cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Photoproduction of pi0-mesons from nuclei
Creators: name: Krusche, B.
name: Lehr, J.
name: Ahrens, J.
name: Annand, J. R. M.
name: Beck, R.
name: Bloch, F.
name: Fog, L. S.
name: Hornidge, D.
name: Janssen, S.
name: Kotulla, M.
name: McGeorge, J. C.
name: MacGregor, I. J. D.
name: Messchendorp, J.
name: Metag, V.
name: Mosel, U.
name: Novotny, R.
name: Owens, R. O.
name: Pfeiffer, M.
name: Sanderson, R.
name: Schadmand, S.
name: Watts, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoproduction of neutral pions from nuclei (carbon, calcium, niobium, lead) has been studied for incident photon energies from 200 MeV to 800 MeV with the TAPS detector using the Glasgow photon tagging spectrometer at the Mainz MAMI accelerator. Data were obtained for the inclusive photoproduction of neutral pions and the partial channels of quasifree single pi0, double pi0, and pi0pi+/- photoproduction. They have been analyzed in terms of the in-medium behavior of nucleon resonances and the pion - nucleus interaction. They are compared to earlier measurements from the deuteron and to the predictions of a Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) transport model for photon induced pion production from nuclei.
description: 15 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in EPJ A
Influence of different exchange-correlation potentials on twisted structures of bilayer XS2 (X= Mo, Cr)
Creators: name: Sun, Feng
name: Luo, Ting
name: Li, Lin
name: Hong, Aijun
name: Yuan, Cailei
name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we employ the LDA, GGA and GGA with four vdW corrections to study crystal and electronic structures of bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with different twist angles. We find the GGA interlayer distance of bilayer MoS2 has good agreement with experimental value while vdW correction method still needs to be further improved. Our results indicate the GGA interlayer distances of bilayer XS2 (X= Mo, Cr) with twist angles are smaller than that of normal bilayer, which is the opposite in the LDA case. The GGA results show that reduced bandgap is due to the reduction of interlayer distance and, flat valley and conductivity bands appear owing to twist angle. Our study not only supports valuable information for application possibility of twisted two-dimensional (2D) materials but also stimulates more related research.
Bures volume of the set of mixed quantum states
Creators: name: Sommers, Hans-Juergen
name: Zyczkowski, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the volume of the N^2-1 dimensional set M_N of density matrices of size N with respect to the Bures measure and show that it is equal to that of a N^2-1 dimensional hyper-halfsphere of radius 1/2. For N=2 we obtain the volume of the Uhlmann 3-D hemisphere, embedded in R^4. We find also the area of the boundary of the set M_N and obtain analogous results for the smaller set of all real density matrices. An explicit formula for the Bures-Hall normalization constants is derived for an arbitrary N.
description: 15 revtex pages, 2 figures in .eps; ver. 3, Eq. (4.19) corrected
INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT, AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES: TOWARD A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORLD COMMERCE (AUTOMOBILES)
Creators: name: Noellert, William Alan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation addresses the general issue of the role of government policy and actions in affecting the international allocation of resources and the exchange of goods and services between countries. The purpose is to lay the basis for a political economy of world commerce that explicitly integrates trade, investment, and government industrial policy into dynamic analytical framework. The problem is to identify the importance of industrial policy measures in world commerce. This is accomplished through a survey and analysis of industrial policy objectives in major U.S. trading partners and through a case study of the world automobile industry from 1950 to 1981. The specific hypothesis examined for the automobile industry is whether world automotive production and trade has been determined as much by government industrial policy as by trends in comparative advantage. The method of inquiry is to analyze explicitly the extent to which patterns of world automobile production and trade are explained by industrial policies as compared to comparative costs and to hold constant all other factors affecting international competitiveness. The survey results indicate a widespread use of industrial policy measures among both developed and developing countries, with a particular focus on industries considered to offer significant growth potential in terms of output, employment, and exports. The automobile case study indicates that government industrial policies can explain a significant amount of the patterns of production and trade that occurred from 1950 to 1981. Indices of comparative costs are also important in explaining some of the observed patterns of production and trade, but the explanatory results are significantly enhanced when indices of comparative costs are augmented with data on industrial policies. The general pattern observed throughout the period from 1950 to 1981 was that locations of production were more closely correlated with locations of demand than with locations of low cost. The empirical evidence presented indicates that much greater attention should be given to the role of government industrial policy in explaining patterns of world production and trade in manufactured products. However, more case studies of particular industries are required before the results from the analysis of the automobile industry can be generalized.
Additional file 1 of Bringing technology to the mature classroom: age differences in use and attitudes
Creators: name: Staddon, Rachel V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Technology Attitudes Questionnaire
The obscured QSO 1SAX J1218.9+2958
Creators: name: Loaring, Nicola
name: Page, M. J.
name: Ramsay, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from XMM-Newton observations of the obscured QSO 1SAX J1218.9+2958. We find that the previously reported optical and soft X-ray counterpart positions are incorrect. However we confirm the spectroscopic redshift of 0.176. The optical counterpart has a K magnitude of 13.5 and an R-K colour of 5.0 and is therefore a bright extremely red object (ERO). The X-ray spectrum is well described by a power-law ($Γ=2.0\pm0.2$) absorbed by an intrinsic neutral column density of $8.2^{+1.1}_{-0.7}\times 10^{22} cm^{-2}$. We find that any scattered emission contributes at most 0.5 percent to the total X-ray flux. From the optical/near-IR colour we estimate that the active nucleus must contribute at least 50 percent of the total flux in the K band and that the ratio of extinction to X-ray absorption is 0.1-0.7 times that expected from a Galactic dust-gas ratio and extinction curve. If 1SAX J1218.9+2958 were 100 times less luminous it would be indistinguishable from the population responsible for most of the 2-10 keV X-ray background. This has important implications for the optical/IR properties of faint absorbed X-ray sources.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS accepted
Additional file 3 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. List of Leishmania strains used in conventional PCR and PCR-HRM reaction setups.
BOOTSTRAP METHODS FOR FINITE POPULATION SAMPLING
Creators: name: Brick, John Michael
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The estimation of the reliability of sample survey estimates for finite population characteristics is an important statistical problem with practical implications. The bootstrap method is a new procedure for estimating standard errors of statistics. This research examines the applicability of the bootstrap method to finite population sampling problems. The bootstrap is applied in the design based and the prediction approach to survey sampling. The research proceeds by first examining the bootstrap approximations to problems for which there are exact, theoretical results. The bootstrap is then extended to problems for which there are no exact formulae for finding the standard error of the estimate. In the design based approach the bootstrap method is used to approximate the standard error of the inflation estimator of the total and the sample median. The bootstrap estimators for the inflation estimator are nearly identical to the standard theoretical results. The bootstrap bias and standard error for the sample median are examined in a small empirical study. The bootstrap standard error appears to be a reliable approximation of the standard error of the sample median. The bootstrap method is employed for two regression models in the prediction approach. For both models the bootstrap method produces estimators of the bias and standard error of the predictors which are almost equal to known theoretical results. The bootstrap technique is also applied to the problem of predicting the population median using the sample median in a given model. No closed form solution is found but simulation can be used to obtain estimates. The research shows that the bootstrap method produces reasonable estimators of standard errors in some sample survey problems. The bootstrap method overcomes some of the theoretical and practical difficulties of ordinary procedures in both the design based and prediction approach. Further study of the bootstrap in more complex designs and with other models may enhance the usefulness of the method for estimating standard errors.
Modelagem de Disciplina por Competência - Produtos e Serviços de Informação
Creators: name: Freitas, Maria Do Carmo Duarte
name: Byanca Salerno
name: Fornari, Aline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: power point - vídeo poster com detalhe que exemplifica modelagem de disciplina por competência.
BOOTSTRAP METHODS FOR FINITE POPULATION SAMPLING
Creators: name: Brick, John Michael
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The estimation of the reliability of sample survey estimates for finite population characteristics is an important statistical problem with practical implications. The bootstrap method is a new procedure for estimating standard errors of statistics. This research examines the applicability of the bootstrap method to finite population sampling problems. The bootstrap is applied in the design based and the prediction approach to survey sampling. The research proceeds by first examining the bootstrap approximations to problems for which there are exact, theoretical results. The bootstrap is then extended to problems for which there are no exact formulae for finding the standard error of the estimate. In the design based approach the bootstrap method is used to approximate the standard error of the inflation estimator of the total and the sample median. The bootstrap estimators for the inflation estimator are nearly identical to the standard theoretical results. The bootstrap bias and standard error for the sample median are examined in a small empirical study. The bootstrap standard error appears to be a reliable approximation of the standard error of the sample median. The bootstrap method is employed for two regression models in the prediction approach. For both models the bootstrap method produces estimators of the bias and standard error of the predictors which are almost equal to known theoretical results. The bootstrap technique is also applied to the problem of predicting the population median using the sample median in a given model. No closed form solution is found but simulation can be used to obtain estimates. The research shows that the bootstrap method produces reasonable estimators of standard errors in some sample survey problems. The bootstrap method overcomes some of the theoretical and practical difficulties of ordinary procedures in both the design based and prediction approach. Further study of the bootstrap in more complex designs and with other models may enhance the usefulness of the method for estimating standard errors.
Higgs Inflation With Four-form Couplings
Creators: name: Ouseph, C. J.
name: Cheung, Kingman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a new inflationary model in which an antisymmetric tensor field $A_{νρσ}$ and its four-form field strength $F_{μνρσ}=4\partial_{[μ} A_{νρσ]}$ are coupled to the scalar sector of the standard model and to the Ricci scalar $\mathcal{R}$. The four-form field induces modifications to the Higgs self-coupling constant, the cosmological constant, and the non-minimal coupling constant, which results in the modification to the inflaton potential. We also show that there is no need for the Higgs-gravity coupling in the presence of four-form-gravity interaction, but still can produce the right amount of density perturbation for inflation.
description: 9 pages; references added
ANALYSIS OF POLYPEPTIDES BY HIGH RESOLUTION FIELD DESORPTION MASS SPECTROMETRY
Creators: name: Espinosa-Leniz, Rafael
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: An equimolar mixture of silver methanesulfonate and silver trifluoromethanesulfonate is proposed as a calibrating material for exact mass determination in field desorption mass spectrometry. The use of a mass scale established by double exposure of a sample, and a 1:1 mixture of silvermethanesulfonate and silver trifluoromethanesulfonate on a photographic plate was investigated using a variety of peptides of known composition. The accuracy of the method was tested by recording the mass spectra of the peptides at a resolution of about 4,000. Ions that range in mass from 294 for a fragment ion of pentaphenylalanine, to mass 1147 for the {2M+H}('+) ion of methionine enkephalin were recorded. The measured mass was compared with the expected mass calculated from the known atomic composition of the ion. The precision was determined by repetitive measurements of the exact masses of some of the peptides. The results indicate that the mass scale established is useful for the determination of the exact masses of field desorbed ions over the mass range of 294 to 1147, and gives excellent accuracy (about 10 ppm) and precision (about 9 ppm) in the mass range examined.
Overview of the BlockNormal Event Trigger Generator
Creators: name: McNabb, J W C
name: Ashley, M
name: Finn, L S
name: Rotthoff, E
name: Stuver, A
name: Summerscales, T
name: Sutton, P
name: Tibbits, M
name: Thorne, K
name: Zaleski, K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the search for unmodeled gravitational wave bursts, there are a variety of methods that have been proposed to generate candidate events from time series data. Block Normal is a method of identifying candidate events by searching for places in the data stream where the characteristic statistics of the data change. These change-points divide the data into blocks in which the characteristics of the block are stationary. Blocks in which these characteristics are inconsistent with the long term characteristic statistics are marked as Event-Triggers which can then be investigated by a more computationally demanding multi-detector analysis.
description: GWDAW-8 proceedings, 6 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 4 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4.Conventional PCRs primers sequences, reactions, and cycling conditions.
Joint Alignment From Pairwise Differences with a Noisy Oracle
Creators: name: Mitzenmacher, Michael
name: Tsourakakis, Charalampos E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we consider the problem of recovering $n$ discrete random variables $x_i\in \{0,\ldots,k-1\}, 1 \leq i \leq n$ (where $k$ is constant) with the smallest possible number of queries to a noisy oracle that returns for a given query pair $(x_i,x_j)$ a noisy measurement of their modulo $k$ pairwise difference, i.e., $y_{ij} = (x_i-x_j) \mod k$. This is a joint discrete alignment problem with important applications in computer vision, graph mining, and spectroscopy imaging. Our main result is a polynomial time algorithm that learns exactly with high probability the alignment (up to some unrecoverable offset) using $O(n^{1+o(1)})$ queries.
description: Paper appeared in the 15th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2018), invited to Internet Mathematics special issue. Overlaps in text with earlier unpublished note arxiv:1609.00750. (v2 minor updates)
Additional file 5 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S1. Conventional PCR targeting 7SL RNA and HSP70 genes. a Conventional 7SL PCR. Samples from hedgehogs are 1, SED1; 2, FES1. Samples from Meriones are 3, FMZ4; 4, SMZ1; 5, SMZ2; 6, GMZ2; 7, SMZ7; 8, FMZ7; 9, RMZ4; 10, FMZ5. Samples from dogs are 11, dog 32. 12, negative (no DNA). b Conventional HSP70 PCR. Samples from Meriones are 1, SMZ2; 2, GMZ2; 3, SMZ1; 4, SMZ7; 5, FMZ7. 9, negative (no DNA). Reference Leishmania DNA are Lt, L. tropica (L75); Lm, L. major (EMPA10); Li, L. infantum (LV50). –, negative (no DNA). M, molecular weight marker 100 bp. All marked sizes are in bp.
ANALYSIS OF POLYPEPTIDES BY HIGH RESOLUTION FIELD DESORPTION MASS SPECTROMETRY
Creators: name: Espinosa-Leniz, Rafael
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: An equimolar mixture of silver methanesulfonate and silver trifluoromethanesulfonate is proposed as a calibrating material for exact mass determination in field desorption mass spectrometry. The use of a mass scale established by double exposure of a sample, and a 1:1 mixture of silvermethanesulfonate and silver trifluoromethanesulfonate on a photographic plate was investigated using a variety of peptides of known composition. The accuracy of the method was tested by recording the mass spectra of the peptides at a resolution of about 4,000. Ions that range in mass from 294 for a fragment ion of pentaphenylalanine, to mass 1147 for the {2M+H}('+) ion of methionine enkephalin were recorded. The measured mass was compared with the expected mass calculated from the known atomic composition of the ion. The precision was determined by repetitive measurements of the exact masses of some of the peptides. The results indicate that the mass scale established is useful for the determination of the exact masses of field desorbed ions over the mass range of 294 to 1147, and gives excellent accuracy (about 10 ppm) and precision (about 9 ppm) in the mass range examined.
ADOLESCENT ALTRUISM AND SELF-ESTEEM: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
Creators: name: Muhlbauer, Carl Edward
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Social theorists and social psychologists alike have long pondered the nature of a relationship between helping behavior and the individual who helps. This research investigates the relationship between altruism, defined as helping behavior, and self-esteem. Considering the developmental nature of altruism, the focus of this investigation is the adolescent. Although available research suggests a relationship between altruism and self-esteem indirectly or superficially, the present research aims at a more definitive set of findings. Three rival hypotheses are proposed: (1) altruism and self-esteem are negatively related, (2) altruism and self-esteem are positively related, and (3) altruism and self-esteem are not related. Literature and theoretical approaches to support each of these hypotheses are presented. A panel study of 1,965 male and female adolescents in public and private schools in two mid-Atlantic cities is made. The students were surveyed once a year for a three year period using a questionnaire containing the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, as well as items indicating altruistic behavior. Data gathered using the questionnaires are supplemented by teacher reports on the students each year during the study. Cross-lagged correlational analysis, a type of path analysis, is used to test the hypotheses. A weak relationship is found between adolescent altruism and self-esteem. Support is provided cross-sectionally as well as longitudinally over the period of the study. The relationship is also studied as affected by social class, gender, race, age, role-taking ability, empathy, and self-certainty. The findings are interpreted in terms of their contribution toward greater understanding of social cohesion. Explanations for the relationship are discussed in terms of the physical, moral, psychological, and social development of the individual. Implications of the findings in applied areas are discussed as well.
ADOLESCENT ALTRUISM AND SELF-ESTEEM: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
Creators: name: Muhlbauer, Carl Edward
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Social theorists and social psychologists alike have long pondered the nature of a relationship between helping behavior and the individual who helps. This research investigates the relationship between altruism, defined as helping behavior, and self-esteem. Considering the developmental nature of altruism, the focus of this investigation is the adolescent. Although available research suggests a relationship between altruism and self-esteem indirectly or superficially, the present research aims at a more definitive set of findings. Three rival hypotheses are proposed: (1) altruism and self-esteem are negatively related, (2) altruism and self-esteem are positively related, and (3) altruism and self-esteem are not related. Literature and theoretical approaches to support each of these hypotheses are presented. A panel study of 1,965 male and female adolescents in public and private schools in two mid-Atlantic cities is made. The students were surveyed once a year for a three year period using a questionnaire containing the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, as well as items indicating altruistic behavior. Data gathered using the questionnaires are supplemented by teacher reports on the students each year during the study. Cross-lagged correlational analysis, a type of path analysis, is used to test the hypotheses. A weak relationship is found between adolescent altruism and self-esteem. Support is provided cross-sectionally as well as longitudinally over the period of the study. The relationship is also studied as affected by social class, gender, race, age, role-taking ability, empathy, and self-certainty. The findings are interpreted in terms of their contribution toward greater understanding of social cohesion. Explanations for the relationship are discussed in terms of the physical, moral, psychological, and social development of the individual. Implications of the findings in applied areas are discussed as well.
Additional file 6 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S2. PO PCR. Samples correspond to positive controls from mammalian DNA (lanes 1 to 3) and DNA from dogs’ blood (lanes 4 to 9). 1, PBMC (peripheral blood mononuclear cell); 2, ADNh (human DNA); 3, ADNH (hedgehog); 4, dog 10; 5, dog 32; 6, dog 47; 7, dog 49; 8, dog 37; 9, dog 43; –, negative control (no DNA). M, molecular weight marker 50 bp. All marked sizes are in bp.
FINANCIAL CRISES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN THE POSTWAR U.S. ECONOMY (UNITED STATES)
Creators: name: Wolfson, Martin Henry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The object of the dissertation is to understand the causes of the financial crises that have occurred in the United States since World War II. On the basis of a review of the major theories of financial crises, a conceptual framework is constructed with which to approach the data. This framework situates financial crises near the peak of the expansion phase of the business cycle, as the financial condition of the corporate sector begins to deteriorate. It contends that financial crises are to be understood by examining the credit market, in particular the failure of the supply of credit to accommodate the demand for credit. Hypotheses are formulated concerning the reasons for the development of financial difficulties in the corporate sector, the factors influencing the demand and supply of credit, and the defining patterns of a financial crisis. The financial crises of the postwar period are then examined in detail. Beginning with the "credit crunch" of 1966, the survey extends through the threatened loan default by Mexico in 1982. It includes the events surrounding the failure of the Penn Central Transportation Company in 1970, the collapse of the Franklin National Bank in 1974, the silver crisis of 1980, and the Penn Square and Drysdale incidents of 1982. Corresponding to the nature of the subject matter being investigated, the method employed is historical, institutional, and dynamic. The results of the investigation are summarized in a model of financial crises. The main conclusions are as follows: the source of the financial crisis can be traced back to the difficulties that corporations have in meeting debt payment requirements and previously-incurred commitments for investment spending, due to a decline in their profits near the peak of the expansion phase of the business cycle; this necessitous demand is accommodated, primarily by means of liability management, by the commercial banks for their established customers; surprise events, such as the sudden imposition of an institutional constraint or an unexpected bankruptcy, can disrupt the continued flow of credit and bring about a financial crisis: a sudden and intense demand for money.
Remimazolam: First Approval
Creators: name: Keam, Susan J.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Compliance with Ethical Standards
Funding: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Conflict of interest: During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Susan Keam is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here

AbstractRemimazolam (Anerem® in Japan; ByFavo™ in the USA; Aptimyda™ in the EU) is an ultra-short-acting intravenous (IV) benzodiazepine sedative/anesthetic being developed by PAION AG in conjunction with a number of commercial partners for use in anesthesia and procedural sedation. Remimazolam was approved on 23 January 2020 in Japan for use in general anesthesia in adult patients. Remimazolam is also undergoing regulatory assessment in South Korea for this indication and for use in procedural sedation in the USA, the EU and China. This article summarises the major milestones in the development of remimazolam for this first approval for the induction and maintenance of general anaesthesia, and its potential upcoming approvals in general anaesthesia and procedural sedation.

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Bach-flat asymptotically locally Euclidean metrics
Creators: name: Tian, Gang
name: Viaclovsky, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25, 58E11, 53C21

description: We obtain a volume growth and curvature decay result for various classes of complete, noncompact Riemannian metrics in dimension 4; in particular our method applies to anti-self-dual or Kahler metrics with zero scalar curvature, and metrics with harmonic curvature. Similar results are known for Einstein metrics, but our analysis differs from the Einstein case in that (1) we consider more generally a fourth order system in the metric, and (2) we do not assume any pointwise Ricci curvature bound.
description: 54 pages; final version
Chern-Simons Supergravity on Supergroup Manifolds
Creators: name: Castellani, L.
name: Cremonini, C. A.
name: Grassi, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct N=1 d=3 AdS supergravity within the group manifold approach and compare it with Achucarro-Townsend Chern-Simons formulation of the same theory. We clarify the relation between the off-shell super gauge transformations of the Chern-Simons theory and the off-shell worldvolume supersymmetry transformations of the group manifold action. We formulate the Achucarro-Townsend model in a double supersymmetric action where the Chern-Simons theory with a supergroup gauge symmetry is constructed on a supergroup manifold. This framework is useful to establish a correspondence of degrees of freedom and auxiliary fields between the two descriptions of d=3 supergravity.
description: 23 pages, added three references
¿Qué estimación podríamos dar de casos y fallecidos en España por el COVID-19 para el “pico” de la curva?
Creators: name: Alba, Jorge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111001 Aged Care Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111601 Cell Physiology
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 110299 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110302 Clinical Chemistry (diagnostics)
subject: 110707 Innate Immunity
subject: 110310 Intensive Care

description: Debido a los presentes acontecimientos con este artículo se pretende dar una estimación del número de casos y fallecidos para cuando España alcance el máximo de la curva según los datos publicados hasta la fecha y el uso de varias premisas.
FINANCIAL CRISES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN THE POSTWAR U.S. ECONOMY (UNITED STATES)
Creators: name: Wolfson, Martin Henry
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The object of the dissertation is to understand the causes of the financial crises that have occurred in the United States since World War II. On the basis of a review of the major theories of financial crises, a conceptual framework is constructed with which to approach the data. This framework situates financial crises near the peak of the expansion phase of the business cycle, as the financial condition of the corporate sector begins to deteriorate. It contends that financial crises are to be understood by examining the credit market, in particular the failure of the supply of credit to accommodate the demand for credit. Hypotheses are formulated concerning the reasons for the development of financial difficulties in the corporate sector, the factors influencing the demand and supply of credit, and the defining patterns of a financial crisis. The financial crises of the postwar period are then examined in detail. Beginning with the "credit crunch" of 1966, the survey extends through the threatened loan default by Mexico in 1982. It includes the events surrounding the failure of the Penn Central Transportation Company in 1970, the collapse of the Franklin National Bank in 1974, the silver crisis of 1980, and the Penn Square and Drysdale incidents of 1982. Corresponding to the nature of the subject matter being investigated, the method employed is historical, institutional, and dynamic. The results of the investigation are summarized in a model of financial crises. The main conclusions are as follows: the source of the financial crisis can be traced back to the difficulties that corporations have in meeting debt payment requirements and previously-incurred commitments for investment spending, due to a decline in their profits near the peak of the expansion phase of the business cycle; this necessitous demand is accommodated, primarily by means of liability management, by the commercial banks for their established customers; surprise events, such as the sudden imposition of an institutional constraint or an unexpected bankruptcy, can disrupt the continued flow of credit and bring about a financial crisis: a sudden and intense demand for money.
High-dimensional Multivariate Geostatistics: A Bayesian Matrix-Normal Approach
Creators: name: Zhang, Lu
name: Banerjee, Sudipto
name: Finley, Andrew O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Joint modeling of spatially-oriented dependent variables is commonplace in the environmental sciences, where scientists seek to estimate the relationships among a set of environmental outcomes accounting for dependence among these outcomes and the spatial dependence for each outcome. Such modeling is now sought for massive data sets with variables measured at a very large number of locations. Bayesian inference, while attractive for accommodating uncertainties through hierarchical structures, can become computationally onerous for modeling massive spatial data sets because of its reliance on iterative estimation algorithms. This manuscript develops a conjugate Bayesian framework for analyzing multivariate spatial data using analytically tractable posterior distributions that obviate iterative algorithms. We discuss differences between modeling the multivariate response itself as a spatial process and that of modeling a latent process in a hierarchical model. We illustrate the computational and inferential benefits of these models using simulation studies and analysis of a Vegetation Index data set with spatially dependent observations numbering in the millions.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
Analytical investigations on formations of hairy neutral reflecting shells in the scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Creators: name: Peng, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study scalarization of spherically symmetric neutral reflecting shells in the scalar-tensor gravity. We consider neutral static massless scalar fields non-minimally coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We obtain a relation representing the existence regime of hairy neutral reflecting shells. For parameters unsatisfying this relation, the massless scalar field cannot exist outside the neutral reflecting shell. In the parameter region where this relation holds, we get analytical solutions of scalar field hairs outside neutral reflecting shells.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 7 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Table S5. BLAST analysis confirming Leishmania identity in a selection of sequences generated upon direct sequencing of conventional HSP70 PCR products and PCR-HRM products of 7SL and HSP70 targets.
Interoperability Among Knowledge Organization Systems: Mapping the MeSH and LCSH Systems
Creators: name: Olson, Anton J
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Knowledge Organization Systems
subject: Mapping
subject: Interoperability
subject: Subject Headings
subject: Medical Subject Headings
subject: Information Storage and Retrieval

description: Presented at the APLIC 50th Annual Conference, April 25, 2017 held in Chicago, Illinois.
description: As the number of knowledge organization systems (KOS) continues to proliferate, and the increasing tendency of library catalogs and databases to include more than one of them, the integration and interoperability of these multiple KOS continues to be a problem. There are several techniques that can be used to address this problem, one of which is to map equivalent terms in two or more of the KOS. This is the project that Northwestern University began in 1990 with the mapping of the Medical Subject Headings System and the Library of Congress Subject Headings System (and vice versa). The project has continued up to the present. This presentation will briefly describe  the project, some of the issues that we had to solve, and the process of keeping the mapping data current.
Shadows of charged rotating black holes: Kerr-Newman versus Kerr-Sen
Creators: name: Xavier, Sérgio Vinicius M. C. B.
name: Cunha, Pedro V. P.
name: Crispino, Luís C. B.
name: Herdeiro, Carlos A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Celebrating the centennial of its first experimental test, the theory of General Relativity (GR) has successfully and consistently passed all subsequent tests with flying colours. It is expected, however, that at certain scales new physics, in particular in the form of quantum corrections, will emerge, changing some of the predictions of GR, which is a classical theory. In this respect, black holes (BHs) are natural configurations to explore the quantum effects on strong gravitational fields. BH solutions in the low-energy effective field theory description of the heterotic string theory, which is one of the leading candidates to describe quantum gravity, have been the focus of many studies in the last three decades. The recent interest in strong gravitational lensing by BHs, in the wake of the Event Horizon Telescope observations, suggests comparing the BH lensing in both GR and heterotic string theory, in order to assess the phenomenological differences between these models. In this work, we investigate the differences in the shadows of two charged BH solutions with rotation: one arising in the context of GR, namely the Kerr-Newman solution, and the other within the context of low-energy heterotic string theory, the Kerr-Sen solution. We show and interpret, in particular, that the stringy BH always has a larger shadow, for the same physical parameters and observation conditions.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, Contribution to Selected Papers of the Fifth Amazonian Symposium on Physics, v2: references added, v3: typos corrected, matches published version
The evolution operator of the Hartree-type equation with a quadratic potential
Creators: name: Lisok, A. L.
name: Trifonov, A. Yu.
name: Shapovalov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33C45

description: Based on the ideology of the Maslov's complex germ theory, a method has been developed for finding an exact solution of the Cauchy problem for a Hartree-type equation with a quadratic potential in the class of semiclassically concentrated functions. The nonlinear evolution operator has been obtained in explicit form in the class of semiclassically concentrated functions. Parametric families of symmetry operators have been found for the Hartree-type equation. With the help of symmetry operators, families of exact solutions of the equation have been constructed. Exact expressions are obtained for the quasi-energies and their respective states. The Aharonov-Anandan geometric phases are found in explicit form for the quasi-energy states.
description: 23 peges
PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Creators: name: Agee, William R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

description: Calculating productivity in higher education is a new and strange task, but overdue. The external forces affecting the very survival of colleges and universities are now necessitating such undertakings. The entire community of higher education is struggling with limited funds and declining enrollments. The need for higher education to look at itself in terms of meeting goals and objectives of today is a focus of this dissertation. One way higher education can improve itself is through the introduction of productivity improvement programs. The need to utilize resources more efficiently now becomes an urgent and common goal. This dissertation is not a chant of doom, but rather it is a statement of the need to develop a methodology to take advantage of the wisdom of the higher education community in order to achieve a better use of resources. Very little has been agreed upon for higher education productivity measurement or about productivity improvement. Although many profit oriented organizations have instituted productivity improvement programs, research of current literature in higher education indicates virtually no use of such programs. This dissertation reviews some successful business organizations programs, and by way of knowledge transfer, the most important factors for improving productivity are developed into a unified model that can be applied at the department level in an academic institution or to the entire college or university.
PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Creators: name: Agee, William R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Calculating productivity in higher education is a new and strange task, but overdue. The external forces affecting the very survival of colleges and universities are now necessitating such undertakings. The entire community of higher education is struggling with limited funds and declining enrollments. The need for higher education to look at itself in terms of meeting goals and objectives of today is a focus of this dissertation. One way higher education can improve itself is through the introduction of productivity improvement programs. The need to utilize resources more efficiently now becomes an urgent and common goal. This dissertation is not a chant of doom, but rather it is a statement of the need to develop a methodology to take advantage of the wisdom of the higher education community in order to achieve a better use of resources. Very little has been agreed upon for higher education productivity measurement or about productivity improvement. Although many profit oriented organizations have instituted productivity improvement programs, research of current literature in higher education indicates virtually no use of such programs. This dissertation reviews some successful business organizations programs, and by way of knowledge transfer, the most important factors for improving productivity are developed into a unified model that can be applied at the department level in an academic institution or to the entire college or university.
Entanglement of formation for symmetric Gaussian states
Creators: name: Giedke, G.
name: Wolf, M. M.
name: Krueger, O.
name: Werner, R. F.
name: Cirac, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that for a fixed amount of entanglement, two-mode squeezed states are those that maximize Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-like correlations. We use this fact to determine the entanglement of formation for all symmetric Gaussian states corresponding to two modes. This is the first instance in which this measure has been determined for genuine continuous variable systems.
description: 4 pages, revtex4