cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Update - Research and development goals for COVID-19 in Africa
Creators: name: Accelerating Excellence In Science In Africa (AESA)
Publisher: name: AAS Open Research
Year: 2021

description: The African Academy of Science (AAS) conducted a consultative webinar followed by a survey based on the WHO Roadmap to define African research priorities for the COVID-19 outbreak. The Research and Development goals for COVID-19 in Africa report was published on 24th April 2020. This report proposed a prioritization list for research and development for the COVID-19 outbreak in Africa. The findings were that African researchers largely supported the WHO Roadmap research priorities, but also identified a list of additional sub-priorities of relevance to the African health and research environment. The landscape of Covid-19 research needs and research outputs continues to change with possibilities of research breakthroughs converting into significant reported findings in some areas. There needs to be a concerted effort to continually review the priorities for Covid-19 research and development as events unfold. The AAS in partnership with AUDA NEPAD, together with The Global Health Network (TGHN) and The United Kingdom Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) therefore conducted a survey to update the initial list of priorities identified in Africa. This updated list will promote the use of funding to currently relevant global priorities, with particular consideration to LMICs as designated in the World Bank list. In this report we present a summary of results for responses from researchers across the African continent.
โอกาสการเกิดระยะแห้งแล้งและระยะชุ่มชื้นในภาคเหนือของประเทศไทยในช่วงเหตุการณ์เอลนีโญ ลานีญา และปกติ
Creators: name: อภันตรี ยุทธพันธ์
name: สมบัติ ชื่นชูกลิ่น
name: สมชาย ใบม่วง
Publisher: name: คณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร
Year: 2558
Subjects: Dry Spells,Wet Spells,El Nino,La Nina,Markov chain

description: 1, 10, วิศวกรรมสาร มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร
Magnetically tuned spin dynamics resonance
Creators: name: Kronjäger, J.
name: Becker, C.
name: Navez, P.
name: Bongs, K.
name: Sengstock, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the experimental observation of a magnetically tuned resonance phenomenon resulting from spin mixing dynamics of ultracold atomic gases. In particular we study the magnetic field dependence of spin conversion in F=2 87Rb spinor condensates in the crossover from interaction dominated to quadratic Zeeman dominated dynamics. We discuss the observed phenomenon in the framework of spin dynamics as well as matter wave four wave mixing. Furthermore we show that the validity range of the single mode approximation for spin dynamics is significantly extended in the regime of high magnetic field.
Hybrid Fracton Phases: Parent Orders for Liquid and Non-Liquid Quantum Phases
Creators: name: Tantivasadakarn, Nathanan
name: Ji, Wenjie
name: Vijay, Sagar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce hybrid fracton orders: three-dimensional gapped quantum phases that exhibit the phenomenology of both conventional three-dimensional topological orders and fracton orders. Hybrid fracton orders host both (i) mobile topological quasiparticles and loop excitations, as well as (ii) point-like topological excitations with restricted mobility, with non-trivial fusion rules and mutual braiding statistics between the two sets of excitations. Furthermore, hybrid fracton phases can realize either conventional three-dimensional topological orders or fracton orders after undergoing a phase transition driven by the condensation of certain gapped excitations. Therefore, they serve as parent orders for both long-range-entangled quantum liquid and non-liquid phases. We study the detailed properties of hybrid fracton phases through exactly solvable models in which the resulting orders hybridize a three-dimensional $\mathbb Z_2$ topological order with (i) the X-Cube fracton order, or (ii) Haah's code. The hybrid orders presented here can also be understood as the deconfined phase of a gauge theory whose gauge group is given by an Abelian global symmetry $G$ and subsystem symmetries of a normal subgroup $N$ along lower-dimensional sub-regions. A further generalization of this construction to non-Abelian gauge groups is presented in arXiv:2106.03842.
description: 19+10 pages, 17 figures, 5 tables. Published version
Clinical outcomes of patients admitted in intensive care units of Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Hospital of Hosanna, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mohammed Suleiman Obsa, Abdi Oumer Adem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: An intensive care unit is a special department of hospital or health care facility that provides intensive treatment medicine. Critically ill patients are admitted to the intensive care unit to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with acute illness, trauma or surgical procedures. This study aimed to assess clinical outcomes of patients admitted in intensive care units of Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Hospital of Hosanna from January 2015 to January 2016. Institutional based cross sectional study design was conducted. All the study participants admitted to intensive care unit were included. Regular supervision and follow up was made. Data was entered into Epi info version 7 by investigators and was transported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariate analysis was used to identify factors associated with patient’s outcome. A total of 280 clients were enrolled into the study of which 46.42% died. About 26% of patients were found in the age group of 20 to 24 years and majority of them were male (58.2%). Patient with head injury is about six times more likely to die in the intensive care unit than patients with small bowel obstruction (AOR 6.620 (95% CI ((468-93.584). There were poor outcomes of patients admitted to intensive care unit so that it was strongly recommended to improve quality of care.
Algebraic branch points at all loop orders from positive kinematics and wall crossing
Creators: name: Herderschee, Aidan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: There is a remarkable connection between the boundary structure of the positive kinematic region and branch points of integrated amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. A long standing question has been precisely how algebraic branch points emerge from this picture. We use wall crossing and scattering diagrams to systematically study the boundary structure of the positive kinematic regions associated with MHV amplitudes. The notion of asymptotic chambers in the scattering diagram naturally explains the appearance of algebraic branch points. Furthermore, the scattering diagram construction also motivates a new coordinate system for kinematic space that rationalizes the relations between algebraic letters in the symbol alphabet. As a direct application, we conjecture a complete list of all algebraic letters that could appear in the symbol alphabet of the 8-point MHV amplitude.
description: 41+18 pages, 18 figures. v2: minor corrections; references added. v3: added clarifications; minor corrections; new appendix
Die nationalsozialistische Okkupation Griechenlands im Familiengedächtnis der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
Creators: name: Ταβλαρίδου, Φωτεινή Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2018
Subjects: Οικογενειακή μνήμη
Αποσιώπηση παρελθόντος
Γερμανική κατοχή
Family memory
Reconstruction of the past
German-occupation in Greece

description: Αντικείμενο της ερευνητικής εργασίας είναι η μελέτη της γερμανικής κατοχής στην οικογενειακή μνήμη, όπως αυτή παρουσιάζεται στη σύγχρονη γερμανόφωνη λογοτεχνία. Τα δύο λογοτεχνικά έργα που εξετάζονται είναι τα μυθιστορήματα Der Kretische Gast του Klaus Modick και Mitvergangenheit της Ana Vasia. Βασικό θεωρητικό πλαίσιο αποτελεί το ζήτημα της μνήμης και ιδιαίτερα της οικογενειακής μνήμης. Λεπτομερής ανάλυση των μυθιστορημάτων γίνεται ως προς την αποσιώπηση ή/και την ανακατασκευή του παρελθόντος, εστιάζοντας στις σχέσεις που δημιουργούνται μεταξύ της πρώτης γενιάς, που βίωσε τον πόλεμο, και των επόμενων γενεών. Κομβικό σημείο σ’ αυτή τη σχέση αποτελεί η αποκάλυψη (ή η απόκρυψη) των εμπειριών που βίωσαν οι παλαιότεροι, ως άμεσα συμμετέχοντες στις θηριωδίες του πολέμου. Επιπλέον, εξετάζονται τα «Μέσα», μέσω των οποίων διατηρείται ζωντανή η μνήμη
description: The aim of the thesis is the research of the German-occupation in family memory, as it is presented in German-speaking contemporary literature. The analyzed novels are Der Kretische Gast by Klaus Modick and Mitvergangenheit by Ana Vasia. The theoretical framework is constructed by memory theories, especially by those concerning family memory. Examined are the silencing and/or the reconstruction of the past, focusing on the relations between the first and the next generations, as a result of the narration or the concealment by the war witnesses of their experiences. Furthermore, I examine the media that can keep a memory alive
Eigenstate entanglement entropy in $PT$ invariant non-Hermitian system
Creators: name: Modak, Ranjan
name: Mandal, Bhabani Prasad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Much has been learned about universal properties of the eigenstate entanglement entropy for one-dimensional lattice models, which is described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian. While very less of it has been understood for non-Hermitian systems. In the present work we study a non-Hermitian, non-interacting model of fermions which is invariant under combined $PT$ transformation. Our models show a phase transition from $PT$ unbroken phase to broken phase as we tune the hermiticity breaking parameter. Entanglement entropy of such systems can be defined in two different ways, depending on whether we consider only right (or equivalently only left) eigenstates or a combination of both left and right eigenstates which form a complete set of bi-orthonormal eigenstates. We demonstrate that the entanglement entropy of the ground state and also of the typical excited states show some unique features in both of these phases of the system. Most strikingly, entanglement entropy obtained taking a combination of both left and right eigenstates shows an exponential divergence with system size at the transition point. While in the $PT$-unbroken phase, the entanglement entropy obtained from only the right (or equivalently left) eigenstates shows identical behavior as of an equivalent Hermitian system which is connected to the non-Hermitian system by a similarity transformation.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Treatment Outcomes of Tuberculosis at asella Teaching hospital, ethiopia: Ten Years’ retrospective aggregated Data
Creators: name: Ketema Tafess1,2, Teresa Kisi Beyen, Adugna Abera, Geremew Tasew4, Shimelis Mekit5, Solomon Sisay6, Legesse Tadesse And Gilman K. H. Siu1
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) has been one of the major strategies to combat the epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) globally. This study aimed to evaluate TB treatment outcomes between September 2004 and July 2014 under the DOTS program at one of the largest public hospitals in Ethiopia. Methods: A retrospective data of TB patients registered at Asella Teaching Hospital between September 2004 and July 2014 were obtained from hospital registry. Treatment outcomes and types of TB cases were categorized according to the national TB control program guideline. Binomial and multinomial logistic regression models were used to analyze the association between treatment outcomes and potential predictor variables. results: A total of 1,755 TB patients’ records were included in the study. Of these, 945 (53.8%) were male, 480 (27.4%) smear-positive TB, 287 (16.4%) HIV positive, and 1,549 (88.3%) new cases. Among 480 smear-positive pulmonary TB cases, 377 (78.5%) patients were cured, 21 (4.40) completed the treatment, 35 (7.3%) transferred out, 19 (4.0%) died, 24 (5.0%) defaulted, and 4 (0.8%) failure. Overall, 398 (82.9%) smear-positive pulmonary TB patients were successfully treated. For smear-negative TB (n = 641) and extrapulmonary TB cases (n = 634), 1,036 (81.3%) completed the treatment and demonstrated favorable response. Taking all TB types into account, 1,434 (81.7%) were considered as successfully treated. In the multivariate binary logistic model, patients in older age group (AOR = 0.386, 95% CI: 0.250–0.596) and retreatment cases (AOR = 0.422, 95% CI: 0.226–0.790) were less likely to be successfully treated compared to younger and new cases, respectively. In multinomial logistic regression, age increment by 1 year increased the risk of death and default of TB patients by 0.05 (adjusted β = 0.05; 95% CI: 0.03, 0.06) and 0.02 (adjusted β = 0.02; 95% CI: 0.01, 0.04). The odds of TB patients who died during treatment were higher among HIV-infected TB patients (adjusted β = 2.65; 95% CI: 1.28, 5.50).
Analytic two-loop master integrals for $tW$ production at hadron colliders: I
Creators: name: Chen, Long-Bin
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analytic calculation of two-loop master integrals that are relevant for $tW$ production at hadron colliders. We focus on the integral families with only one massive propagator. After choosing a canonical basis, the differential equations for the master integrals can be transformed into the $d$ln form. The boundaries are determined by simple direct integrations or regularity conditions at kinematic points without physical singularities. The analytical results in this work are expressed in terms of multiple polylogarithms, and have been checked with numerical computations.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures; v3: published version
DEP Bulletin - 2024 - Volume 48 Issue 23
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
Four-class classification of fNIRS signals for decoding answers to multiple-choice questions
Creators: name: Noman Naseer
name: Keum-Shik, Hong
name: Yong-Il Shin
name: M Jawad Khan
name: M Raheel Bhutta
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Decision decoding is of particular importance to the people suffering from the totally locked-in syndrome (LIS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), anarthria, vegetative state and other such motor disabilities, as despite of being fully conscious they cannot communicate naturally (Sorger et al. 2009). Brain-computer interface (BCI) can provide a means of communication for such people by bypassing the central nervous system (Wolpaw et al. 2002). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based BCIs (Naseer and Hong, 2015) have shown to work well for binary decoding and communication in yes and no (Naseer et al. 2014). However, multiple decision based communication has not been performed using these modalities yet. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMIR)-based BCI has shown a feasibility of multiple-decisions decoding in Sorger et al. (2009), however, the fMRI machines are not feasible for communication in daily life situations. In this paper, we decoded answers to four-choice questions based on four different brain activities acquired using concurrent measurement of fNIRS from the motor and the prefrontal cortices.
A Search for L4 Earth Trojan Asteroids Using a Novel Track-Before-Detect Multi-Epoch Pipeline
Creators: name: Lifset, Noah
name: Golovich, Nathan
name: Green, Eric
name: Armstrong, Robert
name: Yeager, Travis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earth Trojan Asteroids are an important but elusive population that co-orbit with Earth at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points. There is only one known, but a large population is theoretically stable and could provide insight into our solar system's past and present as well as planetary defense. In this paper, we present the results of an Earth Trojan survey that uses a novel shift-and-stack detection method on two nights of data from the Dark Energy Camera. We find no new Earth Trojan Asteroids. We calculate an upper limit on the population that is consistent with previous searches despite much less sky coverage. Additionally, we elaborate on previous upper limit calculations using current asteroid population statistics and an extensive asteroid simulation to provide the most up to date population constraints. We find an L4 Earth Trojan population of NET < 1 for H = 13.93, NET < 7 for H = 16, and NET < 938 for H = 22.
Additional file 1 of Mitral valve repair and replacement in infectious endocarditis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcome
Creators: name: Nuthalapati, Umesh
name: Bathinapattla, Manoj Reddy
name: Cardoso, Rayner Peyser
name: Jesi, Nusrat Jahan
name: Singh, Kanwarmandeep
name: Moradi, Iman
name: Gostomczyk, Karol
name: Afzal, Maham
name: Omer, Moosa Bin
name: Mian, Zorez Rashid
name: Patel, Soham
name: Sachdeva, Pratyush
name: Malik, Muhammad Nauman
name: Abbas, Mohammad
name: Singh, Jugraj
name: Shafique, Muhammad Ashir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1: Supplementary Figure S5: Postoperative Bleeding Supplementary Figure S6: Mortality Supplementary Figure S7: Recurrent endocarditis Supplementary Figure S8: Postoperative Stroke Supplementary Figure S9: Funnel plots for Postoperative Bleeding Supplementary Figure S10: Funnel plots for Mortality Supplementary Figure S11: Funnel plots for Recurrent Endocarditis Supplementary Figure S12: Funnel plots for post-operative stroke.
Thermal signatures of Little-Parks effect in the heat capacity of mesoscopic superconducting rings
Creators: name: Ong, Florian R.
name: Bourgeois, Olivier
name: Skipetrov, Sergey E.
name: Chaussy, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first measurements of thermal signatures of the Little-Parks effect using a highly sensitive nanocalorimeter. Small variations of the heat capacity $C\_p$ of 2.5 millions of non interacting micrometer-sized superconducting rings threaded by a magnetic flux $Φ$ have been measured by attojoule calorimetry. This non-invasive method allows the measurement of thermodynamic properties -- and hence the probing of the energy levels -- of nanosystems without perturbing them electrically. It is observed that $C\_p$ is strongly influenced by the fluxoid quantization (Little-Parks effect) near the critical temperature $T\_c$. The jump of $C\_p$ at the superconducting phase transition is an oscillating function of $Φ$ with a period $Φ\_0=h/2e$, the magnetic flux quantum, which is in agreement with the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity.
description: To be published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications
Η εναρμόνιση των τραπεζών με τον GDPR
Creators: name: Τοπάλογλου Δέσποινα-Σάρρα, Ελευθερίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2018
Subjects: Προσωπικά δεδομένα
Τράπεζα
Γενικός Κανονισμός Προστασίας Δεδομένων
Personal data
Bank
General Data Protection Regulation

description: Σκοπός της συγκεκριμένης διατριβής ήταν η ανάδειξη της ανάγκης εναρμόνισης των τραπεζών με το Γενικό Κανονισμό Προστασίας Δεδομένων. Αναπτύχθηκαν διεξοδικά οι σημαντικότεροι ορισμοί του Κανονισμού, οι βασικές αρχές επεξεργασίας, οι νομικές βάσεις επεξεργασίας των προσωπικών δεδομένων και τα δικαιώματα των πελατών της τράπεζας ως υποκείμενα των δεδομένων. Επίσης περιγράφηκε ο ρόλος, οι αρμοδιότητες και τα καθήκοντα της Αρχής Προστασίας Προσωπικών Δεδομένων, καθώς και τα μέτρα επιβολής του Κανονισμού, όπως διοικητικά πρόστιμα, αποζημιώσεις, άσκηση διοικητικής προσφυγής κλπ. Στη συνέχεια αναφέρθηκαν ορισμένα οργανωτικά και τεχνικά μέτρα τα οποία πρέπει να λάβει η τράπεζα προκειμένου να εναρμονιστεί με τον Γενικό Κανονισμό Προστασίας Δεδομένων. Τα κυριότερα από αυτά είναι η δημιουργία πολιτικής απορρήτου, η πρόσληψη υπεύθυνου προστασίας δεδομένων, η τροποποίηση των συμβάσεων της τράπεζας με τους εργαζόμενους, τους πελάτες και τους συνεργάτες της, η διενέργεια εκτίμησης αντιτύπου, η διατήρηση αρχείου επεξεργασίας των δεδομένων, η δημιουργία πολιτικής διαχείρισης περιστατικών παραβίασης προσωπικών δεδομένων και γνωστοποίηση της παραβίασης στην Αρχή, η ασφαλής διαβίβαση των προσωπικών δεδομένων εκτός ΕΕ, η διαφύλαξη του φυσικού αρχείου της τράπεζας καθώς επίσης και ηλεκτρονικών βάσεων δεδομένων και των λογισμικών που χρησιμοποιεί
description: The aim of the present thesis was to emphasize on bank’s obligation to comply with General Data Protection Regulation. The most important definitions of the Regulation, the basic principles of processing, the legal bases for the processing of personal data and the rights of the bank's clients as data subjects have been developed in detail. The role, responsibilities and tasks of the Data Protection Authority, as well as enforcement measures, such as administrative fines, indemnities, administrative appeals, etc. were also described. Every bank should take the organizational and technical measures in order to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation. The most crucial of these are the composition of a privacy policy, the recruitment of a Data Protection Officer, the modification of the Bank's contracts with its employees, customers and partners, the making of a copy, the maintenance of a data processing file, the composition of incident management policy violation of personal data and disclosure of the breach to the Authority, the safe transfer of personal data outside the EU, the preservation of the physical file of the bank, as well as electronic databases and software used by the bank
Selective lasing in multimode periodic and non-periodic nanopillar waveguides
Creators: name: Zhukovsky, S. V.
name: Chigrin, D. N.
name: Lavrinenko, A. V.
name: Kroha, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the lasing action in coupled multi-row nanopillar waveguides of periodic or fractal structure using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, coupled to the laser rate equations. Such devices exhibit band splitting with distinct and controllable supermode formation. We demonstrate that selective lasing into each of the supermodes is possible. The structure acts as a microlaser with selectable wavelength. Lasing mode selection is achieved by means of coaxial injection seeding with a Gaussian signal of appropriate transverse amplitude and phase profiles. Based on this we propose the concept of switchable lasing as an alternative to conventional laser tuning by means of external cavity control.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Development of a reading Accessibility Index using the MNREAD acuity chart

Creators: name: Calabrese, Aurelie
name: Sing-Hang Cheung
name: Yihan Yang
name: Yangfan Qin
name: McGwin, Gerald
name: Owsley, Cynthia
name: Legge, Gordon E.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Purpose: We define a new measure of reading accessibility, primarily intended for evaluating low-vision reading. We illustrate this measure with data from the Impact of Cataracts on Mobility (ICOM) study (Owsley et al, JAMA, 2002).

Methods: The reading Accessibility Index (AI) is defined as a subject’s average reading speed in words/min on the MNREAD acuity chart over the print size range from 0.4 to 1.3 logMAR corresponding to physical x-heights of 1.46 to 11.8 mm, normalized by the average value for a group of 78 normally sighted young adults. This is the range of print size for which reading speed is maximum for normally sighted subjects, and contains the vast majority of published printed material (Legge & Bigelow, J. Vis., 2011). The AI is intended to capture both the range of accessible print sizes for a subject, and the subject’s speed (fluency) of reading within the range in a single-valued measure. Changes in a subject’s AI can be used to evaluate the impact of ophthalmic treatment, rehabilitation program or assistive technology on reading accessibility. We calculated AI values from MNREAD data collected in subjects with cataracts (N=92), with pseudophakia (N=131) and with crystalline lenses but no cataract (N=98), who participated in the ICOM study. Correlation coefficients were calculated for the association between AI and letter acuity, contrast sensitivity, and reading-related performance on Timed Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (TIADL).

Results: AI values of the ICOM subjects ranged from 0.21 to 1.23, where a value of 0 means no reading within the accessible range, and 1 is the normal average. The mean AI (± SD) for the cataract group (0.66 ± 0.17) was significantly lower (p<0.001) than for either the pseudophakia group (0.77 ± 0.15) or the no cataract group (0.77 ± 0.13). Overall, the correlation between AI and letter acuity (r=0.27, p<0.01) and contrast sensitivity (r=0.29, p<0.01) was weaker than with the TIADL measure (r=0.68, p<0.01).

Conclusions: The Reading Accessibility Index is a new measure representing a subject’s access to text over the range of print sizes found in everyday life. Its calculation has the advantages that it does not rely on curve fitting, and it gives a direct comparison with the performance of normally sighted individuals. Results from the ICOM dataset imply that the AI reflects characteristics of reading performance in everyday life and may be sensitive to cataract surgery.
Low pT Hadronic Physics with CMS
Creators: name: Sikler, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pixel detector of CMS can be used to reconstruct very low pT charged particles down to about 0.1 GeV/c. This can be achieved with high efficiency, good resolution and a negligible fake rate for elementary collisions. In the case of central PbPb collisions the fake rate can be kept low for pT > 0.4 GeV/c. In addition, the detector can be employed for identification of neutral hadrons (V0s) and converted photons.
description: 6 pages. Presented at the Poster Session of Quark Matter 2006 Conference, Shanghai, 14-20 November 2006. Submitted to IJMPE
Intrinsic mechanisms for drive-dependent Purcell decay in superconducting quantum circuits
Creators: name: Hanai, Ryo
name: McDonald, Alexander
name: Clerk, Aashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a new approach to understanding intrinsic mechanisms that cause the $T_1$-decay rate of a multi-level superconducting qubit to depend on the photonic population of a coupled, detuned cavity. Our method yields simple analytic expressions for both the coherently driven or thermally excited cases which are in good agreement with full master equation numerics, and also facilitates direct physical intuition. It also predicts several new phenomena. In particular, we find that in a wide range of settings, the cavity-qubit detuning controls whether a non-zero photonic population increases or decreases qubit Purcell decay. Our method combines insights from a Keldysh treatment of the system, and Lindblad perturbation theory.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1: of Perioperative redistribution of regional ventilation and pulmonary function: a prospective observational study in two cohorts of patients at risk for postoperative pulmonary complications
Creators: name: Bauer, Maria
name: Opitz, Anne
name: Jรถrg Filser
name: Jansen, Hendrik
name: Meffert, Rainer
name: Germer, Christoph
name: Roewer, Norbert
name: Muellenbach, Ralf
name: Kredel, Markus
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S1. Ventilation Parameters. Compares the settings of the ventilator throughout anesthesia in both groups. (DOCX 19 kb)
Additional file 2 of The effect of SNPs in lncRNA as ceRNA on the risk and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Mo, Han
name: Wang, Xi
name: Ji, Guohua
name: Liang, Xiao
name: Yang, Yi
name: Sun, Wenjing
name: Jia, Xueyuan
name: Xu, Lidan
name: Qiao, Yuandong
name: Zhou, Henan
name: Zhao, Wenhui
name: Fu, Songbin
name: Zhang, Xuelong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Independent sample test of age.
Improved gravitational radiation time-scales II: spin-orbit contributions and environmental perturbations
Creators: name: Zwick, Lorenz
name: Capelo, Pedro R.
name: Bortolas, Elisa
name: Vazquez-Aceves, Veronica
name: Mayer, Lucio
name: Amaro-Seoane, Pau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Peters' formula is an analytical estimate of the time-scale of gravitational wave (GW)-induced coalescence of binary systems. It is used in countless applications, where the convenience of a simple formula outweighs the need for precision. However, many promising sources of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), such as supermassive black hole binaries and extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are expected to enter the LISA band with highly eccentric ($e \gtrsim$ 0.9) and highly relativistic orbits. These are exactly the two limits in which Peters' estimate performs the worst. In this work, we expand upon previous results and give simple analytical fits to quantify how the inspiral time-scale is affected by the relative 1.5 post-Newtonian (PN) hereditary fluxes and spin-orbit couplings. We discuss several cases that demand a more accurate GW time-scale. We show how this can have a major influence on quantities that are relevant for LISA event-rate estimates, such as the EMRI critical semi-major axis. We further discuss two types of environmental perturbations that can play a role in the inspiral phase: the gravitational interaction with a third massive body and the energy loss due to dynamical friction and torques from a surrounding gas medium ubiquitous in galactic nuclei. With the aid of PN corrections to the time-scale in vacuum, we find simple analytical expressions for the regions of phase space in which environmental perturbations are of comparable strength to the effects of any particular PN order, being able to qualitatively reproduce the results of much more sophisticated analyses.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Comments welcome!
Ανάλυση κόστους χρηματοδότησης έργων υποδομής
Creators: name: Μανουσαρίδου, Αννα Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2018
Subjects: Κόστος Χρηματοδότησης
Έργα υποδομής
Βελτιστοποίηση κόστους χρηματοδότησης
Financing cost
Infrastructure projects
Financing cost optimization

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται την ανάλυση του κόστους χρηματοδότησης σε μεγάλα έργα υποδομής. Τέτοιου είδους έργα θεωρούνται τα έργα οδοποιίας. Αρχικά, στην εν λόγω εργασία, διερευνάται ποιο είναι το κόστος χρηματοδότησης σε ένα τεχνικό έργο, αναλύονται οι τρόποι των διαφορετικών τρόπων χρηματοδότησης και το κατά πόσο αυτοί επηρεάζουν το κόστος χρηματοδότησης, τις χρηματοροές του έργου, το κέρδος του αναδόχου και διαμορφώνουν το τελικό και συνολικό κόστος του έργου. Ερευνήθηκε ο τρόπος αντιμετώπισης του κόστους χρηματοδότησης από τους μεγαλύτερους ευρωπαϊκούς χρηματοδοτικούς φορείς με τους κυριότερους να είναι η ευρωπαϊκή κεντρική τράπεζα και η ευρωπαϊκή τράπεζα επενδύσεων. Ακολούθως, αναλύθηκαν ορισμένες περιπτώσεις μελέτης που αφορούν τον ελλαδικό χώρο και πιο συγκεκριμένα διερευνήθηκαν οι πέντε συμβάσεις παραχώρησης των αυτοκινητοδρόμων, του αυτοκινητοδρόμου του Αιγαίου, της Ολύμπια οδού, της Ιόνιας οδού, του αυτοκινητοδρόμου Κεντρικής Ελλάδος–Ε65 και τέλος του αυτοκινητοδρόμου Μορέα. Κλείνοντας, καταγράφηκαν οι τρόποι βελτιστοποίησης αλλά και οι τρόποι μείωσης του κόστους χρηματοδότησης στα έργα υποδομής και τελικά προέκυψαν ορισμένα στοχευμένα συμπεράσματα τα οποία πηγάζουν από όλη την παραπάνω ανάλυση της παρούσας εργασίας
description: This diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the cost of financing large infrastructure projects. Such works are considered to be road works. Initially, this work explores the cost of financing a technical project, analyzes the ways of different financing methods and how these affect the cost of financing, project cash flow, contractor's profit and shape the final and total cost of the project. It was explored how to deal with the cost of financing by the major European financial institutions, the main ones being the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank. Subsequently, a number of study cases concerning Greece were analyzed, more specifically the five motorway concession contracts, the Aegean Motorway, the Olympia Street, the Ionian Road, the Central Greece-E65 Motorway and the Moare motorway were investigated. In conclusion, the ways of optimization and the ways of reducing the cost of financing in infrastructure projects were recorded and finally some targeted conclusions resulted from the above analysis of the present work
Additional file 2 of Mitral valve repair and replacement in infectious endocarditis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcome
Creators: name: Nuthalapati, Umesh
name: Bathinapattla, Manoj Reddy
name: Cardoso, Rayner Peyser
name: Jesi, Nusrat Jahan
name: Singh, Kanwarmandeep
name: Moradi, Iman
name: Gostomczyk, Karol
name: Afzal, Maham
name: Omer, Moosa Bin
name: Mian, Zorez Rashid
name: Patel, Soham
name: Sachdeva, Pratyush
name: Malik, Muhammad Nauman
name: Abbas, Mohammad
name: Singh, Jugraj
name: Shafique, Muhammad Ashir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2: Supplementary Table 1: Newcastle Ottawa Quality Assessment scale.
Using working patterns as a basis for differentiating part-time employment
Creators: name: Letrémy, Patrick
name: Meilland, Christèle
name: Cottrell, Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Seeking to determine which working patterns have a specific effect on part-time work, in 1998-99 France's INSEE statistical agency carried out a Timetable survey that questioned the homogeneity of this form of employment (again in terms of the working patterns upon which it is based). A neuronal method was used to classify an entire sample of part-time employees according to their weekly working patterns -the end result being that part-time work was shown to be a very heterogeneous form of employment. This was not only reflected by the existence of many different groups of part-time employees, each with highly differentiated individual and professional characteristics, but also (and above all) by the diversity of their weekly working patterns.
description: ACSEG 2002, publi\'{e} EJESS
Model-based multi-parameter mapping
Creators: name: Balbastre, Yael
name: Brudfors, Mikael
name: Azzarito, Michela
name: Lambert, Christian
name: Callaghan, Martina F.
name: Ashburner, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Quantitative MR imaging is increasingly favoured for its richer information content and standardised measures. However, computing quantitative parameter maps, such as those encoding longitudinal relaxation rate (R1), apparent transverse relaxation rate (R2*) or magnetisation-transfer saturation (MTsat), involves inverting a highly non-linear function. Many methods for deriving parameter maps assume perfect measurements and do not consider how noise is propagated through the estimation procedure, resulting in needlessly noisy maps. Instead, we propose a probabilistic generative (forward) model of the entire dataset, which is formulated and inverted to jointly recover (log) parameter maps with a well-defined probabilistic interpretation (e.g., maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori). The second order optimisation we propose for model fitting achieves rapid and stable convergence thanks to a novel approximate Hessian. We demonstrate the utility of our flexible framework in the context of recovering more accurate maps from data acquired using the popular multi-parameter mapping protocol. We also show how to incorporate a joint total variation prior to further decrease the noise in the maps, noting that the probabilistic formulation allows the uncertainty on the recovered parameter maps to be estimated. Our implementation uses a PyTorch backend and benefits from GPU acceleration. It is available at https://github.com/balbasty/nitorch.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, accepted at Medical Image Analysis
Resonance scattering, absorption and off-centre abundance peaks in clusters of galaxies
Creators: name: Sanders, J. S.
name: Fabian, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possible explanation for the central abundance dips found from spatially-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of several groups and clusters of galaxies is resonance scattering. A number of the prominent iron emission lines are resonance lines. We construct a unique spectral model which takes account of resonance scattering for several thousand resonance lines, projection effects, photoelectric absorption, and allows direct spectral fitting. We apply our model to Chandra observations of two clusters with pronounced central abundance dips, Centaurus and Abell 2199. The results show that the effect of resonance scattering on emission from the centre of the cluster can be as much as 30 per cent for the Fe-K resonance lines, and 10 per cent for several Fe-L lines, if turbulence is low. The change to the metallicities obtained by fitting low resolution CCD spectra is at most 10 per cent. Accounting for resonance scattering does not remove the central dip. Allowing for internal absorption within the Centaurus significantly improves the quality of the fits, indicating the presence of absorbing material within the inner 40 kpc of NGC 4696.
description: 11 pages, accepted by MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Dietary patterns and cardiorespiratory fitness in midlife and subsequent all-cause dementia: findings from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study
Creators: name: Meernik, Clare
name: Eilat-Adar, Sigal
name: Leonard, David
name: Barlow, Carolyn E.
name: Gerber, Yariv
name: Tesler, Riki
name: Byker Shanks, Carmen
name: Pettee Gabriel, Kelley
name: Pavlovic, Andjelka
name: DeFina, Laura F.
name: Shuval, Kerem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Self-similar solutions for the LSW model with encounters
Creators: name: Herrmann, Michael
name: Niethammer, Barbara
name: Velazquez, Juan J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 45K05, 82C22, 35Q72

description: The LSW model with encounters has been suggested by Lifshitz and Slyozov as a regularization of their classical mean-field model for domain coarsening to obtain universal self-similar long-time behavior. We rigorously establish that an exponentially decaying self-similar solution to this model exist, and show that this solutions is isolated in a certain function space. Our proof relies on setting up a suitable fixed-point problem in an appropriate function space and careful asymptotic estimates of the solution to a corresponding homogeneous problem.
description: 22 pages
SuperCam, a 64-pixel heterodyne imaging array for the 870 micron atmospheric window
Creators: name: Groppi, Christopher
name: Walker, Christopher
name: Kulesa, Craig
name: Puetz, Patrick
name: Golish, Dathon
name: Gensheimer, Paul
name: Hedden, Abigail
name: Bussmann, Shane
name: Weinreb, Sander
name: Kuiper, Thomas
name: Kooi, Jacob
name: Jones, Glenn
name: Bardin, Joseph
name: Mani, Hamdi
name: Lichtenberger, Arthur
name: Narayanan, Gopal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the development of SuperCam, a 64 pixel, superheterodyne camera designed for operation in the astrophysically important 870 micron atmospheric window. SuperCam will be used to answer fundamental questions about the physics and chemistry of molecular clouds in the Galaxy and their direct relation to star and planet formation. The advent of such a system will provide an order of magnitude increase in mapping speed over what is now available and revolutionize how observational astronomy is performed in this important wavelength regime. Unlike the situation with bolometric detectors, heterodyne receiver systems are coherent, retaining information about both the amplitude and phase of the incident photon stream. From this information a high resolution spectrum of the incident light can be obtained without multiplexing. SuperCam will be constructed by stacking eight, 1x8 rows of fixed tuned, SIS mixers. The IF output of each mixer will be connected to a low-noise, broadband MMIC amplifier integrated into the mixer block. The instantaneous IF bandwidth of each pixel will be ~2 GHz, with a center frequency of 5 GHz. A spectrum of the central 500 MHz of each IF band will be provided by the array spectrometer. Local oscillator power is provided by a frequency multiplier whose output is divided between the pixels by using a matrix of waveguide power dividers. The mixer array will be cooled to 4K by a closed-cycle refrigeration system. SuperCam will reside at the Cassegrain focus of the 10m Heinrich Hertz telescope (HHT). A prototype single row of the array will be tested on the HHT in 2006, with the first engineering run of the full array in late 2007. The array is designed and constructed so that it may be readily scaled to higher frequencies.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6275, "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III"
Additional file 2 of Dietary patterns and cardiorespiratory fitness in midlife and subsequent all-cause dementia: findings from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study
Creators: name: Meernik, Clare
name: Eilat-Adar, Sigal
name: Leonard, David
name: Barlow, Carolyn E.
name: Gerber, Yariv
name: Tesler, Riki
name: Byker Shanks, Carmen
name: Pettee Gabriel, Kelley
name: Pavlovic, Andjelka
name: DeFina, Laura F.
name: Shuval, Kerem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
Accurate taxonomy assignments in cheeses ecosystems via a metagenomic approach

Creators: name: Pauvert, Charlie
name: Anne-Laure Abraham
name: Almeida, Mathieu
name: Pons, Nicolas
name: Mariadassou, Mahendra
name: Emna Achouri
name: Schbath, Sophie
name: Renault, Pierre
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: The manufacturing process of cheese, as for most fermented food, involves a complex flora, which is composed of bacteria, yeast and filamentous fungi. The exact composition of most cheeses is not completely known. Further understandings of cheeses ecosystems and control of cheese product’s constant quality both needs a better characterization of the cheese flora and a precise taxonomic identification. But the key points to tackle are low abundant species and identification up to the strain level. Hundreds of genomes extracted from dairy products are currently available in genomic databases. Precise taxonomic identification is one of the key issues of our project, hence metagenomic shotgun sequencing approach has been chosen and applied to 40 samples of cheeses ecosystems. Several current metagenomic tools are based on a set of gene markers, or on the k-mer composition of the reads, but few are able to identify species up to the strain level. We develop an original approach able to identify precisely species, and strains if reference genomes are available. We can also identify species or genus present when genomes references have down to 90% of identity with the metagenomic reads. Our method is based on the mapping of metagenomic reads on a set of reference genomes, completed with the adequation to a statistical model of CDS coverage by metagenomic reads. We test this method on several datasets, including simulated metagenomic reads mapped on reference genomes belonging to close species. We will also present examples on cheeses ecosystems.
Resonant states in an attractive one dimensional cusp potential
Creators: name: Villalba, Victor M.
name: Gonzalez-Diaz, Luis A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the two-component Dirac equation in the presence of a spatially one dimensional symmetric attractive cusp potential. The components of the spinor solution are expressed in terms of Whittaker functions. We compute the bound states solutions and show that, as the potential amplitude increases, the lowest energy state sinks into the Dirac sea becoming a resonance. We characterize and compute the lifetime of the resonant state with the help of the phase shift and the Breit-Wigner relation. We discuss the limit when the cusp potential reduces to a delta point interaction.
description: 11 pages. To appear in Physica Scripta