cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancing TreeMMoSys with a high-precision strain gauge to measure the wind-induced response of trees down to the ground
Creators: name: Kolbe, Sven
name: Schindler, Dirk
name: Nickl, Julius
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Engineering
subject: environmental monitoring
subject: natural hazard
subject: storm damage
subject: Wind-tree interaction

description: Measuring tree response to wind loads is fundamental for the process-based analysis of wind-tree interactions. Comprehensive knowledge of wind-tree interactions enables the further development of decision support tools available for estimating the probability of wind damage to trees. The assessment of critical wind loads that lead to damage is particularly important. This paper describes the inexpensive Tree Strain Sensor (TSS) suitable for precisely measuring the response of tree parts to external loads such as pulling tests and natural wind loading. It is an addition to the recently developed Tree Motion Monitoring System (TreeMMoSys), allowing measurements necessary to estimate effective wind loads on trees.
Declaration of Intention of Helen Gloninger
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1925

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Helen Gloninger Applicant age:24Occupation: HousewifeCountry of Origin: AustriaDate of Birth: 4th October 1901Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Albert Ballin City of residence at time of declaration: Absecon NJ Declaration submitted and sworn on date: 18th December 1925
Declaration of Intention of Erick Chelim
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1926

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Erick Chelim Applicant age: 30Occupation: cookCountry of Origin: GermanyDate of Birth: 6 September 1895Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Guiseppe Verdi City of residence at time of declaration: Absecon, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:24 March 1926
Role of Z-pinches in magnetic reconnection in space plasmas
Creators: name: Olshevsky, Vyacheslav
name: Lapenta, Giovanni
name: Markidis, Stefano
name: Divin, Andrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A widely accepted scenario of magnetic reconnection in collisionless space plasmas is the breakage of magnetic field lines in X-points. In laboratory, reconnection is commonly studied in pinches, current channels embedded into twisted magnetic fields. No model of magnetic reconnection in space plasmas considers both null-points and pinches as peers. We have performed a particle-in-cell simulation of magnetic reconnection in a three-dimensional configuration where null-points are present initially, and Z-pinches are formed during the simulation along the lines of spiral null-points. The non-spiral null-points are more stable than spiral ones, and no substantial energy dissipation is associated with them. On the contrary, turbulent magnetic reconnection in the pinches causes the magnetic energy to decay at a rate of ~1.5% per ion gyro period. Dissipation in similar structures is a likely scenario in space plasmas with large fraction of spiral null-points.
General Techniques for Efficient Concurrent Data Structures
Creators: name: Wei, Yuanhao
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Concurrent Programming

description: Scalable concurrent data structures are essential for unlocking the potential of modern multicore machines. This thesis presents techniques for enhancing existing concurrent data structures with several useful properties: lock-freedom, the ability to take consistent snapshots, and safe memory management. The goal is to make these techniques widely applicable, easy-to-use, theoretically efficient (i.e. fast in worst-case executions), and also fast in practice. For lock-freedom, we present a new approach to lock-free locks based on helping, which allows the user to write code using the familiar interface of locks, but run it in a lock-free manner. This thesis presents some key techniques that make lock-free locks practical and more general. We show that our lock-free locks can significantly outperform traditional blocking locks in certain workloads. We also present an approach for efficiently capturing a consistent view of a concurrent data structure at a single point in time. This is useful for computing linearizable multi-point queries such as searching for a range of keys, finding the first key that matches some criteria, or checking if a collection of keys are all present. Importantly, our approach preserves the time bound and parallelism of the original data structure. It can be applied to both lock-based and lock-free data structures and is compatible with the lock-free locks approach introduced in the first part of the thesis. Finally, we present a safe automatic memory reclamation approach for concurrent programs, and show that it is both theoretically and practically efficient. Our approach combines ideas from reference counting and hazard pointers in a novel way to implement concurrent reference counting with wait-free, constant-time overhead. It overcomes the limitations of previous approaches by significantly reducing modifications to, and hence contention on, the reference counts. We further generalize this approach to allow a variety of safe memory reclamation (SMR) schemes to be used as a substitute for hazard pointers. This augments the SMR schemes with ease-of-use while maintaining their performance profiles in terms of time and space.
Association between contraceptive implant knowledge and intent with implant uptake among postpartum Malawian women: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Stuart, Gretchen S
name: Tang, Jennifer H
name: Miller, William
name: Rosenberg, Nora E
name: Hosseinipour, Mina
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) can assist women with birth spacing and reduce unintended pregnancies. Sub-Saharan Africa has low uptake of the two available methods of LARC, the subdermal implant and intrauterine contraception (IUC). Our primary objectives were to: 1) calculate the incidence of LARC use among postpartum Malawian women, and 2) assess if LARC knowledge and intent to use LARC were associated with LARC uptake. Methods This study was a prospective cohort study of 634 postpartum women who were recruited from the postpartum ward of Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. Study participants completed a baseline survey in the postpartum ward. Follow-up telephone surveys about contraceptive use were conducted at 3, 6, and 12 months postpartum. Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was performed to evaluate if implant knowledge and intent to use implant were associated with implant uptake. Results One hundred thirty-seven implant and 10 IUC placements were reported over 12 months of follow-up; given the low rate of IUC uptake, further analysis was only done for implant uptake. The incidence rate for implant uptake was 35.6 per 100 person-years (95 % CI 30.0, 42.2). Correct implant knowledge (adjusted HR = 1.69; 95 % CI 1.06, 2.68) and intent to use implant (adjusted HR 1.95; 95 % CI 1.28, 2.98) were both associated with implant uptake. Conclusions More women reported implant use than IUC use in our study. Correct implant knowledge and intent to use implant were both associated with implant uptake, with a stronger association for intent. Interventions to increase LARC uptake should focus on improving LARC knowledge and removing barriers to LARC. Trial registration Clinical Trial Registration #: NCT01893021
Declaration of Intention of Frederick Flegel
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1920

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Frederick Flegel (Frederick Flogel ) Applicant age: 49Occupation: MerchantCountry of Origin:AustriaDate of Birth: 10 November 1870Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: RheinCity of residence at time of declaration: LinwoodDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:25 June 1920
title: Review of Pauli, J. (2019) The Decline of Marriage in Namibia. Kinship and Social Class in a rural Community. Bielefeld: transcript
Creators: name: Kroeker, Lena
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Kinship
subject: Marriage
subject: Namibia
subject: Middle Class
subject: Book Review
subject: 300
subject: 360
subject: 960

description: Julia Pauli’s book merges two current debates, namely the debate on the emerging, African middle class and the debate on the global decline of marriage. Julia Pauli studies the downward statistical trend of marriages through the lens of social differentiation and the New Kinship debate, arguing that the Decline of Marriage manifests itself differently within the various, clearly defined social strata of Namibia.
Spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages: a case study on Pomak
Creators: name: Tsoukala, Chara
name: Kritsis, Kosmas
name: Douros, Ioannis
name: Katsamanis, Athanasios
name: Arampatzakis, Vasileios
name: Markantonatou, Stella
name: Pavlidis, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) generation systems have gained popularity in the past decade. However, training robust models requires several hundred hours of recorded speech, while most languages do not have enough such resources. Within project PHILOTIS, a pipeline for the Pomak language has been developed. Pomak is an endangered Slavic language spoken in the Balkans, including Greece. Eight hours of Pomak read speech were used to train an ASR and TTS system, and to extract speech-text word alignments. To obtain the ASR system, a pretrained wav2vec2 model was employed, which boasts more than 400k hours in 23 languages, and was fine-tuned on Slavic languages. The Voice Activity Detection (VAD) implementation of PyAnnote was utilized to segment the audio files, and the output was manually corrected. The model was fine-tuned on those segments, resulting in a 1.57 WER. The speech-text alignments were obtained using two alternative paths: i) via the fine-tuned Pomak model, and ii) via SailAlign, a toolkit for speech-text alignment of long audio files. To obtain the alignments, the toolkit was provided with a Pomak grapheme to English phoneme approximation, which allowed to utilize a pre-trained English acoustic model, without training a Pomak ASR. This resulted in equally good alignments, which can be used to segment new recordings. Finally, a two-stage TTS system was trained with the segmented audio samples, by employing the Coqui TTS framework. Specifically, a GlowTTS model was trained for generating mel-spectrograms from text, in addition to a HiFiGAN vocoder for transforming the mel-spectrogram to audio waveform. Preliminary results present promising speech quality based on internal evaluation.
The implementation of a translational study involving a primary care based behavioral program to improve blood pressure control: The HTN-IMPROVE study protocol (01295)
Creators: name: Lee, Shoou-Yih Daniel
name: Weiner, Bryan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2010

description: Abstract Background Despite the impact of hypertension and widely accepted target values for blood pressure (BP), interventions to improve BP control have had limited success. Objectives We describe the design of a 'translational' study that examines the implementation, impact, sustainability, and cost of an evidence-based nurse-delivered tailored behavioral self-management intervention to improve BP control as it moves from a research context to healthcare delivery. The study addresses four specific aims: assess the implementation of an evidence-based behavioral self-management intervention to improve BP levels; evaluate the clinical impact of the intervention as it is implemented; assess organizational factors associated with the sustainability of the intervention; and assess the cost of implementing and sustaining the intervention. Methods The project involves three geographically diverse VA intervention facilities and nine control sites. We first conduct an evaluation of barriers and facilitators for implementing the intervention at intervention sites. We examine the impact of the intervention by comparing 12-month pre/post changes in BP control between patients in intervention sites versus patients in the matched control sites. Next, we examine the sustainability of the intervention and organizational factors facilitating or hindering the sustained implementation. Finally, we examine the costs of intervention implementation. Key outcomes are acceptability and costs of the program, as well as changes in BP. Outcomes will be assessed using mixed methods (e.g., qualitative analyses--pattern matching; quantitative methods--linear mixed models). Discussion The study results will provide information about the challenges and costs to implement and sustain the intervention, and what clinical impact can be expected.
Preheating and Entropy Perturbations in Axion Monodromy Inflation
Creators: name: McDonough, Evan
name: Moghaddam, Hossein Bazrafshan
name: Brandenberger, Robert H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the preheating of gauge fields in a simple axion monodromy model and compute the induced entropy perturbations and their effect on the curvature fluctuations. We find that the correction to the spectrum of curvature perturbations has a blue spectrum with index $n_s = 5/2$. Hence, these induced modes are harmless for the observed structure of the universe. Since the spectrum is blue, there is the danger of overproduction of primordial black holes. However, we show that the observational constraints are easily satisfied.
description: 14 pages, published version
Disks and Jets - Gravity, Rotation and Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Hawley, John F.
name: Fendt, Christian
name: Hardcastle, Martin
name: Nokhrina, Elena
name: Tchekhovskoy, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields are fundamental to the dynamics of both accretion disks and the jets that they often drive. We review the basic physics of these phenomena, the past and current efforts to model them numerically with an emphasis on the jet-disk connection, and the observational constraints on the role of magnetic fields in the jets of active galaxies on all scales.
description: Invited review for Space Science Reviews, 34 pages
Randomized controlled trials: who fails run-in?
Creators: name: Baron, John
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background Early identification of participants at risk of run-in failure (RIF) may present opportunities to improve trial efficiency and generalizability. Methods We conducted a partial factorial-design, randomized, controlled trial of calcium and vitamin D to prevent colorectal adenoma recurrence at 11 centers in the United States. At baseline, participants completed two self-administered questionnaires (SAQs) and a questionnaire administered by staff. Participants in the full factorial randomization (calcium, vitamin D, both, or neither) received a placebo during a 3-month single-blinded run-in; women electing to take calcium enrolled in a two-group randomization (calcium with vitamin D, or calcium alone) and received calcium during the run-in. Using logistic regression models, we examined baseline factors associated with RIF in three subgroups: men (N = 1606) and women (N = 301) in the full factorial randomization and women in the two-group randomization (N = 666). Results Overall, 314/2573 (12 %) participants failed run-in; 211 (67 %) took fewer than 80 % of their tablets (poor adherence), and 103 (33 %) withdrew or were uncooperative. In multivariable models, 8- to 13-fold variation was seen by study center in odds of RIF risk in the two largest groups. In men, RIF decreased with age (adjusted odds ratio [OR] per 5 years 0.85 [95 % confidence interval, CI; 0.76–0.96]) and was associated with being single (OR 1.65 [95 % CI; 1.10–2.47]), not graduating from high school (OR 2.77 [95 % CI; 1.58–4.85]), and missing SAQ data (OR 1.97 [1.40–2.76]). Among women, RIF was associated primarily with health-related factors; RIF risk was lower with higher physical health score (OR 0.73 [95 % CI; 0.62–0.86]) and baseline multivitamin use (OR 0.44 [95 % CI; 0.26–0.75]). Women in the 5-year colonoscopy surveillance interval were at greater risk of RIF than those with 3-year follow-up (OR 1.91 [95 % CI; 1.08–3.37]), and the number of prescription medicines taken was also positively correlated with RIF (p = 0.03). Perceived toxicities during run-in were associated with 12- to 29-fold significantly increased odds of RIF. Conclusions There were few common baseline predictors of run-in failure in the three randomization groups. However, heterogeneity in run-in failure associated with study center, and missing SAQ data reflect potential opportunities for intervention to improve trial efficiency and retention. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00153816 . Registered September 2005.
title: Role of imidazolium cations on the interfacial structure of room-temperature ionic liquids in contact with Pt(111) electrodes
Creators: name: Ratschmeier, Björn
name: Braunschweig, Björn
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570 Biology

description: Room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs) have gained considerable attention as an important addition to conventional electrolytes because they exhibit large electrochemical windows and can reduce existing overpotentials in electrocatalysis. For the interfacial electrochemistry of ILs, a comprehensive understanding of molecular ions and the resulting electric double-layer structures as a function of electrode potential is mandatory, but the structures are largely different from conventional electrolytes. For that reason, we have studied the interfaces of Pt(111) in contact with ILs using 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium [BMIM] and 1-butyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium [BMMIM] cations as well as bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide [NTf2] anions. We applied vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG), where we interrogate vibrational bands from interfacial cations, anions, as well as interfacial water in situ and under potential control. Structuring of [NTf2] anions and H2O with electrode potential show hysteresis while a strong Stark tuning was absent. This indicates that the IL ions are oriented in the vicinity of the interface, without being directly adsorbed to the Pt(111) surface. Using the C-H stretching band from CH groups at the imidazolium ring, the ring reorientation with electrode potential was qualitatively determined. The imidazolium ring reorients as a function of potential from a more parallel orientation to an upright orientation with respect to the interfacial plane. This leads to the formation of voids in the layered structure of ions at the interface, which can be then filled with H2O as evidenced by an increased SFG intensity from O-H stretching modes that are attributable to hydrogen-bonded interfacial water. Comparing the responses of the ILs, particularly of [BMMIM][NTf2], shows a compact structure and a significantly pronounced rearrangement of the imidazolium ring that can also facilitates better incorporation of H2O and significantly affects the reorientation of [NTf2] anions and, thus, causes a pronounced hysteresis with electrode potential.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley 2019-2022.
Modelling drug use: methods to quantify and understand hidden processes
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Europäische Union , Drogenmissbrauch , Modellierung
subject: 360
subject: 610

description: Dynamic modelling is a quantitative technique used by scientists when data are scarce to generate estimates, test hypotheses and forecast trends. This publication explores the potential role of dynamic modelling in helping to interpret data on drug use and its consequences in the European Union. The monograph contains over a dozen expert reviews on modelling techniques and their use in estimating drug use and related health consequences. The publication presents dynamic modelling as a valuable analytical tool, not only in improving insight into drug use, but also in contributing to the development of evidence-based drug policies and interventions.
A cannabis reader: global issues and local experiences
Perspectives on cannabis controversies, treatment and regulation in Europe
Volume 2
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Europäische Union , Drogenmissbrauch , Hanf
subject: 360
subject: 610

description: The EMCDDA’s cannabis monograph addresses one basic question. How can I find quality information on cannabis, amid all the bias and opinion? The monograph is divided into two volumes. The first volume centres on political, legislative, commercial and social developments relating to cannabis. Its core audience thus comprises policymakers, sociologists, historians, journalists and those involved in enforcement. The second volume is targeted at drugs professionals working in the fields of treatment, prevention and healthcare.
Microglial depletion alters the brain neuroimmune response to acute binge ethanol withdrawal
Creators: name: Walter, T. J
name: Crews, Fulton
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Recent studies have implicated microglia—the resident immune cells of the brain—in the pathophysiology of alcoholism. Indeed, post-mortem alcoholic brains show increased microglial markers and increased immune gene expression; however, the effects of ethanol on microglial functioning and how this impacts the brain remain unclear. In this present study, we investigate the effects of acute binge ethanol on microglia and how microglial depletion changes the brain neuroimmune response to acute binge ethanol withdrawal. Methods C57BL/6J mice were treated intragastrically with acute binge ethanol for time course and dose-response studies. Cultured mouse BV2 microglia-like cells were treated with ethanol in vitro for time course studies. Mice were also administered the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) inhibitor PLX5622 to deplete microglia from the brain. These mice were subsequently treated with acute binge ethanol and sacrificed during withdrawal. Brain and BV2 mRNA were isolated and assessed using RT-PCR to examine expression of microglial and neuroimmune genes. Results Acute binge ethanol biphasically changed microglial (e.g., Iba1, CD68) gene expression, with initial decreases during intoxication and subsequent increases during withdrawal. Acute ethanol withdrawal dose dependently increased neuroimmune gene (e.g., TNFα, Ccl2, IL-1ra, IL-4) expression beginning at high doses. BV2 cells showed biphasic changes in pro-inflammatory (e.g., TNFα, Ccl2) gene expression following ethanol treatment in vitro. Administration of PLX5622 depleted microglia from the brains of mice. Although some neuroimmune genes were reduced by microglial depletion, many others were unchanged. Microglial depletion blunted pro-inflammatory (e.g., TNFα, Ccl2) gene expression and enhanced anti-inflammatory (e.g., IL-1ra, IL-4) gene expression during acute binge ethanol withdrawal. Conclusions These studies find acute binge ethanol withdrawal increases microglial and neuroimmune gene expression. Ethanol exposure also increases microglial pro-inflammatory gene expression in vitro. Furthermore, microglial depletion decreases expression of microglia-specific genes but has little effect on expression of many other neuroimmune signaling genes. Microglial depletion blunted the acute binge ethanol withdrawal induction of pro-inflammatory genes and enhanced induction of anti-inflammatory genes. These findings indicate microglia impact the brain response to acute binge ethanol withdrawal.
Midwives and registered nurses' role and scope of practice in acute early pregnancy care: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Freeman, Nicole
name: Warland, Jane
name: Bradfield, Zoe
name: Cheney, Kate
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Nursing Midwifery
subject: Midwifery

description: Women experiencing complications before 20 weeks of pregnancy may need to attend an acute care service, often a hospital emergency department. Registered nurses are often the care provider for women in these settings, with the role and scope of practice of midwives in acute early pregnancy care less defined. This review will explore the literature relating to acute early pregnancy care, to better understand how midwives and registered nurses’ role and scope are currently described in this setting.
Dynamics of a planar thin shell at a Taub-FRW junction
Creators: name: Acuña, Jan Tristram
name: Esguerra, Jose Perico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of stitching together the vacuum, static, planar-symmetric Taub spacetime and the flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology using the Israel thin-shell formalism. The joining of Taub and FRW spacetimes is reminiscent of the Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse used in modeling the formation of a singularity from a collapsing spherical ball of dust. A possible mechanism for the formation of a planar singularity is provided. It is hoped that tackling such example will improve our intuition on planar-symmetric systems in Einstein's general relativity.
description: This is the manuscript version submitted on July 29, 2015 to IJMPD. A revised version of this manuscript has been accepted by IJMPD
Designing a web-application to support home-based care of childhood CKD stages 3-5: Qualitative study of family and professional preferences
Creators: name: Hall, Andrew G
name: Swallow, Veronica M
name: Hanif, Noreen
name: Santacroce, Sheila
name: Carolan, Ian
name: Webb, Nicholas JA
name: Smith, Trish
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background There is a lack of online, evidence-based information and resources to support home-based care of childhood CKD stages 3-5. Methods Qualitative interviews were undertaken with parents, patients and professionals to explore their views on content of the proposed online parent information and support (OPIS) web-application. Data were analysed using Framework Analysis, guided by the concept of Self-efficacy. Results 32 parents, 26 patients and 12 professionals were interviewed. All groups wanted an application that explains, demonstrates, and enables parental clinical care-giving, with condition-specific, continously available, reliable, accessible material and a closed communication system to enable contact between families living with CKD. Professionals advocated a regularly updated application to empower parents to make informed health-care decisions. To address these requirements, key web-application components were defined as: (i) Clinical care-giving support (information on treatment regimens, video-learning tools, condition-specific cartoons/puzzles, and a question and answer area) and (ii) Psychosocial support for care-giving (social-networking, case studies, managing stress, and enhancing families’ health-care experiences). Conclusions Developing a web-application that meets parents’ information and support needs will maximise its utility, thereby augmenting parents’ self-efficacy for CKD caregiving, and optimising outcomes. Self-efficacy theory provides a schema for how parents’ self-efficacy beliefs about management of their child’s CKD could potentially be promoted by OPIS.
Almost Souslin Kurepa trees
Creators: name: Golshani, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the existence of an almost Souslin Kurepa tree is consistent with $ZFC$. We also prove their existence in $L$. These results answer two questions from Zakrzewski.
One-dimensional hydrodynamic model generating a turbulent cascade
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Takeshi
name: Sakajo, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a minimal mathematical model generating cascade analogous to that of the Navier-Stokes turbulence in the inertial range, we propose a one-dimensional partial-differential-equation model that conserves the integral of the squared vorticity analogue (enstrophy) in the inviscid case. With a large-scale forcing and small viscosity, we find numerically that the model exhibits the enstrophy cascade, the broad energy spectrum with a sizable correction to the dimensional-analysis prediction, peculiar intermittency and self-similarity in the dynamical system structure.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
High-overtone Bulk-Acoustic Resonator gravimetric sensitivity: towards wideband acoustic spectroscopy
Creators: name: Rabus, D.
name: Friedt, J. -M
name: Ballandras, S.
name: Baron, T.
name: Lebrasseur, E.
name: Carry, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of direct detection sensors with compact dimensions, we investigate the gravimetric sensitivity of High-overtone Bulk Acoustic Resonators, through modeling of their acoustic characteristics and experiment. The high frequency characterizing such devices is expected to induce a significant effect when the acoustic field boundary conditions are modified by a thin adlayer. Furthermore, the multimode spectral characteristics is considered for wideband acoustic spectroscopy of the adlayer, once the gravimetric sensitivity dependence of the various overtones is established. Finally, means of improving the gravimetric sensitivity by confining the acoustic field in a low acoustic-impedance layer is theoretically established.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures in J. Appl. Phys. 2015
Of Opaque Bodies and Transparent Eyeballs
Creators: name: Boss, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Demokratie
subject: Thomas Paine
subject: Ralph Waldo Emerson
subject: Rhizom
subject: Panoptizismus
subject: Panopticon
subject: Transzendentalismus
subject: Antebellum
subject: Frühe Republik
subject: Deismus
subject: Romantik
subject: Französische Revolution
subject: Poststrukturalismus
subject: Michel Foucault
subject: democracy
subject: rhizome
subject: panopticism
subject: Transcendentalism
subject: Early Republic
subject: Deism
subject: Romanticism
subject: French Revolution
subject: post-structuralism
subject: 810 Amerikanische Literatur in Englisch
subject: HT 5055
subject: HS 4765

description: Die vorliegende Dissertation stellt eine Interpretation von Thomas Paines THE AGE OF REASON (1794) und Ralph Waldo Emersons NATURE (1836) als politiktheoretische Traktate vor, die normative Demokratiekonstrukte entwickeln. Diese Demokratiekonstrukte werden anhand ihrer Parameter vergleichend und historisierend gelesen. Die Annahme ist hierbei, dass sich die normativen Demokratieentwürfe beider Autoren mithilfe der Denkfigur des rhizomatischen Panoptizismus explizieren lassen. Die Dissertation leitet diese Denkfigur anhand von Texten des französischen Poststrukturalismus und auf Grundlage des soziologischen Ansatzes der Surveillance Studies her und erläutert seine Relevanz für das Verständnis und die Verhandlung von Demokratie in den Epochen der frühen Republik und des Antebellum in den USA. Ebenso findet eine Analyse der diskursiven Vermittlung dieser Denkfigur durch das religiöse Vokabular von Deismus, Unitarismus und Transzendentalismus in beiden Traktaten statt. Ein ausführliches close reading legt schließlich dar, wie einzelne Parameter eines rhizomatischen Panoptizismus in den Texten entwickelt, repräsentiert und diskutiert werden.
description: The present dissertation introduces an interpretation of Thomas Paine’s THE AGE OF REASON (1794) and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s NATURE (1836) as politico-theoretical tracts that develop normative constructions of democracy. At the core of the analysis lies a comparative and historicist reading of the parameters of these constructions. The thesis informing the analysis posits that both normative constructions of democracy can be made explicit with the aid of the concept of a rhizomatic panopticism. The dissertation develops this concept on the basis of French poststructuralist texts and with theoretical approaches from the sociological field of Surveillance Studies in mind, explaining its relevance for the understanding of democracy during the Early-Republic and Antebellum periods in the USA. Furthermore, the discursive mediation of the introduced concept through the religious vocabularies of Deism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism in both tracts receives attention. Finally, a close reading elucidates how the distinct parameters of a rhizomatic panopticism are developed, represented, and discussed in both texts.
Discovery of novel variants in genotyping arrays improves genotype retention and reduces ascertainment bias
Creators: name: McMillan, Leonard
name: Didion, John P
name: Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Fernando
name: Fu, Chen-Ping
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract Background High-density genotyping arrays that measure hybridization of genomic DNA fragments to allele-specific oligonucleotide probes are widely used to genotype single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genetic studies, including human genome-wide association studies. Hybridization intensities are converted to genotype calls by clustering algorithms that assign each sample to a genotype class at each SNP. Data for SNP probes that do not conform to the expected pattern of clustering are often discarded, contributing to ascertainment bias and resulting in lost information - as much as 50% in a recent genome-wide association study in dogs. Results We identified atypical patterns of hybridization intensities that were highly reproducible and demonstrated that these patterns represent genetic variants that were not accounted for in the design of the array platform. We characterized variable intensity oligonucleotide (VINO) probes that display such patterns and are found in all hybridization-based genotyping platforms, including those developed for human, dog, cattle, and mouse. When recognized and properly interpreted, VINOs recovered a substantial fraction of discarded probes and counteracted SNP ascertainment bias. We developed software (MouseDivGeno) that identifies VINOs and improves the accuracy of genotype calling. MouseDivGeno produced highly concordant genotype calls when compared with other methods but it uniquely identified more than 786000 VINOs in 351 mouse samples. We used whole-genome sequence from 14 mouse strains to confirm the presence of novel variants explaining 28000 VINOs in those strains. We also identified VINOs in human HapMap 3 samples, many of which were specific to an African population. Incorporating VINOs in phylogenetic analyses substantially improved the accuracy of a Mus species tree and local haplotype assignment in laboratory mouse strains. Conclusion The problems of ascertainment bias and missing information due to genotyping errors are widely recognized as limiting factors in genetic studies. We have conducted the first formal analysis of the effect of novel variants on genotyping arrays, and we have shown that these variants account for a large portion of miscalled and uncalled genotypes. Genetic studies will benefit from substantial improvements in the accuracy of their results by incorporating VINOs in their analyses.
Cluster of MPSoCs, PyMACS as ReOS.
Creators: name: Anil Dr Bheemaiah K
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Reconfigurable OS
Mpsoc

description: Scalable cluster of PSoCs using the PyMACS browser OS with python for FPGAs layer for a ReOS or reconfigurable OS with the RISC V ISA. We define a formal lambda definition of VHDL in a configuration cache and a real time OS for parallel clustering with both coarse grain and fine grain parallelism defined in a lambda framework implemented in python
Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014
Creators: name: Richardson, David
name: Marshall, Stephen
name: Register-Mihalik, Johna
name: Waller, Anna
name: Harmon, Katherine J
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
                Background
                Sports and recreational activities are an important cause of injury among children and youth, with sports-related traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) being of particular concern given the developing brain. This paper reports the characteristics of sport and recreation-related (SR) emergency department (ED) visits among school-age children and youth in a statewide population.
                Methods
                This study included all injury-related visits made to all North Carolina 24/7 acute-care civilian hospital-affiliated EDs by school-age youth, 5–18 years of age, during 2010–2014 (N = 918,662). Population estimates were based on US decennial census data. Poisson regression methods were used to estimate incidence rates and rate ratios.
                Results
                During the five-year period, there were 767,075 unintentional injury-related ED visits among school-age youth, of which 213,518 (27.8%) were identified as SR injuries. The average annual absolute number and incidence rate (IR) of SR ED visits among school-age youth was 42,704 and 2374.5 ED visits per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval [CI], 2364.4–2384.6), respectively. In comparison to other unintentional injuries among school-age youth, SR ED visits were more likely to be diagnosed with an injury to the upper extremity (Injury Proportion Ratio [IPR] = 1.28; 95% CI, 1.27–1.29), the lower extremity (IPR = 1.14; 95% CI, 1.13–1.15), and a TBI or other head/neck/facial injury (IPR = 1.12; 95% CI, 1.11–1.13).
                Among ED visits made by school-age youth, the leading cause of SR injury was sports/athletics played as a group or team. The leading cause of team sports/athletics injury was American tackle football among boys and soccer among girls. The proportion of ED visits diagnosed with a TBI varied by age and sex, with 15–18 year-olds and boys having the highest population-based rates.
                Conclusions
                Sports and recreational activities are an important component of a healthy lifestyle, but they are also a major source of injury morbidity among school-age youth. Physical activity interventions should take into account sex and age differences in SR injury risk.
Declaration of Intention of Otto Paul
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Otto Paul Applicant age:43Occupation: BakerCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth:2 January 1874 Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: City of Rome City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:13 March 1917
Synthesis of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles in Microfluidic Reactors
Creators: name: Tsachouridis, Konstantinos
name: Anastasiou, Antonios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: nanoparticles synthesis, microfluidics, cerium oxide

description: The poster explores a novel way of upgrading the laboratory batch synthesis of cerium nanoparticles in quality and quantity, by transfering the procedure in a microfludic environment.
Validation of PIN 3 physical activity survey in low-income overweight and obese young mothers
Creators: name: Brown, Roger
name: Chang, Mei-Wei
name: Hales, Derek
name: Resnicow, Ken
name: Nitzke, Susan
name: Ward, Dianne
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background Existing physical activity surveys have not been validated for use with low-income overweight and obese young mothers. This study aimed to validate the Pregnancy Infection and Nutrition 3 (PIN3) physical activity survey and to explore whether its validity varied by race/ethnicity and body mass index (BMI) category when including or excluding child and adult care activities in the target population. Methods Participants were recruited from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and were asked to fill out the PIN3 survey and wear an Actigraph accelerometer. Validity was assessed (N = 42) using Spearman correlation coefficient. Results Regardless of inclusion or exclusion of child and adult care activity, the PIN3 survey showed evidence of validity for moderate (correlation coefficients 0.33 [p = 0.03]; 0.40 [p = 0.08]) but not vigorous (−0.01 [p = 0.91]; −0.06 [p = 0.69]) physical activity. The mean minutes per week spent in moderate, vigorous and moderate-vigorous physical activity measured by the PIN3 were substantially higher than when measured by accelerometer, for example, 588 (PIN3) versus 148 (accelerometer) minutes per week. Also, correlations between self-reported and objective monitored activity varied substantially by race/ethnicity and BMI category, for example, 0.29 (p = 0.18) for overweight women versus 0.57 (p = 0.007) for obese women; 0.27 (p = 0.20) for African American versus 0.66 (p = 0.001) for white. Conclusions The PIN3 survey may be adequate for many applications where quick and practical assessments are needed for moderate physical activity data in low-income overweight and obese young mothers. The substantial differences in mean minutes per week between the PIN3 and accelerometer may be due to over-reported physical activity by the study participants. Trial registration Clinical Trials Number: NCT01839708
Declaration of Intention of Herman Daebeler
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1926

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Herman Daebeler Applicant age:41Occupation: Poultry RaiserCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 9 May 1884Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Koenigan Auguste Victoria City of residence at time of declaration: Egg Harbor City, NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:3 March 1926
Declaration of Intention of Sebastian Bauer
Creators: name: United States. Bureau Of Naturalization
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1917

description: Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Sebastian Bauer Applicant age:39Occupation: WaiterCountry of Origin:GermanyDate of Birth: 25 August 1877Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Patracia City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City NJDeclaration submitted and sworn on date:22 March 1917
More on almost Souslin Kurepa trees
Creators: name: Golshani, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is consistent that there exists a Souslin tree $T$ such that after forcing with it, $T$ becomes an almost Souslin Kurepa tree. This answers a question of Zakrzewski.
Multipolar third-harmonic generation driven by optically-induced magnetic resonances
Creators: name: Smirnova, Daria A.
name: Khanikaev, Alexander B.
name: Smirnov, Lev A.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze third-harmonic generation from high-index dielectric nanoparticles and discuss the basic features and multipolar nature of the parametrically generated electromagnetic fields near the Mie-type optical resonances. By combining both analytical and numerical methods, we study the nonlinear scattering from simple nanoparticle geometries such as spheres and disks in the vicinity of the magnetic dipole resonance. We reveal the approaches for manipulating and directing the resonantly enhanced nonlinear emission with subwavelength all-dielectric structures that can be of a particular interest for novel designs of nonlinear optical antennas and engineering the magnetic optical nonlinear response at nanoscale.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures
Point-of-sale tobacco advertising in Beirut, Lebanon following a national advertising ban
Creators: name: Salloum, Ramzi G
name: Ribisl, Kurt
name: Myers, Allison E
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract Background The objective of this study was to conduct an audit of point-of-sale (POS) tobacco advertising and assess compliance with an advertising ban in a large district of Beirut, Lebanon. Methods The audit was conducted 3 months following the ban on tobacco advertising. Trained students observed all tobacco retail outlets (n = 100) and entered data into a web-based form using iPad® technology. Presence of tobacco advertisements was assessed to determine compliance with the national advertising ban. Results Among the 100 tobacco retail outlets, 62% had tobacco advertisements, including 7% with a tobacco brand logo as part of the main exterior store sign. Conclusions POS tobacco advertising is widespread in Beirut despite the national advertising ban. These findings point to an urgent need for the enforcement of the advertisement ban with tobacco retail outlets in Lebanon.