cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A flow equation for f(R) gravity and some of its exact solutions
Creators: name: Ohta, Nobuyoshi
name: Percacci, Roberto
name: Vacca, Gian Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We write a Renormalization Group (RG) equation for the function f in a theory of gravity in the f(R) truncation. Our equation differs from previous ones due to the exponential parametrization of the quantum fluctuations and to the choice of gauge. The cutoff procedure depends on three free parameters, and we find that there exist discrete special choices of parameters for which the flow equation has fixed points where f=f_0+f_1 R+f_2 R^2. For other values of the parameters the solution seems to be continuously deformed.
description: 5 pages, minor changes, comments added, to appear on PRD
ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL OF A COUNTRY IN THE CONTEXT OF STRATEGIC AND GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA
Creators: name: Malganova, Irina
Publisher: name: TUENGR Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Strategy for scientific development
Technological development
sustainable development
science-business
scientists
innovators.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 9, 4, 341-348
Preparing Pre-Service Physics Teachers to Diagnose Students' Conceptions Not Covered by Physics Education Textbooks
Creators: name: Feser, Markus Sebastian
name: Krumphals, Ingrid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To date, there is a lack of research on learning environments for pre-service physics teachers that allow them to learn and practise diagnosing students' conceptions that are (currently) not covered in physics education textbooks (e.g. students' conceptions about viscosity). In this study, we developed and piloted such a learning environment, which was implemented and piloted twice in a seminar for pre-service physics teachers. As coping with a diagnostic process is particularly demanding for pre-service physics teachers, our accompanying research aims to identify learning barriers within our developed learning environment. The results indicate that the participants experience the learning environment with varying degrees of difficulty. One main difficulty for pre-service physics teachers seems to be in interconnecting their content knowledge with their pedagogical content knowledge in the diagnostic process.
description: Preprint of an article published in The Physics Educator
AARP Giving Back Survey: Attitudes and Behaviors Across the Lifespan
Creators: name: AARP
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Importance of different aspects of life (15); public interest topics that need help (1); experiences with giving back (10); personal definition of volunteering (2); plans for volunteering (1); volunteering frequency (3); motivators for volunteering (21); feelings about volunteer experiences (3); history of starting volunteering (3); agreement with opinions about volunteering (13); interest in different volunteering options (12); groups most in need of help (1); agreement with opinions about donating money (9); personal importance of social issues (29); voting tendencies (3); expectations for the next year (2); frequency of technology usage (10). For those who volunteered: Classification of volunteer activity type as formal/informal (25).
The 1-loop self-energy of an electron in a strong external magnetic field revisited
Creators: name: Machet, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I calculate the 1-loop self-energy of the lowest Landau level an electron of mass m in a strong, constant and uniform external magnetic field B, beyond its always used truncation at (ln L)^2, L=|e|B/m^2. This is achieved by evaluating the integral deduced in 1953 by Demeur and incompletely calculated in 1969 by Jancovici, which I recover from Schwinger's techniques of calculation. It yields δm \simeq (α*m/(4*π))*[(\ln L -γ_E -3/2)^2 -9/4 +π/(β-1) + π^2/6 +π*Γ[1-β]/L^{β-1} +(1/L)*(π/(2-β)-5) +{\cal O}(1/L^{>= 2})] with β\approx 1.175 for 75 =< L =< 10000. . The (\ln L)^2 truncation exceeds the precise estimate by 45% at L=100 and by more at lower values of L, due to neglecting, among others, the single logarithmic contribution. This is doubly unjustified because it is large and because it is needed to fulfill appropriate renormalization conditions. Technically challenging improvements look therefore necessary, for example when resumming higher loops and incorporating the effects of large B on the photonic vacuum polarization, like investigated in recent years.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures. Revised version, more self-contained. To appear in IJMP A
XCAT -- Lightweight Quantized Single Image Super-Resolution using Heterogeneous Group Convolutions and Cross Concatenation
Creators: name: Ayazoglu, Mustafa
name: Bilecen, Bahri Batuhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a lightweight, single image super-resolution network for mobile devices, named XCAT. XCAT introduces Heterogeneous Group Convolution Blocks with Cross Concatenations (HXBlock). The heterogeneous split of the input channels to the group convolution blocks reduces the number of operations, and cross concatenation allows for information flow between the intermediate input tensors of cascaded HXBlocks. Cross concatenations inside HXBlocks can also avoid using more expensive operations like 1x1 convolutions. To further prev ent expensive tensor copy operations, XCAT utilizes non-trainable convolution kernels to apply up sampling operations. Designed with integer quantization in mind, XCAT also utilizes several techniques on training, like intensity-based data augmentation. Integer quantized XCAT operates in real time on Mali-G71 MP2 GPU with 320ms, and on Synaptics Dolphin NPU with 30ms (NCHW) and 8.8ms (NHWC), suitable for real-time applications.
Where are the BTZ Black Hole Degrees of Freedom?
Creators: name: Mitchell, Joseph M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous derivations of the BTZ black hole entropy from a dual conformal description place the degrees of freedom at spatial infinity. Here it is shown for the non-rotating case that a dual conformal description exists at any location around the black hole, a result that has a strong physical appeal considering that in 2+1 dimensions there are no propagating degrees of freedom in the classical theory. Two copies of the central charge of $3\ell/2G$ are recovered, and the microcanonical Cardy formula yields the correct Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure; reference added, minor changes
Association Between Biomarkers of Ovarian Reserve and Infertility Among Older Women of Reproductive Age
Creators: name: Stanczyk, Frank Z.
name: Kesner, James S.
name: Steiner, Anne Z.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Meadows, Juliana W.
name: Pritchard, David
name: Baird, Donna D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Despite lack of evidence of their utility, biomarkers of ovarian reserve are being promoted as potential markers of reproductive potential or “fertility tests.”
ANALYSIS OF METAPHORS: "DOWN" IDIOMS TO EXPRESS EMOTIONS IN ENGLISH AND TATAR
Creators: name: Zabavnova, Olesya V.
Publisher: name: TUENGR Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Orientational metaphor
Verbalization
Emotion
Up and down mapping
Linguistic means
Linguoculture.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 9, 4, 349-355
D Production In p-p and d-Au Collisions
Creators: name: Kisslinger, Leonard S.
name: Liu, Ming X.
name: McGaughey, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is an extension of our previous work on $J/Ψ$, $Ψ'(2S)$, $Υ(nS)$ production in p-p and A-A collisions to the production of $D^+(c\bar{d}),D^o(c\bar{u})$, with the main new aspect being the fragmentation probability, $D_{c \rightarrow c\bar{q}}$, which has been calculated almost two decades ago. The rapidity cross sections for $D^+(c\bar{d}),D^o(c\bar{u})$ production from both p-p and d-AU collisions is estimated.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
HEC-SSP TRAINING MANUAL
Creators: name: Hiben, Mehari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Every stream or river has instances of extremely augmented flow. Therefore, when designing engineered hydrologic systems, it is imperative that Water Resources Engineers can attempt to understand the temperament of these flows and storms by applying statistics to the recorded flows to determine hydrologic extremes. These values, such as the 100-year flood, assist a designer in enumerating the flow parameters around which a spillway or Diversion weir must be built in order to minimize risk. we will use the HEC-SSP program to analyze the hydrometrological data extremes.
Consideration of key process parameters for achieving robust and uniform cutting of Ti-6Al-4V sheet metal using fiber laser with nitrogen assisted gas
Creators: name: Varit POSHYANANDA
name: Boonrat LOHWONGWATANA
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Titanium
Ti-6Al-4V
Laser Cutting
Recast Layer
Heat-Affected Zone

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 2, 1-10
Phase separation dynamics and morphologies prediction of PEO-b-PMMA copolymer by atomistic and mesoscopic simulations
Creators: name: Piyarat NIMMANPIPUG
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Morphologies
Phase separation
Block copolymers
Free Energy Density
Order Parameter

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 2, 18-26
Self-striking red glass fabrication at low temperature using gold nanoparticles
Creators: name: Yotsakit RUANGTAWEEP
name: Narong SANGWARANTEE
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gold nanoparticles
Reducing agent
Red glasses

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 2, 27-32
Effect of zinc oxide loaded polyester fibers on the color, mechanical properties and antibacterial action of woven fabric
Creators: name: Piyaporn KAMPEERAPAPPUN
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Zinc oxide
Antibacterial agents
Tensile strength
Tear strength
S. aureus

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 2, 33-40
Biogenic synthesis and antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) produced by Phomopsis sp. strain GFPA2
Creators: name: Thanawat SUTJARITVORAKUL
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biosynthesis
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)
Antibacterial activity
Fungi

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 2, 41-46
Pattern matching under DTW distance
Creators: name: Gourdel, Garance
name: Driemel, Anne
name: Peterlongo, Pierre
name: Starikovskaya, Tatiana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we consider the problem of pattern matching under the dynamic time warping (DTW) distance motivated by potential applications in the analysis of biological data produced by the third generation sequencing. To measure the DTW distance between two strings, one must "warp" them, that is, double some letters in the strings to obtain two equal-lengths strings, and then sum the distances between the letters in the corresponding positions. When the distances between letters are integers, we show that for a pattern P with m runs and a text T with n runs: 1. There is an O(m + n)-time algorithm that computes all locations where the DTW distance from P to T is at most 1; 2. There is an O(kmn)-time algorithm that computes all locations where the DTW distance from P to T is at most k. As a corollary of the second result, we also derive an approximation algorithm for general metrics on the alphabet.
Pr3+ doped BaO:ZnO:B2O3:TeO2 glasses for laser host matrix
Creators: name: Jakrapong KAEWKHAO
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Glasses
FTIR studies
XRD
Optical properties
Luminescence properties

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 2, 47-54
Association Between Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Testosterone Testing and Initiation in the United States, 2009-2013
Creators: name: Layton, J. Bradley
name: Kim, Yoonsang
name: Alexander, G. Caleb
name: Emery, Sherry L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Testosterone initiation increased substantially in the United States from 2000 to 2013, especially among men without clear indications. Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) also increased during this time.
A Survey of Security and Privacy Issues in V2X Communication Systems
Creators: name: Yoshizawa, Takahito
name: Singelée, Dave
name: Muehlberg, Jan Tobias
name: Delbruel, Stéphane
name: Taherkordi, Amir
name: Hughes, Danny
name: Preneel, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication is receiving growing attention from industry and academia as multiple pilot projects explore its capabilities and feasibility. With about 50\% of global road vehicle exports coming from the European Union (EU), and within the context of EU legislation around security and data protection, V2X initiatives must consider security and privacy aspects across the system stack, in addition to road safety. Contrary to this principle, our survey of relevant standards, research outputs, and EU pilot projects indicates otherwise; we identify multiple security and privacy related shortcomings and inconsistencies across the standards. We conduct a root cause analysis of the reasons and difficulties associated with these gaps, and categorize the identified security and privacy issues relative to these root causes. As a result, our comprehensive analysis sheds lights on a number of areas that require improvements in the standards, which are not explicitly identified in related work. Our analysis fills gaps left by other related surveys, which are focused on specific technical areas but not necessarily point out underlying root issues in standard specifications. We bring forward recommendations to address these gaps for the overall improvement of security and safety in vehicular communication.
Association of Type 1 Diabetes vs Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosed During Childhood and Adolescence With Complications During Teenage Years and Young Adulthood
Creators: name: Klingsheim, Mary
name: Wadwa, Paul
name: Reboussin, Beth
name: Amrhein, James
name: Linder, Barbara
name: Neff, John
name: Kearns, Sue
name: Pierce, June
name: Kim, Grace
name: Thomas, Joan
name: Divers, Jasmin
name: Bellatorre, Anna
name: Love-Osborne, Kathy
name: Marcovina, Santica M.
name: Klingensmith, Georgeanna J.
name: Taplin, Craig
name: Merjaneh, Lina
name: Stafford, Jeanette M.
name: Harting, Jessica
name: Nelson, Bryce
name: Yi-Frazier, Joyce
name: Standiford, Debra A.
name: Li, Xia
name: Bloch, Clifford A.
name: Nandi-Munshi, Debika
name: Dabelea, Dana
name: Koebnick, Corinna
name: Holmquist, Kim
name: Mottl, Amy K.
name: Testaverde, Lisa
name: Dolan, Lawrence
name: Rewers, Marian J.
name: Hirsch, Irl
name: Greenbaum, Carla
name: Daniels, Stephen
name: Afkarian, Maryam
name: Loots, Beth
name: Goldstein, Maureen T.
name: Jackson, Malaka
name: Hamman, Richard F.
name: Liu, Lenna L.
name: Merchant, Anwar
name: Henkin, Leora
name: Bell, Ronny
name: Black, Mary Helen
name: Lawrence, Jean M.
name: Imperatore, Giuseppina
name: Pihoker, Catherine
name: Pop-Busui, Rodica
name: Liese, Angela D.
name: Reynolds, Kristi
name: Wilkening, Greta
name: Barbara, Santa
name: Strylewicz, Greg
name: Pettitt, David J.
name: D'Agostino, Ralph
name: Knight, Lisa
name: Isom, Scott
name: Kahn, Michael G.
name: Pascual, Michael
name: Wright, Davene
name: Maahs, David
name: Gaur, Vinod P.
name: Morgan, Timothy
name: Wagenknecht, Lynne E.
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth J.
name: Saydah, Sharon
name: Williams, Carrie
name: Beauregard, Natalie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The burden and determinants of complications and comorbidities in contemporary youth-onset diabetes are unknown.
Software Modeling: What to Model and Why
Creators: name: McGregor, John
name: Cohen, Sanford Sholom
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) environments are intended to support engineering activities of all stakeholders across the envisioning, developing, and sustaining phases of software-intensive products. Models, the machine-manipulable representations and the products of an MBSE environment, support efforts such as the automation of standardized analysis techniques by all stakeholders and the maintenance of a single aurthoritative source of truth about product information. The model faithfully represents the final product in those attributes of interest to various stakeholders. The result is an overall reduction of development risks.
Accessible Interactive Maps for Visually Impaired Users
Creators: name: Ducasse, Julie
name: Brock, Anke
name: Jouffrais, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tactile maps are commonly used to give visually impaired users access to geographical representations. Although those relief maps are efficient tools for acquisition of spatial knowledge, they present several limitations and issues such as the need to read braille. Several research projects have been led during the past three decades in order to improve access to maps using interactive technologies. In this chapter, we present an exhaustive review of interactive map prototypes. We classified existing interactive maps into two categories: Digital Interactive Maps (DIMs) that are displayed on a flat surface such as a screen; and Hybrid Interactive Maps (HIMs) that include both a digital and a physical representation. In each family, we identified several subcategories depending on the technology being used. We compared the categories and subcategories according to cost, availability and technological limitations, but also in terms of content, comprehension and interactivity. Then we reviewed a number of studies showing that those maps can support spatial learning for visually impaired users. Finally, we identified new technologies and methods that could improve the accessibility of graphics for visually impaired users in the future.
First Measurements with New High-Resolution Gadolinium-GEM Neutron Detectors
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Dorothea
name: Resnati, Filippo
name: Birch, Jens
name: Etxegarai, Maddi
name: Hall-Wilton, Richard
name: Höglund, Carina
name: Hultman, Lars
name: Llamas-Jansa, Isabel
name: Oliveri, Eraldo
name: Oksanen, Esko
name: Robinson, Linda
name: Ropelewski, Leszek
name: Schmidt, Susann
name: Streli, Christina
name: Thuiner, Patrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: European Spallation Source instruments like the macromolecular diffractometer, NMX, require an excellent neutron detection efficiency, high-rate capabilities, time resolution, and an unprecedented spatial resolution in the order of a few hundred micrometers over a wide angular range of the incoming neutrons. For these instruments solid converters in combination with Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) are a promising option. A GEM detector with gadolinium converter was tested on a cold neutron beam at the IFE research reactor in Norway. The μTPC analysis, proven to improve the spatial resolution in the case of $^{10}$B converters, is extended to gadolinium based detectors. For the first time, a Gd-GEM was successfully operated to detect neutrons with a measured efficiency of 11.8% at a wavelength of 2 Å and a position resolution better than 250 μm.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
Biotechnology and Food Science - List of reviewers
Creators: name: Food Science, Biotechnology
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2012

description: We would like to express our gratitude for the Reviewers of the articles printed in Biotechnology and Food Science Volume 76, 2012.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 76 Nr 1 (2012): Biotechnology and Food Science
Effect of an Internet-Based Program on Weight Loss for Low-Income Postpartum Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Hagobian, Todd
name: Hatley, Karen E.
name: Phelan, Suzanne
name: Muñoz-Christian, Karen
name: Tate, Deborah F.
name: Brannen, Anna
name: Schaffner, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Does an internet-based weight loss program promote long-term weight loss in low-income postpartum women in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC program)?
Effect of Axillary Dissection vs No Axillary Dissection on 10-Year Overall Survival Among Women With Invasive Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Metastasis: The ACOSOG Z0011 (Alliance) Randomized Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Hansen, Nora M.
name: Whitworth, Pat W.
name: Kelemen, Pond R.
name: Giuliano, Armando E.
name: Leitch, A. Marilyn
name: McCall, Linda
name: Saha, Sukamal
name: Ballman, Karla V.
name: Blumencranz, Peter W.
name: Brennan, Meghan B.
name: Ollila, David W.
name: Hunt, Kelly K.
name: Morrow, Monica
name: Beitsch, Peter D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The results of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0011 (ACOSOG Z0011) trial were first reported in 2005 with a median follow-up of 6.3 years. Longer follow-up was necessary because the majority of the patients had estrogen receptor–positive tumors that may recur later in the disease course (the ACOSOG is now part of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology).
Advantages of lignite addition in purification process of soil polluted by heavy metals
Creators: name: Król-Domańska, Katarzyna
name: Smolińska, Beata
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2012

description: Environmental contamination by heavy metals represents a potential threat for plants, animal and humans. The metals do not undergo biodegradation. Many of them are soluble in water, therefore become more available for living systems and accumulate in the environment, especially in soil. This paper presents properties of brown coal(lignite) which show that this substance can be use as cheap and efficient sorbent in soil contaminated by heavy metals.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 76 Nr 1 (2012): Biotechnology and Food Science
Modelling and Detection of Driver's Fatigue using Ontology
Creators: name: Lambert, Alexandre
name: Hina, Manolo Dulva
name: Barth, Celine
name: Soukane, Assia
name: Ramdane-Cherif, Amar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Road accidents have become the eight leading cause of death all over the world. Lots of these accidents are due to a driver's inattention or lack of focus, due to fatigue. Various factors cause driver's fatigue. This paper considers all the measureable data that manifest driver's fatigue, namely those manifested in the vehicle measureable data while driving as well as the driver's physical and physiological data. Each of the three main factors are further subdivided into smaller details. For example, the vehicle's data is composed of the values obtained from the steering wheel's angle, yaw angle, the position on the lane, and the speed and acceleration of the vehicle while moving. Ontological knowledge and rules for driver fatigue detection are to be integrated into an intelligent system so that on the first sign of dangerous level of fatigue is detected, a warning notification is sent to the driver. This work is intended to contribute to safe road driving.
Effect of First-Line Chemotherapy Combined With Cetuximab or Bevacizumab on Overall Survival in Patients With KRAS Wild-Type Advanced or Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Creators: name: O'Neil, Bert H.
name: Bertagnolli, Monica M.
name: Mulkerin, Daniel L.
name: Berry, Scott
name: O'Reilly, Eileen M.
name: Blanke, Charles
name: Mayer, Robert J.
name: Schrag, Deborah
name: Greene, Claire
name: Meyerhardt, Jeffrey A.
name: Atkins, James Norman
name: Watson, Peter
name: Polite, Blase N.
name: Benson, Al B.
name: Hochster, Howard S.
name: Niedzwiecki, Donna
name: Schilsky, Richard L.
name: Venook, Alan P.
name: Lenz, Heinz-Josef
name: Innocenti, Federico
name: Fruth, Briant
name: El-Khoueiry, Anthony B.
name: Goldberg, Richard M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Combining biologic monoclonal antibodies with chemotherapeutic cytotoxic drugs provides clinical benefit to patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer, but the optimal choice of the initial biologic therapy in previously untreated patients is unknown.
Analysis of selected toxic metals using bacterial biosensors and their macromolecular derivatives
Creators: name: Bartos, Adrian
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2012

description: This short review presents a number of bacterial transcription mechanisms dependant on metal occurrence in growth environment. Metallic ions such as mercury, cadmium or zinc evoke genetic response, which then can be engineered and utilized to reprogram cells. Recombinant biosensors could be applied in detection and quantification of trace amounts of toxic metals. The article presents a few examples of such use and also touches upon other related approaches where sensitivity to metals was a backbone for an idea to measure metal concentrations.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 76 Nr 1 (2012): Biotechnology and Food Science
Electro-Weak Dark Matter: non-perturbative effect confronting indirect detections
Creators: name: Chun, Eung Jin
name: Park, Jong-Chul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We update indirect constraints on Electro-Weak Dark Matter (EWDM) considering the Sommerfeld-Ramsauer-Townsend (SRT) effect for its annihilations into a pair of standard model gauge bosons assuming that EWDM accounts for the observed dark matter (DM) relic density for a given DM mass and mass gaps among the multiplet components. For the radiative or smaller mass splitting, the hypercharged triplet and higher multiplet EWDMs are ruled out up to the DM mass ~ 10 - 20 TeV by the combination of the most recent data from AMS-02 (antiproton), Fermi-LAT (gamma-ray), and HESS (gamma-line). The Majorana triplet (wino-like) EWDM can evade all the indirect constraints only around Ramsauer-Townsend dips which can occur for a tiny mass splitting of order 10 MeV or less. In the case of the doublet (Higgsino-like) EWDM, a wide range of its mass > 500 GeV is allowed except Sommerfeld peak regions. Such a stringent limit on the triplet DM can be evaded by employing a larger mass gap of the order of 10 GeV which allows its mass larger than about 1 TeV. However, the future CTA experiment will be able to cover most of the unconstrained parameter space.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures; result for an O(10 GeV) mass gap, future sensitivity of CTA, and references added
Phase Space Distribution for Two-Gap Solution in Unitary Matrix Model
Creators: name: Dutta, Parikshit
name: Dutta, Suvankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the dynamics of weakly coupled finite temperature $U(N)$ gauge theories on $S^3$ by studying a class of effective unitary matrix model. Solving Dyson-Schwinger equation at large $N$, we find that different phases of gauge theories are characterized by gaps in eigenvalue distribution over a unit circle. In particular, we obtain no-gap, one-gap and two-gap solutions at large $N$ for a class of matrix model we are considering. The same effective matrix model can equivalently be written as a sum over representations (or Young diagrams) of unitary group. We show that at large $N$, Young diagrams corresponding to different phases can be classified in terms of discontinuities in number of boxes in two consecutive rows. More precisely, the representation, where there is no discontinuity, corresponds to no-gap and one-gap solution, where as, a diagram with one discontinuity corresponds to two-gap phase, mentioned above. This observation allows us to write a one to one relation between eigenvalue distribution function and Young tableaux distribution function for each saddle point, in particular for two-gap solution. We find that all the saddle points can be described in terms of free fermions with a phase space distribution for no-gap, one-gap and two-gap phases.
description: 51 pages, 16 figures
A perspective on the Magic Square and the 'special unitary' realizations of simple Lie algebras
Creators: name: Santander, Mariano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: math-ph, math.MP

description: This article contains the last part of the mini-course `Spaces: a perspective view' delivered at the IFWGP2012. Here I deal with the part of the mini-course which centers on the classification questions associated to the simple real Lie groups. I review the original introduction of the Magic Square `a la Freudenthal', putting the emphasis in the role played in this construction by the four normed division algebras ${\mathbb R}, {\mathbb C}, {\mathbb H}, {\mathbb O}$. I then explore the possibility of understanding some simple real Lie algebras as `special unitary' over some algebras ${\mathbb K}$ or tensor products ${\mathbb K}_1\otimes {\mathbb K}_2$, and I argue that the proper setting for this construction is not to confine only to normed division algebras, but to allow the split versions of complex, quaternions and octonions as well. This way we get a `Grand Magic Square' and we fill in the details required to cover all real forms of simple real Lie algebras within this scheme. The paper ends with the complete lists of all realizations of simple real Lie algebras as `special unitary' (or only `unitary' when $n=2$) over some tensor product of two $*$-algebras ${\mathbb K}_1, {\mathbb K}_2$, which in all cases are obtained from ${\mathbb R}, {\mathbb C}, {\mathbb H}, {\mathbb O}$ and their split versions as sets, endowing them with a $*$-conjugation which usually but not always is the natural complex, quaternionic or octonionic conjugation.
description: 44 pages, {\itshape Proceedings of the XXI International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics}, Burgos (Spain) 2012
Effect of Natriuretic Peptide–Guided Therapy on Hospitalization or Cardiovascular Mortality in High-Risk Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Adams, Kirkwood F.
name: Desvigne-Nickens, Patrice
name: Piña, Ileana L.
name: Passmore, Gayle
name: O’Connor, Christopher M.
name: Felker, G. Michael
name: Yang, Hongqiu
name: Whellan, David J.
name: Anstrom, Kevin J.
name: Cooper, Lawton S.
name: Leifer, Eric S.
name: Ezekowitz, Justin A.
name: Januzzi, James L.
name: Mark, Daniel B.
name: Fiuzat, Mona
name: Houston-Miller, Nancy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The natriuretic peptides are biochemical markers of heart failure (HF) severity and predictors of adverse outcomes. Smaller studies have evaluated adjusting HF therapy based on natriuretic peptide levels (“guided therapy”) with inconsistent results.
ELMformer: Efficient Raw Image Restoration with a Locally Multiplicative Transformer
Creators: name: Ma, Jiaqi
name: Yan, Shengyuan
name: Zhang, Lefei
name: Wang, Guoli
name: Zhang, Qian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In order to get raw images of high quality for downstream Image Signal Process (ISP), in this paper we present an Efficient Locally Multiplicative Transformer called ELMformer for raw image restoration. ELMformer contains two core designs especially for raw images whose primitive attribute is single-channel. The first design is a Bi-directional Fusion Projection (BFP) module, where we consider both the color characteristics of raw images and spatial structure of single-channel. The second one is that we propose a Locally Multiplicative Self-Attention (L-MSA) scheme to effectively deliver information from the local space to relevant parts. ELMformer can efficiently reduce the computational consumption and perform well on raw image restoration tasks. Enhanced by these two core designs, ELMformer achieves the highest performance and keeps the lowest FLOPs on raw denoising and raw deblurring benchmarks compared with state-of-the-arts. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority and generalization ability of ELMformer. On SIDD benchmark, our method has even better denoising performance than ISP-based methods which need huge amount of additional sRGB training images. The codes are release at https://github.com/leonmakise/ELMformer.
description: ACM Multimedia 2022
Flavonoids and their properties to form chelate complexes
Creators: name: Symonowicz, Marzena
name: Kolanek, Mateusz
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2012

description: The medical properties of naturally occurring compounds such as flavonoids have been well known for many years. However, the discovery that complexes of flavonoids with metal ions are more effective than free flavonoids changed the course of chemistry research. Flavonoids can be effective drugs because of their potent chelating or neuroprotective, radical scavenging and anti-inflammatory properties. Our paper is a literature review about flavonoids and their complexes which are generally used in medicine and pharmacy.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 76 Nr 1 (2012): Biotechnology and Food Science
Bottomonium Mesons and Strategies for Their Observation
Creators: name: Godfrey, Stephen
name: Moats, Kenneth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $B$-factories and Large Hadron Collider experiments have demonstrated the ability to observe and measure the properties of bottomonium mesons. In order to discover missing states it is useful to know their properties to develop a successful search strategy. To this end we calculate the masses and decay properties of excited bottomonium states. We use the relativized quark model to calculate the masses and wavefunctions and the $^3P_0$ quark-pair creation model to calculate decay widths to open bottom. We also summarize results for radiative transitions, annihilation decays, hadronic transitions and production cross sections which are used to develop strategies to find these states. We find that the $b\bar{b}$ system has a rich spectroscopy that we expect to be substantially extended by the LHC and $e^+e^-$ experiments in the near future. Some of the most promising possibilities at the LHC are observing the $χ_{b(1,2)}(3P)$, $χ_{b(1,2)}(4P)$ and $η_b(3S)$ states in $γμ^+μ^-$ final states that proceed via radiative transitions through $Υ(nS)$ intermediate states and $1^3D_J$ and $2^3D_J$ into $γγμ^+μ^-$ final states proceeding via $1^3P_J\to 1^3S_1$ and $2^3P_J\to 2^3S_1$ intermediate states respectively. Some of the most interesting possibilities in $e^+e^-$ collisions are studying the $1^3D_J$ states via $4γ$ cascades starting with the $Υ(3S)$ and the $3^3P_J$ states in $γγμ^+ μ^-$ final states starting with the $Υ(4S)$ and proceeding via $Υ(nS)$ intermediate states. Completing the bottomonium spectrum is an important validation of lattice QCD calculations and a test of our understanding of bottomonium states in the context of the quark model.
description: 38 pages, 1 figure, 36 tables, Changes: A few minor word changes. Corrected phase error in equation A12 which effected strong decays to 1P_1 and 1P_1' final states. All instances have been corrected with no effect on our conclusions
Transfering Low-Frequency Features for Domain Adaptation
Creators: name: Li, Zhaowen
name: Zhao, Xu
name: Zhao, Chaoyang
name: Tang, Ming
name: Wang, Jinqiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Previous unsupervised domain adaptation methods did not handle the cross-domain problem from the perspective of frequency for computer vision. The images or feature maps of different domains can be decomposed into the low-frequency component and high-frequency component. This paper proposes the assumption that low-frequency information is more domain-invariant while the high-frequency information contains domain-related information. Hence, we introduce an approach, named low-frequency module (LFM), to extract domain-invariant feature representations. The LFM is constructed with the digital Gaussian low-pass filter. Our method is easy to implement and introduces no extra hyperparameter. We design two effective ways to utilize the LFM for domain adaptation, and our method is complementary to other existing methods and formulated as a plug-and-play unit that can be combined with these methods. Experimental results demonstrate that our LFM outperforms state-of-the-art methods for various computer vision tasks, including image classification and object detection.
description: Accepted by ICME2022
Chromium in food products
Creators: name: Sykuła-Zając, Anna
name: Pawlak, Anna
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2012

description: Chromium plays an important role in human and animal bodies. According to the oxidation state chromium can be advantageous for human health and, simultaneously possesses toxic properties. In this work the studies concerning the chromium content in the total and Cr (VI) forms in selected and frequently used during breakfast food products were presented. The largest quantities of the metal occur in raw cereal products (non-roasted buckwheat or brown rice bread) and herbs such as garlic or mint. The lowest chromium contents were observed in raw and UHT milk samples.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 76 Nr 1 (2012): Biotechnology and Food Science
Path integral approach to the quantum fidelity amplitude
Creators: name: Vanicek, Jiri
name: Cohen, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Loschmidt echo is a measure of quantum irreversibility and is determined by the fidelity amplitude of an imperfect time-reversal protocol. Fidelity amplitude plays an important role both in the foundations of quantum mechanics and its applications, such as time-resolved electronic spectroscopy. We derive an exact path integral formula for the fidelity amplitude and use it to obtain a series of increasingly accurate semiclassical approximations by truncating an exact expansion of the path integral exponent. While the zeroth-order expansion results in a remarkably simple, yet nontrivial approximation for the fidelity amplitude, the first-order expansion yields an alternative derivation of the so-called "dephasing representation", circumventing the use of semiclassical propagator as in the original derivation. We also obtain approximate expression for fidelity based on the second-order expansion, which resolves several shortcomings of the dephasing representation. The rigorous derivation from the path integral permits the identification of sufficient conditions under which various approximations obtained become exact.
description: 11 pages, no figures, minor typo corrected
Hormone Therapy for the Primary Prevention of Chronic Conditions in Postmenopausal Women: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force
Creators: name: Boland, Erin
name: Feltner, Cynthia
name: Lux, Linda
name: Long, Rachel
name: Gartlehner, Gerald
name: Viswanathan, Meera
name: Weber, Rachel Palmieri
name: Mullican, Kelly
name: Patel, Sheila V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Importance: Postmenopausal status coincides with increased risks for chronic conditions such as heart disease, osteoporosis, cognitive impairment, or some types of cancers. Previously, hormone therapy was used for the primary prevention of these chronic conditions.

Objective: To update evidence for the US Preventive Services Task Force on the benefits and harms of hormone therapy in reducing risks for chronic conditions.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and trial registries from June 1, 2011, through August 1, 2016. Surveillance for new evidence in targeted publications was conducted through July 1, 2017.

Study Selection: English-language randomized clinical trials reporting health outcomes.

Data Extraction and Synthesis: Dual review of abstracts, full-text articles, and study quality; meta-analyses when at least 3 similar studies were available.

Main Outcomes and Measures: Beneficial or harmful changes in risks for various chronic conditions.

Results: Eighteen trials (n = 40 058; range, 142-16 608; mean age, 53-79 years) were included. Women using estrogen-only therapy compared with placebo had significantly lower risks, per 10 000 person-years, for diabetes (-19 cases [95% CI, -34 to -3]) and fractures (-53 cases [95% CI, -69 to -39]). Risks were statistically significantly increased, per 10 000 person-years, for gallbladder disease (30 more cases [95% CI, 16 to 48]), stroke (11 more cases [95% CI, 2 to 23]), venous thromboembolism (11 more cases [95% CI, 3 to 22]), and urinary incontinence (1261 more cases [95% CI, 880 to 1689]). Women using estrogen plus progestin compared with placebo experienced significantly lower risks, per 10 000 person-years, for colorectal cancer (-6 cases [95% CI, -9 to -1]), diabetes (-14 cases [95% CI, -24 to -3), and fractures (-44 cases [95% CI, -71 to -13). Risks, per 10 000 person-years, were significantly increased for invasive breast cancer (9 more cases [95% CI, 1 to 19]), probable dementia (22 more cases [95% CI, 4 to 53]), gallbladder disease (21 more cases [95% CI, 10 to 34]), stroke (9 more cases [95% CI, 2 to 19]), urinary incontinence (876 more cases [95% CI, 606 to 1168]), and venous thromboembolism (21 more cases [95% CI, 12 to 33]).

Conclusions and Relevance: Hormone therapy for the primary prevention of chronic conditions in menopausal women is associated with some beneficial effects but also with a substantial increase of risks for harms. The available evidence regarding benefits and harms of early initiation of hormone therapy is inconclusive.
A Real-Time Tempo and Meter Tracking System for Rhythmic Improvis
Creators: name: Carnovalini, Filippo
name: Rodà, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Music is a form of expression that often requires interaction between players. If one wishes to interact in such a musical way with a computer, it is necessary for the machine to be able to interpret the input given by the human to find its musical meaning. In this work, we propose a system capable of detecting basic rhythmic features that can allow an application to synchronize its output with the rhythm given by the user, without having any prior agreement or requirement on the possible input. The system is described in detail and an evaluation is given through simulation using quantitative metrics. The evaluation shows that the system can detect tempo and meter consistently under certain settings, and could be a solid base for further developments leading to a system robust to rhythmically changing inputs.
Physicochemical and biological characterization of soils from the vicinity of the Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station
Creators: name: Białkowska, Aneta M.
name: Grzelczyk, Anna
name: Długołęcka, Anna
name: Cieśliński, Hubert
name: Kalinowska, Halina
name: Kur, Józef
name: Turkiewicz, Marianna
Publisher: name: Biotechnology and Food Science
Year: 2012

description: Soil samples collected in 2006 from 4 different sites (Puchalski Hill and a moraine below this hill, an elephant seal colony and a penguin rookery) in the vicinity of Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station at King George Island were characterized in terms of physicochemical properties (pH, humidity, concentration of selected inorganic and organic substances), microbial colonization and the overall activity of selected enzymes (differentglycosidases and esterases). Activity of the latter enzymes was assayed by p-nitrophenyl and 4-methylumbelliferone derivatives of fatty acids (by spectrophotometric and fluorimetric method, respectively). The highest lipolytic activity was found in soils from the elephant seal colony and penguin rookery.
description: Biotechnology and Food Science, Tom 76 Nr 1 (2012): Biotechnology and Food Science