cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mortality markers in outpatients diagnosed with heart failure
Creators: name: Gudino, Alvaro
name: Rene, Buitron Andrade
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: Heart failure is a global health problem. In Ecuador it is estimated that between 1% and 2% of the population suffers this disease. Objective: To determine mortality markers in outpatients with a diagnosis of heart failure in the Ecua- dorian Andean population. Methods: A cross-sectional and monocentric study was carried out in 230 mestizo, indigenous and Afro-descendant patients diagnosed with heart failure. The differences between the three ethnic groups were statisti- cally analyzed by one-way ANOVA and Crammer’s V test. Additionally, a logistic regression analysis was performed. Re- sults: The predominant ethnic group was mestizo (73.5%), followed by indigenous people (15.5%) and afro-descendants (10.5%). The logistic regression analysis showed that age (OR: 1.046; 95% CI: 1.014-1.078; p = 0.04), ethnicity (OR: 1.713; 95% CI: 1.053-2.78; p = 0.030), the presence of atrial fibrillation (OR: 2.711; 95% CI: 1.03-7.12; p = 0.042) and the num- ber of hospitalizations (OR: 3.026; 95% CI: 1.85-4.94; p = 0.000), were markers of poor prognosis. On the other hand, mean arterial pressure (OR: 0.969; 95% CI: 0.94-0.99; p = 0.010), absence of ischemic cerebrovascular event (OR: 0.15; 95% CI: 0.48-0.527; p = 0.03) and total cholesterol levels (OR: 0.991; 95% CI: 0.987-0.996; p = 0.000) were protection markers. Conclusions: In this population, ethnicity, atrial fibrillation, mean arterial pressure, ischemic cerebrovascular event, total cholesterol levels and the number of hospitalizations were established as mortality markers in outpatients diagnosed with heart failure.
Young female cancer survivors’ use of fertility care after completing cancer treatment
Creators: name: Gorman, Jessica R.
name: Su, H. Irene
name: Mersereau, Jennifer E.
name: Malcarne, Vanessa L.
name: Whitcomb, Brian W.
name: Kim, Jayeon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To investigate factors associated with female young adult cancer survivors’ (YCS) use of fertility care (FC), including consultation or fertility treatment, after completing their cancer treatment.
Modelling the Molecular Gas in NGC 6240
Creators: name: Tunnard, R.
name: Greve, T. R.
name: Garcia-Burillo, S.
name: Carpio, J. Graciá
name: Fuente, A.
name: Tacconi, L.
name: Neri, R.
name: Usero, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first observations of H$^{13}$CN$(1-0)$, H$^{13}$CO$^+(1-0)$ and SiO$(2-1)$ in NGC\,6240, obtained with the IRAM PdBI. Combining a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) code with Large Velocity Gradient (LVG) modelling, and with additional data from the literature, we simultaneously fit three gas phases and six molecular species to constrain the physical condition of the molecular gas, including mass$-$luminosity conversion factors. We find $\sim10^{10}M_\odot$ of dense molecular gas in cold, dense clouds ($T_{\rm k}\sim10$\,K, $n_{{\rm H}_2}\sim10^6$\,cm$^{-3}$) with a volume filling factor $<0.002$, embedded in a shock heated molecular medium ($T_{\rm k}\sim2000$\,K, $n_{{\rm H}_2}\sim10^{3.6}$\,cm$^{-3}$), both surrounded by an extended diffuse phase ($T_{\rm k}\sim200$\,K, $n_{{\rm H}_2}\sim10^{2.5}$\,cm$^{-3}$). We derive a global $α_{\rm CO}=1.5^{7.1}_{1.1}$ with gas masses $\log_{10}\left(M / [M_\odot]\right)=10.1_{10.0}^{10.8}$, dominated by the dense gas. We also find $α_{\rm HCN} = 32^{89}_{13}$, which traces the cold, dense gas. The [$^{12}$C]/[$^{13}$C] ratio is only slightly elevated ($98^{230}_{65}$), contrary to the very high [CO]/[$^{13}$CO] ratio (300-500) reported in the literature. However, we find very high [HCN]/[H$^{13}$CN] and [HCO$^+$]/[H$^{13}$CO$^+$] abundance ratios $(300^{500}_{200})$ which we attribute to isotope fractionation in the cold, dense clouds.
description: 27 pages, 17 figures, 9 tables. Accepted in ApJ
Water science must be Open Science
Creators: name: Schymanski, Stanislaus J.
name: Schymanski, Emma L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Water research
Hydrology
Cheminformatics
FAIR
Environmental science

description: Presentation related to: Schymanski, E. L. and Schymanski, S. J.: Water science must be Open Science, Nat Water, 1, 4–6, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-022-00014-z, 2023. Presented by Stan Schymanski at the Nature Water Talks, "Celebrating the launch of Nature Water - Part 3: Focus on social sciences and open science", https://cassyni.com/events/8ytB23CP1KG6yFL3TVRB5o First part contains the slide only, second part of the file contains the speaker notes for each slide.
A survey of FRB fields: Limits on repeatability
Creators: name: Petroff, E.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Keane, E. F.
name: van Straten, W.
name: Bailes, M.
name: Barr, E. D.
name: Barsdell, B. R.
name: Burke-Spolaor, S.
name: Caleb, M.
name: Champion, D. J.
name: Flynn, C.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Ng, C.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Stappers, B. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several theories exist to explain the source of the bright, millisecond duration pulses known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). If the progenitors of FRBs are non-cataclysmic, such as giant pulses from pulsars, pulsar-planet binaries, or magnetar flares, FRB emission may be seen to repeat. We have undertaken a survey of the fields of eight known FRBs from the High Time Resolution Universe survey to search for repeating pulses. Although no repeat pulses were detected the survey yielded the detection of a new FRB, described in Petroff et al. (2015a). From our observations we rule out periodic repeating sources with periods P $\leq$ 8.6 hours and rule out sources with periods 8.6 < P < 21 hours at the 90% confidence level. At P $\geq$ 21 hours our limits fall off as ~1/P. Dedicated and persistent observations of FRB source fields are needed to rule out repetition on longer timescales, a task well-suited to next generation wide-field transient detectors.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Isomorphism theorems for some parabolic initial-boundary value problems in Hörmander spaces
Creators: name: Los, Valerii
name: Murach, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K35

description: In Hörmander inner product spaces, we investigate initial-boundary value problems for an arbitrary second order parabolic partial differential equation and the Dirichlet or a general first-order boundary conditions. We prove that the operators corresponding to these problems are isomorphisms between appropriate Hörmander spaces. The regularity of the functions which form these spaces is characterized by a pair of number parameters and a function parameter varying regularly at infinity in the sense of Karamata. Owing to this function parameter, the Hörmander spaces describe the regularity of functions more finely than the anisotropic Sobolev spaces.
description: 25 pages
Helioseismic Investigation of Modeled and Observed Supergranule Structure
Creators: name: DeGrave, K.
name: Jackiewicz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The subsurface structure of an "average" supergranule is derived from existing HMI pipeline time-distance data products and compared to the best helioseismic flow model detailed in Duvall and Hanasoge (2013). We find that significant differences exist between them. Unlike the shallow structure predicted by the model, the average HMI supergranule is very extended in depth, exhibiting horizontal outflow down to $7$--$10$~Mm, followed by a weak inflow reaching a depth of $\sim20$~Mm below the photosphere. The maximal velocities in the horizontal direction for the average supergranule are much smaller than the model, and its near-surface flow field RMS value is about an order of magnitude smaller than the often-quoted values of $\sim250-350$~$\rm{m\,s^{-1}}$ for supergranulation. Much of the overall HMI supergranule structure and its weak flow amplitudes can be explained by examining the HMI pipeline averaging kernels for the near-surface inversions, which are found to be very broad in depth, and nearly identical to one another in terms of sensitivity along the $z$-direction. We also show that forward-modeled travel times in the Born approximation using the model (derived from a ray theory approach) are inconsistent with measured travel times for an average supergranule at any distance. Our findings suggest systematic inaccuracies in the typical techniques used to study supergranulation, confirming some of the results in Duvall and Hanasoge (2013).
On the quark spectral function in QCD
Creators: name: Horak, Jan
name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
name: Wink, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the spectral function of light quark flavours in 2+1 flavour vacuum QCD in the isospin-symmetric approximation. We employ spectral Dyson-Schwinger equations and compute the non-perturbative quark propagator directly in real-time, using recent spectral reconstruction results from Gaussian process regression of gluon propagator data in 2+1 flavour lattice QCD. Our results feature a pole-like peak structure at time-like momenta larger than the propagator's gapping scale as well as a negative scattering continuum, which we exploit assuming an analytic pole-tail split during the iterative solution. The computation is augmented with a general discussion of the impact of the quark-gluon vertex and the gluon propagator on the analytic structure of the quark propagator. In particular, we investigate under which conditions the quark propagator shows unphysical complex poles. Our results offer a wide range of applications, encompassing the ab-initio calculation of transport as well as resonance properties in QCD.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Effectiveness of implementing a dyadic psychoeducational intervention for cancer patients and family caregivers
Creators: name: Visovatti, Moira A.
name: Banerjee, Tanima
name: Shuman, Clayton
name: Dockham, Bonnie
name: Northouse, Laurel
name: Titler, Marita G.
name: Yakusheva, Olga
name: Ellis, Katrina R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: PURPOSE: This study examined the effectiveness, feasibility, and satisfaction with implementation of the FOCUS program in two US Cancer Support Community affiliates in Ohio and California as well as the cost to deliver the program. FOCUS is an evidence-based psychoeducational intervention for dyads (cancer patients and caregivers).

METHODS: A pre-post-intervention design was employed. Eleven, five-session Focus programs were delivered by licensed professionals in a small group format (three-four dyads/group) to 36 patient-caregiver dyads. An Implementation Training Manual, a FOCUS Intervention Protocol Manual, and weekly conference calls were used to foster implementation. Participants completed questionnaires prior to and following completion of each five-session FOCUS program to measure primary (emotional distress, quality of life) and secondary outcomes (benefits of illness, self-efficacy, and dyadic communication). Enrollment and retention rates and fidelity to FOCUS were used to measure feasibility. Cost estimates were based on time and median hourly wages. Repeated analysis of variance was used to analyze the effect of FOCUS on outcomes for dyads. Descriptive statistics were used to examine feasibility, satisfaction, and cost estimates.

RESULTS: FOCUS had positive effects on QOL (p = .014), emotional (p = .012), and functional (p = .049) well-being, emotional distress (p = .002), benefits of illness (p = .013), and self-efficacy (p = .001). Intervention fidelity was 85% with enrollment and retention rates of 71.4 and 90%, respectively. Participants were highly satisfied. Cost for oversight and delivery of the five-session FOCUS program was $168.00 per dyad.

CONCLUSIONS: FOCUS is an economic and effective intervention to decrease distress and improve the quality of life for dyads.
Generic properties of subgroups of free groups and finite presentations
Creators: name: Bassino, Frédérique
name: Nicaud, Cyril
name: Weil, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Asymptotic properties of finitely generated subgroups of free groups, and of finite group presentations, can be considered in several fashions, depending on the way these objects are represented and on the distribution assumed on these representations: here we assume that they are represented by tuples of reduced words (generators of a subgroup) or of cyclically reduced words (relators). Classical models consider fixed size tuples of words (e.g. the few-generator model) or exponential size tuples (e.g. Gromov's density model), and they usually consider that equal length words are equally likely. We generalize both the few-generator and the density models with probabilistic schemes that also allow variability in the size of tuples and non-uniform distributions on words of a given length.Our first results rely on a relatively mild prefix-heaviness hypothesis on the distributions, which states essentially that the probability of a word decreases exponentially fast as its length grows. Under this hypothesis, we generalize several classical results: exponentially generically a randomly chosen tuple is a basis of the subgroup it generates, this subgroup is malnormal and the tuple satisfies a small cancellation property, even for exponential size tuples. In the special case of the uniform distribution on words of a given length, we give a phase transition theorem for the central tree property, a combinatorial property closely linked to the fact that a tuple freely generates a subgroup. We then further refine our results when the distribution is specified by a Markovian scheme, and in particular we give a phase transition theorem which generalizes the classical results on the densities up to which a tuple of cyclically reduced words chosen uniformly at random exponentially generically satisfies a small cancellation property, and beyond which it presents a trivial group.
Quasi-periodic eruptions from mildly eccentric unstable mass transfer in galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Lu, Wenbin
name: Quataert, Eliot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the recently observed quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) in galactic nuclei are produced by unstable mass transfer due to Roche lobe overflow of a low-mass main-sequence star in a mildly eccentric (e ~ 0.5) orbit. We argue that the QPE emission is powered by circularization shocks, but not directly by black hole accretion. Our model predicts the presence of a time-steady accretion disk that is bolometrically brighter than the time-averaged QPE luminosity, but primarily emits in the extreme-UV. This is consistent with the quiescent soft X-ray emission detected in between the eruptions in eROSITA QPE1, QPE2, and GSN 069. Such accretion disks have an unusual $νL_ν\propto ν^{12/7}$ optical spectrum. The lifetime of the bright QPE phase, 100-1000 yrs, is set by mass-loss triggered by ram-pressure interaction between the star and the accretion disk fed by the star itself. We show that the stellar orbits needed to explain QPEs can be efficiently created by the Hills breakup of tight stellar binaries provided that (i) the stellar binary orbit is tidally hardened before the breakup due to diffusive growth of the f-mode amplitude, and (ii) the captured star's orbit decays by gravitational wave emission without significant orbital angular momentum diffusion (which is the case for black holes less than about a million Msun). We conclude by discussing the implications of our model for hyper-velocity stars, extreme mass ratio inspirals, repeating partial TDEs, and related stellar phenomena in galactic nuclei.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, published in MNRAS
Simple brane-world inflationary models: an update
Creators: name: Okada, Nobuchika
name: Okada, Satomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the light of the Planck 2015 results, we update simple inflationary models based on the quadratic, quartic, Higgs and Coleman-Weinberg potentials in the context of the Randall-Sundrum brane-world cosmology. Brane-world cosmological effect alters the inflationary predictions of the spectral index ($n_s$) and the tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$) from those obtained in the standard cosmology. In particular, the tensor-to-scalar ratio is enhanced in the presence of the 5th dimension. In order to maintain the consistency with the Planck 2015 results for the inflationary predictions in the standard cosmology, we find a lower bound on the five-dimensional Planck mass ($M_5$). On the other hand, the inflationary predictions laying outside of the Planck allowed region can be pushed into the allowed region by the brane-world cosmological effect with a suitable choice of $M_5$.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, an update of arXiv:1407.3544 with Planck 2015 results, typos corrected, new references added. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1412.8466
title: The Evaluation Plan for the LGBTQ+ Runaway & Homelessness Youth (LRHY) Outreach Program
Creators: name: Matthews, Jade
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description:
LGBTQ+ runaway and homeless youth are a vulnerable population at higher risk for survival sex, suicide, and sexual assault and rape than their heterosexual peers. The Alonzo A. Crim Center developed the LGBTQ+ Runaway Homeless Youth (LRHY) Outreach program to address the gap in homeless resources needed by the youth. This evaluation plan is being proposed to aid in the planning stage of the Street Outreach program. The evaluation presents a mixed design method and an external review of the program's data collection methods, such as pre-and post-test, focus groups, and outreach night reports. The evaluation findings would add to the gap in the literature surrounding LGBTQ+ youth in the Metro-Atlanta area experiencing homelessness. The findings could inform and influence current and future programming for this population in delivering appropriate resources and care to assist in eliminating youth homelessness and its associated harmful impact.
Minimality of interval exchange transformations with restrictions
Creators: name: Dynnikov, Ivan
name: Skripchenko, Alexandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E05

description: It is known since 40 years old paper by M. Keane that minimality is a generic (i.e. holding with probability one) property of an irreducible interval exchange transformation. If one puts some integral linear restrictions on the parameters of the interval exchange transformation, then minimality may become an "exotic" property. We conjecture in this paper that this occurs if and only if the linear restrictions contain a Lagrangian subspace of the first homology of the suspension surface. We partially prove it in the "only if" direction and provide a series of examples to support the converse one. We show that the unique ergodicity remains a generic property if the restrictions on the parameters do not contain a Lagrangian subspace (this result is due to Barak Weiss).
Exposing Influence Campaigns in the Age of LLMs: A Behavioral-Based AI Approach to Detecting State-Sponsored Trolls
Creators: name: Ezzeddine, Fatima
name: Luceri, Luca
name: Ayoub, Omran
name: Sbeity, Ihab
name: Nogara, Gianluca
name: Ferrara, Emilio
name: Giordano, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The detection of state-sponsored trolls operating in influence campaigns on social media is a critical and unsolved challenge for the research community, which has significant implications beyond the online realm. To address this challenge, we propose a new AI-based solution that identifies troll accounts solely through behavioral cues associated with their sequences of sharing activity, encompassing both their actions and the feedback they receive from others. Our approach does not incorporate any textual content shared and consists of two steps: First, we leverage an LSTM-based classifier to determine whether account sequences belong to a state-sponsored troll or an organic, legitimate user. Second, we employ the classified sequences to calculate a metric named the "Troll Score", quantifying the degree to which an account exhibits troll-like behavior. To assess the effectiveness of our method, we examine its performance in the context of the 2016 Russian interference campaign during the U.S. Presidential election. Our experiments yield compelling results, demonstrating that our approach can identify account sequences with an AUC close to 99% and accurately differentiate between Russian trolls and organic users with an AUC of 91%. Notably, our behavioral-based approach holds a significant advantage in the ever-evolving landscape, where textual and linguistic properties can be easily mimicked by Large Language Models (LLMs): In contrast to existing language-based techniques, it relies on more challenging-to-replicate behavioral cues, ensuring greater resilience in identifying influence campaigns, especially given the potential increase in the usage of LLMs for generating inauthentic content. Finally, we assessed the generalizability of our solution to various entities driving different information operations and found promising results that will guide future research.
description: 22
Provider perspectives on patient-provider communication for adjuvant endocrine therapy symptom management
Creators: name: van Londen, Gj
name: Donovan, Heidi As
name: Cardy, Alexandra
name: Beckjord, Ellen
name: Samuel, Cleo A
name: Turner, Kea
name: Dew, Mary Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Providers’ communication skills play a key role in encouraging breast cancer survivors to report symptoms and adhere to long-term treatments such as adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET). The purpose of this study was to examine provider perspectives on patient-provider communication regarding AET symptom management and to explore whether provider perspectives vary across the multi-disciplinary team of providers involved in survivorship care.
A population of Type Ibc supernovae with massive progenitors; broad lightcurves not uncommon in (i)PTF
Creators: name: Karamehmetoglu, E.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Taddia, F.
name: Barbarino, C.
name: Feindt, U.
name: Fremling, C.
name: Gal-Yam, A.
name: Kasliwal, M. M.
name: Petrushevska, T.
name: Schulze, S.
name: Stritzinger, M. D.
name: Zapartas, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If high-mass stars (>20-25 Msun) are the progenitors of stripped-envelope (SE) supernovae (SNe), their massive ejecta should lead to broad, long-duration lightcurves (LCs). Instead, literature samples of SE~SNe have reported relatively narrow LCs with ejecta masses between 1-4 Msun that favor progenitors <20-25 Msun. Working with the untargeted sample of (i)PTF SNe to better constrain their rates, we search for SE~SNe with broad LCs. Using a simple LC stretch compared to a template to measure broadness, we identified eight significantly broader Type~Ibc SNe after applying quantitative sample selection criteria. The LCs, colors, and spectra of these SNe are found to evolve more slowly relative to typical Type~Ibc SNe, proportional with the stretch. Bolometric LC modeling and their nebular spectra indicate high ejecta and nickel masses, assuming radioactive decay powering. Additionally, these objects are preferentially located in low-metallicity host galaxies with high star-formation rates, which may account for their massive progenitors, as well as their relative absence from the literature. Our study thus supports the link between broad LCs (as measured by stretch) and high-mass progenitor stars in SE~SNe with independent evidence from bolometric LC modeling, nebular spectra, host environment properties, and photometric evolution. In the first systematic search of its kind using an untargeted sample, we use the stretch distribution to identify a higher than previously appreciated fraction of SE~SNe with broad LCs (~13%). Correcting for Malmquist and LC duration observational biases, we conservatively estimate that a minimum of ~6% of SE~SNe are consistent with high-mass progenitors. This result has implications for the progenitor channels of SE~SNe, late stages of massive stellar evolution, oxygen fraction in the universe, and formation channels for stellar-mass black holes.(Abridged)
description: 38 pages, 24 figures, 12 tables. Submitted to A&A
Propagation and preservation of rounded back vowels in Lucanian and Apulian varieties
Creators: name: Savoia, Leonardo
name: Baldi, Benedetta
Publisher: name: Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
Year: 2016

description: This article addresses the descriptive and theoretical aspects of the relation between the cavity properties of vowels and consonants. This relation is studied on the basis of some vocalic harmonizing processes depending on the adjacency between [u] and a velar (or labial) consonant in the domain of the stressed nucleus. Propagation of /u/ and preservation of /u/ in pre-tonic position in Southern Italian varieties provide the crucial testing ground for our analysis; one last process we investigate is the distribution of the metaphonic outcomes in a Salento dialect. The nature of phonological representations is the other question we are concerned with. This point has been recently explored specifically in relation to the explanatory role of the structure and its relation with the melodic content of segments. Our proposal is that the phonological structure of the string corresponds in a direct and exhaustive way to the elementary melodic properties of the segments.
description: Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, Vol. 2 (2016)
title: Survival of Anthrax Patients with Fluid Collections by Treatment Status
Creators: name: Binney, Sophie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description: 

INTRODUCTION: Pleural effusions, pericardial effusions, and ascites are potential, severe complications of any form of anthrax. Previous research suggests that draining pleural fluid decreases mortality among inhalation anthrax patients, but research into other anthrax presentations remains to be accomplished.


AIM: To determine if thoracentesis (paracentesis) increased survival among anthrax patients with pleural effusions (ascites).



METHODS: Using historical anthrax case data, we summarized demographic characteristics, prior health status, signs and symptoms, vital signs, complications, and imaging findings between 1) patients with fluid collection and those without; 2) patients with fluid collection who lived and those who died; 3) patients with each fluid collection type. We then conducted univariate logistic regression to calculate the odds of survival for pleural effusion (ascites) patients by thoracentesis (paracentesis) status, stratified by phase of presentation (prodromal or fulminant) and treatment status.



RESULTS: Only 15% of patients experienced any form of fluid collection. Small numbers prohibited the calculation of odds ratios for survival for the majority of treatment categories. Where odds ratios could be calculated, no statistically significant differences were found.


DISCUSSION: The analysis was limited by small sample sizes within each treatment category, which is the result of the rarity of pleural effusions and ascites in data available to us. The problem was further exacerbated by missing data on thoracentesis (paracentesis) status and treatment status. Future research on the topic is recommended when more data becomes available. Additional cases could come from either future English-language publications or existing foreign-language publications.
Majorana corner states on the dice lattice
Creators: name: Mohanta, Narayan
name: Soni, Rahul
name: Okamoto, Satoshi
name: Dagotto, Elbio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice geometry continues providing exotic topological phases in condensed matter physics. Exciting recent examples are the higher-order topological phases, manifesting via localized lower-dimensional boundary states. Moreover, flat electronic bands with a non-trivial topology arise in various lattices and can hold a finite superfluid density, bounded by the Chern number $C$. Here we consider attractive interaction in the dice lattice that hosts flat bands with $C=\pm2$ and show that the induced superconducting state exhibits a second-order topological phase with mixed singlet-triplet pairing. The second-order nature of the topological superconducting phase is revealed by the zero-energy Majorana bound states at the lattice corners. Hence, the topology of the normal state dictates the nature of the Majorana localization. These findings suggest that flat bands with a higher Chern number provide feasible platforms for inducing higher-order topological superconductivity.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Phelipanche hajastanica Piwow., O. Sanchez & Moreno Mor. 2017
Creators: name: Piwowarczyk, Renata
name: Pedraja, Óscar Sánchez
name: Moral, Gonzalo Moreno
name: Fayvush, George
name: Zakaryan, Narine
name: Kartashyan, Nune
name: Aleksanyan, Alla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Phelipanche
Phelipanche hajastanica

description: 5. Phelipanche hajastanica Piwow., Ó. Sánchez & Moreno Mor. (2017d: 118). Type:— ARMENIA (holotype designated by Piwowarczyk et al. 2017d): N of Zaritap (KTC!); isotypes: (ERE!, ERCB!). Fig. 11C.
 Distribution: —Southern Armenia, Vayk mountain range (Vayots Dzor province) (Fig. 18).
 Habitat: —Rocky and sandy slopes with sparse vegetation, above 1400 m.
 Hosts: — Nepeta trautvetteri Boiss. & Buhse (Lamiaceae).
 Phenology: —Flowering end of May–June, fruiting June–July.
 Conservation status: —Critically Endangered (CR) – B 1 ab (iii) + 2 ab (iii); D. So far, known only from Armenia. Only one location is known. Population consists of 20 shoots (2016) and 10 (2017). Limiting factors are restricted EOO and AOO, and predicted climate change.
 Notes: — Phelipanche hajastanica morphologically resembles P. pulchella, P. bungeana and P. caesia but differs in several characteristics (detailed and comparative table in Piwowarczyk et al. 2017d).
 Specimens examined: — ARMENIA. Vayots Dzor prov.: SE on Vayk, on the left side of Arpa river, Vayk mountain range, N of Zaritap, rocky slopes in small gorges, S, SW exposure, ca. 1410 m, 31 May 2016, R. Piwowarczyk (ERCB, ERE, KTC), 14 June 2017, vid. R. Piwowarczyk.
description: Published as part of Piwowarczyk, Renata, Pedraja, Óscar Sánchez, Moral, Gonzalo Moreno, Fayvush, George, Zakaryan, Narine, Kartashyan, Nune & Aleksanyan, Alla, 2019, Holoparasitic Orobanchaceae (Cistanche, Diphelypaea, Orobanche, Phelipanche) in Armenia: distribution, habitats, host range and taxonomic problems, pp. 1-106 in Phytotaxa 386 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.386.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725663
The influence of dyadic symptom distress on threat appraisals and self-efficacy in advanced cancer and caregiving
Creators: name: Northouse, Laurel
name: Caldwell, Cleopatra H.
name: Ellis, Katrina R.
name: Janz, Nancy K.
name: Janevic, Mary R.
name: Kershaw, Trace
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Physical and psychological symptoms experienced by patients with advanced cancer influence their wellbeing; how patient and family caregivers' symptom distress influence each other's wellbeing is less understood. This study examined the influence of patient and caregiver symptom distress on their threat appraisals and self-efficacy to cope with cancer.
Osservazioni sulla sostanza dei primitivi nella Teoria degli Elementi e il rapporto fra fonologia e fonetica
Creators: name: Bafile, Laura
Publisher: name: Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
Year: 2016

description: The paper concerns the nature of segmental primes and the relationship between phonological categories and phonetic surface. The view of classic Element Theory and Government Phonology, that elements correspond to acoustic signatures in the speech signal, is here applied to phenomena of phonetics-phonology mismatch, maintaining that the ambiguity that may occasionally arise in phonetic forms needs not to be attributed to an allegedly arbitrary transduction from phonology to phonetics. A non-phonemic conception of segments is adopted, whereby the elemental content of segments, which is lexically established, may undergo changes determined by prosodic and segmental licensing.
description: Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, Vol. 2 (2016)
Phelipanche zangezuri Piwow., O. Sanchez & Moreno Mor. 2018
Creators: name: Piwowarczyk, Renata
name: Pedraja, Óscar Sánchez
name: Moral, Gonzalo Moreno
name: Fayvush, George
name: Zakaryan, Narine
name: Kartashyan, Nune
name: Aleksanyan, Alla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Phelipanche
Phelipanche zangezuri

description: 6. Phelipanche zangezuri Piwow., Ó. Sánchez & Moreno Mor. (2018a: 17). Type:— ARMENIA (holotype): Syunik province: between Kajaran and Lichk, 3 June 2016, R. Piwowarczyk (KTC!); isotypes: (ERCB!). Fig. 11B.
 Distribution: —Southern Armenia, Zangezur mountain range (Syunik province) (Fig. 19).
 Habitat: —Slopes near serpentine roadside, with south and south-eastern exposure, with landslide soil and sparse vegetation, ca. 2300 m.
 Hosts: — Tragopogon pterocarpus DC. (Asteraceae).
 Phenology: —Flowering end of May–June, fruiting in June–July.
 Conservation status: —Critically Endangered (CR) – B 1 ab (iii) + 2 ab (iii); D. So far, known only from Armenia. Only one location is known. The population is small, includes over 10 shoots (in 2016). Limiting factors are restricted EOO and AOO, predicted climate change, and proximity to the main road.
 Notes: —Some similarity may exist with other hairy and unbranched species such as Phelipanche pulchella, P. hajastanica or P. caesia. However, P. zangezuri differs from these species very clearly in several characteristics (detailed and comparative table in Piwowarczyk et al. 2018a).
 Specimens examined: — ARMENIA. Syunik prov.: between Kajaran and Lichk, near Tashtun Pass, rocky slope near roadside, SE exposure, ca. 2300 m, 3 June 2016, R . Piwowarczyk (KTC, ERCB).
description: Published as part of Piwowarczyk, Renata, Pedraja, Óscar Sánchez, Moral, Gonzalo Moreno, Fayvush, George, Zakaryan, Narine, Kartashyan, Nune & Aleksanyan, Alla, 2019, Holoparasitic Orobanchaceae (Cistanche, Diphelypaea, Orobanche, Phelipanche) in Armenia: distribution, habitats, host range and taxonomic problems, pp. 1-106 in Phytotaxa 386 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.386.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725663
Carbon, Helium and Proton Kinetic Temperatures in a Cygnus Loop Shock Wave
Creators: name: Raymond, J. C.
name: Edgar, R. J.
name: Ghavamian, P.
name: Blair, W. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of SN1006 have shown that ions and electrons in the plasma behind fast supernova remnant shock waves are far from equilibrium, with the electron temperature much lower than the proton temperature and ion temperatures approximately proportional to ion mass. In the ~360 km/s shock waves of the Cygnus Loop, on the other hand, electron and ion temperatures are roughly equal, and there is evidence that the oxygen kinetic temperature is not far from the proton temperature. In this paper we report observations of the He II lambda 1640 line and the C IV lambda 1550 doublet in a 360 km/s shock in the Cygnus Loop. While the best fit kinetic temperatures are somewhat higher than the proton temperature, the temperatures of He and C are consistent with the proton temperature and the upper limits are 0.5 and 0.3 times the mass-proportional temperatures, implying efficient thermal equilibration in this collisionless shock. The equilibration of helium and hydrogen affects the conversion between proton temperatures determined from H alpha line profiles and shock speeds, and that the efficient equilibration found here reduces the shock speed estimates and the distance estimate to the Cygnus Loop of Medina et al. (2014) to about 800 pc.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures ApJ, in press
Free Actions on C*-algebra Suspensions and Joins by Finite Cyclic Groups
Creators: name: Passer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L85

description: We present a proof for certain cases of the noncommutative Borsuk-Ulam conjectures proposed by Baum, Dąbrowski, and Hajac. When a unital $C^*$-algebra $A$ admits a free action of $\mathbb{Z}/k\mathbb{Z}$, $k \geq 2$, there is no equivariant map from $A$ to the $C^*$-algebraic join of $A$ and the compact "quantum" group $C(\mathbb{Z}/k\mathbb{Z})$. This also resolves Dąbrowski's conjecture on unreduced suspensions of $C^*$-algebras. Finally, we formulate a different type of noncommutative join than the previous authors, which leads to additional open problems for finite cyclic group actions.
description: 13 pages. To appear in IUMJ. Version 4 restructures the results to address earlier work of Volovikov
Pulse-efficient quantum machine learning
Creators: name: Melo, André
name: Earnest-Noble, Nathan
name: Tacchino, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum machine learning algorithms based on parameterized quantum circuits are promising candidates for near-term quantum advantage. Although these algorithms are compatible with the current generation of quantum processors, device noise limits their performance, for example by inducing an exponential flattening of loss landscapes. Error suppression schemes such as dynamical decoupling and Pauli twirling alleviate this issue by reducing noise at the hardware level. A recent addition to this toolbox of techniques is pulse-efficient transpilation, which reduces circuit schedule duration by exploiting hardware-native cross-resonance interaction. In this work, we investigate the impact of pulse-efficient circuits on near-term algorithms for quantum machine learning. We report results for two standard experiments: binary classification on a synthetic dataset with quantum neural networks and handwritten digit recognition with quantum kernel estimation. In both cases, we find that pulse-efficient transpilation vastly reduces average circuit durations and, as a result, significantly improves classification accuracy. We conclude by applying pulse-efficient transpilation to the Hamiltonian Variational Ansatz and show that it delays the onset of noise-induced barren plateaus.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Phelipanche sevanensis Piwow., O. Sanchez & Moreno Mor. 2017
Creators: name: Piwowarczyk, Renata
name: Pedraja, Óscar Sánchez
name: Moral, Gonzalo Moreno
name: Fayvush, George
name: Zakaryan, Narine
name: Kartashyan, Nune
name: Aleksanyan, Alla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Phelipanche
Phelipanche sevanensis

description: 10. Phelipanche sevanensis Piwow., Ó. Sánchez & Moreno Mor. (2017c: 232). Type:— ARMENIA (holotype): Gegharkunik distr.: Tsovagyugh E., 9 July 2015, R. Piwowarczyk (KTC!); isotypes: (ERCB!, KRA!, herb. Ó. Sánchez Pedraja!). Fig. 11H.
 Distribution: —The species is known only from the type locality (Fig. 24).
 Habitat: —Grows in the rocky semi-arid mountain steppe on south to south-west exposed steep slopes surrounding Lake Sevan at 1945 m, dominated by the host species from the genus Heracleum.
 Hosts: —Parasitic exclusively on Heracleum trachyloma Fisch. & C.A. Mey. (Apiaceae, subfamily Apioideae), endemic to the Caucasus.
 Phenology: —Flowering end of June to July, fruiting July to August.
 Conservation status: —Critically Endangered (CR) – B 1 ab (iii) + 2 ab (iii). So far, known only from Armenia. Only one location is known. The population is quite large and in good condition, including more than 200 shoots. Limiting factors are restricted EOO and AOO, and the proximity of human settlements, railways, and main roads.
 Notes: — Phelipanche sevanensis is morphologically close to P. heldreichii. However, it differs very clearly from P. heldreichii in morphology: a larger plant, inflorescence shorter than the rest of the stem, any existing branches usually growing from the central part of the shoot, larger corolla with a different shape of tube, widened to the mouth, curved dorsal line and as well as large and broad lobes, larger calyx tube, shorter calyx-teeth, different shape and size of bracts and upper scales, and also colouration of stem and inflorescence, host species, and flowering period, (2)3–4 weeks distance (detailed differences are presented in Piwowarczyk et al. 2017c).
 Specimens examined:— Gegharkunik prov.: N. part of Lake Sevan, Tsovagyugh E., rocky slope, SW exposure, ca. 1945 m, 9 July 2015, R. Piwowarczyk (KTC, ERE, ERCB, KRA, herb. Ó. Sánchez Pedraja); Tsovagyugh E., rocky slope of Lake Sevan, ca. 1945 m, 24 July 2017, R. Piwowarczyk (ERCB, KTC).
description: Published as part of Piwowarczyk, Renata, Pedraja, Óscar Sánchez, Moral, Gonzalo Moreno, Fayvush, George, Zakaryan, Narine, Kartashyan, Nune & Aleksanyan, Alla, 2019, Holoparasitic Orobanchaceae (Cistanche, Diphelypaea, Orobanche, Phelipanche) in Armenia: distribution, habitats, host range and taxonomic problems, pp. 1-106 in Phytotaxa 386 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.386.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725663
Impact of Smartphone and Tablet based Application incorporating Social Stories and Games on Children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability
Creators: name: Ahmad, Hafiz Maaz
name: Ashfaque, Saad
name: Khan, Hammad Ahmed
name: Yasir, Tahreem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: Abstract: The impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as tablets or smartphone based applications incorporating Social Stories (video modelled) and games on children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability (ID) is the main focus of the study. Literature review, field observations and contextual task analysis was done to study ID, its relationship with children, intervention techniques and role of ICT in wellbeing of these children. Following hypothesis were formulated 1) Tablets and smartphone based application, would be more helpful to enhance the capabilities of children with Mild Intellectual Disability, 2) Tablets and smartphone based applications, would be more helpful to enhance the capabilities of children with Moderate Intellectual Disability, 3) Animated Social Stories (video modelled) would be more effective to impact the overall social skills of children with ID. A comprehensive application containing Social Stories and games was developed and its impact was measured. The developed application was deployed on Android platform. Random sampling technique was used to collect the sample. A sample of forty six children with Mild and Moderate ID (twenty three experimental group and twenty three control group) were selected from Ameen Maktab (LHE) and Rising Sun (LHE). The collected data was analysed by calculated mean. There is a significant relationship between Social Stories and mild category. It is also found that culturally tailored Social Stories were effective in helping children. The overall result revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between tablet and smartphone based application and children with Mild and Moderate ID. With the growing population day by day in Pakistan and all over the world number of special children are also increase and it is very important to overcome or manage this problem. It is suggested that the community should give a good quality social support to these children to reduce their problems and take measures for their wellbeing. Since there is a very little research available to guide the practitioners which application to implement, it was also suggested that the developers of smartphone based applications for children with ID should verify before applying these applications on children.
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Generalized Hilltop Inflation
Creators: name: Lillepalu, Helena Grete
name: Racioppi, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: 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 study a generalized version of hilltop inflation where the standard hilltop potential has been raised to a power and we allow fractional numbers for both the original hilltop power ($m$) and the overall exponent ($n$). In the parameter space studied, agreement with the latest experimental constraints favors high values for $m$ and low values for $n$. Finally, we also find that in all the configurations studied, the inflationary scale always sits around the grand unification scale.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures, matches the published version