cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What Alliance Defending Freedom Says v. What Alliance Defending Freedom Does: An Analysis of Conservative Christian Legal Activism in America
Creators: name: Aguirre, Demetra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: The Alliance Defending Freedom is a conservative Christian legal organization (CCLO) that is heavily invested in bolstering its religious, sociocultural, political, and legal capital in America and beyond. Currently, the ADF engages in litigation, advocacy, and education, employing a diverse legal network as well as journalists and filmmakers that maintain a stream of media content in the form of articles and YouTube videos. It has become one of the most successful CCLOs in regard to fundraising and staffing, as well as a volume of cases taken on and favorable legal outcomes, demonstrating that the ADF has unparalleled success when compared with its peers. Existing legal research that groups all CCLOs together does not explain why the ADF is uniquely effective, as it surpasses the success of its CCLO peers. Generally, legal research about the ADF (and other CCLOs) does not take into account that conservative Christian legal organizations are not simply legally oriented but are politically conservative, religiously Christian, and culturally powerful, lying at the intersection of Christianity, law, sexuality, gender, and other social phenomena and issues. To understand why the ADF is particularly successful compared to other CCLOs, it cannot be studied as one of many, rather, it must be studied as a unique entity that originated from the broader Christian Right movement. My purpose in this thesis is to add a cultural analysis to the existing legal research by acknowledging the complex cultural and social forces that impact the ADF and its activism. I offer a perspective that engages with the law but highlights what the ADF is advocating for in the broader cultural sphere and how its cultural and legal activism are intertwined. When we consider the ADF as more than one of many legal organizations, we can gain insights into the cultural environment from which the ADF emerged, and we can gain insights into the cultural environment that the ADF seeks to create. Ultimately, this thesis will ask the question: how is one CCLO – the ADF – changing American culture and law?
On the variational principle for fractional kinetic theory
Creators: name: Abe, Sumiyoshi
name: Oohata, Akifumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper (Abe S 2013 Phys. Rev. E 88 022142), a variational principle has been formulated for spatiotemporally-fractional Fokker-Planck equations and applied to derivations of their approximate analytic solutions based on the Lévy Ansatz. Here, the problem of the constraint associated with normalization condition on a probability distribution behind the principle is discussed. It is shown that the action functional possesses a specific transformation property in terms of an auxiliary field and the constraint turns out to have already been imposed implicitly in terms of such a structure.
description: 9 pages, no figures. For the proceedings of The 4th International Workshop on Statistical Physics and Mathematics for Complex Systems-SPMCS2014 (October 12-16, 2014, Yichang, China)
Additional file 1: of Instant kit preparation of 68Ga-radiopharmaceuticals via the hybrid chelator DATA: clinical translation of [68Ga]Ga-DATA-TOC
Creators: name: Jean-Philippe Sinnes
name: Nagel, Johannes
name: Waldron, Bradley
name: Maina, Theodosia
name: Nock, Berthold
name: Bergmann, Ralf
name: Ullrich, Martin
name: Pietzsch, Jens
name: Bachmann, Michael
name: Baum, Richard
name: Rösch, Frank
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Binding affinities of [natGa]Ga-DATA-TOC and [natGa]Ga-DOTA-TOC on hSST2/3/5, as determined during displacement of [125I-Tyr25]LTT-SS28 from transfected HEK293-hSST2/3/5 cell membranes; LTT-SS28 served as reference. Table S2. Uptake in terms of %IA of [68Ga]Ga-DATA-TOC or [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TOC in selected organs of MPC-mCherry tumour-bearing female NMRI nu/nu mice 1 h p.i. (218 ± 57 MBq (11.2 nmol peptide/kg) and 441 ± 109 MBq (10.5 nmol peptide)/kg body weight, respectively; blocking after coinjection of 100 µg/mouse [Nal3]octreotide acetate)). Table S3. Radioactivity concentration in terms of SUV of [68Ga]Ga-DATA-TOC or [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TOC in selected organs of MPC-mCherry tumour-bearing female NMRI nu/nu mice 1 h p.i. (218 ± 57 MBq (11.2 nmol peptide/kg) and 441 ± 109 MBq (10.5 nmol peptide)/kg body weight, respectively; blocking after coinjection of 100 µg/mouse [Nal3]octreotide acetate)). Figure S1. (A) Cyclic chelators used for 68Ga: DOTA, NOTA, TRAP and (B) acyclic chelators used for 68Ga: DFO, DTPA, HDEB, and a bifunctional version of THP. (DOCX 104 kb)
Christliche Hoffnung und weltliche Hoffnungsideologien
Creators: name: Spaemann, Robert
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 17 Nr. 2 (1988): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 17, Heft 2
Decreto Rectoral 1355: facultades para la gestión de ingresos, gastos, inversiones y actos especiales del Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Creators: name: Rectoría
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2015

description: La representación legal del Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario es ejercida por el Rector de la institución, quien tiene la facultad de comprometerla ante terceros , dentro de los límites establecidos en las Constitucionaes y en el Código de Gobierno Universitario. Con el propósito de facilitar la consecución de los objeticos institucionales en a docencia, la investigación y la extensión es necesario definir mecanismos para lograr una gestión eficaz, dinámica, autónoma y articulada entre las unidades académicas y administrativas de este Colegio Mayor. A través de estos mecanismos, la institución busca promover el desarrollo de una gestión responsable, sostenible y pertinente de forma descentralizada, en concordancia con las Constituciones vigentes, el Códifo de Gobierno Universitario y la designación de cargos y funciones. La uniddes académicas y dependencias disponen igualmente de Comités Institucionales para evaluar y tomar las decisiones sonre temas específicos que por su objeto o cuantía, requieran la participacion conjunta de delegados de diferentes áreas, garantizando así un análisis integral.
Multisociety Task Force For Critical Care Research: Key issues and recommendations: Executive summary
Creators: name: Deutschman, Clifford S.
name: Sessler, Curtis N.
name: Cairns, Charles B.
name: Ahrens, Tom
name: Parsons, Polly E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: Research in critical care extends from the bench to the bedside, involving multiple departments, specialties, and funding organizations. Because of this diversity, it has been difficult for all stakeholders to collectively identify challenges and establish priorities.
Additional file 4: of Identification of dynamic glucocorticoid-induced methylation changes at the FKBP5 locus
Creators: name: Wiechmann, Tobias
name: Röh, Simone
name: Sauer, Susann
name: Czamara, Darina
name: Arloth, Janine
name: Ködel, Maik
name: Beintner, Madita
name: Knop, Lisanne
name: Menke, Andreas
name: Binder, Elisabeth
name: Provençal, Nadine
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S4. Replication of dexamethasone (DEX)-induced methylation changes (n = 106 subjects) analyzed by Illumina 450K arrays. A) Genome browser shot illustrating the location of TBS amplicons assessed as well as the location of the 450K Illumina probes within the FKBP5 locus (hg19/chr6:35487554-35718452). CTCF-ChIA-PET -track indicating the locations of CTCF factor mediated chromatin interactions determined by Chromatin Interaction Analysis with Paired-End Tag (ChIA-PET) data extracted from lymphoblastoid cell line (GM12878, [26]). Chromatin interactions are represented by PET blocks connected with an horizontal line; CTCF-ChIP-seq and GR-Chip-seq—regions of transcription factor binding derived from chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments in multiple cell lines from the ENCODE project; blood TBS amplicons—locations of targeted bisulfite sequencing (TBS) amplicons assessed in blood of study 1; 450K probe locations—locations of Illumina probes from the 450K array. B) Boxplot of DNAm levels using TBS or Illumina 450K approach for the overlapping CpG sites showing methylation changes after DEX using TBS. p values of linear mixed models for each time point compared to baseline or vehicle are indicated as follows: *≤ 0.05, **≤ 0.01, ***≤ 0.001. Note that although cg125114611 show significant DEX effect using 450K array, this site has a methylation change after DEX of − 0.4% which did not reach our threshold of |1%|. (PDF 480 kb)
Systemic Steroid Exposure Is Associated with Differential Methylation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Creators: name: Qiu, Weiliang
name: Carey, Vincent J.
name: Anderson, Wayne H.
name: Agustí, Alvar
name: Wan, Emily S.
name: Baccarelli, Andrea
name: Lomas, David A.
name: DeMeo, Dawn L.
name: Bacherman, Helene
name: Rennard, Stephen I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Rationale: Systemic glucocorticoids are used therapeutically to treat a variety of medical conditions. Epigenetic processes such as DNA methylation may reflect exposure to glucocorticoids and may be involved in mediating the responses and side effects associated with these medications.
Physical properties of AGN host galaxies as a probe of SMBH feeding mechanisms
Creators: name: Gatti, M.
name: Lamastra, A.
name: Menci, N.
name: Bongiorno, A.
name: Fiore, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an advanced semi analytic model (SAM) for galaxy formation, we have investigated the statistical effects of assuming two different mechanisms for triggering AGN activity on the properties of AGN host galaxies. We have considered a first accretion mode where AGN activity is triggered by disk instabilities (DI) in isolated galaxies, and a second feeding mode where such an activity is triggered by galaxy mergers and fly-by events (interactions, IT). We obtained the following results:i) for hosts with $M_* \lesssim 10^{11} M_{\bigodot}$, both DI and IT modes are able to account for the observed AGN hosts stellar mass function; for more massive hosts, the DI scenario predicts a lower space density than the IT model, lying below the observational estimates for z>0.8.ii) The analysis of the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of AGN hosts for redshift z < 1.5 can provide a good observational test to effectively discriminate between the DI and IT mode, since DIs are expected to yield AGN host galaxy colors skewed towards bluer colors, while in the IT scenario the majority of hosts are expected to reside in the red sequence.iii) While both IT and DI scenarios can account for AGN triggered in main sequence or starburst galaxies, DIs fail in triggering AGN activity in passive galaxies.iv) The two modes are characterized by a different duration of the AGN phase, with DIs lasting even on time scales $\sim $ Gyr, much longer with respect to the IT scenario.v) The scatter of the $SFR-L_{bol}$ relation could represent another crucial diagnostics to discriminate between the two triggering modes, since the DI scenario predicts an appreciably lower scatter of the relation than the IT scenario. vi) Disk instabilities are not able to account for the observed fraction of AGN in groups for z < 1 and clusters for z < 0.7, while the IT scenario provides a good match to observational data.
description: Paper accepted for publication in section 4. Extragalactic astronomy of Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Facilitated Values History: Helping Surrogates Make Authentic Decisions for Incapacitated Patients with Advanced Illness
Creators: name: Arnold, Robert M.
name: White, Douglas B.
name: Scheunemann, Leslie P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Many patients who develop incapacitating illness have not expressed clear treatment preferences. Therefore, surrogate decision makers are asked to make judgments about what treatment pathway is most consistent with the patient’s values. Surrogates often struggle with such decisions. The difficulty arises because answering the seemingly straightforward question, “What do you think the patient would choose?” is emotionally, cognitively, and morally complex. There is little guidance for clinicians to assist families in constructing an authentic picture of the patient’s values and applying them to medical decisions, in part because current models of medical decision making treat the surrogate as the expert on the patient’s values and the physician as the expert on technical medical considerations. However, many surrogates need assistance in identifying and working through the sometimes conflicting values relevant to medical decisions near the end of life. We present a framework for clinicians to help surrogates overcome the emotional, cognitive, and moral barriers to high-quality surrogate decision making for incapacitated patients.
Detectability Simulations of a NIR Surface Biosignature on Proxima Centauri b with Future Space Observatories
Creators: name: Metz, Connor O.
name: Kiang, Nancy Y.
name: Villanueva, Geronimo L.
name: Parenteau, Mary N.
name: Kofman, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Telescope missions are currently being designed which will make direct imaging of habitable exoplanets possible in the near future, and studies are needed to quantify the detectability of biosignature features in the planet's reflectance spectrum. We simulated the detectability of a NIR-absorbing surface biosignature feature with simulated observations of the nearby exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. We modeled a biosignature spectral feature with a reflectance spectrum based on an anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterial species that has strong absorption at 1 um, which could make it well suited for life on an M-dwarf hosted planet. We modeled the distribution of this organism across the planet's surface based on climate states from a 3D General Circulation Model (GCM), which were Archean and Proterozoic-like exo-Earth analogues. We included the GCM runs' prognostically simulated water clouds and added organic haze into the Archean-like atmospheres. We simulated observations of these Proxima Centauri b scenarios with the LUVOIR-A and B telescope concepts, with LUVOIR-B serving as a proxy to the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). We calculated integration times necessary to detect the biosignature, and found that it would be detectable on Proxima Centauri b if the organism is moderately abundant (greater than a 1-4% global surface area coverage), as long as the atmosphere is transmitting in the wavelength range under consideration. Small amounts of methane, clouds, and haze do not greatly impede detectability. We found preliminary evidence that such a biosignature would be detectable on exoplanets within 15 pc, but further investigations are needed to corroborate this.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
Two-loop stability of a complex singlet extended Standard Model
Creators: name: Costa, Raul
name: Morais, António P.
name: Sampaio, Marco O. P.
name: Santos, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the dark matter and the baryon asymmetry problems, we analyse a complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a Z2 symmetry (which provides a dark matter candidate). After a detailed two-loop calculation of the renormalization group equations for the new scalar sector, we study the radiative stability of the model up to a high energy scale (with the constraint that the 126 GeV Higgs boson found at the LHC is in the spectrum) and find it requires the existence of a new scalar state mixing with the Higgs with a mass larger than 140 GeV. This bound is not very sensitive to the cut-off scale as long as the latter is larger than 10^10 GeV. We then include all experimental and observational constraints/measurements from collider data, dark matter direct detection experiments and from the Planck satellite and in addition force stability at least up to the GUT scale, to find that the lower bound is raised to about 170 GeV, while the dark matter particle must be heavier than about 50 GeV.
description: Added paragraphs in sect. 4.1 and new appendix C. 44 pages, 11 figures
Decreto Rectoral 1787: Creación del programa de Maestría en Comunicación Política Digital, de tipo profundización y modalidad biended
Creators: name: Secretaria, General
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2023

description: El Decreto Rectoral 1787 establece la creación del programa de Maestría en Comunicación Política Digital en la Universidad del Rosario. Esta maestría se caracteriza por ser de tipo profundización y se ofrece en modalidad biended, lo que significa que combina tanto la educación presencial como la educación en línea. El programa tiene como objetivo brindar a los estudiantes una formación avanzada en el ámbito de la comunicación política digital, permitiéndoles adquirir conocimientos y habilidades relacionadas con el uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el contexto político actual. Con este programa, se busca formar profesionales capaces de comprender y utilizar eficazmente las herramientas digitales en la comunicación política, contribuyendo así al análisis y la gestión de la información en este campo.
The Implications of Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Transfer Practices for Measures of In-Hospital Mortality and Length of Stay
Creators: name: Willis, Laura E.
name: Medvedev, Sofia
name: Carson, Shannon S.
name: Hall, William B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Rationale: The National Quality Forum recently endorsed in-hospital mortality and intensive care unit length of stay (LOS) as quality indicators for patients in the intensive care unit. These measures may be affected by transferring patients to long-term acute care hospitals (LTACs).
Does Refreshing benefit long-term memory? Experiment 2
Creators: name: Bartsch, Lea Maria
name: Rischert, Noah
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Long-term memory
subject: Refreshing

description: Attentional refreshing, a domain-general maintenance mechanism that sustains the activation of mental representations, has been suggested as a central component of working memory processing. However, the exact role it plays in the formation of long-term memory representations and its operationalization in experimental setups remain the subjects of much debate and inconsistency in cognitive psychology literature. This research seeks to address these disparities by analysing the impact of key differences that characterized earlier studies, such as word vocalization, working memory load, and the inclusion of distractor tasks. Through a systematic manipulation of these elements, this study aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of the nature of attentional refreshing and its interplay with long-term memory. Following a first experiment which found no benefit for refreshed words over repeated words in a long-term memory test, we now aim to replicate these findings using images.
Lung Microbiota and Bacterial Abundance in Patients with Bronchiectasis when Clinically Stable and during Exacerbation
Creators: name: Einarsson, Gisli G.
name: Drain, Maire
name: Tunney, Michael M.
name: Elborn, J. Stuart
name: Cardwell, Chris
name: Boucher, Richard C.
name: Wei, Lan
name: Ennis, Madeleine
name: Klem, Erich R.
name: Wolfgang, Matthew C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Rationale: Characterization of bacterial populations in infectious respiratory diseases will provide improved understanding of the relationship between the lung microbiota, disease pathogenesis, and treatment outcomes.
Classical Virial Expansion Engine
Creators: name: Miller, Aaron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: Statistical thermodynamics

description: We develop and present results for the Classical Virial Expansion Engine (CVE²), a numerical package for computing the power series coefficients of the classical virial expansion of the grand-canonical partition function. The numerical package is developed from scratch in Python, relying only on a handful of extant libraries that implement general functionality. Starting from the definition of the partition function and the virial expansion, we establish the analytical pretext of the engine by describing a combinatorial and graph-theoretic accounting framework that is equivalent to approaches found in the literature. Afterward, we explain the transcription of the theoretical framework to a numerical implementation by outlining the structure of the code module and discussing the details that support its computation. We give results for the equation of state and coefficient of compressibility using the interaction potential for which our method is exact, and we discuss several additional use cases that can be treated with the engine. The scope of application is discussed alongside a summary and outlook at the end of the paper.
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. Recent Advances in Diagnostics, Genetics, and Characterization of Clinical Disease
Creators: name: Davis, Stephanie D.
name: Knowles, Michael R.
name: Daniels, Leigh Anne
name: Leigh, Margaret W.
name: Zariwala, Maimoona A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetically heterogeneous recessive disorder of motile cilia that leads to oto-sino-pulmonary diseases and organ laterality defects in approximately 50% of cases. The estimated incidence of PCD is approximately 1 per 15,000 births, but the prevalence of PCD is difficult to determine, primarily because of limitations in diagnostic methods that focus on testing ciliary ultrastructure and function. Diagnostic capabilities have recently benefitted from (1) documentation of low nasal nitric oxide production in PCD and (2) discovery of biallelic mutations in multiple PCD-causing genes. The use of these complementary diagnostic approaches shows that at least 30% of patients with PCD have normal ciliary ultrastructure. More accurate identification of patients with PCD has also allowed definition of a strong clinical phenotype, which includes neonatal respiratory distress in >80% of cases, daily nasal congestion and wet cough starting soon after birth, and early development of recurrent/chronic middle-ear and sinus disease. Recent studies, using advanced imaging and pulmonary physiologic assessments, clearly demonstrate early onset of lung disease in PCD, with abnormal air flow mechanics by age 6–8 years that is similar to cystic fibrosis, and age-dependent onset of bronchiectasis. The treatment of PCD is not standardized, and there are no validated PCD-specific therapies. Most patients with PCD receive suboptimal management, which should include airway clearance, regular surveillance of pulmonary function and respiratory microbiology, and use of antibiotics targeted to pathogens. The PCD Foundation is developing a network of clinical centers, which should improve diagnosis and management of PCD.
Examining a right-handed quark mixing matrix with $b$-tags at the LHC
Creators: name: Fowlie, Andrew
name: Marzola, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Encouraged by a hint in a search for right-handed $W$ bosons at the LHC, we investigate whether the unitarity of a right-handed quark mixing matrix and the equality of the left- and right-handed quark mixing matrices could be tested at the LHC. We propose a particular test, involving counting the numbers of $b$-tags in the final state, and simulate the test at the event level with Monte-Carlo tools for the forthcoming $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV LHC run. We find that testing unitarity with 20/fb will be challenging; our test successfully rejects unitarity if the right-handed quark mixing matrix is non-unitary, but only in particular cases. On the other hand, our test may provide the first opportunity to test the unitarity of a right-handed quark mixing matrix and with 3000/fb severely constrains possible departures from unitarity in the latter. We refine our previous work, testing the equality of quark mixing matrices, with full collider simulation. With 20/fb, we are sensitive to mixing angles as small as $30^\circ$, and with 3000/fb, angles as small as $7.5^\circ$, confirming our preliminary analysis. We briefly investigate testing the unitarity of the SM CKM matrix with a similar method by studying semileptonic $t\bar t$ production, concluding that systematics make it particularly difficult.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, matches version to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Die Synode über die Laien als "Glaubensschule"
Creators: name: Cordes, Paul Josef
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 17 Nr. 2 (1988): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 17, Heft 2
A Unified Contrastive Loss for Self-Training
Creators: name: Gauffre, Aurelien
name: Horvat, Julien
name: Amini, Massih-Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Self-training methods have proven to be effective in exploiting abundant unlabeled data in semi-supervised learning, particularly when labeled data is scarce. While many of these approaches rely on a cross-entropy loss function (CE), recent advances have shown that the supervised contrastive loss function (SupCon) can be more effective. Additionally, unsupervised contrastive learning approaches have also been shown to capture high quality data representations in the unsupervised setting. To benefit from these advantages in a semi-supervised setting, we propose a general framework to enhance self-training methods, which replaces all instances of CE losses with a unique contrastive loss. By using class prototypes, which are a set of class-wise trainable parameters, we recover the probability distributions of the CE setting and show a theoretical equivalence with it. Our framework, when applied to popular self-training methods, results in significant performance improvements across three different datasets with a limited number of labeled data. Additionally, we demonstrate further improvements in convergence speed, transfer ability, and hyperparameter stability. The code is available at \url{https://github.com/AurelienGauffre/semisupcon/}.
Decreto Rectoral 1789: creación del programa de Especialización Médico Quirúrgica en Medicina del Dolor y Cuidados Paliativos en modalidad presencial
Creators: name: Villegas González, Germán
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2023

description: Decreto Rectoral por el cual se crea el programa de Especialización Médico Quirúrgica en Medicina del Dolor y Cuidados Paleativos en modalidad presencial
Differential top-antitop cross-section measurements as a function of observables constructed from final-state particles using pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV in the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various differential cross-sections are measured in top-quark pair ($t\bar{t}$) events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV at the LHC with the ATLAS detector. These differential cross-sections are presented in a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $4.6$ fb$^{-1}$. The differential cross-sections are presented in terms of kinematic variables, such as momentum, rapidity and invariant mass, of a top-quark proxyreferred to as the pseudo-top-quark as well as the pseudo-top-quark pair system. The dependence of the measurement on theoretical models is minimal. The measurements are performed on $t\bar{t}$ events in the lepton+jets channel, requiring exactly one charged lepton and at least four jets with at least two of them tagged as originating from a $b$-quark. The hadronic and leptonic pseudo-top-quarks are defined via the leptonic or hadronic decay mode of the $W$ boson produced by the top-quark decay in events with a single charged lepton. Differential cross-section measurements of the pseudo-top-quark variables are compared with several Monte Carlo models that implement next-to-leading order or leading-order multi-leg matrix-element calculations.
description: Published version, 43 pages plus author list + cover pages (65 pages total), 13 figures, 1 table, all figures including auxiliary tables are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2013-07/
Benefits of enacting and observing gestures on foreign language vocabulary learning: A systematic review and me-ta-analysis
Creators: name: Oppici, Luca
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Language and Literacy Education

description: This metadata is linked to the study "Benefits of enacting and observing gestures on foreign language vocabulary learning: A systematic review and me-ta-analysis" and it contains the methods adopted in the study. The study conducted a systematic literature search and meta-analysis comparing benefits of the enactment and observation of gestures in the domain of L2 vocabulary learning. It had three main aims. First, it aimed to test whether gesture enactment is a more effective or equivalently effective learning strategy than gesture observation, as well as the size of the overall effect. Second, it aimed to examine effects of gesture enactment and observation on several L2 vocabulary learning outcomes including both free and cued recall vocabulary tests. Third, it aimed to assess whether benefits of gesture enactment and observation might be influenced by word concreteness and word type, the number of word repetitions during learning, and the overall number of L2 words presented.
Decreto Rectoral 1793: ampliación del lugar de desarrollo del programa de Especialización en Gerencia de Marketing para Entornos Digitales a la ciudad de Neiva en convenio tripartito con la Corporación Universitaria del Huila y la Cámara de Comercio del Huila
Creators: name: Secretaria General
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2023

description: Decreto Rectoral 1793 por el cual se aprueba la ampliación del lugar de desarrollo del programa de Especialización en Gerencia de Marketing para Entornos Digitales a la ciudad de Neiva en convenio tripartito con la Corporación Universitaria del Huila y la Cámara de Comercio del Huila.
Stakeholder Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Workshop Report
Creators: name: Mularski, Richard A.
name: Lindenauer, Peter K.
name: Vollmer, William M.
name: Naureckas, Edward T.
name: Lee, Todd A.
name: Krishnan, Jerry A.
name: McBurnie, Mary Ann
name: Au, David H.
name: Carson, Shannon S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is intended to address the expressed needs of patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders. Representatives of 54 stakeholder groups with an interest in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) participated in workshops convened by the COPD Outcomes-based Network for Clinical Effectiveness and Research Translation (CONCERT) over a 2-year period. Year 1 focused on chronic care and care coordination. Year 2 focused on acute care and transitions in care between healthcare settings. Discussions and provisional voting were conducted via teleconferences and e-mail exchanges before the workshop. Final prioritization votes occurred after in-person discussions at the workshop. We used a modified Delphi approach to facilitate discussions and consensus building. To more easily quantify preferences and to evaluate the internal consistency of rankings, the Analytic Hierarchy Process was incorporated in Year 2. Results of preworkshop and final workshop voting often differed, suggesting that prioritization efforts relying solely on requests for topics from stakeholder groups without in-person discussion may provide different research priorities. Research priorities varied across stakeholder groups, but generally focused on studies to evaluate different approaches to healthcare delivery (e.g., spirometry for diagnosis and treatment, integrated healthcare strategies during transitions in care) rather than head-to-head comparisons of medications. This research agenda may help to inform groups intending to respond to CER funding opportunities in COPD. The methodologies used, detailed in the online supplement, may also help to inform prioritization efforts for CER in other health conditions.
PaveSAM Segment Anything for Pavement Distress
Creators: name: Owor, Neema Jakisa
name: Adu-Gyamfi, Yaw
name: Aboah, Armstrong
name: Amo-Boateng, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated pavement monitoring using computer vision can analyze pavement conditions more efficiently and accurately than manual methods. Accurate segmentation is essential for quantifying the severity and extent of pavement defects and consequently, the overall condition index used for prioritizing rehabilitation and maintenance activities. Deep learning-based segmentation models are however, often supervised and require pixel-level annotations, which can be costly and time-consuming. While the recent evolution of zero-shot segmentation models can generate pixel-wise labels for unseen classes without any training data, they struggle with irregularities of cracks and textured pavement backgrounds. This research proposes a zero-shot segmentation model, PaveSAM, that can segment pavement distresses using bounding box prompts. By retraining SAM's mask decoder with just 180 images, pavement distress segmentation is revolutionized, enabling efficient distress segmentation using bounding box prompts, a capability not found in current segmentation models. This not only drastically reduces labeling efforts and costs but also showcases our model's high performance with minimal input, establishing the pioneering use of SAM in pavement distress segmentation. Furthermore, researchers can use existing open-source pavement distress images annotated with bounding boxes to create segmentation masks, which increases the availability and diversity of segmentation pavement distress datasets.
Clinical Mechanism of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Potentiator Ivacaftor in G551D-mediated Cystic Fibrosis
Creators: name: Rowe, Steven M.
name: Khan, Umer
name: Joseloff, Elizabeth
name: Donaldson, Scott H.
name: Gelfond, Daniel
name: Sagel, Scott D.
name: Heltshe, Sonya L.
name: Borowitz, Drucy
name: Mayer-Hamblett, Nicole
name: Ramsey, Bonnie W.
name: Gonska, Tanja
name: Van Dalfsen, Jill M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Rationale: Ivacaftor is a cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) potentiator recently approved for patients with CF age 6 and older with the G551D mutation.
MOESM3 of Circulating miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers to predict aggressive prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy
Creators: name: C. Hoey
name: M. Ahmed
name: A. Fotouhi Ghiam
name: D. Vesprini
name: X. Huang
name: K. Commisso
name: A. Commisso
name: J. Ray
name: E. Fokas
name: D. Loblaw
name: H. He
name: S. Liu
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Representative qRT-PCR analysis for miR-20a, miR-20b and miR-106a expression in PC3 cells after miRNA mimic transfection. miRNA expression is normalized to endogenous control, SNORD.
Examining the Effects of Environmental Toxins on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Creators: name: Bhat, Vanya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects neurons that control voluntary muscle movements. Environmental toxins such as pesticides and fungicides have been found to be potential causal factors for ALS as they may lead to the formation of toxic TDP-43 aggregation, a hallmark of the disease. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) lead to the formation of these toxic aggregates causing cell death. This study examined whether four pesticides: TS1, TS3, TS21, and TS31, induce toxic TDP-43 aggregation and whether oxidative stress is involved in response to the pesticides. Two experiments were conducted with primary cortical neurons that were isolated from wildtype mice embryos. Neurons were co-exposed to a sublethal dose exposure of the pesticides and reactive oxygen species inhibitors (cotreatments). Results showed that TS1 and TS3 caused TDP-43 toxic aggregation. Additionally, cotreatments that chelated zinc and copper had various degrees of recovery depending on the drug and cotreatment dosage. TS21 and TS31 did not cause toxic TDP-43 aggregation unless cotreated with ZnCl, which increased the intracellular levels of zinc. Further studies must be done with these toxins to determine how they lead to ALS pathology.

Key Words: ALS, TDP-43 aggregation, reactive oxygen species, zinc, pesticides
Decreto Rectoral 1792: creación del programa de Maestría en Epidemiología y Ciencias de Datos en Salud en modalidad blended
Creators: name: Secretaria General
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2023

description: Decreto Rectoral 1792 por el cual se crea el programa de Maestría en Epidemiología y Ciencias de Datos en Salud en modalidad blended
MOESM5 of Circulating miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers to predict aggressive prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy
Creators: name: C. Hoey
name: M. Ahmed
name: A. Fotouhi Ghiam
name: D. Vesprini
name: X. Huang
name: K. Commisso
name: A. Commisso
name: J. Ray
name: E. Fokas
name: D. Loblaw
name: H. He
name: S. Liu
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Expression of miR-17, miR-20a and miR-106a in patients with a Gleason score and b pathological T stage using the TCGA PRAD miRNA-seq dataset. Each box denotes the quartiles of the expression across samples. The black bars inside the boxes indicate the median expression of each miRNA.
Keiner glaubt uns, was wir nicht selbst glauben
Creators: name: Roegele, Otto Bernhard
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 17 Nr. 2 (1988): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 17, Heft 2
Foxa3 Induces Goblet Cell Metaplasia and Inhibits Innate Antiviral Immunity
Creators: name: Xu, Yan
name: Karp, Christopher L.
name: Whitsett, Jeffrey A.
name: Sridharan, Anusha
name: Kitzmiller, Joseph
name: Korfhagen, Thomas R.
name: Haitchi, Hans Michael
name: Maeda, Yutaka
name: Senft, Albert P.
name: Impey, Soren
name: Chen, Gang
name: Randell, Scott H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Rationale: Goblet cell metaplasia accompanies common pulmonary disorders that are prone to recurrent viral infections. Mechanisms regulating both goblet cell metaplasia and susceptibility to viral infection associated with chronic lung diseases are incompletely understood.
How much does the hadronic phase contribute to the observed anisotropic flow at the LHC?
Creators: name: Snellings, Raimond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elliptic flow signals the presence of multiple interactions between the constituents of the created matter in heavy-ion collisions. This includes possible contributions from the different phases, including the hadronic phase. In these proceedings I will first show that the energy dependence of elliptic flow, based on recent ALICE and STAR beam energy scan measurements, can largely be understood in terms of a boosted thermal system. In addition, a detailed comparison between the identified particle elliptic flow measured by the ALICE collaboration and viscous hydrodynamical model calculations with and without a hadronic afterburner is performed to constrain the possible effects of individual hadron-hadron re-interaction cross-sections.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, proceedings Resonance Workshop at Catania, version two updated with referee comments
Buthionine sulfoximine and chemoresistance in cancer treatments: a systematic review with meta-analysis of preclinical studies
Creators: name: dos Reis Oliveira, Camila
name: Pereira, Joedna Cavalcante
name: Ibiapina, Andressa Barros
name: Martins, Italo Rossi Roseno
name: de Castro e Sousa, João Marcelo
name: Ferreira, Paulo Michel Pinheiro
name: da Silva, Felipe Cavalcanti Carneiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) is a synthetic amino acid that blocks the biosynthesis of reduced glutathione (GSH), an endogenous antioxidant cellular component present in tumor cells. GSH levels have been associated with tumor cell resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs and platinum compounds. Consequently, by depleting GSH, BSO enhances the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic agents in drug-resistant tumors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review with meta-analysis of preclinical studies utilizing BSO in cancer treatments. The systematic search was carried out using the following databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and EMBASE up until March 20, 2023, in order to collect preclinical studies that evaluated BSO, alone or in association, as a strategy for antineoplastic therapy. One hundred nine investigations were found to assess the cytotoxic potential of BSO alone or in combination with other compounds. Twenty-one of these met the criteria for performing the meta-analysis. The evidence gathered indicated that BSO alone exhibits cytotoxic activity. However, this compound is generally used in combination with other antineoplastic strategies, mainly chemotherapy ones, to improve cytotoxicity to carcinogenic cells and treatment efficacy. Finally, this review provides important considerations regarding BSO use in cancer treatment conditions, which might optimize future studies as a potential adjuvant antineoplastic therapeutic tool.
Simulating stellar coronal rain and slingshot prominences
Creators: name: Daley-Yates, Simon
name: Jardine, Moira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have numerically demonstrated that simulated cool star coronae naturally form condensations. If the star rotates slowly, with a co-rotation radius greater than the Alfvén radius (i.e. $R_{\mathrm{K}} > R_{\mathrm{A}}$), these condensations will form below the co-rotation radius $R_{\mathrm{K}}$ and simply fall back to the stellar surface as coronal rain. If, however, the star is more rapidly rotating, ($R_{\mathrm{K}} < R_{\mathrm{A}}$), not only rain will form but also ``slingshot prominences''. In this case, condensations collect into a large mass reservoir around the co-rotation radius, from which periodic centrifugal ejections occur. In this case, some $51\%$ of the coronal mass is cold gas, either in rain or prominences. We find that 21\% of the mass lost by our simulated fast rotating star is cold gas. Studies of stellar mass-loss from the hot wind do not consider this component of the wind and therefore systematically underestimate mass-loss rates of these stars. Centrifugal ejections happen periodically, between every 7.5 - 17.5 hours with masses clustering around $10^{16}$ g, These results agree well with observational statistics. Contrasting the fast and slow rotating magnetospheres, we find that there are two distinct types of solutions, high lying and low lying loops. Low lying loops only produce coronal rain whereas high lying loops produce both rain and slingshots.
Zeugnis und Glaubwürdigkeit
Creators: name: Balthasar, Hans Urs Von
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 17 Nr. 2 (1988): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 17, Heft 2
Multicenter Study Comparing Case Definitions Used to Identify Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Creators: name: Carson, Shannon S.
name: Prieto-Centurion, Valentin
name: Vollmer, William M.
name: Krishnan, Jerry A.
name: Rolle, Andrew J.
name: Lindenauer, Peter K.
name: Naureckas, Edward T.
name: Mularski, Richard A.
name: Au, David H.
name: Joese, Binoy J.
name: McBurnie, Mary A.
name: Henderson, Ashley G.
name: Lee, Todd A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Rationale: Clinical trials in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) usually require evidence of airflow obstruction and clinical risk factors. International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) diagnosis codes or patient-reported physician diagnoses are often used for epidemiologic studies and performance improvement programs.