cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Pitfalls in chest ultrasonography: the senile lung
Creators: name: Ciccarese, Federica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Normal variants
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Artifacts
subject: Biological effects

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: There are many age-associated changes in the respiratory and pulmonary system that could be identified on histopathological studies as well as during spirometry testing. 1,2 Radiological techniques are able to detect several differences among young...
Optimality of semiquantum nonlocality in the presence of high inconclusive rates
Creators: name: Lim, Charles Ci Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum nonlocality is a counterintuitive phenomenon that lies beyond the purview of causal influences. Recently, Bell inequalities have been generalized to the case of quantum inputs, leading to a powerful family of semi-quantum Bell inequalities that are capable of detecting any entangled state. Here, we focus on a different problem and investigate how the local-indistinguishability of quantum inputs and postselection may affect the requirements to detect semi-quantum nonlocality. To this end, we consider a semi-quantum nonlocal game based on locally-indistinguishable qubit inputs and derive its postselected local and quantum bounds by using a novel connection to the local-distinguishability of quantum states. Interestingly, we find that the postselected local bound is independent of the measurement efficiency and that the Bell violation increases with lower measurement efficiencies.
description: 8 pages + 3 figures. Presented in the 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy Quantum Information, 6/28-7/2, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US; Similar to published version (references to quantum steering added)
title: Combined pulmonary fibrosis and empyhsema (CPFE) syndrome: imaging findings and follow-up.
Creators: name: Ciccarese, Federica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The advent of computed tomography-CT has led to the recognition of the coexistence of emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis in the same patient, which results in a clinical syndrome known as combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema-CPFE 1 . Most...
An IBM PC Data Base Design For Sao Paulo Air Pollution
Creators: name: Machado, A.G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: A data base system for the Sao Paulo Air Pollution Network data was designed and implemented using an IBM TM Personal Computer. The data base was intended to be an image of the data produced by the network , keeping reliability in a small space due to diskette storage capacity. The whole system was implemented in Turbo Pascal(TM) using utility programs to support the data base. A magnetic tape containing a dump of the network data was used as a source of testing material for the data base. Three main programs were written that are used to convert Sao Paulo Network data files to the PC data base. These include real number conversions from the network host (PHILIPS PW 800[TM]) to IBM PC, validating, invalidating, changing values, and selecting pieces from data base to feed external software packages. The programs work in an interactive mode with the operator and reports are made for further follow-up. The program user guides are also described in this report.
Additional file 5 of Comparison of Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS), Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) for early prediction of septic shock in diabetic patients in Emergency Departments
Creators: name: Liengswangwong, Wijittra
name: Siriwannabhorn, Ranchana
name: Leela-Amornsin, Sittichok
name: Yuksen, Chaiyaporn
name: Sanguanwit, Pitsucha
name: Duangsri, Chonthicha
name: Kusonkhum, Nusara
name: Saelim, Parnthap
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Virology

description: Supplementary Material 5
Editor's Note
Creators: Adams, Sheila R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Civil rights
subject: Emigration and immigration law
subject: Periodical editors
subject: Public policy (Law)
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: On October 22, 2010, the Journal presented its inaugural symposium, "So Goes Arizona, So Goes the the Nation?: Immigration and Civil Rights in the 21st Centry." The symposium focused on the state of Arizona's passage of the controversial law, S.B. 1070, which has spawned an outcry from the civil rights community and others that the bill effectively authorizes racial profiling of Latinos in the state. The symposium featured a debate on the merits of S.B. 1070 between Nina Perales, National Senior Counsel at the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Heather MacDonald, John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Other panels covered the following topics: Overview of U.S. Immigration Policy; Civil Rights and Immigration Law; "Crimmigration": Intersection of Criminal Laws and Immigration Law"; and Re-framing the Immigration Debate. The event also included student-run lunch discussions on a variety of topics related to immigration.
title: Incidence and Risk Factors of Pneumothorax and Pulmonary Hemorrhage after CT-guided Lipodol Marking Before Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Small Pulmonary Lesions
Creators: name: Takezawa, Kayu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Puncture
subject: Complications
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) can be applied to minor lung resections, such as wedge resection and segmentectomy, for early-stage primary lung tumors and pulmonary metastases. VATS, however, has limitations in detecting deeper and...
A Size-Free CLT for Poisson Multinomials and its Applications
Creators: name: Daskalakis, Constantinos
name: De, Anindya
name: Kamath, Gautam
name: Tzamos, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An $(n,k)$-Poisson Multinomial Distribution (PMD) is the distribution of the sum of $n$ independent random vectors supported on the set ${\cal B}_k=\{e_1,\ldots,e_k\}$ of standard basis vectors in $\mathbb{R}^k$. We show that any $(n,k)$-PMD is ${\rm poly}\left({k\over σ}\right)$-close in total variation distance to the (appropriately discretized) multi-dimensional Gaussian with the same first two moments, removing the dependence on $n$ from the Central Limit Theorem of Valiant and Valiant. Interestingly, our CLT is obtained by bootstrapping the Valiant-Valiant CLT itself through the structural characterization of PMDs shown in recent work by Daskalakis, Kamath, and Tzamos. In turn, our stronger CLT can be leveraged to obtain an efficient PTAS for approximate Nash equilibria in anonymous games, significantly improving the state of the art, and matching qualitatively the running time dependence on $n$ and $1/\varepsilon$ of the best known algorithm for two-strategy anonymous games. Our new CLT also enables the construction of covers for the set of $(n,k)$-PMDs, which are proper and whose size is shown to be essentially optimal. Our cover construction combines our CLT with the Shapley-Folkman theorem and recent sparsification results for Laplacian matrices by Batson, Spielman, and Srivastava. Our cover size lower bound is based on an algebraic geometric construction. Finally, leveraging the structural properties of the Fourier spectrum of PMDs we show that these distributions can be learned from $O_k(1/\varepsilon^2)$ samples in ${\rm poly}_k(1/\varepsilon)$-time, removing the quasi-polynomial dependence of the running time on $1/\varepsilon$ from the algorithm of Daskalakis, Kamath, and Tzamos.
description: To appear in STOC 2016
title: Pulmonary Sclerosing Pneumocytoma of Lung: CT and 18F-FDG PET-CT Findings According to Current Concept and Pathologic Correlation
Creators: name: Shin, Soyoun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: < INTRODUCTION > Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma (PSP) - Rare, benign lung neoplasm predominant in middle-aged women - Sclerosing hemangioma (misnomer), Papillary pneumocytoma,,, - Benign epithelial tumor (REF 1) < BACKGROUND > Correct diagnosis...
Nature of single-particle states in disordered graphene
Creators: name: Nag, Sabyasachi
name: Garg, Arti
name: Ramakrishnan, T. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the nature of the single particle states, away from the Dirac point, in the presence of long-range charge impurities in a tight-binding model for electrons on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice which is of direct relevance for graphene. For a disorder potential $V(\vec{r})=V_0\exp(-|\vec{r}-\vec{r}_{imp}|^2/ξ^2)$, we demonstrate that not only the Dirac state but all the single particle states remain extended for weak enough disorder. Based on our numerical calculations of inverse participation ratio, dc conductivity, diffusion coefficient and the localization length from time evolution dynamics of the wave packet, we show that the threshold $V_{th}$ required to localize a single particle state of energy $E(\vec{k})$ is minimum for the states near the band edge and is maximum for states near the band center, implying a mobility edge starting from the band edge for weak disorder and moving towards the band center as the disorder strength increases. This can be explained in terms of the low energy Hamiltonian at any point $\vec{k}$ which has the same nature as that at the Dirac point. From the nature of the eigenfunctions it follows that a weak long range impurity will cause weak anti localization effects, which can be suppressed, giving localization if the strength of impurities is sufficiently large to cause inter-valley scattering. The inter valley spacing $2|\vec{k}|$ increases as one moves in from the band edge towards the band center, which is reflected in the behavior of $V_{th}$ and the mobility edge.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Feasibility of Wastewater Reuse at the National Spinning Company, Inc., Washington, North Carolina
Creators: name: Kubiak, E. Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The reuse of municipal wastewater is becoming increasingly popular in many areas of the United States, especially those areas where clean, fresh water is in high demand. Reclaimed wastewater can be a valuable resource in applications where less than potable water quality is sufficient. The City of Washington, North Carolina and the National Spinning Company, Inc. are considering a unique wastewater reuse scheme. Upon upgrading of the wastewater facility at the City of Washington with a denitrification filter, it is proposed that 1.3 million gallons per day (mgd) of tertiary treated wastewater be routed for use as process water in textile dyeing operations. The reclaimed wastewater would be stored at two abandoned City of Washington clearwells prior to use by National Spinning Company. A pilot-plant was constructed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to simulate the City of Washington treatment plant upgrade and the present process water treatment scheme at the National Spinning Company (a ground water source). Several large grab samples of City wastewater were collected and processed through the pilot-plant. The reclaimed water was analyzed to determine the feasibility for use as process water. The results indicated that the reclaimed wastewater is of very high quality based on conventional measures (COD, BOD, and TOC); however, regrowth of microorganisms during storage of the reclaimed water is expected. The addition of a strong oxidant would likely reduce this regrowth. In addition, the reclaimed wastewater has the potential to stain the National Spinning Company fabrics. Applying a standard treatment scheme of coagulation-flocculation-sedimentation to the stored water appears to significantly reduce the staining; however, some staining potential is still evident.
Additional file 2 of Patient satisfaction with quality of care at out-patient departments in selected health facilities in Kumasi, Ghana
Creators: name: Owusu, Abigail Anima
name: Boakye, Kingsley
name: Boateng, Daniel
name: Osei-Mensah, Christa
name: Agyei-Baffour, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Evaluation of an automatic non-invasive quantitative measurement method of the regional cerebral blood flow using 99mTc-ECD brain uptake ratio
Creators: name: Nagaoka, Rieko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: SPECT
subject: Nuclear medicine

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Quantitative measurement of cerebral blood flow is important for objective evaluation of cerebral hemodynamic status [1]. 123 I-N-isopropyl- p -iodoamphetamine ( 123 I-IMP), 99m Tc-D, L-hexamethylene propylene amine oxime ( 99m Tc-HMPAO), and 99m...
Additional file 1 of Comparison of Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS), Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) for early prediction of septic shock in diabetic patients in Emergency Departments
Creators: name: Liengswangwong, Wijittra
name: Siriwannabhorn, Ranchana
name: Leela-Amornsin, Sittichok
name: Yuksen, Chaiyaporn
name: Sanguanwit, Pitsucha
name: Duangsri, Chonthicha
name: Kusonkhum, Nusara
name: Saelim, Parnthap
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Evaluation of a Magnetic Ion Exchange Resin for the Removal of Disinfeection By-Product Precursors: A Pilot Plant Study
Creators: name: Meisch, Maria E. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the effectiveness of a magnetic ion exchange process (MIEX) for the removal of disinfection by-product (DBP) precursors (dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and bromide) from drinking water based on a continuous-flow pilot plant study. A 10-gpm MIEX pilot plant was designed and operated by Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers. The pilot plant was operated continuously for 4-5 weeks at four different sites across the United States. The sites were chosen to provide a range of different raw water qualities. Variables examined in the pilot plant study were resin dose, contact time, and regeneration frequency. Influent and effluent samples were taken from the pilot plant on a regular basis and analyzed for ultraviolet (UV) absorbance at 254 nm (UV254), DOC, bromide, and several other selected contaminants specific to the water being evaluated. Jar tests were also performed on several of the waters to determine the impact of MIEX pretreatment on subsequent coagulation. Samples of the raw water, MIEX-treated water, and coagulated water with and without MIEX pretreatment were also subjected to hydrophobic/hydrophilic fractionation, molecular size characterization, and chlorination under uniform formation conditions to determine the concentration and speciation of DBP, trihalomethane (THM) and haloacetic acid (HAA) precursors. The results indicated that MIEX removed a substantial amount of DOC and UV-absorbing materials, except in one of the waters that had a high total dissolved solids concentration. MIEX decreased overall THM and HAA formation upon subsequent chlorination. The MIEX-treated water had lower THM and HAA formation potentials than the raw water or the coagulated water that was not subjected to MIEX pretreatment. However, DBP speciation after MIEX treatment shifted from the fully chlorinated THM and HAA components to the more highly brominated compounds as a result of the limited removal of bromide relative to DOC. MIEX removed a higher fraction of the large molecular weight organic compounds than the smaller ones, but removed more of the smaller molecules than coagulation. MIEX also removed some of the hydrophobic, transphilic, and hydrophilic fractions of the DOC, but removed the hydrophobic material to a greater extent. It removed more of the transphilic and hydrophilic fractions of the DOC than coagulation. MIEX also removed bromide to some degree. Bromide removal was dependent on the presence of other anions in the raw water, e.g. bicarbonate, sulfate, and on the type of salt used in the regenerant brine.
An artificial boundary approach for short-ranged interactions
Creators: name: Jacobs, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Real physical systems are only understood, experimentally or theoretically, to a finite resolution so in their analysis there is generally an ignorance of possible short-range phenomena. It is also well-known that the boundary conditions of wavefunctions and fields can be used to model short-range interactions when those interactions are expected, a priori. Here, a real-space approach is described wherein an artificial boundary of ignorance is imposed to explicitly exclude from analysis the region of a system wherein short-distance effects may be obscure. The (artificial) boundary conditions encode those short-distance effects by parameterizing the possible UV completions of the wavefunction. Since measurable quantities, such as spectra and cross sections, must be independent of the position of the artificial boundary, the boundary conditions must evolve with the radius of the boundary in a particular way. As examples of this approach, an analysis is performed of the non-relativistic free particle, harmonic oscillator, and Coulomb potential, and some known results for point-like (contact) interactions are recovered, however from a novel perspective. Generically, observables differ from their canonical values and symmetries are anomalously broken compared to those of idealized models. Connections are made to well-studied physical systems, such as the binding of light nuclei and cold atomic systems. This method is arguably more physically transparent and mathematically easier to use than other techniques that require the regularization and renormalization of delta-function potentials, and may offer further generalizations of practical use.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, v2: abstract modified for clarity, minor typographic errors fixed, v3: text modified for clarity and Coulomb scattering results added. v4: matches published version
Additional file 1 of Patient satisfaction with quality of care at out-patient departments in selected health facilities in Kumasi, Ghana
Creators: name: Owusu, Abigail Anima
name: Boakye, Kingsley
name: Boateng, Daniel
name: Osei-Mensah, Christa
name: Agyei-Baffour, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
On an inferential model construction using generalized associations
Creators: name: Martin, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The inferential model (IM) approach, like fiducial and its generalizations, depends on a representation of the data-generating process. Here, a particular variation on the IM construction is considered, one based on generalized associations. The resulting generalized IM is more flexible than the basic IM in that it does not require a complete specification of the data-generating process and is provably valid under mild conditions. Computation and marginalization strategies are discussed, and two applications of this generalized IM approach are presented.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Bethe Ansatz and the Spectral Theory of affine Lie algebra--valued connections II. The non simply--laced case
Creators: name: Masoero, Davide
name: Raimondo, Andrea
name: Valeri, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B23, 17B67, 34M40, 37K30

description: We assess the ODE/IM correspondence for the quantum $\mathfrak{g}$-KdV model, for a non-simply laced Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. This is done by studying a meromorphic connection with values in the Langlands dual algebra of the affine Lie algebra ${\mathfrak{g}}^{(1)}$, and constructing the relevant $Ψ$-system among subdominant solutions. We then use the $Ψ$-system to prove that the generalized spectral determinants satisfy the Bethe Ansatz equations of the quantum $\mathfrak{g}$-KdV model. We also consider generalized Airy functions for twisted Kac--Moody algebras and we construct new explicit solutions to the Bethe Ansatz equations. The paper is a continuation of our previous work on the ODE/IM correspondence for simply-laced Lie algebras.
description: 37 pages, 1 figure. Continuation of arXiv:1501.07421. Minor change in the title. New subsection 5.1 on the action of the Weyl group on the Bethe Ansatz solutions
title: Low-dose CT screening with adaptive iterative reconstruction: the confidence rating of diagnosis for simulated lesions other than lung cancer
Creators: name: Sakai, Noriyuki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Mediastinum
subject: CT
subject: Screening
subject: Technology assessment

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The efficacy of lung cancer screening with low-dose CT has been discussed, but the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) Research Team released a report relevant to a randomized clinical trial comparing chest X-ray and low-dose CT. They reported that...
Nature Tourism and Its Development in Guatemala: Assessing Current Trends and Future Potential
Creators: name: Barry, Craig C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: Interest in nature tourism and in the protected areas of developing countries has grown dramatically. Understanding more about the tourists themselves, the industry, its impacts, and its potential to generate revenue is important for countries to consider when crafting sound tourism policies. This report examines nature tourism's conservation and development objectives, its role in a conservation and development project in Guatemala, and presents the findings of a nature tourism study at Guatemala's Tikal National Park. A survey was designed and administered examining the socioeconomic characteristics of tourists, their impressions of the protected areas in Guatemala, their willingness to pay higher park entrance fees, and whether they would be more willing to pay higher entrance fees if they understood that a portion of the park's revenue was to be earmarked specifically for park management. The study revealed that most respondents are Americans about 30 years old who are well educated but earn low incomes. Most are only somewhat aware of the Guatemalan protected areas and are willing to pay approximately US $20 to visit the park. Willingness-to-pay bids were unaffected by policies designed to earmark a portion of the park revenue, and a large percentage of respondents were interested in purchasing multiple-day passes.
title: Correlation between FDG-PET/CT findings and prognosis of pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma.
Creators: name: Ito, Rintaro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT
subject: Statistics
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Primary lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 85% of those deaths [1-2]. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common subtype after adenocarcinoma in...
Constraints on top quark flavor changing neutral currents using diphoton events at the LHC
Creators: name: Khatibi, Sara
name: Najafabadi, Mojtaba Mohammadi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that the diphoton mass spectrum in proton-proton collisions at the LHC is sensitive to the top quark flavor changing neutral current in the vertices of $tuγ$ and $tcγ$. The diphoton mass spectrum measured by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 19.5 fb$^{-1}$ is used as an example to set limits on these FCNC couplings. It is also shown that the angular distribution of the diphotons is sensitive to anomalous $tuγ$ and $tcγ$ couplings and it is a powerful tool to probe any value of the branching fraction of top quark rare decay to an up-type quark plus a photon down to the order of $10^{-4}$. We also show that the $tuγ$ FCNC coupling has a significant contribution to the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) and the upper bound on neutron EDM can be used to constrain the $tuγ$ FCNC coupling.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, an EDM analysis included in addition to the published version
Additional file 3 of Comparison of Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS), Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) for early prediction of septic shock in diabetic patients in Emergency Departments
Creators: name: Liengswangwong, Wijittra
name: Siriwannabhorn, Ranchana
name: Leela-Amornsin, Sittichok
name: Yuksen, Chaiyaporn
name: Sanguanwit, Pitsucha
name: Duangsri, Chonthicha
name: Kusonkhum, Nusara
name: Saelim, Parnthap
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Virology

description: Supplementary Material 3
Aeromycologic Survey of a Specialized Patient Care Facility in a Hospital
Creators: name: Preissler, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1989

description: A four-month, aeromycologic survey of a specialized patient care facility in a hospital was performed. The results of 446, two-stage impactor samples demonstrated the readiness of the facility for patient occupancy, and the effectiveness of the engineering controls. Furthermore, it was established, for the first time, that the likelihood of detecting fungal colony forming units in the patient room increased with the number of room occupants. A single compartment model was used to rank the relative effectiveness of the engineering controls. The filters of the air handling unit were found to control fungal particles better than the recirculating room HEPA filter and the positive air pressure barrier. The limits of this agar impaction technique are discussed; also, a plan for further research, intended to contribute to better patient dose estimation and control, is presented.
Frequency locking near the gluing bifurcation: Spin-torque oscillator under periodic modulation of current
Creators: name: Zaks, Michael A.
name: Pikovsky, Arkady
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider entrainment by periodic force of limit cycles which are close to the homoclinic bifurcation. Taking as a physical example the nanoscale spin-torque oscillator in the LC circuit, we develop the general description of the situation in which the frequency of the stable periodic orbit in the autonomous system is highly sensitive to minor variations of the parameter, and derive explicit expressions for the strongly deformed borders of the resonance regions (Arnold tongues) in the parameter space of the problem. It turns out that proximity to homoclinic bifurcations hinders synchronization of spin-torque oscillators.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures
The Need for Data Policyin Times of Crisis
Creators: name: Crawley, Francis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data policy, COVID, Crisis, Disaster, Ukraine War, Open Science, UNESCO, Ethics, Science Policy

description: This presentation is part of a session examining the need for data policy that promotes Open Science in crisis situations that contributes to the development of research data management while driving the development and benefits of data-driven science for European scientists and science globally. The panels discussion explores the scientific, political, and societal elements that affect the sharing of information resources, particularly data and data infrastructure, in situations of health emergencies, natural disasters, and geopolitical disruptions that threaten the exchange of scientific knowledge and collaboration. Recent pandemics/epidemics (COVID -19, Ebola, MERS), natural disasters (droughts in Europe, Africa, China, USA; floods in Europe, Pakistan, Bangladesh; earthquakes in Papua New Guinea, Peru, Japan), and geopolitical conflicts (Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Haiti) point to the need for increased data comprehensiveness, integrity, and transparency as well as for more robust ethics and scientific frameworks supporting data policy in crisis situations. This presentation is based on work developed by the International Science Council’s CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC) and the EOSC-Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence & Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG). The presentation was developed as part of the Francis' appointment as the EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law. The Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice (WorldFAIR) receives funding from the HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41, Grant Agreement 101058393. Francis’ EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law and the EOSC-Future projects are co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Programme call INFRAEOSC-03-2020 - Project ID 101017536. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is funded by Horizon Europe as well as by other funding organisations (see here). Francis is grateful for the support provided by CODATA and the EOSC-Future and the RDA communities, structures, and secretariats.
An Evaluation of the Enhanced Coagulation Requirements in the Proposed Disinfectants/Disinfection By-Products Rule and the Effects of Select Chemical Characteristics on the Coagulation of Natural Organic Materials
Creators: name: White, Mark C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Jar testing with aluminum sulfate was performed on 31 real waters from a variety of sources across the US to comprehensively evaluate the criteria for determining compliance with enhanced coagulation as specified in the proposed D/DBP Rule. The majority of the utilities that supplied water for this study are expected to have difficulty in meeting the proposed total organic carbon (TOC) removal requirements and may decide to achieve compliance with enhanced coagulation through one of the alternative performance criteria. Waters that contained low TOC concentrations were least likely to meet the proposed TOC removal requirements at alum doses lower than was needed to achieve one of the alternative performance criteria. Those waters that contained high TOC concentrations and low alkalinities were most likely to meet the proposed TOC removal requirements. The jar-test results provided insight into the effects of pH and humic content on the coagulation of natural organic material (NOM). The alum doses necessary for the coagulation of NOM increase with increases in initial alkalinity, and corresponding increases in coagulation pH. A stoichiometry was observed between the alum dose needed to treat a water for turbidity and organics removal and a water's initial TOC concentration when coagulation occurred at pH values between 5 and 6. Coagulation of NOM was most effective for waters high in humic content, designated by large hydrophobic contents and specific ultraviolet absorbances. Alum was observed to react preferentially with certain hydrophobic organic substances. Many hydrophilic organic substances were removed only after the coagulant demand for the reactive hydrophobic organics had been satisfied.
title: The method of 67Ga imaging for the improvement in detectability of pulmonary sarcoidosis.
Creators: name: Saito, Kyoko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Technical aspects
subject: SPECT
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Lung
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The acquisition method of Ga-67 imaging has remained unchanged for 30 years, and in the conventional Ga-67 whole-body imaging, the scatter correction has not been applied. However, the amount of scattered photons is estimated to be larger by means...
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying into a tau pair in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson with the decay $H\rightarrow ττ$ is presented. The data correspond to 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC during 2012. The data agree with the background expectation, and 95% confidence-level upper limits are placed on the cross section of this process. The observed (expected) limit, expressed in terms of the signal strength $μ= σ/σ_{\mathrm{SM}}$ for $m_\mathrm{H} = 125 GeV$, is $μ
description: 18 pages (+author list: 34 pages total), 9 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to Phys.Rev.D. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2014-01/
Impact of boots on task performance in tactical personnel: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Simas, Vini
name: Schram, Ben
name: Canetti, Elisa
name: Bagley, Tristan
name: Truong, Jimmy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Tactical Research Unit
subject: TRU

description: This is a protocol of a systematic review that aims to explore the association between boots and task performance within tactical populations.
title: "Pediatric chest: From x-ray to ultrasound. A pictorial review of 173 patients"
Creators: name: FYGETAKI, SOTIRIA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dysplasias
subject: Atelectasis
subject: Abscess
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Complications
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To remember the sonographic appearance of normal chest. To become familiar with the images of various mediastinal and lung pathologies in children. To emphasize on key imaging features and on differential diagnosis. To correlate sonographic with...
Genomic Sequencing of F+RNA as a Foundation for Development of Real-Time RT-PCR Assays
Creators: name: Khalil, Syed Muaz
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Male-specific RNA (F+RNA) coliphages, members of the family Leviviridae, have been studied for their potential as indicators of enteric virus pollution in environmental water samples. Additionally, they may also provide information on source-tracking, as levivirus genogroups have been associated with either human or animal fecal pollution. To identify conserved regions across the genome of the individual coliphage genogroups, long RT-PCR followed by cloning and sequencing of the PCR products was performed on 7 representative F+RNA coliphage strains including strains belonging to genogroups III, IV and the novel JS genogroup. A panel of genetically diverse strains was compiled and after plaque-purification, viral RNA was isolated. After polyadenylation of the 3'-end of the genome, genomic cDNA was generated using oligo-dT and Superscript reverse transcriptase. Using strain-specific primers targeting the partial replicase region, we generated ~1 kbp sequences of all 7 strains. Phylogenetic analysis including the prototype strains, confirmed the genetic grouping of F+RNA into 5 distinct genogroups and possibly two different subgroups withi ngenogroup III. The results of amplification of the 2.4 kbp fragments (31 kbp for alloleviviruses) of the 5'-end of each strain by poly-A tailing of the long cDNA using terminal transferase were inconclusive. In conclusion, this study is the first attempt to generate a comprehensive genomic sequence database of F+RNA coliphages. This database will serve as a valuable tool to find conserved regions across the genome that will be used to design robust genogroup-specific real-time RT-PCR assays for the sensitive detection and differentiation of F+RNA genogroups in environmental water samples.
Rheology modulated non-equilibrium fluctuations in time-dependent diffusion processes
Creators: name: Maity, Debonil
name: Bandopadhyay, Aditya
name: Chakraborty, Suman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of non-Newtonian rheology, manifested through a viscoelastic linearized Maxwell model, on the time-dependent non-equilibrium concentration fluctuations due to free diffusion as well as thermal diffusion of a species is analyzed theoretically. The non-equilibrium process is quantified through the concentration fluctuation auto-correlation function, also known as the dynamic structure factor. The analysis reveals that the effect of rheology is prominent for both the cases of free diffusion and thermal diffusion at long times where the rheology dictates not only the location of the peaks in concentration auto-correlations, but also the magnitudes; such peaks in the auto-correlation function are absent in the case of a Newtonian fluid. At smaller times, for the case of free diffusion presence of time-dependent peak(s) are observed, which are weakly dependent on the influence of rheology, a phenomenon which is absent in the case of thermal diffusion. Lastly, different regimes of the frequency dependent overall dynamic structure factor depending on the interplay of the fluid relaxation time and momentum diffusivity are evaluated.
description: 11 figures, 23 pages
title: Sonazoid contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for diagnosis of hepatic tumors
Creators: name: Sekiguchi, Ryuzo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Haemangioma
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Liver

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibits is to: understand properties of Sonazoid contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) and realize the differences of other contrast agents. learn the typical enhancement patterns of the most common FLLs using...
Additional file 6 of Comparison of Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS), Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) for early prediction of septic shock in diabetic patients in Emergency Departments
Creators: name: Liengswangwong, Wijittra
name: Siriwannabhorn, Ranchana
name: Leela-Amornsin, Sittichok
name: Yuksen, Chaiyaporn
name: Sanguanwit, Pitsucha
name: Duangsri, Chonthicha
name: Kusonkhum, Nusara
name: Saelim, Parnthap
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Virology

description: Supplementary Material 6
High energy resummation of transverse momentum distributions:Higgs in gluon fusion
Creators: name: Forte, Stefano
name: Muselli, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a general resummation formula for transverse-momentum distributions of hard processes at the leading logarithmic level in the high-energy limit, to all orders in the strong coupling. Our result is based on a suitable generalization of high-energy factorization theorems, whereby all-order resummation is reduced to the determination of the Born-level process but with incoming off-shell gluons. We validate our formula by applying it to Higgs production in gluon fusion in the infinite top mass limit. We check our result up to next-to-leading order by comparison to the high energy limit of the exact expression and to next-to-next-to leading by comparison to NNLL order trasverse momentum (Sudakov) resummation, and we predict the high-energy behaviour at next$^3$-to-leading order. We also show that the structure of the result in the small transverse momentum limit agrees to all orders with general constraints from Sudakov resummation.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, Final version published in JHEP: several typos corrected (including in equations)
Drag suppression in anomalous chiral media
Creators: name: Sadofyev, Andrey V.
name: Yin, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a heavy impurity moving longitudinal with the direction of an external magnetic field in an anomalous chiral medium. Such system would carry a non-dissipative current of chiral magnetic effect associated with the anomaly. We show, by generalizing Landau's criterion for superfluidity, that the "anomalous component" which gives rise to the anomalous transport will {\it not} contribute to the drag experienced by an impurity. We argue on a very general basis that those systems with a strong magnetic field would exhibit an interesting transport phenomenon -- the motion of the heavy impurity is frictionless, in analogy to the case of a superfluid. We demonstrate and confirm our general results with two complementary examples: weakly coupled chiral fermion gases and strongly interacting chiral liquids.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, version accepted in PRD
Optimal dynamic regulation with asymmetric information in continuous time: The case of electric power
Creators: name: Astaíza Gómez, José Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Financial economics
Welfare economics
Mathematical economics

description: In this article, we analyze the mechanism design for the remuneration to the reduction of energy losses of a natural monopoly through a dynamic principal-agent model in continuous time. The objective of this research is to characterize the optimal regulation that induces reductions in electrical energy losses. In our methodology, we use a differential equation, its HJB representation, and an exponential utility function. The results suggest that the optimal contract is based on the agent's continuation value as a state variable. The article contributes to the analysis of control problems in conditions of incomplete information and incorporates information asymmetries and incentives in regulation. Among the future lines of research are the application of the model to specific energy markets and the empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of the proposed regulation.
Additional file 7 of Comparison of Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS), Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) for early prediction of septic shock in diabetic patients in Emergency Departments
Creators: name: Liengswangwong, Wijittra
name: Siriwannabhorn, Ranchana
name: Leela-Amornsin, Sittichok
name: Yuksen, Chaiyaporn
name: Sanguanwit, Pitsucha
name: Duangsri, Chonthicha
name: Kusonkhum, Nusara
name: Saelim, Parnthap
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Virology

description: Supplementary Material 7
title: Questionnaire survey: Radiology discrepancy meetings across the West Midlands
Creators: name: Hussain, Shahid
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Management
subject: PACS
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of discrepancy meetings is to facilitate collective learning from radiology discrepancies and thereby improve patient care and safety. However,not all imaging departments hold regular discrepancy meetings. The Royal College of...