cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Junctions of three quantum wires and the dissipative Hofstadter model
Creators: name: Chamon, Claudio
name: Oshikawa, Masaki
name: Affleck, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a junction of three quantum wires enclosing a magnetic flux. This is the simplest problem of a quantum junction between Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids in which Fermi statistics enter in a non-trivial way. We present a direct connection between this problem and the dissipative Hofstadter problem, or quantum Brownian motion in two dimensions in a periodic potential and an external magnetic field, which in turn is connected to open string theory in a background electromagnetic field. We find non-trivial fixed points corresponding to a chiral conductance tensor leading to an asymmetric flow of the current.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Pharmacokinetics of single and repeated oral doses of esomeprazole and gastrin elevation in healthy males and females
Creators: name: Helgadóttir, Hólmfríður
name: Lund, Sigrún H.
name: Gizurarson, Sveinbjörn
name: Waldum, Helge
name: Björnsson, Einar S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Gastrin elevation secondary to proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy is well documented. Recent studies have demonstrated a sex-related difference where females on PPIs have significantly higher baseline gastrin levels than males. The aim of the study was to analyse the pharmacokinetics of esomeprazole and short-term effect on serum gastrin levels and evaluate potential sex-related difference. Healthy volunteers received 40 mg of esomeprazole daily for five days. After the 1st and 5th dose blood samples for fasting gastrin and pharmacokinetic analysis were collected at scheduled time-points for eight hours. Esomeprazole was analysed by liquid chromatography and gastrin concentrations were measured using radioimmunoassay. A total of 30 volunteers were enrolled. Females had higher median baseline gastrin (pM) than males 12 (IQR 10–15) vs. 7 (IQR 4–11) (p = .03). In the study cohort, median gastrin levels rose from 10 (IQR 6–14) to 15 (IQR 13–20) (p = .0002). The serum levels for esomeprazole increased by an average of 299.8 ng/mL (p p = .15). In healthy volunteers, serum gastrin increased significantly after a four-day PPI-therapy. There was also a significant increase in serum esomeprazole from day 1 to day 5. The increase in gastrin and esomeprazole concentration was not related to sex and no significant sex-related difference was found in terms of pharmacokinetic parameters. European Clinical Trial Database (2015-002230-41).
Σεξουαλική παρενόχληση γυναικών και ανδρών εργαζομένων στο χώρο εργασίας (μέρος α΄), Yγιεινή και Aσφάλεια της Eργασίας, 11, 3-5.
Creators: name: Stafidas, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170107 Industrial and Organisational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Σεξουαλική παρενόχληση
Claranemobius yaoquensis He & Zhang & Ma 2021, sp. n.
Creators: name: He, Zhixin
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Ma, Libin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Trigonidiidae
Claranemobius
Claranemobius yaoquensis

description: Claranemobius yaoquensis He & Ma, sp. n.
Distribution: Yunnan.
description: Published as part of He, Zhixin, Zhang, Tao & Ma, Libin, 2021, Crickets of subfamily Nemobiinae Saussure, 1877 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea; Trigonidiidae) from China with descriptions of new genera and new species, pp. 1-70 in Zootaxa 5011 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5011.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5157792
IQTISODIY O'SISH AHOLI FAROVONLIGINING OMILI SIFATIDA
Creators: name: Eshqulov, Bahodir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Jamiyatning farovonligi ko‘p jihatdan uning imkoniyatlari yoki milliy boylik deb ataladigan salohiyati bilan belgilanadi. U turli xil xarakter va ta’sir darajasiga ega bo‘lgan ko‘plab omillar ta’sirida shakllanadi. Bu omillar hayotiy zarur ne’matlarni ishlab chiqarish, taqsimlash, ayirboshlash va iste’mol qilishga ta’sir ko‘rsatadi, insonning ehtiyojlari qondiriladigan tabiiy va ijtimoiy muhitning holatini belgilaydi. Ammo iqtisodiy o‘sish farovonlikning yagona omili emas. Ijtimoiy va ekologik omillar ham muhim ahamiyatga ega. Insoniyat resurslarini, ya’ni real boyliklarni, shu jumladan tabiiy resurslarni baholash barqaror rivojlanish yo‘liga o‘tish uchun siyosatdagi qanday o‘zgarishlar zarurligini yaxshiroq tushunishga imkon beradi. Maqolada aynan shu haqda bayon etilgan.
Coherent oscillations in a superconducting multi-level quantum system
Creators: name: Claudon, J.
name: Balestro, F.
name: Hekking, F. W. J.
name: Buisson, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed coherent time evolution of states in a multi-level quantum system, formed by a current-biased dc SQUID. The manipulation of the quantum states is achieved by resonant microwave pulses of flux. The number of quantum states participating in the coherent oscillations increases with increasing microwave power. Quantum measurement is performed by a nanosecond flux pulse which projects the final state onto one of two different voltage states of the dc SQUID, which can be read out.
Dianemobius csikii
Creators: name: He, Zhixin
name: Zhang, Tao
name: Ma, Libin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Trigonidiidae
Dianemobius
Dianemobius csikii

description: Dianemobius csikii (Bolívar, 1901)
Distribution: Hainan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Ningxia.
description: Published as part of He, Zhixin, Zhang, Tao & Ma, Libin, 2021, Crickets of subfamily Nemobiinae Saussure, 1877 (Orthoptera: Grylloidea; Trigonidiidae) from China with descriptions of new genera and new species, pp. 1-70 in Zootaxa 5011 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5011.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5157792
title: New insights in the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation and climate stratigraphy of NW Europe
Creators: name: Donders, Timme Henrik
name: Houben, Alexander
name: Kim , Cohen
name: Hao, Ding
name: Lisanne, Krom
name: Freek, Busschers
name: Crampton-Flood Emily, Dearing
name: Roel, Verreussel
name: Francien, Peterse
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (1); Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2); The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (3)

 The chronostratigraphy and climate record of the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene in Northwest Europe was spurred by pioneering work in the 1960’s by Waldo Zagwijn. This period is particularly important because of the inception of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. However, the classic stratigraphic framework based on palynology is difficult to couple to the Marine Isotopic Stages (MIS) due to a lack of independent dating of the terrestrial deposits. The type area in the Dutch-German border area is characterized by a complex local stratigraphy and represents an incomplete sedimentary record. We aim to reconstruct a new stratigraphic composite reference section for the Late Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene of the shallow marine to deltaic deposits of the north-western Netherlands and North Sea. Recent borehole analyses show clear Late Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene interglacial-glacial cyclicity in the Netherlands, expressing variation in sediment supply, large-scale landscape reorganisation and terrestrial temperature variation. A new 380 m deep onshore borehole targets Early Pleistocene vegetation and marine ecosystem change, in relation to the glacioeustatic and paleoclimatic cyclicity. The shallow-marine to deltaic facies are logged in detail and yield well-preserved and diversified pollen and organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst associations. New onshore and offshore paleomagnetic data allow an improved tie of the terrestrial pollen zones to the MIS‘s. The integrated marine- and terrestrial palynostratigraphic framework for the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene of the Netherlands, in a scientific drilling framework, will lead to improved reconstructions of climate, sea-level and sediment provenance.
Lake sediments as neotectonic archives: Quaternary fault structures in perialpine Lake Thun (Switzerland)
Creators: name: Fabbri, Stefano C.
name: Herwegh, Marco
name: Horstmeyer, Heinrich
name: Hübscher, Christian
name: Mock, Samuel
name: Schlungger, Fritz
name: Schmelzbach, Cédric
name: Weiss, Benedikt J.
name: Anselmetti, Flavio S.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Deglaciation history of the Aare Valley (Switzerland) revealed by seismic stratigraphy of subaquatic moraine complex
Creators: name: Fabbri, Stefano C.
name: Büchi, Marius W.
name: Horstmeyer, Heinrich
name: Hübscher, Christian
name: Schmelzbach, Cédric
name: Weiss, Benedikt J.
name: Anselmetti, Flavio S.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Magnetic Field Induced Spin Liquids in S=1 Kitaev Honeycomb Model
Creators: name: Zhu, Zheng
name: Weng, Zheng-Yu
name: Sheng, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ground state properties of the spin S=1 Kitaev honeycomb model under a magnetic field based on the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculation. With the time reversal symmetry breaking due to the magnetic field, a gapped Kitaev spin liquid is identified for both ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) Kitaev couplings. The topological nature of such Kitaev spin liquid is manifested by the nearly quantized Wilson loop, degeneracy in the entanglement spectra and existence of edge modes. While the FM Kitaev spin liquid is destroyed by a weaker magnetic field $H_*^\text{FM}$, the AFM one demonstrates a robustness up to an order of magnitude larger critical field $H_*^\text{AFM}$. Moreover, an intermediate nonmagnetic phase appears only for the AFM case at larger fields, $H_*^\text{AFM} < H < H_{**}^\text{AFM}$, before the transition to a high-field polarized paramagnet. The stability of the Kitaev spin liquid against the Heisenberg interactions is also examined. Our findings may further inspire the investigation of recently proposed S=1 Kitaev materials.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Proper fluctuations associated with quantum tunneling in field theory
Creators: name: Maziashvili, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that, to the lowest order in $\hbar,$ the particle production related to the tunneling that leads to the false vacuum decay is described by the orthogonal part of fluctuation field with respect to the bounce solution. As a simple example the spatially homogeneous tunneling is considered in order to illustrate the consequences coming from such a restriction of the fluctuation field.
description: Latex, 5 pages, 1 figure
Role of Interleukin-10 Promoter Polymorphisms in Oral Cancer Susceptibility: A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Ru-Yue
name: Li, Lin
name: Wu, Ting
name: Zhang, Zhong-Ti
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Role of interleukin-10 (IL-10) promoter polymorphisms in the risk of oral cancer (OC) remains controversial. The present study aimed to explore the relation between IL10 promoter polymorphisms and the progression of oral cancer by performing meta-analysis. Seven studies with a total of 2141 controls and 1928 cases were included in our analysis. Overall results showed significant associations between IL-10-1082A/G gene polymorphism and OC susceptibility under all five models. However, OC was not significantly related to the IL-10-592A/C or −819 T/C polymorphism (p > 0.05).
A Framework for Cost-benefit Service providing in the Cloud Manufacturing (CSCM), as a basis for Blockchain-based Smart Contract using Axiomatic Design
Creators: name: Goodarzi, Ehsan Vaziri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91005 Manufacturing Management
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: As an important subject in the Ubiquitous Manufacturing and a paradigm of Industry 4.0, Cloud Manufacturing plays an important role in the global economy. The industrial sector consumes 37% of the world's energy and manufacturing is accounted for the consumption of a large proportion of the energy. In the Cloud Manufacturing System, any manufacturing's capabilities consider as the Manufacturing Cloud Service (MCS). The consumer's needs satisfied by the manufacturers as the MCS providers in the cooperative environment. The MCS providers cooperating to develop the composite service for satisfying the consumer's needs as well as the Quality of Service (QoS). The service cost as an important factor of the QoS decreased by the formal cooperation between MCS providers. In the real world, there are many MCS providers in the Cloud Manufacturing System. So, traditional contract management between MCS providers isn't efficient and sometimes impossible. The Blockchain-based Smart Contract facilitates the formal cooperation between the MCS Providers in the Cloud Manufacturing System. This research, developing the framework for Cost-benefit Service providing in the Cloud Manufacturing (CSCM), using Axiomatic Design (AD). The framework is proposed as a basis for the Blockchain-based Smart contract in the Cloud Manufacturing System. The developed framework satisfies CSCM’s measures by using well-known tools called AD. Also, the framework validation is tested by the independent axiom according to the AD's rules.
Effect of antibiotic therapy in patients with ulcerative colitis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Wenjie Xi
name: Zongwei Li
name: Rongrong Ren
name: Sai, Xiao-Yong
name: Lihua Peng
name: Yunsheng Yang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Gut microbiota may play a role in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis (UC). Antibiotic therapy for patients with UC has shown conflicting results. To evaluate the effect of antibiotic therapy in treating UC. PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Wanfang Data, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases were searched to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated antibiotics compared with placebo or no antibiotics in patients with UC. We extracted and pooled the risk ratio (RR). Twelve RCTs were included in this systematic review and meta-analysis, which included 739 patients with active UC. Antibiotic therapy had statistically significant efficacy in inducing remission rate in patients with UC, observed at the end of trials (random-effect RR = 0.77; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.60 to 0.98, p = .03) or at 12 months after trials (fixed-effect RR = 0.83; 95% CI 0.73 to 0.94, p = .003). Antibiotic therapy appeared to induce remission more effectively than a placebo or no antibiotic intervention not only in the short-term but also in the long-term for patients with UC. More high-quality clinical trials are needed before clinical recommendations for antibiotic therapy in UC management are made.
Negativity Spectrum in the Random Singlet Phase
Creators: name: Turkeshi, Xhek
name: Ruggiero, Paola
name: Calabrese, Pasquale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement features of the ground state of disordered quantum matter are often captured by an infinite randomness fixed point that, for a variety of models, is the random singlet phase. Although a copious number of studies covers bipartite entanglement in pure states, at present, less is known for mixed states and tripartite settings. Our goal is to gain insights in this direction by studying the negativity spectrum in the random singlet phase. Through the strong disorder renormalization group technique, we derive analytic formulas for the universal scaling of the disorder averaged moments of the partially transposed reduced density matrix. Our analytic predictions are checked against a numerical implementation of the strong disorder renormalization group and against exact computations for the XX spin chain (a model in which free fermion techniques apply). Importantly, our results show that the negativity and logarithmic negativity are not trivially related after the average over the disorder.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
title: Digital fieldtrip into the Vulkaneifel Unesco Global Geopark (Germany)
Creators: name: Kummer, Sabine
name: Schüller, Andreas
name: Hoffmann, Gösta
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Bonn University, Germany (1); RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2); Natur und Geopark Vulkaneifel, Germany (3)

 This virtual fieldtrip will lead the participants into the geopark „Vulkaneifel“. The aim of the fieldtrip is a) to introduce the geopark; b) to highlight the abilities of the smartphone app OutcropWizard and c) to show the most spectacular landforms and outcrops within the geopark. The UNESCO global geopark „Vulkaneifel“ is located in western Germany. The Eifel mountains situated to the west of the Rhine and are part of the Rhenohercynian Zone. Hence the basement rocks are Devonian sediments. These rocks are exposed in several well-known outcrops across the region. However, the landforms where the name of the geopark is derived from are volcanic in origin. This volcanism is the result of two volcanic phases. Volcanic activity started around 45 million years ago and lasted for ca 10 million years. the second phase is Quaternary and the last eruption is only ca 10 000 years ago. CO2-degassing vents indicate ongoing subsurface magmatic activity. The Eifel has more than 350 volcanic eruption centres. World-famous are the maar-craters, whose international type locality is the Eifel. These spectacular landforms are in most cases water-filled lakes nowadays. These are locally referred to as the “eyes of the Eifel”.
DO WHOLESALE RED MEATS MARKETS OPERATE IN DISEQUILIBRIUM?
Creators: name: Bobst, Barry W.
name: Bedingar, Touba
name: Bobst, Barry W.
name: Bedingar, Touba
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Forward formula pricing in wholesale red meats markets cause transactions quantities and prices to be determined at different times. Use of purchase limits in meat retailing is symptomatic of disequilibrium marketing. Price analysis on specific cuts indicates short-run disequilibrium but aggregation problems prevent reliable estimation of demand functions.
Designing Virtual Soundscapes for Alzheimer's Disease Care
Creators: name: Voisin, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Sound environment is a prime source of conscious and unconscious information which allows listeners to place themselves, to communicate, to feel, to remember. The author describes the process of designing a new audio interactive apparatus for Alzheimer's care, in the context of an active multidisciplinary research project led by the author in collaboration with a longterm care centre (EHPAD) in Burgundy (France), a geriatrician, a gerontologist, psychologists and caregivers. The apparatus, named Madeleines Sonores in reference to Proust's madeleine, have provided virtual soundscapes sounding for a year for 14 elderly people hosted in the dedicated Alzheimer's unit of the care centre, 24/7. Empiric aspects of sonic interactivity are discussed in relation to dementia and to the activity of caring. Scientific studies are initiated to evaluate the benefits of such a disposal in Alzheimer's disease therapy and in caring dementia.
Production of the X(3870) at the Upsilon(4S) by the Coalescence of Charm Mesons
Creators: name: Braaten, Eric
name: Kusunoki, Masaoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the recently-discovered charmonium state X(3870) is a loosely-bound molecule of the charm mesons D^0 and \bar D^{*0} or \bar D^0 and D^{*0}, it can be produced in e^+ e^- annihilation at the Υ(4S) resonance by the coalescence of charm mesons produced in the decays of B^+ and B^- mesons. Remarkably, in the case of 2-body decays of the B mesons, the leading contribution to the coalescence probability depends only on hadron masses and on the width and branching fractions of the B meson. As the binding energy E_b of the molecule goes to zero, the coalescence probability scales as E_b^{1/2} log(E_b). Unfortunately, the coalescence probability is also suppressed by two powers of the ratio of the width to the mass of the B meson, and is therefore many orders of magnitude too small to be observed in current experiments at the B factories.
description: 10 pages, revtex4, 1 figure
Intraperitoneal microdialysis detects intestinal leakage earlier than hemodynamic surveillance and systemic inflammation in a pig model
Creators: name: Soeren Erik Pischke
name: Hødnebø, Stina
name: Wester, Torjus
name: Haugaa, Håkon
name: Kvernebo, Knut
name: Barratt-Due, Andreas
name: Tønnessen, Tor Inge
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Anastomotic leakage is a common complication following large abdominal surgery, often developing to life-threatening abdominal sepsis due to late diagnosis. Currently, diagnostics rely on systemic hemodynamic and infection monitoring. We hypothesized that intraperitoneal microdialysis allows detection of peritonitis prior to changes in standard clinical parameters in a pig model. We included six pigs; five underwent intraperitoneal fecal contamination, one had sham surgery for a total of 10 h. Microdialysis was established in four intraabdominal quadrants and two hepatic lobes. All pigs were hemodynamically monitored with pulmonary artery and femoral artery catheters. Blood samples were assessed for inflammatory markers, terminal complement complex (TCC), interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1). Microdialysis showed intraperitoneal lactate increase during the first two hours after fecal contamination, which remained elevated throughout the observation time with concurrent decrease of glucose. Arterial lactate remained within reference range (<1,6mM). Systemic inflammatory markers TCC, IL-6, IL-10 and PAI-1 increased significantly after minimum four hours. Mean arterial pressure, stroke volume variation and cardiac output were not compromised the first five hours. Sham surgery did not influence any of the parameters. Intraperitoneal fecal contamination leads to a rapid and pronounced intraperitoneal increase in lactate, decrease in glucose while pyruvate and glycerol levels remain unchanged. This distinct metabolic pattern of peritoneal inflammation can be easily detected by microdialysis. Observation of this pattern may minimize time to safe diagnosis of intestinal perforations after intraperitoneal fecal contamination.
title: A mixed methods study using linked demographic surveillance and health facility data to investigate and compare loss to follow-up among women living with HIV who initiated antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy under Option B+ in Agincourt, South Africa
Creators: name: Etoori, D
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2020

description: This thesis aims to investigate engagement in Option B+ (life-long antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIV-positive pregnant and breastfeeding women) among pregnant and postpartum women residing in Agincourt health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in north-east South Africa. Paper A describes outcomes for 1325 patients reported as lost to follow-up (LTFU) in routine clinic records showing that patients who were pregnant at ART initiation have differing outcomes including a lower risk of death. Paper B reports on the spatial distribution of 315 patient transfers between clinics and identifies risk factors for these transfers, showing that pregnant and postpartum women are more likely to transfer their treatment, more likely to not report their transfer to their origin clinic, and less likely to transfer to a clinic outside the study area, when compared to adults in the general population. Paper C evaluates the accuracy of mortality estimates provided through routine treatment records in TIER.Net (the national HIV database), by comparing them to data generated through the record review and patient tracing. The results suggest that TIER.Net underestimates mortality and overestimates programme attrition, with important consequences for treatment programme policy, planning, and monitoring and evaluation, and estimation of the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. Paper D draws on in-depth interview data with women living with HIV to explore the intersection between early infant diagnosis (EID) and maternal engagement in care, finding that continued engagement in care promotes utilisation of EID, but also that the EID result can undermine maternal engagement in care. Paper E documents the challenges faced by patient tracing programmes and the lessons learnt during the ascertainment of patient outcomes and gives recommendations for future practice. The collective findings of this PhD research provide estimates of HIV patient outcomes after LTFU from prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programmes and generate new insights into some of the underlying causes. This research demonstrates the feasibility of using multiple linked data sources to improve the ascertainment of these outcomes.
Model fluid in a porous medium: results for a Bethe lattice
Creators: name: Sokolovskii, R. O.
name: Cates, M. E.
name: Sokolovska, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a lattice gas with quenched impurities or `quenched-annealed binary mixture' on the Bethe lattice. The quenched part represents a porous matrix in which the (annealed) lattice gas resides. This model features the 3 main factors of fluids in random porous media: wetting, randomness and confinement. The recursive character of the Bethe lattice enables an exact treatment, whose key ingredient is an integral equation yielding the one-particle effective field distribution. Our analysis shows that this distribution consists of two essentially different parts. The first one is a continuous spectrum and corresponds to the macroscopic volume accessible to the fluid, the second is discrete and comes from finite closed cavities in the porous medium. Those closed cavities are in equilibrium with the bulk fluid within the grand canonical ensemble we use, but are inaccessible in real experimental situations. Fortunately, we are able to isolate their contributions. Separation of the discrete spectrum facilitates also the numerical solution of the main equation. The numerical calculations show that the continuous spectrum becomes more and more rough as the temperature decreases, and this limits the accuracy of the solution at low temperatures.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Geospatial Analysis of Income Growth in Southeastern United States
Creators: name: Gyawali, Buddhi Raj
name: Banerjee, Swagata (Ban)
name: Gyawali, Buddhi Raj
name: Banerjee, Swagata (Ban)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Agglomeration
subject: BlackBelt
subject: census
subject: clusters
subject: convergence
subject: industries
subject: employment
subject: income
subject: southeastern
subject: spatial

description: Income convergence and both endogenous and exogenous factors causing income growth in the southeastern United States were examined by using county level census data between 1980 and 2000. The study found that spatial variations in education, employment, and industries concentrations were strongly related with income convergence in the region.
An Application of Generative Adversarial Networks for Super Resolution Medical Imaging
Creators: name: Sood, Rewa
name: Topiwala, Binit
name: Choutagunta, Karthik
name: Sood, Rohit
name: Rusu, Mirabela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Acquiring High Resolution (HR) Magnetic Resonance (MR) images requires the patient to remain still for long periods of time, which causes patient discomfort and increases the probability of motion induced image artifacts. A possible solution is to acquire low resolution (LR) images and to process them with the Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (SRGAN) to create an HR version. Acquiring LR images requires a lower scan time than acquiring HR images, which allows for higher patient comfort and scanner throughput. This work applies SRGAN to MR images of the prostate to improve the in-plane resolution by factors of 4 and 8. The term 'super resolution' in the context of this paper defines the post processing enhancement of medical images as opposed to 'high resolution' which defines native image resolution acquired during the MR acquisition phase. We also compare the SRGAN to three other models: SRCNN, SRResNet, and Sparse Representation. While the SRGAN results do not have the best Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) or Structural Similarity (SSIM) metrics, they are the visually most similar to the original HR images, as portrayed by the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) results.
description: International Conference on Machine Learning Applications, 6 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Efficacy of dashboard driven dosing of infliximab in inflammatory bowel disease patients; a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Strik, Anne S.
name: Löwenberg, Mark
name: Mould, Diane R.
name: Berends, Sophie E.
name: Cyriel I. Ponsioen
name: Van Den Brande, Jan M. H.
name: Jansen, Jeroen M.
name: Hoekman, Daniël R.
name: Johannan F. Brandse
name: Duijvestein, Marjolijn
name: Gecse, Krisztina B.
name: De Vries, Annick
name: Mathôt, Ron A.
name: D’Haens, Geert R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Loss of response (LOR) to infliximab (IFX) remains a challenge in the management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Proactive dosing strategies to achieve and maintain predefined IFX trough levels (TL) may prevent LOR. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of dashboard driven IFX dosing compared to standard dosing in a prospective trial in IBD patients. In this multicentre 1:1 ‘PRECISION’ trial, we randomized IBD patients in clinical remission (Harvey Bradshaw Index ≤4 for Crohn’s disease (CD) or a partial Mayo score ≤2 for ulcerative colitis (UC)) receiving IFX maintenance treatment. The precision group (PG) received IFX dosing guided by a Bayesian pharmacokinetic model, aiming to achieve and maintain a TL of 3 µg/ml by treatment (de)escalation as indicated by the dashboard. Patients in the control group (CG) continued treatment without dose adaptations. The primary endpoint was the proportion of patients in sustained clinical remission after 1 year. Eighty patients were enrolled (66 CD, 14 UC), and the median [interquartile range] age was 37 years [27–51]). After one year, 28/32 (88%) of patients in the PG were in sustained clinical remission versus 25/39 (64%) in the CG (p = .017). PG patients had lower median faecal calprotectin levels after 1 year (p = .031), whereas no significant differences in median CRP levels were found. We demonstrated that the use of a Bayesian dashboard for IFX dosing in maintenance treatment for IBD reduced the incidence of LOR compared to standard dosing. Precision dosing also resulted in lower FCP levels. NCT02453776.
EP-1930: Mixed beam radiotherapy for sternum and lung treatments
Creators: name: Mueller, Stephan
name: Risse, T.
name: Fix, Michael K.
name: Tessarini, Stefan
name: Mueller, F.
name: Zaugg, Kathrin
name: Stampanoni, Marco
name: Manser, Peter
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Radiotherapy & Oncology, 127 (Supplement 1)
description: ISSN:0167-8140
description: ISSN:1879-0887
A Comprehensive Analysis of Adoption of Energy Crops, GM Crops and Conservation Practices
Creators: name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
name: Gedikoglu, Haluk
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Sustainable Agriculture
subject: Technology Adoption
subject: Multivariate Probit

description: The future of the US agriculture relies on sustainable resource use and income generation for farmers, and maintaining the environmental quality. Hence, farmers are expected to adopt various technologies and practices, such as energy crops, genetically modified crops, and conservation practices. The objective of this study is, by using a multivariate probit model, to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the impact of certain socio-economic factors on adoption of Miscanthus, Roundup Ready® soybean, and maintaining a 100 foot setback between water resources and manure application areas. The results of the current study show that different policies will be needed to promote adoption of technologies with different objectives.
Efficient Two-Qubit Pulse Sequences Beyond CNOT
Creators: name: Zeuch, Daniel
name: Bonesteel, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We design efficient controlled-rotation gates with arbitrary angle acting on three-spin encoded qubits for exchange-only quantum computation. Two pulse sequence constructions are given. The first is motivated by an analytic derivation of the efficient Fong-Wandzura sequence for an exact CNOT gate. This derivation, briefly reviewed here, is based on elevating short sequences of SWAP pulses to an entangling two-qubit gate. To go beyond CNOT, we apply a similar elevation to a modified short sequence consisting of SWAPs and one pulse of arbitrary duration. This results in two-qubit sequences that carry out controlled-rotation gates of arbitrary angle. The second construction streamlines a class of arbitrary CPHASE gates established earlier. Both constructions are based on building two-qubit sequences out of subsequences with special properties that render each step of the construction analytically tractable.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, published version
EP-1931: Suitability of dynamic trajectory mixed beam radiotherapy for head and neck and brain treatments
Creators: name: Mueller, Stephan
name: Manser, Peter
name: Volker, W.
name: Frei, D.
name: Aebersold, Daniel M.
name: Stampanoni, Marco
name: Fix, Michael K.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Radiotherapy & Oncology, 127 (Supplement 1)
description: ISSN:0167-8140
description: ISSN:1879-0887
Results on $ψ'$ production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at CERN-SPS
Creators: name: Sitta, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results on $ψ'$ production as a function of centrality as measured by experiment NA50, at the CERN/SPS, in Pb-Pb collisions at an incident energy of 158 GeV per nucleon.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, contributed paper to the XXXIXth Rencontres de Moriond (QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions), La Thuile (Italy), Mar.28-Apr.4,2004
Atractides clavipes Lundblad 1954
Creators: name: Gerecke, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hygrobatidae
Atractides
Atractides clavipes

description: Atractides (s. str.) clavipes Lundblad, 1954
(Figs 28 E; 31 L)
 Material examined: Calabria: I 1133, 1/0/0 slide; Lazio: I 887, 0/1/0 slide; I 1291, 1/1 slide; Lombardia: I TG 13-06a, 0/1/0; Sardegna: I TG 17-03a-b, 1/2/0; Sicilia: Etna, Nebrodi, Peloritani, Sicani. I 45, 3/4/0 slide; I 470 Int, 1/0/0 slide; I 531, 2/0/0 slide; I 607, 1/0/0 slide; I 612, 2/0/0 (1/0/0 slide); I 624, 1/0/0 slide; I 642, 1/1/0 slide; I 657, 1/1/0 slide. 13 sites, 26 specimens.
Previously published records from Italy: Abruzzo (Miccoli 2002), Sardegna (Gerecke 2014b).
 Remarks: For a discussion (and revision of erroneous indications in Gerecke 2003), see Gerecke (2014b). Also, the Sicilian specimen from an interstitial dig (470 Int) is typical in comparison with A. tenerifensis Lundblad, 1962b in the presence of sclerotized muscle insertions, a relatively shorter I-L-5 (L ratio I-L-5/6, 0.9), a stouter I-L-6 (ratio L/HC [!] 3.3) and the position of the sword seta of P-4 near distoventral seta. Specimens with weakly sclerotized, in juveniles sometimes unsclerotized muscle attachments, an important feature in comparison to A. graecus (similar in a striated integument and shape of I-L, in spring I 45 coexisting with A. clavipes) is the position of S-1/-2 side by side, in lateral view without any remarkable interspace.
Habitat: Crenobiont or crenophilous. In the study area mostly in weakly seeping rheohelocrenes, one record from the interstitial of a middle order stream. As in the Tyrrhenian islands (250-1000 m: Gerecke 2014b) also in Sicily and continental Italy at middle altitudes, 270-980 m, one record from Lazio at 150 m.
Distribution: Central and Southern Europe, everywhere rare.
description: Published as part of Gerecke, Reinhard, 2021, The water mites of the family Hygrobatidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) in Italy, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 5009 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5009.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5157635
Cardenas-Diaz supplemental figures, videos and materials
Creators: name: Cardenas-Diaz, Fabian L.
name: Leavens, Karla
name: Siddharth Kishore
name: Osorio-Quintero, Catherine
name: Yi-Ju Chen
name: Stanger, Ben Z.
name: Wang, Pei
name: French, Deborah
name: Gadue, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental figures and materials for submitted manuscript entitled "A dual reporter EndoC-βH1 human b-cell line for efficient quantification of calcium flux and insulin secretion"
title: Age-depth model derived from borehole logging and seismic data - sedimentological evolution of Lake Ohrid (North Macedonia/Albania) for the last 1 million years
Creators: name: Ulfers, Arne
name: Zeeden, Christian
name: Wagner, Bernd
name: Krastel, Sebastian
name: Wonik, Thomas
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Germany (1); Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Germany (2); Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany (3)

 To understand the evolution of lake basins, a robust age-depth model is essential. Usually, such model is created based on core material using various dating techniques (e.g. radiometric dating, magnetostratigraphy, tephra dating/identification, biostratigraphy etc.). However, suitable core material is not always available and other less direct methods have to be applied. In this study, we present an approach to develop an age-depth model based on integrating downhole logging data and seismic survey data from Lake Ohrid to obtain a rough but representative model before core opening. Logging data was acquired during an International Continental Scientific Drilling Program campaign in 2013 and seismic data is from pre-site surveys conducted in 2007 and 2008. First, the interpretation of seismic data and the use of cyclostratigraphic methods on downhole logging data lead to development of age-depth models derived from direct correlation to the LR04 benthic stack (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005) at three drill sites at the Lake Ohrid. Based on seismic surveys data, marker horizons are interpreted to support our understanding of accumulation rates. Additional information on sedimentation processes is provided by the evaluation of eccentricity related amplitude modulations using Meyers' timeOptTemplate method (2015, 2019). The use of various, independent methods and the comparison of their age estimations ensures a robust verification of obtained age-depth models. In a second step, we apply cluster analysis to the physical properties of the sediments, construct artificial lithology logs and integrate them into the age-depth models. This step makes first interpretations of the sedimentological evolution possible.
Appendix: detailed statistics of regression analyses
Creators: name: Qiang, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90905 Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: This repository include an appendix and data for the article "Observing Disaster Community Resilience from Space: Using Nighttime Lights to Model Economic Disturbance and Recovery Pattern in Natural Disaster" submitted to the journal of Sustainable Cities and Society for review.
- Appendix.pdf includes detailed statistics and graphs supplementary for the regression analyses in the article.- DN_to_GDP.csv contains data that used to convert Digtal Numbers (DNs) in the DMSP-OLS nighttime light to county GDP in 2012 and 2013.- reg_analysis.csv contains data used for the regression analyses.
Multidimensional Borg-Levinson inverse spectral theory
Creators: name: Soccorsi, Éric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R30

description: This text deals with multidimensional Borg-Levinson inverse theory. Its main purpose is to establish that the Dirichlet eigenvalues and Neumann boundary data of the Dirichlet Laplacian acting in a bounded domain of dimension 2 or greater, uniquely determine the real-valued bounded potential. We first address the case of incomplete spectral data, where finitely many boundary spectral eigen-pairs remain unknown. Under suitable summability condition on the Neumann data, we also consider the case where only the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues is known. Finally, we use the multidimensional Borg-Levinson theory for solving parabolic inverse coefficient problems.
A note on the dyonic D6-brane
Creators: name: Gomez, Cesar
name: Manjarin, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dyon electric charge of D6-branes as eleven dimensional KK-monopoles. We observe that the dyon charge is intimately related with the existence of gauge connections and antisymmetric fields on the brane world volume.
description: 8 pages, Contribution to the 6th International Workshop on Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Models, Landau Institute, Sept. 2002, to honour A. Belavin on the occasion of his 60th birthday
A Strong, Broad Absorption Feature in the X-ray Spectrum of the Nearby Neutron Star RX J1605.3+3249
Creators: name: van Kerkwijk, M. H.
name: Kaplan, D. L.
name: Durant, M.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
name: Paerels, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present X-ray spectra taken with XMM-Newton of RX J1605.3+3249, the third brightest in the class of nearby, thermally emitting neutron stars. In contrast to what is the case for the brightest object, RX J1856.5-3754, we find that the spectrum of RX J1605.3+3249 cannot be described well by a pure black body, but shows a broad absorption feature at 27Å(0.45 keV). With this, it joins the handful of isolated neutron stars for which spectral features arising from the surface have been detected. We discuss possible mechanisms that might lead to the features, as well as the overall optical to X-ray spectral energy distribution, and compare the spectrum with what is observed for the other nearby, thermally emitting neutron stars. We conclude that we may be observing absorption due to the proton cyclotron line, as was suggested for the other sources, but weakened due to the strong-field quantum electrodynamics effect of vacuum resonance mode conversion.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
The Effect of Refrigerator Use on Meat Consumption in Rural China
Creators: name: Zhao, Jing
name: Thompson, Wyatt
name: Zhao, Jing
name: Thompson, Wyatt
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: refrigerator
subject: meat demand
subject: rural China

description: Refrigerator ownership in rural China increased from 14% to 45% over the period 2001-2010.We test the impact on demand for food, particularly meat, using fixed-effect and demand system approaches based on provincial data. Results suggest that rising refrigerator ownership had a negative effect on rural at-home meat demand.