cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Systematic Theoretical Study on the Interstellar Carbon Chain Molecules
Creators: name: Etim, Emmanuel E.
name: Gorai, Prasanta
name: Das, Ankan
name: Chakrabarti, Sandip K.
name: Arunan, Elangannan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an effort to further our interest in understanding basic chemistry of interstellar molecules, we carry out here an extensive investigation of the stabilities of interstellar carbon chains; Cn, H2Cn, HCnN and CnX (X=N, O, Si, S, H, P, H-, N-). These sets of molecules accounts for about 20% of all the known interstellar and circumstellar molecules, their high abundances therefore demand a serious attention. High level ab initio quantum chemical calculations are employed to accurately estimate enthalpy of formation, chemical reactivity indices; global hardness and softness; and other chemical parameters of these molecules. Chemical modeling of the abundances of these molecular species has also been performed. Of the 89 molecules considered from these groups, 47 have been astronomically observed, these observed molecules are found to be more stable with respect to other members of the group. Of the 47 observed molecules, 60% are odd number carbon chains. Interstellar chemistry is not actually driven by the thermodynamics, it is primarily dependent on various kinetic parameters. However, we found that the detectability of the odd numbered carbon chains could be correlated due to the fact that they are more stable than the corresponding even numbered carbon chains. Based on this aspect, the next possible carbon chain molecule for astronomical observation in each group is proposed. The effect of kinetics in the formation of some of these carbon chain molecules is also discussed.
description: 31 pages, 16 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
MPEC 2023-N36 : 2022 AL2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Институт понятых в уголовном судопроизводстве: за и против
Creators: name: Рязанова, Наталья
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с одним из старейших институтов отечественного уголовно-процессуального законодательства. Феномен института понятых заключается в том, что, зародившись более четырех веков назад, он не теряет своей актуальности и сегодня. Кардинально противоположные точки зрения на протяжении всего его существования: от упразднения до реформирования в разных направлениях, указывают на то, что проблема стоит достаточно остро и требует рационального решения. Рассмотрение различных подходов к реформированию института понятых, ответ на вопрос – является ли он рудиментом, или это живая, развивающаяся система, имеющая право в том или ином виде на существование в современном российском судопроизводстве, и стало основной целью исследования в статье. Результатом явился вывод о том, что на сегодняшний день законодатель дал широкие возможности для эффективного применения данного инструмента, и только от умелого использования его следователем зависит его значимость для отдельного следственного действия и расследования преступления в целом.
Transient Photoreceptor Phototropism in Developing Mouse Retina
Creators: name: Maneo, Vittoria
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This work focuses on quantifying the response of mouse rod photoreceptors to a light stimulus during developmental ages. The purpose is to have a better comprehension of the physiological mechanisms underlying transient retinal phototropism. The three considered post-natal ages are 15, 17 and 19. During this period the increase of ROS length and rhodopsin concentration reaches its peak thus, I expected to see an associated increase in the amplitude of the phototropism elicited by the light stimulus. In particular, rhodopsin is suspected to be a key molecule as far as concern this phenomenon but its role is still unclear. The observation of mouse rod photoreceptors was achieved with Near-Infrared light microscopy, which allowed to have a clear image of the freshly isolated mouse retinae. The images where acquired at 100 fps and they showed a visible movement in response to the light stimulus. The results of the data analysis showed that the amplitude of the movement had a sharp increase between 15 and 17 PN days, while the difference between 17 and 19 PN days was statistically irrelevant. This results were consistent with expectations, as the peak of the growth of ROS has a sharper rise during the first two considered ages. The almost indistinguishable difference between 17 and 19 PN days may depend on the fact that the variables are already saturating to the adult value.
Use of the Logo programming language as software to support constructivist learning within a post-primary school mathematics environment : a techne-action research study
Creators: name: Turner., Leslie John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Rhinolophus virgo K. Andersen 1905
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus virgo

description: Rhinolophus virgo K. Andersen, 1905. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905:88. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Luzon, Camarines Sur, Pasacao. DISTRIBUTION: Philippines. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003066001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Deformed Fredkin Spin Chain with Extensive Entanglement
Creators: name: Salberger, Olof
name: Udagawa, Takuma
name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Katsura, Hosho
name: Klich, Israel
name: Korepin, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new spin chain which is a deformation of the Fredkin spin chain and has a phase transition between bounded and extensive entanglement entropy scaling. In this chain, spins have a local interaction of three nearest neighbors. The Hamiltonian is frustration-free and its ground state can be described analytically as a weighted superposition of Dyck paths. In the purely spin $1/2$ case, the entanglement entropy obeys an area law: it is bounded from above by a constant, when the size of the block $n$ increases (and $t>1$). When a local color degree of freedom is introduced the entanglement entropy increases linearly with the size of the block (and $t>1$). The entanglement entropy of half of the chain is tightly bounded by ${ n}\log s$ where $n$ is the size of the block, and $s$ is the number of colors. Our chain fosters a new example for a significant boost to entropy and for the existence of the associated critical rainbow phase where the entanglement entropy scales with volume that has recently been discovered in Zhang et al. (arXiv:1606.07795)
Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri (CBS) Kullanılarak Gerçekleştirilen Risk ve Uygunluk Analizleri
Creators: name: Demir, Serdar
name: Bağcı, Harun Reşit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Heyelan, CBS, Weighted Overlay, Uygunluk Analiz

description: Çalışmanın konusu Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri ( Kullanılarak Gerçekleştirilen Risk ve Uygunluk Analizleri’dir. CBS risk analizlerinden birisi olan Weighted Overlay (Ağırlıklı Çakıştırma/Bindirme) yöntemini, uygulamalı olarak açıklayarak, literatüre kazandırmak amaçlanmaktadır.
The survey of sentiment and opinion mining for behavior analysis of social media
Creators: name: Iqbal, Saqib
name: Zulqurnain, Ali
name: Wani, Yaqoob
name: Hussain, Khalid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays, internet has changed the world into a global village. Social Media has reduced the gaps among the individuals. Previously communication was a time consuming and expensive task between the people. Social Media has earned fame because it is a cheaper and faster communication provider. Besides, social media has allowed us to reduce the gaps of physical distance, it also generates and preserves huge amount of data. The data are very valuable and it presents association degree between people and their opinions. The comprehensive analysis of the methods which are used on user behavior prediction is presented in this paper. This comparison will provide a detailed information, pros and cons in the domain of sentiment and opinion mining.
description: 21-28, International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Survey (IJCSES), Vol.6, No.5, October 2015
Sex Differences in Trauma and Alcohol Cue Creativity
Creators: name: Cox, Chelsea M
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Available research suggests that men and women may differ in their risk for and presentation of PTSD-AUD comorbidity; PTSD and AUD symptoms and diagnoses appear to be more strongly associated for women compared to men. The trauma and alcohol cue reactivity paradigm may be useful for understanding sex differences in PTSD-AUD risk, given that this paradigm has the potential to simultaneously assess markers of self-medication risk (e.g., craving and salivation to trauma cues) as well as general alcohol risk (e.g., craving and salivation to alcohol cues). The aim of this study was to evaluate sex differences in trauma and alcohol cue reactivity through a laboratory paradigm that allows for the examination of craving responses to personalized trauma narratives and alcohol cues in a sample of 200 trauma-exposed college students who use alcohol regularly. It was hypothesized that men would have a stronger craving response to the trauma narrative compared to women, consistent with stronger self-medication alcohol use. It was also hypothesized that PTSD symptoms would evidence a stronger association with trauma cue-elicited craving for women than men, given evidence that PTSD and AUD correlate more strongly for women than men. Finally, it was hypothesized that men would demonstrate a greater craving response to the alcohol cues compared to women, given evidence that men exhibit greater risk for AUD than women. Contrary to hypotheses, there was no effect of sex on narrative status or beverage cue (t = -0.843, p = .400; t = -0.237, p = .813, respectively) when predicting craving, nor was there an effect of sex on narrative status or beverage cue (t = 0.434, p = .665; t = -0.660, p = 0.510, respectively) when predicting salivation. These results suggest that sex differences in PTSD-AUD may not be due to sex differences in self-medication alcohol use or reactivity to alcohol cues.
An examination of design factors of computer simulators used to teach the architecture of computers and their operating systems
Creators: name: Thomas., Nigel
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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When categorization-based stranger avoidance explains the uncanny valley: A comment on MacDorman & Chattopadhyay (2016)
Creators: name: Kawabe, Takahiro
name: Sasaki, Kyoshiro
name: Ihaya, Keiko
name: Yamada, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial objects often subjectively look eerie when their appearance to some extent resembles a human, which is known as the uncanny valley phenomenon. From a cognitive psychology perspective, several explanations of the phenomenon have been put forth, two of which are object categorization and realism inconsistency. Recently, MacDorman and Chattopadhyay (2016) reported experimental data as evidence in support of the latter. In our estimation, however, their results are still consistent with categorization-based stranger avoidance. In this Discussions paper, we try to describe why categorization-based stranger avoidance remains a viable explanation, despite the evidence of MacDorman and Chattopadhyay, and how it offers a more inclusive explanation of the impression of eeriness in the uncanny valley phenomenon.
description: published in Cognition
Rhinolophus yunanensis Dobson 1872
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus yunanensis

description: Rhinolophus yunanensis Dobson, 1872. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 41: 336. TYPE LOCALITY: China, Yunnan, Hotha. DISTRIBUTION: Yunnan (China); Thailand; N. E. India. COMMENT: See Lekagul and McNeely, 1977:152, 154 for distinction of this species from pearsoni.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Lekagul, B., and J. A. McNeely. 1977. Mammals of Thailand. Association for the Conservation of Wildlife, Sahakarnbhat Co., Bangkok, 758 pp."]}
On the Approximation of Functionals of Very Large Hermitian Matrices represented as Matrix Product Operators
Creators: name: August, Moritz
name: Bañuls, Mari Carmen
name: Huckle, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to approximate functionals $\text{Tr} \, f(A)$ of very high-dimensional hermitian matrices $A$ represented as Matrix Product Operators (MPOs). Our method is based on a reformulation of a block Lanczos algorithm in tensor network format. We state main properties of the method and show how to adapt the basic Lanczos algorithm to the tensor network formalism to allow for high-dimensional computations. Additionally, we give an analysis of the complexity of our method and provide numerical evidence that it yields good approximations of the entropy of density matrices represented by MPOs while being robust against truncations.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, comments are welcome
Improvement of Psychomotor Skill Development for Veress Needle Insertion with Haptics and Virtual Reality
Creators: name: Vece, Chiara Di
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Veress needle (VN) insertion is the first step of every laparoscopic procedure, which allows the surgeon to inflate the abdomen with CO2, known as pneumoperitoneum. VN insertion is never perfectly safe, and almost every kind of intra-abdominal organ injury, most notably vascular and bowel injuries, due to these insertions has been reported worldwide. Therefore, proper cognitive and psychomotor training is needed. Virtual reality (VR) and haptics technologies have the potential to offer realistic simulations without putting patients at risk. However, currently there are no commercially-available VR and haptic simulators for VN insertion. A novel VR and haptic surgical simulator for VN insertion has been developed. It allows trainees to learn how correctly puncture the abdominal wall without damaging the internal organs, by visualizing an anatomically correct 3D virtual human abdomen, and experiencing realistic tactile sensations throughout the simulation by manipulating a virtual VN with a haptic device stylus. This dissertation presents the design and implementation details of the VN virtual reality and haptic simulator.
An Exploration of Sarcasm Detection Using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Savini, Edoardo
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sarcasm detection plays an important role in Natural Language Processing as it has been considered one of the most challenging task in sentiment analysis and opinion mining appli- cations. Our work aims to recognize sarcasm in social media sites, microblogs and discussion forums, exploiting the potential of Deep Learning tools such as Deep Neural Network and Word Embeddings. In this thesis, we (a) develop multiple types of neural models and analyze their efficiency when combined with word embeddings; (b) create a new multitasking frame- work that exploits the strong correlation between sarcasm and sentiment detection (c) test the performances of our models on two pre-labelled datasets; (d) compare our results with other state-of-the-art models; (e) apply our models on real word data to evaluate the efficiency of their prediction. We then discuss on the benefits of our research in the field of sarcasm detection and sentiment analysis, and put the basis for some future researches.
Natural selection in the colloid world: Active chiral spirals
Creators: name: Zhang, Jie
name: Granick, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model system in which to study natural selection in the colloid world. In the assembly of active Janus particles into rotating pinwheels when mixed with trace amounts of homogeneous colloids in the presence of an AC electric field, broken symmetry in the rotation direction produces spiral, chiral shapes. Locked into a central rotation point by the center particle, the spiral arms are found to trail rotation of the overall cluster. To achieve a steady state, the spiral arms undergo an evolutionary process to coordinate their motion. Because all the particles as segments of the pinwheel arms are self-propelled, asymmetric arm lengths are tolerated. Reconfiguration of these structures can happen in various ways and various mechanisms of this directed structural change are analyzed in detail. We introduce the concept of VIP (very important particles) to express that sustainability of active structures is most sensitive to only a few particles at strategic locations in the moving self-assembled structures.
Collective Intelligence Heuristic: An Experimental Evidence
Creators: name: Stefanelli, Federica
name: Imbimbo, Enrico
name: Bagnoli, Franco
name: Guazzini, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main intreest of this study was to investigate the phenomenon of collective intelligence in an anonymous virtual environment developed for this purpose. In particular, we were interested in studiyng how dividing a fixed community in different group size, which, in different phases of the experiment, works to solve tasks of different complexity, influences the social problem solving process. The experiments, which have involved 216 university students, showed that the cooperative behaviour is stronger in small groups facing complex tasks: the cooperation probability negatively correlated with both the group size and easiness of task. Individuals seem to activate a collective intelligence heuristics when the problem is too complex. Some psychosocial variables were considered in order to check how they affect the cooperative behaviour of participants, but they do not seem to have a significant impact on individual cooperation probability, supporting the idea that a partial de-individualization operates in virtual environments.
description: Withdrawn for further elaboration of the model
Pharmacogenomics sequencing
Creators: name: 秦嘉岳(Jiayue Qin)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Genome sequencing
Multispecies
Medical

description: The influence of methotrexate-related transporters and metabolizing enzyme gene polymorphisms on peri-engraftment syndrome and graft-versus-host disease after haplo-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in pediatric patients with malignant hematological diseases
Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Configurable Full-Field Stimulus Source for Electroretinography
Creators: name: Crocioni, Giulia
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The retina is the fundamental component of vision as it contains the photoreceptors, specialized cells which convert light stimuli into electrical signals, and which represent the first stage of the visual process. The electroretinogram (ERG) is a functional test widely used in clinical practice to help diagnose diseases of the retina and optic nerve. In fact, it measures the electrical response to a light stimulus of retinal cells and different ERG tests can be used to probe different retinal areas and cells. The tests most used are the full-field ERG, which consists of flashes of variable intensity and frequency, the multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG), which consists of illuminating in a pseudo-random way hexagonal elements on a monitor, and finally the pattern electroretinogram (pERG), which consists in high-contrast reversals of a grating pattern. While the first is performed by probing the entire retina, mfERG and pERG testing is usually limited to its central portion. The stimulators most commonly used in visual electrophysiology are Ganzfeld stimulators, spherical devices used to perform full-field ERG, and flat monitors, which are able to display patterns to perform standard mfERG and pERG. Devices capable of performing all the tests of interest are obtained by integrating a Ganzfeld stimulator with an internal or external monitor. The stimulators can use different technologies, but light emitting diodes (LEDs) are becoming very popular since they are almost ideal light sources. The conventional pERG testing is limited to the central part of the human visual field and this limits the sensitivity of the test. Since pERG probes retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), and since the first cells to be damaged by glaucoma are peripheral RGCs, it may be extremely helpful in early detection of this optic neuropathy. Thus, the Neural Engingeering Vision Laboratory at UIC developed a three dimensional stimulus source able to perform peripheral pattern electroretinogram (ppERG). The flat monitors used in standard tests are not really suited for the detection of peripheral early disfunctions, since they do not probe the entire human visual field. Thus, the developed stimulator consisted in an hemispherical dome tilted with white LEDs in its peripheral part and its validation gave satisfactory results, obtaining waveforms similar to those obtained with conventional pERG. The purpose of this thesis is to build a stimulus source for electroretinography that is capable of presenting an arbitrary pattern of pixels to the entire visual field, thus bringing together the functionalities of Ganzfeld stimulators, standard monitors and ppERG stimulus source. The pattern of pixels shall be configurable to present stimuli for flash ERG, pERG, and mfERG protocols to any arbitrary sector of the visual field, giving also the possibility to use different colours.
Derivation of a time dependent Schrödinger equation as quantum mechanical Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation
Creators: name: Wieser, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The derivation of the time dependent Schrödinger equation with transversal and longitudinal relaxation, as the quantum mechanical analog of the classical Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation, has been described. Starting from the classical Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation the transition to quantum mechanics has been performed and the corresponding von-Neumann equation deduced. In a second step the time Schrödinger equation has been derived. Analytical proofs and computer simulations show the correctness and applicability of the derived Schrödinger equation.
Improving Accuracy of In-SRAM Binary Precision Neural Network by Support Vector Optimization
Creators: name: Srikanth Ramakrishna
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over the past few years, there has been an increasing demand for low power and high performance machine learning particularly, for large scale deployment of Neural Network systems on hardware platforms due to the requirement of large volumes of data and growing complexity of network architectures. Frequent off-chip memory accesses during multiply and accumulate operations cause the bottleneck in achieving high power efficiency. There have been many near-data processing techniques being proposed but they fall short in terms of accuracy. In this work, we propose an In-SRAM based neural network to address the challenge. The idea involves the design of an SRAM bank architecture with compute units being infused within the memory cells capable of running inference on the fully connected layers of a Convolutional Neural Network for image classification task. Each SRAM cell receives a portion of the discrete weight matix and performs in-memory computations with corresponding layer activations. By leveraging this potential on-chip memory framework combined with the property of minimal access time in SRAM cells, high power efficiency can be obtained at proportionally high speeds. In order to improve the performance we also propose the method of support optimization on the weight parameters. In this approach, rather than constraining the weights to take up binary/ternary values, we provide flexibility by mapping the weights of an SRAM cell to a trainable real parameter that is unique to the given cell but varies across the architecture.This results in weight matrices forming a middle-ground between entirely full-precision and entirely discrete with no compromise on the performance.
Towards Offshore Hydrogen Platform in Tunisia: The Key-Steps
Creators: name: Jaafar, Hassen
name: Slama, Chiheb
name: Jomaa, Ghazi
name: Abdellaoui, Mohieddine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Green Hydrogen, Energy Storage & Transfer, Giga-Electrolysis

description: Among serious investments that enhance economic growth in Tunisia is developing alternative and renewable energy resources such as sustainable workflow for Hydrogen production. Three majors steps are controlled to overcome efficient capacity : * Having good quality water input * Assembling upscaled water electrolysis * Compressed Hydrogen to transfer or storage.
description: Sustainable Hydrogen. Last up-to-date Technology (see: Enapter AEM 2023) in Water Electrolysis (High purity for H2) Purity 99.999 % (Grade N5.0) Pressure 35 bar (Max Output).
A very fast iterative algorithm for TV-regularized image reconstruction with applications to low-dose and few-view CT
Creators: name: Kudo, Hiroyuki
name: Yamazaki, Fukashi
name: Nemoto, Takuya
name: Takaki, Keita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper concerns iterative reconstruction for low-dose and few-view CT by minimizing a data-fidelity term regularized with the Total Variation (TV) penalty. We propose a very fast iterative algorithm to solve this problem. The algorithm derivation is outlined as follows. First, the original minimization problem is reformulated into the saddle point (primal-dual) problem by using the Lagrangian duality, to which we apply the first-order primal-dual iterative methods. Second, we precondition the iteration formula using the ramp flter of Filtered Backprojection (FBP) reconstruction algorithm in such a way that the problem solution is not altered. The resulting algorithm resembles the structure of so-called iterative FBP algorithm, and it converges to the exact minimizer of cost function very fast.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, SPIE Optics + Photonics 2016 Conference (Developments in X-Ray Tomography X) Paper No. 9967-37
Second-generation Greek-Australian women's participation in higher education : gender, ethnicity and education
Creators: name: Theodorakopoulos-Tassios., Kerry
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Rhinonicteris Gray 1847
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinonicteris

description: Rhinonicteris Gray, 1847. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847:16. REVIEWED BY: F. R. Allison (FRA). COMMENT: Rhinonicteris is the correct spelling if original orthography is adhered to. Rhinonycteris Gray, 1866, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866:81, is sometimes used (FRA). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007010000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Lipid Interfacial Organization and Interaction with a Model Enzyme
Creators: name: Zhang, Pin
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The intrinsic overexpressed enzymes have potential to be exploited to reduce the non-specific drug release of lipid-based drug delivery systems (LDDS) and enhance their target delivery efficacy. To explore this potential, this study investigated lipid molecular packing structures and interactions of lipids with a model enzyme, secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2). By employing a Langmuir trough integrated with X-ray reflectivity and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction techniques and using 1,2-palmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) monolayers as model lipid substrates, the interactions of lipids with sPLA2 were quantified through the changes in lipid interfacial organization during interaction. The results showed that the interactions exhibited Ca2+ dependence. Without Ca2+ in the subphase, sPLA2 was adsorbed to the interface and tightened the packing of DPPC molecules. In contrast, with Ca2+ present, sPLA2 catalyzed DPPC degradation, leading to disruption of the ordered monolayer structure and generated a mixture film contained multilayer domains of palmitic acid (PA) – Ca2+ complexes and a loosely packed monolayer phase. To better understand the mechanisms, the spontaneous reorganization of PA molecules on buffers was investigated and molecular simulations were conducted. In addition, the effects of polyunsaturation and polyethylene glycol coating (PEGylation) on lipid organization and sPLA2-catalyzed degradation were investigated. The results showed that inclusion of a high molar fraction of polyunsaturated phospholipids in membranes enhanced the degradation and prevented crystal formation. On the other hand, PEGylation impeded the reorganization of degraded products, suggesting a hindering effect on the degradation of LDDSs. In summary, our results showed that the degradation kinetics of LDDSs catalyzed by sPLA2 highly depended on the interfacial organization of lipid substrates and degradation products. A combination of saturated phospholipids, polyunsaturated phospholipids, and PEGylated phospholipids shows promise for achieving local drug release from LDDSs at target sites where sPLA2 is overexpressed. The results obtained in this study provide a foundation for mechanism-based design and optimization methods for sPLA2-triggered LDDSs and shed light on the roles of sPLA2 in related biological processes.
Localized waves supported by the rotating waveguide array
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Ye, Fangwei
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Vysloukh, Victor A.
name: Chen, Xianfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that truncated rotating square waveguide arrays support new types of localized modes that exist even in the linear case, in complete contrast to localized excitations in nonrotating arrays requiring nonlinearity for their existence and forming above the energy flow threshold. These new modes appear either around array center, since rotation leads to the emergence of the effective attractive potential with a minimum at the rotation axis, or in the array corners, in which case localization occurs due to competition between centrifugal force (in terms of quasi-particle analogy) and total internal reflection at the interface of the truncated array. The degree of localization of the central and corner modes mediated by rotation increases with rotation frequency. Stable rotating soliton families bifurcating from linear modes are analyzed in both focusing and defocusing media.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters
Committed to Care: Family Childcare Providers’ Relationships and Responses to Children’s Emotion
Creators: name: Park, Christen E
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: One in five young children in the United States are enrolled in family child care (FCC) settings for on average over 30 hours per week (Child Trends, 2016). Given the ubiquity of this care arrangement, it is notable how little research has focused on these providers (Morrissey & Banghart, 2007; Porter, Paulsell, et al., 2010). Much of prior research and policy around FCCs focuses on compliance with regulation and structural quality features (e.g., adequate health and safety measures, outdoor play space, etc.; Morrissey & Banghart, 2007) or on improving program quality (Porter, Nichols, et al., 2010). Missing from the literature is research regarding provider characteristics and how it is associated with the quality of relationships with families and children and quality in the responses to children’s emotion. With data from a national survey of FCCPs (N=888), the present study aims to describe groups of FCCP to create targeted initiatives to support needs of professionals who provide critical early interventions in the lives of children. Four clusters were identified based on professional commitment and professional engagement with demonstrated significant differences in quality in relationships and responses to children’s emotion. Findings from the current study support the calls to increase investment in and access to professional development to address the various needs of FCCP.
A measure of teachers' attitudes toward the implementation of differentiated instruction
Creators: name: Subban., Pearl Karen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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A Comparative Study of Genetic Profiles between Primary Lesions and Matched Lymph Nodes Metastasis in PTC
Creators: name: 闫娜(Na Yan)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multiisolate

description: A Comparative Study of Genetic Profiles between Primary Lesions and Matched Lymph Nodes Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. This study aims to explore the mutation profiling in primary papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and their matched lymph nodes (LN) metastasis and try to reflect the genetic evolutionary process of lymphatic metastasis in PTC.
Rhinonicteris aurantia
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinonicteris
Rhinonicteris aurantia

description: Rhinonicteris aurantia (Gray, 1845). In Eyre, Central Australia, 1:405. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Northern Territory, Port Essington. DISTRIBUTION: N. Western Australia, Northern Territory, N.W. Queensland (Australia). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007010001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
$K$-band integral field spectroscopy and optical spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: Ward, J. L.
name: Oliveira, J. M.
name: van Loon, J. Th.
name: Sewiło, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present $K$-band integral field spectroscopic observations towards 17 massive young stellar objects (YSOs) in the low metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and two YSO candidates in the compact H ii regions N81 and N88 A (also in the SMC). These sources, originally identified using $Spitzer$ photometry and/or spectroscopy, have been resolved into 29 $K$-band continuum sources. By comparing Br$γ$ emission luminosities with those presented for a Galactic sample of massive YSOs, we find tentative evidence for increased accretion rates in the SMC. Around half of our targets exhibit emission line (Br$γ$, He i and H$_2$) morphologies which extend significantly beyond the continuum source and we have mapped both the emission morphologies and the radial velocity fields. This analysis also reveals evidence for the existence of ionized low density regions in the centre outflows from massive YSOs. Additionally we present an analysis of optical spectra towards a similar sample of massive YSOs in the SMC, revealing that the optical emission is photo-excited and originates near the outer edges of molecular clouds, and is therefore consistent with a high mean-free path of UV photons in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the SMC. Finally, we discuss the sample of YSOs in an evolutionary context incorporating the results of previous infrared and radio observations, as well as the near-infrared and optical observations presented in this work. Our spectroscopic analysis in both the $K$-band and the optical regimes, combined with previously obtained infrared and radio data, exposes differences between properties of massive YSOs in our own Galaxy and the SMC, including tracers of accretion, discs and YSO--ISM interactions.
description: 42 pages, 22 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS 2016 September 16
"OneLeptonMultiJets2016.cxx" of "Search for new phenomena in a lepton plus high jet multiplicity final state with the ATLAS experiment using $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 Tev proton-proton collision data"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2017

description: Code snippet with the implementation of the analysis selection at truth-level, as used to produce the acceptance numbers
description: CERN-LHC. A search for new phenomena in final states characterized by high jet multiplicity, an isolated lepton (electron or muon) and either zero or at least three b-tagged jets is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb-1 of sqrt(s) = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016. The dominant sources of background are estimated using parameterized extrapolations, based on observables at medium jet multiplicity, to predict the b-tagged jet multiplicity distribution at the higher jet multiplicities used in the search. No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is observed and 95% confidence-level limits are extracted constraining four simplified models of R-parity-violating supersymmetry that feature either gluino or top-squark pair production. The exclusion limits reach as high as 2.1 TeV in gluino mass and 1.2 TeV in top-squark mass in the models considered. In addition, an upper limit is set on the cross-section for Standard Model tttt production of 60 fb (6.5 times the Standard Model prediction) at 95% confidence level. Finally, model-independent limits are set on the contribution from new phenomena to the signal-region yields.
Triaenops Dobson 1871
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Triaenops

description: Triaenops Dobson, 1871. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 40:455. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007011000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Antidiabetic Drugs in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Trends, Adherence and Economic Outcomes
Creators: name: Deval Gor
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Therapeutic management of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) patients with comorbid Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is challenging given prescribing restrictions on certain antidiabetic medications and limited evidence regarding their comparative effectiveness. This dissertation aimed to evaluate selection of antidiabetic medication, adherence to these medications and impact of adherence on healthcare resource use in this population. The first study assessed antidiabetic medication use over the years and across the stages of CKD using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) participants from 2003-2014. Increase in metformin, Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors and insulin and decrease in sulfonylurea and thiazolidinediones was observed. For several of these medications, changes in their use over time and across stages of CKD generally agreed with safety warnings and changing guidelines. However, guideline discordant glyburide and metformin use observed in this study warrants interventions to mitigate such use in future. The second study compared medication adherence and persistence between two medication classes: DPP-4 inhibitors and pioglitazone. In this administrative claims database study, patient initiating DPP-4 inhibitors had better adherence (Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) greater than or equal to 0.80) as compared to those initiating pioglitazone. However, out-of-pocket cost (higher with branded DPP-4 inhibitors versus lower with generic pioglitazone) was identified as an important factor driving the difference in adherence between these classes. Persistence with pioglitazone changed substantially with calendar years in line with safety warnings from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and approval of generic products. The third study evaluated the association between antidiabetic medication adherence and healthcare resource use. Adherent patients had lower odds of diabetes-related and all-cause hospitalization in the follow-up year. While diabetes-related costs were higher, the total healthcare costs were lower for those who adhered to their medication. In conclusion, although majority of changes in prescribing practice was in accordance with the guidelines, gaps observed with respect to inappropriate diabetes medication use demands efforts towards strengthening health policies. Further, selecting one diabetes medication class over the other may affect treatment adherence and persistence which in turn is related to subsequent healthcare resources use and cost.
Invariance in Quantum Walks
Creators: name: Montero, Miquel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Chapter, we present some interesting properties of quantum walks on the line. We concentrate our attention in the emergence of invariance and provide some insights into the ultimate origin of the observed behavior. In the first part of the Chapter, we review the building blocks of the quantum-mechanical version of the standard random walk in one dimension. The most distinctive difference between random and quantum walks is the replacement of the random coin in the former by the action of a unitary operator upon some internal property of the later. We provide explicit expressions for the solution to the problem when the most general form for the homogeneous unitary operator is considered, and we analyze several key features of the system as the presence of symmetries or stationary limits. After that, we analyze the consequences of letting the properties of the coin operator change from site to site, and from time step to time step. In spite of this lack of homogeneity, the probabilistic properties of the motion of the walker can remain unaltered if the coin variability is chosen adequately. Finally, we show how this invariance can be connected to the gauge freedom of electromagnetism.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the book "Research Advances in Quantum Dynamics", ISBN 978-953-51-4735-0