cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation and verification of the virgin–recycled mixing ratio of polypropylene plastic
Creators: name: Tai, Hua-Shan
name: Jui-Lan Yeh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Hematology

description: This study has analyzed the properties of blended polypropylene (PP) specimens and employed statistical analysis to develop a method for determining the virgin–recycled mixing ratio of a specimen. Morphological observations and analyses of thermal and mechanical properties were conducted to examine specimen properties. The results were incorporated into regression analysis to create relationship equations. The results revealed that the melt temperature ranged between 167 and 169 °C, melt index (MI) ranged between 7.59 and 18.36 g/10 min, viscosity decreased when the amount of recycled PP and the rotation speed increased, the maximum decomposition temperature decreased with an increase in recycled PP content and increased with the heating rate, activation energy (Ea) ranged between 39.91 and 12.07 kcal/mol, Young’s modulus ranged between 1121.1 and 1910.2 MPa, and impact strength ranged between 37.94and 49.41 J/m (no significant trends). Scanning electron microscopy showed unbroken fibrils distributed on the fracture surface of Specimens 1–3. Additionally, the tensile strain of these specimens was comparatively high. The fracture surfaces of the specimens showed favorable compatibility after undergoing impact tests. The results of regression analysis indicated that the mixing ratio achieved significant correlations with Ea, MI, and Young’s modulus. Thus, regression and multiple regression analysis were performed to create relationship equations.
Assessment of long-range-corrected exchange-correlation kernels for solids: accurate exciton binding energies via an empirically scaled Bootstrap kernel
Creators: name: Byun, Young-Moo
name: Ullrich, Carsten A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In time-dependent density-functional theory, a family of exchange-correlation kernels, known as long-range-corrected (LRC) kernels, have shown promise in the calculation of excitonic effects in solids. We perform a systematic assessment of existing static LRC kernels (empirical LRC, Bootstrap, and jellium-with-a-gap model) for a range of semiconductors and insulators, focusing on optical spectra and exciton binding energies. We find that no LRC kernel is capable of simultaneously producing good optical spectra and quantitatively accurate exciton binding energies for both semiconductors and insulators. We propose a simple and universal, empirically scaled Bootstrap kernel which yields accurate exciton binding energies for all materials under consideration, with low computational cost.
Drag-line sensor for drone assisted meteorite detection
Creators: name: Su, Dominic
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Meteorites are great scientific materials in the study of astronomy, planetary geology and astrobiology. They not only provide a glimpse into the wider cosmos, but also stimulate research into the respective fields (stated above), due to their unique material structure and properties. This prompts technological innovations that aid in the detection and identification of these scientific marvels. Current detection methods rely heavily on visual identification or with specialised handheld magnetic sensory equipment. This task is labour intensive and requires large amounts of time to survey suspected landing zones. These zones may have hazardous environments that traverse different land formations and as such prove to be unreachable by researchers and enthusiasts. To alleviate these hardships in the discovery of meteorites, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) may be employed. These versatile vehicles are capable of traversing a multitude of environments with a wide range of temperatures and altitudes. Alongside their affordability and functionality, these vehicles are essentially modular, therefore making them transformable to suit any sensory needs, thus reducing equipment costs and labour. The design of magnetic sensory equipment can prove to be invaluable, and the effects of sensor orientation are thoroughly investigated in this document. As such, a key component of this project was based on the effectiveness of a pair of fluxgate magnetometers (Stefan Mayer FLI-500) in a dragline setup and their ability to detect the items of interest, meteorites. Through numerous tests based on susceptibility to both relatively strong magnetic fields (as generated by a bar magnet) and weak magnetic fields (generated from a meteorite's residue magnetic field) and the capabilities of the sensors themselves, the document aims to quantify the sensor's usefulness. In addition to experimental methods, the feasibility of operating the system in conjunction with a micro-controller will provide a plausible system with capabilities ranging from acquisition of sensor data in real time to storage and processing of acquired data to displaying said data either on a display or through wireless communication. However, it is important to note that the preliminary design, prototyping and coding of the sensor suite will have to be refined and completed to allow for actual use in a realistic environment.
Patients treated with pimavanserin or quetiapine for Parkinson’s disease psychosis: analysis of health resource utilization patterns among Medicare beneficiaries
Creators: name: Rajagopalan, Krithika
name: Rashid, Nazia
name: Doshi, Dilesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Pimavanserin (PIM) is the only FDA approved atypical antipsychotic (AAP) for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis (PDP) while other off-label AAPs like quetiapine (QUE) are also used. Real-world comparative effects of PIM and QUE on health resource utilization (HCRU) may provide insights about their relative benefits. To examine annual HCRU among newly initiated PIM or QUE monotherapy among patients with PDP. Retrospective analysis of 100% Medicare (Parts A, B, and D) claims of patients with PDP during 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2019 was conducted. Treatment-naive patients with first prescription for PIM or QUE from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2018 were selected if they had ≥12-months continuous monotherapy and had no prior AAP use for ≥12-month pre-index. Post-index 12-month HCRU was compared between 1:1 propensity score matched (PSM) PIM or QUE cohorts. HCRU outcomes included: rates of all-cause and psychiatric-related inpatient hospitalizations by stay-type [i.e., long-term stays (LT-stays), short-term stays (ST-stays), skilled nursing facility stays (SNF-stays)], outpatient hospitalizations, emergency room (ER) visits, and office visits. Relative risk and 95% confidence intervals are reported [RR (95% CI)]. A total of 842 and 7,116 were treated with PIM and QUE, respectively. Mean age and gender distribution were similar among both groups. After PSM, those on PIM (n=842) had significantly lower RR for all-cause: inpatient hospitalizations [RR=0.78 (0.70–0.87)], ST-stays [RR=0.75 (0.66–0.84)], SNF-stays [RR=0.64 (0.54–0.76)], and ER visits [RR=0.91 (0.84–0.97)] vs. QUE (n=842). PIM patients had slightly higher RR for all-cause office visits [RR=1.03 (1.01–1.05)] vs. QUE. Psychiatric-related inpatient hospitalizations were also lower for PIM vs. QUE: [RR=0.63 (0.48–0.82)] ST-stays [RR=0.61 (0.43–0.86)], SNF-stay [RR=0.69 (0.47–1.02)], and ER visits [RR=0.53 (0.37–0.76)]. In this analysis of PDP patients, PIM monotherapy resulted in nearly 22% and 37% lower all-cause hospitalizations and psychiatric-related inpatient hospitalizations compared to QUE.
On the validity of stress mindset
Creators: name: Kilby, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Stress mindset theory claims that beliefs about stress influence people’s responses to stressful situations. This research lacks empirical demonstrations of both concurrent validity and whether stress mindset can display characteristics attributable to a mindset. This thesis aimed to identify observable characteristics of a mindset, and to explore one characteristic in stress mindset, namely the stability of a mindset. Furthermore, this thesis extended the construct validity of stress mindset by assessing the relationship between stress mindset and perceived stress, trait anxiety, emotional management, and the Big Five personality traits. A literature review of mindset-related research identified four observable characteristics of mindsets, including that they: 1) are composed of a range of relevant beliefs; 2) influence one’s perceptions and responses to the mindset; 3) are stable over time; and, 4) are malleable with training. To assess the construct validity and stability of stress mindset a prospective online study was undertaken. Participants (N = 123) completed three online surveys over one month assessing stress mindset, personality, trait anxiety, perceived stress, and emotional management. Stress mindset demonstrated concurrent validity with trait anxiety, emotional management, perceived stress, openness, and neuroticism. Baseline stress mindset predicted stress mindset at both follow ups. These findings provide further evidence for the construct validity and stability of stress mindset. Additional research is required to identify the direction of effect between stress mindset and these constructs.
Unconventional edge states in a two-leg ladder
Creators: name: Downing, C. A.
name: Martín-Moreno, L.
name: Fox, O. I. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some popular mechanisms for restricting the diffusion of waves include introducing disorder (to provoke Anderson localization) and engineering topologically non-trivial phases (to allow for topological edge states to form). However, other methods for inducing somewhat localized states in elementary lattice models have been historically much less studied. Here we show how edge states can emerge within a simple two-leg ladder of coupled harmonic oscillators, where it is important to include interactions beyond those at the nearest neighbour range. Remarkably, depending upon the interplay between the coupling strength along the rungs of the ladder and the next-nearest neighbour coupling strength along one side of the ladder, edge states can indeed appear at particular energies. In a wonderful manifestation of a type of bulk-edge correspondence, these edge state energies correspond to the quantum number for which additional stationary points appear in the continuum bandstructure of the equivalent problem studied with periodic boundary conditions. Our theoretical results are relevant to a swathe of classical or quantum lattice model simulators, such that the proposed edge states may be useful for applications including waveguiding in metamaterials and quantum transport.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures
title: 01_0593
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
The aortic wrap: an experimental and computational investigation of a device-based method for reduction of arterial pressure
Creators: name: Giudici, Francesca Maria
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Age-related aortic stiffening is a major determinant of isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) and is mainly due to mechanical fatigue-induced deterioration of elastin in the aortic wall. The aortic wrap (AW), a proposed method to restore aortic distensibility, is a highly distensible implantable device secured around the ascending aorta (AA): by decreasing the AA diameter (D), the pulsatile load is transferred from the collapsed AA wall to the AW, thus enabling aortic pulse pressure (PP) reduction. This thesis aims to evaluate the efficacy of the AW in increasing distensibility and decreasing PP and systolic pressure.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ACHIEVING EQUIVALENCE IN SIMULTANEOUS AND WRITTEN TRANSLATION
Creators: name: Qodirova, Nodira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article discusses the most common strategies for simultaneous and written translation. The article discusses the importance of equivalence in translation. The article also provides a comparative analysis of some units, examples of the equivalents of some words in Uzbek and English.
Study of shoplifting prevention using image analysis and ERP check
Creators: name: Yamato, Yoji
name: Fukumoto, Yoshifumi
name: Kumazaki, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a SaaS service which prevents shoplifting using image analysis and ERP. In Japan, total damage of shoplifting reaches 450 billion yen and more than 1000 small shops gave up their businesses because of shoplifting. Based on recent cloud technology and data analysis technology, we propose a shoplifting prevention service with image analysis of security camera and ERP data check for small shops. We evaluated stream analysis of security camera movie using online machine learining framework Jubatus.
description: 4 pages, in Japanese, 2 figures, IEICE Technical Report, SC2016-14, Aug. 2016
Additional Variations of Simulation Parameters from Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: How population size affects language
Creators: name: Reali, Florencia
name: Chater, Nick
name: Christiansen, Morten H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Languages with many speakers tend to be structurally simple while small communities sometimes develop languages with great structural complexity. Paradoxically, the opposite pattern appears to be observed for non-structural properties of language such as vocabulary size. These apparently opposite patterns pose a challenge for theories of language change and evolution. We use computational simulations to show that this inverse pattern can depend on a single factor: ease of diffusion through the population. A population of interacting agents was arranged on a network, passing linguistic conventions to one another along network links. Agents can invent new conventions, or replicate conventions that they have previously generated themselves or learned from other agents. Linguistic conventions are either Easy or Hard to diffuse, depending on how many times an agent needs to encounter a convention to learn it. In large groups, only linguistic conventions that are easy to learn, such as words, tend to proliferate, whereas small groups where everyone talks to everyone else allow for more complex conventions, like grammatical regularities, to be maintained. Our simulations thus suggest that language, and possibly other aspects of culture, may become simpler at the structural level as our world becomes increasingly interconnected.
Toward a minor weird: politics, deterritorialization, and group becomings in Lovecraft and Miéville
Creators: name: Monks, Luke
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Weird is a genre of fiction that operates at the intersections of Horror, Fantasy and Science-Fiction. While Weird has been used to prompt new theories in metaphysics, its relationship to politics remains relatively unexamined. This thesis aims to rectify this, approaching the works of H.P. Lovecraft and China Miéville according to the program outlined in Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature . This is an ex ploration of the relationship between language, expression and political power. These para-political imaginings are necessary in a culture wherein traditional politics are failing to produce or imagine futures. This thesis first examines Weird as a genre, drawing out its history and inconsistencies, noting that it is precisely due to this fractured and fracturing nature that Weird is such a ripe vector from which Minor readings may emerge. Following this brief exploration of genre, the thesis takes as its task the reading of Lovecraft's and Miéville's fiction according to the three main concerns of the minor: deterritorialization, the political, and the formation of new groups with new powers of expression. To some degree, this thesis is more of an extended thought experiment than traditional literary criticism, yet it is hoped that in pursuing this project, new means of thinking futures will emerge.
Remote polarization entanglement generation by local dephasing and frequency upconversion
Creators: name: Raja, S. Hamedani
name: Karpat, G.
name: Laine, E. -M.
name: Maniscalco, S.
name: Piilo, J.
name: Li, C. -F.
name: Guo, G. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a scheme for remote entanglement generation for the photon polarization. The technique is based on transferring the initial frequency correlations to specific polarization-frequency correlations by local dephasing and their subsequent removal by frequency up-conversion. On fundamental level, our theoretical results show how to create and transfer entanglement, to particles which never interact, by means of local operations. This possibility stems from the multi-path interference and its control in frequency space. For applications, the developed techniques and results allow for the remote generation of entanglement with distant parties without Bell state measurements and opens the perspective to probe frequency-frequency entanglement by measuring the polarization state of the photons.
description: 8 pages
Note Illustrative della Carta geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000, F. 016 Dobbiaco, Servizio Geologico d'Italia - ISPRA
Creators: name: Gianolla, P.
name: Morelli, C.
name: Cucato, M.
name: Siorpaes, C.
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2018

description: Note illustrative redatte per il Foglio geologico n. 016 Dobbiaco della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000. 284 pp.
Additional file 1 of Development and testing of an instrument to measure contextual factors influencing self-care decisions among adults with chronic illness
Creators: name: Page, Shayleigh Dickson
name: Lee, Christopher
name: Aryal, Subhash
name: Freedland, Kenneth
name: Stromberg, Anna
name: Vellone, Ercole
name: Westland, Heleen
name: Wiebe, Douglas J.
name: Jaarsma, Tiny
name: Riegel, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Velicer’s minimum average partial (MAP) correlation, Horn's output, and Horn’s parallel analysis graph.
Conceptual and algorithmic development of Pseudo 3D Graphics and Video Content Visualization
Creators: name: Amro, Aladdein M.
name: Zori, S. A.
name: Al-Oraiqat, Anas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article presents a general concept of the organization of pseudo three dimension visualization of graphics and video content for three dimension visualization systems. The steps of algorithms for solving the problem of synthesis of three dimension stereo images based on two dimension images are introduced. The features of synthesis organization of standard format of three dimension stereo frame are presented. Moreover, the performed experimental simulation for generating complete stereoframes and the results of its time complexity are shown. Keywords:Three dimension visualization, pseudo three dimension stereo, a stereo pair, three dimension stereo format, algorithm, modeling, time complexity.
description: 12 pages, 10 Figures
Quantized heat flow in graphene quantum Hall phases: Probing the topological order
Creators: name: Srivastav, Saurabh Kumar
name: Das, Anindya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological quantum numbers are often used to characterise the topological order of phase having protected gapless edge modes when the system is kept in a space with the boundary. The famous examples in this category are the quantized electrical Hall conductance and thermal Hall conductance, which encodes the topological order of integer and fractional quantum Hall states. Here, we review the recent thermal transport study of integer and fractional quantum Hall states realized in graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures.
description: Invited Review article (Editor's Pick)
Explosion of red-supergiant stars: influence of the atmospheric structure on shock breakout and the early-time supernova radiation
Creators: name: Dessart, Luc
name: Hillier, D. John
name: Audit, Edouard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Early-time observations of the Type II supernovae (SNe) 2013cu and 2013fs have revealed an interaction of ejecta with material near the star surface. Unlike the Type IIn SN2010jl, which interacts with a dense wind for ~1yr, the interaction ebbs after 2-3d, suggesting a dense and compact circumstellar envelope. Here, we use multi-group radiation-hydrodynamics and non-local-thermodynamic-equilibrium radiative transfer to explore the properties of red supergiant (RSG) star explosions embedded in a variety of dense envelopes. We consider the cases of an extended static atmosphere or a steady-state wind, adopting a range of mass loss rates. The shock-breakout signal, the SN radiation up to 10d, and the ejecta dynamics are strongly influenced by the properties of this nearby environment. This compromises the use of early-time observations to constrain Rstar. The presence of narrow lines for 2-3d in 2013fs and 2013cu require a cocoon of material of ~0.01Msun out to 5-10Rstar. Spectral lines evolve from electron-scattering to Doppler broadened, with a growing blueshift of their emission peaks. Recent studies propose a super-wind phase with a mass loss rate from 0.001 up to 1Msun/yr in the last months/years of the RSG life, although there is no observational constraint that this external material is a steady-state outflow. Alternatively, observations may be explained by the explosion of a RSG star inside its complex atmosphere. Indeed, spatially resolved observations reveal that RSG stars have extended atmospheres, with the presence of downflows and upflows out to several Rstar, even in a standard RSG like Betelgeuse. Mass loading in the region intermediate between star and wind can accommodate the 0.01Msun needed to explain the observations of 2013fs. A puzzling super-wind phase prior to core-collapse may be therefore superfluous [Abridged].
description: submitted to A&A
Additional file 2 of Development and testing of an instrument to measure contextual factors influencing self-care decisions among adults with chronic illness
Creators: name: Page, Shayleigh Dickson
name: Lee, Christopher
name: Aryal, Subhash
name: Freedland, Kenneth
name: Stromberg, Anna
name: Vellone, Ercole
name: Westland, Heleen
name: Wiebe, Douglas J.
name: Jaarsma, Tiny
name: Riegel, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Category characteristic curves for each item.
Clinical and economic impact of ferric carboxymaltose treatment for iron deficiency in patients stabilized following acute heart failure: A multinational study
Creators: name: McEwan, Phil
name: Ponikowski, Piotr
name: Shiri, Tinevimbo
name: Rosano, Giuseppe M.C.
name: Coats, Andrew J. S.
name: Dorigotti, Fabio
name: de Arellano, Antonio Ramirez
name: Jankowska, Ewa A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: To estimate clinical events and evaluate the financial implications of introducing ferric carboxymaltose (FCM) to treat iron deficiency (ID) at discharge in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF) with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <50% in the UK, Switzerland and Italy. A decision analytic cost-offset model was developed to evaluate the costs associated with introducing FCM for all eligible patients in 3 countries compared to a world without FCM, over a 5-year time horizon. Data from AFFIRM-AHF clinical trial were used to model clinical outcomes, using an established cohort state-transition Markov model. Country-specific prevalence estimates were derived using data from real-world studies to extrapolate number of events and consequent cost totals to the population at risk on a national scale. The cost-offset modeling demonstrated that FCM is projected to be a cost-saving intervention in all three country settings over a 5-year time horizon. Savings were driven primarily by reduced hospitalizations and avoided cardiovascular deaths, with net cost savings of -£14,008,238, -CHF25,456,455 and -€105,295,146 incurred to the UK, Switzerland and Italy, respectively. Although AFFIRM-AHF was a multinational trial, efficacy data per country was not sufficiently large to enable country-specific analysis, therefore overall clinical parameters have been assumed to apply to all countries. This study provides further evidence of the potential cost savings achievable by treating ID with FCM at discharge in patients hospitalized for AHF with LVEF <50%. The value of FCM treatment within the healthcare systems of the UK, Switzerland and Italy was demonstrated even within a limited time frame of 1 year, with consistent cost savings indicated over a longer term.
Supplementary Information from Silver nanoparticles as a medical device in healthcare settings: a five-step approach for candidate screening of coating agents
Creators: name: Marassi, Valentina
name: Luisana Di Cristo
name: Smith, Stephen G. J.
name: Ortelli, Simona
name: Blosi, Magda
name: Costa, Anna L.
name: Reschiglian, Pierluigi
name: Volkov, Yuri
name: Adriele Prina-Mello
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: Additional information on: Ag+ collection and quantification; HF5 separation and characterisation; Cytokine secretion;
Healthcare resource utilization and cost among individuals with late-onset versus adult-onset Huntington’s disease: a claims‑based retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: To, Tu My
name: Ta, Jamie T.
name: Patel, Anisha M.
name: Arndorfer, Stella
name: Abbass, Ibrahim M.
name: Gandhy, Rita
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Quantify healthcare resource utilization (HRU) and costs for individuals with late-onset Huntington’s disease (LoHD) and compare these with adult-onset HD (AoHD) and non-HD controls. This retrospective cohort study used US healthcare claims data from the IBM MarketScan Commercial and Medicare Supplemental Databases. Individuals newly diagnosed with HD between 1/1/2009 and 12/31/2017 were selected (index date was first HD claim). Individuals ≥60 years of age at the index date were categorized as having LoHD while individuals 21–59 years of age were categorized as having AoHD. Non‑HD controls were exact matched 2:1 to LoHD and AoHD cohorts. Individuals were required to have continuous enrollment for ≥12 months pre- and post-index. Twelve-month all-cause HRU and healthcare costs were assessed for each cohort. In total, 763 individuals with LoHD and 1,073 individuals with AoHD were matched with 3,762 non-HD controls. Unadjusted all-cause HRU in the 12 months post-index was higher for individuals with LoHD and AoHD compared with non-HD controls across most service categories. Adjusted all-cause HRU for the LoHD cohort was significantly higher compared with non-HD controls across all service categories. In the 12 months post-index, mean total costs for the LoHD cohort ($29,055) were significantly higher than for non-HD controls (≥60 years old: $17,286; 21–59 years old: $12,688; p <.001) and similar to total costs in the AoHD cohort ($31,701; p =.47). It was not possible to control for differences in HD stage but regression models were adjusted for baseline HRU. Evaluations of costs did not include indirect costs, which are known to be significant components of the wider HD burden. This study provides the first analysis of HRU and costs in LoHD, demonstrating that individuals with LoHD experience a significantly higher healthcare burden compared with non-HD controls and a similarly high burden compared with individuals with AoHD. Huntington’s disease (HD) usually develops between the ages of 30–50 but can develop earlier/later. This study looked at healthcare use in people who developed HD at age 60 or later in the United States. Researchers found that people who develop HD at age 60 or later have similar health needs to people with adult-onset HD. Furthermore, they have much greater health needs than people of a similar age who do not have HD.
Exact analysis of gate noise effects on non-adiabatic transformations of spin-orbit qubits
Creators: name: Ulčakar, Lara
name: Ramšak, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We considered various types of potential noise in gates controlling non-adiabatic holonomic transformations of spin-qubits in one and two dimensional systems with the Rashba interaction. It is shown how exact results can be derived for deviations of spin rotation angle and fidelity of the qubit transformation after a completed transformation. Errors in initial values of gate potentials and time-dependent drivings are considered and exact results for white gate noise are derived and analysed in detail. It is demonstrated how the drivings can be tuned to optimise the final fidelity of the transformation and to minimise the variances of qubit transformations.
Droplet deformation by short laser-induced pressure pulses
Creators: name: Reijers, Sten A.
name: Snoeijer, Jacco H.
name: Gelderblom, Hanneke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a free-falling liquid droplet is hit by a laser it experiences a strong ablation driven pressure pulse. Here we study the resulting droplet deformation in the regime where the ablation pressure duration is short, i.e. comparable to the time scale on which pressure waves travel through the droplet. To this end an acoustic analytic model for the pressure-, pressure impulse- and velocity fields inside the droplet is developed in the limit of small density fluctuations. This model is used to examine how the droplet deformation depends on the pressure pulse duration while the total momentum to the droplet is kept constant. Within the limits of this analytic model, we demonstrate that when the total momentum transferred to the droplet is small the droplet shape-evolution is indistinguishable from an incompressible droplet deformation. However, when the momentum transfer is increased the droplet response is strongly affected by the pulse duration. In this later regime, compressed flow regimes alter the droplet shape evolution considerably.
description: Submitted to JFM
Cost-effectiveness of adjuvant atezolizumab versus best supportive care in the treatment of patients with resectable early-stage non-small cell lung cancer and overexpression of PD-L1
Creators: name: Escudero-Vilaplana, Vicente
name: Collado-Borrell, Roberto
name: De Castro, Javier
name: Insa, Amelia
name: Martínez, Alex
name: Fernández, Elena
name: Sullivan, Ivana
name: Flores, Andrés
name: Arrabal, Natalia
name: Carcedo, David
name: Manzaneque, Alba
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: To assess the cost-effectiveness of adjuvant atezolizumab in the treatment of early-stage NSCLC patients (stage II–IIIA) with expression PD-L1 ≥ 50% without mutations in EGFR or ALK rearrangements in Spain. A 5-states Markov model (DFS, locoregional recurrence, 1 L-metastatic recurrence, 2 L-metastatic recurrence, and death states) was adapted to the Spanish setting. Demographic characteristics of the hypothetical cohort, transition probabilities from the DFS state, and safety parameters were obtained from IMpower010 study (GO29527). Transition probabilities from locoregional and metastatic health states were obtained from the literature. The usual clinical practice in Spain (use of health resources, management of the disease, etc.) was obtained from a previous analysis carried out by the authors of this study. A societal perspective was considered so both direct and indirect costs were included (expressed in € of 2021). A lifetime horizon was used, so costs and health outcomes were discounted at 3% per year. Sensitivity analyses were performed to evaluate uncertainty. Over a lifetime horizon, treatment with adjuvant atezolizumab provided greater effectiveness (+2.61 life years [LY] and +1.95 quality-adjusted life years [QALY]) and higher cost (€+22,538) than BSC. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) and incremental cost-utility ratios (ICUR) of the analysis were €8,625/LY gained and €11,583/QALY gained, respectively. Robustness of these base-case results was confirmed by the sensitivity analyses performed. In the probabilistic sensitivity analysis, 90% of the simulations performed showed that adjuvant atezolizumab is cost-effective versus BSC, considering a threshold of €30,000/QALY. Our results showed that adjuvant treatment with atezolizumab in patients with early-stage resected NSCLC with overexpression of PD-L1 and without EGFR and ALK mutations is cost-effective versus BSC as the ICERs and ICURs obtained are below the cost-effectiveness thresholds commonly considered in Spain, thus offering a new treatment alternative for these patients.
RANS predictions for high-speed flows using enveloping models
Creators: name: Mishra, A. A.
name: Iaccarino, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this investigation, we outline an enveloping models methodology for estimating structural uncertainty bounds on RANS closures. This methodology incorporates both eigenvalue and eigenvector perturbations in the spectral representation of the Reynolds stress tensor. The underlying rationale of this enveloping models methodology are explicated in detail and the mathematical nuances are outlined. This methodology is validated via its application to a canonical case of separated turbulent flow, while contrasted against numerical data. It is exhibited that this procedure is able to provide prudent estimates on the uncertainty of quantities of interest. Furthermore, uncertainty bounds of engineering utility can be engendered using just two specific RANS simulations, minimizing the computational overheads associated with uncertainty estimation. Thence, this methodology is applied to a supersonic axisymmetric "submerged" jet flow. The epistemic uncertainty envelopes are contrasted against the aleatoric uncertainty bounds predicated upon the predictions of the RANS closure. The methodology is able to provide satisfactory results for this high-speed flow.
Triaxial orbit-based modelling of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster
Creators: name: Feldmeier-Krause, A.
name: Zhu, L.
name: Neumayer, N.
name: van de Ven, G.
name: de Zeeuw, P. T.
name: Schödel, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct triaxial dynamical models for the Milky Way nuclear star cluster using Schwarzschild's orbit superposition technique. We fit the stellar kinematic maps presented in Feldmeier et al. (2014). The models are used to constrain the supermassive black hole mass M_BH, dynamical mass-to-light ratio M/L, and the intrinsic shape of the cluster. Our best-fitting model has M_BH = (3.0 +1.1 -1.3)x10^6 M_sun, M/L = (0.90 +0.76 -0.08) M_sun/L_{sun,4.5micron}, and a compression of the cluster along the line-of-sight. Our results are in agreement with the direct measurement of the supermassive black hole mass using the motion of stars on Keplerian orbits. The mass-to-light ratio is consistent with stellar population studies of other galaxies in the mid-infrared. It is possible that we underestimate M_BH and overestimate the cluster's triaxiality due to observational effects. The spatially semi-resolved kinematic data and extinction within the nuclear star cluster bias the observations to the near side of the cluster, and may appear as a compression of the nuclear star cluster along the line-of-sight. We derive a total dynamical mass for the Milky Way nuclear star cluster of M_MWNSC = (2.1 +-0.7)x10^7 M_sun within a sphere with radius r = 2 x r_eff = 8.4 pc. The best-fitting model is tangentially anisotropic in the central r = 0.5-2 pc of the nuclear star cluster, but close to isotropic at larger radii. Our triaxial models are able to recover complex kinematic substructures in the velocity map.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Inequality in education and its effects on economic growth in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alkhayl, Alaa Aba
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis investigates the direct and indirect effects of gender inequality in education on economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This issue has much policy relevance because it might affect the effectiveness of the government's Vision 2030 to diversify the economy. Furthermore, while important research has been conducted on the impact of gender inequality in education and employment on economic growth, no such study exists for the Saudi Arabian context. Following Klasen (2002) and Klasen and Lamanna (2009), this study employs a set of equations, using OLS, to measure these direct and indirect impacts over the period of 1971-2017. The findings show that while gender inequality in education has been improving overtime, its impact on economic growth has been negligible. This is perhaps due to regulatory issues related to the labour market and university courses offered to females, as well as social and cultural issues.
Chalcogenide Glass-on-Graphene Photonics
Creators: name: Lin, Hongtao
name: Song, Yi
name: Huang, Yizhong
name: Kita, Derek
name: Wang, Kaiqi
name: Li, Lan
name: Li, Junying
name: Zheng, Hanyu
name: Deckoff-Jones, Skylar
name: Luo, Zhengqian
name: Wang, Haozhe
name: Novak, Spencer
name: Yadav, Anupama
name: Huang, Chung-Che
name: Gu, Tian
name: Hewak, Daniel
name: Richardson, Kathleen
name: Kong, Jing
name: Hu, Juejun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2-D) materials are of tremendous interest to integrated photonics given their singular optical characteristics spanning light emission, modulation, saturable absorption, and nonlinear optics. To harness their optical properties, these atomically thin materials are usually attached onto prefabricated devices via a transfer process. In this paper, we present a new route for 2-D material integration with planar photonics. Central to this approach is the use of chalcogenide glass, a multifunctional material which can be directly deposited and patterned on a wide variety of 2-D materials and can simultaneously function as the light guiding medium, a gate dielectric, and a passivation layer for 2-D materials. Besides claiming improved fabrication yield and throughput compared to the traditional transfer process, our technique also enables unconventional multilayer device geometries optimally designed for enhancing light-matter interactions in the 2-D layers. Capitalizing on this facile integration method, we demonstrate a series of high-performance glass-on-graphene devices including ultra-broadband on-chip polarizers, energy-efficient thermo-optic switches, as well as graphene-based mid-infrared (mid-IR) waveguide-integrated photodetectors and modulators.
title: 03_0114
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Additional file 2 of Genome of the parasitoid wasp Cotesia chilonis sheds light on amino acid resource exploitation
Creators: name: Ye, Xinhai
name: Xiong, Shijiao
name: Teng, Ziwen
name: Yang, Yi
name: Wang, Jiale
name: Yu, Kaili
name: Wu, Huizi
name: Mei, Yang
name: Xue, Cheng
name: Yan, Zhichao
name: Yin, Chuanlin
name: Wang, Fang
name: Yao, Hongwei
name: Fang, Qi
name: Song, Qisheng
name: Ye, Gongyin
name: Li, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Heatmap of the all-by-all interactions among 10 chromosomes of C. chilonis. Fig. S2. Phylogenetic analysis of cysteine synthase genes, suggesting an ancient gene gain event in Lepidoptera.
AI Researchers, Video Games Are Your Friends!
Creators: name: Togelius, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: If you are an artificial intelligence researcher, you should look to video games as ideal testbeds for the work you do. If you are a video game developer, you should look to AI for the technology that makes completely new types of games possible. This chapter lays out the case for both of these propositions. It asks the question "what can video games do for AI", and discusses how in particular general video game playing is the ideal testbed for artificial general intelligence research. It then asks the question "what can AI do for video games", and lays out a vision for what video games might look like if we had significantly more advanced AI at our disposal. The chapter is based on my keynote at IJCCI 2015, and is written in an attempt to be accessible to a broad audience.
description: in Studies in Computational Intelligence Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 669 2017. Springer