cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: TPy : A Lightweight Framework for Agile Distributed Network Experiments
Creators: name: Steinmetzer, Daniel
name: Stute, Milan
name: Hollick, Matthias
Publisher: name: Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2018

description: Experimental validation of novel network solutions, protocols, and applications gains increasing importance. The complexity of today's network systems makes evaluations in physical testbeds mandatory to capture real-world effects. However, this causes methodological and technical issues and challenges researchers in handling their agile testbed deployments. In contrast to Internet-scale testbeds, most agile experiments require specific topologies, specialized hardware, or a custom environment. They typically run only a few times and demand live user interaction. Existing management systems for Internet-scale testbeds do not accommodate these needs due to their complexity and maintenance overhead. In this paper, we present TPy, a lightweight and flexible framework to conduct distributed network experiments. TPy is written in Python and extendable via modules. To demonstrate its versatility and ease-of-use, we use TPy to perform experiments in the domains of millimeter-wave and secure multi-hop communications. We share TPy as open source software to support the community of experimental evaluation.
Isospin transport in 84Kr+112,124Sn reactions at Fermi energies
Creators: name: Piantelli, S.
name: Casini, G.
name: Olmi, A.
name: Barlini, S.
name: Bini, M.
name: Carboni, S.
name: Maurenzig, P. R.
name: Pasquali, G.
name: Poggi, G.
name: Stefanini, A. A.
name: Bougault, R.
name: LeNeindre, N.
name: Lopez, O.
name: Parlog, M.
name: Vient, E.
name: Bonnet, E.
name: Chbihi, A.
name: Frankland, J. D.
name: Gruyer, D.
name: Rosato, E.
name: Spadaccini, G.
name: Vigilante, M.
name: Borderie, B.
name: Rivet, M. F.
name: Bruno, M.
name: Morelli, L.
name: Cinausero, M.
name: Degerlier, M.
name: Gramegna, F.
name: Marchi, T.
name: Alba, R.
name: Maiolino, C.
name: Santonocito, D.
name: Kozik, T.
name: Twarog, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isospin transport phenomena in dissipative heavy ion collisions have been investigated at Fermi energies with a beam of 84Kr at 35AMeV. A comparison of the /Z of light and medium products forward-emitted in the centre of mass frame when the beam impinges on a n-poor 112Sn and a n-rich 124Sn targets is presented. Data were collected by means of a three-layer telescope with very good performances in terms of mass identification (full isotopic resolution up to Z about 20 for ions punching through the first detector layer) built by the FAZIA Collaboration and located just beyond the grazing angle for both reactions. The /Z of the decay products emitted when the n-rich target is used is always higher than that associated to the n-poor one. Since the detector was able to measure only fragments coming from the QuasiProjectile decay and/or neck emission, the observed behaviour can be ascribed to the isospin diffusion, driven by the isospin gradient between QuasiProjectile and QuasiTarget. Moreover, for light fragments the /Z as a function of the lab velocity of the fragment increases when we move from the QuasiProjectile velocity to the centre of mass (neck zone). This effect can be interpreted as an evidence of isospin drift driven by the density gradient between the QuasiProjectile zone (at normal density) and the more diluted neck zone.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, Contribution to conference proceedings of the 25th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2013) Journal-ref: 25th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2013), Firenze : Italy (2013)
Friend of the Sea Otter : Curating the Judson Vandevere Archive
Creators: name: Whitmire, Amanda
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Archival collections
sea otters

description: Judson E. Vandevere was a teacher, naturalist, conservationist, and advocate for the protection of the sea otter. He was active in sea otter research and conservation along the central California coast for over 30 years, starting in the 1960s. In 2017, Vandevere’s widow donated a collection of his materials to Harold A. Miller Library at Hopkins Marine Station, which were joined by more papers and notebooks from his son in 2020 and 2021. In this presentation, I will share how I relied upon one part-time staff member to process the physical collection and curate a digital collection, and convey how we made decisions on what to keep and how to organize the collection. Along the way you’ll hear snippets of the interesting history of the rediscovery, study, protection and recovery of the sea otter along our coastline.
title: The environments and progenitors of extreme supernovae in the low-redshift Universe
Creators: name: Taggart, K
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2020

description: Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are the explosive endpoints of massive (>8 M_Sun) stars that manifest as a bright optical display that lasts for a period of weeks to several months, leaving behind a stellar-mass black hole or a neutron star corpse. Currently supernova science is in a phase of unprecedented activity and productivity, with a new generation of wide-field survey telescopes that scan the entire night sky every few days. As a result, we have begun to discover huge diversity in the observational and physical explosion properties of supernovae that do not neatly fit into the standard classification scheme derived nearly a century ago. Some supernovae produce relativistic jets and are accompanied by long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), and superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) have radiated luminosities that exceed CCSNe by an order of magnitude, suggesting an energetic and poorly understood explosion mechanism. In this thesis, I take advantage of new unbiased supernova samples to provide insights into the explosive endpoints of massive stars through their host galaxy environments. I use public imaging surveys to gather multi-wavelength photometry for a spectroscopically-complete sample of 150 CCSN host galaxies from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) and fit the resulting spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to derive stellar masses and integrated star formation rates. I find that 33(+ 4)(- 4) per cent of CCSNe take place in dwarf galaxies (stellar mass, M < 10^9 M_Sun) and 2(+ 2)(- 1) per cent in dwarf starburst galaxies (specific star formation rate, sSFR > 10^(-8) yr^(-1)). CCSNe provide a census of all massive star formation. Thus, this new CCSN catalogue is an ideal `control' sample to compare with exotic supernovae (SLSNe and LGRBs) at low redshift. I reanalyse SLSN and LGRB hosts from the literature (out to z< 0.3) in a homogeneous way to compare against the CCSN host sample. I conclude that the relative SLSN-I to CCSN supernova rate is increased in low-mass galaxies and at high specific star formation rates. These parameters are strongly covariant, and it was not possible to securely identify which factor (low mass or high sSFR) was more strongly associated with an enhanced SLSN or LGRB rate. In addition, I present my work to help to build future supernova catalogues with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), including the Bright Transient and Superluminous Supernova surveys. I have integrated the Liverpool Telescope with ZTF which allows follow-up spectroscopy and photometry to be requested and reduced via an automated reduction and image-subtraction pipeline. These new transient catalogues will be larger, and they will provide better control of systematics, enabling detailed future studies.
Hemichorea Associated with CASPR2 Antibody
Creators: name: Vynogradova, Iryna
name: Savitski, Vitali
name: Heckmann, Josef G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This letter was written in response to: Ramdhani RA, Frucht SJ. Isolated chorea associated with LGI1 antibody. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov. 2014; 4. doi: 10.7916/D8MG7MFC
Causal structures from entropic information: Geometry and novel scenarios
Creators: name: Chaves, Rafael
name: Luft, Lukas
name: Gross, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fields of quantum non-locality in physics, and causal discovery in machine learning, both face the problem of deciding whether observed data is compatible with a presumed causal relationship between the variables (for example a local hidden variable model). Traditionally, Bell inequalities have been used to describe the restrictions imposed by causal structures on marginal distributions. However, some structures give rise to non-convex constraints on the accessible data, and it has recently been noted that linear inequalities on the observable entropies capture these situations more naturally. In this paper, we show the versatility of the entropic approach by greatly expanding the set of scenarios for which entropic constraints are known. For the first time, we treat Bell scenarios involving multiple parties and multiple observables per party. Going beyond the usual Bell setup, we exhibit inequalities for scenarios with extra conditional independence assumptions, as well as a limited amount of shared randomness between the parties. Many of our results are based on a geometric observation: Bell polytopes for two-outcome measurements can be naturally imbedded into the convex cone of attainable marginal entropies. Thus, any entropic inequality can be translated into one valid for probabilities. In some situations the converse also holds, which provides us with a rich source of candidate entropic inequalities.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, many cones. Minor revisions, new figures and inequalities
The thermodynamics of hydride precipitation: the importance of entropy, enthalpy and disorder
Creators: name: Lumley, S. C.
name: Grimes, R. W.
name: Murphy, S. T.
name: Burr, P. A.
name: Chroneos, A.
name: Chard-Tucke, P. R.
name: Wenman, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamics of H/α-Zr solid solution and zirconium hydride phases were studied using density functional theory. Disorder in ζ, γ and δ hydrides and solid solutions were modelled using a statistically significant number of randomly generated structures in combination with special quasi-random structures and solid solutions with a range of concentrations. This is used in conjunction with a calculation of thermodynamic parameters of the system, including the temperature dependent sensible enthalpy, configurational entropy and vibrational entropy of the different crystals in the system, developed from phonon density of states. It was found that precipitation of hydrides is not thermodynamically favourable for Zr-H solid solutions containing less than 300 ppm H, suggesting that a mechanism must cause local concentration of H atoms to a greater amount than found globally in experimental samples containing hydrides. Temperature drives the reaction in the direction of solution, primarily due to entropic effects. Generally, γ hydride is the most stable phase, although it is very close in energy to the δ-phase. The sensible enthalpy of precipitation assists in stabilising HCP hydrides, and the configurational entropy change during precipitation favours FCC hydrides. None of the thermodynamic contributions are found to be negligible in driving precipitation.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B on 22-Jan-2013
Boron stress inhibits beet (Beta vulgaris L.) growth through influencing endogenous hormones and oxidative stress response
Creators: name: Song, Baiquan
name: Hao, Xueming
name: Wang, Xiangling
name: Yang, Siyuan
name: Dong, Yifan
name: Ding, Yue
name: Wang, Qiuhong
name: Wang, Xiaochun
name: Zhou, Jianchao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the pleiotropic effects of boron stress on beet (Beta vulgaris L.) growth. Methods: Beet seedlings were treated with varying concentrations of H3BO3 (0.05, 0.5, 2, and 30 mg/L) for 30 d for evaluation of diverse morphological parameters related to shoot and root growth. Transverse sections of beet leaves were observed under a microscope, and the leaf thickness was measured. Photosynthesis in beet was evaluated by measuring the photosynthetic rate, intercellular carbon dioxide concentration, and chlorophyll content; chloroplast morphology was observed by transmission electron microscopy. In addition, the levels of diverse endogenous hormones, as well as oxidative stress parameters, were also analyzed in beet leaves. Results: We found that boron accumulated in different beet tissues but was observed mainly in mature leaves, followed by young leaves, mature petioles, young petioles, and roots. Boron stress (boron toxicity, 30 mg/L; boron deficiency, 0.05 mg/L) significantly inhibited beet shoot, root growth, and leaf expansion while promoting leaf thickening. Additionally, the levels of indole-3-acetic acid, gibberellin A3, and zeatin in beet leaves decreased significantly under boron stress, whereas the level of abscisic acid increased. Moreover, the levels of superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, catalase, malondialdehyde, and proline in beet leaves increased significantly under boron stress. Conclusion: Together, our results indicate that boron stress significantly inhibited normal beet growth via the influence of endogenous hormone levels and oxidative stress responses.
HD-PRO-TRIAD™ Validation: a Patient-Reported Instrument for the Symptom Triad of Huntington Disease
Creators: name: Carlozzi, Noelle E.
name: Victorson, David
name: Sung, Victor
name: Beaumont, Jennifer L.
name: Cheng, Wendy
name: Gorin, Brian
name: Duh, Mei Sheng
name: Samuelson, David
name: Tulsky, David
name: Gutierrez, Sandra
name: Nowinski, Cindy J.
name: Mueller, Allison
name: Shen, Vivienne
name: Frank, Samuel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Few valid, disease‐specific measures of health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) capture the spectrum of symptoms associated with Huntington's disease (HD). The HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ is a new, HD‐specific, patient‐reported outcome (PRO) instrument of the HD symptom triad (cognitive decline, emotional/behavioral dyscontrol, and motor dysfunction) designed for clinical research and practice. The objective was to validate the HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ through a cross‐sectional sample of individuals with HD and caregivers.

Methods: Development of the HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ has been described elsewhere. A total of 132 individuals with HD and 40 HD caregivers, comprising 29 dyads, participated in the cross‐sectional psychometric validation of this instrument. Participants provided responses to the HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ and other HRQOL and disease severity instruments (EuroQOL 5D, Short Form 12, Neuro‐QOL Item Banks, PROMIS Global Health, and self‐reported Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale Total Functional Capacity and Independence Scales). Internal consistency, construct validity, and patient–caregiver proxy consistency were evaluated.

Results: Internal consistency of the three domains and overall HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ instrument was supported by Cronbach's alpha values ≥0.94. Construct validity was supported by significant correlations between HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ domain scores and other measures of the same domains (e.g., significant positive correlations between HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ Anxiety with Neuro‐QOL Anxiety), as well as slightly weaker but still strong correlations with other HRQOL instruments (e.g., HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ Anxiety and UHDRS Independence; all p less than 0.01). Consistency between patient self‐report and caregiver proxy report was supported by an intra‐class correlation coefficient ≥0.92 for all three domains and the overall instrument.

Discussion: These data indicate that HD‐PRO‐TRIAD™ is a reliable and valid HRQOL instrument that captures the typical triad of HD symptoms.
title: LIDOR : A Lightweight DoS-Resilient Communication Protocol for Safety-Critical IoT Systems
Creators: name: Stute, Milan
name: Agarwal, Pranay
name: Kumar, Abhinav
name: Asadi, Arash
name: Hollick, Matthias
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2022

description: IoT devices penetrate different aspects of our life including critical services, such as health monitoring, public safety, and autonomous driving. Such safety-critical IoT systems often consist of a large number of devices and need to withstand a vast range of known Denial-of-Service (DoS) network attacks to ensure a reliable operation while offering low-latency information dissemination. As the first solution to jointly achieve these goals, we propose LIDOR, a secure and lightweight multihop communication protocol designed to withstand all known variants of packet dropping attacks. Specifically, LIDOR relies on an end-to-end feedback mechanism to detect and react on unreliable links and draws solely on efficient symmetric-key cryptographic mechanisms to protect packets in transit. We show the overhead of LIDOR analytically and provide the proof of convergence for LIDOR which makes LIDOR resilient even to strong and hard-to-detect wormhole-supported grayhole attacks. In addition, we evaluate the performance via testbed experiments. The results indicate that LIDOR improves the reliability under DoS attacks by up to 91% and reduces network overhead by 32% compared to a state-of-the-art benchmark scheme.
Failure Analysis of the New York City Power Grid
Creators: name: Wu, Leon
name: Anderson, Roger N.
name: Boulanger, Albert G.
name: Rudin, Cynthia
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Smart power grids
Computer science

description: As U.S. power grid transforms itself into Smart Grid, it has become less reliable in the past years. Power grid failures lead to huge financial cost and affect people’s life. Using a statistical analysis and holistic approach, this paper analyzes the New York City power grid failures: failure patterns and climatic effects. Our findings include: higher peak electrical load increases likelihood of power grid failure; increased subsequent failures among electrical feeders sharing the same substation; underground feeders fail less than overhead feeders; cables and joints installed during certain years are more likely to fail; higher weather temperature leads to more power grid failures. We further suggest preventive maintenance, intertemporal consumption, and electrical load optimization for failure prevention. We also estimated that the predictability of the power grid component failures correlates with the cycles of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index.
Additional file 1 of Burden, clinical presentation and risk factors of advanced HIV disease in pregnant Mozambican women
Creators: name: Nhampossa, Tacilta
name: González, Raquel
name: Nhacolo, Arsenio
name: Garcia-Otero, Laura
name: Quintó, Llorenç
name: Mazuze, Maura
name: Mendes, Anete
name: Casellas, Aina
name: Bambo, Gizela
name: Couto, Aleny
name: Sevene, Esperança
name: Munguambe, Khátia
name: Menendez, Clara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table 2-b. Independent risk factors for advanced HIV disease (according to multiple imputation analyses).
Thermodynamics of a charged hairy black hole in (2+1) dimensions
Creators: name: Sadeghi, J.
name: Farahani, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study thermodynamics, statistics and spectroscopic aspects of a charged black hole with a scalar hair coupled to the gravity in (2+1) dimensions. We obtained effects of the black hole charge and scalar field on the thermodynamical and statistical quantities. We find that scalar charge may increase entropy, temperature and probability, while may decrease black hole mass, free and internal energy. Also electric charge increases probability and decreases temperature and internal energy. Also we investigate stability of the system and find that the thermodynamical stability exists.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures. References added
Seeking Observable Imprints of Small-Scale Structure on the Properties of Dark Matter Haloes
Creators: name: Power, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characteristic prediction of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model of cosmological structure formation is that the Universe should contain a wealth of small-scale structure -- low-mass dark matter haloes and subhaloes. However, galaxy formation is inefficient in their shallow potential wells and so we expect these low-mass haloes and subhaloes to be dark. Can we tell the difference between a Universe in which low-mass haloes are present but dark and one in which they never formed, thereby providing a robust test of the CDM model? We address this question using cosmological simulations to examine how properties of low-mass haloes that are potentially accessible to observation, such as their spatial clustering, rate of accretions and mergers onto massive galaxies and the angular momentum content of massive galaxies, differ between a LCDM model and dark matter models in which low-mass halo formation is suppressed. Adopting an effective cut-off mass scale M_cut below which small-scale power is suppressed in the initial conditions, we study dark matter models in which M_cut varies between 5e9 Msol/h and 1e11 Msol/h, equivalent to the host haloes of dwarf and low mass galaxies. Our results show that both the clustering strength of low-mass haloes around galaxy-mass primaries and the rate at which they merge with these primaries is sensitive to the assumed value of M_cut; in contrast, suppressing low-mass halo formation has little influence on the angular momentum content of galaxy-mass haloes -- it is the quiescence or violence of a halo's assembly history that has a more marked effect. However, we expect that measuring the effect on spatial clustering or the merger rate is likely to be observationally difficult for realistic values of M_cut, and so isolating the effect of this small-scale structure would appear to be remarkably difficult to detect, at least in the present day Universe.
description: 16 pages, 11 Figures. Accepted for publication in special PASA issue on Warm Dark Matter
Theses Dispvtationis VII. Ex Titvlis FF. Et C. De Postvlando, Et His qui notantur infamia, aliisq[ue] concordantib[us] textibus sumtae; 1590 [?]
Creators: name: Hackelmann, Leopold
name: Hake, Burchard
name: Steinmann, Tobias
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Erscheinungsjahr im Ex. Der UB der LMU München nicht eindeutig lesbar
Lattice modes in a dusty plasma crystal
Creators: name: Abdikian, A.
name: Ehsan, Zahida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model is presented to explain the normal mode features of dust particles in a planar zigzag crystal chain for the first and second neighbors. The degrees of freedom of particles are the longitudinal and transverse displacements in plane coupled by the first and second neighbor harmonic forces in two-dimensions (2D). The constant electric force duded to the electrodes to keep the zigzag structure is calculated. The coupling between transverse and longitudinal dust-lattice (DL) modes is derived. The latter is considered due to the energy of the electrostatic (Yukawa) potential. Moreover coupled (acoustic and optical) and decoupled (longitudinal and transverse) branches of dust lattice modes for different lattice parameters and structures are studied. Propagation of the longitudinal and acoustic modes is found to be strictly dependent on the value of the distance between the two chains; below that value mode may not propagate Finally it is shown that the frequencies of the acoustic (optical) branches increase (decrease) with increasing the distance between the two chains.
The prohibition of abuse of rights in European Tax Law: sacrificing the internal market for the fight against base erosion and profit shifting?
Creators: name: Traversa, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Studi Tributari Europei
Year: 2020
Subjects: EU tax Law; abuse of rights; BEPS; tax harmonization

description: The EU principle of prohibition of abuse of rights applied to taxation reflects the need to consider the financial interests of the Member States in an internal market where taxation remains largely unharmonized. Therefore, the circulation of taxpayers across tax systems may entail significant financial consequences for them, as for the Member States concerned. Although the origin of abuse is to be found in the case-law of the Court of justice, it is now codified in the legislative instruments, in particular in the EU Anti-tax avoidance directive of 2016. This directive, which entered into force in 2019, obliges Member States to adopt a general anti-abuse provision. This means a de facto harmonization of the concept of abuse for corporate taxation but which at the same time creates significant implementation difficulties for EU institutions, Member States and taxpayers. The directive also harmonizes specific anti-avoidance mechanisms in order to prevent base erosion and profit shifting between Member States and towards third countries and to ensure that “profits are taxed [on the territory] where value is created”. The contribution aims at analyzing the evolution of the concept of abuse of rights as applied to taxation in the European Union, also in the light of the OECD BEPS strategy.
description: Studi Tributari Europei, Vol 9 (2019)
Change in Non-motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor Patients: A One-year Follow-up Study
Creators: name: Giorelli, Maurizio
name: Bagnoli, Junia
name: Consiglio, Luigi
name: Difazio, Pasquale
name: Zizza, Daniela
name: Zimatore, Giovanni Bosco
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Non‐motor symptoms (NMS) in Parkinson's disease (PD) differ from those in essential tremor (ET), even before a definitive diagnosis is made. It is not clear whether patient's knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment influence their subsequent reporting of NMS.

Methods: 1 year after a clinical and instrumental diagnosis, we compared the motor impairment (Movement Disorders Society (MDS)‐Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale‐III) and non‐motor symptoms (NMSQuest) in PD (n = 31) and ET (n = 21) patients.

Results: PD patients reported more NMS than did the ET patients (p = 0.002). When compared to their baseline report, at follow‐up, PD patients reported less nocturia (p = 0.02), sadness (p = 0.01), insomnia (p = 0.02), and restless legs (p = 0.04) and more nausea (p = 0.024), unexplained pain (p = 0.03), weight change (p = 0.009), and daytime sleepiness (p = 0.03). When compared to their baseline report, ET patients reported less loss of interest (p = 0.03), anxiety (p = 0.006), and insomnia (p = 0.02). Differences in reported weight change (p less than 0.0001) and anxiety (p = 0.001) between PD and ET patients were related to pharmacological side effects or to a reduction in the ET individuals.
Specification of the State Lifetime in the DEVS Formalism by Fuzzy Controller
Creators: name: Youcef, Dahmani
name: Maamar, Hamri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper aims to develop a new approach to assess the duration of state in the DEVS formalism by fuzzy controller. The idea is to define a set of fuzzy rules obtained from observers or expert knowledge and to specify a fuzzy model which computes this duration, this latter is fed into the simulator to specify the new value in the model. In conventional model, each state is defined by a mean lifetime value whereas our method, calculates for each state the new lifetime according to inputs values. A wildfire case study is presented at the end of the paper. It is a challenging task due to its complex behavior, dynamical weather condition, and various variables involved. A global specification of the fuzzy controller and the forest fire model are presented in the DEVS formalism and comparison between conventional and fuzzy method is illustrated.
description: IJAIT International Journal of Advanced Information Technology (IJAIT) Vol. 3, No.2, April 2013
Effects of rice husk biochar and soil moisture on the accumulation of organic and inorganic nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions during the decomposition of hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) mulch
Creators: name: Uchida, Yoshitaka
name: Moriizumi, Mihoko
name: Shimotsuma, Moe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth ssp. dasycarpa) mulch is widely used as green manure. This mulch decomposes in the soil and produces nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. Although rice husk charcoal can be used as a soil conditioner to reduce N2O emissions, the effects of charcoal on the decomposition of vetch mulch and consequent N2O emissions have not been well studied. We conducted an incubation experiment to examine how the decomposition of vetch mulch, charcoal amendments and two soil moisture regimes (field capacity and at a slightly drier moisture regime) affect the mineralisation of N during decomposition. We applied high-performance size-exclusion chromatography and chemiluminescent N detection to quantify soluble organic-N compounds of various molecular sizes. Changes over time in inorganic-N, soluble organic-N fractions and N2O fluxes were measured in soils . We found that vetch mulch induced the accumulation of small-molecular-size soluble organic-N compounds in the early phase during decomposition; however, in wet soils with charcoal, the small-molecular-weight N fraction was depleted earlier than in wet soils without charcoal, suggesting more rapid mineralisation in wet soils. Charcoal in wet soils resulted in earlier and sharper N2O peak emissions and did not reduce cumulative N2O emissions in vetch mulch treatments, suggesting that previously reported N2O emission reductions due to charcoal do not occur in the soils . The rates of N2O emission did not correlate with the concentrations of soluble organic N and inorganic N, indicating that other factors control the N2O emission rates during the decomposition of vetch mulch. Our results indicated that the incorporation of charcoal does not reduce N2O emissions in soils where vetch mulch is applied. The depletion of nitrate-N in wet soils with charcoal demonstrates that adding charcoal can reduce nitrate-N leaching from soils.
La cláusula general antiabuso en España. ¿Es necesaria una transposición expresa de la GAAR establecida en la ATAD al ordenamiento tributario español?
Creators: name: Barreiro Carril, María Cruz
Publisher: name: Studi Tributari Europei
Year: 2020
Subjects: cláusula general antiabuso; fraude de ley; simulación; calificación; planificación fiscal agresiva

description: El presente trabajo tiene como objeto determinar si el ordenamiento tributario español cuenta con una cláusula general antiabuso que permita entender cumplida la obligación de transponer la GAAR establecida en la ATAD. A tal efecto, se analizará el artículo 15 de la LGT regulador del “conflicto en la aplicación de la norma tributaria” (fraude de ley), desde una perspectiva crítica, y a la luz del contenido de la GAAR comunitaria, poniendo especial énfasis en el hecho de que en nuestro ordenamiento, al lado del referido artículo, existen otras normas que, igualmente, con carácter general, tratan de evitar que los actos de elusión fiscal distorsionen la aplicación del sistema tributario.
description: Studi Tributari Europei, Vol 9 (2019)
Multi-periodic pulsations of a stripped red giant star in an eclipsing binary
Creators: name: Maxted, Pierre F. L.
name: Serenelli, Aldo M.
name: Miglio, Andrea
name: Marsh, Thomas R.
name: Heber, Ulrich
name: Dhillon, Vikram S.
name: Littlefair, Stuart
name: Copperwheat, Chris
name: Smalley, Barry
name: Breedt, Elmé
name: Schaffenroth, Veronika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low mass white dwarfs are the remnants of disrupted red giant stars in binary millisecond pulsars and other exotic binary star systems. Some low mass white dwarfs cool rapidly, while others stay bright for millions of years due to stable fusion in thick surface hydrogen layers. This dichotomy is not well understood so their potential use as independent clocks to test the spin-down ages of pulsars or as probes of the extreme environments in which low mass white dwarfs form cannot be fully exploited. Here we present precise mass and radius measurements for the precursor to a low mass white dwarf. We find that only models in which this star has a thick hydrogen envelope can match the strong constraints provided by our new observations. Very cool low mass white dwarfs must therefore have lost their thick hydrogen envelopes by irradiation from pulsar companions or by episodes of unstable hydrogen fusion (shell flashes). We also find that this low mass white dwarf precursor is a new type of pulsating star. The observed pulsation frequencies are sensitive to internal processes that determine whether this star will undergo shell flashes.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures. Published in Nature
Essential Tremor: A Neurodegenerative Disease?
Creators: name: Benito-León, Julián
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common neurological disorders among adults, and is the most common of the many tremor disorders. It has classically been viewed as a benign monosymptomatic condition, yet over the past decade, a growing body of evidence indicates that ET is a progressive condition that is clinically heterogeneous, as it may be associated with a spectrum of clinical features, with both motor and non‐motor elements. In this review, I will describe the most significant emerging milestones in research which, when taken together, suggest that ET is a neurodegenerative condition.

Methods: A PubMed search conducted in June 2014 crossing the terms “essential tremor” (ET) and “neurodegenerative” yielded 122 entries, 20 of which included the term “neurodegenerative” in the article title. This was supplemented by articles in the author's files that pertained to this topic.

Results/Discussion: There is an open and active dialogue in the medical community as to whether ET is a neurodegenerative disease, with considerable evidence in favor of this. Specifically, ET is a progressive disorder of aging associated with neuronal loss (reduction in Purkinje cells) as well as other post‐mortem changes that occur in traditional neurodegenerative disorders. Along with this, advanced neuroimaging techniques are now demonstrating distinct structural changes, several of which are consistent with neuronal loss, in patients with ET. However, further longitudinal clinical and neuroimaging longitudinal studies to assess progression are required.
Additional file 2 of Burden, clinical presentation and risk factors of advanced HIV disease in pregnant Mozambican women
Creators: name: Nhampossa, Tacilta
name: González, Raquel
name: Nhacolo, Arsenio
name: Garcia-Otero, Laura
name: Quintó, Llorenç
name: Mazuze, Maura
name: Mendes, Anete
name: Casellas, Aina
name: Bambo, Gizela
name: Couto, Aleny
name: Sevene, Esperança
name: Munguambe, Khátia
name: Menendez, Clara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table 5-b. Factors associated with less than expected improvement in the CD4+ cell count over time by advanced HIV disease status (according to multiple imputation analyses).
La clausola anti-abuso prevista dalla direttiva ATAD: l’esperienza italiana
Creators: name: Boria, Pietro
Publisher: name: Studi Tributari Europei
Year: 2020
Subjects: elusione fiscale; concorrenza fiscale; ATAD; vantaggio fiscale indebito; abuso del diritto

description: Il divieto dell’abuso del diritto costituisce un principio normativo di formazione giurisprudenziale che viene applicato costantemente in materia tributaria in base ad un percorso evolutivo, articolato attraverso una serie di arresti della Corte di Giustizia e della Corte di Cassazione. Il principio è stato regolato anche da una norma di fonte legale – l’art. 10 bis dello Statuto dei diritti del contribuente – che si è posto in linea di continuità con l’orientamento giurisprudenziale, fornendo indicazioni di ordine sostanziale e, soprattutto, procedimentale per meglio disciplinarne l’applicazione. In sede di recepimento delle Direttive ATAD, il legislatore nazionale non si è dovuto adeguare alla previsione concernente l’obbligo di introduzione della clausola antiabuso in quanto l’ordinamento tributario italiano già disponeva di una norma in quello specifico settore. Il legislatore ha ritenuto di non disporre in merito alla norma generale antiabuso poiché l’attuale formulazione dell’articolo 10-bis dello Statuto dei diritti del contribuente risulta conforme al testo dell’art. 6 della Direttiva ATAD.
description: Studi Tributari Europei, Vol 9 (2019)
title: Emergency Communication in Challenged Environments via Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles
Creators: name: Baumgärtner, Lars
name: Kohlbrecher, Stefan
name: Euler, Juliane
name: Ritter, Tobias
name: Stute, Milan
name: Meurisch, Christian
name: Mühlhäuser, Max
name: Hollick, Matthias
name: Stryk, Oskar von
name: Freisleben, Bernd
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

description: Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising assets to support rescue operations in natural or man-made disasters. Most UGVs and UAVs deployed in the field today depend on human operators and reliable network connections to the vehicles. However, network connections in challenged environments are often lost, thus control can no longer be exercised. In this paper, we present a novel approach to emergency communication where semi-autonomous UGVs and UAVs cooperate with humans to dynamically form communication islands and establish communication bridges between these islands. Humans typically form an island with their mobile devices if they are in physical proximity; UGVs and UAVs extend an island's range by carrying data to a neighboring island. The proposed approach uses delay/disruption-tolerant networking for non-time critical tasks and direct mesh connections for prioritized tasks that require real-time feedback. The developed communication platform runs on rescue robots, commodity mobile devices, and various drones, and supports our operations and control center software for disaster management.
Dutch implementation of the European ATAD GAAR
Creators: name: Casano, Federica
Publisher: name: Studi Tributari Europei
Year: 2020
Subjects: ATAD I; GAAR; anti-tax avoidance provisions; implementation; the Netherlands; fraus legis

description: This paper illustrates and comments the implementation of art. 6 ATAD in the Dutch tax system. After a brief description of the content of the European GAAR, an analysis of the Dutch national GAAR is provided and compared with art. 6 ATAD, evaluating the choice by the Netherlands not to adopt any other general provision for the implementation of the European general anti-abuse rule.
description: Studi Tributari Europei, Vol 9 (2019)
Tsallis statistics approach to the transverse momentum distributions in p-p collisions
Creators: name: Rybczynski, Maciej
name: Wlodarczyk, Zbigniew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse momentum distributions of negatively charged pions produced in p-p interactions at beam momenta 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c are studied using the Tsallis distribution as a parametrization. Results are compared with higher energies data and changes of parameters with energy are determined. Different Tsallis-like distributions are compared.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures
Deep Brain Stimulation for Tremor Associated with Underlying Ataxia Syndromes: A Case Series and Discussion of Issues
Creators: name: Oyama, Genko
name: Thompson, Amanda
name: Foote, Kelly D.
name: Limotai, Natlada
name: Abd-El-Barr, Muhammad
name: Maling, Nicholas
name: Malaty, Irene A.
name: Rodriguez, Ramon L.
name: Subramony, Sankarasubramoney H.
name: Ashizawa, Tetsuo
name: Okun, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been utilized to treat various symptoms in patients suffering from movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and essential tremor. Though ataxia syndromes have not been formally or frequently addressed with DBS, there are patients with ataxia and associated medication refractory tremor or dystonia who may potentially benefit from therapy.

Methods: A retrospective database review was performed, searching for cases of ataxia where tremor and/or dystonia were addressed by utilizing DBS at the University of Florida Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration between 2008 and 2011. Five patients were found who had DBS implantation to address either medication refractory tremor or dystonia. The patient's underlying diagnoses included spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2), fragile X associated tremor ataxia syndrome (FXTAS), a case of idiopathic ataxia (ataxia not otherwise specified [NOS]), spinocerebellar ataxia type 17 (SCA17), and a senataxin mutation (SETX).

Results: DBS improved medication refractory tremor in the SCA2 and the ataxia NOS patients. The outcome for the FXTAS patient was poor. DBS improved dystonia in the SCA17 and SETX patients, although dystonia did not improve in the lower extremities of the SCA17 patient. All patients reported a transient gait dysfunction postoperatively, and there were no reports of improvement in ataxia‐related symptoms.

Discussion: DBS may be an option to treat tremor, inclusive of dystonic tremor in patients with underlying ataxia; however, gait and other symptoms may possibly be worsened.
Directive “ATAD” : une transposition, des questions…
Creators: name: Lemaire, Olivier
Publisher: name: Studi Tributari Europei
Year: 2020
Subjects: ATAD; abus

description: Brève étude critique de la transposition en droit français de la clause anti-abus générale de la directive n° 2016/1164/UE du 12 juillet 2016, établissant des règles pour lutter contre les pratiques d’évasion fiscale qui ont une incidence directe sur le fonctionnement du marché intérieur, dite directive ATAD.
description: Studi Tributari Europei, Vol 9 (2019)
Examination of nanoparticulate phosphate rock as both a liming agent and phosphorus source to enhance the growth of spinach in acid soil
Creators: name: El-Halim, A. A. Abd
name: Omae, H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: To examine the effect of nanoparticulate phosphate rock (NPR) as both a liming agent and phosphorus source in a tropical acid soil. The study examined five rates of NPR (0, 250, 500, 1000, or 2000 kg ha−1), which supplies 30, 60, 120 or 240 kg P ha−1, in a randomized complete pot experiment design with 3 replications. The pots of soil were incubated in a climate-controlled greenhouse for 21 days and then spinach was grown for 49 days. Soil parameters (pH, available P and exchangeable acidity), spinach parameters (leaf area, root hair surface area, root length and dry matter yield) and the effectiveness of NPR dissolution were estimated. The soil and plant parameters and the effective NPR dissolution all increased to the same degree at 1000 and 2000 kg NPR ha−1. Therefore, the use of 1000 kg ha−1 was most economically justified. Although, NPR has been appeared as an effective liming agent and phosphorus source in tropical acid soil. However, a regular application of NPR and further research for economic comparison between NPR and both of lime and superphosphate, as well as the original PR, will be needed.
Transposition of ATAD GAAR in Belgium
Creators: name: Malherbe, Philippe
Publisher: name: Studi Tributari Europei
Year: 2020
Subjects: taxation; Belgium; abuse; ATAD; transposition

description: In Belgium, the general anti abuse rule in matters of corporate income tax included in the anti-tax abuse directive has not been specifically transposed. We can however admit that the existing domestic rule against abuse in matters of income tax, viz. art. 344 § 1 of the Code of Income taxes, constitutes an adequate transposition.
description: Studi Tributari Europei, Vol 9 (2019)
Symmetry energy, unstable nuclei, and neutron star crusts
Creators: name: Iida, Kei
name: Oyamatsu, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phenomenological approach to inhomogeneous nuclear matter is useful to describe fundamental properties of atomic nuclei and neutron star crusts in terms of the equation of state of uniform nuclear matter. We review a series of researches that we have developed by following this approach. We start with more than 200 equations of state that are consistent with empirical masses and charge radii of stable nuclei and then apply them to describe matter radii and masses of unstable nuclei, proton elastic scattering and total reaction cross sections off unstable nuclei, and nuclei in neutron star crusts including nuclear pasta. We finally discuss the possibility of constraining the density dependence of the symmetry energy from experiments on unstable nuclei and even observations of quasi-periodic oscillations in giant flares of soft gamma-ray repeaters.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, to appear in EPJA special volume on symmetry energy. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1303.4500