cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Tracheoesophageal fistula in children: A radiologist’s approach
Creators: name: Pastroma, Angeliki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Foreign bodies
subject: Fistula
subject: Congenital
subject: Intrauterine diagnosis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Barium meal
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Paediatric
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: -Define and classify tracheoesophageal fistulas in children. -Review associated congenital anomalies in the congenital form. -Describe and illustrate the imaging modalities and findings in tracheoesophageal fistulas in...
MPEC 2023-T43 : 2023 TZ
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TZ

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Strong coronal channelling and interplanetary evolution of a solar storm up to Earth and Mars
Creators: name: Möstl, Christian
name: Rollett, Tanja
name: Frahm, Rudy A.
name: Liu, Ying D.
name: Long, David M.
name: Colaninno, Robin C.
name: Reiss, Martin A.
name: Temmer, Manuela
name: Farrugia, Charles J.
name: Posner, Arik
name: Dumbović, Mateja
name: Janvier, Miho
name: Démoulin, Pascal
name: Boakes, Peter
name: Devos, Andy
name: Kraaikamp, Emil
name: Mays, Mona L.
name: Vrsnak, Bojan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The severe geomagnetic effects of solar storms or coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are to a large degree determined by their propagation direction with respect to Earth. There is a lack of understanding of the processes that determine their non-radial propagation. Here we present a synthesis of data from seven different space missions of a fast CME, which originated in an active region near the disk centre and, hence, a significant geomagnetic impact was forecasted. However, the CME is demonstrated to be channelled during eruption into a direction + 37+/-10 degree (longitude) away from its source region, leading only to minimal geomagnetic effects. In situ observations near Earth and Mars confirm the channelled CME motion, and are consistent with an ellipse shape of the CME-driven shock provided by the new Ellipse Evolution model, presented here. The results enhance our understanding of CME propagation and shape, which can help to improve space weather forecasts.
description: 6 figures, published in Nature Communications as open access
Pew Internet & American Life Project Poll: Artists Callback Survey
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Direction of country (1); trust in Washington (1); point of accessing Internet (4); how long been accessing Internet (2); creative activities (7); self image as an artist (1); income as an artist (1); time devoted to artistic activities (4); other employment (3); enrolled as a student (1); copyright laws (6); fair Use copyright law (12); concern about online privacy (1); attitudes towards file-sharing (3); personal copyright (4); digital form of personal artwork (1); unlawful distribution (2); inspiration from sources (7); permission to use other art (2); using computer for art purposes (2); online activities (19); personal website (7); selling work online (1); Internet affecting career as artist (7); belonging to communities or groups (2); active local arts community (1); downloading media files (7).
Electronic Medical Record and Adherence to Guidelines for the Prevention of Group B Beta-hemolytic Streptococcus Disease in Neonates
Creators: name: Strickland, Carmen, MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Background: Group B beta-hemolytic streptococcal (GBS) disease causes significant neonatal morbidity and mortality in the United States. Universal screening and use of intrapartum prophylaxis for women identified to be at risk has been promoted through recent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) national guidelines. Despite the recommendation for universal screening, many women present in labor with unknown GBS status. Interventions that decrease rates of unknown GBS status may improve providers' ability to effectively implement the GBS prevention guideline. Research Question: r Does electronic access to GBS screening results reduce the rates of both unknown GBS status and subsequent delivery of inappropriate care for the prevention of GBS disease? Study Design: A retrospective cohort study using data from an extensive perinatal database is described. Included subjects are women delivering babies at University of North Carolina (UNC) Women's Hospital between 1996 and 2003, who received care at a university managed or affiliated prenatal care site. Rates of delivery of appropriate care based on GBS status are assessed and the effect of access to an electronic medical record on rates of inappropriate care is examined. Results: A total of 7102 births were eligible for assessment of adherence to GBS prevention guidelines. 28.3% of women had unknown GBS status and 24.8% of the entire sample received inappropriate care. Lack of an electronic medical record (EMR) was significantly associated with both a higher rates of both unknown GBS status (OR 1.54. 95%CI 1.34-1.71) and inappropriate care (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.11-1.13). Conclusions: Results of prenatal GBS screening, required in order to correctly implement GBS preventive measures, are often missing on admission to the hospital for delivery. Access to an electronic medical record improves the ability of providers to maximize the protective effect of GBS prevention measures.
title: MRI finding of spinal cord injury with wallerian degeneration
Creators: name: Lee, Taeg Ki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Several types of neurological deterioration may be found after spinal cord injury. During the first few hours and days, edema or other secondary changes can be a cause, and during the first few weeks, subacute progressive ascending myelopathy can...
Pew Research Center Poll: Democratic Primary Scene-Setter Survey
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: George W. Bush job performance (8); how closely followed certain news stories (10); Medicare legislation (1); Republican/Democratic party could do a better job of providing prescription drug benefits to senior citizens on Medicare (1); plans to vote in Democratic primary election or caucus in respondent's state (4); impression of candidates running for Democratic presidential nomination (4); which Democratic candidate would respondent prefer as president (8); support candidate strongly/only moderately (4); which Democratic candidate has best chance of defeating George W. Bush in November presidential election (4); picking a candidate who comes closest to respondent's positions on the issues/who has best chance of defeating George W. Bush is more important in deciding vote in Democratic primaries (4); interest in politics (4); what issue would most like to hear presidential candidates talk about (12); any Democratic candidates would do a particularly good job of protecting the nation from terrorism (48); any Democratic candidates would not do a good job of protecting nation from terrorism (48); any Democratic candidates who would do a particularly good job of standing up for Democratic party's long-standing positions (48); any Democratic candidates who would not do a particularly good job of standing up for Democratic party's long-standing positions (48); personal finances (4); economy (4); job opportunities (4); Iraq (12); why think many Democratic leaders in Washington voted for war (4); favor/oppose some programs and proposals being discussed in this country today (12); more important to protect right of Americans to own guns/to control gun ownership (4); free trade agreements (8); justification of using military force against countries that may seriously threaten our country but have not attacked us (4); tax cuts (4); computer use (8); Democratic primary campaign (21); how often vote (4); retirement plan (1); do/do not currently own shares in a mutual fund that includes stock (1).
Deliverable 1.1 - Map of all MA projects by sector and macro-region with links in the EIP-AGRI landscape
Creators: name: Rigueiro, Javier Rodríguez
name: Losada, Rosa Mosquera
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: multi-actor project
multi-actor approach
Focus Groups
Operational Groups
agriculture
forestry
EU
Horizon 2020
EIP-AGRI

description: Mapping of all the 120-150 MA projects listed on the EIP-AGRI/CORDIS database and determine the quantity and quality of links by sector (e.g. permanent crops, permanent grasslands, arable crops and forestry) and macro-region (Nordic/Baltic, Danube/Balkan, Mediterranean and Atlantic/North Sea), with other MAs via TNs, FGs and OGs within the EU wide EIP-AGRI landscape
Pew Research Center Poll: Politics
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: George W. Bush job performance (1); direction of country (1); race for Democratic presidential nomination (1); news about presidential election campaign (32); how much enjoy keeping up with political news about campaigns and elections (1); how likely will vote in Democratic primary election or caucus next year (1); George W. Bush vs. Democratic candidate (1); Democratic presidential candidates (2); George W. Bush vs. Howard Dean (2); George W. Bush vs. Joe Lieberman (2); George W. Bush vs. John Edwards (2); George W. Bush vs. Wesley Clark (2); George W. Bush vs. John Kerry (2); George W. Bush vs. Dick Gephardt (2); knowledge of presidential candidates (2); political news (1); televised debates between Democratic candidates (1); Democratic candidates being interviewed or appearing as guests on news or entertainment programs (3); have/have not seen or heard any parts of speeches given by Democratic candidates on TV or radio (1); computer use (9); political bias in news coverage (2); expressing opinions about politics and current events (6); Iraq (4); would/would not be more or less likely to vote for a presidential candidate supported by certain organizations/groups/people (14); how often vote (1); 2000 presidential election (1).
First arriving signals in layered waveguides. An approach based on dispersion diagrams
Creators: name: Shanin, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The first arriving signal (FAS) in a layered waveguide is investigated. It is well known that the velocity of such a signal is close to the velocity of the fastest medium in the waveguide, and it may be bigger than the fastest group velocity given by the dispersion diagram of the waveguide. Usually the FAS pulse decays with the propagation distance. A model layered waveguide is studied in the paper. It is shown that the FAS is associated with the pseudo-branch structure of the dispersion diagram. The velocity is determined by the slope of the pseudo-branch. The decay is exponential and it depends on the structure of the pseudo-branch. A new type of phase integral is introduced for FAS.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures
Polysphondylium tenuissimum H. Hagiw., Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus.
Creators: name: Liu, Pu
name: Li, Yu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Trichiales
Trichiaceae
Polysphondylium
Polysphondylium tenuissimum

description: Polysphondylium tenuissimum H. Hagiw., Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. B, 5: 69-72 (1979).
Sorocarps (Fig 2A) solitary or gregarious, not phototropic, erect or inclined, sometimes prostrate. Sorophores colorless, sinuous, 3.5–9.5 mm high, terminal segments of sorophores not elongate, gradually tapering from bases to tips, bases (Fig 2B) clavate or digitate, tips (Fig 2D) subulate; with 3–21 nodes, each whorl with 3–5 branches. Branches (Fig 2C) tapering from bases to tips, bases clavate, tips acuminate, usually 120–200 μm long. Sori white, globose, terminal sori 30–80 μm diam, lateral sori 20–50 μm diam. Spores (Fig 2E) hyaline, elliptical to oblong, mostly 5.0–7.5 × 2.5–3.7 μm, with polar granules. Cell aggregations radiate in pattern. Pseudoplasmodia do not migrate. Macrocysts (Fig 2F) 6.3–10 μm diam.
 Cultures examined. HMJAU MR064. Strain 0073–4 isolated in 2009 from a broadleaf forest soil (365 m elevation), collected in Wangqing National Nature Reserve, Jilin Province, China, in the same year.
 Known distribution. U.S.A., Guatemala, Japan, and China.
 Commentary. Polysphondylium tenuissimum is characterized by a large number of whorls, short branches, and small sori. Spores of this species, based on the isolate obtained in the present study, are slightly larger than the original report of 5.0–6.2 × 2.7–3.5 μm (Hagiwara 1989).
description: Published as part of Liu, Pu & Li, Yu, 2017, Dictyostelids from Jilin Province, China II, pp. 77-82 in Phytotaxa 323 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13696816
title: The combination of SWI and DTI in diagnosing different severity’s traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Song, Chengru
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: MR
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To explore the diagnostic value of SWI and DTI on different severity’s traumatic brain...
Development and Initial Testing of a Computer Based Patient Decision Aid to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening for Primary Care Practice
Creators: name: Kim, Jane, MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and women. Despite published guidelines advocating screening for average-risk adults 50 years and older, rates of screening remain low. Purpose: To investigate whether a patient-directed, computer-based decision aid about colorectal cancer screening can increase patient interest in screening and raise screening rates. Study Design: Before-after uncontrolled trial. Setting: The University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill general internal medicine clinic. Population: A convenience sample of 80 patients 50-75 years old at average risk for CRC who were seen for a new or return appointment. Methods: Patients viewed the decision aid in which all patients viewed a 3-5 minute introduction to CRC screening. They were then given a choice to view one to four 3-5 minute segments describing individual screening tests or comparative information about the tests. Subjects completed before- and after questionnaires indicating their intent to ask their provider about screening, interest in being screened in the next six months, and their readiness to be screened for colorectal cancer. We reviewed patient charts 3-6 months afterwards to assess screening test ordering and completion. Results: At baseline, the mean intent to ask providers for screening was 2.8 as measured on a 4-point Likert scale (1 =not at all likely to ask, 4=very likely to ask). After viewing the decision aid, mean intent increased to 3.2 (p<0.0001, paired t-test). Interest in being screened, also measured on a 4-point Likert scale (1 =not at all interested, 4=very interested), increased from 3.2 to 3.5 (p=0.01, paired t-test). 89% said the information increased their knowledge about colon cancer. After viewing the decision aid, 60% were ready to be screened, 18% wanted more information but were considering screening, and 22% were not ready for testing. Three to six months after viewing the decision aid, 46% of participants had a colorectal cancer screening test ordered and 39% of patients had completed tests. Among patients who were ready to be screened, 51% had tests ordered and 43% had completed screening tests. Conclusions: In this pilot study, a computer-based colorectal cancer decision aid improved patients' interest in being screened and subjectively improved patient knowledge about CRC. Only approximately half of patients who were ready for screening had tests ordered and completed. Future research needs to be done to test if the decision aid in combination with office systems support can effectively raise screening rates.
title: The role of ultrasound elasticity imaging in assessing atherosclerotic lesions of the carotid artery: Work in progress
Creators: name: Charalampopoulos, Georgios
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Elastography
subject: Vascular
subject: Computer applications
subject: Cardiovascular system

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Carotid stenosis is typically diagnosed and assessed using duplex ultrasonography (US). This study aims to investigate the unexplored role of elasticity (ES) imaging (EI) as a diagnostic tool for carotid...
Meta-analysis of the effects of tier 2 (Response to intervention, RTI) interventions on young students word decoding ability
Creators: name: Carlsson, Rickard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The aim of the meta-analysis is to investigate the evidence of Tier 2 reading interventions, conducted within the RTI-framework, concerning word decoding skills for at-risk students in primary school (Year K-2). Specifically, what are the effects of tier 2 interventions on at-risk students’ word decoding skills compared to teaching as usual (TaU)? ‘At-risk’ concerns risk for developing reading impairments and is defined as word decoding skills assessed on or below the 40t​ h ​percentile.
title: Transient MR-Angiography changes associated with morphological alterations in status epilepticus: a short case series.
Creators: name: Di Giuliano, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physiological studies
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Seizure disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Status epilepticus (SE) is a clinical entity characterized by one continuous, unremitting seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes, or recurrent seizures without regaining consciousness between seizures for greater than 5 minutes. In the peri-ictal...
BEPPOSAX and RXTE spectral study of the low-mass X-ray binary 4u~1705-44. Spectral hardening during the banana branch
Creators: name: Seifina, Elena
name: Titarchuk, Lev
name: Shrader, Chris
name: Shaposhnikov, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the X-ray spectra of the atoll 4U~1705-44 when the source undergoes the island-banana state transition. We use the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and BeppoSAX observations for this analysis. We demonstrate that the broad-band energy spectral distributions for all evolutinary states can be fitted by a model, consisting two Comptonized components. One arises from the seed photons coming from a neutron star (NS) atmosphere at a temperature kT_{s1}<1.5 keV (herein Comptb) and a second resulting from the seed photons of T_{s2}~1.1-1.3 keV coming from the disk (herein Comptb2). We found that we needed to add a low-temperature blackbody and an iron-line ({Gaussian}) component to the model in order to obtain high-quality fits. The data analysis using this model indicates that the power-law photon index Gamma_{1} of our model is always about 2, independently of the spectral state. Another parameter, Gamma_{2} demonstrates a two-phase behavior depending on the spectral state. Gamma_{2} is quasi-constant at Gamma_{2}~ 2 when the electron temperature kT^{(2)}_e<80 keV and Gamma_{2} is less than 2, in the range of 1.380 keV. This phase is similar to that was previously found in the Z-source Sco X-1. We interpret the decreasing index phase using a model in which a super-Eddington radiation pressure from the neutron star causes an expansion of the Compton cloud similar to that found previously in Sco~X-1 during the Flaring branch.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 5 Tables, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Firefighters and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Implications for Occupational Health Nurses
Creators: name: Levchenko, Natalie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Cardiovascular disease is the single most frequent cause of duty-related fatalities in the fire service, accounting for almost half of all fatalities, with 90% caused by coronary heart disease (Soteriades, Smith, Tsismenakis, Baur, & Kales, 2011). Firefighters face excess risk for cardiovascular disease, events, and fatalities due to personal factors such as physical inactivity, obesity, poor dietary pattern, smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and advanced age. In addition, firefighters face environmental conditions endemic to their occupation such as poor sleep, shift work, hazardous physical conditions, ergonomic stresses, strenuous activity, thermal stress, smoke and chemical exposures, noise exposure, and psychological stressors due to the burdens of emergency response. Professional organizations including the National Fire Protection Association, the United States Fire Administration, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the International Association of Fire Fighters, and the International Association of Fire Chiefs have advocated for firefighter cardiovascular health. The Joint Fire Service Labor Management Wellness-Fitness Initiative outlines a comprehensive health and fitness program that includes entry level medical evaluations, physical ability tests, periodic medical, fitness, and behavioral health evaluations, and fitness programming and nutrition guidance (International Association of Fire Fighters, 2018b). Occupational health nurses are in a valued position to positively influence firefighter cardiovascular health, reduce the risk and incidence of cardiovascular disease, events, and fatalities, and optimize firefighter health for the shared benefit of the firefighter, fire department, community and society.
Optimising Element Choice for Nanoparticle Radiosensitisers
Creators: name: McMahon, Stephen J.
name: Paganetti, Harald
name: Prise, Kevin M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is considerable interest in the use of heavy atom nanoparticles as theranostic contrast agents due to their high radiation cross-section compared to soft tissue. However, published studies have primarily focused on applications of gold nanoparticles. This study applies Monte Carlo radiation transport modelling using Geant4 to evaluate the macro- and micro-scale radiation dose enhancement following X-ray irradiation with both imaging and therapeutic energies on nanoparticles consisting of stable elements heavier than silicon. An approach based on the Local Effect Model was also used to assess potential biological impacts. While macroscopic dose enhancement is well predicted by simple absorption cross-sections, nanoscale dose deposition has a much more complex dependency on atomic number, with local maxima around germanium (Z=32) and gadolinium (Z=64), driven by variations in secondary Auger electron spectra, which translate into significant variations in biological effectiveness. These differences may provide a valuable tool for predicting and elucidating fundamental mechanisms of these agents as they move towards clinical application.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures
Dictyostelium brefeldianum H. Hagiw., Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus.
Creators: name: Liu, Pu
name: Li, Yu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Trichiales
Trichiaceae
Dictyostelium
Dictyostelium brefeldianum

description: Dictyostelium brefeldianum H. Hagiw., Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. B, 10(1): 39 (1984).
Sorocarps (Fig 2G) solitary, usually unbranched, phototropic, prostrate. Sorophores colorless, sinuous, 0.6–4.5(10.5) mm long, tapering from bases to tips, usually consisting of one tier of cells except for the bases and tips, bases (Fig 2H) conical or round, tips (Fig 2I) capitate. Sori white, globose, 25–230(280) μm diam. Spores (Fig 2J) hyaline, oblong, mostly 5.3–7.3 × 3.0–4.0 μm, without polar granules, sometimes with irregular granules. Cell aggregations radiate. Pseudoplasmodia do not migrate, usually producing single sorogens. Myxamoebae (Fig 2K) irregular or triangular in the direction of movement.
 Cultures examined. HMJAU MR043. Strain 0081–2 isolated in 2009 from mixed forest soil (861 m elevation) collected in the Wangqing National Nature Reserve, Jilin Province, China, in the same year.
 Known distribution. U.S.A., Canada, Germany, England, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, New Guinea, Nepal, Uganda, Ukraine, Korea, and China.
 Commentary. Dictyostelium brefeldianum is a medium-sized cosmopolitan species that is often prostrate and strongly phototropic. This study extends its worldwide distribution in China.
description: Published as part of Liu, Pu & Li, Yu, 2017, Dictyostelids from Jilin Province, China II, pp. 77-82 in Phytotaxa 323 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13696816
title: Small intestinal contrast ultrasonography for the detection of small bowel complications in Crohn’s disease: correlation with MR enterography and surgical findings
Creators: name: Kumar, Shankar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Small bowel

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Toevaluate the clinical utility of small intestinal contrast ultrasonography (SICUS) and magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) in routine clincal practice to detect and quantify small bowel lesions in Crohn's disease (CD) by correlating the results...
Remarks on Mukai threefolds admitting $C^{*}$ action
Creators: name: Dinew, Slawomir
name: Kapustka, Grzegorz
name: Kapustka, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate geometric invariants of the one parameter family of Mukai threefolds that admit $\mathbb C^{*}$ action. In particular we find the invariant divisors in the anticanonical system, and thus establish a bound on the log canonical thresholds. Furthermore we find an explicit description of such threefolds in terms of the quartic associated to the variety-of-sum-of-powers construction. This yields that any such threefold admits an additional symmetry which anticommutes with the $\mathbb C^{*}$ action, a fact that was previously observed near the Mukai-Umemura threefold by Rollin, Simanca and Tipler. As a consequence the Kähler-Einstein manifolds in the class form an open subset in the standard topology.
description: 20 pages
CosmoSpec: Fast and detailed computation of the cosmological recombination radiation from hydrogen and helium
Creators: name: Chluba, Jens
name: Ali-Haimoud, Yacine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first fast and detailed computation of the cosmological recombination radiation released during the hydrogen (redshift z ~ 1300) and helium (z ~ 2500 and z ~ 6000) recombination epochs, introducing the code CosmoSpec. Our computations include important radiative transfer effects, 500-shell bound-bound and free-bound emission for all three species, the effects of electron scattering and free-free absorption as well as interspecies (HeII --> HeI --> HI) photon feedback. The latter effect modifies the shape and amplitude of the recombination radiation and CosmoSpec improves significantly over previous treatments of it. Utilizing effective multilevel atom and conductance approaches, one calculation takes only ~ 15 seconds on a standard laptop as opposed to days for previous computations. This is an important step towards detailed forecasts and feasibility studies considering the detection of the cosmological recombination lines and what one may hope to learn from the ~ 6.1 photons emitted per hydrogen atom in the three recombination eras. We briefly illustrate some of the parameter dependencies and discuss remaining uncertainties in particular related to collisional processes and the neutral helium atom model.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Compiling quantum algorithms for architectures with multi-qubit gates
Creators: name: Martinez, Esteban A.
name: Monz, Thomas
name: Nigg, Daniel
name: Schindler, Philipp
name: Blatt, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum algorithms require a universal set of gates that can be implemented in a physical system. For these, an optimal decomposition into a sequence of available operations is desired. Here, we present a method to find such sequences for a small-scale ion trap quantum information processor. We further adapt the method to state preparation and quantum algorithms with in-sequence measurements.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Antibiotic Resistance and the Core Functions of Public Health
Creators: name: Scabilloni, James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: ABSTRACT Antibiotic resistance has become a major problem in public health. This resistance has been a growing issue due to years of inappropriate use of antibiotics. Hospitals are the most prevalent settings where bacterial infections occur related to antibiotic resistance. Some hospital infections cannot be treated because the bacteria are resistant to all currently available antibiotics. However, a program has evolved that helps to combat this. Antibiotic stewardship fights the inappropriate use of antibiotics. The Antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) uses two main interventions: Prospective audit with intervention and feedback, and Formulary restriction and preauthorization. These are two ways to monitor prescribing by health care providers which saves antibiotic availability. As antibiotic resistance is a public health issue, the core functions of the discipline are utilized: assessment, policy development, and assurance. Assessment analyzes the need for the program, and where they should be delivered; policy proposes, from the assessment, plans and processes; and assurance makes sure that what was proposed is what is delivered. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a number of website programs that analyze the antibiotic resistance problem in this nation. Other CDC websites introduce and explain how an ASP can fight the development of antibiotic resistance. National policies are also being proposed for this issue. ASPs are needed in all hospitals. The problem of antibiotic resistance is not going away and actions must be taken. Public health is in a unique position to address this problem, and the core functions are a useful template for the ASP to follow.
Dentipellis longiuscula L. L. Shen & Min Wang 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shen, Lu-Lu
name: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Russulales
Hericiaceae
Dentipellis
Dentipellis longiuscula

description: Dentipellis longiuscula L.L. Shen & Min Wang, sp. nov. (Fig. 1)
MycoBank no.: MB 815625
 Diagnosis.—Differs from other Dentipellis species by basidiomata with moderately long spines, the absence of gloeoplerous hyphae and gloeocystidia, rough basidiospores measured as 5–6 × 3–3.6 μm.
 Type.— CHINA. Guangxi Autonomous Region, Tianlin County, Cengwanglaoshan Nat. Res., alt. 1800 m, on dead angiosperm tree, 17 July 2012, He 20120717-7 (holotype, BJFC!)
 Etymology.— Longiuscula (Lat.), refers to the moderately long spines.
 Basidiomata. —Annual, resupinate, inseparable, without odor or taste when fresh, fragile upon drying, up to 10 cm long, 5 cm wide, 6.5 mm thick at center. Fresh spines soft, white to cream, becoming fragile, cream to buff when dry, up to 6 mm long, 3–4 per mm across base. Margin cottony, buff to clay-buff, ≤ 1 mm wide. Subiculum very thin, soft corky, buff, ≤ 1 mm thick.
 Hyphal structure.— Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae with clamp connections, IKI–, CB+; tissues unchanged in KOH.
 Subiculum. — Generative hyphae hyaline, thin- to thick-walled, frequently branched, interwoven, 2–6 μm in diam. Gloeoplerous hyphae absent.
 Hymenophoral trama. —Generative hyphae hyaline, thin- to slightly thick-walled, moderately branched, more or less subparallel along the spines, 2–4 μm in diam. Gloeoplerous hyphae absent.
 Hymenium. —Cystidia absent; fusoid cystidioles present, hyaline, thin-walled, 19.5–23 × 3–5.5 μm; basidia clavate, with four sterigmata and a basal clamp connection, 18–22 × 4–6 μm; basidioles similar to basidia in shape, but smaller than basidia. Basidiospores ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, thick-walled, hyaline, minutely rough, strongly amyloid, CB+, (4.8–)5–6(–6.2) × 3–3.6(–3.8) μm, L = 5.58 μm, W = 3.37 μm, Q = 1.32–1.47 (n = 60/2).
 Additional specimen examined (paratype).— CHINA. Guangxi Autonomous Region, Tianlin County, Cengwanglaoshan Nat. Res., alt. 1800 m, on dead angiosperm tree, 17 July 2012, He 20120717-5 (BJFC!).
description: Published as part of Shen, Lu-Lu & Wang, Min, 2017, Morphological characteristics and molecular data reveal two new species of Dentipellis from China, pp. 69-76 in Phytotaxa 323 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13696911
Does Better Glycemic Control of Known Diabetics During the Perioperative Period Reduce Postoperative Surgical Infections?
Creators: name: Clay, Kimberly Denise
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Research has shown that tight control of blood glucose can decrease or eliminate some long-term complications from Diabetes Mellitus (DM). Maintaining blood glucose levels under tight control has been addressed in the inpatient as well as in the outpatient setting. If maintaining appropriate blood glucose levels on an outpatient basis diminishes complications, does tight control during the perioperative period prevent infectious complications as well? It is this question, exclusively in the case of diabetic patients who are going through surgery, which will be the focus of this paper. Here, I will examine the evidence for glucose control as it relates to postoperative infections. I will see if sufficient evidence to make clinical recommendations is available. Groups have published their recommendations and guidelines on perioperative glycemic control in diabetic patients. Therefore, in the final section of this paper, I will critique recommendations made by various groups against this evidence base and make suggestions for future research in this area.
Effects of Phase Transition induced density fluctuations on pulsar dynamics
Creators: name: Bagchi, Partha
name: Das, Arpan
name: Layek, Biswanath
name: Srivastava, Ajit M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that density fluctuations during phase transitions in pulsar cores may have non-trivial effects on pulsar timings, and may also possibly account for glitches and anti-glitches. These density fluctuations invariably lead to non-zero off-diagonal components of the moment of inertia, leading to transient wobbling of star. Thus, accurate measurements of pulsar timing and intensity modulations (from wobbling) may be used to identify the specific pattern of density fluctuations, hence the particular phase transition, occurring inside the pulsar core. Changes in quadrupole moment from rapidly evolving density fluctuations during the transition, with very short time scales, may provide a new source for gravitational waves.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1412.4279
title: Tumefactive multiple sclerosis lesions: Diagnostic challenge for the radiologist
Creators: name: Gargallo Vaamonde, Alvaro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Inflammation
subject: Outcomes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To release radiological findings of tumefactive multiple sclerosis lesions. To understand clinical and radiological appearance of Bale concetric sclerosis. To diference these lesions from other space-occupying lesions in the central nervous system....
International Emergency Medicine: Fellowship Training and Career Outcomes
Creators: name: Walker, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Context: The recent interest and development of international emergency medicine has led to academic fellowships that aid in preparing emergency medicine physicians to work in the development of the specialty outside the United States. The seven current fellowship programs are variable in their curricula, and it is of interest to determine what aspects of the training are particularly valuable in affecting the careers of program graduates. Objective: The primary objective of this review and proposed project is to determine associations between completion of a fellowship in international emergency medicine and the resulting career outcomes among fellows. Background information collected includes a history of international emergency medicine, as well as the development of the specialty within the United States. Specific measures of exposures and outcomes include fellowship curriculum components and professional roles held by graduates of the programs. Data: A survey for graduates of the fellowship was developed in coordination with informatics expertise in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An extensive literature review was performed to provide a background for the content of questions, academic implications, and project outcomes. Conclusions: Improved understanding of the aspects of training that effect outcomes in the field of international emergency medicine may enhance efforts to expand the specialty of emergency medicine and develop emergency medicine residency programs abroad.
title: Effect of β-blockers premedication on cardiac function in performing coronary CT angiography.
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Hiroe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological effects
subject: Artifacts
subject: Colonography CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiac

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Coronary computed tomographic angiography(CCTA) is being used as a non-invasive method for diagnosing the existence or non-existence of coronary stenosis and also its location [1, 2]. In single and multicenter studies [3, 4], CCTA has been shown to...
Squeezing out the last 1 nanometer of water: A detailed nanomechanical study
Creators: name: Khan, Shah H.
name: Hoffmann, Peter M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we present a detailed analysis of the squeeze-out dynamics of nanoconfined water confined between two hydrophilic surfaces measured by small-amplitude dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM). Explicitly considering the instantaneous tip-surface separation during squeezeout, we confirm the existence of an adsorbed molecular water layer on mica and at least two hydration layers. We also confirm the previous observation of a sharp transition in the viscoelastic response of the nanoconfined water as the compression rate is increased beyond a critical value (previously determined to be about 0.8 nm/s). We find that below the critical value, the tip passes smoothly through the molecular layers of the film, while above the critical speed, the tip encounters "pinning" at separations where the film is able to temporarily order. Pre-ordering of the film is accompanied by increased force fluctuations, which lead to increased damping preceding a peak in the film stiffness once ordering is completed. We analyze the data using both Kelvin-Voigt and Maxwell viscoelastic models. This provides a complementary picture of the viscoelastic response of the confined water film.
Obesity: Impact on Worker Health and Productivity and the Role of the Occupational and Environmental Health Nurse
Creators: name: Dayvault, Kathy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Obesity in the United States (U.S.) is now at epidemic proportions. Approximately 67% of the U.S. population is currently either overweight or obese. Obesity is considered a serious health condition. It is a disease process which threatens to decrease life expectancy which has been increasing annually since 1900. The seriousness of obesity is also more pervasive in younger aged groups as a higher percentage of children and adolescents are becoming overweight or obese. Overweight and obesity are not limited to the U.S. as other industrialized nations are seeing an increase in the prevalence of overweight and obese individuals. Obesity and its associated comorbid conditions are associated with escalating health care costs and increased impact on society due to premature disability and mortality. The financial ramifications associated with obesity in the workplace are astronomical, as approximately 59% of the workforce is either overweight or obese. In addition to health care associated costs, other costs include decreased productivity, presenteeism, absenteeism, short-term disability, early disability, and mortality. The current trend of rising costs associated with obesity will continue to escalate without serious intervention. The plan for intervention should be multi-pronged beginning at the federal level initially, focusing on policies which address solutions to obesity. Incentives for employers to implement wellness programs and programs which target overweight and obese populations are needed. The occupational and environmental health nurse possesses the expertise to assist employers and workers achieve good health outcomes and make strides in overcoming the impact of obesity.
Bulk-edge correspondence in topological pumping
Creators: name: Hatsugai, Y.
name: Fukui, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological pumping [1-3] is revisited from a view point of the bulk-edge correspondence. Shift of the center of mass (CM) as a pumped charge is explicitly given by the Berry connection in time direction. We show that observed pumping is due to the bulk, but its quantization is guaranteed by singular motion of the CM caused by edge states. This is the bulk-edge correspondence in the topological pumping. A gauge invariant form of the pumped charge is proposed by the temporal gauge and is used to establish this bulk-edge correspondence.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Dentipellis tropicalis L. L. Shen & Min Wang 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shen, Lu-Lu
name: Wang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Russulales
Hericiaceae
Dentipellis
Dentipellis tropicalis

description: Dentipellis tropicalis L.L. Shen & Min Wang, sp. nov. (Fig. 2)
MycoBank no.: MB 820386
 Diagnosis.—Differs from other Dentipellis species by gloeocystidia presenting in hymenium, and minutely rough, oblong-ellipsoid basidiospores measured as 5–5.5 × 2.5–3.2 μm.
 Type.— CHINA. Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Wangtianshu Nat. Res., alt. 1350 m, on fallen angiosperm trunk, 2 Nov. 2009, Cui 8545 (holotype, BJFC!)
 Etymology.— Tropicalis (Lat.), referring to the distribution in tropical regions.
 Basidiomata. —Annual, resupinate, easily separated from substratum, without odor or taste when fresh, fragile upon drying, up to 12 cm long, 6 cm wide, 2 mm thick at center. Fresh spines soft, white to cream, becoming fragile, cream to buff when dry, up to 1.5 mm long, 4–5 per mm across base. Margin cottony, buff to clay-buff, up to 4 mm wide. Subiculum thin, soft corky, buff, up to 1 mm thick.
 Hyphal structure.— Hyphal system monomitic; generative hyphae with clamp connections, IKI–, CB+; tissues unchanged in KOH.
 Subiculum.— Generative hyphae hyaline, thin- to thick-walled, frequently branched, interwoven, 1.5–4 μm in diam. Gloeoplerous hyphae absent.
 Hymenophoral trama. —Generative hyphae hyaline, thin- to thick-walled, occasionally branched, 2.5–3 μm in diam.
 Hymenium. —Gloeocystidia present, tubular, hyaline, thin-walled, 2–6 μm in diam, up to 150 μm long; basidia clavate, with four sterigmata and a basal clamp connection, 16–20 × 3.5–6 μm; basidioles similar to basidia in shape, but smaller. Basidiospores oblong ellipsoid, thick-walled, hyaline, minutely rough, strongly amyloid, CB+, (4.6–)5– 5.5 × 2.5–3.2(–3.5) μm, L = 5.21 μm, W = 3.09 μm, Q = 1.55–1.72 (n = 60/2).
 Additional specimen examined (paratype).— CHINA. Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Wangtianshu Nat. Res., alt. 1350 m, on fallen angiosperm trunk, 19 Oct. 2013, He 1993 (BJFC!).
description: Published as part of Shen, Lu-Lu & Wang, Min, 2017, Morphological characteristics and molecular data reveal two new species of Dentipellis from China, pp. 69-76 in Phytotaxa 323 (1) on pages 73-74, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13696911