cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Zebrafish Models of Autosomal Dominant Ataxias
Creators: name: Quelle-Regaldie, Ana
name: Sobrido-Cameán, Daniel
name: Barreiro-Iglesias, Antón
name: Sobrido, María Jesús
name: Sánchez, Laura
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: zebrafish
hereditary dominant ataxias
spinocerebellar ataxias
expanded repeats
X-fragile
neurodegenerative disorders
genetic edition

description: Hereditary dominant ataxias are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative conditions causing cerebellar dysfunction and characterized by progressive motor incoordination. Despite many efforts put into the study of these diseases, there are no effective treatments yet. Zebrafish models are widely used to characterize neuronal disorders due to its conserved vertebrate genetics that easily support genetic edition and their optic transparency that allows observing the intact CNS and its connections. In addition, its small size and external fertilization help to develop high throughput assays of candidate drugs. Here, we discuss the contributions of zebrafish models to the study of dominant ataxias defining phenotypes, genetic function, behavior and possible treatments. In addition, we review the zebrafish models created for X-linked repeat expansion diseases X-fragile/fragile-X tremor ataxia. Most of the models reviewed here presented neuronal damage and locomotor deficits. However, there is a generalized lack of zebrafish adult heterozygous models and there are no knock-in zebrafish models available for these diseases. The models created for dominant ataxias helped to elucidate gene function and mechanisms that cause neuronal damage. In the future, the application of new genetic edition techniques would help to develop more accurate zebrafish models of dominant ataxias.
Probing the charm-Higgs Yukawa coupling via Higgs boson decay to $h_c$ plus a photon
Creators: name: Mao, Song
name: Guo-He, Yang
name: Gang, Li
name: Yu, Zhang
name: Jian-You, Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the decay of Higgs boson to $h_c$ plus a photon in the NRQCD theoretical framework. Comparing with the Higgs decay to $J/ψ$ plus a photon channel, this process has not indirect contribution, can be used to detect the Yukawa coupling of Higgs and charm quarks. The results show that the decay branch ratio of this process is about $10^{-8}$. If we takes into account the $10^{-3}$ efficiency in the $h_c$ detection, no events will be available even in the case of $30ab^{-1}$ luminosity at FCC-pp with 100 TeV center of mass energy. However, if the detection efficiency of $h_c$ is greatly improved in the future, this process will play an important role at linear $e^+e^-$ future colliders and at LHCb. Moreover, this process should be also play an important role when the anomalous charm Yukawa couplings are larger and direct sensitivity.
description: 11 pages, 1 figures, accepted by J. Phys. G
Does Mining Influence Rural Economic Growth?
Creators: name: Deller, Steven
name: Deller, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: The influence of non-oil and gas mining (NAICS 212) activity on U.S. rural (nonmetro-politan) economic growth is modeled using a simple Barro-type growth framework. Because the type of mining examined tends to be clustered in regions of Appalachia and the Mountain West, we allow for spatial heterogeneity in the underlying growth process. We find that the global least square results suggest that higher dependency on non-oil and gas mining is asso-ciated with higher rates of income growth over the 2000 to 2011 time period. This relation-ship, however, varies significantly across the U.S. The positive relationship holds for much of the eastern part of the U.S., but a negative relationship is seen in parts of the Mountain West, and no relationship is observed for the Pacific West and much of the area associated with the Mississippi River Basin. Because of this spatial heterogeneity, care must be taken in making generalizations about non-oil and gas mining and rural economic growth.
Electric-Double-Layer-Modulation Microscopy
Creators: name: Namink, Kevin
name: Meng, Xuanhui
name: Koper, Marc T. M.
name: Kukura, Philipp
name: Faez, Sanli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric double layer (EDL) formed around charged nanostructures at the liquid-solid interface determines their electrochemical activity and influences their electrical and optical polarizability. We experimentally demonstrate that restructuring of the EDL at the nanoscale can be detected by dark-field scattering microscopy. Temporal and spatial characterization of the scattering signal demonstrates that the potentiodynamic optical contrast is proportional to the accumulated charge of polarisable ions at the interface and its time derivative represents the nanoscale ionic current. The material-specificity of the EDL formation is used in our work as a label-free contrast mechanism to image nanostructures and perform spatially-resolved cyclic voltametry on ion current density of a few attoamperes, corresponding to the exchange of only a few hundred ions.
description: 6 pages, 4 figrues
Photon Yields of Energetic Particles in the Interstellar Medium: an Easy Way to Calculate Gamma-ray Line Emission
Creators: name: Parizot, E.
name: Lehoucq, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gamma-ray line production calculation in astrophysics depends on i) the composition and energy source spectrum of the energetic particles, ii) the propagation model, and iii) the nuclear cross sections. The main difficulty for model predictions and data interpretation comes from the fact that the spectrum of the particles which actually interact in the ISM - the propagated spectrum, is not the same as the source spectrum coming out of the acceleration site, due to energy-dependent energy losses and nuclear destruction. We present a different approach to calculate gamma-ray line emission, based on the computation of the total number of photons produced by individual energetic nuclei injected in the interstellar medium at a given energy. These photon yields take into account all the propagation effects once and for all, and allow one to calculate quickly the gamma-ray line emission induced by energetic particles in any astrophysical situation by using directly their source spectrum. Indeed, the same photon yields can be used for any source spectrum and composition, as well as any target composition. In addition, these photon yields provide visual, intuitive tools for gamma-ray line phenomenology.
description: 12 pages, 25 figures, accepted for publication in A&A (NB: the layout may be rather bad, because astro-ph still uses the old A&A LaTeX package. Please check the A&A edition for a better file...)
Time-Out: Temporal Referencing for Robust Modeling of Lexical Semantic Change
Creators: name: Dubossarsky, Haim
name: Hengchen, Simon
name: Tahmasebi, Nina
name: Schlechtweg, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: State-of-the-art models of lexical semantic change detection suffer from noise stemming from vector space alignment. We have empirically tested the Temporal Referencing method for lexical semantic change and show that, by avoiding alignment, it is less affected by this noise. We show that, trained on a diachronic corpus, the skip-gram with negative sampling architecture with temporal referencing outperforms alignment models on a synthetic task as well as a manual testset. We introduce a principled way to simulate lexical semantic change and systematically control for possible biases.
description: To appear in the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2019)
title: Ebstein Barr Virus associated transverse myelitis
Creators: name: Goel, Shriya
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 18-year male presented to AIIMS Rishikesh with acute onset sensorimotor flaccid quadriparesis, bladder retention, constipation and low GCS. He also complained of swelling over bilateral inguinal region. CSF analysis showed lymphocytic pleocytosis, elevated protein and negative autoimmune panel. 5 days after admission he complained of itchy vesicular skin lesions over the external genitalia. The patient developed pericardial effusion 7 days post-admission. The PCR test for EBV was positive in the CSF sample as well the pericardial fluid that was aspirated. The patient was treated with antivirals and steroids and gradually improved over a period of one week.

description: 18 years, male
Collagenase Clostridium Histolyticum: A Review in Peyronie's Disease
Creators: name: Hoy, Sheridan M.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Compliance with Ethical StandardsFunding: The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.Conflicts of interest: Sheridan Hoy is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, is responsible for the article content and declares no relevant conflicts of interest.
Additional information about the Adis Drug Review can be found here.
AbstractCollagenase Clostridium Histolyticum (hereafter referred to as CCH) [Xiaflex®; Xiapex®] is a mixture of two Clostridiumhistolyticum collagenases [AUX-I (a Class I clostridial collagenase) and AUX-II (a Class II clostridial collagenase)]. Administered by intralesional injection, it is available in various countries for the treatment of adult men with Peyronie’s disease (PD). In two double-blind, multinational, phase III studies, CCH improved the physical (penile curvature) and psychological (patient-reported bother) aspects of PD in adult men. Such beneficial effects were also seen in two open-label, multinational, phase III studies, with potential benefits for patients’ partners and maintained efficacy over up to 5 years additionally reported. Moreover, large real-world studies generally supported the therapeutic efficacy of CCH. CCH was generally well tolerated in these patient populations, with most treatment-related adverse events [TRAEs; most commonly penile haematoma (or ‘bruising’), pain and swelling] being mild or moderate in severity, not serious and resolving without intervention. Moreover, the use of CCH was not associated with penile length shortening. Current evidence indicates that CCH is an effective, generally well tolerated and, compared with surgery, minimally invasive option for the treatment of adult men with PD.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Scaling of the Puffing Strouhal Number for Buoyant Jets
Creators: name: Wimer, Nicholas T.
name: Lapointe, Caelan
name: Christopher, Jason D.
name: Nigam, Siddharth P.
name: Hayden, Torrey R. S.
name: Upadhye, Aniruddha
name: Strobel, Mark
name: Rieker, Gregory B.
name: Hamlington, Peter E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prior research has shown that round and planar buoyant jets "puff" at a frequency that depends on the balance of momentum and buoyancy fluxes at the inlet, as parametrized by the Richardson number. Experiments have revealed the existence of scaling relations between the Strouhal number of the puffing and the inlet Richardson number, but geometry-specific relations are required when the characteristic length is taken to be the diameter (for round inlets) or width (for planar inlets). In the present study, we show that when the hydraulic radius of the inlet is instead used as the characteristic length, a single Strouhal-Richardson scaling relation is obtained for a variety of inlet geometries. In particular, we use adaptive mesh numerical simulations to measure puffing Strouhal numbers for circular, rectangular (with three different aspect ratios), triangular, and annular high-temperature buoyant jets over a range of Richardson numbers. We then combine these results with prior experimental data for round and planar buoyant jets to propose a new scaling relation that accurately describes puffing Strouhal numbers for various inlet shapes and for Richardson numbers spanning over four orders of magnitude.
description: 4 figures
The Validity of Motionsense HRV in Estimating Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity Under Free-Living and Simulated Activity Settings
Creators: name: Kwon, Sunku
name: Wan, Neng
name: Burns, Ryan D.
name: Brusseau, Timothy A.
name: Kim, Youngwon
name: Kumar, Santosh
name: Ertin, Emre
name: Wetter, David W.
name: Lam, Cho Y.
name: Wen, Ming
name: Byun, Wonwoo
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: mobile health
sedentary behavior
physical activity
validity
MotionSense HRV
accelerometer

description: MotionSense HRV is a wrist-worn accelerometery-based sensor that is paired with a smartphone and is thus capable of measuring the intensity, duration, and frequency of physical activity (PA). However, little information is available on the validity of the MotionSense HRV. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the concurrent validity of the MotionSense HRV in estimating sedentary behavior (SED) and PA. A total of 20 healthy adults (age: 32.5 ± 15.1 years) wore the MotionSense HRV and ActiGraph GT9X accelerometer (GT9X) on their non-dominant wrist for seven consecutive days during free-living conditions. Raw acceleration data from the devices were summarized into average time (min/day) spent in SED and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA). Additionally, using the Cosemed K5 indirect calorimetry system (K5) as a criterion measure, the validity of the MotionSense HRV was examined in simulated free-living conditions. Pearson correlations, mean absolute percent errors (MAPE), Bland–Altman (BA) plots, and equivalence tests were used to examine the validity of the MotionSense HRV against criterion measures. The correlations between the MotionSense HRV and GT9X were high and the MAPE were low for both the SED (r = 0.99, MAPE = 2.4%) and MVPA (r = 0.97, MAPE = 9.1%) estimates under free-living conditions. BA plots illustrated that there was no systematic bias between the MotionSense HRV and criterion measures. The estimates of SED and MVPA from the MotionSense HRV were significantly equivalent to those from the GT9X; the equivalence zones were set at 16.5% for SED and 29% for MVPA. The estimates of SED and PA from the MotionSense HRV were less comparable when compared with those from the K5. The MotionSense HRV yielded comparable estimates for SED and PA when compared with the GT9X accelerometer under free-living conditions. We confirmed the promising application of the MotionSense HRV for monitoring PA patterns for practical and research purposes.
Complex flavour couplings in supersymmetry and unexpected CP-violation in the decay B -> phi K
Creators: name: Lunghi, E.
name: Wyler, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex flavour couplings (off-diagonal mass terms) in the squark sector of supersymmetric theories may drastically alter both the rate and the CP-violating asymmetry of certain B-meson decays. We consider the effects of couplings that induce b -> s transitions and lead to final state with strangeness one. We investigate the bounds that must be satisfied by the new terms and explore the possible implications on direct and mixing induced asymmetries in the charged and neutral B -> J/Psi K and B -> phi K decays.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Palaechtodes cossonoides
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Palaechtodes
Palaechtodes cossonoides

description: Palaechtodes cossonoides (C. O. Waterhouse, 1884)
 Palaechthus cossonoides C. O. Waterhouse, 1884: 278 (type locality: Tristan da Cunha-Gough islands: Tristan da Cunha; type material: H: BMNH).
 Palaechtodes cossonoides; Brinck, 1948: 51.
 Distribution. Tristan da Cunha-Gough islands (Brinck, 1948).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Costs and Revenues of à la Carte (ALC) Versus Bundling in Television Markets
Creators: name: Nissan, Edward
name: Naghshpour, Shahdad
name: Nissan, Edward
name: Naghshpour, Shahdad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Industrial Organization

description: This paper compares costs and revenues of two modes of provision of pay-television by cable and satellite providers. The two modes are bundling and à la carte, both of which are subscription-based services. Results of this research show that on average à la carte is more expensive to deliver than bundling, while revenues of both are comparable. The paper also deals with the economics of urban agglomeration and regional networks. It shows that im-provement in technology makes it possible to simulate agglomeration in metropolitan areas with networks, which makes it possible for small urban regions and rural regions to share in network outputs.
A Conservative Approach for Analysis of Noninferiority Trials With Missing Data and Subject Noncompliance
Creators: name: Rabe, Brooke A.
name: Bell, Melanie L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Noninferiority clinical trials aim to show an experimental treatment is therapeutically no worse than standard of care, particularly if the new treatment is preferred for reasons such as cost, convenience, safety, and so on. Noninferiority trials are by nature less conservative than superiority studies: protocol violations may increase bias toward the alternative hypothesis of noninferiority. Our objective was to compare multiple imputation, a linear mixed model, and other methods for analyzing a longitudinal trial with missing data in intention-to-treat and per-protocol populations. We simulated trials with missing data and noncompliance due to treatment inefficacy under varying trial conditions (e.g., trajectory of treatment effects, correlation between repeated measures, and missing data mechanism), assessing each approach by estimating bias, Type I error, and power. We found that multiple imputation using auxiliary data on noncompliance in the imputation model performed best. A hybrid intention-to-treat/per-protocol multiple imputation approach with a missing not at random imputation model produced low Type I error, was unbiased and maintained reasonable power to detect noninferiority. We conclude that the anti-conservatism of noninferiority trial estimands conforming with the intention-to-treat principle may be offset by imputation models that include variables on intercurrent events. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Bicomplexes and Conservation Laws in Non-Abelian Toda Models
Creators: name: Gueuvoghlanian, E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A bicomplex structure is associated to the Leznov-Saveliev equation of integrable models. The linear problem associated to the zero curvature condition is derived in terms of the bicomplex linear equation. The explicit example of a Non-Abelian Conformal Affine Toda model is discussed in detail and its conservation laws are derived from the zero curvature representation of its equation of motion.
description: latex, 9 pages
The interplay of large two-magnon ferromagnetic resonance linewidths and low Gilbert damping in Heusler thin films
Creators: name: Peria, William K.
name: Peterson, Timothy A.
name: McFadden, Anthony P.
name: Qu, Tao
name: Liu, Changjiang
name: Palmstrøm, Chris J.
name: Crowell, Paul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on broadband ferromagnetic resonance linewidth measurements performed on epitaxial Heusler thin films. A large and anisotropic two-magnon scattering linewidth broadening is observed for measurements with the magnetization lying in the film plane, while linewidth measurements with the magnetization saturated perpendicular to the sample plane reveal low Gilbert damping constants of $(1.5\pm0.1)\times 10^{-3}$, $(1.8\pm0.2)\times 10^{-3}$, and $<8\times 10^{-4}$ for Co$_2$MnSi/MgO, Co$_2$MnAl/MgO, and Co$_2$FeAl/MgO, respectively. The in-plane measurements are fit to a model combining Gilbert and two-magnon scattering contributions to the linewidth, revealing a characteristic disorder lengthscale of 10-100 nm.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Philippius Germain 1895
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Philippius

description: Philippius Germain, 1895
 Philippius Germain, 1895: 314 (type species: Listroderes superbus Reed, 1872, subsequent designation by Wibmer and O’Brien, 1986: 116); Kuschel, 1958: 231 (not Listroderini); Kuschel, 1987: 28 (back to Listroderini); Morrone, 1990: 430 (revision).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Energy Metabolites as Biomarkers in Ischemic and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Creators: name: Haas, Jan
name: Frese, Karen S.
name: Sedaghat-Hamedani, Farbod
name: Kayvanpour, Elham
name: Tappu, Rewati
name: Nietsch, Rouven
name: Tugrul, Oguz Firat
name: Wisdom, Michael
name: Dietrich, Carsten
name: Amr, Ali
name: Weis, Tanja
name: Niederdränk, Torsten
name: Murphy, Michael P.
name: Krieg, Thomas
name: Dörr, Marcus
name: Völker, Uwe
name: Fielitz, Jens
name: Frey, Norbert
name: Felix, Stephan B.
name: Keller, Andreas
name: Katus, Hugo A.
name: Meder, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: cardiomyopathy
energy metabolism
heart failure
multi-omics

description: With more than 25 million people affected, heart failure (HF) is a global threat. As energy production pathways are known to play a pivotal role in HF, we sought here to identify key metabolic changes in ischemic- and non-ischemic HF by using a multi-OMICS approach. Serum metabolites and mRNAseq and epigenetic DNA methylation profiles were analyzed from blood and left ventricular heart biopsy specimens of the same individuals. In total we collected serum from n = 82 patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) and n = 51 controls in the screening stage. We identified several metabolites involved in glycolysis and citric acid cycle to be elevated up to 5.7-fold in DCM (p = 1.7 × 10−6). Interestingly, cardiac mRNA and epigenetic changes of genes encoding rate-limiting enzymes of these pathways could also be found and validated in our second stage of metabolite assessment in n = 52 DCM, n = 39 ischemic HF and n = 57 controls. In conclusion, we identified a new set of metabolomic biomarkers for HF. We were able to identify underlying biological cascades that potentially represent suitable intervention targets.
FIRST 0747+2739: A FIRST/2MASS Quasar with an Overabundance of C IV Absorption Systems
Creators: name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Gregg, Michael D.
name: Becker, Robert H.
name: White, Richard L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Keck ESI spectrum of FIRST 074711.2+273904, a K=15.4 quasar with redshift 4.11 that is detected by both FIRST and 2MASS. The spectrum contains at least 14 independent C IV absorption systems longward of the Ly-alpha forest. These systems are found over a path length of Delta z = 0.984, constituting one of the highest densities per unit redshift of C IV absorption ever observed. One of the C IV systems is trough-like and resembles a weak BAL-type outflow. Two of the C IV are ``associated'' absorption systems with |v|<3000 km/s. Of the 11 remaining systems with v>3000 km/s, eight are either resolved or require multiple discrete systems to fit the line profiles. In addition to C IV absorption, there are two low-ionization Mg II absorption systems along with two damped Ly-alpha systems, at least one of which may be a C IV system. The overdensity of C IV absorption spans a redshift range of Delta z=1. Superclusters along the line of sight are unlikely to cause an overdensity stretching over such a long redshift path, thus the absorption may be an example of narrow, high-velocity, intrinsic absorption that originates from the quasar. We suggest that this quasar is a member of a transitional class of BAL quasars where we are just barely seeing the spatial, density, or temporal edge of the BAL-producing region (or period); the multiple high-velocity absorption systems may be the remnants (or precursors) of a stronger BAL outflow. If correct, then some simpler absorption line complexes in other quasars may also be due to outflowing rather than intervening material.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, uses emulateapj5.sty; Accepted by ApJ Letters
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of State Economic Freedom on Individual Wages
Creators: name: Yankow, Jeffrey J.
name: Yankow, Jeffrey J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Labor and Human Capital

description: Matching panel data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to the state-level index of economic freedom published in Economic Freedom of North America 2010, this study establishes an empirical relationship between wages at the individual level and the degree of state economic freedom. In OLS models, a one standard deviation improvement in the state economic freedom score is found to increase wages by 2.5 percent. Models that con-trol for both person-specific and state-level fixed effects reveal a wage increase of more than 8 percent. Significant variation in wage gains is found across the different areas used to con-struct the economic freedom measure as well as across broad worker characteristics like race and schooling level.
Local Labor Market Restructuring in the Shale Boom
Creators: name: Weinstein, Amanda L.
name: Weinstein, Amanda L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Innovations in hydraulic fracturing have led to oil and gas booms in various shale plays across the U.S. The economic impact of shale development has been estimated previously with varying results. The results are often used to justify supporting the industry. Thus, a precise estimate of the economic impact to communities is important. A county level analysis of the lower 48 states from 2001-2011 provides an estimate of the local economic impact as well as the labor market restructuring occurring due to the recent shale boom and can provide insight into the mechanisms behind the “natural resource curse.” Results suggest that the im-pact of shale development on employment is modest, with the impact on earnings growth ap-proximately double that of the impact on employment, though the growth effects seem to wane over time. The employment multiplier from oil and gas development is estimated to be approximately 1.3.
A Multi-Pass GAN for Fluid Flow Super-Resolution
Creators: name: Werhahn, Maximilian
name: Xie, You
name: Chu, Mengyu
name: Thuerey, Nils
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel method to up-sample volumetric functions with generative neural networks using several orthogonal passes. Our method decomposes generative problems on Cartesian field functions into multiple smaller sub-problems that can be learned more efficiently. Specifically, we utilize two separate generative adversarial networks: the first one up-scales slices which are parallel to the XY-plane, whereas the second one refines the whole volume along the Z-axis working on slices in the YZ-plane. In this way, we obtain full coverage for the 3D target function and can leverage spatio-temporal supervision with a set of discriminators. Additionally, we demonstrate that our method can be combined with curriculum learning and progressive growing approaches. We arrive at a first method that can up-sample volumes by a factor of eight along each dimension, i.e., increasing the number of degrees of freedom by 512. Large volumetric up-scaling factors such as this one have previously not been attainable as the required number of weights in the neural networks renders adversarial training runs prohibitively difficult. We demonstrate the generality of our trained networks with a series of comparisons to previous work, a variety of complex 3D results, and an analysis of the resulting performance.
description: SCA 2019, further details at: https://ge.in.tum.de/publications/2019-multi-pass-gan/
Philippius superbus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Philippius
Philippius superbus

description: Philippius superbus (Reed, 1872)
 Listroderes superbus Reed, 1872: 354 (type locality: Chile: Río Puelo).
 Philippius superbus; Germain, 1895: 314.
 Philippius insignis Germain, 1895: 315 (type locality: Chile; type material: L: MHNS); Kuschel, 1950: 13 (= P. superbus).
 Distribution. Argentina and Chile (Kuschel, 1987; Morrone, 1990).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Lapsing Quickly into Fatalism: Bell on Backward Causation
Creators: name: Norsen, Travis
name: Price, Huw
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: quantum theory
retrocausality
superdeterminism
J S Bell

description: This is a dialogue between Huw Price and Travis Norsen, loosely inspired by a letter that Price received from J. S. Bell in 1988. The main topic of discussion is Bell’s views about retrocausal approaches to quantum theory and their relevance to contemporary issues.
Expanding the Economic Base Model to Include Nonwage Income
Creators: name: Nesse, Katherine
name: Nesse, Katherine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Public Economics
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: As baby boomers retire over the next decade, the size of the population relying primari-ly on nonwage income will likely grow considerably. This study argues that it is important to include these income sources in descriptions of regional economies. I modify the location quotient method of calculating the base multiplier to compare the effect of nonwage income with wage and salary income. The location quotient in the expanded model changes from the traditional model by a constant factor related to the relative size of the nonwage income in the region. I demonstrate the model in six commuting zones with different compositions of personal income.
A Conservative Approach for Analysis of Non-Inferiority Trials with Missing Data and Subject Non-Compliance
Creators: name: Rabe, Brooke A
name: Bell, Melanie L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Non-inferiority clinical trials aim to show an experimental treatment is therapeutically no worse than standard of care, particularly if the new treatment is preferred for reasons such as cost, convenience, safety, and so on. Non-inferiority trials are by nature less conservative than superiority studies: protocol violations may increase bias toward the alternative hypothesis of non-inferiority. Our objective was to compare multiple imputation, a linear mixed model, and other methods for analyzing a longitudinal trial with missing data in intention-to-treat and per-protocol populations. We simulated trials with missing data and non-compliance due to treatment inefficacy under varying trial conditions (e.g. trajectory of treatment effects, correlation between repeated measures, and missing data mechanism), assessing each approach by estimating bias, type I error and power. We found that multiple imputation using auxiliary data on non-compliance in the imputation model performed best. A hybrid intention-to-treat/per-protocol multiple imputation approach with a missing not at random imputation model produced low type I error, was unbiased and maintained reasonable power to detect non-inferiority. We conclude that the anti-conservatism of non-inferiority trial estimands conforming with the intention-to-treat principle may be offset by imputation models that include variables on intercurrent events.
Phase Transitions for Gauge Theories on Tori from the AdS/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Page, Don N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vacuum of a large-N gauge field on a p-torus has a spatial stress tensor with tension along the direction of smallest periodicity and equal pressures (but p times smaller in magnitude) along the other directions, assuming an AdS/CFT correspondence and a refined form of the Horowitz-Myers positive-energy conjecture. For infinite N, the vacuum exhibits a phase transition when the lengths of the two shortest periodicities cross. A comparison is made with the Surya-Schleich-Witt phase transition at finite temperature. A zero-loop approximation is also given for large but finite N.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX
The benefits of a shared language among informal cross-border traders at Chirundu one-stop border post between Zambia and Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Magura, Netty
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130203 Economics, Business and Management Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Trade is identified as one of the main drivers of economic growth. It sets the basis for economic, political and social growth. In order for Informal Cross Border Trade to be achieved, language plays a pivotal role in negotiating trade transactions. Language is used to mitigate trade forms such as transportation costs, currency costs, customs costs, information acquisition and communication costs. Therefore, it is crucial to have a shared language in executing informal cross border trade. A shared culture is also identified as a communication tool since culture is engraved in language
Theoretical Aspects of Neutrino Oscillation
Creators: name: de Gouvea, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review some aspects concerning the physics of neutrino mixing and oscillations. I discuss in some detail the physical neutrino oscillations parameter space in the case of two and three family mixing, and briefly describe the current knowledge of neutrino mixing parameters according to the present solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino data. I also briefly comment on the possibility of solving the LNSD anomaly together with the solar and atmospheric ones. I conclude by emphasising that that even though in five to ten years time a lot will be learnt from the next round of neutrino experiments, a great deal about neutrino masses and neutrino mixing will remain unknown.
description: Invited Plenary Talk at the NUFACT'01 Conference, 14 pages, 2 figures
Perils of Embedding for Sampling Problems
Creators: name: Marshall, Jeffrey
name: Di Gioacchino, Andrea
name: Rieffel, Eleanor G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Advances in techniques for thermal sampling in classical and quantum systems would deepen understanding of the underlying physics. Unfortunately, one often has to rely solely on inexact numerical simulation, due to the intractability of computing the partition function in many systems of interest. Emerging hardware, such as quantum annealers, provide novel tools for such investigations, but it is well known that studying general, non-native systems on such devices requires graph minor embedding, at the expense of introducing additional variables. The effect of embedding for sampling is more pronounced than for optimization; for optimization one is just concerned with the ground state physics, whereas for sampling one needs to consider states at all energies. We argue that as the system size or the embedding size grows, the chance of a sample being in the subspace of interest - the logical subspace - can be exponentially suppressed. Though the severity of this scaling can be lessened through favorable parameter choices, certain physical constraints (such as a fixed temperature and range of couplings) provide hard limits on what is currently feasible. Furthermore, we show that up to some practical and reasonable assumptions, any type of post-processing to project samples back into the logical subspace will bias the resulting statistics. We introduce a new such technique, based on resampling, that substantially outperforms majority vote, which is shown to fail quite dramatically at preserving distribution properties.
description: 14+1 pages, 13 Figures. v2: updated to published version, including additional discussions throughout
Understanding the Role of Duration of Vaccine Protection with MenAfriVac: Simulating Alternative Vaccination Strategies
Creators: name: Karachaliou Prasinou, Andromachi Karachaliou
name: Conlan, Andrew J. K.
name: Trotter, Caroline L.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: meningitis
vaccine
Africa
mathematical modelling

description: We previously developed a transmission dynamic model of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A (NmA) with the aim of forecasting the relative benefits of different immunisation strategies with MenAfriVac. Our findings suggested that the most effective strategy in maintaining disease control was the introduction of MenAfriVac into the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). This strategy is currently being followed by the countries of the meningitis belt. Since then, the persistence of vaccine-induced antibodies has been further studied and new data suggest that immune response is influenced by the age at vaccination. Here, we aim to investigate the influence of both the duration and age-specificity of vaccine-induced protection on our model predictions and explore how the optimal vaccination strategy may change in the long-term. We adapted our previous model and considered plausible alternative immunization strategies, including the addition of a booster dose to the current schedule, as well as the routine vaccination of school-aged children for a range of different assumptions regarding the duration of protection. To allow for a comparison between the different strategies, we use several metrics, including the median age of infection, the number of people needed to vaccinate (NNV) to prevent one case, the age distribution of cases for each strategy, as well as the time it takes for the number of cases to start increasing after the honeymoon period (resurgence). None of the strategies explored in this work is superior in all respects. This is especially true when vaccine-induced protection is the same regardless of the age at vaccination. Uncertainty in the duration of protection is important. For duration of protection lasting for an average of 18 years or longer, the model predicts elimination of NmA cases. Assuming that vaccine protection is more durable for individuals vaccinated after the age of 5 years, routine immunization of older children would be more efficient in reducing disease incidence and would also result in a fewer number of doses necessary to prevent one case. Assuming that elimination does not occur, adding a booster dose is likely to lead to prevent most cases but the caveat will be a more costly intervention. These results can be used to understand important sources of uncertainty around MenAfriVac and support decisions by policymakers.
A Spatial Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Institutional Quality: Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Creators: name: Bologna, Jamie
name: Bologna, Jamie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Public Economics

description: This paper uses the Stansel (2013) economic freedom index for a maximum of 375 U.S. metropolitan areas to estimate the effect of economic freedom on entrepreneurship while con-trolling for spatial dependence. This paper finds statistically significant evidence that increas-es in economic freedom in one area result in increases in entrepreneurial activity in neighbor-ing areas. Furthermore, the total (direct plus indirect) effects of an increase in economic free-dom on entrepreneurship are positive and statistically significant, indicating that a positive-sum game is present. However, these effects are small in magnitude. In order to explain a cumulative one standard deviation increase in either one of the entrepreneurial measures pre-sented in this paper, there would have to be an increase in the freedom index equivalent to moving from the least-free area to the most-free area.
L'innovation dans la gestion des coopératives – facteur clé de performance : Cas des coopératives de Tiznit
Creators: name: AMCHAAROU Hicham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Cet article explore le rôle déterminant de l’innovation dans l’amélioration des performances socio-économiques des coopératives. À partir d’une synthèse approfondie de la littérature et d’une étude empirique mixte menée auprès de coopératives marocaines, nous analysons comment des pratiques novatrices – qu’elles concernent les produits, les processus, l’organisation ou les stratégies commerciales – favorisent des résultats économiques et sociaux tangibles. Les données qualitatives révèlent que les coopératives qui innovent parviennent à diversifier leur offre et à conquérir de nouveaux marchés avec succès. Les analyses quantitatives corroborent cet impact positif, malgré des obstacles tels que le manque de financement ou la réticence de certains membres. En conclusion, nous proposons des recommandations concrètes pour stimuler l’innovation coopérative via des politiques publiques ciblées, des partenariats dynamiques et une mobilisation accrue des membres.
Massive T-duality in six dimensions
Creators: name: Janssen, Bert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A massive version of T-duality in six dimensions is given, that maps the K3 compactification of Romans' theory onto the K3 compactification of Type IIB theory. This is done by performing a (standard) Kaluza-Klein reduction on six-dimensional massive Type IIA and a Scherk-Schwarz reduction on Type IIB, mapping both theories onto the same five-dimensional theory. We also comment shortly on the difficulties arising if one intends to construct a massive generalisation of the six-dimensional string-string duality.
description: Latex, 14 pages. Reference added
The Interplay between ESCRT and Viral Factors in the Enveloped Virus Life Cycle
Creators: name: , Meng
name: Lever
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: ESCRT
budding
enveloped virus
late domain
NEDD4
retrovirus

description: Viruses are obligate parasites that rely on host cellular factors to replicate and spread. The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) system, which is classically associated with sorting and downgrading surface proteins, is one of the host machineries hijacked by viruses across diverse families. Knowledge gained from research into ESCRT and viruses has, in turn, greatly advanced our understanding of many other cellular functions in which the ESCRT pathway is involved, e.g., cytokinesis. This review highlights the interplay between the ESCRT pathway and the viral factors of enveloped viruses with a special emphasis on retroviruses.
The HI mass function in the Parkes HI Zone of Avoidance survey
Creators: name: Said, Khaled
name: Kraan-Korteweg, Renée C.
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An HI mass function (HIMF) was derived for 751 galaxies selected from the deep Parkes HI survey across the Zone of Avoidance (HIZOA). HIZOA contains both the Great Attractor Wall and the Local Void, two of the most extreme environments in the local Universe, making the sample eminently suitable to explore the overall HIMF as well as its dependence on local environment. To avoid any selection bias because of the different distances of these large-scale structures, we first used the two-dimensional stepwise maximum-likelihood method for the definition of an average HIMF. The resulting parameters of a Schechter-type HIMF for the whole sample are $α= -1.33\pm0.05$, $\log(M_{\rm HI}^*/M_{\odot})=9.93\pm0.04$, and $ϕ^* = (3.9\pm0.6)\times 10^{-3}$ Mpc$^{-3}$. We then used the $k$-th nearest-neighbour method to subdivide the sample into four environments of decreasing local density and derived the Schechter parameters for each subsample. A strong trend is observed, for the slope $α$ of the low-mass end of the HIMF. The slope changes from being nearly flat, i.e. $α= -0.99\pm0.19$ for galaxies residing in the densest bin, to the steep value of $α= -1.31\pm0.10$ in the lowest density bin. The characteristic mass, however, does not show a clear trend between the highest and lowest density bins. We find similar trends in the low-mass slope when we compare the results for a region dominated by the Great Attractor, and the Local Void, which are found to be over-, respectively underdense by 1.35 and 0.59 compared to the whole sample.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 2 of Effect of an individualised nutritional intervention on gestational diabetes mellitus prevention in a high-risk population screened by a prediction model: study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Zhang, Chenjie
name: Wang, Lulu
name: Sun, Wenguang
name: Chen, Lei
name: Zhang, Chen
name: Li, Hong
name: Yu, Jiale
name: Fan, Jianxia
name: Ruan, Huijuan
name: Zheng, Tao
name: Wu, Dongling
name: Li, Shaojing
name: Lu, Huan
name: Wang, Man
name: Mol, Ben W.
name: Huang, Hefeng
name: Wu, Yanting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2.