in partial-sky experiments it can reach $10\%$ (temperature) to $20\%$ (polarization) of the standard cosmic variance ($σ$). Furthermore, we investigate the significance of motion-induced $\textit{power}$ and $\textit{parity}$ asymmetries in TT, EE, and TE as well as potential biases induced in cosmological parameter estimation performed with whole-sky TTTEEE. Using Planck-like simulations, we find that our local motion induces $\sim1-2 \%$ hemispherical asymmetry in a wide range of angular scales in the CMB temperature and polarization power spectra; however, it does not imply any significant amount of parity asymmetry or shift in cosmological parameters. Finally, we examine the prospects of measuring the velocity of the Solar System w.r.t. the CMB with future experiments via the mode coupling induced by the Doppler and aberration effects. Using the CMB TT, EE, and TE power spectra up to $\ell=4000$, SO and CMB-S4 can make a dipole-independent measurement of our local velocity respectively at $8.5σ$ and $20σ$.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, 3 appendices, 1 python package: https://github.com/syasini/CosmoBoost
Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics from Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory
Creators: name: Ho, Pei-Ming
name: Kao, Hsien-Chung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive noncommutative multi-particle quantum mechanics from noncommutative quantum field theory in the nonrelativistic limit. Paricles of opposite charges are found to have opposite noncommutativity. As a result, there is no noncommutative correction to the hydrogen atom spectrum at the tree level. We also comment on the obstacles to take noncommutative phenomenology seriously, and propose a way to construct noncommutative SU(5) grand unified theory.
description: 14 pages, Latex, minor modification, references added
Investigating Food Self-Sufficiency Challenges in Haiti
Creators: name: Jolly, C. M.
name: Bayard, Budry
name: Nguyen, G.
name: Jolly, C. M.
name: Bayard, Budry
name: Nguyen, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Haiti
subject: food imports
subject: AIDS model
subject: food self-sufficiency
subject: equilibrium displacement model

description: Agriculture is the primary activity for about one million (1,000,000) small farm households holding an average of 1.5 hectares under various land tenure systems. In the past two decades, agricultural production growth has stagnated and food imports have escalated. Imported rice has virtually replaced domestically produced and preferred rice. Food imports represented 23% of total imports in 2007 and have steadily increased over the years, and thus widening the trade deficit. The 1994 US embargo, neglect of the agricultural sector, food aid, policies encouraging freer trade and the promotion of import consumption have been blamed for the decline in domestic cereal and food production. However, there has not been a complete economic analysis on production and import substitution, combined with competitive advantage analysis of food production and consumption, to determine where Haiti has a comparative advantage in the production of certain crops. In this paper, we use an AIDS model to determine production, consumption, substitution and the competiveness of selected Haitian food crops in the global marketplace. There are production and consumption trade-offs in the use of various policy options. While Haiti may not be technologically competitive in all agricultural products, transaction costs and consumer preference give producers a comparative advantage in the production and consumption of certain crops. Policy makers should use this information to reallocate resources to promote the production and consumption of competitive crops grown in Haiti.
Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa aggravates inflammatory responses in murine chronic colitis
Creators: name: Klitzing, Eliane Von
name: Ekmekciu, Ira
name: Kühl, Anja A.
name: Bereswill, Stefan
name: Heimesaat, Markus M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: murine chronic colitis
subject: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The World Health Organization has rated multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Ps alpha e) as serious threat to human health. We here addressed whether chronic murine gut inflammation facilitates intestinal MDR Ps alpha e colonization and whether bacterial infection subsequently worsens colonic immunopathology. Converse to wildtype counterparts, Ps alpha e colonized the intestines of IL-10(-/-) mice with chronic colitis following peroral challenge, but did not lead to changes in intestinal microbiota composition. Ps alpha e infection accelerated both macroscopic (i.e. clinical) and microscopic disease (i.e. colonic epithelial apoptosis), that were accompanied by increased intestinal pro-inflammatory immune responses as indicated by elevated colonic numbers of innate and adaptive immune cell subsets and enhanced secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF and IFN-gamma in mesenteric lymph nodes of Ps alpha e-infected as compared to unchallenged IL-10(-/-) mice. Remarkably, Ps alpha e-induced pro-inflammatory immune responses were not restricted to the gut, but could also be observed systemically as indicated by increased TNF and IFN-gamma concentrations in sera upon Ps alpha e-infection. Furthermore, viable commensals originating from the intestinal microbiota translocated to extra-intestinal compartments such as liver, kidney and spleen of Ps alpha e-infected IL-10(-/-) mice with chronic colitis only. Hence, peroral MDR Ps alpha e-infection results in exacerbated colonic as well as systemic pro-inflammatory immune responses during chronic murine colitis.