cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vacuum Erection Device for erectile function rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy: which is the correct schedule? Results from a systematic review
Creators: name: Castellani, Daniele
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Diseases
subject: Other Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Reproductive and Urinary Physiology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Therapeutics
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Male Urogenital Diseases
subject: Prostate cancer
subject: protocols
subject: vacuum decive
subject: Radical prostatectomy
subject: penile rehabilitation

description: This review will focus on the role of vacuum device alone or in association with pharmacological therapy on erectile function restoration after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.
Anomalous excitonic resonance Raman effects in few-layer MoS2
Creators: name: Lee, Jae-Ung
name: Park, Jaesung
name: Son, Young-Woo
name: Cheong, Hyeonsik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resonance effects on the Raman spectra from 5 to 900 cm-1 of few-layer MoS2 thin films up to 14-layers were investigated by using six excitation energies. For the main first-order Raman peaks, the intensity maximum occurs at ~2.8 eV for single layer and at ~2.5 eV for few-layer MoS2, which correspond to the band-gap energy. At the excitation energy of 1.96 eV, several anomalous behaviors are observed. Many second-order peaks are anomalously enhanced even though the main first-order peaks are not enhanced. In the low-frequency region (<100 cm-1), a broad peak centered at ~38 cm-1 and its second order peak at 76 cm-1 appear for the excitation energy of 1.96 eV. These anomalous resonance effects are interpreted as being due to strong resonance with excitons or exciton-polaritons.
description: 34 pages, 18 fugures
Epidemiology of Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Creators: name: Dellon, Evan S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Great strides have been made in understanding the epidemiology of EoE over the past two decades. Initial research focused on case description and characterization of the burden of disease. Research is now shifting to risk factor ascertainment, resulting in new and intriguing etiologic hypotheses. This paper will review the current knowledge related to the epidemiology of EoE. Demographic features and natural history will be described, data summarizing the prevalence and incidence of EoE throughout the world will be highlighted, and risk factors for EoE will be discussed. EoE can occur at any age, there is a male predominance, it is more common in Whites, and there is a strong association with atopic diseases. EoE is chronic, relapses are frequent, and persistent inflammation increases the risk of fibrostenotic complications. The prevalence is currently estimated at 0.5–1 in 1000, and EoE is now the most common cause of food impaction. EoE can be seen in 2–7% of patients undergoing endoscopy for any reason, and 12–23% undergoing endoscopy for dysphagia. The incidence of EoE is approximately 1/10,000 new cases per year, and the rise in incidence is outpacing increases in recognition and endoscopy volume. The reasons for this evolving epidemiology are not yet fully delineated, but possibilities include changes in food allergens, increasing aeroallergens and other environmental factors, the decrease of H. pyloriand early life exposures.
RICE-MED, an integrated assessment model for the Mediterranean basin: assessing the climate-economy-agriculture nexus
Creators: name: Castelli, Chiara
name: Castellini, Marta
name: Gusperti, Camilla
name: Lupi, Veronica
name: Vergalli, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: IAMs
subject: climate change
subject: carbon tax
subject: carbon price
subject: emissions
subject: temperature
subject: energy
subject: Mediterranean region
subject: Mediterranean countries

description: In this work we update the regionalization and the calibration of the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE) in its 1999 version developed by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), with a focus on the Mediterranean countries. Our aim is to assess the impact of climate change damages on their main macroeconomic variables in a context where all economies are fossil fuel based. In addition, we extend the model by introducing the uncertainty associated with a possible future catastrophic event, triggered by the temperature increase and variation over time, following the approach of Castelnuovo et al. (2003). We then develop an empirical exercise to asses the impact of climate change on the agricultural sector at country level. In this framework, we implement the traditional IAMs scenarios, namely the Business As Usual, the Social Optimum and the Temperature Limit, where population dynamics is calibrated according to the IIASA SSP2 projections. Among our findings, we show that, in the absence of renewable energy sources and break-through technologies, meeting the limit of a temperature increase of less than 2°C requires a carbon tax of more than 700 USD/tC by 2050, doubling by the end of this century. When uncertainty is introduced, the higher the probability of a possible catastrophic event and the greater the associated utility loss, the more society is willing to pay for a rising cost of carbon. The upward trend of the carbon tax relative to the no-uncertainty model is reduced by the end of the century in the temperature-limit scenario, due to the benefits associated with this policy and the inclusion in the model of societal awareness of the potential risks of climate change. In both versions of the model, the agricultural sector in the Southern Mediterranean countries is severely affected, and stringent policies can partially mitigate these impacts and reduce damages by 2100.
Tracing cool molecular gas and star formation on $\sim 100$pc scales within a $z=2.3$ galaxy
Creators: name: Thomson, A. P.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Owen, Frazer N.
name: Danielson, A. L. R
name: Swinbank, A. M.
name: Smail, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new, high-angular resolution interferometric observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array of $^{12}$CO $J=1-0$ line emission and 4-8 GHz continuum emission in the strongly lensed, $z=2.3$ submillimetre galaxy, SMM J21352-0102. Using these data, we identify and probe the conditions in $\sim 100$pc clumps within this galaxy, which we consider to be potential giant molecular cloud complexes, containing up to half of the total molecular gas in this system. In combination with far-infrared and submillimetre data, we investigate the far-infrared/radio correlation, measuring $q_{IR} = 2.39 \pm 0.17$ across SMM J21352. We search for variations in the properties of the interstellar medium throughout the galaxy by measuring the spatially-resolved $q_{IR}$ and radio spectral index, $α_{\rm radio}$, finding ranges $q_{IR} = [2.1, 2.6]$ and $α_{\rm radio} = [-1.5, -0.7]$. We argue that these ranges in $α_{\rm radio}$ and $q_{IR}$ may reflect variations in the age of the ISM material. Using multi-$J$ $^{12}$CO data, we quantitatively test a recent theoretical model relating the star-formation rate surface density to the excitation of $^{12}$CO, finding good agreement between the model and the data. Lastly, we study the Schmidt-Kennicutt relation, both integrated across the system and within the individual clumps. We find small offsets between SMM J21352 and its clumps relative to other star-forming galaxy populations on the Schmidt-Kennicutt plot - such offsets have previously been interpreted as evidence for a bi-modal star-formation law, but we argue that they can be equally-well explained as arising due to a combination of observational uncertainties and systematic biases in the choice of model used to interpret the data.
description: 15 pages, 5 colour figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Signal Synchronization Strategies and Time Domain SETI with Gaia DR3
Creators: name: Nilipour, Andy
name: Davenport, James R. A.
name: Croft, Steve
name: Siemion, Andrew P. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatiotemporal techniques for signal coordination with actively transmitting extraterrestrial civilizations, without the need for prior communication, can constrain technosignature searches to a significantly smaller coordinate space. With the variable star catalog from Gaia Data Release 3, we explore two related signaling strategies: the SETI Ellipsoid, and that proposed by Seto, which are both based on the synchronization of transmissions with a conspicuous astrophysical event. This dataset contains more than 10 million variable star candidates with light curves from the first three years of Gaia's operational phase, between 2014 and 2017. Using four different historical supernovae as source events, we find that less than 0.01% of stars in the sample have crossing times, the times at which we would expect to receive synchronized signals on Earth, within the date range of available Gaia observations. For these stars, we present a framework for technosignature analysis that searches for modulations in the variability parameters by splitting the stellar light curve at the crossing time.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures, published in AJ
ANTARES constraints on a Galactic component of the IceCube cosmic neutrino flux
Creators: name: Spurio, Maurizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The IceCube evidence for cosmic neutrinos has inspired a large number of hypothesis on their origin, mainly due to the poor precision on the measurement of the direction of showering events. A North/South asymmetry in the present data set suggests the presence of a possible Galactic component. This could be originated either by single point-like sources or from an extended Galactic region. Expected fluxes derived from these hypotheses are presented. Some values have been constrained from the present available upper limits from the ANTARES neutrino telescope.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of RICAP-14 "The Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics", Noto (Italy) Oct. 2014
Higgs boson decay into b-quarks at NNLO accuracy
Creators: name: Del Duca, Vittorio
name: Duhr, Claude
name: Somogyi, Gabor
name: Tramontano, Francesco
name: Trocsanyi, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the fully differential decay rate of the Standard Model Higgs boson into b-quarks at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy in alpha_S. We employ a general subtraction scheme developed for the calculation of higher order perturbative corrections to QCD jet cross sections, which is based on the universal infrared factorization properties of QCD squared matrix elements. We show that the subtractions render the various contributions to the NNLO correction finite. In particular, we demonstrate analytically that the sum of integrated subtraction terms correctly reproduces the infrared poles of the two-loop double virtual contribution to this process. We present illustrative differential distributions obtained by implementing the method in a parton level Monte Carlo program. The basic ingredients of our subtraction scheme, used here for the first time to compute a physical observable, are universal and can be employed for the computation of more involved processes.
description: LaTeX, 30 pages, 3 figures
Granger causality for state space models
Creators: name: Barnett, Lionel
name: Seth, Anil K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Granger causality, a popular method for determining causal influence between stochastic processes, is most commonly estimated via linear autoregressive modeling. However, this approach has a serious drawback: if the process being modeled has a moving average component, then the autoregressive model order is theoretically infinite, and in finite sample large empirical model orders may be necessary, resulting in weak Granger-causal inference. This is particularly relevant when the process has been filtered, downsampled, or observed with (additive) noise - all of which induce a moving average component and are commonplace in application domains as diverse as econometrics and the neurosciences. By contrast, the class of autoregressive moving average models - or, equivalently, linear state space models - is closed under digital filtering, downsampling (and other forms of aggregation) as well as additive observational noise. Here, we show how Granger causality, conditional and unconditional, in both time and frequency domains, may be calculated simply and directly from state space model parameters, via solution of a discrete algebraic Riccati equation. Numerical simulations demonstrate that Granger causality estimators thus derived have greater statistical power and smaller bias than pure autoregressive estimators. We conclude that the state space approach should be the default for (linear) Granger causality estimation.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Vacuum Fluctuations of a Scalar Field during Inflation: Quantum versus Stochastic Analysis
Creators: name: Onemli, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an infrared truncated massless minimally coupled scalar field with a quartic self-interaction in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe. We compute the two-point correlation function of the scalar at one and two-loop order applying quantum field theory. The tree-order correlator at a fixed comoving separation (that is at increasing physical distance) freezes in to a nonzero value. At a fixed physical distance, it grows linearly with comoving time. The one-loop correlator, which is the dominant quantum correction, implies a negative temporal growth in the correlation function, at this order, at a fixed comoving separation and at a fixed physical distance. We also obtain quantitative results for variance in space and time of one and two-loop correlators and infer that the contrast between the vacuum expectation value and the variance becomes less pronounced when the loop corrections are included. Finally, we repeat the analysis of the model applying a stochastic field theory and reach the same conclusions.
description: 45 pages, references added, typos corrected
Effective action for conformal spins on spheres with the multiplicative and conformal anomalies
Creators: name: Dowker, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two multiplicative anomalies are evaluated for the determinant of the conformal higher spin propagating operator on spheres given by Tseytlin. One holds for the decomposition of the higher derivative product into its individual second order factors and the other applies to its complete linear factorisation. Using this last factorisation, I also calculate the determinant explicitly in terms of the Riemann zeta function, for both even and odd dimensions. In the latter case there is no anomaly of course. The conformal anomaly is also found for arbitrary spin and dimension.
description: 10 pages. A serious error in the calculation of the determinants has hopefully been corrected. A section on the conformal anomaly has been added
Spiral Inflation with Coleman-Weinberg Potential
Creators: name: Barenboim, Gabriela
name: Park, Wan-Il
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the idea of spiral inflation to Coleman-Weinberg potential, and show that inflation matching well observations is allowed for a symmetry-breaking scale ranging from an intermediate scale to GUT scale even if the quartic coupling $λ$ is of $\mathcal{O}(0.1)$. The tensor-to-scalar ratio can be of $\mathcal{O}(0.01)$ in case of GUT scale symmetry-breaking.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected, references added
Epidemiology of Barrett’s Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Runge, Thomas M.
name: Abrams, Julian A.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is a common condition, and is the precursor to esophageal adenocarcinoma, a disease with increasing burden in the western world, especially in Caucasian males. The incidence of BE increased dramatically during the late-20th century and incidence estimates continue to increase, with a prominent male:female ratio. The prevalence is between 0.5 – 2.0 percent. A number of anthropomorphic and behavioral risk factors exist for BE including obesity and tobacco smoking, but GERD is the strongest risk factor, and the risk is more pronounced with long-standing GERD. Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is the most common form of esophageal cancer in the U.S. Risk factors include GERD, tobacco smoking, and obesity, while NSAIDs and statins may be protective. A major factor predicting progression from non-dysplastic BE to EAC is the presence of dysplastic changes seen on esophageal histology, although a number of issues limit the utility of dysplasia as a marker for disease. Length of the involved BE segment is another risk for progression to high-grade dysplasia and cancer. Biomarkers have shown promise, but none are approved for clinical use.
Equivariant *-homomorphisms, Rokhlin constraints and equivariant UHF-absorption
Creators: name: Gardella, Eusebio
name: Santiago, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L05, 46L35

description: We classify equivariant *-homomorphisms between C*-dynamical systems associated to actions of finite groups on C*-algebras with the Rokhlin property. In addition, the given actions are classified. An obstruction is obtained for the Cuntz semigroup of a C*-algebra allowing such an action. We also obtain an equivariant UHF-absorption result.
EMMO's Theoretical Foundations
Creators: name: Zaccarini, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ontology
standard
data management
global workshop
ontology commons ecosystem
FAIR

description: EMMO, the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology, is a foundational ontology expression of the common tenets and the general worldview at the core of applied sciences. It has been developed with the intent of providing a standard representational framework for materials modeling knowledge, while retaining a level of generality which makes it capable of being employed in any context to good results. EMMO is currently being formalized in First Order Logic with identity and W3C’s OWL 2 DL; a Mereo-Causal theory was developed specifically for the ontology.
Analytical solutions and criteria for the quantum discord of two-qubit X-states
Creators: name: Maldonado-Trapp, A.
name: Hu, Anzi
name: Roa, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Except for a few special states, computing quantum discord remains a complicated optimization process. In this paper we present analytical solutions for computing quantum discord of the most general class of X-states and the criteria for each analytical solution to be valid. We discuss parameter regions that correspond to different analytical solutions and explain the underlying reasons for such structure to exist. We apply our formalism to study both arbitrary X-states and X-states with certain symmetries. We find that our analytical formalism is in excellent agreement with numerical calculation of quantum discord in both cases.
title: Eugen Huber
title: ein Nachruf
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Stutz, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Böhlau
Year: 1924
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Huber, Eugen
subject: Stammheim (Kanton Zürich)
subject: Zürich
subject: Bern

description: Sonderdruck aus: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Germanistische Abteilung, Band 44, 1924
Biochromoendoscopy: molecular imaging with capsule endoscopy for detection of adenomas of the GI tract
Creators: name: Scull, Brooks
name: Ramocki, Nicole
name: Morgan, Douglas
name: Zhang, Howard
name: Lund, P. Kay
name: Cecil, Gerald
name: Burkholder, Adam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Current capsule endoscopy (CE) provides minimally invasive technology for gastrointestinal imaging, but has limited ability to discriminate different polyp types. Near Infrared Fluorescent (NIRF) probes activated by biomarkers upregulated in adenomas (e.g., cathepsin B) are potentially powerful tools to distinguish premalignant or malignant lesions from benign or inflammatory lesions.
Effect of GI endoscopy nurse experience on screening colonoscopy outcomes
Creators: name: Dellon, Evan S.
name: Lippmann, Quinn Kerr
name: Sandler, Robert S.
name: Galanko, Joseph A.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The effect of gastrointestinal endoscopy nursing experience on colonoscopy outcomes is unknown.
D3.1 Landscape Reports - v1
Creators: name: Miller, Mark
name: Menezes-Miller, Victoria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Landscape report
software
survey
model research
recommendations

description: This Landscape Report deliverable is the first in a series of two Reports, meant to describe the landscape surrounding the SWForum and the current existing and successful structures, which can provide model elements for the final form of the SWForum. This deliverable does the following: Describes the objective and the methodology (which includes questionnaires, interviews and research regarding existing models); Shares the content and results of the questionnaires; Presents the planning and structure for the interviews (to be included in the Landscape Report 2 deliverable due later in the project); Explains the results of all of the existing models research, and Provides conclusions and recommendations for SWForum to be successful, effective, efficient and sustainable. The results of the questionnaire are included as an important element of this deliverable and these results are relevant in identifying key issues for the different categories of stakeholders. Furthermore, there is also a careful look at the different existing models which have elements that are also relevant for the stakeholder communities. Finally, the conclusions are recommendations are based upon an in-depth understanding of not only the needs and desires of the stakeholders but also with respect to the existing structures and elements. It is very important to note that this deliverable is the first in a series of 2 Landscape reports with the second report due later in the SWForum.eu project lifecycle, while at the same time the development of the SWForum will be considered in detail in the next version of this report. Also, it is key to recognise that the next version of this report will include a significant number of interviews and results from key stakeholders and individuals identified as being important for the future development of the SWForum. And thus, this remains an evolutionary process with this current deliverable representing a key first step in understanding and defining the landscape around the SWForum.
A randomized, controlled, double-blind trial of air vs carbon dioxide insufflation during ERCP
Creators: name: Galanko, Joseph A.
name: Gangarosa, Lisa M.
name: Dellon, Evan S.
name: Grimm, Ian S.
name: Velayudham, Arumugam
name: Isaacs, Kim L.
name: Clarke, Bridger W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Visualization during gastrointestinal endoscopy requires distention of the bowel lumen. Carbon dioxide (CO2) insufflation decreases post-procedure abdominal discomfort and distension after colonoscopy, but there have been few published studies on its use in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
Implications of interface conventions for morphometric thermodynamics
Creators: name: Reindl, Andreas
name: Bier, Markus
name: Dietrich, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several model fluids in contact with planar, spherical, and cylindrical walls are investigated for small number densities within density functional theory. The dependence of the solid-fluid interfacial tension on the curvature of spherical and cylindrical walls is examined and compared with the corresponding expression derived within the framework of morphometric thermodynamics. Particular attention is paid to the implications of the choice of the interface location, which underlies the definition of the interfacial tension. We find that morphometric thermodynamics is never exact for the considered systems and that its quality as an approximation depends sensitively on the choice of the interface location.
Biopsy depth after radiofrequency ablation of dysplastic Barrett's esophagus
Creators: name: Lightdale, Charles J.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Wang, Kenneth K.
name: Goldblum, John R.
name: Fleischer, David E.
name: Hawes, Robert H.
name: Chak, Amitabh
name: Peery, Anne F.
name: Overholt, Bergein F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: After endoscopic radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of dysplastic Barrett's esophagus (BE), endoscopic biopsy samples are obtained to assess response to therapy. Whether these biopsies are of adequate depth to assess efficacy is unknown.
Challenges in planning and initiating a randomized clinical study of sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
Creators: name: Jagganath, Sanjay B.
name: Drossman, Douglas A.
name: Robuck, Patricia R.
name: Elta, Grace H.
name: Kozarek, Richard A.
name: Freeman, Martin L.
name: Durkalski, Valerie
name: Romagnuolo, Joseph
name: Wilcox, C. Mel
name: Fogel, Evan L.
name: Cotton, Peter B.
name: Tarnasky, Paul R.
name: Mauldin, Patrick D.
name: Orrell, Kyle B.
name: Brawman-Mintzer, Olga
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD) is a controversial topic, especially in patients with no objective findings on laboratory or imaging studies (SOD type III). The value of ERCP manometry with sphincterotomy is unproven and carries significant risks.
Influence of the dispersion gas flow on the atomization and resulting reaction zone in flame spray pyrolysis
Creators: name: Dupont, Sophie Marie Laure
name: Fröde, Fabian
name: Tischendorf, Ricardo
name: Reddemann, Manuel Armin
name: Pitsch, Heinz
name: Schmid, Hans-Joachim
name: Kneer, Reinhold
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023

description: 12. Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Luxor, Egypt, 23 Jan 2023 - 26 Jan 2023
Endoscopic spray cryotherapy for esophageal cancer: safety and efficacy
Creators: name: David, Donald S.
name: Burdick, J. Steven
name: Zfass, Alvin M.
name: Smith, Jenny O.
name: Greenwald, Bruce D.
name: Abrams, Julian A.
name: Wolfsen, Herbert C.
name: Dumot, John A.
name: Yachimski, Patrick
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Lightdale, Charles J.
name: Nishioka, Norman S.
name: Mallat, Damien
name: Johnston, Mark H.
name: Gill, Kanwar Rupinder S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Few options exist for patients with localized esophageal cancer ineligible for conventional therapies. Endoscopic spray cryotherapy with low-pressure liquid nitrogen has demonstrated efficacy in this setting in early studies.
Quality of colonoscopy reporting in community practice
Creators: name: Abbott, David H.
name: Fisher, Deborah A.
name: Provenzale, Dawn
name: Hamilton, Natia
name: Palmer, Lena B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Quality endoscopy reporting is essential when community endoscopists perform colonoscopies for veterans who cannot be scheduled at a Veterans Health Administration (VA) facility.
title: The rise of the national housebuilder : a history of British housebuilders through the twentieth century
Creators: name: Wellings, Fred.
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Part I of the thesis presents a supply side matrix of the housebuilding firms from the 1930s onwards, identifying all the larger housebuilders at key stages in the industry's development, and tracing the growth in concentration form the local developers of the inter-war period to the national housebuilders that dominated the industry at the end of the century. For each period, the largest housebuilders are identified and the market share of the top ten firms is calculated. It is believed that every housebuilder that has attained an annual output of at least 1,000 units has been included, with a 500-unit threshold for the pre-war and early post-war periods. By the end of the century, the top ten private housebuilders accounted for over 40 per cent of the industry's volume output, compared with around six to seven per cent in the 1930s. Some 200 companies have been studied in the preparation of the thesis and the individual histories of the 72 firms that met the size criteria above have been presented on an accompanying disc. Part II uses the corporate data to analyse the reasons for both the growth and decline of housebuilding businesses. The thesis rejects the contention that increased size is necessitated by economies of scale and scope, the former scarcely relevant and the latter largely offset by the managerial diseconomies of regional structures and dilution of entrepreneurial flair. Corporate decline has impacted heavily on the structure of the industry, and this is attributed to succession issues, lack of focus and the severity of the 1974 and 1990 recessions. The thesis concludes with an alternative explanation for the emergence of national housebuilding organisations. If economies of scale do not necessitate the creation of large housebuilders, the driving forces must lie elsewhere. They are considered to be, in no particular order, financial with the stock market playing a key role in facilitating acquisitions and in demanding growth from its constituent companies. Secondly, the personal ambition that motivates some businessmen to seek growth and size for their own sake. Finally, the quality of judgement that allows some housebuilders, but not others, to avoid over-expansion ahead of a major downturn in the housing cycle; in doing so, they create a 'pool of survivors' that are able to take full advantage of the next upwards phase of the housing cycle.
Cavity-funneled generation of indistinguishable single photons from strongly dissipative quantum emitters
Creators: name: Grange, Thomas
name: Hornecker, Gaston
name: Hunger, David
name: Poizat, Jean-Philippe
name: Gerard, Jean-Michel
name: Senellart, Pascale
name: Auffeves, Alexia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate theoretically the generation of indistinguishable single photons from a strongly dissipative quantum system placed inside an optical cavity. The degree of indistinguishability of photons emitted by the cavity is calculated as a function of the emitter-cavity coupling strength and the cavity linewidth. For a quantum emitter subject to strong pure dephasing, our calculations reveal that an unconventional regime of high indistinguishability can be reached for moderate emittercavity coupling strengths and high quality factor cavities. In this regime, the broad spectrum of a dissipative quantum system is funneled into the narrow lineshape of a cavity. The associated efficiency is found to greatly surpass spectral filtering effects. Our findings open the path towards on-chip scalable indistinguishable-photon emitting devices operating at room temperature.
description: Main paper (6 pages, 3 figures)+ supplemental materials (4 pages)
Safety and efficacy of endoscopic spray cryotherapy for Barrett's esophagus with high-grade dysplasia
Creators: name: Lightdale, Charles J.
name: Dumot, John A.
name: Abrams, Julian A.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Barthel, James S.
name: Nishioka, Norman S.
name: Zfass, Alvin M.
name: Wolfsen, Herbert C.
name: Mallat, Damien
name: Burdick, J. Steven
name: Wang, Kenneth K.
name: Smith, Jenny O.
name: Greenwald, Bruce D.
name: Johnston, Mark H.
name: Peery, Anne F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Endoscopic ablation to treat Barrett’s esophagus (BE) with high-grade dysplasia (HGD) is associated with a decreased incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma. Endoscopic spray cryotherapy (CRYO) demonstrates promising preliminary data.
Conformal Traceless Decomposition of Lagrange Multiplier Modified Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
Creators: name: Kluson, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce conformal traceless decomposition in Lagrange Multiplier modified RFDiff invariant Horava-Lifshitz gravity. We perform Hamiltonian analysis of given action and determine the action for the physical degrees of freedom.
description: 12 pages,v2:references added
A Hybrid Optimization and Deep Learning Algorithm for Cyber-resilient DER Control
Creators: name: Panahazari, Mohammad
name: Koscak, Matthew
name: Zhang, Jianhua
name: Hou, Daqing
name: Wang, Jing
name: Gao, David Wenzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: With the proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) in the distribution grid, it is a challenge to effectively control a large number of DERs resilient to the communication and security disruptions, as well as to provide the online grid services, such as voltage regulation and virtual power plant (VPP) dispatch. To this end, a hybrid feedback-based optimization algorithm along with deep learning forecasting technique is proposed to specifically address the cyber-related issues. The online decentralized feedback-based DER optimization control requires timely, accurate voltage measurement from the grid. However, in practice such information may not be received by the control center or even be corrupted. Therefore, the long short-term memory (LSTM) deep learning algorithm is employed to forecast delayed/missed/attacked messages with high accuracy. The IEEE 37-node feeder with high penetration of PV systems is used to validate the efficiency of the proposed hybrid algorithm. The results show that 1) the LSTM-forecasted lost voltage can effectively improve the performance of the DER control algorithm in the practical cyber-physical architecture; and 2) the LSTM forecasting strategy outperforms other strategies of using previous message and skipping dual parameter update.
description: 5 pages
Single-balloon enteroscopy: results from an initial experience at a U.S. tertiary-care center
Creators: name: Dellon, Evan S.
name: Morgan, Douglas R.
name: Frantz, David J.
name: Grimm, Ian S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Single Balloon Enteroscopy (SBE) is a novel deep enteroscopy modality for diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the small bowel.
Spiral enteroscopy: prospective U.S. multicenter study in patients with small-bowel disorders
Creators: name: Okolo, Patrick
name: Jonnalagadda, Sreeni
name: Binmoeller, Kenneth F.
name: Upchurch, Bennie
name: Grimm, Ian
name: Draganov, Peter
name: Tokar, Jeff
name: Judah, Joel
name: Chiorean, Michael
name: Haluszka, Oleh
name: Morgan, Douglas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The performance characteristics of spiral enteroscopy have not been well-described.
EVIDÊNCIAS DA QUALIDADE NA ASSISTÊNCIA DE ENFERMAGEM FUNDAMENTADAS PELA ORGANIZAÇÃO NACIONAL DE ACREDITAÇÃO:UMA REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA
Creators: name: VIZZOTTO, DIANEFER
name: VIZZOTTO, DIANEFER
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420304
subject: General practice

description: Atualmente, os serviços de enfermagem, como parte dos serviços de saúde, têm incorporado ferramentas de gestão e estratégias de eficácia comprovada em busca da qualidade. Há que se considerar a necessidade de elaborar indicadores de qualidade do serviço de enfermagem passíveis de serem comparados na prática do gerenciamento em enfermagem com os padrões internos e externos à instituição. Os indicadores podem ser considerados “sinais vitais” de uma instituição, pois mostram sua situação atual a partir dos resultados das ações desenvolvidas. Medir, avaliar e acompanhar os indicadores do serviço representa “um painel de controle” para direcionar a tomada de decisão a respeito das atividades necessárias para propor e atingir melhorias no serviço (CHIAVENATO, 2020).A implementação de programas de qualidade em serviços de saúde proporciona a “estruturação de um sistema gerencial sistêmico, com foco no cliente, liderança e envolvimento de todos, baseado em indicadores, com monitoramento e avaliações constantes” (ALVES, 2009: p. 15). Assim, as instituições de saúde podem melhor controlar custos, reduzir perdas, melhorar a segurança de pacientes e profissionais, ser competitiva no mercado por meio do atendimento aos requisitos e necessidades dos clientes, bem como demonstrar eficácia e eficiência nos resultados obtidos (ALVES, 2009).Neste contexto surgiu a necessidade de desenvolver um trabalho de pesquisa através de uma Revisão Integrativa, com o seguinte questionamento: Quais as evidências disponíveis na literatura sobre a Qualidade na Assistência de Enfermagem que a Organização Nacional de Acreditação fundamenta?
Barrett's esophagus in children and adolescents without neurodevelopmental or tracheoesophageal abnormalities: a prospective study
Creators: name: Nguyen, Dang M.
name: Gilger, Mark A.
name: Integlia, Mark
name: El-Serag, Hashem B.
name: Richardson, Peter
name: Shub, Mitchell
name: Fairly, Kenneth
name: Henderson, Louise
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: There have been no prospective large-scale studies to evaluate the prevalence and determinants of Barrett’s esophagus (BE) in children who are free from neurodevelopmental disorders and tracheoesophageal abnormalities.
Challenges for Large-Field Inflation and Moduli Stabilization
Creators: name: Buchmuller, Wilfried
name: Dudas, Emilian
name: Heurtier, Lucien
name: Westphal, Alexander
name: Wieck, Clemens
name: Winkler, Martin Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the interplay between Kähler moduli stabilization and chaotic inflation in supergravity. While heavy moduli decouple from inflation in the supersymmetric limit, supersymmetry breaking generically introduces non-decoupling effects. These lead to inflation driven by a soft mass term, $m_φ^2 \sim m m_{3/2}$, where $m$ is a supersymmetric mass parameter. This scenario needs no stabilizer field, but the stability of moduli during inflation imposes a large supersymmetry breaking scale, $m_{3/2} \gg H$, and a careful choice of initial conditions. This is illustrated in three prominent examples of moduli stabilization: KKLT stabilization, Kähler Uplifting, and the Large Volume Scenario. Remarkably, all models have a universal effective inflaton potential which is flattened compared to quadratic inflation. Hence, they share universal predictions for the CMB observables, in particular a lower bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $r \gtrsim 0.05$.
description: 44+1 pages, 6 figures, minor modifications, references added
Esophageal foreign-body impactions: epidemiology, time trends, and the impact of the increasing prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis
Creators: name: Sperry, Sarah L.W.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Crockett, Seth D.
name: Dellon, Evan S.
name: Miller, C. Brock
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The epidemiology of esophageal foreign-body impaction (EFBI) is poorly described, and the impact of the increasing prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) on this is unknown.
Feasibility, safety, acceptability, and yield of office-based, screening transnasal esophagoscopy (with video)
Creators: name: Chak, Amitabh
name: Bream, Susan
name: Davison, Jon
name: Faulx, Ashley L.
name: Luketich, James D.
name: Dellon, Evan S.
name: Spacek, Melissa
name: Peery, Anne F.
name: Daugherty, Norma
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Connors, Diane
name: Jobe, Blair A.
name: Garman, Katherine S.
name: Hoppo, Toshitaka
name: Sanz, Alejandro F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Endoscopic screening for esophageal neoplasia can identify patients eligible for early intervention for pre-cancerous lesions. Unsedated transnasal esophagoscopy may provide an efficient and accurate endoscopic assessment with fewer risks and less cost compared to conventional upper endoscopy.
Synthesis of 2D Porous Crystalline Materials in Simulated Microgravity
Creators: name: Contreras-Pereda, Noemí
name: Rodríguez-San-Miguel, David
name: Franco, Carlos
name: Sevim, Semih
name: Vale, João Pedro
name: Solano, Eduardo
name: Fong, Wye-Khay
name: Del Giudice, Alessandra
name: Galantini, Luciano
name: Pfattner, Raphael
name: Pané, Salvador
name: Sotto Mayor, Tiago
name: Ruiz-Molina, Daniel
name: Puigmartí-Luis, Josep
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other chemical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To date, crystallization studies conducted in space laboratories, which are prohibitively costly and unsuitable to most research laboratories, have shown the valuable effects of microgravity during crystal growth and morphogenesis. Herein, an easy and highly efficient method is shown to achieve space-like experimentation conditions on Earth employing custom-made microfluidic devices to fabricate 2D porous crystalline molecular frameworks. It is confirmed that experimentation under these simulated microgravity conditions has unprecedented effects on the orientation, compactness and crack-free generation of 2D porous crystalline molecular frameworks as well as in their integration and crystal morphogenesis. It is believed that this work will provide a new “playground” to chemists, physicists, and materials scientists that desire to process unprecedented 2D functional materials and devices.
Focal endoscopic mucosal resection before radiofrequency ablation is equally effective and safe compared with radiofrequency ablation alone for the eradication of Barrett's esophagus with advanced neoplasia
Creators: name: Pasricha, Sarina
name: Chen, Xiaoxin
name: Cotton, Cary C.
name: Madanick, Ryan D.
name: Bulsiewicz, William J.
name: Kim, Hannah P.
name: Spacek, Melissa B.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Dellon, Evan S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is commonly performed before radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for nodular dysplastic Barrett’s esophagus (BE).
Feedstock Quality Assurance
Creators: name: Haack, Janne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ontology
standard
data management
global workshop
ontology commons ecosystem
FAIR

description: Mixing different components is optimal performance of the final products. This process step is crucial for process engineering across various industries, ensuring homogeneity, consistency, and such as metal injection molding (MIM), a manufacturing process that combines the advantages of plastic injection molding and powder metallurgy to produce complex metal parts. Ontologies can capture domain-specific knowledge about the mixing process, including parameters, materials, and equipment. By integrating real-time data and process models, ontologies can assist in optimizing mixing conditions, ensuring consistent feedstock quality, and enabling real-time process control.
Overutilization of endoscopic surveillance in nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus: a multicenter study
Creators: name: Lutzke, Lori S.
name: Lipkus, Isaac M.
name: Crockett, Seth D.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Boolchand, Vikram
name: Wang, Kenneth K.
name: Bright, Stephanie D.
name: Sampliner, Richard E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Guidelines suggest that patients with non-dysplastic BE undergo endoscopic surveillance every 3–5 years, but actual utilization of surveillance endoscopy and the determinants of variation in surveillance intervals are not known.
A phenotypic analysis shows that eosinophilic esophagitis is a progressive fibrostenotic disease
Creators: name: Sperry, Sarah L.W.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Rybnicek, David A.
name: Kim, Hannah P.
name: Woosley, John T.
name: Dellon, Evan S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Phenotypes of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) are not well characterized.
Sierpiński fractals and the dimension of their Laplacian spectrum
Creators: name: Pollicott, Mark
name: Slipantschuk, Julia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80, 37F35, 37C30, 65D05

description: We estabish rigorous estimates for the Hausdorff dimension of the spectra of Laplacians associated to Sierpiński lattices and infinite Sierpiński gaskets and other post-critically finite self-similar sets.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures