cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From Hill to Harbor
Creators: name: Giron, Leslie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Baltimore
subject: Inner Harbor
subject: Rash Field

description: This thesis focuses on bringing an art hub onto Baltimore’s civic waterfront of the Inner Harbor, specifically on Rash Field. Rash Field has been an unsightly and underutilized space, and is considered to be the last remaining essentially vacant space in the Inner Harbor. It is the primary reason why the south shore is the least pedestrian traveled section of the entire Inner Harbor promenade. The goal is to promote a better exchange and communication between the public, private groups of people using art as the major generator. In hopes that it will bring a unique and engaging attraction to Baltimore and revitalizes the south shore of the Inner Harbor promenade.
Androgen Receptor-Target Genes in African American Prostate Cancer Disparities
Creators: name: Wang, Bi-Dar
name: Yang, Qi
name: Ceniccola, Kristin
name: Bianco, Fernando J.
name: Andrawis, Ramez
name: Jarrett, Thomas
name: Frazier, Harold
name: Patierno, Steven R.
name: Lee, Norman H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine

description: The incidence and mortality rates of prostate cancer (PCa) are higher in African American (AA) compared to Caucasian American (CA) men. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying PCa disparities, we employed an integrative approach combining gene expression profiling and pathway and promoter analyses to investigate differential transcriptomes and deregulated signaling pathways in AA versus CA cancers. A comparison of AA and CA PCa specimens identified 1,188 differentially expressed genes. Interestingly, these transcriptional differences were overrepresented in signaling pathways that converged on the androgen receptor (AR), suggesting that the AR may be a unifying oncogenic theme in AA PCa. Gene promoter analysis revealed that 382 out of 1,188 genes contained cis-acting AR-binding sequences. Chromatin immunoprecipitation confirmed STAT1, RHOA, ITGB5, MAPKAPK2, CSNK2A,1 and PIK3CB genes as novel AR targets in PCa disparities. Moreover, functional screens revealed that androgen-stimulated AR binding and upregulation of RHOA, ITGB5, and PIK3CB genes were associated with increased invasive activity of AA PCa cells, as siRNA-mediated knockdown of each gene caused a loss of androgen-stimulated invasion. In summation, our findings demonstrate that transcriptional changes have preferentially occurred in multiple signaling pathways converging (“transcriptional convergence”) on AR signaling, thereby contributing to AR-target gene activation and PCa aggressiveness in AAs.
Evidence for a spin-quartet of nucleon resonances at 2\,GeV
Creators: name: Anisovich, A. V.
name: Klempt, E.
name: Nikonov, V. A.
name: Sarantsev, A. V.
name: Thoma, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results from a multi-channel partial wave analysis of elastic and inelastic $πN$ and $γN$ induced reactions are presented. The analysis evidences the existence of a spin-quartet of nucleon resonances with total angular momenta $J^P=1/2^+,..., 7/2^+$. All states fall into a $\pm130$\,MeV mass gap centered at 1.97\,GeV. The spin quartet is at variance with S-wave diquark configurations required in classical di-quark models.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, reanalysis with improved errors
title: Diagnostic impact of minimal changes in contrast agent injection protocol in coronary computed tomography angiography
Creators: name: Iozzelli, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Contrast agents
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CAD
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Prospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: This work aims to demonstrate that even minor changes in high iodine concentration contrast agent (CA) injection rate protocol can effectively have an impact on the diagnostic value and the imaging qualityof coronary CT angiography (CCTA)...
Evaluation of organic inputs for reducing dollar spot disease on cool-season turfgrasses
Creators: name: Beckley, Cody James
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Plant sciences
subject: Biochar
subject: Compost
subject: Dollar spot
subject: Organic amendments
subject: Vermicompost

description: Lolium perenne, Poa annua, and Agrostis stolonifera are turfgrass species commonly grown on golf course fairways; however, they are susceptible to dollar spot (Clarireedia spp.). Field studies were conduction to assess: 1) the effects of organic fertilizer treatments and fungicide programs on dollar spot severity; and 2) the impact of organic amendments on dollar spot severity and residual fungicide efficacy. Alternating applications of organic and conventional fungicides reduced seasonal dollar spot severity to the same degree as conventional fungicides. Dollar spot was more severe in Lolium perenne and Poa annua treated with organic fungicides. On A. stolonifera, organic biosolids compost, biochar, and vermicompost amendments suppressed dollar spot to the same degree as conventional fertilizer in year one of the trial, while dollar spot was more severe on A. stolonifera fertilized with organic biosolids compost in year two. Fertilizer treatments had no effect on residual fungicide efficacy on A. stolonifera.
Cosmoglobe DR1 results. II. Constraints on isotropic cosmic birefringence from reprocessed WMAP and Planck LFI data
Creators: name: Eskilt, J. R.
name: Watts, D. J.
name: Aurlien, R.
name: Basyrov, A.
name: Bersanelli, M.
name: Brilenkov, M.
name: Colombo, L. P. L.
name: Eriksen, H. K.
name: Fornazier, K. S. F.
name: Franceschet, C.
name: Fuskeland, U.
name: Galloway, M.
name: Gjerløw, E.
name: Hensley, B.
name: Hergt, L. T.
name: Herman, D.
name: Ihle, H. T.
name: Lee, K.
name: Lunde, J. G. S.
name: Nerval, S. K.
name: Paradiso, S.
name: Patel, S. K.
name: Rahman, F.
name: Regnier, M.
name: San, M.
name: Sanyal, S.
name: Stutzer, N. -O.
name: Thommesen, H.
name: Verma, A.
name: Wehus, I. K.
name: Zhou, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic birefringence is a parity-violating effect that might have rotated the plane of linearly polarized light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by an angle $β$ since its emission. This has recently been measured to be non-zero at a statistical significance of $3.6σ$ in the official Planck PR4 and 9-year WMAP data. In this work, we constrain $β$ using the reprocessed BeyondPlanck LFI and Cosmoglobe DR1 WMAP polarization maps. These novel maps have both lower systematic residuals and a more complete error description than the corresponding official products. Foreground $EB$ correlations could bias measurements of $β$, and while thermal dust $EB$ emission has been argued to be statistically non-zero, no evidence for synchrotron $EB$ power has been reported. Unlike the dust-dominated Planck HFI maps, the majority of the LFI and WMAP polarization maps are instead dominated by synchrotron emission. Simultaneously constraining $β$ and the polarization miscalibration angle, $α$, of each channel, we find a best-fit value of $β=0.35^{\circ}\pm0.70^{\circ}$ with LFI and WMAP data only. When including the Planck HFI PR4 maps, but fitting $β$ separately for dust-dominated, $β_{>70\,\mathrm{GHz}}$, and synchrotron-dominated channels, $β_{\leq 70\,\mathrm{GHz}}$, we find $β_{\leq 70\,\mathrm{GHz}}=0.53^{\circ}\pm0.28^\circ$. This differs from zero with a statistical significance of $1.9σ$, and the main contribution to this value comes from the LFI 70 GHz channel. While the statistical significances of these results are low on their own, the measurement derived from the LFI and WMAP synchrotron-dominated maps agrees with the previously reported HFI-dominated constraints, despite the very different astrophysical and instrumental systematics involved in all these experiments.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to A&A
title: Trans-Urethral Ureteral Stent Replacement Technique (TRUST): 10-Year Experience in 1168 Patients
Creators: name: Curti, Marco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Stents
subject: Removal
subject: Pyelography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Interventional Radiology

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the routinely feasibility of transurethral retrieval and replacement ofdouble-J stents and to affirm the interventional radiology technique as an alternative to cystoscopic...
Quantum isometries and group dual subgroups
Creators: name: Banica, Teodor
name: Bhowmick, Jyotishman
name: De Commer, Kenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the discrete groups $Λ$ whose duals embed into a given compact quantum group, $\hatΛ\subset G$. In the matrix case $G\subset U_n^+$ the embedding condition is equivalent to having a quotient map $Γ_U\toΛ$, where $F=\{Γ_U|U\in U_n\}$ is a certain family of groups associated to $G$. We develop here a number of techniques for computing $F$, partly inspired from Bichon's classification of group dual subgroups $\hatΛ\subset S_n^+$. These results are motivated by Goswami's notion of quantum isometry group, because a compact connected Riemannian manifold cannot have non-abelian group dual isometries.
description: 18 pages
Time delays in quasi-periodic pulsations observed during the X2.2 solar flare on 2011 February 15
Creators: name: Dolla, L.
name: Marqué, C.
name: Seaton, D. B.
name: Van Doorsselaere, T.
name: Dominique, M.
name: Berghmans, D.
name: Cabanas, C.
name: De Groof, A.
name: Schmutz, W.
name: Verdini, A.
name: West, M. J.
name: Zender, J.
name: Zhukov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report observations of quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) during the X2.2 flare of 2011 February 15, observed simultaneously in several wavebands. We focus on fluctuations on time scale 1-30 s and find different time lags between different wavebands. During the impulsive phase, the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) channels in the range 25-100 keV lead all the other channels. They are followed by the Nobeyama RadioPolarimeters at 9 and 17 GHz and the Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) channels of the Euv SpectroPhotometer (ESP) onboard the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). The Zirconium and Aluminum filter channels of the Large Yield Radiometer (LYRA) onboard the Project for On-Board Autonomy (PROBA2) satellite and the SXR channel of ESP follow. The largest lags occur in observations from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), where the channel at 1-8 Å leads the 0.5-4 Å channel by several seconds. The time lags between the first and last channels is up to 9 s. We identified at least two distinct time intervals during the flare impulsive phase, during which the QPPs were associated with two different sources in the Nobeyama RadioHeliograph at 17 GHz. The radio as well as the hard X-ray channels showed different lags during these two intervals. To our knowledge, this is the first time that time lags are reported between EUV and SXR fluctuations on these time scales. We discuss possible emission mechanisms and interpretations, including flare electron trapping.
Preface for Symposium on Globalization and the Brain Drain in the Journal of Development Economics, 2010
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Economics

description: The papers in this special issue were all presented at a conference on "Globalization and the Brain Drain: Theory, Evidence and Policy," organized at Bar-Ilan University and the Hebrew University on December 9–11, 2008, in Ramat Gan and Jerusalem, Israel, with the support of the Adar Foundation, the Schnitzer Foundation for Research on the Israeli Economy and Society, and the Ben-Porath Fund, Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel. Eric Gould and Hillel Rapoport served as organizers.
title: Liver density in routine and low-dose computed tomography: the effect of image noise on measurement accuracy
Creators: name: Gonchar, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Segmentation
subject: Image verification
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Experimental
subject: Multicentre study

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Fatty liver disease is a widespread pathology [1]. It is found to be associated with conditions such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), viral hepatitis, and alcoholic liver disease. The progression of these diseases can lead to liver...
Instabilities and turbulence-like dynamics in an oppositely driven binary particle mixture
Creators: name: Ikeda, Masahiro
name: Wada, Hirofumi
name: Hayakawa, Hisao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using extensive particle-based simulations, we investigate out-of-equilibrium pattern dynamics in an oppositely driven binary particle system in two dimensions. A surprisingly rich dynamical behavior including lane formation, jamming, oscillation and turbulence-like dynamics is found. The ratio of two friction coefficients is a key parameter governing the stability of lane formation. When the friction coefficient transverse to the external force direction is sufficiently small compared to the longitudinal one, the lane structure becomes unstable to shear-induced disturbances, and the system eventually exhibits a dynamical transition into a novel turbulence-like phase characterized by random convective flows. We numerically construct an out-of-equilibrium phase diagram. Statistical analysis of complex spatio-temporal dynamics of the fully nonlinear turbulence-like phase suggests its apparent reminiscence to the swarming dynamics in certain active matter systems.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in EPL
Correlation Induced Magnetic Topological Phases in Mixed-Valence Compound SmB6
Creators: name: Liu, Huimei
name: Hirschmann, Moritz M.
name: Sawatzky, George A.
name: Khaliullin, Giniyat
name: Schnyder, Andreas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SmB6 is a mixed-valence compound with flat f-electron bands that have a propensity to magnetism. Here, using a realistic Gamma8 quartet model, we investigate the dynamical spin susceptibility and describe the in-gap collective mode observed in neutron scattering experiments. We show that as the Sm valence increases with pressure, the magnetic correlations enhance and SmB6 undergoes a first-order phase transition into a metallic antiferromagnetic state, whose symmetry depends on the model parameters. The magnetic orderings give rise to distinct band topologies: while the A-type order leads to an overlap between valence and conduction bands in the form of Dirac nodal lines, the G-type order has a negative indirect gap with weak Z2 indices. We also consider the spin polarized phase under a strong magnetic field, and find that it exhibits Weyl points as well as nodal lines close to the Fermi level. The magnetic phases show markedly different surface states and tunable bulk transport properties, with important implications for experiments. Our theory predicts that a magnetic order can be stabilized also by lifting the Gamma8 cubic symmetry, thus explaining the surface magnetism reported in SmB6.
description: published version, Supplementary Material included
Co-substitution effects on the Fe-valence in the BaFe2As2 superconducting compound: A study of hard x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Creators: name: Bittar, E. M.
name: Adriano, C.
name: Garitezi, T. M.
name: Rosa, P. F. S.
name: Mendonça-Ferreira, L.
name: Garcia, F.
name: Azevedo, G. de M.
name: Pagliuso, P. G.
name: Granado, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fe K X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) of BaFe2-xCoxAs2 superconductors was investigated. No appreciable alteration in shape or energy position of this edge was observed with Co substitution. This result provides experimental support to previous ab initio calculations in which the extra Co electron is concentrated at the substitute site and do not change the electronic occupation of the Fe ions. Superconductivity may emerge due to bonding modifications induced by the substitute atom that weakens the spin-density-wave ground state by reducing the Fe local moments and/or increasing the elastic energy penalty of the accompanying orthorhombic distortion.
description: 4+ pages, 4 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: Engineering design parameters of storms in Venezuela
title: Hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Guevara, Edilberto
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2003
Subjects: storm analysis
storm design
hydrologic design
advancement coefficient
IDF analysis
area reduction factor

description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: 23rd annual AGU hydrology days was held on March 31 - April 2, 2003 at Colorado State University.
description: This research deals with hydrologic analysis to estimation engineering design parameters of storms in Venezuela, which help hydrologists to improve their environmental designs. This analysis focus on storm advancement coefficient r (SAC) to establish storm pluviographs; Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF); and Area - Depth – Duration relationships (ADD). Based on the analysis of 275 storm events, values of r were calculated obtaining a mean value of 0.41 and a standard deviation of 0.075, and being 61 , 30 and 9 % of the storms from the advanced, retarded and symmetric type respectively. Rainfall data of 162 recorders spread all over the country were used for the IDF analysis, using nevertheless instead traditional analysis a model that allows to estimate peak rainfall/intensities for any duration and frequency based on the General Equation for Hydrologic Frequency Analysis (GEHFA), in conjunction with a transform function that linearize the mass curve of the accumulated rainfall amounts and the method of minimum squares to estimate the parameters of the GEHFA: mean, μ, and standard deviations of the rainfall extremes. The results are given as equations for μ and σ; correlation coefficients are higher than 0.99. Based on the analysis of 47 storms occurred on Northeast, Andes, Central and Central West regions of Venezuela, lineal models for Area Reduction Factors as function of D were developed, with correlation coefficients values over 0.980. Design rainfall hyetographs are built base on estimated r values and the established IDF model. Furthermore, Area Reduction Factor models can be used to reduce rainfall point values.
Expression of HIV transgene aggravates kidney injury in diabetic mice
Creators: name: Mallipattu, Sandeep K.
name: Liu, Ruijie
name: Zhong, Yifei
name: Chen, Ed Y.
name: D’Agati, Vivette Denise
name: Kaufman, Lewis
name: Ma’ayan, Avi
name: Klotman, Paul E.
name: Chuang, Peter Y.
name: He, John C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: With the widespread use of combination antiretroviral agents, the incidence of HIV-associated nephropathy has decreased. Currently, HIV-infected patients live much longer and often suffer from comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus. Recent epidemiological studies suggest that concurrent HIV infection and diabetes mellitus may have a synergistic effect on the incidence of chronic kidney disease. To address this, we determined whether HIV-1 transgene expression accelerates diabetic kidney injury using a diabetic HIV-1 transgenic (Tg26) murine model. Diabetes was initially induced with low-dose streptozotocin in both Tg26 and wild-type mice on a C57BL/6 background, which is resistant to classic HIV-associated nephropathy. Although diabetic nephropathy is minimally observed on the C57BL/6 background, diabetic Tg26 mice exhibited a significant increase in glomerular injury compared with nondiabetic Tg26 mice and diabetic wild-type mice. Validation of microarray gene expression analysis from isolated glomeruli showed a significant upregulation of proinflammatory pathways in diabetic Tg26 mice. Thus, our study found that expression of HIV-1 genes aggravates diabetic kidney disease.
title: Left ventricle remodeling in β-thalassemia major patients: differential diagnosis with left ventricle noncompaction disease
Creators: name: Pellegrino, Fabio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: Haematologic
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Multicentre study

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Beta-Thalassemia major (TM) is a complex disease due both to multiple hormonal deficiencies and multiorgan involvement requiring regular blood transfusions and chelating therapy from early childhood to all life [1]. Cardiac magnetic resonance...
A Feasibility Study on Indoor Localization and Multi-person Tracking Using Sparsely Distributed Camera Network with Edge Computing
Creators: name: Kwon, Hyeokhyen
name: Hegde, Chaitra
name: Kiarashi, Yashar
name: Madala, Venkata Siva Krishna
name: Singh, Ratan
name: Nakum, ArjunSinh
name: Tweedy, Robert
name: Tonetto, Leandro Miletto
name: Zimring, Craig M.
name: Doiron, Matthew
name: Rodriguez, Amy D.
name: Levey, Allan I.
name: Clifford, Gari D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Camera-based activity monitoring systems are becoming an attractive solution for smart building applications with the advances in computer vision and edge computing technologies. In this paper, we present a feasibility study and systematic analysis of a camera-based indoor localization and multi-person tracking system implemented on edge computing devices within a large indoor space. To this end, we deployed an end-to-end edge computing pipeline that utilizes multiple cameras to achieve localization, body orientation estimation and tracking of multiple individuals within a large therapeutic space spanning $1700m^2$, all while maintaining a strong focus on preserving privacy. Our pipeline consists of 39 edge computing camera systems equipped with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) placed in the indoor space's ceiling. To ensure the privacy of individuals, a real-time multi-person pose estimation algorithm runs on the TPU of the computing camera system. This algorithm extracts poses and bounding boxes, which are utilized for indoor localization, body orientation estimation, and multi-person tracking. Our pipeline demonstrated an average localization error of 1.41 meters, a multiple-object tracking accuracy score of 88.6\%, and a mean absolute body orientation error of 29\degree. These results shows that localization and tracking of individuals in a large indoor space is feasible even with the privacy constrains.
Apis mellifera subsp. jemenitica RUTTNER 1976
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Apis
Apis mellifera
Apis mellifera jemenitica ruttner, 1976

description: Apis mellifera jemenitica RUTTNER, 1976
Apis mellifera jemenitica RUTTNER, 1976: PAULY & HORA 2013: 27 (fig. 26c, Obock).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Obock.
I cite only the paper of PAULY & HORA (2013) as an example for Djiboutian records, because too many papers have been published on African honey bees.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 933, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
title: First use of a scoring balloon to perform Oddi sphincteroplasty for biliary stones.
Creators: name: ossola, Christian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: GI Tract
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Localisation
subject: Recanalisation
subject: Dilatation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Oddi’s balloon sphincteroplasty is nowadays a well-known procedure for the treatment of choledocholithiasis, safer than sphincterotomy and similarly effective. Both retrograde and antegrade approaches are described and suggested by current...
Major-Element Abundances on the Surface of Mercury: Results from the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
Creators: name: Solomon, Sean C.
name: Evans, Larry G.
name: Peplowski, Patrick N.
name: Rhodes, Edgar A.
name: Lawrence, David J.
name: McCoy, Timothy J.
name: Nittler, Larry R.
name: Sprague, Ann L.
name: Stockstill-Cahill, Karen R.
name: Starr, Richard D.
name: Weider, Shoshana Z.
name: Boynton, William V.
name: Hamara, David K.
name: Goldsten, John O.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Planetology
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Orbital gamma-ray measurements obtained by the MESSENGER spacecraft have been analyzed to determine the abundances of the major elements Al, Ca, S, Fe, and Na on the surface of Mercury. The Si abundance was determined and used to normalize those of the other reported elements. The Na analysis provides the first abundance estimate of 2.9 plus or minus 0.1 wt% for this element on Mercury's surface. The other elemental results (S/Si = 0.092 plus or minus 0.015, Ca/Si = 0.24 plus or minus 0.05, and Fe/Si = 0.077 plus or minus 0.013) are consistent with those previously obtained by the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer, including the high sulfur and low iron abundances. Because of different sampling depths for the two techniques, this agreement indicates that Mercury's regolith is, on average, homogenous to a depth of tens of centimeters. The elemental results from gamma-ray and X-ray spectrometry are most consistent with petrologic models suggesting that Mercury's surface is dominated by Mg-rich silicates. We also compare the results with those obtained during the MESSENGER flybys and with ground-based observations of Mercury's surface and exosphere.
SUB CULTURAL RIFT: AN AFFIRMATION ON AMERICAN SOCIAL CONFLICT
Creators: name: Garzon, Kevin
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Whether in equilibrium or imbalance, social conflict is inherent in any dynamic society, particularly in American culture. More recently it is apparent that social conflict in America is entering a phase of uncompromising imbalance where ideological differences between opposing social entities and their actions have created a noticeable ‘rift’ within the American strata. As a perpetual force, conflict is part of the social fabric that creates a dynamic society, however the effects created by any internal conflict can be extremely detrimental to entities on either side, more importantly to the society in its entirety. The result is an open wound in the social realm of the American culture that is being further contaminated. This thesis looks to materialize American social conflict in the form of an inhabitable monument by means of externalized social experiences to promote National awareness. It will seek to acknowledge the current state of American social strife and the underlying issues prevalent in the American social construct. Socially driven architecture will provide a stark reality regarding underlying American social issues for the public to reflect and meditate on the realities of modern America as well as their own lives as they begin to identify with those afflicted.
Mechanisms for Trajectory Options Allocation in Collaborative Air Traffic Flow Management
Creators: name: Mohanavelu Umamagesh, Prithiv Raj
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Operations research
subject: Transportation
subject: Applied mathematics
subject: Air Traffic Flow Management
subject: Air Traffic Managment
subject: Aviation
subject: CTOP
subject: FAA
subject: Resource Allocation

description: Flight delays are primarily due to traffic imbalances caused by the demand for airspace resource exceeding its capacity. The capacity restriction might be due to inclement weather, an overloaded air traffic sector, or an airspace restriction. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the organization responsible for air traffic control and management in the USA, has developed several tools known as Traffic Management Initiatives (TMI) to bring the demand into compliance with the capacity constraints. Collaborative Trajectory Option Program (CTOP) is one such tool that has been developed by the FAA to mitigate the delay experienced by flights. Operating under a Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) environment, CTOP is considered as the next step into the future of air traffic management by the FAA. The advantages of CTOP over the traditional the TMIs are unequivocal. The concerns about the allocation scheme used in the CTOP and treatment of flights from the flight operators/airlines have limited its usage. This research was motivated by the high ground delays that were experienced by flights and how the rerouting decisions were made in the current allocation method used in a CTOP. We have proposed four alternative approaches in this thesis, which incorporated priority of flights by the respective flight operator, aimed at not merely reducing an individual flight operator’s delay but also the total delay incurred to the system. We developed a test case scenario to compare the performances of the four proposed allocation methods against one another and with the present allocation mechanism of CTOP.
Informal urbanism and architecture(self organizing urbanism and architecture)
Creators: name: Vander Hoek, Christopher Mark
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 79-80
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: This masters degree project (MDP) offers an alternative to the buildings that have traditionally been deployed in attempts to develop the informal city. It seeks to design a community centre that encourages its occupants to be involved in its planning, functioning and completion. The deployment of this 'infrastructure' is in the informal settlement of Pensil, in Mexico City. Through an agile structure and building logic, the project develops a system that has the ability to respond to feedback from its occupants, both through the initial design process and over time. The inherent dna of the building is adapted to the climate, site conditions, culture and urban landscape, however it remains adaptable to variety of program, and to the actions of the eventual occupants. Through numerous site visits, living in the city for a short time, and tours with local professionals, a greater understanding of the informal community is obtained. Working with, and building upon the site research of Martijn Slob, has allowed a greater understanding of the neighborhood of Pensil, and in informal communities in Mexico City. The result of this project is a building system that functions like an infrastructure element in the informal community; it is adaptable to various sites and this document shows one possible iteration. It creates buy in from its users through its adaptability and mutability. The proposed design is a manifestation of this system that is unique, inspiring and above all, designed to serve it's community.
title: Interobserver agreement for the Fleischner Society criteria for UIP pattern on CT
Creators: name: Westphalen, Stephanie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Retrospective
subject: Inflammation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: Chest
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Diffuse lung diseases diagnosis is commonly challenging and requires collaboration among different experts, as well as the ability to interpret and communicate under conflicting information.In many cases it is not possible to identify the...
Reforming the Global Economic Architecture: Lessons from the Recent Crises
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Economics

description: Recent turmoil in international financial markets has raised a set of fundamental questions for the global community: Is the set of international financial arrangements, established after the Great Depression and World War II and modified after the abandonment of the gold standard in 1973, up to the challenges of the twenty-first century? Are minor modifications such as slight changes in the governance of the international financial institutions, increased transparency, or surveillance! all that is required to adapt these institutions to the needs of modern economies, or are more fundamental changes necessary? Today, although much has been proposed, discussed, and argued, no consensus on desirable changes has yet been reached. In the meantime, what can countries, especially the poor, the small, and the less developed, do to protect themselves from the seeming ravages of storms brought on by international financial instability?
Living space
Creators: name: Truchon, Will
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 63
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: Includes oversized pages.
description: This is a design option for a "living machine" to serve as a multi-family dwelling where natural systems coexist with the inhabitants and also pro­vide subsistence services. This project intends to contribute to a sustain­able paradigm required for an anticipated post-petroleum and post-suburb society. Among other practices it will embody still-emergent technologies of onsite power generation, urban agriculture, water resources management and waste management combined with live/work lifestyles and their vital interface with the urban context.
Fate of antimicrobials and nutrients in dairy manure management systems
Creators: name: Schueler, Jenna E
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental science
subject: Agriculture engineering
subject: Anaerobic Digestion
subject: Antimicrobial
subject: Composting
subject: Manure
subject: Methane
subject: Resistance

description: Anaerobic digestion (AD) and composting manure management strategies were explored at the field scale to monitor antimicrobial degradation, nutrient transformations, and optimize mitigation of these pollutants in manure fertilizer to decrease their entry to waterways. Removal of antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) were explored at the bench scale, where AD degraded >85% of antimicrobials. At the field-scale, antimicrobials were not consistently removed, persisting in concentrations up to 34,000 ng/g DW in the AD effluent. The tetM genes were reduced during bench-scale AD suggesting that AD could be an effective treatment for removing tetracycline ARGs from manure. The 100% reduction of sulfadimethoxine antimicrobials during AD did not correspond with Sul1 reduction, illustrating differences in antimicrobial versus gene reductions during manure treatment. Antimicrobials did not degrade significantly during field scale composting, likely due to a shortened composting period (33-days). The field-scale results illuminate limitations of tracking antimicrobials in complex treatment systems.
Hierarchical Consensus Formation Reduces the Influence of Opinion Bias
Creators: name: Perony, Nicolas
name: Pfitzner, René
name: Scholtes, Ingo
name: Tessone, Claudio J.
name: Schweitzer, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the role of hierarchical structures in a simple model of collective consensus formation based on the bounded confidence model with continuous individual opinions. For the particular variation of this model considered in this paper, we assume that a bias towards an extreme opinion is introduced whenever two individuals interact and form a common decision. As a simple proxy for hierarchical social structures, we introduce a two-step decision making process in which in the second step groups of like-minded individuals are replaced by representatives once they have reached local consensus, and the representatives in turn form a collective decision in a downstream process. We find that the introduction of such a hierarchical decision making structure can improve consensus formation, in the sense that the eventual collective opinion is closer to the true average of individual opinions than without it. In particular, we numerically study how the size of groups of like-minded individuals being represented by delegate individuals affects the impact of the bias on the final population-wide consensus. These results are of interest for the design of organisational policies and the optimisation of hierarchical structures in the context of group decision making.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
title: CBCT-guided percutaneous hydrogel plug deployment before video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical resection.
Creators: name: Calvi, Marco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Interventional Radiology
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Lung
subject: Management
subject: CT
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Biopsy
subject: Complications
subject: Surgery
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases
subject: Pathology
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT)-guided hydrogel plug deployment was recently proposed for the prevention of pneumothorax after percutaneous lung biopsies. Ahydrogel plug cylinder has a diameter of 0.8mm and is 25mm long. Once deployed, the plug...
Matching partition functions of deformed JT gravity and the cSYK model
Creators: name: Louw, Jan C.
name: Cao, Sizheng
name: Ge, Xian-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent analogies between the large-$q$ cSYK model and charged black holes, we aim to find a concrete gravitation theory with a matching partition function. Our main focus is to match the thermodynamics of the $(0+1)$-dimensional cSYK model, with that of a $(1+1)$-dimensional gravitational model. We focus on a model of deformed JT gravity, characterized by some unknown dilaton potential function and unknown dilaton-to-Maxwell field coupling. By finding the general solutions, we are able to find the Lagrangian which produces the same partition function and equation of state as that of the considered SYK model. We go beyond showing that the thermodynamics overlaps, by also showing that the Lyapunov exponents, characterizing the degree of chaos, overlap close to the second order phase transition. In the low temperature rescaled regime, there remains open questions about the Lyapunov exponents, given that our analysis ignores the black hole back action which can be large in this regime.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
title: Evaluation of osteoporosis in hemodialized patients on denosumab therapy. Our experience with DEXA and Quantitative Computed Tomography.
Creators: name: Rosati, Elisa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Bones
subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Physiological studies
subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Not applicable
subject: Case-control study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: In the world 10% of the population is affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), and millions die each year because they do not have access to affordable treatment. [1] In patients with chronic renal failure (CKF), an alteration of the bone...
Distressed Workers: What Has Globalization to Do with It?
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economics

description: We have recently witnessed a flurry of comment, by prominent figures such as Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers who are strong proponents of Globalization, asking the question: how do we assist the unskilled workers whose wages have been stagnating for far too long? Several of them also believe that even the "middle class" is at risk. Lou Dobbs of CNN, the labour groups' think-tank Economic Policy Institute, and nearly all the Democrats newly elected to the Congress, believe that globalization has much to do with the economic distress of the working and the middle classes. Therefore they have coherence and plausibility on their side when they want to lean on the door, even to close it, on trade with poor countries and occasionally on unskilled immigration from them. But the proponents of globalization, when they typically skirt and hence accept this "distributional" critique of globalization and nonetheless propose that the adversely affected constituents accept globalization but allow themselves to cope with their affliction in other ways, find themselves in a politically implausible position. Indeed, if it pours, we do not have the means to turn the torrent into sunshine and must open an umbrella. But man allows globalization; and men can turn it off.
Measurement scheme for the Lamb shift in a superconducting circuit with broadband environment
Creators: name: Gramich, V.
name: Solinas, P.
name: Möttönen, M.
name: Pekola, J. P.
name: Ankerhold, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments on quantum mechanical charge pumping in a Cooper pair sluice, we present a measurement scheme for observing shifts of transition frequencies in two-level quantum systems induced by broadband environmental fluctuations. In contrast to quantum optical and related set-ups based on cavities, the impact of a thermal phase reservoir is considered. A thorough analysis of Lamb and Stark shifts within weak-coupling master equations is complemented by non-perturbative results for the model of an exactly solvable harmonic system. The experimental protocol to measure the Lamb shift in experimentally feasible superconducting circuits is analysed in detail and supported by numerical simulations.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Strategies to improve ovulation synchronization/timed artificial insemination protocol to increase pregnancy rate in dairy cattle
Creators: name: Gordon, Miriam Bronwen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Physiological stressors of high milk production and intensive management systems affect fertility and pregnancy rates (PR) in lactating dairy cows. A field study was conducted on dairy farms in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia to benchmark current reproductive performance and issues that impact local dairy farms. The results indicated a substantial reduction in reproductive performance due to inaccurate estrus detection, fertilization/ovulation failure, and embryonic mortality. Ovsynch timed artificial insemination (TAI) protocol is used for the induction and synchronization of ovulation in cattle, reducing the need for estrus detection. However, PR to Ovsynch TAI are still low. Strategies to modify Ovsynch TAI protocol were investigated in this study to increase PR. In the first experiment, Ovsynch was compared with a pre-synchronization treatment, using PGF₂α before Ovsynch TAI to improve synchronization rates, and to a treatment of GnRH given 6 d after Ovsynch TAI, to reduce embryonic loss. Although no differences in PR were observed between treatments, days in milk in cows and age and weight in heifers affected PR. In the second experiment, the effects of pLH or hCG vs. GnRH in an Ovsynch TAI protocol were compared. Progesterone concentrations in pregnant cows were greater in the hCG group on days 7, 11, and 14, and greater in the pLH group on day 11 after breeding than GnRH group. There were no differences in synchronization rates or PR between treatments. High protein diets have been associated with reduced PR. Therefore, in the third experiment, cows either continued on a typical high protein diet, which was fed from calving, or switched to a lower protein diet, beginning 7 d before Ovsynch TAI and continued until pregnancy diagnosis. First and second lactation cows fed the low protein diet tended to have greater PR than cows fed the high protein diet. There were no differences in synchronization rates and progesterone concentrations between diets. Cows fed the lower protein diet had lower milk urea nitrogen and lower average daily milk production during treatment. Costs associated with treatments, labour, and producer compliance should be considered before recommending ovulation synchronization Ovsynch TAI protocol to dairy producers.