cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radiative PQ Breaking and the Higgs Boson Mass
Creators: name: D'Eramo, Francesco
name: Hall, Lawrence J.
name: Pappadopulo, Duccio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The small and negative value of the Standard Model Higgs quartic coupling at high scales can be understood in terms of anthropic selection on a landscape where large and negative values are favored: most universes have a very short-lived electroweak vacuum and typical observers are in universes close to the corresponding metastability boundary. We provide a simple example of such a landscape with a Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking scale generated through dimensional transmutation and supersymmetry softly broken at an intermediate scale. Large and negative contributions to the Higgs quartic are typically generated on integrating out the saxion field. Cancellations among these contributions are forced by the anthropic requirement of a sufficiently long-lived electroweak vacuum, determining the multiverse distribution for the Higgs quartic in a similar way to that of the cosmological constant. This leads to a statistical prediction of the Higgs boson mass that, for a wide range of parameters, yields the observed value within the 1$σ$ statistical uncertainty of $\sim$ 5 GeV originating from the multiverse distribution. The strong CP problem is solved and single-component axion dark matter is predicted, with an abundance that can be understood from environmental selection. A more general setting for the Higgs mass prediction is discussed.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures; v2, JHEP version
title: Die Basilike Stoa an der Agora von Thera
title: Die Basilike Stoa an der Agora von Thera
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kose, Arno
name: Engels, Benjamin
name: Trümper, Monika
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Thera
subject: Basilike Stoa
subject: Agora
subject: Sondagen
subject: stratigraphische Grabungen
subject: Keramik
subject: Thera
subject: Basilike Stoa
subject: Agora
subject: trenches
subject: stratigraphic excavations
subject: pottery

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description: Die Basilike Stoa in Thera ist durch mehrere Inschriften bekannt, die in situ gefunden wurden und Reparaturen in trajanischer und antoninischer Zeit dokumentieren. Die lange geschlossene Halle mit zentraler innerer Säulenstellung liegt an der Agora und ist eines der größten Bauwerke der Stadt. Das Errichtungsdatum der Basilike Stoa ist in der Forschung umstritten. Vorgeschlagene Datierungen reichen vom frühen 3. Jh. v. Chr., als die Ptolemäer eine Flottenbasis auf Thera hatten, bis in die augusteische Zeit, als die Stadt nach 120 Jahren der Stagnation vermutlich eine erneute Blüte erlebte. Dieser Beitrag hat zum Ziel, das Baudatum und die Geschichte der Basilike Stoa zu klären, basierend auf stratigraphischen Grabungen, die 1992 durchgeführt wurden. Drei Schnitte, die an der westlichen und östlichen Außenmauer der Stoa angelegt wurden, werden ausführlich diskutiert. Die Keramik aus dem wichtigsten Schnitt, 92 C, wird präsentiert. In diesem Schnitt, der sich in der Straße F westlich der Stoa befand, wurde eine dichte Abfolge von Straten gefunden, die sieben Phasen zugeordnet werden. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Stoa sicher im 2. Jh. v. Chr. errichtet wurde, vermutlich noch bevor die Ptolemäer die Flottenbasis 146/145 v. Chr. auflösten, und dass die Westmauer der Stoa in der frühen Kaiserzeit vollständig erneuert wurde. Der Bau an der Westseite der Straße F, das sog. Phallos-Haus, hatte eine ähnliche und sogar noch komplexere Geschichte. Der Belag der Straße F wurde dreimal erneuert. Dagegen konnten in keinem der drei Schnitte Befunde der trajanischen und antoninischen Stoareparaturen sicher identifiziert werden. Die Rekonstruktion der Geschichte der Stoa stellt einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Untersuchung der urbanen Entwicklung der antiken Stadt Thera dar. Diese ist kaum erforscht, weil bislang nur wenige stratigraphische Grabungen durchgeführt und publiziert worden sind.
Quantum paramagnet in a $π$ flux triangular lattice Hubbard model
Creators: name: Rachel, Stephan
name: Laubach, Manuel
name: Reuther, Johannes
name: Thomale, Ronny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the $π$ flux triangular lattice Hubbard model ($π$-THM) as a prototypical setup to stabilize magnetically disordered quantum states of matter in the presence of charge fluctuations. The quantum paramagnetic domain of the $π$-THM which we identify for intermediate Hubbard U is framed by a Dirac semi-metal for weak coupling and by 120${}^{\circ}$ Néel order for strong coupling. Generalizing the Klein duality from spin Hamiltonians to tight-binding models, the $π$-THM maps to a Hubbard model which corresponds to the $(J_H, J_K)=(-1,2)$ Heisenberg-Kitaev model in its strong coupling limit. The $π$-THM provides a promising microscopic testing ground for exotic finite-U spin liquid ground states amenable to numerical investigation.
description: 4+e pages, 3 figures; version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Obesogenic Environments in Youth
Creators: name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Boone-Heinonen, Janne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: To effectively prevent and reduce childhood obesity through healthy community design, it is essential to understand which neighborhood environment features influence weight gain in various age groups. However, most neighborhood environment research is cross-sectional, focuses on adults, and is often carried out in small, nongeneralizable geographic areas. Thus, there is a great need for longitudinal neighborhood environment research in diverse populations across the lifecycle. This paper describes: (1) insights and challenges of longitudinal neighborhood environment research and (2) advancements and remaining gaps in measurement and study design that examine individuals and neighborhoods within the context of the broader community. Literature-based research and findings from the “Obesity and Neighborhood Environment Database” (ONEdata), a unique longitudinal GIS that is spatially and temporally linked to data in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N=20,745), provide examples of current limitations in this area of research. Findings suggest a need for longitudinal methodologic advancements to better control for dynamic sources of bias, investigate and capture appropriate temporal frameworks, and address complex residential location processes within families. Development of improved neighborhood environment measures that capture relevant geographic areas within complex communities and investigation of differences across urbanicity and sociodemographic composition are needed. Further longitudinal research is needed to identify, refine, and evaluate national and local policies to most effectively reduce childhood obesity.
Replica analysis of Franz-Parisi potential for sparse systems
Creators: name: Ueda, Masahiko
name: Kabashima, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method for calculating the Franz-Parisi potential for spin glass models on sparse random graphs using the replica method under the replica symmetric ansatz. The resulting self-consistent equations have the solution with the characteristic structure of multi-body overlaps, and the self-consistent equations under this solution are equivalent to the one-step replica symmetry breaking (1RSB) cavity equation with Parisi parameter $x=1$. This method is useful for the evaluation of transition temperatures of the $p$-spin model on regular random graphs under a uniform magnetic field.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures
"Ordinatio rationis" oder "ordinatio fidei"?
Creators: name: Corecco, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 6 Nr. 6 (1977): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 6, Heft 6
Examining urban and rural differences in how distance to care influences the initiation and completion of treatment among insured cervical cancer patients
Creators: name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Varia, M.A.
name: Petermann, V.M.
name: Baggett, C.D.
name: Brewster, W.R.
name: Weinberger, M.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Spees, L.P.
Publisher: name: American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
Year: 2019

description: Background: Although rural cancer patients encounter substantial barriers to care, they more often report receiving timely care than urban patients. We examined whether geographic distance, a contributor to urban-rural health disparities, differentially influences treatment initiation and completion among insured urban and rural cervical cancer patients. Methods: We identified women diagnosed with cervical cancer from 2004 to 2013 from a statewide cancer registry linked to multipayer, insurance claims. Primary outcomes were initiation of guideline-concordant care within 6 weeks of diagnosis and, among stage IB2-IVA cancer patients, completion of concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) in 56 days. We estimated risk ratios using modified Poisson regressions, stratified by urban/rural status, to examine the association between distance and treatment timing (initiation or completion). Results: Among 999 stage IA-IVA patients, 48% initiated guideline-concordant care within 6 weeks of diagnosis, and 37% of 492 stage IB2-IVA cancer patients completed CCRT in 56 days. In urban areas, stage IA-IVA patients who lived 15 miles from the nearest treatment facility were less likely to initiate timely treatment compared with those <5 miles [risk ratio (RR): 0.72; 95% confidence intervals (CI), 0.54-0.95]. Among IB2-IVA stage cancer patients, rural women residing 15 miles from the nearest radiation facility were more likely to complete CCRT in 56 days (RR: 2.49; 95% CI, 1.12-5.51). Conclusions: Geographic distance differentially influences the initiation and completion of treatment among urban and rural cervical cancer patients. Impact: Distance was an access barrier for insured cervical cancer patients in urban areas whereas rural patients may require more intensive outreach, support, and resources, even among those living closer to treatment.
Measurement of jet suppression in central Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) spectrum and nuclear modification factor ($R_{\rm AA}$) of reconstructed jets in 0-10% and 10-30% central Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV were measured. Jets were reconstructed from charged and neutral particles, utilizing the ALICE tracking detectors and Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal), with the anti-$k_{\rm T}$ jet algorithm with a resolution parameter of R=0.2. The jet $p_{\rm T}$ spectra are reported in the pseudorapidity interval of $|η_{\rm jet}|<0.5$ for $405$ GeV/$c$ to suppress jets constructed from the combinatorial background in Pb-Pb collisions. The effect of the leading charged particle requirement has been studied in both pp and Pb-Pb collisions and has been shown to have negligible effects on the $R_{\rm AA}$ within the uncertainties of the measurement. The nuclear modification factor is obtained by dividing the jet spectrum measured in Pb-Pb by that in pp collisions scaled by the number of independent nucleon-nucleon collisions estimated using a Glauber model. $R_{\rm AA}$ is found to be $0.28\pm0.04$ in 0-10% and $0.35\pm0.04$ in 10-30% collisions, independent of $p_{\rm T,jet}$ within the uncertainties of the measurement. The observed suppression is in fair agreement with expectations from two model calculations with different approaches to jet quenching.
description: 27 pages, 5 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 21, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1197
title: New Research at the Gymnasium of Agrigento
title: New Research at the Gymnasium of Agrigento
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Trümper, Monika
name: Kay, Stephen
name: Pomar, Elena
name: Fino, Antonello
name: Lappi, Thomas
name: Santospagnuolo, Paola
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agrigento
subject: geophysical prospection
subject: city plan
subject: gymnasium
subject: grid plan
subject: Agrigento
subject: geophysical prospection
subject: city plan
subject: gymnasium
subject: grid plan

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description: The gymnasium of Agrigento is one of the most important, if not the most important gymnasium in Sicily and the western Mediterranean more generally, because of its size, design, and chronology. While parts of a race-track section and a pool were excavated between the 1950s and 2005 and were published in 2009 and 2011, crucial questions remain open: the extension, design, and most notably the existence and location of a palaestra; the construction date in the 2nd century B.C. or the Augustan period; and the urban context. To answer these questions, a project was launched in 2019 in cooperation between the Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico Valle dei Templi di Agrigento and the Freie Universität Berlin, and a first season, together with the British School at Rome, was carried out in 2020. This paper presents the results of this first campaign, which included first, a geophysical survey of the area around the gymnasium and of a field to the north of the Hellenistic-Roman temple; and second, an architectural survey of unpublished features and work in the archives and storerooms of the Parco Archeologico.
Macroscopic (and Microscopic) Massless Modes
Creators: name: Abbott, Michael C.
name: Aniceto, Inês
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study certain spinning strings exploring the flat directions of AdS3 x S3 x S3 x S1, the massless sector cousins of su(2) and sl(2) sector spinning strings. We describe these, and their vibrational modes, using the D(2,1;α)^2 algebraic curve. By exploiting a discrete symmetry of this structure which reverses the direction of motion on the spheres, and alters the masses of the fermionic modes s \to 1-s, we find out how to treat the massless fermions which were previously missing from this formalism. We show that folded strings behave as a special case of circular strings, in a sense which includes their mode frequencies, and we are able to recover this fact in the worldsheet formalism. We use these frequencies to calculate one-loop corrections to the energy, with a version of the Beisert-Tseytlin resummation.
description: 32 pages, 2 figures. v2 corrects equation (64) and our normalisation of mass, and matches the published version
Evaluating the urban-rural paradox: The complicated relationship between distance and the receipt of guideline-concordant care among cervical cancer patients
Creators: name: Varia, M.A.
name: Petermann, V.M.
name: Brewster, W.R.
name: Weinberger, M.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Baggett, C.D.
name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Spees, L.P.
Publisher: name: Academic Press Inc.
Year: 2019

description: Objective: Urban-rural health disparities are often attributed to the longer distances rural patients travel to receive care. However, a recent study suggests that distance to care may affect urban and rural cancer patients differentially. We examined whether this urban-rural paradox exists among patients with cervical cancer. Methods: We identified individuals diagnosed with cervical cancer from 2004 to 2013 using a statewide cancer registry linked to multi-payer, insurance claims. Our primary outcome was receipt of guideline-concordant care: surgery for stages IA1–IB1; external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), concomitant chemotherapy, and brachytherapy for stages IB2–IVA. We estimated risk ratios (RR) using modified Poisson regressions, stratified by urban/rural location, to examine the association between distance to nearest facility and receipt of treatment. Results: 62% of 999 cervical cancer patients received guideline-concordant care. The association between distance and receipt of care differed by type of treatment. In urban areas, cancer patients who lived ≥15 miles from the nearest surgical facility were less likely to receive primary surgical management compared to those <5 miles from the nearest surgical facility (RR: 0.77, 95% CI: 0.60–0.98). In rural areas, patients living ≥15 miles from the nearest brachytherapy facility were more likely to receive treatment compared to those <5 miles from the nearest brachytherapy facility (RR: 1.71, 95% CI: 1.14–2.58). Distance was not associated with the receipt of chemotherapy or EBRT. Conclusions: Among cervical cancer patients, there is evidence supporting the urban-rural paradox, i.e., geographic distance to cancer care facilities is not consistently associated with treatment receipt in expected or consistent ways. Healthcare systems must consider the diverse and differential barriers encountered by urban and rural residents to improve access to high quality cancer care.
Geometry of Quantum Hall States: Gravitational Anomaly and Kinetic Coefficients
Creators: name: Can, T.
name: Laskin, M.
name: Wiegmann, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that universal transport coefficients of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) can be understood as a response to variations of spatial geometry. Some transport properties are essentially governed by the gravitational anomaly. We develop a general method to compute correlation functions of FQH states in a curved space, where local transformation properties of these states are examined through local geometric variations. We introduce the notion of a generating functional and relate it to geometric invariant functionals recently studied in geometry. We develop two complementary methods to study the geometry of the FQHE. One method is based on iterating a Ward identity, while the other is based on a field theoretical formulation of the FQHE through a path integral formalism.
description: v1: 60+21 pages; v2: 63 pages, 8 appendices, minor changes to improve clarity and format, fix typos, and expand references; v3: 65 pages, 8 appendices, revised and expanded discussions in the introduction and sections 9-11, major revisions to appendix E, minor changes in notation to improve clarity, and further expanded references
Simulation and measurement of the fractional particle number in one-dimensional optical lattices
Creators: name: Zhang, Dan-Wei
name: Mei, Feng
name: Xue, Zheng-Yuan
name: Zhu, Shi-Liang
name: Wang, Z. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme to mimic and directly measure the fractional particle number in a generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with ultracold fermions in one-dimensional optical lattices. We show that the fractional particle number in this model can be simulated in the momentum-time parameter space in terms of Berry curvature without a spatial domain wall. In this simulation, a hopping modulation is adiabatically tuned to form a kink-type configuration and the induced current plays the role of an analogous soliton distributing in the time domain, such that the mimicked fractional particle number is expressed by the particle transport. Two feasible experimental setups of optical lattices for realizing the required Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian with tunable parameters and time-varying hopping modulation are presented. We also show practical methods for measuring the particle transport in the proposed cold atom systems by numerically calculating the shift of the Wannier center and the center of mass of an atomic cloud.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in PRA
An updated systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of therapies for metastatic breast cancer
Creators: name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Meng, K.
name: Baggett, C.D.
name: Rotter, J.S.
name: Gogate, A.
name: Trogdon, J.G.
name: Reeder-Hayes, K.E.
Publisher: name: Springer New York LLC
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: The goal of this systematic review is to provide an update to the review by Pouwels et al. by conducting a systematic review and an assessment of the reporting quality of the economic analyses conducted since 2014. Methods: This systematic review identified published articles focused on metastatic breast cancer treatment using the Medline/PubMed and Scopus databases and the following search criteria: (((cost effectiveness[MeSH Terms]) OR (cost effectiveness) OR (cost-effectiveness) OR (cost utility) OR (cost–utility) OR (economic evaluation)) AND ((“metastatic breast cancer”) OR (“advanced breast cancer”))). The reporting quality of the included articles was evaluated using the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) checklist. Results: Of the 256 identified articles, 67 of the articles were published after October 2014 when the prior systematic review stopped its assessment (Pouwels et al. in Breast Cancer Res Treat 165:485–498, 2017). From the 67 articles, we narrowed down to include 17 original health economic analyses specific to metastatic or advanced breast cancer. These articles were diverse with respect to methods employed and interventions included. Conclusion: Although each of the articles contributed their own analytic strengths and limitations, the overall quality of the studies was moderate. The review demonstrated that the vast majority of the reported incremental cost-effectiveness ratios exceeded the typically employed willingness to pay thresholds used in each country of analysis. Only three of the reviewed articles studied chemotherapies rather than treatments targeting either HER2 or hormone receptors, demonstrating a gap in the literature.
The Healthy Afterschool Activity and Nutrition Documentation Instrument
Creators: name: Ward, Dianne S.
name: Beets, Michael W.
name: Kaczynski, Andrew T.
name: Ajja, Rahma
name: Huberty, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Policies call on afterschool programs to improve the physical activity and nutrition habits of youth attending. No tool exists to assess the extent to which the afterschool program environment meets physical activity and nutrition policies.
Tools for Healthy Tribes
Creators: name: Vu, Maihan
name: Bell, Ronny A.
name: Fleischhacker, Sheila
name: Ramachandran, Gowri
name: Byrd, Randi R.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Ries, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: There is growing recognition that policymakers can promote access to healthy, affordable foods within neighborhoods, schools, childcare centers, and workplaces. Despite the disproportionate risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes among American Indian children and adults, comparatively little attention has been focused on the opportunities tribal policymakers have to implement policies or resolutions to promote access to healthy, affordable foods. This paper presents an approach for integrating formative research into an action-oriented strategy of developing and disseminating tribally led environmental and policy strategies to promote access to and consumption of healthy, affordable foods. This paper explains how the American Indian Healthy Eating Project evolved through five phases and discusses each phase’s essential steps involved, outcomes derived, and lessons learned.
Christentum als Unmittelbarkeit zu Gott
Creators: name: Scheffczyk, Leo
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 6 Nr. 5 (1977): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 6, Heft 5
title: Die Pfeilspitzen von Milet
title: Die Pfeilspitzen von Milet
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Herzhoff, Sophie
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pfeilspitzen
subject: Kleinasien
subject: Milet
subject: Angriffswaffen
subject: 5. Jahrhundert
subject: Perserkriege
subject: arrowheads
subject: Asia Minor
subject: Miletus
subject: offensive weapons
subject: 5th century
subject: Persian Wars

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description: Im Verlauf der Ausgrabungen auf dem Kalabak- und Zeytintepe in Milet 1985 bis 1992 konnten mehrere hunderte Pfeilspitzen aufgesammelt werden, denen aufgrund ihrer Form die Zugehörigkeit zur Zerstörung Milets 494 v. Chr. durch die persische Armee zugesprochen wurde. Diese Zuweisung konnte anhand typologischer und stratigraphischer Merkmale untermauert werden. In diesem Artikel werden die Ergebnisse der mit verschiedenen Methoden durchgeführten Untersuchungen der Pfeilspitzen dargestellt.
Cordoba oder Glanz und Untergang des maurischen Spanien
Creators: name: Brück, Max Von
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 6 Nr. 5 (1977): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 6, Heft 5
Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Following Motor Vehicle Crashes
Creators: name: Poole, Charles
name: Vladutiu, Catherine J.
name: Marshall, Stephen W.
name: Menard, M. Kathryn
name: Casteel, Carri
name: Weiss, Harold B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of serious trauma during pregnancy, but little is known about their relationships with pregnancy outcomes.
Association of delays in surgery for melanoma with insurance type
Creators: name: Zhou, L.
name: Thomas, N.E.
name: Meyer, A.-M.
name: Baggett, C.D.
name: Adamson, A.S.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2017

description: IMPORTANCE: Timely receipt of treatment for cancer is an important aspect of health care quality. It is unknown how delays of surgery for melanoma vary by insurance type. OBJECTIVE: To analyze factors associated with delays between diagnosis and surgery for melanoma in patients with Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Retrospective cohort study of patients who received a diagnosis of melanoma between 2004 and 2011 in North Carolina using data from the North Carolina Cancer Registry linked to administrative claims from Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. Inclusion criteria were incident patients with a diagnosis of melanoma stage 0 to III and with continuous insurance enrollment from at least 1 month prior to the month of diagnosis to 12 months after diagnosis of melanoma. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Surgical delay, defined as definitive surgical excision occurring more than 6 weeks after melanoma diagnosis. Generalized linear models with log link, Poisson distributions, and robust standard errors were used to estimate adjusted risk ratios (RRs) to model risk of delay in definitive surgery. RESULTS: A total of 7629 patients were included (4210 [55%] female; mean [SD] age, 64 [15] years), 48% (n = 3631) Medicare, 48% (n = 3667) privately insured, and 4% (n = 331) Medicaid patients. Privately insured patients were least likely to experience a delay in definitive surgery, followed by Medicare and Medicaid patients (519 [14%], 609 [17%], and 79 [24%], respectively; P < .001). After demographic adjustment, the risk of surgical delay was significantly increased in patients with Medicaid compared with private insurance (RR, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.09-1.70). Delays were more likely in nonwhite patients (RR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.02-1.87). Surgical delays were less likely if the physician performing the surgery (RR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.72-0.93) or the diagnosing clinician (RR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.71-0.93) was a dermatologist as compared with a nondermatologist. CONCLUSION AND RELEVANCE: Surgical treatment delays were common but were less prevalent in patients diagnosed or surgically treated by a dermatologist. Medicaid patients experienced the most surgical delays. A reduction in delays in melanoma surgery could be achieved through better access to specialty care and cross-disciplinary coordination.
Stochasticity enhances the gaining of bet-hedging strategies in contact-process-like dynamics
Creators: name: Hidalgo, Jorge
name: Pigolotti, Simone
name: Munoz, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In biology and ecology, individuals or communities of individuals living in unpredictable environments often alternate between different evolutionary strategies to spread and reduce risks. Such behavior is commonly referred to as "bet-hedging." Long-term survival probabilities and population sizes can be much enhanced by exploiting such hybrid strategies. Here, we study the simplest possible birth-death stochastic model in which individuals can choose among a poor but safe strategy, a better but risky alternative, or a combination of both. We show analytically and computationally that the benefits derived from bet-hedging strategies are much stronger for higher environmental variabilities (large external noise) and/or for small spatial dimensions (large intrinsic noise). These circumstances are typically encountered by living systems, thus providing us with a possible justification for the ubiquitousness of bet-hedging in nature.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Causes of Increased Energy Intake Among Children in the U.S., 1977–2010
Creators: name: Duffey, Kiyah J.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Changes in total energy (TE) intake have been reported among children and adolescents, but the extent to which the components of total energy—energy density (ED); portion size (PS); and the number of eating/drinking occasions (EO)—drive these changes is unknown.
Additional file 1: of Multilocus sequence typing analysis of Candida africana from vulvovaginal candidiasis
Creators: name: Y. Zhu
name: Y. Shi
name: S. Fan
name: X. Liu
name: J. Yang
name: S. Zhong
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S1. Primers used for amplification, sequencing and expression analysis in this study. (DOC 55 kb)
Das Geheimnis der "Realen Gegenwart" Christi in der Eucharistie
Creators: name: Guitton, Jean
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 6 Nr. 5 (1977): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 6, Heft 5
Torsion of rational elliptic curves over cubic fields
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Jimenez, Enrique
name: Najman, Filip
name: Tornero, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let E be an elliptic curve defined over Q. We study the relationship between the torsion subgroup E(Q)_tors and the torsion subgroup E(K)_tors, where K is a cubic number field. In particular, We study the number of cubic number fields K such that E(Q)_tors\neq E(K)_tors.
description: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematica, to appear
Beyond the single-file fluid limit using transfer matrix method: Exact results for confined parallel hard squares
Creators: name: Gurin, Peter
name: Varga, Szabolcs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the transfer matrix method of one-dimensional hard core fluids placed between confining walls for that case where the particles can pass each other and at most two layers can form. We derive an eigenvalue equation for a quasi-one-dimensional system of hard squares confined between two parallel walls, where the pore width is between $σ$ and $3σ$ ( $σ$ is the side length of the square). The exact equation of state and the nearest neighbour distribution functions show three different structures: a fluid phase with one layer, a fluid phase with two layers and a solid-like structure where the fluid layers are strongly correlated. The structural transition between differently ordered fluids develops continuously with increasing density, i.e. no thermodynamic phase transition occurs. The high density structure of the system consists of clusters with two layers which are broken with particles staying in the middle of the pore.
Transporting monovalent rotavirus vaccine efficacy estimates to an external target population: a secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial in Malawi
Creators: name: St Jean, D.T.
name: Thompson, P.
name: Rogawski McQuade, E.T.
name: Thomas, J.C.
name: Becker-Dreps, S.
name: Edwards, J.K.
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023

description: Oral rotavirus vaccine efficacy estimates from randomised controlled trials are highly variable across settings. Although the randomised study design increases the likelihood of internal validity of findings, results from trials may not always apply outside the context of the study due to differences between trial participants and the target population. Here, we used a weight-based method to transport results from a monovalent rotavirus vaccine clinical trial conducted in Malawi between 2005 and 2008 to a target population of all trial-eligible children in Malawi, represented by data from the 2015-2016 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). We reweighted trial participants to reflect the population characteristics described by the Malawi DHS. Vaccine efficacy was estimated for 1008 trial participants after applying these weights such that they represented trial-eligible children in Malawi. We also conducted subgroup analyses to examine the heterogeneous treatment effects by stunting and tuberculosis vaccination status at enrolment. In the original trial, the estimates of one-year vaccine efficacy against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis and any-severity rotavirus gastroenteritis in Malawi were 49.2% (95% CI 15.6%-70.3%) and 32.1% (95% CI 2.5%-53.1%), respectively. After weighting trial participants to represent all trial-eligible children in Malawi, vaccine efficacy increased to 62.2% (95% CI 35.5%-79.0%) against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis and 38.9% (95% CI 11.4%-58.5%) against any-severity rotavirus gastroenteritis. Rotavirus vaccine efficacy may differ between trial participants and target populations when these two populations differ. Differences in tuberculosis vaccination status between the trial sample and DHS population contributed to varying trial and target population vaccine efficacy estimates.
Lectures on differential equations for Feynman integrals
Creators: name: Henn, Johannes M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over the last year significant progress was made in the understanding of the computation of Feynman integrals using differential equations. These lectures give a review of these developments, while not assuming any prior knowledge of the subject. After an introduction to differential equations for Feynman integrals, we point out how they can be simplified using algorithms available in the mathematical literature. We discuss how this is related to a recent conjecture for a canonical form of the equations. We also discuss a complementary approach that allows based on properties of the space-time loop integrands, and explain how the ideas of leading singularities and d-log representations can be used to find an optimal basis for the differential equations. Finally, as an application of the differential equations method we show how single-scale integrals can be bootstrapped using the Drinfeld associator of a differential equation.
description: 40 pages; v3: typos fixed, note at the end of section 4 extended; to appear in J.Phys.A
Colorectal Cancer Control Program Grantees’ Use of Evidence-Based Interventions
Creators: name: Vu, Thuy
name: DeGroff, Amy
name: Leeman, Jennifer
name: Carvalho, Michelle L.
name: Maxwell, Annette E.
name: Pfeiffer, Debbie J.
name: Escoffery, Cam
name: Dwyer, Andrea
name: Liang, Lily
name: Fernandez, Maria E.
name: Vernon, Sally W.
name: Kohn, Marlana
name: Hannon, Peggy A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is recommended for adults aged 50–75 years, yet screening rates are low, especially among the uninsured. The CDC initiated the Colorectal Cancer Control Program (CRCCP) in 2009 with the goal of increasing CRC screening rates to 80% by 2014. A total of 29 grantees (states and tribal organizations) receive CRCCP funding to (1) screen uninsured adults and (2) promote CRC screening at the population level.
Persönliches Gebet in der Eucharistiefeier
Creators: name: Lehmann, Karl
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 6 Nr. 5 (1977): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 6, Heft 5
Generalized Polarizations Modules (Extended Abstract)
Creators: name: Blandin, Hector
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work enrols the research line of M. Haiman on the Operator Theorem (the old operator conjecture). This theorem states that the smallest $\mathfrak{S}_n$-module closed under taking partial derivatives and closed under the action of polarization operators that contains the Vandermonde determinant is the space of diagonal harmonics polynomials. We start generalizing the context of this theorem to the context of polynomials in $\ell$ sets of $n$ variables $x_{ij}$ with $1\leq i\leq \ell$ et $1\leq j\leq n$. Given a $\frak{S}_n$-stable family of homogeneous polynomials in the variables $x_{ij}$ the smallest vector space closed under taking partial derivatives and closed under the action of polarization operators that contains $F$ is the polarization module generated by the family $F$. These polarization modules are all representation of the direct product $\mathfrak{S}_n\times{GL}_{\ell}(\mathbb{C})$. In order to study the decomposition into irreducible submodules, we compute the graded Frobenius characteristic of these modules. For several cases of $\mathfrak{S}_n$-stable families of homogeneous polynomials in $n$ variables, for every $n\geq 1$, we show general formulas for this graded characteristic in a global manner, independent of the value of $\ell$.
description: To appear in a proceedings volume of DMTCS (Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science)
title: Elusa. From Nabatean Trading Post to Late Antique Desert Metropolis
title: Elusa. From Nabatean Trading Post to Late Antique Desert Metropolis
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Heinzelmann, Michael
name: Schöne, Christian
name: Wozniok, Diana
name: Schröder, Arne
name: Jordan, Florian
name: Erickson-Gini, Tali
name: Kühn, Maria Luise
name: Langgut, Dafna
name: Lehnig, Sina
Publisher: name: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Negev
subject: Nabatean
subject: geophysics
subject: survey
subject: excavation
subject: Negev
subject: Nabatean
subject: geophysics
subject: survey
subject: excavation

description: Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1. Halbband 2022
description: In Roman to late Byzantine times, Elusa (Hebrew: Haluza, Arabic: al-Khalasa) was the most important settlement in the Negev region and its only proper city. Identified in 1838 by E. Robinson, it was subsequently visited by numerous researchers. The most important investigations took place in the form of surveys and excavations from the 1970s until 2001, during which, among other things, the only theatre in the region and the city's cathedral were uncovered. However, despite several research projects, very basic information on the city and its genesis, history and structure has been lacking until now. Since 2015, this has been the focus of an international cooperation project that is investigating these fundamental questions using a multi-method approach. The focus here is also on the role of the city in the region, as it appears as an economic, administrative, cultural and religious centre. Particular emphasis is placed on the city's flourishing in light of its precarious natural location within the Negev Desert. The article reflects the combined findings of remote sensing, archaeological survey, geophysical prospection, targeted excavations, geochemical soil sampling and extensive find material analyses and thus provides an unprecedented insight into the character and development of ancient Elusa.
Food Companies' Calorie-Reduction Pledges to Improve U.S. Diet
Creators: name: Slining, Meghan M.
name: Ng, Shu Wen
name: Popkin, Barry M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Heretofore, corporate voluntary pledges to improve the health of Americans have been linked neither to explicit measurable commitments nor to a framework for an independent evaluation. The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF), whose members include 16 of the nation’s leading consumer packaged goods food and beverage manufacturers, voluntarily pledged to collectively remove 1 trillion calories from their products by 2012 (against a 2007 baseline), and 1.5 trillion calories by 2015. The pledge is designed to reduce the calorie gap commensurate with the HWCF companies’ role in the U.S. diet. To date, no system exists for documenting the nutritional and public health impacts of industry-led changes in the food supply on individual diets.
Foods and Beverages Associated with Higher Intake of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Creators: name: Slining, Meghan M.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Mathias, Kevin C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Although consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with higher caloric intakes, the amount SSBs contribute to higher intakes has not been addressed.
Infinite symmetric groups and combinatorial constructions of topological field theory type
Creators: name: Neretin, Yury A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20C32, 05E45, 05C15, 43A90, 55N22, 81T45

description: The paper contains a survey of train constructions for infinite symmetric groups and related groups. For certain pairs (a group $G$, a subgroup $K$), we construct categories, whose morphisms are two-dimensional surfaces tiled by polygons and colored in a certain way. A product of morphisms is a gluing of combinatorial bordisms. For a unitary representation of $G$ we assign a functor from the category of bordisms to the category of Hilbert spaces and bounded operators. The construction has numerous variations, instead of surfaces there arise also one-dimensional objects of Brauer diagram type, multi-dimensional pseudomanifolds, bipartite graphs
description: 59pp, 20fig, minor changes
Gestalt und Gehalt der eucharistischen Feier
Creators: name: Benedikt XVI., Papst
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 6 Nr. 5 (1977): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 6, Heft 5
ISSS Systemic Deviation, Systems Ethics, aka: The evil in the machine
Creators: name: Maio, Paola Di
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 109999 Technology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 100603 Logic Design
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 100599 Communications Technologies not elsewhere classified

description: Systemic Deviation defined, characterized, understood and framed
Incorporating End-User Feedback in the Development and Validation of a Smart Textile for assessing Sports Training and Performance
Creators: name: Toon, Nathan
Publisher: name: College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby
Year: 2023
Subjects: Wearables, E-Textiles, Sport, Biomechanics, Motion-Capture, Validity

description: Objectives: The aims of the research project were to explore the need and desire of a new sport wearable within applied practice by creating dialogue with the end-users. Furthermore, the research project sets out to quantify the reliability and validity a new sports wearable, KiTT (Knitted intelligent Textile Tracker), against the current gold-standard three-dimensional motion-analysis counter-part. Methods: Study 1 will utilise semi-structured interviews to create dialogue between the researcher and end-users. This will help provide an image into the current use of technology within applied practice. Furthermore, study 2 will capture and calculate the relative knee angles from KiTT’s raw resistance, and compare the results to that of Vicon, where reliability and validity will be assessed; this is imperative before task-specific research. Results: Study 1 identified a need, and requirement for new sport wearables, specifically in the form of e-textiles. This would enable end-users to adopt technology into their work, potentially enhancing their output. In addition, study 2 suggests that KiTT serves as a valid and reliable tool at recording relative knee angle across five commonly used sporting exercises, with high degrees of accuracy. Conclusion: End-users stated a need and requirement for technology such as KiTT to be created for adoption within their practice. Current systems are often inaccessible and can lead to performance losses. KiTT serves as a valid alternative to motion-capture, whilst offering more benefits to the user (cost-friendly, easy to use, and portable). When investigating an individual’s relative knee angle, KiTT should be considered especially in specific testing conditions.
Solid Fat and Added Sugar Intake Among U.S. Children: The Role of Stores, Schools, and Fast Food from 1994 to 2010
Creators: name: Slining, Meghan M.
name: Poti, Jennifer M.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Little is known about the role of location in U.S. children’s excess intake of energy from solid fat and added sugar, collectively referred to as SoFAS.