cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Wide variation in the use and understanding of therapeutic drug monitoring for anti-TNF agents in inflammatory bowel disease: an inexact science?
Creators: name: Samaan, Mark A
name: Arkir, Zehra
name: Ahmad, Tariq
name: Irving, Peter M
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: We aimed to understand the way in which therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is used, understood and interpreted for anti-TNF agents in IBD. Research design and methods: We designed an 18-question survey that included 5 TDM-based clinical scenarios, for which the ‘most appropriate’ responses were based on the BRIDGe groups ‘Anti-TNF Optimizer’. This resource combines TDM evidence with expert consensus. Results: We received 110 complete responses: 50 (45%) consultants, 30 (27%) trainees, 25 (23%) IBD nurse specialists and 5 (5%) gastroenterology pharmacists. Over half (61, 55%) only carry out TDM in non-response. The remainder use TDM routinely, including during stable maintenance therapy for patients in remission. Lower therapeutic thresholds used were variable. Most (82, 75%) were unsure whether their laboratory uses a drug-tolerant or drug-sensitive antidrug antibody assay and few (15, 14%) understand the difference. Consultants, high-frequency users (> 3requests/month) and clinicians with larger anti-TNF cohorts (> 100) were significantly more likely to select the ‘most appropriate’ answer to at least 1 of the 5 TDM-based clinical scenarios. Conclusions: There exists marked heterogeneity in the practical use, understanding and interpretation of biologic TDM. Biologic decision-making, informed by TDM, should involve consultation with experienced clinicians who are frequent TDM users, ideally, as part of a multidisciplinary, biologics-focused IBD meeting. Abbreviations: TDM: therapeutic drug monitoring; CNS: clinical nurse specialist; ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; RIA: radioimmunoassays; HMSA: homogenous mobility shift assays; BSG: British Society of Gastroenterology.
Optical nonlinear dynamics with cold atoms in a cavity
Creators: name: Lambrecht, A.
name: Giacobino, E.
name: Courty, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the nonlinear dynamics of laser cooled and trapped cesium atoms placed inside an optical cavity and interacting with a probe light beam slightly detuned from the 6S1/2(F=4) to 6P3/2(F=5) transition. The system exhibits very strong bistability and instabilities. The origin of the latter is found to be a competition between optical pumping and non-linearities due to saturation of the optical transition.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX
DEPRECATED
Creators: name: DEPRECATED
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Stemonitidales
Stemonitidaceae
Stemonitis
Stemonitis fusca
Stemonitis fusca var. nigrescens (rex) torrend
Stemonitis herbatica

description: DEPRECATED
The effect of flexibility and bend angle on the phase diagram of hard colloidal boomerangs
Creators: name: Drwenski, Tara
name: van Roij, René
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of flexibility and bend angle on systems of hard semiflexible boomerangs. These are modelled as two rodlike segments joined at one end with an angle that can fluctuate about a preferred angle. We use a second-virial theory for semiflexible chains with two segments, and numerically solve for the full orientation distribution function as a function of the four angles that determine the boomerang's orientation. We plot the single segment distributions as a function of two angles as well as the interarm angle distribution. For stiff boomerangs, we find prolate, oblate, and biaxial nematic phases depending on the bend angle and density, in partial agreement with previous results on rigid boomerangs. For the case that the preferred interarm angle is $90^\circ$, however, we find that the biaxial nematic phase has four-fold rather than two-fold rotational symmetry, and thus requires fourth-rank order parameters to describe it. In addition, we find that flexibility drastically reduces the region of stability for the biaxial nematic phase, with the prolate nematic becoming more favourable.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Electromagnetic corrections for the analysis of low energy pi-p scattering data
Creators: name: Gashi, A.
name: Matsinos, E.
name: Oades, G. C.
name: Rasche, G.
name: Woolcock, W. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the electromagnetic corrections to the isospin invariant mixing angle and to the two eigenphases for the s and p-waves for low energy pi-p elastic and charge exchange scattering. These corrections have to be applied to the nuclear quantities obtained from phase shift analyses of the experimental data in order to obtain the hadronic phases. We compare our results with earlier calculations and estimate the uncertainties in the corrections.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures. Uses elsart.cls Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics A
The Casimir force for passive mirrors
Creators: name: Lambrecht, A.
name: Jaekel, M. -T.
name: Reynaud, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Casimir force between mirrors with arbitrary frequency dependent reflectivities obeys bounds due to causality and passivity properties. The force is always smaller than the Casimir force between two perfectly reflecting mirrors. For narrow-band mirrors in particular, the force is found to decrease with the mirrors bandwidth.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX
Three-dimensional quantum Hall effect and metal-insulator transition in ZrTe5
Creators: name: Tang, Fangdong
name: Ren, Yafei
name: Wang, Peipei
name: Zhong, Ruidan
name: Schneeloch, J.
name: Yang, Shengyuan A.
name: Yang, Kun
name: Lee, Patrick A.
name: Gu, Genda
name: Qiao, Zhenhua
name: Zhang, Liyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry, dimensionality, and interaction are crucial ingredients for phase transitions and quantum states of matter. As a prominent example, the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) represents a topological phase generally regarded as characteristic for two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems, and its many aspects can be understood without invoking electron-electron interaction. The intriguing possibility of generalizing QHE to three-dimensional (3D) systems was proposed decades ago, yet it remains elusive experimentally. Here, we report clear experimental evidence for the 3D QHE observed in bulk ZrTe5 crystals. Owing to the extremely high sample quality, the extreme quantum limit with only the lowest Landau level occupied can be achieved by an applied magnetic field as low as 1.5 T. Remarkably, in this regime, we observe a dissipationless longitudinal resistivity rho_xx=0 accompanied with a well-developed Hall resistivity plateau rho_xy=(1\pm0.1) h/e^2 (λ_(F,z)/2), where λ_(F,z) is the Fermi wavelength along the field direction (z axis). This striking result strongly suggests a Fermi surface instability driven by the enhanced interaction effects in the extreme quantum limit. In addition, with further increasing magnetic field, both rho_xx and rho_xy increase dramatically and display an interesting metal-insulator transition, representing another magnetic field driven quantum phase transition. Our findings not only unambiguously reveal a novel quantum state of matter resulting from an intricate interplay among dimensionality, interaction, and symmetry breaking, but also provide a promising platform for further exploration of more exotic quantum phases and transitions in 3D systems.
Massive sterile neutrinos as warm Dark Matter
Creators: name: Dolgov, A. D.
name: Hansen, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that massive sterile neutrinos mixed with the ordinary ones may be produced in the early universe in the right amount to be natural warm dark matter particles. Their mass should be below 40 keV and the corresponding mixing angles sin^2 2θ> 10^{-11} for mixing with ν_μor ν_τ, while mixing with ν_e is slightly stronger bounded with mass less than 30 keV.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, references and acknowledgement added; discussion on SN bound updated, matches version in Astropart.phys
title: The International Monetary Fund’s conditionality regime: A cautionary tale on the pitfalls of human rights mainstreaming
Creators: name: Mutunga, Kasyoka P.
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2024

description: This study contributes to critical scholarship urging a rethink of the deployment of human rights logic and rhetoric to re-order the preferences of international financial institutions (IFIs). Imagining the world as Polanyi does, it contextualises this discourse within the double movement that pits those in favour of disembedded economies; such as the IFIs in question, against those in favour of re-embedded ones. Among the re-embedders, are human rights activists and scholars that view the mainstreaming of human rights into an aspect of the regular business of (international) governance, as a valuable re-embedding strategy.

But this study questions the merits of such an approach, considering the indeterminacy of human rights law and rhetoric. It puts to the test the IMF’s exposure to and subsequent use of human rights language or vocabulary. Heeding Koskenniemi, it queries whether the Fund’s (HRV) usage might indeed signal a shift in the Fund’s practices, towards a social re-embedding approach. Despite the Fund’s shiny new social protection instruments such as its social spending floors and Resilience and Sustainability Facility, it emerges that its priorities and practices remain unchanged. In this context, its HRV usage only obscures its commitment to its more traditional fiscal and monetarist objectives.
description: Master's theses submitted to the Hertie School; 1/2024
Strategies for Fixing the CKM-angle $γ$ and Obtaining Experimental Insights into the World of Electroweak Penguins
Creators: name: Fleischer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the $SU(3)$ flavour symmetry of strong interactions, we propose strategies for extracting both the CKM-angle $γ$ and the $\bar b\to\bar uu\bar s$ tree-level amplitude $T'$. We present also an approximate approach using the branching ratios for the modes $B^+\toπ^+ K^0$, $B^0_d\toπ^- K^+$, $\bar B^0_d\toπ^+ K^-$ and $B^+\toπ^+π^0$ which should be rather promising from the experimental point of view. The quantities $γ$ and $T'$ determined this way may well be used as an input to control electroweak penguins in nonleptonic $B$-decays as has been discussed in previous work. Following these lines, we propose strategies for obtaining quantitative insights into the physics of the electroweak penguin operators and performing some consistency checks. As a by-product, we derive an upper bound of $6^\circ$ for the uncertainty originating from electroweak penguins in the $α$-determination by means of $B\toππ$ decays.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX, Figures not included
SHAPING PERCEPTIONS: ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF SUICIDE-SPECIFIC EDUCATION ON GRADUATE STUDENTS
Creators: name: Ramirez, Elena Carlos
name: Anderson, Jessica Daniel
Publisher: name: ZAP journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Suicide
human service education
online education
social work education.

description: Suicide occurs at alarming rates across the United States and rates are on the rise. The majority of those who attempt suicide report meeting with a medical or mental health provider in the six months prior to their attempt. Graduate programs that prepare social workers need to be prepared to offer adequate training to their students that include content about the needs of suicidal clients and survivors. The purpose of the study was to examine student perceptions of their readiness to work with clients experiencing suicidal ideations following completion of an elective course on suicide related issues. The researchers collected and analyzed data from narrative assignments completed by the participants and from focus groups with three cohorts of students. Results show participants (n=49) felt anxiety due to a lack of knowledge about what to do in suicide situations and felt unprepared to assess suicidality prior to the course. Upon course completion, they reported reduced anxiety and more comfort with the complexity surrounding suicidal client situations. The authors recommend that programs consider providing a course focused on suicide-related issues and/or provide specific examples of suicide related content in existing courses
title: For the many or the few? Organisational conditions for nonprofit organisations’ positive roles in liberal democracies
Creators: name: Einsporn, Hannes
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2024

description: While civil society is theorised to be an essential part of liberal democracy and to contribute to its functioning, it often inadequately does so in practice. How can we narrow the gap between theory and practice? I argue that important answers lie within NPOs, “the organisational infrastructure of civil society” (Anheier, 2014: 9). Drawing on key informant interviews of the nonprofit sector in the US and in Germany, I identify themes of what may be particularly effective organisational conditions – structures and ways of working – to better fulfil the central roles that NPOs can play in liberal democracies.

My research brings together different disciplines and strands of academic research and debate: political theory and political philosophy, interdisciplinary nonprofit research, and organisational theory, as well as research on leadership and management. I argue that we can derive three main roles for NPOs from the relevant body of normative theoretical work: 1) addressing market and government failure, 2) articulating interests and giving voice, as well as 3) driving social progress and innovation. Drawing on empirical nonprofit research, I find that socio-economic differences and a lack of diversity, unequal power and funding, as well as the changing NPO landscape can be considered as mediating factors for how effectively NPOs can fulfil these roles.

My study provides suggestive evidence for structures and ways of working related to accountability and transparency, organisational culture, board-management relations, diversity, and funding to be particularly effective for improving the positive roles of NPOs in democratic societies. The results provide guidance for staff in NPOs, especially their leadership, including by discussing related good practices. My study also contains recommendations for funders that support NPOs, as well as governments and changemakers that wish to regulate or improve the sector’s contributions to democratic societies.
description: Master's theses submitted to the Hertie School; 2/2024
Singular Support of Minimizers of the Causal Variational Principle on the Sphere
Creators: name: Bäuml, Lucia
name: Finster, Felix
name: Schiefeneder, Daniela
name: von der Mosel, Heiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The support of minimizing measures of the causal variational principle on the sphere is analyzed. It is proven that in the case $τ>\sqrt{3}$, the support of every minimizing measure is contained in a finite number of real analytic curves which intersect at a finite number of points. In the case $τ>\sqrt{6}$, the support is proven to have Hausdorff dimension at most $6/7$.
description: 26 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, typos corrected (published version)
What is quantum mechanics trying to tell us?
Creators: name: Mermin, N. David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I explore whether it is possible to make sense of the quantum mechanical description of physical reality by taking the proper subject of physics to be correlation and only correlation, and by separating the problem of understanding the nature of quantum mechanics from the hard problem of understanding the nature of objective probability in individual systems, and the even harder problem of understanding the nature of conscious awareness. The resulting perspective on quantum mechanics is supported by some elementary but insufficiently emphasized theorems. Whether or not it is adequate as a new Weltanschauung, this point of view toward quantum mechanics provides a different perspective from which to teach the subject or explain its peculiar character to people in other fields.
description: 37 pages, no figures. This is the published version of the lecture notes that expand on my earlier ``Ithaca interpretation of quantum mechanics'', quant-ph/9609013. ``Wootters' theorem'' has become the SSC theorem, an earlier citation has been added, and a joke about Talmudic scholarship has been dropped at the request of a referee
The crystallinity and processability trade-off
Creators: name: Dutta, Subhajit
name: Mukherjee, Soumya
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A hydrogen-bonded organic framework reversibly forms crystalline and amorphous phases in solid and liquid states, enabling solution processability for the polymer-based framework
Task Learning for Intention Detection using Deep Neural Networks and Robotic Arm Data in Glovebox
Creators: name: Alharthi, Abdullah S
name: Tokatli, Ozan
name: Pulgarin, Erwin Jose Lopez
name: Herrmann, Guido
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Tele-manipulation systems are becoming more reliant on complex local (master) devices with sophisticated control methods; hence, the cognitive load on the operator during labour intensive tasks is increasing. The operator intention detection based on task learning can lead to better robot task performance with less human effort in teleoperation for a glovebox environment (see Fig. 1). Deep Convolutional Neural Networks are proposed to learn and predict the operator intention using robotic arm and its controller spatiotemporal data. Our preliminary experimental study on glovebox tasks for nuclear applications, particularly radiation survey and object grasping, provided promising results and encouraged us for a deeper research.
description: UK Atomic Energy Authority, Remote Applications in Challenging Environments, Robotics and AI in Nuclear (RAIN Hub)
How Can African Governments Reach Poor Farmers with Fertiliser Subsidies? Exploring a Targeting Approach in Ghana
Creators: name: Houssou, Nazaire
name: Collins Asante-Addo
name: Kwaw S. Andam
name: Ragasa, Catherine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: African governments have been pursuing reforms to improve the targeting of fertiliser subsidy programmes, but recent experience suggests that these reforms have not ensured that subsidies reach intended beneficiaries. Using a targeting approach based on proxy means tests with carefully selected indicators, this paper suggests that Ghana’s fertiliser subsidy programmes can be targeted to the country’s poor and smallholder farmers more efficiently and more cost-effectively. While a universal subsidy in 2012 is estimated to have reached 11 per cent of poor farmers, the proposed targeting approach would have reached 70 per cent of the poor farmers in northern Ghana and 50 per cent of poor farmers in southern Ghana. Targeting reduces the costs of leakages by about 72 per cent, thus justifying the costs of administering targeted programmes using the poverty proxies. Furthermore, we show that once the initial models are constructed, the targeting approach can be used for nearly 20 years without any significant losses in accuracy. We propose that policy-makers should consider implementing this targeting approach on a pilot scale involving a few communities and, if found successful in practice, in a larger-scale programme.
Absence of a fundamental acceleration scale in galaxies
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Davi C.
name: Marra, Valerio
name: del Popolo, Antonino
name: Davari, Zahra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Radial Acceleration Relation confirms that a nontrivial acceleration scale can be found in the average internal dynamics of galaxies. The existence of such a scale is not obvious as far as the standard cosmological model is concerned, and it has been interpreted as a possible sign of modified gravity. The implications could be profound: it could in principle explain galactic dynamics without large amounts of yet-undetected dark matter and address issues that the standard cosmological model faces at galactic scales. Here, we consider 193 disk galaxies from the SPARC and THINGS databases and, using Bayesian inference, we show that the probability of existence of a fundamental acceleration that is common to all the galaxies is essentially zero: the $p$-value is smaller than $10^{-20}$ or, equivalently, the null hypothesis is rejected at more than 10$σ$. We conclude that the acceleration scale unveiled by the Radial Acceleration Relation is of emergent nature, possibly caused by a complex interplay between baryons and dark matter. In particular, the MOND theory, or any other theory that behaves like it at galactic scales, is ruled out as a fundamental theory for galaxies at more than 10$σ$.
description: 16 pages, 2 figues, 1 table. This version does not match the published version at Nature Astronomy. See https://rdcu.be/ZXNT for the published version. Initially submitted on December 20, 2017
Blue Phase: Optimal Network Traffic Control for Legacy and Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Rey, David
name: Levin, Michael W
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: With the forecasted emergence of autonomous vehicles in urban traffic networks, new control policies are needed to leverage their potential for reducing congestion. While several efforts have studied the fully autonomous traffic control problem, there is a lack of models addressing the more imminent transitional stage wherein legacy and autonomous vehicles share the urban infrastructure. We address this gap by introducing a new policy for stochastic network traffic control involving both classes of vehicles. We conjecture that network links will have dedicated lanes for autonomous vehicles which provide access to traffic intersections and combine traditional green signal phases with autonomous vehicle-restricted signal phases named blue phases. We propose a new pressure-based, decentralized, hybrid network control policy that activates selected movements at intersections based on the solution of mixed-integer linear programs. We prove that the proposed policy is stable, i.e. maximizes network throughput, under conventional travel demand conditions. We conduct numerical experiments to test the proposed policy under varying proportions of autonomous vehicles. Our experiments reveal that considerable trade-offs exist in terms of vehicle-class travel time based on the level of market penetration of autonomous vehicles. Further, we find that the proposed hybrid network control policy improves on traditional green phase traffic signal control for high levels of congestion, thus helping in quantifying the potential benefits of autonomous vehicles in urban networks.
Parity-violating 3-jet observables for massive quarks to order alphas^2 in e+e- annihilation
Creators: name: Bernreuther, W.
name: Brandenburg, A.
name: Uwer, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we discuss the calculation of the QCD corrections to parity-violating 3-jet observables in e^+e^- collisions, keeping the full quark mass dependence.
description: 5 pages, Talk given at International Euroconference in Quantum Chromodynamics: 15 Years of the QCD - Montpellier Conference (QCD 00), Montpellier, France, 6-12 Jul 2000
CRITICAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES FOR ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Dr. Michael Marttinson Boakye
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive analysis on the critical leadership and management competencies for organizational effectiveness. The researcher used purposive sampling. The study used primary and secondary data. Primary data were transcriptions of respondents from face to face interview and focused group discussion. Data were analyzed in a descriptive framework using content analytical technique. The critical leadership competencies identified included strategic thinking, influence, collaboration, persuasive communication and team leadership. The five identified critical management competencies included: result orientation, people and organizational development, commercial orientation, knowledge of market environment and customer focus. A policy of continuous education or professional development would be needed to enhance the acquisition of leadership and management competencies.  Capacity development in the areas of competition, effective use of resources, dealing with regulators, response to business uncertainty and strategy of business continuity is much needed in organizational effectiveness.
On the Interaction Effects Between Prediction and Clustering
Creators: name: Barnes, Matt
name: Dubrawski, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning systems increasingly depend on pipelines of multiple algorithms to provide high quality and well structured predictions. This paper argues interaction effects between clustering and prediction (e.g. classification, regression) algorithms can cause subtle adverse behaviors during cross-validation that may not be initially apparent. In particular, we focus on the problem of estimating the out-of-cluster (OOC) prediction loss given an approximate clustering with probabilistic error rate $p_0$. Traditional cross-validation techniques exhibit significant empirical bias in this setting, and the few attempts to estimate and correct for these effects are intractable on larger datasets. Further, no previous work has been able to characterize the conditions under which these empirical effects occur, and if they do, what properties they have. We precisely answer these questions by providing theoretical properties which hold in various settings, and prove that expected out-of-cluster loss behavior rapidly decays with even minor clustering errors. Fortunately, we are able to leverage these same properties to construct hypothesis tests and scalable estimators necessary for correcting the problem. Empirical results on benchmark datasets validate our theoretical results and demonstrate how scaling techniques provide solutions to new classes of problems.
Additional file 1 of The association of antidiabetic medications and Mini-Mental State Examination scores in patients with diabetes and dementia
Creators: name: Secnik, Juraj
name: Xu, Hong
name: Schwertner, Emilia
name: Hammar, Niklas
name: Alvarsson, Michael
name: Winblad, Bengt
name: Eriksdotter, Maria
name: Garcia-Ptacek, Sara
name: Religa, Dorota
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Algorithm 1. Diabetes types assessed from the Patient and Drug Register data.
Verified Quantum Information Scrambling
Creators: name: Landsman, Kevin A.
name: Figgatt, Caroline
name: Schuster, Thomas
name: Linke, Norbert M.
name: Yoshida, Beni
name: Yao, Norman Y.
name: Monroe, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum scrambling is the dispersal of local information into many-body quantum entanglements and correlations distributed throughout the entire system. This concept underlies the dynamics of thermalization in closed quantum systems, and more recently has emerged as a powerful tool for characterizing chaos in black holes. However, the direct experimental measurement of quantum scrambling is difficult, owing to the exponential complexity of ergodic many-body entangled states. One way to characterize quantum scrambling is to measure an out-of-time-ordered correlation function (OTOC); however, since scrambling leads to their decay, OTOCs do not generally discriminate between quantum scrambling and ordinary decoherence. Here, we implement a quantum circuit that provides a positive test for the scrambling features of a given unitary process. This approach conditionally teleports a quantum state through the circuit, providing an unambiguous litmus test for scrambling while projecting potential circuit errors into an ancillary observable. We engineer quantum scrambling processes through a tunable 3-qubit unitary operation as part of a 7-qubit circuit on an ion trap quantum computer. Measured teleportation fidelities are typically $\sim80\%$, and enable us to experimentally bound the scrambling-induced decay of the corresponding OTOC measurement.
description: 11 pages
title: ADCO, Premier cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XIIe siècle), Cart. 21 (G 125), 71 folios, f. 00031
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Premier cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 21 (G 125), 71 folios, f. 00031, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Premier cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 21 (G 125), 71 folios, f. 00031, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Speed of accumulation of DNA in a fingermark
Creators: name: P. Kanokwongnuwut
name: P. Kirkbride
name: Linacre, Adrian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Variation has been reported in the amount of DNA accumulating on the skin of individuals. A shedder status is the propensity of a person to transfer DNA to a substrate by touch. In previous tests of shedders, individuals washed their hands and after 15 minutes made contact with substrates at time points up to 180 minutes after handwashing. No examination has looked at the accumulation of cellular material between time zero and this 15 minute time point. Here we present the results of an examination of cellular material within thumbprints at time points 0, 2, 5, 15 and 60 minutes after handwashing using donors who are representative of heavy, intermediate and light shedders. The rate of accumulation of cellular material and the total amount detected in thumbprints showed a difference between these donors, but for all donors the initial rate of accumulation is surprisingly fast. Informative STR profiles can be generated only 2 minutes after handwashing from 100%, 33% and none of the heavy, intermediate and light shedders, respectively. These results confirmed that there was a correlation between the cellular material present on the thumbprint and the percentage success of an STR profile for each individual and time point.
Assessing Adherence to PRISMA-DTA Guideline in Diagnostic Test Accuracy Systematic Reviews: A Five-Year Follow-up Analysis
Creators: name: Bossuyt, Patrick
name: Haben Dawit
name: McInnes, Matthew
name: McGrath, Trevor Adam
name: Lam, Eric
name: Thombs, Brett
name: Al-Ghita, Mohammed Kashif
name: Sharifabadi, Anahita Dehmoobad
name: Adamo, Robert
name: Moher, David
name: Salameh, Jean-Paul
name: Frank, Robert
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Adherence of PRISMA-DTA
subject: Diagnostic Test Accuracy
subject: PRISMA-DTA
subject: Systematic Reviews

description: Evaluating the completeness of reporting of recently published DTA systematic reviews (and abstracts) to PRISMA-DTA (and PRISMA-DTA for abstracts) five years following the publication of the PRISMA-DTA.
On the overfly algorithm in deep learning of neural networks
Creators: name: Tsygvintsev, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we investigate the supervised backpropagation training of multilayer neural networks from a dynamical systems point of view. We discuss some links with the qualitative theory of differential equations and introduce the overfly algorithm to tackle the local minima problem. Our approach is based on the existence of first integrals of the generalised gradient system with build-in dissipation.
description: To appear in Applied Mathematics and Computation
MPEC 2024-G97 : 2023 FB55
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FB55

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Neutrino Masses and Mixing Angles in a Supersymmetric SU(4)$\otimes$SU(2)$_L\otimes$SU(2)$_R$ Model
Creators: name: Allanach, B. C.
name: King, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of neutrino masses and mixing angles in a supersymmetric model based on the gauge group SU(4)$\otimes$SU(2)$_L\otimes$SU(2)$_R$ broken at the scale $M_X\approx 10^{16}$ GeV. We extend a previous operator analysis of the charged lepton and quark masses and mixing angles in this model to include the neutrino sector, assuming a universal Majorana mass $M$ for the right-handed neutrinos. The Dirac part of the neutrino matrix is then fixed and the physical neutrino masses and magnitudes of all of the elements of the leptonic mixing matrix are then predicted in terms of the single additional parameter $M$. The successful ansatze predict a tau neutrino mass in the relevant range for the dark matter problem and structure formation, muon and electron neutrinos consistent with the MSW solution to the solar neutrino problem, and tau-muon neutrino mixing at a level which should soon be observed by the CHORUS and NOMAD experiments.
description: 27 pages, latex, no macros, one eps figure
A global model for predicting the arrival of imported dengue infections
Creators: name: Liebig, Jessica
name: Jansen, Cassie
name: Paini, Dean
name: Gardner, Lauren
name: Jurdak, Raja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With approximately half of the world's population at risk of contracting dengue, this mosquito-borne disease is of global concern. International travellers significantly contribute to dengue's rapid and large-scale spread by importing the disease from endemic into non-endemic countries. To prevent future outbreaks and dengue from establishing in non-endemic countries, knowledge about the arrival time and location of infected travellers is crucial. We propose a network model that predicts the monthly number of dengue-infected air passengers arriving at any given airport. We consider international air travel volumes to construct weighted networks, representing passenger flows between airports. We further calculate the probability of passengers, who travel through the international air transport network, being infected with dengue. The probability of being infected depends on the destination, duration and timing of travel. Our findings shed light onto dengue importation routes and reveal country-specific reporting rates that have been until now largely unknown. This paper provides important new knowledge about the spreading dynamics of dengue that is highly beneficial for public health authorities to strategically allocate the often limited resources to more efficiently prevent the spread of dengue.
description: 32 pages, 20 figures
Aprovechamiento y potencialidades de uso de Phytelephas aequatorialis Spruce como producto forestal no maderable
Creators: name: González, Alfredo Jimenez
name: Arteaga, Edison Eduardo Saltos
name: Rodríguez, Marcos Pedro Ramos
name: Cevallos, Cristóbal Gonzalo Cantos
name: Zúñiga, Mónica Virginia Tapia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 70504 Forestry Management and Environment
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: In the Andil and Caña Brava communities, adjacent to the estate of the Southern State University of Manabí located on the Jipijapa-Noboa road, a study was conducted in order to obtain information on the properties and uses of the species Phytelephas aequatorialis as a Product Non-timber forest (NWFP). Based on interviews and discussions, the problem arose that the use of the species mentioned in the area is not sustainable; therefore, the objective of the work is related to evaluating the use of Phytelephas aequatorialis, in these two communities. Field trips were conducted to verify in situ the most common potentials and uses of this species. The empirical survey method was used, and a simple random sampling was carried out by establishing plots of 2 000 m2 (20 m x 100 m). It was verified that there are potentialities for the sustainable use of Phytelephas aequatorialis. Among the main uses of the species were found, food and beverages, essential oils, handicrafts and in a lesser proportion it is used as ornamental. According to the location of the sites and the manner of extraction of this species, actions are needed that contribute to its sustainable use and that involve the social actors of both the University and the communities, including gender and aimed at giving greater protagonism to young people.
MOESM4 of miR-762 activation confers acquired resistance to gefitinib in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Ge, Peng
name: Cao, Lei
name: Chen, Xin
name: Jing, Ruijun
name: Yue, Wanxia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Details of antibodies used in the current study.
Two loop mass effects in the static position space QCD-potential
Creators: name: Melles, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The perturbatively calculable short distance QCD potential is known to two loops including the effect of massive quarks. Recently, a simple approximate solution in momentum space was utilized to obtain the potential in coordinate space. The latter is important in several respects. A comparison with non-perturbative lattice results is feasible in the overlap regime using light $\bar{MS}$ masses. This might be even more promising employing the concept of the force between the heavy color singlet sources, which can be easily derived from the potential. In addition, the better than two percent accuracy bottom mass determination from $Υ$-mesons is sensitive to massive charm loops at the two loop order. We summarize recent results using exact one loop functions and explicit decoupling parametrizations.
description: Version to appear in Proceedings of QCD00
Minijet activity in high E_T jet events at the Tevatron
Creators: name: Summers, David
name: Zeppenfeld, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gluon bremsstrahlung in scattering events with high transverse momentum jets is expected to increase markedly with the hardness (sum E_T) of the primary event. Within perturbative QCD we estimate a probability of order unity to see additional minijets with E_T >~ 15 GeV in ``dijet'' events with sum E_T > 400 GeV. The veto of such minijets is a promising background rejection tool for the Higgs search at the LHC.
description: 10 pages, 3 postscript figures, plain LaTeX, uses epsf.sty, available at http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1995/madph-95-904.ps.Z or ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1995/madph-95-904.ps.Z
Statistical uncertainty in quantum optical photodetection measurements
Creators: name: Banaszek, Konrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a complete statistical analysis of quantum optical measurement schemes based on photodetection. Statistical distributions of quantum observables determined from a finite number of experimental runs are characterized with the help of the generating function, which we derive using the exact statistical description of raw experimental outcomes. We use the developed formalism to point out that the statistical uncertainty results in substantial limitations of the determined information on the quantum state: though a family of observables characterizing the quantum state can be safely evaluated from experimental data, its further use to obtain the expectation value of some operators generates exploding statistical errors. These issues are discussed using the example of phase-insensitive measurements of a single light mode. We study reconstruction of the photon number distribution from photon counting and random phase homodyne detection. We show that utilization of the reconstructed distribution to evaluate a simple well-behaved observable, namely the parity operator, encounters difficulties due to accumulation of statistical errors. As the parity operator yields the Wigner function at the phase space origin, this example also demonstrates that transformation between various experimentally determined representations of the quantum state is a quite delicate matter.
description: 18 pages REVTeX, 7 figures included using epsf. Few minor corrections made, clarified conclusions
Adaptive Discrete Second Order Sliding Mode Control with Application to Nonlinear Automotive Systems
Creators: name: Amini, Mohammad Reza
name: Shahbakhti, Mahdi
name: Pan, Selina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Sliding mode control (SMC) is a robust and computationally efficient model-based controller design technique for highly nonlinear systems, in the presence of model and external uncertainties. However, the implementation of the conventional continuous-time SMC on digital computers is limited, due to the imprecisions caused by data sampling and quantization, and the chattering phenomena, which results in high frequency oscillations. One effective solution to minimize the effects of data sampling and quantization imprecisions is the use of higher order sliding modes. To this end, in this paper, a new formulation of an adaptive second order discrete sliding mode control (DSMC) is presented for a general class of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) uncertain nonlinear systems. Based on a Lyapunov stability argument and by invoking the new Invariance Principle, not only the asymptotic stability of the controller is guaranteed, but also the adaptation law is derived to remove the uncertainties within the nonlinear plant dynamics. The proposed adaptive tracking controller is designed and tested in real-time for a highly nonlinear control problem in spark ignition combustion engine during transient operating conditions. The simulation and real-time processor-in-the-loop (PIL) test results show that the second order single-input single-output (SISO) DSMC can improve the tracking performances up to 90%, compared to a first order SISO DSMC under sampling and quantization imprecisions, in the presence of modeling uncertainties. Moreover, it is observed that by converting the engine SISO controllers to a MIMO structure, the overall controller performance can be enhanced by 25%, compared to the SISO second order DSMC, because of the dynamics coupling consideration within the MIMO DSMC formulation.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 1 table