cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mobile phones and social structures: an exploration of a closed user group in rural Ghana
Creators: name: Kaonga, Nadi
name: Labrique, Alain
name: Mechael, Patricia
name: Akosah, Eric
name: Ohemeng-Dapaah, Seth
name: Baah, Joseph
name: Kodie, Richmond
name: Kanter, Andrew S.
name: Levine, Orin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Millennium Villages (Project)
Social structure
Cell phones--Social aspects
Communication of technical information

description: Background: In the Millennium Villages Project site of Bonsaaso, Ghana, the Health Team is using a mobile phone closed user group to place calls amongst one another at no cost. Methods: In order to determine the utilization and acceptability of the closed user group amongst users, social network analysis and qualitative methods were used. Key informants were identified and interviewed. The key informants also kept prospective call journals. Billing statements and de-identified call data from the closed user group were used to generate data for analyzing the social structure revealed by the network traffic. Results: The majority of communication within the closed user group was personal and not for professional purposes. The members of the CUG felt that the group improved their efficiency at work. Conclusions: The methods used present an interesting way to investigate the social structure surrounding communication via mobile phones. In addition, the benefits identified from the exploration of this closed user group make a case for supporting mobile phone closed user groups amongst professional groups.
Figure S1: Autocorrelation coefficient for example neurons used for selection of window size for spike rate estimation from Neurons in primate prefrontal cortex signal valuable social information during natural viewing
Creators: name: Adams, Geoffrey K.
name: Ong, Wei Song
name: Pearson, John M.
name: Watson, Karli K.
name: Platt, Michael L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Information about social partners is innately valuable to primates. Decisions about which sources of information to consume are highly naturalistic but also complex and place unusually strong demands on the brain's decision network. In particular, both the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) play key roles in decision making and social behaviour, suggesting a likely role in social information-seeking as well. To test this idea, we developed a ‘channel surfing' task in which monkeys were shown a series of 5 s video clips of conspecifics engaged in natural behaviours at a field site. Videos were annotated frame-by-frame using an ethogram of species-typical behaviours, an important source of social information. Between each clip, monkeys were presented with a choice between targets that determined which clip would be seen next. Monkeys' gaze during playback indicated differential engagement depending on what behaviours were presented. Neurons in both OFC and LPFC responded to choice targets and to video, and discriminated a subset of the behaviours in the ethogram during video viewing. These findings suggest that both OFC and LPFC are engaged in processing social information that is used to guide dynamic information-seeking decisions.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates’.
Maximum-parsimony haplotype frequencies inference based on a joint constrained sparse representation of pooled DNA
Creators: name: Jajamovich, Guido H.
name: Iliadis, Alexandros
name: Anastassiou, Dimitris
name: Wang, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biometry
subject: DNA--Data processing
subject: Genetics—Research
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology

description: Background: DNA pooling constitutes a cost effective alternative in genome wide association studies. In DNA pooling, equimolar amounts of DNA from different individuals are mixed into one sample and the frequency of each allele in each position is observed in a single genotype experiment. The identification of haplotype frequencies from pooled data in addition to single locus analysis is of separate interest within these studies as haplotypes could increase statistical power and provide additional insight. Results: We developed a method for maximum-parsimony haplotype frequency estimation from pooled DNA data based on the sparse representation of the DNA pools in a dictionary of haplotypes. Extensions to scenarios where data is noisy or even missing are also presented. The resulting method is first applied to simulated data based on the haplotypes and their associated frequencies of the AGT gene. We further evaluate our methodology on datasets consisting of SNPs from the first 7Mb of the HapMap CEU population. Noise and missing data were further introduced in the datasets in order to test the extensions of the proposed method. Both HIPPO and HAPLOPOOL were also applied to these datasets to compare performances. Conclusions: We evaluate our methodology on scenarios where pooling is more efficient relative to individual genotyping; that is, in datasets that contain pools with a small number of individuals. We show that in such scenarios our methodology outperforms state-of-the-art methods such as HIPPO and HAPLOPOOL.
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Borcke, Friedrich Heinrich Christian von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1782

description: von Heinrich von Borcke
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Bl. 191: Johann Bernoulli: Note sur la confection des Hygromètres de Manheim de l'invention de Mr. Rezius (Hd. von J.C. Schneider)
Procyon Storr 1780
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Procyonidae
Procyon

description: Procyon Storr, 1780. Prodr. Meth. Mamm., p. 35. COMMENT: Revised by Goldman, 1950, N. Am. Fauna, 60:1 -153. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412003007000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 254, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Goldman, E. A. 1950. Raccoons of North and Middle America. North American Fauna, 60: 1 - 153."]}
A minimal stable vertical planar end in H^2 x R has finite total curvature
Creators: name: Earp, Ricardo Sa
name: Toubiana, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10, 53C42, 49Q05

description: We prove that a minimal oriented stable annular end in H^2 x R whose asymptotic boundary is contained in two vertical lines has finite total curvature and converges to a vertical plane. Furthermore, if the end is embedded then it is a horizontal graph.
description: 15 pages
title: Beweis daß das Walzen eine Hauptquelle der Schwäche des Körpers und des Geistes unserer Generation sey; 1799
title: Deutschlands Söhnen und Töchtern angelegentlich empfohlen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wolf, Salomon Jakob
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: In Fraktur
Mechanism of tau transfer: insights from cell culture and animal models
Creators: name: Wu, Jessica W.
name: Dickstein, Dara
name: Duff, Karen E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Transgenic animals
subject: Neurons
subject: Tubulins
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pathology
subject: Cytology

description: Objective: Tau inclusions composed of tau fibrils are one of the key hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies. Studies from transgenic animal models and human AD pathological cases suggest that tau inclusions spread from the transentorhinal cortex to mono and transynaptically connected regions of the hippocampus and neocortical regions. This study examines cell-to-cell propagation of pathological tau in cell culture and in vivo animal models.
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Borcke, Friedrich Heinrich Christian von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1783

description: von Heinrich von Borcke
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Druck: Joh. Heinrich Lamberts deutscher gelehrter Briefwechsel / herausg. von Joh. Bernoulli, 5,I,1785,VIf.
Τα ΤΠΕ στην Δημόσια Διοίκηση : Ο ρόλος τους στην αντιμετώπιση των προβλημάτων κοινωνικής συνοχής και της οικονομικής κρίσης
Creators: name: Μανδράκου, Χριστίνα Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Τεχνολογίες Πληροφορικής και Επικοινωνίας (ΤΠΕ)
Δημόσια Διοίκηση
Οικονομική Κρίση
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Public Administration
Economic Crisis

description: Ο όρος κοινωνική συνοχή επαναχρησιμοποιείται από διεθνείς οργανισμούς για να περιγράψει την αντίδραση και την αντίσταση της κοινωνίας στα προγράμματα λιτότητας. Αρχικά, παρουσιάζονται διαφορετικές προσεγγίσεις της έννοιας της κοινωνικής συνοχής και στη συνέχεια γίνεται μια σύντομη περιγραφή των οικονομικών συνθηκών διαβίωσης, της απασχόλησης και των ανισοτήτων που δημιούργησε η λιτότητα στην Ελλάδα, οι οποίες έχουν επηρεάσει τη διαμόρφωση και την αναπαραγωγή της ελληνικής κοινωνίας από το 2009 και μετά. Λαμβάνοντας υπόψη ότι η κρίση δεν είναι μόνο οικονομική αλλά και πολιτική και αξιακή κρίση, γίνεται αναφορά σε στάσεις, αντιλήψεις και συμπεριφορές που διατηρούνται παρά την αναδιοργάνωση της κοινωνικής διαστρωμάτωσης και βρίσκονται σε φάση ραγδαίων αλλαγών. Στη κοινωνική συνοχή σημαντικός παράγοντας αποτέλεσε η τεχνολογική εξέλιξη στη δημόσια διοίκηση και η υιοθέτηση της κοινωνίας των πληροφορίων. Όλα τα παραπάνω αποτελούν σημαντικά σημεία που εστιάζουμε στην παρούσα πτυχιακή εργασία.
description: The term social cohesion is reused by international organizations to describe society's reaction and resistance to austerity programs. Initially, different approaches to the concept of social cohesion are presented and then a brief description is made of the economic living conditions, employment and inequalities created by austerity in Greece, which have influenced the formation and reproduction of Greek society since 2009. Taking into account that the crisis is not only an economic but also a political and value crisis, reference is made to attitudes, perceptions and behaviors that are maintained despite the reorganization of social stratification and are in a phase of rapid change. Technological developments in public administration and the adoption of the information society have been an important factor in social cohesion. All the above are important points that we focus on in this dissertation.
OGA: an ontological tool of human phenotypes with genetic associations
Creators: name: Herrera-Galeano, Jesus
name: Hirschberg, David L.
name: Mokashi, Vishwesh
name: Solka, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Phenotype
subject: Gene mapping
subject: Genomes
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Ontology--Methodology
subject: Genomes--Data processing
subject: Genetics--Data processing
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: The availability of genetic data has increased dramatically in recent years. The greatest value of this data is its potential for personalized medicine. Many new associations are reported every day from Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). However, robust, reproducible associations are elusive for some complex diseases. Ontologies present a potential way to distinguish between spurious associations and those with a potential influence on the phenotype. Such an approach would be based on finding associations of the same genetic variant with closely related, but distinct, phenotypes. This approach can be accomplished with a phenotype ontology that also holds genetic association data. Results: Here, we report a structured knowledge application to navigate and to facilitate the discovery of relationships between different phenotypes and their genetic associations. Conclusions: OGA allows users to (1) find the intersecting set of genes for phenotypes of interest, (2) find empirical p values for such observations and (3) OGA outperforms similar applications in number of total concepts and genes mapped.
Gauss-Bonnet Braneworld Cosmology with Modified Induced Gravity on the Brane
Creators: name: Nozari, Kourosh
name: Kiani, Faeze
name: Rashidi, Narges
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the background cosmology for an extension of the DGP gravity with Gauss-Bonnet term in the bulk and $f(R)$ gravity on the brane. We investigate implications of this setup on the late-time cosmic history. Within a dynamical system approach, we study cosmological dynamics of this setup focusing on the role played by curvature effects. Finally we constraint the parameters of the model by confrontation with recent observational data.
description: 22 pages, Accepted for publication in Adv. High Energy Phys
Probe brane dynamics on cosmological brane backgrounds
Creators: name: Uzawa, Kunihito
name: Yoshida, Kentaroh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the dynamics of a single probe brane on various cosmological brane backgrounds. The on-shell condition of the static probe brane leads to the supersymmetric intersection rules for static BPS configurations, though the cosmological backgrounds do not preserve any supersymmetries. This is a remarkable feature associated with the cosmological backgrounds because in the static background the on-shell condition of the static brane gives no constraint on the brane configuration. Furthermore, it follows that under this condition there is no velocity-independent force for the probe brane even on the cosmological backgrounds.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX, typos corrected, Journal version
Phase transitions and anomalous normal state in superconductors with broken time reversal symmetry
Creators: name: Bojesen, Troels Arnfred
name: Babaev, Egor
name: Sudbø, Asle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Monte Carlo simulations, we explore the phase diagram and the phase transitions in $\groupUZ$ $n$-band superconductors with spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry (also termed $s+is$ superconductors), focusing on the three-band case. In the limit of infinite penetration length, the system under consideration can, for a certain parameter regime, have a single first order phase transition from a $\groupUZ$ broken state to a normal state due to a nontrivial interplay between $\groupU$ vortices and $\groupZ$ domain walls. This regime may also apply to multicomponent superfluids. For other parameters, when the free energy of the domain walls is low, the system undergoes a restoration of broken $\groupZ$ time reversal symmetry at temperatures lower than the temperature of the superconducting phase transition.{We show that inclusion of fluctuations can strongly suppress the temperature of the $\groupZ$-transition when frustration is weak. The main result of our paper is that} for relatively short magnetic field penetration lengths, the system has a superconducting phase transition at a temperature lower than the temperature of the restoration of the broken $\groupZ$ symmetry. Thus, there appears a new phase which is $\groupU$-symmetric, but breaks $\groupZ$ time reversal symmetry, an anomalous dissipative (metallic) state.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Physical Review B
Early results of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health program, Northern Nigeria, 2009 to 2011
Creators: name: Findley, Sally E.
name: Uwemedimo, Omolara
name: Doctor, Henry V.
name: Green, Cathy
name: Adamu, Fatima
name: Afenyadu, Godwin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Infant health services
Child health services
Children--Mortality
Infants--Care
Community health services
Maternal health services
Public health
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Health services administration
Medical care
Medicine

description: Background: This paper describes early results of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) program in Northern Nigeria where child mortality rates are two to three times higher than in the southern states. The intervention model integrated critical health systems changes needed to reinvigorate MNCH health services, together with community-based activities aimed at mobilizing and enabling women to make changes in their MNCH practices. Control Local Government Areas received less-intense statewide policy changes. Methods: The impact of the intervention was assessed using a quasi-experimental design, comparing MNCH behaviors and outcomes in the intervention and control areas, before and after implementation of the systems and community activities. Stratified random household surveys were conducted at baseline in 2009 (n = 2,129) and in 2011 at follow-up (n = 2310), with women with births in the five years prior to household surveys. Chi-square and t-tests were used to document presence of significant improvements in several MNCH outcomes. Results: Between baseline and follow-up, anti-tetanus vaccination rates increased from 69.0% to 85.0%, and early breastfeeding also increased, from 42.9% to 57.5%. More newborns were checked by trained health workers (39.2% to 75.5%), and women were performing more of the critical newborn care activities at follow-up. Fewer women relied on the traditional birth attendant for health advice (48.4% to 11.0%, with corresponding increases in advice from trained health workers. At follow-up, most of these improvements were greater in the intervention than control communities. In the intervention communities, there was less use of anti-malarials for all symptoms, coupled with more use of other medications and traditional, herbal remedies. Infant and child mortality declined in both intervention and control communities, with the greatest declines in intervention communities. In the intervention communities, infant mortality rate declined from 90 at baseline to 59 at follow-up, while child mortality declined from 160 to 84. Conclusions: These results provide evidence that in the context of ongoing improvements to the primary health care system, the participatory and community-based interventions focusing on improved newborn and infant care were effective at changing infant care practices and outcomes in the intervention communities.
РОДОВОЙ ТРАВМАТИЗМ: СОВРЕМЕННЫЙ ВЗГЛЯД НА ПРОБЛЕМУ
Creators: name: Хусенова, Шоира
name: Худайбердиева, Мадина
name: Аскарова, З.З.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Родовая травма представляет собой совокупность патологических состояний, возникающих под воздействием механических факторов во время родового процесса. Данный вид травматизма является междисциплинарной проблемой, охватывающей такие области медицины, как акушерство, педиатрия, детская неврология и смежные науки.
Clinical characteristics of patients with spinocerebellar ataxias 1, 2, 3 and 6 in the US; a prospective observational study
Creators: name: Ashizawa, Tetsuo
name: Figueroa, Karla
name: Perlman, Susan
name: Gomez, Christopher
name: Wilmot, George
name: Schmahmann, Jeremy
name: Ying, Sarah
name: Zesiewicz, Theresa
name: Paulson, Henry
name: Shakkottai, Vikram
name: Bushara, Khalaf
name: Kuo, Sheng-Han
name: Geschwind, Michael
name: Xia, Guangbin
name: Mazzoni, Pietro
name: Krischer, Jeffrey
name: Cuthbertson, David
name: Holbert, Amy
name: Ferguson, John
name: Pulst, Stefan
name: Subramony, SH
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cerebellar ataxia
Therapeutics
Clinical trials
Clinical trials--Design
Cerebellum--Diseases
Rare diseases--Research
Friedreich's ataxia
Medicine

description: Background: All spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are rare diseases. SCA1, 2, 3 and 6 are the four most common SCAs, all caused by expanded polyglutamine-coding CAG repeats. Their pathomechanisms are becoming increasingly clear and well-designed clinical trials will be needed. Methods: To characterize the clinical manifestations of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) 1, 2, 3 and 6 and their natural histories in the United States (US), we conducted a prospective multicenter study utilized a protocol identical to the European consortium study, using the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) score as the primary outcome, with follow-ups every 6 months up to 2 years. Results: We enrolled 345 patients (60 SCA1, 75 SCA2, 138 SCA3 and 72 SCA6) at 12 US centers. SCA6 patients had a significantly later onset, and SCA2 patients showed greater upper-body ataxia than patients with the remaining SCAs. The annual increase of SARA score was greater in SCA1 patients (mean ± SE: 1.61 ± 0.41) than in SCA2 (0.71 ± 0.31), SCA3 (0.65 ± 0.24) and SCA6 (0.87 ± 0.28) patients (p = 0.049). The functional stage also worsened faster in SCA1 than in SCA2, 3 and 6 (p = 0.002). Conclusions: The proportions of different SCA patients in US differ from those in the European consortium study, but as in the European patients, SCA1 progress faster than those with SCA2, 3 and 6. Later onset in SCA6 and greater upper body ataxia in SCA2 were noted. We conclude that progression rates of these SCAs were comparable between US and Europe cohorts, suggesting the feasibility of international collaborative clinical studies.
Inhabiting Body-territories in the Datafied City: a Zine about embodiment
Creators: name: Cavalcanti de Alcântara, Rafaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: body-territories
datafied
urban space
feminist perspectives
Latin America
urbanism
territoriality
data colonialism

description: "This is a fanzine. A fanzine, or zine, is a self-published material inspired by the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) idea. I have produced this fanzine to disseminate what I learned and found from my two-month research stay at Instituto Mora, located in Mexico City, thanks to the support of the PRODIGEES project. 

I was in Mexico from July to September 2024 to exchange with researchers, social movements, and activists so that I could elaborate further on the concept of body-territory as a tool to understand how data-driven urbanism enacts different bodies in the cities.

Inspired by workshops I attended during my research stay, I make this fanzine a digital collage of notes, references, ideas, insights, and, why not, affections and memories. Those pieces put together a collective learning process around the topics I was dedicated to. 

This is a summary of reflections on the possibilities brought by the increasing datafication of cities. In this sense, this work claims that departing from the body as the first scale of territoriality is an essential starting point for thinking about urban data.

As a Latin American researcher in diaspora, I hope this humble work also crosses borders and boundaries, breaking walls to foster a dialogue about other ways of living in the big data era."
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Borcke, Friedrich Heinrich Christian von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1782

description: von Heinrich von Borcke
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Druck: Johann Bernoulli’s Sammlung kurzer Reisebeschreibungen und anderer zur Erweiterung der Länder- und Menschenkenntniss dienender Nachrichten, 10.1783, S.255-332
description: Bl. 164: PS von [Joh. Aug. Ephr.] Goeze an Borcke [Quedlinburg, Okt. 82] (1 Bl.) (Mscr. v. G': kl. Reise ins Thüringische, steht: L Ia 693 f. 378-411)
Proton Decay and the Origin of Quark and Lepton Mixing
Creators: name: Barr, Stephen M.
name: Chen, Heng-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently proposed that all flavor mixing has a single source, namely the mixing of the three quark and lepton families with "extra" vectorlike fermions in 5 + 5-bar multiplets of SU(5). This was shown to lead to several testable predictions including neutrino masses and CP-violating phases. Here it is shown that the mixing angles within grand unified fermion multiplets are also predicted. Proton decay branching ratios would thus give several independent tests of the model. Certain model parameters could be determined independently from the quark and lepton spectrum and from proton decay.
description: 13 pages
ОЖИВЛЕНИЕ ВЕЛИКОЙ СТОЛИЦЫ
Creators: name: Озодбекова, Г.А.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В статье описан о раскопках Мингтепы, исторические факты и гипотезы, мнения и взгляды молодежь на раскопанную великую столицу. Двухтысячелетняя крепость не потеряло свое величие даже тогда когда ему грозила и природные и человеческие опасности. Посетив это место вы сможете составить себе полную картину обороны древних Центрально-Азиатских городов – здесь остались руины шестиметровых стен и башен с бойницами. Сам же город состоял из трёх частей: внешний, внутренний и цитадель.
title: Tutela e valorizzazione dell’agrobiodiversità vegetale e animale in Toscana: analisi e indicazioni di policy
Creators: name: Belletti, Giovanni
name: Conte, Giuseppe
name: Marescotti, Andrea
name: Mele, Marcello
name: Scaramuzzi, Silvia
name: Serra, Andrea
Publisher: name: Università di Pisa
Year: 2019

description: La Toscana è una Regione all’avanguardia nel campo della tutela dell’agrobiodiversità, essendosi dotata, a partire dal 1997, di un sistema di tutela delle risorse genetiche autoctone di interesse agrario, zootecnico e forestale rappresentato dall’attuale sistema della L.R. 64/04. Con l’attuazione del sistema nazionale della L. 194/2015, è parso utile verificare quale fosse lo stato delle conoscenze nell’ambito della tutela dell’agrobiodiversità regionale e quali gli aspetti di policy da individuare per la conservazione e la valorizzazione delle risorse genetiche autoctone.  In questo contesto si sviluppa lo studio affidato dalla Regione Toscana al PIN Polo Universitario di Prato (sulle risorse genetiche vegetali) e al Centro di Ricerche Agro-ambientali “E. Avanzi” dell’Università di Pisa (sulle risorse genetiche animali). I risultati dello studio hanno consentito di ricostruire il quadro di riferimento su base documentale, dello stato di attuazione della LR 64/04 e della letteratura scientifica attuale sul tema della tutela e valorizzazione delle risorse genetiche vegetali e animali a rischio di estinzione. Inoltre lo studio riporta una prima analisi comparata degli effetti della normativa regionale e nazionale, a partire da tre casi di studio per le risorse genetiche vegetali (Ciliegie di Lari, Mais Formenton Ottofile della Garfagnana e della Media valle del Serchio, Cipolla Rossa della Valtiberina) e tre per le risorse genetiche animali (Mucca Pisana, pecora Garfagnina bianca e pecora Massese).
inhabiting body-territories in the datafied city: a Zine about embodiment
Creators: name: Cavalcanti de Alcântara, Rafaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: body-territories
datafied
urban space
feminist perspectives
Latin America
urbanism
territoriality
data colonialism

description: This is a fanzine created by Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alcântara from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Technology Assessment (OEAW-ITA), Austria based on the research results found during her stay at Instituto Mora, Mexico. It summarizes reflections on the possibilities brought by the increasing datafication of cities. In thissense, this work claims that departing from the body as the first scale of territoriality is an essential starting point for thinking about urban data.
description: Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE, Grant Agreement #873119
Improved Family of Estimators of Population Mean in Simple Random Sampling
Creators: name: Singh, Rajesh
name: Kumar, Mukesh
name: Chaudhary, Manoj K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a procedure is given for estimating the population mean in simple random sampling without replacement in the presence of auxiliary information. The mean squared error expressions of the proposed estimators have been derived under large sample approximation. We have compared the performances of the proposed estimators with several existing estimators. Both theoretical and empirical findings are encouraging and support the soundness of the proposed procedure for mean estimation.
description: 16 pages, 2 tables
Procyon cancrivorus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Procyonidae
Procyon
Procyon cancrivorus

description: Procyon cancrivorus (F. Cuvier, 1798). Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim., p. 113. TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne. DISTRIBUTION: E. Costa Rica, Panama, and South America to N. E. Argentina. COMMENT: Includes aequatorialis, nigripes, and proteus; see Cabrera, 1958:243-244, and Hall, 1981: 974. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412003007001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 254, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
description: {"references": ["Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.", "Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90."]}
Energy spectrum of bottom- and charmed-flavored mesons from polarized top quark decay $t(\uparrow)\rightarrow W^+ + B/D+X$ at ${\cal O}(α_s)$
Creators: name: Nejad, S. Mohammad Moosavi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the decay of a polarized top quark into a stable $W^+$ boson and charmed-flavored (D) or bottom-flavored (B) hadrons, via $t(\uparrow)\rightarrow W^++D/B+X$. We study the angular distribution of the scaled-energy of B/D-hadrons at next-to-leading order (NLO) considering the contribution of bottom and gluon fragmentations into the heavy mesons B and D. To obtain the energy spectrum of B/D-hadrons we present our analytical expressions for the parton-level differential decay widths of $t(\uparrow)\rightarrow b+W^+(+g)$ at NLO. Comparison of our predictions with data at the LHC enable us to test the universality and scaling violations of the B- and D-hadron fragmentation functions (FFs). These can also be used to determine the polarization states of top quarks and since the energy distributions depend on the ratio $m_W /m_t$ we advocate the use of such angular decay measurements for the determination of the top quark's mass.
Evolving functional network properties and synchronizability during human epileptic seizures
Creators: name: Schindler, Kaspar A.
name: Bialonski, Stephan
name: Horstmann, Marie-Therese
name: Elger, Christian E.
name: Lehnertz, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assess electrical brain dynamics before, during, and after one-hundred human epileptic seizures with different anatomical onset locations by statistical and spectral properties of functionally defined networks. We observe a concave-like temporal evolution of characteristic path length and cluster coefficient indicative of a movement from a more random toward a more regular and then back toward a more random functional topology. Surprisingly, synchronizability was significantly decreased during the seizure state but increased already prior to seizure end. Our findings underline the high relevance of studying complex systems from the view point of complex networks, which may help to gain deeper insights into the complicated dynamics underlying epileptic seizures.
The baboon (Papio anubis) extracranial carotid artery: An anatomical guide for endovascular experimentation
Creators: name: Mocco, J.
name: Hoh, Daniel
name: Nair, M. Nathan
name: Choudhri, Tanvir
name: Mack, William
name: Laufer, Ilya
name: Connolly Jr., E. Sander
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Baboons as laboratory animals
subject: Carotid artery
subject: Brain--Diseases--Research
subject: Arteries--Anatomy
subject: Baboons--Anatomy
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: As novel endovascular strategies are developed for treating neurological disease, there is an increasing need to evaluate these techniques in relevant preclinical models. The use of non-human primates is especially critical given their structural and physiological homology with humans. In order to conduct primate endovascular studies, a comprehensive understanding of the carotid anatomy is necessary. We therefore performed a detailed examination of the vessel lengths, lumen diameters and angles of origin of the baboon extracranial carotid system. Methods: We characterized the extracranial carotid system often male baboons (Papio anubis, range 15.1–28.4 kg) by early post-mortem dissection. Photographic documentation of vessel lengths, lumen diameters, and angles of origin were measured for each segment of the carotid bilaterally. Results: The common carotid arteries averaged 94.7 ± 1.7 mm (left) and 87.1 ± 1.6 mm (right) in length. The average minimal common carotid lumen diameters were 3.0 ± 0.3 mm (left) and 2.9 ± 0.2 mm (right). Each animal had a common brachiocephalic artery arising from the aorta which bifurcated into the left common carotid artery and right braciocephalic artery after 21.5 ± 1.6 mm. The vascular anatomy was found to be consistent among animals despite a wide range of animal weights. Conclusions: The consistency in the Papio anubis extracranial carotid system may promote the use of this species in the preclinical investigation of neuro-interventional therapies.
Supplementary Materials: Figures S1-S13 and Tables S1-S8 from The adaptive value of probability distortion and risk-seeking in macaques’ decision-making
Creators: name: A. Nioche
name: N.P. Rougier
name: M. Deffains
name: Bourgeois-Gironde, S.
name: Ballesta, S.
name: Boraud, T.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Computational Biology

description: In humans, the attitude toward risk is not neutral and is dissimilar between bets involving gains and bets involving losses. The existence and prevalence of these decision features in non-human primates are unclear. In addition, only a few studies have tried to simulate the evolution of agents based on their attitude toward risk. Therefore, we still ignore to which extent Prospect theory’s claims are evolutionary rooted. To shed light on this issue, we collected data in nine macaques that performed bets involving gains or losses. We confirmed that their overall behaviour is coherent with Prospect theory’s claims. In parallel, we used a genetic algorithm to simulate the evolution of a population of agents across several generations. We showed that the algorithm selects progressively agents that exhibit risk-seeking and an inverted S-shape distorted perception of probability. We compared these two results and found that monkeys’ attitude toward risk when facing losses only is congruent with the simulation. This result is consistent with the idea that gambling in the loss domain is analogous to deciding in a context of life-threatening challenges where a certain level of risk-seeking behaviours and probability distortions may be adaptive.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates’.
Distribution of Entropy of Bardeen Regular Black Hole with Corrected State Density
Creators: name: Huang, Hai
name: Chen, Juhua
name: Wang, Yongjiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider corrections to all orders in the Planck length on the quantum state density, and calculate the statistical entropy of the scalar field on the background of the Bardeen regular black hole numerically. We obtain the distribution of entropy which is inside the horizon of black hole and the contribution of the vicinity of horizon takes a great part of the whole entropy.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. Int. J. Theor. Phys. 2013
title: Clean-up of past waste disposal sites and abandoned work sites in Antarctic (UPDATED)
Creators: name: McIvor, Ewan
Publisher: name: Antarctic Environments Portal
Year: 2019

description: Historical operational practices have left waste disposal and abandoned work sites in many locations in Antarctica. Many countries have undertaken clean-up activities in order to minimise ongoing environmental impacts at these sites, but many sites remain that require attention. The environmental impacts at these sites are expected to increase over time, as structures and containers continue to degrade. The practical difficulties and escalating costs of clean-up increase the urgency of undertaking remediation actions in a timely manner. The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (the Protocol) includes requirements that aim to prevent the creation of further contaminated sites. It also requires that existing sites be cleaned up, provided that doing so does not result in greater adverse environmental impact. The Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) is continuing to to develop a Clean-Up Manual intended to comprise a central repository of best-practice guidance for these efforts. Much work remains to develop agreed environmental quality targets, remediation / clean-up technologies, and monitoring and evaluation customised to the Antarctic and individual sites.
description: Abandoned facility
Clean-up
Contaminated site
Environmental damage
Environmental repair and remediation
Spill
Waste disposal
Waste management
Vitamin D intake in mid-pregnancy and child allergic disease – a prospective study in 44,825 Danish mother-child pairs
Creators: name: Maslova, Ekaterina
name: Hansen, Susanne
name: Jensen, Camilla
name: Thorne-Lyman, Andrew
name: Strøm, Marin
name: Olsen, Sjurdur
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Asthma in children
Pregnancy--Nutritional aspects
Asthma--Etiology
Mother and child
Vitamin D in human nutrition
Hay fever in children
Vitamin D
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Medicine

description: Background: Past studies suggest that maternal vitamin D intake during pregnancy may protect against child wheeze but studies on asthma are limited. Our objective was to examine the relation between intake of vitamin D in mid-pregnancy and child asthma and allergic rhinitis at 18 months and 7 years. Methods: We examined data from 44,825 women enrolled during pregnancy in the longitudinal Danish National Birth Cohort (1996–2002). We estimated vitamin D intake from diet and supplements based on information from a validated food frequency questionnaire completed in gestational week 25. At 18 months, we evaluated child asthma using data from phone interviews. We assessed asthma and allergic rhinitis by self-report at age 7 and asthma by using records from national registries. Current asthma at age 7 was defined as lifetime asthma diagnosis and wheeze in the past 12 months. We calculated multivariable risk ratios with 95% CIs comparing highest vs. lowest quintile of vitamin D intake in relation to child allergic disease outcomes. Results: The median (5%-95%ile) intake of total vitamin D was 11.7(3.0-19.4) μg/day (68% from supplements). In multivariable analysis, mothers in the highest (vs. lowest) quintile of total vitamin D intake were less likely to have children classified with current asthma at 7 years (Q5 vs. Q1: 0.74, 95% CI: 0.56, 0.96, P = 0.02) and they were less likely to have children admitted to the hospital due to asthma (Q5 vs. Q1: 0.80, 95% CI: 0.64, 1.00, P = 0.05). We found no associations with child asthma at 18 months or with allergic rhinitis at 7 years. Conclusions: Our findings suggest a weak inverse relationship between high total vitamin D and asthma outcomes in later, but not early, childhood. The data did not suggest a clear threshold of vitamin D intake above which risk of asthma was reduced.
title: Sources, dispersal and impacts of wastewater in Antarctica (UPDATED)
title: Sources, dispersal and impacts of wastewater in Antarctica. Version 2.0
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Stark, Jonathan S.
name: Conlan, Kathleen E.
name: Hughes, Kevin A.
name: Kim, Stacy
name: Martins, César C.
Publisher: name: Antarctic Environments Portal
Year: 2019

description: The discharge of sewage and wastewater into the Antarctic environment represents a serious and significant risk of environmental impacts that includes the introduction of non-native micro-organisms and pathogens, genetic pollution and accumulation of, and exposure to, contaminants. Wastewater discharges could lead to long term impacts on wildlife health, biodiversity and community structure in the vicinity of Antarctic stations. Treatment and disposal practices vary widely, as each Party to the Antarctic Treaty determines their own standards with varying interpretation of requirements under the Protocol on Environmental Protection. Further research and monitoring of the impacts of wastewater on Antarctic ecosystems will assist in quantifying the potential risks and impacts. Currently, no guidelines exist that describe permissible levels of bacteria, chemical and other contaminants being discharged from outfalls within the Treaty area, but their development would be beneficial in setting a baseline for monitoring. One of the highest priorities of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) is addressing the introduction of non-native species. Wastewater discharge is a significant source of potential introductions, but advanced wastewater treatment could substantially reduce this and other associated risks.
description: Waste disposal
Waste management
Environmental monitoring
Αγγειίτιδες μικρών αγγείων: Η επίδραση της νόσου και της θεραπείας της στην ποιότητα ζωής των ασθενών, σε κάθε στάδιο της: έναρξη, ύφεση ή έξαρση
Creators: name: Φροσύνακη, Ελένη Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Αγγειίτιδες
Είδη αγγειίτιδων
Διάγνωση αγγειίτιδας
Θεραπεία αγγειίτιδας
Ποιότητα ζωής ασθενών με αγγειίτιδες
Vasculitis
Types of vasculitis
Vasculitis diagnosis
Vasculitis treatment
Quality of life of patients with vasculitis

description: Οι ασθενείς με αγγειίτιδες αντιμετωπίζουν καθημερινές προκλήσεις τόσο σε βασικούς σωματικούς παραμέτρους της ζωής τους, όπως η κινητικότητα, η αυτοεξυπηρέτηση, ο πόνος, καθώς και τα υπόλοιπα συμπτώματα της νόσου, όσο και σε συναισθηματικούς και ψυχικούς παραμέτρους, όπως η συναισθηματική λειτουργία, οι κοινωνικές επαφές, η εκπλήρωση προσωπικών στόχων και επιλογών, η ευτυχία, η ικανοποίηση, η προσφορά εργασίας και η χρησιμότητα στην κοινωνία. Όλα αυτά τα στοιχεία συνθέτουν την έννοια της ποιότητας της ζωής, η οποία είναι συνδεδεμένη με το υποκειμενικό και κοινωνικό υπόβαθρο και συνεπώς αξιολογείται διαφορετικά από κάθε άτομο. Για τον λόγο αυτό κρίνεται ενδιαφέρουσα η δυνατότητα αντικειμενικής μέτρησης της ποιότητας ζωής των συγκεκριμένων ασθενών.
description: Patients with vasculitis face daily challenges in both basic physical parameters of life, such as mobility, self-care, pain, and other symptoms of the disease, and emotional and mental parameters, such as emotional functioning, social contacts, fulfillment of personal goals and choices, happiness, satisfaction, job performance, and usefulness to society. All these elements make up the concept of quality of life which is linked to subjective and social background and is therefore assesed differently by each individual. For this reason, it is interesting to be able to objectively measure the quality of life of specific patients.
Factors influencing the intention of women in rural Ghana to adopt postpartum family planning
Creators: name: Eliason, Sebastian
name: Baiden, Frank
name: Quansah-Asare, Gloria
name: Graham-Hayfron, Yvonne
name: Bonsu, Derek
name: Phillips, James F.
name: Awusabo-Asare, Kofi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Contraception
Family planning
Medical sciences
Obstetrics
Gynecology
Families

description: Background: Uptake of postpartum family planning (PPFP) remains low in sub-Saharan Africa and very little is known about how pregnant women arrive at their decisions to adopt PPFP. This information is needed to guide the development of interventions to promote PPFP. Methods: We conducted a survey among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in a rural district in Ghana. We used univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis to explore how knowledge of various family planning (FP) methods, past experience with their use and the acceptability of PPFP to male partners and close relations influenced the intention of pregnant women to adopt PPFP. Results: We interviewed 1914 pregnant women in four health facilities. About 84% considered PPFP acceptable, and 70% intended to adopt a method. The most preferred methods were injectables (31.5%), exclusive breastfeeding (16.7%), and oral contraceptive pills (14.8%). Women whose first choice of PPFP method were injectables were more likely to be women who had had past experience with its use (O.R = 2.07, 95% C.I. 1.50-2.87). Acceptability of PPFP by the pregnant woman (O.R. = 3.21, 1.64-6.26), perception of partner acceptability (O.R. = 3.20, 1.94-5.48), having had prior experience with the use of injectables (O.R. = 3.72, 2.61-5.30) were the strongest predictors of the intention to adopt PPFP. Conversely women who knew about the diaphragm (O.R. = 0.59, 0.38-0.93) and those who had past experience with IUD use (O.R. = 0.13, 0.05-0.38) were less likely to want to adopt PPFP. Conclusions: Acceptability of PPFP to the pregnant woman, male partner approval, and past experience with the use of injectables are important factors in the PPFP decisions of women in this population. Antenatal and early postnatal care need to be adapted to take these factors into consideration.