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Correlations in azimuthal angle extending over a long range in pseudorapidity between particles, usually called the "ridge" phenomenon, were discovered in heavy-ion collisions, and later found in pp and p−Pb collisions. In large systems, they are thought to arise from the expansion (collective flow) of the produced particles. Extending these measurements over a wider range in pseudorapidity and final-state particle multiplicity is important to understand better the origin of these long-range correlations in small-collision systems. In this Letter, measurements of the long-range correlations in p−Pb collisions at sNN−−−√=5.02 TeV are extended to a pseudorapidity gap of Δη∼8 between particles using the ALICE, forward multiplicity detectors. After suppressing non-flow correlations, e.g., from jet and resonance decays, the ridge structure is observed to persist up to a very large gap of Δη∼8 for the first time in p−Pb collisions. This shows that the collective flow-like correlations extend over an extensive pseudorapidity range also in small-collision systems such as p−Pb collisions. The pseudorapidity dependence of the second-order anisotropic flow coefficient, v2(η), is extracted from the long-range correlations. The v2(η) results are presented for a wide pseudorapidity range of −3.1<η<4.8 in various centrality classes in p−Pb collisions. To gain a comprehensive understanding of the source of anisotropic flow in small-collision systems, the v2(η) measurements are compared to hydrodynamic and transport model calculations. The comparison suggests that the final-state interactions play a dominant role in developing the anisotropic flow in small-collision systems.
Non-standard errors
(2021)
In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation across researchers adds uncertainty: non-standard errors. To study them, we let 164 teams test six hypotheses on the same sample. We find that non-standard errors are sizeable, on par with standard errors. Their size (i) co-varies only weakly with team merits, reproducibility, or peer rating, (ii) declines significantly after peer-feedback, and (iii) is underestimated by participants.
Background: Neonatal manifestation of life-threatening hyperammonemic encephalopathy in urea cycle disorders (UCD) is often misdiagnosed as neonatal sepsis, resulting in significantly delayed start of specific treatment and poor outcome. The major aim of this study was to identify specific initial symptoms or signs to clinically distinguish hyperammonemic encephalopathy in neonates from neonatal sepsis in order to identify affected individuals with UCD and to start metabolic therapy without delay. Furthermore, we evaluated the impact of diagnostic delay, peak plasma ammonium (NH4+) concentration, mode of emergency treatment and transfer to a tertiary referral center on the outcome.
Methods: Detailed information of 17 patients (born between 1994 and 2012) with confirmed diagnosis of UCD and neonatal hyperammonemic encephalopathy were collected from the original medical records.
Results: The initially suspected diagnosis was neonatal sepsis in all patients, but was not confirmed in any of them. Unlike neonatal sepsis and not previously reported blood pressure increased above the 95th percentile in 13 (81%) of UCD patients before emergency treatment was started. Respiratory alkalosis was found in 11 (65%) of UCD patients, and in 14 (81%) plasma NH4+concentrations further increased despite initiation of metabolic therapy.
Conclusion: Detection of high blood pressure could be a valuable parameter for distinguishing neonatal sepsis from neonatal manifestation of UCD. Since high blood pressure is not typical for neonatal sepsis, other reasons such as encephalopathy and especially hyperammonemic encephalopathy (caused by e.g. UCD) should be searched for immediately. However, our result that the majority of newborns with UCD initially present with high blood pressure has to be evaluated in larger patient cohorts.
While the early and asymptomatic recognition of treatable conditions offered by newborn screening confers clear health benefits for the affected child, the clinical referral of patients with screen positive results can cause significant harm for some families. The use of pivalate-containing antibiotics and more recently the inclusion of neopentanoate as a component within moisturising creams used as nipple balms by nursing mothers can result in a significant number of false positive results when screening for isovaleric acidaemia (IVA) by measuring C5 acylcarnitine. A recent survey conducted within centres from nine countries indicated that this form of contamination had been or was a significant confounding factor in the detection of IVA in seven of the nine who responded. In three of these seven the prominent cause was believed to derive from the use of moisturising creams and in another three from antibiotics containing pivalate; one country reported that the cause was mixed. As a result, four of these seven centres routinely perform second tier testing to resolve C5 isobars when an initial C5 result is elevated, and a fifth is considering making this change within their national programme. The use of creams containing neopentanoate by nursing mothers and evolving patterns in the prescription of pivalate-containing antibiotics during pregnancy require those involved in the design and operation of newborn screening programmes used to detect IVA and the doctors who receive clinical referrals from these programmes to maintain an awareness of the potential impact of this form of interference on patient results.
Since the publication of Nikolas Rose’s ‘The Politics of Life Itself’ (2001) there has been vivid discussion about how biopolitical governance has changed over the last decades. This article uses what Rose terms ‘molecular politics’, a new socio-technical grip on the human body, as a contrasting background to ask anew his question ‘What, then, of biopolitics today?’ – albeit focusing not on advances in genetics, microbiology, and pharmaceutics, as he does, but on the rapid proliferation of wearables and other sensor-software gadgets. In both cases, new technologies providing information about the individual body are the common ground for governance and optimization, yet for the latter, the target is habits of moving, eating and drinking, sleeping, working and relaxing. The resulting profound differences are carved out along four lines: ‘somatic identities’ and a modified understanding of the body; the role of ‘expert knowledge’ compared to that of networks of peers and self-experimentation; the ‘types of intervention’ by which new technologies become effective in our everyday life; and the ‘post-discipline character’ of molecular biopolitics. It is argued that, taken together, these differences indicate a remarkable shift which could be termed aretaic: its focus is not ‘life itself’ but ‘life as it is lived’, and its modality are new everyday socio-technical entanglements and their more-than-human rationalities of (self-)governance.
Zwischen "öffentlicher" und "kommerzieller" Kultur besteht ein Spannungsverhältnis. Durchzieht diese Feststellung fast alle Arbeiten, die sich mit öffentlicher Kulturpolitik befassen, so gilt sie für Frankfurt doch in ganz besonderem Maße: Die Stadt verkörpert zugleich eine richtungsweisende Kulturpolitik, von der Impulse für die gesamte Bundesrepublik ausgingen wie auch eine von den wirtschaftlichen Interessen des Finanzsektors dominierte Kommunalpolitik. In "Kultur für alle", einem Buch, dessen Autor Hilmar Hoffman nicht nur viele Jahre lang Kulturdezernent der Stadt war, sondern das sich auch maßgeblich aus den Erfahrungen dieser Zeit speist, ist beispielsweise von einer "im Kern antagonistischen Beziehung" die Rede. Kultur und Arbeit stünden in einem "krassen Mißverhältnis" und als "noch weitgehend vorbelastet muß auch das gestörte Verhältnis der öffentlichen Kulturarbeit zur Kulturindustrie gelten, obschon die Überschneidungsflächen erheblich an Terrain gewonnen haben, zum Beispiel im Bereich von Film und Kino oder in den Großveranstaltungen mit populärer Musik nach dem Motto 'Umsonst und open air'" (Hoffmann 1981: 22). ...
Lebensmittelkrisen wie BSE, Schweinepest, Vogelgrippe und der »Gammelfleischskandal« haben das Vertrauen der Verbraucher in den Agrarmarkt erschüttert. Deshalb verwenden Produzenten und Einzelhändler heute mehr Anstrengungen als jemals zuvor darauf, der verunsichernden Anonymität der global organisierten Produktion durch die Herstellung sozialer Nähe entgegenzuwirken. So suggerieren Herkunftszertifi kate für Regionalprodukte sowie eine schnell steigende Zahl von Hygiene-, Sozial- und Umweltstandards Verlässlichkeit aufgrund von geringen räumlichen Distanzen und unabhängiger Kontrolle, während Initiativen wie »Caretrace: Meet the Farmer« dadurch Vertrauen schaffen sollen, dass sich der Konsument im Internet über den individuellen Produzenten informieren kann. Doch die Folgen dieser Umbrüche für Produktionsweisen und Anbauregionen sind bislang nur wenig bekannt.
Die Kreativwirtschaft beschäftigt in Frankfurt etwa ebenso viele Menschen wie das Kreditgewerbe, trägt bislang allerdings lediglich 4,6 Prozent zum städtischen Gesamtumsatz bei. Seit einigen Monaten richtet die Frankfurter Wirtschaftsförderung ihr Augenmerk besonders auf den Kreativsektor. Der »1. Frankfurter Kreativwirtschaftsbericht«, den Wirtschaftsdezernent Boris Rhein (CDU) im Sommer der Öffentlichkeit vor stellte, wurde von Humangeografen der Goethe-Universität unter Leitung von Christian Berndt, Pascal Goeke und Peter Lindner erarbeitet.