cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Colorectal Cancer Metastases – Review of Clinical Outcomes and the Impact of Tumour Mutations
Creators: name: Chen, Beini
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Other
subject: Stereotactic radiotherapy
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To determine local control (LC) and overall survival (OS) in patients who received stereotactic radiotherapy in the setting of metastastic colorectal cancer, and explore the effect of various patient, tumour and treatment...
East Liberty Circulation and Mobility Action Plan
Creators: name: Danes, Stefani
name: East Liberty Development, Inc.
name: Consultants, Walker Parking
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 120501 Community Planning
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 120508 Urban Design

description: East Liberty, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, has seen major urban transformations since the mid-twentieth century. It was settled as a walkable neighborhood with short blocks, a continuous street grid, a commercial district, and good transit service. As the city lost businesses and residents to the suburbs in the 1960’s, the neighborhood experienced decline. It was inadvertently precipitated by a major urban renewal project that disrupted streets to create a highway-like ring road around the business district, destroyed over a thousand buildings to create large parking lots, and replaced hundreds of houses with subsidized high-rise apartment buildings. Forty years of disinvestment left the neighborhood with high rates of vacancy, neglect, and crime. Beginning with the Community Plan in 1999, East Liberty has been engaged in a multi-faceted community development effort, which has involved ongoing community-based planning. East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI), its non-profit community development organization, has worked with the local Chamber of Commerce and other community partners to bring back businesses, build mixed-income housing, and improve community amenities. Depressed property values have risen and crime rates have fallen. Private developers have started to invest in new commercial, residential, and mixed-use projects. With the marked increase in commercial activities and residential population, traffic and parking issues are becoming more critical. In fact, those issues are the highest priority of the community’s ongoing concerns for good circulation and mobility, which have been discussed since the planning process began in 1999. The most recent community plan update in 2011 reinforced the importance of safe and effective access throughout the neighborhood. Accordingly, East Liberty Development Inc. engaged the Remaking Cities Institute from Carnegie Mellon University (RCI) to study walkability and accessibility and Walker Parking Consultants to study parking, focusing primarily on the business district in East Liberty.
Separate and combined effects of advanced age and obesity on mammary adipose inflammation, immunosuppression and tumor progression in mouse models of triple negative breast cancer
Creators: name: Smith L.A.
name: Rainey M.A.
name: Rezeli E.T.
name: McDonell S.B.
name: Bowers L.W.
name: Hursting S.D.
name: Cozzo A.J.
name: Montgomery S.A.
name: Coleman M.F.
name: Sheth N.
name: Carson M.S.
name: Glenny E.M.
name: Craven D.M.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Advanced age and obesity are independent risk and progression factors for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), which presents significant public health concerns for the aging population and its increasing burden of obesity. Due to parallels between advanced age- and obesityrelated biology, particularly adipose inflammation, we hypothesized that advanced age and obesity each accelerate mammary tumor growth through convergent, and likely interactive, mechanisms. Methods: To test this hypothesis, we orthotopically transplanted murine syngeneic TNBC cells into the mammary glands of young normoweight control (7 months), young diet-induced obese (DIO), aged normoweight control (17 months), and aged DIO female C57BL/6J mice. Results: Here we report accelerated tumor growth in aged control and young DIO mice, compared with young controls. Transcriptional analyses revealed, with a few exceptions, overlapping patterns of mammary tumor inflammation and tumor immunosuppression in aged control mice and young DIO mice, relative to young controls. Moreover, aged control and young DIO tumors, compared with young controls, had reduced abundance ofcytotoxic CD8 T cells. Finally, DIO in advanced age exacerbated mammary tumor growth, inflammation and tumor immunosuppression. Discussion: These findings demonstrate commonalities in the mechanisms driving TNBC in aged and obese mice, relative to young normoweight controls. Moreover, we found that advanced age and DIO interact to accelerate mammary tumor progression. Given the US population is getting older and more obese, age- and obesity-related biological differences will need to be considered when developing mechanism-based strategies for preventing or controlling breast cancer.
Simplified firefly algorithm for 2D image key-points search
Creators: name: Napoli, Christian
name: Pappalardo, Giuseppe
name: Tramontana, Emiliano
name: Marszałek, Zbigniew
name: Połap, Dawid
name: Woźniak, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.2.10; I.4.8
subject: 68T05, 68T10, 68T45, 68U10, 68W25, 68W99

description: In order to identify an object, human eyes firstly search the field of view for points or areas which have particular properties. These properties are used to recognise an image or an object. Then this process could be taken as a model to develop computer algorithms for images identification. This paper proposes the idea of applying the simplified firefly algorithm to search for key-areas in 2D images. For a set of input test images the proposed version of firefly algorithm has been examined. Research results are presented and discussed to show the efficiency of this evolutionary computation method.
description: Published version on: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence
LED Street Light Research Project
Creators: name: Quick, Stephen
name: Carter, Donald K.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120508 Urban Design
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: LED Street Light Research Project Street lighting systems can account for as much as sixty percent of a municipal government’s total electricity use. New lighting and sensor technologies can reduce energy usage and save money. A major trend in street lighting is to use light emitting diode (LED) technology as a means of lowering energy use and overall maintenance costs. However, RCI's research indicates that performance issues have been neglected. The study team investigated the technological possibilities, best management practices, lessons learned from cities using LED lighting, and the place-making and aesthetic impact of LED lighting. The team also investigated the issues surrounding the replacement of existing fixtures with equivalent LED fixtures. The City of Pittsburgh engaged the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) to investigate the full range of potential benefits of a replacement program in business districts. The research team included Carnegie Mellon University faculty and researchers from the Remaking Cities Institute, School of Architecture and the School of Drama, as well as lighting consultants from C & C Lighting, LLC in Pittsburgh and Orfield Laboratories, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN.
Shannon, Tsallis and Kaniadakis entropies in bi-level image thresholding
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The maximum entropy principle is often used for bi-level or multi-level thresholding of images. For this purpose, some methods are available based on Shannon and Tsallis entropies. In this paper, we discuss them and propose a method based on Kaniadakis entropy.
description: Keywords: Kaniadakis Entropy, Image Processing, Image Segmentation, Image Thresholding, Texture Transitions
Sexual identity fluidity, identity management stress, and depression among sexual minority adolescents
Creators: name: Goldbach, Jeremy T.
name: Hall, William J.
name: Krueger, Evan A.
name: Srivastava, Ankur
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: Introduction Sexual identity is mutable and evolving, particularly during adolescence. Sexual identity fluidity could be stressful for some adolescents and may differ by birth-sex. Evidence suggests chronic stress can lead to negative mental health outcomes. However, it is unknown if these two processes (stress and depression) differ by sexual identity fluidity.MethodsThis paper studied time-sequential associations between identity management stress and depression over time by sexual identity fluidity, in a national longitudinal data from sexual minority adolescents (SMA) aged 14–17 years using a multigroup autoregressive cross-lagged model (n = 1077). Results In the sample, 40% of SMA reported at least one change in sexual identity over 18-month period. Greater number of cisgender females reported sexual identity fluidity compared to their male counterparts (46.9% vs. 26.6%). A temporal cross-lagged effect was reported between depression and identity management stress among cisgender females who reported fluidity in sexual identity; and no cross-lagged effect was reported among those females who did not report fluidity. However, among cisgender male sample depression predicted subsequent identity management stress, irrespective of their change sexual identity fluidity status. Conclusion Public health programs and practice must be responsive to the sexual identity fluidity processes among adolescents, with particular attention to minority stress and depression. In addition, our results indicate that sexual identity development and fluidity processes differ between cisgender females and males; and the nuances associated with these processes of change need further investigation.
Standard Model and Graviweak Unification with (Super)Renormalizable Gravity. Part I: Visible and Invisible Sectors of the Universe
Creators: name: Laperashvili, L. V.
name: Nielsen, H. B.
name: Tureanu, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a self-consistent $Spin(4,4)$-invariant model of the unification of gravity with weak $SU(2)$ gauge and Higgs fields in the visible and invisible sectors of our Universe. We consider a general case of the graviweak unification, including the higher-derivative super-renormalizable theory of gravity, which is a unitary, asymptotically-free and perturbatively consistent theory of the quantum gravity.
description: 27 pages
title: Radiological appearance of Intraspinal Epidermoid Cyst with Associated Dermal Sinus
Creators: name: Patil, Sahil
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cysts

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Purpose Intraspinal epidermoid cysts (IEC) are cystic tumours lined by squamous epithelium that do not contain skin appendages [1]. IEC is uncommon, comprising 0.5-1% of all spinal tumours in patients of all ages, up to 10% in paediatrics and are...
SSAVE: A tool for analysis and visualization of sleep periods using electroencephalography data
Creators: name: Li, Yuanyuan
name: Yeung, Deryck
name: Fan, Zheng
name: Umbach, David M.
name: Li, Leping
name: Talukder, Amlan
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: Human sleep architecture is structured with repeated episodes of rapid-eye-movement (REM) and non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep. An overnight sleep study facilitates identification of macro and micro changes in the pattern and duration of sleep stages associated with sleep disorders and other aspects of human mental and physical health. Overnight sleep studies record, in addition to electroencephalography (EEG) and other electro-physiological signals, a sequence of sleep-stage annotations. SSAVE, introduced here, is open-source software that takes sleep-stage annotations and EEG signals as input, identifies and characterizes periods of NREM and REM sleep, and produces a hypnogram and its time-matched EEG spectrogram. SSAVE fills an important gap for the rapidly growing field of sleep medicine by providing an easy-to-use tool for sleep-period identification and visualization. SSAVE can be used as a Python package, a desktop standalone tool or through a web portal. All versions of the SSAVE tool can be found on: https://manticore.niehs.nih.gov/ssave.
Additional file 3 of Health Benefits of Different Sports: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal and Intervention Studies Including 2.6 Million Adult Participants
Creators: name: Oja, Pekka
name: Memon, Aamir Raoof
name: Titze, Sylvia
name: Jurakic, Danijel
name: Chen, Si-Tong
name: Shrestha, Nipun
name: Em, Sowannry
name: Matolic, Tena
name: Vasankari, Tommi
name: Heinonen, Ari
name: Grgic, Jozo
name: Koski, Pasi
name: Kokko, Sami
name: Kelly, Paul
name: Foster, Charlie
name: Podnar, Hrvoje
name: Pedisic, Zeljko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Summary of longitudinal studies on the association between participation in specific sports and health.
Wilson loops with arbitrary charges
Creators: name: Korcyl, Piotr
name: Koren, Mateusz
name: Wosiek, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how to implement, in lattice gauge theories, external charges which are not commensurate with an elementary gauge coupling. It is shown that an arbitrary, real power of a standard Wilson loop (or Polyakov line) can be defined and consistently computed in lattice formulation of non-abelian, two dimensional gauge theories. However, such an observable can excite quantum states with integer fluxes only. Since the non-integer fluxes are not in the spectrum of the theory they cannot be created, no matter which observable is chosen. Also the continuum limit of above averages does not exist unless the powers in question are in fact integer. On the other hand, a new continuum limit exists, which is rather intuitive, and where above observables make perfect sense and lead to the string tension proportional to the square of arbitrary (non necessary commensurate with gauge coupling) charge.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
title: Margin Reduction with The Introduction of Intra-fractional Monitoring using Varian Identify SGRT for Frameless Stereotactic Cranial Radiosurgery (SRS)
Creators: name: Merie, Roya
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Other
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer
subject: Image guided radiotherapy
subject: Other

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To assess the potential of margin reduction for cranial SRS based on the accuracy of Varian IDENTIFY TM surface guided radiotherapy (SGRT) achievable in a clinical treatment setting, which includes typical variables such as differences in patient...
Antimicrobial, anticancer, antidiabetic, antineurodegenerative, and antirheumatic.
Creators: name: Hassan Aubais-aljelehawy, Qassim
name: Mohammadi, Shadieh
name: Mohamadian, Elham
name: Raji Mal Allah, Osamah
name: Mirzaei, Alireza
name: Ghahremanlou, Mobin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified
Plant cell and molecular biology
Animal cell and molecular biology
Genetics not elsewhere classified
Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
Agronomy

description: Thymol is monoterpenic phenol with a wide range of therapeutic properties. Various pharmacological properties including antimicrobial, antineoplastic, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antirheumatic, and antineurodegenerative have been found for this metabolite. The severity of peripheral nerve dysfunction in diabetes mellitus can be ameliorated by thymol treatment via decreasing tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF- α) and nitric oxide levels. In the case of the anticancer mechanism, thymol can increase the expression of the tumor suppressor of p53, Bcl-2-associated X protein (Bax), and apoptosis. Moreover, in this review, three main neurodegenerative diseases of Alzheimer's disease (AD), multiple sclerosis (MS), and Parkinson's disease (PD) have been discussed with respect to antineurodegenerative activities of thymol. Recent studies show that novel formulations of thymol in the nanoscale can improve therapeutic activities such as thymol release in vitro and in vivo. Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of thymol against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria can be augmented by various nanoformulations. Therefore, we have tried to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of micro and nanoformulations of this bioactive material according to recent investigations.
Targeting Apoptotic Pathway of Cancer Cells with Phytochemicals and Plant-Based Nanomaterials
Creators: name: Akhtar, Nahid
name: Devkota, Hari Prasad
name: Singh, Rattandeep
name: Prakash, Ajit
name: Sinha, Shruti
name: Jha, Prakash Kumar
name: Mir, Tahir ul Gani
name: Jha, Aprajita
name: Tripathi, Surya Kant
name: Wani, Atif Khurshid
name: Jain, Abha
name: Mallik, Shyam Kumar
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: Apoptosis is the elimination of functionally non-essential, neoplastic, and infected cells via the mitochondrial pathway or death receptor pathway. The process of apoptosis is highly regulated through membrane channels and apoptogenic proteins. Apoptosis maintains cellular balance within the human body through cell cycle progression. Loss of apoptosis control prolongs cancer cell survival and allows the accumulation of mutations that can promote angiogenesis, promote cell proliferation, disrupt differentiation, and increase invasiveness during tumor progression. The apoptotic pathway has been extensively studied as a potential drug target in cancer treatment. However, the off-target activities of drugs and negative implications have been a matter of concern over the years. Phytochemicals (PCs) have been studied for their efficacy in various cancer cell lines individually and synergistically. The development of nanoparticles (NPs) through green synthesis has added a new dimension to the advancement of plant-based nanomaterials for effective cancer treatment. This review provides a detailed insight into the fundamental molecular pathways of programmed cell death and highlights the role of PCs along with the existing drugs and plant-based NPs in treating cancer by targeting its programmed cell death (PCD) network.
A model-based constraint on CO2 fertilisation
Creators: name: Holden, P.B.
name: Edwards, N.R.
name: Gerten, D.
name: Schaphoff, S.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: air-sea interaction
subject: biosphere
subject: calibration
subject: carbon dioxide
subject: carbon flux
subject: concentration (composition)
subject: numerical model
subject: primary production
subject: 550

description: We derive a constraint on the strength of CO2 fertilisation of the terrestrial biosphere through a "top-down" approach, calibrating Earth system model parameters constrained by the post-industrial increase of atmospheric CO2 concentration. We derive a probabilistic prediction for the globally averaged strength of CO2 fertilisation in nature, for the period 1850 to 2000 AD, implicitly net of other limiting factors such as nutrient availability. The approach yields an estimate that is independent of CO2 enrichment experiments. To achieve this, an essential requirement was the incorporation of a land use change (LUC) scheme into the GENIE Earth system model. Using output from a 671-member ensemble of transient GENIE simulations, we build an emulator of the change in atmospheric CO2 concentration change since the preindustrial period. We use this emulator to sample the 28-dimensional input parameter space. A Bayesian calibration of the emulator output suggests that the increase in gross primary productivity (GPP) in response to a doubling of CO2 from preindustrial values is very likely (90% confidence) to exceed 20%, with a most likely value of 40–60%. It is important to note that we do not represent all of the possible contributing mechanisms to the terrestrial sink. The missing processes are subsumed into our calibration of CO2 fertilisation, which therefore represents the combined effect of CO2 fertilisation and additional missing processes. If the missing processes are a net sink then our estimate represents an upper bound. We derive calibrated estimates of carbon fluxes that are consistent with existing estimates. The present-day land–atmosphere flux (1990–2000) is estimated at −0.7 GTC yr−1 (likely, 66% confidence, in the range 0.4 to −1.7 GTC yr−1). The present-day ocean–atmosphere flux (1990–2000) is estimated to be −2.3 GTC yr−1 (likely in the range −1.8 to −2.7 GTC yr−1). We estimate cumulative net land emissions over the post-industrial period (land use change emissions net of the CO2 fertilisation and climate sinks) to be 66 GTC, likely to lie in the range 0 to 128 GTC.
title: Repaired transposition of great vessels with PAPVR complicated by Eisenmenger Syndrome at adulthood
Creators: name: Kansan Naider, Dachani
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Complications
subject: Normal variants
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Blood
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Outcomes

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Learning Objectives: Right to left shunt NM study is helpful to identify the presence of right to left shunt and quantify its severity. This is particularly helpful with extra cardiac shunts. CTPA is commonly used to diagnose or rule out pulmonary...
Thermoresponsive self-assembly of twofold fluorescently labeled block copolymers in aqueous solution and microemulsions
Creators: name: Hechenbichler, Michelle
name: Prause, Albert
name: Gradzielski, Michael
name: Laschewsky, André
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: watersoluble polymer
subject: associative polymer
subject: amphiphile
subject: thermo-responsive
subject: self-assembly
subject: fluorescence label
subject: FRET

description: A nonionic double hydrophilic block copolymer with a long permanently hydrophilic and a small thermoresponsive block is synthesized by reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization (RAFT). By employing a specifically designed chain-transfer agent, the polymer is functionalized with complementary end groups which are suited for Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). The end group attached to the permanently hydrophilic block of poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) pDMAm is designed as a permanently hydrophobic segment (“sticker”) comprising a long alkyl chain and the 4-aminonaphthalimide fluorophore. The other end attached to the thermoresponsive block of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) pNiPAm incorporates a coumarin fluorophore. The temperature-dependent self-assembly of the twofold fluorescently labeled copolymer is studied in pure aqueous solution as well as in an o/w microemulsion by several techniques including turbidimetry, dynamic light scattering (DLS), and fluorescence spectroscopy. It is compared to the behaviors of the analogous twofold-labeled pDMAm and pNiPAm homopolymer references. The findings indicate that the block copolymer behaves as a polymeric surfactant at low temperatures, with one relatively small hydrophobic end block and an extended hydrophilic chain forming “hairy micelles”. At elevated temperatures above the LCST phase transition of the pNiPAm block, however, the copolymer behaves as an associative telechelic polymer with two nonsymmetrical hydrophobic end blocks, which do not mix. Thus, instead of a network of bridged “flower micelles”, large dynamic aggregates are formed. These are connected alternatingly by the original micellar cores as well as by clusters of the collapsed pNiPAm blocks. This type of structure is even more favored in the o/w microemulsion than in pure aqueous solution, as the microemulsion droplets constitute an attractive anchoring point for the hydrophobic dodecyl sticker but not for the collapsed pNiPAm chains.
Spatio-temporal modelling of extreme storms
Creators: name: Economou, Theodoros
name: Stephenson, David B.
name: Ferro, Christopher A. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A flexible spatio-temporal model is implemented to analyse extreme extra-tropical cyclones objectively identified over the Atlantic and Europe in 6-hourly re-analyses from 1979-2009. Spatial variation in the extremal properties of the cyclones is captured using a 150 cell spatial regularisation, latitude as a covariate, and spatial random effects. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is also used as a covariate and is found to have a significant effect on intensifying extremal storm behaviour, especially over Northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula. Estimates of lower bounds on minimum sea-level pressure are typically 10-50 hPa below the minimum values observed for historical storms with largest differences occurring when the NAO index is positive.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOAS766 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Invariance of global solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation
Creators: name: Maderna, Ezequiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49L25, 37J50, 53D12, 70H20

description: We show that every global viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation associated with a convex and superlinear Hamiltonian on the cotangent bundle of a closed manifold is necessarily invariant under the identity component of the group of symmetries of the Hamiltonian (We prove that this group is a compact Lie group). In particular, every Lagrangian section invariant under the Hamiltonian flow is also invariant under this group.
Johnstown Vision 2025: A Resilience Framework
Creators: name: Danes, Stefani
name: Gnecco, Andrea Salomon
name: Wells, Olivia
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 120508 Urban Design
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: A number of revitalization efforts have been either undertaken or proposed for Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a small post-industrial city located in Cambria County, approximately 75 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Johnstown's Vision 2025 Governance Committee commissioned the Remaking Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University to study the proposed initiatives and develop a commonly held set of priorities for the community. The Institute developed a resilience framework to direct Johnstown's next steps forward by meeting with community leaders, analyzing existing plans and conducting new research. This research has led to greater engagement of both community leaders and ordinary citizens in the remaking of Johnstown as a model of resilience.
MaSTer: (Practically) Maliciously Secure Truncation for Replicated Secret Sharing
Creators: name: Zbudila, Martin
name: Pohle, Erik
name: Aysajan Abidin
name: Preneel, Bart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: Secure multi-party computation (MPC) in a three-party honest majority scenario is currently the state-of-the-art for running machine learning algorithms in a privacy-preserving manner. For efficiency reasons, fixed-point arithmetic is widely used to approximate computation over decimal numbers. In this poster we present a work-in-progress efficient three-party maliciously secure truncation protocol without pre-processing, thereby improving on the current state-of-the-art in MPC over rings using replicated secret sharing (RSS). A performance evaluation will be reported in the poster slide.
title: The utility of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and the default mode network (DMN): Suicide risk stratification and ketamine response
Creators: name: Leaney, Adam
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Emergency
subject: Management
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Education
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Other

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The overarching aim of this review is to generate a multidisciplinary, hypothesis-driven approach toward using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate its potential utility in risk stratification with respect to suicidal ideation,...
Carbon nanotubes filled with ferromagnetic materials
Creators: name: Weissker, Uhland
name: Hampel, Silke
name: Leonhardt, Albrecht
name: Büchner, Bernd
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Carbon nanotubes
subject: ferromagnetic nanowires
subject: growth mechanism
subject: magnetic properties
subject: application
subject: 620

description: Carbon nanotubes (CNT) filled with ferromagnetic metals like iron, cobalt or nickel are new and very interesting nanostructured materials with a number of unique properties. In this paper we give an overview about different chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods for their synthesis and discuss the influence of selected growth parameters. In addition we evaluate possible growth mechanisms involved in their formation. Moreover we show their identified structural and magnetic properties. On the basis of these properties we present different application possibilities. Some selected examples reveal the high potential of these materials in the field of medicine and nanotechnology.
The Potsdam Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM-PIK) - Part 2: Dynamic equilibrium simulation of the Antarctic ice sheet
Creators: name: Martin, M.A.
name: Winkelmann, R.
name: Haseloff, M.
name: Albrecht, T.
name: Bueler, E.
name: Khroulev, C.
name: Levermann, A.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: cryosphere
subject: database
subject: flow pattern
subject: grounding line
subject: ice flow
subject: ice sheet
subject: ice shelf
subject: ice thickness
subject: mass balance
subject: melt
subject: numerical model
subject: parameterization
subject: sea ice
subject: steady-state equilibrium
subject: surface temperature
subject: three-dimensional modeling
subject: transition zone
subject: 550

description: We present a dynamic equilibrium simulation of the ice sheet-shelf system on Antarctica with the Potsdam Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM-PIK). The simulation is initialized with present-day conditions for bed topography and ice thickness and then run to steady state with constant present-day surface mass balance. Surface temperature and sub-shelf basal melt distribution are parameterized. Grounding lines and calving fronts are free to evolve, and their modeled equilibrium state is compared to observational data. A physically-motivated calving law based on horizontal spreading rates allows for realistic calving fronts for various types of shelves. Steady-state dynamics including surface velocity and ice flux are analyzed for whole Antarctica and the Ronne-Filchner and Ross ice shelf areas in particular. The results show that the different flow regimes in sheet and shelves, and the transition zone between them, are captured reasonably well, supporting the approach of superposition of SIA and SSA for the representation of fast motion of grounded ice. This approach also leads to a natural emergence of sliding-dominated flow in stream-like features in this new 3-D marine ice sheet model.
Socioeconomic Patterns in Budget Share Allocations of Regulated Foods and Beverages in Chile: A Longitudinal Analysis
Creators: name: Corvalán, Camila
name: Paraje, Guillermo
name: Montes de Oca, Daniela
name: Popkin, Barry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Chile has enacted stringent legislation regulating food and beverage labeling and advertising. This study assesses the changes in the average relative allocations of food and beverage budgets for regulated versus not regulated products in households of different socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds. A household fixed effect before–after model is estimated and the marginal effects in the changes of levels and trends in budget shares and purchased volumes after the implementation of the regulations are examined. The results highlight how impactful food policies can shift consumption toward healthier products.
Correlation between electric-field-induced phase transition and piezoelectricity in lead zirconate titanate films
Creators: name: Kovacova, V
name: Vaxelaire, N
name: Rhun, G Le
name: Gergaud, P
name: Schmitz-Kempen, T
name: Defay, E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observed that electric field induces phase transition from tetragonal to rhombohedral in polycrystalline morphotropic lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films, as reported in 2011 for bulk PZT. Moreover, we evidenced that this field-induced phase transition is strongly correlated with PZT film piezoelectric properties, that is to say the larger the phase transition, the larger the longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient d 33,eff . Although d 33,eff is already comprised between as 150 to 170 pm/V, our observation suggests that one could obtain larger d 33,eff values, namely 250 pm/V, by optimizing the field-induced phase transition thanks to composition fine tuning.
Structure and neutralization mechanism of a human antibody targeting a complex Epitope on Zika virus
Creators: name: Segovia-Chumbez, Bruno
name: Ng, Thiam-Seng
name: Shu, Bo
name: Bhowmik, Ryan
name: Lazear, Helen M.
name: Lok, Shee-mei
name: Adams, Cameron
name: Castillo, Izabella N.
name: Silva, Aravinda M. de
name: Premkumar, Lakshmanane
name: Graham, Stephen
name: Puhl, Ana C.
name: Diehl, Sean A.
name: Carbaugh, Derek L.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: We currently have an incomplete understanding of why only a fraction of human antibodies that bind to flaviviruses block infection of cells. Here we define the footprint of a strongly neutralizing human monoclonal antibody (mAb G9E) with Zika virus (ZIKV) by both X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. Flavivirus envelope (E) glycoproteins are present as homodimers on the virion surface, and G9E bound to a quaternary structure epitope spanning both E protomers forming a homodimer. As G9E mainly neutralized ZIKV by blocking a step after viral attachment to cells, we tested if the neutralization mechanism of G9E was dependent on the mAb cross-linking E molecules and blocking low-pH triggered conformational changes required for viral membrane fusion. We introduced targeted mutations to the G9E paratope to create recombinant antibodies that bound to the ZIKV envelope without cross-linking E protomers. The G9E paratope mutants that bound to a restricted epitope on one protomer poorly neutralized ZIKV compared to the wild-type mAb, demonstrating that the neutralization mechanism depended on the ability of G9E to cross-link E proteins. In cell-free low pH triggered viral fusion assay, both wild-type G9E, and epitope restricted paratope mutant G9E bound to ZIKV but only the wild-type G9E blocked fusion. We propose that, beyond antibody binding strength, the ability of human antibodies to cross-link E-proteins is a critical determinant of flavivirus neutralization potency.
SGC-CAMKK2-1: A Chemical Probe for CAMKK2
Creators: name: O’Byrne, Sean
name: Ramos, Priscila Zonzini
name: Frigo, Daniel E.
name: Catta-Preta, Carolina Moura Costa
name: York, Brian
name: Wells, Carrow
name: Stork, Brittany
name: Langendorf, Christopher G.
name: McDonnell, Donald P.
name: Nay, Kevin
name: Awad, Dominik
name: Scott, John W.
name: Gileadi, Carina
name: Gileadi, Opher
name: Means, Anthony R.
name: Mukherjee, Debarati
name: Oakhill, Jonathan S.
name: Hossain, Mohammad Anwar
name: Eduful, Benjamin
name: Lin, Chenchu
name: Couñago, Rafael M.
name: Pulliam, Thomas L.
name: Liang, Yi
name: Racioppi, Luigi
name: Drewry, David H.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: The serine/threonine protein kinase calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2 (CAMKK2) plays critical roles in a range of biological processes. Despite its importance, only a handful of inhibitors of CAMKK2 have been disclosed. Having a selective small molecule tool to interrogate this kinase will help demonstrate that CAMKK2 inhibition can be therapeutically beneficial. Herein, we disclose SGC-CAMKK2-1, a selective chemical probe that targets CAMKK2.
Proceedings of the 2023 Poster Session of the 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
Creators: name: Mariot, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This volume contains the abstracts of the posters accepted and presented at the EuroS&P 2023
 conference, which was held on July 3-6, 2023 in Delft, the Netherlands. Following the tradition
 initiated with the 2022 edition of the conference, these proceedings are published on Zenodo
 (https://zenodo.org), an open research repository operated by CERN, which enables sharing and
 preserving of research outputs.
 The poster session of Euro S&P is conceived as an opportunity for security and privacy researchers
 to share their recent results, and to obtain valuable feedback on their ongoing work from participants
 at the conference. In total, 8 abstracts were submitted to the poster session, which underwent a
 lightweight review process. In particular, reviews were aimed at checking the coherence of the
 abstracts with the scope of Euro S&P, rather than providing in-depth technical feedback as for a
 regular submission. Each abstract was reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.
 After the review phase, the program committee decided to accept all submitted abstracts.
 I would like to thank all the authors for their submissions, and especially the poster presenters to have
 brought up to life an interesting poster session at the conference. I am also indebted to the program
 committee of the Euro S&P poster session, for their timely and useful reviews. I would also like to
 thank the general chairs of Euro S&P 2023, Kaitai Liang and Georgios Smaragdakis; the program
 chairs David Evans and Herbert Bos; the publication chairs Luca Verderame and Stefanie Roos.
 Finally, I am also grateful to Ivan Liang for setting up the HotCRP platform for managing the
 submission process, and to the web chair Roland Kromes for updating the website with the updates
 related to the call for posters.
 Luca Mariot, University of Twente, the Netherlands
 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022 Poster Chair
title: A case series of uterine leiomyoma with hydropic degeneration. Think before you STUMP or jump to leiomyosarcoma.
Creators: name: Taylor, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe a case report of uterine leiomyoma with hydropic degeneration. To demonstrate the imaging findings of uterine leiomyoma with hydropic...
[(Li0.8Fe0.2)OH]FeS and the ferromagnetic superconductors [(Li0.8Fe0.2)OH]Fe(S1-xSex) (0
Creators: name: Pachmayr, Ursula
name: Johrendt, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [(Li0.8Fe0.2)OH]FeS and the series [(Li0.8Fe0.2)OH]Fe(S1-xSex) (0
description: 4 pages, 5 Figures
Tight Short-Lived Signatures
Creators: name: Mondal, Arup
name: Ruthu Hulikal Rooparaghunath
name: Debayan Gupta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: Time-lock puzzle (TLP) sends information into the future: a predetermined number of sequential computations must occur (i.e., a predetermined amount of time must pass) to retrieve the information, regardless of parallelization. Buoyed by the excitement around secure decentralized applications and cryptocurrencies, the last decade has witnessed numerous constructions of variants TLPs and related applications (e.g., cost-efficient blockchain designs, randomness beacons, e-voting, etc.). In this poster, first we extend the notion of TLP by formally defining "time-lock public key encryption" (TLPKE) scheme, then we introduce and construct a tight short-lived signatures'' scheme from our TLPKE. Furthermore, to test the validity of our proposed schemes, we do a proof-of-concept implementation and run detailed simulations.
Test-Retest Reliability and Minimum Difference Values of a Novel and Portable Upright Row Strength Assessment in Probation Officers
Creators: name: Gerstner, Gena R.
name: Giuliani-Dewig, Hayden K.
name: Ryan, Eric D.
name: Buoncristiani, Nicholas A.
name: Mota, Jacob A.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: Upper body (UB) strength is important for occupational tasks and injury prevention in law enforcement officers (LEOs). Portable, reliable, and cost-effective assessments are needed to examine UB strength among LEOs in field settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the test-retest reliability and minimum difference (MD) values of a novel and portable isometric upright row assessment in probation officers. Thirty certified probation officers (18 women; age = 38.9 ± 9.0 years, body mass = 98.8 ± 27.1 kg, stature = 171.4 ± 14.0 cm) volunteered for this investigation. Testing occurred on-site across two sessions (2–5 days apart). Participants stood upon an aluminum plate with a chain attached to a handle and dynamometer. They grasped the handle with a pronated grip, two cm below the umbilicus, and performed three isometric maximal voluntary contractions. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC2,1), standard error of the measurement (SEM), and MD values were calculated. Results indicated no significant systematic error (p = 0.080) across sessions. The ICC2,1, SEM, and MD values for UB strength were 0.984, 27.20 N (4.1% of the mean), and 75.38 N (11.3% of the mean), respectively. These data suggest this isometric upright row assessment is a reliable, portable, and cost-effective measure of UB strength to assess and monitor LEOs in field settings.
RANDGENER: Distributed Randomness Beacon from Verifiable Delay Function
Creators: name: Mondal, Arup
name: Ruthu Hulikal Rooparaghunath
name: Debayan Gupta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Abstract: Buoyed by the excitement around secure decentralized applications, the last few decades have seen numerous constructions of distributed randomness beacons (DRB) along with use cases; however, a secure DRB (in many variations) remains an open problem. We further note that it is natural to want some kind of reward for participants who spend time and energy evaluating the randomness beacon value -- this is already common in distributed protocols. In this work, we present RANDGENER, a novel n-party commit-reveal-recover (or collaborative) DRB protocol with a novel reward and penalty mechanism along with a set of realistic guarantees. We design our protocol using (trapdoor) watermarkable verifiable delay functions in the RSA group setting (without requiring a trusted dealer or distributed key generation).
Learning Coordination Policies over Heterogeneous Graphs for Human-Robot Teams via Recurrent Neural Schedule Propagation
Creators: name: Altundas, Batuhan
name: Wang, Zheyuan
name: Bishop, Joshua
name: Gombolay, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As human-robot collaboration increases in the workforce, it becomes essential for human-robot teams to coordinate efficiently and intuitively. Traditional approaches for human-robot scheduling either utilize exact methods that are intractable for large-scale problems and struggle to account for stochastic, time varying human task performance, or application-specific heuristics that require expert domain knowledge to develop. We propose a deep learning-based framework, called HybridNet, combining a heterogeneous graph-based encoder with a recurrent schedule propagator for scheduling stochastic human-robot teams under upper- and lower-bound temporal constraints. The HybridNet's encoder leverages Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks to model the initial environment and team dynamics while accounting for the constraints. By formulating task scheduling as a sequential decision-making process, the HybridNet's recurrent neural schedule propagator leverages Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models to propagate forward consequences of actions to carry out fast schedule generation, removing the need to interact with the environment between every task-agent pair selection. The resulting scheduling policy network provides a computationally lightweight yet highly expressive model that is end-to-end trainable via Reinforcement Learning algorithms. We develop a virtual task scheduling environment for mixed human-robot teams in a multi-round setting, capable of modeling the stochastic learning behaviors of human workers. Experimental results showed that HybridNet outperformed other human-robot scheduling solutions across problem sizes for both deterministic and stochastic human performance, with faster runtime compared to pure-GNN-based schedulers.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 3 Tables