cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fluids, Anomalies and the Chiral Magnetic Effect: A Group-theoretic Formulation
Creators: name: Nair, V. P.
name: Ray, Rashmi
name: Roy, Shubho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is possible to formulate fluid dynamics in terms of group-valued variables. This is particularly suited to the cases where the fluid has nonabelian charges and is coupled to nonabelian gauge fields. We explore this formulation further in this paper. An action for a fluid of relativistic particles (with and without spin) is given in terms of the Lorentz and Poincare (or de Sitter) groups. Considering the case of particles with flavor symmetries, a general fluid action which also incorporates all flavor anomalies is given. The chiral magnetic and chiral vorticity effects as well as the consequences of the mixed gauge-gravity anomaly are discussed.
description: 17 pages, version to be published in Phys Rev D
Ювелірні прикраси Новгород-Сіверської землі
Creators: name: Орлов, Руслан
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Орлов Р.С. Ювелірні прикраси Новгород-Сіверської землі — Слов’яно-руські старожитності Північного Лівобережжя. - Чернігів, 1995. - С.60-64.
Relaxation, pre-thermalization and diffusion in a noisy Quantum Ising Chain
Creators: name: Marino, Jamir
name: Silva, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of thermalization resulting from a time-dependent noise in a Quantum Ising Chain subject to a sudden quench of the transverse magnetic field. For weak noise the dynamics shows a pre-thermalized state at intermediate time scales, eventually drifting towards an asymptotic infinite temperature steady state characterized by diffusive behavior. By computing analytically the density of kinks, as well as the transverse and longitudinal magnetic field correlators, we characterize these two regimes, their observability and their signatures in the various physical quantities.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in PRB Rapid Communications
Colombian refugees' stories of navigating settlement
Creators: name: Wiebe, Shalom Rebekah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This study examines Colombian refugees’ stories of navigating settlement and integration over time in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. The research question addressed in this study was: What are stories that Colombian refugees tell about their experiences navigating the settlement and integration process? Seven individuals participated in the study, three women and four men, all of whom had arrived in Canada as Government Assisted Refugees between the years of 2000 and 2007 and had settled immediately in the Greater Vancouver region. Information was collected through semi-structured narrative interviews which aimed to identify significant events in settlement over time. Using a narrative approach to analysis, the thesis first introduces each participant and the key aspects of their settlement journey. Next a number of major themes that appeared across the interviews describing the participants’ settlement journey in Canada are introduced, including the refugee experience, navigating around obstacles, and building community and helping others. Personal qualities and practices that served as key techniques for navigating the unfamiliar terrain of the new social environment in Canada are identified and explored in depth. Stories, language, and metaphors used by the participants challenged the concept of integration as a ‘two-way street’ and demonstrate that participants are active agents in their settlement and integration process, relying primarily on their own efforts to incorporate into the new society. Participants narratives revealed their collective identity as people that move forward, overcoming crisis and moving on to build community in their new context, help others, and plan for the future. The findings of this study are relevant to social workers across fields, social work educators, settlement service providers, and others who work in the refugee service provision sector.
Plesiocamenta Lacroix & Montreuil 2019
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Plesiocamenta

description: Plesiocamenta Lacroix & Montreuil, 2019
[1 species].
Type species Plesiocamenta murphyi Lacroix & Montreuil, 2019, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
The Use of Nasojejunal Nutrition in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis
Creators: name: Skipworth, James Robert Anthony
name: Raptis, Dimitri Aristotle
name: Wijesuriya, Shalini
name: Puthucheary, Zudin
name: Olde Damink, Steven W M
name: Imber, Charles
name: Malagò, Massimo
name: Shankar, Arjun
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2011
Subjects: Enteral Nutrition; Jejunum; Nutritional Status; Pancreatitis, Chronic

description: Context Abdominal pain, malabsorption and diabetes all contribute to a negative impact upon nutritional status in chronic pancreatitis and no validated standard for the nutritional management of patients exists. Objective To assess the effect of nasojejunal nutrition in chronic pancreatitis patients. Design All consecutive chronic pancreatitis patients fed via the nasojejunal route between January 2004 and December 2007 were included in the study. Patients were assessed via retrospective review of case notes. Results Fifty-eight chronic pancreatitis patients (35 males, 23 females; median age 46 years) were included. Patients were discharged after a median of 14 days and nasojejunal nutrition continued for a median of 47 days. Forty-six patients (79.3%) reported resolution of their abdominal pain and cessation of opioid analgesia intake over the study period and median weight gain at 6 weeks following nutritional cessation was +1 kg (range -24 to +27 kg; P=0.454). Twelve (20.7%) patients reported recurrence of their pain during the follow-up period and complications were both minor and infrequent. Significant improvements were noted in most blood parameters measured, including: sodium (from 134.8 to 138.1 mEq/L; P<0.001); urea (from 3.4 to 5.1 mmol/L; P<0.001); creatinine (from 58.3 to 60.3 μmol/L; P<0.001); corrected calcium (from 2.24 to 2.35 mmol/L; P=0.018); albumin (from 34.5 to 38.7 g/L; P=0.002); CRP (from 73.0 to 25.5 mg/L; P=0.006); and haemoglobin (from 11.8 to 12.4 g/dL; P=0.036). Conclusion Nasojejunal nutrition, commenced in hospital and continued at home, is safe, efficacious and well tolerated in patients with severe chronic pancreatitis and is effective in helping to relieve pain and diminish analgesic requirements.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 12, N° 6 (2011): November - p. 557-630
title: Φαρμακευτικά Σκευάσματα Πρωτοβάθμιας Οφθαλμικής Φροντίδας
title: Pharmaceutics of Primary Eye Care
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Σιδέρη, Βασιλική Μαρία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Φαρμακευτικά σκευάσματα

description: Ο οφθαλμός αποτελεί ένα από τα πιο σημαντικά όργανα του ανθρώπινου οργανισμού, με τη μεγαλύτερη πολυπλοκότητα τόσο στην ανατομία όσο και στην φυσιολογία του. Διαφορετικά στοιχεία της δομής και της φυσιλογικής λειτουργίας του είναι πιθανό να παρουσιάσουν παθολογικές μεταβολές οι οποίες μπορεί να είναι τοπικές ή να σχετίζονται με συστεμικές παθήσεις του οργανισμού. Στο παρακάτω κείμενο παρουσιάζονται τα τοπικά οφθαλμικά φαρμακευτικά σκεύασματα που χορηγούνται για την πρόληψη, την αντιμετώπιση και τη θεραπεία αυτών των παθήσεων. Συγκεκριμένα παρατίθενται βασικά στοιχεία γενικής φαρμακολογίας, φαρμακολογίας και παθολογίας του οφθαλμού. Ακόμη περιγράφονται οι προκλήσεις και τα διάφορα εμπόδια που συναντόνται στη διαδικασία απορρόφησης των φαρμάκων, τα οποία οφείλονται στη δομική και λειτουργική πολυπλοκότητα του οφθαλμού. Τέλος αναλύονται οι ενδείξεις, ο τρόπος δράσης, οι διάφορες κατηγορίες, τα συστατικά, οι αντενδείξεις, οι ανεπιθύμητες ενέργειες και οι συνέργειες των οφθαλμικών φαρμακευτικών σκευασμάτων.
Cubic Vertices for Symmetric Higher-Spin Gauge Fields in $(A)dS_d$
Creators: name: Vasiliev, Mikhail A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cubic vertices for symmetric higher-spin gauge fields of integer spins in $(A)dS_d$ are analyzed. $(A)dS_d$ generalization of the previously known action in $AdS_4$, that describes cubic interactions of symmetric massless fields of all integer spins $s\geq 2$, is found. A new cohomological formalism for the analysis of vertices of higher-spin fields of any symmetry and/or order of nonlinearity is proposed within the frame-like approach. Using examples of spins two and three it is demonstrated how nontrivial vertices in $(A)dS_d$, including Einstein cubic vertex, can result from the $AdS$ deformation of trivial Minkowski vertices. A set of higher-derivative cubic vertices for any three bosonic fields of spins $s\geq 2$ is proposed, which is conjectured to describe all vertices in $AdS_d$ that can be constructed in terms of connection one-forms and curvature two-forms of symmetric higher-spin fields. A problem of reconstruction of a full nonlinear action starting from known unfolded equations is discussed. It is shown that the normalization of free higher-spin gauge fields compatible with the flat limit relates the noncommutativity parameter $\hbar$ of the higher-spin algebra to the $(A)dS$ radius.
description: 78 pages. V2: typos corrected, coefficients in sections 5.1 and 6.3 corrected and undetermined coefficients of the supertrace of higher-spin algebra in section 6.1 and of the relation between tensor and generating function formalism in section 7.3 are computed. Clarifications, graphs, references and acknowledgments added. V3: typos corrected, reference added, the version to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
Μοντελοποίηση του ύψους ατομικής ζημιάς μέσω spliced κατανομών
Creators: name: Στράτος, Μιχαήλ
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ύψος ατομικής ζημιάς
subject: Συγκολλημένη κατανομή

description: Σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις κατά την μοντελοποίηση των ατομικών ζημιών ενός χαρτοφυλακίου παρατηρούμε ότι σε κάποια διαστήματα τιμών οι ζημιές παρουσιάζουν υψηλή συχνότητα - χαμηλή σφοδρότητα ενώ σε άλλα παρουσιάζουν χαμηλή συχνότητα - υψηλή σφοδρότητα. Με στόχο να προταθεί μία αποτελεσματική πρακτική για την μοντελοποίηση της ιδιάζουσας αυτής συμπεριφοράς των δεδομένων παρουσιάζεται η έννοια της συγκολλημένης κατανομής, δηλαδή ενός πιθανοθεωρητικού μοντέλου που προκύπτει από τον συνδυασμό n- κατανομών βαριάς ουράς, n≥2, και εφαρμόζεται σε περιπτώσεις όπου οι συνήθεις ζημιοκατανομές δεν προσφέρουν ποιοτικά αποτελέσματα. Ο αρχικός ορισμός εισήχθη από τους Cooray – Ananda (2005) αλλά η έρευνα πάνω στις συγκολλημένες κατανομές στηρίζεται στον γενικότερο ορισμό που δόθηκε από τον Scollnik (2007). Θα παρουσιασθεί ο ορισμός των νέων μοντέλων και θα μελετηθεί η περίπτωση των δύο συνιστωσών (n=2). Έπειτα, θα αναλυθούν οι συγκολλημένες κατανομές Lognormal – Pareto (Scollnik, 2007), Lognormal – GPD (Scollnik, 2007), Weibull – GPD (Scollnik – Sun, 2012) και Gamma – GPD (Teodorescu – Vernic, 2013). Θα δοθούν αναλυτικοί τύποι για τον υπολογισμό των ροπών καθώς και για τα βασικά μέτρα κινδύνου. Για την εύρεση των εκτιμητών μέγιστης πιθανοφάνειας των παραμέτρων θα χρησιμοποιηθεί το στατιστικό πακέτο R ενώ στην συνέχεια θα πραγματοποιηθεί μελέτη προσομοίωσης με σκοπό να μετρηθεί η απόδοσή τους. Τέλος, θα παρουσιασθούν δύο εφαρμογές των συγκολλημένων κατανομών σε πραγματικά δεδομένα.
Tarsocamenta Moser 1924
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Tarsocamenta

description: Tarsocamenta Moser, 1924c
[1 species].
Type species Tarsocamenta kapiriana Moser, 1924, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Determining CP violation angle $γ$ with B decays into a scalar/tensor meson
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new way for determining the CP violation angle $γ$ without any hadronic uncertainty. The suggested method is to use the two triangles formed by the decay amplitudes of $B^\pm\to (D^0,\bar D^0,D_{CP}^0) K^{*\pm}_{0(2)}(1430)$. The advantages are that large CP asymmetries are expected in these processes and only singly Cabibbo-suppressed $D$ decay modes are involved. Measurements of the branching fractions of the neutral $B_d$ decays into $DK^{*}_{0(2)}(1430)$ and the time-dependent CP asymmetries in $B_s\to (D^0, \bar D^0) M$ ($M=f_0(980),f_0(1370), f_2'(1525), f_1(1285), f_1(1420), h_1(1180))$ provide an alternative way to extract the angle $γ$, which will increase the statistical significance.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review D as a Rapid Communication
Tulbaghia Peringuey 1904
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Tulbaghia

description: Tulbaghia Péringuey, 1904
[3 species].
Type species Tulbaghia lightfooti Péringuey, 1904, by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2007a).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
title: Εφαρμογή εισαγωγής χαρτογραφικών δεδομένων προσβασιμότητας συστήματος αυτόνομης πλοήγησης τυφλού σε εσωτερικούς χώρους
title: Accessibility floor map data entry web application for blind indoor navigation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Νικολακόπουλος, Νικόλαος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Τυφλός
subject: Τυφλά άτομα
subject: Aυτόνομη πλοήγηση
subject: Εσωτερικοί χώροι

description: Διαθέσιμο μετά τις 13/09/2023
description: Η εργασία αφορά μια εφαρμογή με την οποία πραγματοποιείτε η χαρτογράφηση ενός εσωτερικού χώρου για την αυτόνομη πλοήγηση ενός ατόμου με προβλήματα όρασης. Δίνονται όλες οι απαραίτητες λεπτομέρειες ώστε να πλοηγηθεί με ακρίβεια στον χώρο και υποστηρίζεται με ηχητική παρουσίαση των αντικειμένων που βρίσκονται γύρω του. Ο υπεύθυνος του χώρου θα ζητηθεί να εισάγει αναλυτικά τις συντεταγμένες και τα απαιτούμενα λεκτικά του κάθε χώρου και των αντικειμένων του, τις διαστάσεις τους, να εισάγει τις συντεταγμένες των ειδικών αισθητήρων (αν υπάρχουν) και τις διαθέσιμες διαδρομές πλοήγησης που θα μπορεί να ακολουθήσει. Το άτομο με προβλήματα όρασης με την χρήση εφαρμογής, η οποία λειτουργεί σε android περιβάλλον, θα την ενημερώνει εύκολα μέσω δικτύου σχετικά με τον χώρο τον οποίο θα θέλει να επισκεφτεί. Τα δεδομένα που θα ανακτά θα προκύπτουν από την υπάρχουσα εφαρμογή και θα του παρέχει αναλυτικές οδηγίες για τα δρομολόγια και αναλυτικές περιγραφές για τα αντικείμενα που πρόκειται να συναντήσει. Όταν θα βρίσκεται εντός του χώρου αυτού, θα κινείται με βάση τις φωνητικές οδηγίες που θα δέχεται από την εφαρμογή κατά μήκος της επιλεγμένης διαδρομής ξενάγησης.
Bothronotoxenus Eldredge, new genus
Creators: name: Eldredge, K. Taro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Bothronotoxenus

description: Bothronotoxenus Eldredge, new genus
 Diagnosis. Bothronotoxenus and its only species, B. tishechkini, can be separated from all other Lomechusini by its unique pronotum with a bisinuate anterior margin and a pair of deep, circular depressions on the disk just posterior of the sinuations.
 Description. Integument without microsculpture; tarsal formula 4-5-5; antennae 11-segmented. Head (Figs. 1–2): Transverse (HW = 0.57 mm, HL = 0.42 mm, HW/HL = 1.36) and widest behind eyes; temples swollen posteriorly and extending beyond occipital foramen; occipital and frontal suture absent; neck absent. Antennae compact with antennomeres IV-XI parallel-sided and pedicels scarcely visible. Labrum transverse. Mandibles with apex inwardly recurved, surpassing basointerior articulation. Maxilla (Fig. 5) with cardo ventrally overlapping base of stipes; galea long and consisting of distal lobe with abundant setae; lacinia with several teeth on apex and margin partially delimited by medial dilation, overall accompanied by several layers of setae; palpi 4-segmented, palpomere IV with filamentous sensillae. Labium (Fig. 3) with 3-segmented palpi; palpomeres I and III subequal in length, palpomere II shorter with membranous zone; glossa divided to near base with single terminal sensillate element on each lobe. Mentum (Fig. 6) transverse and trapeziform, with apical margin broadly and shallowly arcuate, posterior-most extension at rounded basolateral angles. Pronotum (Figs. 1–2): Transverse (PW = 0.72 mm, PL = 0.42, PW/PL = 1.71), shape cordiform with anterior margin bisinuate and posterior margin evenly arcuate without posterolateral angles, disk with circular impressions just behind anterior sinuations, marginal bead present and complete, hypomeron fully visible in lateral view. Mesocoxae set in cavities with complete marginal bead, moderately separated by long metaventral and mesoventral process that barely extends between coxae, isthmus short. Elytra (Fig. 1) transverse (EW = 0.78, EL = 0.57, EW/EL = 1.37), laterodistal angles weakly produced but not sinuate. Hind wings fully developed. Abdomen (Figs. 1–2): Widest at base and slightly tapering towards apex, macrosetae inconspicuous and secondary setae extremely long and fine. Tergite VII with transverse defensive gland opening, occupying little less than half width of segment at base.
 Type species. Bothronotoxenus tishechkini, new species.
 Etymology. The generic name is derived from Greek to mean guest with pits on its back. Its gender is masculine.
description: Published as part of Eldredge, K. Taro, 2011, Bothronotoxenus Eldredge, A New Genus Of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) From Arizona, U. S. A., pp. 381-386 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 65 (4) on page 383, DOI: 10.1649/072.065.0413, http://zenodo.org/record/10085419
Cunderdinia Lea 1916
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Cunderdinia

description: Cunderdinia Lea, 1916
[2 species].
Type species Cunderdinia variabilis Lea, 1916, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Merging diabolical points of a superconducting circuit
Creators: name: Monjou, Amélie
name: Leone, Raphaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first theoretical study of the merging of diabolical points in the context of superconducting circuits. We begin by studying an analytically solvable four-level model which may serve as theoretical pattern for such a phenomenon. Then, we apply it to a circuit named Cooper pairs pump, whose diabolical points are already known.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
The Impact of Body Mass Index on Pancreatic Fistula After Pancreaticoduodenectomy in Asian Patients on the Basis of Asia-Pacific Perspective of Body Mass Index
Creators: name: Hwang, Ho Kyoung
name: Park, Joon Seong
name: Park, Chan-Il
name: Kim, Jae Keun
name: Yoon, Dong Sup
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2011
Subjects: Body Mass Index; Obesity; Pancreatic Fistula; Pancreaticoduodenectomy

description: Context Several surgical complications are related to obesity. Objective This study evaluated the impact of obesity on pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Design We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 159 patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy between October 2002 and December 2008. Setting The patients were divided according to the body mass index as obese (body mass index equal to, or greater than, 25 kg/m2), or normal (body mass index less than 25 kg/m2). Methods Univariate and multivariate analyses were applied. Two-tailed P values less than 0.05 were considered as significant. Results Forty-six patients (28.9%) were obese and 113 patients (71.1%) were normal-weight. Obese group had a significantly higher incidence of pancreatic fistula and a greater amount of intraoperative blood loss. Other surgical complications were not significantly different between the two groups. Multivariate analysis found obesity, small pancreatic duct size (less than, or equal to, 3 mm), intraoperative blood loss, and combined resection as significant factors affecting pancreatic fistula. Conclusions Obese patients have an increased risk for pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 12, N° 6 (2011): November - p. 557-630
Drug-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Cohort of 328 Patients. A Single-Centre Experience from Australia
Creators: name: Barreto, Savio George
name: Tiong, Leong
name: Williams, Randall
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2011
Subjects: Australia; Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing /etiology; Prescriptions

description: Context Acute pancreatitis is associated with risk of morbidity and even mortality. Routine prescription drugs have been linked to the causation of acute pancreatitis. Objective To determine the incidence, presentation, course and outcome of drug-induced acute pancreatitis amongst patients admitted to a public hospital. Design/setting A retrospective analysis of patients presenting with acute pancreatitis to the Modbury Hospital, South Australia from January 2006 to April 2011. Main outcome measure Each admission was reviewed within the electronic database for patient details as well as to determine the aetiological factor. In patients with drug-induced acute pancreatitis, the WHO Probability Scale was used to evaluate causality relationship. Results Three-hundreds and 28 patients were treated for acute pancreatitis during the study period. Biliary and alcohol-induced acute pancreatitis accounted for 80.8% of cases. Eleven patients (2 male and 9 female patients; median age: 59 years) were diagnosed with drug-induced acute pancreatitis. These included 5 cases of codeine-, 2 cases of azathioprine-, and 1 case each of chlorothiazide-, valproic acid-, oestradiol- and rosuvastatin-induced acute pancreatitis. Nine patients had a mild disease while 2 patients had severe acute pancreatitis with a median hospital stay of 4 days. Withdrawal of the drug resulted in cessation of the attacks in all patients over a median follow-up of 24 months. Conclusions Routine prescription drugs, as an aetiological factor, accounted for 3.4% of cases of acute pancreatitis. The disease appeared to be more common in middle-aged women. It is likely that the overall incidence of this entity is under-reported owing to the stringent criteria needed to conclusively determine a causal relationship.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 12, N° 6 (2011): November - p. 557-630
A spatio-temporal description of the abrupt changes in the photospheric magnetic and Lorentz-force vectors during the 2011 February 15 X2.2 flare
Creators: name: Petrie, G. J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The active region NOAA 11158 produced the first X-class flare of Solar Cycle 24, an X2.2 flare at 01:44 UT on 2011 February 15. Here we analyze SDO/HMI magnetograms covering a 12-hour interval centered at the time of this flare. We describe the spatial distributions of the photospheric magnetic changes associated with this flare, including the abrupt changes in the field vector, vertical electric current and Lorentz force vector. We also trace these parameters' temporal evolution. The abrupt magnetic changes were concentrated near the neutral line and in two neighboring sunspots. Near the neutral line, the field vectors became stronger and more horizontal during the flare and the shear increased. This was due to an increase in strength of the horizontal field components near the neutral line, most significant in the horizontal component parallel to the neutral line but the perpendicular component also increased in strength. The vertical component did not show a significant, permanent overall change at the neutral line. The increase in total flux at the neutral line was accompanied by a compensating flux decrease in the surrounding volume. In the two sunspots near the neutral line the azimuthal flux abruptly decreased during the flare but this change was permanent in only one of the spots. There was a large, abrupt, downward vertical Lorentz force change during the flare, consistent with results of past analyses and recent theoretical work. The horizontal Lorentz force acted in opposite directions along each side of neutral line, with the two sunspots at each end subject to abrupt torsional forces. The shearing forces were consistent with field contraction and decrease of shear near the neutral line, whereas the field itself became more sheared as a result of the flux collapsing towards the neutral line from the surrounding volume.
description: DOI 10.1007/s11207-012-0071-0. Accepted for publication in Solar Physics SDO3 Topical Issue. Some graphics missing due to 15MB limit
Pancreatic Carcinoma Masquerading as Groove Pancreatitis: Case Report and Review of Literature
Creators: name: Malde, Deep J
name: Oliveira-Cunha, Melissa
name: Smith, Andrew Malvern
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2011
Subjects: Pancreatic Neoplasms; Pancreatitis

description: Context Groove pancreatitis is a distinct form of chronic pancreatitis affecting the space surrounded by the pancreatic head, duodenum and common bile duct. It is an uncommon pancreatic disease with challenging imaging diagnosis that can lead to surgical dilemmas. The purpose of this study is to report a case and review the current clinical, radiological and pathological characteristics of groove pancreatic carcinoma and groove pancreatitis. Case report A 58-year-old man, with a history of alcohol excess, presented with a 4 month history of upper abdominal pain associated with weight loss and vomiting. Failed duodenal dilatation led to gastroenterostomy with biopsies showing chronic inflammation. Further presentation with jaundice and pancreatic groove mass led to a Whipple’s pancreaticoduodenectomy. Histopathology report demonstrated cystic areas in both medial and lateral walls of his duodenum microscopically consistent with groove pancreatitis and a moderate to poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. Conclusion Several studies have been attempted to clarify the points of differentiation between carcinoma and pancreatitis in the groove area. This discrimination has been proved to be difficult; frequently the definitive diagnosis is only obtained after surgical intervention. This condition should be considered when making the differential diagnosis in pancreatic groove pathology and duodenal stenosis.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 12, N° 6 (2011): November - p. 557-630
Univariate interpolation by exponential functions and gaussian RBFs for generic sets of nodes
Creators: name: Yarotsky, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider interpolation of univariate functions on arbitrary sets of nodes by Gaussian radial basis functions or by exponential functions. We derive closed-form expressions for the interpolation error based on the Harish-Chandra-Itzykson-Zuber formula. We then prove the exponential convergence of interpolation for functions analytic in a sufficiently large domain. As an application, we prove the global exponential convergence of optimization by expected improvement for such functions.
description: Some stylistic improvements and added references following feedback from the reviewers
Diphucephala Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville 1828
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Diphucephala

description: Diphucephala Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828
[68 species].
Type species Melolontha sericea Kirby, 1818, by monotypy.
Diphucephala: Dejean 1821.
Unavailable name.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Intrapancreatic Accessory Spleen: Investigative Dilemmas and Role of EUS-Guided FNA for Diagnostic Confirmation
Creators: name: Krishna, Somashekar G
name: Heif, Muhannad M
name: Sharma, Shree G
name: Pandey, Tarun
name: Rego, Rayburn F
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biopsy, Fine-Needle; Endosonography; Neuroendocrine Tumors; Non functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor; Pancreas; Pancreatic islet cell tumors; Spleen

description: Context We submit a case of intrapancreatic accessory spleen. Case report A 33-year-old patient with history of dyspepsia underwent imaging studies suggestive of a neuroendocrine tumor. After referral to our institute, endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) confirmed diagnosis as intrapancreatic accessory spleen. Discussion An accessory spleen may develop from estranged mesenchymal cells due to fusion failure of the splenic anlage. The prevalence of an accessory spleen is 10-30% with 80% of them present at the splenic hilum and 17% in the pancreatic tail. Intrapancreatic accessory spleen is commonly misdiagnosed as a pancreatic tumor. Since, the differential diagnosis includes pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, additional investigation with EUS-FNA should be considered when radiological diagnosis is not definitive. Conclusion For diagnosis of intrapancreatic accessory spleen, radiographic imaging is useful, but lacks specificity without tissue diagnosis. Diagnosis can be safely and reliably established with EUS-FNA, leading to a benign prognosis and avoidance of unnecessary surgical intervention.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 12, N° 6 (2011): November - p. 557-630
Total Pancreatectomy and Quality of Life
Creators: name: Pezzilli, Raffaele
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2011
Subjects: Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Pancreatectomy; Pancreatitis, Chronic; Quality of Life

description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 12, N° 6 (2011): November - p. 557-630
Power counting and renormalization group invariance in the subtracted kernel method for the two-nucleon system
Creators: name: Szpigel, Sérgio
name: Timóteo, Varese S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the subtracted kernel method (SKM), a renormalization approach based on recursive multiple subtractions performed in the kernel of the scattering equation, to the chiral nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO). We evaluate the phase-shifts in the 1S0 channel at each order in Weinberg's power counting scheme and in a modified power counting scheme which yields a systematic power-law improvement. We also explicitly demonstrate that the SKM procedure is renormalization group invariant under the change of the subtraction scale through a non-relativistic Callan-Symanzik flow equation for the evolution of the renormalized NN interactions.
description: Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Families of congruent and non-congruent numbers
Creators: name: Reinholz, Lindsey Kayla
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: A positive integer n is a congruent number if it is equal to the area of a right triangle with rational sides. Equivalently, the Mordell-Weil rank of the elliptic curve y²=x(x²-n²) is positive. Otherwise n is a non-congruent number. Although congruent numbers have been studied for centuries, their complete classification is one of the central unresolved problems in the field of pure mathematics. However, by using algorithms such as the method of 2-descent, various mathematicians have proven that numbers with prime factors of a specified form that satisfy a certain pattern of Legendre symbols are either always congruent or always non-congruent. In this thesis, we build upon these results and not only prove the existence of new families of congruent and non-congruent numbers, but also present a new method for generating families of non-congruent numbers. We begin by providing a technique for constructing congruent numbers with three prime factors of the form 8k+3, and then give a family of such numbers for which the rank of their associated elliptic curves equals two, the maximal rank for congruent number curves of this type. Following this, we offer an extension to work done by Iskra and present our new method for generating families of non-congruent numbers with arbitrarily many prime factors. This method employs Monsky's formula for the 2-Selmer rank. Unlike the method of 2-descent which involves a series of lengthy and complex calculations, Monsky's formula offers an elegant approach for determining whether a given positive integer is non-congruent. This theorem uses linear algebra, and through a series of steps, allows one to compute the 2-Selmer rank of a congruent number elliptic curve, which provides an upper bound for the curve's Mordell-Weil rank. By applying this method, we construct infinitely many distinct new families of non-congruent numbers with arbitrarily many prime factors of the form 8k+3. In addition, by utilizing the aforementioned method once again, we expand upon results by Lagrange to generate infinitely many new families of non-congruent numbers that are a product of a single prime of the form 8k+1 and at least one prime of the form 8k+3.
Watkinsia Britton 1995
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Watkinsia

description: Watkinsia Britton, 1995a
[8 species].
Type species Watkinsia bella Britton, 1995, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Dyon condensation in topological Mott insulators
Creators: name: Cho, Gil Young
name: Xu, Cenke
name: Moore, Joel E.
name: Kim, Yong Baek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider quantum phase transitions out of topological Mott insulators in which the ground state of the fractionalized excitations (fermionic spinons) is topologically non-trivial. The spinons in topological Mott insulators are coupled to an emergent compact U(1) gauge field with a so-called "axion" term. We study the confinement transitions from the topological Mott insulator to broken symmetry phases, which may occur via the condensation of dyons. Dyons carry both "electric" and "magnetic" charges, and arise naturally in this system because the monopoles of the emergent U(1) gauge theory acquires gauge charge due to the axion term. It is shown that the dyon condensate, in general, induces simultaneous current and bond orders. To demonstrate this, we study the confined phase of the topological Mott insulator on the cubic lattice. When the magnetic transition is driven by dyon condensation, we identify the bond order as valence bond solid order and the current order as scalar spin chirality order. Hence, the confined phase of the topological Mott insulator is an exotic phase where the scalar spin chirality and the valence bond order coexist and appear via a single transition. We discuss implications of our results for generic models of topological Mott insulators.
description: 14 pages, accepted to the New Journal of Physics
Hot articles recently published in the field of pancreatology
Creators: name: ., .
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2011
Subjects: Collected Works; Pancreas; Pancreatic Diseases; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 12, N° 6 (2011): November - p. 557-630
Selected Topics in Classical Integrability
Creators: name: Doikou, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Basic notions regarding classical integrable systems are reviewed. An algebraic description of the classical integrable models together with the zero curvature condition description is presented. The classical r-matrix approach for discrete and continuum classical integrable models is introduced. Using this framework the associated classical integrals of motion and the corresponding Lax pair are extracted based on algebraic considerations. Our attention is restricted to classical discrete and continuum integrable systems with periodic boundary conditions. Typical examples of discrete (Toda chain, discrete NLS model) and continuum integrable models (NLS, sine-Gordon models and affine Toda field theories) are also discussed.
description: 40 pages, Latex. A few typos corrected
Quasiclassical numerical method for mesoscopic superconductors: bound states in a circular d-wave island with a single vortex
Creators: name: Nagai, Yuki
name: Tanaka, K.
name: Hayashi, Nobuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate an efficient numerical method for obtaining unique solutions to the Eilenberger equation for a mesoscopic or nanoscale superconductor. In particular, we calculate the local density of states of a circular d-wave island containing a single vortex. The "vortex shadow" effect is found to strongly depend on the quasiparticle energy in such small systems. We show how to construct by geometry quasiparticle trajectories confined in a finite-size system with specular reflections at the boundary, and discuss the stability of the numerical solutions even in the case of vanishing order parameter as for nodal quasiparticles in a d-wave superconductor, or for quasiparticles passing through the vortex center with zero energy.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, resubmitted version
Ablaberoides Blanchard 1850
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Ablaberoides

description: Ablaberoides Blanchard, 1850
[36 species].
Type species Ablaberoides aeneus Blanchard, 1850, by monotypy.
Holoschiza Lansberge, 1886.
Type species Holoschiza dentilabris Lansberge, 1886, by monotypy.
Synonymy by Ahrens (2000).
Bielliana Baraud, 1980.
Type species Holoschiza abyssinica Brenske, 1902, by original designation.
Synonymy by Ahrens (2000).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Universal upper limit on inflation energy scale from cosmic magnetic field
Creators: name: Fujita, Tomohiro
name: Mukohyama, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently observational lower bounds on the strength of cosmic magnetic fields were reported, based on gamma-ray flux from distant blazars. If inflation is responsible for the generation of such magnetic fields then the inflation energy scale is bounded from above as rho_{inf}^{1/4} < 2.5 times 10^{-7}M_{Pl} times (B_{obs}/10^{-15}G)^{-2} in a wide class of inflationary magnetogenesis models, where B_{obs} is the observed strength of cosmic magnetic fields. The tensor-to-scalar ratio is correspondingly constrained as r< 10^{-19} times (B_{obs}/10^{-15}G)^{-8}. Therefore, if the reported strength B_{obs} \geq 10^{-15}G is confirmed and if any signatures of gravitational waves from inflation are detected in the near future, then our result indicates some tensions between inflationary magnetogenesis and observations.
description: 12pages, v2: several discussions and references added, version accepted for publication by JCAP
Wernicke Encephalopathy Presenting in a Patient with Severe Acute Pancreatitis
Creators: name: Arana-Guajardo, Ana Cecilia
name: Cámara-Lemarroy, Carlos Rodrigo
name: Rendón- Ramírez, Erick Joel
name: Jáquez-Quintana, Joel Omar
name: Góngora -Rivera, Juan Fernando
name: Galarza-Delgado, Dionicio Ángel
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pancreatitis; Thiamine; Wernicke Encephalopathy

description: Context Acute pancreatitis can lead to prolonged fasting and malnutrition. Many metabolic changes, including thiamine deficiency, may lead to the well know pancreatic encephalopathy. In this condition however the thiamine deficiency is rarely suspected. Case report We report the case of a 17-year-old woman with severe acute pancreatitis who developed mental status changes and ophthalmoplegia. A magnetic resonance image showed hyperintensive signals in periventricular areas, medial thalamus, and mammillary bodies, findings consistent with the diagnosis of Wernicke encephalopathy. Thiamine treatment reversed neurological complications. Conclusion Wernicke encephalopathy secondary to thiamine deficiency should be considered as a possible cause of acute mental status changes in patients with acute pancreatitis and malnutrition. Prophylactic doses of thiamine could be considered in susceptible patients.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 1 (2012): January - p. 1-123
Endoluminal Ultrasound of Neoduodenum Following Pancreas-Preserving Total Duodenectomy for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
Creators: name: Beamish, Andrew J
name: Roberts, S Ashley
name: Ansell, James
name: Al-Sarireh, Bilal
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adenomatous Polyposis Coli; Biopsy, Fine-Needle; Duodenal Neoplasms; Endoscopy; Endosonography; Pancreaticoduodenectomy

description: Context Familial adenomatous polyposis affects around 2-10 per 100,000 population. Untreated, it inevitably leads to colon cancer. Prophylactic panproctocolectomy has led to improved survival. The resulting extension to follow-up has revealed that 70-100% of patients with familial adenomatous polyposis go on to develop duodenal polyposis and the lifetime risk of duodenal carcinoma in this group is up to 10%. Treatment for those not locally resectable requires pancreaticoduodenectomy. In recent years, pancreas-preserving total duodenectomy has emerged as a safe alternative to pancreaticoduodenectomy. Endoscopy has previously been safely performed in patients following pancreas-preserving total duodenectomy. Case report We report successful endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) assessment and trans-neoduodenal EUS-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) of the pancreas and adjacent tissue in a 45-year-old man with familial adenomatous polyposis who has previously undergone pancreas-preserving total duodenectomy. EUS confirmed the mass was most likely to represent a metastasis in a local lymph node. EUS-FNA confirmed invasive malignancy. A Kausch-Whipple pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed successfully and post-operative recovery has been excellent. Conclusion The authors consider this to be the first report of successful EUS and EUS-FNA performed through the neoduodenum fashioned during pancreas-preserving total duodenectomy.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 1 (2012): January - p. 1-123