cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Airport City Limits: A Critical Assessment of the Redevelopment of Berlin's Flughafen Schönefeld
Creators: name: Vaughan, Rawley John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: A large airport and its “airport city” can be a regional economic driver. Berlin—capital of a rich nation yet home to a stagnant economy—is building a new airport. The government is involved on many different levels, as it hopes this new airport, Berlin Brandenburg International, can spur economic development. The best and chosen site for this new airport is actually an old one, Schönefeld, yet old airports tend to be near settlements dense enough to cause substantial pushback from some of the neighboring population. The inevitable anti-airport protest recently has produced a legal settlement that allows for the new airport’s construction, but it curtails certain aspects that would make it more of an economic driver. Also, the various levels of government have competing motives for what sort of “airport city” development occurs nearby. This paper examines the projected impacts—both positive and negative—that Berlin Brandenburg International airport is likely to produce. It also evaluates other claims and projections made by those for and against its construction, by placing commercial aviation in Berlin in the contexts of Germany and Europe. Next, it critiques the airport planning process and identifies the process’s stakeholders, ascribing the potential impacts to each stakeholder, given three scenarios of what might happen. Finally, it recommends possible steps to improve outcomes, in Berlin or elsewhere. Berlin will build a new airport that will meet passenger demands for the foreseeable future. The airport will be a regional transportation node, for areas beyond Berlin and Brandenburg (and even for western Poland). However, the ban on nightflights and the lack of inter-jurisdictional and public-private cooperation on “airport city” development will hamper gravely any economic impact from the airport on the region.
Entropy in the cusp and phase transitions for geodesic flows
Creators: name: Iommi, Godofredo
name: Riquelme, Felipe
name: Velozo, Anibal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A15, 26E60, 37A30, 60B20, 60F15

description: In this paper we study the geodesic flow for a particular class of Riemannian non-compact manifolds with variable pinched negative sectional curvature. For a sequence of invariant measures we are able to prove results relating the loss of mass and bounds on the measure entropies. We compute the entropy contribution of the cusps. We develop and study the corresponding thermodynamic formalism. We obtain certain regularity results for the pressure of a class of potentials. We prove that the pressure is real analytic until it undergoes a phase transition, after which it becomes constant. Our techniques are based on the one side on symbolic methods and Markov partitions and on the other on geometric techniques and approximation properties at level of groups.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures. In this new version we have improved the organization of the paper and the clarity of some statements
title: 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging in patients with Fontan circulation.
Creators: name: Shinkareva, Tatiana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Congenital

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of the work was to study blood flow using the new MR-package - program 4D Flow in patients undergoing surgery...
Additional file 1 of Prehospital guidelines on in-water traumatic spinal injuries for lifeguards and prehospital emergency medical services: an international Delphi consensus study
Creators: name: Breindahl, Niklas
name: Bierens, Joost L. M.
name: Wiberg, Sebastian
name: Barcala-Furelos, Roberto
name: Maschmann, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
title: Left atrial appendage occlusion: the link between imaging techniques and clinical events
Creators: name: Clemente, Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complications
subject: Echocardiography (transoesophageal)
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer applications
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Left atrial appendage (LAA) transcatheter occlusion is a recent alternative for the prevention of thromboembolism in patients with Not Valvular Atrial Fibrillation (NVAF). Different imaging techniques have been used for establishing LAA complete...
General relativity as an attractor for scalar-torsion cosmology
Creators: name: Jarv, Laur
name: Toporensky, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83D05, 83F05

description: We study flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models for a scalar field coupled nonminimally to teleparallel gravity with generic coupling and potential functions. The goal of this paper is to determine the conditions under which the cosmological evolution tends to the limit where the variation of the gravitational "constant" ceases and the system evolves close to general relativity. These conditions can be read off from the approximate analytical solutions describing the process in matter and potential domination eras. Only those models where the GR limit exists and is an attractor can be considered viable. We expect the results to hold in the original "pure tetrad" formulation as well as in the recently suggested covariant formulation of the teleparallel theory. In the former case the GR attractor simultaneously provides a mechanism how cosmological evolution suppresses the problematic degrees of freedom stemming from the lack of local Lorentz invariance.
description: 8 pages, typos corrected
A Closer Look At Neighborhood Conservation Districts: West Hillsborough Neighborhood, NC
Creators: name: Schoendorf, Hilary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of establishing a Neighborhood Conservation District (NCD) for the West Hillsborough Neighborhood in the Town of Hillsborough, NC. The West Hillsborough Neighborhood, one of Hillsborough's older and most distinctive neighborhoods, sits adjacent to the Bellevue Manufacturing Company and the Eno Cotton Mill. Hillsborough, like many other small towns in the United States, is facing rapid development and growth pressures. Neighborhood Conservation Districts have become an increasingly popular tool used by planners to safeguard the distinct local character of neighborhoods. In order to better understand the process of forming an NCD, the criteria for establishing one and the various approaches to them, three case studies will be examined in North Carolina. The case studies include: Northside, Chapel Hill, Avent West, Raleigh, and Cedar Street, Greensboro, all of which are at different phases of the implementation process of writing a NCD into their zoning ordinance.
Signatures of primordial black holes in gravitational wave clustering
Creators: name: Libanore, Sarah
name: Liguori, Michele
name: Raccanelli, Alvise
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possible existence of primordial black holes (PBHs) is an open question in modern cosmology. Among the probes to test it, gravitational waves (GW) coming from their mergers constitute a powerful tool. In this work, we study how stellar mass PBH binaries could affect measurements of the clustering of merger events in future GW surveys. We account for PBH binaries formed both in the early and late Universe and show that the power spectrum modification they introduce can be detected at $\sim 2σ-3σ$ (depending on some assumptions) whenever PBH mergers make up at least $\sim 60\%$ of the overall number of detected events. By adding cross-correlations with galaxy surveys, this threshold is lowered to $\sim 40\%$. In the case of a poor redshift determination of GW sources, constraints are degraded by about a factor of 2. Assuming a theoretical model for the PBH merger rate, we can convert our results to constraints on the fraction of dark matter in PBHs, $f_{\rm PBH}$. Finally, we perform a Bayesian model selection forecast and confirm that the analysis we develop could be able to detect $\sim30M_\odot$ PBHs if they account for $f_{\rm PBH}\sim 10^{-4}-10^{-3}$, depending on the model uncertainty considered, being thus competitive with other probes.
description: 41 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication on JCAP
title: Preliminary results of monitoring pancreatic iron by MRI-R2* measurements in patients with thalassemia major over five years in comparison to liver and cardiac iron
Creators: name: Brehmer, Moritz
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pancreas
subject: Liver
subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Physics
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Genetic defects
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To measure the change of panceatic R2* relaxation rates in comparison to changes of liver and cardiac R2* in patients with ß-thalassemia major...
Behavioral Reasoning Theory: General Predictions
Creators: name: Westaby, James
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Testing behavioral reasoning theory. Hypothesis 1: Intentions will be related to behavior. Hypothesis 2a: Behavioral reasoning will be related to intentions. Hypothesis 2b: Intentions will mediate the impact of behavioral reasoning on behavior. Hypothesis 3a: Behavioral reasoning will be related to global motives, such as attitudes, subjective norms, and/or perceived control. Hypothesis 3b: Global motives will partially mediate the impact of behavioral reasoning on intentions. Hypothesis 4: Behavior and/or behavioral antecedents in behavioral reasoning theory will be related to psychological outcomes, such as decision quality/satisfaction, and/or regret.
Adversarial Attacks and Defenses for Semantic Communication in Vehicular Metaverses
Creators: name: Kang, Jiawen
name: He, Jiayi
name: Du, Hongyang
name: Xiong, Zehui
name: Yang, Zhaohui
name: Huang, Xumin
name: Xie, Shengli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For vehicular metaverses, one of the ultimate user-centric goals is to optimize the immersive experience and Quality of Service (QoS) for users on board. Semantic Communication (SemCom) has been introduced as a revolutionary paradigm that significantly eases communication resource pressure for vehicular metaverse applications to achieve this goal. SemCom enables high-quality and ultra-efficient vehicular communication, even with explosively increasing data traffic among vehicles. In this article, we propose a hierarchical SemCom-enabled vehicular metaverses framework consisting of the global metaverse, local metaverses, SemCom module, and resource pool. The global and local metaverses are brand-new concepts from the metaverse's distribution standpoint. Considering the QoS of users, this article explores the potential security vulnerabilities of the proposed framework. To that purpose, this study highlights a specific security risk to the framework's SemCom module and offers a viable defense solution, so encouraging community researchers to focus more on vehicular metaverse security. Finally, we provide an overview of the open issues of secure SemCom in the vehicular metaverses, notably pointing out potential future research directions.
Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends
Creators: name: Khalid, Omer
name: Hao, Guangbo
name: Desmond, Cian
name: Macdonald, Hamish
name: McAuliffe, Fiona Devoy
name: DOOLY, GERARD
name: Hu, Weifei
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: Marine operations required to transfer technicians and equipment represent a significant proportion of the total cost of offshore wind. The profile of sites being considered for floating offshore wind farms (FOWFs), e.g., further from the shore and in harsher environments, indicates that these costs need to be assessed by taking into account the maintenance requirements and restricted weather windows. There is an immediate need to investigate the potential use of robotic systems in the wind farm's operations and maintenance (O&M) activities, to reduce the need for costly manned visits. The use of robotic systems can be critical, not only to replace repetitive activities and bring down the levelised cost of energy but also to reduce the health and safety risks by supporting human operators in performing the desired inspections. This paper provides a review of the state of the art in the applications of robotics for O&M of FOWFs. Emerging technology trends and associated challenges and opportunities are highlighted, followed by an outline of the agenda for future research in this domain.
Understanding mixed effects models through data simulation
Creators: name: DeBruine, Lisa
name: Barr, Dale
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: linear mixed effects models
subject: random effects
subject: simulation

description: Experimental designs that sample both subjects and stimuli from a larger population need to account for random effects of both subjects and stimuli using mixed effects models. However, much of this research is analyzed using ANOVA on aggregated responses because researchers are not confident specifying and interpreting mixed effects models. The tutorial will explain how to simulate data with random effects structure and analyse the data using linear mixed effects regression (with the lme4 R package). The focus will be on interpreting the LMER output in light of the simulated parameters, using this method for power calculations. Data simulation can not only enhance understanding of how these models work, but also enables researchers to perform power calculations for complex designs.
COVID-19
Creators: name: Alfasi, Yitshak
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The project contains the data and research materials of two studies conducted in Israel during the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic. The studies examined the association between attachment patterns and mental well-being during the pandemic, the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty, and factors related to social relationships and self-perceptions.
title: Precision and accuracy of T1 mapping with MOLLI and different ShMOLLI schemes at 1.5T and 3.0T: a phantom study
Creators: name: Falque, Claire
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Previous studies have demonstrated that an increase in extracellular volume measured on MRI is directly proportionate to myocardial fibrosis(1-3). Myocardial extracellular volume is proportionate to partition coefficient ( λ) and extracellular...
Planning for Recycling in Urban Areas in North Carolina: Regional Sustainable Post-Consumer Plastics Waste Management
Creators: name: Liu, Tianyuan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Recycling is a preferable alternative to the traditional landfilling is solid waste management, especially in urban areas. However, globalisation influences recycling due to volatile markets and creates unforeseeable barriers. While local authorities promote recycling, material recovery agents, solid waste manager interact at a different scales with different plans and spatial contexts. With less coordinated plans and fragmented programs at local level, performance of post-consumer plastics recycling has been less likely to be successful through planning only at local level. The fragmentation of decision making, planning with a regional approach is in need for improving recycling performance. In North Carolina, the planning occurs at municipal level in public domain and the solid waste management occurs at regional level involving private business, leading to a mismatch in the spatial context. By improving quality and increasing quantity of recyclables generated from households and business, embracing material recovery facility, and coordinating the solid waste management activities, planning can play an important role in the plastics recycling value chain reaching better states.
Emerging Newtonian potential in pure $R^2$ gravity on a de Sitter background
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hoang Ky
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In Fortsch. Phys. $\textbf{64}$, 176 (2016), Alvarez-Gaume et al established that pure $R^2$ theory propagates $\textit{massless}$ spin-2 graviton on a de Sitter (dS) background but $\textit{not}$ on a locally flat background. We build on this insight to derive a Newtonian limit for the theory. Unlike most previous works that linearized the metric around a locally flat background, we explicitly employ the dS background to start with. We directly solve the field equation of the action $(2κ)^{-1}\int d^{4}x\sqrt{-g}\,R^2$ coupled with the stress-energy tensor of normal matter in the form $T_{μν}=Mc^2\,δ(\vec{r})\,δ_μ^0\,δ_ν^0$. We obtain the following Schwarzschild-de Sitter metric $ds^{2}=-\Bigl(1-\fracΛ{3}r^{2}-\frac{κc^{2}}{48πΛ}\frac{M}{r}\Bigr)c^2dt^2+\Bigl(1-\fracΛ{3}r^2-\frac{κc^2}{48πΛ}\frac{M}{r}\Bigr)^{-1}dr^2+r^2dΩ^2$ which features a potential $V(r)=-\frac{κc^4}{96πΛ}\frac{M}{r}$ with the correct Newtonian tail. The parameter $Λ$ plays a dual role: (i) it sets the scalar curvature for the background dS metric, and (ii) it partakes in the Newtonian potential $V(r)$. We reach two key findings. Firstly, the Newtonian limit only emerges owing to the de Sitter background. Most existing studies of the Newtonian limit in modified gravity chose to linearize the metric around a locally flat background. However, this is a $\textit{false}$ vacuum to start with for pure $R^2$ gravity. These studies unknowingly omitted the information about $Λ$ of the de Sitter background, hence incapable of attaining a Newtonian behavior in pure $R^2$ gravity. Secondly, as $Λ$ appears in $V(r)$ in a $\textit{singular}$ manner, viz. $V(r)\proptoΛ^{-1}$, the Newtonian limit for pure $R^2$ gravity cannot be obtained by any perturbative approach treating $Λ$ as a small parameter.
description: Accepted to JHEP
Entanglement properties of correlated random spin chains and similarities with conformal invariant systems
Creators: name: Getelina, João C.
name: Alcaraz, Francisco C.
name: Hoyos, José A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Rényi entanglement entropy and the Shannon mutual information for a class of spin-1/2 quantum critical XXZ chains with random coupling constants which are partially correlated. In the XX case, distinctly from the usual uncorrelated random case where the system is governed by an infinite-disorder fixed point, the correlated-disorder chain is governed by finite-disorder fixed points. Surprisingly, we verify that, although the system is not conformally invariant, the leading behavior of the Rényi entanglement entropies are similar to those of the clean (no randomness) conformally invariant system. In addition, we compute the Shannon mutual information among subsystems of our correlated-disorder quantum chain and verify the same leading behavior as the $n=2$ Rényi entanglement entropy. This result extends a recent conjecture concerning the same universal behavior of these quantities for conformally invariant quantum chains. For the generic spin-1/2 quantum critical XXZ case, the true asymptotic regime is identical to that in the uncorrelated disorder case. However, these finite-disorder fixed points govern the low-energy physics up to a very long crossover length scale and the same results as in the XX case apply. Our results are based on exact numerical calculations and on a numerical strong-disorder renormalization group.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
title: Contrast reduction in pre-TAVI assessment
Creators: name: Malloy, Jonathan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Kidney
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Aortic stenosis is a common problem in an aging population. Transcatheter aortic valve insertion (TAVI) has emerged as a novel therapy in the treatment of symptomatic aortic stenosis. Pre-operative workup involves assessment of the aortic annulus...
title: [Humanistisch-rhetorische Sammelhandschrift]; 1492 [1492 - 1494]
title: (1r) [Notizen, Exzerpte und Federproben]. (3r) Auctor ad Herennium: Rhetorica, liber I, III. (52r) [Intimatio in cursum rhetoricae]. (52v) [Memoriallisten]. (53v) [Erläuterungen]. (55r) Johannes Riedner: Doctrina componendi epistulas. (62r) Petrus Marcellus: IV orationes. (64v) Marcus Tullius Cicero: De lege agraria. (67r) Pseudo-Seneca: De moribus. (69r) [Martinus Bracarensis: For-mula honestae vitae]. (71r) [Petrus Luder: Ars oratoria]. (80v) Jo-hannes Boccacius: De claris mulieribus. (82r) Franciscus Poggius Bracciolinus: Modus epistolandi. (90r) Agustinus Datus Senensis: Elegantiolae. (158r) Marcus Tullius Cicero: Epistulae ad familiares. (220r) Marcus Tullius Cicero: Oratio pro Tito Annio Milone.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2021

description: Lokalisierender und datierender Schreibervermerk (55r, 61v)
Assessing Gentrification Risk Along the D-O LRT Corridor: Planning Ahead for Housing Affordability
Creators: name: Clark, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This report aims to quantify the risk of gentrification occurring at proposed station sites along the Durham-
Orange Light Rail Transit (D-O LRT) corridor, an LRT project between the communities of Chapel Hill and
Durham in North Carolina, projected to open in 2026. Drawing upon research on the determinants of
gentrification and how a new transit service can trigger or accelerate gentrification of urban neighborhoods,
six indicators were identified which were found to be closely associated with neighborhoods prior to the
onset of gentrification. Limiting the analysis to stations along the corridor which met a defined income level,
these indicators were amalgamated to produce a ranking of gentrification risk for nine station areas (defined
as the half-mile buffer around each proposed station site). Critiques of the study methodology and data
quality are discussed to provide future research efforts replicating this technique with insights on where there
is room for improvement. Station area profiles were crafted to assess the robustness of the gentrification risk
index based on current and future on-the-ground conditions. It is hoped that this effort will be of value for
academic researchers examining methods to predict gentrification prior to it occurring, as well as to regional
stakeholders examining the issue of housing affordability along the D-O LRT corridor.
Additional file 1 of Climate influences the gut eukaryome of wild rodents in the Great Rift Valley of Jordan
Creators: name: Khadem, Sanaz
name: Berry, David
name: Al-khlifeh, Enas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1.
title: Low contrast-medium CTA protocol for TAVR in patients with chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Fleischmann, Dominik
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Toxicity
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become the treatment of choice for inoperable patients with severe aortic stenosis (1) and is comparable to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients at high risk (2). Contrast-medium...
title: Movement abnormalities in the left ventricle of Thalassemia Major patients
Creators: name: Tudisca, Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Movement abnormalities of the left ventricle (LV) have been reported in thalassemia major (TM) patients [1]. Movement abnormalities can be detected through a qualitative analysis of cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images. Moreover, CMR...
Impact of Urban Containment Policies on Public Transit: A Study of the 25 Largest US Metropolitan Areas
Creators: name: Teague, Corey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007
Subjects: Local transit

description: The impacts of urban containment policies on transportation outcomes have only recently begun to be explored. This study focuses specifically on the impacts of urban containment policies on per capita transit use and supply for the largest 25 US metropolitan areas between the years 1984 and 1994. The analysis relies on a 3SLS fixed effects model for balanced panel data due to the endogenous relationships between population density, transit use, and transit supply. The results suggest that higher rates of urban containment policy coverage in metropolitan areas are related to an increase in per capita transit use and a decrease in per capita transit supply. Additionally, the impacts of urban containment policies are found to increase over time, although at a decreasing rate. The findings, some unexpected, point toward the complex nature of the relationship between land use policies and transportation outcomes, and opens the door for more rigorous empirical work.
title: Cardiac Multidetector Computed Tomography in Infective Endocarditis: a pictorial essay
Creators: name: Grob, Anaïs
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: ECG-gated multislice computed tomography (MSCT) has proved to be a reliable tool in the analyse of valvular diseases. There is a lack of information about the potential role of MSCT in the assessment of infective endocarditis (IE). The objectives of...
Search for gamma-ray emission from eight dwarf spheroidal galaxy candidates discovered in Year Two of Dark Energy Survey with Fermi-LAT data
Creators: name: Li, Shang
name: Liang, Yun-Feng
name: Duan, Kai-Kai
name: Shen, Zhao-Qiang
name: Huang, Xiaoyuan
name: Li, Xiang
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Liao, Neng-Hui
name: Feng, Lei
name: Chang, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very recently the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration has released their second group of Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy candidates. With the publicly-available Pass 8 data of Fermi-LAT we search for $γ-$ray emissions from the directions of these eight newly discovered dSph galaxy candidates. No statistically significant $γ-$ray signal has been found in the combined analysis of these sources. With the empirically estimated J-factors of these sources, the constraint on the annihilation channel of $χχ\rightarrow τ^{+}τ^{-}$ is comparable to the bound set by the joint analysis of fifteen previously known dSphs with kinematically constrained J-factors for the dark matter mass $m_χ>250$ GeV. In the direction of Tucana III (DES J2356-5935), one of the nearest dSph galaxy candidates that is $\sim 25$ kpc away, there is a weak $γ-$ray signal and its peak test statistic (TS) value for the dark matter annihilation channel $χχ\rightarrow τ^{+}τ^{-1}$ is $\approx 6.7$ at $m_χ\sim 15$ GeV. The significance of the possible signal likely increases with time. More data is highly needed to pin down the physical origin of such a GeV excess.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. D, Fig.4 has been updated and main conclusions are unchanged
Condensates in Relativistic Scalar Theories
Creators: name: Moore, Guy D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalar field theory with large infrared initial occupancy develops very large deep-infrared occupancy, which locally resembles a Bose-Einstein condensate. We study the structure and spatial coherence of this condensate. The O(N) symmetric theory with N>1 is qualitatively different than N=1. We explain the thermodynamical reason why, for N>1, the condensate locally carries nearly maximal conserved charge density. We also show how this property impedes the condensate's decay, and we show that it prevents the condensate from ever becoming fully spatially homogeneous. For N <= 4 the condensate can carry topological defects, but these do not appear to control the large-k tail in its power spectrum, which is the same for N=8 where there are no topological defects.
description: 17 pages plus two appendices, 7 figures. Minor edits and added references
Pop up planning
Creators: name: Kordsmeier, Micah
name: Dekle, Maire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: pop.up.planning is an attempt to bring together the phenomenon of Do It Yourself urbanism with the practice of city planning and the management of urban space. We have put together this site so that the DIY-er can better understand the tools and rules that shape our cities, suggest opportunities to work within that framework, and identify a way forward in which cities better respond to and facilitate the pop-up spirit. For the city planners in the room, we've also begun to document DIY efforts across the country and investigate how city officials are working with these individuals to improve the public realm.
Entropy production and large deviation function for systems with microscopically irreversible transitions
Creators: name: Saha, Bappa
name: Mukherji, Sutapa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the large deviation function for entropy production of the medium and its distribution function for two-site totally asymmetric simple exclusion process(TASEP) and three-state unicyclic network. Since such systems are described through microscopic irreversible transitions, we obtain time-dependent transition rates by sampling the states of these systems at a regular short time interval $τ$. These transition rates are used to derive the large deviation function for the entropy production in the nonequilibrium steady state and its asymptotic distribution function. The shapes of the large deviation function and the distribution function depend on the value of the mean entropy production rate which has a non-trivial dependence on the particle injection and withdrawal rates in case of TASEP. Further, it is argued that in case of a TASEP, the distribution function tends to be like a Poisson distribution for smaller values of particle injection and withdrawal rates.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, minor corrections
title: Simple method of assessment of right ventricular systolic function by conventional pulsed wave Doppler
Creators: name: Mirzojan, Ekaterina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Staging
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Cardiac
subject: Image registration

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Right ventricle(RV)dysfunction has been associated with increased morbidity andmortality in patients with congenital heart disease, valvular disease,coronary artery disease, pulmonary hypertension, and heart failure [1].The right ventricle(RV)is...
title: From Theory to Comprehension: A Comparative Study of Differential Privacy and k-Anonymity
Creators: name: Nuñez Von Voigt, Saskia
name: Mehner, Luise
name: Tschorsch, Florian
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: differential privacy
subject: explanatory model
subject: study

description: The notion of \varepsilon-differential privacy is a widely used concept of providing quantifiable privacy to individuals. However, it is unclear how to explain the level of privacy protection provided by a differential privacy mechanism with a set \varepsilon. In this study, we focus on users' comprehension of the privacy protection provided by a differential privacy mechanism. To do so, we study three variants of explaining the privacy protection provided by differential privacy: (1) the original mathematical definition; (2) \varepsilon translated into a specific privacy risk; and (3) an explanation using the randomized response technique. We compare users' comprehension of privacy protection employing these explanatory models with their comprehension of privacy protection of k-anonymity as baseline comprehensibility. Our findings suggest that participants' comprehension of differential privacy protection is enhanced by the privacy risk model and the randomized response-based model. Moreover, our results confirm our intuition that privacy protection provided by k-anonymity is more comprehensible.
Towards Balanced Active Learning for Multimodal Classification
Creators: name: Shen, Meng
name: Huang, Yizheng
name: Yin, Jianxiong
name: Zou, Heqing
name: Rajan, Deepu
name: See, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Training multimodal networks requires a vast amount of data due to their larger parameter space compared to unimodal networks. Active learning is a widely used technique for reducing data annotation costs by selecting only those samples that could contribute to improving model performance. However, current active learning strategies are mostly designed for unimodal tasks, and when applied to multimodal data, they often result in biased sample selection from the dominant modality. This unfairness hinders balanced multimodal learning, which is crucial for achieving optimal performance. To address this issue, we propose three guidelines for designing a more balanced multimodal active learning strategy. Following these guidelines, a novel approach is proposed to achieve more fair data selection by modulating the gradient embedding with the dominance degree among modalities. Our studies demonstrate that the proposed method achieves more balanced multimodal learning by avoiding greedy sample selection from the dominant modality. Our approach outperforms existing active learning strategies on a variety of multimodal classification tasks. Overall, our work highlights the importance of balancing sample selection in multimodal active learning and provides a practical solution for achieving more balanced active learning for multimodal classification.
description: 12 pages, accepted by ACMMM 2023
Mock Juror Perception and Evaluation of Eyewitness Face Memory Ability and Confidence in their Identification Decision
Creators: name: Quigley-McBride, Adele
name: Crozier, William
name: Teitcher, Jennifer
name: Searle-Carlisle, Travis
name: Garrett, Brandon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law and Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: We expect that the type and nature of information that jurors are given about the quality of eyewitness evidence matters for how jurors interpret the evidence that eyewitness provides against the defendant. Here, we focus on how the confidence the eyewitness had in their lineup decision, and their trait face memory ability influence mock jurors’ interpretation of their identification evidence. Of particular interest, and novel to this study, is how mock jurors use information about an eyewitness’s self-reported, subjective sense of their ability to identify people, or an objective score from a research-based test of face memory ability.
Evaluating Journey-To-Work Transit Accessibility in Tysons Corner, VA
Creators: name: McGrane, Ann Bracken
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In a complicated metropolitan transportation system with multiple transit providers, it is often difficult to determine how routes work together to provide a complete network of transit to a region. It is even more difficult to assess what sort of changes a major new transportation investment will have on the surrounding area. While in the past most analysis of transportation projects has focused on mobility improvements, planners and policymakers around the country are beginning to focus on accessibility, or the ability of people to access a variety of opportunities. The purpose of this study is to analyze the transit accessibility benefits that derive from the extension of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Metrorail into Tysons Corner, VA, a major employment center within the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. Using publicly available Google Transit Feed Specification data, I analyzed time-based transit and walking service areas to arrive at an estimate of employer access to workers in Tysons Corner. My results show that the extension of the Metrorail substantially increases the number of people in the labor force who can reach jobs in Tysons Corner by transit. However, it also highlights some aspects of the built environment that will continue to affect whether people consider transit a viable travel option. This study provides a framework for calculating transit accessibility that is easily replicable and can be used to spatially compare the time-based service areas by transit from a given location in order to better assess the effects of a transit investment.
title: ЛАБОРАТОРИИ ЗАЩИТЫ РАСТЕНИЙ  СТАВРОПОЛЬСКОГО НИИ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА  (ФГБНУ «СЕВЕРО-КАВКАЗСКИЙ ФНАЦ») 55 ЛЕТ
Creators: name: Черкашин, В.Н.
Publisher: name: Федеральное государственное бюджетное научное учреждение «Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный аграрный центр»
Year: 2024
Subjects: защита растений, Ставропольский край, вредители и болезни растений.
: plant protection, Stavropol Krai, pests and plant diseases.

description: Лаборатория защиты растений Ставропольского НИИ сельского хозяйства, а ныне ФГБНУ «Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный центр» создана в 1958 году. Статья рассказывает о ее истории и достижениях коллектива.
description: The Plant Protection Laboratory of the Stavropol Research Institute of Agriculture, now the FGBNU "North Caucasus Federal Scientific Center" was created in 1958. The article tells about its history and the achievements of the team.
title: Pericardium MDCT anatomy – “Around the heart”
Creators: name: Oliveira, Catarina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To know the normal anatomy of the pericardium, with special focus on their sinuses and recesses. To describe the imaging characteristics of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) of the normal pericardium. To review some imaging features of the...
The Definitive X-ray Light Curve of Swift J164449.3+573451
Creators: name: Mangano, V.
name: Burrows, D. N.
name: Sbarufatti, B.
name: Cannizzo, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On March 28, 2011, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope triggered on an object that had no analog in over six years of Swift operations. Follow-up observations by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) found a new, bright X-ray source covering 3 orders of magnitude in flux over the first few days, that was much more persistent (and variable) than gamma-ray burst afterglows. Ground-based spectroscopy found a redshift of 0.35, implying extremely high luminosity, with integrated isotropic-equivalent energy output in the X-ray band alone exceeding $10^{53}$ ergs in the first two weeks after discovery. Strong evidence for a collimated outflow or beamed emission was found. The observational properties of this object are unlike anything ever before observed. We interpret these unique properties as the result of emission from a relativistic jet produced in the aftermath of the tidal disruption of a main sequence star by a massive black hole (BH) in the center of the host galaxy. The source decayed slowly as the stellar remnants were accreted onto the BH, before abruptly shutting off. Here we present the definitive XRT team light curve for Swift J164449.3+573451 and discuss its implications. We show that the unabsorbed flux decayed roughly as a $t^{-1.5}$ power law up to August 17, 2012. The steep turnoff of an order of magnitude in 24 hours seems to be consistent with the shutdown of the jet as the accretion disk transitioned from a thick disk to a thin disk. Swift continues to monitor this source in case the jet reactivates.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ. References added after proof reading
Market Anticipation To Rail Investments? An Analysis Of The Proposed West Raleigh Station
Creators: name: Steffen, Bryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006
Subjects: Railroads

description: Proximity to transit stations can positively influence property values if it improves accessibility of commuters to business districts and other desirable locations, but it can also de-value properties due to negative externalities associated with living next to railroad tracks. This paper examines the impact of the proposed Regional Rail Transit System on real estate in the Triangle region of North Carolina. First, the paper reviews similar studies of real estate speculation surrounding transit systems and discusses the varying results. Due to uncertainties surrounding this proposed system, the study performs an analysis of the volume of market transactions rather than changes in property values. Results came from an evaluation of the number of property transactions in a three-quarter mile radius around the proposed West Raleigh Station and an equally sized comparison area over the course of planning the transit system. Data showed a significant increase in the number of property transactions surrounding the station site over the comparison area after the announcement of the station. Furthermore, property transactions within the quarter-mile radius around the station site saw the largest increase after the station announcement. These results suggest that speculation on properties near transit stations may have taken place after the Regional Rail System had been announced.
Additional file 1 of Important aspects of experiences from patients and parents related to medications in Child and Adolescents Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - a qualitative study
Creators: name: Steiro, Asbjørn Kulseng
name: Iversen, Hilde Hestad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

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