cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Freedom to Share: How Government's Data Sharing Policies Concerning Publicly Available Data Impact Academic Research and Journalism in the Public Interest
Creators: name: Yildirim, Emine Ozge
name: Van Houweling, Molly
name: Lazarova, Ana
name: Vézina, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: freedom to share
open science
open research
access to information
access to data
academic freedom
intellectual property rights
database rights
data act
CDSM

description: Our societies rely on quality academic and scientific research and journalism to thrive and prosper. They also depend on them to find solutions to address common challenges, including the climate emergency, global public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing armed conflicts and humanitarian crises. A necessary condition for public-interest research and journalism is access to data unencumbered by unnecessary legal barriers. And while the value of research and journalism is vastly recognized as a principle and important pillar of free and democratic societies, several recent legal developments have tended to undermine such principles and raise barriers to access to data, including publicly available data. Examples include copyright law (including sui generis database rights) as well as privacy and data protection laws. Acknowledging the critical need to protect privacy as a fundamental right, we nonetheless recall the need to uphold equally important rights of access to information, unconstrained research, and media freedom, in a fair and balanced manner, guided by the public interest. Commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the tragic death of data access activist and digital rights champion Aaron Swartz, this article examines the policy legal landscapes in the European Union and in the United States, two jurisdictions with rapidly shifting norms and expectations regarding access to data. It offers recommendations to strike a necessary balance between privacy and data protection on the one hand, and research and journalism freedoms on the other, as a means to support better sharing of data in the public interest. It also calls for more examples from other jurisdictions, so as to enable a more complete understanding of the issue and a more global approach to supporting researchers and journalists on the international level. 
TERRORISM AND INSURGENCY IN THE LAKE CHAD REGION: HOW NIGERIA IS AFFECTED
Creators: name: Dr. Ifeakandu, Benji Iby
name: Peter Terkaa, Akper, SAN, OFR
Publisher: name: keith journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Lake Chad Region, terrorism, insurgency, irregular migration, humanitarian crisis

description: The Lake Chad Region (LCR), encompassing Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, has been severely impacted by terrorism and insurgency in the past decade. Terrorist groups, particularly Boko Haram, have led to significant disruptions in the lives of the local population, causing the loss of livelihoods and triggering irregular migration. This paper delves into the multifaceted challenges faced by the LCR countries due to these activities, which have resulted in the widespread destruction of lives and property and led to a humanitarian crisis. The movement of victims across borders within the region is a pressing concern, highlighting the need for coordinated efforts to address these challenges effectively.
Transnational ties and past-year major depressive episodes among Latino immigrants
Creators: name: Alcantara, Carmela
name: Chen, Chih-Nan
name: Alegria, Margarita
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Immigrants--Economic conditions
subject: Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects
subject: Emigrant remittances
subject: Depression, Mental
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Mental health

description: Latino immigrants live in an increasingly global world in which maintaining contact with kin in the home country is easier than ever. We examined (a) the annual distribution of remittances burden (percentage of remittances/household income) and visits to the home country, (b) the association of these transnational ties with a past-year major depressive episode (MDE), and (c) moderation by Latino subethnicity or gender. We conducted weighted logistic regression analyses with the Latino immigrant subsample (N = 1,614) of the National Latino and Asian American Study. Mexican and Other Latino immigrants had greater remittances burden than Puerto Rican migrants. Cuban immigrants made the fewest visits back home. After adjustment for sociodemographics and premigration psychiatric history, remittances burden decreased odds of MDE (odds ratio [OR] = 0.80, 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.67, .0.98]), whereas visits back home increased odds of MDE (OR = 1.04, 95% CI [1.01, 1.06]). Latino subethnicity was not a significant moderator. Visits back home were more strongly linked to depression among women than men. The distribution of transnational ties differs by Latino subgroup, although its association with depression is similar across groups. Monetary giving through remittances might promote a greater sense of self-efficacy, and caregiving for relatives back home that positively affect mental health. Visits back home, especially for women, might signal social stress from strained relationships with kin, spouses, or children left behind, or increased caregiving demands that negatively affect mental health. Clinical practice with immigrants should routinely assess the social resources and strains that fall outside national borders.
Ctenomys azarae Thomas 1903
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys azarae

description: Ctenomys azarae Thomas, 1903. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 11: 228. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Buenos Aires Prov., 37° 45' S., 65° W. DISTRIBUTION: La Pampa Prov. (Argentina). COMMENT: Considered distinct from mendocinus by Roig and Reig, 1969, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 30:670.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Roig, V. G., and O. A. Reig. 1969. Precipitin test relationships among Argentinian species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia, Octodontidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 30: 665 - 672."]}
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1903-08)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Ctenomys boliviensis Waterhouse 1848
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys boliviensis

description: Ctenomys boliviensis Waterhouse, 1848. Nat. Hist. Mammal., 2:278. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia, Santa Cruz Dept., Santa Cruz de la Sierra. DISTRIBUTION: C. Bolivia at the foot of the Andes. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Race differences in the physical and psychological impact of hypertension labeling
Creators: name: Spruill, Tanya M.
name: Gerber, Linda M.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Pickering, Thomas G.
name: Ogedegbe, Gbenga
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Quality of life--Research
Medical screening--Psychological aspects
Hypertension--Diagnosis
Medicine
Public health

description: Background - Blood pressure screening is an important component of cardiovascular disease prevention, but a hypertension diagnosis (i.e., label) can have unintended negative effects on patients' well-being. Despite persistent disparities in hypertension prevalence and outcomes, whether the impact of labeling differs by race is unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate possible race differences in the relationship between hypertension labeling and health-related quality of life and depression.

Methods - The sample included 308 normotensive and unmedicated hypertensive subjects from the Neighborhood Study of Blood Pressure and Sleep, a cross-sectional study conducted between 1999 and 2003. Labeled hypertension was defined (by self-report) as having been diagnosed with high blood pressure or prescribed antihypertensive medications. Effects of labeling and race on self-reported physical and mental health and depressive symptoms were tested using multivariate analysis of covariance, controlling for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), previous medication use, and “true” hypertension status, defined by average daytime ambulatory blood pressure (ABP).

Results - Both black and white subjects who had been labeled as hypertensive reported similarly poorer physical health than unlabeled subjects (P = 0.001). However, labeling was associated with poorer mental health and greater depressive symptoms only among blacks (Ps < 0.05 for the interactions). These findings were not explained by differences in socioeconomic status.

Conclusions - These results are consistent with previous studies showing negative effects of hypertension labeling, and demonstrate important race differences in these effects. Clinical approaches to communicating diagnostic information that avoid negative effects on well-being are needed, and may require tailoring to patient characteristics such as race.
An Introduction to QBism with an Application to the Locality of Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Fuchs, Christopher A.
name: Mermin, N. David
name: Schack, Ruediger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an introduction to the QBist interpretation of quantum mechanics. We note that it removes the paradoxes, conundra, and pseudo-problems that have plagued quantum foundations for the past nine decades. As an example, we show in detail how it eliminates quantum "nonlocality".
description: 11 pages, no figures
Assessing Upper Limb Motor Function in the Immediate Post-Stroke Perioud Using Accelerometry
Creators: name: Wallich, Mackenzie
name: Lai, Kenneth
name: Yanushkevich, Svetlana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Accelerometry has been extensively studied as an objective means of measuring upper limb function in patients post-stroke. The objective of this paper is to determine whether the accelerometry-derived measurements frequently used in more long-term rehabilitation studies can also be used to monitor and rapidly detect sudden changes in upper limb motor function in more recently hospitalized stroke patients. Six binary classification models were created by training on variable data window times of paretic upper limb accelerometer feature data. The models were assessed on their effectiveness for differentiating new input data into two classes: severe or moderately severe motor function. The classification models yielded Area Under the Curve (AUC) scores that ranged from 0.72 to 0.82 for 15-minute data windows to 0.77 to 0.94 for 120-minute data windows. These results served as a preliminary assessment and a basis on which to further investigate the efficacy of using accelerometry and machine learning to alert healthcare professionals to rapid changes in motor function in the days immediately following a stroke.
Ctenomys brasiliensis Blainville 1826
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys brasiliensis

description: Ctenomys brasiliensis Blainville, 1826. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 3:62. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Minas Gerais. DISTRIBUTION: E. Brazil. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Graph Neural Networks for Topological Feature Extraction in ECG Classification
Creators: name: Zeinalipour, Kamyar
name: Gori, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a dependable instrument for assessing the function of the cardiovascular system. There has recently been much emphasis on precisely classifying ECGs. While ECG situations have numerous similarities, little attention has been paid to categorizing ECGs using graph neural networks. In this study, we offer three distinct techniques for classifying heartbeats using deep graph neural networks to classify the ECG signals accurately. We suggest using different methods to extract topological features from the ECG signal and then using a branch of the graph neural network named graph isomorphism network for classifying the ECGs. On the PTB Diagnostics data set, we tested the three proposed techniques. According to the findings, the three proposed techniques are capable of making arrhythmia classification predictions with the accuracy of 99.38, 98.76, and 91.93 percent, respectively.
description: Accepted for WIRN 2022
Psychometric characteristics of daily diaries for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®): a preliminary investigation
Creators: name: Schneider, Stefan
name: Choi, Seung W.
name: Junghaenel, Doerte U.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Stone, Arthur A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Item response theory
Outcome assessment (Medical care)--Methodology
Psychometrics
Medicine

description: Purpose - The Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) has developed assessment tools for numerous PROs, most using a 7-day recall format. We examined whether modifying the recall period for use in daily diary research would affect the psychometric characteristics of several PROMIS measures.

Methods - Daily versions of short-forms for three PROMIS domains (pain interference, fatigue, depression) were administered to a general population sample (n = 100) for 28 days. Analyses used multilevel item response theory (IRT) models. We examined differential item functioning (DIF) across recall periods by comparing the IRT parameters from the daily data with the PROMIS 7-day recall IRT parameters. Additionally, we examined whether the IRT parameters for day-to-day within-person changes are invariant to those for between-person (cross-sectional) differences in PROs.

Results - Dimensionality analyses of the daily data suggested a single dimension for each PRO domain, consistent with PROMIS instruments. One-third of the daily items showed uniform DIF when compared with PROMIS 7-day recall, but the impact of DIF on the scale level was minor. IRT parameters for within-person changes differed from between-person parameters for 3 depression items, which were more sensitive for measuring change than between-person differences, but not for pain interference and fatigue items. Notably, mean scores from daily diaries were significantly lower than the PROMIS 7-day recall norms.

Conclusions - The results provide initial evidence supporting the adaptation of PROMIS measures for daily diary research. However, scores from daily diaries cannot be directly interpreted on PROMIS norms established for 7-day recall.
H.P.: A Lost Dance of the Americas
Creators: name: Garafola, Lynn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Dance

description: An all but forgotten ballet with music by the Mexican composer Cesar Chavez, designs by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, and choreography by the young American dancemaker Catherine Littlefield, "H.P. (Horse Power)" was produced in Philadelphia in 1932. With its dual imagined communities, Americas of the North and the South, it was a ballet that looked ad sounded both modern and expansively American. As wrote Chavez in the souvenir program, "H.P." represented the "grand ferment of this, our American continent."
Planning a First Lexicon: Which Words to Teach First
Creators: name: Lahey, Margaret
name: Bloom, Lois
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1977
Subjects: Language disorders in children
Psycholinguistics
Speech--Psychological aspects
Children--Language
Child development
Language arts
Educational psychology
Developmental psychology

description: Various criteria are presented for selecting the first words to be taught to a child with a language disorder. In accordance with these criteria, recommendations are made for the inclusion of certain lexical items, the exclusion of other lexical items, and the organization of a first lexicon.
Complex Sentences: Acquisition of Syntactic Connectives and the Semantic Relations They Encode
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
name: Lahey, Margaret
name: Hood, Lois
name: Lifter, Karin
name: Fiess, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1980
Subjects: Language arts (Early childhood)
Psycholinguistics
Speech--Psychological aspects
Children--Language
English language--Syntax
Child development
Language arts
Educational psychology
Developmental psychology

description: The acquisition of connective forms and the meaning relations between connected clauses in the development of complex sentences is described for four children from two to three years of age. The major results of the study include the developmental interactions between syntactic connectives and meaning relations, and between these interactions and the discourse environments in which they occurred. The first syntactic connective the children learned, and, was the most general: semantically, and was used to encode conjunction with all of the different conjunction meaning relations in the order Additive < Temporal < Causal < Adversative. Other connectives were semantically more specific, and were learned subsequently with different syntactic structures in the order Conjunction < Complementation < Relativization. These results are discussed in terms of FORM, relative linguistic complexity; CONTENT, the intersection of form with conceptual and semantic factors affecting acquisition; and USE, discourse cohesion.
CROSS checklist_Developing the evidence base to inform policy on inclusive research design.docx
Creators: name: Child, Stella
name: Mulligan, Christina
name: Pavlov, Ivan
name: Bryan, Simone
name: Knowles, Rachel
name: Li, Leah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: CROSS reporting checklist completed for Developing the evidence-base to inform policy on inclusive research design by Stella A Child, Christina Mulligan, Ivan Pavlov, Simone Bryan, Leah Li, Rachel L Knowles.
Racism in Developmental Psychology
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Developmental psychology--Research
Minorities--Research
Developmental psychology
Racism in the social sciences
Ethnic groups--Research
Ethnicity

description: The first issue of the Division Newsletter following the APA meeting in August traditionally includes the division "presidential address." This year, I am breaking with that tradition since a large part of my address will appear in the book: The Transition from Infancy to Language: Acquiring the Power of Expression (Cambridge University Press, in press). Instead I am using the opportunity to summarize the symposium I organized for this year's division program: "Racism in Developmental Research." Few members of the division attended the symposium because APA, in its wisdom, scheduled virtually all events having to do with "ethnic and minority" at the one hotel, of the four convention hotels, that was clear across town - and it was raining. So it goes. My "ethnic and minority" colleagues tell me they are used to it; I now know a little of what it feels like to be a member of a minority group.
Why Not Pivot Grammar?
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1971
Subjects: Language disorders in children
Psycholinguistics
Speech--Psychological aspects
Children--Language
English language--Syntax
Child development
Language arts
Educational psychology
Developmental psychology

description: Children’s early attempts at syntax have been described in the recent language development literature in terms of “pivot grammar.” The pivot-open class distinction is discussed in the light of the author’s more recent research that inquired into the semantic intentions that underlie early sentences. When utterances were examined along with context and behavior in the speech events in which they occurred, certain underlying conceptual relations could be identified. It is concluded that the “pivot grammar” account is only a superficial characterization of the form and distribution of linguistic elements in early two-word utterances. It is suggested that a more productive model of early language development to use for evaluation and treatment of language pathology would need to specify the semantic relations among objects and events that are coded by syntax.
CROSS checklist_Developing the evidence base to inform policy on inclusive research design.docx
Creators: name: Child, Stella
name: Mulligan, Christina
name: Pavlov, Ivan
name: Bryan, Simone
name: Knowles, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: CROSS reporting checklist completed for Developing the evidence-base to inform policy on inclusive research design by Stella A Child, Christina Mulligan, Ivan Pavlov, Simone Bryan, Rachel L Knowles.
Adult-child discourse: Developmental interaction between information processing and linguistic knowledge
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
name: Rocissano, Lorraine
name: Hood, Lois
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Child development--Psychological aspects
subject: Psycholinguistics
subject: Speech--Psychological aspects
subject: Cognitive psychology
subject: Child development
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Developmental psychology

description: In the present study, the discourse interaction between adult and child was examined in terms of the content of their utterances, and the linguistic and contextual relations between their messages, in order to investigate how children use the information from adults' input sentences to form contingent responses. The analyses described were based on longitudinal data from four children from approximately 21 to 36 months of age. Categories of child discourse, their development and their interactions with aspects of prior adult utterances form the major results of the study. Child utterances were identified as adjacent (immediately preceded by an adult utterance), or as nonadjacent (not immediately preceded by an adult utterance). Adjacent utterances were either contingent (shared the same topic and added new information relative to the topic of the prior utterance), imitative (shared the same topic but did not add new information), or noncontingent (did not share the same topic). From the beginning, the adjacent speech was greater than nonadjacent speech. Contingent speech increased over time; in particular, linguistically contingent speech (speech that expanded the verb relation of the prior adult utterance with added or replaced constituents within a clause) showed the greatest developmental increase. Linguistically contingent speech occurred more often after questions than nonquestions. The results are discussed in terms of how the differential requirements for processing information in antecedent messages is related to language learning.
Peer Relationships in Preschool
Creators: name: Trevino Gonzalez, Amy Alejandra
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: peer relationships
preschool
infancy
pretend play
physical play
play partner
peer competence
sex

description: Malinda Colwell and Eric Lindsey analyzed the relationship between preschool children’s play forms with same or other-sex peers and their social competence. Over the course of 2 years, behavior, peer interactions, and play forms were all accounted for in short periods and eventually coded for by qualified research assistants. Peer competence and peer acceptance ratings were obtained from teachers and children respectively. The study found multiple instances of in-group bias. All children who participate in same-sex pretend play, girls that participated in same-sex exercise play, and boys who participated in same-sex rough-and-tumble play were better liked by their peers and considered socially competent by their teachers. Conversely, boys engaged in rough-and-tumble play with peers of other-sex, were less liked by their peers. Children's gender and the gender of their peers are important factors related to play forms and children’s socialization. This study as well as other studies conducted on preschool-aged children are consistently showing gender segregated peer interactions. Unfortunately, violations to prominent and subconscious gender boundaries may result in young children being disliked by their peers and subsequent limited social opportunities. The relationships and interactions seen at these ages are fundamental for their development. This study may be the first of many to provide valuable information about the importance of promoting early positive and varied social interactions.
Predictive value of night-time heart rate for cardiovascular events in hypertension. The ABP-International study
Creators: name: Palatini, Paolo
name: Reboldi, Gianpaolo
name: Beilin, Lawrence J.
name: Eguchi, Kazuo
name: Imai, Yutaka
name: Kario, Kazuomi
name: Ohkubo, Takayoshi
name: Pierdomenico, Sante D.
name: Saladini, Francesca
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Wing, Lindon
name: Verdecchia, Paolo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cardiovascular emergencies
Hypertension
Sleep
Heart rate monitoring
Medicine
Medical sciences

description: Background - Data from prospective cohort studies regarding the association between ambulatory heart rate (HR) and cardiovascular events (CVE) are conflicting.

Methods - To investigate whether ambulatory HR predicts CVE in hypertension, we performed 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure and HR monitoring in 7600 hypertensive patients aged 52 ± 16 years from Italy, U.S.A., Japan, and Australia, included in the ‘ABP-International’ registry. All were untreated at baseline examination. Standardized hazard ratios for ambulatory HRs were computed, stratifying for cohort, and adjusting for age, gender, blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, serum total cholesterol and serum creatinine.

Results - During a median follow-up of 5.0 years there were 639 fatal and nonfatal CVE. In a multivariable Cox model, night-time HR predicted fatal combined with nonfatal CVE more closely than 24 h HR (p = 0.007 and = 0.03, respectively). Daytime HR and the night:day HR ratio were not associated with CVE (p = 0.07 and = 0.18, respectively). The hazard ratio of the fatal combined with nonfatal CVE for a 10-beats/min increment of the night-time HR was 1.13 (95% CI, 1.04–1.22). This relationship remained significant when subjects taking beta-blockers during the follow-up (hazard ratio, 1.15; 95% CI, 1.05–1.25) or subjects who had an event within 5 years after enrollment (hazard ratio, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.05–1.45) were excluded from analysis.

Conclusions - At variance with previous data obtained from general populations, ambulatory HR added to the risk stratification for fatal combined with nonfatal CVE in the hypertensive patients from the ABP-International study. Night-time HR was a better predictor of CVE than daytime HR.
Rationale and design of a phase II clinical trial of aspirin and simvastatin for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension: ASA-STAT
Creators: name: Kawut, Steven M.
name: Bagiella, Emilia
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Lederer, David J.
name: Al-Naamani, Nadine
name: Roberts, Kari E.
name: Barr, R. Graham
name: Post, Wendy
name: Horn, Evelyn
name: Tracy, Russell P.
name: Hassoun, Paul M.
name: Girgis, Reda
name: ASA-STAT Study Group
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Aspirin--Therapeutic use
Pulmonary hypertension
Blood platelets
Statins (Cardiovascular agents)
Medical sciences
Epidemiology
Medicine

description: Background - Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease which causes exercise limitation, heart failure, and death. Aspirin and simvastatin are highly effective and safe therapies for other cardiovascular diseases characterized by platelet activation and endothelial dysfunction, but have not been formally studied in PAH.

Methods - ASA-STAT is a phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled 2 × 2 factorial clinical trial of aspirin and simvastatin in patients with PAH. A total of 92 subjects were to be randomized to aspirin or aspirin placebo and simvastatin or simvastatin placebo. The primary outcome is the distance walked in 6 min at 6 months after randomization. Secondary measures include brachial artery flow-mediated dilation, circulating biomarkers of platelet and endothelial function, functional class, quality-of-life, and time to clinical end points. The incidence of adverse events will be compared between treatment groups.

Screening and enrollment - We screened a total of 712 individuals with PAH. Sixty-five subjects were enrolled when the trial was terminated for futility in reaching the primary end point for simvastatin.

Conclusions - This study aims to determine whether aspirin or simvastatin have beneficial biologic or clinical effects in patients with PAH. The safety and side effects of these commonly prescribed cardiovascular drugs will also be assessed.
Multi-Wavelength Observations of the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Solar Flares with AIA/SDO: II. Hydrodynamic Scaling Laws and Thermal Energies
Creators: name: Aschwanden, Markus J.
name: Shimizu, Toshifumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study we measure physical parameters of the same set of 155 M and X-class solar flares observed with AIA/SDO as analyzed in Paper I, by performing a {\sl differential emission measure (DEM)} analysis to determine the flare peak emission measure $EM_p$, peak temperature $T_p$, electron density $n_p$, and thermal energy $E_{th}$, in addition to the spatial scales $L$, areas $A$, and volumes $V$ measured in Paper I. The parameter ranges for M and X-class flares are: $\log(EM_p)=47.0-50.5$, $T_p=5.0-17.8$ MK, $n_p=4 \times 10^9-9 \times 10^{11}$ cm$^{-3}$, and thermal energies of $E_{th}=1.6 \times 10^{28}-1.1 \times 10^{32}$ erg. We find that these parameters obey the Rosner-Tucker-Vaiana (RTV) scaling law $T_p^2 \propto n_p L$ and $H \propto T^{7/2} L^{-2}$ during the peak time $t_p$ of the flare density $n_p$, when energy balance between the heating rate $H$ and the conductive and radiative loss rates is achieved for a short instant, and thus enables the applicability of the RTV scaling law. The application of the RTV scaling law predicts powerlaw distributions for all physical parameters, which we demonstrate with numerical Monte-Carlo simulations as well as with analytical calculations. A consequence of the RTV law is also that we can retrieve the size distribution of heating rates, for which we find $N(H) \propto H^{-1.8}$, which is consistent with the magnetic flux distribution $N(Φ) \propto Φ^{-1.85}$ observed by Parnell et al.(2009) and the heating flux scaling law $F_H \propto H L \propto B/L$ of Schrijver et al.(2004). The fractal-diffusive self-organized criticality model in conjunction with the RTV scaling law reproduces the observed powerlaw distributions and their slopes for all geometrical and physical parameters and can be used to predict the size distributions for other flare datasets, instruments, and detection algorithms.
description: The Astrophysics Journal (in press)
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1904-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
title: Book reviews : Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2
Creators: name: Steckley, Laura
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2010

description: Many practitioners know intuitively that touch is necessary for healthy development, and research is increasingly unequivocal about its central importance in child development. Yet many children and young people in residential child care have experienced transgressive touch in the forms of physical and/ or sexual abuse, or have experienced touch deprivation (or both). This complicates what might be seen as 'natural' integration of touch into day-to-day care practices.
The time-averaged limit measure of the Wojcik model
Creators: name: Endo, Takako
name: Konno, Norio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate "the Wojcik model" introduced and studied by Wojcik et al., which is a one-defect quantum walk (QW) having a single phase at the origin. They reported that giving a phase at one point causes an astonishing effect for localization. There are three types of measures having important roles in the study of QWs: time-averaged limit measure, weak limit measure, and stationary measure. The first two measures imply a coexistence of localized behavior and the ballistic spreading in the QW. As Konno et al. suggested, the time-averaged limit and stationary measures are closely related to each other for some models. In this paper, we focus on a relation between the two measures for the Wojcik model. The stationary measure was already obtained by our previous work. Here, we get the time-averaged limit measure by several methods. Our results show that the stationary measure is a special case of the time-averaged limit measure.
description: 28 pages, the name was revised from Watanabe to Endo for marriage, the order of author's names was also changed, the affiliation of the author was also changed, the notation of the second reference was also changed
Ctenomys colburni J. A. Allen 1903
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys colburni

description: Ctenomys colburni J. A. Allen, 1903. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 188. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Santa Cruz Prov., Arroyo Aiken. DISTRIBUTION: Extreme W. Santa Cruz Prov. (Argentina). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001003001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Monte Carlo Study of an Effective Ising Model for the Spin-ice type Kondo Lattice Model
Creators: name: Ishizuka, Hiroaki
name: Udagawa, Masafumi
name: Motome, Yukitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An effective Ising model for the spin-ice type Kondo lattice model is investigated by the classical Monte Carlo simulation. We clarify the magnetic phase diagram with four phases: ice-ferro, ice-(0,0,2π), 32-sublattice, and all-in/all-out ordered states. The result well reproduces the phase diagram of the Kondo lattice model studied previously [H. Ishizuka et al.: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 81 (2012) 113706], which suggests that the RKKY interactions up to third neighbors are sufficient to describe the magnetic properties of the itinerant electron model. We discuss the peculiar nature of phase transitions: the suppression of the critical temperatures down to zero temperature between two ice phases and the presence of the tricritical points on the phase boundary of the 32-sublattice ordered state.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
ВЛИЯНИЕ МЕТОДОВ ИММОБИЛИЗАЦИИ НА ТКАНИ ПАРОДОНТА ПРИ ЛЕЧЕНИИ ПЕРЕЛОМОВ НИЖНЕЙ ЧЕЛЮСТИ У ДЕТЕЙ
Creators: name: Мусаев, Шамшодбек
name: Кахрамон Шомуродов
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110504 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Проведено изучение гигиены полости рта и состояния тканей пародонтального комплекса у 54 детей с переломами нижней челюсти при различных способах иммобилизации челюстей. Проведено ретроспективное исследование 757 историй болезни детей с переломами костей челюстно-лицевой области. Наиболее выраженное негативное влияние на ткани пародонтального комплекса и уровень гигиены полости рта оказывает шинирование с помощью двучелюстныхназубных шин Тигерштедта, а при использовании остеосинтеза - изменения есть, но они не столь выражены.
GPT-ST: Generative Pre-Training of Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Li, Zhonghang
name: Xia, Lianghao
name: Xu, Yong
name: Huang, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, there has been a rapid development of spatio-temporal prediction techniques in response to the increasing demands of traffic management and travel planning. While advanced end-to-end models have achieved notable success in improving predictive performance, their integration and expansion pose significant challenges. This work aims to address these challenges by introducing a spatio-temporal pre-training framework that seamlessly integrates with downstream baselines and enhances their performance. The framework is built upon two key designs: (i) We propose a spatio-temporal mask autoencoder as a pre-training model for learning spatio-temporal dependencies. The model incorporates customized parameter learners and hierarchical spatial pattern encoding networks. These modules are specifically designed to capture spatio-temporal customized representations and intra- and inter-cluster region semantic relationships, which have often been neglected in existing approaches. (ii) We introduce an adaptive mask strategy as part of the pre-training mechanism. This strategy guides the mask autoencoder in learning robust spatio-temporal representations and facilitates the modeling of different relationships, ranging from intra-cluster to inter-cluster, in an easy-to-hard training manner. Extensive experiments conducted on representative benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. We have made our model implementation publicly available at https://github.com/HKUDS/GPT-ST.
description: This paper has been accepted by NeurIPS 2023
Ctenomys conoveri Osgood 1946
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys conoveri

description: Ctenomys conoveri Osgood, 1946. Fieldiana Zool., 31:47. TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay, Boqueron, 16 km W. of Filadelfia. DISTRIBUTION: Chaco of Paraguay.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Randomized Clinical Trial of Aspirin and Simvastatin for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Creators: name: Kawut, Steven M.
name: Bagiella, Emilia
name: Lederer, David J.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Horn, Evelyn M.
name: Roberts, Kari E.
name: Hill, Nicholas S.
name: Barr, R. Graham
name: Berman Rosenzweig, Erika S.
name: Post, Wendy
name: Tracy, Russell P.
name: Palevsky, Harold I.
name: Hassoun, Paul M.
name: Girgis, Reda E.
name: ASA-STAT Study Group
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Aspirin--Therapeutic use
Pulmonary hypertension
Statins (Cardiovascular agents)
Medical sciences
Epidemiology
Medicine

description: Background—Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease that causes exercise limitation, heart failure, and death. We aimed to determine the safety and efficacy of aspirin and simvastatin in PAH.

Methods and Results—We performed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled 2×2 factorial clinical trial of aspirin and simvastatin in patients with PAH receiving background therapy at 4 centers. A total of 92 patients with PAH were to be randomized to aspirin 81 mg or matching placebo and simvastatin 40 mg or matching placebo. The primary outcome was 6-minute walk distance at 6 months. Sixty-five subjects had been randomized when the trial was terminated by the Data Safety and Monitoring Board after an interim analysis showed futility in reaching the primary end point for simvastatin. After adjustment for baseline 6-minute walk distance, there was no significant difference in the 6-minute walk distance at 6 months between aspirin (n=32) and placebo (n=33; placebo-corrected difference −0.5 m, 95% confidence interval −28.4 to 27.4 m; P=0.97) or between simvastatin (n=32) and placebo (n=33; placebo-corrected difference −27.6 m, 95% confidence interval −59.6 to 4.3 m; P=0.09). There tended to be more major bleeding episodes with aspirin than with placebo (4 events versus 1 event, respectively; P=0.17).

Conclusions—Neither aspirin nor simvastatin had a significant effect on the 6-minute walk distance, although patients randomized to simvastatin tended to have a lower 6-minute walk distance at 6 months. These results do not support the routine treatment of patients with PAH with these medications.
The Nuclear Cluster of the Milky Way: Total Mass and Luminosity
Creators: name: Fritz, Tobias K.
name: Chatzopoulos, Sotiris
name: Gerhard, Ortwin
name: Gillessen, Stefan
name: Genzel, Reinhard
name: Pfuhl, Oliver
name: Tacchella, Sandro
name: Eisenhauer, Frank
name: Ott, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we present the fundamental properties of the nuclear cluster of the Milky Way. First, we derive its structural properties by constructing a density map of the central 1000'' using extinction-corrected star counts. We can describe the data with a two-component model built from Sersic profiles. The inner nearly spherical component is the nuclear cluster. The outer, strongly flattened component can be identified with the stellar component of the circumnuclear zone. Second, we enlarge the radius inside which detailed dynamics are available from $1\,$pc to $4\,$pc. We use more than 10000 individual proper motions and more than 2700 radial velocities. We determine the cluster mass by means of isotropic spherical Jeans modeling. We get a nuclear cluster mass within 100'' of $M_{100''}=(6.11 \pm 0.52|_{\mathrm{fix} R_0}\pm 0.97|_{R_0}) \times 10^6 $ M$_{\odot}$, which corresponds to a total cluster mass of M$_{\mathrm{NC}}=(13.08 \pm 2.51|_{\mathrm{fix} R_0}\pm 2.08|_{R_0}) \times 10^6 $ M$_{\odot}$. By combination of our mass with the flux we calculate $M/L=0.50 \pm 0.12 M_{\odot}/L_{\odot,\mathrm{Ks}}$ for the central 100''. That is broadly consistent with a Chabrier IMF. With its mass and a luminosity of M$_{\mathrm{Ks}}=-15.30\pm0.26$ the nuclear cluster is a bright and massive specimen with a typical size.
description: 4 pages, conference proceedings, IAU Symposium 303 "The GC: Feeding and Feedback in a Normal Galactic Nucleus", 2013 Sep. 30 - Oct. 4, Santa Fe New Mexico (USA)