cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interpretation of Results of Studies Evaluating an Intervention Highlighted in Google Health News: A Cross-Sectional Study of News
Creators: name: Haneef, Romana
name: Lazarus, Clement
name: Ravaud, Philippe
name: Yavchitz, Amélie
name: Boutron, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Journalism--Technological innovations--Moral and ethical aspects
Medical informatics
Health in mass media
News Web sites
Public health
Mass media
Epidemiology

description: Background
Mass media through the Internet is a powerful means of disseminating medical research. We aimed to determine whether and how the interpretation of research results is misrepresented by the use of “spin” in the health section of Google News. Spin was defined as specific way of reporting, from whatever motive (intentional or unintentional), to emphasize that the beneficial effect of the intervention is greater than that shown by the results.

Methods
We conducted a cross-sectional study of news highlighted in the health section of US, UK and Canada editions of Google News between July 2013 and January 2014. We searched for news items for 3 days a week (i.e., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) during 6 months and selected a sample of 130 news items reporting a scientific article evaluating the effect of an intervention on human health.

Results
In total, 78% of the news did not provide a full reference or electronic link to the scientific article. We found at least one spin in 114 (88%) news items and 18 different types of spin in news. These spin were mainly related to misleading reporting (59%) such as not reporting adverse events that were reported in the scientific article (25%), misleading interpretation (69%) such as claiming a causal effect despite non-randomized study design (49%) and overgeneralization/misleading extrapolation (41%) of the results such as extrapolating a beneficial effect from an animal study to humans (21%). We also identified some new types of spin such as highlighting a single patient experience for the success of a new treatment instead of focusing on the group results.

Conclusions
Interpretation of research results was frequently misrepresented in the health section of Google News. However, we do not know whether these spin were from the scientific articles themselves or added in the news.
On the entropy of radiation reaction
Creators: name: Burton, David A
name: Noble, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inexorable development of ever more powerful laser systems has re-ignited interest in electromagnetic radiation reaction and its significance for the collective behaviour of charged matter interacting with intense electromagnetic fields. The classical radiation reaction force on a point electron is non-conservative, and this has led some authors to question the validity of methods used to model ultra-intense laser-matter interactions including radiation reaction. We explain why such concern is unwarranted.
description: 8 pages
Observation of Dirac plasmons in a topological insulator
Creators: name: Di Pietro, P.
name: Ortolani, M.
name: Limaj, O.
name: Di Gaspare, A.
name: Giliberti, V.
name: Giorgianni, F.
name: Brahlek, M.
name: Bansal, N.
name: Koirala, N.
name: Oh, S.
name: Calvani, P.
name: Lupi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasmons are the quantized collective oscillations of electrons in metals and doped semiconductors. The plasmons of ordinary, massive electrons are since a long time basic ingredients of research in plasmonics and in optical metamaterials. Plasmons of massless Dirac electrons were instead recently observed in a purely two-dimensional electron system (2DEG)like graphene, and their properties are promising for new tunable plasmonic metamaterials in the terahertz and the mid-infrared frequency range. Dirac quasi-particles are known to exist also in the two-dimensional electron gas which forms at the surface of topological insulators due to a strong spin-orbit interaction. Therefore,one may look for their collective excitations by using infrared spectroscopy. Here we first report evidence of plasmonic excitations in a topological insulator (Bi2Se3), that was engineered in thin micro-ribbon arrays of different width W and period 2W to select suitable values of the plasmon wavevector k. Their lineshape was found to be extremely robust vs. temperature between 6 and 300 K, as one may expect for the excitations of topological carriers. Moreover, by changing W and measuring in the terahertz range the plasmonic frequency vP vs. k we could show, without using any fitting parameter, that the dispersion curve is in quantitative agreement with that predicted for Dirac plasmons.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, published in Nature Nanotechnology (2013)
Phocidae Gray 1821
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Phocidae

description: Family Phocidae REVIEWED BY: J. E. King (JEK); D. W. Rice (DWR); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR) (U.S. S.R.); H. J. Stains (HJS). ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002000000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
From nuclear structure to neutron stars
Creators: name: Gandolfi, Stefano
name: Steiner, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in quantum Monte Carlo with modern nucleon-nucleon interactions have enabled the successful description of properties of light nuclei and neutron-rich matter. As a demonstration, we show that the agreement between theoretical calculations of the charge form factor of 12C and the experimental data is excellent. Applying similar methods to isospin-asymmetric systems allows one to describe neutrons confined in an external potential and homogeneous neutron-rich matter. Of particular interest is the nuclear symmetry energy, the energy cost of creating an isospin asymmetry. Combining these advances with recent observations of neutron star masses and radii gives insight into the equation of state of neutron-rich matter near and above the saturation density. In particular, neutron star radius measurements constrain the derivative of the symmetry energy.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings of the International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC), 2-7 June 2013, Firenze, Italy
Localization of low-frequency oscillations in single-walled carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Smirnov, Valeri V.
name: Shepelev, Denis S.
name: Manevitch, Leonid I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New phenomenon of a weak energy localization of optical low-frequency oscillations in carbon nanotubes (CNT) is analytically predicted in the framework of continuum shell theory. This phenomenon takes place for CNTs of finite length with medium aspect ratio. The origin of localization is clarified by means of the concept of Limiting Phase Trajectory, and the analytical results are confirmed by the MD simulation of simply supported CNT.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, Supplementary materials
title: Andreas Sutors freundschaftliche Briefe für Jünglinge; 1771
title: Mit einer Anweisung nach Gellerts Geschmack
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sutor, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2009

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Augsburg, bey Elias Tobias Lotter. 1771. - In Fraktur
Quasi-Normal Modes for Subtracted Rotating and Magnetised Geometries
Creators: name: Cvetic, M.
name: Gibbons, G. W.
name: Saleem, Z. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain explicit separable solutions of the wave equation of massless minimally coupled scalar fields in the subtracted geometry of four-dimensional rotating and Melvin (magnetised) four-charge black holes of the STU model, a consistent truncation of maximally supersymmetric supergravity with four types of electromagnetic fields. These backgrounds possess a hidden SL(2,R) x SL(2,R) x SO(3) symmetry and faithfully model the near horizon geometry of these black holes, but locate them in a confining asymptotically conical box. For each subtracted geometry we obtain two branches of quasi-normal modes, given in terms of hypergeometric functions and spherical harmonics. One branch is over-damped and the other under-damped and they exhibit rotational splitting. No black hole bomb is possible because the Killing field which co-rotates with the horizon is everywhere timelike outside the black hole. A five-dimensional lift of these geometries is given locally by the product of a BTZ black hole with a two-sphere. This allows an explicit analysis of the minimally coupled massive five-dimensional scalar field. Again, there are two branches, both damped, however now their oscillatory parts are shifted by the quantised wave number $k$ along the fifth circle direction.
description: 28 pages minor corrections, added references
Cystophora Nilsson 1820
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Phocidae
Cystophora

description: Cystophora Nilsson, 1820. Skand. Faun. Dagg. Djur., 1:382. ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002001000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Thirty Femtograms Detection of Iron in Mammalian Cells
Creators: name: Galimard, A.
name: Safi, M.
name: Ould-Moussa, N.
name: Montero, D.
name: Conjeaud, H.
name: Berret, J. -F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inorganic nanomaterials and particles with enhanced optical, mechanical or magnetic attributes are currently being developed for a wide range of applications. Safety issues have been formulated however concerning their potential cyto- and genotoxicity. For in vivo and in vitro experimentations, recent developments have heightened the need of simple and facile methods to measure the amount of nanoparticles taken up by cells or tissues. In this work, we present a rapid and highly sensitive method for quantifying the uptake of iron oxide nanoparticles in mammalian cells. Our approach exploits the digestion of incubated cells with concentrated hydrochloric acid reactant and a colorimetric based UV-Visible absorption technique. The technique allows the detection of iron in cells over 4 decades in masses, from 0.03 to 300 picograms per cell. Applied on particles of different surface chemistry and sizes, the protocol demonstrates that the coating is the key parameter in the nanoparticle/cell interactions. The data are corroborated by scanning and transmission electron microscopy and stress the importance of resiliently adsorbed nanoparticles at the plasma membrane.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
Global Warming
Creators: name: Mee, Charles L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Theater
Drama

description: A group of people sit on the terrace having brunch—talking about shopping at Saks, and how to cook quail, and how it is to swim in the bay at Acapulco, and whether blue hydrangeas and Sicily and loofah sponges are in or out, and the time the peasants chopped down the Vienna Woods. In the beginning, the stage is dry. During the piece, water slowly rises, until everyone is underwater and has drowned.. [8-10 actors]

Originally produced under the title "The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador."
Topological Photonic Phase in Chiral Hyperbolic Metamaterials
Creators: name: Gao, Wenlong
name: Lawrence, Mark
name: Yang, Biao
name: Liu, Fu
name: Fang, Fengzhou
name: Béri, Benjamin
name: Li, Jensen
name: Zhang, Shuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently the possibility of achieving one-way backscatter immune transportation of light by mimicking the topological order present within certain solid state systems, such as topological insulators, has received much attention. Thus far however, demonstrations of non-trivial topology in photonics have relied on photonic crystals with precisely engineered lattice structures, periodic on the scale of the operational wavelength and composed of finely tuned, complex materials. Here we propose a novel effective medium approach towards achieving topologically protected photonic surface states robust against disorder on all length scales and for a wide range of material parameters. Remarkably, the non-trivial topology of our metamaterial design results from the Berry curvature arising from the transversality of electromagnetic waves in a homogeneous medium. Our investigation therefore acts to bridge the gap between the advancing field of topological band theory and classical optical phenomena such as the Spin Hall effect of light. The effective medium route to topological phases will pave the way for highly compact one-way transportation of electromagnetic waves in integrated photonic circuits.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. To appear in PRL
Construction of the model for the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 simulated data...
Creators: name: Greenberg, David
name: Zhang, Junying
name: Shmulewitz, Dvora
name: Strug, Lisa J.
name: Zimmerman, Regina
name: Singh, Veena
name: Marathe, Sudhir
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Gene mapping
subject: Genetics--Data processing
subject: Linkage (Genetics)
subject: Biometry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 simulated dataset was designed 1) To test the ability to find genes related to a complex disease (such as alcoholism). Such a disease may be given a variety of definitions by different investigators, have associated endophenotypes that are common in the general population, and is likely to be not one disease but a heterogeneous collection of clinically similar, but genetically distinct, entities. 2) To observe the effect on genetic analysis and gene discovery of a complex set of gene × gene interactions. 3) To allow comparison of microsatellite vs. large-scale single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data. 4) To allow testing of association to identify the disease gene and the effect of moderate marker × marker linkage disequilibrium. 5) To observe the effect of different ascertainment/disease definition schemes on the analysis. Data was distributed in two forms. Data distributed to participants contained about 1,000 SNPs and 400 microsatellite markers. Internet-obtainable data consisted of a finer 10,000 SNP map, which also contained data on controls. While disease characteristics and parameters were constant, four "studies" used varying ascertainment schemes based on differing beliefs about disease characteristics. One of the studies contained multiplex two- and three-generation pedigrees with at least four affected members. The simulated disease was a psychiatric condition with many associated behaviors (endophenotypes), almost all of which were genetic in origin. The underlying disease model contained four major genes and two modifier genes. The four major genes interacted with each other to produce three different phenotypes, which were themselves heterogeneous. The population parameters were calibrated so that the major genes could be discovered by linkage analysis in most datasets. The association evidence was more difficult to calibrate but was designed to find statistically significant association in 50% of datasets. We also simulated some marker × marker linkage disequilibrium around some of the genes and also in areas without disease genes. We tried two different methods to simulate the linkage disequilibrium.
Cystophora cristata
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Phocidae
Cystophora
Cystophora cristata

description: Cystophora cristata (Erxleben, 1777). Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:590. TYPE LOCALITY: S. Greenland and Newfoundland. DISTRIBUTION: N. Atlantic and Arctic oceans, from Newfoundland (Canada) to S. Greenland, Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya (U.S. S.R.). Occasionally south to Portugal and Florida (U.S.A.). ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002001001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
title: Ueber die Religion der Vollkommnern; 1794
title: Anmerkungen und Zusätze zu der Schrift des Herrn Oberconsistorial-Raths Doctor Teller
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ockel, Ernst F.
name: Teller, Wilhelm Abraham
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2009

description: In Fraktur
Whole-genome linkage analysis in mapping alcoholism genes using single-nucleotide polymorphisms and microsatellites
Creators: name: Wang, Shuang
name: Huang, Song
name: Liu, Nianjun
name: Chen, Liang
name: Oh, Cheongeun
name: Zhao, Hongyu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Microsatellites (Genetics)
subject: Gene mapping
subject: Alcoholism--Genetic aspects
subject: Single nucleotide polymorphisms
subject: Biometry
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: There is currently a great interest in using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genetic linkage and association studies because of the abundance of SNPs as well as the availability of high-throughput genotyping technologies. In this study, we compared the performance of whole-genome scans using SNPs with microsatellites on 143 pedigrees from the Collaborative Studies on Genetics of Alcoholism provided by Genetic Analysis Workhsop 14. A total of 315 microsatellites and 10,081 SNPs from Affymetrix on 22 autosomal chromosomes were used in our analyses. We found that the results from the two scans had good overall concordance. One region on chromosome 2 and two regions on chromosome 7 showed significant linkage signals (i.e., NPL ≥ 2) for alcoholism from both the SNP and microsatellite scans. The different results observed between the two scans may be explained by the difference observed in information content between the SNPs and the microsatellites.
Colourful Language: Measuring Word-Colour Associations
Creators: name: Mohammad, Saif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Since many real-world concepts are associated with colour, for example danger with red, linguistic information is often complimented with the use of appropriate colours in information visualization and product marketing. Yet, there is no comprehensive resource that captures concept-colour associations. We present a method to create a large word-colour association lexicon by crowdsourcing. We focus especially on abstract concepts and emotions to show that even though they cannot be physically visualized, they too tend to have strong colour associations. Finally, we show how word-colour associations manifest themselves in language, and quantify usefulness of co-occurrence and polarity cues in automatically detecting colour associations.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1309.5391
Effective Utilization of Electronic Resources by Agricultural Research Institutes in Tamil Nadu
Creators: name: Thangiah, Raja
name: J, Arumugam
name: A, Lawrence Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461008
subject: Organisation of information and knowledge resources

description: This study reveals that the availability of e-resources, frequently use of e-resources, purpose of using e-resources and various questions raised from the users of agricultural research institute libraries in Tamil Nadu.
Health risk assessment of toxic elements in groundwater in a major industrial and agricultural basin, (East of Ergene Basin, Turkey)
Creators: name: Arkoc, Orhan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cell Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Ergene Basin is an important agricultural and industrial region and an important water resource. In this current research, groundwater quality of east of Ergene Basin was evaluated using water quality index (WQI), and health risk due to groundwater consumption was assessed with HQ, HI, and CR. Multivariate statistical analyses were performed to evaluate the multiple effects of pollutants on groundwater. Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses were also performed. All samples were in the “excellent” WQI category. Health risk values for adults and children were below the safe limit, both from digestion and dermal exposure. CR values of As in some samples exceeded the threshold value, both for adults and children. Sensitivity analysis revealed that ingestion rate and exposure frequency for adults and exposure duration and concentration of toxic metal for children were the most sensitive variables affecting probabilistic health risk.
Security versus Reliability Analysis of Opportunistic Relaying
Creators: name: Zou, Yulong
name: Wang, Xianbin
name: Shen, Weiming
name: Hanzo, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Physical-layer security is emerging as a promising paradigm of securing wireless communications against eavesdropping between legitimate users, when the main link spanning from source to destination has better propagation conditions than the wiretap link from source to eavesdropper. In this paper, we identify and analyze the tradeoffs between the security and reliability of wireless communications in the presence of eavesdropping attacks. Typically, the reliability of the main link can be improved by increasing the source's transmit power (or decreasing its date rate) to reduce the outage probability, which unfortunately increases the risk that an eavesdropper succeeds in intercepting the source message through the wiretap link, since the outage probability of the wiretap link also decreases when a higher transmit power (or lower date rate) is used. We characterize the security-reliability tradeoffs (SRT) of conventional direct transmission from source to destination in the presence of an eavesdropper, where the security and reliability are quantified in terms of the intercept probability by an eavesdropper and the outage probability experienced at the destination, respectively. In order to improve the SRT, we then propose opportunistic relay selection (ORS) and quantify the attainable SRT improvement upon increasing the number of relays. It is shown that given the maximum tolerable intercept probability, the outage probability of our ORS scheme approaches zero for $N \to \infty$, where $N$ is the number of relays. Conversely, given the maximum tolerable outage probability, the intercept probability of our ORS scheme tends to zero for $N \to \infty$.
description: 9 pages. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2013
Erignathus Gill 1866
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Phocidae
Erignathus

description: Erignathus Gill, 1866. Proc. Essex Inst. Salem, 5:5. ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002002000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Proof of a conjecture of Kulakova et al. related to the sl_2 weight system
Creators: name: Bar-Natan, Dror
name: Vo, Huan T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article, we show that a conjecture raised in [KLMR], which regards the coefficient of the highest term when we evaluate the sl_2 weight system on the projection of a diagram to primitive elements, is a consequence of the Melvin-Morton-Rozansky conjecture, proved in [BNG].
description: 7 pages, 1 figure, European Journal of Combinatorics (2014)
Comparing single-nucleotide polymorphism marker-based and microsatellite marker-based linkage analyses
Creators: name: Ulgen, Ayse
name: Li, Wentian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Microsatellites (Genetics)
subject: Linkage (Genetics)
subject: Single nucleotide polymorphisms
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Epidemiology

description: We compared linkage analysis results for an alcoholism trait, ALDX1 (DSM-III-R and Feigner criteria) using a nonparametric linkage analysis method, which takes into account allele sharing among several affected persons, for both microsatellite and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers (Affymetrix and Illumina) in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) dataset provided to participants at the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 (GAW14). The two sets of linkage results from the dense Affymetrix SNP markers and less densely spaced Illumina SNP markers are very similar. The linkage analysis results from microsatellite and SNP markers are generally similar, but the match is not perfect. Strong linkage peaks were found on chromosome 7 in three sets of linkage analyses using both SNP and microsatellite marker data. We also observed that for SNP markers, using the given genetic map and using the map by converting 1 megabase pair (1 Mb) to 1 centimorgan (cM), did not change the linkage results. We recommend the use of the 1 Mb-to-1 cM converted map in a first round of linkage analysis with SNP markers in which map integration is an issue.
On data-based optimal stopping under stationarity and ergodicity
Creators: name: Kohler, Michael
name: Walk, Harro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The problem of optimal stopping with finite horizon in discrete time is considered in view of maximizing the expected gain. The algorithm proposed in this paper is completely nonparametric in the sense that it uses observed data from the past of the process up to time $-n+1$, $n\in\mathbb{N}$, not relying on any specific model assumption. Kernel regression estimation of conditional expectations and prediction theory of individual sequences are used as tools. It is shown that the algorithm is universally consistent: the achieved expected gain converges to the optimal value for $n\to\infty$ whenever the underlying process is stationary and ergodic. An application to exercising American options is given, and the algorithm is illustrated by simulated data.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ439 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Variable window binding for mutually exclusive alternative splicing
Creators: name: Anastassiou, Dimitris
name: Liu, Hairuo
name: Varadan, Vinay
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: RNA splicing
subject: Locus of control
subject: Exons (Genetics)
subject: Messenger RNA
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: Genes of advanced organisms undergo alternative splicing, which can be mutually exclusive, in the sense that only one exon is included in the mature mRNA out of a cluster of alternative choices, often arranged in a tandem array. In many cases, however, the details of the underlying biologic mechanisms are unknown.
Results: We describe 'variable window binding' - a mechanism used for mutually exclusive alternative splicing by which a segment ('window') of a conserved nucleotide 'anchor' sequence upstream of the exon 6 cluster in the pre-mRNA of the fruitfly Dscam gene binds to one of the introns, thereby activating selection of the exon directly downstream from the binding site. This mechanism is supported by the fact that the anchor sequence can be inferred solely from a comparison of the intron sequences using a genetic algorithm. Because the window location varies for each exon choice, regulation can be achieved by obstructing part of that sequence. We also describe a related mechanism based on competing pre-mRNA stem-loop structures that could explain the mutually exclusive choice of exon 17 of the Dscam gene.
Conclusion: On the basis of comparative sequence analysis, we propose efficient biologic mechanisms of alternative splicing of the Drosophila Dscam gene that rely on the inherent structure of the pre-mRNA. Related mechanisms employing 'locus control regions' could be involved on other occasions of mutually exclusive choices of exons or genes.
Die Welt in einer Nuß oder Die Historien vom Anfang Der Welt samt deren Zeit-Rechnung bis auff unsere Zeit auf eine besondere und ganz leichte Art kurz zusammen zufassen oder ausgebreitet in einem Augenblick auf einer einigen Tafel zu wiederhohlen, fürgeschrieben und fürgebildet; [1726]
Creators: name: Weigel, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2009

description: NST: Orbis Terrarvm in Nvce
Erignathus barbatus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Phocidae
Erignathus
Erignathus barbatus

description: Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben, 1777). Syst. Regn. Anim., 1:590. TYPE LOCALITY: North Atlantic, S. Greenland. DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar Arctic seas, south to Hokkaido (Japan) and Newfoundland (Canada). ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002002001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
ΜΟΧΕ: «Βιλφρίδος» (Ουΐλφριντ), τόμ. 4, σ. 206.
Creators: name: Vasileiadis, Pavlos D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Παύλος Βασιλειάδης
Pavlos Vasileiadis
Wilfrid
Βιλφρίδος
Ουΐλφριντ

description: English title: “Wilfrid,” Encyclopedia ΜΟΧΕ vol. 4, p. 206.
Fine tuning of micropillar cavity modes through repetitive oxidations
Creators: name: Bakker, Morten P.
name: suntrup, Donal J.
name: Snijders, Henk
name: Truong, Tuan-Ahn
name: Petroff, Pierre M.
name: Bouwmeester, Dirk
name: van Exter, Martin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Repetitive wet thermal oxidations of a tapered oxide aperture in a micropillar structure are demonstrated. After each oxidation step the confined optical modes are analyzed at room temperature. Three regimes are identified. First, the optical confinement increases when the aperture oxidizes towards the center. Then, the cavity modes shift by more than 30 nm, when the taper starts to oxidize through the center, leading to a decrease in the optical path length. Finally, the resonance frequency levels o?f, when the aperture is oxidized all the way through the micropillar, but confined optical modes with a high quality factor remain. This repetitive oxidation technique therefore enables precise control of the optical cavity volume or wavelength.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
title: The Relative Effects of Functional Diversity and Structural Complexity on Carbon Dynamics in Late-Successional, Northeastern Mixed Hardwood Forests
Creators: name: Myers, Samantha
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

description: Late-successional forests provide a unique opportunity to explore adaptive management approaches that mitigate atmospheric carbon dioxide levels through carbon storage while also enhancing ecological resilience to novel climate and disturbances. Typical benchmarks for adaptive forest management include species diversity and structural complexity, which are widely considered to increase ecosystem stability and productivity. However, the role of functional trait diversity (e.g., variation in leaf and stem traits) in driving forest productivity and ecosystem resilience remains underexplored. We leveraged existing continuous forest inventory (CFI) data and collected local functional trait observations from CFI plots within late-successional forests in western Massachusetts to explore links between aboveground carbon storage and different types of forest diversity. We then fit a linear model within a Bayesian hierarchical framework applying functional diversity, species diversity, and structural complexity as predictors of live aboveground biomass (AGB) within CFI plots. Our framework integrates local functional trait information with database species mean trait values using a multivariate structure to account for inherent trait syndromes and estimate functional diversity in each plot. Across 626 plot-timepoints, we found that integrating individual functional trait information from co-located plots yielded the best predictions of live AGB. Contrary to expectations, functional diversity had a negative relationship with live AGB. Whereas plots with low functional diversity and higher AGB were dominated by mid-to-late successional hardwood species, plots with high functional diversity had more shade-intolerant species and lower AGB mediated by recent small-scale disturbances. Our results reveal an ontogenetic shift in the effects of functional diversity on AGB productivity over the course of succession in northeastern temperate forests. Corroborating with classical models of biomass development in late-successional northern hardwood forests, our findings support the need for adaptive forest carbon management to facilitate a mosaic of different forest successional stages across the landscape to maximize live aboveground carbon benefits in northeastern mixed hardwood forests.
Modular perverse sheaves on flag varieties II: Koszul duality and formality
Creators: name: Achar, Pramod N.
name: Riche, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Building on the theory of parity sheaves due to Juteau-Mautner-Williamson, we develop a formalism of "mixed modular perverse sheaves" for varieties equipped with a stratification by affine spaces. We then give two applications: (1) a "Koszul-type" derived equivalence relating a given flag variety to the Langlands dual flag variety, and (2) a formality theorem for the modular derived category of a flag variety (extending a previous result of Riche-Soergel-Williamson).
description: 40 pages. v2: minor revisions
Whole-genome association analysis to identify markers associated with recombination rates using single-nucleotide polymorphisms and microsatellites
Creators: name: Huang, Song
name: Wang, Shuang
name: Liu, Nianjun
name: Chen, Liang
name: Oh, Cheongeun
name: Zhao, Hongyu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Single nucleotide polymorphisms
subject: Microsatellites (Genetics)
subject: Gene mapping
subject: Genetic recombination--Research
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biometry

description: Recombination during meiosis is one of the most important biological processes, and the level of recombination rates for a given individual is under genetic control. In this study, we conducted genome-wide association studies to identify chromosomal regions associated with recombination rates. We analyzed genotype data collected on the pedigrees in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics on Alcoholism data provided by Genetic Analysis Workshop 14. A total of 315 microsatellites and 10,081 single-nucleotide polymorphisms from Affymetrix on 22 autosomal chromosomes were used in our association analysis. Genome-wide gender-specific recombination counts for family founders were inferred first and association analysis was performed using multiple linear regressions. We used the positive false discovery rate (pFDR) to account for multiple comparisons in the two genome-wide scans. Eight regions showed some evidence of association with recombination counts based on the single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis after adjusting for multiple comparisons. However, no region was found to be significant using microsatellites.
Applications of pcf for mild large cardinals to elementary embeddings
Creators: name: Gitik, Moti
name: Shelah, Saharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E35, 03E45, 03E55, 03E04

description: The following pcf results are proved: 1. Assume that kappa > aleph_0 is a weakly compact cardinal. Let mu > 2^kappa be a singular cardinal of cofinality kappa. Then for every regular lambda < pp^+_{Gamma(kappa)} (mu) there is an increasing sequence (lambda_i | i < kappa) of regular cardinals converging to mu such that lambda = tcf(prod_{i < kappa} lambda_i, sup{sup pcf_{sigma_*-complete} (frak a) | frak a subseteq Reg cap (mu^+, chi) and |frak a| < mu}. As an application we show that: if kappa is a measurable cardinal and j:V to M is the elementary embedding by a kappa-complete ultrafilter over kappa, then for every tau the following holds: 1. if j(tau) is a cardinal then j(tau) = tau; 2. |j(tau)| = |j(j(tau))|; 3. for any kappa-complete ultrafilter W on kappa, |j (tau)| = |j_W(tau)|. The first two items provide affirmative answers to questions from Gitik and Shelah (1993) [2] and the thrid to a question of D. Fremlin.
Determination of the Critical Concentration of Neutrophils Required to Block Bacterial Growth in Tissues
Creators: name: Li, Yongmei
name: Karlin, Arthur
name: Loike, John D.
name: Silverstein, Samuel C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Bacterial growth
subject: Biophysics--Research
subject: Neutrophils
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular biology

description: We showed previously that the competition between bacterial killing by neutrophils and bacterial growth in stirred serum-containing suspensions could be modeled as the competition between a first-order reaction (bacterial growth) and a second-order reaction (bacterial killing by neutrophils). The model provided a useful parameter, the critical neutrophil concentration (CNC), below which bacterial concentration increased and above which it decreased, independent of the initial bacterial concentration. We report here that this model applies to neutrophil killing of bacteria in three-dimensional fibrin matrices and in rabbit dermis. We measured killing of 103–108 colony forming units/ml Staphylococcus epidermidis by 105–108 human neutrophils/ml in fibrin gels. The CNC was ∼4 × 106 neutrophils/ml gel in the presence of normal serum and ∼1.6 × 107 neutrophils/ml gel in the presence of C5-deficient serum. Application of our model to published data of others on killing of ∼5 × 107 to 2 × 108 E. coli/ml rabbit dermis yielded CNCs from ∼4 × 106 to ∼8 × 106 neutrophils/ml dermis. Thus, in disparate tissues and tissuelike environments, our model fits the kinetics of bacterial killing and gives similar lower limits (CNCs) to the neutrophil concentration required to control bacterial growth.
Halichoerus Nilsson 1820
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Phocidae
Halichoerus

description: Halichoerus Nilsson, 1820. Skand. Faun. Dagg. Djur., 1:376. ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002003000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
The impact of mobile nodes arrival patterns in mobile ad hoc networks using poisson models
Creators: name: Tengviel, John
name: Dotche, Koffi A.
name: Diawuo, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are dynamic networks populated by mobile stations, or mobile nodes (MNs). Specifically, MANETs consist of a collection of nodes randomly placed in a line (not necessarily straight). Mobile Ad hoc Networks do appear in many real-world network applications such as a vehicular Mobile Ad hoc Networks built along a highway in a city environment or people in a particular location. Mobile Nodes in Mobile Ad hoc Networks are usually laptops, Personal Digital Assistants or mobile phones. These devices may use Blue-tooth and/or IEEE 802.11 network interfaces and communicate in a decentralized manner. Mobility is a key feature of Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Each node may work as a router and the network can dynamically change with time; when new nodes can join, and other nodes can leave the network. This paper presents comparative results that have been carried out via Matrix lab software simulation. The study investigates the impact of mobile nodes parameters such as the speed, the arrival rate and the size of mobile nodes in a given area using Poisson distribution. The results have indicated that mobile nodes arrival rates may have influence on Mobile Nodes population (as a larger number) in a location.
description: 17 pages, 9 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1309.5725
ΜΟΧΕ: «Βίντα, Μάρκο Τζιρόλαμο», τόμ. 4, σσ. 207, 208.
Creators: name: Vasileiadis, Pavlos D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Παύλος Βασιλειάδης
Pavlos Vasileiadis
Vida, Marco Girolamo
Βίντα, Μάρκο Τζιρόλαμο

description: English title: “Vida, Marco Girolamo,” Encyclopedia ΜΟΧΕ vol. 4, pp. 207, 208.
Gemfibrozil Inhibits Legionella pneumophila and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Enoyl Coenzyme A Reductases and Blocks Intracellular Growth of These Bacteria in Macrophages
Creators: name: Reich-Slotky, Ronit
name: Kabbash, Christina A.
name: Della-Latta, Phyllis
name: Blanchard, John S.
name: Feinmark, Steven Jay
name: Freeman, Sherry
name: Kaplan, Gilla
name: Shuman, Howard A.
name: Silverstein, Samuel C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
subject: Intracellular pathogens
subject: Legionella pneumophila
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular biology

description: We report here that gemfibrozil (GFZ) inhibits axenic and intracellular growth of Legionella pneumophila and of 27 strains of wild-type and multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in bacteriological medium and in human and mouse macrophages, respectively. At a concentration of 0.4 mM, GFZ completely inhibited L. pneumophila fatty acid synthesis, while at 0.12 mM it promoted cytoplasmic accumulation of polyhydroxybutyrate. To assess the mechanism(s) of these effects, we cloned an L. pneumophila FabI enoyl reductase homolog that complemented for growth an Escherichia coli strain carrying a temperature-sensitive enoyl reductase and rendered the complemented E. coli strain sensitive to GFZ at the nonpermissive temperature. GFZ noncompetitively inhibited this L. pneumophila FabI homolog, as well as M. tuberculosis InhA and E. coli FabI.
Are We Ready for Mass Fatality Incidents? Preparedness of the US Mass Fatality Infrastructure
Creators: name: Merrill, Jacqueline A.
name: Orr, Mark
name: Chen, Daniel
name: Zhi, Qi
name: Gershon, Robyn R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mass casualties
subject: Medical care
subject: Emergency management
subject: Disaster medicine
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Health services administration
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Objective To assess the preparedness of the US mass fatality infrastructure, we developed and tested metrics for 3 components of preparedness: organizational, operational, and resource sharing networks.
Methods In 2014, data were collected from 5 response sectors: medical examiners and coroners, the death care industry, health departments, faith-based organizations, and offices of emergency management. Scores were calculated within and across sectors and a weighted score was developed for the infrastructure.
Results A total of 879 respondents reported highly variable organizational capabilities: 15% had responded to a mass fatality incident (MFI); 42% reported staff trained for an MFI, but only 27% for an MFI involving hazardous contaminants. Respondents estimated that 75% of their staff would be willing and able to respond, but only 53% if contaminants were involved. Most perceived their organization as somewhat prepared, but 13% indicated “not at all.” Operational capability scores ranged from 33% (death care industry) to 77% (offices of emergency management). Network capability analysis found that only 42% of possible reciprocal relationships between resource-sharing partners were present. The cross-sector composite score was 51%; that is, half the key capabilities for preparedness were in place.
Conclusions The sectors in the US mass fatality infrastructure report suboptimal capability to respond. National leadership is needed to ensure sector-specific and infrastructure-wide preparedness for a large-scale MFI.
2019 Cognitive Testing of the Agricultural Labor Survey
Creators: name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Ott, Kathy
name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: Ott, Kathy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Labor
subject: hours worked
subject: wages
subject: cognitive testing

description: Cognitive testing was conducted on the 2019 Agricultural Labor Survey to test proposed changes for April 2020. Among these changes were 1. The addition of an instructions page at the beginning of the questionnaire; 2. Changes to the definitions for reporting agricultural worker codes and wages; 3. Changing the reference period to the pay period that included the 12th of the month; and 4. The addition of base and overtime hours. Three iterative rounds of testing were conducted. The following report provides a summary of the findings and recommendations for the April 2020 Agricultural Labor Survey.