cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Emergence of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase type 1-producing Enterobacteriaceae and non-Enterobacteriaceae: global case detection and bacterial surveillance
Creators: name: Mitrani-Gold, Fanny
name: Mundy, Linda
name: Bushnell, Greta
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: A systematic review of the literature was conducted to summarize the descriptive and molecular epidemiology of human cases and surveillance reports with New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase type 1 (NDM-1)-producing bacteria reported worldwide from January 2008 through July 6, 2011.A comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify publications of NDM-1-producing bacteria. Studies were divided into two broad categories of (1) case series and case reports of NDM-1-producing bacteria, or (2) active surveillance and environmental surveillance studies of NDM-1-producing bacteria.Sixty cases with NDM-1-producing bacteria were reported in the 3.5-year interval since the index case detection. The majority of reported cases represented colonization without evidence of infection (n = 39, 65%); urine was the most common specimen source for cases with infection (41.7%) and colonization (33.3%). Seventeen cases (28.3%) had NDM-1-producing bacteria at more than one body site. Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli were the most frequent bacteria detected, and the multilocus sequence type data from 34 E. coli and K. pneumoniae clinical isolates provided an incomplete, yet heterogeneous global distribution of NDM-1-producing bacteria. The majority of cases (63.3%) had exposure to the Indian subcontinent of south central Asia, and laboratory surveillance systems, as well as an environmental survey from India, suggest a presence of environmental reservoirs for potential human infection and colonization with NDM-1-producing bacteria.The majority of case reports with NDM-1-producing bacteria had presumed colonization, not infection, with one or more bacteria. The available human case reports and surveillance data suggest a global distribution of NDM-1-producing Enterobacteriaceae and non-Enterobacteriaceae.
Approximate maximum likelihood estimation using data-cloning ABC
Creators: name: Picchini, Umberto
name: Anderson, Rachele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A maximum likelihood methodology for a general class of models is presented, using an approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) approach. The typical target of ABC methods are models with intractable likelihoods, and we combine an ABC-MCMC sampler with so-called "data cloning" for maximum likelihood estimation. Accuracy of ABC methods relies on the use of a small threshold value for comparing simulations from the model and observed data. The proposed methodology shows how to use large threshold values, while the number of data-clones is increased to ease convergence towards an approximate maximum likelihood estimate. We show how to exploit the methodology to reduce the number of iterations of a standard ABC-MCMC algorithm and therefore reduce the computational effort, while obtaining reasonable point estimates. Simulation studies show the good performance of our approach on models with intractable likelihoods such as g-and-k distributions, stochastic differential equations and state-space models.
description: 25 pages. Minor revision. It includes a parametric bootstrap for the exact MLE for the first example; includes mean bias and RMSE calculations for the third example. Forthcoming in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Cost of capital and earnings transparency
Creators: name: Barth, Mary
name: Konchitchki, Yaniv
name: Landsman, Wayne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: We provide evidence that firms with more transparent earnings enjoy a lower cost of capital. We base our earnings transparency measure on the extent to which earnings and change in earnings covary contemporaneously with returns. We find a significant negative relation between our transparency measure and subsequent excess and portfolio mean returns, and expected cost of capital, even after controlling for previously documented determinants of cost of capital.
title: Endothelin-receptor mediated responses in pulmonary resistance arteries: Effect of developmental age and left ventricular dysfunction
Creators: name: Docherty, Cheryl Catherine
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Physiology.

description: (1) The potent vasoconstrictor endothelin-1 (ET-1) is thought to regulate pulmonary blood flow and play a role in the aetiology of pulmonary hypertension (PHT), as well as in the transition of the pulmonary circulation from fetal to neonatal life. Responses to ET-1, and the receptor subtypes involved, were studied in isolated pulmonary resistance arteries (PRAs) from a rabbit coronary ligation model of left ventricular dysfunction (LVD), and also from fetal and neonatal rabbits. (2) The rabbit coronary ligation model of LVD displayed right ventricular hypertrophy and significant increase in lung weight in animals with coronary artery ligation for 8 weeks compared to age matched sham-operated animals. Also consistent with the development of PHT was significant structural alteration demonstrated in the pulmonary vasculature of the LVD group animals. Small muscular pulmonary arteries were studied 8, 16 and 32 weeks after coronary artery ligation or sham operation. (3) In the rabbit coronary-ligation model, investigation of ET-receptor mediated responses showed an agonist potency profile, according to pEC50 values, of SXS6c > ET-3 = ET-1 in all PRAs from all 8, 16 and 32 week procedure groups. This is indicative of a predominant role of contractile ETB receptor subtypes in these vessels, (4) ET receptor subtypes in this preparation were examined further with the use of several selective antagonists. The results demonstrated a biphasic response to ET-1 in all vessels. In sham-operated rabbit PRAs, the shallow component of the response at lower ET-1 concentrations was resistant to the effects of the non-selective ETA/ETB receptor antagonist SB209670 but sensitive to BQ788, a selective ETB receptor antagonist. The steeper component of the ET-1 response, observed at higher peptide concentrations, was resistant to BQ788 but sensitive to SB209670, These differential effects of the antagonists may provide evidence for a heterogeneous population of ETB-like-receptors. Furthermore, competition radioligand binding studies in rabbit pulmonary artery membranes provided a best fit for a two-site model, thus indicating the existence of two distinct ET receptor populations in this preparation. Ki values of 6.43 x10.
title: Fe-N-C SINGLE-ATOMIC SITE CATALYSTS
title: ENZYME-LIKE ACTIVITIES AND BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lyu, Zhaoyuan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: From diagnosis of life-threatening diseases to detection of biological agents in the human body and environment, biosensors are becoming a critical part of modern life. The fast detection process and accurate detection results have posed high requirements in the sensitivity and specificity of the biosensors. Recently, some nanomaterials have been found to possess unexpected peroxidase-like activities, and great progress has been made to fabricate colorimetric biosensors based on the peroxidase-like activities of these nanomaterials. These nanomaterials exhibit flexibility in structural design and composition, easy separation and storage, high stability, simple preparation, and tunable catalytic activity. Fe-based single-atomic site catalysts (SASCs), with the natural metalloproteases-like active site structure, have attracted widespread attention in biosensing applications. Precisely controlling the isolated single-atomic Fe-N-C active site density and structure is crucial to improving the SASCs’ performance. In this dissertation, different strategies are used to increase the enzyme-like activity of Fe-N-C SASCs. Using ion-imprinting technology to precisely control ions at the atomic level, form numerous well-defined single-atomic Fe-N-C sites, and achieve in situ detection of H2O2 generated from cells. The use of nanoconfinement force can greatly increase the number of Fe-Nx active sites in the material, thereby greatly improving the enzyme-like properties of the material, which can then be used for biosensing and sensitive and selective detection of disease biomarkers. Furthermore, harnessing the advantages of two-dimensional (2D) materials to synthesize SASCs can further enhance their activity, as the 2D structure can help expose more single-atomic sites that can directly participate in the reaction. This strategy has been successfully used to fabricate biosensing systems for herbicide detection. More importantly, different SASCs can be further designed by using appropriate precursors to achieve structural mimicry of the natural enzyme, through control size and morphology to achieve point-of-care detection via lateral-flow immunoassay.
description: Fe-N-C SASCs synthesized in this work have significant potential to replace natural enzymes for high-sensitive biosensing applications. Their unique single-atomic geometrical structure exhibits significant advantages in biocatalytic activity, stability, and selectivity. We believe the continuously developed strategies can enable the Fe-N-C SASCs to explore their wider applications in various biosensing applications with excellent detection performance.
Finitely generated ideals of the ring of integer-valued polynomials
Creators: name: Smith, William W.
name: Gilmer, Robert
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1983

description: Throughout this paper, Z denoes the integers, Q the rational numbers, and D the collection of polynomials over Q having the property thatf(a) E Z for every a in Z. After first being studied by Polya [2 1 ] and Skolem [23], the domain D has been the subject of several more recent papers [2-14, 16, 17 ]. In particular, Brizolis established in [4] that D is a Priifer domain with each finitely generated ideal I determined by the values at integers of the polynomials in I. Specifically, he showed that if I= (f,(r),...,&(f))D, then g(t) E I if and only if g(u) E (f,(a),...,fJ(u))Z for every a E Z. In this paper we continue the study of the finitely generated ideals of D. While our initial efforts were directed toward answering a question of Brizolis [4] as to whether or not each finitely generated ideal of D can be gnerated by two elements, in time we became interested in giving a more explicit description of finite generating sets for ideals of D. Our methods are constructive, and we feel that we have had some success in accomplising this goal.
Cost-effectiveness of dapagliflozin compared to DPP-4 inhibitors as combination therapy with metformin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus without established cardiovascular disease in Colombia
Creators: name: Lasalvia, Pieralessandro
name: Gil-Rojas, Yaneth
name: García, Ángel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: SGLT2 inhibitors or DPP-4 inhibitors are among the preferred options in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) without established cardiovascular disease. To evaluate the incremental cost-effectiveness of dapagliflozin versus DPP-4 inhibitors as a complement to metformin in the treatment ofT2D, from the perspective of the Colombian health system. The Cardiff model was used to estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of dapagliflozin plus metformin compared to DPP-4 inhibitors plus metformin in adults with T2DM who did not respond adequately to metformin monotherapy. We estimated the incidence of micro- and macrovascular complications from risk equations incorporating the effect of treatment. The time horizon for analysis was 5 years and a discount rate of 5% was applied, for both costs and outcomes. The costs were expressed in 2020 USD (1 USD = $3,693.36 COP). Dapagliflozin in association with metformin resulted in a higher number of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) compared to the intervention. The ICER was US$1,964.80 per QALY gained. From the point of view of Colombian healthcare system, the combination of dapagliflozin with metformin is a cost-effective option compared to DPP-4 + metformin inhibitors in the treatment of T2D without established cardiovascular disease.
Prescription drug coverage satisfaction and medication nonadherence among Medicare beneficiaries with cancer
Creators: name: Silverman, Ciara
name: Ng, Boon Peng
name: Baek, Chaewon
name: Park, Chanhyun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Medication nonadherence among older patients with cancer can have profound health consequences. This study examines the association between prescription drug coverage satisfaction and medication nonadherence among Medicare beneficiaries with cancer. We analyzed the 2017 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Public Use File of beneficiaries aged ≥65 years with reported non-skin cancer (n = 806). Beneficiaries were considered to have medication nonadherence if they reported: skipping doses, taking smaller doses than prescribed, or delaying or not filling a prescription because of cost. A survey-weighted logistic model, adjusted for covariates, was conducted to examine the association between prescription drug coverage satisfaction and medication nonadherence. Of study beneficiaries with cancer, 14.7% reported medication nonadherence. Higher proportions of beneficiaries with medication nonadherence were dissatisfied with the amount paid for medications (33.2% vs. 11.0%, p < 0.001) and the medications included on formulary (29.5% vs 5.2%, p < 0.001). In the adjusted analysis, the risk for medication nonadherence was higher among those who were dissatisfied with the amount paid for medications (OR = 2.22; p = 0.050) and the medications included on formulary (OR = 5.03; p = 0.005). Strategic mitigation of these barriers is essential to improving health outcomes in this at-risk population.
The American Soldier in World War II: Attitudes of WAC's
Creators: name: Research Branch, Information
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Rank in military; post stationed at; entered Women's Army Corps (WAC) by; occupation before WAC; military training; duties of two jobs; civilian training helpful in army job; another assignment fits respondent better; superior: man or woman; ideas about making respondent's job easier; length of time respondent must keep busy; dislike working with civilians; working conditions; worthwhile being in army; interest in military occupation; importance of occupation compared to others; transfer to another assignment; gained skills in occupation; good chance for promotion; respondent's future plans after war; occupation after war; back to school after war; more comfortable as a civilian or WAC; respondent feels lonesome; good/bad time while in WAC; adjustment to life in army; low/high spirits while in WAC; morale of men; pride in company; person respondent brings personal problems to; living condition; recreational activities; confidence in WAC CO; treatment of enlisted women in company; off-duty time; housing and sanitary facilities; discomforts in WAC life; medical attention in WAC; physical training; visit nearest town; male officer on WAC post; volunteer for WAC; officer candidate school; discharges; future in military service.
An Analysis Using the Zaks-Skula Constant of Element Factorizations in Dedekind Domains
Creators: name: Smith, W.W.
name: Chapman, S.T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: Let D be a Dedekind domain with finite class group G. Let α be a nonzero nonunit of D and suppose β1, ..., βs, γ1, ..., γt are irreducibles of D such that α = β1 ··· βs = γ1 ··· γt. Two recent papers (J. Steffan, 1986, J. Algebra102, 229-236; R. J. Valenza, 1990, J. Number Theory38, 212-218) have studied the quotient s/t and both conclude that given D there exists a smallest real number ρ(D) such that s/t ≤ ρ(D). While it is easy to show that ρ(D) ≤ |G|/2, we use the Zaks-Skula constant to find a sharper upper bound on ρ(D). We then use this upper bound to explore the behavior of the Φ-function, which counts the number of different lengths of certain products, on two specific classes of Dedekind domains.
title: Regulating the trafficking of the unfolded protein response (UPR) reporter ATF6
Creators: name: Tungkum, Wanida
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: The activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) is one of the three membrane proteins, which responds to misfolded protein induced stress, in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). During ER stress, ATF6 dissociates from BiP, an ER chaperone, then transports to the Golgi apparatus where ATF6 undergoes proteolytic processing by site 1 protease (S1P) and site 2 protease (S2P). Up until now, the dissociation of BiP from ATF6 is reported to be the key factor that regulates the trafficking of ATF6 from the ER to Golgi in the unfolded protein response (UPR). However, our study suggests that the ATF6-BiP complex disassembly is not the only factor which controls ATF6 migration when cells get induced ER stress by standard inducers like dithiothreitol (DTT) and thapsigargin (TG). To identify the ATF6 protein complex, the stable cell-lines of the non-trafficking mutants ATF6α, D564G and Y567N, were created and compared with the wild type ATF6α. From our studies, the ATF6α mutants show specific characteristics, distinctively from the wild type ATF6α, which are likely to affect the ability of ATF6 to bind with other proteins and to form disulfides. The results of mass spectrometry indicate numerous proteins which seem to be interacted with ATF6 along with BiP such as 14 3-3E, Neudesin, TFG and ERdj3. Unfortunately, we can only properly investigate ERdj3. We investigated the interaction of ERdj3 protein with ATF6 by immunoisolation and western blot; the results show that ERdj3 interacts with ATF6. Subsequently, the lipotoxic stress inducers, dihydrosphingosine (DHS) and dihydroceramide (DHC), were used to induce ER stress and ATF6 pathway since it was reported that lipotoxic stress upregulates ATF6 differently compared with the mechanism of proteotoxic stress. However, the results from our study with the wild type ATF6α cell-line show that DHS and DHC did not upregulate the ATF6 stress response as previously reported. Taken together our results define the interactome of ERlocalised ATF6α and suggest a role for ERdj3 during the ER stress response.
Growth of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions by coagulation and fragmentation in a turbulent protoplanetary disk: observations and modelisation
Creators: name: Charnoz, S.
name: Aleon, J.
name: Chaumard, N.
name: Baillie, K.
name: Tallifet, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Whereas it is generally accepted that calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) from chondritic meteorites formed in a hot environment in the solar protoplanetary disk, the conditions of their formation remain debated. Recent laboratory studies of CAIs have provided new kind of data: their size distributions. We show that size distributions of CAIs measured in laboratory from sections of carbonaceous chondrites have a power law size distribution with cumulative size exponent between -1.7 and -1.9, which translates into cumulative size exponent between -2.5 and -2.8 after correction for sectioning. To explain these observations, numerical simulations were run to explore the growth of CAIs from micrometer to centimeter sizes, in a hot and turbulent protoplanetary disk through the competition of coagulation and fragmentation. We show that the size distributions obtained in growth simulations are in agreement with CAIs size distributions in meteorites. We explain the CAI sharp cut-off of their size distribution at centimeter sizes as the direct result from the famous fragmentation barrier, provided that CAI fragment for impact velocities larger than 10 m/s. The growth/destruction timescales of millimeter- and centimeter-sized CAIs is inversely proportional to the local dust/gas ratio and is about 10 years at 1300 K and up to 104 years at 1670K. This implies that the most refractory CAIs are expected to be smaller in size owing to their long growth timescale compared to less refractory CAIs. Conversely, the least refractory CAIs could have been recycled many times during the CAI production era which may have profound consequences for their radiometric age.
description: Accepted in Icarus
Implementing privacy preserving record linkage: Insights from Australian use cases
Creators: name: Randall, Sean
name: Brown, Adrian
name: Ferrante, Anna
name: Boyd, James
name: Robinson, Suzanne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4604
subject: Cybersecurity and privacy
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: To describe the use of privacy preserving linkage methods operationally in Australia, and to present insights and key learnings from their implementation. Methods: Privacy preserving record linkage (PPRL) utilising Bloom filters provides a unique practical mechanism that allows linkage to occur without the release of personally identifiable information (PII), while still ensuring high accuracy. Results: The methodology has received wide uptake within Australia, with four state linkage units with privacy preserving capability. It has enabled access to general practice and private pathology data amongst other, both much sought after datasets previous inaccessible for linkage. Conclusion: The Australian experience suggests privacy preserving linkage is a practical solution for improving data access for policy, planning and population health research. It is hoped interest in this methodology internationally continues to grow.
Direct medical and indirect absenteeism costs among working adult ADHD patients in the United States
Creators: name: Shah, Chintal H.
name: Onukwugha, Eberechukwu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: This study investigated the direct medical and indirect (i.e. absenteeism) costs among working adults diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the United States. This study utilized 2017–2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data. Attribution and regression-based incremental cost approaches were utilized to estimate direct medical costs, i.e. prescription drug costs and total costs. The regression-based approach was utilized to estimate absenteeism cost. The study sample consisted of 32,222 observations (weighted: 187,207,896). Of these, 459 (weighted: 3,175,033) had ADHD. The mean annual per person ADHD-attributable prescription drug cost was 2018 US $1,248 (standard error (SE): 97) and the ADHD-attributable total cost was $2,031 (SE: 371). This contributed to a mean overall annual spending of $3.96 (SE: 0.42) billion on ADHD-attributable prescription drugs and $6.45 (SE: 1.26) billion on ADHD-attributable total direct medical costs among adult ADHD patients. Based on the regression-based approach, the mean annual incremental cost for ADHD was $1,641 (SE: 164) and $4,328 (SE: 862) per person for prescription medication costs and total costs, respectively. The mean indirect cost of ADHD was estimated at $512 (SE: 91) per year, per person among working adults with ADHD in the United States. There is a significant direct and indirect economic burden on working adults with ADHD. There is a significant economic burden of ADHD in terms of direct medical (including out-of-pocket) cost as well as indirect absenteeism cost. The per person annual costs estimated using a regression approach were approximately twice as much as the costs using the sum disease-specific approach, suggesting a potential role for ‘spillover’ costs among working adults with ADHD. Prescription drug costs were top-ranked contributors to the direct medical costs. As a group, working adults with ADHD are relatively understudied and more research is needed to better understand the burden of ADHD in this group.
Burden of illness the first year after diagnosed bladder dysfunction among people with spinal cord injury or multiple sclerosis – a Danish register study
Creators: name: Buchter, Marie Lynge
name: Kjellberg, Jakob
name: Ibsen, Rikke
name: Sternhufvud, Catarina
name: Petersen, Birte
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: People with spinal cord injury (SCI) or multiple sclerosis (MS) are often living with some degree of bladder and/or bowel dysfunction due to acquired neurogenic damage. The objective was to estimate the burden of illness of SCI and MS the first year after diagnosed bladder dysfunction. Data were extracted from registers covering all Danish citizens. People with SCI or MS were indexed at diagnosis of bladder dysfunction. Inclusion period was 2002–2015 and cases and matched controls were followed for one year. A total of 2,132 subjects with SCI and 1,887 subjects with MS were identified. Healthcare utilization and societal costs per patient-year were significantly higher for cases compared to controls driven primarily by inpatient care. Cases with urinary tract infection had significantly higher inpatient costs per patient-year compared to controls (SCI: 544 EUR vs 23, p < 0.05; MS: 497 EUR vs 6, p< 0.05) and medication for constipation was significantly more costly per patient-year (SCI: 178 EUR vs 3, p < 0.05; MS: 78 vs 1, p < 0.05). The study demonstrates heavy societal and personal costs in the first year after bladder dysfunction in people with SCI or MS. This emphasizes the need for medical and social interventions to reduce the burden of illness.
Pure infiniteness and ideal structure of $C^*$-algebras associated to Fell bundles
Creators: name: Kwaśniewski, B. K.
name: Szymański, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L05

description: We investigate structural properties of the reduced cross-sectional algebra $C^*_r(\mathcal{B})$ of a Fell bundle $\mathcal{B}$ over a discrete group $G$. Conditions allowing one to determine the ideal structure of $C^*_r(\mathcal{B})$ are studied. Notions of aperiodicity, paradoxicality and $\mathcal{B}$-infiniteness for the Fell bundle $\mathcal{B}$ are introduced and investigated by themselves and in relation to the partial dynamical system dual to $\mathcal{B}$. Several criteria of pure infiniteness of $C^*_r(\mathcal{B})$ are given. It is shown that they generalize and unify corresponding results obtained in the context of crossed products, by the following duos: Laca, Spielberg; Jolissaint, Robertson; Sierakowski, Rørdam; Giordano, Sierakowski and Ortega, Pardo. For exact, separable Fell bundles satisfying the residual intersection property primitive ideal space of $C^*_r(\mathcal{B})$ is determined. The results of the paper are shown to be optimal when applied to graph $C^*$-algebras. Applications to a class of Exel-Larsen crossed products are presented.
description: This is the version accepted to Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. Pure infiniteness criteria have been generalized. In particular, now they unify the corresponding results of Jolissaint, Robertson and Sierakowski, R{\o}rdam
(102477) Reginald Turner Worth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Giant electro-optic and elasto-optic effects in ferroelectric NbOI$_{2}$
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhenlong
name: Di, Xuehan
name: Paillard, Charles
name: Bellaiche, Laurent
name: Jiang, Zhijun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principles calculations are performed to investigate the electro-optic (EO) and elasto-optic effects of the three-dimensional (bulk) and two-dimensional (monolayer) ferroelectric NbOI$_{2}$. Remarkably large linear EO and elasto-optic coefficients are discovered in both systems, when under stress-free conditions. We further found that the EO responses of bulk and monolayer NbOI$_{2}$ can be further enhanced with epitaxial strain, because of a strain-driven ferroelectric-to-paraelectric transition that originates from the softening of some polar optical modes. Our findings thus point out that NbOI$_{2}$, as well as other niobium oxide dihalides are highly promising for paving the way for potentially efficient nonlinear optical device applications.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
THE PLACE OF ALIKHANTORA SOGUNIY IN THE HISTORY OF EAST TURKESTAN
Creators: name: Arslonov Zarifjon Zokirjon Ugli
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2020
Subjects: Alikhantura Soguniy
East Turkistan Republic
Tsarist Russia
"The history of Muhammadiy"
patriotism
marshal

description: The article studies the political situation in Turkistan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the political activity of Alikhantura Soguniy, who opposed to the policy of Chor administration's violence against the local population in East Turkestan as well as his role in history, society, state administration, authority, religion, and other issues, and the scientific and creative works of Alikhantura Soguniy on the way of science and enlightenment.
The $B \to D \ell ν$ form factors at nonzero recoil and $|V_{cb}|$ from $2+1$-flavor lattice QCD
Creators: name: Lattice, Fermilab
name: Collaborations, MILC
name: :
name: Bailey, Jon A.
name: Bazavov, A.
name: Bernard, C.
name: Bouchard, C. M.
name: DeTar, C.
name: Du, Daping
name: El-Khadra, A. X.
name: Foley, J.
name: Freeland, E. D.
name: Gámiz, E.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Komijani, J.
name: Kronfeld, A. S.
name: Laiho, J.
name: Levkova, L.
name: Mackenzie, P. B.
name: Neil, E. T.
name: Qiu, Si-Wei
name: Simone, J.
name: Sugar, R.
name: Toussaint, D.
name: Van de Water, R. S.
name: Zhou, Ran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first unquenched lattice-QCD calculation of the hadronic form factors for the exclusive decay $\overline{B} \rightarrow D \ell \overlineν$ at nonzero recoil. We carry out numerical simulations on fourteen ensembles of gauge-field configurations generated with 2+1 flavors of asqtad-improved staggered sea quarks. The ensembles encompass a wide range of lattice spacings (approximately 0.045 to 0.12 fm) and ratios of light (up and down) to strange sea-quark masses ranging from 0.05 to 0.4. For the $b$ and $c$ valence quarks we use improved Wilson fermions with the Fermilab interpretation, while for the light valence quarks we use asqtad-improved staggered fermions. We extrapolate our results to the physical point using rooted staggered heavy-light meson chiral perturbation theory. We then parameterize the form factors and extend them to the full kinematic range using model-independent functions based on analyticity and unitarity. We present our final results for $f_+(q^2)$ and $f_0(q^2)$, including statistical and systematic errors, as coefficients of a series in the variable $z$ and the covariance matrix between these coefficients. We then fit the lattice form-factor data jointly with the experimentally measured differential decay rate from BaBar to determine the CKM matrix element, $|V_{cb}|=(39.6 \pm 1.7_{\rm QCD+exp} \pm 0.2_{\rm QED})\times 10^{-3}$. As a byproduct of the joint fit we obtain the form factors with improved precision at large recoil. Finally, we use them to update our calculation of the ratio $R(D)$ in the Standard Model, which yields $R(D) = 0.299(11)$.
description: 47 pages, 32 figures
(102478) Mary Jane Thomas
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Deformation Theory via Deviations
Creators: name: Stasheff, J.D.
name: Markl, M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: This article is about resettled Afghan Hazaras in Australia, many of whom are currently undergoing a complex process of transition (from transience into a more stable position) for the first time in their lives. Despite their permanent residency status, we show how resettlement can be a challenging transitional experience. For these new migrants, we argue that developing a sense of belonging during the transition period is a critical rite of passage in the context of their political and cultural identity. A study of forced migrants such as these, moving out of one transient experience into another transitional period (albeit one that holds greater promise and permanence) poses a unique intellectual challenge. New understandings about the ongoing, unpredictable consequences of ‘transience’ for refugee communities is crucial as we discover what might be necessary, as social support structures, to facilitate the process of transition into a distinctly new environment. The article is based on a doctoral ethnographic study of 30 resettled Afghan Hazara living in the region of Dandenong in Melbourne, Australia. Here, we include four of these participants’ reflections of transition during different phases of their resettlement. These reflections were particularly revealing of the ways in which some migrants deal with change and acquire a sense of belonging to the community. Taking a historical view, and drawing on Bourdieu’s notion of symbolic social capital to highlight themes in individual experiences of belonging, we show how some new migrants adjust and learn to ‘embody’ their place in the new country. Symbolic social capital illuminates how people access and use resources such as social networks as tools of empowerment, reflecting how Hazara post-arrival experiences are tied to complex power relations in their everyday social interactions and in their life trajectories as people in transition. We learned that such tools can facilitate the formation of Hazara migrant identities and are closely tied to their civic community participation, English language development, and orientation in, as well as comprehension of local cultural knowledge and place. This kind of theorization allows refugee, post-refugee and recent migrant narratives to be viewed not merely as static expressions of loss, trauma or damage, but rather as individual experiences of survival, adaptation and upward mobility.
(102488) William Augustus Linton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Demographic Bonus Era In Indonesia Church Leaders Response According To Jesus Leadership
Creators: name: Gunaryo Sudarmanto
name: Purwanto, Fredi
name: Latumahina, Dina Elisabeth
name: Setiawan, Iwan
name: Chresty Thessy Tupamahu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This material presented in VCOSPILED 2020
(102475) William Percy Willis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cost-effectiveness analysis of molecular diagnosis by next-generation sequencing versus sequential single testing in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer patients from a south Spanish hospital perspective
Creators: name: de Alava, Enrique
name: Pareja, María Jesús
name: Carcedo, David
name: Arrabal, Natalia
name: García, José-Francisco
name: Bernabé-Caro, Reyes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: To assess the cost-effectiveness of using next-generation sequencing (NGS) compared to sequential single-testing (SST) for molecular diagnostic and treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from a Spanish single-center perspective, the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio (HUVR). A decision-tree model was developed to assess the alterations detection alterations and diagnostic cost in patients with advanced NSCLC, comparing NGS versus SST. Model inputs such as testing, positivity rates, or treatment allocation were obtained from the literature and the clinical practice of HUVR experts through consultation. Several sensitivity analyses were performed to test the robustness of the model. Using NGS for molecular diagnosis of a 100-patients hypothetical cohort, 30 more alterations could be detected and 3 more patients could be enrolled in clinical-trials than using SST. On the other hand, diagnostic costs were increased up to €20,072 using NGS instead of SST. Using NGS time-to-results would be reduced from 16.7 to 9 days. The implementation of NGS at HUVR for the diagnostic of patients with advanced NSCLC provides significant clinical benefits compared to SST in terms of alterations detected, treatment with targeted-therapies and clinical-trial enrollment, and could be considered a cost-effective strategy.
Observed jet power and radiative efficiency of black hole candidates in Kerr + PFDM model
Creators: name: Narzilloev, Bakhtiyor
name: Abdujabbarov, Ahmadjon
name: Ahmedov, Bobomurat
name: Bambi, Cosimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this research, we explore the electromagnetic energy emitted by astrophysical black holes within the Kerr+PFDM spacetime, a model encompassing rotating black holes surrounded by dark matter. Our investigation focuses on black holes within X-ray binary systems, namely GRS 1915+105, GRO J1655-40, XTE J1550-564, A0620-00, H1743-322, and GRS 1124-683. Our findings indicate that the Kerr+PFDM spacetime can account for the radiative efficiency of these sources as determined through the continuum fitting method (CFM). Additionally, employing the Blandford-Znajeck mechanism, we demonstrate the ability to replicate the observed jet power. By combining the outcomes of both analyses for the selected objects, we establish more rigorous constraints on the spacetime parameters. Notably, our results reveal that similar to the Kerr spacetime, the Kerr+PFDM spacetime cannot simultaneously account for the observed jet power and radiative efficiency of GRS 1915+105.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures. Accepted in EPJC. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2310.10554
(102476) Stuart Willis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Multidimensional Persistence and Noise
Creators: name: Scolamiero, Martina
name: Chachólski, Wojciech
name: Lundman, Anders
name: Ramanujam, Ryan
name: Öberg, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we study multidimensional persistence modules [5,13] via what we call tame functors and noise systems. A noise system leads to a pseudo-metric topology on the category of tame functors. We show how this pseudo-metric can be used to identify persistent features of compact multidimensional persistence modules. To count such features we introduce the feature counting invariant and prove that assigning this invariant to compact tame functors is a 1-Lipschitz operation. For 1-dimensional persistence, we explain how, by choosing an appropriate noise system, the feature counting invariant identifies the same persistent features as the classical barcode construction.
description: Found Comput Math (2016)
Analytic and summable solutions of inhomogeneous moment partial differential equations
Creators: name: Michalik, Sławomir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35C10, 35C15, 35E15, 40G10

description: We study the Cauchy problem for a general inhomogeneous linear moment partial differential equation of two complex variables with constant coefficients, where the inhomogeneity is given by the formal power series. We state sufficient conditions for the convergence, analytic continuation and summability of formal power series solutions in terms of properties of the inhomogeneity. We consider both the summability in one variable t (with coefficients belonging to some Banach space of Gevrey series with respect to the second variable z) and the summability in two variables (t,z).
description: 26 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1303.1555
(102470) Sydney George Burge
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Toward Proof of Lusztig′s Conjecture Concerning Negative Level Representations of Affine Lie Algebras
Creators: name: Kumar, Shrawan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: Let ġ be a finite dimensional simple Lie algebra over C and let g = Aff^(ġ) be the affine Lie algebra bidually associated to ġ (cf. Definition 2.1). Let h be the dual Coxeter number of g (cf. Section 1.1.), and let l ≥ 1 be any integer. Lusztig made a conjecture determining the decomposition (in an approximate Grothendieck group) of irreducible highest weight modules of g of level -l -h (where the level is the scalar by which the canonical central element c ∈ g acts) in terms of the Verma modules of the same level, which involves the value of the KL-polynomials for the affine Weyl group W at 1 (cf. Conjecture 2.7). (Actually Lustig explicitly wrote down this conjecture only for the case where ġ is simply-laced, in which case g is nothing but the affine Lie algebra Ĺ(ġ); cf. Section 1.2.) The aim of this paper is to show that the celebrated Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture (which determines the decomposition of the irreducible module L(-wp-p) in terms of the Verma modues M(-vp-p)) for the affine Lie algebra g implies the validity of Lusztig's conjecture for every l ≥ 1 (cf. Theorem 2.10). Of course the KL-conjecture is known in the finite case due to Beilinson-Bernstein and Brylinski-Kashiwara. Recently, L Casian [C] has claimed to prove the KL-conjecture (for L (-wp-p)) in the affine case. Our work does not rely on Casian's work in any manner and would supplement his (or similar) results to establish the full Lusztig's conjecture concerning the negative level representations of affine Lie algebras.