cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bounding elastic photon-photon scattering at $\sqrt s \approx 1\,$MeV using a laser-plasma platform
Creators: name: Watt, R.
name: Kettle, B.
name: Gerstmayr, E.
name: King, B.
name: Alejo, A.
name: Astbury, S.
name: Baird, C.
name: Bohlen, S.
name: Campbell, M.
name: Colgan, C.
name: Dannheim, D.
name: Gregory, C.
name: Harsh, H.
name: Hatfield, P.
name: Hinojosa, J.
name: Hollatz, D.
name: Katzir, Y.
name: Morton, J.
name: Murphy, C. D.
name: Nurnberg, A.
name: Osterhoff, J.
name: Pérez-Callejo, G.
name: Põder, K.
name: Rajeev, P. P.
name: Roedel, C.
name: Roeder, F.
name: Salgado, F. C.
name: Samarin, G. M.
name: Sarri, G.
name: Seidel, A.
name: Spindloe, C.
name: Steinke, S.
name: Streeter, M. J. V.
name: Thomas, A. G. R.
name: Underwood, C.
name: Wu, W.
name: Zepf, M.
name: Rose, S. J.
name: Mangles, S. P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a direct search for elastic photon-photon scattering using x-ray and $γ$ photons from a laser-plasma based experiment. A gamma photon beam produced by a laser wakefield accelerator provided a broadband gamma spectrum extending to above $E_γ= 200$ MeV. These were collided with a dense x-ray field produced by the emission from a laser heated germanium foil at $E_x \approx 1.4$ keV, corresponding to an invariant mass of $\sqrt{s} = 1.22 \pm 0.22$ MeV. In these asymmetric collisions elastic scattering removes one x-ray and one high-energy $γ$ photon and outputs two lower energy $γ$ photons. No changes in the $γ$ photon spectrum were observed as a result of the collisions allowing us to place a 95% upper bound on the cross section of $1.5 \times 10^{15}\,μ$b. Although far from the QED prediction, this represents the lowest upper limit obtained so far for $\sqrt{s} \lesssim 1$ MeV.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Supplementary document for SpeCamX: Mobile app that turns unmodified smartphones into multispectral imagers - 6524680.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Ruikang
name: HE, QINGHUA
name: LI, WANYU
name: Shi, Yaping
name: Yu, Yi
name: GENG, WENQIAN
name: Sun, Zhiyuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomechanical Engineering
Biomedical Instrumentation

description: Supplemental Material
(103427) Albert Durer Weston
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Its Impacts in a Cohort of Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia
Creators: name: Prestage, Garrett
name: Storer, D
name: Jin, F
name: Haire, B
name: Maher, L
name: Philpot, S
name: Bavinton, B
name: Saxton, P
name: Murphy, D
name: Holt, M
name: Bourne, Adam
name: Hammoud, MA
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Successful use of biomedical forms of HIV risk-reduction may have predisposed many gay and bisexual men (GBM) to vaccination against COVID-19, which may, in turn, affect their sexual behavior. A total of 622 Australian GBM provided weekly data on COVID-19 vaccination history and sexual behaviour between 17 January 2021 and 22 June 2021. We identify factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination, and compare sexual behavior before and since vaccination. Mean age was 47.3 years (SD 14.0). At least one-dose vaccination coverage had reached 57.2%, and 61.3% reported that the majority of their friends intended to be vaccinated. Vaccinated men reported a mean of 1.11 (SD 2.10) weekly non-relationship sex partners before vaccination and 1.62 (SD 3.42) partners following vaccination. GBM demonstrated high confidence in COVID-19 vaccines. Their sexual activity increased following vaccination suggesting that greater sexual freedom may be a specific motivation for vaccine uptake among some men.
NourishED Nutrition Counseling: A Private Practice Supporting Clients in Eating Disorder Recovery
Creators: name: Buss, Miley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: NourishED Nutrition Counseling will serve as a small private practice offering nutrition counseling to clients struggling with an eating disorder and/or disordered eating in the greater Kansas City area. Initially, the practice will focus on offering one-on-one individualized nutrition counseling sessions to clients struggling with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and Orthorexia. In addition, clients who have not been diagnosed with an eating disorder, but struggle with disordered eating can also be supported. As the practice becomes more established and more well-known throughout the community, NourishED Nutrition Counseling will expand its services to include nutrition support groups, eating disorder educational workshops for other healthcare professionals, and additional support services. NourishED Nutrition Counseling seeks to support clients on their journey towards recovery, assist clients in restoring an appropriate bodyweight when necessary, and ultimately, seeks to
help clients develop a peaceful, healthful relationship with food and their body. All nutrition counseling sessions will take place keeping both the principles of Intuitive Eating and the fundamentals of Health at Every Size in mind.
Social Support of People with Cancer and the use of alcohol and/or tobacco: protocol for an integrative literature review
Creators: name: Reis, Juliana Benevenuto
name: Mendes, Karina Dal Sasso
name: Pegoraro, Natália Priolli Jora
name: Da Silva, Carla Beatriz Pereira
name: Pillon, Sandra Cristina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Alcohol
subject: Cancer
subject: Tobacco
subject: Social Support

description: Objective: to analyze in the literature the scientific production about the Social Support of People with Cancer who have used alcohol and/or tobacco. Method: an integrative review is proposed. The following databases will be used: LILACS; CINAHL; PUBMED; EMBASE; PSYCINFO; SCOPUS and WEB OF SCIENCE, using controlled descriptors and synonyms. The selection and evaluation process of the articles will be carried out by two independent reviewers, seeking to answer the following guiding question: What is the evidence on social support for people with Cancer who have used alcohol and/or tobacco? Primary studies published in English, Portuguese or Spanish will be included, addressing the perception of social support by people with cancer who have used alcohol and/or tobacco in their lives. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guide will be used to report this review.
title: Development of the helmet-neck PET prototype for high sensitivity brain imaging
Creators: name: Tashima, Hideaki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: PET
subject: Instrumentation
subject: Dementia

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: There is an emerging demand for dedicated brain PET for the study and diagnosis of neurological disorders such as dementia. Towards early diagnosis of dementia, several diagnostic PET tracers for Alzheimer's disease have been developed. In order to...
Star-Forming Brightest Cluster Galaxies at 0.25 < z < 1.25: A Transitioning Fuel Supply
Creators: name: McDonald, M.
name: Stalder, B.
name: Bayliss, M.
name: Allen, S. W.
name: Applegate, D. E.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
name: Bautz, M.
name: Benson, B. A.
name: Bleem, L. E.
name: Brodwin, M.
name: Carlstrom, J. E.
name: Chiu, I.
name: Desai, S.
name: Gonzalez, A. H.
name: Hlavacek-Larrondo, J.
name: Holzapfel, W. L.
name: Marrone, D. P.
name: Miller, E. D.
name: Reichardt, C. L.
name: Saliwanchik, B. R.
name: Saro, A.
name: Schrabback, T.
name: Stanford, S. A.
name: Stark, A. A.
name: Vieira, J. D.
name: Zenteno, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multi-wavelength study of 90 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in a sample of galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect by the South Pole Telescope, utilizing data from various ground- and space-based facilities. We infer the star formation rate (SFR) for the BCG in each cluster, based on the UV and IR continuum luminosity, as well as the [O II] emission line luminosity in cases where spectroscopy is available, finding 7 systems with SFR > 100 Msun/yr. We find that the BCG SFR exceeds 10 Msun/yr in 31 of 90 (34%) cases at 0.25 < z < 1.25, compared to ~1-5% at z ~ 0 from the literature. At z > 1, this fraction increases to 92(+6)(-31)%, implying a steady decrease in the BCG SFR over the past ~9 Gyr. At low-z, we find that the specific star formation rate in BCGs is declining more slowly with time than for field or cluster galaxies, most likely due to the replenishing fuel from the cooling ICM in relaxed, cool core clusters. At z > 0.6, the correlation between cluster central entropy and BCG star formation - which is well established at z ~ 0 - is not present. Instead, we find that the most star-forming BCGs at high-z are found in the cores of dynamically unrelaxed clusters. We investigate the rest-frame near-UV morphology of a subsample of the most star-forming BCGs using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, finding complex, highly asymmetric UV morphologies on scales as large as ~50-60 kpc. The high fraction of star-forming BCGs hosted in unrelaxed, non-cool core clusters at early times suggests that the dominant mode of fueling star formation in BCGs may have recently transitioned from galaxy-galaxy interactions to ICM cooling.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures. Submitted for publication in ApJ. Comments welcome
Performance Analysis of the Decentralized Eigendecomposition and ESPRIT Algorithm
Creators: name: Suleiman, W.
name: Pesavento, M.
name: Zoubir, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider performance analysis of the decentralized power method for the eigendecomposition of the sample covariance matrix based on the averaging consensus protocol. An analytical expression of the second order statistics of the eigenvectors obtained from the decentralized power method which is required for computing the mean square error (MSE) of subspace-based estimators is presented. We show that the decentralized power method is not an asymptotically consistent estimator of the eigenvectors of the true measurement covariance matrix unless the averaging consensus protocol is carried out over an infinitely large number of iterations. Moreover, we introduce the decentralized ESPRIT algorithm which yields fully decentralized direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimates. Based on the performance analysis of the decentralized power method, we derive an analytical expression of the MSE of DOA estimators using the decentralized ESPRIT algorithm. The validity of our asymptotic results is demonstrated by simulations.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, submitted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Agricultural Exports, Value Addition and Economic Development: The Nigerian Experience, 2015-2023
Creators: name: Bature, Y.M.T.
name: Eugene T.A.
name: Ruth L.C.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: The Nigerian agricultural sector, which was the mainstay of economy before the commercialisation of oil, facilitated a look into how value-add in the context of agricultural exports can bring about economic development. The study did this by focusing on three main products (sesame seeds, cashew nuts, and high-quality raw cocoa beans), providing specificity in product coverage, which was lacking in extant literature. The study was specifically concerned with examining the extent to which value addition influenced the acceptability of Nigeria’s agricultural exports in the international market, as well as its effect on GDP and employment creation. The study also examines challenges faced in the promotion of value addition in the context agricultural exports. To achieve the paper objectives, an explanatory sequential mixed methods design was adopted. Regression analysis was used based on quantitative data collected via a questionnaire survey. Data was collected, in primary form, from a cross section of 380 respondents, made up of members of top commodities associations and officials of selected ministries, as well as the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC). The study adopted absolute advantage theory to explained the work. Findings arrived at indicated that value addition had positive and significant positive effect on the acceptability of Nigeria’s agricultural exports in the international market. Additionally, value addition on agricultural exports was found to be a positive predictor of Nigeria’s GDP, as well as employment generation. Furthermore, several challenges were exposed that hampered the implementation of value addition activities on Nigeria’s exports. It was therefore recommended that sustained partnership with international organisations and other stakeholders be sought for the purpose of simplifying the certification process to the benefit of encouraging more participation in the Nigerian agricultural value chain. There should also be improved access to affordable agriculture finance to address some of the challenges inherent in the sector. There is also the needed provision of necessary infrastructure development as well as intensification of innovations and vocational skills training. The operations of agencies saddled with the responsibility of implementing agricultural value addition related activities should also be streamlined in order to reduce bottlenecks in accessing access to such services by industry and stakeholders.
title: A review of recommended approaches for long-term health for individuals with overweight and obesity.
Creators: name: Scott, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The following review examines behavioral and dietary interventions and does not include pharmacological or surgical methods. This review also primarily looks at adult Americans. Key studies are evaluated as well as advantages and disadvantages of both weight loss and HAES methodologies as they relate to long-term health for individuals with overweight and obesity. Intuitive eating, motivational interviewing, and exercise are also briefly discussed as they may be components of either
approach. Lastly, this review includes recommendations based on the current literature as well as ideas for future research opportunities.
TreatMethHarm: An Agent-Based Simulation of How People Who Use Methamphetamine Access Treatment
Creators: name: Lamy, Feancois
name: Quinn, Brendan
name: Dwyer, Robyn
name: Thomson, Nicola
name: Moore, David
name: Dietze, Paul
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 460207
subject: Modelling and simulation
classificationCode: 420305
subject: Health and community services

description: Methamphetamine use in Australia has recently attracted considerable attention due to increased human and social costs. Despite evidences indicating increasing methamphetamine-related harm and significant numbers of frequent and dependent users, methamphetamine treatment coverage remains low in Australia. This paper aims to investigate the complex interplay between methamphetamine use and treatment-related access by designing an agent-based model, using epidemiological data and expert-derived assumptions. This paper presents the architecture and core mechanisms of an agent-based model, TreatMethHarm, and details the results of model calibration performed by testing the key model parameters. At this stage of development, TreatMethHarm is able to produce proportions of methamphetamine users that replicate those produced by our epidemiological survey. However, this agent-based model still requires additional information and further tests before validation. TreatMethHarm provides a useful tool to elicit dialogue between researchers from different disciplines, integrate a variety of data and identify missing information.
Existence of topological hairy dyons and dyonic black holes in anti-de Sitter SU(N) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Baxter, J. Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate dyonic black hole and dyon solutions of four-dimensional $SU(N)$ Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with a negative cosmological constant. We derive a set of field equations in this case, and prove the existence of non-trivial solutions to these equations for any integer $N$, with $2N-2$ gauge degrees of freedom. We do this by showing that solutions exist locally at infinity, and at the event horizon for black holes and the origin for solitons. We then prove that we can patch these solutions together regularly into global solutions that can be integrated arbitrarily far into the asymptotic regime. Our main result is to show that dyonic solutions exist in open sets in the parameter space, and hence that we can find non-trivial dyonic solutions in a number of regimes whose magnetic gauge fields have no zeroes, which is likely important to the stability of the solutions.
description: 48 pages
title: Discrepancies between preliminary resident and finalised consultant reviewed CT brain reports
Creators: name: Rajaram, Akash
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Professional issues
subject: CNS
subject: CT
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Education and training

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To determine the rate of discrepancy between preliminary resident and finalised consultant CT brain...
(103424) Hilda Davis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Reduction of iodinated contrast dose and increase quality of practice on CTPA with a programme for data recording and dose personalisation P3T and the use of an 18G for venous access
Creators: name: Perez-Peña del Llano, Mar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: PACS
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Catheters

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Although pulmonary CT angiography (CTPA) is the standard examination for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, up to one third of the examinations are suboptimal due to poor vascular enhancement , the presence of artefacts or failures of the...
Expansion of SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot to local food systems: An equity-focused policy brief
Creators: name: Paysour, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Online grocery shopping is recognized by the CDC as a strategy to limit COVID-19 exposure and has rapidly increased in popularity. However, SNAP participants can currently use benefits online with only a small selection of large retailers. While all retailers can apply to participate in the SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot, meeting technical standards required by the program is an expensive investment. Meanwhile, losses of essential revenue streams in local food systems are threatening small farms and minority farmers. Expansion of the SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot to local food retailers can promote safe healthy food access for low-resource households and increase market opportunity for farmers that are hurting financially. More importantly, sustaining the connection between local growers and their communities offers opportunity to erase health disparities burdening low-income and minority groups. Investing in this needed piece of infrastructure is one building block toward an equitable future in our food system.
The N-jettiness soft function at next-to-next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Boughezal, Radja
name: Liu, Xiaohui
name: Petriello, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general framework for the calculation of soft functions for SCET_I observables through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant. As an example of our formalism we show how it can be used to obtain the complete NNLO soft function for the $N$-jettiness event shape variable. We present numerical results for two examples with phenomenological impact: the one-jettiness soft function for both electron-proton and proton-proton collisions.
description: 22 pages, 19 figures
title: Role of MRI in detecting lower limb incompetent perforator veins
Creators: name: Soni, Brijesh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Extremities
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Introduction Varicose veins is a common disability. The reported prevalence of chronic venous insufficiency varies from < 1% to 40% in females and from < 1% to 17% in males in various studies. In addition, prevalence estimates for varicose veins are...
Fruition Nutrition LLC: A Business Plan
Creators: name: Arias, Mariela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The business plan for Fruition Nutrition LLC, a private practice, details the components necessary for developing the company and commentary regarding opportunities and challenges. The sections of the paper are as follows: an executive summary, the mission statement and goals, the business description, the services offered, a SWOT and market analysis, the marketing strategies, and financial projections and sustainability.
Predicting attitudes towards easing COVID-19 restrictions in the United States of America: The role of health concerns, demographic, political, and individual difference factors
Creators: name: Gerace, A
name: Rigney, G
name: Anderson, Joel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 529999
subject: Other psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Despite rising cases of COVID-19 in the United States of America, several states are easing restrictions (e.g., relaxing physical distancing requirements, reopening businesses) that were imposed to limit community transmission of the virus. Individuals hold differing opinions regarding whether restrictions should continue to be imposed or lifted, evidenced, for example, by debate and protests regarding reopening of businesses and venues. Health and social psychological research suggest that perceptions of COVID-19related risk, experiences of the virus, and individual difference factors can help explain individuals’ attitudes towards health initiatives and their tendency to be persuaded towards a specific course of action. The purpose of this study was to investigate what factors influence support or opposition to easing COVID-19-related restrictions. A sample of 350 United States citizens, responding to an anonymous survey, were asked about the extent to which they support/oppose easing of COVID-19-related restrictions, both generally and in relation to specific restrictions. Respondents completed measures of their experiences of COVID-19, individual difference factors, and demographic variables, including political affiliation and degree of social and economic conservatism. In a series of regression analyses, significant demographic predictors of support or opposition for easing restrictions were gender, age, ethnicity, and education, with political affiliation and degree of social and economic conservatism also predicting attitudes. Experiences related to COVID-19 that predicted attitudes were concerns for self and family, perceptions of threat posed by the virus, perceived ability to adhere to restrictions, willingness to take government direction, and belief in COVID-19-related conspiracy theories. At an individual differences level, uncertainty avoidance, collectivism, long-term orientation, masculinity, empathic concern, personal distress, reactance, and general conspiracy theory beliefs all significantly precited attitudes to easing restrictions. Understanding the factors that help explain attitudes towards COVID-19 restrictions can inform how best to position health messaging and initiatives going forward, particularly as states or countries open borders.
(103421) Henry John Kent
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Role of Exercise Intensity and Protein Ingestion on Glycemic Control and the Risk of Hypoglycemia for Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes
Creators: name: Muntis, Franklin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: A grant proposal for a study investigating the roles of exercise intensity and peri-workout protein ingestion on the risk of hypoglycemia during and following exercise and on time in range overnight and 24 hours following exercise in people with type 1 diabetes.
Asynchronous Telegate and Teledata Protocols for Distributed Quantum Computing
Creators: name: Peckham, Jacob
name: Makaroff, Dwight
name: Rayan, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The cost of distributed quantum operations such as the telegate and teledata protocols is high due to latencies from distributing entangled photons and classical information. This paper proposes an extension to the telegate and teledata protocols to allow for asynchronous classical communication which hides the cost of distributed quantum operations. We then discuss the benefits and limitations of these asynchronous protocols and propose a potential way to improve these asynchronous protocols using nonunitary operators. Finally, a quantum network card is described as an example of how asynchronous quantum operations might be used.
description: 6 pages; v1 was accepted for publication in the proceedings of "Unlocking Quantum Potentials: Advances in Computing and Communication Technologies", a workshop of the 10th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (IEEE WFIoT2024); v2 includes crucial modifications to, and expansions of, our proposed protocols that result from experiments with quantum computing simulators and hardware
title: Arterialisation of venous thrombosis as an indicator of tumoural vascular spread
Creators: name: Leal, Grettel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Cancer
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Thrombosis is something considered a paraneoplastic pathology. 1-2% of all oncologic patients willexperienceat least one episode of thrombosis per year. The neoplastic originof the thrombosis is not always demonstrated. Some tumorsextend...
Microwave Continuum Emission and Dense Gas Tracers in NGC 3627: Combining Jansky VLA and ALMA Observations
Creators: name: Murphy, Eric J.
name: Dong, Dillon
name: Leroy, Adam K.
name: Momjian, Emmanuel
name: Condon, James J.
name: Helou, George
name: Meier, David S.
name: Ott, Jürgen
name: Schinnerer, Eva
name: Turner, Jean L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) Ka band (33 GHz) and Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Band 3 (94.5 GHz) continuum images covering the nucleus and two extranuclear star-forming regions within the nearby galaxy NGC 3627 (M 66), observed as part of the Star Formation in Radio Survey (SFRS). Both images achieve an angular resolution of $\lesssim$2\arcsec, allowing us to map the radio spectral indices and estimate thermal radio fractions at a linear resolution of $\lesssim$90 pc at the distance of NGC 3627. The thermal fraction at 33 GHz reaches unity at and around the peaks of each HII region; we additionally observed the spectral index between 33 and 94.5 GHz to become both increasingly negative and positive away from the peaks of the HII regions, indicating an increase of non-thermal extended emission from diffusing cosmic-ray electrons and the possible presence of cold dust, respectively. While the ALMA observations were optimized for collecting continuum data, they also detected line emission from the $J=1\rightarrow0$ transitions of HCN and HCO$^{+}$. The peaks of dense molecular gas traced by these two spectral lines are spatially offset from the peaks of the 33 and 94.5 GHz continuum emission for the case of the extranuclear star-forming regions, indicating that our data reach an angular resolution at which one can spatially distinguish sites of recent star formation from the sites of future star formation. Finally, we find trends of decreasing dense gas fraction and velocity dispersion with increasing star formation efficiency among the three regions observed, indicating that the dynamical state of the dense gas, rather than its abundance, plays a more significant role in the star formation process.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
SL Nutrition: A Private Practice Specializing in Gastrointestinal health and Food Intolerances & Allergies
Creators: name: Lind, Sophia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: SL Nutrition is a private nutrition counseling practice located in Durham, NC specializing in GI health. As the sole proprietor, I will specifically target individuals with chronic GI disorders and food intolerances and allergies. Through nutrition education, collaborative, client-centered counseling, and delivery of nutrition recommendations and interventions, I will help clients manage their condition, reduce symptoms, and address nutrition concerns. The practice will support a hands-on model of learning; I will offer dietitian-led grocery store trips, cooking instruction, and kitchen and pantry reorganizations. I will also offer group classes to support social connectivity and community among clients. Although the practice’s primary focus is nutrition counseling, it is inspired by a commitment to contributing to community engagement and increasing the accessibility of nutrition therapy and education.
title: CT-based tumour response criteria compared after combined treatment for liver metastases of colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Varotto, Alessia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Liver
subject: Colon
subject: CT
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: About 20-25% of the patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) shows metastases during diagnosis and about half of the patients whoundergo radical surgeryon localized pathology will end up with a systemic disease typically involving liver and lungs [1]....
title: Dynamic contrast-enhanced CT-protocol for detection of colorectal liver metastases
Creators: name: Van Camp, Laurent
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Colon
subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To compare a dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) CT-protocol with venous CT-protocol for detecting colorectal liver metastases (CRLMs). Different perfusion maps were created and evaluated (among other perfusion maps eg. Blood Volume (BV) map, hepatic...
(103422) Kate Brittain Selkirk
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Predicting axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer with multimodality imaging
Creators: name: CHo, Jeyoung
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: PET-CT
subject: Screening
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective study is to compare the diagnostic performances of mammography, ultrasound (US), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) and their various combinations to...
title: Diffusion tensor imaging for evaluating changes in the microstructural integrity of white matter in patients with mild cognitive impairment
Creators: name: Ojeda, Adriana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR physics
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Physics
subject: Dementia

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Neuroscientists have focused increasing attention on white matter connections in the brain and on the effects of aging and cognitive impairment. Novel methods of neuroimaging like diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)have enabled biological tissue to be...
Fast radio bursts as precursor radio emission from monster shocks
Creators: name: Vanthieghem, Arno
name: Levinson, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been proposed recently that the breaking of MHD waves in the inner magnetosphere of strongly magnetized neutron stars can power different types of high-energy transients. Motivated by these considerations, we study the steepening and dissipation of a strongly magnetized fast magnetosonic wave propagating in a declining background magnetic field, by means of particle-in-cell simulations that encompass MHD scales. Our analysis confirms the formation of a monster shock as $B^2-E^2 \to 0$, that dissipates about half of the fast magnetosonic wave energy. It also reveals, for the first time, the generation of a high-frequency precursor wave by a synchrotron maser instability at the monster shock front, carrying a fraction of $\sim 10^{-3}$ of the total energy dissipated at the shock. The spectrum of the precursor wave exhibits several sharp harmonic peaks, with frequencies in the GHz band under conditions anticipated in magnetars. Such signals may appear as fast radio bursts.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Higgs-inflaton coupling from reheating and the metastable Universe
Creators: name: Gross, Christian
name: Lebedev, Oleg
name: Zatta, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current Higgs boson and top quark data favor metastability of our vacuum which raises questions as to why the Universe has chosen an energetically disfavored state and remained there during inflation. In this Letter, we point out that these problems can be solved by a Higgs-inflaton coupling which appears in realistic models of inflation. Since an inflaton must couple to the Standard Model particles either directly or indirectly, such a coupling is generated radiatively, even if absent at tree level. As a result, the dynamics of the Higgs field can change dramatically.
description: v2: 5 pages, minor corrections
title: Utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT and MRI imaging findings for predicting the clinicopathologic subtypes of triple negative breast cancer
Creators: name: Kubota, Kazunori
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Breast cancer is known to be a heterogeneous group of distinct disease entities, and the treatment approach is sophisticated based on each intrinsic subtypes [1-3]. Genetically, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is classified into 7 subtypes, and...
Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Retirement: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Jones, S.A.
name: Li, Q.
name: Aiello, A.E.
name: O'Rand, A.M.
name: Evenson, K.R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Introduction: Physical activity and sedentary behavior are major risk factors for chronic disease. These behaviors may change at retirement, with implications for health in later life. The study objective was to describe longitudinal patterns of moderate to vigorous and domain-specific physical activity and TV watching by retirement status. Methods: Participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (n=6,814) were recruited from six U.S. communities and were aged 45–84 years at baseline. Retirement status and frequency and duration of domain-specific physical activity (recreational walking, transport walking, non-walking leisure activity, caregiving, household, occupational/volunteer) and TV watching were self-reported at four study exams (2000 to 2012). Fixed effect linear regression models were used to describe longitudinal patterns in physical activity and TV watching by retirement status overall and stratified by socioeconomic position. Analyses were conducted in 2017. Results: Of 4,091 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis participants not retired at baseline, 1,012 (25%) retired during a median of 9 years follow-up. Retirement was associated with a 10% decrease (95% CI= –15%, –5%) in moderate to vigorous physical activity and increases of 13% to 29% in recreational walking, household activity, and TV watching. Among people of low socioeconomic position, the magnitude of association was larger for moderate to vigorous physical activity. Among people of high socioeconomic position, the magnitude of association was larger for non-walking leisure and household activity. Conclusions: The retirement transition was associated with changes in physical activity and TV watching. To inform intervention development, future research is needed on the determinants of behavior change after retirement, particularly among individuals of low socioeconomic position. © 2018 American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Discrimination and synthesis of recursive quantum states in high-dimensional Hilbert spaces
Creators: name: Simon, David S.
name: Fitzpatrick, Casey A.
name: Sergienko, Alexander V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an interferometric method for statistically discriminating between nonorthogonal states in high dimensional Hilbert spaces for use in quantum information processing. The method is illustrated for the case of photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) states. These states belong to pairs of bases that are mutually unbiased on a sequence of two-dimensional subspaces of the full Hilbert space, but the vectors within the same basis are not necessarily orthogonal to each other. Over multiple trials, this method allows distinguishing OAM eigenstates from superpositions of multiple such eigenstates. Variations of the same method are then shown to be capable of preparing and detecting arbitrary linear combinations of states in Hilbert space. One further variation allows the construction of chains of states obeying recurrence relations on the Hilbert space itself, opening a new range of possibilities for more abstract information-coding algorithms to be carried out experimentally in a simple manner. Among other applications, we show that this approach provides a simplified means of switching between pairs of high-dimensional mutually unbiased OAM bases.
An Asymptotic Linear Representation for the Breslow Estimator
Creators: name: Lopuhaa, Hendrik P.
name: Nane, Gabriela F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide an asymptotic linear representation for the Breslow estimator of the baseline cumulative hazard function in the Cox model. Our representation consists of an average of independent random variables and a term involving the difference between the maximum partial likelihood estimator and the underlying regression parameter. The order of the remainder term is arbitrarily close to 1/n.
title: Conventional ultrasound speed of 1540 m/s is inappropriate for examinations of obese patients at second trimester of pregnancy
Creators: name: CHAUVEAU, Benoit
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Anatomy
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Physics
subject: Equipment
subject: Foetus
subject: Obstetrics

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The epidemic of obesity has become a major public health problem affecting all age groups and social categories. Complications result for the mother and infant, into childhood and beyond. Obesity during pregnancy is associated with increased...
Quantum mechanics without quanta
Creators: name: Rashkovskiy, Sergey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P10

description: In this paper, I argue that light is a continuous classical electromagnetic wave, while the observed so-called quantum nature of the interaction of light with matter is connected to the discrete (atomic) structure of matter and to the specific nature of the light-atom interaction. From this point of view, the Born rule for light is derived, and the double-slit experiment is analysed in detail. I show that the double-slit experiment can be explained without using the concept of a "photon", solely on the basis of classical electrodynamics. I show that within this framework, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for a "photon" has a simple physical meaning not related to the fundamental limitations in accuracy of the simultaneous measurement of position and momentum or time and energy. I argue also that we can avoid the paradoxes connected with the wave-particle duality of the electron if we consider some classical wave field - an "electron wave" - instead of electrons as the particles and consider the wave equations (Dirac, Klein-Gordon, Pauli and Schrodinger) as the field equations similar to Maxwell equations for the electromagnetic field. It is shown that such an electron field must have an electric charge, an intrinsic angular momentum and an intrinsic magnetic moment continuously distributed in the space. It is shown that from this perspective, the double-slit experiment for "electrons", the Born rule, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the Compton effect all have a simple explanation within classical field theory. The proposed perspective allows consideration of quantum mechanics not as a theory of particles but as a classical field theory similar to Maxwell electrodynamics.
description: 61 pages, 3 figures, Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations, 2015
shiny mIRRor - User Manual
Creators: name: Bodner, Nadja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Shiny App, User Manual, interrater agreement, time series, binary data

description: Investigating interrater agreement in binary time series with a simulation-based test is a cumbersome endeavor. To this end, we developed a shiny app(lication) that allows researchers to do so more easily. The user manual explains the shiny mIRRor app which is available on https://gitlab.kuleuven.be/ppw-okpiv/researchers/u0090403/shinymirror .