cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reporting quality of randomized controlled trials in Restless Legs Syndrome based on the CONSORT statement
Creators: name: Rikos, Dimitrios
name: Dardiotis, Efthimios
name: Aloizou, Athina-Maria
name: Siokas, Vasileios
name: Zintzaras, Elias
name: Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Clinical trials--Evaluation
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Restless legs syndrome
subject: Clinical trials--Standards
subject: Medicine

description: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the cornerstone of modern medical research and their reporting may not always be optimal. The CONSORT (CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement is an evidence-based means of improving and assessing the quality of these trials. The aim of the present study was to assess the reporting quality of published RCTs on the Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) based on a checklist stemming from the CONSORT statement. RCTs involving patients with RLS were searched for into medical electronic databases. Inclusion criteria were English language of publication and the randomization of RLS patients in a minimum of two treatment cohorts of different medicinal orientations. The reporting quality was evaluated by the means of the aforementioned 38-item CONSORT checklist and the articles were divided into three 6-year periods. Descriptive statistics were used to make the comparisons. Fifty four (54) eligible trials were found, published in 21 different scientific journals. The average CONSORT compliance score was 56.6% (23.68%-84.21%). CONSORT-endorsing journals had a mean CONSORT compliance of 58.47%, whereas non-endorsing journals 50.4%. The median CONSORT compliance for articles published in low (IF<2), medium (IF 2-7) and high (IF>7) ranked journals was 52.63%, 56.57% and 59.21% respectively. Throughout the whole 1998-2016 period, 14 items (36.8%) were reported in >75% of the articles. This study shows that the reporting of RLS-related RCTs is suboptimal, regardless of the time period, the quality of the publishing journal and the endorsing or not of the CONSORT statement.
If no Higgs then what?
Creators: name: Falkowski, Adam
name: Grojean, Christophe
name: Kaminska, Anna
name: Pokorski, Stefan
name: Weiler, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the absence of a Higgs boson, the perturbative description of the Standard Model ceases to make sense above a TeV. Heavy spin-1 fields coupled to W and Z bosons can extend the validity of the theory up to higher scales. We carefully identify regions of parameter space where a minimal addition - a single spin-1 custodial SU(2) triplet resonance - allows one to retain perturbative control in all channels. Elastic scattering of longitudinal W and Z bosons alone seems to permit a very large cut-off beyond the Naive Dimensional Analysis expectation. We find however that including scattering of the spin-1 resonances then leads to an earlier onset of strong coupling. Most importantly for LHC searches, we define a self-consistent set-up with a well-defined range of validity without recourse to unitarization schemes whose physical meaning is obscure. We discuss the LHC phenomenology and the discovery reach for these electroweak resonances and mention the possibility of a nightmare scenario with no Higgs nor resonance within the LHC reach. Finally, we discuss the effects of parity breaking in the heavy resonance sector which reduces the contributions to the S parameter.
description: 34 pages, 10 figures; v2: constraints updated, references added; v3: replaced troubleshooting figures, can be viewed now by non-Mac users, RIP Steve
Potential for natural evaporation as a reliable renewable energy resource
Creators: name: Cavusoglu, Ahmet-Hamdi
name: Chen, X.
name: Gentine, Pierre
name: Sahin, Ozgur
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Hydrology
Renewable energy sources
Energy harvesting
Evaporation

description: About 50% of the solar energy absorbed at the Earth’s surface drives evaporation, fueling the water cycle that affects various renewable energy resources, such as wind and hydropower. Recent advances demonstrate our nascent ability to convert evaporation energy into work, yet there is little understanding about the potential of this resource. Here we study the energy available from natural evaporation to predict the potential of this ubiquitous resource. We find that natural evaporation from open water surfaces could provide power densities comparable to current wind and solar technologies while cutting evaporative water losses by nearly half. We estimate up to 325 GW of power is potentially available in the United States. Strikingly, water’s large heat capacity is sufficient to control power output by storing excess energy when demand is low, thus reducing intermittency and improving reliability. Our findings motivate the improvement of materials and devices that convert energy from evaporation.
Pseudo-Network Drivers and Virtual Networks
Creators: name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Computer science

description: Many operating systems have long had pseudo-teletypes, inter-process communication channels that provide terminal semantics on one end, and a smart server program on the other. We describe an analogous concept, pseudo-network drivers. One end of the driver appears to be a real network device, with the appropriate interface and semantics; data written to it goes to a program, however, rather than to a physical medium. Using this and some auxiliary mechanisms, we present a variety of applications, including system test, network monitoring, dial-up TCP/IP, and ways to both improve and subvert network security. Most notably, we show how pseudo-network devices can be used to create virtual networks and to provide encrypted communications capability. We describe two implementations, one using a conventional driver for socket-based systems, and one using stream pipes for System V.
The Quantum Effective Action, Wave Functions and Yang-Mills (2+1)
Creators: name: Nair, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the relationship between the quantum effective action and the ground state (and excited state) wave functions of a field theory. Applied to the Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions, we find the leading terms of the effective action from the ground state wave function previously obtained in the Hamiltonian formalism by solving the Schrodinger equation.
description: 16 pages, expanded discussion section, added references, version accepted for Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 1 of Association between insulin resistance and cardiac remodeling in HER2-positive breast cancer patients: a real-world study
Creators: name: Shi, Yunjing
name: Qiu, Zeping
name: Yu, Jing
name: Li, Zhuojin
name: Hua, Sha
name: Chen, Yanjia
name: Chen, Xiaosong
name: Shen, Kunwei
name: Jin, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Bothrops bilineatus
Creators: name: Llanqui, Irbin B.
name: Y. Salas, Cinthya
name: Oblitas, Melissa P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Bothrops
Bothrops bilineatus

description: Bothrops bilineatus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) Material examined. Field observation; (13°25′38″S, 069° 36′42″W), 22.IX.2013. Identification. A small pitviper, SVL maximum 365– 840 mm in males and 555 mm in females. It can be identified by dorsal scales uniformly keeled but not tuberculated; 27–35 scale rows at mid-body; single anal plate. Dorsum pale green, with scattered black spots. Venter cream to white with a broken pale yellow paraventral stripe. This snake is arboreal with a prehensile tail. There are no similar pitviper species nearby. Some green colubrids such as Philodryas viridissimus, Liophis typhlus and the boid Corallus batessi could be confused, but they differ by lacking loreal pits and having labial pits respectively (Roze 1966, Duellman 1978, 2005, Dixon and Soini 1986, Pérez-Santos and Moreno 1988, Harvey et al. 2005). Distribution. Bothrops bilineatus is widely distributed in Amazonia in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela (Harvey et al. 2005, Uetz and Hošek 2019). Remarks. The individual was found dead in an advanced stage of decomposition, so it was not collected.
description: Published as part of Llanqui, Irbin B., Y. Salas, Cinthya & Oblitas, Melissa P., 2019, A preliminary checklist of amphibians and reptiles from the vicinity of La Nube Biological Station, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, Peru, pp. 773-796 in Check List 15 (5) on page 790, DOI: 10.15560/15.5.773
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Topographical fingerprints of many-body interference blocking in STM junctions on thin insulating films
Creators: name: Donarini, Andrea
name: Sobczyk, Sandra
name: Siegert, Benjamin
name: Grifoni, Milena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Negative differential conductance (NDC) is a non-linear transport phenomenon ubiquitous in molecular nanojunctions. Its physical origin can be the most diverse. In rotationally symmetric molecules with orbitally degenerate many-body states, it can be ascribed to interference effects. We establish in this paper a criterion to identify the interference blocking scenario by correlating the spectral and the topographical information achievable in an STM single molecule measurement. Simulations of current voltage characteristics and current maps for a Cu-Phthalocyanine (CuPc) on a thin insulating film are presented as experimentally relevant examples.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Addressing access to Huntington disease predictive testing
Creators: name: Hawkins Virani, Alice Kate
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Genetic knowledge holds great promise in terms of health benefits, yet also raises challenges regarding the delivery of beneficial testing and services. Addressing this challenge is especially important in rural areas where lack of access to clinical genetics is pervasive, resulting in considerable inequities in service availability. The purpose of this research study is to explore the hypothesis that a novel telehealth strategy for delivering predictive testing (PT) for Huntington disease (HD) can address the potential inequity that exists in access to PT in rural communities in British Columbia. To address the hypothesis, the project employed a three part, highly structured, mixed method sequential exploratory approach. The first part of the research involved: a) a mapping study; b) a qualitative interview study of 33 at-risk individuals; c) a survey of 102 individuals at-risk for HD; and d) an 11-person expert workshop. The second part of the research built on results from the prior work and was to develop a telehealth PT protocol and a HD PT dedicated website for individuals considering testing. The final component of the research involved a pilot project that compared the novel telehealth protocol with the standard, Vancouver-based PT protocol. Evaluation of the pilot project was conducted by quantitative survey with 28 participants and was subject to statistical analysis. Results revealed that PT rates are lower in rural areas and that access is a significant issue due to distance related factors and the inflexible nature of the PT process. The pilot project demonstrated that providing PT via telehealth is not only possible, but is also warranted. There were no significant differences in terms of quality of care, information, counseling and support during the PT process between the Vancouver-tested and telehealth-tested groups. Overall, the pilot study reveals that providing PT via telehealth can improve access to PT while maintaining high quality of care and support. The work adds to a growing body of literature on the utility of telehealth services in genomic medicine in an age of increased technological innovation and comfort with such communication mechanisms.
Diverse Experience of Immigrant Children: How Do Separation and Reunification Shape Their Development?
Creators: name: Lu, Yao
name: He, Qian
name: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Emigration and immigration
Immigrant families
Immigrant children
Child development
Separation (Psychology) in children

description: Although many immigrant children to the U.S. arrive with their parents, a notable proportion are first separated and later reunited with their parents. How do the experiences of separation and reunification shape the well-being of immigrant children? Data were from a national survey of legal adult immigrants and their families, the New Immigrant Survey from 2003-2004 (for academic achievement, age 6-12, N=876; for psychosocial well-being, age 6-17, N=1,084). Results indicated that immigrant children who were once separated from their parents exhibited poorer literacy and higher risk of emotional and behavioral problems than those who migrated with parents. A protracted period of separation and previous undocumented status of parents amplified the disadvantages experienced by these children.
A geometrical introduction to screw theory
Creators: name: Minguzzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70E55, 70E60, 70E99

description: This work introduces screw theory, a venerable but yet little known theory aimed at describing rigid body dynamics. This formulation of mechanics unifies in the concept of screw the translational and rotational degrees of freedom of the body. It captures a remarkable mathematical analogy between mechanical momenta and linear velocities, and between forces and angular velocities. For instance, it clarifies that angular velocities should be treated as applied vectors and that, under the composition of motions, they sum with the same rules of applied forces. This work provides a short and rigorous introduction to screw theory intended to an undergraduate and general readership.
description: Latex2e, 24 pages. v2: expanded introduction, added 2 figures
The Nerve/Tunnel Index: A New Diagnostic Standard for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Using Sonography
Creators: name: Kim, Hyoung Seop
name: Joo, Seung Ho
name: Han, Zee-A
name: Kim, Yong Wook
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Carpal tunnel syndrome
Median nerve
Ultrasonic imaging
Diagnosis

description: Objectives—To define the relationship between body indices of healthy adults and cross-sectional areas of the carpal tunnel and median nerve and to obtain the nerve/tunnel index, which represents a new standard for diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome using sonography. Methods—Body indices (height, weight, and body mass index) were analyzed in 60 healthy adults, and electromyography and sonography were also performed. The crosssectional areas of the proximal and distal median nerve and carpal tunnel were obtained by sonography. The proximal and distal nerve/tunnel indices were obtained by calculating the ratio between the proximal and distal cross-sectional areas of the median nerve to those of the carpal tunnel and multiplying the value by 100. Results—Although the proximal cross-sectional areas of the median nerve and body indices showed statistically significant relationships with weak positive correlations, the proximal and distal areas of the carpal tunnel showed relatively stronger correlations with body indices. Between sexes, there were significant differences in the proximal median nerve cross-sectional area (mean ± SD: male, 10.48 ± 3.21 mm2; female, 8.81 ± 3.21 mm2; P < .05) and proximal carpal tunnel area (male, 182.50 ± 21.15 mm2; female, 151.23 ± 21.14 mm2; P < .05). There was no difference in the proximal nerve/tunnel index (male, 5.80% ± 1.72%; female, 5.91% ± 1.63%). There was a statistically significant difference in the distal carpal tunnel cross-sectional area (male, 138.90 ± 20.95 mm2; female, 121.50 ± 18.99 mm2; P < .05) between sexes, but the distal median area (male, 9.99 ± 3.42 mm2; female, 8.46 ± 1.84 mm2) and distal nerve/tunnel index (male, 7.15% ± 2.00%; female, 7.01% ± 1.38%) showed no significant differences. The proximal index was significantly higher than the distal index (proximal, 5.85% ± 1.66%; distal, 7.08% ± 1.71%). Conclusions—The nerve/tunnel index is unaffected by body indices or sex and thus may be a useful and objective standard for diagnosing carpal tunnel syndrome.
title: Mechanisms and consequences of life cycle diversity of beaked redfish, Sebastes mentella
Creators: name: Cadrin, Steve
name: Bernreuther, Matthias
name: Daníelsdóttir, Anna Kristín
name: Hjörleifsson, Einar
name: Johansen, Torild
name: Kerr, Lisa
name: Kristinsson, Kristjan
name: Mariani, Stefano
name: Pampoulie, Christophe
name: Reinert, Jákup
name: Saborido-Rey, Fran
name: Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn
name: Stransky, Christoph
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Recent genetic research, supported by life history information, indicates that there are three biological stocks of S. mentella in the Irminger Sea and adjacent waters
PATHALIAS, or, The Care and Feeding of Relative Addresses
Creators: name: Honeyman, Peter
name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: Computer science

description: Pathalias computes electronic mail routes in environments that mix explicit and implicit routing, as well as syntax styles. We describe the history of pathalias, its algorithms and data structures, and our design decisions and compromises. Pathalias is guided by a simple philosophy: get the mail through, reliably and efficiently. We discuss the principles of routing in heterogeneous environments necessary to make this philosophy a reality.
Working out density fluctuation spectra from shear spectra
Creators: name: Mezzetti, Marino
name: Bonometto, Silvio A.
name: Casarini, Luciano
name: Murante, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Forthcoming experiments will enable us to determine high precision tomographic shear spectra. Matter density fluctuation spectra, at various $z$, should then be worked out of them, in order to constrain the model and determine the DE state equation. Available analytical expressions, however, do the opposite, enabling us to derive shear spectra from fluctuation spectra. Here we find the inverse expression, yielding density fluctuation spectra from observational tomographic shear spectra. The procedure involves SVD techniques for matrix inversion. We show in detail how the approach works and provide a few examples.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures
Increasing Evidence for the Use of Sodium Oxybate in Multi-Drug- Resistant Lance–Adams Syndrome
Creators: name: Riboldi, Giulietta M.
name: Frucht, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Gamma-hydroxybutyrate
subject: Myoclonus
subject: Multidrug resistance
subject: Movement disorders--Treatment

description: Background: Treatment of posthypoxic myoclonus (PHM) can be a challenge in patients not responsive to first-line medications. PMH is a rare condition that has a dramatic impact on patients’ quality of life. Refractory cases are not uncommon. Case Report: We report a patient with PHM non-responsive to conventional treatments who showed a dramatic improvement with sodium oxybate (SBX). Cases of PHM treated with SBX reported in the literature were reviewed. Discussion: Resting and stimulus-induced myoclonus respond robustly to SBX, with significant improvement in patients’ quality of life. SBX may be considered in patients with PHM resistant to first-line medications.
Question of Peccei-Quinn symmetry and quark masses in the economical 3-3-1 model
Creators: name: Dong, P. V.
name: Hung, H. T.
name: Long, H. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that there is an infinite number of U(1) symmetries like Peccei-Quinn symmetry in the 3-3-1 model with minimal scalar sector---two scalar triplets. Moreover, all of them are completely broken due to the model's scalars by themselves (notice that these scalars as known have been often used to break the gauge symmetry and generating the masses for the model's particles). There is no any residual Peccei-Quinn symmetry. Because of the minimal scalar content there are some quarks that are massless at tree-level, but they can get consistent mass contributions at one-loop due to this fact. Interestingly, axions as associated with the mentioned U(1)s breaking (including Majoron due to lepton-charge breaking) are all gauged away because they are also the Goldstone bosons responsible for the gauge symmetry breaking as usual.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures, revised version, to appear in Physical Review D
Horava-Lifshitz gravity: detailed balance revisited
Creators: name: Vernieri, Daniele
name: Sotiriou, Thomas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We attempt a critical reconsideration of "detailed balance" as a principle that can be used to restrict the proliferation of couplings in Horava-Lifshitz gravity. We re-examine the shortcomings that have been usually associated with it in the literature and we argue that easy remedies can be found for all of them within the framework of detailed balance, and that the most persistent of them are actually related to projectability. We show that, once projectability is abandoned, detailed balance reduces the number of independent couplings by roughly an order of magnitude and imposes only one restriction that constitutes a phenomenological concern: the size of the (bare) cosmological constant is unacceptably large. Remarkably, this restriction (which is present in the projectable version as well) has been so far under-appreciated in the literature. Optimists might prefer to interpret it as a potential blessing in disguise, as it allows one to entertain the idea of a miraculous cancelation between the bare cosmological constant and the (still poorly understood) vacuum energy contribution.
description: v1: 9 pages; v2: typos corrected, minor rephrasings, published version
Child Pedestrian Injury in an Urban Setting: Descriptive Epidemiology
Creators: name: DiMaggio, Charles J.
name: Durkin, Maureen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Public health
Pedestrian accidents
Pediatrics
Epidemiology

description: This study describes the epidemiology of pedestrian injuries to children and adolescents (ages <20) in an urban setting, providing analyses of environmental and pedestrian variables. Anonymous data were obtained for all motor vehicle crashes occurring in New York City over a 7-year period (1991-1997). Among 693,283 crashes, 97,245 resulted in injuries to 100,261 pedestrians of whom 32,578 were under age 20. Using census counts for the denominator, the overall incidence of pediatric pedestrian injuries was 246/100,000 per year, and the case fatality rate was 0.6%. Incidence rates peaked in the 6-14 year age group, and showed a modest annual decline during the study period. Younger children were more likely to be struck mid-block and during daylight hours, whereas adolescents were more likely to be struck at intersections and at night. For younger children, there was a sharp peak in incidence during the summer months. Road and weather conditions did not appear to affect injury risk. These results help identify priorities for child pedestrian injury prevention and education, inform public health policy, and direct emergency medical health services resource allocation.
Stakeholders' common requirements report
Creators: name: Beus, Mateo
name: Miletić, Marija
name: Capuder, Tomislav
name: Pandžić, Hrvoje
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This deliverable related to Task 2.2 will compile in a report the stakeholders´ needs and expectations putting in relevance the importance of the citizens´ role in Europe when developing FLEXIGRID solutions.
title: Consequences of spatial structure and connectivity to productivity and persistence of localand regional populations
Creators: name: Kerr, L.A.
name: Cadrin, S.X.
name: Secor, D.H.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Understanding mechanisms of local and regional population persistence and the sustainability of productive fisheries is beneficial for effective fisheries management. We describe a model framework to test hypotheses concerning the consequences of structure within populations and connectivity between populations to the productivity (spawning stock biomass (SSB)), stability (variation in SSB), resilience (time to rebuild SSB after environmental disturbance), and sustainability (maximum sustainable fishing mortality) of the overall system (i.e., population or metapopulation).
Resilience in youth recently diagnosed with psychosis : a qualitative inquiry
Creators: name: Lal, Shalini
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: BACKGROUND: Psychotic disorders are among the most disabling health issues affecting young people today. Clinical and psychosocial interventions are considered to have the most potential for preventing the disabling consequences of this illness during the first two to five years following the onset of a psychotic disorder. The development of interventions for this stage of the illness is partially dependent upon understanding how young people build resilience within the context of their daily lives. Yet, little research has been conducted on resilience particularly based on the narrative accounts of youth themselves. OBJECTIVE: To better understand how youth recently diagnosed with a psychotic disorder restore, sustain, and enhance their resilience (capacity to cope with adversity), and how aspects of the environment, and the activities they engage in, support and/or hinder this process. METHODS: Using a qualitative approach, combining grounded theory, narrative, and arts-based methods at different stages of the research process, 17 young people, between the ages of 18 to 24, diagnosed with psychosis within the past three years, were recruited from two Canadian mental health care settings: a specialized early psychosis intervention program and a general psychiatric service for street youth. Over the duration of 1 year, 36 individual interviews and three focus group meetings were conducted, supplemented by participants’ creation of biographical, literary and visual accounts. Prolonged engagement, methodological crystallization, transparency, and reflexivity enhance the rigour and trustworthiness of the findings. RESULTS: Data analysis led to the explication of normalizing-identity work, a psychosocial process that involves navigation towards and engagement in narrative practices and highly valued activities to enhance one’s normal sense of self and identity, in conjunction with the social, structural, and technological environment’s capacity to facilitate access to this process in meaningful ways. CONCLUSION: The findings illustrate that a key pathway through which participants sustain, restore, and enhance their resilience is engagement in identity work. The findings contribute to theoretical and empirical knowledge that further understanding of the phenomena of resilience, well-being, and psychosocial recovery in relation to youth recently diagnosed with psychosis, as well as offer practical implications for the specialized field of early psychosis intervention.
A Spectroscopic Catalog of the Brightest (J<9) M Dwarfs in the Northern Sky
Creators: name: Lepine, Sebastien
name: Hilton, Eric J.
name: Mann, Andrew W.
name: Wilde, Matthew
name: Rojas-Ayala, Barbara
name: Cruz, Kelle L.
name: Gaidos, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a spectroscopic catalog of the 1,564 brightest (J<9) M dwarf candidates in the northern sky, as selected from the SUPERBLINK proper motion catalog. Observations confirm 1,408 of the candidates to be late-K and M dwarfs with spectral subtypes K7-M6. From the low μ>40 mas/yr proper motion limit and high level of completeness of the SUPERBLINK catalog in that magnitude range, we estimate that our spectroscopic census most likely includes >90% of all existing, northern-sky M dwarfs with apparent magnitude J<9. Only 682 stars in our sample are listed in the Third Catalog of Nearby Stars (CNS3); most others are relative unknowns and have spectroscopic data presented here for the first time. Spectral subtypes are assigned based on spectral index measurements of CaH and TiO molecular bands. A comparison of spectra from the same stars obtained at different observatories however reveals that spectral band index measurements are dependent on spectral resolution, spectrophotometric calibration, and other instrumental factors. After systematic corrections and a recalibration of the subtype-index relationships, we find that we can consistently and reliably classify all our stars to a half-subtype precision. The use of corrected spectral indices further requires us to recalibrate the ζparameter, from which we estimate metallicities +/-0.5dex accuracy in dwarfs of subtypes M2 and earlier, and +/-0.2dex accuracy for later (M3-M5) subtypes. Existing geometric parallax measurements are extracted from the literature for 624 stars, and are used to determine spectroscopic and photometric distances for all the other stars. Our catalog will be most useful to guide the selection of the best M dwarf targets for exoplanet searches, in particular those using high-precision radial velocity measurements.
description: To appear in the Astronomical Journal. Corrected and updated version. Data table has been expanded to include all J<9 M-dwarf candidates in the north
Sonography of Affected and Unaffected Shoulders in Hemiplegic Patients: Analysis of the Relationship Between Sonographic Imaging Data and Clinical Variables
Creators: name: Cho, Hyong Keun
name: Kim, Hyoung Seop
name: Joo, Seung Ho
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ultrasonic imaging
Hemiplegia
Shoulder
Medical rehabilitation

description: Objective To explore the relationship between a number of clinically relevant variables and sonographic imaging data in respect to the level of impairment experienced in the affected and unaffected shoulders of hemiplegic stroke patients. Method Fifty-one hemiplegic stroke patients (32 males, 19 females; 29 right-sided hemiplegics, 22 left-sided hemiplegics) participated in this study. A musculoskeletal radiologist conducted a sonographic exam on both the affected and unaffected shoulders of all patients and two physicians classified the severity of the injury on a six-point rating scale. Clinical variables including age, sex, duration of injury, spasticity and muscle power of the hemiplegic side, and level of functional activity of the shoulder were assessed. Results The sonographic rating scores of hemiplegic shoulders were positively correlated with age (p<0.01) and negatively correlated with level of muscle spasticity (p<0.05). The sonographic rating scores of unaffected shoulders were positively correlated with duration of injury (p<0.01). Affected shoulders received sonographic rating scores that reflected significantly more impairment than those of unaffected shoulders (p<0.001), and premorbid handedness did not affect the relationship between impairment rating and shoulder injury status. Conclusion Hemiplegic stroke influences not only affected shoulders, but also unaffected sides. Proper management of spasticity, enhancement of motor recovery, and avoidance of unaffected shoulder overuse should be considered to prevent shoulder problems following strokes which result in hemiplegia.
The effect of asymmetric disorder on the diffusion in arbitrary networks
Creators: name: Juhász, Róbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering diffusion in the presence of asymmetric disorder, an exact relationship between the strength of weak disorder and the electric resistance of the corresponding resistor network is revealed, which is valid in arbitrary networks. This implies that the dynamics are stable against weak asymmetric disorder if the resistance exponent $ζ$ of the network is negative. In the case of $ζ>0$, numerical analyses of the mean first-passage time $τ$ on various fractal lattices show that the logarithmic scaling of $τ$ with the distance $l$, $\lnτ\sim l^ψ$, is a general rule, characterized by a new dynamical exponent $ψ$ of the underlying lattice.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Spectral Properties of Complex Unit Gain Graphs
Creators: name: Reff, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50 (Primary) 05C22, 05C25 (Secondary)

description: A complex unit gain graph is a graph where each orientation of an edge is given a complex unit, which is the inverse of the complex unit assigned to the opposite orientation. We extend some fundamental concepts from spectral graph theory to complex unit gain graphs. We define the adjacency, incidence and Laplacian matrices, and study each of them. The main results of the paper are eigenvalue bounds for the adjacency and Laplacian matrices.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Linear Algebra Appl
Thermally generated long-lived quantum correlations for two atoms trapped in fiber-coupled cavities
Creators: name: Eremeev, Vitalie
name: Montenegro, Víctor
name: Orszag, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical model for driving a two qubit system to a stable long-lived entanglement is discussed. The entire system is represented by two atoms, initially in ground states and disentangled, each one coupled to a separate cavity with the cavities connected by a fiber. The cavities and fiber exchange energy with their individual thermal environments. Under these conditions, we apply the theory of microscopic master equation developed for the dynamics of the open quantum system. Deriving the density operator of the two-qubit system we found that stable long-lived quantum correlations are generated in the presence of thermal excitation of the environments. To the best of our knowledge, there is no a similar effect observed in a quantum open system described by a generalized microscopic master equation in the approximation of the cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED).
description: v2: 6 pages, 6 figures (based on the reviewed version)
DEP Bulletin:Volume 38 Issue 17
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
Graphene/Li-Ion battery
Creators: name: Kheirabadi, N.
name: Shafiekhani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Density function theory calculations were carried out to clarify storage states of Lithium (Li) ions in graphene clusters. The adsorption energy, spin polarization, charge distribution, electronic gap, surface curvature and dipole momentum were calculated for each cluster. Li-ion adsorbed graphene, doped by one Li atom is spin polarized, so there would be different gaps for different spin polarization in electrons. Calculation results demonstrated that a smaller cluster between each two larger clusters is preferable, because it could improve graphene Li-ion batteries; consequently, the most proper graphene anode structure has been proposed.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Prescriptions for Alpha Agonists and Antipsychotics in Children and Youth with Tic Disorders: A Pharmacoepidemiologic Study
Creators: name: Cothros, Nicholas
name: Martino, Davide
name: McMorris, Carly
name: Stewart, David
name: Tehrani, Ali
name: Pringsheim, Tamara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Tourette syndrome
Tic disorders
Pharmacoepidemiology
Antipsychotic drugs
Phenylpropanolamine
Tourette syndrome in children

description: Background: Trends in the use of antipsychotics and alpha agonists for the treatment of tic disorders in Canadian children, and how closely these trends align with evidence-based guidelines on the pharmacotherapy of tic disorders, have not been explored. Methods: IQVIA’s Canadian Disease and Therapeutic Index, a survey-based data set, was used to identify prescription patterns by physicians. Respondents recorded all patient visits during a 48-hour period in each quarter of the year, including patient age, gender, drug recommendation and therapeutic indication. Recommendations for alpha agonists and antipsychotics from 2012 to 2016 were analysed for children and adolescents with tic disorders. Results: Risperidone and clonidine were the most commonly recommended medications for tic disorders over the study period, with 36,868 and 35,500 recommendations in 2016, respectively. Recommendations for clonidine increased over the study period, whereas those for risperidone decreased. Guanfacine (approved in Canada in 2013) was used less frequently than clonidine. Clonidine was more frequently recommended than antipsychotics in children younger than 6, in whom antipsychotic recommendations were uncommon. Aripiprazole was the second most commonly recommended antipsychotic for tic disorders, with 22,892 recommendations in 2016. Of the first-generation antipsychotics, pimozide was most commonly recommended (11,334 recommendations in 2016); haloperidol was infrequently recommended. Discussion: The trends observed are in line with guideline recommendations reflected in the decreasing use of risperidone, and the growing use of clonidine and guanfacine. The growing use of aripiprazole is likely due to emerging evidence from clinical trials supporting its efficacy for tics. Recommendations for pimozide and haloperidol were limited, likely due to the greater adverse effects associated with these medications.
Diffuse supernova neutrinos: oscillation effects, stellar cooling and progenitor mass dependence
Creators: name: Lunardini, Cecilia
name: Tamborra, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) using the recent progenitor-dependent, long-term supernova simulations from the Basel group and including neutrino oscillations at several post-bounce times. Assuming multi-angle matter suppression of collective effects during the accretion phase, we find that oscillation effects are dominated by the matter-driven MSW resonances, while neutrino-neutrino collective effects contribute at the 5-10% level. The impact of the neutrino mass hierarchy, of the time-dependent neutrino spectra and of the diverse progenitor star population is 10% or less, small compared to the uncertainty of at least 25% of the normalization of the supernova rate. Therefore, assuming that the sign of the neutrino mass hierarchy will be determined within the next decade, the future detection of the DSNB will deliver approximate information on the MSW-oscillated neutrino spectra. With a reliable model for neutrino emission, its detection will be a powerful instrument to provide complementary information on the star formation rate and for learning about stellar physics.
description: 19 pages, including 4 figures and 1 table. Clarifying paragraphs added; results unchanged. Matches published version in JCAP
title: Spatial Settings of Writing, Heterotopias of Reading
title: Τhe Architecture of Αrt Praxis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Χωροθετήσεις της Γραφής, Ετεροτοπίες της Ανάγνωσης
title: H Αρχιτεκτονική της Εικαστικής Πράξης
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Daflos, Kostas
Publisher: name: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ανάγνωση
Τοποθεσία Γραφή
Εικαστικές Χωρικές Μικρογραφίες
Κείμενο
Παστίς
Ετεροτοπία
Αρχέτυπο
Ονειροπόληση
Νομαδισμός
Λαβύρινθος
Συνονθύλευμα
Παλίμψηστο
Κριτική Χωρική Πρακτική
Εντοπισμένη Γραφή
Reading
Site-Writing
Visual Spatial Miniatures
Text
Pastiche
Heterotopia
Archetype
Daydreaming
Nomadism
Labyrinth
Patchwork
Palimpsest
Critical Spatial Practices
Situated Writing

description: Η χωρικότητα και η χωροθέτηση της γραφής και της ανάγνωσης...
description: Η χωρικότητα και η χωροθέτηση της γραφής και της ανάγνωσης...
Edge excitations of bosonic fractional quantum Hall phases in optical lattices
Creators: name: Kjäll, Jonas A.
name: Moore, Joel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rapid development of artificial gauge fields in ultracold gases suggests that atomic realization of fractional quantum Hall physics will become experimentally practical in the near future. While it is known that bosons on lattices can support quantum Hall states, the universal edge excitations that provide the most likely experimental probe of the topological order have not been obtained. We find that the edge excitations of an interacting boson lattice model are surprisingly sensitive to interedge hybridization and edge-bulk mixing for some confining potentals. With properly chosen potentials and fluxes, the edge spectrum is surprisingly clear even for small systems with strong lattice effects such as bandwidth. Various fractional quantum Hall phases for bosons can be obtained, and the phases ν=1/2 and ν=2/3 have the edge spectra predicted by the chiral Luttinger liquid theory.
description: 4+ pages, 3 figures
title: Adaptive foraging behaviour and the role of the overwintering strategy
Creators: name: van Deurs, Mikael
name: Christensen, Asbjørn
name: Frisk, Christina
name: Mosegaard, Henrik
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The overwintering strategy is a common feature among fishes from temperate to arctic regions and yet the overwintering has never been studied from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. In the present study our focus is on the overwintering of sandeel ecotypes in relation to the conflicting concerns of foraging and avoiding predation. We construct an IBM model for sandeel that combines bioenergetics, environmental forcing and behaviour. We then identify the timing of the overwintering that maximizes fitness (life time expected reproduction) for various environmental scenarios
Back Extensor Strengthening Exercise and Backpack Wearing Treatment for Camptocormia in Parkinson's Disease: A Retrospective Pilot Study
Creators: name: Lee, Kun Hee
name: Kim, Jong Moon
name: Kim, Hyoung Seop
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Posture disorders
Parkinson's disease--Treatment
Physiology, Pathological
Medical rehabilitation

description: Objective
To investigate the effect of a conservative treatment regime in Parkinson's disease patients with camptocormia.

Methods
Nine patients with Parkinson's disease were included in a retrospective pilot study of the value of back extensor strengthening exercise. Six inpatients received a 30-minute treatment, twice daily for 5 weeks, being treated on average for 34 days; while three outpatients visited the clinic and were educated for home exercise and backpack wearing treatment. Outpatients should be scheduled to visit the outpatient department to check physical status every 2–4 weeks for an average of 3 months.

Results
All patients except one showed statistically significant improvements in activities of daily living (ADL) and motor symptoms, as measured by flexion angle at standing posture, Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) II and III, and modified Hoehn-Yahr staging.

Conclusion
Conservative treatment is effective in postural correction of camptocormia in Parkinson's disease, as well as improvement in ADL and motor symptoms.
Brachymenium columbicum Broth., Nat.
Creators: name: Gomes do Nascimento, Géssica Maria
name: Mendes da Conceição, Gonçalo
name: Fernandes Peralta, Denilson
name: Oliveira, Hermeson Cassiano de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Brachymenium
Brachymenium columbicum

description: Brachymenium columbicum (De Not.) Broth., Nat. Pflanzenfam. I(3): 557. 1903. Materials examined. Table 1. Identification. Identified by oblong-lanceolate leaves equally disposed throughout the stem and denticulate margin in upper median portion; leaves erect to imbricate when dry. Habitat: rupicolous, terricolous. Brazilian range. CE, SP. New record for Caatinga.
description: Published as part of Gomes do Nascimento, Géssica Maria, Mendes da Conceição, Gonçalo, Fernandes Peralta, Denilson & Oliveira, Hermeson Cassiano de, 2019, Bryophytes of Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil, pp. 833-845 in Check List 15 (5) on page 838, DOI: 10.15560/15.5.833