cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Developments in Carbon Fiber Rod Analysis for Sporting Goods Applications
Creators: name: Quigley, Connor Robert
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: In sporting goods manufacturing, such as in fishing rod design, new products are created using an Edisonian process. By changing the geometry of the carbon fiber prepreg layup, a rod can be constructed that lends itself to a specific application. This thesis will present an integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) approach for carbon fiber fishing rods using simulation theory and experiments. The computations are based on the finite element method (FEM), including the use of integrated Euler-Bernoulli beam theory in MATLAB. The experimental methodology uses three-point bending (3PB) flexure test analysis to determine values for Young’s Modulus which are then incorporated into numerical solutions and modelling. Discretized values for Young’s Modulus are used in thin-walled tapered cylindrical Euler-Bernoulli beam models through variable second area moment of inertia (I_y) and constant I_y approaches. The 3PB flexural experiments performed on a test rod section agree to FEM solutions, along with convergence with respect to mesh size between variable I_y and constant I_y beam models. A modal analysis on the beam provides insight to the free-vibrational effects of a fishing rod under differing boundary conditions. Through this ICME approach, rod manufacturers can understand properties in rod prototypes and better develop future rod models.
New Geometric Representations of the CMB 2pcf
Creators: name: Froes, Andre L.
name: Pereira, Thiago S.
name: Bernui, Armando
name: Starkman, Glenn D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When searching for deviations of statistical isotropy in CMB, a popular strategy is to write the two-point correlation function (2pcf) as the most general function of four spherical angles (i.e., two unit vectors) in the celestial sphere. Then, using a basis of bipolar spherical harmonics, statistical anisotropy will show up if and only if any coefficient of the expansion with non-trivial bipolar momentum is detected -- although this detection will not in general elucidate the origin of the anisotropy. In this work we show that two new sets of four angles and basis functions exist which completely specifies the 2pcf, while, at the same time, offering a clearer geometrical interpretation of the mechanisms generating the signal. Since the coefficients of these expansions are zero if and only if isotropy holds, they act as a simple and geometrically motivated null test of statistical isotropy, with the advantage of allowing cosmic variance to be controlled in a systematic way. We report the results of the application of these null tests to the latest temperature data released by the Planck collaboration.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. This version agrees with the published version
PREDICTING THE SALINITY HISTORY OF OYSTERS IN DELAWARE BAY USING OBSERVING SYSTEMS DATA AND NONLINEAR REGRESSION
Creators: name: HOWLADER, ARCHI
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical oceanography
subject: Environmental science
subject: Biology
subject: Crassostrea virginica
subject: Delaware Bay
subject: Empirical models
subject: Observing systems
subject: Regression analysis
subject: Salinity tolerance

description: Salinity is a major environmental factor that influences the population dynamics of fish and shellfish along coasts and estuaries, yet methods for predicting the salinity history at specific sampling stations are not widely available. The specific aim of this research was to predict the history of salinity experienced by juvenile and adult oysters (Crassostrea virginica) collected at sampling stations in Delaware Bay as part of the Selection along Estuarine Gradients in Oysters (SEGO) project. To do so, empirical relationships were created to predict salinity at five oyster bed stations using observing systems data and then applied to construct indices of salinity exposure over an oyster’s lifetime. The desired accuracy was +/- 2 psu. Three independent sources of salinity data were used in conjunction with observing systems data to construct and validate the predictive relationships. Observing systems data from the USGS station at Reedy Island Jetty and continuous near-bottom measurements taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) from 2012-2015 and 2018 were employed to fit nonlinear empirical models at each station. Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (Haskin) data were used to evaluate model fit, then ACOE data from 2018 (withheld from model fitting in the validation analysis) and SEGO data from 2021 were used to validate models. The best-fitting models for predicting salinity at the oyster bed stations given the salinity at Reedy Island Jetty were logarithmic in form. The root mean square error (RMSE) of the models ranged from 1.3 to 1.6 psu when model predictions were compared with Haskin data, 0.5 to 1.5 when compared with ACOE data, and 0.6 to 0.8 when compared with SEGO data. All of these models were within the desired accuracy range. Results demonstrate that observing systems data can be used for predicting salinity within +/- 2 psu at oyster bed stations within 39 km in upper Delaware Bay. When these models were applied to estimate low salinity exposure of 2-year-old oysters via the metric of consecutive days below 5 psu, the indices suggested that there could be as much as a 42-day difference in low salinity exposure for oysters at stations 31 km apart. This study helps further our understanding of the salt distribution in Delaware Bay as well as the effect of low-salinity stress on the life cycle and genetic differentiation of oysters. In addition, the approach of using observing systems data to predict salinity could be applied to advance understanding of salt distribution and the effect of low salinity exposure on living resources in other estuaries.
Population Impact & Efficiency of Benefit‐Targeted Versus Risk‐Targeted Statin Prescribing for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Creators: name: Newman, Thomas
name: Moran, Andrew E.
name: Jarmul, Jamie A.
name: Pletcher, Mark J.
name: Vittinghoff, Eric
name: Pignone, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Benefit-targeted statin prescribing may be superior to risk-targeted statin prescribing (the current standard), but the impact and efficiency of this approach are unclear.

METHODS AND RESULTS: We analyzed the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) using an open-source model (the Prevention Impact and Efficiency Model) to compare targeting of statin therapy according to expected benefit (benefit-targeted) versus baseline risk (risk-targeted) in terms of projected population-level impact and efficiency. Impact was defined as relative % reduction in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the US population for the given strategy compared to current statin treatment patterns; and efficiency as the number needed to treat over 10 years (NNT10, average and maximum) to prevent each atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease event. Benefit-targeted moderate-intensity statin therapy at a treatment threshold of 2.3% expected 10-year absolute risk reduction could produce a 5.7% impact (95% confidence interval, 4.8-6.7). This is approximately equivalent to the potential impact of risk-targeted therapy at a treatment threshold of 5% 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk (5.6% impact [4.7-6.6]). Whereas the estimated maximum NNT10 is much improved for benefit-targeted versus risk-targeted therapy at these equivalent-impact thresholds (43.5 vs 180), the average NNT10 is nearly equivalent (24.2 vs 24.6). Reaching 10% impact (half the Healthy People 2020 impact objective, loosely defined) is theoretically possible with benefit-targeted moderate-intensity statins of persons with expected absolute risk reduction >2.3% if we expand age eligibility and account for treatment of all persons with diabetes mellitus or with low-density lipoprotein >190 mg/dL (impact=12.4%; average NNT10=23.0).

CONCLUSIONS: Benefit-based targeting of statin therapy provides modest gains in efficiency over risk-based prescribing and could theoretically help attain approximately half of the Healthy People 2020 impact goal with reasonable efficiency.
On the dynamics of Airy beams in nonlinear media with nonlinear losses
Creators: name: Ruiz-Jiménez, Carlos
name: Nóbrega, K. Z.
name: Porras, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate on the nonlinear dynamics of Airy beams in a regime where nonlinear losses due to multi-photon absorption are significant. We identify the nonlinear Airy beam (NAB) that preserves the amplitude of the inward Hänkel component as an attractor of the dynamics. This attractor governs also the dynamics of finite-power (apodized) Airy beams, irrespective of the location of the entrance plane in the medium with respect to the Airy waist plane. A soft (linear) input long before the waist, however, strongly speeds up NAB formation and its persistence as a quasi-stationary beam in comparison to an abrupt input at the Airy waist plane, and promotes the formation of a new type of highly dissipative, fully nonlinear Airy beam not described so far.
HATS-7b: A Hot Super Neptune Transiting a Quiet K Dwarf Star
Creators: name: Bakos, G. Á.
name: Penev, K.
name: Bayliss, D.
name: Hartman, J. D.
name: Zhou, G.
name: Brahm, R.
name: Mancini, L.
name: de Val-Borro, M.
name: Bhatti, W.
name: Jordán, A.
name: Rabus, M.
name: Espinoza, N.
name: Csubry, Z.
name: Howard, A. W.
name: Fulton, B. J.
name: Buchhave, L. A.
name: Ciceri, S.
name: Henning, T.
name: Schmidt, B.
name: Isaacson, H.
name: Noyes, R. W.
name: Marcy, G. W.
name: Suc, V.
name: Howe, A. R.
name: Burrows, A. S.
name: Lázár, J.
name: Papp, I.
name: Sári, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IW ../submit_V2/abstract.txt ( Row 1 Col 1 6:48 Ctrl-K H for help We report the discovery by the HATSouth network of HATS-7b, a transiting Super-Neptune with a mass of 0.120+/-0.012MJ, a radius of 0.563+/-(0.046,0.034)RJ, and an orbital period of 3.1853days. The host star is a moderately bright (V=13.340+/-0.010mag, K_S=10.976+/-0.026mag) K dwarf star with a mass of 0.849+/-0.027Msun , a radius of 0.815+/-(0.049,-0.035)Rsun, and a metallicity of [Fe/H]=+0.250+/-0.080. The star is photometrically quiet to within the precision of the HATSouth measurements and has low RV jitter. HATS-7b is the second smallest radius planet discovered by a wide-field ground-based transit survey, and one of only a handful of Neptune-size planets with mass and radius determined to 10% precision. Theoretical modeling of HATS-7b yields a hydrogen-helium fraction of 18+/-4% (rock-iron core and H2-He envelope), or 9+/-4% (ice core and H2-He envelope), i.e.it has a composition broadly similar to that of Uranus and Neptune, and very different from that of Saturn, which has 75% of its mass in H2-He. Based on a sample of transiting exoplanets with accurately (<20%) determined parameters, we establish approximate power-law relations for the envelopes of the mass-density distribution of exoplanets. HATS-7b, which, together with the recently discovered HATS-8b, is one of the first two transiting super-Neptunes discovered in the Southern sky, is a prime target for additional follow-up observations with Southern hemisphere facilities to characterize the atmospheres of Super-Neptunes (which we define as objects with mass greater than that of Neptune, and smaller than halfway between that of Neptune and Saturn, i.e. 0.054 MJ
description: 11 pages, accepted for publication by ApJ
Additional file 1 of Livoneca redmanii Leach, 1818 (Cymothoidae) a parasitic isopod infesting the gills of the European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758): morphological and molecular characterization study
Creators: name: Abdallah, Ebtsam Sayed Hassan
name: Hamouda, Awatef Hamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
NATIVE PLANTING IN TIDAL WETLANDS FOR PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS MANAGEMENT: FIELD AND MESOCOSM EXPERIMENTS
Creators: name: Jacobson, Sylvia Rebecca
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental science
subject: coastal wetland
subject: effect of hydrology
subject: effect of salinity
subject: marsh organ
subject: transplant
subject: vegetation recovery

description: Efforts have been made in U.S. wetlands to eradicate the invasive grass Phragmites australis. But eradication of Phragmites does not always lead to the return of native plants. This research investigated native vegetation recolonization across 12 tidal wetland study sites in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and tested the potential of planting perennial native wetland species to accelerate site recovery following Phragmites removal. Our study found that site salinity was a dominant driver of plant recolonization rate: low salinity sites (0.5-3 ppt) had, on average, 4.3x greater aboveground biomass and 2.5x higher vegetation cover than brackish sites (5-9 ppt) two or more growing seasons after Phragmites removal. The composition of returning plant species also differed by salinity, with a higher abundance of annuals and fewer graminoids at low-salinity sites. Site hydrology also influenced native plant recolonization—more frequently flooded sites had lower aboveground biomass of native vegetation two or more years following Phragmites removal. Experimental planting had variable results, with high die-off at several sites, but showed potential to accelerate vegetation recovery at brackish sites in the first years after Phragmites removal—plots with transplants at brackish sites had 17.5x, 2.4x, and 1.5x higher plant cover than unplanted plots in years one, two, and three, respectively, after planting. All sites had some amount of native vegetation recovery within three to four years following Phragmites removal, suggesting that native planting may not be necessary for many tidal wetland sites. Sites with especially high salinities and flooding frequencies may benefit the most from plantings, as larger plants may be able to survive in conditions that are not favorable for seedling emergence. In a mesocosm experiment, we planted six different clonal wetland species in a sand-vermiculite mixture at three different elevations in a tidal creek on the Rhode River in Maryland, USA. We found that peak plant biomass in the sandy substrate occurred at lower elevations and higher flooding frequencies than is typical in marsh environments and than was observed in other mesocosm experiments with organic soils. In well-drained, sandy substrates, wetland plants may benefit from more frequent tidal pulses, likely due to increased water supply and nutrient flux. This has implications for wetland-restoration practitioners using dredged sand to create or elevate tidal wetlands, as wetland species may grow at different elevations and flooding frequencies in these conditions than in a typical tidal marsh with organic soils.
Metarhizium Pellet Drying Process and Efficiency in Controlling the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Larvae
Creators: name: Saowanit Popoonsak
Publisher: name: Department of Agriculture
Year: 2023
Subjects: Metarhizium
entomopathogenic fungi
drying productio
biocontrol

description: Thai Agricultural Research Journal, 41, 2, 116-128
Race and Sex Differences in QRS Interval and Associated Outcome Among Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction
Creators: name: Broderick, Samuel
name: Mentz, Robert J.
name: Chiswell, Karen
name: Shaw, Linda K.
name: Randolph, Tiffany C.
name: Kutyifa, Valentina
name: Gilliam, Francis R.
name: Velazquez, Eric J.
name: Thomas, Kevin L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Prolonged QRS duration is associated with increased mortality among heart failure patients, but race or sex differences in QRS duration and associated effect on outcomes are unknown.

METHODS AND RESULTS: We investigated QRS duration and morphology among 2463 black and white patients with heart failure and left ventricular ejection fraction ≤35% who underwent coronary angiography and 12-lead electrocardiography at Duke University Hospital from 1995 through 2011. We used multivariable Cox regression models to assess the relationship between QRS duration and all-cause mortality and investigate race-QRS and sex-QRS duration interaction. Median QRS duration was 105 ms (interquartile range [IQR], 92-132) with variation by race and sex (P<0.001). QRS duration was longest in white men (111 ms; IQR, 98-139) followed by white women (108 ms; IQR, 92-140), black men (100 ms; IQR, 91-120), and black women (94 ms; IQR, 86-118). Left bundle branch block was more common in women than men (24% vs 14%) and in white (21%) versus black individuals (12%). In black patients, there was a 16% increase in risk of mortality for every 10 ms increase in QRS duration up to 112 ms (hazard ratio, 1.16; 95% CI, 1.07, 1.25) that was not present among white patients (interaction, P=0.06).

CONCLUSIONS: Black individuals with heart failure had a shorter QRS duration and more often had non-left bundle branch block morphology than white patients. Women had left bundle branch block more commonly than men. Among black patients, modest QRS prolongation was associated with increased mortality.
STUDY OF COMMON INJURIES ON CANOE-KAYAKING WATER SPORTS PLAYERS FROM NASHIK DISTRICT
Creators: name: Dr. Shashikant H. Pardeshi 1   Dr. Namrata P. Sahuji 2
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Canoe-Kayaking Players, Types of Pattern Injuries, Godavari River & Nashik district.

description: Abstract:  Background: Canoe-Kayaking is most popular water sport played in the competitive levels and recreational levels on the Godavari river water in Nashik district. With that exerted training scheduled & practices of players face results in injury. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the types of most common injury face professional Canoe-Kayaking players in Nashik district. Methods: A descriptive method of study was conducted with 46 professional Canoe-Kayaking players in the practice under the Godavari River of Nashik district in the age range of 17-21 years old. A researcher administered questionnaire was used to obtain information of common injury patterns of Canoe-Kayaking. Results: The type of injury observed for male Canoe-Kayaking players were lower back pain (37.5%), knee pain (12.5%), pain in hand and wrist (3.1%), shoulder pain (12.5%), ankle pain (3.1%) and chest pain (12.5%) respectively. Conclusion: The common types of injuries face the Canoe-Kayaking players on anatomical sites most commonly affected were the lumbar spine and the knees. Injury is also directly-indirectly related to bad techniques of Canoe-Kayaking water sports as well as improper body and muscles recovery. 
Additional file 1 of Novel Functionalized Selenium Nanoparticles for Enhanced Anti-Hepatocarcinoma Activity In vitro
Creators: name: Xia, Yu
name: You, Pengtao
name: Xu, Fangfang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Xing, Feiyue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Cell viability in HepG2 cells determined by the MTT assay after their exposure to SeNPs.
Building Virtual Friendships through Mirrored Gestures
Creators: name: Oshiro, Miya Sanura
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information science
subject: Game Studies
subject: Gestures
subject: Human-Computer Interaction
subject: Social Gaming
subject: Social Play

description: During the COVID-19 pandemic isolation period, social gaming was an effective way for people to find connections and alleviate feelings of loneliness. However, the communication systems built within these games have limitations. In-game communication systems usually consist of emotes, predetermined avatar gestures, and simple chat features. Due to these limitations, critical social cues, such as nonverbal synchrony, are lost during these online interactions. This study evaluates the integration of nonverbal gesture synchrony in social games as a potential addition to existing communication systems to foster genuine social connections between players during online play. The game environment for this research study is an emote-based and a gesture-based version of the social game KANDI.io. When comparing the two versions in structured game sessions, this study found an enjoyment preference for the gesture-based experience. However, after further discussion, it was determined that there was no overall preference for this experience over the emote-based design. These results revealed that when engaging with open-play games like the gesture-based system, some players felt vulnerable, experienced player distrust, and became more conscious of the interaction context.
title: Altered selection mechanisms during auto-reactive B cell development in RA
Creators: name: Vergroesen, Rochelle
name: Slot, Linda
name: Koning, Marvyn
name: Veelken, Hendrik
name: Rispens, Theo
name: Toes, René
name: Scherer, Hans Ulrich
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The immune response against citrullinated protein antigens is a hallmark of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. It generates polyclonal autoantibodies of the IgG isotype that are remarkably glycosylated in the variable domain. So far, the reason for this phenomenon and its potential relevance[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
title: Targeted modulation of neurotransmitter receptors on specific leukocyte subpopulations: a new therapeutic approach for inflammatory rheumatic diseases
Creators: name: Wieber, Karolin
name: Baraliakos, Xenofon
name: Braun, Jürgen
name: Capellino, Silvia
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Rheumatic diseases may cause pain and disability. Current treatment strategies are only partly successful and their side effects are rather common. Therefore, new treatment options able to differentially control only the immune pathomechanisms would be preferable. Earlier findings emphasized[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Additional file 1 of The shift in sensory eye dominance from short-term monocular deprivation exhibits no dependence on test spatial frequency
Creators: name: Chen, Yiya
name: Mao, Yu
name: Zhou, Jiawei
name: He, Zhifen
name: Hess, Robert F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. The effect of 2.5 h of monocular deprivation on |logBP| at 0.5, 4, and 6 c/d.
USING DEEP GENERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING METHODS TO GENERATE SYNTHETIC POPULATION
Creators: name: Yang, Zhichao
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Transportation

description: Population synthesis is an important area of research aiming at generating synthetic data about households and individuals that would be representative of real large populations. Scholars in different fields have worked on synthetic population generation: statisticians, computers scientists, economists, social scientists, and engineers. In transportation modeling, synthetic agents are a key input for agent-based models, that are gradually replacing zone-based aggregate four steps models. Traditional methods for population synthesis include Iterative Population Fitting (IPF), that weights sample data until marginals for the variables of interest match official statistics (often from CENSUS) at a certain geographical area. Recently, Machine Learning algorithms have been tested and compared to IPF, which suffers from several well-known limitations. In this M.S. thesis, advanced deep generative machine learning methods are applied to generate synthetic populations, including CTGAN and TVAE. CTGAN is an advanced GAN algorithm that models tabular data distribution and sample rows from the underlying distribution. It has been shown that CTGAN can solve issues that challenge conventional GAN model, including mixed data types, non-Gaussian distributions, multimodal distributions, learning from sparse one-hot-encoded vectors and highly imbalanced categorical columns. TVAE is also an advanced VAE model that adapts VAE to tabular data by using preprocessing and modifying the loss function. As a case study, this research applies these two machine learning methods to generate synthetic population based on a sample from the American Community Survey relative to the State of Maryland. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed methods, we compare our results to those obtained with IPF and Bayesian Network using metrics that evaluate the ability of the population synthetizer to reproduce the dependency structure and the marginals in the real population and to solve the problem of zero cells in IPF.
How to extract weak values from a mesoscopic electronic system
Creators: name: Esin, Iliya
name: Romito, Alessandro
name: Gefen, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weak value (WV) protocols may lead to extreme expectation values that are larger than the corresponding orthodox expectation values. Recent works have proposed to implement this concept in nano-scale electronic systems. Here we address the issue of how one calibrates the setup in question, maximizes the measurement's sensitivity, and extracts distinctly large WVs. Our concrete setup consists of two Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs): the "system" and the "detector". Such setups have already been implemented in experiment.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations, 1 (2016)
Additional file 1 of Technical transfer and commercialisation of lyophilised biopharmaceuticals — application of lyophiliser characterisation and comparability
Creators: name: Cullen, Sean
name: Walsh, Emma
name: Gervasi, Valeria
name: Khamar, Dikshitkumar
name: McCoy, Timothy R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Materials: - Technical Transfer and Commercialisation of Lyophilised Biopharmaceuticals – Application of Lyophiliser Characterisation and Comparability.
Pneumococcal Vaccination Guidance for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings: Recommendations From AMDA's Infection Advisory Committee
Creators: name: Frentzel, Elizabeth
name: Archbald-Pannone, Laurie R.
name: Gaur, Swati
name: Mercer, William C.
name: Jump, Robin L.P.
name: Ashraf, Muhammad S.
name: Mehr, David R.
name: Drinka, Paul J.
name: Sloane, Philip D.
name: Mahajan, Dheeraj
name: Nace, David A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Efforts at preventing pneumococcal disease are a national health priority, particularly in older adults and especially in post-acute and long-term care settings (PA/LTC). The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that all adults ≥ 65, as well as adults aged 18–64 with specific risk factors, receive both the recently introduced polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine against 13 pneumococcal serotypes (PCV13) as well as the polysaccharide vaccine against 23 pneumococcal serotypes (PPSV23). Nursing facility licensure regulations require facilities to assess the pneumococcal vaccination status of each resident, provide education regarding pneumococcal vaccination, and administer the appropriate pneumococcal vaccine when indicated. Sorting out the indications and timing for PCV13 and PPSV23 administration is complex, and presents a significant challenge to healthcare providers. Here, we discuss the importance of pneumococcal vaccination for older adults, detail AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (The Society)’s recommendations for pneumococcal vaccination practice and procedures, and offer guidance to PA/LTC providers supporting the development and effective implementation of pneumococcal vaccine policies.
Application of Diagnostics and Prognostics Techniques to Qualification Against Wear-Out Failure
Creators: name: Ram, Abhishek
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Diagnostics
subject: Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors
subject: Life Cycle Profile
subject: Prognostics
subject: Qualification
subject: Reliability

description: QUALIFICATION IS A PROCESS THAT DEMONSTRATES WHETHER A PRODUCT MEETS OR EXCEEDS SPECIFIED REQUIREMENTS. TESTING AND DATA ANALYSIS PERFORMED WITHIN A QUALIFICATION PROCEDURE SHOULD VERIFY IF PRODUCTS SATISFY THOSE REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING RELIABILITY REQUIREMENTS. MOST OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY QUALIFIES PRODUCTS USING PROCEDURES DICTATED WITHIN QUALIFICATION STANDARDS. A REVIEW OF COMMON QUALIFICATION STANDARDS REVEALS THAT THOSE STANDARDS DO NOT CONSIDER CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS OR THE PRODUCT PHYSICS-OF-FAILURE IN THAT INTENDED APPLICATION. AS A RESULT, QUALIFICATION, AS REPRESENTED IN THE REVIEWED QUALIFICATION STANDARDS, WOULD NOT MEET OUR DEFINITION OF QUALIFICATION FOR RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT. THIS THESIS PROVIDES AN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING A QUALIFICATION PROCEDURE THAT ACCOUNTS FOR CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS, PRODUCT PHYSICS-OF-FAILURE, AND KNOWLEDGE OF PRODUCT BEHAVIOR UNDER LOADING. THIS THESIS PROVIDES A REVAMPED APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING A LIFE CYCLE PROFILE THAT ACCOUNTS FOR LOADING THROUGHOUT MANUFACTURING/ASSEMBLY, STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION, AND OPERATION. THE THESIS ALSO DISCUSSES IDENTIFYING VARIATIONS IN THE LIFE CYCLE PROFILE THAT MAY ARISE THROUGHOUT THE PRODUCT LIFETIME AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING LOADS. THIS UPDATED APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING A LIFE CYCLE PROFILE SUPPORTS BETTER FAILURE PRIORITIZATION, TEST SELECTION, AND TEST CONDITION AND DURATION REQUIREMENT ESTIMATION. ADDITIONALLY, THIS THESIS INTRODUCES THE APPLICATION OF DIAGNOSTICS AND PROGNOSTICS TECHNIQUES TO ANALYZE REAL-TIME DATA TRENDS WHILE CONDUCTING QUALIFICATION TESTS. DIAGNOSTICS TECHNIQUES IDENTIFY ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR EXHIBITED BY THE PRODUCT, AND PROGNOSTICS TECHNIQUES FORECAST HOW THE PRODUCT WILL BEHAVE DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE QUALIFICATION TEST AND HOW THE PRODUCT WOULD HAVE BEHAVED IF THE TEST CONTINUED. AS A RESULT, COMBINING DIAGNOSTICS AND PROGNOSTICS TECHNIQUES CAN ENABLE THE PREDICTION OF THE REMAINING TIME-TO-FAILURE FOR THE PRODUCT UNDERGOING QUALIFICATION. SEVERAL ANCILLARY BENEFITS RELATED TO AN IMPROVED TESTING STRATEGY, PARTS SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT, AND SUPPORT OF A PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN OPERATION ALSO ARISE FROM APPLYING PROGNOSTICS AND DIAGNOSTICS TECHNIQUES TO QUALIFICATION.
Giant Spin-Orbit-Induced Spin Splitting in Bi Chains on GaAs(110)
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun-Jung
name: Cho, Jun-Hyung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for one-dimensional electron systems with a giant Rashba-type spin splitting is of importance for the application of spin transport. Here we report, based on a first-principles density-functional-theory calculation, that Bi zigzag chains formed on a heterogeneous GaAs(110) surface have a giant spin splitting of surface states. This giant spin splitting is revealed to originate from spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electric dipole interaction that are significantly enhanced by (i) the asymmetric surface charge distribution due to the strong SOC-induced hybridization of the Bi px , py , and pz orbitals and (ii) the large out-of-plane and in-plane potential gradients generated by two geometrically and electronically inequivalent Bi atoms bonding to Ga and As atoms. The results demonstrate an important implication of the in-plane and out-of-plane asymmetry of the Bi/GaAs(110) interface system in producing the giant spin splitting with the in-plane and out-of-plane spin components.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
title: Evidence of platelet – T-cell cross-talk in granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Creators: name: Kerstein, Anja
name: Klapa, Sebastian
name: Pitann, Silke
name: Mosenthin, Kerstin
name: Müller, Antje
name: Riemekasten, Gabriela
name: Lamprecht, Peter
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Cross-talk of platelets and leukocytes is involved in immune-mediated pathologies. In granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), a systemic autoimmune vasculitis, increased platelet counts and platelet markers correlate with disease activity. Here we provide evidence that platelets are directly[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
RE-RO(O/U)TING: Reconfiguring mobilities and materialities through the design of a green-blue infrastructure corridor in Baltimore, Maryland
Creators: name: Martin, Bryn
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Landscape architecture
subject: Baltimore
subject: Donna Haraway
subject: Ecological Urbanism
subject: Jones Falls

description: This thesis engages with Ecological Urbanism through a literature review and design project. Through a literature review which reads ecological urbanism with other contemporary social theory, the thesis raises a question: how might an approach centering the materiality of landscape and its relation to mobility inform the interdisciplinary work of translation and interpretation which is central to ecological urbanism? This approach is examined through a design project examining the landscape of the lower Jones Falls, a small, culverted urban river. The project profiles some of the past and present mobilities and materialities shaping this urban environment. These observations inform a design project envisioning a daylighting of the culverted Jones Falls as a focal intervention in the reimagination of an urban expressway corridor as a twenty-first century ecological mobility corridor: a landscape of green and blue spaces, ecological infrastructure multimodal streetscapes, and a reinvigorated public realm.
Invariance under quasi-isometries of subcritical and supercritical behaviour in the Boolean model of percolation
Creators: name: Coletti, Cristian F.
name: Miranda, Daniel
name: Mussini, Filipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work we study the Poisson Boolean model of percolation in locally compact Polish metric spaces and we prove the invariance of subcritical and supercritical phases under mm-quasi-isometries. In other words, we prove that if the Poisson Boolean model of percolation is subcritical or supercritical (or exhibits phase transition) in a metric space M which is mm-quasi-isometric to a metric space N, then these phases also exist for the Poisson Boolean model of percolation in N. Then we apply these results to understand the phenomenon of phase transition in a large family of metric spaces. Indeed, we study the Poisson Boolean model of percolation in the context of Riemannian manifolds, in a large family of nilpotent Lie groups and in Cayley graphs. Also, we prove the existence of a subcritical phase in Gromov spaces with bounded growth at some scale.
An efficient approach for surveillance of childhood diabetes by type derived from electronic health record data: the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study
Creators: name: Dabelea, Dana
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth J.
name: Saydah, Sharon H.
name: Thomas, Joan
name: Pihoker, Catherine
name: Zhong, Victor W.
name: Hamman, Richard F.
name: Jaacks, Lindsay M.
name: Beavers, Daniel P.
name: Obeid, Jihad S.
name: Craig, Jean B.
name: Bowlby, Deborah A.
name: Lawrence, Jean M.
name: Carey, Timothy S.
name: Pfaff, Emily R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Objective To develop an efficient surveillance approach for childhood diabetes by type across 2 large US health care systems, using phenotyping algorithms derived from electronic health record (EHR) data.
EFFECT OF PILATES EXERCISE TRAINING PROGRAM ON FLEXIBILITY VARIABLE OF INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Creators: name: Mr. Sagar Dhikale1   Dr. Gomchale M. S. 2
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pilates exercise program, Sit and reach test & Intercollegiate Football players.

description: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Pilates exercise training program on flexibility variable of intercollegiate football players. It was an experimental study in which pre-test & post-test non equivalent groups design was used. 30 intercollegiate boys football players were selected as sample by using simple random sampling technique total intercollegiate boys football players (n=30) from Christ college, Pune. They were equally divided into, Experimental group (n=15) & Control group (n=15) boys. Sit & reach test was conducted on both the groups obtained data was analyzed by using Independent sample t-test. Result Pilates exercise training program was useful to improve flexibility variable. This shows the significant effect at 0.05 level thus researcher concludes that there was significant improvement on flexibility performance of experimental group as compared to control group due to the treatment given.
The New Clear Normal
Creators: name: Benham, Austin
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Energy
subject: Nuclear engineering
subject: Nuclear physics and radiation

description: Both within the United States and abroad, the nuclear industry has seen a sharp decline in utilization due to a loss of public trust and/or economic factors. As energy demands grow on a global scale, and countries look to sustainable methods for meeting these needs there has been an opportunity for new advancements within the nuclear industry to viably present themselves. This thesis proposes the design of a nuclear power plant which utilizes small-modular-reactor(s) to be used for energy production and address other needs within the surrounding community, with integrated public facilities where possible. Through design, this facility will help to alleviate the damaged public perception of nuclear power and exhibit the new nuclear industry and its benefits over other forms of energy; It will provide context on past events and technology within the field, showing that, through architecture and site design the multiple aspects of a nuclear power plant site can be portrayed in a more upstanding manner to better accentuate the positive aspects that are inherently present within the industry. This thesis will ultimately establish that healing the social and environmental issues of the past will aid in the creation of a new, safe, sustainable, and reliable nuclear industry.
title: Do Raynaud phenomenon negative juvenile systemic scleroderma patients have a different pattern of organ involvement as Raynaud phenomenon positive patients?
Creators: name: Foeldvari, Ivan
name: Klotsche, Jens
name: Kasapcopur, Ozgur
name: Adrovic, Amra
name: Torok, Kathryn
name: Stanevicha, Valda
name: Terreri, M. T.
name: Alexeeva, Ekaterina
name: Katsicas, Maria
name: Smith, Vanessa
name: Sztajnbok, Flavio
name: Avcin, Tadey
name: Cimaz, Rolando
name: Anton, Jordi
name: Kostik, Mikhail
name: Lehman, Thomas
name: Sifuentes-Giraldo, W. Alberto
name: Appenzeller, Simone
name: Janarthanan, Mahesh
name: Moll, Monika
name: Nemcova, Dana
name: Jose Santos, Maria
name: Battagliotti, Cristina
name: Berntson, Lillemor
name: Brunner, Jürgen
name: Costa Reis, Patrícia
name: Eleftheriou, Despina
name: Harel, Liora
name: Kallinich, Tilmann
name: Minden, Kirsten
name: Nielsen, Susan
name: Uziel, Yosef
name: Stevens, Ann
name: Pilkington, Clarissa
name: Helmus, Nicola
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Juvenile systemic scleroderma (jSSc) is an orphan disease, with an estimated prevalence of 3 per 1000 000 children. Most jSSc patients primarily present with Raynaud phenomenon (RP). We investigated in our patient of the juvenile scleroderma inception cohort, how fare patients with (RP+)[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Viscoelastic Interfaces Driven in Disordered Media and Applications to Friction
Creators: name: Landes, Francois P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many complex systems respond to a continuous input of energy by an accumulation of stress over time, interrupted by sudden energy releases called avalanches. Recently, it has been pointed out that several basic features of avalanche dynamics are induced at the microscopic level by relaxation processes, which are neglected by most models. During my thesis, I studied two well-known models of avalanche dynamics, modified minimally by the inclusion of some forms of relaxation. The first system is that of a viscoelastic interface driven in a disordered medium. In mean-field, we prove that the interface has a periodic behaviour (with a new, emerging time scale), with avalanche events that span the whole system. We compute semi-analytically the friction force acting on this surface, and find that it is compatible with classical friction experiments. In finite dimensions (2D), the mean-field system-sized events become local, and numerical simulations give qualitative and quantitative results in good agreement with several important features of real earthquakes. The second system including a minimal form of relaxation consists in a toy model of avalanches: the Directed Percolation process. In our study of a non-Markovian variant of Directed Percolation, we observed that the universality class was modified but not completely. In particular, in the non-Markov case an exponent changes of value while several scaling relations still hold. This picture of an extended universality class obtained by the addition of a non-Markovian perturbation to the dynamics provides promising prospects for our first system.
description: Thesis defended in Sept. 2014. Minor additions in the introduction and minor corrections to the bibliographical references. Received the Springer Theses award (2015). Springer Theses (2015). eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20022-4. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20021-7
An in silico framework for integrating epidemiologic and genetic evidence with health care applications: ventilation-related pneumothorax as a case illustration
Creators: name: Marinac-Dabic, Danica
name: Carleton, Bruce
name: Hoffman, Sarah
name: Luo, Qianlai
name: Torosyan, Yelizaveta
name: Hu, Yuzhi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVE: To illustrate an in silico integration of epidemiologic and genetic evidence that is being developed at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health/US Food and Drug Administration as part of regulatory research on postmarket device performance. In addition to using conventional epidemiologic evidence from registries, this innovative approach explores the vast potential of open-access omics databases for identifying genetic evidence pertaining to devices.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective analysis of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)/Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUPNet) data (2002-2011) was focused on the ventilation-related iatrogenic pneumothorax (Vent-IP) outcome in discharges with mechanical ventilation (MV) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). The derived epidemiologic evidence was analyzed in conjunction with pre-existing genomic data from Gene Expression Omnibus/National Center for Biotechnology Information and other databases.

RESULTS: AHRQ/HCUPNet epidemiologic evidence showed that annual occurrence of Vent-IP did not decrease over a decade. While the Vent-IP risk associated with noninvasive CPAP comprised about 0.5%, the Vent-IP risk due to longer-term MV reached 2%. Along with MV posing an independent risk for Vent-IP, female sex and white race were found to be effect modifiers, resulting in the highest Vent-IP risk among mechanically ventilated white females. The Vent-IP risk was also potentiated by comorbidities associated with spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) and fibrosis. Consistent with the epidemiologic evidence, expression profiling in a number of animal models showed that the expression of several collagens and other SP/fibrosis-related genes was modified by ventilation settings.

CONCLUSION: Integration of complementary genetic evidence into epidemiologic analysis can lead to a cost- and time-efficient discovery of the risk predictors and markers and thus can facilitate more efficient marker-based evaluation of medical product performance.
Additional file 1 of Phenotypic characteristics and variability in CHARGE syndrome: a PRISMA compliant systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Thomas, Andrea T.
name: Waite, Jane
name: Williams, Caitlin A.
name: Kirk, Jeremy
name: Oliver, Chris
name: Richards, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1–14.