cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adherence to Cancer Prevention Guidelines in 18 African Countries
Creators: name: Akinyemiju, Tomi F.
name: McDonald, Jasmine A.
name: Tsui, Jennifer
name: Greenlee, Heather
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cancer--Prevention--Government policy
Cancer--Prevention--Research
Cancer--Statistics
Public health

description: Background

Cancer rates in Africa are projected to double by 2030 due to aging and increased exposure to cancer risk factors, including modifiable risk factors. We assessed adherence to 5 modifiable cancer risk factors across 18 African countries.

Methods

Data on adults 18 years and older were obtained from the 2002–2004 World Health Survey. Adherence to current World Cancer Research Fund guidelines on smoking, alcohol, body weight, physical activity, and nutrition was assessed. Adherence scores ranged from 0 (no guideline met) to 5 (all guidelines met). Determinants of adherence were assessed using multivariable linear regression adjusted for individual and country level characteristics.

Results

Across all countries, adherence to the guidelines among adults was high for smoking (72%–99%) and alcohol (85%–100%), but low for body weight (1.8%–78%), physical activity (3.4%–84%) and nutrition (1.4%–61%). Overall adherence score ranged from 2.32 in Mali to 3.72 in Comoros. In multivariable models, residing in low versus high SES households was associated with reduced adherence by 0.24 and 0.21 points for men and women respectively after adjusting for age, gender, education, and marital status (p<0.001). Every % increase in GDP spent on health was associated with increased adherence by 0.03 in men and 0.09 in women (p<0.001).

Conclusions

The wide variation in adherence to cancer prevention guidelines observed across countries and between population sub-groups suggests the need for targeted public health efforts to improve behaviors related to body weight, physical activity and nutrition.
title: Ultraviolet Carcinogenesis in C₃H Athymic Nude Mice
Creators: name: Hoover, Tammy
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1985

description: The induction of skin tumors by ultraviolet irradiation (UV) in C₃H mice and congenic C₃H nude mice was examined. Prior to UV-irradiation, C₃H nude mice were reconstituted with thymus grafts from C₃H mice. C₃H nude skin was grafted onto the backs of C₃H mice before UV treatment. UV-induced tumors were tested for antigenicity and were examined histologically. The probability of tumor development was similar for UV-irradiated C₃H nude mice, UV-irradiated C₃H nude mice reconstituted with thymus grafts and UV-irradiated C₃H mice grafted with C₃H nude skin. UV-irradiated C₃H mice had a longer latency period of tumor development than the other three treatment groups. The probability of tumor development was significantly (P < 0.0048) lower for the UV-irradiated C₃H mice when compared to the other UV-irradiated treatment groups. All UV-induced tumors in the study were squamous cell carcinomas. Tumors from all of the UV-irradiated treatment groups were antigenic. This study indicates that the differences in latency period and probability of tumor incidence in the nude mouse are due to intrinsic properties of the skin and not to the lack of a functioning thymus.
Trichys Gunther 1877
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
Hystricidae
Trichys

description: Trichys Gunther, 1877. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876:739. COMMENT: Reviewed by Van Weers, 1976, Beaufortia, 25:15-31. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410017004000000.
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 570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["van Weers, D. J. 1976. Notes on Southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) I. On the taxonomy of the genus Trichys Gunther, 1877. Beaufortia (University of Amsterdam), 25 (319): 15 - 31."]}
Microstructure and Structural Phase Transitions in Iron-Based Superconductors
Creators: name: Zhen, Wang
name: Yao, Cai
name: Huai-Xin, Yang
name: Huan-Fang, Tian
name: Zhi-Wei, Wang
name: Chao, Ma
name: Zhen, Chen
name: Jian-Qi, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crystal structures and microstructural features, such as structural phase transitions, defect structures, chemical and structural inhomogeneities, are known to have profound effects on the physical properties of superconducting materials. Recently, a large amount of works on the structural properties of Fe-based high-Tc superconductors have been published. This review article will mainly focus on typical microstructural features in samples that have been well characterized by physical measurements. (a) Certain common structural features are discussed. In particular, crystal structural features for different superconducting families, local structural distortions in the Fe2Pn2 (Pn=P, As, Sb) or Fe2Ch2 (Ch=S, Se, Te) blocks, and structural transformations in the 122 system. (b) In FeTe(Se) (11-family), the superconductivity, chemical and structural inhomogeneities are investigated and discussed in correlation with superconductivity. (c) In K0.8Fe1.6+xSe2 system, we focus on typical compounds with emphasis on Fe-vacancy order and phase separations. The microstructural features in other superconducting materials are also briefly discussed.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures
Supplementary Table 1
Creators: name: Sticher, Valerie
name: Wegner, Jan D.
name: Pfeifle, Birke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supplementary Table 1 of the following article: Sticher, Valerie, Jan D Wegner, and Birke Pfeifle. 2023. “Toward the Remote Monitoring of Armed Conflicts.” PNAS Nexus, May, pgad181. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad181.
Study of excited nucleons and their structure
Creators: name: Burkert, Volker D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in the study of excited nucleons are discussed. Much of the progress has been achieved due to the availability of high precision meson production data in the photoproduction and electroproduction sectors, the development of multi-channel partial wave analysis techniques, and advances in Lattice QCD with predictions of the full excitation spectrum.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Invited talk at NSTAR 2013
title: Development of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for the Detection of Antibodies to Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-Associated Viral Capsid Antigen (VCA), Early Antigen (EA), and Nuclear Antigen (EBNA)
Creators: name: Hopkins, Ralph F.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1982

description: Development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is described for the detection of antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated proteins including viral capsid antigen (VCA), early antigen (EA), and nuclear antigen (EBNA). The specificity of the three ELISA systems was demonstrated by the use of 43 well-characterized human sera shown by immunofluorescence (IF) to be variously reactive for antibodies to the viral antigens. Of the cell lines tested as sources of ELISA antigen, the productively EBV-infected cell line, B95-8 was selected as the source of VCA and EA while the EBV-genome positive non-virus producer cell line, B1-19 was chosen as a source of EBNA. Nine sera which were negative for antibodies to VCA, EA, and EBNA by IF were also negative by ELISA. Approximately 50% of the positive antisera tested gave higher anti-VCA and anti-EA titers by ELISA than by IF. The EBNA ELISA test was also more sensitive than IF with all 33 EBNA positive sera. The antibody titers obtained for either VCA, EA, or EBNA when measured by IF and ELISA showed a high degree of correlation whereas no correlation was observed between the antibody being detected in the VCA and EA ELISAs. The antibody titers obtained in each of the ELISAs were reproducible within one two-fold dilution between repeated experiments. These ELISAs for EBV-associated antigens are specific, sensitive, rapid, and objective and thus provide a valuable method for detection of antibodies to these antigens.
title: The impact of providing a continuum of care in the throughcare and aftercare process
Creators: name: Chittleburgh, Caroline
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2010

description: This paper is based on the findings of a piece of practitioner research. The research examined the impact of providing an aftercare service to young people supported by one voluntary organisation as they make the transition from being 'looked after and accommodated' to living independently in the community. This voluntary organisation has supported children and young people since 1733. It set up an aftercare service in 2004 in response to concerns about the transition of young people into the community. Research in the area of throughcare and aftercare has highlighted major problems (Dixon and Stein, 2002; 2005; Stein, 2006; Elsley et al., 2007). In response to such findings, regulations and guidance were published, outlining responsibilities for supporting young people leaving care (Scottish Executive, 2004). The Regulations and Guidance includes duties to assess and review a young person's aftercare needs and to establish clear plans called pathways. In addition to this, reports and guidelines on best practice have been developed which offer support to practitioners (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum, 2006; Scottish Commissioner for Children and Young People [SCCYPJ, 2008). The aftercare service on which this paper is based was set up in 2004. The principles behind the service were based on a series of factors identified by young people as being important to them when they were in transition.
title: RESPONSES OF Nf1Fcr/Nf1FcrB CELLS AND Nf1+/Nf1+B CELLS TO SURFACE IMMUNOGLOBULIN CROSSLINKING
Creators: name: Householder, Deborah Barnhart
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1996

description: The aim of this research is to compare the cellular responses of neurofibromin deficient (Nf1-/-) B cells and neurofibromin positive (Nf1+/+) B cells to surface immunoglobulin (sIg) crosslinking, which mimics B cell activation by specific antigens. Mice heterozygous for a germline null mutation at the Nf1 gene (Nf1Fcr/+) were mated, and fetal liver cells from 13.5 day Nf1Fcr/Nf1Fcr or Nf1+/Nf1+ embryos were used to reconstitute the hematopoietic system of lethally irradiated recipient mice. After full reconstitution had taken place, splenic B cells were isolated and surface immunoglobulin was crosslinked with goat a-murine Ig antibodies. The rate of surface Ig patching and capping after crosslinking was identical in B cells of Nf1Fcr/Nf1Fcr and Nf1+/Nf1+ genotypes. 3H-Thymidine uptake, after crosslinking with α-IgG or α-IgM or with the addition of IL-5, was measured and found to be the same in B cells of both the Nf1Fcr/Nf1Fcr and Nf1+/Nf1+ genotypes. Furthermore, both Nf1 mutant and wild-type B cells exhibited the ability for Ras to cocap with slg. However, differences in the appearance of proteins phosphorylated on tyrosine after crosslinking of surface Ig were noted. When lysates from crosslinked B cells were probed with α-phosphotyrosine antibody a band of approximately 109 kd, present in wild-type lysate, was not present in the mutant lysate. There was also a difference between mutant and wildtype B cell lysates in the level of phosphorylation on tyrosine for other substrates. These results show that neurofibromin may not have a role in the initial activation of the signaling pathway in B cells, but it may play a role further downstream in the signaling pathway. While defects in B cells have not been noted in NF1 patients, who carry one mutant NF1 allele, these results may lead to new insights in neurofibromin function or help diagnose NF1 syndrome in some patients.
title: The Effects of Acid Precipitation Upon the Hatching Rate of the Eggs and the Survival Rate of the Larvae of the Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma maculatum.
Creators: name: Howser, Karen Markel
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1979

description: Acid precipitation has been shown to have a significant impact on the environment through its effect on the pH of aquatic systems. In the present study, laboratory and field experiments were conducted on eggs of the spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, that were maintained in pond water at pH levels ranging from 3 to 7. The results showed that A. maculatum eggs do not hatch at levels below pH 4. Larvae hatching at pH 4 were deformed and their survival rate was low. Hatching rates of eggs and survival rates of larvae were highest at pH 5 and pH 6. Analysis of the data showed significant differences (P = .05) between most of the pH levels tested for both hatching rates and survival rates. The results of this study are relevant to the preservation of some of the endangered species which are also temporary pond breeders, such as the Jefferson salamander.
Correlates of HIV testing and receipt of test results in addiction health services in Los Angeles County
Creators: name: Frimpong, Jemima A.
name: Guerrero, Erick G.
name: Kong, Yinfei
name: Tsai, Gary
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Substance abuse--Patients
Health promotion
HIV (Viruses)--Testing
Public health

description: Background
HIV testing and receipt of HIV test results among individuals with substance use disorders is less than optimal. We examined rates and correlates of HIV testing and receipt of test results in one of the largest public addiction health services systems in the United States.

Methods
The study included 139,516 adult clients in treatment between 2006 and 2011. We used logistic regression models to examine associations between predisposing, enabling, and need factors and two dependent variables, HIV testing rates and receipt of test results. Associations were considered statistically significance at p < .01.

Results
We found that 64 % of clients reported being tested for HIV, of whom 85 % reported receiving their test results. Likelihood of being tested was positively associated with being female, a minority, homeless, employed, having prior treatment episodes, comorbidities, injection drug use, or a history of mental illness. It was negatively associated with alcohol or marijuana as primary drug. Receipt of test results was more likely among clients on medication (methadone or buprenorphine) or whose method of drug use was smoking, inhalation, or injecting; it was less likely among older clients and those with more outpatient psychiatric visits.

Conclusions
Findings from this study may inform strategies and targeting of population groups to improve HIV testing practices and ultimately increase awareness of infection status among clients of addiction health services.
title: IgA1 PROTEASES
Creators: name: Hsu, S. Dana
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1986

description: IgA1 protease is elaborated by several mucosal pathogens, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae, as well as Streptococcus sanguis, a predominant bacterium in dental plaque. The enzyme is specific for the IgA1 subclass, cleaving the molecule at the hinge region to form intact F ab and F c fragments. IgA2 is not susceptible to proteolysis because of a deletion of a 13 amino acid segment in the hinge region where the cleavage sites are located. S. sanguis 10556 was grown in carbon excess and carbon limitation, in undialyzed and diafiltrated media, and the enzyme partially purified by gel filtration and anion exchange chromatography using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Comparison was made of the elution profiles of the enzyme preparations in gel filtration using phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, and Tris(hydroxymethyl)amino methane-HCL (Tris-HCL) buffer, pH 8.0. IgA1 protease was found to be elaborated under carbon limitation, a condition encountered by microorganisms in dental plaque. The use of diafiltrated medium reduced significantly a large contaminating peak which elutes in approximately the same region as the enzyme in gel filtration (phosphate buffer). Better separation of the enzyme from other components eluting at the void volumn was obtained using phosphate buffer than Tris-HCL buffer in gel filtration. In anionic exchange chromatography, the enzyme eluted unbound, while the majority of the contaminating proteins remained bound to the support. This procedure is an efficient method of obtaining a preparation of S. sanguis IgA1 protease which is contaminated by only a few proteins.
Trichys fasciculata
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
Hystricidae
Trichys
Trichys fasciculata

description: Trichys fasciculata (Shaw, 1801). Gen. Zool., 2: 11. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, "Runuk Tanjong." DISTRIBUTION: Borneo; Sumatra; Malaya. COMMENT: Includes lipura and macrotis; see Van Weers, 1976, Beaufortia, 25: 19, who designated a neotype. Medway, 1977:122, considered lipura a distinct species, but did not mention Van Weers, 1976. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410017004001001 as T. lipura. 5301410017004002001 as T. macrotis.
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 570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["van Weers, D. J. 1976. Notes on Southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) I. On the taxonomy of the genus Trichys Gunther, 1877. Beaufortia (University of Amsterdam), 25 (319): 15 - 31.", "Medway, L. 1977. Mammals of Borneo: Field keys and an annotated checklist. Second ed. Monograph, Malay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 7: 1 - 172."]}
Spherical Cows in the Sky with Fab Four
Creators: name: Kaloper, Nemanja
name: Sandora, McCullen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore spherically symmetric static solutions in a subclass of unitary scalar-tensor theories of gravity, called the `Fab Four' models. The weak field large distance solutions may be phenomenologically viable, but only if the Gauss-Bonnet term is negligible. Only in this limit will the Vainshtein mechanism work consistently. Further, classical constraints and unitarity bounds constrain the models quite tightly. Nevertheless, in the limits where the range of individual terms at large scales is respectively Kinetic Braiding, Horndeski, and Gauss-Bonnet, the horizon scale effects may occur while the theory satisfies Solar system constraints and, marginally, unitarity bounds. On the other hand, to bring the cutoff down to below a millimeter constrains all the couplings scales such that `Fab Fours' can't be heard outside of the Solar system.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX
title: THE BACTERIAL EXPRESSION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIV REV EXON 2 AND THE EXTRACELLULAR DOMAIN OF BIV TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN
Creators: name: Hu, Marie Y.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1996

description: To determine if BIV rev exon 2 is post-translationally removed from the Env polypeptide and if the extracellular domain of BIV TM protein is the region responsible for virus-cell fusion, PCR generated fragments of these two regions were cloned and bacterially expressed as maltose binding protein (MBP) fusion proteins in the pMAL expression system. The expressed fusion proteins were isolated and purified by affinity chromatography using amylose resin. The fusion proteins were immunologically characterized by immunoblotting using BIV specific sera, as well as the rabbit anti-MBP serum. The purified proteins were used to immunize mice and guinea pigs for the production of antisera. The antisera were immunologically characterized by western blotting and radioimmunoprecipitation of BIV 127-infected cell lysates. The experimental findings suggest that rev exon 2 translation appears in both the Env precursor and the mature Rev protein. Furthermore, rev exon 2 is posttranslationally cleaved from the gp100 Env surface glycoprotein as evidenced by the recognition of the mouse antisera to MBP-rev exon 2 to p102 Env precursor and the p23rev but not gp100. The presence of the putative BIV primary fusion domain within the extracellular domain of the BIV transmembrane protein (TM-ecd) was not determined due to the lack of reagents.
title: LA GRANDE ÉRUDITION—UN DES QUATRE LIVRES CONFUCIANISTES: ÉCRIT PAR TZENG TZE: UN DES MEILLEURS DISCIPLES DE CONFUCIUS
Creators: name: Huang, Lori
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2005

description: This project aims to conduct the translation of Tzeng-Tze's The Great Learning from ancient Chinese into French in adherence to the following three principles: fidelity, fluency, and gracefulness. The three principal objectives are announced at the beginning of this work in the most straight-forward manner: "What the Great Learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtues; to love the people; and to rest in the highest excellence." These worthy objectives, followed by profound teachings on how to achieve them, render this work one of the four renowned Confucian classics. With the Great Harmony as the ultimate goal, spiritual guidance is given in a step-by-step fashion—with explanation and instructions for each—for the process of advancement. This process can be divided into two parts: Inner Sainthood and Outer Kingship; namely, the internal cultivation and the external practice.
Broad Critic Deep Actor Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control
Creators: name: Thalagala, Shiron
name: Wong, Pak Kin
name: Wang, Xiaozheng
name: Sun, Tianang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the domain of continuous control, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates promising results. However, the dependence of DRL on deep neural networks (DNNs) results in the demand for extensive data and increased computational cost. To address this issue, a novel hybrid actor-critic reinforcement learning (RL) framework is introduced. The proposed framework integrates the broad learning system (BLS) with DNN, aiming to merge the strengths of both distinct architectural paradigms. Specifically, the critic network employs BLS for rapid value estimation via ridge regression, while the actor network retains the DNN structure to optimize policy gradients. This hybrid design is generalizable and can enhance existing actor-critic algorithms. To demonstrate its versatility, the proposed framework is integrated into three widely used actor-critic algorithms -- deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), soft actor-critic (SAC), and twin delayed DDPG (TD3), resulting in BLS-augmented variants. Experimental results reveal that all BLS-enhanced versions surpass their original counterparts in terms of training efficiency and accuracy. These improvements highlight the suitability of the proposed framework for real-time control scenarios, where computational efficiency and rapid adaptation are critical.
description: 11 pages, The final published version is available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10957827 (DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2025.3554082)
INTRODUCTION WAYS OF THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS IN UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Tuychiev Sh.T.
Publisher: name: Архивариус
Year: 2020
Subjects: ENTREPRENEURSHIP
BUSINESS
MARKET ECONOMY
INCOME
PROFIT
LAND
HECTARE
PRODUCTION
RISK

description: This article emphasizes the need for rapid reform of the economy in the context of globalization, as well as the role of Uzbekistan as an independent state on the world map. At the same time, the implementation of significant work on the formation of a free economy based on a market economy and the achievement of significant results have been studied as a topical issue. In particular, the growth rates of production, the development of infrastructure and its impact on the development of the economy have been studied.
Higher order analogues of exterior derivative
Creators: name: Lanzani, Loredana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47F05, 31B35, 35J30, 35E99

description: We give new examples of linear differential operators of order $k=2m+1$ (any given odd integer) that are invariant under the isometries of $\mathbb R^n$ and satisfy so-called $L^1$-duality estimates and div/curl inequalities.
description: This is an electronic reprint of the original article published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics of the Academia Sinica (New Series) {\bf 8 (3)} (2013) 389 -- 398. This reprint differs from the original in pagination and typographical detail
Dissertatio Inavgvralis Philosophico-Critica De Argvmentis Indirectis Pro Veritate Idealismi Critici; 1790
Creators: name: Peucker, Johann Georg Gottlieb
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Halae, Typis Hendelianis, MDCCXC.
Erethizontidae Bonaparte 1845
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
Erethizontidae

description: Family Erethizontidae REVIEWED BY: W. E. Dodge (WED); M. A. Mares (MAM); C. A. Woods (CAW). COMMENT: Spelled Erithizontidae by Corbet and Hill, 1980:189; see comment under Erethizon. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410018000000000.
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 570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
title: KINSHIP AND AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR AMONG MALE MICE
Creators: name: Hughes, Melanie K.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1995

description: Adult male mice defend small territories and compete for mates by engaging in agonistic interactions. A dominance hierarchy is established based on the outcome of these agonistic encounters and the urinary marking behavior of adult male mice is usually strongly dependent on their social dominance ranks. Animals do not behave selfishly all the time but in some circumstances may behave cooperatively, particularly with kin. Hamilton (1964) proposed the theory of kin selection which predicts that the evolution of social behavior is influenced by the degree of kinship between two individuals. I tested Hamilton's theory, that kinship influences agonistic behavior in a preliminary experiment in which I observed agonistic encounters between brothers and nonbrothers. If kin selection on male mice influences interactions between brothers, agonistic interactions between them should be infrequent relative to nonbrothers. The preliminary experiment showed that the mean latency to fight was longer for brothers than for nonbrothers. The mechanism(s) controlling this nepotistic behavior among brothers may be emotional attachment due to association of littermates during early development and/or degree of relatedness per se. I used a cross-fostering procedure to establish four categories of male mice: brothers in same litter, nonbrothers in different litters, brothers in different litters, and nonbrothers in same litter. My results indicate that both attachment and relatedness influence agonistic interactions. To investigate the relevance of open arena tests and whether male mice will continue to display nepotistic behavior in the presense of a limited resource, the pairs of mice were fought a second time with an estrous female present. The male mice had significantly lower latencies which may have resulted from their prior fighting experience, although the pattern of latencies in relation to attachment and relatedness remained the same. Finally, I tested whether kinship influences the nature of urinary marking patterns of male mice and found no significant difference in the urine pattern.
LINGUVOPOETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ARTISTIC TEXT AND THE AUTHOR'S INTERPRETATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL STYLE
Creators: name: Ashurova Zulxumor
Publisher: name: Архивариус
Year: 2020
Subjects: WORD
TEXT
METAPHOR
METANIMY
SYNECDOCHE
COMPOSITION
LEXEME
SEMA
PERMANENCE
UNITY
EXPRESSION
EMOTION
FEELING
EXPERIENCE
STYLE
POETICS

description: The research is dedicated to the linguopoetic features of the literary text, the author's individual style, peculiarities, as well as the ideological and thematic area reflected in the text, the set of dominant characters.
Voter Model with Arbitrary Degree Dependence: Clout, Confidence and Irreversibility
Creators: name: Fotouhi, Babak
name: Rabbat, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider the voter model with popularity bias. The influence of each node on its neighbors depends on its degree. We find the consensus probabilities and expected consensus times for each of the states. We also find the fixation probability, which is the probability that a single node whose state differs from every other node imposes its state on the entire system. In addition, we find the expected fixation time. Then two extensions to the model are proposed and the motivations behind them are discussed. The first one is confidence, where in addition to the states of neighbors, nodes take their own state into account at each update. We repeat the calculations for the augmented model and investigate the effects of adding confidence to the model. The second proposed extension is irreversibility, where one of the states is given the property that once nodes adopt it, they cannot switch back. The dynamics of densities, fixation times and consensus times are obtained.
Information on Stress from the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1987
Subjects: Job stress
Work environment
Industrial hygiene
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Information packet on stress on the job 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.
title: PCR AMPLIFICATION AND CLONING OF ELEVEN OVERLAPPING SEGMENTS OF BIV127 env FOR BACTERIAL EXPRESSION AND IMMUNOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF EXPRESSED PROTEINS
Creators: name: Hutchison, Don C.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1995

description: Bacterially expressed segments of bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) envelope were tested for immunological reactivity with sera from cows, rabbits, and a guinea pig. Overlapping segments of the gene coding for BIV127 envelope surface (SU) and transmembrane (TM) regions were generated by the polymerase chain reaction and subcloned into two fusion protein expression systems: pGEX 4-T-1, a glutathione-Stransferase (GST) fusion system (Pharmacia), and pMAL-C2, a maltose binding protein (MBP) fusion system (New England Biolabs). E. co//transformed with the recombinant plasmids were induced to express BIV-GST or BIV-MBP fusion proteins. The fusion proteins were purified by affinity chromatography using Glutathione Sepharose 4B or amylose resin, respectively. The BIV-MBP peptides were then separated by size on SDS-PAGE gels and transferred onto lmmobilon filters by semi-dry blotting. BIV-MBP purified fusion proteins were also cleaved by factor Xa protease to release the BIV fragment from its fusion partner prior to separation by SOS-PAGE gradient gels and western blot. Fusion proteins were detected using goat anti-GST antibodies or rabbit anti-MBP and tested for reactivity with sera from naturally and experimentally infected cows, an experimentally infected rabbit, immunized rabbits, and an immunized guinea pig. Additionally, sera to synthetic peptides derived from the BIV env gene were tested. Primary sera were incubated with an appropriate horseradish peroxidase-conjugated (HRP) secondary antibody using the enhanced chemi-luminescence system and exposed to x-ray film. The pGEX (GST) expression system showed low yields of BIV-GST fusion protein compared to GST controls expressed with no fusion partner. In contrast, relatively large amounts of BIV-MBP fusion proteins were expressed and could be visualized by Coomassie staining on SDS-PAGE gels as well as western blot. Analysis of the SDS-PAGE and western blot results (of BIV-MBP antigen against cow and rabbit sera) showed BIV reactivity in the BIV-MBP fusion proteins. However, with some antigens, normal control sera also reacted to the BIV-MBP fusion proteins or to copurified protein(s) of similar molecular weight. To evade "non-specific" MBP or copurified protein reactivity, BIV-MBP fusion proteins were cleaved with factor Xa and electrophoresed on 4-20% SDS-PAGE gradient gels prior to western blotting, and tested with a similar panel of sera. An immunogenic region of the amino-terminus of TM corresponding to the extracellular domain (represented by TM1-MBP) was recognized by sera from a naturally infected cow and a cow transfused with a field isolate in both the uncleaved and factor Xa cleaved experiments. Rabbit sera from a BIV127-infected rabbit and a rabbit immunized with purified BIV virion also recognized the cleavage product from factor Xa cleaved TM1-MBP antigen.
title: Unpacking the Transition, Factors Influencing the Adoption of Paperless Statements
Creators: name: Izquierdo, Gema
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statement
subject: Paperless Adoption
subject: Digital Banking
subject: consumer behavior
subject: Technology Adoption
subject: Financial Technology (FinTech)
subject: Trust in Digital Platforms
subject: Paper vs Digital
subject: Psychological Factor
subject: Behavior Change
subject: Consumer behaviour

description: M.S. -- The University of Baltimore, 2024
description: Thesis submitted to the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences of The University of Baltimore in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Interaction Design and Information Architecture
description: Abstract This study investigates the persistence of paper statements among digitally engaged consumers, analyzing why certain individuals continue to rely on physical statements despite frequent use of online banking platforms. By exploring technological, psychological, and behavioral factors, this research examines barriers to the adoption of paperless systems, including trust issues, usability challenges, and unmet user needs. Drawing from the Diffusion of Innovations Theory and the Technology Acceptance Model, the study categorizes users based on their adoption behaviors, uncovering motivations across generational and behavioral divides. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, including empathy interviews and screener surveys, the study identifies critical themes: the perceived reliability and security of paper, limited user awareness of digital platform capabilities, and the importance of usability and accessibility in driving adoption. Participants’ preferences highlight the need for hybrid solutions, extended archival capabilities, and user-centered design to bridge the gap between paper and digital systems. The findings offer actionable insights for financial institutions aiming to transition customers to paperless systems, emphasizing trust-building measures, enhanced education, and tailored interventions. By addressing these barriers and aligning digital solutions with user expectations, banks can foster a smoother transition toward sustainable and efficient financial management practices. This research contributes to the broader discourse on digital transformation and behavioral change, providing a foundation for future studies and strategies to promote paperless adoption.
Magnetic field tomography, helical magnetic fields and Faraday depolarization
Creators: name: Horellou, Cathy
name: Fletcher, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wide-band radio polarization observations offer the possibility to recover information about the magnetic fields in synchrotron sources, such as details of their three-dimensional configuration, that has previously been inaccessible. The key physical process involved is the Faraday rotation of the polarized emission in the source (and elsewhere along the wave's propagation path to the observer). In order to proceed, reliable methods are required for inverting the signals observed in wavelength space into useful data in Faraday space, with robust estimates of their uncertainty. In this paper, we examine how variations of the intrinsic angle of polarized emission $ψ_{0}$ with the Faraday depth $ϕ$ within a source affect the observable quantities. Using simple models for the Faraday dispersion $F(ϕ)$ and $ψ_{0}(ϕ)$, along with the current and planned properties of the main radio interferometers, we demonstrate how degeneracies among the parameters describing the magneto-ionic medium can be minimised by combining observations in different wavebands. We also discuss how depolarization by Faraday dispersion due to a random component of the magnetic field attenuates the variations in the spectral energy distribution of the polarization and shifts its peak towards shorter wavelengths. This additional effect reduces the prospect of recovering the characteristics of the magnetic field helicity in magneto-ionic media dominated by the turbulent component of the magnetic field.
description: Published: 2014, MNRAS 441, 2049. 9 pages, 5 figures. Major changes since previous version: added section 2.4 (Spectral dependence) and section 3.2 and appendix (Faraday dispersion)
Chaetomys Gray 1843
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
Erethizontidae
Chaetomys

description: Chaetomys Gray, 1843. List Mamm. Br. Mus., p. 123. COMMENT: Wood and Patterson, in press, Biol. Comp. Zool., referred Chaetomys to the family Echimyidae based on the dental formula. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410018001000000.
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 571, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Genome-Wide Association Studies and Heritability Estimates of Body Mass Index Related Phenotypes in Bangladeshi Adults
Creators: name: Bryan, Molly Scannell
name: Argos, Maria
name: Pierce, Brandon
name: Tong, Lin
name: Rakibuz-Zaman, Muhammad
name: Ahmed, Alauddin
name: Rahman, Mahfuzar
name: Islam, Tariqul
name: Yunus, Muhammad
name: Parvez, Muhammad F.
name: Roy, Shantanu
name: Jasmine, Farzana
name: Baron, John A.
name: Ahsan, Habibul
name: Kibriya, Muhammad G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Phenotype
subject: Inheritance of acquired characters
subject: Body mass index
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many health outcomes are influenced by a person's body mass index, as well as by the trajectory of body mass index through a lifetime. Although previous research has established that body mass index related traits are influenced by genetics, the relationship between these traits and genetics has not been well characterized in people of South Asian ancestry. To begin to characterize this relationship, we analyzed the association between common genetic variation and five phenotypes related to body mass index in a population-based sample of 5,354 Bangladeshi adults. We discovered a significant association between SNV rs347313 (intron of NOS1AP) and change in body mass index in women over two years. In a linear mixed-model, the G allele was associated with an increase of 0.25 kg/m2 in body mass index over two years (p-value of 2.3·10−8). We also estimated the heritability of these phenotypes from our genotype data. We found significant estimates of heritability for all of the body mass index-related phenotypes. Our study evaluated the genetic determinants of body mass index related phenotypes for the first time in South Asians. The results suggest that these phenotypes are heritable and some of this heritability is driven by variation that differs from those previously reported. We also provide evidence that the genetic etiology of body mass index related traits may differ by ancestry, sex, and environment, and consequently that these factors should be considered when assessing the genetic determinants of the risk of body mass index-related disease.
Comparing Interferon-Gamma Release Assays to Tuberculin Skin Test in Thai Children with Tuberculosis Exposure
Creators: name: Tieu, Hong Van N.
name: Suntarattiwong, Piyarat
name: Puthanakit, Thanyawee
name: Chotpitayasunondh, Tawee
name: Chokephaibulkit, Kulkanya
name: Buranapraditkun, Supranee
name: Sirivichayakul, Sunee
name: Rungrojrat, Patcharawee
name: Chomchey, Nitiya
name: Tsiouris, Simon
name: Hammer, Scott M.
name: Nandi, Vijay
name: Ananworanich, Jintanat
name: Group, Thai TB Px Study
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Tuberculosis--Research
Children--Diseases--Diagnosis
Diagnosis, Laboratory
Biomedical engineering

description: Background

Data on the performance of interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), QuantiFERON TB Gold In-tube (QFNGIT) and T-Spot.TB, in diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) are limited in Southeast Asia. This study aims to compare the performances of the two IGRAs and TST in Thai children with recent TB exposure.

Methods

This multicenter, prospective study enrolled children with recent exposure to active TB adults. Children were investigated for active TB. TST was performed and blood collected for T-Spot.TB and QFNGIT.

Results

158 children were enrolled (87% TB-exposed and 13% active TB, mean age 7.2 years). Only 3 children had HIV infection. 66.7% had TST≥10 mm, while 38.6% had TST≥15 mm. 32.5% had positive QFNGIT; 29.9% had positive T-Spot.TB. QFNGIT and T-Spot.TB positivity was higher among children with active TB compared with TB-exposed children. No indeterminate IGRA results were detected. No statistically significant differences between the performances of the IGRAs and TST at the two cut-offs with increasing TB exposure were detected. Concordance for positive IGRAs and TST ranged from 42–46% for TST≥10 mm and 62–67% for TST≥15 mm. On multivariable analyses, exposure to household primary/secondary caregiver with TB was associated with positive QFNGIT. Higher TB contact score and active TB were associated with positive T-Spot.TB.

Conclusions

Both QFNGIT and T-Spot.TB performed well in our Thai pediatric study population. No differences in the performances between tests with increasing TB exposure were found. Due to accessibility and low cost, using TST may more ideal than IGRAs in diagnosing latent and active TB in healthy children in Thailand and other similar settings.
title: Abriß der Metaphysik nach Kan; 1797
title: zum Behufe seiner Vorlesungen entworfen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Münch, Johann Gottlieb
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Nürnberg und Altdorf bei J. C. Monath und J. F. Kußler. 1797.
Real-Time, Transcranial Monitoring of Safe Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Non-Human Primates
Creators: name: Marquet, Fabrice
name: Teichert, Tobias
name: Wu, Shih-Ying
name: Tung, Yao-Sheng
name: Downs, Matthew Eric
name: Chen, Cherry
name: Wang, Shutao
name: Ferrera, Vincent
name: Konofagou, Elisa E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Drug delivery systems
subject: High-intensity focused ultrasound
subject: Blood-brain barrier
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The delivery of drugs to specific neural targets faces two fundamental problems: (1) most drugs do not cross the blood-brain barrier, and (2) those that do, spread to the entire brain. To date, there exists only one non-invasive methodology with the potential to solve these problems: selective blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening using micro-bubble enhanced focused ultrasound. We have recently developed a single-element 500-kHz spherical transducer ultrasound setup for targeted BBB opening in the non-human primate that does not require simultaneous MRI monitoring. So far, however, the targeting accuracy that can be achieved with this system has not been quantified systematically. In this paper, the accuracy of this system was tested by targeting caudate nucleus and putamen of the basal ganglia in two macaque monkeys. The average lateral targeting error of the system was ∼2.5 mm while the axial targeting error, i.e., along the ultrasound path, was ∼1.5 mm. We have also developed a real-time treatment monitoring technique based on cavitation spectral analysis. This technique also allowed for delineation of a safe and reliable acoustic parameter window for BBB opening. In summary, the targeting accuracy of the system was deemed to be suitable to reliably open the BBB in specific sub-structures of the basal ganglia even in the absence of MRI-based verification of opening volume and position. This establishes the method and the system as a potentially highly useful tool for brain drug delivery.