cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Hepatitis, testicular degeneration, and ataxia in DIDO3-deficient mice with altered mRNA processing
Creators: name: Gutiérrez, Julio
name: van Wely, Karel H. M.
name: Martínez-A, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Hepatitis remission in E16 mice.
Testosterone replacement therapy among HIV-infected men in the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems
Creators: name: Drozd, Daniel R.
name: Mayer, Kenneth
name: Murphy, Adam B.
name: Napravnik, Sonia
name: Chamie, Gabriel
name: Kitahata, Mari M.
name: Bhatia, Ramona
name: Achenbach, Chad
name: Raper, James L.
name: Moore, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The objectives of this study were to determine the rate of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) initiation, TRT predictors and associated monitoring in HIV-infected men.
Well-posedness for a diffusion-reaction compartmental model simulating the spread of COVID-19
Creators: name: Auricchio, Ferdinando
name: Colli, Pierluigi
name: Gilardi, Gianni
name: Reali, Alessandro
name: Rocca, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q92, 46N60, 92D30, 35K57, 35K55, 35K20

description: This paper is concerned with the well-posedness of a diffusion-reaction system for a Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR) mathematical model. This model is written in terms of four nonlinear partial differential equations with nonlinear diffusions, depending on the total amount of the SEIR populations. The model aims at describing the spatio-temporal spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and is a variation of the one recently introduced, discussed and tested in [A. Viguerie et al, Diffusion-reaction compartmental models formulated in a continuum mechanics framework: application to COVID-19, mathematical analysis, and numerical study, Comput. Mech. 66 (2020) 1131-1152]. Here, we deal with the mathematical analysis of the resulting Cauchy-Neumann problem: the existence of solutions is proved in a rather general setting and a suitable time discretization procedure is employed. It is worth mentioning that the uniform boundedness of the discrete solution is shown by carefully exploiting the structure of the system. Uniform estimates and passage to the limit with respect to the time step allow to complete the existence proof. Then, two uniqueness theorems are offered, one in the case of a constant diffusion coefficient and the other for more regular data, in combination with a regularity result for the solutions.
description: Key words: COVID-19, compartmental model, partial differential equations, diffusion-reaction system, initial-boundary value problem, existence of solutions, uniqueness
The effect of antidepressant treatment on HIV and depression outcomes: results from a randomized trial
Creators: name: McGuinness, Teena
name: Quinlivan, E. Byrd
name: Raper, James L.
name: Pence, Brian W.
name: Turner, Elizabeth L.
name: Heine, Amy D.
name: Thielman, Nathan M.
name: Willig, James H.
name: Ogle, Michelle
name: Shirey, Kristen G.
name: Adams, Julie L.
name: Mugavero, Michael J.
name: Gaynes, Bradley N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Depression is a major barrier to HIV treatment outcomes.
Additional file 2 of Hepatitis, testicular degeneration, and ataxia in DIDO3-deficient mice with altered mRNA processing
Creators: name: Gutiérrez, Julio
name: van Wely, Karel H. M.
name: Martínez-A, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Overview of tissues other than liver.
title: Left ventricular myocardial strain abnormality induced by primary cardiac tumour: assessment with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Chen, Jing
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Surgery

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon; most are benign and over 50% of these tumors are myxomas. More than half of all primary cardiac tumors occur in the endocardium and myocardium[1-2].As a strong outcome predictor, myocardial contractility is a...
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for electronic correlation in molecules: high-order many-body perturbation theory with low scaling
Creators: name: Bighin, G.
name: Ho, Q. P.
name: Lemeshko, M.
name: Tscherbul, T. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a low-scaling diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach to molecular correlation energies. Using combinatorial graph theory to encode many-body Hugenholtz diagrams, we sample the Møller-Plesset (MPn) perturbation series, obtaining accurate correlation energies up to n = 5, with quadratic scaling in the number of basis functions. Our technique reduces the computational complexity of the molecular many-fermion correlation problem, opening up the possibility of low-scaling, accurate stochastic computations for a wide class of many-body systems described by Hugenholtz diagrams.
description: 6+4 pages, 2+1 figures
title: Radiologic signs of acute aortic syndrome in abdominal aorta: advanced look to the olden question
Creators: name: Andreychuk, Konstantin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Emergency
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Surgery
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Dissection
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The acute aortic syndrome (AAS) is a summarizing term to describe interrelated emergency aortic conditions with similar clinical characteristics, including pain syndrome, life-threatening condition, perfusion disorders, emergency health demand...
Start Talking About Risks: Development of a Motivational Interviewing-Based Safer Sex Program for People Living with HIV
Creators: name: Quinlivan, E. Byrd
name: Golin, Carol E.
name: Grodensky, Catherine A.
name: Boland, Maureen
name: Patel, Shilpa
name: Tiller, Katherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The epidemiology of HIV infection in the US in general, and in the southeast, in particular, has shifted dramatically over the past two decades, increasingly affecting women and minorities. The site for our intervention was an infectious diseases clinic based at a university hospital serving over 1,300 HIV-infected patients in North Carolina. Our patient population is diverse and reflects the trends seen more broadly in the epidemic in the southeast and in North Carolina. Practicing safer sex is a complex behavior with multiple determinants that vary by individual and social context. A comprehensive intervention that is client-centered and can be tailored to each individual’s circumstances is more likely to be effective at reducing risky behaviors among clients such as ours than are more confrontational or standardized prevention messages. One potential approach to improving safer sex practices among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is Motivational Interviewing (MI), a non-judgmental, client-centered but directive counseling style. Below, we describe: (1) the development of the Start Talking About Risks (STAR) MI-based safer sex counseling program for PLWHA at our clinic site; (2) the intervention itself; and (3) lessons learned from implementing the intervention.
MPEC 2024-R191 : 2024 RW7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RW7

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.
Bremsstrahlung in chiral medium: anomalous magnetic contribution to the Bethe-Heitler formula
Creators: name: Hansen, Jeremy
name: Tuchin, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate photon bremsstrahlung in chiral media. The chiral medium response to the magnetic field is described by the chiral magnetic current $ j= b_0 B$, where $b_0$ is the chiral magnetic conductivity. This current modifies the photon dispersion relation producing a resonance in the scattering amplitude. We show that the resonant contribution is proportional to the magnetic moment $μ$ of the target nucleus. We analytically compute the corresponding cross section. We argue that the anomalous contribution is enhanced by a factor $b_0^2/Γ^2$, where $Γ$ is a width of the resonance related to the chiral magnetic instability of the electromagnetic field. The most conspicuous feature of the anomalous contribution to the photon spectrum is the emergence of the knee-like structure at photon energies proportional to $b_0$. We argue that the phenomenological significance of the anomalous terms depends on the magnitude of the ratio of $b_0$ to the projectile fermion mass.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures; v2: discussion added; v3: typo in (A5) fixed
Search for critical behavior of strongly interacting matter at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
Creators: name: Gazdzicki, Marek
name: Seyboth, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: History, status and plans of the search for critical behavior of strongly interacting matter created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron is reviewed. In particular, it is expected that the search should answer the question whether the critical point of strongly interacting matter exists and, if it does, where it is located. First, the search strategies are presented and a short introduction is given to expected fluctuation signals and to the quantities used by experiments to detect th The most important background effects are also discussed. Second, relevant experimental results are summarized and discussed. It is intriguing that both the fluctuations of quantities integrated over the full experimental acceptance (event multiplicity and transverse momentum) as well as the bin size dependence of the second factorial moment of pion and proton multiplicities in medium-sized Si+Si collisions at 158A GeV/c suggest critical behaviour of the created matter. These results provide strong motivation for the ongoing systematic scan of the phase diagram by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the SPS and the continuing search at the Brookhaven Relativistic Hadron Collider.
description: 44 pages, 27 figures, minor text corrections
Additional file 9 of Hepatitis, testicular degeneration, and ataxia in DIDO3-deficient mice with altered mRNA processing
Creators: name: Gutiérrez, Julio
name: van Wely, Karel H. M.
name: Martínez-A, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: List of oligonucleotide primers.
A linear time algorithm for quantum 2-SAT
Creators: name: de Beaudrap, Niel
name: Gharibian, Sevag
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Boolean constraint satisfaction problem 3-SAT is arguably the canonical NP-complete problem. In contrast, 2-SAT can not only be decided in polynomial time, but in fact in deterministic linear time. In 2006, Bravyi proposed a physically motivated generalization of k-SAT to the quantum setting, defining the problem "quantum k-SAT". He showed that quantum 2-SAT is also solvable in polynomial time on a classical computer, in particular in deterministic time O(n^4), assuming unit-cost arithmetic over a field extension of the rational numbers, where n is number of variables. In this paper, we present an algorithm for quantum 2-SAT which runs in linear time, i.e. deterministic time O(n+m) for n and m the number of variables and clauses, respectively. Our approach exploits the transfer matrix techniques of Laumann et al. [QIC, 2010] used in the study of phase transitions for random quantum 2-SAT, and bears similarities with both the linear time 2-SAT algorithms of Even, Itai, and Shamir (based on backtracking) [SICOMP, 1976] and Aspvall, Plass, and Tarjan (based on strongly connected components) [IPL, 1979].
description: 21 pages
Factors Related to Female Sex Workers’ Willingness to Utilize VCT Service: A Qualitative Study in Jinan City, Northern China
Creators: name: Zheng, Jianhong
name: Li, Bing
name: Wang, Ying
name: Cohen, Myron S.
name: Emrick, Catherine B.
name: Sengupta, Sohini
name: Henderson, Gail E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: While national HIV prevalence remains low in China, female sex workers (FSWs) have become infected at high rates. Free voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) has been offered in recent years; however, its utilization rate is low. This study explored factors related to FSWs' willingness to utilize a VCT clinic. Qualitative interviews informed by the Ecological Perspective were conducted to interview 17 FSWs and 12 managers from 23 selected entertainment establishments in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province in northern China. While the majority of FSWs professed willingness to use VCT services, they described barriers to actual utilization of services which included: misunderstandings about HIV; low perceived risk and HIV prevalence; mistrust of the free VCT; and especially anxiety about the implications of possible test results. This research suggests that increasing FSWs' utilization of VCT will require increased knowledge of HIV and VCT, and acceptance of testing and on-site VCT services.
title: Repeatability of diffusion imaging biomarkers in prostate cancer
Creators: name: Papanikolaou, Nickolas
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: MR physics
subject: Pelvis
subject: Computer applications
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Experimental
subject: Physics
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Cancer
subject: Image verification
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: There is an increasing interest on recruiting imaging biomarkers for evaluating treatment effects.The potential ability of an imaging biomarker to act as an indicator of a biological process and for monitoring the response to therapy can be severely...
Additional file 8 of Hepatitis, testicular degeneration, and ataxia in DIDO3-deficient mice with altered mRNA processing
Creators: name: Gutiérrez, Julio
name: van Wely, Karel H. M.
name: Martínez-A, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Genetic structure of mRNA targets selected for qPCR.
Walsh's conformal map onto lemniscatic domains for polynomial pre-images I
Creators: name: Schiefermayr, Klaus
name: Sète, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C35, 30C20

description: We consider Walsh's conformal map from the exterior of a compact set $E \subseteq \mathbb{C}$ onto a lemniscatic domain. If $E$ is simply connected, the lemniscatic domain is the exterior of a circle, while if $E$ has several components, the lemniscatic domain is the exterior of a generalized lemniscate and is determined by the logarithmic capacity of $E$ and by the exponents and centers of the generalized lemniscate. For general $E$, we characterize the exponents in terms of the Green's function of $E^c$. Under additional symmetry conditions on $E$, we also locate the centers of the lemniscatic domain. For polynomial pre-images $E = P^{-1}(Ω)$ of a simply-connected infinite compact set $Ω$, we explicitly determine the exponents in the lemniscatic domain and derive a set of equations to determine the centers of the lemniscatic domain. Finally, we present several examples where we explicitly obtain the exponents and centers of the lemniscatic domain, as well as the conformal map.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures. Changed "Green function" to "Green's function". Fixed a typo
(101066) William G Fladin
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(101067) Pronna Fladin
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Identifying People with Acute HIV Infection (AHI) – Demographic Features, Risk Factors, and Use of Health Care among Individuals with AHI in North Carolina
Creators: name: MacDonald, Pia D.M.
name: Shaw, Eva N.P.
name: Hightow-Weidman, Lisa B.
name: Green, Kelly
name: Leone, Peter A.
name: Golin, Carol E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Identifying and counseling individuals with Acute HIV Infection (AHI) offers a critical opportunity to avert preventable HIV transmission, however opportunities to recognize these individuals may be missed. We surveyed 32 adults diagnosed with AHI during voluntary HIV testing from 1/1/03 to 2/28/05 in publicly funded testing sites in NC to describe their clinical, social, and behavioral characteristics. Eighty-one percent of participants were men; 59% were African American. Seventy-five percent experienced symptoms consistent with acute retroviral syndrome; although 83% sought medical care for these symptoms, only 15% were appropriately diagnosed at that initial medical visit, suggesting opportunities to diagnose these individuals earlier were missed. Eighty-five percent of the men engaged in sex with men. More than 50% of the participants thought they were infected with HIV by a steady partner. This study yields important information to assist in identifying populations at risk for or infected with AHI and designing both primary and secondary prevention interventions.
title: Time to exhale: additional information of expiratory chest CT in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - the CType study
Creators: name: Gawlitza, Joshua
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was listed as the third leading cause of death by the World Heath Organizationwith 3.1 million deaths per year. COPD mainly charaterized by irreversible airway obstructions, is largely avoidable and...
Holographic antiferromganetic quantum criticality and AdS$_2$ scaling limit
Creators: name: Cai, Rong-Gen
name: Yang, Run-Qiu
name: Kusmartsev, F. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A holographic description on antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition (QPT) induced by magnetic field and the criticality in the vicinity of quantum critical point (QCP) have been investigated numerically recently. In this paper, we show that the properties of QPT in this holographic model are governed by a CFT dual to the emergent AdS$_2$ in the IR region, which confirms that the dual boundary theory is a strong coupling theory with dynamic exponent $z=2$ and logarithmic corrections appear. We also compare them with the results from Hertz model by solving RG equation at its upper critical dimension and with some experimental data from pyrochlores Er$_{2-2x}$Y$_{2x}$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and BiCoPO$_5$.
description: 14 pages,7 figures
Psychosocial Characteristics and Sexual Behaviors of People in Care for HIV Infection: An Examination of Men Who Have Sex with Men, Heterosexual Men and Women
Creators: name: Gerkovich, Mary
name: Thrun, Mark
name: Tien, Hsiao Chuan
name: Raffanti, Stephen
name: Marks, Gary
name: Wilson, Tracey E.
name: Quinlivan, E. Byrd
name: Gardner, Lytt
name: Wright, Julie
name: O'Daniels, Christine
name: Thompson, Melanie
name: Golin, Carol
name: Patel, Shilpa N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Few studies have examined the psychosocial factors associated with sexual transmission behaviors among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM), heterosexual men (MSW) and women. We enrolled 1,050 sexually active HIV-positive patients at seven HIV clinics in six US cities as part of a clinic-based behavioral intervention. We describe the sexual transmission behaviors and examine demographic, clinical, psychosocial, and clinic prevention variables associated with unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse (UAVI). Twenty-three percent of MSM, 12.3% of MSW and 27.8% of women engaged in UAVI with partners perceived to be HIV-negative or of unknown serostatus. Among MSM and MSW, having multiple partners and lower self-efficacy were associated with increased odds of UAVI. Self-rating one’s health status as excellent/very good was a risk factor for UAVI among MSM. Among women, binge drinking and stressful life events were associated with UAVI. These findings identify variables that warrant attention in targeted interventions.
An Analysis of Electronically Monitored Adherence to Antiretroviral Medications
Creators: name: Williams, Ann B.
name: O'Malley, Jean P.
name: Dieckhaus, Kevin D.
name: Bova, Carol A.
name: Knafl, George J.
name: Fennie, Kristopher P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Medication adherence studies increasingly collect data electronically, often using Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) caps. Analyses typically focus on summary adherence measures, although more complete analyses are possible using adaptive statistical methods. These methods were used to describe individual-subject adherence patterns for MEMS data from a clinical trial. Subjects were adaptively clustered into groups with similar adherence patterns and clusters were compared on a variety of subject characteristics. There were seven different adherence clusters: consistently high, consistently moderately high, consistently moderate, consistently moderately low, consistently low, deteriorating starting early, and deteriorating late. Compared to other subjects, subjects with consistently high and consistently moderately high adherence were more likely to be male, White, and older and to maintain during study participation a CD4 cell count over 500 and an HIV viral load of at most 400 copies/ml. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of adaptive methods for comprehensive analysis of MEMS data.
Correlation of local densities of states on mesoscopic energy scales in random band matrices
Creators: name: Louis, Justine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15B52 (Primary) 82B44, 33E99 (Secondary)

description: We are interested in the phase transition of the correlation function of local densities of states at mesoscopic scales of random band matrices of width $W$ in dimension $2$. As a result, we show that the local densities of states are alternately positively and negatively correlated in the diffusive regime $O(\log(L/W))$ times, $L$ being the size of he system.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Letters in Mathematical Physics
title: Mammographic breast density assessment: certain Quantra outputs correlate better with visual classification by expert breast radiologists
Creators: name: Soh, Bao Lin Pauline
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Perception image
subject: Observer performance
subject: Computer Applications-General

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Breast cancer is the most common neoplastic-related cause of death for women worldwide. 1,2 Despite current efforts to prevent the disease, the incidence rate of breast cancer has been rising in most countries and is expected to increase further...
Effective data screening technique for crowdsourced speech intelligibility experiments: Evaluation with IRM-based speech enhancement
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Ayako
name: Irino, Toshio
name: Araki, Shoko
name: Arai, Kenichi
name: Ogawa, Atsunori
name: Kinoshita, Keisuke
name: Nakatani, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: It is essential to perform speech intelligibility (SI) experiments with human listeners in order to evaluate objective intelligibility measures for developing effective speech enhancement and noise reduction algorithms. Recently, crowdsourced remote testing has become a popular means for collecting a massive amount and variety of data at a relatively small cost and in a short time. However, careful data screening is essential for attaining reliable SI data. We performed SI experiments on speech enhanced by an "oracle" ideal ratio mask (IRM) in a well-controlled laboratory and in crowdsourced remote environments that could not be controlled directly. We introduced simple tone pip tests, in which participants were asked to report the number of audible tone pips, to estimate their listening levels above audible thresholds. The tone pip tests were very effective for data screening to reduce the variability of crowdsourced remote results so that the laboratory results would become similar. The results also demonstrated the SI of an oracle IRM, giving us the upper limit of the mask-based single-channel speech enhancement.
description: This paper was submitted to APSIPA ASC 2022 (https://www.apsipa2022.org). The original title [v1] was "Subjective intelligibility of speech sounds enhanced by ideal ratio mask via crowdsourced remote experiments with effective data screening."
title: Growing BIRADS category 3 lesions on follow-up breast ultrasound: malignancy rate and worrisome features
Creators: name: Ha, Su Min
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Management
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: •A solid mass with circumscribed margin, oval shape, parallel orientation on ultrasound is representative of BI-RADS category 3, and short term follow up is recommended. Chala L et al., JCU 2007; 35:9-19 Graf O et al., Radiology 2004; 233: 850-6...
Fluctuations and Correlations of Emission from Random Lasers
Creators: name: Merrill, Jason W.
name: Cao, Hui
name: Dufresne, Eric R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When light travels through strongly scattering media with optical gain, the synergy between diffusive transport and stimulated emission can lead to lasing action. Below the threshold pump power, the emission spectrum is smooth and consistent from shot-to-shot. Above the lasing threshold, the spectrum of emitted light becomes spiky and shows strong fluctuations from shot-to-shot. Recent experiments have reported that emitted intensity resembles a power-law distribution (\emph{i.e.} Lévy statistics). Recent theories have described the emergence of Lévy statistics as an intrinsic property of lasing in random media. To separate intrinsic intensity fluctuations from the motion of scatterers, we compare the statistics of samples with stationary or freely-diffusing scatterers. Consistent with previous reports, we observe Lévy-like statistics when intensity data are pooled across an ensemble of scatterer configurations. For fixed scatterers, we find exponential intensity distributions whose mean intensities vary widely across wavelengths. Lévy-like statistics re-emerges when data are combined across many lasing modes. Additionally, we find strong correlations of lasing peak intensities across wavelengths. A simple mean-field statistical model captures the observed one- and two-point statistics, where correlations in emission intensity arise from competition among all lasing modes for limited gain.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
title: White matter hyperintensities: role of genetic effects in Hungarian twins
Creators: name: Tarnoki, Adam
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Screening
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Cerebral white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are commonly observed on MR images of the middle age and rather elderly patients, especially in those with cerebrovascular disease and cardiovascular risk factors (1, 2). Leukoaraiosis is seen as focal...
Deformation of PMMA samples in cone calorimeter and anaerobic gasification experiments
Creators: name: Reinecke, Ernst-Arndt
name: De Lannoye, Karen
name: Leventon, I.
name: Hasalova, L.
name: Belt, Alexander
name: Arnold, Lukas
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: 14th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, IAFSS 2023, Tsukuba, Japan, 23 Oct 2023 - 27 Oct 2023
description: see attached
title: Background of the degenerative changes of the lumbar vertebrae: role of the radiologist
Creators: name: Tarnoki, David Laszlo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: MR
subject: Screening
subject: Epidemiology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Lumbar degeneration and consequent back pain is a leading public health problem (60-85% lifetime prevalence). Lumbar degeneration is associated with morphological and biochemical changes. Several structures are affected: intervertebral...
Additional file 1 of In silico designing of a recombinant multi-epitope antigen for leprosy diagnosis
Creators: name: Lemes, Marcela Rezende
name: Rodrigues, Thaís Cristina Vilela
name: Jaiswal, Arun Kumar
name: Tiwari, Sandeep
name: Sales-Campos, Helioswilton
name: Andrade-Silva, Leonardo Eurípedes
name: Oliveira, Carlo Jose Freire
name: Azevedo, Vasco
name: Rodrigues, Virmondes
name: Soares, Siomar C.
name: da Silva, Marcos Vinicius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis proteins selected for the analysis with their antigenicity value predicted through VaxiJen. Table S2. Number of B cell epitopes. Table S3. The total numbers of MHC I epitopes. Table S4. The total numbers of MHC II epitopes. Table S5. Number of epitopes in MHC II and I filtering. Table S6. The Immunogenicity Scores of MHC I predicted epitopes. Fig. S1. PSIPRED secondary structure prediction.
HIV-Infected Prison Inmates: Depression and Implications for Release Back to Communities
Creators: name: Davis, Carrie Pettus
name: Scheyett, Anna
name: White, Becky
name: Wohl, David
name: Golin, Carol
name: Parker, Sharon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: High rates of both HIV and depression are seen in prison populations; depression has been linked to disease progression in HIV, risky behaviors, and medication non-adherence. Despite this, few studies have examined HIV-infected inmates with depression. We therefore conducted an exploratory study of a sample of HIV-infected inmates in North Carolina prisons (N=101) to determine what proportion of this sample screened positive for depression and whether depression was associated with different pre-incarceration characteristics or post-release needs. A high proportion of HIV infected inmates (44.5%) screened positive for depression. Depressed inmates were significantly more likely have low coping self-efficacy scores (180 vs. 214), to report having had resource needs (OR=2.91) prior to incarceration and to anticipate needing income (OR=2.81), housing (OR=4.07), transportation (OR=9.15), and assistance with adherence (OR=8.67) post-release. We conclude by discussion the implications of our findings for prison based care and effective prison release planning for HIV infected inmates.
Asymptotic behavior of the Dirichlet energy on Poisson point clouds
Creators: name: Braides, Andrea
name: Caroccia, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that quadratic pair interactions for functions defined on planar Poisson clouds and taking into account pairs of sites of distance up to a certain (large-enough) threshold can be almost surely approximated by the multiple of the Dirichlet energy by a deterministic constant. This is achieved by scaling the Poisson cloud and the corresponding energies and computing a compact discrete-to-continuum limit. In order to avoid the effect of exceptional regions of the Poisson cloud, with an accumulation of sites or with "disconnected sites", a suitable "coarse-grained" notion of convergence of functions defined on scaled Poisson clouds must be given.
How Researchers Define Vulnerable Populations in HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials
Creators: name: Lo, Bernard
name: Sengupta, Sohini
name: Strauss, Ronald P.
name: Eron, Joseph
name: Gifford, Allen L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: In this study, we interviewed researchers, asking them to define vulnerable populations in HIV/AIDS clinical trials, and provide feedback on the federal regulations for three vulnerable populations. Interview data informed a conceptual framework, and were content analyzed to identify acceptability or disagreement with the regulations. Beginning with several characteristics of vulnerable enrollees identified by researchers, the conceptual framework illustrates possible scenarios of how enrollees could be considered vulnerable in clinical research. Content analysis identified barriers affecting HIV/AIDS researchers’ ability to conduct clinical trials with pregnant women, prisoners, and children, for which the regulations specify additional protections. This study challenges current thinking about federal regulations’ group-based approach to defining vulnerable populations.
Injecting Equipment Sharing in Russian Drug Injecting Dyads
Creators: name: Latkin, Carl A.
name: Levchenko, Julia
name: Tobin, Karin E.
name: Gyarmathy, V. Anna
name: Li, Nan
name: Sokolov, Nikolai
name: Batluk, Julia
name: Kozlov, Andrei A.
name: Kozlov, Andrei P.
name: Hoffman, Irving F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: In this study, we investigated how individual attributes, dyad characteristics and social network characteristics may influence engaging in receptive syringe sharing, distributive syringe sharing and sharing cookers in injecting partnerships of IDUs in St Petersburg, Russia. We found that all three levels were associated with injecting equipment sharing, and that dyad characteristics were modified by characteristics of the social network. Self-reported HIV discordance and male gender concordance played a role in the risk of equipment sharing. Dyad interventions may not be sufficient to reduce injecting risk in IDU partnerships, but a combination of dyad and network interventions that target both IDU partnerships and the entire IDU population may be more appropriate to address injecting risk among IDUs.
Measurement of HIV Prevention Indicators: A Comparison of the PLACE Method and a Household Survey in Zambia
Creators: name: Tate, Jackie
name: Ndubani, Phillimon
name: Kamwanga, Jolly
name: Buckner, Bates
name: Singh, Kavita
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Reaching populations at greatest risk for acquiring HIV is essential for efforts to combat the epidemic. This paper presents, the Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) method which focuses on understanding the venues where people are meeting new sexual partners and behaviors which put people at risk. A comparison of data from two PLACE studies in Zambia with a national household survey, the Zambia Sexual Behavior Survey (ZSBS) 2005, indicated that the PLACE population was at greater risk of acquiring HIV. Respondents in the two PLACE studies were significantly more likely to report 1+ new partners in the past 4 weeks, 2+ partners in the past 12 months, 1+ new partner in the past 12 months and transactional sex. Data from the PLACE method is important for targeting interventions for those most likely to acquire and transmit HIV.
Physiological and Psychosocial Factors that Predict HIV-Related Fatigue
Creators: name: Leserman, Jane
name: Salahuddin, Naima
name: Harmon, James L.
name: Barroso, Julie
name: Hammill, Bradley G.
name: Harmon, Brian Wells
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Fatigue is one of the most common and debilitating symptoms experienced by HIV-infected people. We report the results of our longitudinal analysis of physiological and psychosocial factors that were thought to predict changes in HIV-related fatigue in 128 participants over a 1-year period, in an effort to sort out the complex interplay among a comprehensive set of physiological and psychosocial variables. Physiological measures included hepatic function (aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin, hepatitis C status), thyroid function (thyroid stimulating hormone, thyroxine), HIV viral load, immunologic function (CD4, CD8, CD4/CD8 ratio, CD16, CD8CD38), gonadal function (testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone), hematologic function (hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum erythropoietin), and cellular injury (lactic acid). Psychosocial measures included childhood and adult trauma, anxiety, depression, social support, stressful life events, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Unemployment, not being on antiretroviral therapy, having fewer years since HIV diagnosis, more childhood trauma, more stressful life events, less social support, and more psychological distress (e.g., PTSD, anxiety and depression) put HIV-infected persons at risk for greater fatigue intensity and fatigue-related impairment in functioning during 1-year follow-up. Physiological variables did not predict greater fatigue. Stressful life events had both direct and indirect effects on fatigue.
Strongly-interacting bosons at 2D-1D Dimensional Crossover
Creators: name: Yao, Hepeng
name: Pizzino, Lorenzo
name: Giamarchi, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a two dimensional (2D) system of interacting quantum bosons, subjected to a continuous periodic potential in one direction. The correlation of such system exhibits a dimensional crossover between a canonical 2D behavior with Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) properties and a one-dimensional (1D) behavior when the potential is large and splits the system in essentially independent tubes. The later is in the universality class of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids (TLL). Using a continuous quantum Monte Carlo method, we investigate this dimensional crossover by computing longitudinal and transverse superfluid fraction as well as the superfluid correlation as a function of temperature, interactions and potential. Especially, we find the correlation function evolves from BKT to TLL type, with special intermediate behaviors appearing at the dimensional crossover. We discuss how the consequences of the dimensional crossover can be investigated in cold atomic gases experiments.
description: Resubmission to SciPost
Predictors of Unprotected Sex Among Female Sex Workers in Madagascar: Comparing Semen Biomarkers and Self-Reported Data
Creators: name: Weaver, Mark A.
name: Macaluso, Maurizio
name: Hoke, Theresa Hatzell
name: Jamieson, Denise J.
name: Van Damme, Kathleen
name: Gallo, Maria F.
name: Hobbs, Marcia M.
name: Steiner, Markus J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Research on the determinants of condom use and condom non-use generally has relied on self-reported data with questionable validity. We identified predictors of recent, unprotected sex among 331 female sex workers in Madagascar using two outcome measures: self-reports of unprotected sex within the past 48 h and detection of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a biological marker of recent semen exposure. Multivariable logistic regression revealed that self-reported unprotected sex was associated with three factors: younger age, having a sipa (emotional partner) in the prior seven days, and no current use of hormonal contraception. The sole factor related to having PSA detected was prevalent chlamydial infection (adjusted odds ratio, 4.5; 95% confidence interval, 2.0–10.1). Differences in predictors identified suggest that determinants of unprotected sex, based on self-reported behaviors, might not correlate well with risk of semen exposure. Caution must be taken when interpreting self-reported sexual behavior measures or when adjusting for them in analyses evaluating interventions for the prevention of HIV/STIs.
A Database of $\mathbb{Z}_4$ Codes
Creators: name: Aydin, Nuh
name: Asamov, Tsvetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There has been much research on codes over $\mathbb{Z}_4$, sometimes called quaternary codes, for over a decade. Yet, no database is available for best known quaternary codes. This work introduces a new database for quaternary codes. It also presents a new search algorithm called genetic code search (GCS), as well as new quaternary codes obtained by existing and new search methods.
title: 2D-perfusion angiography for assessment of PAD
Creators: name: Hinrichs, Jan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Stents

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate 2D-perfusion angiography (2D-PA) allowing pro- and retrospective flow analysis based on a proximalreference region of interest (ROI) and distal target ROI in patients treated for peripheral arterial...
Vacuum energy sequestering and conformal symmetry
Creators: name: Ben-Dayan, Ido
name: Richter, Robert
name: Ruehle, Fabian
name: Westphal, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a series of recent papers Kaloper and Padilla proposed a mechanism to sequester standard model vacuum contributions to the cosmological constant. We study the consequences of embedding their proposal into a fully local quantum theory. In the original work, the bare cosmological constant $Λ$ and a scaling parameter $λ$ are introduced as global fields. We find that in the local case the resulting Lagrangian is that of a spontaneously broken conformal field theory where $λ$ plays the role of the dilaton. A vanishing or a small cosmological constant is thus a consequence of the underlying conformal field theory structure.
description: Extended discussion on the conformal symmetry. Matches the published version