cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Antineutrino induced antikaon production off the nucleon
Creators: name: Alam, M. Rafi
name: Simo, I. Ruiz
name: Athar, M. Sajjad
name: Vacas, M. J. Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charged current antikaon production off nucleons induced by antineutrinos is studied at low and intermediate energies. We extend here our previous calculation on kaon production induced by neutrinos. We have developed a microscopic model that starts from the SU(3) chiral Lagrangians and includes background terms and the resonant mechanisms associated to the lowest lying resonance in the channel, namely, the Sigma*(1385). Our results could be of interest for the background estimation of various neutrino oscillation experiments like MiniBooNE and SuperK. They can also be helpful for the planned antineutrino experiments like MINERvA, NOvA and T2K phase II and for beta-beam experiments with antineutrino energies around 1 GeV.
description: 15 pages and 6 figures. This version matches accepted version for publication in Physical Review D
RESEARCH ON THE INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS' SMART EDUCATION ABILITY
Creators: name: WANG XIAOXUAN
name: ELVIRA S. BALINAS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Smart Education; University teachers; Reform; Policy; Training.

description: Abstract
At present, with the rapid development of social informatization, it is the trend and inevitable requirement for university teachers to use intelligence in teaching. As an important role in promoting Smart education, teachers' use of Smart education deserves attention. Through questionnaire survey, this paper summarizes and analyzes the use and views of college teachers of different ages on Smart education, finds out the problems and reasons in the process of promoting Smart education, and explores new methods to improve teachers' innovation ability in Smart education.
Foreign Capital, Dependence, Destabilisation and Feasibility of Transition to Socialism
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
name: Grinols, Earl L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1975
Subjects: Economics

description: The paper analyses the argument that external capital inflow could create dependence and thus sabotage the possibility of a successful transition to socialism. The formal model deployed is of the Harrod-Domar variety and simulation run are undertaken for five underdeveloped countries, using savings functions estimated by Weisskopf. The conclusions lend some support to radical concerns about the adverse effects of foreign aid on recipient countries.
The power of network based framework for tackling various independent application domains
Creators: name: Rahmani, Ali
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 88-100
description: Recently, with the advent of popular social networking platforms, a completely new area of research called Social Network Analysis (SNA) has emerged. SNA is dedi­cated to the study of techniques for storing, manipulating and analyzing very large graphs of up to billions of vertices and edges. In SNA terminology the graphs are commonly referred to as social networks since they model the relationships between individuals. In this terminology a social network consists of a set of actors corre­sponding to individuals connected to each other by links representing the relation­ships. Community detection is one of the major topics that fall within the scope of SNA which aims at unfolding communities of actors who are densely connected to each other than to actors outside the community. Many powerful algorithms have been proposed to address the community detection problem in large networks. While different applications of the graph-based algorithms have been well studied, a little work has been done on the application of the novel SNA algorithms on the problems in other fields of research. In this article, I examine the application of graph-based and SNA algorithms in a wide variety of domains, namely, database design and data distribution, multidimensional data allocation, outlier detection, and social media data summarization. My experiments prove that when combined with commonly used data mining techniques the algorithms can provide powerful solutions to the problems.
title: Application of hydrologic metrics to quantify stream health in small-scale urban environments
title: Hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Roznowski, Steven K.
name: Roesner, Larry A.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2010

description: 2010 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 22 - March 24, 2010.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Numerous studies have been conducted to assess the impacts of urbanization on stream geomorphology and ecology. Recent research has shown benthic macroinvertebrates to be good indicators of stream health. Furthermore, significant correlations have been shown to exist between these benthic indicators and certain hydrologic metrics in receiving streams. These studies have used stream gage data and/or computer models to study such relationships but the scale of the watersheds has been large; typically greater than two square miles. This study examines the application of such research to a small-scale urban environment in Fort Collins, Colorado. The study uses benthic data collected approximately 10 years ago and stream flow measurements from the City's flood early warning system. These data provide an opportunity to determine if the findings in other research can be applied to relatively small urban streams. Such trends could help guide development and stream rehabilitation efforts in the City to minimize future impacts of urbanization on these streams and provide guidance in prioritizing stream reaches for rehabilitation. However, the use of such small scale real data in an ever-changing urban environment makes the application of hypothetical trends more difficult. Stream alteration, data limitations, and annual runoff variations present additional challenges for developing relationships between stream health and hydrology that are seen to exist in larger watersheds.
What Do Commissars Do?
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1975
Subjects: Economics

description: The note considers the possible interaction between the narrowing of wage differentials in China and the degree of hierarchy-cum-supervision at the plant level in the Chinese economy. It is argued that the Chinese regime may end up with greater hierarchy in its techniques of production, paradoxically, as a result of the narrowing of wage differentials. In developing this thesis, the note raises an issue of novelty in the theory of comparative economic systems.
Magnetoexcitons and optical absorption of bilayer-structured topological insulators
Creators: name: Wang, Zhigang
name: Fu, Zhen-Guo
name: Zhang, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical absorption properties of magnetoexcitons in topological insulator bilayers under a strong magnetic field are theoretically studied. A general analytical formula of optical absorption selection rule is obtained in the noninteracting as well as Coulomb intra-Landau-level interacting cases, which remarkably helps to interpret the resonant peaks in absorption spectroscopy and the corresponding formation of Dirac-type magnetoexcitons. We also discuss the optical absorption spectroscopy of magnetoexcitons in the presence of inter-Landau-level Coulomb interaction, which becomes more complex. Our results could be detected in the magneto-optical experiments.
description: 4 APL pages, 5 figures
Supporting material for "High-Performance Agent-Based Simulation"
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This repository contains all supporting material for the paper "High-Performance Agent-Based Simulation". We provide detailed instructions to reproduce all results of the paper in file: SF1-readme.pdf License information for the code repositories in SF2-code.tar.gz can be found in the files: biodynamo/LICENSE bdm-paper-examples/LICENSE
Welfare-Theoretical Analyses of the Brain Drain
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
name: Rodriguez, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1975
Subjects: Economics

description: The paper reviews and synthesises the theoretical analyses of the brain drain in the earlier literature and in the present symposium in the Journal on the subject. Static analysis and dynamic analysis are distinguished, critical issues are raised relating to how welfare changes should be discussed in the context of migration, and possibilities of fruitful future research are outlined.
On Schools of Preaching
Creators: name: Vaughan, Matthew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Religion
Religious education
Education--Philosophy

description: This essay is intended to (re)introduce schools of preaching to the academic and ministerial communities within Churches of Christ (a cappella). It makes a call for more rigorous and sustained engagement with these schools and their theologies. In doing so, this essay is intended to shed light on a neglected topic and provide an extensive bibliography to lay the groundwork for future research and writing. The essay presents these schools as educational institutions under three broad headings: locating the schools of preaching within a specific historical context (that of the United States in the mid-late 20th century); defining the schools and describing their status as educational institutions affiliated with Churches of Christ today; and providing a framework for their philosophies of education. The essay concludes with general observations and questions about these schools and the impact their witness continues to have on Churches of Christ.
Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books
Creators: name: Darnton, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Copyright
subject: Intellectual property
subject: Electronic books
subject: Libraries
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: I would like to make a case for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) by contrasting two tendencies that run through the history of books:  democratization and commercialization.  To put it so baldly, however, runs the risk of stranding the argument on some remote, moral high ground, and I want to do the opposite.  By discussing down-to-earth contingencies and pragmatic considerations, I want to follow a path that will lead through difficult terrain toward an elevated goal:  a library that will make our country’s cultural heritage accessible and free of charge, not only to our countrymen and women, but to everyone in the world. That, I admit, has a utopian ring to it, and I might as well confess at the outset to some sympathy with utopianism.  It challenges the assumption that the way things are is the way they have to be and that the everyday, workaday world is firmly fixed in what we take to be reality.  History shows that things can fall apart, sometimes in a way that releases utopian energy.  Revolutions often produce such an effect, and therefore I will cite some revolutionary changes, even though it raises the danger of confusing history with homily. Let me begin by invoking the ideal of openness.  It is a happy notion, which calls up felicitous associations:  “open-minded,” “open markets,” “open covenants openly arrived at,” the “Song of the Open Road.”  In the world of libraries, openness has a particularly positive ring, thanks to the movement for Open Access, which promises to open up books and journal articles for the benefit of everyone.
Advantages of enteral nutrition over parenteral nutrition
Creators: name: Seres, David S.
name: Guillaume, Alexandra
name: Valcarcel, Monika
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine
Surgery
Nutrition

description: It is a strong and commonly held belief among nutrition clinicians that enteral nutrition is preferable to parenteral nutrition. We provide a narrative review of more recent studies and technical reviews comparing enteral nutrition with parenteral nutrition. Despite significant weaknesses in the existing data, current literature continues to support the use of enteral nutrition in patients requiring nutrition support, over parenteral nutrition.
Optimal valuation of natural gas storage
Creators: name: Ogunsolu, Mobolaji Olutomi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 85-87
description: This thesis focuses on the valuation of natural gas storage. We investigate the peculiar behavior of gas prices including the distribution of log returns, mean reversion and seaÂ­sonality. We then model natural gas spot prices as a two-factor stochastic differential equation with mean reversion and seasonality properly accounted for in the model. These characteristics are common to commodities ( electricity, gas, agricultural products), unÂ­like other financial assets (for example stocks, bonds etc.) whose availability and usage are not seasonal in nature and whose prices do not tend to revert back to an average long term mean. In addition, we also exploit the relationship between spot prices and futures prices to model and calibrate natural gas price spot and futures prices. Using the two-factor gas price model, we model the value of a gas storage as a stochastic control problem [8]. The timing optionality of the gas storage problem makes it similar to a constrained American option on the inter-temporal spread of gas prices. This problem can be solved by extending the Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSM) approach of Longstaff and Schwartz (2001) for pricing early exercise options [20].
Supplementary Materials for "High-Performance and Scalable Agent-Based Simulation with BioDynaMo"
Creators: name: Breitwieser, Lukas
name: Hesam, Ahmad
name: Rademakers, Fons
name: Luna, Juan Gómez
name: Mutlu, Onur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This repository contains all Supplementary Materials for the paper "High-Performance and Scalable Agent-Based Simulation with BioDynaMo" available at https://doi.org/10.1145/3572848.3577480 We provide detailed instructions to reproduce all results of the paper in file: SF1-readme.pdf License information for the code repositories in SF2-code.tar.gz can be found in the files: biodynamo/LICENSE bdm-paper-examples/LICENSE
A survey of breast cancer physicians regarding patient involvement in breast cancer treatment decisions
Creators: name: Hillyer, Grace A.
name: Hershman, Dawn L.
name: Kushi, Lawrence H.
name: Lamerato, Lois
name: Ambrosone, Christine B.
name: Bovbjerg, Dana H.
name: Mandelblatt, Jeanne S.
name: Rana, Sargam
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Oncologists--Attitudes
Surgeons--Attitudes
Cancer--Treatment
Breast--Cancer--Treatment
Breast--Cancer--Patients

description: Purpose: Shared breast cancer treatment decision-making between patients and physicians increases patient treatment satisfaction and compliance and is influenced by physician-related factors. Attitudes and behaviors about patient involvement in breast cancer treatment decisions and treatment-related communication were assessed by specialty among breast cancer physicians of women enrolled in the Breast Cancer Quality of Care Study (BQUAL). Results: Of 275 BQUAL physicians identified, 50.0% responded to the survey. Most physicians spend 46-60 min with the patient during the initial consult visit and 51.5% report that the treatment decision is made in one visit. Oncologists spend more time with new breast cancer patients during the initial consult (p = 0.021), and find it more difficult to handle their own feelings than breast surgeons (p = less than 0.001). Conclusion: Breast surgeons and oncologists share similar attitudes and behaviors related to patient involvement in treatment decision-making, yet oncologists report more difficulty managing their own feelings during the decision-making process.
Parton energy loss in glasma
Creators: name: Aurenche, P.
name: Zakharov, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the synchrotron-like gluon emission in $AA$-collisions from fast partons due to interaction with the coherent glasma color fields. Our results show that for RHIC and LHC conditions the contribution of this mechanism to parton energy loss is much smaller than the radiative energy loss in the plasma phase.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Palarus laetus
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Palarus
Palarus laetus

description: Palarus laetus (KLUG, 1845)
Palarus laetus (KLUG, 1845): TURNER 1911: 479 (tax.), 481 (tax., Tadjoura).
Palarus laetus (KLUG, 1845): PULAWSKI & PRENTICE 2008: 309 (tax.), 313 (tax.), 314 (tax.), 317 (fig. 1: tax.), 324 (tab. 2: biol.), 331 (key), 397 (tax., type design., Tadjoura), 398 (figs 55a-f), 399 (figs 56a-e), 400 (fig. 57a-d), 402 (fig. 58: map).
* Larra annulata n.sp.: WALKER 1871a: 26 (descr. ♂ ♀, Tadjoura).
Larra annulata WALKER, 1871: INNES BEY 1911: 112 (Tadjoura, cat. Lord Collection).
Larra annulata WALKER, 1871: TURNER 1911: 481 (syn.).
Larra annulata WALKER, 1871: PULAWSKI & PRENTICE 2008: 397 (type design.).
* Stizus walkeri mihi: HANDLIRSCH 1892: 177 (replacement name for Larra annulata WALKER, 1871, German translation original descr.).
Stizus walkeri HANDLIRSCH, 1892: DE DALLA TORRE 1897: 534 (world cat.).
Stizus walkeri HANDLIRSCH, 1892: TURNER 1911: 481 (syn.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.
Palarus laetus is known from the Afrotropical (Benin, Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Togo), Oriental and Palaearctic (e.g. Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates) regions. The record from Djibouti is not mentioned in ARNOLD (1923 b) and BOHART & MENKE (1976: 291), although Larra annulata and Stizus walkeri are listed in the latter. Larra annulata WALKER, 1871 is a junior homonym of Larra annulata KLUG, 1845.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 940-941, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
Additional file 1 of Trends in burden of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in countries, regions, and worldwide from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease study
Creators: name: Ou, Ze-Jin
name: Yu, Dan-Feng
name: Liang, Yuan-Hao
name: He, Wen-Qiao
name: Li, Yong-Zhi
name: Meng, Ya-Xian
name: Xiong, Hu-Sheng
name: Zhang, Min-Yi
name: He, Huan
name: Gao, Yu-Han
name: Wu, Fei
name: Chen, Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. The supplementary figures and tables of trends in MDR-TB from 1990 to 2017.
Supplementary Materials for "High-Performance and Scalable Agent-Based Simulation with BioDynaMo"
Creators: name: Breitwieser, Lukas
name: Hesam, Ahmad
name: Rademakers, Fons
name: Luna, Juan Gómez
name: Mutlu, Onur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This repository contains all Supplementary Materials for the paper "High-Performance and Scalable Agent-Based Simulation with BioDynaMo" and received the Best Artifact Award at PPoPP '23. The paper is available at https://doi.org/10.1145/3572848.3577480 and https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.06984. We provide detailed instructions to reproduce all results of the paper in file: SF1-readme.pdf Citation: If you find this repository useful, please cite the following works: Lukas Breitwieser et al., High-Performance and Scalable Agent-Based Simulation with BioDynaMo. 2023, In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (Montreal, QC, Canada) (PPoPP ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 174–188. https://doi.org/10.1145/3572848.3577480 arXiv:2301.06984 [cs.DC] @inproceedings{breitwieser_biodynamo_2023, author = {Breitwieser, Lukas and Hesam, Ahmad and Rademakers, Fons and Luna, Juan G\'{o}mez and Mutlu, Onur}, title = {High-Performance and Scalable Agent-Based Simulation with BioDynaMo}, year = {2023}, isbn = {9798400700156}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3572848.3577480}, doi = {10.1145/3572848.3577480}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming}, pages = {174–188}, numpages = {15}, keywords = {NUMA, HPC, performance evaluation, parallel computing, space-filling curve, high-performance simulation, performance optimization, agent-based modeling, memory layout optimization, memory allocation, scalability}, location = {Montreal, QC, Canada}, series = {PPoPP '23}, archivePrefix = "arXiv", eprint = "2301.06984", primaryClass = "cs.DC" } Lukas Breitwieser et al., BioDynaMo: a modular platform for high-performance agent-based simulation, Bioinformatics, Volume 38, Issue 2, 15 January 2022, Pages 453–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab649 @article{breitwieser_biodynamo_2022, author = {Breitwieser, Lukas and Hesam, Ahmad and de Montigny, Jean and Vavourakis, Vasileios and Iosif, Alexandros and Jennings, Jack and Kaiser, Marcus and Manca, Marco and Di Meglio, Alberto and Al-Ars, Zaid and Rademakers, Fons and Mutlu, Onur and Bauer, Roman}, title = "{BioDynaMo: a modular platform for high-performance agent-based simulation}", journal = {Bioinformatics}, volume = {38}, number = {2}, pages = {453-460}, year = {2021}, month = {09}, issn = {1367-4803}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btab649}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab649} } License License information for the code repositories in SF2-code.tar.gz can be found in the files: biodynamo/LICENSE bdm-paper-examples/LICENSE
Gastroenterologists' Perceived Barriers to Optimal Pre-Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation: Results of a National Survey
Creators: name: Hillyer, Grace A.
name: Basch, Corey H.
name: Basch, Charles E.
name: Lebwohl, Benjamin
name: Kastrinos, Fay
name: Insel, Beverly J.
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Oncology
Epidemiology
Medicine

description: Poor quality bowel preparation has been reported in almost one third of all colonoscopies. To better understand factors associated with poor bowel preparation, we explored perceived patient barriers to optimal pre-colonoscopy bowel preparation from the perspective of the gastroenterologist. A random sample of physician members of the American College of Gastroenterology was surveyed via the internet and postal mailing. Demographic and practice characteristics and practice-related and perceived patient barriers to optimal bowel preparation were assessed among 288 respondents. Lack of time, no patient education reimbursement, and volume of information were not associated with physician level of suboptimal bowel preparation. Those reporting greater than or equal to 10 % suboptimal bowel preparations were more likely to believe patients lack understanding of the importance of following instructions, have problems with diet, and experience trouble tolerating the purgative. Bowel preparation instruction communication and unmet patient educational needs contribute to suboptimal bowel preparation. Educational interventions should address both practice and patient-related factors.
Guide de l'Utilisateur «Manager» du progiciel de gestion intégré (PGI) YEROTH-PGI-3.0 (deprecated)
Creators: name: Noundou Noumbissi, Xavier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: YEROTH-PGI-3.-0

description: Guide de l’Utilisateur «Manager» du progiciel de gestion intégré (PGI) YEROTH-PGI-3.0 (deprecated)

YEROTH-ERP-3.0 : https://zenodo.org/record/8057951/
Policy Bottom-up Analysis – Five case study reports with the results of the assessments in the five regional case study areas
Creators: name: Buitenhuis, Yannick
name: Candel, Jeroen
name: Termeer, Katrien
name: Feindt, Peter
name: Coopmans, Isabeau
name: Lievens, Eowoud
name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Wauters, Erwin
name: Urquhart, Julie
name: Black, Jasmine
name: Berry, Robert
name: Maye, Damian
name: Courtney, Paul
name: Vigani, Mauro
name: Bertolozzi-Caredio, Daniele
name: Soriano, Bárbara
name: Bardají, Isabel
name: Martikainen, Anna
name: Gradziuk, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The influence of the policy framework on the resilience of European farming systems cannot be understood without analysing the interplay between the CAP and various other policies across sectors and jurisdictional levels from the perspective of regional farming systems. This report shows a bottom-up evaluation of policy framework for farming systems in five regions: dairy farming in Flanders (Belgium), extensive sheep farming in Hoya de Huesca, Aragon (Spain), arable farming in De Veenkoloniën (The Netherlands), large-scale corporate farms in East England (UK), and family fruit and vegetable farms in the Mazovian and Podlasie regions (Poland). The cases have been selected with a view to the variety of EU farming systems and associated challenges, as well as surrounding policy configurations.
description: EU; BE; DE; ES; GB; PL; en; contact: yannick.buitenhuis@wur.nl
title: Effect of trends on the estimation of extreme precipitation quantiles
title: Hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cancelliere, Antonino
name: Bonaccorso, Brunella
name: Rossi, Giuseppe
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2010

description: 2010 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 22 - March 24, 2010.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Estimation of quantiles of hydrological variables, i.e. values corresponding to fixed non-exceedence probabilities or return periods, is traditionally carried out by fitting a probability distribution function to an observed sample under the assumption of stationarity. Recent concerns about potential changes in present and future climate, however have led to challenge the hypothesis of stationary series. Despite several methods have been developed and applied to model non stationary series, very few studies have addressed the problem of how non stationarity affects the error of estimation of quantiles. In the paper, preliminary analyses regarding how the presence of trend in precipitation series affects the sampling properties of estimated quantiles are illustrated. To this end, sampling properties of precipitation quantiles, namely bias and Mean Squared Error (MSE) are investigated with respect to the size of the estimation sample, assuming a trend in the parameters of the underlying distribution. In particular, analytical results are derived for the cases of exponential distribution, while more complex cases (e.g. Gumbel distribution) are investigated numerically by simulation. Also the effect of preliminary trend removal is investigated and compared to the case when trend is neglected.
Unraveling the genetic complexity of ciliopathies in the Hutterite population
Creators: name: Loucks, Catrina Marie
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 88-93
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Ciliopathies are a group of genetically heterogeneous disorders with overlapping clinical manifestations and causative genes localizing to the nonmotile cilium. Many ciliopathies are present in the genetically isolated Hutterite population. This work was initiated to identify the remaining unknown ciliopathy mutations within the population, and four additional ciliopathy mutations were found. Some Hutterite nephronophthisis patients were compound heterozygous for a c.1918delA variant in NP HP 1 and the common NP HP 1 deletion, and one patient without NP HP 1 mutations was homozygous for a c.3936_3937insAC variant in KIAAJ009. Cranioectodermal dysplasia patients in the Hutterites were homozygous for a c.17T>A variant in DPHJ, and Joubert syndrome related disorder patients without homozygous TMEM237 mutations were homozygous for a c.363 _364delT A variant in CSP P 1. Identifying the causative mutations for ciliopathies in the Hutterites allows for diagnostic testing within the population and furthers our understanding of the complexity of ciliopathies in both the Hutterites and the general population
Non-Economic Objectives and the Efficiency Properties of Trade
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1967
Subjects: Economics

description: It is well known (Kemp, 1962; Samuelson, 1962; Bhagwati, forthcoming) that, for a country with no monopoly power in trade (or domestic distortions), free trade (in the sense of a policy resulting in the equalization of domestic and foreign prices and hence excluding trade, production and consumption taxes, subsidies, and quantitative restrictions) is the optimal policy. It follows, therefore, that free trade is superior to no trade. We can then conclude with the following propositions: 1. In the case where the desired production bundle can be reached by the use of a trade tariff, rather than a trade subsidy, autarky will still be an inferior policy, thus enabling us to rank in descending order the following three policies: (a) trade (and consumption at international prices), (b) trade tariff, and (c) no trade or autarky. 2. Where the desired production bundle must be reached by the use of a trade subsidy, on the other hand, this strong ordering of policies will disappear, while trade (and consumption at international prices) continues naturally to be the optimal policy.
The Sidis Case and the Origins of Modern Privacy Law
Creators: name: Barbas, Samantha
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Privacy, Right of
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The American press, it has been said, is freer to invade personal privacy than perhaps any other in the world.  The tort law of privacy, as a shield against unwanted media exposure, is very weak.  The media in the U.S. have a degree of latitude to report on intimate matters, without the threat of legal liability, that would be unimaginable in many other countries.  In England, model Naomi Campbell won damages against a magazine when it published the details of her treatment for drug addiction.  Princess Caroline of Monaco obtained a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights preventing the German press from publishing paparazzi photos of her.  In the U.S., by contrast, public figures have been held to have almost no legal right to privacy.  Courts have considered almost anything that takes place in a public place, or that could be said to shed light on an issue of public curiosity or significance, to be exempt from liability for invasion of privacy.  The personal details and photographs of a rape victim, images of the extrication of a woman from a crashed car and a photograph of a soccer player with his genitalia exposed are among the intimacies that have been held to be newsworthy “matters of public interest” and thus nonactionable under privacy law. The failure of American law to protect personal life from unwanted publicity has been poorly explained. The standard reason given for the weakness of American privacy law as a bar on the publication of private information is the strong tradition of First Amendment freedom.  But freedom of the press alone cannot explain why the right to publish has been interpreted as a right to print truly intimate matters or the right to thrust people into the spotlight against their will.  Especially during a time of heightened concerns with privacy and Internet overexposure, we need a better explanation as to why the law has struck the balance between media exposure and privacy in the way that it has.  One answer, this Article argues, can be found in the case of William James Sidis.
Extraction of information content from stochastic disaggregation and bias corrected downscaled precipitation variables for crop simulation
Creators: name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Ines, Amor Valeriano M.
name: Singh, Vijay P.
name: Hansen, James W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Precipitation (Meteorology)--Statistical methods
Environmental sciences
Climatic changes
Water resources development--Management

description: We applied a simple statistical downscaling procedure for transforming daily global climate model (GCM) rainfall to the scale of an agricultural experimental station in Katumani, Kenya. The transformation made was two-fold. First, we corrected the rainfall frequency bias of the climate model by truncating its daily rainfall cumulative distribution into the station’s distribution based on a prescribed observed wet-day threshold. Then, we corrected the climate model rainfall intensity bias by mapping its
truncated rainfall distribution into the station’s truncated distribution. Further improvements were made to the bias corrected GCM rainfall by linking it with a stochastic disaggregation scheme to correct the time structure problem inherent with daily GCM rainfall. Results of the simple and hybridized GCM downscaled precipitation variables (total, probability of occurrence, intensity and dry spell length) were linked with a crop model for a more objective evaluation of their performance using a non-linear measure based on mutual information based on entropy. This study is useful for the identification of both suitable downscaling technique as well as the effective precipitation variables for forecasting crop yields using GCM’s outputs which can be useful for addressing food security problems beforehand in critical basins around the world.
Black hole uniqueness theorems in higher dimensional spacetimes
Creators: name: Hollands, Stefan
name: Ishibashi, Akihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review uniqueness theorems as well as other general results about higher dimensional black hole spacetimes. This includes in particular theorems about the topology of higher dimensional spacetimes, theorems about their symmetries (rigidity theorem), and the classification of supersymmetric black holes. We outline the basic ideas underlying the proofs of these statements, and we also indicate ways to generalize some of these results to more general contexts, such as more complicated theories.
description: Extended version of "Topical Review" article commissioned by Class. Quant. Grav., 66 pages, several figures, Latex. v2: Added section on near horizon geometries, edited/added references
You Can’t Go Home Again: The Righthaven Cases and Copyright Trolling on the Internet
Creators: name: Polonsky, Ian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Intellectual property
subject: Online trolling
subject: Internet
subject: Copyright infringement
subject: Copyright
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Part I of this Note traces the ideological origins of Righthaven from trolling practices in a sister area of intellectual property law, patent law, to analogous practices in copyright.  Part II examines the particular forms of trolling that Righthaven employed to protect newspaper articles and the court system’s reaction to the company’s practices.  Part III argues that the Righthaven decisions may have won the battle against one copyright trolling campaign but leave unresolved important issues of jurisdiction, the scope of fair use exemptions to copyright law on the Internet and the future of the newspaper industry in an increasingly competitive digital marketplace.  The Righthaven cases might have brought some much needed clarity to a host of important legal and policy questions, but the courts’ swift and punitive rebuke of a particularly abusive troll amounted to a missed opportunity for development of the law.  Ultimately, the failure of the judiciary to provide much needed guidance is two-fold:  copyright holders and potential infringers are left with little guidance as to what forms of use of copyrighted material on the Internet are appropriate, and the rationale behind maintaining certain copyright enforcement regimes and decrying others is left to critical rather than judicial interpretation.
title: Encapsulating the Findings in Abdominal Cocoon
Creators: name: Aldahian, Najla
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multicentre study
subject: Not applicable
subject: Pathology
subject: Outcomes
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT
subject: Mesentery
subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal Viscera

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: •Introduction of Cocoon Abdomen & terminology. •To discuss aetiopathogenesis and classifications of Cocoon abdomen. •To discuss clinical presentation, diagnosis & imaging features of Cocoon abdomen. To review acute abdomen caused by...
Circumstellar disks and planets. Science cases for next-generation optical/infrared long-baseline interferometers
Creators: name: Wolf, Sebastian
name: Malbet, Fabien
name: Alexander, Richard
name: Berger, Jean-Philippe
name: Creech-Eakman, Michelle
name: Duchene, Gaspard
name: Dutrey, Anne
name: Mordasini, Christophe
name: Pantin, Eric
name: Pont, Frederic
name: Pott, Joerg-Uwe
name: Tatulli, Eric
name: Testi, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a review of the interplay between the evolution of circumstellar disks and the formation of planets, both from the perspective of theoretical models and dedicated observations. Based on this, we identify and discuss fundamental questions concerning the formation and evolution of circumstellar disks and planets which can be addressed in the near future with optical and infrared long-baseline interferometers. Furthermore, the importance of complementary observations with long-baseline (sub)millimeter interferometers and high-sensitivity infrared observatories is outlined.
description: 83 pages; Accepted for publication in "Astronomy and Astrophysics Review"; The final publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
title: Intra-oral saline infused sonopharyngography (IOSIS): A novel technique for aiding trans-oral robotic surgery
Creators: name: Green, Edward
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Cancer
subject: Safety
subject: Intraoperative
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Oncology
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Head and Neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To publicise a new technique to optimise image quality and therefore the value of intra-oral ultrasound during trans-oral robotic surgery...
Critique of Fermionic R\nuMDM and its Scalar Variants
Creators: name: Kumericki, Kresimir
name: Picek, Ivica
name: Radovcic, Branimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the stability of minimal dark matter (MDM) particle-candidates in the setup in which they participate in radiative neutrino (Rν) masses. We first point out the existence of an additional renormalizable term in recently proposed R\nuMDM Lagrangian, which violates the claimed accidental Z_2 symmetry and spoils the stability of the fermionic MDM quintuplet component. We then explore the viability of R$ν$MDM variants based on scalar MDM multiplets. There are ubiquitous super-renormalizable terms in the scalar potential which make these scalar multiplets unstable.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, corresponds to published version
Calabi-Yau manifolds and their degenerations
Creators: name: Tosatti, Valentino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32Q25, 14J32, 32Q20, 53C25

description: This is a short expository note about Calabi-Yau manifolds and degenerations of their Ricci-flat metrics.
description: 10 pages; to appear in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.; final version
Guide de l'Utilisateur «Manager» du progiciel de gestion intégré (PGI) YEROTH-PGI-3.0 (deprecated)
Creators: name: Noundou, Xavier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: YEROTH-PGI-3.-0

description: Guide de l’Utilisateur «Manager» du progiciel de gestion intégré (PGI) YEROTH-PGI-3.0 (deprecated)

YEROTH-ERP-3.0 : https://zenodo.org/record/8057951/
title: The role of radiologists in Multiple Sclerosis: A review of the last update of McDonald criteria.
Creators: name: PATERNAIN NUIN, ALBERTO
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Inflammation
subject: Pathology
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the diagnostic criteria of Multiple Sclerosis and the implications of the 2017 review of McDonald criteria. To describe the MRI protocol for evaluating Multiple Sclerosis and its image characteristics. To show the Multiple Sclerosis...
Fermi Detection of γ-ray emission from the M2 Soft X-ray Flare on 2010 June 12
Creators: name: Fermi GBM Collaboration
name: Fermi LAT Collaboration
name: Dennis, B. R.
name: Schwartz, R. A.
name: Tolbert, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GOES M2-class solar flare, SOL2010-06-12T00:57, was modest in many respects yet exhibited remarkable acceleration of energetic particles. The flare produced an ~50 s impulsive burst of hard X- and γ-ray emission up to at least 400 MeV observed by the Fermi GBM and LAT experiments. The remarkably similar hard X-ray and high-energy γ-ray time profiles suggest that most of the particles were accelerated to energies >300 MeV with a delay of ~10 s from mildly relativistic electrons, but some reached these energies in as little as ~3 s. The γ-ray line fluence from this flare was about ten times higher than that typically observed from this modest GOES class of X-ray flare. There is no evidence for time-extended >100 MeV emission as has been found for other flares with high-energy γrays.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures. Corresponding Authors: M. S. Briggs, michael.briggs@nasa.gov; D. Gruber, dgruber@mpe.mpg.de; F. Longo, francesco.longo@trieste.infn.it; N. Omodei, nicola.omodei@gmail.com; G. H. Share, gerald.share@nrl.navy.mil
title: Diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke: what general radiologist should know
Creators: name: Giordano, Flavio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Technical aspects
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To understand the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the acute ischemic event. To illustrate the CT protocol and main imaging findings in the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke. To interpret the results of the imaging modalities as to...
Provisioning Spot Market Cloud Resources to Create Cost-effective Virtual Clusters
Creators: name: Voorsluys, William
name: Garg, Saurabh Kumar
name: Buyya, Rajkumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers are offering their unused resources in the form of variable-priced virtual machines (VMs), known as "spot instances", at prices significantly lower than their standard fixed-priced resources. To lease spot instances, users specify a maximum price they are willing to pay per hour and VMs will run only when the current price is lower than the user's bid. This paper proposes a resource allocation policy that addresses the problem of running deadline-constrained compute-intensive jobs on a pool of composed solely of spot instances, while exploiting variations in price and performance to run applications in a fast and economical way. Our policy relies on job runtime estimations to decide what are the best types of VMs to run each job and when jobs should run. Several estimation methods are evaluated and compared, using trace-based simulations, which take real price variation traces obtained from Amazon Web Services as input, as well as an application trace from the Parallel Workload Archive. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of running computational jobs on spot instances, at a fraction (up to 60% lower) of the price that would normally cost on fixed priced resources.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-11); Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7016, 2011
title: Hydrology days award
title: Hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Colorado State University, Author
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Hydrology -- Congresses
subject: Award winners

description: 2010 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 22 - March 24, 2010.
description: The 2010 Hydrology Days Award was presented to Andrea Rinaldo.