cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Evaluation of T2WI and readout-segmented echo-planar imaging in diagnosing early prostate cancers：a study based on PI-RADS
Creators: name: Min, Xiangde
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Currently, clinical diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is usually based on single-shot echo planar (SS-EPI) because of its imaging speed and its less sensitive to motion artifacts [1]. However, SS-EPI is prone to artifacts and has a limited spatial...
Defining Opportunities for Pharmacists in Global Public Health in Resource Limited Countries
Creators: name: Steeb, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: With the profession of pharmacy globally shifting towards more patient-centered services than product-centered services, there still remains the question of what the role of the pharmacist can be as not only a patient care provider, but also a public health practitioner. As one of the most accessible healthcare providers, pharmacists worldwide are exploring how they can better protect and promote the health of their communities. While high-income countries have more established patient-centered services with public health implications, such as vaccinations, disease state management, and lifestyle counseling among others, poor countries lack recognition of these services, which can hinder their adoption and spread throughout this part of the world. Low to middle-income countries though often are in the greatest need of these services where they often face the double burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Compounding this issue is that not only do poor nations have a higher disease burden, but also have a greater shortage of health care workers including pharmacists. There are several areas of need and opportunity for pharmacists in resource-limited countries to engage in public health services. With the global health care worker shortage, pharmacists can help fulfil roles in primary care and extend their responsibilities to increase coverage in gaps of care. Supply chain management is another essential opportunity given the unique medication knowledge pharmacists have in combination with their familiarity with workflow and operations of a pharmacy. Additionally, medication safety and adherence continues to be a significant issue as low to middle-income countries address falsified and substandard medications. In order for pharmacists to be engaged in these and other services such as immunizations, government and association leaders should assess how pharmacists can better be recognized and integrated within the public health infrastructure and systems within resource-limited areas.
Spatiotemporal organization of cryptic North American Culex species along an urbanization gradient
Creators: name: Arsenault-Benoit, Arielle
name: Fritz, Megan L.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023
Subjects: community assemblage
Culex mosquitoes
landscape heterogeneity
West Nile virus
urbanization

description: Landscape heterogeneity creates diverse habitat and resources for mosquito vectors of disease. A consequence may be varied distribution and abundance of vector species over space and time dependent on niche requirements. We tested the hypothesis that landscape heterogeneity driven by urbanization influences the distribution and relative abundance of Culex pipiens, Cx. restuans and Cx. quinquefasciatus, three vectors of West Nile virus (WNv) in the eastern North American landscape. We collected 9803 cryptic Culex from urban, suburban and rural sites in metropolitan Washington, District of Columbia, during the months of June–October, 2019–2021. In 2021, we also collected mosquitoes in April and May to measure early season abundance and distribution. Molecular techniques were used to identify a subset of collected Culex to species (n = 2461). Ecological correlates of the spatiotemporal distribution of these cryptic Culex were examined using constrained and unconstrained ordination. Seasonality was not associated with Culex community composition in June–October over 3 years, but introducing April and May data revealed seasonal shifts in community composition in the final year of our study. Culex pipiens were dominant across site types, while Cx. quinquefasciatus were associated with urban environments, and Cx. restuans were associated with rural and suburban sites. All three species rarely coexisted. Our work demonstrates that human-mediated land-use changes influence the distribution and relative abundance of Culex vectors of WNv, even on fine geospatial scales. Site classification, per cent impervious surface, distance to city centre and longitude predicted Culex community composition. We documented active Culex months before vector surveillance typically commences in this region, with Culex restuans being most abundant during April and May. Active suppression of Cx. restuans in April and May could reduce early enzootic transmission, delay the seasonal spread of WNv and thereby reduce overall WNv burden. By June, the highest risk of epizootic spillover of WNv to human hosts may be in suburban areas with high human population density and mixed Culex assemblages that can transmit WNv between birds and humans. Focusing management efforts there may further reduce human disease burden.
Embedded Questions and Concealed Relative Questions in Hausa and Akan
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Malte
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Linguistik , Semantik , Feldforschung , Ga-Sprache , Kwa-Sprachen , Niger-Kongo-Sprachen
subject: 400
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Semantics
subject: Tschadische Sprachen
subject: Fieldwork
subject: Chadic
subject: Afro-Asiatic
subject: Kwa
subject: Niger-Congo

description: The central goal of this paper is to instigate cross-linguistic research on the interpretation of embedded interrogatives and concealed relative clauses. The empirical focus is on the West African languages Hausa and Akan, which prominently employ relativized DPs for expressing embedded questions. The paper first discusses the different ways for interpreting and analyzing embedded wh-interrogatives: interpretations vary from strong exhaustive via intermediate and weak exhaustive to non-exhaustive. We will then present data on concealed relative questions in Hausa and Akan, focusing on the issues of how such structures are compositionally interpreted, and how they behave in terms of (non-) exhaustivity. Drawing on existing analyses of concealed and interrogative questions in English, we tentatively propose two formal analyses for concealed relative questions in the two languages discussed.
Mathematical structures of cohomological field theories
Creators: name: Jiang, Shuhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T45

description: A mathematical framework of cohomological field theories (CohFTs) is formulated in the language of bigraded manifolds. Algebraic properties of operators in CohFTs are studied. Methods of constructing CohFTs, with or without gauge symmetries, are discussed. In particular, a generalization of the Mathai-Quillen formalism is given. Examples such as topological quantum mechanics, topological sigma model, topological M-theory, and topological Yang-Mills theory can be obtained uniformly using this new formalism.
description: 38 pages; to appear in J. Geom. Phys
title: MRI Findings of Orbital Pathologies
Creators: name: Oztek, Murat Alp
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Eyes
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this work is: -To review MRI images of orbital pathologies from our...
Robust Non-linear Regression: A Greedy Approach Employing Kernels with Application to Image Denoising
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, George
name: Bouboulis, Pantelis
name: Theodoridis, Sergios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the task of robust non-linear regression in the presence of both inlier noise and outliers. Assuming that the unknown non-linear function belongs to a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), our goal is to estimate the set of the associated unknown parameters. Due to the presence of outliers, common techniques such as the Kernel Ridge Regression (KRR) or the Support Vector Regression (SVR) turn out to be inadequate. Instead, we employ sparse modeling arguments to explicitly model and estimate the outliers, adopting a greedy approach. The proposed robust scheme, i.e., Kernel Greedy Algorithm for Robust Denoising (KGARD), is inspired by the classical Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) algorithm. Specifically, the proposed method alternates between a KRR task and an OMP-like selection step. Theoretical results concerning the identification of the outliers are provided. Moreover, KGARD is compared against other cutting edge methods, where its performance is evaluated via a set of experiments with various types of noise. Finally, the proposed robust estimation framework is applied to the task of image denoising, and its enhanced performance in the presence of outliers is demonstrated.
Focus Strategies in Limbum
Creators: name: Driemel, Imke
name: Awasom, Jude Nformi
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Linguistik , Semantik , Bantu , Feldforschung
subject: 400
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Semantics
subject: Fieldwork
subject: Bantu
subject: Grassfields Bantu

description: Limbum exhibits two morphologically marked focus strategies involving the particles [á] and [bá]. We show that the two focus markers differ in their functional complexity. While [á] introduces an existence presupposition operating on focus alternatives, [bá] additionally encodes an exhaustivity presupposition as well as a mirative component. The latter makes it possible for Limbum to show the mirror image of what is traditionally observed as a markedness distinction between information focus and contrastive focus: focus [á] marking is accompanied by syntactic fronting while [bá] marked constituents can be left in-situ. Limbum, furthermore, shows that focus by itself does not presuppose existence, since this restriction is only present when accompanied by the particle [á], which must be left out if the context does not satisfy this presupposition.
title: Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: Atypical and unusual imaging manifestations.
Creators: name: Saad, Jamel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Oedema
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1) illustrates the variable presentations of PRES, including cases with atypical imaging findings. We illustrate cases of PRES with varying distributions of vasogenicoedema as well as cases with atypical imaging findings, such as variations of...
Noble Metal Ion-Directed Assembly of 2D Materials for Heterostructured Catalysts and Metallic Micro-Texturing
Creators: name: Little, Joshua M.
name: Sun, Jiayue
name: Kamali, Ali
name: Chen, Amy
name: Leff, Asher C.
name: Li, Yang
name: Borden, Leah K.
name: Dissanayake, Thilini U.
name: Essumang, Deborah
name: Oseleononmen, Benita O.
name: Liu, Dongxia
name: Woehl, Taylor J.
name: Chen, Po-Yen
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023
Subjects: 2D materials
heterostructured catalysts
noble metal ions
noble metal nanocrystals
templated synthesis
Ti 3C 2T x MXene

description: Assembling 2D-material (2DM) nanosheets into micro- and macro-architectures with augmented functionalities requires effective strategies to overcome nanosheet restacking. Conventional assembly approaches involve external binders and/or functionalization, which inevitably sacrifice 2DM's nanoscale properties. Noble metal ions (NMI) are promising ionic crosslinkers, which can simultaneously assemble 2DM nanosheets and induce synergistic properties. Herein, a collection of NMI–2DM complexes are screened and categorized into two sub-groups. Based on the zeta potentials, two assembly approaches are developed to obtain 1) NMI-crosslinked 2DM hydrogels/aerogels for heterostructured catalysts and 2) NMI–2DM inks for templated synthesis. First, tetraammineplatinum(II) nitrate (TPtN) serves as an efficient ionic crosslinker to agglomerate various 2DM dispersions. By utilizing micro-textured assembly platforms, various TPtN–2DM hydrogels are fabricated in a scalable fashion. Afterward, these hydrogels are lyophilized and thermally reduced to synthesize Pt-decorated 2DM aerogels (Pt@2DM). The Pt@2DM heterostructures demonstrate high, substrate-dependent catalytic activities and promote different reaction pathways in the hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene. Second, PtCl4 can be incorporated into 2DM dispersions at high NMI molarities to prepare a series of PtCl4–2DM inks with high colloidal stability. By adopting the PtCl4–graphene oxide ink, various Pt micro-structures with replicated topographies are synthesized with accurate control of grain sizes and porosities.
Statistical Properties of Diffuse Lyman-alpha Halos around Star-forming Galaxies at z~2
Creators: name: Momose, Rieko
name: Ouchi, Masami
name: Nakajima, Kimihiko
name: Ono, Yoshiaki
name: Shibuya, Takatoshi
name: Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
name: Yuma, Suraphong
name: Mori, Masao
name: Umemura, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present statistical properties of diffuse Lyman-alpha halos (LAHs) around high-$z$ star-forming galaxies with large Subaru samples of Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) at $z=2.2$. We make subsamples defined by the physical quantities of LAEs' central Lyman-alpha luminosities, UV magnitudes, Lyman-alpha equivalent widths, and UV slopes, and investigate LAHs' radial surface brightness (SB) profiles and scale lengths $r_n$ as a function of these physical quantities. We find that there exist prominent LAHs around LAEs with faint Lyman-alpha luminosities, bright UV luminosities, and small Lyman-alpha equivalent widths in cumulative radial Lyman-alpha SB profiles. We confirm this trend with the anti-correlation between $r_n$ and Lyman-alpha luminosities (equivalent widths) based on the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient that is $ρ=-0.9$ ($-0.7$) corresponding to the $96\%$ ($93\%$) confidence level, although the correlation between $r_n$ and UV magnitudes is not clearly found in the rank correlation coefficient. Our results suggest that LAEs with properties similar to typical Lyman-break galaxies (with faint Lyman-alpha luminosities and small equivalent widths) possess more prominent LAHs. We investigate scenarios for the major physical origins of LAHs with our results, and find that the cold stream scenario is not preferred, due to the relatively small equivalent widths up to $77$Å in LAHs that include LAEs' central components. There remain two possible scenarios of Lyman-alpha scattering in circum-galactic medium and satellite galaxies that cannot be tested with our observational data.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to MNRAS
The Temporary Workforce: Integration with Best Practices in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing
Creators: name: Olshewski, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: The onset of temporary staffing originally focused on clerical workers and has since expanded dramatically. Today's temporary workforce has great diversity in skills and education, including many professionals as well as clerical and manufacturing temporaries. The temporary worker has the opportunity try out an employer, work towards a career goal, receive specialized training, and identify flexible work to fit with family or school needs. Workers report they often choose temporary work for the flexibility or as a bridge to a permanent job. Regardless of the reason, more effort needs to be directed towards identifying where the workers are, what safety training has been provided, what type of injuries they have, and how the injuries can be prevented. The challenge is ensuring the safety of temporary workers at the worksite. The OEHN is aptly positioned to identify ways to impact the health and safety of the temporary workforce and influence the denouement of tracking their injuries. The increasing number of temporary workers and the inadequacies of the current methods of tracking the location, type, and severity of the injuries provide the OEHN with a unique opportunity to plan, organize, lead, and control the improvement of the working conditions of temporary workers.
First tests of the applicability of $γ$-ray imaging for background discrimination in time-of-flight neutron capture measurements
Creators: name: Magán, D. L. Pérez
name: Caballero-Ontanaya, L.
name: Domingo-Pardo, C.
name: Agramunt-Ros, J.
name: Albiol, F.
name: Casanovas, A.
name: González, A.
name: Guerrero, C.
name: Lerendegui-Marco, J.
name: Tarifeño-Saldivia, A.
name: Collaboration, the n_TOF
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we explore for the first time the applicability of using $γ$-ray imaging in neutron capture measurements to identify and suppress spatially localized background. For this aim, a pinhole gamma camera is assembled, tested and characterized in terms of energy and spatial performance. It consists of a monolithic CeBr$_3$ scintillating crystal coupled to a position-sensitive photomultiplier and readout through an integrated circuit AMIC2GR. The pinhole collimator is a massive carven block of lead. A series of dedicated measurements with calibrated sources and with a neutron beam incident on a $^{197}$Au sample have been carried out at n_TOF, achieving an enhancement of a factor of two in the signal-to-background ratio when selecting only those events coming from the direction of the sample.
description: Preprint submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A
Characterization of a Meso-Scale Wearable Robot for Bathing Assistance
Creators: name: Liu, Fukang
name: Patil, Vaidehi
name: Erickson, Zackory
name: Temel, Zeynep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotic bathing assistance has long been considered an important and practical task in healthcare. Yet, achieving flexible and efficient cleaning tasks on the human body is challenging, since washing the body involves direct human-robot physical contact and simple, safe, and effective devices are needed for bathing and hygiene. In this paper, we present a meso-scale wearable robot that can locomote along the human body to provide bathing and skin care assistance. We evaluated the cleaning performance of the robot system under different scenarios. The experiments on the pipe show that the robot can achieve cleaning percentage over 92% with two types of stretchable fabrics. The robot removed most of the debris with average values of 94% on a human arm and 93% on a manikin torso. The results demonstrate that the robot exhibits high performance in cleaning tasks.
Intensifying Ideophones in Three Luhya Languages
Creators: name: Bowler, Margit
name: Gluckman, John
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Linguistik , Semantik , Feldforschung , Bantu , Luhia
subject: 400
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Semantics
subject: Fieldwork
subject: Bantu Languages
subject: Luhya

description: Ideophones are typically described as “marked words that depict sensory imagery” (Dingemanse 2011, 25). This paper addresses ideophone data from three Luhya languages: Llogoori, Lunyore, and Lutiriki (Bantu, Kenya). Our primary claim is descriptive: we show that there is a closed class of (previously undescribed) Luhya ideophones. We illustrate how the Luhya data is consistent with what is known about ideophones cross-linguistically, and give a preliminary semantic analysis of the Luhya ideophones as degree intensifiers.
title: Radiologists’ Guide to the Whirl Sign
Creators: name: layton, ben
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Colon
subject: Abdomen
subject: Volvulus

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Recognise characteristic appearance of the "whirl sign." Understand the mechanism of abnormal rotation. Differentiate the radiological appearances of underlying causes. Identify radiological features of potential...
The buckling load of cylindrical shells under axial compression depends on the cross-section curvature
Creators: name: Harutyunyan, Davit
name: Rodrigues, Andre Martins
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is known that the famous theoretical formula by Koiter for the critical buckling load of circular cylindrical shells under axial compression does not coincide with the experimental data. Namely, while Koiter's formula predicts linear dependence of the buckling load $λ(h)$ of the shell thickness $h$ ($h>0$ is a small parameter), one observes the dependence $λ(h)\sim h^{3/2}$ in experiments; i.e., the shell buckles at much smaller loads for small thickness. This theoretical prediction failure is believed to be caused by the so-called sensitivity to imperfections phenomenon (both, shape and load). Grabovsky and the first author have rigorously proven in [\textit{J. Nonl. Sci.,} Vol. 26, Iss. 1, pp. 83--119, Feb. 2016], that in the problem of circular cylindrical shells buckling under axial compression, a small load twist leads to the buckling load scaling $λ(h)\sim h^{5/4},$ while shape imperfections are likely to result in the scaling $λ(h)\sim h^{3/2}.$ In this work we prove, that in fact the buckling load $λ(h)$ of cylindrical (not necessarily circular) shells under vertical compression depends on the curvature of the cross section curve. When the cross section is a convex curve with uniformly positive curvature, then $λ(h)\sim h,$ and when the the cross section curve has positive curvature except at finitely many points, then $C_1h^{8/5}\leq λ(h)\leq C_2h^{3/2}$ for $h$ small thickness $h>0.$
description: 28 pages, 4 figures
Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: Application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments
Creators: name: De Raedt, H.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
name: Donker, H. C.
name: Michielsen, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and develop the thesis that the quantum theoretical description of experiments emerges from the desire to organize experimental data such that the description of the system under scrutiny and the one used to acquire the data are separated as much as possible. Application to the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments are shown to support this thesis. General principles of logical inference which have been shown to lead to the Schrödinger and Pauli equation and the probabilistic descriptions of the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments, are used to demonstrate that the condition for the separation procedure to yield the quantum theoretical description is intimately related to the assumptions that the observed events are independent and that the data generated by these experiments is robust with respect to small changes of the conditions under which the experiment is carried out.
description: Paper to be presented at SPIE15
Temporal, Spatial, and Velocity-Space Variations of Electron Phase Space Density Measurements at the Magnetopause
Creators: name: Shuster, J. R.
name: Gershman, D. J.
name: Giles, B. L.
name: Bessho, N.
name: Sharma, A. S.
name: Dorelli, J. C.
name: Uritsky, V.
name: Schwartz, S. J.
name: Cassak, P. A.
name: Denton, R. E.
name: Chen, L.-J.
name: Gurram, H.
name: Ng, J.
name: Burch, J.
name: Webster, J.
name: Torbert, R.
name: Paterson, W. R.
name: Schiff, C.
name: Viñas, A. F.
name: Avanov, L. A.
name: Stawarz, J.
name: Li, T. C.
name: Liu, Y.-H.
name: Argall, M. R.
name: Afshari, A.
name: Payne, D. S.
name: Farrugia, C.J.
name: Verniero, J.
name: Wilder, F.
name: Genestreti, K.
name: Da Silva, D. E.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023
Subjects: magnetic reconnection
magnetopause
Vlasov equation
kinetic theory
distribution function
collisionless plasma

description: Temporal, spatial, and velocity-space variations of electron phase space density are measured observationally and compared for the first time using the four magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) spacecraft at Earth's magnetopause. Equipped with these unprecedented spatiotemporal measurements offered by the MMS tetrahedron, we compute each term of the electron Vlasov equation that governs the evolution of collisionless plasmas found throughout the universe. We demonstrate how to use single spacecraft measurements to improve the resolution of the electron pressure gradient that supports nonideal parallel electric fields, and we develop a model to intuit the types of kinetic velocity-space signatures that are observed in the Vlasov equation terms. Furthermore, we discuss how the gradient in velocity-space sheds light on plasma energy conversion mechanisms and wave-particle interactions that occur in fundamental physical processes such as magnetic reconnection and turbulence.
title: Multiple myeloma: assessing response to therapy with diffusion weighted imaging with background signal suppression (DWIBS)
Creators: name: Balaji, Ravikant
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Bones

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To determine the feasibility of Diffusion Weighted Imaging with Background Signal Suppression(DWIBS) for assessment of treatment response in patients with multiple...
Thermodynamic signatures of edge states in topological insulators
Creators: name: Quelle, Anton
name: Cobanera, Emilio
name: Smith, Cristiane Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological insulators are states of matter distinguished by the presence of symmetry protected metallic boundary states. These edge modes have been characterised in terms of transport and spectroscopic measurements, but a thermodynamic description has been lacking. The challenge arises because in conventional thermodynamics the potentials are required to scale linearly with extensive variables like volume, which does not allow for a general treatment of boundary effects. In this paper, we overcome this challenge with Hill thermodynamics. In this extension of the thermodynamic formalism, the grand potential is split into an extensive, conventional contribution, and the subdivision potential, which is the central construct of Hill's theory. For topologically non-trivial electronic matter, the subdivision potential captures measurable contributions to the density of states and the heat capacity: it is the thermodynamic manifestation of the topological edge structure. Furthermore, the subdivision potential reveals phase transitions of the edge even when they are not manifested in the bulk, thus opening a variety of new possibilities for investigating, manipulating, and characterizing topological quantum matter solely in terms of equilibrium boundary physics.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Macroscopic behaviour in a two-species exclusion process via the method of matched asymptotics
Creators: name: Mason, James
name: Jack, Robert L
name: Bruna, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82C22, 41A60, 60J74

description: We consider a two-species simple exclusion process on a periodic lattice. We use the method of matched asymptotics to derive evolution equations for the two population densities in the dilute regime, namely a cross-diffusion system of partial differential equations for the two species densities. First, our result captures non-trivial interaction terms neglected in the mean-field approach, including a non-diagonal mobility matrix with explicit density dependence. Second, it generalises the rigorous hydrodynamic limit of Quastel [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 45(6), 623--679 (1992)], valid for species with equal jump rates and given in terms of a non-explicit self-diffusion coefficient, to the case of unequal rates in the dilute regime. In the equal-rates case, by combining matched asymptotic approximations in the low- and high-density limits, we obtain a cubic polynomial approximation of the self-diffusion coefficient that is numerically accurate for all densities. This cubic approximation agrees extremely well with numerical simulations. It also coincides with the Taylor expansion up to the second-order in the density of the self-diffusion coefficient obtained using a rigorous recursive method.
description: 49 pages, 7 figures
Nonanalyticity, Valley Quantum Phases, and Light-like Exciton Dispersion in Monolayer TMDs: Theory and First-Principles Calculations
Creators: name: Qiu, Diana. Y.
name: Cao, Ting
name: Louie, Steven G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exciton dispersion as a function of center-of-mass momentum, \textbf{Q}, is essential to the understanding of exciton dynamics. We use the ab-initio GW-Bethe Salpeter equation method to calculate the dispersion of excitons in monolayer MoS$_2$ and find a nonanalytic light-like dispersion. This behavior arises from an unusual $|Q|$ term in both the intra- and inter-valley exchange of the electron-hole interaction, which concurrently gives rise to a valley quantum phase of winding number two. A simple effective Hamiltonian to $Q^2$ order with analytic solutions is derived to describe quantitatively these behaviors.
The role of geometry and topological defects in the 1D zero-line modes of graphene
Creators: name: Bi, Xintao
name: Jung, Jeil
name: Qiao, Zhenhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Breaking inversion symmetry in chiral graphene systems, \textit{e.g.}, by applying a perpendicular electric field in chirally-stacked rhombohedral multilayer graphene or by introducing staggered sublattice potentials in monolayer graphene, opens up a bulk band gap that harbors a quantum valley-Hall state. When the gap size is allowed to vary and changes sign in space, a topologically-confined one-dimensional (1D) zero-line mode (ZLM) is formed along the zero lines of the local gap. Here we show that gapless ZLM with distinguishable valley degrees of freedom K and K$'$ exist for every propagation angle except for the armchair direction that exactly superpose the valleys. We further analyze the role of different geometries of top-bottom gated device setups that can be realized in experiments, discuss the effects of their edge misalignment, and analyze three common forms of topological defects that could influence the 1D ZLM transport properties in actual devices.
title: Evaluate the Effects of Statins on Myocardial Remodeling in ApoE-/- Mice at 3T Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
Creators: name: Ma, Xiaohai
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: Cardiac
subject: Radiobiology
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Noninvasively evaluate the cardiac remodeling and the effect of statins on cardiac remodeling are important for understanding this physiopathologic process. Therefore, we try to use the cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) to observe the progression of...
ReStore: In-Memory REplicated STORagE for Rapid Recovery in Fault-Tolerant Algorithms
Creators: name: Hübner, Lukas
name: Hespe, Demian
name: Sanders, Peter
name: Stamatakis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fault-tolerant distributed applications require mechanisms to recover data lost via a process failure. On modern cluster systems it is typically impractical to request replacement resources after such a failure. Therefore, applications have to continue working with the remaining resources. This requires redistributing the workload and that the non-failed processes reload data. We present an algorithmic framework and its C++ library implementation ReStore for MPI programs that enables recovery of data after process failures. By storing all required data in memory via an appropriate data distribution and replication, recovery is substantially faster than with standard checkpointing schemes that rely on a parallel file system. As the application developer can specify which data to load, we also support shrinking recovery instead of recovery using spare compute nodes. We evaluate ReStore in both controlled, isolated environments and real applications. Our experiments show loading times of lost input data in the range of milliseconds on up to 24 576 processors and a substantial speedup of the recovery time for the fault-tolerant version of a widely used bioinformatics application.
Community Behavioral Health Integration Initiative Program Plan
Creators: name: Storie, Hollie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Behavioral health is a term commonly used to refer to mental health and substance use and is integral to one’s overall health and well-being. Mental health and substance use are often co-occurring and are affected by one’s social, economic, and physical environment; behavioral health can have a broad impact on one’s overall health across the lifespan. The independent and collective influence of these factors have distinct implications on individual behavior. However, strategies that solely address individual behaviors do not effectively consider the community environments that perpetuate poor behavioral health outcomes. With an understanding that behavioral health conditions are linked to overall health, communities can work to improve overall population health by addressing the unique social and environmental conditions that contribute to poor behavioral health. At the community level, the social determinants exert their effects on health more widely and can, therefore, be more efficiently addressed through changes to the physical and built environment, social norms, and public policies. In order to address these factors and their influence on behavioral health in Watauga County, North Carolina, a pilot program plan is being established. The foundational principles of the program are built on an understanding of core functions in community health programs and prevention science. This program plan will apply existing data and frameworks to build strategies that address the community context across societal constructs with the support of cross-sector collaboration. In an effort to change the social conditions and the physical and built environment that contribute to behavioral health, approaches will focus on previously identified community health priorities and enhancing existing strategies designed to improve community conditions. Long-term, these efforts will work to maximize community collaboration, sustain health promoting behaviors, and lessen the impact of behavioral health outcomes, both on the individual and the community.
title: Radiological spectrum in surgical causes of abdominal emergencies in infants
Creators: name: Goel, Ishan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Emergency

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the spectrum of radiological findings in surgical causes of GI emergencies in infants. To develop an approach to the diagnosis of surgical GI emergencies involving clinical and imaging data. This presentation will show some examples of the...
title: Unusual interventions of the ankle and foot
Creators: name: Madani, Hardi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: MR
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Athletic injuries

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Analysis of a range of uncommon injuries to the foot and ankle reviewing clinical presentations along with pathological correlation Discussion of the role of imaging, various imaging techniques and associated radiological findings In-depth review of...
Rapid Phase Transitions of Thermotropic Glycolipid Quasicrystal and Frank-Kasper Mesophases: A Mechanistic Rosetta Stone
Creators: name: Wentz, Charlotte M.
name: Lachmayr, Kätchen K.
name: Tsai, Esther H. R.
name: Sita, Lawrence R.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023
Subjects: Frank-Kasper
glycolipid
mesophase
quasicrystal

description: Experimental results are presented that serve to lower the barrier for developing the science and technology of non-classical thermotropic glycolipid mesophases, which now include dodecagonal quasicrystal (DDQC) and Frank–Kasper (FK) A15 and σ mesophases that can be produced under mild conditions from a versatile class of sugar-polyolefin conjugates. By employing “alloys” comprised of mono- and disaccharide-polyolefin conjugates, and optionally with vitamin E as a small molecule phase modulator, we report the spontaneous formation of stable A15 mesophases at ambient temperature. We further document a rich thermotropic phase map that includes DDQC, A15, and σ mesophases of tunable periodicity that are connected through rapid thermotropic phase transitions as a function of increasing temperature in the order: liquid-like packing (LLP)→DDQC → A15→σ→ disorder. This first direct observation of a rapid thermotropic A15→σ phase transition provides support for a diffusionless martensitic process proceeding through strain-induced introduction of planar defects into the A15 lattice.
Genericity in Event Semantics: A Look at Yoruba Generic Sentences
Creators: name: Adebayo, Taofeeq
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Linguistik , Semantik , Feldforschung , Niger-Kongo-Sprachen
subject: 400
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Semantics
subject: Fieldwork
subject: Niger-Congo Languages
subject: Yoruba

description: I propose a theory of genericity that is grounded in neo-Davidsonian event semantics (Parsons 1990, 2000; Higginbotham, 2000; etc.). I distinguish broadly between three types of individual: kind individuals, generic individuals and concrete individuals. A distinction is made between particular events and generic events on the one hand; and between kind-level states, individual-level states, stage-level states and generic states on the other hand. I propose that only generic individuals require the presence of the Gen operator and that kind and concrete individuals are existentially closed with the logical form of kind individual involving a type- shifting operation. Also, I propose that generic events and generic states contain the generic predicate ‘gen (e)’ which turns concrete eventualities into generic ones and that the other types of eventuality also have their respective predicates that distinguish them from one another. When this framework is applied to genericity in Yoruba, it is shown first that Kimian states (Maienborn, 2007) in Yoruba have an E-position that the generic predicate (the imperfective) [máa-ń] targets (contrary to expectation), and second that in some constructions [máa-ń] is best treated as an overt realization of the operator Gen.
title: Acute Diverticulitis - Evolving practice patterns are dependent on high quality CT imaging but at what Cost?
Creators: name: Anderson, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Diverticula
subject: Drainage
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diverticulitis and its sequelae arethe commonestabdominalemergency admission to the Lothian Regional Colorectal Unit (Fig. 1), the largest in U.K. It is reported that the incidence of "complicated" DD (abscess/perforation) is increasing 1,2 ....
Data
Creators: name: Hussey, Ian
name: Hughes, Sean
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Data taken from the AIID dataset (see linked component). Data to replicate the current analyses is provided here; the full dataset and any data citations should be of the AIID dataset itself (see linked project). Please note that the full AIID dataset has an embargo due to a series of Registered Reports that use it.
repAIrC: A Tool for Ensuring Data Consistency by Means of Active Integrity Constraints
Creators: name: Cruz-Filipe, Luís
name: Franz, Michael
name: Hakhverdyan, Artavazd
name: Ludovico, Marta
name: Nunes, Isabel
name: Schneider-Kamp, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Consistency of knowledge repositories is of prime importance in organization management. Integrity constraints are a well-known vehicle for specifying data consistency requirements in knowledge bases; in particular, active integrity constraints go one step further, allowing the specification of preferred ways to overcome inconsistent situations in the context of database management. This paper describes a tool to validate an SQL database with respect to a given set of active integrity constraints, proposing possible repairs in case the database is inconsistent. The tool is able to work with the different kinds of repairs proposed in the literature, namely simple, founded, well-founded and justified repairs. It also implements strategies for parallelizing the search for them, allowing the user both to compute partitions of independent or stratified active integrity constraints, and to apply these partitions to find repairs of inconsistent databases efficiently in parallel.
description: IMADA-preprint-cs
title: Volumous ovarian teratoma: a literature review with an illustrative typical case.
Creators: name: Figueiras, Feelipe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: Pelvis
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Surgery
subject: Cancer
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To perform pathology and imaging correlation of an ovarian neoplasm that affects a young...
Polymer nanomaterials for use as adjuvant surgical tools
Creators: name: Erdi, Metecan
name: Sandler, Anthony
name: Kofinas, Peter
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023
Subjects: adhesion barrier
hemostat
surgical sealant
tissue adhesive
wound dressing

description: Materials employed in the treatment of conditions encountered in surgical and clinical practice frequently face barriers in translation to application. Shortcomings can be generalized through their reduced mechanical stability, difficulty in handling, and inability to conform or adhere to complex tissue surfaces. To overcome an amalgam of challenges, research has sought the utilization of polymer-derived nanomaterials deposited in various fashions and formulations to improve the application and outcomes of surgical and clinical interventions. Clinically prevalent applications include topical wound dressings, tissue adhesives, surgical sealants, hemostats, and adhesion barriers, all of which have displayed the potential to act as superior alternatives to current materials used in surgical procedures. In this review, emphasis will be placed not only on applications, but also on various design strategies employed in fabrication. This review is designed to provide a broad and thought-provoking understanding of nanomaterials as adjuvant tools for the assisted treatment of pathologies prevalent in surgery.