cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vancomycin Pharmacokinetics in Neurocritically Ill Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: Nelson, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with secondary
complications, especially infection, and often exhibit augmented renal clearance
(ARC). This phenomenon has been associated with subtherapeutic levels of renally
cleared drugs such as vancomycin, which is dosed based on body weight and
creatinine clearance (CrCl). Many clinicians, however, cap CrCl at 120
mL/min/1.73m2 when calculating vancomycin dosing regimens. We hypothesize
that capping patient CrCl, as opposed to utilizing the actual CrCl, when determining
vancomycin dosing schemes results in subtherapeutic serum trough concentrations,
and possibly therapeutic failure.
Methods This was a retrospective study of adult patients with TBI admitted between
April 2014 and December 2015 who received vancomycin. Population based
pharmacokinetic parameters using actual calculated CrCl and capped CrCl were
compared with patient specific pharmacokinetic parameters based on serum trough
concentrations.
Results Thirty-two patients with TBI were included in the study. ARC was
demonstrated by 24 (75%) patients with a median CrCl at serum trough
concentration of 167.3 (127.7-197.7) mL/min. The mean dosing regimen was 17.1
(13.2-19.2) mg/kg every 8 (8-8) h. There was no difference between the median
measured trough concentration and predicted value using actual CrCl [10.4 (7.1-
15.0) vs. 11.5 (7.8-13.7) mcg/mL; p=0.7986]. The median measured trough
concentration was significantly lower than the predicted trough concentration
based on capping CrCl [16.3 (15.3-22.0) vs. 11.5 (7.8-13.7) mcg/mL; p<0.0001].
Conclusions Patients with traumatic brain injury exhibited augmented renal
clearance, leading to subtherapeutic vancomycin serum trough concentrations
when doses were calculated using the traditional method of capping creatinine
clearance at 120 mL/min/1.73m2. Instead, utilizing patients’ actual creatinine
clearance when determining a vancomycin dosing regimen is more accurate, and
provides a better estimation of vancomycin pharmacokinetics and could be applied
to other renally excreted medications.
Directed Self-Assembly of Epitaxial CoFe2O4-BiFeO3 Multiferroic Nanocomposites
Creators: name: Comes, Ryan
name: Liu, Hongxue
name: Khokhlov, Mikhail
name: Kasica, Richard
name: Lu, Jiwei
name: Wolf, Stuart A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CoFe${}_{2}$O${}_{4}$ (CFO)-BiFeO${}_{3}$ (BFO) nanocomposites are an intriguing option for future memory and logic technologies due to the magnetoelctric properties of the system. However, these nanocomposites form with CFO pillars randomly located within a BFO matrix, making implementation in devices difficult. To overcome this, we present a technique to produce patterned nanocomposites through self-assembly. CFO islands are patterned on Nb-doped SrTiO${}_{3}$ to direct the self-assembly of epitaxial CFO-BFO nanocomposites, producing square arrays of CFO pillars.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures; Supplement: 6 pages, 1 figure
Conflict-related sexual violence : the darker side of the history and the untold herstory of conflicts under international human rights law
Creators: name: Germano, Rebecca
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: sexual violence
conflict
international law
human rights
women
peace
reparations
justice

description: Second semester University: University of Cyprus
description: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) has been recognised as a selfstanding crime that can threaten international security and impede the restoration of a sustainable international peace. Even though it is punishable under International Law, the path to eradicate it is still long. The thesis aims to explore how the international community has been able to bring these vexations to light and provide a holistic mechanism to prevent CRSV, bring perpetrators to justice, protect victims and grant them reparation. In an effort to capture the complexities of the phenomenon, this work adopts an innovative approach and builds on an interesting nexus. Indeed, it analyses the dynamic interplay between the Reporting Cycles to the CEDAW Committee, its General Recommendation n. 30 and National Action Plans implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in selected conflict-affected countries, in order to advance the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, in which CRSV is a central issue. New insights, a dynamic framework of analysis and the consequent deep understanding of the phenomenon sheds light on CRSV. The study demonstrates that the aforementioned interplay can be crucial to avoid and eradicate the phenomenon and finally reach the truth behind the darker, overlooked, silenced side of conflicts.
Polybotrya attenuata R. C. Moran, Bull.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya attenuata

description: Polybotrya attenuata R.C.Moran, Bull. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. 34: 74, f. 33, map 7. 1987.
 Range: —Western Andes in Colombia and Ecuador, Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Locally fairly common; hemiepiphytic in very humid forests; 1300–2000 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The role of groups of relatives during transitional justice processes in Argentina and Chile
Creators: name: Morante Espansa, Caterina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: transitional justice
Argentina
Chile
Latin America
victims

description: Second semester University: Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.
description: Transitional justice mechanisms have been implemented to deal with the grave legacies of human rights violations committed during an authoritarian past regime. These mechanisms have been established by governments in order to deal with the past and construct a new democracy. Traditionally the application of these mechanisms has been oriented from the top-down. Victims have been usually left out from these processes, and precisely victims are the ones most affected since they had to suffer those violations of their human rights. This thesis is oriented to highlight the role of the human rights movements during transitional periods and their position in these processes. With this purpose I will use the case of the human rights movement in Chile and Argentina. I will show what relevance had the work of the relatives' groups and their perspective when it comes to influence the institutional agenda regarding human rights and their role in keeping alive the memory of the victims.
The production of photons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Paquet, Jean-François
name: Shen, Chun
name: Denicol, Gabriel S.
name: Luzum, Matthew
name: Schenke, Björn
name: Jeon, Sangyong
name: Gale, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work it is shown that the use of a hydrodynamical model of heavy ion collisions which incorporates recent developments, together with updated photon emission rates greatly improves agreement with both ALICE and PHENIX measurements of direct photons, supporting the idea that thermal photons are the dominant source of direct photon momentum anisotropy. The event-by-event hydrodynamical model uses IP-Glasma initial states and includes, for the first time, both shear and bulk viscosities, along with second order couplings between the two viscosities. The effect of both shear and bulk viscosities on the photon rates is studied, and those transport coefficients are shown to have measurable consequences on the photon momentum anisotropy.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures. Augmented discussion; now also includes STAR photon data. Some typos corrected; agrees with published version
Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Click Reactions on Amorphous Carbon Thin Films
Creators: name: Fehr, Julia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Amorphous carbon (aC) thin films are chemically stable films that can be functionalized through the formation of carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom bonds. Unlike other materials whose surface chemistries are labile under aqueous conditions, carbon surfaces are able to retain their functional groups when exposed to acidic or basic environments. The inherent stability of carbon materials, and the chemistries used to modify their surfaces, are ideal for generating functional materials such as supports for the attachment of photocatalysts. We present here an approach to terminate these films with azides. Utilizing copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition click chemistry, we demonstrate an approach for the selective and stable covalent attachment of a redox active complex, ferrocene, to the surface of these thin films. This reaction provides an efficient and flexible means for attaching a variety of alkyne-containing molecules to the surface of a thin film. XPS and electrochemical analyses confirm the presence of these various functional groups and demonstrate the necessity of the azide group in order for the click reaction to occur.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1666
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 118 fr. 14-15. Philodemus, De Epicuro
Drawing by Vincenzo Crispino
Geometric Context from Videos
Creators: name: Raza, S. Hussain
name: Grundmann, Matthias
name: Essa, Irfan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel algorithm for estimating the broad 3D geometric structure of outdoor video scenes. Leveraging spatio-temporal video segmentation, we decompose a dynamic scene captured by a video into geometric classes, based on predictions made by region-classifiers that are trained on appearance and motion features. By examining the homogeneity of the prediction, we combine predictions across multiple segmentation hierarchy levels alleviating the need to determine the granularity a priori. We built a novel, extensive dataset on geometric context of video to evaluate our method, consisting of over 100 ground-truth annotated outdoor videos with over 20,000 frames. To further scale beyond this dataset, we propose a semi-supervised learning framework to expand the pool of labeled data with high confidence predictions obtained from unlabeled data. Our system produces an accurate prediction of geometric context of video achieving 96% accuracy across main geometric classes.
description: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013 IEEE Conference on
Influence of Positions K+1 and K+2 on Response Regulator CheY Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation Rate Constants
Creators: name: Yuan, Chase
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: In microorganisms, two-component systems (TCSs) serve as control mechanisms that translate extracellular stimuli into intracellular responses such as movement and gene transcription. TCSs employ a sensor kinase that supplies a phosphoryl group to a response regulator, leading to downstream activity. Because the response times of TCSs span one million-fold from seconds to weeks, it is believed that the rate constants governing phosphotransfer vary across a similar range. However, since tertiary structure vary only slightly among response regulators, these differences are unlikely to explain the rate constant range. Rather, variable site residues adjacent to the active site are most likely responsible for regulating reaction kinetics. Currently identified primary sequence variations only account for 0.01% of the million-fold difference, indicating that additional undiscovered influencing factors exist. Primary sequence covariation showed that residues adjacent to the active site lysine termed K+1 and K+2 (PF in wild-type) strongly covary, suggesting functional importance. Therefore, phosphorylation and dephosphorylation rate constants were measured in vitro for mutants in the model response regulator CheY from Escherichia coli. The AF, AA, PL, and LL mutants had autophosphorylation rate constants similar to that of wild-type, whereas the constants for the PA and PG mutants were 12 and 7-fold faster, respectively. The LL mutant had a dephosphorylation rate constant 5-fold larger than that of wild-type, whereas the other mutants were similar to wild-type. The mechanisms(s) by which K+1/K+2 residues influence phosphoryl group reaction kinetics are currently unknown. Continuing to examine how the K+1/K+2 residues affect response regulator kinetics will improve understanding of overall TCS rate activity.
Polybotrya botryoides C. Chr., Index Filic.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya botryoides

description: Polybotrya botryoides (Baker) C.Chr., Index Filic. 504. 1906.
 Range: —Central Colombia, Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; hemiepiphytic in very humid forests; 1500–3200 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Non-Hermitian neutrino oscillations in matter with PT symmetric Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Ohlsson, Tommy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce and develop a novel approach to extend the ordinary two-flavor neutrino oscillation formalism in matter using a non-Hermitian PT symmetric effective Hamiltonian. The condition of PT symmetry is weaker and less mathematical than that of hermicity, but more physical, and such an extension of the formalism can give rise to sub-leading effects in neutrino flavor transitions similar to the effects by so-called non-standard neutrino interactions. We derive the necessary conditions for the spectrum of the effective Hamiltonian to be real as well as the mappings between the fundamental and effective parameters. We find that the real spectrum of the effective Hamiltonian will depend on all new fundamental parameters introduced in the non-Hermitian PT symmetric extension of the usual neutrino oscillation formalism and that either i) the spectrum is exact and the effective leptonic mixing must always be maximal or ii) the spectrum is approximate and all new fundamental parameters must be small.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Final version (author's post-print version) published in Europhysics Letters
Exploring different regimes in finite-size scaling of the droplet condensation-evaporation transition
Creators: name: Zierenberg, Johannes
name: Janke, Wolfhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a finite-size scaling analysis of the droplet condensation-evaporation transition of a lattice gas (in two and three dimensions) and a Lennard-Jones gas (in three dimensions) at fixed density. Parallel multicanonical simulations allow sampling of the required system sizes with precise equilibrium estimates. In the limit of large systems, we verify the theoretical leading-order scaling prediction for both the transition temperature and the finite-size rounding. In addition, we present an emerging intermediate scaling regime, consistent in all considered cases and with similar recent observations for polymer aggregation. While the intermediate regime locally may show a different effective scaling, we show that it is a gradual crossover to the large-system scaling behavior by including empirical higher-order corrections. This implies that care has to be taken when considering scaling ranges, possibly leading to completely wrong predictions for the thermodynamic limit. In this study, we consider a crossing of the phase boundary orthogonal to the usual fixed temperature studies. We show that this is an equivalent approach and, under certain conditions, may show smaller finite-size corrections.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E
title: Constructing climate risk: how finance governs its relationship with the planet’s climate
Creators: name: Täger, Matthias
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2022

description: This thesis is driven by the question of how finance governs its relationship with the planet’s climate. Structuring this emergent governance experiment is a new type of risk: climate risk. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), this thesis problematises climate risk by tracing its construction. Theoretically, the thesis advances debates around the potentials and limits of ANT in the context of financial governance. It goes beyond ANT by formulating a wider conceptual approach to climate risk. Empirically, this research uncovers the genesis of a governance tool pivotal to the construction of climate risk: the disclosure framework developed by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The first paper traces the translation of climate risk from a contested claim into a fact leading to the creation of the TCFD. Novel to the literature, it foregrounds the critical role of face-to-face contact and proposes an extension of ANT’s conception of materiality to account for human interaction. The second paper follows the development of the TCFD’s global disclosure framework. Tracing shifting conflict lines, it draws into question conceptions of industry interest representation and argues for the need to take individuals’ personal interests seriously. The third paper focuses on one of the TCFD’s key recommendations: the conduct of climate scenario analysis. Advancing literatures on the modelling and imagination of futures, the paper argues that the process of designing global reference scenarios produced exclusionary imperatives. These imperatives constrain both the imagination of climate and financial catastrophes, and solution pathways. The final paper contextualises the thesis by proposing an integrative research agenda anchored in the Callonian concept of economization and thus calling for a sociology of climate risk. The thesis as a whole provides a forensic interrogation of the socio-technical politics of defining climate risk. Furthermore, it illuminates the limits and potentials of the climate risk frame and thus of finance’s role in the Anthropocene.
Remapping the stem cell debate: beyond the embryo etiquette, unravelling the aphorisms
Creators: name: Pagona, Maria
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: bioethics
embryos
medical ethics

description: Second semester University: University of Seville.
description: Chances are very good that everybody has heard about stem cells; whether from scientists pleading this proverbial medical magic bullet, or from religious groups graving the loss of embryos, stem cells have been a hot topic in the news for years. The excitement expressed by the medical community is mainly to the miraculous potentialities and promises in treating degenerative conditions, for understanding genetic illnesses, and for answering fundamental questions about human development. Conversely the division among the society in the subject has provided for fertile ground for the latest controversy in biomedicine amidst scholars. Knives have been drawn about embryonic stem cell research from its inception, since the derivation of embryonic stem cells requires the destruction of early embryos. Some societal groups find this ethical unacceptable, but this is not equivocal; for others early embryos are mere things and for the “reasonable happy medium” embryos have a gradual moral value, which increases in line with the foetal/embryo development. What is remarkable and at the same time flawed in the thus far debate is the absence of clarity and diversification of the different embryo situations, which could shed light in the controversy. This pluralism is also reflected in regulatory policies when encountered with this fervent battle, with nations sitting embroiled over the battle of where to draw the line on embryonic stem cell research and supranational regulatory bodies standing at a standstill.
Evaluating imipridone family small molecule inhibitors ONC201 and ONC212 toxicity in vitro for future treatment of glioblastoma
Creators: name: Patel, Shrey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and lethal malignant brain tumor. Current treatment involves surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy. Temozolomide (TMZ) is the only FDA approved systemic chemotherapeutic available and many tumors are known to have both extrinsic and intrinsic resistance to the TMZ. Resistance to TMZ has generated a pressing need for novel therapies. ONC201, an Akt/ERK dual inhibitor has shown promising preliminary results in phase II clinical trials and its potent analog, ONC212 is believed to be more clinically efficacious. However, in vitro studies with ONC212 are necessary prior to clinical application. Normal human astrocytes (NHA) and normal human astrocytes with mutant Ras (NHA Ras), along with 6 established glioblastoma human cell lines (U251, U87, U373, LN18, LN229, and D54MG) were each evaluated for toxicity with 3 individual drugs (TMZ, ONC201, and ONC212) and IC50 values were calculated from toxicity curves. TMZ was found to be less effective in cell lines with high MGMT expression (LN18). ONC212 was found to be more potent than ONC201 and has the potential to be a possible treatment option for GBM. Short-term goals involve repeating the experiment with glioblastoma stem cells which better mimic tumor structure with the potential of beginning in vivo animal studies and evaluating efficacy and blood brain barrier penetrance of ONC212, followed by clinical trials. The ultimate goal remains to develop effective novel therapies for patients with GBM.
The debate on indigenous peoples rights in international law : assessing the impact of the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples in Mexico
Creators: name: Corda, Janis
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: indigenous peoples
international law
peoples rights
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon
description: The research begins with a broad overview of the main features of the contemporary debate about multiculturalism, from the perspectives of the political theory and the international human rights law. The second chapter focuses on the approach of international law towards a particular feature of multiculturalism, that is, indigenous rights. Particular attention is given to the analysis of the recent developments of the debate about indigenous peoples’ rights within the United Nations specialised agency for labour issues, the ILO. Also, the participation of the indigenous organizations in the process of international standardsetting, in its different stages, is described. The third chapter addresses the way indigenous peoples’ issues acquired progressive relevance within the UN system, in a process that culminated in the historical adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the most comprehensive international instrument dealing with indigenous peoples. The last chapter analyses the impact of the Declaration in Mexico, one of the countries that supported its adoption the most. Particularly, the research focuses in the State actions to implement the Declaration and the role of the UN human rights mechanisms to foster Mexico’s compliance with it. The outcome of the research is that so far Mexico has not undertaken the necessary reforms in order to make the Declaration effective in the country, with the aim of establishing substantially multicultural social relations.
Polybotrya crassirhizoma Lellinger, Amer. Fern J.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya crassirhizoma

description: Polybotrya crassirhizoma Lellinger, Amer. Fern J. 62(2): 49, f. 1, 8. 1972.
 Range: —Western Amazonia from southern Colombia and western Brazil to Bolivia (CO).
 Ecology: —Rare; hemiepiphytic in humid forests, on clay soils; to 1500 m.
 Notes: — Polybotrya polybotryoides (Baker) Christ from southern Mexico to central Peru may occur in Bolivia. It differs from P. crassirhizoma and P. fractiserialis by anastomosing veins of the sterile pinnules, conform apical pinnae, and often entire to crenulate (vs. serrulate) pinna margins.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Medication reconciliation conducted by a pharmacist at hospital discharge: A scoping review
Creators: name: Fernandes, Brígida
name: Chemello, Clarice
name: Almeida, Paulo Henrique
name: Ayres, Lorena
name: Foppa, Aline
name: Sousa, Camila
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The protocol for a scoping review on medication reconciliation conducted by a pharmacist at hospital discharge.
Dataset for reproducing resuls from "Mapping microstructural features of pathological tissues by pixel clustering of Mueller matrix images"
Creators: name: Wan, Jiachen
name: Dong, Yang
name: Yao, Yue
name: Xiao, Weijin
name: Huang, Ruqi
name: Xue, Jin-Hao
name: Peng, Ran
name: Pei, Haojie
name: Tian, Xuewu
name: Liao, Ran
name: He, Honghui
name: Zeng, Nan
name: Li, Chao
name: Ma, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomedical imaging

description: This dataset suppots the manuscript named "Mapping microstructural features of pathological tissues by pixel clustering of Mueller matrix images". It contains the minimum data requied to reproduce the results in the paper. The dataset consists 222 ROIs from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) samples, numbered from 1 to 222 respectively. Each .npz file includes several attributes: (1) the Mueller matrix image of the respective region (named m11, m12, etc.), (2) the pathological descriptive label of the region (tissue_type_label and cancer_type_label), as well as (3) availible H&E-stained images of the corresponding region (HE_img).
Polybotrya caudata Kunze, Linnaea
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya caudata

description: Polybotrya caudata Kunze, Linnaea 9: 23. 1834.
 Range: —Southern Mexico to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, PA, SC) and Amazonian Brazil.
 Ecology: —Common; hemiepiphytic in humid forests; to 600(–1900) m.
 Notes: — Polybotrya goyazensis Brade, from central Brazil and Paraguay, has been collected close to the border with Brazil and is likely to occur in northeastern Bolivia (Moran 1987a). It differs from P. caudata in having shiny reddish to castaneous, membranaceous, spreading, denticulate, and usually basally cordate rhizome scales 6–16 mm long.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Lextreme: A multi-lingual and multi-task benchmark for the legal domain
Creators: name: Matoshi, Veton
name: Rani, Pooja
name: Galassi, Andrea
name: Stürmer, Matthias
name: Chalkidis, Ilias
Publisher: name: Cornell University
Year: 2023

description: Lately, propelled by the phenomenal advances around the transformer architecture, the legal NLP field has enjoyed spectacular growth. To measure progress, well curated and challenging benchmarks are crucial. However, most benchmarks are English only and in legal NLP specifically there is no multilingual benchmark available yet. Additionally, many benchmarks are saturated, with the best models clearly outperforming the best humans and achieving near perfect scores. We survey the legal NLP literature and select 11 datasets covering 24 languages, creating LEXTREME. To provide a fair comparison, we propose two aggregate scores, one based on the datasets and one on the languages. The best baseline (XLM-R large) achieves both a dataset aggregate score a language aggregate score of 61.3. This indicates that LEXTREME is still very challenging and leaves ample room for improvement. To make it easy for researchers and practitioners to use, we release LEXTREME on huggingface together with all the code required to evaluate models and a public Weights and Biases project with all the runs.
Bad civil society and the state: a complicated relationship
Creators: name: Susedkova, Veronika
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: civil society
hate speech
national state
racism
radicalism
terrorism

description: Second semester University: University College Dublin
description: Civil society and the state form an inseparable couple – mutually reinforcing, controlling and cooperating with each other. This thesis will concentrate on the relationship of the state with a particular part of civil society – bad civil society. Bad civil society can occur in many forms and its activities are based, inter alia, on intolerance and hate. Whether, how and to what extent the state can tackle activities of bad civil society are going to be main questions this thesis will attempt to answer. Both an analysis of contemporary empirical examples and suggestions based on the research will be presented in this paper.
The European Union as a ‘human rights organisation’
Creators: name: Satrovaite, Ruta
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: human rights
European Union

description: Second semester University: Utrecht University
description: After the entry into force of Lisbon Treaty (2009), the European Union set a high standard of respect for fundamental rights within the EU. However national authorities of EU Member States acting outside the scope of EU law were left almost free to decided on their own fundamental rights standards. The example of Hungary showed that democracy that is inseparable from the respect for fundamental rights can’t not be taken for guaranteed. Even in 21st century the EU Member State can attempt to turn to authoritarianism by restricting fundamental rights through the legislative changes. Therefore the objective of this thesis is to examine what kind of measure are available at EU level that could prevent internal fundamental rights violations from occurring at the same time safeguarding democracy in its Member States. Taking Hungary as the test case study, the thesis will examine how effective are currently available EU tools. After presuming that they have just a very narrow practical impact on internal fundamental rights violations, the thesis will propose new far-reaching EU mechanism, which could be developed from the EU Treaties and exercised by the Court of Justice of European Union. This proposal will be based on the recent case law of the Court, that shows the Court’s attempt to wider fundamental rights policy
Polybotrya fractiserialis J. Sm., Hist. Fil.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya fractiserialis

description: Polybotrya fractiserialis (Baker) J.Sm., Hist. Fil.: 133. 1875.
 Range: —Guianas; eastern Andes from Ecuador to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, SC).
 Ecology: —Common; terrestrial in humid forests, often along rocky streamsides, sometimes in sunny places; (200–)400–800(–1500) m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
A Measurement of the Black-Hole Mass in NGC 1097 using ALMA
Creators: name: Onishi, Kyoko
name: Iguchi, Satoru
name: Sheth, Kartik
name: Kohno, Kotaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an estimate of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby type-1 Seyfert galaxy \object{NGC 1097} using Atacamma Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of dense gas kinematics. Dense molecular gas dynamics are traced with ${\rm HCN} (J=1-0)$ and ${\rm HCO^{+}} (J=1-0)$ emission lines. Assuming a host galaxy inclination of $46^{\circ}$, we derive a SMBH mass, $M_{\rm BH}=1.40^{+0.27}_{-0.32} \times 10^{8}M_{\odot}$, and an I-band mass to light ratio to be $5.14^{+0.03}_{-0.04}$, using ${\rm HCN} (J=1-0)$. The estimated parameters are consistent between the two emission lines. The measured SMBH mass is in good agreement with the SMBH mass and bulge velocity dispersion relationship. Our result showcases ALMA's potential for deriving accurate SMBH masses, especially for nearby late-type galaxies. Larger samples and accurate SMBH masses will further elucidate the relationship between the black hole (BH) and host galaxy properties and constrain the coevolutionary growth of galaxies and BHs.
Lifting the cloak of invisibility: looking at homelessness through the human rights lense : a study on human rights as an instrument to end homelessness
Creators: name: Fiorelli, Jessica
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: homelessness
Poland
case studies
right to housing

description: Second semester University: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
description: Defining and measuring homelessness is one of the most difficult tasks in the European Union: numbers are twisted, the extreme poverty which permeates through society is underestimated - its victims blamed and made invisible. Social and economic structures fail some of our most vulnerable people in society, while gross distorted images and stigmas surrounding homelessness severely impact progress in this realm, leaving them hopeless. The definition of homelessness includes groups of people who live in inadequate housing, in institutions, on the streets, as well as the 'hidden homeless'. Human life is not only about survival, but to lead a dignified existence and without adequate housing this is not possible. Alternative approaches are necessary as homelessness in Europe is on the rise. The focus of this thesis is how to apply human rights law and human rights principles to create one or more viable solutions to end homelessness. Hope wastes away in prison-like shelters for the homeless, as other solutions are ignored and the traditional system persists; Poland's city of Poznan will be used as a case study.
Integrating Structural Mapping and Modelling Techniques: a first step towards Machine-Assisted Fold Geometry Analysis
Creators: name: CHAARANI, RABII
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370511
subject: Structural geology and tectonics
classificationCode: 379901
subject: Earth system sciences

description: Folded rock strata are common on the Earth's crust. Understanding their geometry below the surface is critical for academic research, resource exploration, and extraction. However, characterising their geometry below the surface is challenging, time-consuming, and always involves uncertainty. This study introduces approaches based on structural modelling techniques and field mapping that allow geologists to efficiently characterise the geometry of folded rock strata while increasing confidence in their understanding of the studied fold geometry. This study is the first step towards building a geological system that assists geologists in their interpretation tasks.
Spectral and Temporal Properties of MAXI J1836-194 during 2011 Outburst
Creators: name: Jana, A.
name: Debnath, D.
name: Mondal, S.
name: Chakrabarti, S. K.
name: Molla, A. A.
name: Chatterjee, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study black hole candidate (BHC) MAXI~J1836-194 during its 2011 outburst with Two Component Advective Flow (TCAF) model using RXTE/PCU2 data in $2.5-25$~keV band. From spectral fit, accretion flow parameters such as Keplerian disk rate ($\dot{m_d}$), sub-Keplerian halo rate ($\dot{m_h}$), shock location ($X_{s}$) and compression ratio (R) are extracted directly. During the entire phase of the outburst, quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed sporadically. From the nature of the variation of accretion rate ratio (ARR=$\dot{m_h}$ / $\dot{m_d}$) and QPOs, entire period of the outburst is classified in two spectral states, such as, hard (HS), hard-intermediate (HIMS). Unlike other transient BHCs, no signature of soft (SS) and soft-intermediate (SIMS) spectral states are observed during entire phase of the outburst
description: 2 pages, 1 Figure (ASI Conf. Ser. for RETCO II Conference Proceeding, Edited by I. Chattopadhyay, A. Nandi, S. Das, and S. Mandal)
The Impact of Infant Sleep Location and Mother Bed-Sharing Intent at 3 Months on Infant Responses to the Still-Face Paradigm at 6 Months
Creators: name: Lerner, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Little research has examined the relationship between infant sleep location and mother-child
relationship quality. Further, no studies have considered the contribution of mother bed-sharing
intent on this relationship. The current study examines the links between infant sleep location
and mother bed-sharing intent at 3 months and mother-child relationship quality at 6 months, as
indexed by infant responses to the Still-Face Paradigm (SFP). This study also investigates
mother-infant contact and maternal response time during the night as possible mechanisms
linking sleep location to relationship quality. Data from the Neonatal and Pediatric Sleep Study
(NAPS) were used in this project. Infant sleep location and mother bed-sharing intent as well as
mother-infant contact and maternal response time were determined through observational
methods. Mother-child relationship quality was measured by responses to the SFP, which
included positive affective expression, negative affective expression, negative vocalizations,
gaze towards mother, and self-regulatory behaviors. Results indicated that bed-sharing infants
displayed more self-regulatory behaviors during the still-face episode of the SFP, while solitary
sleeping infants displayed more negative affective expressions and negative vocalizations during
the reunion episode of the SFP. Similarly, proactively bed-sharing infants displayed more gazes
towards mother during the still-face episode of the SFP. Results suggest that infant SFP
responses may vary based on early nighttime experiences, with bed-sharing, particularly
proactive bed-sharing, potentially promoting the mother-child relationship. Additionally, it
appears as though maternal response time may be one mechanism driving the relationship
between infant sleep location and mother-child relationship quality.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1667
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 118 fr. 16-18. Philodemus, De Epicuro
Drawing by Vincenzo Crispino
Non-linear Spectroscopy of Sr Atoms in an Optical Cavity for Laser Stabilization
Creators: name: Christensen, Bjarke T. R.
name: Henriksen, Martin R.
name: Schäffer, Stefan A.
name: Westergaard, Philip G.
name: Ye, Jun
name: Holland, Murray
name: Thomsen, Jan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-linear interaction of a cold sample of strontium-88 atoms coupled to a single mode of a low finesse optical cavity in the so-called bad cavity limit and investigate the implications for applications to laser stabilization. The atoms are probed on the weak inter-combination line $\lvert 5s^{2} \, ^1 \textrm{S}_0 \rangle \,-\, \lvert 5s5p \, ^3 \textrm{P}_1 \rangle$ at 689 nm in a strongly saturated regime. Our measured observables include the atomic induced phase shift and absorption of the light field transmitted through the cavity represented by the complex cavity transmission coefficient. We demonstrate high signal-to-noise-ratio measurements of both quadratures - the cavity transmitted phase and absorption - by employing FM spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS). We also show that when FM spectroscopy is employed in connection with a cavity locked to the probe light, observables are substantially modified compared to the free space situation where no cavity is present. Furthermore, the non-linear dynamics of the phase dispersion slope is experimentally investigated and the optimal conditions for laser stabilization are established. Our experimental results are compared to state-of-the-art cavity QED theoretical calculations.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1668
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 118 fr. 19-21. Philodemus, De Epicuro
Drawing by Vincenzo Crispino
The Nurses Knowledge of Oropharyngeal Administration of Mother’s Breast Milk in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants to prevent NEC Study
Creators: name: Campbell, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Aim: To investigate the knowledge base of full time newborn critical care nurses related to oropharyngeal
administration of mother’s breast milk to reduce the risk and prevalence of NEC in
ELBW infants.
Background: While the use of mother’s breast milk is widely supported and accepted practice,
the oropharyngeal administration of mother’s breast milk is a new occurrence in neonatal care. A
review of the literature suggest that, while it demonstrates benefits for the infants, some neonatal
nurses do not exhibit an awareness of the current research on oropharyngeal administration of
mother’s breast milk to reduce the risk and prevalence of NEC in ELBW infant. As they have the
most parent-infant contact and influence over whether oropharyngeal administration of mother’s
breast milk is carried out, assessment of their knowledge base is important.
Method: A quantitative, descriptive design with neonatal nurses (n= 37) was used.
Findings: Multiple areas were identified in which neonatal nurse education could be improved
through a short in-service or handout. The three main topics of education are the indications of
oropharyngeal administration, how colostrum affects the microbial colonization of the oral cavity
of a very low birth weight infant, and that an epidemiologic risk factor for NEC is that there is a
history of enteral feeding. Creating some educational material for the health care workers involved
in the care of these neonates could be beneficial in promoting the implementation by
breaking down the barrier of lack of knowledge by the providers and nurses.
The right to health and pharmaceutical companies in developing countries: access to medicines
Creators: name: Andrioti, Athina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: right to health
developing countries
pharmaceutical industry
intellectual property
corporate responsibility
human rights
international obligations
business

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham
description: After extensive debates regarding the status of the right to health as belonging to the category of Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ESCR), today the right to health is considered as a fundamental human right for everyone and should be protected as such. However, at present people living in developing countries are often deprived of their right to health. Among various factors which contribute to this reality this thesis will focus on the conflict between the Intellectual Property (IP) regime as it is currently evolving (TRIPS Agreement, TRIPS-Plus and ISDS provisions) and access to medicines as well as the role of patent-holder pharmaceutical companies within this conflict. Although States’ human rights obligations for the realization of the right to health are widely established and the adverse impact of strong IP protection for pharmaceutical products on access to medicines is extensively discussed, this thesis will examine how the corporate-friendly nature of the IP regime combined with the absence of right-to-health responsibilities of the pharmaceutical industry within international law exacerbate the problem of lack of access to medicines in developing countries. A discussion on a theoretical level regarding the conflict between patentability of and access to medicines as well as an elaboration on specific cases will indicate how powerful pharmaceutical companies influence the evolution of the IP regime and are provided with even more power to interfere (directly and indirectly) with the right to health in the name of their purely corporate interests. Based on this analysis, the necessity for right-to-health responsibilities of the pharmaceutical industry will become apparent. Thus, the last part of the thesis places the discussion within the context of the evolving Business and Human Rights (BHR) discourse and attempts to determine the nature and the content of the right-to-health responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies that could contribute to a balance between IP rights and access to medicines in developing countries and to a more right-to-health compliant conduct on the part of the patent-holder pharmaceutical companies.
Prompt photon production in double-Pomeron-exchange events at the LHC
Creators: name: Kohara, A. K.
name: Marquet, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the resolved Pomeron model of hard diffractive scattering, we compute prompt photon production in double-Pomeron-exchange events in proton-proton collisions. Using specific kinematical constraints chosen according to the acceptances of the forward proton detectors of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, we provide estimates for inclusive and isolated photon production. This is done using the JetPhox program. We find that next-to-leading order corrections to the hard process are important and must be included in order to correctly constrain the quark and gluon content of the Pomeron from such processes at the LHC.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, to appear in PLB