cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gapless edge states of BF field theory and translation-symmetric Z2 spin liquids
Creators: name: Cho, Gil Young
name: Lu, Yuan-Ming
name: Moore, Joel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study possible gapless edge states of translation-symmetric Z2 spin liquids. The gapless edge states emerge from dangling Majorana fermions at the boundary. We construct a series of mean-field Hamiltonians of Z2 spin liquids on the square lattice; these models can be obtained by generalization of Wen's exactly solvable plaquette model. We also study the details of the edge theory of these Z2 spin liquids and find their effective BF theory descriptions. The effective BF theories are shown to describe the crystal momenta of the ground states and their degeneracies and to predict the edge theories of these Z2 spin liquids. As a byproduct, we obtained a way to classify the BF theories reflecting the lattice symmetries. We discuss in closing three-dimensional Z2 spin liquids with gapless surface states on the cubic lattice.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, accepted to PRB
Interplay between chiral media and perfect electromagnetic conductor plates: repulsive vs. attractive Casimir force transitions
Creators: name: Oosthuyse, Thomas
name: Dudal, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the Casimir energies and forces in a variety of potentially experimentally viable setups, consisting of parallel plates made of perfect electromagnetic conductors (PEMCs), which generalize perfect electric conductors (PECs) and perfect magnetic conductors (PMCs), and Weyl semimetals (WSMs). Where comparison is possible, our results agree with the Casimir forces calculated elsewhere in the literature, albeit with different methods. We find a multitude of known but also new cases where repulsive Casimir forces are in principle possible, but restricting the setup to PECs combined with the aforementioned WSM geometry, results in purely attractive Casimir forces.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
title: Particularities of quantitative Shear Wave elastography (SWE) in the evaluation of renal graft
Creators: name: Andries, Alexandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genitourinary
subject: Kidney
subject: Elastography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Transplantation
subject: Prospective
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: Elastography is an ultrasound technique useful to determine parenchymal stiffness. Supersonic shear imaging is a 2D Shear-Wave Elastography (SWE) method and it uses ultrasound beams focused at different depths within the tissue to create an acoustic...
Aluminum Abundance on the Surface of Mercury: Application of a New Background-Reduction Technique for the Analysis of Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Data
Creators: name: Solomon, Sean C.
name: Peplowski, Patrick N.
name: Rhodes, Edgar A.
name: Hamara, David K.
name: Lawrence, David J.
name: Evans, Larry G.
name: Nittler, Larry R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Planetology

description: A new technique has been developed for characterizing gamma-ray emission from a planetary surface in the presence of large background signals generated in a spacecraft. This technique is applied to the analysis of Al gamma rays measured by the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer to determine the abundance of Al on the surface of Mercury. The result (Al/Si = 0.29-0.13+0.05) is consistent with Al/Si ratios derived from the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer and confirms the finding of low Al abundances. The measured abundance rules out a global, lunar-like feldspar-rich crust and is consistent with previously suggested analogs for surface material on Mercury, including terrestrial komatiites, low-iron basalts, partial melts of CB chondrites, and partial melts of enstatite chondrites. Additional applications of this technique include the measurement of other elements on Mercury's surface as well as the analysis of data from other planetary gamma-ray spectrometer experiments.
Measurement of the top quark mass using a profile likelihood approach with the lepton+jets final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass of the top quark is measured in 36.3 fb$^{-1}$ of LHC proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. The measurement uses a sample of top quark pair candidate events containing one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state. For each event, the mass is reconstructed from a kinematic fit of the decay products to a top quark pair hypothesis. A profile likelihood method is applied using up to four observables to extract the top quark mass. The top quark mass is measured to be 171.77 $\pm$ 0.37 GeV. This approach significantly improves the precision over previous measurements.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/TOP-20-008 (CMS Public Pages)
title: Underestimation of infiltration in vacuum-assisted breast biopsy of high-grade ductal carcinoma in situ.
Creators: name: Sunen Amador, Ines
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Biopsy
subject: Vacuum assisted biopsy
subject: Cancer
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: Stereotactic vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) was introduced by Burbank and Parker in 1996 to study mammographic findings that were not always visible on the ultrasound such as calcifications, an important indicator of early-stage breast cancer [1]....
Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Healthcare Resources in Relation to Black-White Breast Cancer Survival Disparities
Creators: name: Akinyemiju, Omotomilayo F.
name: Soliman, Amr S.
name: Johnson, Norman J.
name: Altekruse, Sean F.
name: Welch, Kathy
name: Banerjee, Mousumi
name: Schwartz, Kendra
name: Merajver, Sofia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Demography
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Epidemiology

description: Background. Breast cancer survival has improved significantly in the US in the past 10–15 years. However, disparities exist in breast cancer survival between black and white women. Purpose. To investigate the effect of county healthcare resources and SES as well as individual SES status on breast cancer survival disparities between black and white women. Methods. Data from 1,796 breast cancer cases were obtained from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results and the National Longitudinal Mortality Study dataset. Cox Proportional Hazards models were constructed accounting for clustering within counties. Three sequential Cox models were fit for each outcome including demographic variables; demographic and clinical variables; and finally demographic, clinical, and county-level variables. Results. In unadjusted analysis, black women had a 53% higher likelihood of dying of breast cancer and 32% higher likelihood of dying of any cause (P less than 0.05) compared with white women. Adjusting for demographic variables explained away the effect of race on breast cancer survival (HR, 1.40; 95% CI, 0.99–1.97), but not on all-cause mortality. The racial difference in all-cause survival disappeared only after adjusting for county-level variables (HR, 1.27; CI, 0.95–1.71). Conclusions. Improving equitable access to healthcare for all women in the US may help eliminate survival disparities between racial and socioeconomic groups.
Neighbor Discovery in a Wireless Sensor Network: Multipacket Reception Capability and Physical-Layer Signal Processing
Creators: name: Jeon, Jeongho
name: Ephremides, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In randomly deployed networks, such as sensor networks, an important problem for each node is to discover its \textit{neighbor} nodes so that the connectivity amongst nodes can be established. In this paper, we consider this problem by incorporating the physical layer parameters in contrast to the most of the previous work which assumed a collision channel. Specifically, the pilot signals that nodes transmit are successfully decoded if the strength of the received signal relative to the interference is sufficiently high. Thus, each node must extract signal parameter information from the superposition of an unknown number of received signals. This problem falls naturally in the purview of random set theory (RST) which generalizes standard probability theory by assigning \textit{sets}, rather than values, to random outcomes. The contributions in the paper are twofold: first, we introduce the realistic effect of physical layer considerations in the evaluation of the performance of \textit{logical} discovery algorithms; such an introduction is necessary for the accurate assessment of how an algorithm performs. Secondly, given the \textit{double} uncertainty of the environment (that is, the lack of knowledge of the number of neighbors along with the lack of knowledge of the individual signal parameters), we adopt the viewpoint of RST and demonstrate its advantage relative to classical matched filter detection method.
description: The material in this paper was presented in part at the 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Monticello, IL), Sept. 2010
Ropalidia cincta
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ropalidia
Ropalidia cincta

description: Ropalidia cincta (LEPELETIER DE SAINT- FARGEAU, 1836)
Ropalidia cincta (LEPELETIER DE SAINT- FARGEAU, 1836): WALKER 1871a: 40 (Tadjoura).
Ropalidia cincta (LEPELETIER DE SAINT- FARGEAU, 1836): KOJIMA & CARPENTER 1997: 13-14 (world cat.).
Ropalidia cincta (LEPELETIER DE SAINT- FARGEAU, 1836): GUSENLEITNER & MADL 2016: 96 (cat. Djibouti).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.
Ropalidia cincta is widely distributed in the Afrotropical and Palaearctic regions. It is recorded from all neighbour countries and Yemen. The record from Djibouti is not mentioned in DE DALLA TORRE (1894: 118), VON DALLA TORRE (1904: 73), INNES BEY (1911: 104) and BEQUAERT (1918: 340). KOJIMA & CARPENTER (1997: 13) listed the paper of WALKER (1871a), but Djibouti is missing in the distribution.
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 932, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
Maximum Inner-Product Search using Tree Data-structures
Creators: name: Ram, Parikshit
name: Gray, Alexander G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of {\em efficiently} finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied in literature. However, a closely related problem of efficiently finding the best match with respect to the inner product has never been explored in the general setting to the best of our knowledge. In this paper we consider this general problem and contrast it with the existing best-match algorithms. First, we propose a general branch-and-bound algorithm using a tree data structure. Subsequently, we present a dual-tree algorithm for the case where there are multiple queries. Finally we present a new data structure for increasing the efficiency of the dual-tree algorithm. These branch-and-bound algorithms involve novel bounds suited for the purpose of best-matching with inner products. We evaluate our proposed algorithms on a variety of data sets from various applications, and exhibit up to five orders of magnitude improvement in query time over the naive search technique.
description: Under submission in KDD 2012
Transform, Contrast and Tell: Coherent Entity-Aware Multi-Image Captioning
Creators: name: Chen, Jingqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Coherent entity-aware multi-image captioning aims to generate coherent captions for neighboring images in a news document. There are coherence relationships among neighboring images because they often describe same entities or events. These relationships are important for entity-aware multi-image captioning, but are neglected in entity-aware single-image captioning. Most existing work focuses on single-image captioning, while multi-image captioning has not been explored before. Hence, this paper proposes a coherent entity-aware multi-image captioning model by making use of coherence relationships. The model consists of a Transformer-based caption generation model and two types of contrastive learning-based coherence mechanisms. The generation model generates the caption by paying attention to the image and the accompanying text. The caption-caption coherence mechanism aims to render entities in the caption of the image be also in captions of neighboring images. The caption-image-text coherence mechanism aims to render entities in the caption of the image be also in the accompanying text. To evaluate coherence between captions, two coherence evaluation metrics are proposed. The new dataset DM800K is constructed that has more images per document than two existing datasets GoodNews and NYT800K, and is more suitable for multi-image captioning. Experiments on three datasets show the proposed captioning model outperforms 7 baselines according to BLUE, Rouge, METEOR, and entity precision and recall scores. Experiments also show that the generated captions are more coherent than that of baselines according to caption entity scores, caption Rouge scores, the two proposed coherence evaluation metrics, and human evaluations.
description: 32 pages, 11 tables, 3 figures
Modelling building costs from 3D building models
Creators: name: Verhoeven, Geert Julien
name: Štuhec, Seta
name: Štuhec, Iztok
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 3D
subject: Architectural energetics
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Biomechanics
subject: Caloric expenditure
subject: Computer vision
subject: Dry-stone
subject: IBM (Image-Based Modelling)
subject: Kras
subject: MVS (Multi View Stereo)
subject: SfM (Structure from Motion)
subject: Shepherd shelter
subject: Slovenia

description: This is the presentation that complements the paper:

Štuhec, S., Verhoeven, G.J.J., Štuhec, I., 2019. Modelling building costs from 3D building models – Estimating the construction effort from image-based surface models of dry-stone shepherd shelters (Kras, Slovenia). Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. XLII-2/W9, 691–698. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W9-691-2019
description: This presentation should have been given at the 8th International Workshop 3D-ARCH 2019 in Bergamo, Italy. Due to personal reasons, the talk had to be cancelled. Since the slides were already prepared, the authors decided to upload it for the benefit of those that might be interested.

Still, we would like that this presentation is cited as: Verhoeven, G, Štuhec, S., Štuhec, I., 2019. Modelling building costs from 3D building models. 3D-ARCH 2019 "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures", 07 February 2019, Bergamo, Italy. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2557762
title: Comparing visually estimated vs. calculated coronary artery calcium score on non-gated thoracic computed tomography examinations
Creators: name: Ancau, Andreea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Observer performance
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiac

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, with coronary artery disease (CAD) being responsible for a big part of all such death.(1) The identification of asymptomatic individuals at greater risk of experiencing future...
Black hole image encoding quantum gravity information
Creators: name: Zhang, Cong
name: Ma, Yongge
name: Yang, Jinsong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum extension of the Kruskal spacetime indicates the existence of a companion black hole in the universe earlier than ours. It is shown that the radiations from the companion black hole can enter its horizon, pass through the deep Planck region, and show up from the white hole in our universe. These radiations inlay extra bright rings in the image of the black hole in our universe, and some of these rings appear distinctly in the shadow region. Therefore, the image of the black hole observed by us encodes the information of quantum gravity. The positions and widths of the bright rings are predicted precisely. The predictive values for supermassive black holes are universal for a quite general class of quantum-modified spacetimes with the phenomenon of black hole to white hole transition. Thus, our result opens a new experimental window to test this phenomenon predicted by quantum gravity.
description: 6+6 pages, 6 figures, Fig. 6 and some relevant discussions is added
A search for the decay modes B+/- to h+/- tau l
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a search for the lepton flavor violating decay modes B+/- to h+/- tau l (h= K,pi; l= e,mu) using the BaBar data sample, which corresponds to 472 million BBbar pairs. The search uses events where one B meson is fully reconstructed in one of several hadronic final states. Using the momenta of the reconstructed B, h, and l candidates, we are able to fully determine the tau four-momentum. The resulting tau candidate mass is our main discriminant against combinatorial background. We see no evidence for B+/- to h+/- tau l decays and set a 90% confidence level upper limit on each branching fraction at the level of a few times 10^-5.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
A Retrotransposon Insertion in the 5' Regulatory Domain of Ptf1a Results in Ectopic Gene Expression and Multiple Congenital Defects in Danforth’s Short Tail Mouse
Creators: name: Lugani, Francesca
name: Arora, Ripla
name: Papeta, Natalia F.
name: Patel, Ami M.
name: Zheng, Zongyu
name: Sterken, Roel
name: Singer, Ruth Arielah
name: Caridi, Gianluca
name: Mendelsohn, Cathy Lee
name: Sussel, Lori
name: Papaioannou, Virginia E.
name: Gharavi, Ali G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental biology
subject: Medicine

description: Danforth's short tail mutant (Sd) mouse, first described in 1930, is a classic spontaneous mutant exhibiting defects of the axial skeleton, hindgut, and urogenital system. We used meiotic mapping in 1,497 segregants to localize the mutation to a 42.8-kb intergenic segment on chromosome 2. Resequencing of this region identified an 8.5-kb early retrotransposon (ETn) insertion within the highly conserved regulatory sequences upstream of Pancreas Specific Transcription Factor, 1a (Ptf1a). This mutation resulted in up to tenfold increased expression of Ptf1a as compared to wild-type embryos at E9.5 but no detectable changes in the expression levels of other neighboring genes. At E9.5, Sd mutants exhibit ectopic Ptf1a expression in embryonic progenitors of every organ that will manifest a developmental defect: the notochord, the hindgut, and the mesonephric ducts. Moreover, at E 8.5, Sd mutant mice exhibit ectopic Ptf1a expression in the lateral plate mesoderm, tail bud mesenchyme, and in the notochord, preceding the onset of visible defects such as notochord degeneration. The Sd heterozygote phenotype was not ameliorated by Ptf1a haploinsufficiency, further suggesting that the developmental defects result from ectopic expression of Ptf1a. These data identify disruption of the spatio-temporal pattern of Ptf1a expression as the unifying mechanism underlying the multiple congenital defects in Danforth's short tail mouse. This striking example of an enhancer mutation resulting in profound developmental defects suggests that disruption of conserved regulatory elements may also contribute to human malformation syndromes.
Accretion disks around kicked black holes: Post-kick Dynamics
Creators: name: Ponce, Marcelo
name: Faber, Joshua A.
name: Lombardi, James C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical calculations of merging black hole binaries indicate that asymmetric emission of gravitational radiation can kick the merged black hole at up to thousands of km/s, and a number of systems have been observed recently whose properties are consistent with an active galactic nucleus containing a supermassive black hole moving with substantial velocity with respect to its broader accretion disk. We study here the effect of an impulsive kick delivered to a black hole on the dynamical evolution of its accretion disk using a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code, focusing attention on the role played by the kick angle with respect to the orbital angular momentum vector of the pre-kicked disk. We find that for more vertical kicks, for which the angle between the kick and the normal vector to the disk $θ\lesssim 30^\circ$, a gap remains present in the inner disk, in accordance with the prediction from an analytic collisionless Keplerian disk model, while for more oblique kicks with $θ\gtrsim 45^\circ$, matter rapidly accretes toward the black hole. There is a systematic trend for higher potential luminosities for more oblique kick angles for a given black hole mass, disk mass and kick velocity, and we find large amplitude oscillations in time in the case of a kick oriented $60^\circ$ from the vertical.
description: Movies available as 'ancillary files'. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Energy measurements remain thermometrically optimal beyond weak coupling
Creators: name: Glatthard, Jonas
name: Hovhannisyan, Karen V.
name: Perarnau-Llobet, Martí
name: Correa, Luis A.
name: Miller, Harry J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a general perturbative theory of finite-coupling quantum thermometry up to second order in probe-sample interaction. By assumption, the probe and sample are in thermal equilibrium, so the probe is described by the mean-force Gibbs state. We prove that the ultimate thermometric precision can be achieved - to second order in the coupling - solely by means of local energy measurements on the probe. Hence, seeking to extract temperature information from coherences or devising adaptive schemes confers no practical advantage in this regime. Additionally, we provide a closed-form expression for the quantum Fisher information, which captures the probe's sensitivity to temperature variations. Finally, we benchmark and illustrate the ease of use of our formulas with two simple examples. Our formalism makes no assumptions about separation of dynamical timescales or the nature of either the probe or the sample. Therefore, by providing analytical insight into both the thermal sensitivity and the optimal measurement for achieving it, our results pave the way for quantum thermometry in setups where finite-coupling effects cannot be ignored.
description: 15 + 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted in Quantum
"Cater to the Children": The Role of The Lead Industry in a Public Health Tragedy, 1900-1955
Creators: name: Markowitz, Gerald E.
name: Rosner, David K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Public health

description: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated that 1 of every 20 children in the United States suffers from subclinical lead poisoning, and a recent article in Science argues that "paint appears to be the major source of childhood lead poisoning in the United States.'. Yet it is only during the past 15 years that the history of this tragic situation has been addressed in any detail, primarily through the documentation of childhood lead poisoning in the public health and medical literature of the first half of the 20th century. Here we analyze the role and influence of the lead industry in shaping popular and professional opinion about lead and lead paint products. Specifically, we discuss how the Lead Industries Association (LIA, the trade group representing lead pigment manufacturers) and its member companies sought to assuage growing public and professional concerns about the dangers to children of leadbased paint. Often employing the image of children themselves, the LIA and its members engaged in aggressive marketing and advertising campaigns to persuade the public of their product's appropriateness for indoor use. While some readers of the Journal might
put the onus on the public health community for not doing more to stop the use of leadbased paint in homes, schools, hospitals, and other interior spaces where children were exposed, we argue that primary responsibility lies elsewhere. The continuing use of lead paint into and after the 1950s cannot be understood without an appreciation of the enormous resources the lead industry devoted to allaying public health concerns from the 1920s through the early 1950s. Whatever responsibility the public health community had for this tragedy pales in comparison with the power and determination of the industry in perpetuating the use of lead-based paint. The lead industry, as a sponsor of research and as a clearinghouse of information about lead, was positioned to be in the forefront of efforts to prevent lead exposure in children. Instead, the industry placed its own economic interests ahead of the welfare of the nation's children.
title: Impact of execution technique on the six-months recalls in breast cancer screening trial
Creators: name: Monaco, Ilaria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Experimental
subject: Retrospective
subject: Image verification
subject: Artifacts
subject: Screening
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Breast cancer screening trial, offered on a large scale to a pre-defined population subgroup, aims at detecting breast diseases at early stage. The execution technique is essential to avoid false positive reports, consequently reducing the...
Chemical Heterogeneity on Mercury's Surface Revealed by the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer
Creators: name: Solomon, Sean C.
name: Weider, Shoshana Z.
name: Nittler, Larry R.
name: Starr, Richard D.
name: McCoy, Timothy J.
name: Stockstill-Cahill, Karen R.
name: Byrne, Paul K.
name: Denevi, Brett W.
name: Head, James W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Planetology

description: We present the analysis of 205 spatially resolved measurements of the surface composition of Mercury from MESSENGER's X-Ray Spectrometer. The surface footprints of these measurements are categorized according to geological terrain. Northern smooth plains deposits and the plains interior to the Caloris basin differ compositionally from older terrain on Mercury. The older terrain generally has higher Mg/Si, S/Si, and Ca/Si ratios, and a lower Al/Si ratio than the smooth plains. Mercury's surface mineralogy is likely dominated by high-Mg mafic minerals (e.g., enstatite), plagioclase feldspar, and lesser amounts of Ca, Mg, and/or Fe sulfides (e.g., oldhamite). The compositional difference between the volcanic smooth plains and the older terrain reflects different abundances of these minerals and points to the crystallization of the smooth plains from a more chemically evolved magma source. High-degree partial melts of enstatite chondrite material provide a generally good compositional and mineralogical match for much of the surface of Mercury. An exception is Fe, for which the low surface abundance on Mercury is still higher than that of melts from enstatite chondrites and may indicate an exogenous contribution from meteoroid impacts.
title: Quantification of differences in brain tumor detection on multimodal MRI using deep neural network
Creators: name: Leszczorz, Kinga
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multicentre study
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Neural networks
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: For many years the most commonly used method for cancer diagnostics is Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( MRI ). MRI procedure uses non-ionizing radiation to create useful diagnostic images in various imaging sequences. Using these modalities we get...
title: Assessment of tumor size on contrast-enhanced breast MRI using a reduced dose of gadobutrol
Creators: name: Buragina, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Experimental
subject: Retrospective
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: MR
subject: Breast

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) is a fundamental diagnostic technique in breast imaging and, over the years, it has acquired a fundamental role when an accurate measurement of tumor size, extent, multifocality, multicentricity...
Transverse momentum evolution of neutral pion triggered dihadron correlations in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV
Creators: name: Adare, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: azimuthal
correlation
π0
fragmentation
centrality
raa

description: In this thesis, azimuthal correlations between neutral pions at moderate to high transverse momentum (pT= 4-12 GeV/c) and associated unidentified charged hadrons (pT= 0.5-7 GeV/c) are presented in Au+Au and p+p collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. Interpretation of the correlations is simplified by the exclusive use of π0 trigger particles, which reduces potential influences of recombination effects compared to unidentified dihadron correlations.
An Infinite Number of Closed FLRW Universes for Any Value of the Spatial Curvature
Creators: name: Fagundes, Helio V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 51

description: The Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological models are based on the assumptions of large-scale homogeneity and isotropy of the distribution of matter and energy. They are usually taken to have spatial sections that are simply connected; they have finite volume in the positive curvature case, and infinite volume in the null and negative curvature ones. I want to call the attention to the existence of an infinite number of models, which are based on these same metrics, but have compact, finite volume, multiply connected spatial sections. Some observational implications are briefly mentioned.
description: 4 pages. Contribution to the 5th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazil, October 10-12, 2011) and to the 1o. Simposio Jayme Tiomno (Brasilia, DF, Brazil, October 27-28, 2011). In version 2: a few minor corrections; two new references added. In this version: title correction in Ref. 3; dedication paragraph at the end
Robust Extrinsic Self-Calibration of Camera and Solid State LiDAR
Creators: name: Liu, Jiahui
name: Zhan, Xingqun
name: Chi, Cheng
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Zhai, Chuanrun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This letter proposes an extrinsic calibration approach for a pair of monocular camera and prism-spinning solid-state LiDAR. The unique characteristics of the point cloud measured resulting from the flower-like scanning pattern is first disclosed as the vacant points, a type of outlier between foreground target and background objects. Unlike existing method using only depth continuous measurements, we use depth discontinuous measurements to retain more valid features and efficiently remove vacant points. The larger number of detected 3D corners thus contain more robust a priori information than usual which, together with the 2D corners detected by overlapping cameras and constrained by the proposed circularity and rectangularity rules, produce accurate extrinsic estimates. The algorithm is evaluated with real field experiments adopting both qualitative and quantitative performance criteria, and found to be superior to existing algorithms. The code is available on GitHub.
Cruelty and you : the discipline of great suffering in Nietzsche's philosophy of agency
Creators: name: Levesque, Marc
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The concept of cruelty in Nietzsche’s thought does not in actuality speak to malice or violence, rather it refers to a disposition to self and world that we must adopt in order to most effectively organize our capacities of agency. Nietzsche locates our profound need to situate ourselves interpretatively against a world characterized by meaninglessness as the source of agency, in so doing, we provide a build a frame within which our worldly actions can be infused with meaning, and thereby derive a sense of ontological security. Contemporary interpretations, Nietzsche charges, actually frustrate our meaningful exercise of agency insofar as the sense of security they engender is the product of interpretative avoidance of, rather than engagement with, the ‘real’ world, marked as it is by the presence of flux, change, death, and suffering. Against these interpretations, Nietzsche asserts that we must be cruel to ourselves, adopting more realistic accounts of the world, and deriving our certainty from an ethic of challenge whereby we attempt to assert ourselves against the world. By recognizing constraint as the chief condition for freedom, Nietzsche suggests that we can adopt an attitude towards ourselves and the world characterized by self-discipline. In so doing, we can situate the products of our interpretive activity as the grounds for all value, and work to hold ourselves accountable to self-imposed standards that most permit the confluence of self-certainty in, and creative engagement with, the world. Such an interpretation offers greater purchase on contemporary political and ethical concerns than readings of Nietzsche as an aristocratic radicalist, valuing the creation of higher men at the expense of the great majority of mankind. Instead, Nietzsche in this reading expresses a deep concern for creating better people in general. In this regard, Nietzsche’s philosophy of agency, and its close relationship to cruelty, can be deployed to interrogate contemporary interpretations and ethical commitments that may be hindering our ability as a culture to promote the meaningful self-experience of agency, and thus, enjoy both freedom and autonomy in Nietzsche’s terms.
Transversity Form Factors and Generalized Parton Distributions of the pion in chiral quark models
Creators: name: Broniowski, Wojciech
name: Dorokhov, Alexander E.
name: Arriola, Enrique Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transversity Generalized Parton Distributions (tGPDs) and related transversity form factors of the pion are evaluated in chiral quark models, both local (Nambu--Jona-Lasinio) and nonlocal, involving a momentum-dependent quark mass. The obtained tGPDs satisfy all a priori formal requirements, such as the proper support, normalization, and polynomiality. We evaluate generalized transversity form factors accessible from the recent lattice QCD calculations. These form factors, after the necessary QCD evolution, agree very well with the lattice data, confirming the fact that the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry governs the structure of the pion also in the case of the transversity observables.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, presented by WB at LIGHTCONE 2011, 23 - 27 May, 2011, Dallas
Intermittent turbulent dynamo at very low and high magnetic Prandtl numbers
Creators: name: Buchlin, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Direct numerical simulations have shown that the dynamo is efficient even at low Prandtl numbers, i.e., the critical magnetic Reynolds number Rm_c necessary for the dynamo to be efficient becomes smaller than the hydrodynamic Reynolds number Re when Re -> infinity. Aims: We test the conjecture (Iskakov et al. 2007) that Rm_c actually tends to a finite value when Re -> infinity, and we study the behavior of the dynamo growth factor γ at very low and high magnetic Prandtl numbers. Methods: We use local and nonlocal shell-models of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence with parameters covering a much wider range of Reynolds numbers than direct numerical simulations, but of astrophysical relevance. Results: We confirm that Rm_c tends to a finite value when Re -> infinity. The limit for Rm -> infinity of the dynamo growth factor γ in the kinematic regime behaves like Re^β, and, similarly, the limit for Re -> infinity of γ behaves like Rm^{β'}, with β=β'=0.4. Conclusion: Comparison with a phenomenology based on an intermittent small-scale turbulent dynamo, together with the differences between the growth rates in the different local and nonlocal models, indicate a weak contribution of nonlocal terms to the dynamo effect.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Deliverable D2.4 – Updated Exploitation and Sustainability Plan
Creators: name: Mappet Walker
name: Electra Sifacaki
name: Ross-Hellauer, Tony
name: Gorogh, Edit
name: Vignoli, Michela
name: Zendel, Oliver
name: Viltė Banelytė
name: Luzi, Daniela
name: Ruggieri, Roberta
name: Pisacane, Lucio
name: Blümel, Clemens
name: Woutersen-Windhouwer, Saskia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: OpenUP exploitation sustainability plan updated

description: This document presents the OpenUP consortium’s plan to exploit and sustain achievements after the end of the project.
title: Towards a new classification of rivers based on generic gage height - discharge rating curves for low-cost estimation of stream discharge
title: Hydrology days 2015
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2015
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rundall, Jeremiah B.
name: Parsons, Benjamin E.
name: Emerman, Steven H.
name: Jorgensen, Michael R.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2015

description: 2015 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 23 - March 25, 2015.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: The objective of this research is to classify rivers based upon generic gage height-discharge rating curves so as to reduce the number of measurements required for rating curve development. The first step has been classification according to the uniqueness of the gage height-discharge relationship. The USGS National Water Information System database of 3.68 million pairs of gage height vs. discharge measurements at 61,240 gaging stations was imported into a Python-driven data manipulation script, resulting in 15,153 gaging stations after removal of incomplete and inconsistent data. At each gaging station, the linear relationship ZlnGH = mZlnQ = b was determined, where ZlnGH and ZlnQ are the Z-scores of the logarithms of gage height and discharge, respectively. Each linear relationship was converted into a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation equal to m and its standard error, respectively. Summation of the normal distributions showed a single peak at m = 0.991, where m = 1 indicates a unique gage height-discharge relationship. There are no gaging stations with m > 1, equivalent to no gaging stations with variation in discharge without variation in gage height. Over 30% of gaging stations had m < 0.9, indicating significant variation in gage height without variation in discharge. Based on 209 gaging stations in Utah, extreme independence of gage height from discharge (m < 0.6) can be avoiding by not locating gaging stations close to either the upstream or downstream confluence (within 10% of the reach), which precludes the effects of flood waves and reverse flow.
Bubble expansion at strong coupling
Creators: name: Li, Li
name: Wang, Shao-Jiang
name: Yuwen, Zi-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmological first-order phase transition (FOPT) can be of strong dynamics but with its bubble wall velocity difficult to be determined due to lack of detailed collision terms. Recent holographic numerical simulations of strongly coupled theories with a FOPT prefer a relatively small wall velocity linearly correlated with the phase pressure difference between false and true vacua for a planar wall. In this Letter, we have analytically revealed the non-relativistic limit of a planar/cylindrical/spherical wall expansion of a bubble strongly interacting with the thermal plasma. The planar-wall result reproduces the linear relation found previously in the holographic numerical simulations. The results for cylindrical and spherical walls can be directly tested in future numerical simulations. Once confirmed, the bubble wall velocity for a strongly coupled FOPT can be expressed purely in terms of the hydrodynamics without invoking the underlying microphysics.
description: v1, 5 pages + 1 appendix, 2 figures; v2, 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D; v3, typos corrected, references added, to match the published version
Credit and Equity Rationing in Markets with Adverse Selection
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Hellmann, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Economics

description: Previous theories of financial market rationing focused on a single market, either the credit or the equity market. An interesting question is whether credit and equity rationing are mutually compatible, and how they interact. We consider a model with two-dimensional asymmetric information, where entrepreneurs have private information about both the expected returns and the risk of their projects. We show that credit and equity rationing may occur individually or simultaneously. Moreover, competition between the two markets may generate the adverse selection that leads to rationing outcomes.
Synthesis and Spectral Characterizations of Heterobinuclear Complexes of Copper(II) Schiff Base with Alkali Metals Salts
Creators: name: Deo, Rabindra Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Binuclear alkali metal complexes, Cu(II), Schiff base, Spectral analysis.

description: Abstract: During recent years coordination compounds of biologically active ligands [1,2] have receive much attention. Current interest in developing the chemistry of binuclear transition and alkali metal complexes draws inspiration from two disparate fields such as chemistry of materials and bioinorganic chemistry. Schiff base metal complexes deserve a proper attention because they show antibacterial[3] and antifungal[4] activities because of their specific structure. In the continuation of our earlier work[5,6] we were prepared and characterized a number of binuclear alkali metal complexes of Cu(II) derived by the interaction of Schiff base of Cu(II) with alkali metal salt of organic acids. These complexes were characterized on the basis of elemental analysis, IR and UV-Vis spectral data and magnetic measurement. The low values of conductivity measurement show the non-electrolytic nature of the complexes. In the IR spectra of metal complex ligand there was disappearance of very sharp absorption peak, indicate the deprotonation of phenolic proton on complex formation. The uC-O (phenolic)have shifted towards higher energy side on complexation suggest the bonding between the Cu(II) metal chelate and alkali metal which appear by dative bond via oxygen atoms of C-O (phenolic). Electronic absorption bands have in dicated the ligand to metal charge transfer transition and also d-d transition. A magnetic measurement study of metals complex as ligand and their binuclear complexes have been showed the square planar geometry with coordination number four.
description: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR (ICBS-2023)
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