cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Monster and the Maiden: Literary Affinities in the Writings of Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti
Creators: name: Morley, Elaine
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis seeks to reassess the intellectual relationship between Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti. According to the widely accepted view, Canetti has been portrayed through various power figures, some of whom are endowed with monstrous qualities, in several of Murdoch’s novels. This conventional model would imply that a personal and intellectual antagonism existed between Canetti and Murdoch, a view that is reinforced by the assumption that his work concentrates on the human lust for power, whereas her literary and philosophical focus is the human potential for goodness. However, by examining those aspects of Canetti’s works with which Murdoch was demonstrably familiar, this study reconsiders a group of Murdoch’s novels that have previously been used to contrast the two writers’ ideas and methods. Through a close reading of these texts, and with reference to hitherto unpublished material held in the Iris Murdoch Archive, this thesis demonstrates the presence of significant points of contact between them. These include their shared literary preoccupation with the themes of goodness and of power and the ways power is exercised and can be avoided. The thesis finds similarities between the two authors’ central, guiding insights of ‘Transformation’ and ‘Unselfing’, and uncovers affinities between individual motifs and stylistic practices in their approach to the theme of power. These findings challenge and expand existing interpretations of their writing and in other cases develop new approaches to interpreting their work. Rather than simply representing Canetti’s alleged demonic nature, the power figures in Murdoch’s fiction embody the philosophical legacy of the post-Kantian Enlightenment against which both she and Canetti were writing. On the strength of the literary and philosophical comparison which it presents, the thesis rejects the conventional view of an opposition and argues, instead, that Murdoch and Canetti may be viewed as intellectual allies.
A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to Solve University Course Allocation Problem
Creators: name: Dofadar, Dibyo Fabian
name: Khan, Riyo Hayat
name: Hasan, Shafqat
name: Taj, Towshik Anam
name: Shakil, Arif
name: Majumdar, Mahbub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper discusses various types of constraints, difficulties and solutions to overcome the challenges regarding university course allocation problem. A hybrid evolutionary algorithm has been defined combining Local Repair Algorithm and Modified Genetic Algorithm to generate the best course assignment. After analyzing the collected dataset, all the necessary constraints were formulated. These constraints manage to cover the aspects needed to be kept in mind while preparing clash free and efficient class schedules for every faculty member. The goal is to generate an optimized solution which will fulfill those constraints while maintaining time efficiency and also reduce the workload of handling this task manually. The proposed algorithm was compared with some base level optimization algorithms to show the better efficiency in terms of accuracy and time.
title: Abnormalities of the thoracic veins
Creators: name: Bulja, Deniz
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Anatomy
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter venography
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Education
subject: Normal variants
subject: eLearning
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To present our experience with CT, MRI and DSA in recognising abnormalities of thoracic veins during 12-year period. To raise awareness of radiologists regarding numerous findings on this mainly asymptomatic but for surgeons, interventional...
Path integrals in Snyder space
Creators: name: Mignemi, S.
name: Strajn, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The definition of path integrals in one- and two-dimensional Snyder space is discussed in detail both in the traditional setting and in the first-order formalism of Faddeev and Jackiw.
description: 10 pages
title: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the normal female pelvis: do apparent diffusion coefficient values of the endometrium and of the fat tissue change over the menstrual phases?
Creators: name: Fornasa, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Pelvis
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Physiological studies

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Several published papers affirm the usefulness of Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWI) in the diagnostic workout of endometrial adenocarcinoma (Fig. 1), reporting significantly different values of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC)...
Axino dark matter and baryon number asymmetry production by the Q-ball decay in gauge mediation
Creators: name: Kasuya, Shinta
name: Kawakami, Etsuko
name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Q-ball decay into the axino dark matter in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. In our scenario, the Q ball decays mainly into nucleons and partially into axinos to account respectively for the baryon asymmetry and the dark matter of the universe. The Q ball decays well before the big bang nucleosynthesis so that it is not affected by the decay. We show the region of the parameters which realizes this scenario.
description: 20 pages, 21 figures
Symbiotic stars in the Local Group of Galaxies
Creators: name: Mikolajewska, J.
name: Shara, M. M.
name: Caldwell, N.
name: Drozd, K.
name: Ilkiewicz, K.
name: Zurek, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Preliminary results of the ongoing search for symbiotic binary stars in the Local Group of Galaxies are presented and discussed.
description: Proceedings of Physics of Evolved Stars 2015: A Conference Dedicated to the Memory of Olivier Chesneau, Nice, 8-12 June 2015
title: Whole-body MRI in bone metastases from prostate, breast and multiple myeloma including diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with different b-values: technical feasibility and assessment of lesion conspicuity at DWI and short-tau inversion recovery (STIR)
Creators: name: Arcuri, Pier Paolo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Oncology
subject: Experimental
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Metastases

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: The aim of our study was to compare the relative conspicuity of bone metastases (of breast cancer, multiple myeloma and prostate cancer) at DWI with different b-values (600, 1000 and 1400 s/mm (2)) and sagittal T1W and T2W STIR of the spine in a...
Reimagining Wilmer's Park
Creators: name: Adams, Thomas
name: Akers, Bryce
name: Contreras, Edenilson
name: Dashiell, Isiah
name: Erwin, Abby
name: Gonzalez, Carlos
name: Hargrove, Cierra
name: Jeon, Ryan
name: Mohan, Madison
name: Ourand, Matthew
name: Shelton, Gabrielle
name: Steuernagle, Emmeline
name: Thomas-Cogar, Kennedy
name: Yang, Charlotte
name: Cakil, Yasemin
Publisher: name: Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS)
Year: 2022
Subjects: National Center for Smart Growth
PALS
Sustainability
Maryland
Prince George's County
Brandywine Maryland
Landscape Architecture
Placemaking
Cultural Landscapes
African American
Music History

description: Final project for LARC:340 Site Planning and Design Studio (Fall 2022). University of Maryland, College Park.
description: Wilmer’s Park is a “80-acre parcel containing the ruins of a dance hall, motel, ranch house, covered stage, baseball and football fields. As a major stop on the Chitlin Circuit, Wilmer’s Park opened its doors to African-American musicians, entertainers, athletes and fans from the early 1950s through the late 1960s. Arthur Wilmer used his experience and connections developed as the owner of a night club in Washington, D. C. to bring both popular acts and up-and-coming performers to rural Prince George’s County; the bandstand at Wilmer’s Park showcased everyone from Duke Ellington and Otis Redding to the Temptations, Patti La Belle, and a young Stevie Wonder. The former tobacco farm played an important role in exposing emerging musicians to local African Americans during a time of segregation.” The park has been closed for 10+ years and the purpose of this project is to transform Wilmer’s Park for the residents of Brandywine or nearby communities. For this project, students work in teams of three to design a master plan along with an individual detailed site plan. The design program for these plans came from the residents’ comments from community engagement workshops, notes from Councilman Harrison’s interview, important stakeholders, the field trip, and guest lectures. The master plan does not include all 80 acres of the park and often identifies a phasing plan for the entire project.
title: Acute traumatic lesions of the thoracic aorta; report of a case
Creators: name: Fernández Quintero, Rosa Mª
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To know the etiology, physiopathology, symptomatology, radiological semiology and prognosis of the acute traumatic lesions (injury) of the thoracic aorta. (ATIA) To know the role of the radiologist in this pathology as a fundamental part in the...
X-ray Emission from the Taffy (VV254) Galaxies and Bridge
Creators: name: Appleton, Philip
name: Lanz, Lauranne
name: Bitsakis, Theodoros
name: Wang, Junfeng
name: Peterson, Bradley
name: Lisenfeld, Ute
name: Alatalo, Katherine
name: Guillard, Pierre
name: Boulanger, Francois
name: Cluver, Michelle
name: Gao, Yu
name: Helou, George
name: Ogle, Patrick
name: Struck, Curtis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first X-ray observations of the Taffy galaxies (UGC 12914/5) with the Chandra observatory, and detect soft X-ray emission in the region of the gas-rich, radio-continuum-emitting Taffy bridge. The results are compared to Herschel observations of dust and diffuse [CII] line-emitting gas. The diffuse component of the Taffy bridge has an X-ray luminosity of L(X) (0.5-8keV) =5.4 x 10^39 erg s^-1, which accounts for 19% of the luminosity of the sum for the two galaxies. The total mass in hot gas is (0.8--1.3) x 10^8 M_sun, which is approximately 1% of the total (HI~+~H2) gas mass in the bridge, and ~11% of the mass of warm molecular hydrogen discovered by Spitzer. The soft X-ray and dense CO-emitting gas in the bridge have offset distributions, with the X-rays peaking along the north-western side of the bridge in the region where stronger far-IR dust and diffuse [CII] gas is observed by Herschel. We detect nine Ultra Luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in the system, the brightest of which is found in the bridge, associated with an extragalactic HII region. We suggest that the X-ray--emitting gas has been shocked--heated to high temperatures and "splashed" into the bridge by the collision. The large amount of gas stripped from the galaxies into the bridge and its very long gas depletion timescale (>10 Gyr) may explain why this system, unlike most major mergers, is not a powerful IR emitter.
description: Accepted for Publication in ApJ, Sept 15 2015
title: Ultrasound probes: risk of cross infection and methods to reduce it
Creators: name: Mukiza, Nancy
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Management
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Power Doppler
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Education
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Education and training
subject: Quality assurance

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Hospital acquired infections are on the rise leading to patient morbidity and mortality. With increased dependence on imaging, Radiology departments can be the source of transmitting Nosocomial infections, particularly in ultrasound {including...
Signature of Collapsars as Sources for High-energy Neutrinos and $r$-process Nuclei
Creators: name: Guo, Gang
name: Qian, Yong-Zhong
name: Wu, Meng-Ru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If collapsars are sources for both high-energy (HE) neutrinos and $r$-process nuclei, the profuse low-energy antineutrinos from $β$-decay of the newly-synthesized nuclei can annihilate the HE neutrinos. Considering HE neutrinos produced at internal shocks induced by intermittent mildly-magnetized jets, we show that such annihilation suppresses the overall HE neutrino spectrum at $\gtrsim 300$~TeV and produces a corresponding flavor composition of $(F_{ν_e+\barν_e}: F_{ν_μ+\barν_μ}: F_{ν_τ+\barν_τ})_\star \approx (1 : 10 : 1)$ at source. We find that the emergent HE neutrino flux can well fit the diffuse flux observed at IceCube if contributions from all similar sources are taken into account. Our results highlight the unique role of HE neutrinos in supporting collapsars as sources for $r$-process nuclei, and can be tested by accurate measurement of the diffuse HE neutrino flux spectrum and flavor composition, as well as detection of HE neutrinos from individual sources.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Optimizing Quality of Experience of Dynamic Video Streaming over Fading Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Singh, Rahul
name: Kumar, P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We address the problem of video streaming packets from an Access Point (AP) to multiple clients over a shared wireless channel with fading. In such systems, each client maintains a buffer of packets from which to play the video, and an outage occurs in the streaming whenever the buffer is empty. Clients can switch to a lower-quality of video packet, or request packet transmission at a higher energy level in order to minimize the number of outages plus the number of outage periods and the number of low quality video packets streamed, while there is an average power constraint on the AP. We pose the problem of choosing the video quality and transmission power as a Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP). We show that the problem involving $N$ clients decomposes into $N$ MDPs, each involving only a single client, and furthermore that the optimal policy has a threshold structure, in which the decision to choose the video-quality and power-level of transmission depends solely on the buffer-level.
Unitarity estimation for quantum channels
Creators: name: Chen, Kean
name: Wang, Qisheng
name: Long, Peixun
name: Ying, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Estimating the unitarity of an unknown quantum channel $\mathcal{E}$ provides information on how much it is unitary, which is a basic and important problem in quantum device certification and benchmarking. Unitarity estimation can be performed with either coherent or incoherent access, where the former in general leads to better query complexity while the latter allows more practical implementations. In this paper, we provide a unified framework for unitarity estimation, which induces ancilla-efficient algorithms that use $O(ε^{-2})$ and $O(\sqrt{d}\cdotε^{-2})$ calls to $\mathcal{E}$ with coherent and incoherent accesses, respectively, where $d$ is the dimension of the system that $\mathcal{E}$ acts on and $ε$ is the required precision. We further show that both the $d$-dependence and $ε$-dependence of our algorithms are optimal. As part of our results, we settle the query complexity of the distinguishing problem for depolarizing and unitary channels with incoherent access by giving a matching lower bound $Ω(\sqrt{d})$, improving the prior best lower bound $Ω(\sqrt[3]{d})$ by Aharonov et al. (Nat. Commun. 2022) and Chen et al. (FOCS 2021).
description: 37 pages
Traditional Traps and Tactics: Understanding Mud Crab Feeding Behavior
Creators: name: H. Manimaran, P. Chidambaram, S. Selvaraj, P.Yuvarajan and Joshna.M
Publisher: name: the fish world a monthly magazine
Year: 2024

description: Introduction

The term "mud crab" or "mangrove crab" refers to the muddy bottoms that they live on in brackish water around river mouths, mangrove areas, and shorelines. Mud crabs are high in minerals, protein, and vitamins A and D. Their flesh is sweet and flavorful due to the significant amounts of free amino acids and glycogen found in their meat. Farmers in India have plenty of opportunity to cultivate and fatten mud crabs due to their rapid growth and the availability of suitable brackish water and estuarine areas. Crab lets are being manufactured by MPEDA at the Rajiv Gandhi Center for Aquaculture (RGCA) in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, in an effort to boost crab production. In the upcoming year, it is anticipated that the production of mud crab hatchery seed would increase the amount of mud crabs produced for aquaculture export.In Asia, females of the species with fully developed ovaries are especially valuable and highly prized. Due to its medicinal value, delicacy, and demand in the export market, mud crab (Scylla serrata) hold a special status (Begum et al., 2007). Both the male and the gravid female mud crab, sometimes known as the "egg crab," are highly sought after due to their huge chelae and high meat content. According to Dall and Moriantry (1983), crabs are filter feeders, sand cleaners, mud, plant feeders, predators, and parasites. The variety of food consumed reflects their inhibition of many niches. Depending on the habitat's characteristics and the predator's size, different food species have varying relative importance in the diet. Despite some families' inclinations toward a more specialized diet, crabs are omnivorous foragers (Warner 1977). It is said that primarily carnivorous, omninid crabs feed on slow-moving invertebrates like crustaceans and mollusks. At night, crabs come out of their hiding places to seek for food in their burrows. Although they eat a wide range of foods, crabs are opportunistic omnivores who prefer animal products. Food items include fish, polychaetes, crabs, mollusks, plants, and detritus.
title: MR spectroscopy of the breast: influence of contrast enhancement on detectability of choline compounds at 3.0T
Creators: name: Baglio, Ilaria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR-Spectroscopy
subject: Experimental investigations

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast has emerged as a modality with high sensibility (95% - 100%) for the detection of breast tumors, although its specificity remains variable, ranging from 37 to 97% [1]. To improve the...
Mapping atomic and diffuse interstellar band absorption across the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way
Creators: name: Bailey, Mandy
name: van Loon, Jacco Th.
name: Sarre, Peter J.
name: Beckman, John E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) trace warm neutral and weakly-ionized diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). Here we present a dedicated, high signal-to-noise spectroscopic study of two of the strongest DIBs, at 5780 and 5797 Å, in optical spectra of 666 early-type stars in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, along with measurements of the atomic Na\,{\sc i}\,D and Ca\,{\sc ii}\,K lines. The resulting maps show for the first time the distribution of DIB carriers across large swathes of galaxies, as well as the foreground Milky Way ISM. We confirm the association of the 5797 Å DIB with neutral gas, and the 5780 Å DIB with more translucent gas, generally tracing the star-forming regions within the Magellanic Clouds. Likewise, the Na\,{\sc i}\,D line traces the denser ISM whereas the Ca\,{\sc ii}\,K line traces the more diffuse, warmer gas. The Ca\,{\sc ii}\,K line has an additional component at $\sim200$--220 km s$^{-1}$ seen towards both Magellanic Clouds; this may be associated with a pan-Magellanic halo. Both the atomic lines and DIBs show sub-pc-scale structure in the Galactic foreground absorption; the 5780 and 5797 Å DIBs show very little correlation on these small scales, as do the Ca\,{\sc ii}\,K and Na\,{\sc i}\,D lines. This suggests that good correlations between the 5780 and 5797 Å DIBs, or between Ca\,{\sc ii}\,K and Na\,{\sc i}\,D, arise from the superposition of multiple interstellar structures. Similarity in behaviour between DIBs and Na\,{\sc i} in the SMC, LMC and Milky Way suggests the abundance of DIB carriers scales in proportion to metallicity.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Measurement of $Υ$ production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5 \ \rm{TeV}$
Creators: name: LHCb Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production cross-sections of $Υ$ mesons, namely $Υ(1S)$, $Υ(2S)$ and $Υ(3S)$, in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5 \ \rm{TeV}$ are measured with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9.13\pm{0.18} \ \rm{pb}^{-1}$ collected by the LHCb detector. The $Υ$ mesons are reconstructed in the decay mode $Υ\to μ^+ μ^-$. Double differential cross-sections times branching fractions, as functions of the transverse momentum $p_{\rm{T}}$ and the rapidity $y$ of the $Υ$ mesons, are measured in the range $p_{\rm{T}} < 20 \ \rm{GeV}/c$ and $2.0
description: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and additional information, are available at https://cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/p/LHCb-PAPER-2022-036.html (LHCb public pages)
Shared decision-making for children with medical complexity in community health services – scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Jacobs, Sonja
name: Davies, Nathan
name: Smith, Christina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Children with medical complexity
subject: Participation
subject: Shared decision-making

description: The objective of this scoping review is to explore shared decision making between parents and healthcare professionals for children with medical complexity in community health services.
Differential Effects of Social Indispensability on Effort- vs. Skill-Based Performance in Biathlon: Hypotheses
Creators: name: Wolf, Svenja
name: Pauly, Hannah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sports Studies
subject: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In this project, we will compare skiing and shooting performance between individual and relay biathlon races. Previous research has documented superior running/swimming times under conditions of high social indispensability (i.e., relays rather than individual event) and we aim to test whether this finding extends to skiing times as well as more skill-based tasks (i.e., shooting performance), which are known to suffer from choking under pressure.
El arraigo de las jóvenes rurales de estudios superiores. Una aproximación al fenómeno a través de la representación de su entorno
Creators: name: Águila-Díaz, Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: arraigo, desarraigo, jóvenes rurales, género y ruralidad, estudios superiores

description: Esta investigación pretende analizar la representación del medio rural que hacen las jóvenes rurales de estudios superiores y ponerla en relación con la permanencia en el entorno. El interés reside en que la juventud se muestra como un actor clave en la sostenibilidad del medio rural, especialmente las mujeres jóvenes, que son las que más emigran hacia las áreas urbanas en busca de mejores oportunidades, formativas y laborales. La investigación ha seguido un enfoque cualitativo donde se han realizado tres grupos triangulares atendiendo al momento en que se encuentran las jóvenes: estudiando o insertadas en el mercado laboral. Los resultados muestran una representación del medio rural en general pesimista, principalmente debido a las desigualdades de género y a la imposibilidad de rentabilizar los estudios superiores. Por un lado, las jóvenes orientadas hacia el desarraigo evocan como principales motivos por los que se proyectan emigrando, la falta de oportunidades laborales y la escasez de ocio, así como los valores tradicionales y el control social. Por otro lado, las jóvenes orientadas hacia el arraigo ponen en valor los aspectos positivos de vivir en el medio rural y expresan un vínculo afectivo con el lugar de origen como fundamentos de su arraigo.
Gravitational acceleration and tidal effects in spherical-symmetric density profiles
Creators: name: Caimmi, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pure power-law density profiles, $ρ(r)\propto r^{b-3}$, are classified in connection with the following reference cases: (i) isodensity, $b=3$, $ρ=$ const; (ii) isogravity, $b=2$, $g=$ const; (iii) isothermal, $b=1$, $v=[GM(r)/r]^{1/2}=$ const; (iv) isomass, $b=0$, $M=$ const. A restricted number of different families of density profiles including, in addition, cored power-law, generalized power-law, polytropes, are studied in detail with regard to both one-component and two-component systems. Considerable effort is devoted to the existence of an extremum point (maximum absolute value) in the gravitational acceleration within the matter distribution. Predicted velocity curves are compared to the data inferred from observations. Tidal effects on an inner subsystem are investigated and an application is made to globular clusters within the Galaxy. To this aim, the tidal radius is defined by balancing the opposite gravitational forces from the Galaxy and the selected cluster on a special point of the cluster boundary, lying between related centres of mass. The position of 17 globular clusters with respect to the stability region, where the tidal radius exceeds the observed radius, is shown for assigned dark-to-visible mass ratios and density profiles, among those considered, which are currently used for the description of galaxies and/or dark matter haloes.
description: 50 pages, 6 tables and 9 figures; Applied Mathematical Sciences, accepted
title: Preoperative evaluation of infants and children with congenital heart disease with ECG triggered 128 Dual Source CT Angiography- Portugal- Angola collaboration
Creators: name: Costa, Joana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Acceptance testing
subject: Congenital

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Congenital heart diseases (CHD) is the most common inborn defect (incidence of 1% approximately) with significant impact on morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Reported total CHD worldwide birth prevalence reached a stable estimate of 9 per...
Current Status of Nuclear Physics Research
Creators: name: Bertulani, C. A.
name: Hussein, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review we discuss the current status of research in nuclear physics which is being carried out in different centers in the World. For this purpose we supply a short account of the development in the area which evolved over the last 9 decades, since the discovery of the neutron. The evolution of the physics of the atomic nucleus went through many stages as more data become available. We briefly discuss models introduced to discern the physics behind the experimental discoveries, such as the shell model, the collective model, the statistical model, the interacting boson model, etc., some of these models may be seemingly in conflict with each other, but this was shown to be only apparent. The richness of the ideas and abundance of theoretical models attests to the important fact that the nucleus is a really singular system in the sense that it evolves from two-body bound states such as the deuteron, to few-body bound states, such as $^4$He, $^7$Li, $^9$Be etc. and up the ladder to heavier bound nuclei containing up to more than 200 nucleons. Clearly statistical mechanics does not work for such finite system, neither does other theories applicable to condensed matter systems. The richness of nuclear physics stems from these restrictions. New theories and models are presently being developed. Theories of the structure and reactions of neutron-rich and proton-rich nuclei, called exotic nuclei, halo nuclei, or Borromean nuclei deal with the wealth of experimental data available in the last 35 years. Further, nuclear astrophysics and stellar and Big Bang nucleosynthesis have become a more mature subject. Due to limited space, this review only covers a few selected topics, mainly those with which the authors have worked with.
description: 29 pages, 413 references
Lateralisation in bilinguals
Creators: name: Bishop, Dorothy
name: Grabitz, Clara
name: Harte, Sophie
name: Watkins, Kate
name: Sasaki, Miho
name: Gutierrez-Sigut, Eva
name: MacSweeney, Mairead
name: Woodhead, Zoe
name: Payne, Heather
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Bilingualism
subject: Functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound
subject: Laterality

description: Project using functional transcranial doppler sonography (fTCD) to investigate lateralisation of L1 and L2 in bilingual adults.
Controlling topological defects and contractile flow in confined nematic cell population
Creators: name: Ienaga, Ryo
name: Beppu, Kazusa
name: Maeda, Yusuke T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological defects in nematically aligned cell populations play a critical role in modulating collective motion, from microbial colonies to epithelial tissues. Despite the potential of manipulating such topological defects to control diverse self-organized structures and collective dynamics, defect manipulation in active matter remains an challenging area of research. In this study, we investigated the geometric control of defect positioning and alignment in a nematic cell population by imposing spatial constraints consisting of two or three overlapping circular boundaries. The confined cell population exhibited an ordered pairing of half-integer topological defects that remained stable even when the size of the spatial constraint was altered using geometric parameters. These defects also elicited robust contractile flow that induced a negative divergence in the velocity field of collective motion. Such net contractile flow can contribute to mechanical stimulation on confined cells, as evidenced by the stretched cell nucleus. Our geometry-based approach paves the way for controlling defect pairing, providing a deeper understanding of the interplay among geometry, topology, and collective dynamics.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Black World Language Instructors in Higher Education: Social Justice-Based Perspectives and Pedagogies
Creators: name: Murrell, Mariah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The field of world language education is one that has historically been dominated by traditional pedagogical practices and perspectives that limit the opportunity for rich, critical examination of course content. This often leaves much to be desired in students’ learning experiences for many students, and frequently causes students of color to feel alienated from the language learning process. There has been a recent shift within the field in which social justice pedagogies are utilized by educators in an effort to create more meaningful learning experiences for students. This study explores the former learning experiences of three Black, post-secondary Spanish instructors and examines their pedagogical practices as they explore social justice-based phenomena and question and challenge systems of inequity and injustice with their students through use of the target language. The pedagogies implemented within the classrooms are based on the educators’ own perceptions of what it means to teach for social justice. Furthermore, these practices are the educators’ intentional efforts to prepare their students to be globally-minded, critical thinkers who work to disrupt systems of privilege and power within our world. This study is centered on the following questions: (1) What are the world language instructors’ interpretations of social justice pedagogy related to world language education? (2) How do the instructors’ interpretations of social justice inform their pedagogies in the world language classroom? and (3) What were the instructors’ K-20 (and beyond) experiences as world language learners? How might their experiences influence their interpretations of social justice within the world language classroom? Critical Race Theory, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, and Social Justice Pedagogy are used as the conceptual frameworks to analyze and examine data collected from interviews and classroom observations completed by each participant. This project is a major contribution to the field in that it focuses on the ways in which participants’ experiences inform their pedagogy, and contributes to a more contemporary understanding of the experiences and perspectives of African Americans who teach and study world languages.
FunkNN: Neural Interpolation for Functional Generation
Creators: name: Khorashadizadeh, AmirEhsan
name: Chaman, Anadi
name: Debarnot, Valentin
name: Dokmanić, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Can we build continuous generative models which generalize across scales, can be evaluated at any coordinate, admit calculation of exact derivatives, and are conceptually simple? Existing MLP-based architectures generate worse samples than the grid-based generators with favorable convolutional inductive biases. Models that focus on generating images at different scales do better, but employ complex architectures not designed for continuous evaluation of images and derivatives. We take a signal-processing perspective and treat continuous image generation as interpolation from samples. Indeed, correctly sampled discrete images contain all information about the low spatial frequencies. The question is then how to extrapolate the spectrum in a data-driven way while meeting the above design criteria. Our answer is FunkNN -- a new convolutional network which learns how to reconstruct continuous images at arbitrary coordinates and can be applied to any image dataset. Combined with a discrete generative model it becomes a functional generator which can act as a prior in continuous ill-posed inverse problems. We show that FunkNN generates high-quality continuous images and exhibits strong out-of-distribution performance thanks to its patch-based design. We further showcase its performance in several stylized inverse problems with exact spatial derivatives.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures
title: RadSnap - A free iPhone application for cloud based consultation between referring physicians and radiologists
Creators: name: Talanow, Roland
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Management
subject: Professional issues
subject: Teleradiology
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: PACS
subject: Computer Applications-Teleradiology
subject: Teleradiology
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Economics
subject: Outcomes
subject: Quality assurance

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To provide a solution where radiologists or referring physicians who are in need for a quick case consultation receive such in a timely...
A Weyl geometric approach to the gradient-flow equations in information geometry
Creators: name: Wada, Tatsuaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The gradient-flow equations with respect to the potential functions in information geometry are reconsidered from the perspective of the Weyl integrable geometry. The pre-geodesic equations associated with the gradient-flow equations are regarded as the general pre-geodesic equations in the Weyl integrable geometry.
description: 12 pages, no figure
Studying Trends of Auto-Regulation in Severe Head Injury in Paediatrics (STARSHIP): protocol to study cerebral autoregulation in a prospective multicentre observational research database study.
Creators: name: Agrawal, Shruti
name: Placek, Michal M
name: White, Deborah
name: Daubney, Esther
name: Cabeleira, Manuel
name: Smielewski, Peter
name: Czosnyka, Marek
name: Young, Adam
name: Watson, Suzanna
name: Maw, Anna
name: Hutchinson, Peter John
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: neurological injury
paediatric intensive & critical care
physiology
trauma management
Adult
Child
Humans
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
Cerebrovascular Circulation
COVID-19
Homeostasis
Intracranial Pressure
Multicenter Studies as Topic
Observational Studies as Topic
Pandemics
Prospective Studies

description: Peer reviewed: True
description: INTRODUCTION: Studying cerebral autoregulation, particularly PRx (Pressure Reactivity Index), is commonly employed in adult traumatic brain injury (TBI) and gives real-time information about intracranial pathophysiology, which can help in patient management. Experience in paediatric TBI (PTBI) is limited to single-centre studies despite disproportionately higher incidence of morbidity and mortality in PTBI than in adult TBI. PROJECT: We describe the protocol to study cerebral autoregulation using PRx in PTBI. The project called Studying Trends of Auto-Regulation in Severe Head Injury in Paediatrics is a multicentre prospective ethics approved research database study from 10 centres across the UK. Recruitment started in July 2018 with financial support from local/national charities (Action Medical Research for Children, UK). METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The first phase of the project is powered to detect optimal thresholds of PRx associated with favourable outcome in PTBI by recruiting 135 patients (initial target of 3 years which has changed to 5 years due to delays related to COVID-19 pandemic) from 10 centres in the UK with outcome follow-up to 1-year postictus. The secondary objectives are to characterise patterns of optimal cerebral perfusion pressure in PTBI and compare the fluctuations in these measured parameters with outcome. The goal is to create a comprehensive research database of a basic set of high-resolution (full waveforms resolution) neuromonitoring data in PTBI for scientific use. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Favourable ethical approval has been provided by Health Research Authority, Southwest-Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 18/SW/0053). Results will be disseminated via publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and presentations at national and international conferences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT05688462.
description: Action Medical Research for Children’s Charity, UK (grant number- GN2609). Cambridge University Hospitals is the study sponsor (reference: A094693, contact person: Michelle Ellerbeck- michelle.ellerbeck@nhs.net).
Scoping review of opioid misuse screening and brief interventions in pharmacy settings
Creators: name: Rao, Deepika
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Substance Abuse and Addiction
subject: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: A scoping review of the literature regarding pharmacy based screening of opioid misuse and related brief interventions. The review will identify all experimental and observational studies and grey literature that explore the topic or design and implement screening interventions, It will also evaluate the patient centeredness of included studies, and explore the use of dissemination and implementation science principles in the interventions.
title: Post-traumatic chylotorax and chyloperitoneum in emergency department: a pictorial review and radiological anatomy of chylous structures.
Creators: name: Matteoli, Marco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Lymphography
subject: CT
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Emergency
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Majority of chilous leakage are caused to malignancy or iatrogenic trauma, and only 2.6% of chylothorax has a traumatic non-iatrogenic etiology, particularly, blunt chest trauma is a rare cause of chylothorax, and it is mostly associated with...
Cancer-cost related financial toxicity experienced by cancer patients in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of qualitative evidence protocol
Creators: name: Udayakumar, Suji
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This protocol describes a scoping review on cancer cost-related financial toxicities experienced by patients in low- and/or middle-income countries.
Geometry-Induced Dynamics of Confined Chiral Active Matter
Creators: name: Negi, Archit
name: Beppu, Kazusa
name: Maeda, Yusuke T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling the motion of active matter is a central issue that has recently garnered significant attention in fields ranging from non-equilibrium physics to chemical engineering and biology. Distinct methods for controlling active matter have been developed, and physical confinement to limited space and active matter with broken rotational symmetry (chirality) are two prominent mechanisms. However, the interplay between pattern formation due to physical constraints and the ordering by chiral motion needs to be better understood. In this study, we conduct numerical simulations of chiral self-propelled particles under circular boundary confinement. The collective motion of confined self-propelled particles can take drastically different forms depending on their chirality. The balance of orientation changes between particle interaction and the boundary wall is essential for generating ordered collective motion. Our results clarify the role of the steric boundary effect in controlling chiral active matter.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures. Updated the list of references
κλιματική αλλαγή και οι αρνητές της:
Creators: name: Ζαρίκος, Ιάσωνας
Publisher: name: δοκιμές, Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Σπουδών // dokimes, Review of Social Studies
Year: 2023

description: Μετά από δεκαετίες προειδοποιήσεων, η κλιματική αλλαγή είναι πλέον ζήτημα μη παρακάμψιμο. Ακαδημαϊκές αναλύσεις, ιδεολογικές διακηρύξεις, μακρές και επίπονες διακρατικές διαπραγματεύσεις τεκμηριώνουν την αυξανόμενη συνειδητοποίηση ότι ο 21ος αιώνας θα είναι ο αιώνας της κλιματικής κρίσης. Εν όψει θερμοκρασιών που ανεβαίνουν και ασφυκτικών προθεσμιών για την ανάληψη αποφασιστικής δράσης, η αδυναμία των κοινωνιών να αντιδράσουν μοιάζει όλο και πιο πολύ με αίνιγμα, το οποίο ο περιώνυμος «ιστορικός του μέλλοντος» θα κληθεί να επιλύσει. Για τους ιστορικούς, όμως, το μέλλον φαίνεται πως δεν έχει φτάσει ακόμα: σε αντίθεση με τις Φυσικές και τις Κοινωνικές Επιστήμες, η Ιστορία απέχει από την συζήτηση. Με εξαίρεση κάποιες μακρο-ιστορικές μελέτες περιβαλλοντικών ιστορικών για την επίδραση των ανθρώπινων δραστηριοτήτων στο φυσικό περιβάλλον, όπως και πονήματα για τους αμφισβητίες της κλιματικής αλλαγής και το διεθνές περιβαλλοντικό κίνημα, η ιστορική γνώση για τις πολυσχιδείς ερμηνείες του φαινομένου και τις απορρέουσες πολιτικές για την αντιμετώπισή του παραμένει ισχνή.
description: δοκιμές, Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Σπουδών // dokimes, Review of Social Studies, No. 25-26 (2022)
Data-driven prediction strategies for low-frequency patterns of North Pacific climate variability
Creators: name: Comeau, Darin
name: Zhao, Zhizhen
name: Giannakis, Dimitrios
name: Majda, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The North Pacific exhibits patterns of low-frequency variability on the intra-annual to decadal time scales, which manifest themselves in both model data and the observational record, and prediction of such low-frequency modes of variability is of great interest to the community. While parametric models, such as stationary and non-stationary autoregressive models, possibly including external factors, may perform well in a data-fitting setting, they may perform poorly in a prediction setting. Ensemble analog forecasting, which relies on the historical record to provide estimates of the future based on past trajectories of those states similar to the initial state of interest, provides a promising, nonparametric approach to forecasting that makes no assumptions on the underlying dynamics or its statistics. We apply such forecasting to low-frequency modes of variability for the North Pacific sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration fields extracted through Nonlinear Laplacian Spectral Analysis. We find such methods may outperform parametric methods and simple persistence with increased predictive skill.
description: submitted to Climate Dynamics