cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of chlordiazepoxide and Ro 15-1788 on preference for punished and unpunished response alternatives
Creators: name: Thomas, David Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Male, food-restricted, hooded rats were trained to respond on a two-component multiple schedule. Reinforcement density was several times higher in one component than in the other component, but responses were intermittently punished with shock in the richer reinforcement component (conflict situation). Half of the rats controlled which component was operating (Preference Group), while half did not (Yoked Group). The effects of the benzodiazepine chlordiazepoxide (CDZ; 1, 3 and 10 mg/kg; i.p.) on component preference was measured. Also examined were the effects of CDZ on food-reinforced responding that was either punished (in the conflict situation) or not punished. CDZ increased both time spent in a punished component and response rate in that component. These findings are consistent with similar findings from concurrent schedules and for the first time demonstrate this relationship in a paradigm that does not invariably generate a positive correlation between response rate and preference. Response rates were also increased in the unpunished response alternative, but to a lesser degree than in the conflict situation. These effects of CDZ were at least partially mediated by the benzodiazepine receptor given that CDZ's effects were diminished by Ro 15-1788 (10 mg/kg; i.p.), a benzodiazepine antagonist. Further, CDZ's effects on response rates and preference were not mimicked by removing the shock contingency in the conflict situation. This supports the argument that CDZ was not acting via analgesic actions.
Possible astrophysical clues of dark matter
Creators: name: Kusenko, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physics of the supernova may provide a clue of the cosmological dark matter. In the absence of new physics, the supernova calculations do not explain the observed velocities of pulsars. However, if there exists a singlet fermion with mass in the 1-20 keV range and a small mixing with neutrinos, this particle could be emitted asymmetrically from a cooling neutron star in the event of a supernova explosion. The asymmetry could explain the long-standing puzzle of pulsar velocities. The same particle could be the dark matter. Observations of X-ray telescopes, as well as a future detection of gravitational waves from a nearby supernova can confirm or rule out this possibility.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure; talk presented at the 6th UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe (Dark Matter 2004), Marina del Rey, California, February 18-20, 2004
Alternative models of communication development: Bridging theory and praxis
Creators: name: Tucker Wilson, Laurie Jane
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Although communication is now a highly valued developmental tool, planners still receive little guidance from policy makers on the role and application of communication in national development efforts. For centuries, philosophers and scholars have debated the relationship of theory and praxis. From the time of the classical Greek "bios theoretikos" to Husserl's phenomenological attempt to bridge empiricism and rationalism, those responsible for implementing societal programs have lacked theoretical or ideological guidance. This study examines two nations which have recently employed alternative approaches to development contexted in societal world view. The cases are examined to determine their degree of success in translating theory or ideology into policy and practice in terms of a cybernetic theory/ideology-policy-praxis model. The Chinese development model fully incorporates the Chinese world view which has legitimized the efforts and programs of the national leaders. Although highly controversial for its leaders' ruthless treatment of opposition, this approach has had startling success in educating the masses, and has now begun to realize significant economic gains as well. The model combines communication technology with traditional group and interpersonal structures, with an emphasis on strategy development and implementation at the local level. The Tanzanian alternative was also ideologically driven and contexted in tradition and culture. Unlike China, however, Tanzania was unable to sustain its approach as many of the leaders grew impatient and implemented policies which are neither consistent with original objectives nor supported by the Tanzanian people. Although Tanzania has realized gain in some areas, it is generally considered to have lost ground overall. These case studies demonstrate the need to context development within a society's world view, and to use communication not only as a development tool, but also as a facilitator to continually refine and reshape development policy and practical implementation through the theory/ideology-policy-praxis process.
Alternative models of communication development: Bridging theory and praxis
Creators: name: Tucker Wilson, Laurie Jane
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Although communication is now a highly valued developmental tool, planners still receive little guidance from policy makers on the role and application of communication in national development efforts. For centuries, philosophers and scholars have debated the relationship of theory and praxis. From the time of the classical Greek "bios theoretikos" to Husserl's phenomenological attempt to bridge empiricism and rationalism, those responsible for implementing societal programs have lacked theoretical or ideological guidance. This study examines two nations which have recently employed alternative approaches to development contexted in societal world view. The cases are examined to determine their degree of success in translating theory or ideology into policy and practice in terms of a cybernetic theory/ideology-policy-praxis model. The Chinese development model fully incorporates the Chinese world view which has legitimized the efforts and programs of the national leaders. Although highly controversial for its leaders' ruthless treatment of opposition, this approach has had startling success in educating the masses, and has now begun to realize significant economic gains as well. The model combines communication technology with traditional group and interpersonal structures, with an emphasis on strategy development and implementation at the local level. The Tanzanian alternative was also ideologically driven and contexted in tradition and culture. Unlike China, however, Tanzania was unable to sustain its approach as many of the leaders grew impatient and implemented policies which are neither consistent with original objectives nor supported by the Tanzanian people. Although Tanzania has realized gain in some areas, it is generally considered to have lost ground overall. These case studies demonstrate the need to context development within a society's world view, and to use communication not only as a development tool, but also as a facilitator to continually refine and reshape development policy and practical implementation through the theory/ideology-policy-praxis process.
Stromatolites: why do we care?
Creators: name: Ignaccolo, M.
name: Schwettmann, A.
name: Failla, R.
name: Storrie-Lombardi, M. C.
name: Grigolini, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the method of Diffusion Entropy (DE) to the study of stromatolites by means of a two-dimensional procedure that makes it possible for us to compare the DE analysis to the results of a compression method. As done with the compression method, we analyze two pairs of samples, one biotic and the other a-biotic. Each pair consists of a target, the putative stromatolite sample, and of its surrounding matrix. We use two different procedures, referring to single colors and to a color combination, respectively. We apply the DE method to both procedures and we find the same result, this being that the scaling index of the time series stemming from the biotic target yields a scaling index larger than the scaling indices of the other three curves. We argue that the DE analysis confirms the results of the compression method.
description: 4 pages and 3 figures. Accepted for pubblication in the special issue of Chaos Solitons & Fractals dedicated to the conference "Non-stationary Time Series: A Theoretical, Computational and Practical Challenge", Center for Nonlinear Science at University of North Texas, from October 13 to October 19, 2002, Denton, TX (USA)
Convergence Guarantees for Non-Convex Optimisation with Cauchy-Based Penalties
Creators: name: Karakus, Oktay
name: Mayo, Perla
name: Achim, Alin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we propose a proximal splitting methodology with a non-convex penalty function based on the heavy-tailed Cauchy distribution. We first suggest a closed-form expression for calculating the proximal operator of the Cauchy prior, which then makes it applicable in generic proximal splitting algorithms. We further derive the condition required for guaranteed convergence to a solution in optimisation problems involving the Cauchy based penalty function. Setting the system parameters by satisfying the proposed condition ensures convergence even though the overall cost function is non-convex when minimisation is performed via a proximal splitting algorithm. The proposed method based on Cauchy regularisation is evaluated by solving generic signal processing examples, i.e. 1D signal denoising in the frequency domain, two image reconstruction tasks including de-blurring and denoising, and error recovery in a multiple-antenna communication system. We experimentally verify the proposed convergence conditions for various cases, and show the effectiveness of the proposed Cauchy based non-convex penalty function over state-of-the-art penalty functions such as $L_1$ and total variation ($TV$) norms.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Interest Rate and Output Price Uncertainty and Industry Equilibrium for Nonrenewable Resource Extracting Firms
Creators: name: Yeung, David
name: Hartwick, John M.
name: Yeung, David
name: Hartwick, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: We establish convexity of a nonrenewable resource extracting agent's value function in the future interest rate, a random variable. A preference by the agent for future interest rate uncertainty follows. A rational expectations, m identical firm industry equilibrium is characterized and the links between interest rate uncertainty and output price uncertainty are investigated.
Additional file 1 of Polystyrene microplastics do not affect juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta f. fario) or modulate effects of the pesticide methiocarb
Creators: name: Schmieg, Hannah
name: Huppertsberg, Sven
name: Knepper, Thomas P.
name: Krais, Stefanie
name: Reitter, Katharina
name: Rezbach, Felizitas
name: Ruhl, Aki S.
name: Heinz-R. Köhler
name: Triebskorn, Rita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
D-Sitter Space: Causal Structure, Thermodynamics, and Entropy
Creators: name: Fabinger, Michal
name: Silverstein, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entropy of concrete de Sitter flux compactifications and deformations of them containing D-brane domain walls. We determine the relevant causal and thermodynamic properties of these "D-Sitter" deformations of de Sitter spacetimes. We find a string scale correspondence point at which the entropy localized on the D-branes (and measured by probes sent from an observer in the middle of the bubble) scales the same with large flux quantum numbers as the entropy of the original de Sitter space, and at which Bousso's bound is saturated by the D-brane degrees of freedom (up to order one coefficients) for an infinite range of times. From the geometry of a static patch of D-Sitter space and from basic relations in flux compactifications, we find support for the possibility of a low energy open string description of the static patch of de Sitter space.
description: 46 pages, harvmac big; 14 figures
Minimum Wage, Unemployment and International Migration
Creators: name: Djajic, Slobodan
name: Djajic, Slobodan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper develops a two-country model of international migration in order to study the implications of opening a minimum-wage economy to immigration. It is shown that an inflow of foreign labor may lower the level of income enjoyed by the country's native factors of production. Moreover, while an increase in the level of the minimum wage reduces employment opportunities within the economy, it may also give rise to substitution of foreign for native workers in the remaining positions of employment. Finally, the paper studies the effects of capital accumulation in both countries on the pattern of international migration, the rate of unemployment in the host country, and the income of workers in the two economies.
Containment discourse and the constitution of the "Other" in the 1946-1952 period: A Foucauldian perspective
Creators: name: Yannas, Prodromos M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study analyzes containment as a discourse and examines the mechanisms that were involved in the constitution of "Otherness" in the period 1946-1952. The notion of discourse as a complex network of interests which elicit certain practices to construct representations of "Otherness" in a certain way is derived from the work of French thinker Michel Foucault. According to this formulation, objects are no longer conceived as natural depictions; rather, they are conceived as constructions of the discourse. First, a positivist-based psychological approach to containment is contrasted to a discursive one and then the work of Michel Foucault and the literature on the problem of the "Other" are reviewed in order to establish the groundwork for the Foucauldian-type interpretation of containment discourse. The major research question that is addressed in this study concerns the ways in which the objects of containment discourse--"communism," "the Soviet Union," "Europe," and "Greece"--were constituted during the 1946-1952 period. Two mechanisms were identified and analyzed: the constitution of the Soviet "Other," and the "psychiatrization" of ideological susceptibility to communism. The constitution of the Soviet "Other" was effected through the works of the incipient field of Sovietology which was given impetus thanks to a partnership involving the government, the universities, and the private foundations. The Sovietological making of the enemy "Other" placed undue emphasis on the role that ideology played in the communist world, and focused almost exclusively on internal variables in interpreting Soviet external behavior. Concerning the United States national security governmental discourse, United States officials, invoking the doctor-patient analogy, conceived of and proceeded to treat "Greece" as if it were a mental patient amenable to psychiatric treatment whereas they treated "Europe" according to the precepts of biomedicine. The contrast in the two figurations derived from different modes of diagnosis at work. The heavy reliance upon hearing in the case of "Greece" and upon seeing in the case of "Europe" accounted for the "psychiatrization" of the former and the "medicalization" of the latter in containment discourse.
Road Curb Detection and Localization with Monocular Forward-view Vehicle Camera
Creators: name: Panev, Stanislav
name: Vicente, Francisco
name: De la Torre, Fernando
name: Prinet, Véronique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a robust method for estimating road curb 3D parameters (size, location, orientation) using a calibrated monocular camera equipped with a fisheye lens. Automatic curb detection and localization is particularly important in the context of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), i.e. to prevent possible collision and damage of the vehicle's bumper during perpendicular and diagonal parking maneuvers. Combining 3D geometric reasoning with advanced vision-based detection methods, our approach is able to estimate the vehicle to curb distance in real time with mean accuracy of more than 90%, as well as its orientation, height and depth. Our approach consists of two distinct components - curb detection in each individual video frame and temporal analysis. The first part comprises of sophisticated curb edges extraction and parametrized 3D curb template fitting. Using a few assumptions regarding the real world geometry, we can thus retrieve the curb's height and its relative position w.r.t. the moving vehicle on which the camera is mounted. Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier fed with Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) is used for appearance-based filtering out outliers. In the second part, the detected curb regions are tracked in the temporal domain, so as to perform a second pass of false positives rejection. We have validated our approach on a newly collected database of 11 videos under different conditions. We have used point-wise LIDAR measurements and manual exhaustive labels as a ground truth.
description: 17 pages, 21 figures, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Containment discourse and the constitution of the "Other" in the 1946-1952 period: A Foucauldian perspective
Creators: name: Yannas, Prodromos M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study analyzes containment as a discourse and examines the mechanisms that were involved in the constitution of "Otherness" in the period 1946-1952. The notion of discourse as a complex network of interests which elicit certain practices to construct representations of "Otherness" in a certain way is derived from the work of French thinker Michel Foucault. According to this formulation, objects are no longer conceived as natural depictions; rather, they are conceived as constructions of the discourse. First, a positivist-based psychological approach to containment is contrasted to a discursive one and then the work of Michel Foucault and the literature on the problem of the "Other" are reviewed in order to establish the groundwork for the Foucauldian-type interpretation of containment discourse. The major research question that is addressed in this study concerns the ways in which the objects of containment discourse--"communism," "the Soviet Union," "Europe," and "Greece"--were constituted during the 1946-1952 period. Two mechanisms were identified and analyzed: the constitution of the Soviet "Other," and the "psychiatrization" of ideological susceptibility to communism. The constitution of the Soviet "Other" was effected through the works of the incipient field of Sovietology which was given impetus thanks to a partnership involving the government, the universities, and the private foundations. The Sovietological making of the enemy "Other" placed undue emphasis on the role that ideology played in the communist world, and focused almost exclusively on internal variables in interpreting Soviet external behavior. Concerning the United States national security governmental discourse, United States officials, invoking the doctor-patient analogy, conceived of and proceeded to treat "Greece" as if it were a mental patient amenable to psychiatric treatment whereas they treated "Europe" according to the precepts of biomedicine. The contrast in the two figurations derived from different modes of diagnosis at work. The heavy reliance upon hearing in the case of "Greece" and upon seeing in the case of "Europe" accounted for the "psychiatrization" of the former and the "medicalization" of the latter in containment discourse.
Additional file 1 of Personal decision support for survivor engagement: formulation and feasibility evaluation of a conceptual framework for implementing online cancer survivorship care plans
Creators: name: Kapoor, Akshat
name: Nambisan, Priya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Talking points to assess survivor needs and preferences during Step 1 of the study
Additional file 2 of Occurrence of Escherichia coli non-susceptible to quinolones in faecal samples from fluoroquinolone-treated, contact and control pigs of different ages from 24 Swiss pig farms
Creators: name: Amsler, Morena
name: Zurfluh, Katrin
name: Hartnack, Sonja
name: Sidler, Xaver
name: Stephan, Roger
name: Kümmerlen, Dolf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and MIC 50 and 90% of nalidixic acid of 254 randomly selected Escherichia coli isolates of faecal samples of pigs of G1-G5 at different ages
Additional file 1 of Machine learning-aided analyses of thousands of draft genomes reveal specific features of activated sludge processes
Creators: name: Ye, Lin
name: Mei, Ran
name: Wen-Tso Liu
name: Hongqiang Ren
name: Xu-Xiang Zhang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Information about the WWTPs and activate sludge samples analyzed in this study. Table S2. Accession numbers of the metagenomic datasets used in this study. Table S3. Abundance of AS MAGs assigned to each phylum. Table S4. Prediction report of the random forest model. Table S5. Importance values and descriptions of the top 20 COGs identified by random forest model to differentiate the AS and non-AS MAGs. Figure S1. Geographical locations of the WWTPs where activated sludge samples were collected by us and other researchers. Figure S2. Associations between MAG completeness and number of contigs (a), and associations between MAG completeness and number of contigs (b). Figure S3. Venn diagram showing the shared and unique MAGs of WWTP1, WWTP2, WWTP3 and WWTP4. Figure S4. Profile of protein sequences identity between different WWTPs. The protein sequences predicted from all assembly contigs of each WWTP were compared each other with Diamond and then the best hits of the protein sequences were counted and summarized. Figure S5. Random forest parameter tuning and optimization. (a) Number of trees (n_estimators); (b) Tree depth; (c) Maximum features. Figure S6. Phylogeny of the erroneously predicted MAGs. The topology of this tree is exactly same with Fig. 1b. Extended lines were added to show positions of the erroneously predicted MAGs.
Skills and the Pattern of International Migration
Creators: name: Djajic, Slobodan
name: Djajic, Slobodan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper develops a simple two-country model of international migration. By distinguishing individuals in terms of their ability and age, the model enables us to examine not only the equilibrium flow of migrants and the pattern of factor rewards in the two economies, but also the factors which determine the skill and age profile of those who migrate. In addition, the effects of both qualitative and quantitative restrictions on immigration are analysed within a general-equilibrium framework. The role of an emigration tax and how it interacts with the immigration policy of the labor-importing country is also considered.
An Equilibrium Model of Guest-Worker Migration
Creators: name: Djajic, Slobodan
name: Milbourne, Ross
name: Djajic, Slobodan
name: Milbourne, Ross
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper examines the problem of guest-worker migration from an economy populated by identical, utility-maximizing individuals with finite working lives. The decision to migrate, the rate of saving while abroad, as well as the length of a migrant's stay in the foreign country, are all viewed as part of a solution to an intertemporal optimization problem. In addition to studying the microeconomic aspects of temporary migration, the paper analyses the determinants of the equilibrium flow of migrants, the corresponding domestic wage, and the level of welfare enjoyed by a typical worker. Effects of an emigration tax are also investigated.
title: Effects of peer feedback and assessment on successive drafts of student narrative writing: the case for student assessor and assessee
Creators: name: Yeaher, Sampson
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Writing, one of the four major language skills required in the k12 classroom, is an essential achievement for all students. This research study aimed to investigate the effects of peer feedback on the improvement in the quality of middle school student’s writing performance and their perceptions in a case-based writing activity using peerScholar as an online writing tool. The notion of the design used in this study was to enhance learning whereby students would be rewarded as assessors and assessees but formal grades to be determined by the teacher. Grade eight students (n = 21) completed the writing task. After the completion of the first written drafts (first phase), students were anonymously assigned to rate and comment on three of their peers’ writing tasks (second phase). Based on the rates and comments received from their peers, students were asked to reflect on and improve their writing task. Two expert independent raters randomly rated and commented on the students’ first and second drafts. Participants also completed a ‘background’ survey, interviews, and a reflective narrative essay. The analysis of variances was computed to determine improvement in the quality of writing in consideration of revision made. Survey and interview questionnaire were analyzed for the participants’ perception of writing during the writing process using the peerScholar platform, a web-based peer editing and assessment tool which provided multiple cycles of assessment. The analysis of data indicated that when controlling for the quality of the first and second drafts, there was a significant relationship between the quality of peer feedback participants provided for others and the quality of the participants’ final writing task. This finding supports a prior research claim that active engagement in reviewing peers’ projects may facilitate student learning.
New bifunctional ligands for radioimmunoimaging and radioimmunotherapy
Creators: name: Brechbiel, Martin Wade
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Syntheses of one bifunctional ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and of five bifunctional diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) ligands were performed. The bifunctional EDTA ligand and two bifunctional DTPA ligands were synthesized by direct aminolysis of an amino acid ester followed by reduction, alkylation, and functional group modification to introduce bifunctionality. The reactive substituent chosen for protein conjugation was the isothiocyanate group. The generality of this approach was demonstrated with 9 different amino acids to produce the respective substituted diethylenetriamines. The remaining three bifunctional DTPA ligands were synthesized via classical peptide methodology producing a dipeptide amide which, after deprotection, was reduced to the triamine and alkylated to produce the ligand. This route successfully provided an alternative entry to mono- or disubstituted DTPA ligands with potential stereocontrol of the substituents. Biodistribution studies of the ligands conjugated to monoclonal antibody B72.3 and labelled with the gamma emitter Indium-111 revealed that superior retention of Indium-111 was attained and the dose to the liver was minimized when a full intact octadentate bifunctional DTPA chelate was used, e.g. DTPA $>$ EDTA $>$ DTTA (diethylenetritetraacetic acid from use of DTPA dianhydride (CA-DTPA)). The best scintigraphic images were obtained after 72 hours when a DTPA ligand was used to complex the Indium-111. Biodistribution studies using the gamma emitter Yttrium-88 revealed that the disubstituted bifunctional DTPA was necessary to minimize the bone dose from the Yttrium while maintaining a high dose to the tumor, e.g. disub. DTPA $>$ monosub. DTPA $\gg$ EDTA $\sim$ CA-DTPA. Use of either the bifunctional EDTA ligand or the CA-DTPA reagent resulted in the %I.D./g at the tumor to decrease to less than 11.0% over 168 hours while the %I.D./g at the femur increased to greater than 17.0%. The disubstituted DTPA ligands maintained the %I.D./g at the femur at less than 3.5%. The %I.D./g in the femur using the best DPTA ligand for Yttrium was still greater than the %I.D./g in the femur for Indium indicating that yet more improvement is possible.
Misanteca caryophyllata Lundell 1969
Creators: name: Leal, Eduardo Da Silva
name: Costa, Denise Pinheiro Da
name: Forzza, Rafaela Campostrini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Laurales
Lauraceae
Misanteca
Misanteca caryophyllata

description: Acrodiclidium caryophyllatum Ducke (1939: 5) ≡
 Misanteca caryophyllata (Ducke) Lundell (1969: 99) (Lauraceae).
 Lectotype (designated here):— BRAZIL. Amazonas: Rio Curicuriary, affl. do Rio Negro, acima das cachoeiras, lagoa Tumbira, igapó, 26 February 1936, A. Ducke HJBR 37623 (RB, duplicates: B, US). Syntype: A. Ducke HJBR 37622 (RB).
description: Published as part of Leal, Eduardo Da Silva, Costa, Denise Pinheiro Da & Forzza, Rafaela Campostrini, 2010, Lectotypification of the taxa of Adolpho Ducke from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 49-55 in Phytotaxa 13 on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.13.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4778674
Quintessence and Inflation from Symmetry Breaking Transition of the Internal Manifold
Creators: name: Biswas, Tirthabir
name: Jaikumar, Prashanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that even in the simple framework of pure Kaluza-Klein gravity the shape moduli can generate potentials supporting inflation and/or quintessence. Using the shape moduli as the inflaton or quintessence-field has the additional benefit of being able to explain symmetry breaking in a natural geometric way. A numerical analysis suggests that in these models it may be possible to obtain sufficient e-foldings during inflation as well as a small cosmological constant at the current epoch (without fine tuning), while preserving the constraint coming from the fine structure constant.
description: 28 pages, 2 figures. Expanded version, essentially combining previous version with gr-qc/0305087
Additional file 3 of Occurrence of Escherichia coli non-susceptible to quinolones in faecal samples from fluoroquinolone-treated, contact and control pigs of different ages from 24 Swiss pig farms
Creators: name: Amsler, Morena
name: Zurfluh, Katrin
name: Hartnack, Sonja
name: Sidler, Xaver
name: Stephan, Roger
name: Kümmerlen, Dolf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs), MIC 50% and MIC 90% of ciprofloxacin of 254 randomly selected Escherichia coli isolates of faecal samples of pigs of G1-G5 at different ages
Graded algebras and multilinear forms
Creators: name: Dubois-Violette, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a description of the connected graded algebras which are finitely generated and presented of global dimension 2 or 3 and which are Gorenstein. These algebras are constructed from multilinear forms. We generalize the construction by associating homogeneous algebras to multilinear forms. The homogeneous algebras which are Koszul of finite global dimension and which are Gorenstein are of this type.
description: 6 pages. Modification of Theorem 3.3 which was partly incorrect, actualization of references (not published in 2005) and suppression of the abridged French version
A Macro Interpretation of Economic Theory From the Great Depression: Australia vs. Canada
Creators: name: Green, Alan G.
name: Sparks, Gordon R.
name: Green, Alan G.
name: Sparks, Gordon R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: This paper sets out and tests a simple macro model for an open economy. The test period covers the years 1926 to 1939 for Canada and Australia. A component analysis of annual changes in real income for the two countries is presented using, the residuals from the estimated equations (consumption, exports and imports) plus annual changes in investment and government expenditures. A brief examination is made of the relationship between the balance of payments and changes in the money supply for each country. The results showed a strong correlation existed between the pattern of recovery in Canada with the U.S. and in Australia as compared to Britain. Generally Australia entered the depression period a year earlier and began its recovery ahead of Canada. Detailed analysis showed that Canadian recovery was export-led while for Australia recovery was generated to a large extent by investment. Although for Australia some contribution to recovery comes from the foreign sector, it does not come via an income effect since British income growth was slower than in the U.S. Very little correlation could be found between the overall balance of payments and changes in the Canadian money supply. For Australia a substantial correlation was found for the period 1930-1937.
The Hopf Algebra of Renormalization, Normal Coordinates and Kontsevich Deformation Quantization
Creators: name: Rosenbaum, M.
name: Vergara, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using normal coordinates in a Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt basis for the Hopf algebra of renormalization in perturbative quantum field theory, we investigate the relation between the twisted antipode axiom in that formalism, the Birkhoff algebraic decomposition and the universal formula of Kontsevich for quantum deformation.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures
Rectangular-Mask Coronagraphs for High-Contrast Imaging
Creators: name: Vanderbei, Robert J.
name: Kasdin, N. Jeremy
name: Spergel, David N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present yet another new family of masks for high-contrast imaging as required for the to-be-built terrestrial planet finder space telescope. The ``best'' design involves a square entrance pupil having a 4-vane spider, a square image-plane mask containing a plus-sign shaped occulter to block the starlight inside 0.6 lambda/D, and a Lyot-plane mask consisting of a rectangular array of rectangular opennings. Using Fraunhofer analysis, we show that the optical system can image a planet 10^{-10} times as bright as an on-axis star in four rectangular regions given by {(xi,zeta): 1.4 < | xi | < 20, 1.4 < | zeta | < 20}. Since the design involves an image plane mask, pointing error is an issue. We show that the design can tolerate pointing errors of about 0.05 lambda/D. The inclusion of a 4-vane spider in the entrance pupil provides the possibility to build a mirror-only on-axis system thereby greatly reducing the negative effects of polarization. Each of the masks can be realized as two masks consisting of stripes of opaque material with the stripes oriented at right angles to each other. We call these striped masks barcode masks. We show that it is sufficient for the barcode masks by themselves to provide 10^{-5} contrast. This then guarantees that the full system will provide the required 10^{-10} contrast.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
A resistive ACHINOS multi-anode structure with DLC coating for spherical proportional counters
Creators: name: Giomataris, I.
name: Gros, M.
name: Katsioulas, I.
name: Knights, P.
name: Mols, J. -P.
name: Neep, T.
name: Nikolopoulos, K.
name: Savvidis, G.
name: Savvidis, I.
name: Shang, L.
name: Ward, R.
name: Zhou, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spherical proportional counter is a gaseous detector used in a variety of applications, including direct dark matter and neutrino-less double beta decay searches. The ACHINOS multianode structure is a read-out technology that overcomes the limitations of single-anode read-out structures for large-size detectors and operation under high pressure. A resistive ACHINOS is presented, where the 3D printed central component is coated in a Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) layer. The production and testing of the structure, in terms of stability and resolution, is described. Further applications in fundamental physics and industry are also discussed.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
New bifunctional ligands for radioimmunoimaging and radioimmunotherapy
Creators: name: Brechbiel, Martin Wade
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3405
subject: Organic chemistry

description: Syntheses of one bifunctional ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and of five bifunctional diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) ligands were performed. The bifunctional EDTA ligand and two bifunctional DTPA ligands were synthesized by direct aminolysis of an amino acid ester followed by reduction, alkylation, and functional group modification to introduce bifunctionality. The reactive substituent chosen for protein conjugation was the isothiocyanate group. The generality of this approach was demonstrated with 9 different amino acids to produce the respective substituted diethylenetriamines. The remaining three bifunctional DTPA ligands were synthesized via classical peptide methodology producing a dipeptide amide which, after deprotection, was reduced to the triamine and alkylated to produce the ligand. This route successfully provided an alternative entry to mono- or disubstituted DTPA ligands with potential stereocontrol of the substituents. Biodistribution studies of the ligands conjugated to monoclonal antibody B72.3 and labelled with the gamma emitter Indium-111 revealed that superior retention of Indium-111 was attained and the dose to the liver was minimized when a full intact octadentate bifunctional DTPA chelate was used, e.g. DTPA $>$ EDTA $>$ DTTA (diethylenetritetraacetic acid from use of DTPA dianhydride (CA-DTPA)). The best scintigraphic images were obtained after 72 hours when a DTPA ligand was used to complex the Indium-111. Biodistribution studies using the gamma emitter Yttrium-88 revealed that the disubstituted bifunctional DTPA was necessary to minimize the bone dose from the Yttrium while maintaining a high dose to the tumor, e.g. disub. DTPA $>$ monosub. DTPA $\gg$ EDTA $\sim$ CA-DTPA. Use of either the bifunctional EDTA ligand or the CA-DTPA reagent resulted in the %I.D./g at the tumor to decrease to less than 11.0% over 168 hours while the %I.D./g at the femur increased to greater than 17.0%. The disubstituted DTPA ligands maintained the %I.D./g at the femur at less than 3.5%. The %I.D./g in the femur using the best DPTA ligand for Yttrium was still greater than the %I.D./g in the femur for Indium indicating that yet more improvement is possible.
Ampelozizyphus amazonicus Ducke 1935
Creators: name: Leal, Eduardo Da Silva
name: Costa, Denise Pinheiro Da
name: Forzza, Rafaela Campostrini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rhamnaceae
Ampelozizyphus
Ampelozizyphus amazonicus

description: Ampelozizyphus amazonicus Ducke (1935: 158) (Rhamnaceae).
 Lectotype (designated here):— BRAZIL. Amazonas: Manaos, prope cachoeira do Mindú in silva non inundabile, 17 December 1929, A. Ducke HJBR 25654 (RB 4 sheets, duplicates: K, NY, US). Syntype: A. Ducke HJBR 25653 (K, RB).
description: Published as part of Leal, Eduardo Da Silva, Costa, Denise Pinheiro Da & Forzza, Rafaela Campostrini, 2010, Lectotypification of the taxa of Adolpho Ducke from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 49-55 in Phytotaxa 13 on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.13.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4778674
High-performance liquid chromatography and immunoassay techniques for monitoring urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Creators: name: Chamberlain, Virginia Childs
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this research was to investigate the feasibility of using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA) as sensitive techniques for monitoring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) metabolites in human urine. The method was tested using synthesized PAH conjugates as positive markers. Results showed that a PAH conjugate, S-(9,10-dihydro-9-hydroxy-10-phenanthryl)N-acetyl cysteine (PHONAC), present in HPLC effluent could be detected by ELISA at picomole levels, well below the sensitivity of the HPLC UV detector. Analyses of urine from mice dosed with phenanthrene demonstrated that a substance detected by HPLC which was not detected in ELISA tests was the principal phenanthrene metabolite. This substance was not hydrolyzed by Beta-glucuronidase. PHONAC was detected by ELISA in mouse urine extracts subjected to HPLC. Human urine samples were obtained from smoking and nonsmoking volunteers. Human urine was assayed directly in an inhibition (competition) ELISA system using monoclonal antibodies specific for PAH oxide and thiol metabolites. Median antibody inhibition was not significantly different in the two groups. Elimination of data from subjects smoking less than one pack of cigarettes per day did not alter the results. A few urine samples from smokers exhibited higher inhibitory activity than any of the control samples. HPLC conditions for separation of mixed isomers of synthetic PAH K-region oxide NAC conjugates were explored. Phenanthrene, pyrene (PY), and benzo(c)phenanthrene (BCP) NAC isomers were separated on all columns using isocratic elution with combinations of 10mM tris pH 7 and MeOH. Benzanthracene (BA) NAC isomers were separated on C-8 and C-18 columns, but not on a Dupont phenyl column using similar isocratic conditions. Benzo(a)pyrene (BP) NAC isomers were only separated using the phenyl column. A mixture of all of the NACs was separable except that BA and BCP NACs eluted together on all columns under all conditions.
Gravitational Topological Quantum Field Theory Versus N = 2 D = 8 Supergravity and its lift to N = 1 D = 11 Supergravity
Creators: name: Baulieu, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous work, it was shown that the 8-dimensional topological quantum field theory for a metric and a Kalb-Ramond 2-form gauge field determines N = 1 D = 8 supergravity. It is shown here that, the combination of this TQFT with that of a 3-form determines N = 2 D = 8 supergravity, that is, an untruncated dimensional reduction of N = 1 D = 11 supergravity. Our construction holds for 8-dimensional manifolds with Spin(7) \subset SO(8) holonomy. We suggest that the origin of local Poincare supersymmetry is the gravitational topological symmetry. We indicate a mechanism for the lift of the TQFT in higher dimensions, which generates Chern-Simons couplings.
description: one section has been added
Iterative Optimization of Quantum Error Correcting Codes
Creators: name: Reimpell, M.
name: Werner, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a convergent iterative algorithm for finding the optimal coding and decoding operations for an arbitrary noisy quantum channel. This algorithm does not require any error syndrome to be corrected completely, and hence also finds codes outside the usual Knill-Laflamme definition of error correcting codes. The iteration is shown to improve the figure of merit "channel fidelity" in every step.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX 4; stability of algorithm included
Additional file 1 of Anti-Xa activity and hemorrhagic events under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): a multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: Descamps, Richard
name: Moussa, Mouhamed D.
name: Besnier, Emmanuel
name: Fischer, Marc-Olivier
name: Preau, Sébastien
name: Tamion, Fabienne
name: Daubin, Cédric
name: Cousin, Nicolas
name: Vincentelli, André
name: Goutay, Julien
name: Du Cheyron, Damien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Analyzers and reagents used to measure Anti-Xa in the three centers.