cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inter-American cultural relations in foreign language textbooks: The cases of English and French
Creators: name: Orlando, Maximiliano Eduardo
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2016

description: This paper analyses the presence of interamerican cultural relations in reading and listening text obtained from a sample of international English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks and from a sample of international French as a foreign language (FFL) textbooks which are available on American markets. It does so by looking into the frequencies of the texts that contain any of three types of interamerican cultural relations per country, by identifying the pairs that compose each type of relation, by comparing the frequencies of the texts that reflect cultural relations of American countries with American places and with non-American ones and by searching for the instances in which the English language and the French language are instruments that contribute to developing interamerican cultural relations themselves and in connection with the rest of the world. This research arrives at very similar conclusions concerning the data collected from either textbook sample and argues for the need to analyse the amount and types of interamerican cultural content in international EFL and FFL textbooks when choosing to use these textbooks in EFL and FFL programmes for American learners in the American continent and set in American contexts.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 4 (2016)
Pulmonary Symptoms Measured by the National Institutes of Health Lung Score Predict Overall Survival, Nonrelapse Mortality, and Patient-Reported Outcomes In Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Creators: name: Arai, Sally
name: Cutler, Corey
name: Pidala, Joseph
name: Weisdorf, Daniel
name: Lee, Stephanie J.
name: Chai, Xiaoyu
name: Wood, William
name: Jacobsohn, David
name: Martin, Paul J.
name: Jagasia, Madan
name: Tomas, Linus Santo
name: Arora, Mukta
name: Williams, Kirsten
name: Palmer, Jeanne
name: Carpenter, Paul A.
name: Inamoto, Yoshihiro
name: Kurland, Brenda F.
name: Vogelsang, Georgia B.
name: Pavletic, Steven Z.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The 2005 NIH Consensus Conference recommended assessment of lung function in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) by both pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and assessment of pulmonary symptoms. We tested whether pulmonary measures were associated with non-relapse mortality (NRM), overall survival (OS) and patient reported outcomes (PRO). Clinician and patient-reported data were collected serially in a prospective, multicenter observational study. Available PFT data were abstracted. Cox regression models were fit for outcomes using a time-varying covariate model for lung function measures and adjusting for patient and transplant characteristics and non-lung chronic GVHD severity. A total of 1591 visits (496 patients) were used in this analysis. The NIH symptom-based lung score was associated with NRM (p=0.02), overall survival (p=0.02), patient-reported symptoms (p<0.001) and functional status (p<0.001). Worsening of NIH symptom-based lung score over time was associated with higher NRM and lower survival. All other measures were not associated with OS or NRM, although some were associated with patient-reported lung symptoms. In conclusion, the NIH symptom-based lung symptom score of 0–3 is associated with NRM, OS, and PRO measures in patients with chronic GVHD. Worsening of the NIH symptom-based lung score was associated with increased mortality.
High-dimensional entanglement-enabled holography for quantum encryption
Creators: name: Kong, Ling-Jun
name: Sun, Yifan
name: Zhang, Furong
name: Zhang, Jingfeng
name: Zhang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As an important imaging technique, holography has been realized with different physical dimensions of light,including polarization, wavelength, and time. Recently, quantum holography has been realized by utilizing polarization entangled state with the advantages of high robustness and enhanced spatial resolution, comparing with classical one. However, the polarization is only a two-dimensional degree of freedom, which greatly limits the capacity of quantum holography. Here, we propose a method to realize high-dimensional quantum holography by using high-dimensional orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement. A high capacity OAM-encoded quantum holographic system can be obtained by multiplexing a wide range of OAM-dependent holographic images. Proof-of-principle experiments with four- and six-dimensional OAM entangled states have been implemented and verify the feasibility of our idea. Our experimental results also demonstrate that the high-dimensional quantum holography shows a high robustness to classical noise. Furthermore, OAMselective holographic scheme for quantum encryption is proposed and demonstrated. Comparing with the previous schemes, the level of security of holographic imaging encryption system can be greatly improved in our high-dimensional quantum holography.
Active galactic nuclei cores in infrared-faint radio sources: Very long baseline interferometry observations using the Very Long Baseline Array
Creators: name: Herzog, Andreas
name: Middelberg, Enno
name: Norris, Ray P.
name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Deller, Adam T.
name: Collier, Jordan D.
name: Parker, Quentin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared-faint radio sources (IFRS) form a new class of galaxies characterised by radio flux densities between tenths and tens of mJy and faint or absent infrared counterparts. It has been suggested that these objects are radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at significant redshifts (z >~ 2). Whereas the high redshifts of IFRS have been recently confirmed based on spectroscopic data, the evidence for the presence of AGNs in IFRS is mainly indirect. So far, only two AGNs have been unquestionably confirmed in IFRS based on very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations. In this work, we test the hypothesis that IFRS contain AGNs in a large sample of sources using VLBI. We observed 57 IFRS with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) down to a detection sensitivity in the sub-mJy regime and detected compact cores in 35 sources. Our VLBA detections increase the number of VLBI-detected IFRS from 2 to 37 and provide strong evidence that most - if not all - IFRS contain AGNs. We find that IFRS have a marginally higher VLBI detection fraction than randomly selected sources with mJy flux densities at arcsec-scales. Moreover, our data provide a positive correlation between compactness - defined as the ratio of milliarcsec- to arcsec-scale flux density - and redshift for IFRS, but suggest a decreasing mean compactness with increasing arcsec-scale radio flux density. Based on these findings, we suggest that IFRS tend to contain young AGNs whose jets have not formed yet or have not expanded, equivalent to very compact objects. We found two IFRS that are resolved into two components. The two components are spatially separated by a few hundred milliarcseconds in both cases. They might be components of one AGN, a binary black hole, or the result of gravitational lensing.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in A&A
Review of Emilie L’Hôte. Identity, Narrative and Metaphor. A Corpus-Based Cognitive Analysis of New Labour Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 305 pp., ISBN 978-1-137-42738-0. Hardback 63 lb.
Creators: name: Bondarenko, Ievgeniia Valeriivna
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2016

description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 4 (2016)
Classical physics from quantum fields
Creators: name: Ross, Alasdair
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: quantum fields
Gravitational wave physics
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA
Double Copy
eikonal method
scattering event

description: Gravitational wave physics is now well established as an experimental science, no longer existing only in the minds and blackboards of the theorist. There is an abundance of events being detected with a very high accuracy by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration. This necessitates the development of innovative techniques for producing very high precision calculations. Motivated by the Double Copy, a relation between scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity, an amplitudes based approach seems to be a promising avenue to pursue. Yet amplitudes are quantum objects and gravitational waves are classical; there must be a bridge between these two regimes. This leads us to the topic of this thesis - how can we extract classical observable quantities directly from quantum scattering amplitudes. We begin by reviewing the KMOC formalism for computing classical observables from amplitudes. We investigate how, by imposing classically sensible minimal uncertainty constraints on observables, we can learn about amplitudes in the classical limit. Black holes in general will spin, and so including spin effects into the calculations of gravitational waveforms is important. Motivated by this we apply the KMOC formalism to a theory of scalars carrying an SU(N) colour charge. In this theory we compute changes in and radiation of momentum and also colour charge. This requires a detour into the study of coherent states which are another key tool to study classical from quantum. An older approach to semi-classical physics is the eikonal method which has recently received a surge of interest. It allows one to easily compute the scattering angle and impulse during a scattering event. We review the eikonal resummation and use to describe the final state after such a (conservative) scattering event. Returning to coherent states we propose an ansatz for a quantum final state, parametrised only by the eikonal phase and a coherent state parameter, which captures all the necessary data to compute the radiation in the classical limit.
Investigating the use and perception of West African Pidgin English among West African university students in Northern Cyprus
Creators: name: Elega, Adeola A
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2016

description: INVESTIGATING THE USE AND PERCEPTION OF WEST AFRICAN PIDGIN ENGLISH AMONG WEST AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN NORTHERN CYPRUS This study sought to establish the usage of Pidgin English among University students from three West African countries studying in Eastern Mediterranean university, North Cyprus. A sample of 129 students from Nigeria, Cameroon, and Ghana was selected and surveyed to determine the use of Pidgin English. Findings show that the self-assessment of respondents in respect to the use of West African Pidgin English was “good” when observed on the scale of “excellent” to “very poor”. Most respondents watch Pidgin English comedy video clips, converse on the telephone using pidgin, read social media posts that are written in Pidgin English and chat on social media with Pidgin. Findings also show that the perception of respondents towards Pidgin English was generally positive. Majority of them accedes that the language is underrated but easy to learn and it is worth to be recognized internationally.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 4 (2016)
Deflection of barium monofluoride molecules using the bichromatic force: A density-matrix simulation
Creators: name: Marsman, A.
name: Horbatsch, M.
name: Hessels, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A full density-matrix simulation is performed for optical deflection of a barium monofluoride ($^{138}$Ba$^{19}$F) beam using the bichromatic force, which employs pairs of counter-propagating laser beams that are offset in frequency. We show that the force is sufficient to separate BaF molecules from the other products generated in a helium-buffer-gas-cooled ablation source. For our simulations, the density-matrix and force equations are numerically integrated during the entire time that the molecules pass through a laser beam to ensure that effects of the evolution of the Doppler shift and of the optical intensity and phase at the position of the molecule are properly included. The results of this work are compared to those of a deflection scheme (Phys. Rev. A 107, 032811 (2023)) which uses $π$ pulses to drive frequency-resolved transitions. This work is part of an effort by the EDM$^3$ collaboration to measure the electric dipole moment of the electron using BaF molecules embedded in a cryogenic argon solid. Separation of BaF molecules will aid in producing a sufficiently pure solid.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Escaping endpoints explode
Creators: name: Alhabib, Nada
name: Rempe-Gillen, Lasse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F10, 30D05, 54F15, 54G15

description: In 1988, Mayer proved the remarkable fact that infinity is an explosion point for the set of endpoints of the Julia set of an exponential map that has an attracting fixed point. That is, the set is totally separated (in particular, it does not have any nontrivial connected subsets), but its union with the point at infinity is connected. Answering a question of Schleicher, we extend this result to the set of "escaping endpoints" in the sense of Schleicher and Zimmer, for any exponential map for which the singular value belongs to an attracting or parabolic basin, has a finite orbit, or escapes to infinity under iteration (as well as many other classes of parameters). Furthermore, we extend one direction of the theorem to much greater generality, by proving that the set of escaping endpoints joined with infinity is connected for any transcendental entire function of finite order with bounded singular set. We also discuss corresponding results for *all* endpoints in the case of exponential maps; in order to do so, we establish a version of Thurston's "no wandering triangles" theorem.
description: 35 pages. To appear in Comput. Methods Funct. Theory. V2: Authors' final accepted manuscript. Revisions and clarifications have been made throughout from V1. This includes improvements in the proof of Proposition 6.11 and Theorem 8.1, as well as corrections in Remarks 7.1 and 7.3 concerning differing definitions of escaping endpoints in greater generality
Moments of proton GPDs from the OPE of nonlocal quark bilinears up to NNLO
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Shohini
name: Cichy, Krzysztof
name: Constantinou, Martha
name: Gao, Xiang
name: Metz, Andreas
name: Miller, Joshua
name: Mukherjee, Swagato
name: Petreczky, Peter
name: Steffens, Fernanda
name: Zhao, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time, we present a lattice QCD determination of Mellin moments of unpolarized generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the proton from an analysis of the quasi-GPD matrix elements within the short-distance factorization framework. We perform our calculation on an $N_f$=2+1+1 twisted mass fermions ensemble with a clover improvement at lattice spacing $a=0.093$ fm and a pion mass of $m_π=260$ MeV. Focusing on the zero-skewness case, the iso-vector and iso-scalar quasi-GPDs are calculated from the $γ_0$ definition, as well as a recently proposed Lorentz-invariant definition. We utilize data on both symmetric and asymmetric kinematic frames, which allows us to obtain the Mellin moments for several values of the momentum transfer, $-t$, in the range 0.17 to $2.77~\rm{GeV}^2$. We use the ratio scheme for GPDs, i.e. renormalization group invariant ratios with leading-twist factorization formula and perturbatively calculated matching coefficients up to the next-next-to-leading order (NNLO) to extract Mellin moments of GPDs, which are consistent with renormalization-group improved results. We compare our determination from quasi-GPDs with the results extracted using standard calculations of Mellin moments of local operators, specifically those related to the electromagnetic and gravitational form factors. We estimated the moments of GPDs up to the fifth ones for the first time. By extrapolating the Mellin moments to $-t=0$, we obtained the quark charges, momentum fraction, as well as the angular momentum contributions to the proton spin. The impact parameter space interpretation of the GPD moments is discussed, which provides insights into the spatial distribution of unpolarized quarks and their correlations in the transverse plane of an unpolarized or transversely polarized proton.
description: 28 pages, 22 figures
Shear and Bulk Viscosities of Quark Matter from Quark-Meson Fluctuations in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sabyasachi
name: Peixoto, Thiago C.
name: Roy, Victor
name: Serna, Fernando E.
name: Krein, Gastão
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have calculated the temperature dependence of shear $η$ and bulk $ζ$ viscosities of quark matter due to quark-meson fluctuations. The quark thermal width originating from quantum fluctuations of quark-$π$ and quark-$σ$ loops at finite temperature is calculated with the formalism of real-time thermal field theory. Temperature-dependent constituent-quark and meson masses, and quark-meson couplings are obtained in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. We found a non-trivial influence of the temperature-dependent masses and couplings on the Landau-cut structure of the quark self-energy. Our results for the ratios $η/s$ and $ζ/s$, where $s$ is the entropy density (also determined in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model in the quasi-particle approximation), are in fair agreement with results of the literature obtained from different models and techniques. In particular, our result for $η/s$ has a minimum very close to the conjectured AdS/CFT lower bound, $η/s = 1/4π$.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures
Beneficios y utilidades del baile flamenco en programas de rehabilitación de drogodependientes
Creators: name: Buzón Ruiz, José Manuel
name: Cernuda-Lago, Amador
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Scientific article published in RIC Revista de Información Científica. Journal of Medical and Health Sciences. Volume 99(2021) Indexed in the Latindex V2.0 catalogue.
English Summaries
Creators: name: Cole, Philip
name: Bloor, Ivor
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Vol. 54 No. 4 (2013): Burgen und Schlösser. Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
title: Patient doses in direct digital radiography of chest and lumbar spine: a study comparing DR doses with European and Finnish diagnostic reference levels
Creators: name: Matikka, Hanna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Equipment
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In order to evaluate radiography practices, the radiation doses of patients are regularly compared to national diagnostic reference levels (DRLs). If local doses are close to or lower than the reference level, often no further steps for dose...
Survival Improvements in Adolescents and Young Adults after Myeloablative Allogeneic Transplantation for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Creators: name: Lazarus, Hillard M.
name: Wang, Zhiwei
name: Ballen, Karen K.
name: Dehn, Jason
name: Brazauskas, Ruta
name: Freytes, Cesar O.
name: LeMaistre, Charles F.
name: Wood, William A.
name: Mehta, Paulette
name: Aljurf, Mahmoud D.
name: Joffe, Steven
name: Buchbinder, David K.
name: Szwajcer, David
name: Majhail, Navneet S.
name: Lee, Stephanie J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Adolescents and young adults (AYAs, ages 15–40 years) with cancer have not experienced survival improvements to the same extent as younger and older patients. We compared changes in survival following myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) among children (N=981), AYAs (N=1218) and older adults (N=469) who were transplanted over three time periods: 1990–1995, 1996–2001 and 2002–2007. Five-year survival varied inversely with age group. Survival improved over time in AYAs and paralleled that seen in children; however, overall survival did not change over time for older adults. Survival improvements were primarily related to lower rates of early treatment related mortality in the most recent era. For all cohorts, relapse rates did not change over time. A subset of 222 AYAs between the ages of 15–25 at 46 pediatric or 49 adult centers were also analyzed to describe differences by center type. In this subgroup, there were differences in transplant practices among pediatric and adult centers, although HCT outcomes did not differ by center type. Survival for AYAs undergoing myeloablative allogeneic HCT for ALL improved at a similar rate as survival for children.
English Summaries
Creators: name: Bloor, Ivor
name: Cole, Philip
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Vol. 54 No. 1 (2013): Burgen und Schlösser. Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Continuous decomposition of quantum measurements via Hamiltonian feedback
Creators: name: Florjanczyk, Jan
name: Brun, Todd A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize the set of generalized quantum measurements that can be decomposed into a continuous measurement process using a stream of probe qubits and a tunable interaction Hamilto- nian. Each probe in the stream interacts weakly with the target quantum system, then is measured projectively in a standard basis. This measurement result is used in a closed feedback loop to tune the interaction Hamiltonian for the next probe. The resulting evolution is a stochastic process with the structure of a one-dimensional random walk. To maintain this structure, and require that at long times the measurement outcomes be independent of the path, the allowed interaction Hamil- tonians must lie in a restricted set, such that the Hamiltonian terms on the target system form a finite dimensional Jordan algebra. This algebraic structure of the interaction Hamiltonians yields a large class of generalized measurements that can be continuously performed by our scheme, and we fully describe this set.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
English Summaries
Creators: name: Bloor, Ivor
name: Cole, Philip
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2022

description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Vol. 55 No. 4 (2014): Burgen und Schlösser. Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
The role of spin fluctuations in the conductivity of CrO$_2$
Creators: name: Heffernan, Kate H.
name: Yu, Shukai
name: Deckoff-Jones, Skylar
name: Zhang, Xueyu
name: Gupta, Arunava
name: Talbayev, Diyar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a time-resolved terahertz spectroscopic study of the half-metallic ferromagnet CrO$_2$. The ultrafast conductivity dynamics excited by an optical pump displays a very short (several picoseconds) and a very long (several hundred picoseconds) characteristic time scales. We attribute the former to the electron-phonon relaxation and the latter to the spin-lattice relaxation. We use this distinction to quantify the relative contribution of the scattering by spin fluctuations to the resistivity of CrO$_2$: we find that they contribute less than one half of all scattering events below room temperature. This contribution rises to $\sim70$ % as the temperature approaches $T_C$=390 K. The small effect of spin fluctuations on the resistivity is unexpected in the light of the proposed double-exchange nature of the electronic and magnetic properties of CrO$_2$.
Analysis of the Effect of Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Center Size on Unrelated National Marrow Donor Program Donor Outcomes: Donor Toxicities Are More Common at Low-Volume Bone Marrow Collection Centers
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Paul V.
name: Switzer, Galen E.
name: Kamble, Rammurti T.
name: Williams, Eric P.
name: Shaw, Bronwen E.
name: Logan, Brent R.
name: Olsson, Richard F.
name: Abidi, Muneer H.
name: Kiefer, Deidre M.
name: Akpek, Gorgun
name: Schears, Raquel M.
name: Liesveld, Jane L.
name: Pulsipher, Michael A.
name: Wirk, Baldeep M.
name: Kasow, Kimberley A.
name: Pedersen, Tanya L.
name: Hematti, Peiman
name: Dandoy, Christopher
name: Wingard, John R.
name: Artz, Andrew S.
name: Diaz, Miguel A.
name: Confer, Dennis L.
name: Gajewski, James L.
name: Abdel-Azim, Hisham
name: Savani, Bipin N.
name: Majhail, Navneet S.
name: Stroncek, David F.
name: Chitphakdithai, Pintip
name: Lazarus, Hillard M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Previous studies have shown that risks of collection-related pain and symptoms are associated with sex, body mass index (BMI), and age in unrelated donors undergoing collection at National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) centers. We hypothesized that other important factors (race, socioeconomic status (SES), and number of procedures at the collection center) might affect symptoms in donors. We assessed outcomes in 2,726 bone marrow (BM) and 6,768 peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donors collected between 2004 and 2009. Pain/symptoms are reported as maximum levels over mobilization and collection (PBSC) or within 2 days of collection (BM) and at 1 week after collection. For PBSC donors, race and center volumes were not associated with differences in pain/symptoms at any time. PBSC donors with high SES levels reported higher maximum symptom levels 1 week post donation (p=0.017). For BM donors, black males reported significantly higher levels of pain (OR=1.90, CI=1.14-3.19, p=0.015). No differences were noted by SES groups. BM donors from low volume centers reported more toxicity (OR=2.09, CI=1.26-3.46, p=0.006). In conclusion, race and SES have a minimal effect on donation associated symptoms. However, donors from centers performing ≤1 BM collection every 2 months have more symptoms following BM donation. Approaches should be developed by registries and low volume centers to address this issue.
Polypropylene-based melt mixed composites with singlewalled carbon nanotubes for thermoelectric applications: Switching from p-type to n-type by the addition of polyethylene glycol
Creators: name: Luo, Jinji
name: Cerretti, Giacomo
name: Krause, Beate
name: Zhang, Long
name: Otto, Thomas
name: Jenschke, Wolfgang
name: Ullrich, Mathias
name: Tremel, Wolfgang
name: Voit, Brigitte
name: Pötschke, Petra
Publisher: name: Oxford : Elsevier Science
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Carbon nanotube
subject: Composite
subject: Copper oxide
subject: n-type
subject: Polymer
subject: Thermoelectric
subject: 540

description: The thermoelectric properties of melt processed conductive nanocomposites consisting of an insulating polypropylene (PP) matrix filled with singlewalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and copper oxide (CuO) were evaluated. An easy and cheap route to switch p-type composites into n-type was developed by adding polyethylene glycol (PEG) during melt mixing. At the investigated CNT concentrations of 0.8 wt% and 2 wt% (each above the electrical percolation threshold of ∼0.1 wt%), and a fixed CuO content of 5 wt%, the PEG addition converted p-type composites (positive Seebeck coefficient (S)) into n-type (negative S). PEG was also found to improve the filler dispersion inside the matrix. Two composites were prepared: P-type polymer/CNT composites with high S (up to 45 μV/K), and n-type composites (with S up to −56 μV/K) through the addition of PEG. Two prototypes with 4 and 49 thermocouples of these p- and n-type composites were fabricated, and delivered an output voltage of 21 mV and 110 mV, respectively, at a temperature gradient of 70 K.
Comparison of Characteristics and Outcomes of Trial Participants and Nonparticipants: Example of Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network 0201 Trial
Creators: name: Lee, Stephanie J.
name: Wood, William A.
name: Beattie, Sara
name: He, Naya
name: Anasetti, Claudio
name: Wirk, Baldeep
name: Freytes, César O.
name: Dalal, Jignesh D.
name: Khera, Nandita
name: Joffe, Steven
name: Hahn, Theresa E.
name: Akpek, Görgün
name: Brazauskas, Ruta
name: Loberiza, Fausto R.
name: Horowitz, Mary M.
name: Szwajcer, David
name: Inamoto, Yoshihiro
name: Bredeson, Christopher N.
name: Gupta, Vikas
name: Steinberg, Amir
name: Burns, Linda J.
name: Wang, Zhiwei
name: Lazarus, Hillard M.
name: Aljurf, Mahmoud D.
name: Majhail, Navneet S.
name: LeMaistre, Charles F.
name: Atsuta, Yoshiko
name: Wingard, John R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Controversy surrounds the question of whether clinical trial participants have better outcomes than comparable patients who are not treated on a trial. We explored this question using a recent large, randomized, multi-center study comparing peripheral blood (PB) with bone marrow (BM) transplantation from unrelated donors (URD), conducted by the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN).
Comparative study of singlewalled, multiwalled, and branched carbon nanotubes melt mixed in different thermoplastic matrices
Creators: name: Krause, Beate
name: Barbier, Carine
name: Kunz, Karina
name: Pötschke, Petra
Publisher: name: Oxford : Elsevier Science
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Branched carbon nanotubes
subject: Electrical percolation
subject: Melt-mixed polymer composites
subject: 540

description: In this contribution, three different types of CNTs, namely single-walled (SWCNT), multi-walled (MWCNT) and branched MWCNTs were melt mixed in amounts of 0.1–10 wt.-% in polypropylene (PP), polycarbonate (PC) and poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) using a small-scale microcompounder. The filler dispersion of compression-moulded samples was characterized using light and electron microscopy, and the electrical and thermal properties were measured. The lowest electrical percolation thresholds were found for composites of PP/SWCNT, PP/branched MWCNT and PC/branched MWCNT, which percolated already at <0.1 wt.-% CNT loading. Low values of electrical volume resistivity of about 3 Ohm·cm (PVDF), 7 Ohm·cm (PP) and 2 Ohm·cm (PC) could be reached when loading with 2 wt.-% branched MWCNT. A homogeneous dispersion in the macro- and microlevel was observed especially for composites containing branched MWCNTs. For all CNT types, a matrix nucleation effect was found in PP and PVDF using differential scanning calorimetry.
Towards Storytelling from Visual Lifelogging: An Overview
Creators: name: Bolaños, Marc
name: Dimiccoli, Mariella
name: Radeva, Petia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visual lifelogging consists of acquiring images that capture the daily experiences of the user by wearing a camera over a long period of time. The pictures taken offer considerable potential for knowledge mining concerning how people live their lives, hence, they open up new opportunities for many potential applications in fields including healthcare, security, leisure and the quantified self. However, automatically building a story from a huge collection of unstructured egocentric data presents major challenges. This paper provides a thorough review of advances made so far in egocentric data analysis, and in view of the current state of the art, indicates new lines of research to move us towards storytelling from visual lifelogging.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
Hvorfor siger russerne 'og', når danskerne siger 'eller'? Dansk logik versus russisk logik
Creators: name: Lorentzen, Elena
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2016

description: In this paper, I propose a new approach to phrasal coordination in general and disjunction in particular based on Durst-Andersen’s cognitive-semiotic theory of linguistic supertypes, according to which Russian is a reality-oriented language with a third-person-oriented speaker and Danish is a hearer-oriented language with a second-person-oriented speaker. I claim that the use of conjunction and disjunction in these languages is determined by their essential properties as two different super- types, viz. by the ground-situational nature of linguistic structures in Russian, the grammar of which functions as a model of situations in reality, and by the ground-propositional nature of linguistic structures in Danish, the grammar of which functions as a signal to the hearer to find situations behind the speaker’s information.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Særnummer: Global kommunikation i lokalt perspektiv: Når vi ikke taler samme sprog - Festskrift i anledning af Per Durst-Andersens 60 års fødselsdag
Revitalisasi Pemanfaatan Lahan sebagai Media Tanaman Apotek Hidup Masyarakat Desa Tanjung Labuh
Creators: name: M. Yogi Riantama Isjoni, Berusaha Baik Nababan, Fahrul Amir, Indy Fanisawati, Jihan Farhan Efendi, Maulidatul Khasanah, Muhammad Fajri Syukran, Nurmalasari Agustina, Sholihatul Amala, Sri Wahyuni, Susan Nenggraini
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Indonesia merupakan negara yang kaya akan rempah-rempah yang biasanya dijadikan bumbu pelengkap disetiap masakan, untuk bisa merasakan manfaat dari tanaman tersebut dibutuhkan lahan untuk menanamnya, dengan melalui program Apotek Hidup, masyarakat terkhususnya Desa Tanjung Labuh, Kecamatan Reteh, Kabupaten Indragiri Hilir, Provinsi Riau dapat melakukan Revitalisasi yang merupakan upaya pemanfaatan lahan atau kawasan yang dapat meningkatkan fungsi lahan yang tidak digunakan Sebelumnya. Dengan memanfaatkan lahan yang ada masyarakat dapat menanam berbagai jenis rempah-rempah antara lain: jahe, lengkuas, kunyit, serai, kencur, cabe, mentoa, dan tanaman lainnya yang memiliki banyak fungsi untuk keperluan sehari-hari. Tujuan diadakannya kegiatan ini adalah untuk memberikan gambaran kepada masyarakat tentang manfaat tanaman sebagai Media Apotek Hidup yang membantu mewujudkan masyarakat dan lingkungan yang sehat. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah dengan menggunakan pendekatan secara langsung  dilapangan mulai dari persiapan lahan dan tanaman, tahapan pelaksanaan pembuatan apotek hidup dan tahapan evaluasi kegiatan. Hasil dari kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini dibuktikan dengan antusias masyarakat desa yang luar biasa untuk turut membantu mahasiswa kukerta dalam mempersiapkan apotek hidup ini secara bersama-sama, dimana tanpa disadari kegiatan ini menimbulkan kesadaran masyarakat bahwa pentingnya pemanfaatan lahan sebagai media apotek hidup untuk seluruh warga desa.
Interkulturel kompetence og vejrudsigter – et plædoyer for kulturkontrastiv lingvistik
Creators: name: Andersen, Mette Skovgaard
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2016

description: Overalt i uddannelsessystemet, og særligt inden for humaniora, fordres der, at de studerende besidder interkulturel kompetence. Hvordan denne interkulturelle kompetence læres, hersker der imidlertid ikke helt enighed om, og sprogundervisere f.eks. står ofte postulerende med deres udsagn om, hvordan en modersmålstalende ville opfatte et givet udtryk. I dette bidrag plæderes der for at genoplive den kontrastive tekstlingvistik og anvende den på en ny måde inspireret af Brislin et al.’s begreb om kritisches Ereignis (1986), således at de studerende tvinges til på én og samme tid med Bredellas ord (2001) at have et Innenperspektive og et Aussenperspektive.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Særnummer: Global kommunikation i lokalt perspektiv: Når vi ikke taler samme sprog - Festskrift i anledning af Per Durst-Andersens 60 års fødselsdag
Cost-Effectiveness of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Elderly Patients with Multiple Myeloma using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results–Medicare Database
Creators: name: Klein, Andreas
name: Sprague, Kellie A.
name: Shah, Gunjan L.
name: Parsons, Susan K.
name: Smith, Hedy P.
name: Miller, Kenneth B.
name: Winn, Aaron N.
name: Buchsbaum, Rachel
name: Lin, Pei Jung
name: Cohen, Joshua T.
name: Comenzo, Raymond
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In the past decade, the number of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplants (Auto HSCT) for older patients with multiple myeloma (MM) has increased dramatically, as has the cost of transplantation. The cost-effectiveness of this modality in patients over age 65 is unclear. Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End ResultseMedicare database to create a propensity-score matched sample of patients over age 65 between 2000 and 2007, we compared the survival and cost for those who received Auto HSCT to those who did not undergo transplantation but survived at least 6 months after diagnosis, and we calculated an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER). Two hundred seventy patients underwent transplantation. Median overall survival from diagnosis in those who underwent transplantation was significantly longer than in patients who did not (58 months versus 37 months, P < .001). For patients living longer than 2 years, the median monthly cost during the first year was significantly different, but the middle and last year of life costs were similar. The median cost of the first 100 days after transplantation was $60,000 (range, $37,000 to $85,000). The resultant ICER was $72,852 per life-year gained. Survival after transplantation was comparable to that in those who underwent transplantation patients under 65 years and significantly longer than older patients who did not undergo transplantation. With an ICER less than $100,000/life-year gained, Auto HSCT is cost-effective when compared with nontransplantation care in the era of novel agents and should be considered, where clinically indicated, for patients over the age of 65.
“We’re not here anymore”: The cultural dislocations of creative organizations in outlying regions
Creators: name: Baillargeon, Dany
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2016

description: The marketing communications industry, whose most visible manifestation can be found in advertising, is closely connected to creativity—so much so, in fact, that this creativity constitutes one of its cornerstones. Within the industry itself, the cult of creativity is legitimized, reaffirmed, and maintained via various competitions, the press, and professional associations, without mentioning the discourse of agencies that put creativity at the heart of their business models, adopting it as their very purpose. Yet this creative doxa, associated with prestigious clients and major campaigns, and spread virally by social media, appears to be the province of the major metropolitan agencies. What about the small agencies outside the major urban networks that are animated by the same doxa, but that rarely or never acquire high-profile clients, win awards, or produce creations whose public notoriety would legitimize their creative value? This article sets out to investigate how organizational dynamics are actualized, maintained, and debated; in short, how they are cultivated in the name of this regional creativity, particularly in the context of small advertising agencies in outlying regions (SAORs). Taking up the ideas of ventriloquism and based on two case studies, we will demonstrate how regionality percolates into and constantly (re)appears in the discourse of these agencies’ employees. Moreover, we will demonstrate, using five “iconic figures” of creative culture, – namely seclusion, defense, distinctiveness, maturity, and expansiveness – that to maintain such a creative culture outside the legitimizing structures, SAORs must dislocate to a “creative elsewhere”.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 3 (2016)
Long-Term Survival and Late Effects among One-Year Survivors of Second Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Relapsed Acute Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Creators: name: Savani, Bipin N.
name: Mehta, Paulette
name: Marks, David I.
name: Frangoul, Haydar A.
name: Jacobsohn, David A.
name: Kasow, Kimberly A.
name: Wall, Donna A.
name: Warwick, Anne B.
name: Norkin, Maxim
name: Schouten, Harry C.
name: Duncan, Christine N.
name: Cahn, Jean Yves
name: Myers, Kasiani C.
name: Saber, Wael
name: Sorror, Mohamed L.
name: Hsu, Jack W.
name: Kamble, Rammurti T.
name: Brazauskas, Ruta
name: Loren, Alison W.
name: Porter, David L.
name: Majhail, Navneet S.
name: Wood, William A.
name: Yu, Lolie C.
name: Lazarus, Hillard M.
name: Reddy, Vijay
name: Wang, Zhiwei
name: Steinberg, Amir
name: Hayashi, Robert J.
name: Pidala, Joseph A.
name: Khera, Nandita
name: Maziarz, Richard T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We analyzed the outcomes of patients who survived disease-free for 1-year or more following second allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for relapsed acute leukemia or myelodysplastic syndromes between 1980 and 2009. A total of 1285 patients received a second allogeneic transplant following disease relapse; among these 325 survived relapse-free at 1-year after the second HCT. The median time from first to second HCT was 17 and 24 months for children and adults, respectively. A myeloablative preparative regimen was used in the second transplant in 62% of children and 45% of adult patients. The overall 10-year conditional survival rates after second transplantation in this cohort of patients who had survived disease-free for at least one year were 55% in children and 39% in adults. Relapse was the leading cause of mortality (77% and 54% of deaths in children and adults, respectively). In multivariate analyses, only disease status prior to second HCT was significantly associated with higher risk for overall mortality (HR 1.71 for patients with disease not in complete remission prior to second HCT, P<0.01). Chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) developed in 43% and 75% of children and adults following second transplant. Chronic GVHD was the leading cause of non-relapse mortality followed by organ failure and infection. The cumulative incidence of developing at least one of the studied late effects at 10-years after second HCT was 63% in children and 55% in adults. The most frequent late effects in children were growth disturbance (10-year cumulative incidence 22%) and cataracts (20%), and in adults were cataracts (20%) and avascular necrosis (13%). Among patients with acute leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes who receive a second allogeneic HCT for relapse and survive disease-free for at least 1-year, many can be expected to survive long term. However, they continue to be at risk for relapse and non-relapse morbidity and mortality. Novel approaches are needed to minimize relapse risk and long-term transplant morbidity in this population.
Impact of synthesis temperature on morphology, rheology and electromagnetic interference shielding of CVD-grown carbon nanotube/polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposites
Creators: name: Mirkhani, Seyyed Alireza
name: Arjmand, Mohammad
name: Sadeghi, Soheil
name: Krause, Beate
name: Pötschke, Petra
name: Sundararaj, Uttandaraman
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Elsevier Sequoia
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Carbon nanotube
subject: Chemical vapor deposition
subject: Electrical conductivity
subject: EMI shielding
subject: Polymer nanocomposite
subject: Synthesis
subject: 540

description: Employing chemical vapor deposition technique, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were synthesized over Fe catalyst at a broad range of temperatures, i.e. 550° C to 950° C (at 100° C intervals). CNTs were melt-mixed into a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) matrix at various loadings, and then compression molded. Surprisingly, despite the ascending trend of CNT powder conductivity with the synthesis temperature, the nanocomposites made with CNT synthesized at 650° C had significantly lower percolation threshold (around 0.4 wt%) and higher electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness (EMI SE) (20.3 dB over the X-band for 3.5 wt% CNT and 1.1 mm thickness) than the other temperatures. Exhaustive characterization studies were conducted on both CNTs and composites to unveil their morphological and electrical characteristics. Superior EMI shielding of CNT650° C was attributed to a combination of high carbon purity, aspect ratio, crystallinity, and moderate powder conductivity along with decent state of dispersion within the PVDF matrix.
Productive Crop Field Detection: A New Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmark Results
Creators: name: Nascimento, Eduardo
name: Just, John
name: Almeida, Jurandy
name: Almeida, Tiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In precision agriculture, detecting productive crop fields is an essential practice that allows the farmer to evaluate operating performance separately and compare different seed varieties, pesticides, and fertilizers. However, manually identifying productive fields is often a time-consuming and error-prone task. Previous studies explore different methods to detect crop fields using advanced machine learning algorithms, but they often lack good quality labeled data. In this context, we propose a high-quality dataset generated by machine operation combined with Sentinel-2 images tracked over time. As far as we know, it is the first one to overcome the lack of labeled samples by using this technique. In sequence, we apply a semi-supervised classification of unlabeled data and state-of-the-art supervised and self-supervised deep learning methods to detect productive crop fields automatically. Finally, the results demonstrate high accuracy in Positive Unlabeled learning, which perfectly fits the problem where we have high confidence in the positive samples. Best performances have been found in Triplet Loss Siamese given the existence of an accurate dataset and Contrastive Learning considering situations where we do not have a comprehensive labeled dataset available.
description: Preprint of the paper https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2023.3296064 published in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters