cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) Pathway Regulates Branching by Remodeling Epithelial Cell Adhesion
Creators: name: Ihermann-Hella, Anneliis
name: Lume, Maria
name: Miinalainen, Ilkka J.
name: Pirttiniemi, Anniina
name: Gui, Yujuan
name: Peränen, Johan
name: Charron, Jean
name: Saarma, Mart
name: Costantini, Franklin D.
name: Kuure, Satu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Morphogenesis
subject: Mitogen-activated protein kinases
subject: Kidneys--Growth
subject: Cell cycle
subject: Epithelial cells
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Although the growth factor (GF) signaling guiding renal branching is well characterized, the intracellular cascades mediating GF functions are poorly understood. We studied mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway specifically in the branching epithelia of developing kidney by genetically abrogating the pathway activity in mice lacking simultaneously dual-specificity protein kinases Mek1 and Mek2. Our data show that MAPK pathway is heterogeneously activated in the subset of G1- and S-phase epithelial cells, and its tissue-specific deletion results in severe renal hypodysplasia. Consequently to the deletion of Mek1/2, the activation of ERK1/2 in the epithelium is lost and normal branching pattern in mutant kidneys is substituted with elongation-only phenotype, in which the epithelium is largely unable to form novel branches and complex three-dimensional patterns, but able to grow without primary defects in mitosis. Cellular characterization of double mutant epithelium showed increased E-cadherin at the cell surfaces with its particular accumulation at baso-lateral locations. This indicates changes in cellular adhesion, which were revealed by electron microscopic analysis demonstrating intercellular gaps and increased extracellular space in double mutant epithelium. When challenged to form monolayer cultures, the mutant epithelial cells were impaired in spreading and displayed strong focal adhesions in addition to spiky E-cadherin. Inhibition of MAPK activity reduced paxillin phosphorylation on serine 83 while remnants of phospho-paxillin, together with another focal adhesion (FA) protein vinculin, were augmented at cell surface contacts. We show that MAPK activity is required for branching morphogenesis, and propose that it promotes cell cycle progression and higher cellular motility through remodeling of cellular adhesions.
Online partial evaluation of sheet-defined functions
Creators: name: Sestoft, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a spreadsheet implementation, extended with sheet-defined functions, that allows users to define functions using only standard spreadsheet concepts such as cells, formulas and references, requiring no new syntax. This implements an idea proposed by Peyton-Jones and others. As the main contribution of this paper, we then show how to add an online partial evaluator for such sheet-defined functions. The result is a higher-order functional language that is dynamically typed, in keeping with spreadsheet traditions, and an interactive platform for function definition and function specialization. We describe an implementation of these ideas, present some performance data from microbenchmarks, and outline desirable improvements and extensions.
description: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.4557
Dasyprocta kalinowskii Thomas 1897
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
Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta
Dasyprocta kalinowskii

description: Dasyprocta kalinowskii Thomas, 1897. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 20:219. TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Cuzco Dept., Santa Ana Valley, Idma. DISTRIBUTION: S.E. Peru. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410022003008001.
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 576, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
The long wavelength view of GG Tau A: Rocks in the Ring World
Creators: name: Scaife, Anna M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first detection of GG Tau A at centimeter-wavelengths, made with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array (AMI-LA) at a frequency of 16 GHz (λ = 1.8 cm). The source is detected at > 6 σ_{rms} with an integrated flux density of S = 249+/-45 μJy. We use these new centimetre-wave data, in conjunction with additional measurements compiled from the literature, to investigate the long wavelength tail of the dust emission from this unusual proto-planetary system. We use an MCMC based method to determine maximum likelihood parameters for a simple parametric spectral model and consider the opacity and mass of the dust contributing to the microwave emission. We derive a dust mass of approximately 0.1 solar masses, constrain the dimensions of the emitting region and find that the opacity index at λ > 7mm is less than unity, implying a contribution to the dust population from grains exceeding 4 cm in size. We suggest that this indicates coagulation within the GG Tau A system has proceeded to the point where dust grains have grown to the size of small rocks with dimensions of a few centimetres. Considering the relatively young age of the GG Tau association, in combination with the low derived disk mass, we suggest that this system may provide a useful test case for rapid core accretion planet formation models.
description: accepted MNRAS
Schools and Terrorism: Global Trends, Impacts, and Lessons for Resilience
Creators: name: Petkova, Elisaveta P.
name: Martinez, Stephanie
name: Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Schools--Safety measures
Terrorists--Psychology
Terrorism
Public health
Social psychology

description: This study characterizes trends in the frequency and characteristics of terrorist attacks in child-serving educational institutions around the world, examining the specific vulnerabilies of children and schools with regard to terrorist violence, as well as the various impacts that violence has on children, communities, and societies. Following the analysis of available data on terrorist attacks against educational institutions, vulnerabilities, and impacts, the study concludes with a discussion of what still needs to be understood in the intersection of child vulnerability and terrorism, and provides recommendations for improving resilience to terrorist attacks against child-serving educational institutions.

One would like to think that certain truths or values would be universally understood as rules of engagement, formally declared or otherwise. The sanctity of children's well-being should be unquestioned, regardless of the issues at stake in the larger conflict. Sadly, history shows that this understanding is neither universally shared nor uniformly valued.

—Irwin Redlener, Americans at Risk, 2007

Since the violent attack on School Number One in Beslan, Russia in 2004, the perceived threat of massive terror attacks targeting schoolchildren has loomed in the public consciousness. In recent years, attacks against educational institutions worldwide have increasingly been reported and documented. The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the massacre of at least 150 students and staff in a Peshawar school by the Pakistani Taliban in 2014 are still fresh in the minds of the public. These attacks serve as reminders of the vulnerability that children in schools face, being “soft targets” whose symbolic value has the capacity of invoking mayhem at the largest possible scale. They also demonstrate the urgency with which this emerging trend in violence must be systemically recorded, analyzed, and mitigated.

The following article will discuss the vulnerability of children with regard to terrorist violence, exploring the literature on what makes children and educational institutions particularly desirable targets. Trends in the frequency and characteristics of terrorist attacks against child-serving educational institutions around the world will be examined, paying particular attention to potential school level and gendered disparities. Finally, a critical analysis on what can be learned from the available data and what still needs to be researched in the nexus of child vulnerability and terrorism will be provided.
title: Liebmann; 1785
title: eine deutsche Anecdote
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Arnaud, François Thomas Marie de Baculard d'
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: In Fraktur. - Verlagsprogramm am Textende [1] S., [3] Bl. u.d.T.: Verzeichniß derjenigen Bücher, welche von Christ. Friedr. Gutsch, Buchhändler in Breslau, verlegt, und bey ihm zu finden sind
Analyzing climate variations at multiple timescales can guide Zika virus response measures
Creators: name: Muñoz, Ángel G.
name: Thomson, Madeleine C.
name: Goddard, Lisa M.
name: Aldighieri, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Climatic changes
Vector control
Zika virus
Public health

description: Background:
The emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014–2016 occurred during a period of severe drought and unusually high temperatures, conditions that have been associated with the 2015–2016 El Niño event, and/or climate change; however, no quantitative assessment has been made to date. Analysis of related flaviviruses transmitted by the same vectors suggests that ZIKV dynamics are sensitive to climate seasonality and longer-term variability and trends. A better understanding of the climate conditions conducive to the 2014–2016 epidemic may permit the development of climate-informed short and long-term strategies for ZIKV prevention and control.

Results:
Using a novel timescale-decomposition methodology, we demonstrate that the extreme climate anomalies observed in most parts of South America during the current epidemic are not caused exclusively by El Niño or climate change, but by a combination of climate signals acting at multiple timescales. In Brazil, the dry conditions present in 2013–2015 are primarily explained by year-to-year variability superimposed on decadal variability, but with little contribution of long-term trends. In contrast, the warm temperatures of 2014–2015 resulted from the compound effect of climate change, decadal and year-to-year climate variability.

Conclusions:
ZIKV response strategies made in Brazil during the drought concurrent with the 2015-2016 El Niño event, may require revision in light of the likely return of rainfall associated with the borderline La Niña event expected in 2016–2017. Temperatures are likely to remain warm given the importance of long term and decadal scale climate signals.

Keywords:

Zika virus Epidemic Climate Climate change Decadal Inter-annual El Niño Brazil Drought Vector control
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1896-02)
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.
Transmutations of supersymmetry through soliton scattering, and self-consistent condensates
Creators: name: Arancibia, Adrian
name: Plyushchay, Mikhail S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the two most general families of the (1+1)D Dirac systems with transparent scalar potentials, and two related families of the paired reflectionless Schrodinger operators. The ordinary N=2 supersymmetry for such Schrodinger pairs is enlarged up to an exotic N=4 nonlinear centrally extended supersymmetric structure, which involves two bosonic integrals composed from the Lax-Novikov operators for the stationary Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy. Each associated single Dirac system displays a proper N=2 nonlinear supersymmetry with a non-standard grading operator. One of the two families of the first and second order systems exhibits the unbroken supersymmetry, while another is described by the broken exotic supersymmetry. The two families are shown to be mutually transmuted by applying a certain limit procedure to the soliton scattering data. We relate the topologically trivial and nontrivial transparent potentials with self-consistent inhomogeneous condensates in Bogoliubov-de Gennes and Gross-Neveu models, and indicate the exotic N=4 nonlinear supersymmetry of the paired reflectionless Dirac systems.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures; refs and comments added
Kent Research Partnership - HRA Decision making tool outcome
Creators: name: Hashem, Ferhana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440712
subject: Social policy

description: The data is a document from the UK's Health Research Authority's decision tool used to check whether the Kent Research Partnership study for Work Stream 1 required NHS Ethical Review. The document shows the outcome of the decision tool, as not requiring UK ethical review.
Dasyprocta leporina
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
Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta
Dasyprocta leporina

description: Dasyprocta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:59. TYPE LOCALITY: Surinam, Peninka, Peninka Creek and Cennewijne River. DISTRIBUTION: Lesser Antilles; Venezuela; Guianas; Amazonian and E. Brazil; introduced into the Virgin Islands. COMMENT: Recognized as D. agouti cayana by Cabrera, 1961:585-586; but see Husson, 1978:457, 466, who included agouti in this species; may also include cristata. Includes albida, antillensis, and noblei; see Varona, 1974:75, who included these forms in agouti.
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 576, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls.", "Varona, L. S. 1974. Catalogo de los mamiferos vivientes y extinguidos de las Antillas. Instituto de Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (Havana), 139 pp."]}
Influence of Shear Motion on Evolution of Molecular Clouds in the Spiral Galaxy M51
Creators: name: Miyamoto, Y.
name: Nakai, N.
name: Kuno, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the dynamics of the molecular gas and the evolution of GMAs in the spiral galaxy M51 with the NRO 45-m telescope. The velocity components of the molecular gas perpendicular and parallel to the spiral arms are derived at each spiral phase from the distribution of the line-of-sight velocity of the CO gas. In addition, the shear motion in the galactic disk is determined from the velocity vectors at each spiral phase. It is revealed that the distributions of the shear strength and of GMAs are anti-correlated. GMAs exist only in the area of the weak shear strength and further on the upstream side of the high shear strength. GMAs and most of GMCs exist in the regions where the shear critical surface density is smaller than the gravitational critical surface density, indicating that they can stably grow by self-gravity and the collisional agglomeration of small clouds without being destroyed by shear motion. These indicate that the shear motion is an important factor in evolution of GMCs and GMAs.
description: 28pages, 23 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
Finding a Chair That Fits
Creators: name: Stellman, Jeanne M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1976
Subjects: Human engineering
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Article on workplace chair ergonomics distributed as a fact sheet by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC). The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
A Safety Checklist for School Science Labs
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: Science--Study and teaching
Laboratories--Safety measures
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: A safety checklist for school science labs produced by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC). The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
Good Lighting for the Good Workplace
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1981
Subjects: Eyestrain
Work environment--Lighting
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Fact sheet on lighting in the workplace produced by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC). The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
Charge Density Wave and Ferromagnetism in Intercalated CrSBr
Creators: name: Feuer, Margalit L.
name: Thinel, Morgan
name: Huang, Xiong
name: Cui, Zhi-Hao
name: Shao, Yinming
name: Kundu, Asish K.
name: Chica, Daniel G.
name: Han, Myung-Geun
name: Pokratath, Rohan
name: Telford, Evan J.
name: Cox, Jordan
name: York, Emma
name: Okuno, Saya
name: Huang, Chun-Ying
name: Bukula, Owethu
name: Nashabeh, Luca M.
name: Qiu, Siyuan
name: Nuckolls, Colin P.
name: Dean, Cory R.
name: Billinge, Simon J. L.
name: Zhu, Xiaoyang
name: Zhu, Yimei
name: Basov, Dmitri N.
name: Millis, Andrew J.
name: Reichman, David R.
name: Pasupathy, Abhay N.
name: Roy, Xavier
name: Ziebel, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In materials with one-dimensional electronic bands, electron-electron interactions can produce intriguing quantum phenomena, including spin-charge separation and charge density waves (CDW). Most of these systems, however, are non-magnetic, motivating a search for anisotropic materials where the coupling of charge and spin may affect emergent quantum states. Here, chemical intercalation of the van der Waals magnetic semiconductor CrSBr yields $Li_{0.17(2)} (tetrahydrofuran)_{0.26(3)} CrSBr$, which possess an electronically driven quasi-1D CDW with an onset temperature above room temperature. Concurrently, electron doping increases the magnetic ordering temperature from 132 K to 200 K and switches its interlayer magnetic coupling from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic. The spin-polarized nature of the anisotropic bands that give rise to this CDW enforces an intrinsic coupling of charge and spin. The coexistence and interplay of ferromagnetism and charge modulation in this exfoliatable material provides a promising platform for studying tunable quantum phenomena across a range of temperatures and thicknesses.
description: Main text: 33 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Supplementary Information: 21 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables (with minor updates)
Modular Construction of Shape-Numeric Analyzers
Creators: name: Chang, Bor-Yuh Evan
name: Rival, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.1; D.2.4

description: The aim of static analysis is to infer invariants about programs that are precise enough to establish semantic properties, such as the absence of run-time errors. Broadly speaking, there are two major branches of static analysis for imperative programs. Pointer and shape analyses focus on inferring properties of pointers, dynamically-allocated memory, and recursive data structures, while numeric analyses seek to derive invariants on numeric values. Although simultaneous inference of shape-numeric invariants is often needed, this case is especially challenging and is not particularly well explored. Notably, simultaneous shape-numeric inference raises complex issues in the design of the static analyzer itself. In this paper, we study the construction of such shape-numeric, static analyzers. We set up an abstract interpretation framework that allows us to reason about simultaneous shape-numeric properties by combining shape and numeric abstractions into a modular, expressive abstract domain. Such a modular structure is highly desirable to make its formalization and implementation easier to do and get correct. To achieve this, we choose a concrete semantics that can be abstracted step-by-step, while preserving a high level of expressiveness. The structure of abstract operations (i.e., transfer, join, and comparison) follows the structure of this semantics. The advantage of this construction is to divide the analyzer in modules and functors that implement abstractions of distinct features.
description: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.4557
Language Acquisition and the Child: Developmental and Theoretical Tensions. Keynote Address on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Boston University Conference on Language Development
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Cognition in children
Language acquisition
Developmental psychology

description: The inquiry into children’s language acquisition has shifted in the past 25 years in ways both profound and, perhaps, not so profound, yielding several themes that dominate current thinking about the enterprise. These themes have to do with the CHILD who is acquiring the language, THEORY about the language the child acquires, and the ESSENTIAL TENSION that is necessary for development of both the child and theory.
Dasyprocta mexicana Saussure 1860
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
Dasyproctidae
Dasyprocta
Dasyprocta mexicana

description: Dasyprocta mexicana Saussure, 1860. Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 12:53. REVIEWED BY: J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, probably Veracruz (="hot zone of Mexico "). DISTRIBUTION: C. Veracruz and E. Oaxaca (Mexico); introduced into Cuba. COMMENT: See Hall, 1981:859, for discussion of type locality. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410022003009001.
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 576, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90."]}
Determination of Doping and Temperature Dependent Elastic Constants of Degenerately Doped Silicon from MEMS Resonators
Creators: name: Jaakkola, Antti
name: Prunnila, Mika
name: Pensala, Tuomas
name: Dekker, James
name: Pekko, Panu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elastic constants c11, c12 and c44 of degenerately doped silicon are studied experimentally as a function of the doping level and temperature. First and second order temperature coefficients of the elastic constants are extracted from measured resonance frequencies of a set of MEMS resonators fabricated on seven different wafers doped with phosphorus (carrier concentrations 4.1, 4.7, and 7.5*10^19 cm^-3), arsenic (1.7, 2.5*10^19 cm^-3), and boron (0.6, 3*10^19 cm^-3), respectively. Measurements cover a temperature range from -40 to +85 C. It is found that that the linear temperature coefficient of the shear elastic parameter c11-c12 is zero at n-type doping level of n~2*10^19 cm^-3, and that it increases to over 40 ppm/K with increasing doping. This observation implies that the frequency of many types of resonance modes, including extensional bulk modes and flexural modes, can be temperature compensated to first order. The second order temperature coefficient of c11-c12 is found to decrease by 40% in magnitude when n-type doping is increased from 4.1 to 7.5*10^19 cm^-3. Results of this study enable calculation of the frequency drift of an arbitrary silicon resonator design with an accuracy of +/- 25 ppm over T=-40 ... 85 C at the doping levels covered in this work. Absolute frequency can be estimated with an accuracy of +/- 1000 ppm.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
Building RDM communities @ VU Amsterdam
Creators: name: Karvovskaya, Lena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: RDM
Data Stewardship
Community Management
research data management

description: The presentation highlights community building as an important part of setting up Research Data Management services at the VU. The slides were presented at BESTPRAC-EARMA virtual meeting | November 25-26, 2020. This presentation is built on a presentation given by Maria Cruz at one of the Monday Meetings at the VU Library.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1897-04)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

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.
Dynamical properties in uniform and periodic growth modes of ascorbic acid crystal domain from thin solution film
Creators: name: Yamazaki, Yoshihiro
name: Kikuchi, Mitsunobu
name: Toda, Akihiko
name: Wakita, Jun-ichi
name: Matsushita, Mitsugu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There exists the threshold-sensitive dynamical transition between the uniform and the periodic growth modes in the domain growth of ascorbic acid crystals from its aqueous supersaturated solution film. The crystal growth induces the solution flow. Humidity controls the fluidity of the solution. The solution flow varies the film thickness. The threshold exists in the thickness of the solution film, and the crystal growth almost stops if the thickness becomes lower than the threshold.
description: 25 pages, 25 figures
More Money, Fewer Lives: The Cost Effectiveness of Welfare Reform in the United States
Creators: name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Caleyachetty, Rishi
name: Rosen, Zohn
name: Korotzer, Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Aid to families with dependent children programs
Aid to families with dependent children programs--U.S. states
Economic assistance, Domestic--U.S. states
Public welfare--U.S. states
Public welfare--Economic aspects
Public welfare--Cost effectiveness
Public health
Economics

description: Objectives. We evaluated the economic benefits of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) relative to the previous program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).

Methods. We used pooled mortality hazard ratios from 2 randomized controlled trials—Connecticut Jobs First and the Florida Transition Program, which had follow-up from the early and mid-1990s through December 2011—and previous estimates of health and economic benefits of TANF and AFDC. We entered them into a Markov model to evaluate TANF’s economic benefits relative to AFDC and weigh them against the potential health threats of TANF.

Results. Over the working life of the average cash assistance recipient, AFDC would cost approximately $28 000 more than TANF from the societal perspective. However, it would also bring 0.44 additional years of life. The incremental cost effectiveness of AFDC would be approximately $64 000 per life-year saved relative to TANF.

Conclusions. AFDC may provide more value as a health investment than TANF. Additional attention given to the neediest US families denied cash assistance could improve the value of TANF.
Indirect Detection Signatures for the Origin of Asymmetric Dark Matter
Creators: name: Zhao, Yue
name: Zurek, Kathryn M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decay signatures of Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) via higher dimension operators which are responsible for generating the primordial dark matter (DM) asymmetry. Since the signatures are sensitive both to the nature of the higher dimension operator generating the DM asymmetry and to the sign of the baryon or lepton number that the DM carries, indirect detection may provide a window into the nature of the mechanism which generates the DM asymmetry. We consider in particular dimension-6 fermionic operators of the form ${\cal O}_{ADM} = X {\cal O}_{B-L}/M^2$, where ${\cal O}_{B-L} = u^c d^c d^c,~\ell \ell e^c,~q \ell d^c$ (or operators related through a Hermitian conjugate) with the scale $M$ around or just below the GUT scale. We derive constraints on ADM particles both in the natural mass range (around a few GeV), as well as in the range between 100 GeV to 10 TeV. For light ADM, we focus on constraints from both the low energy gamma ray data and proton/anti-proton fluxes. For heavy ADM, we consider $γ$-rays and proton/anti-proton fluxes, and we fit $e^+/e^-$ data from AMS-02 and H.E.S.S. (neglecting the Fermi charged particle fluxes which disagree with AMS-02 below 100 GeV). We show that, although the best fit regions from electron/positron measurement are still in tension with other channels on account of the H.E.S.S. measurement at high energies, compared to an ordinary symmetric dark matter scenario, the decay of DM with a primordial asymmetry reduces the tension. Better measurement of the flux at high energy will be necessary to draw a definite conclusion about the viability of decaying DM as source for the signals.
description: Constraint from H.E.S.S. for heavy ADM scenario is included. Constraint from anti-proton flux for light ADM scenario is included. Matched to the version of publication
Using the years-of-healthy-life measure to calculate QALYs
Creators: name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Gold, Marthe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Public health--Research--Methodology
Public health
Cerebrovascular disease--Mortality
Public health--Research

description: Background: The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is an attractive outcome measure because it captures both health-related quality of life (HRQL) and life expectancy in a single metric. We present a method for calculating QALYs that is simple, utilizes data that are free of charge, and may improve consistency in burden-of-disease investigations.

Methods: For purposes of illustration, we calculated the burden of disease due to stroke using two abridged life tables, each adjusted for HRQL. The first life table was generated using all-cause mortality and morbidity data (a reference cohort) and the second was generated using all diseases except stroke (a stroke-free cohort). The difference in total QALYs and in quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) was determined by subtraction.

Results: Approximately 61,328 (95% CI=60,272, 62,383) QALYs were lost to stroke in the life-table cohort. Stroke is responsible for a decrement of 0.03 years of life expectancy and 0.61 years of QALE in the United States.

Conclusions: The “years of health life”measure affords a rapid, inexpensive, and sensitive means for estimating the burden of disease for local health priorities and may assist research efforts in including QALYs as an outcome measure.
Verification of Imperative Programs by Constraint Logic Program Transformation
Creators: name: De Angelis, Emanuele
name: Fioravanti, Fabio
name: Pettorossi, Alberto
name: Proietti, Maurizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.1,F.3.2,F.4.1,I.2.2,D.2.4

description: We present a method for verifying partial correctness properties of imperative programs that manipulate integers and arrays by using techniques based on the transformation of constraint logic programs (CLP). We use CLP as a metalanguage for representing imperative programs, their executions, and their properties. First, we encode the correctness of an imperative program, say prog, as the negation of a predicate 'incorrect' defined by a CLP program T. By construction, 'incorrect' holds in the least model of T if and only if the execution of prog from an initial configuration eventually halts in an error configuration. Then, we apply to program T a sequence of transformations that preserve its least model semantics. These transformations are based on well-known transformation rules, such as unfolding and folding, guided by suitable transformation strategies, such as specialization and generalization. The objective of the transformations is to derive a new CLP program TransfT where the predicate 'incorrect' is defined either by (i) the fact 'incorrect.' (and in this case prog is not correct), or by (ii) the empty set of clauses (and in this case prog is correct). In the case where we derive a CLP program such that neither (i) nor (ii) holds, we iterate the transformation. Since the problem is undecidable, this process may not terminate. We show through examples that our method can be applied in a rather systematic way, and is amenable to automation by transferring to the field of program verification many techniques developed in the field of program transformation.
description: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.4557
The economic burden of disease by industry: Differences in quality-adjusted life years and associated costs
Creators: name: Tolbert, Davina V.
name: McCollister, Kathryn E.
name: LeBlanc, William G.
name: Lee, David J.
name: Fleming, Lora E.
name: Muennig, Peter A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Public health
Industrial safety
Working class--Health and hygiene
Income distribution--Health aspects
Economics

description: Background:

This study compares differences in quality-adjusted life expectancy across the eight original National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) industry sectors.
Methods:

Data from the 1997 to 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were used to estimate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for all workers and by NORA sector. Differences in QALYs were calculated and translated into economic values using estimates of the societal willingness-to-pay per QALY.
Results:

Mean QALYs across workers was 29.17 years. Among NORA sectors, wholesale, and retail trade workers had the highest average QALYs remaining (35.88), while mining workers had the lowest QALYs (31.4). The economic value of this difference ranges from $604,843 to $1,155,287 per worker depending on the societal willingness-to-pay per QALY.
Conclusion:

The value of life lost within some industries is very high relative to others. Additional investments in occupational safety, benefits, and health promotion initiatives may reduce these losses, but experimental research is needed to assess the effectiveness of such programs.
The Cost-Effectiveness of Public Postsecondary Education Subsidies
Creators: name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Fahs, Marianne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Education--Cost effectiveness
Postsecondary education
Public schools--Health aspects
Postsecondary education--Finance
Public universities and colleges
Public universities and colleges--Costs
Public schools--Cost effectiveness
Public health
Education--Administration
School management and organization

description: Background. Although educational attainment is a well-recognized covariate of health status, it is rarely thought of as a tool to be used to improve health. Since fewer than 40% of U.S. citizens have a college degree, it may be possible for the government to improve the health status of the population by assuming a larger burden of the cost of postsecondary education. This paper examines the costs and health effects of a government subsidy for public postsecondary education institutions.
Methods. All high school graduates in 1997 were included in a decision analysis model as a hypothetical cohort. Data from the U.S. Department of Education, the World Health Organization, and the National Center for Health Statistics were used as model inputs.
Results. Relative to the present educational system, a federal subsidy for public and private colleges equal to the amount now paid by students for tuition and living expenses would save $6,176 and avert 0.0018 of a disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) per person annually if enrollment increased 5%. The overall savings among 1997 high school graduates would be $17.1 bil lion and 4,992 DALYs would be averted per year relative to the present educational system. If enrollment increased by just 3%, $3,743 would be saved and 0.0011 DALYs would be averted per person. An enrollment increase of 7% would lead to savings of $8,610 and 0.0025 DALYs would be averted per person relative to the present educational system.
Conclusions. If the government were to offer a full subsidy for college tuition at public universities, both lives and money would be saved, so long as enrollment levels increased. Providing a free postsecondary education for students attending public schools may be more cost-effective than most health investments.
Ion heating dynamics in solid buried layer targets irradiated by ultra-short intense laser pulses
Creators: name: Huang, Lingen
name: Bussmann, Michael
name: Kluge, Thomas
name: Lei, Anle
name: Yu, Wei
name: Cowan, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate bulk ion heating in solid buried layer targets irradiated by ultra-short laser pulses of relativistic intensities using particle-in-cell simulations. Our study focuses on a CD2-Al-CD2 sandwich target geometry. We find enhanced deuteron ion heating in a layer compressed by the expanding aluminium layer. A pressure gradient created at the Al-CD2 interface pushes this layer of deuteron ions towards the outer regions of the target. During its passage through the target, deuteron ions are constantly injected into this layer. Our simulations suggest that the directed collective outward motion of the layer is converted into thermal motion inside the layer, leading to deuteron temperatures higher than those found in the rest of the target. This enhanced heating can already be observed at laser pulse durations as low as 100 femtoseconds. Thus, detailed experimental surveys at repetition rates of several ten laser shots per minute are in reach at current high-power laser systems, which would allow for probing and optimizing the heating dynamics.
Building RDM communities @ the VU
Creators: name: Karvovskaya, Lena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: data stewardship
VU Amsterdam
community
community management
infrastructure
RDM
research data management

description: This goal of this presentation is to highlight the importance of community-building for an infrastructure-oriented project. While infrastructure is essential to make good data management possible, the new tools we develop will not be used unless they are endorsed by the community. We need to make sure that throughout the project, both support personal and researchers are well-informed and have opportunities to be involved in the process if they want to. The slides were presented at the Research Support Program meeting on 7 April 2020. This presentation is built on a presentation given by Maria Cruz at the first RDM Community meeting at VU Amsterdam.
Vacuum-fluctuation-induced Dephasing of a Qubit in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
Creators: name: Kim, Young-Wan
name: Lee, Kang-Ho
name: Kang, Kicheon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the measurement-induced dephasing of a qubit coupled with a single-mode cavity in the vacuum limit. Dephasing of the qubit state takes place through the ntanglement of the qubit and the single probe photon sent to the cavity, while the cavity mode never occupies a photon. We find that the qubit state is dephased even if the cavity is always in the vacuum state. This dephasing is caused purely by the interaction between the qubit and the vacuum field. We also show that this vacuum-fluctuation-induced dephasing takes place much faster than the spontaneous decay of the qubit excited state, and therefore our prediction is observable in a real experiment.
description: 6pages, 5 figures
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1894-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

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.