cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Empirical pairing gaps, shell effects, and di-neutron spatial correlation in neutron-rich nuclei
Creators: name: Changizi, S. A.
name: Qi, Chong
name: Wyss, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The empirical pairing gaps derived from four different odd-even mass staggering formulas are compared. By performing single-$j$ shell and multi-shell seniority model calculations as well as by using the standard HFB approach with Skyrme force we show that the simplest three-point formula $Δ_C^ {(3)}(N)=\frac{1}{2}\left[B(N,Z)+B(N-2,Z)-2B(N-1,Z)\right]$ can provide a good measure of the neutron pairing gap in even-$N$ nuclei. It removes to a large extent the contribution from the nuclear mean field as well as contributions from shell structure details. It is also less contaminated by the Wigner effect for nuclei around $N=Z$. We also show that the strength of $Δ^ {(3)}_C(N)$ can serve as a good indication of the two-particle spatial correlation in the nucleus of concern and that the weakening of $Δ^ {(3)}_C(N)$ in some neutron-rich nuclei indicates that the di-neutron correlation itself is weak in these nuclei.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Series expansions in closed and open quantum many-body systems with multiple quasiparticle types
Creators: name: Lenke, L.
name: Schellenberger, A.
name: Schmidt, K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The established approach of perturbative continuous unitary transformations (pCUTs) constructs effective quantum many-body Hamiltonians as perturbative series that conserve the number of one quasiparticle type. We extend the pCUT method to similarity transformations - dubbed $\mathrm{pcst}^{\texttt{++}}$ - allowing for multiple quasiparticle types with complex-valued energies. This enlarges the field of application to closed and open quantum many-body systems with unperturbed operators corresponding to arbitrary superimposed ladder spectra. To this end, a generalized counting operator is combined with the quasiparticle generator for open quantum systems recently introduced by Schmiedinghoff and Uhrig (arXiv:2203.15532). The $\mathrm{pcst}^{\texttt{++}}$ then yields model-independent block-diagonal effective Hamiltonians and Lindbladians allowing a linked-cluster expansion in the thermodynamic limit similar to the conventional pCUT method. We illustrate the application of the $\mathrm{pcst}^{\texttt{++}}$ method by discussing representative closed, open, and non-Hermitian quantum systems.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
A Frequency-based Parent Selection for Reducing the Effect of Evaluation Time Bias in Asynchronous Parallel Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms
Creators: name: Harada, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Parallel evolutionary algorithms (PEAs) have been studied for reducing the execution time of evolutionary algorithms by utilizing parallel computing. An asynchronous PEA (APEA) is a scheme of PEAs that increases computational efficiency by generating a new solution immediately after a solution evaluation completes without the idling time of computing nodes. However, because APEA gives more search opportunities to solutions with shorter evaluation times, the evaluation time bias of solutions negatively affects the search performance. To overcome this drawback, this paper proposes a new parent selection method to reduce the effect of evaluation time bias in APEAs. The proposed method considers the search frequency of solutions and selects the parent solutions so that the search progress in the population is uniform regardless of the evaluation time bias. This paper conducts experiments on multi-objective optimization problems that simulate the evaluation time bias. The experiments use NSGA-III, a well-known multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, and compare the proposed method with the conventional synchronous/asynchronous parallelization. The experimental results reveal that the proposed method can reduce the effect of the evaluation time bias while reducing the computing time of the parallel NSGA-III.
description: 16 pages, submitted to Natural Computing and under review
Accumulation of metals in GOLD4 COPD lungs is associated with decreased CFTR levels
Creators: name: Da Tan, Chong
name: Tarran, Robert
name: Tyrrell, Jean
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator (CFTR) is a chloride channel that primarily resides in airway epithelial cells. Decreased CFTR expression and/or function lead to impaired airway surface liquid (ASL) volume homeostasis, resulting in accumulation of mucus, reduced clearance of bacteria, and chronic infection and inflammation. Methods Expression of CFTR and the cigarette smoke metal content were assessed in lung samples of controls and COPD patients with established GOLD stage 4. CFTR protein and mRNA were quantified by immunohistochemistry and quantitative RT-PCR, respectively. Metals present in lung samples were quantified by ICP-AES. The effect of cigarette smoke on down-regulation of CFTR expression and function was assessed using primary human airway epithelial cells. The role of leading metal(s) found in lung samples of GOLD 4 COPD patients involved in the alteration of CFTR was confirmed by exposing human bronchial epithelial cells 16HBE14o- to metal-depleted cigarette smoke extracts. Results We found that CFTR expression is reduced in the lungs of GOLD 4 COPD patients, especially in bronchial epithelial cells. Assessment of metals present in lung samples revealed that cadmium and manganese were significantly higher in GOLD 4 COPD patients when compared to control smokers (GOLD 0). Primary human airway epithelial cells exposed to cigarette smoke resulted in decreased expression of CFTR protein and reduced airway surface liquid height. 16HBE14o-cells exposed to cigarette smoke also exhibited reduced levels of CFTR protein and mRNA. Removal and/or addition of metals to cigarette smoke extracts before exposure established their role in decrease of CFTR in airway epithelial cells. Conclusions CFTR expression is reduced in the lungs of patients with severe COPD. This effect is associated with the accumulation of cadmium and manganese suggesting a role for these metals in the pathogenesis of COPD.
Truth Misattribution: Can Aha! phenomenology confound truth judgments?
Creators: name: Laukkonen, Ruben
name: Tangen, Jason
name: Schooler, Jonathan
name: Kaveladze, Benjamin
name: Protzko, John
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: In this experiment we evaluate whether Aha! experiences elicited by anagrams lead to greater perceived truth of an associated proposition.
title: Automated rib unfolding software: perks, pearls, and pitfalls.
Creators: name: Niederhauser, Blake
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Acute
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Bones

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: 1. To familiarize readers with a new automated curved planar reformatting software tool (Siemens Healthcare), which presents the ribs automatically numbered in an “unfolded” view. 2. To discuss the potential advantages and pitfalls that it...
Estimating the Impact of Robotic Process Automation Implementations
Creators: name: Jiménez Ramírez, Andrés
name: van den Oever, Bo
name: González Enríquez, José
name: van de Weerd, Inge
name: Reijers, Hajo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In this file, it is possible to find all the supplementary material corresponding to the publication: Estimating the Impact of Robotic Process Automation Implementations. These are (1) consent form in pdf format, (2) the scripts used to retrieve survey data in pdf and R format, (3) the expert evaluation, baseline and post-measurement surveys in pdf format compressed in a zip file, (4) the baseline and post-measurement results in pdf format compressed in a zip file and (5) the expert evaluation survey results in pdf format.
Observable Error Bounds of the Time-splitting Scheme for Quantum-Classical Molecular Dynamics
Creators: name: Fang, Di
name: Tres, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum-classical molecular dynamics, as a partial classical limit of the full quantum Schrödinger equation, is a widely used framework for quantum molecular dynamics. The underlying equations are nonlinear in nature, containing a quantum part (represents the electrons) and a classical part (stands for the nuclei). An accurate simulation of the wave function typically requires a time step comparable to the rescaled Planck constant $h$, resulting in a formidable cost when $h\ll 1$. We prove an additive observable error bound of Schwartz observables for the proposed time-splitting schemes based on semiclassical analysis, which decreases as $h$ becomes smaller. Furthermore, we establish a uniform-in-$h$ observable error bound, which allows an $\mathcal{O}(1)$ time step to accurately capture the physical observable regardless of the size of $h$. Numerical results verify our estimates.
SHPO: Cold War/Historic Building Survey
Creators: name: Hunter, Timothy W.
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Wichita (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6951/wichita-county
subject: Sheppard Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85896/sheppard-air-force-base
subject: Building 2560
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/128627/building-2560
subject: Alert Apron
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167440/alert-apron
subject: Kell Air Field
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167771/kell-air-field
subject: Sheppard AFB
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167770/sheppard-afb
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: SHPO correspondence regarding two properties eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These properties are Building 2560 (Bomber alert facility/mole hole) and Alert apron both dating to 1960.
Entanglement capacity of fermionic Gaussian states
Creators: name: Huang, Youyi
name: Wei, Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the capacity of entanglement as an alternative to entanglement entropies in estimating the degree of entanglement of quantum bipartite systems over fermionic Gaussian states. In particular, we derive the exact and asymptotic formulas of average capacity of two different cases - with and without particle number constraints. For the later case, the obtained formulas generalize some partial results of average capacity in the literature. The key ingredient in deriving the results is a set of new tools for simplifying finite summations developed very recently in the study of entanglement entropy of fermionic Gaussian states.
description: 39 pages, 1 figure
Cultural Resources Management Plan for the Maui Space Surveillance Complex
Creators: name: Fernandez, Rachel
Publisher: name: Rocketdyne Technical Services
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Maui, Hawaii
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85559/maui-hawaii
subject: Maui Space Surveillance Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85895/maui-space-surveillance-complex
subject: Cold War Era
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5551/cold-war-era
subject: Cold War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7288/cold-war
subject: MSSC
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167777/mssc
subject: ICRMP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/152792/icrmp
subject: Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/158315/integrated-cultural-resources-management-plan
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: This cultural resources management plan was developed to provide for effective management and protection of cultural resources at Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC). It summarizes the history and prehistory of the installation, and reviews past historical and archaeological survey efforts. It outlines and assigns responsibilities for the management of cultural resources, discusses related concerns, and provides standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will help to preserve the cultural resources of the installation within the context of the mission. The ICRMP is intended for use by all personnel involved in base planning.
title: Using Phytotherapy in Respiratory Tract infectious Diseases
Creators: name: Alçiçek, Zekiye
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Experimental
subject: Respiratory system

description: Purpose Materials and Methods Results Conclusions References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Herbal medicine has become increasingly popular and phytotherapy has been used in the treatment of respiratory infectious diseases.We aimed to investigate patient’s habits of using herbal...
X-ray variability with spectral state transitions in NS-LMXBs observed with MAXI/GSC and Swift/BAT
Creators: name: Asai, Kazumi
name: Mihara, Tatehiro
name: Matsuoka, Masaru
name: Sugizaki, Mutsumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray variabilities with spectral state transitions in bright low mass X-ray binaries containing a neutron star are investigated by using the one-day bin light curves of MAXI/GSC (Gas Slit Camera) and Swift/BAT (Burst Alert Telescope). Four sources (4U 1636$-$536, 4U 1705$-$44, 4U 1608$-$52, and GS 1826$-$238) exhibited small-amplitude X-ray variabilities with spectral state transitions. Such "mini-outbursts" were characterized by smaller amplitudes (several times) and shorter duration (less than several tens of days) than those of "normal outbursts." Theoretical model of disk instability by Mineshige and Osaki (PASJ, 37, 1, 1985) predicts both large-amplitude outbursts and small-amplitude variabilities. We interpret the normal outbursts as the former prediction of this model, and the mini-outbursts as the latter. Here, we can also call the mini-outburst as "purr-type outburst" referring to theoretical work. We suggest that similar variabilities lasting for several tens of days without spectral state transitions, which are often observed in the hard state, may be a repeat of mini-outbursts.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Upgrade of 5m-Bench System for Traceable Measurements of Tapes and Rules at SASO-NMCC Dimensional Laboratory
Creators: name: ÖZGÜR, Bülent
name: Ganioglu, Okhan
name: Al-Qahtani, Nasser
name: Al-Qahtani, Faisal
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Length metrology
Steel Tape and rulers
OIML R35-1
73/362/EEC

description: TUBITAK UME and SASO-NMCC have signed the project named "STAGE D-3 Development Consultancy Service Program for SASO-NMCC" in 2014. one part of the SASO development project was to make 5m-Bench system operational again in a feasible way for the purpose of providing services related to steel tape and ruler calibrations.
description: This article is based on a presentation at the conference "MacroScale 2017 - Recent developments in traceable dimensional measurements", VTT MIKES Espoo, (Finnland), 17th-19th October 2017.
title: Comparison of Framingham, PROCAM and SCORE to predict severity of coronary artery disease in asymptomatic Chinese population
Creators: name: Mo, Yuan Heng
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Purpose Materials and Methods Results Conclusions References Personal Information
description: Purpose: We evaluated the ability of prediction of severe coronary artery disease (CAD) among different risk scores including the Framingham risk score (FRS), PROCAM risk score and systematic coronary risk evaluation (SCORE) in asymptomatic Chinese...
Variant calling in low-coverage whole genome sequencing of a Native American population sample
Creators: name: Bizon, Chris
name: Chasse, Scott A
name: Sailsbery, Josh K
name: Spiegel, Michael
name: Mieczkowski, Piotr
name: Wang, Xiaoshu
name: Malc, Ewa P
name: Wilhelmsen, Kirk
name: Li, Yun
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background The reduction in the cost of sequencing a human genome has led to the use of genotype sampling strategies in order to impute and infer the presence of sequence variants that can then be tested for associations with traits of interest. Low-coverage Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) is a sampling strategy that overcomes some of the deficiencies seen in fixed content SNP array studies. Linkage-disequilibrium (LD) aware variant callers, such as the program Thunder, may provide a calling rate and accuracy that makes a low-coverage sequencing strategy viable. Results We examined the performance of an LD-aware variant calling strategy in a population of 708 low-coverage whole genome sequences from a community sample of Native Americans. We assessed variant calling through a comparison of the sequencing results to genotypes measured in 641 of the same subjects using a fixed content first generation exome array. The comparison was made using the variant calling routines GATK Unified Genotyper program and the LD-aware variant caller Thunder. Thunder was found to improve concordance in a coverage dependent fashion, while correctly calling nearly all of the common variants as well as a high percentage of the rare variants present in the sample. Conclusions Low-coverage WGS is a strategy that appears to collect genetic information intermediate in scope between fixed content genotyping arrays and deep-coverage WGS. Our data suggests that low-coverage WGS is a viable strategy with a greater chance of discovering novel variants and associations than fixed content arrays for large sample association analyses.
Analysing spatiotemporal instabilities in magneto-optical traps with the tools of turbulence theory
Creators: name: Griffin, Adam
name: Gaudesius, Marius
name: Kaiser, Robin
name: Nazarenko, Sergey
name: Labeyrie, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large cloud of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in a magneto-optical trap exhibits, in a certain regime of parameters, spatio-temporal instabilities with a dynamics resembling that of a turbulent fluid. We apply the methods of turbulence theory based on structure function analysis to extract scaling exponents which are compared to known turbulent regimes. This analysis also allows us to make a clear distinction between different instability regimes.
description: 5 pages, 3 Figures
Clamping of microgears with a compliant string
Creators: name: Jantzen, Stephan
name: Meeß, Rudolf
name: Stein, Martin
name: Kniel, Karin
name: Dietzel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: tactile dimensional metrology
clamping
microgears
precision engineering

description: We present a new clamping and handling method for microgears featuring a compliant string. The method simplifies the fixturing and setup process prior to dimensional measurements. The method has been verified experimentally and by FEM simulations. The low-cost prototype shows several advantages over conventional clamping methods like gluing or collet clamping. The clamp is part of a microenvironment that also features a particle shield, cleaning capability and sensors that monitor the direct measurement environment.
description: This article is based on a presentation at the conference "MacroScale 2017 - Recent developments in traceable dimensional measurements", VTT MIKES Espoo, (Finnland), 17th-19th October 2017.
title: Idiopathic pulmonary vein thrombosis complicated with ipsilateral lung collapse detected by multidetector row computed tomography
Creators: name: Kalaycıoglu, Bora
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiovascular system

description: Purpose Materials and Methods Results Conclusions References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Pulmonary vein thrombosis is rarely complicated with lung cancer[1], pulmonary lobectomy[2], lung transplantation[3], trauma[4], pulmonary arteriovenous malformations/fistulae, and following percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of pulmonary vein...
Characterising the Positioning System of a Dimensional Computed Tomograph (CT)
Creators: name: Bircher, Benjamin A.
name: Meli, Felix
name: Küng, Alain
name: Thalmann, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Computed tomography (CT)
dimensional metrology
9 DoF CT geometry

description: Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly used for dimensional characterisation of workpieces. Therefore, the Federal Institute of Metrology METAS is developing and building a unique metrology CT system to measure workpieces of millimetre dimensions with sub-micrometre resolution, and to study CT metrology and traceability in general. Here, an overview of the CT system is presented and the requirements related to the positioning system and its characterisation are discussed in detail. The results indicate that further in situ measurement systems are required to correct high-resolution CT scans for geometrical errors.
description: This article is based on a presentation at the conference "MacroScale 2017 - Recent developments in traceable dimensional measurements", VTT MIKES Espoo, (Finnland), 17th-19th October 2017.
SWKB Quantization Condition for Conditionally Exactly Solvable Systems and the Residual Corrections
Creators: name: Nasuda, Yuta
name: Sawado, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SWKB quantization condition is an exact quantization condition for the conventional shape-invariant potentials. On the other hand, this condition equation does not hold for other known solvable systems. The origin of the (non-)exactness is understood in the context of the quantum Hamilton--Jacobi formalism. First, we confirm the statement and show inexplicit properties numerically for the case of the conditionally exactly solvable systems by Junker and Roy. The SWKB condition breaks for this case, but the condition equation is restored within a certain degree of accuracy. We propose a novel approach to evaluate the residual by perturbation, intending to explore the correction terms for the SWKB condition equation.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures; v3: Published version
A Systemic Study of Air Combat Command Cold War Material Culture, Volume II-6: A Baseline Inventory of Cold War Material Culture at Dyess Air Force Base
Creators: name: Lowe, James A.
name: Patterson, Patience Elizabeth
name: Roxlau, Katherine J.
Publisher: name: Mariah Associates, Inc.
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Abilene Region
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/39006/abilene-region
subject: Taylor (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3344/taylor-county
subject: Southwest Plains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76066/southwest-plains
subject: Cold War Era
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5551/cold-war-era
subject: Cold War
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7288/cold-war
subject: Dyess Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167930/dyess-air-force-base
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: Dyess Air Force Base was inventoried by Mariah Associates, Inc. between April 4 and 13, 1994 as part of the Air Combat Command Cold War study for the on-going Department of Defense Legacy Program. From this research and inventory, two resources were determined to be important in their relationship to Dyess Air Force Base’s Cold War mission and history. These resources are both mission oriented and one is the direct result of research and development in the 1980s.
title: A Experimental Study of Airway Changes on Micro-CT in a Mouse Asthma Model: Comparison With Histopathological Findings
Creators: name: Park, Jai Soung
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Image verification
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Experimental
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung

description: Purpose Materials and Methods Results Conclusions References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Bronchial asthma : chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways Persistent airway hyperresponsiveness Intermittent reversible airway obstruction caused by hypersensitivity to various stimulants Airflow obstruction responses to a bronchodilator....
The Young Innovators Program at the Eshelman Institute for Innovation: a case study examining the role of a professional pharmacy school in enhancing STEM pursuits among secondary school students
Creators: name: Lai, Samuel
name: Friedman, Adam D
name: Melendez, Carlos R
name: McLaughlin, Jacqueline E
name: Bush, Antonio A
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Professional schools, such as schools of pharmacy, are rarely involved with promoting STEM interests among secondary school students. To address this shortcoming, the Young Innovators﻿ Program (YIP) was created to provide local secondary school students a summer immersive experiential program at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of the inaugural YIP to promote STEM interest, career awareness, and self-efficacy. Results YIP interns maintained high levels of STEM interest, career awareness, and self-efficacy. In addition, they reported significant increases in their perceptions of having role models in science. Conclusions Immersion in research laboratories and clinics at a school of pharmacy can promote high levels of STEM interest, career awareness, and self-efficacy and provide interns with STEM professional role models. Our findings support YIP's vision that professional pharmacy schools can play an influential role in recruiting secondary school students to STEM disciplines.
Tensor network study of the Shastry-Sutherland model with weak interlayer coupling
Creators: name: Vlaar, Patrick C. G.
name: Corboz, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The layered material SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ has long been studied because of its fascinating physics in a magnetic field and under pressure. Many of its properties are remarkably well described by the Shastry-Sutherland model (SSM) - a two-dimensional frustrated spin system. However, the extent of the intermediate plaquette phase discovered in SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ under pressure is significantly smaller than predicted in theory, which is likely due to the weak interlayer coupling that is present in the material but neglected in the model. Using state-of-the-art tensor network methods we study the SSM with a weak interlayer coupling and show that the intermediate plaquette phase is destabilized already at a smaller value around $J''/J\sim0.04-0.05$ than previously predicted from series expansion. Based on our phase diagram we estimate the effective interlayer coupling in SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ to be around $J''/J\sim0.027$ at ambient pressure.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
The physics and kinematics of the evolved, interacting planetary nebula PN G342.0-01.7
Creators: name: Ali, Alaa
name: Amer, Morsi A.
name: Dopita, M. A.
name: Vogt, F. P. A.
name: Basurah, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we aim to study the physical and kinematical characteristics of the unstudied old planetary nebula (PN) PN G342.0-01.7, which shows evidence of interaction with its surrounding interstellar medium. We used Integral Field Spectra from the Wide Field Spectrograph on the ANU 2.3 m telescope to provide spectroscopy across the whole object covering the spectral range 3400-7000 Å. We formed narrow-band images to investigate the excitation structure. The spectral analysis shows that the object is a distant Peimbert Type I PN of low excitation, formally of excitation class of 0.5. The low electron density, high dynamical age, and low surface brightness of the object confirm that it is observed fairly late in its evolution. It shows clear evidence for dredge-up of CN-processed material characteristic of its class. In addition, the low peculiar velocity of 7 km s$^{-1}$ shows it to be a member of the young disk component of our Galaxy. We built a self-consistent photoionisation model for the PNe matching the observed spectrum, the H$β$ luminosity, and the diameter. On the basis of this we derive an effective temperature $\log T_{\rm eff} \sim 5.05$ and luminosity $1.85 < \log L < 2.25$. The temperature is much higher than might have been expected using the excitation class, proving that this can be misleading in classifying evolved PNe. PN G342.0-01.7 is in interaction with its surrounding interstellar medium through which the object is moving in the south-west direction. This interaction drives a slow shock into the outer PN ejecta. A shock model suggests that it only accounts for about 10\% of the total luminosity, but has an important effect on the global spectrum of the PN.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, A&A accepted 2015
Single-molecular quantification of flowering control proteins within nuclear condensates in live whole Arabidopsis root
Creators: name: Payne-Dwyer, Alex L.
name: Leake, Mark C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we describe the coupled standardisation of two complementary fluorescence imaging techniques and apply it to liquid-liquid phase separated condensates formed from an EGFP fluorescent reporter of Flowering Control Locus A (FCA), a protein that associates with chromosomal DNA in plants during epigenetic regulation of the flowering process. First, we use home-built single-molecule Slimfield microscopy to establish a fluorescent protein standard. This sample comprises live yeast cells expressing Mig1 protein, a metabolic regulator which localises to the nucleus under conditions of high glucose, fused to the same type of EGFP label as for the FCA fusion construct. Then we employ commercial confocal AiryScan microscopy to study the same standard. Finally, we demonstrate how to quantify FCA-EGFP nuclear condensates in intact root tips at rapid timescales and apply this calibration. This method is a valuable approach to obtaining single-molecule precise stoichiometry and copy number estimates of protein condensates that are integrated into the chromosome architecture of plants, using confocal instrumentation that lacks de facto single-molecule detection sensitivity.
Traceable measurements of rounded cutting tool edges
Creators: name: Nicolet, Anaïs
name: Meli, Felix
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: edge radius
asymmetric edges
cutting tools
micro contour

description: The edge geometry of a cutting tool is of extreme importance for its performance and thus of great interest to the machine tool industry. The sharp cutting edges are processed to obtain specific edge roundings. Commercially available optical edge shape measuring instruments require suitable calibrated edge artefacts in order to achieve traceability. This study uses a specially adapted tactile profiler measurement method and a tailored evaluation program for the calibration of various cutting tool edge shapes. For the evaluation, parameterized mathematical models of the ideal edge shape are formulated. The model parameters are then determined by least squares curve fitting over the entire edge zone. Using simulations, this method has proven to be robust for symmetric and asymmetric edges even if large form deviations are present.
description: This article is based on a presentation at the conference "MacroScale 2017 - Recent developments in traceable dimensional measurements", VTT MIKES Espoo, (Finnland), 17th-19th October 2017.
Selfridge Air National Guard Building Documentation: Building Number 165
Creators: name: Fernandez, Rachel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Macomb (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/20109/macomb-county
subject: Michigan (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/1134/michigan-state-territory
subject: Harrison Township
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4201/harrison-township
subject: Building 165
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/129057/building-165
subject: Selfridge Air National Guard Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167887/selfridge-air-national-guard-base
subject: Building Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167886/building-documentation
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Building documentation for Building #165, the gymnasium at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
title: Review areas of chest on frontal radiograph
Creators: name: Chawla, Ashish
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Lung
subject: Emergency
subject: Thorax
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To make the trainee radiologists aware of areas in chest radiograph, where the lesions are commonly missed. In this poster, we will describe commonly missed abnormalities on a chest radiograph. The aim is to stress on potential error of perception...
Non-real Eigenvalues for PT-Symmetric Double Wells
Creators: name: Benbernou, Amina
name: Boussekkine, Naima
name: Mecherout, Nawal
name: Ramond, Thierry
name: Sjoestrand, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35P20, 35Q40, 81Q12, 81Q20

description: We study small, PT-symmetric perturbations of self-adjoint double-well Schrödinger operators in dimension $n\geq 1$. We prove that the eigenvalues stay real for a very small perturbation, then bifurcate to the complex plane as the perturbation gets stronger.
title: Multidetector CT findings regarding differential diagnosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma and metastatic pleural disease
Creators: name: Kim, Yoon Kyung
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Observer performance
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases

description: Purpose Materials and Methods Results Conclusions References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To investigate the CT features of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) cases, comparing them to those of metastatic pleural disease...
The effects of pomegranate extract on anaerobic exercise performance & cardiovascular responses
Creators: name: Smith-Ryan, Abbie
name: Roelofs, Erica J
name: Trexler, Eric
name: Mock, Meredith G
name: Hirsch, Katie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: During exercise, there is an increased demand for oxygen. Increasing blood flow may provide an ergogenic effect. Dietary nitrate supplementation, such as pomegranate extract (PE), has been linked to reduced vascular resistance, enhanced vasodilation, and increased blood flow to possibly improve exercise efficiency. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of acute PE supplementation on anaerobic exercise, flow mediated dilation (FMD), oxygen saturation (SP02), heart rate (HR), and blood pressure (BP).
Metrological set-up for calibrating two dimensional grid plates with sub-micrometre precision
Creators: name: Klobucar, Rok
name: McCarthy, Michael
name: Acko, Bojan
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018
Subjects: grid plates
optical coordinate metrology
calibration
traceability
laser interferometry

description: Optical coordinate measuring machines, in preference to tactile based systems, are widely used to support industrial production by providing fast and reliable 2D and 3D metrology on manufactured components. As a consequence, the need for traceable optical reference standards to support such instrumentation is constantly growing. Calibration, verification and error correction of 2D optical instruments , such as profile projectors, microscopes and “vision” systems are mainly based on measuring 2D reference grid plates. A high resolution 2D measurement instrument developed for calibrating precision grid-plates up to 300 mm x 200 mm in size with sub-micrometre measurement uncertainty is presented in this paper. The mechanical concept of this instrument is based around a custom designed, numerically controlled multi-axis granite stage manufactured by Newport Micro-Controle Spectra-Physics, but developed to meet the metrological requirements of the Laboratory for Production Measurement (LTM) at the University of Maribor. The aim of the development presented here was not to establish the highest metrological level in this field, but more importantly to align with customers’ needs, budgets and expectations within Slovenia and some neighbouring countries. Customers such as calibration laboratories and industrial companies require affordable calibrations with acceptable precision . Considering all expectations combined with funding limitations, it was decided to create a fully automated grid plate measuring system for economically calibrating grid plates with dimensions up to 300 mm x 200 mm while providing an expanded measurement uncertainty below 1 µm over the entire measurement range .
description: This article is based on a presentation at the conference "MacroScale 2017 - Recent developments in traceable dimensional measurements", VTT MIKES Espoo, (Finnland), 17th-19th October 2017.
The Brauer trees of non-crystallographic groups of Lie type
Creators: name: Craven, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we determine the Brauer trees of the unipotent blocks with cyclic defect group in the `groups' $I_2(n,q)$, $H_3(q)$ and $H_4(q)$. The degrees of the unipotent characters of these objects were given by Lusztig, and using the general theory of perverse equivalences we can reconstruct the Brauer trees that would be consistent with Deligne--Lusztig theory and the geometric version of Broué's conjecture. We construct the trees using standard arguments whenever possible, and check that the Brauer trees predicted by Broué's conjecture are consistent with both the mathematics and philosophy of blocks with cyclic defect groups.
description: 15 pages
Newspaper Article: Ancient Mastodon Bones Dug Up During BRAC Project at Fort Sam
Creators: name: Christenson, Sig
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: BRAC
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167423/brac
subject: Mastodon
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/37475/mastodon
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research

description: Newspaper article about mastodon bones excavated at Fort Sam.
title: The utility of chest radiography in predicting the diagnostic quality of Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA).
Creators: name: Wallis, Adam
Publisher: name: European Society of Thoracic Imaging
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Audit and standards
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Lung

description: Purpose Materials and Methods Results Conclusions References Personal Information
description: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the radiological findings on a chest radiograph performed prior to CTPA can predict the likelihood of a suboptimal CTPA due to respiratory motion artifact. We hypothesize that in patients with...
The Combination of CDK4/6 Inhibitor plus Endocrine Treatment versus Endocrine Treatment Alone in HR-Positive Breast Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Hermansyah, Dedy
name: Firsty, Naufal
name: Alhudawy, Muhammad
name: Nasution, Raja
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Breast cancer
subject: CDK4/6 inhibitor
subject: Endocrine treatment

description: This review aims to provide better understanding regarding the influence of CDK4/6 inhibitors in endocrine regiment for hormone-receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer. Therefore, the review themselves are RECIST-based treatment responses analysis and the medication-related adverse reactions in the related trials.
VGOS VLBI Intensives between MACGO12M and WETTZ13S for the rapid determination of UT1-UTC
Creators: name: Schartner, Matthias
name: Petrov, Leonid
name: Plötz, Christian
name: Lemoine, Frank G.
name: Terrazas, Eusebio
name: Soja, Benedikt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present a status update and results of the designated research and development VLBI Intensive program VGOS-INT-S, observed between MACGO12M and WETTZ13S for the rapid determination of the Earth's phase of rotation, expressed via UT1-UTC. The main novelty of these sessions is the use of a special observation strategy, rapidly alternating between high- and low-elevation scans, enabling an improved determination of delays caused by the neutral atmosphere. Since 2021, 25 Intensive sessions have been observed successfully. In early 2022, VGOS-INT-S was among the most accurate Intensive programs with an average formal error $σ_{UT1-UTC}$ of 3.1 $μ$s and a bias w.r.t. IERS C04 of 1.1 $μ$s. Later, the session performance decreased due to multiple technical difficulties.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Destabilization of a Solar Prominence/Filament Field System by a Series of Eight Homologous Eruptive Flares
Creators: name: Panesar, Navdeep K.
name: Sterling, Alphonse C.
name: Innes, Davina E.
name: Moore, Ronald L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Homologous flares are flares that occur repetitively in the same active region, with similar structure and morphology. A series of at least eight homologous flares occurred in active region NOAA 11237 over 16 - 17 June 2011. A nearby prominence/filament was rooted in the active region, and situated near the bottom of a coronal cavity. The active region was on the southeast solar limb as seen from SDO/AIA, and on the disk as viewed from STEREO/EUVI-B. The dual perspective allows us to study in detail behavior of the prominence/filament material entrained in the magnetic field of the repeatedly-erupting system. Each of the eruptions was mainly confined, but expelled hot material into the prominence/filament cavity system (PFCS). The field carrying and containing the ejected hot material interacted with the PFCS and caused it to inflate, resulting in a step-wise rise of the PFCS approximately in step with the homologous eruptions. The eighth eruption triggered the PFCS to move outward slowly, accompanied by a weak coronal dimming. As this slow PFCS eruption was underway, a final ejective flare occurred in the core of the active region, resulting in strong dimming in the EUVI-B images and expulsion of a coronal mass ejection (CME). A plausible scenario is that the repeated homologous flares could have gradually destabilized the PFCS, and its subsequent eruption removed field above the acitive region and in turn led to the ejective flare, strong dimming, and CME.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ