cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Can conservation strategies for a single species be used to inform and guide restoration of ecological structure and function in floodplain ponds?
Creators: name: Branton, Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Freshwater ecosystems worldwide are degraded by habitat loss, fragmentation and conversion. The practice of ecological river restoration has developed to address degradation, but there has been limited monitoring and assessment of river restoration projects that could be used to improve the science of restoration ecology. I used meta-analysis and studied floodplain ponds restored for juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in southwestern British Columbia, Canada to test ecological and conservation science hypotheses about how restoration projects are planned and assessed. I evaluated the efficacy of the umbrella species concept, which suggests that conservation strategies designed for one species may benefit co-occurring species, using meta-analysis. I empirically assessed the potential for coho to be an umbrella species in restored ponds. I studied the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function (i.e., standing biomass) and explicitly considered the role of habitat complexity in mediating that relationship. I evaluated the influence of habitat at different scales (watershed, pond and micro-habitat) on the abundance and biomass of juvenile coho and other aquatic vertebrates. I used standard meta-analytic techniques to assess the umbrella species concept and found conservation strategies designed for umbrella species generally benefit co-occurring species. For the empirical studies, I sampled vertebrates in 17 restored ponds in three watersheds three times over a year. I sampled benthic invertebrates and algae once and documented habitat (e.g., depth, cover) at the pond and trap scale. Coho abundance and biomass, as well as that of other aquatic species, varied across ponds indicating a gradient in response to restoration. There was a positive relationship between species diversity and standing biomass, although that relationship was not consistent across taxonomic groups or with respect to habitat complexity. There was a relationship between watershed-scale habitat features (e.g., landcover, elevation) and the relative abundance and biomass of species present, however, different species responded similarly to micro-habitat types suggesting that watershed scale factors acted as a filter for community composition. This study demonstrated that valuable insight into restoration can be gained by studying patterns from a broad study of restored systems and that restoration designed around a single species can benefit other species.
Unique Open Curated SAR Data from Patents in PubChem
Creators: name: Christopher Southan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: medicinal chemistry SAR
patents
AI

description: Presented at BioITWorld Europe, London., November, 2023 
The large-scale automated extraction of chemical structures from patent documents by IBM, Google, WIPO and SureChEMBL have contributed over 40 million CIDs to PubChem but present major data quality filtration challenges. To facilitate community exploitation BindingDB has manually curated structure activity (SAR) data for ~0.4 million compounds from ~ 6000 patents. The data has recently been included in  ~ 12K new BioAssays in PubChem. The data mining opportunities these present, including AI modelling, will be outlined.
(n.b. this replaces a similar version presented to the British Patent Information Professionals (BPIP) the previous month)
Geometric integrators for higher-order mechanics on Lie groups
Creators: name: Burnett, Christopher L.
name: Holm, Darryl D.
name: Meier, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper develops a structure-preserving numerical integration scheme for a class of higher-order mechanical systems. The dynamics of these systems are governed by invariant variational principles defined on higher-order tangent bundles of Lie groups. The variational principles admit Lagrangians that depend on acceleration, for example. The symmetry reduction method used in the Hamilton--Pontryagin approach for developing variational integrators of first-order mechanics is extended here to higher order. The paper discusses the general approach and then focuses on the primary example of Riemannian cubics. Higher-order variational integrators are developed both for the discrete-time integration of the initial value problem and for a particular type of trajectory-planning problem. The solution of the discrete trajectory-planning problem for higher-order interpolation among points on the sphere illustrates the approach.
description: 29 pages, 3 figures, 1st version. Comments welcome!
Uncertainty in History
Creators: name: Delacroix, Christian
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: In history, the idea of uncertainty has taken on many forms, both in the methodological field, with for example the definition of historical sources as traces, and in epistemological terms, with the major question of causality or even ontological with the infinite extension of the “historian's territory”. Nevertheless, more than an operative notion perhaps, it has long remained as an invariant, a kind of epistemological madguard (a "residue" according to the term adopted by Marc Bloch) of historical knowledge. The question of the historicization of the idea of uncertainty in the historical discipline is related to the place assigned to it in the epistemology of historians, always in tension with the desire for scientificity and truth that has long structured the disciplinarization and professionalization of history. Where do we place the cursor between uncertainty and truth for historical knowledge? This could be the guiding question to periodize the place of the idea of uncertainty in history and roughly distinguish after a predominantly scientist phase linked to the professionalization of the historical discipline (19th-first 20th century), a phase of doubts about history's ability to tell the truth, which became clear at the end of the 1970s and could conveniently be characterized as the great reversal of uncertainty in history, which, from an embarrassing limitation to reducing as much as possible, became an operating principle for defatalising history. However, it will be necessary to question this periodization, more or less modelled on the general evolutions of the sciences, marked in particular by the rise in power of probabilistic and indeterministic approaches and more or less directly related to what is perceived by the majority as the rise of uncertainty in the historical world itself ; this will require taking into account another level of analysis that adds to the weight of uncertainty in history, the moral and political dimension around the question of the social function of history.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 4 N. special II (2020): Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison
title: Endometriosis :Less common sites of involvement and complications
Creators: name: Hadchiti, Joya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Complications
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the imaging appearance of unusual complications of endometriosis and less common sites of involvement. Illustrate cases of these less common complications and sites of involvement from our institution. Show the importance of MRI in...
Mechanisms of Memory Enhancement
Creators: name: Alberini, Cristina M.
name: STERN, SARAH A.
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: The ongoing quest for memory enhancement is one that grows necessary as the global population increasingly ages. The extraordinary progress that has been made in the past few decades elucidating the underlying mechanisms of how long-term memories are formed has provided insight into how memories might also be enhanced. Capitalizing on this knowledge, it has been postulated that targeting many of the same mechanisms, including CREB activation, AMPA/ NMDA receptor trafficking, neuromodulation (e.g. via dopamine, adrenaline, cortisol or acetylcholine) and metabolic processes (e.g. via glucose and insulin) may all lead to the enhancement of memory. These and other mechanisms and/or approaches have been tested via genetic or pharmacological methods in animal models, and several have been investigated in humans as well. In addition, a number of behavioral methods, including exercise and reconsolidation, may also serve to strengthen and enhance memories. By capitalizing on this knowledge and continuing to investigate these promising avenues, memory enhancement may indeed be achieved in the future.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 4 N. special II (2020): Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison
Mothers, Men, and Child Protective Services Involvement
Creators: name: Berger, Lawrence M.
name: Paxson, Christina
name: Waldfogel, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Families

description: This study used data on 2,297 families from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine whether Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement varies by maternal relationship status. Families were categorized according to whether the mother was living with a (male) partner or spouse, was involved in a dating relationship, or was not romantically involved. Families in which the mother was romantically involved were further delineated by whether her partner was the biological father of none, some, or all of the children in her household. Results indicated that families in which the mother was living with a man who was not the biological father of all children and those in which she was not romantically involved were significantly more likely to be contacted by CPS than those in which she was living with the biological father of all resident children. These findings withstood the inclusion of detailed controls for the mother's characteristics and behaviors and (in two-parent families) her partner's characteristics and behaviors, suggesting that they are not fully explained by observable social selection factors.
Quantum nondemolition measurement of the Werner state
Creators: name: Jin, Jia-sen
name: Yu, Chang-shui
name: Pei, Pei
name: Song, He-shan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theoretical scheme of quantum nondemolition measurement of two-qubit Werner state. We discuss our scheme with the two qubits restricted in a local place and then extend the scheme to the case in which two qubits are separated. We also consider the experimental realization of our scheme based on cavity quantum electrodynamics. It is very interesting that our scheme is robust against the dissipative effects introduced by the probe process. We also give a brief interpretation of our scheme finally.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Pseudapis nilotica
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Pseudapis
Pseudapis nilotica

description: Pseudapis nilotica (SMITH, 1875)
Pseudapis nilotica (SMITH, 1875): BAKER 2002: 4 (tax., biol.), 13-14 (tax.), 15 (fig. 7: tax.), 16 (fig. 8: tax.), 17 (fig. 9: tax.), 18 (figs 10 tax.), 11 (tax.)), 19 (fig. 12: tax.), 20 (tax.), 22-24 (tax.), 50 (tax.), 55 (key), 67-69 (app. 1: Ambouli, Djibouti), 72 (app. 2: tax.), 73 (app. 2: tax.), 76-77 (app. 3: tax.), 79 (tax., biol.).
* Nomia latipes MORAWITZ, 1880: ALFKEN 1932: 49 (tax., Ambouli).
* Nomia (Lobonomia) armata (OLIVIER, 1811): WARNCKE 1976: 95 (key ♀), 97 (key ♂), 101 (fig. 11), 105 (tax. as Nomia armata armata, biol., Ambouli oasis), 107 (fig. 32,), 109 (fig. 43).
Pseudapis armata (OLIVIER, 1811): PAULY 1990: 68 (keys ♂, ♀), 70 (tax., descr. ♂ ♀, Ambouli, Djibouti, Obock), 82 (fig. 168), 84 (figs 190, 193), 86 (fig. 199: map), 178 (fig. 406).
Pseudapis armata (OLIVIER, 1811): EARDLEY & URBAN 2010: 92 (cat. Afr. reg.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Ambouli, Djibouti, Obock.
Pseudapis nilotica is known from the Afrotropical (Djibouti, Eritrea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan) and Palaearctic (e.g. Quatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates) regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 937, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
title: Exploring relationships between geomorphic factors and wheat yield using fuzzy inference systems
title: Hydrology days 2005
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2005
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kurtener, Dmitry
name: Green, Timothy R.
name: Krueger-Shvetsova, Elena
name: Erskine, Robert H.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2005

description: 2005 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 7 - March 9, 2005.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Discovery of relationships between geomorphic factors and crop yield s a promising step toward spatial decision support of farming technology problems. A study of relationships between geomorphic factors and yield requires simulation of a non-linear system with poorly quantified uncertainties. Contrasted against conventional mathematics, a fuzzy inference system (FIS) employs fuzzy if-then rules to model the qualitative aspects of human knowledge and reasoning process without employing precise quantitative analyses. In this paper, the utility of the FIS method for determining relationships between geomorphic factors (elevation, slope, aspect, curvature, and upslope contributing area) and yield is investigated. Parameters of FISs are identified using a dataset comprising of 6300 spatial points within 63 ha of an undulating farm field in Colorado. The single-input FISs designed in this study were used to identify several geomorphic dependencies of the spatial yield, which are presented graphically. Several two-input FISs were also developed to compute geomorphic yield dependencies. For practical application, these two-dimensional dependences are presented as 3D images and contour maps.
Samurais No More
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Economics

description: Outlines flaws in the United States' policy towards Japan, under the Clinton administration. Undermining openness trade within Japan; Support for trade regulation by quantification rather than by rules; Threat to unilateral penalties in place of the General Agreements on Tariff and Trade's (GATT) new building settlement procedures.
Hysteresis
Creators: name: Ferraris, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: Perhaps the most relevant aspect of the ongoing philosophical transformation is the splitting of binomial speculation-idealism. Indeed, one can be both realist and speculative. The paper aims to show it through a definition of negative, positive, and speculative Realism and emphasises the speculative concept of hysteresis, i.e. the survival of effects to their own causes. Indeed, it is the fundamental principle at the basis of what exists (ontology), what we do (technology), what we know (epistemology), and finally of teleology (that is, of the interruption which, by putting an end to a process, simultaneously assigns a purpose to it).
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 4 N. special II (2020): Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison
A decrease of the gas exchanges between galaxies and the IGM, from 12 to 6 billion years ago
Creators: name: Rodrigues, M.
name: Puech, M.
name: Hammer, F.
name: Rothberg, B.
name: Flores, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a representative sample of 65 intermediate mass galaxies at z \sim 0.6, we have inves- tigated the interplay between the main ingredients of chemical evolution: metal abundance, gas mass, stellar mass and SFR. All quantities have been estimated using deep spectroscopy and photometry from UV to IR and assuming an inversion of the Schmitt-Kennicutt law for the gas fraction. Six billion years ago, galaxies had a mean gas fraction of 32% \pm 3, i.e. twice that of their local counterparts. Using higher redshift samples from the literature, we explore the gas-phases and estimate the evolution of the mean gas fraction of distant galaxies over the last 11 Gy. The gas fraction increases linearly at the rate of 4% per Gyr from z \sim 0 to z \sim 2.2. We also demonstrate for a statistically representative sample that < 4% of the z \sim 0.6 galaxies are undergoing outflow events, in sharp contrast with z \sim 2.2 galaxies. The observed co-evolution of metals and gas over the past 6 Gyr favours a scenario in which the population of intermediate mass galaxies evolved as closed-systems, converting their own gas reservoirs into stars.
title: PRIMARY INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE: what the radiologist should know.
Creators: name: LETURIA ETXEBERRIA, MARIA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Hypertension
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Blood
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Emergency
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: - To discussthe epidemiology, risk factors and main causes associated to Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH), focusing on Primary ICH: Hypertensive Hematoma and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA). - To reviewthenormal appearance and evolution of ICH on...
Temporal location of events in language and (non) persistence of the past
Creators: name: Del Prete, Fabio
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: The article reviews some analyses of temporal language in logical approaches to natural language semantics. It considers some asymmetries between past and future, manifested in language, which motivate the “standard view” of the non-reversibility of time and the persistence of the past. It concludes with a puzzle about the changing past which challenges the standard view.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 4 N. special II (2020): Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison
A mixed methods study of recovery among individuals in an early psychosis program: implications for psychiatric/mental health nurses
Creators: name: Maddigan, W. Joy
Publisher: name: Nursing
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 230-266
description: Full recovery from a first episode of psychosis is a primary goal of early intervention services. This mixed methods study explored both recovery outcomes and recovery experiences in one cohort of individuals (n = 260) who received treatment in a three-year early psychosis program in Eastern Canada. Its primary purpose was to increase knowledge of recovery through the development of both the objective, mental health system view of the clinical indicators important to an individual's recovery as well as the subjective, lived experience of the phenomenon provided by the recovery descriptions of a small number of participants (n = 6). Survival analysis methods were used to measure the cohort's rate and timing of recovery following a first episode of psychosis using two different recovery measures. The first measure, 'comprehensive recovery', included three recovery domains: 1) symptom remission; 2) adequate daily functioning; and, 3) quality of life. The second measure, termed 'partial recovery', contained two of the three recovery domains: 1) symptom remission; and, 2) adequate daily functioning. The large majority of the cohort (n - 174) was successful in reaching 'partial recovery' but experienced ongoing difficulty and frequent setbacks with issues related to quality of life. The phenomenologically derived general structure of recovery following a first episode of psychosis provided insight into quality of life issues. Clients and family members identified many ongoing and often personal challenges that had to be overcome to support recovery. The backward and forward rhythm of recovery was frustrating and created instability. Illness symptoms and medication side effects fluctuated but were ever present. Self-confidence was frequently undermined by the negative beliefs that individuals held about themselves and the illness. The results highlighted areas where the involvement and interventions of nurses could have valuable benefit for clients and families.
title: MR Enterography: what every Radiographer needs to know
Creators: name: Tsiotsios, Christos
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Pathology
subject: Education and training
subject: Artifacts
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Education
subject: Colonography MR
subject: MR-Enterography
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: MR physics
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen
subject: MRI

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: This study aims to portray and analyse the Radiographer's role in the demanding Magnetic Resonance Enterography...
title: Ingested sharp elongated foreign bodies: what can they cause
Creators: name: Hasa, Amela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Inflammation
subject: Foreign bodies
subject: Surgery
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Emergency
subject: GI Tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: - To review the spectrum of complications and mechanisms of damages due to the ingestion of sharp, elongated foreign bodies diagnosed by CT-scan in “Mother Teresa” University Hospital. - To discuss the role of CT scan in...
Probing dark matter and CMSSM with same-sign dilepton searches at the LHC
Creators: name: Cannoni, M.
name: Panella, O.
name: Pioppi, M.
name: Santoni, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce new observables for the study of the inclusive same sign dileptons production at LHC which are built out of ratios of the observed number of same-sign dileptons, both with same $N(\ell,\ell)$ and different flavor $N(\ell,\ell')$. As a case study we apply them to the stau coannihilation region of the constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model. We show that the new variables depend rather mildly on the center of mass energy and how these can be used to constraint the parameter space in the $(m_{1/2},\tanβ)$ plane.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Notes and references added as for the published version
Black hole fluctuations and negative noise kernel
Creators: name: Wang, Qingdi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In 2007, based on stochastic gravity, Bei-Lok Hu and Albert Roura claimed that black hole fluctuations grow and eventually become important when a black hole has evaporated for a sufficiently long period of time but well before the Planckian regime is reached. In this thesis, we investigate their derivation of the black hole fluctuations and propose two analogue examples to better understand the mechanism of large fluctuations. Our analysis clearly shows the classical nature of the large black hole fluctuations. On the other hand, to test the validity of stochastic gravity, we calculate the centerpiece of stochastic gravity, the noise kernel, first for a perfect reflecting mirror and then for a more realistic mirror which becomes transparent at high frequencies. We find that one of the noise kernel components which corresponds to the fluctuations of energy flux is negative and thus seems to give "imaginary" fluctuations. We also perform calculations of both the fluctuations of forces acting on mirrors and of the fluctuations of energy flux radiated by them and divergent results are obtained. We try to give interpretations of these negative and divergent values. They need further investigation in the future.
CLARITY Climate Service Promoting Urban Climate Change Resilience through the Modelling of Climate Adaptation Strategies
Creators: name: de Wit, Rosmarie
name: Kainz, Astrid
name: Zuvela-Aloise, Maja
name: Goler, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Worldwide, climate services are emerging as an essential tool to connect the advances in climate science with the domains of climate change adaptation. The modelling methodology developed within the CLARITY project (EU-Horizon 2020, www.clarity-h2020.eu) is aimed at implementing a new generation of climate services specifically designed to assess adaptation measures at the city level under the effects of extreme weather events in the context of climate change. These effects are assessed based on observations combined with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate projections, and the subsequent derivation of climate indices to address changes in climate extremes. The dynamical-statistical downscaling of regional climate model results is used to obtain this information on fine spatial scales (100 m), hence providing urban microclimate projections and enabling climate sensitivity simulations of adaptation measures on the urban scale. The climate adaptation strategies encompass, among others, green roofs, increasing roof albedo, as well as blue (water) and green (parks, trees) infrastructure changes. Here, the climate assessment methodology developed within CLARITY will be discussed in detail, and results will be shown for the city of Linz (Austria). In addition, the usage of these methods and results within the CLARITY climate service as well as the connection to urban climate change resilience will be highlighted.
Quantum Superpositions of Causal Structures
Creators: name: Chiribella, Giulio
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: This presentation provides a non-technical overview of the notion of quantum superposition of causal structures, of its applications, and of its proposed physical realizations. The conceptual underpinning for these investigations is a view of quantum theory as a new kind of probability theory. At the axiomatic level, the principles of this new kind of probability theory suggest new causal relations that have no analogue in the classical world. These new causal relations are a potential resource for new technologies, including computation and communication technology.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 4 N. special II (2020): Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison
In situ absolute calibration of a channel electron multiplier for detection of positive ions
Creators: name: Savin, Daniel Wolf
name: Gardner, L. D.
name: Reisenfeld, D. B.
name: Young, A. R.
name: Kohl, J. L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Plasma (Ionized gases)
Physics
Astrophysics

description: A technique has been developed to determine the absolute single particle counting efficiency of a channel electron multiplier (CEM) for positively charged ions at keV energies. The calibration technique is applicable to positive ion detectors in general. Ion beam currents of C2+ were created by charge transfer of C3+ on H2 in the thin target regime. By adjusting the H2 pressure in the beam scattering chamber from 10−10 to 10−6 Torr, C2+ currents could be created either low enough to be detected by the CEM in the particle counting mode or high enough to be measured as a current using the CEM as a Faraday cup. The CEM counting efficiency was determined by comparing the C2+ count rate to the C2+ current, scaling by the change in H2 pressure, and also scaling by the incident C3+ current for each C2+ measurement. This method, which effectively uses the charge transfer cross section as a ‘‘transfer standard,’’ allows the CEM counting efficiency to be determined in situ and to be monitored accurately over extended periods of time. The calibration requires that only the relative, not the absolute, pressure change be known. The technique does not require the value of the charge transfer cross section to be known. The accuracy of the calibration technique for the present results was 10% at a confidence level considered to be equivalent to a statistical 90% confidence level. For the present work, the peak counting efficiency of a Galileo 4039 CEM for 32.5 keV C2+ ions was determined to be 96%.
title: Contribution of sonography in acute ocular pathology
Creators: name: Elkhadir, Kaoutar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Emergency
subject: Anatomy
subject: Head and Neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The main teaching points of this poster are: To recall the useful anatomy of the eye and the orbit. To become familiar with the indication and technique of occular sonography. To illustrate the sonographic appearance in traumatic and non-traumatic...
Towards Symbolic Model-Based Mutation Testing: Combining Reachability and Refinement Checking
Creators: name: Aichernig, Bernhard K.
name: Jöbstl, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model-based mutation testing uses altered test models to derive test cases that are able to reveal whether a modelled fault has been implemented. This requires conformance checking between the original and the mutated model. This paper presents an approach for symbolic conformance checking of action systems, which are well-suited to specify reactive systems. We also consider nondeterminism in our models. Hence, we do not check for equivalence, but for refinement. We encode the transition relation as well as the conformance relation as a constraint satisfaction problem and use a constraint solver in our reachability and refinement checking algorithms. Explicit conformance checking techniques often face state space explosion. First experimental evaluations show that our approach has potential to outperform explicit conformance checkers.
description: In Proceedings MBT 2012, arXiv:1202.5826
The Lives of High Redshift Mergers
Creators: name: McCavana, Tom
name: Micic, Miroslav
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Sinha, Manodeep
name: Sharma, Sanjib
name: Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
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: We present a comparative study of recent works on merger-timescales with dynamical friction and find a strong contrast between idealized/isolated mergers (Boylan-Kolchin et al. 2008) and mergers from a cosmological volume (Jiang et al. 2008). Our study measures the duration of mergers in a cosmological N-body simulation of dark matter, with emphasis on higher redshifts (z < 10) and a lower mass range. In our analysis we consider and compare two merger definitions; tidal disruption and coalescence. We find that the merger-time formula proposed by Jiang et al. (2008) describes our results well and conclude that cosmologically motivated merger-time formulae provide a more versatile and statistically robust approximation for practical applications such as semi-analytic/hybrid models.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Atmospheres of Hot Super-Earths
Creators: name: Castan, Thibaut
name: Menou, Kristen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot super-Earths likely possess minimal atmospheres established through vapor saturation equilibrium with the ground. We solve the hydrodynamics of these tenuous atmospheres at the surface of Corot-7b, Kepler 10b and 55 Cnc-e, including idealized treatments of magnetic drag and ohmic dissipation. We find that atmospheric pressures remain close to their local saturation values in all cases. Despite the emergence of strongly supersonic winds which carry sublimating mass away from the substellar point, the atmospheres do not extend much beyond the day-night terminators. Ground temperatures, which determine the planetary thermal (infrared) signature, are largely unaffected by exchanges with the atmosphere and thus follow the effective irradiation pattern. Atmospheric temperatures, however, which control cloud condensation and thus albedo properties, can deviate substantially from the irradiation pattern. Magnetic drag and ohmic dissipation can also strongly impact the atmospheric behavior, depending on atmospheric composition and the planetary magnetic field strength. We conclude that hot super-Earths could exhibit interesting signatures in reflection (and possibly in emission) which would trace a combination of their ground, atmospheric and magnetic properties.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJL
title: Renal malignancy mimickers
Creators: name: Cheema, Hooria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Abdomen
subject: Kidney
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: A pictorial review of the imaging features of renal tumour mimics designed to improve diagnosis of renal malignancy and differentiate it from benign renal masses or...
First-year maternal employment and child outcomes: Differences across racial and ethnic groups
Creators: name: Berger, Lawrence M.
name: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
name: Paxson, Christina
name: Waldfogel, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Families

description: We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine associations between first-year maternal employment and child outcomes for 3-year-old White, Black, and Hispanic children (N = 1483). Results from OLS regressions and propensity score matching models indicate that first-year maternal employment is associated with lower vocabulary scores for White, but not Black or Hispanic, children and with elevated levels of behavior problems for Hispanic, but not White or Black, children. Factors such as type of child care, maternal depressive symptoms and stress, and parenting behaviors (including measures of discipline, nurturance, and provision of cognitively stimulating materials) do not mediate these associations between first-year maternal employment and children's outcomes or explain the differential associations across racial and ethnic groups, suggesting the need to look at other explanations for these associations, as well as the need for better measurement of parenting, especially mother–child interaction.
Editoriale
Creators: name: Lecis, Pier Luigi
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: Il progetto è maturato nel quadro del programma di ricerca su "Il problema dell’indeterminatezza. Significato, conoscenza, azione" (PRIN 2015, Coordinatore nazionale Luigi Perissinotto); e si è sviluppato sulla linea di lavoro dell’Unità di ricerca di Cagliari, impegnata nello studio del problema dell’indeterminatezza attraverso i meccanismi linguistici, concettuali e interpretativi che operano nella costruzione delle immagini del passato. Intorno a questi temi si è tenuto, nel maggio 2019, un convegno, i cui esiti scientifici sono in gran parte documentati dal volume.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 4 N. special II (2020): Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison
Income and Child Development
Creators: name: Berger, Lawrence M.
name: Paxson, Christina
name: Waldfogel, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Families
Developmental psychology

description: We examine how income is associated with the home environments and the cognitive and behavioral development of pre-school children using data from a birth cohort study of children born at the end of the 20th century. Lower-income 3-year-old children are more likely than wealthier children to live in homes with inadequate physical environments and to have mothers who are more likely to be stressed, depressed, harsh and unresponsive. Additionally, low income children have lower PPVT scores, more mother-reported aggressive, withdrawn, and anxious behavior problems, and also more interviewer-reported problems with behavior, than more affluent children. A key policy question is whether increases in the incomes of poor families would result in improvements in children's outcomes, at least in part through improvements in the home environment. This question is difficult to answer using observational data. However, we argue that, even under the most generous interpretation of the associations we estimate, large income transfer programs would have relatively small effects on children's cognitive and behavioral outcomes.
Inflation and primordial non-Gaussianities of "generalized Galileons"
Creators: name: Gao, Xian
name: Steer, Daniele A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We set up cosmological perturbation theory and study the cosmological implications of the so-called ``generalized Galileon'' developed in \cite{Deffayet:2011gz,horndeski}. This is the most general scalar field theory whose Lagrangian contains derivatives up to second order while keeping second order equations of motion, and contains as sub-cases $k$-inflation, $G$-inflation and many other models. We calculate the power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation, finding a modification of the usual consistency relation of the tensor-to-scalar ratio in $k$-inflation or perfect fluid models. Finally we also calculate the bispectrum, which contains no new shapes beyond those of $k$-inflation.
description: 19 pages, no figure. Version 2, error corrected leading to modified conclusion; v3, matching the JCAP version
Caseworker-Perceived Caregiver Substance Abuse and Child Protective Services Outcomes
Creators: name: Berger, Lawrence M.
name: Slack, Kristen S.
name: Waldfogel, Jane
name: Bruch, Sarah K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Families
Developmental psychology

description: The authors used data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to examine associations of child protective services (CPS) caseworkers' perceptions of caregiver substance abuse with their perceptions of the severity of risk and harm a child experienced as a result of alleged maltreatment, as well as with whether a family experienced a range of CPS outcomes. The outcomes included whether the family received services from CPS, was substantiated for maltreatment, experienced child removal, and was subject to a termination of parental rights (TPR) petition. The authors also compared the magnitude of the association between caseworker-perceived caregiver substance abuse and each outcome to that of the association between other maltreatment-related risk factors and each outcome. Findings suggest that, all else equal, caseworker-perceived caregiver substance abuse is associated with increased caseworker perceptions that children have experienced severe risk and harm and also with an increased probability of each of the CPS outcomes except TPR. Moreover, these associations are equal in magnitude or larger than those between the other risk factors and the outcomes. These findings imply that CPS decisions are heavily influenced by caseworker perceptions of caregiver substance abuse, regardless of the presence of other risk factors for child maltreatment.
Quid Pro Quo Foreign Investment and Welfare: A Political-Economy-Theoretic Model
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
name: Brecher, Richard A.
name: Dinopoulos, Elias
name: Srinivasan, T. N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: Economics

description: The classic paper by Brecher and Diaz-Alejandro (1977) analyzed the implications of ‘tariff-jumping’ direct foreign investment (DFI) induced by the imposition of an import tariff. We analyze a new type of DFI where it occurs with a view to defusing, not circumventing, protection or rather the threat of protection by the host country. An example is the DFI by Japan in the United States. The decision about the level of foreign investment is taken in the first of a two-period horizon period. This, together with the level of exports in the first period, determines the probability of a quota on exports being imposed in the second period. Policy makers aware of the effects of the first-period decisions on the second period will impose an optimal tariff and an optimal tax (subsidy) on capital exports.
Cannabidiol attenuates inflammatory impairment of intestinal cells expanding biomaterial-based therapeutic approaches
Creators: name: Boehm, Elisa
name: Droessler, Linda
name: Amasheh, Salah
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cannabis
subject: Epithelial barrier
subject: Cannabidiol
subject: Tumor necrosis factor
subject: Tight junctions
subject: Claudins
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Cannabis-based biomaterials have the potential to deliver anti-inflammatory therapeutics specifically to desired cells, tissues, and organs, enhancing drug delivery and the effectiveness of anti-inflammatory treatment while minimizing toxicity. As a major component of Cannabis, Cannabidiol (CBD) has gained major attention in recent years because of its potential therapeutic properties, e.g., for restoring a disturbed barrier resulting from inflammatory conditions. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that CBD has beneficial effects under normal and inflammatory conditions in the established non-transformed intestinal epithelial cell model IPEC-J2. CBD induced a significant increase in transepithelial electrical resistance (TER) values and a decrease in the paracellular permeability of [³H]-D-Mannitol, indicating a strengthening effect on the barrier. Under inflammatory conditions induced by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), CBD stabilized the TER and mitigated the increase in paracellular permeability. Additionally, CBD prevented the barrier-disrupting effects of TNFα on the distribution and localization of sealing TJ proteins. CBD also affected the expression of TNF receptors. These findings demonstrate the potential of CBD as a component of Cannabis-based biomaterials used in the development of novel therapeutic approaches against inflammatory pathogenesis.
Editor's Introduction
Creators: name: Lecis, Pier Luigi
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2020

description: The issue is a result of the research programme about ‘The problem of indeterminacy. Meaning, knowledge, action’ (‘Il problema dell’indeterminatezza. Significato, conoscenza, azione’, PRIN 2015, national coordinator Luigi Perissinotto). The project was developed by a Cagliari research team that worked on the indeterminacy problem concerning the linguistic, conceptual and interpretative mechanisms actively involved in the construction of the images of the past. These concepts and other themes were the subject of a conference in May 2019. The outcomes are now mostly presented in this number. The great questions of representation, fancy, figurative languages, image (as a form shaping matter and not merely reproducing a given structure) and time (and the relationship amongst past, present and future) are preeminently but not exclusively linked to the past as it is investigated by historians (past human actions and resulting chains of events)...
description: Critical Hermeneutics, V. 4 N. special II (2020): Unchangeability of the Past: Human and Natural Sciences in Comparison
title: The ethical and legal issues arising from the implantation of AI systems in the radiological practice.
Creators: name: Menéndez Fernández-Miranda, Pablo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Image verification
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CAD
subject: Computer applications
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: The aim of this work is to analyse the ethical and legal conflicts derived from the implementation of Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) in the radiological...
Bianchi Type I Cosmology in Generalized Saez-Ballester Theory via Noether Gauge Symmetry
Creators: name: Jamil, Mubasher
name: Ali, Sajid
name: Momeni, D.
name: Myrzakulov, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the generalized Saez-Ballester scalar-tensor theory of gravity via Noether gauge symmetry (NGS) in the background of Bianchi type I cosmological spacetime. We start with the Lagrangian of our model and calculate its gauge symmetries and corresponding invariant quantities. We obtain the potential function for the scalar field in the exponential form. For all the symmetries obtained, we determine the gauge functions corresponding to each gauge symmmetry which include constant and dynamic gauge. We discuss cosmological implications of our model and show that it is compatible with the observational data.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in 'European Physical Journal C'