cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The generalized second law of gravitational thermodynamics on the apparent horizon in f(R)-gravity
Creators: name: Karami, K.
name: Khaledian, M. S.
name: Abdollahi, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in the framework of $f(R)$-gravity. We consider a FRW universe filled only with ordinary matter enclosed by the dynamical apparent horizon with the Hawking temperature. For a viable modified gravity model as $f(R)=R-α/R+βR^{2}$, we examine the validity of the GSL during the early inflation and late acceleration eras. Our results show that for the selected $f(R)$-gravity model minimally coupled with matter, the GSL in the early inflation epoch is satisfied only for the special range of the equation of state parameter of the matter. But in the late acceleration regime, the GSL is always respected.
description: 10 pages, accepted by Europhys. Lett. 2012
Erkenntnis mit moerderischen Folgen. Sozialgeschichtliche Bibelauslegung zu Gen
3,1-19
Creators: name: Kahl, Brigitte W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Religion
Theology

description: Wenige Texte der Bibel sind von ihrer Auslegungsgeschichte so folgenschwer belastet und verzeichnet wie Gen. 3. Die sogenannte Sündenfallerzählung hat das patriarchale christliche Welt-und Menschenbild aufs nachhaltigste geprägt. Und wie kaum anderswo haben sich hier die Bilder gegenüber den Buchstaben verselbständigt, sind tief ins kulturelle Subtrat des "christlichen" Ablanddes eingedrungen.
The fully differential hadronic production of a Higgs boson via bottom quark fusion at NNLO
Creators: name: Buehler, Stephan
name: Herzog, Franz
name: Lazopoulos, Achilleas
name: Mueller, Romain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fully differential computation of the hadronic production cross section of a Higgs boson via bottom quarks is presented at NNLO in QCD. Several differential distributions with their corresponding scale uncertainties are presented for the 8 TeV LHC. This is the first application of the method of non-linear mappings for NNLO differential calculations at hadron colliders.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures, 1 lego plot
title: Use of the Manning equation for predicting the discharge of high-gradient canals and natural streams
title: Hydrology days 2018
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2018
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ostraff, Ashley A.
name: Emerman, Steven H.
name: Udy, Nicholas D.
name: Allen, Sarah M.
name: Rakotoarisaona, Henintsoa
name: Gherasim, Janelle
name: Stallings, Alison M.
name: Saldivar, Jeremy N.
name: Larsen, Kenneth L.
name: Abbott, Morgan
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2018

description: 2018 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 19 - March 21, 2018.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: The Manning Equation is used to predict stream or canal discharge from hydraulic radius, slope of the water surface, and a Manning roughness coefficient. Jarrett (1984) proposed that, for high-gradient streams (S > 0.002), the Manning roughness coefficient could be predicted from the hydraulic radius and the slope alone. The objective of this study was to develop separate empirical formulae, depending upon climate and stream bank lithology, for predicting the Manning roughness coefficient for high-gradient canals and natural streams from hydraulic radius and slope. The objective was addressed by separating the database used by Jarrett (1984) according to stream bank lithology, and by carrying out new measurements of the Manning roughness coefficient at nine high-gradient stream sites with crystalline (igneous and metamorphic) banks and two high-gradient stream sites with carbonate banks in Haiti, nine high-gradient stream sites with carbonate banks in Utah, and 14 high-gradient canals in Utah. The data were used to develop empirical formulae for predicting the Manning roughness coefficient for (1) continental climate, clastic stream bank (2) tropical climate, crystalline stream bank (3) continental/tropical climate, carbonate stream bank (4) continental climate, earthen canal with grassy bank. The Manning roughness coefficient was a negative function of hydraulic radius for the first case and a positive function for the other cases, suggesting that the increase in turbulent resistance is caused by the roughness of the sediment in the first case, but by the increase in the Reynolds number, which is proportional to the depth, in the other cases.
An Extended Network Coding Opportunity Discovery Scheme in Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Zhao, Yunlong
name: Dong, Zhao
name: Iwai, Masayuki
name: Sezaki, Kaoru
name: Tobe, Yoshito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network coding is known as a promising approach to improve wireless network performance. How to discover the coding opportunity in relay nodes is really important for it. There are more coding chances, there are more times it can improve network throughput by network coding operation. In this paper, an extended network coding opportunity discovery scheme (ExCODE) is proposed, which is realized by appending the current node ID and all its 1-hop neighbors' IDs to the packet. ExCODE enables the next hop relay node to know which nodes else have already overheard the packet, so it can discover the potential coding opportunities as much as possible. ExCODE expands the region of discovering coding chance to n-hops, and have more opportunities to execute network coding operation in each relay node. At last, we implement ExCODE over the AODV protocol, and efficiency of the proposed mechanism is demonstrated with NS2 simulations, compared to the existing coding opportunity discovery scheme.
description: 15 pages and 7 figures
title: Computed tomography angiography assessment of acute aortic syndromes: evolving terminology and clinical impact
Creators: name: Modares, Mana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Dissection
subject: Acute
subject: Education
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review current classifications of acute aortic syndromes and their limitations Highlight the important differentiating features and associated findings that may have prognostic impact Provide recommendations for reporting CT-angiograms to guide...
title: Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumours- Killing me softly
Creators: name: Ilangovan, Gurubharath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: ·To discuss the classification of soft tissue tumors and tumor like lesions. ·To describe and illustrate the radiologic features of different types of soft tissue tumors in the body and also to review their differentials. ·To review the role of...
title: Imaging of Brachial Plexus Injuries - Dont hurt my route
Creators: name: Ilangovan, Gurubharath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Trauma
subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Vascular
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: ·To describe the normal anatomy of the brachial plexus and to name the most common symptoms associated with a brachial plexopathy. ·To evaluate the role of MRI in the imaging of brachial plexus. ·To describe the most common imaging findings...
Phase diagram of the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice in applied magnetic field
Creators: name: Seabra, Luis
name: Momoi, Tsutomu
name: Sindzingre, Philippe
name: Shannon, Nic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a two-dimensional triangular lattice is a paradigmatic problem in frustrated magnetism. Even in the classical limit, its properties are far from simple. The "120 degree" ground state favoured by the frustrated antiferromagnetic interactions contains a hidden chiral symmetry, and supports two distinct types of excitation. And famously, three distinct phases, including a collinear one-third magnetisation plateau, are stabilised by thermal fluctuations in applied magnetic field. The questions of symmetry-breaking raised by this model are deep and subtle, and after more than thirty years of study, many of the details of its phase diagram remain surprisingly obscure. In this paper we use modern Monte Carlo simulation techniques to determine the finite-temperature phase diagram of the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice in applied magnetic field. At low to intermediate values of magnetic field, we find evidence for a continuous phase transition from the paramagnet into the collinear one-third magnetisation plateau, belonging to the three-state Potts universality class. We also find evidence for conventional Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions from the one-third magnetisation plateau into the canted "Y-state", and into the 2:1 canted phase found at high fields. However, the phase transition from the paramagnet into the 2:1 canted phase, while continuous, does not appear to fall into any conventional universality class. We argue that this, like the chiral phase transition discussed in zero field, deserves further study as an interesting example of a finite-temperature phase transition with compound order-parameter symmetry. We comment on the relevance of these results for experiments on magnetic materials with a triangular lattice.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures, very minor changes
Extension, disruption, and translation of an orogenic wedge by exhumation of large ultrahigh-pressure terranes: Examples from the Norwegian Caledonides
Creators: name: Brueckner, Hannes K.
name: Cuthbert, Simon J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology, Structural
subject: Plate tectonics
subject: Metamorphic rocks

description: Far-traveled allochthons (greater than 100 km) within collisional orogenic wedges may have undergone significant lateral movement by passive transport (in addition to thrusting) where they lie tectonically above large, exhumed, high-pressure/ultrahigh-pressure (HP/UHP) metamorphic terranes. Continental collision results in the subduction of one craton beneath another into the mantle. The subducted craton undergoes HP/UHP metamorphism, while an accretionary orogenic wedge develops simultaneously at its junction with the overlying craton. The subsequent exhumation of a large HP/UHP terrane by either far-field extension or buoyancy-driven extrusion, or both, reverses the shear traction along its upper boundary from foreland-directed thrust motion to hinterland-directed normal displacement. This normal-sense shear can stretch, thin, and fragment the overlying wedge and even carry a detached frontal fragment passively toward the foreland on top of the exhuming plate. The total “piggyback” displacement would be a function of the amount of exhumation of the HP/UHP terrane and the timing of its breakoff from the hinterland portion of the wedge. This model is applied to the Trondheim and Jotun nappe complexes of the Caledonides of southern Scandinavia, which were translated greater than 300 km to the E and SE, respectively, during the 430–385 Ma Scandian orogeny. Their hinterland boundaries rest on top of the HP/UHP Western Gneiss Complex. Kinematic indicators along their basal décollements indicate a change in shear sense from top-E/SE to top-W/NW at the same time (ca. 405 Ma) that radiometric ages indicate the Western Gneiss Complex began to exhume from the mantle. Displacements of tens of kilometers along these décollements stretched and thinned the Trondheim nappe complex and fragmented the Jotun nappe complex. Ultimately, this basal traction led to the breakaway of the frontal segments of the allochthons, allowing them to be carried passively to the E/SE as the Western Gneiss Complex continued to exhume. Top-W/NW shear continued between the Western Gneiss Complex and the stranded rearward segments of the allochthons, resulting in the opening up of the Western Gneiss Region tectonic window between the E/SE-translating nappes and their relatively “fixed” equivalents in the W/NW. The total displacement of the traveled frontal allochthons could have been considerably farther than that accomplished by thrusting alone.
Open-access paper on the formulation and adaptation of an agent-based model to simulate generational renewal
Creators: name: Pitson, Christine
name: Appel, Franziska
name: Dong, Changxing
name: Balmann, Alfons
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This paper presents a tool to analyze the linkages between farm generational renewal and structural change of European farming regions, allowing researchers to assess the farm system’s resilience. There is a strong focus on farm generational renewal both within academia and policy. However, the focus often lies on the family. This results in a knowledge gap about generational renewal of the increasing number of farms which rely on hired labour and farm almost half of European agricultural land. To begin to fill the gap, the Agricultural Policy Simulator (AgriPoliS), an agent-based model used to analyze structural change of farm regions, has been selected to extend to simulate generational renewal. The model is calibrated to the Altmark, a heterogenous farming region in Germany with both family and corporate farms. To support the model’s extension and adaptation, a focus group work shop was held in the Altmark on farm generational renewal. The extension is used to simulate three scenarios, which reveal the robust and adaptive resilience capacities of the Altmark.
description: EU; DE; en; contact: pitson@iamo.de
title: Pirates of the Prostate!
Creators: name: Ilangovan, Gurubharath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To understand the anatomy of the prostate. Focus on Lesion detection and characterization by multiparametric prostate MRI in the evaluation of suspected prostate cancer. Interpretation and reporting by using structured reporting scheme PI-RADS...
Formation of millisecond pulsars with CO white dwarf companions - II. Accretion, spin-up, true ages and comparison to MSPs with He white dwarf companions
Creators: name: Tauris, Thomas M.
name: Langer, Norbert
name: Kramer, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are mainly characterised by their spin periods, B-fields and masses - quantities which are largely affected by previous interactions with a companion star in a binary system. In this paper, we investigate the formation mechanism of MSPs by considering the pulsar recycling process in both intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (IMXBs) and low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). The IMXBs mainly lead to the formation of binary MSPs with a massive carbon-oxygen (CO) or an oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarf (ONeMg WD) companion, whereas the LMXBs form recycled pulsars with a helium white dwarf (He WD) companion. We discuss the accretion physics leading to the spin-up line in the PPdot-diagram and demonstrate that such a line cannot be uniquely defined. We derive a simple expression for the amount of accreted mass needed for any given pulsar to achieve its equilibrium spin and apply this to explain the observed differences of the spin distributions of recycled pulsars with different types of companions. From numerical calculations we present further evidence for significant loss of rotational energy in accreting X-ray MSPs in LMXBs during the Roche-lobe decoupling phase (Tauris 2012) and demonstrate that the same effect is negligible in IMXBs. We examine the recycling of pulsars with CO WD companions via Case BB Roche-lobe overflow (RLO) of naked helium stars in post common envelope binaries. We find that such pulsars typically accrete of the order 0.002-0.007 M_sun which is just about sufficient to explain their observed spin periods. We introduce isochrones of radio MSPs in the PPdot-diagram to follow their spin evolution and discuss their true ages from comparison with observations. Finally, we apply our results of the spin-up process to the massive pulsar J1614-2230 (Paper I) and put new constraints on the birth masses of a number of recycled pulsars. [Abridged]
description: MNRAS in press, 32 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, appendix. Version 2: minor typos corrected
Faster Cognitive and Functional Decline in Dysexecutive versus Amnestic Alzheimer's Subgroups: A Longitudinal Analysis of the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) Database
Creators: name: Mez, Jesse
name: Cosentino, Stephanie
name: Brickman, Adam M.
name: Huey, Edward D.
name: Manly, Jennifer J.
name: Mayeux, Richard Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Objective: To compare the rate of cognitive and functional decline in dysexecutive, typical and amnestic subgroups of Alzheimer’s disease. Methods: 943 participants from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) database who had a diagnosis of probable AD were followed for a mean of 2.3 years. A dysexecutive subgroup (n = 165) was defined as having executive performance > 1.5 SD worse than memory performance, an amnestic subgroup (n = 157) was defined as having memory performance > 1.5 SD worse than executive performance and a typical subgroup (n = 621) was defined as having a difference in executive and memory performance of < 1.5 SD. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) were used to model decline on the Folstein Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE), rise on the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) sum of boxes and rise on the total Functional Assessment Questionnaire (FAQ). Results: Compared with the amnestic subgroup, the dysexecutive subgroup declined 2.2X faster on the Folstein MMSE (p
The (un)making of home, entitlement, and nation : an intersectional organizational study of power relations in Vancouver Status of Women, 1971-2008
Creators: name: Bunjun, Benita
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Women's organizing and organizations in North America emerge at historical moments within the larger women's movement across geographies, political climates, and nation formations. Within all movements, the workings of power relations are active, demanding constant negotiations and contestations. This is a case study of one feminist organization, Vancouver Status of Women (VSW). I illustrate the ways VSW challenged, contested, reproduced and reinforced power relations and specifically nation-building discourses. Drawing on both extensive historical archival data and in-depth expert interviews, I engaged in a qualitative case study of VSW's workings of power relations from its inception in 1971 to 2008. I interviewed thirty-one women who worked in some capacity as staff or board members. Archival research involved locating primary documents such as organizational meeting minutes, policies, annual reports, bylaws, newsletters, publications, organizational correspondence, and other relevant documentation. By engaging in an intersectional critical race feminist discourse analysis, I explicate the construction of VSW as home, and demonstrate how nation-building discourses of belonging and entitlement are embedded within this organizational site. Organizational processes and policies indicate the historical trajectory of how, when and who challenged, responded, and reproduced power relations. This study provides several theoretical, methodological, and substantive implications. My research challenges dominant organizational theory's notion that organizations are neutral sites. I argue that organizations are constituted as sites of colonial encounters by demonstrating how power as relational and archival are invoked and deployed in VSW, and some of its effects. I illustrate how VSW is embedded in the colonial archive of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women which reproduced nation-building discourses of essentialism, racialization, and exclusion. The research also offers a conceptualization of power present in organizations while applying Foucault's understanding of power as a network of relations and discourses that circulates as productive. I also present a theoretical framework of the modalities of entitlement embedded in national belonging and accumulated national capital across multiple sites producing the exalted feminist of the nation. Lastly, I propose a more nuanced ethical Affirmative Action Policy based on participants' lessons learnt that shifts beyond tokenism and representation.
title: Analysis of future discharge in Nakdong River Basin according to effect on climate change
title: Hydrology days 2012
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2012
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Shin, Hyun Suk
name: Kim, Mi Eun
name: Im, Ji Ye
name: Shon, Tae Seok
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2012

description: 2012 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 21 - March 23, 2012.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Climate change has affected water resources and environment all over the world and its impacts assessment and adaptation are very important issues that are significant in terms of science and policies. In view of water resources, estimation of discharge is essential to make basic data in watershed management and water environment like flood and drought. The change of discharge has affected both eco-system and human system. So that, using technical methods are necessary to develop nature restoration and disaster reduction. Therefore, this study applied to GCMs (General Circulation Models) using A1B scenario which reflects climate characteristics of Korea well and analyze out the future climate change discharge. The main result of these studies is compared and analyzed at Nakdong River basin about discharge by A1B scenario. The study period (2011~2100) was divided into three periods (F1:2011~2040, F2:2041~2070, F3:2071~2100) and compared with observed data for 1980~2009. This study presents technical methodology for assessing influence on water environment resources. Furthermore, the results of this study expect to be quantitative and reliable data in studying climate change throughout the application to other rivers. If water environment impact assessment and analysis of the future water balance including a forecast of water supply and demand take place based on the results of this study, the results will be sufficiently valuable both as researches on national measures to climate change and policy materials.
Health information technology capacity at federally qualified health centers: a mechanism for improving quality of care
Creators: name: Frimpong, Jemima A.
name: Jackson, Bradford E.
name: Singh, Karan P.
name: Stewart, LaShonda M.
name: Rivers, Patrick A.
name: Bae, Sejong
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Health services administration
Medical care

description: Background: The adoption of health information technology has been recommended as a viable mechanism for improving quality of care and patient health outcomes. However, the capacity of health information technology (i.e., availability and use of multiple and advanced functionalities), particularly in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) on improving quality of care is not well understood. We examined associations between health information technology (HIT) capacity at FQHCs and quality of care, measured by the receipt of discharge summary, frequency of patients receiving reminders/notifications for preventive care/follow-up care, and timely appointment for specialty care. Methods: The analyses used 2009 data from the National Survey of Federally Qualified Health Centers. The study included 776 of the FQHCs that participated in the survey. We examined the extent of HIT use and tested the hypothesis that level of HIT capacity is associated with quality of care. Multivariable logistic regressions, reporting unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios, were used to examine whether ‘FQHCs’ HIT capacity’ is associated with the outcome measures. Results: The results showed a positive association between health information technology capacity and quality of care. FQHCs with higher HIT capacity were significantly more likely to have improved quality of care, measured by the receipt of discharge summaries (OR=1.43; CI=1.01, 2.40), the use of a patient notification system for preventive and follow-up care (OR=1.74; CI=1.23, 2.45), and timely appointment for specialty care (OR=1.77; CI=1.24, 2.53). Conclusions: Our findings highlight the promise of HIT in improving quality of care, particularly for vulnerable populations who seek care at FQHCs. The results also show that FQHCs may not be maximizing the benefits of HIT. Efforts to implement HIT must include strategies that facilitate the implementation of comprehensive and advanced functionalities, as well as promote meaningful use of these systems. Further examination of the role of health information systems in clinical decision-making and improvements in patient outcomes are needed to better understand the benefits of HIT in improving overall quality of care.
Dirac particle in a spherical scalar potential well
Creators: name: Layeghnejad, R.
name: Zare, M.
name: Moazzemi, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate a solution of the Dirac equation for a spin-$\frac{1}2$ particle in a scalar potential well with full spherical symmetry. The energy eigenvalues for the quark particle in $s_{1/2}$ states (with $κ=-1$) and $p_{1/2}$ states (with $κ=1$) are calculated. We also study the continuous Dirac wave function for a quark in such a potential, which is not necessarily infinite. Our results, at infinite limit, are in good agreement with the MIT bag model. We make some remarks about the sharpness value of the wave function on the wall. This model, for finite values of potential, also could serve as an effective model for the nucleus where $U(r)$ is the effective single particle potential.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, revtex4, version to appear in PRD
Clinical application of the Interacoustics REFLWIN system wideband reflectance machine in the assessment of the eustachian tube.
Creators: name: Kenny, Stéfane Pascal Van Neste
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Objective: Eustachian tube function remains an area of middle ear analysis in which suitable clinical tests are lacking. Eustachian tube malfunction has been linked to pathology of the middle ear such as otitis media with effusion. Wideband reflectance (WBR) is a new clinical technique which determines the ratio of sound energy that enters the middle ear to that which reflects back into the ear canal. This technique could provide information regarding Eustachian tube function that other tympanometric measures do not. Design: Measures of WBR were taken in 50 Chinese and Caucasian young adult subjects before and after performing Valsalva and Toynbee manoeuvres. Subjects were students or affiliates of the University of British Columbia. Data were analysed based on static and dynamic power absorbance measures, power absorbance tympanograms, 226 Hz tympanograms and 1000 Hz tympanograms provided by the Interacoustics REFLWIN wideband reflectance system. Baseline measurements were compared between gender and ethnicity. Similarities to measurements using other clinical WBR devices were also analysed. Finally, comparisons were made on each variable between baseline and post-manoeuvre state. Results: Baseline results were comparable with previous wideband reflectance research in this subject population. Notable differences were observed between the current study and a previous version of the same device. Differences between the current system and the Mimosa Acoustics system were minimal. For both the Valsalva and Toynbee manoeuvres significant shifts in middle ear pressure were indicated by changes in tympanometric peak pressure and power absorbance tympanogram peak pressure. However, dynamic power absorbance did not differ between baseline and either manoeuvre state. Conclusion: The current version of the Interacoustics REFLWIN system provides comparable estimates of WBR to the other major clinical system available on the market. The measures of wideband reflectance did not offer information regarding Eustachian tube function in addition to that already provided by measures of tympanometry following physical manoeuvres. However, the equivalent performance of wideband reflectance to tympanometry shows that it can be used to evaluate Eustachian tube function in the same manner as tympanometry. There is still a need to devise a clinical test to accurately distinguish between healthy and pathological Eustachian tubes.
The Diminished Giant Syndrome
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Economics

description: Reports that misconceptions that US economic decline is due to other nations' unfair trade practices is provoking protectionism in the Clinton administration that could result in a system of regional trading blocs. How declinism drives trade policy; How unilateralism has hurt the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); Danger of trade blocs.
An HST/WFC3-IR Morphological Survey of Galaxies at z = 1.5-3.6: I. Survey Description and Morphological Properties of Star Forming Galaxies
Creators: name: Law, David R.
name: Steidel, Charles C.
name: Shapley, Alice E.
name: Nagy, Sarah R.
name: Reddy, Naveen A.
name: Erb, Dawn K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a 42-orbit HST/WFC3 survey of the rest-frame optical morphologies of star forming galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the range z=1.5-3.6. The survey consists of 42 orbits of F160W imaging covering ~65 arcmin^2 distributed widely across the sky and reaching a depth of 27.9 AB for a 5 sigma detection within a 0.2 arcsec radius aperture. Focusing on an optically selected sample of 306 star forming galaxies with stellar masses in the range M* = 10^9 - 10^11 Msun, we find that typical circularized effective half-light radii range from ~ 0.7 - 3.0 kpc and describe a stellar mass - radius relation as early as z ~ 3. While these galaxies are best described by an exponential surface brightness profile, their distribution of axis ratios is strongly inconsistent with a population of inclined exponential disks and is better reproduced by triaxial stellar systems with minor/major and intermediate/major axis ratios ~ 0.3 and 0.7 respectively. While rest-UV and rest-optical morphologies are generally similar for a subset of galaxies with HST/ACS imaging data, differences are more pronounced at higher masses M* > 3 x 10^10 Msun. Finally, we discuss galaxy morphology in the context of efforts to constrain the merger fraction, finding that morphologically-identified mergers/non-mergers generally have insignificant differences in terms of physical observables such as stellar mass and star formation rate, although merger-like galaxies selected according to some criteria have statistically smaller effective radii and correspondingly larger SFR surface density.
description: 42 pages, 2 appendices, 25 figures. Revised version accepted for publication in ApJ. Version with full-resolution figures is available at http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~drlaw/Papers/wfc3morph.pdf
title: NÖ Modell einer gesamtökologischen Beurteilung von Abwasserentsorgungskonzepten Möglichkeiten der Umsetzung
Creators: name: Schwaller, Andrea
name: Rohrhofer, Karl J.
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 1996
Subjects: Abwasserreinigung
Gewässerökologie
Kostenstrukturanalyse
LAWA
Kostenbarwertberechnung

description: Durch die Verlagerung des Schwerpunktes der Abwasserreinigung in den ländlichen Raum und durch geänderte gesetzliche Vorgaben wurde eine eingehende Betrachtung der Immissionssituation und der ökologischen Rahmenbedingungen erforderlich. Sowohl der „Leitfaden für Niederösterreich“ als auch die „Gesamtökologische Beurteilung“ befaßt sich mit den bei der Abwasserreinigung und Abwassereinleitung in Gewässer relevanten ökologischen Faktoren und gibt Anleitungen für die Vorgangsweise in der Praxis. Anhand der beiden Pilotgemeinden Obritzberg-Rust und Leiben wurde der Versuch einer weitgehenden ökologischen Überprüfung unternommen, wobei als Ziel eine Reihung möglicher Entsorgungsvarianten nach ihrer ökologischen Verträglichkeit angestrebt wurde (Verfasser A. Schwaller). Schließlich werden die Möglichkeiten der Umsetzung diskutiert, wobei als Grundlage die derzeitig geltenden Voraussetzungen für eine öffentliche Förderung durch Bund und Land Niederösterreich dienen. Der Verfasser (K.J. Rohrhofer) stellt aus seiner Sicht Möglichkeiten für eine „neue Vorgangsweise“ dar.
Automating the generation of coordinated multimedia explanations
Creators: name: McKeown, Kathleen
name: Feiner, Steven
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Computer science

description: An explanation system developed to overcome the disadvantages of conventional authoring in multimedia applications is presented. This experimental test bed for the automated generation of multimedia explanations is called COMET (coordinated multimedia explanation testbed), and has as its goal the coordinated, interactive generation of explanations that combine text and three-dimensional graphics, all of which is generated on the fly. In response to a user request for an explanation, COMET dynamically determines the explanation's content using constraints based on the type of request, the information available in a set of underlying knowledge bases, and information about the user's background and goals. Having determined what to say, COMET also determines how to express it at the time of generation. A brief overview of COMET's domain and architecture is followed by a description of the specific ways in which COMET can coordinate its text and graphics. The current status and limitations of COMET are discussed.
title: Robot named Radiology - Brief insight into Artificial Intelligence in Radiology
Creators: name: Ilangovan, Gurubharath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Image verification
subject: Education and training
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Neural networks
subject: Mammography
subject: CT
subject: Professional issues
subject: Computer applications
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: This review aims at Creating a basic understanding of AI and methods implemented in radiology- both current and potential future. Assessing the impact of AI in various fields of radiology. Discuss safety, privacy, moral, ethical and medico-legal...
The dislocations of terror: Assessments of risk during the Second Intifada
Creators: name: Spilerman, Seymour
name: Stecklov, Guy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The goal of terrorism is to create havoc and disrupt the normal functioning of society. To understand the impact of terrorism on a country it is useful to consider two types of country experiences with these shocks to the social order—the instance of a very small number of attacks against high profile targets and the case of chronic terror with a great number of attacks, generally against targets that are part of routine daily activities. The present study explores the Israeli experience with chronic terror. Using expenditure information from coffee shops and restaurants we examine how individuals assess their vulnerability to an attack and adjust their behavior. Specifically, we explore whether distance from the site of an attack, and similarity of a contemplated undertaking to the target of a recent attack, influence decision making in a context of chronic terror. We find strong support for a situational similarity effect but only weak evidence for a proximity effect. We examine the implications of these findings for the organization of economic activity.
Computer applications in clinical psychology
Creators: name: Zamoşteanu, Alina Oana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The computer-assisted analysis is not currently a novelty, but a necessity in all areas of psychology. A number of studies that examine the limits of the computer assisted and analyzed interpretations, also its advantages. A series of studies aim to assess how the computer assisting programs are able to establish a diagnosis referring to the presence of certain mental disorders. We will present the results of one computer application in clinical psychology regarding the assessment of Theory of Mind capacity by animation.
description: 14 pages
Recalibration of Pagel's method for HII regions considering the thermal structure, the ionization structure, and the depletion of O into dust grains
Creators: name: Peña-Guerrero, Maria A.
name: Peimbert, Antonio
name: Peimbert, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a sample of 28 HII regions from the literature with measured temperature inhomogeneity parameter, t^2, we present a statistical correction to the chemical abundances determined with the Te(4363/5007) method. We used the t^2 values to correct the oxygen gaseous abundances and consider the oxygen depletion into dust to calculate the total abundances for these objects. This correction is used to obtain a new calibration of Pagel's strong-line method, R_{23}, to determine oxygen abundances in HII regions. Our new calibration simultaneously considers the temperature structure, the ionization structure, and the fraction of oxygen depleted into dust grains. Previous calibrations in the literature have included one or two of these factors; this is the first time all three are taken into account. This recalibration conciliates the systematic differences among the temperatures found from different methods. We find that the total correction due to thermal inhomogeneities and dust depletion amounts to an increase in the O/H ratio of HII regions by factors of 1.7 to 2.2 (or 0.22 to 0.35 dex). This result has important implications in various areas of astrophysics such as the study of the higher end of the initial mass function, the star formation rate, and the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies, among others.
description: 16 pages (preprint), 4 figures, 1 Table, accepted in ApJL
Influence Meddling
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
name: Weiner, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Economics

description: Presents letters to the editor reacting to Karel van Wolfersen's review of Pat Choate's book "Agents of Influence," which cites lobbying or influence peddling in both the Japanese and American political contexts.
title: A GIS tool to analyze forest road sediment production and stream impacts
title: Hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Prasad, Ajay
name: Tarboton, David G.
name: Luce, Charles H.
name: Black, Thomas A.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2006

description: 2006 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 20 - March 22, 2006.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: A set of GIS tools has been developed (Road Sediment Analysis Model, RSAM) to analyze and quantify the impacts of forest roads on forested watersheds. RSAM is organized into three modules. In the first module sediment production for each road segment is calculated from slope, length, road surface condition and road side drain vegetation. A GPS gathered road condition inventory provides surface and drain conditions, locations of drain points, information on connectivity between drain points and streams, and information on road stream crossings. Slope is obtained from the GIS by overlaying the road path on a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Road sediment production is accumulated at each drain point by adding the sediment production draining to each drain point from different road segments. These drain point sediment loadings are then coupled with a DEM model for surface flow and used as inputs to a weighted flow accumulation function to calculate sediment load inputs to stream segments, also delineated based on the DEM. An option allows accumulation of all sediment produced or only sediment produced from drain points inventoried as connected to the stream. The second module analyzes the impact of forest roads on terrain stability. Terrain stability is assessed by calculating the specific discharge due to road drainage and using this, together with slope, as inputs to an infinite plane slope stability model. In the final module the inventory information on the fish passage status of stream crossings is used to demarcate contiguous clusters of stream habitat and assess the impact of fish passage barriers on the fragmentation of stream habitat. A map showing possible fish habitat clusters is obtained from the analysis. To ensure referential integrity between road segments, drain points and the stream network attributes, and to validate the road inventory dataset a relational database model framework is used. Preprocessing software has been developed to load the road inventory data into this framework and fulfill initial quality control and data validation functions. The sediment production, terrain stability and habitat cluster contiguity analyses then works off data from the relational database.
title: The MR appearances of semantic dementia
Creators: name: Barbara, Ramona-Rita
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: Anatomy
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Dementia
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The objectives of this poster are to provide an overview of the initial clinical presentation of semantic dementia and to illustrate its typical imaging findings on Magnetic Resonance Imaging...
Decentering Europe: The Contemporary Crisis in Culture, A Memorial Lecture for James Snead
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Literature

description: What I want to argue is that when we talk about contemporary crisis in culture, the one way of beginning to come to terms with this is having to historicize and pluralize and contextualize the postmodernism debate.  How does that relate to the vocation of the intellectual, given the challenge of the technical intelligentsia, given the challenge of the middlebrow journalist? What kind of role and function can the humanistic intellectual have in advanced capitalist society, given his or her placement within the
academic’s life of the professional managerial class of this particular society?
title: The Pipes being Squeezed!
Creators: name: Ilangovan, Gurubharath
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Dissection
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To divide conditions of Vascular compression disorders into Compression of a vascular structure and Compression by a vascular structure or both. To look for the key imaging features of these syndromes at different...
Causal posets, loops and the construction of nets of local algebras for QFT
Creators: name: Ciolli, Fabio
name: Ruzzi, Giuseppe
name: Vasselli, Ezio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a model independent construction of a net of C*-algebras satisfying the Haag-Kastler axioms over any spacetime manifold. Such a net, called the net of causal loops, is constructed by selecting a suitable base K encoding causal and symmetry properties of the spacetime. Considering K as a partially ordered set (poset) with respect to the inclusion order relation, we define groups of closed paths (loops) formed by the elements of K. These groups come equipped with a causal disjointness relation and an action of the symmetry group of the spacetime. In this way the local algebras of the net are the group C*-algebras of the groups of loops, quotiented by the causal disjointness relation. We also provide a geometric interpretation of a class of representations of this net in terms of causal and covariant connections of the poset K. In the case of the Minkowski spacetime, we prove the existence of Poincaré covariant representations satisfying the spectrum condition. This is obtained by virtue of a remarkable feature of our construction: any Hermitian scalar quantum field defines causal and covariant connections of K. Similar results hold for the chiral spacetime $S^1$ with conformal symmetry.