cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Necessary conditions for optimality of decomposable entanglement witnesses
Creators: name: Kye, Seung-Hyeok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P15, 15A30, 46L05

description: It is well known that the support of an optimal decomposable entanglement witness is completely entangled. We add two more necessary conditions for the optimality: The orthogonal complement of the support must have a nonzero product vector; another one will be given in terms of related faces of a convex cone. With these necessary conditions, we show that there exist examples of non-optimal decomposable entanglement witnesses which are the partial transposes of positive semi-definite matrices supported on completely entangled spaces, whenever both of the local dimensions are greater than or equal to three.
description: Final form to be published in Rep. Math. Phys. The last example is corrected together with minor texts
Kambrium-Vendi töörühma välipäevik 23
Creators: name: Pirrus, Enn
name: Mens, Kaisa
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1970
Subjects: Cambrian
geological descriptions

description: Field notebook with descriptions of Cambrian outcrops in Estonia (surroundings of Tallinn).
On a Linear Program for Minimum-Weight Triangulation
Creators: name: Yousefi, Arman
name: Young, Neal E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.6; I.3.5
subject: 68W25, 90C05

description: Minimum-weight triangulation (MWT) is NP-hard. It has a polynomial-time constant-factor approximation algorithm, and a variety of effective polynomial- time heuristics that, for many instances, can find the exact MWT. Linear programs (LPs) for MWT are well-studied, but previously no connection was known between any LP and any approximation algorithm or heuristic for MWT. Here we show the first such connections: for an LP formulation due to Dantzig et al. (1985): (i) the integrality gap is bounded by a constant; (ii) given any instance, if the aforementioned heuristics find the MWT, then so does the LP.
description: To appear in SICOMP. Extended abstract appeared in SODA 2012
Bethe-Salpeter study of radially excited vector quarkonia
Creators: name: Sauli, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for a system of a heavy quark-antiquark pair interacting with a Poincare invariant generalization of screened linear confining potential. In order to get reliable description the Lorentz scalar confining interaction is complemented by the effective one gluon exchange. Within presented model we reasonably reproduce all known radial excitations of the vector charmonia. We have found that $J/Ψ$ is the only charmonium left bellow naive quark-antiquark threshold $2m_c$, while the all excited states are situated above this threshold. We develop a method which is enable to provide solution of full four dimensional BSE for the all excited states. We discuss the consequences of the use of the free propagators for calculation of excited states above the threshold. The Bethe-Salpeter string breaking scale $μ\simeq 350MeV$ appears to be relatively larger then the one defined in various potential models $μ\simeq 150MeV$.
description: typos and grammar corrected
Catastrophic Arteriovenous Thromboembolism as Initial Manifestation of Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Majumder, Shounak
name: Thom, Tatiana
name: Dasanu, Constantin A
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adenocarcinoma; Gangrene; Ischemia; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Thromboembolism

description: Context The association between cancer and thrombosis is well-known. Among gastrointestinal malignancies, pancreatic cancer has perhaps the strongest association with thromboembolic events. However, simultaneous arterial and venous thromboses affecting multiple organs at the time of initial diagnosis is rare, with an incidence of less than 1%. Case report We report herein a case of a 61-year-old woman who presented with digital ischemia, a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and an ischemic stroke, along with deep vein thromboses and pulmonary embolism. She was subsequently diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Discussion This report highlights the intriguing association between pancreatic cancer biology, tumor metastases, and triggering of venous and arterial thromboembolic events. Current evidence points towards early thromboembolic phenomena as a harbinger of poor outcome in pancreatic cancer, and studies attempting to define the role of prophylactic anticoagulation in these patients are ongoing.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Adjuvant Strategies for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: Have We Made Progress?
Creators: name: Russo, Suzanne
name: Jain, Anshu K
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chemoradiotherapy, Adjuvant; Radiation; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Substantial controversy remains regarding the optimal adjuvant treatment for patients with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Despite improvements in radiation techniques, systemic therapies, and incorporation of targeted agents, the 5-year survival rates for early stage patients remains less than 25% and the optimal adjuvant treatment approach remains unclear. Here we summarize the data presented at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium regarding controversial issues surrounding the role, timing, and selection of patients for adjuvant chemoradiation strategies following curative resection for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. (Abstracts #301, #333, and #206).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
New Physics backgrounds to the H -> WW search at the LHC?
Creators: name: Feigl, Bastian
name: Rzehak, Heidi
name: Zeppenfeld, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The searches for H -> WW events at the LHC use data driven techniques for estimating the q qbar -> WW background, by normalizing the background cross section to data in a control region. We investigate the possibility that new physics sources which mainly contribute to the control region lead to an overestimate of Standard Model backgrounds to the Higgs boson signal and, thus, to an underestimate of the H -> WW signal. A supersymmetric scenario with heavy squarks and gluinos but charginos in the 200 to 300 GeV region and somewhat lighter sleptons can lead to such a situation.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. v2: matches version published in PLB
Cyphoserica Brenske 1900
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Cyphoserica

description: Cyphoserica Brenske, 1900b
[1 species].
Type species Cyphoserica mukengeana Brenske, 1900, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Is There a Role of Radiotherapy in the Management of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (PNET)?
Creators: name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
name: Ng, John
name: Chang, Bryan
name: Russo, Suzanne
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chemoradiotherapy; Neuroendocrine Tumors; Pancreas

description: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET) represent a heterogeneous group of tumors with varying tumor biology and prognosis. Advanced PNETs remain a difficult therapeutic challenge because of their high malignant potential and their resistance to conventional chemotherapy although there have been recent developments with promising results with the use of novel agents for the treatment of this disease. Combined modality chemoradiation is not widely used in the management of locally advanced pancreatic endocrine tumors. We discuss Abstract #335 from 2012 ASCO GI Cancers Symposium and share our experience to discuss efficacy and toxicity of concurrent capecitabine or infusional 5-fluorouracil and radiotherapy in patients with resected, locally advanced and metastatic PNET. Prospective studies to investigate the role of radiation and chemoradiation are warranted.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Inflation with General Initial Conditions for Scalar Perturbations
Creators: name: Kundu, Sandipan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility of a single field quasi-de Sitter inflationary model with general initial state for primordial fluctuations. In this paper, first we compute the power spectrum and the bispectrum of scalar perturbations with coherent state as the initial state. We find that a large class of coherent states are indistinguishable from the Bunch-Davies vacuum state and hence consistent with the current observations. In case of a more general initial state built over Bunch-Davies vacuum state, we show that the constraints on the initial state from observed power spectrum and local bispectrum are relatively weak and for quasi-de Sitter inflation a large number of initial states are consistent with the current observations. However, renormalizability of the energy-momentum tensor of the fluctuations constraints the initial state further.
description: Updated to match published version, 20 pages
Pancreatic Cancer and Thromboembolism in the Ambulatory Community
Creators: name: Kornreich, Davida A
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ambulatory Care; Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal; Hematinics; Venous Thromboembolism

description: Pancreatic exocrine adenocarcinoma is one of the most common malignancies associated with thromboembolism. The authors summarize the two abstracts (#368 and #273) presented at the 2012 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium which were focused on pancreatic thrombosis in ambulatory patients. In addition, they discuss the risk of thrombosis associated with malignancy, chemotherapy, and erythropoietin stimulating agents and the management and implications thereof.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Cyrtotrochalus Brenske 1900
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Cyrtotrochalus

description: Cyrtotrochalus Brenske, 1900b
[3 species].
Type species Cyrtotrochalas opacus Brenske, 1902, by subsequent monotypy.
Note: Brenske (1902b) incorrectly spelt Cyrtotrochalus as “ Cyrtotrachalus ”.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
An Update on Surgical Staging of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Winner, Megan
name: Allendorf, John D
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cell Biology; Fluorescence; Laparoscopy; Neoplasm Staging; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Accurate staging of pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a crucial step in determining the appropriate therapeutic approach to pancreatic cancer and to maximizing life expectancy. Despite the availability of high-quality abdominal imaging, the use of multi-modality imaging and of diagnostic laparoscopy, a portion of surgically explored patients fail to undergo resection secondary to metastatic disease. This review is an update from the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium of new developments in the staging of localized pancreatic adenocarcinoma. (Abstracts #168, #177, and #212).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Two parameter flow of σ_{xx}(ω) - σ_{xy}(ω) for the graphene quantum Hall system in ac regime
Creators: name: Morimoto, Takahiro
name: Aoki, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flow diagram of $(σ_{xx}, σ_{xy})$ in finite-frequency ($ω$) regime is numerically studied for graphene quantum Hall effect (QHE) system. The ac flow diagrams turn out to show qualitatively similar behavior as the dc flow diagrams, which can be understood that the dynamical length scale determined by the frequency poses a relevant cutoff for the renormalization flow. Then the two parameter flow is discussed in terms of the dynamical scaling theory. We also discuss the larger-$ω$ regime which exhibits classical flows driven by the raw frequency $ω$.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
The function of the imprinted transcription factor ASCL2 in mouse trophoblast development
Creators: name: Jacob, Karen Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The epigenetic phenomenon known as genomic imprinting which leads to the monoallelic expression of genes in a parent-of-origin dependent manner has been linked to the development and function of the placenta in mammals. The imprinted gene, Ascl2, codes for a transcription factor which is expressed from the maternal allele in the placenta and is required for its development. Mice that lack Ascl2 expression from their maternal allele die around mid-gestation of placental failure. The effects of Ascl2 can be studied in vivo, in mice that are Ascl2-deficient and, in vitro in trophoblast stem (TS) cells which provide an excellent model of early placental development. Here we compare the transcriptomes of Ascl2-deficient and wild-type E9.5 placentae and find that a total of 838 coding genes are significantly downregulated in the mutant placentae. These genes were deemed to be potential candidate targets of ASCL2. The downregulation of several genes from this list is verified by qRT-PCR and their location in the placenta investigated by in situ hybridization, verifying their overlap with Ascl2 in the trophoblast. We also investigate the knock-out (KO) placental phenotype of one of these candidate target genes, Hmga2, and recognized a labyrinth phenotype in the Hmga2-KO. We also describe, for the first time, the establishment of Ascl2-deficient TS cells confirming that Ascl2 is dispensable for TS cell establishment and maintenance. We find that Ascl2-deficient TS cells lack expression of several trophoblast cell lineage markers through differentiation suggesting they are unable differentiate into cells of the trophoblast lineage. We also find that Ascl2 candidate gene expression in differentiating Ascl2-deficient TS cells is altered when compared to wild-type. These results provide important insight into the functional role of Ascl2 in the development and differentiation of the cells of the trophoblast lineage.
Management of Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Jia, Yuxia
name: Wang, Tony JC
name: Allendorf, John
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Neoadjuvant Therapy; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Radiation

description: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death among U.S. men and women. Despite much effort in translational research, pancreatic adenocarcinoma remains a challenging disease with an overall 5-year survival rate less than 5%. To date, the only potentially curative treatment for managing pancreatic adenocarcinoma is surgical resection. However, more than 80% of patients are deemed either unresectable or metastatic upon diagnosis. For borderline resectable disease, although there is no high-level evidence supporting its use, an initial approach involving neoadjuvant therapy is preferred, as opposed to immediate surgery. In this year’s ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, several studies were presented with approaches towards treating borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Retrospective studies (Abstract #280, #304, #327) were presented and showed that neoadjuvant chemoradiation were associated with higher rates of negative margin resection and better survival. The tolerability of accelerated fraction radiotherapy with concomitant capecitabine was demonstrated in a phase I study (Abstract #329). More effective therapeutic approaches and prospective studies are needed for this devastating illness. This highlight article will focus on the management of borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: Is Surgery the Best First Step?
Creators: name: Russo, Suzanne
name: Chabot, John
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Laparoscopy; Neoadjuvant Therapy; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Proteomics

description: Controversy exist regarding the potential benefit of the neoadjuvant approach to pancreatic cancer as limited retrospective data exists comparing pre- with post-operative chemoradiation. The optimal treatment approach remains unclear as we await prospective randomized clinical trials evaluating the hypothesized benefit of the neoadjuvant therapy for resectable pancreatic cancer and as there has been no proven survival benefit to date. Here we summarize the data presented at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium providing additional insight into the potential of neoadjuvant therapy in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. (Abstracts #156, #162, #168 and #177).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Deroserica Moser 1915
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Deroserica

description: Deroserica Moser, 1915
[5 species].
Type species Deroserica pulchra Moser, 1915, by subsequent designation of Ahrens (1995).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Creating atom-number states around tapered optical fibres by loading from an optical lattice
Creators: name: Hennessy, T.
name: Busch, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe theoretically a setup in which a tapered optical nanofibre is introduced into an optical lattice potential for cold atoms. Firstly, we consider the disturbance to the geometry of the lattice potential due to scattering of the lattice lasers from the dielectric fibre surface and show that the resulting distortion to the lattice can be minimized by placing the fibre at an appropriate position in the lattice. We then calculate the modifications of the local potentials that are achievable by transmitting off-resonant light through the fibre. The availability of such a technique holds the potential to deterministically create and address small well-defined samples of atoms in the evanescent field of the tapered nanofibre.
description: 7 pages. 6 figures
The rocky road to reconciliation : exploring the effects of Aboriginal title jurisprudence on the relationship between First Nations and the Crown in Canada
Creators: name: Horrocks-Denis, Émilie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of Aboriginal title jurisprudence on the relationship between First Nations and the Crown in Canada, paying particular attention to the Tsilhqot’in case involving the Tsilhqot’in Nation’s Aboriginal title claim for lands in British Columbia. Findings show that the 2007 British Columbia Supreme Court’s trial judgement in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia attempted to improve relations between the Tsilhqot’in and the Crown by placing equal weight on oral history and oral tradition evidence, adopting a broad and flexible standard of occupation, affirming the inapplicability of the Forest Act to Aboriginal title lands, and expressing an opinion on Tsilhqot’in Aboriginal title to facilitate the subsequent process of negotiations. Nonetheless, the trial judgement failed to provide the Tsilhqot’in people with a declaration of Aboriginal title, due to a defect in their pleadings. By contrast, while the 2012 British Columbia Court of Appeal’s decision in William v. British Columbia correctly allowed the Tsilhqot’in appeal on the issue of pleadings, it largely contributed to subverting relations between the Tsilhqot’in Nation and the Crown by interfering with the factual findings of the trial judge, creating a false dichotomy between site-specific and territorial claims, endorsing a narrow and stringent standard of occupation, articulating a preference for Aboriginal rights over Aboriginal title, and putting forward a hollow conception of reconciliation, which fails to place equal weight on the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perspectives. The Tsilhqot’in case confirms the broader pattern of Canadian Aboriginal title jurisprudence, whereby courts consistently dismiss Aboriginal title claims, either on procedural grounds to avoid dealing with their merits, or on substantive grounds to safeguard the interests of the Canadian state and society.
The weight filtration for real algebraic varieties II: Classical homology
Creators: name: McCrory, Clint
name: Parusinski, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14P25

description: We associate to each real algebraic variety a filtered chain complex, the weight complex, which is well-defined up to filtered quasi-isomorphism, and which induces on classical (compactly supported) homology with Z/2 coefficients an analog of the weight filtration for complex algebraic varieties. This complements our previous definition of the weight filtration of Borel-Moore homology.
description: 32 pages
Diaphoroserica Peringuey 1904
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Diaphoroserica

description: Diaphoroserica Péringuey, 1904
[1 species].
Type species Diaphoroserica mashona Péringuey, 1904, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Potts and percolation models on bowtie lattices
Creators: name: Ding, Chengxiang
name: Wang, Yangcheng
name: Li, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give the exact critical frontier of the Potts model on bowtie lattices. For the case of $q=1$, the critical frontier yields the thresholds of bond percolation on these lattices, which are exactly consistent with the results given by Ziff et al [J. Phys. A 39, 15083 (2006)]. For the $q=2$ Potts model on the bowtie-A lattice, the critical point is in agreement with that of the Ising model on this lattice, which has been exactly solved. Furthermore, we do extensive Monte Carlo simulations of Potts model on the bowtie-A lattice with noninteger $q$. Our numerical results, which are accurate up to 7 significant digits, are consistent with the theoretical predictions. We also simulate the site percolation on the bowtie-A lattice, and the threshold is $s_c=0.5479148(7)$. In the simulations of bond percolation and site percolation, we find that the shape-dependent properties of the percolation model on the bowtie-A lattice are somewhat different from those of an isotropic lattice, which may be caused by the anisotropy of the lattice.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures and 3 tables
Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Entering a New Era
Creators: name: Oberstein, Paul E
name: Remotti, Helen
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
name: Libutti, Steven K
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Drug Therapy; everolimus; Neuroendocrine Tumors; Pancreatic Neoplasms; sunitinib

description: Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) describe a heterogeneous group of tumors with a wide range of morphologic, functional, and behavioral characteristics. These tumors are generally slow growing and behave in an indolent fashion. However, they have the potential to spread, primarily to the liver and when they do, they can be life threatening and difficult to treat with current modalities. A subset of NETs, the pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) represent a small percentage of all pancreatic tumors (1.3%) but their incidence is rising. Prior to 2011, the only approved agent for unresectable pNETs was streptozocin (often used in combination with doxorubicin) but the efficacy of this drug was questionable. In 2011, the landscape of treatment for pNET was changed with the approval of the first new agents in 20 years, sunitinib and everolimus, that demonstrated improvement in time to progression in patients with progressive pNET. Sunitinib is a multikinase inhibitor and everolimus is an inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. These drugs were approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the basis of separate large randomized placebo-controlled trials. Data from these two trials and an additional phase III trial looking at everolimus in other neuroendocrine tumors has generated intense interest in this challenging disease. At the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, several researchers presented updated data regarding the risk stratification, treatment, and outcome for patients with pNET in the new era of targeted therapy. Choti et al. (Abstract #187) reviewed demographic data from a large set of patients who presented to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) sites with neuroendocrine tumors. Casciano et al. (Abstract #226) and Signorovitch et al. (Abstract #237) presented post-approval analysis of the relative role of everolimus and sunitinib in the treatment of pNET. Alistar et al. (Abstract #166) explored predictive biomarkers in pNET, and Yao et al. (Abstract #157) conducted multivariate analysis of patients treated with everolimus in the phase III, RADIANT-2 trial which included the identification of relevant biomarkers. Hobday et al. (Abstract #260) and Bergsland et al. (Abstract #285) reported phase II data from two clinical trials looking at novel targeted combinations for the treatment of pNET. Finally the role of treatment for poorly differentiated NETs (including pNETs) remains ill-defined and Yamaguchi et al. (Abstract #274) presented a report reviewing the experience at 23 centers in Japan in treating this population. The authors review and summarize these abstracts in this article.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Опыт работы с квантовым дифференциальным магнитометром КМ8 в условиях морской магнитной съемки // Фундаментальные проблемы морских электромагнитных исследований. М.: ИЗМИРАН, 1979. С.40 - 48
Creators: name: Гордин В.М., Любимов В.В.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1979
Subjects: Магнитное поле, квантовые магнитометры, морская магнитная съёмка, модульные магнитометры, градиентометры

description: В работе обсуждаются вопросы работы с буксируемым квантовым магнитометром-градиентометром в условиях морской магнитной съёмки. Обсуждается методика работы с прибором и повышение точности измерений на море. Приводятся экспериментальные данные.
Quality of Life in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Lee, Valerie
name: Cheng, Haiying
name: Li, Guangyuan
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Palliative Care; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Quality of Life

description: Pancreatic cancer is a rapidly fatal disease with palliation often serving as the main goal of treatment. The end of life is often marked by severe symptoms and poor quality of life (QoL). Several studies presented at the 2012 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium addressed the importance of symptom identification and management for patients with pancreatic cancer: 1) a study evaluating the correlation between patient-reported symptoms, disease burden and treatment duration in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer undergoing gemcitabine-based chemotherapy (Abstract #370); 2) a Japanese study found that patients without worsening of pain or sleep symptoms at one month of chemotherapy had higher frequency of disease control (Abstract #195); and 3) a study showed that fear of cancer recurrence is a substantial problem following resection and should be targeted (Abstract #289). The authors summarize the findings and discuss the importance of QoL in these patients. The results of these studies may facilitate in identifying symptom changes as predictive markers, and improving care and QoL for patients with this devastating disease.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Doleroserica Peringuey 1904
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Doleroserica

description: Doleroserica Péringuey, 1904
[6 species].
Type species Doleroserica gentilis Péringuey, 1904, by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2007a).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
The Formation of Supermassive Black Holes from Low-Mass Pop III Seeds
Creators: name: Whalen, Daniel J.
name: Fryer, Chris L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of 10$^9$ M$_{\odot}$ black holes (BH) in massive galaxies by $z \ sim$ 7 is one of the great unsolved mysteries in cosmological structure formation. One theory argues that they originate from the black holes of Pop III stars at $z \sim$ 20 and then accrete at the Eddington limit down to the epoch of reionization, which requires that they have constant access to rich supplies of fuel. Because early numerical simulations suggested that Pop III stars were $\gtrsim$ 100 M$_{\odot}$, the supermassive black hole seeds considered up to now were 100 - 300 M$_{\odot}$. However, there is a growing numerical and observational consensus that some Pop III stars were tens of solar masses, not hundreds, and that 20 - 40 M$_{\odot}$ black holes may have been much more plentiful at high redshift. However, we find that natal kicks imparted to 20 - 40 M$_{\odot}$ Pop III BHs during formation eject them from their halos and hence their fuel supply, precluding them from Eddington-limit growth. Consequently, supermassive black holes are far less likely to form from low-mass Pop III stars than from very massive ones.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJL
The Resource Theory of Quantum States Out of Thermal Equilibrium
Creators: name: Brandão, Fernando G. S. L.
name: Horodecki, Michał
name: Oppenheim, Jonathan
name: Renes, Joseph M.
name: Spekkens, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ideas of thermodynamics have proved fruitful in the setting of quantum information theory, in particular the notion that when the allowed transformations of a system are restricted, certain states of the system become useful resources with which one can prepare previously inaccessible states. The theory of entanglement is perhaps the best-known and most well-understood resource theory in this sense. Here we return to the basic questions of thermodynamics using the formalism of resource theories developed in quantum information theory and show that the free energy of thermodynamics emerges naturally from the resource theory of energy-preserving transformations. Specifically, the free energy quantifies the amount of useful work which can be extracted from asymptotically-many copies of a quantum system when using only reversible energy-preserving transformations and a thermal bath at fixed temperature. The free energy also quantifies the rate at which resource states can be reversibly interconverted asymptotically, provided that a sublinear amount of coherent superposition over energy levels is available, a situation analogous to the sublinear amount of classical communication required for entanglement dilution.
description: 4.5 pages main text, 12 pages appendix; v3: improvements to presentation of the main result
Microtubules immuno-labeled with Alexa 647 with widefield images 40-49
Creators: name: SINGH, Manish
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: shareloc.xyz
shareloc.xyz:dataset
dstorm
u373
microtubules
indirect-immuno-labeling
alpha-tubulin
2d
em-ccd
thunderstorm
gluox
pfa+gluta
alexa-647
smlm

description: Open in Shareloc.XYZ

description: dSTORM images of microtubules with widefield images, Alpha-tubulin immuno-labeled with Alexa 647 in U373 cells, reconstructed by ThunderSTORM plugin (Uploaded via https://shareloc.xyz)
Flow and interferometry in 3+1 dimensional viscous hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Bozek, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The expansion of the fireball created in Au-Au collisions at 200 GeV is described in (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics with shear and bulk viscosities. We present results for the transverse momentum spectra, the directed and elliptic flow and the interferometry radii.
description: discussion of viscous corrections at freeze-out added
Skin reactions to the diode laser 805 nm application among groups of various ethnicity.
Creators: name: Zaleska, Izabela
name: Atta-Motte, Magdalena
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Patients who decide to undergo a permanent hair removal course of treatments put the effectiveness of the method and a fast and long-lasting result as their priority. For the therapist patient safety should be most important. Patients may expect redness, skin irritation, erythema, postoperative hypersensitivity and possible burns manifested by blisters and scabs. It is also possible to experience pigmentary changes such as hyperpigmentation. Less frequently described cases are scarring, purpura, folliculitis, cyanobacteria, pruritus or urticaria.
The available literature describes the effectiveness of the diode laser as a method for all skin types according to the Fitzpatrick scale hair removal but the question of patient safety and minimization of side effects and postoperative complications remains unanswered. In diode laser, the hair removal principle of selective photothermolysis applies, where the chromophore is melanin, which is found in the hair shaft itself and the bulge, however, the same chromophore can be found as skin pigment.
Therefore getting the best results in the pubic area - as one of the most popular treatments - is difficult but it is one of the most popular diode-assisted hair removal treatments in aesthetics.
Massive cosmological scalar perturbations
Creators: name: Khosravi, Nima
name: Sepangi, Hamid Reza
name: Shahidi, Shahab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the cosmological perturbations of the new bi-metric gravity proposed by Hassan and Rosen \cite{hasan} as a representation of massive gravity. The mass term in the model, in addition of ensuring ghost freedom for both metrics, causes the two scale factors to mix at the cosmological level and this affects the cosmological perturbation of the model. We find two combinations corresponding to the entropy and adiabatic perturbations of the theory. In this sense we show that the adiabatic perturbations could be a source for the entropy perturbations. So in addition to the adiabatic perturbations, entropy perturbations can also be present in this theory. We also show that the adiabatic perturbations are not constant at the super horizon scales, implying that the theory could not be used to describe the inflationary epoch, even if it can impose some corrections to the standard inflationary scenarios.
description: 9 pages, no figures, super horizon solution added and discussed
METODI DI CONTENIMENTO DEL CINGHIALE (Sus scrofa) NELLE AREE PROTETTE: ANALISI DELLE NORMATIVE IN ITALIA CON PARTICOLARE RIFERIMENTO ALLA TUTELA DEL BENESSERE DEGLI ANIMALI CATTURATI
Creators: name: Ferri, Mauro
name: Vigano, Roberto
name: Armaroli, Elisa
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria
Year: 2018

description: During 1950s in Italy wild boar (Sus scrofa) was close to extinction. Then, several introduction, re-introduction and restocking operations have been legally carried out by local administrations, or illegally by hunters for hunting purpose, so as to make the management of this species particularly problematic and needing a careful and farsighted approach. In order to limit the increasing damage to crops and biocenosis, containment plans have been carried out, even in hunting-free areas, through selective cull and capture with steady or movable cage. The destination of captured animals is the critical point of this kind of management, not only for the effectiveness of this practice but above all for animal welfare. Often these animals are destinated to game farms, private hunting areas or hunting dogs training areas. Moreover, transport of live wild boars to slaughterhouses does not respect animal welfare standards and is in contrast with European legislation for animal welfare during transport and animal management in slaughterhouse. Considering the current practices, the authors outline the current legislative framework on the subject and propose indications to include the activities of wild boar containment within the commercial chain of wild game meat.

Moreover, the transport of alive wild boars to slaughterhouses is in contrast with European Regulation admitting this transport only for listed farmed animals. Considering the above-mentioned practices, the Authors outline the current legislative framework on the subject, and in the context of the activities of containment of wild boars, ask for an immediate suppression of the animals directly on the capture location, avoiding any subsequent handling and transport.
description: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria, V. 17, N. 3 (2018): RASSEGNA
Locally Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Update and Progress
Creators: name: Ng, John
name: Zhang, Chi
name: Gidea-Addeo, Daniela
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Combined Modality Therapy; erlotinib; Fluorouracil; gemcitabine; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Radiation; Radiotherapy

description: Pancreatic cancer, the 4th leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., remains a challenging disease for the oncology community. Less than 20% of all cases are potentially cured by surgical resection, while the large majority of cases are deemed either unresectable or metastatic upon diagnosis. Advances in treating locally advanced pancreatic cancer have been few and modest. In this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, three abstracts (#252, #254, #313) were presented with novel approaches towards treating locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Surgery for recurrent disease, a promising new chemoradiation regimen, and the application of an exciting multi-agent regimen (FOLFIRINOX: oxaliplatin, irinotecan, leucovorin, 5-fluorouracil) in a non-clinical trial setting, highlight the novel approaches focused on the management of this difficult disease.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
REGOLAMENTO (UE) N. 2016/429, REGOLAMENTO DELEGATO (UE) N. 2018/1629 E D.P.R. N. 320/54: ANALISI COMPARATIVA E RIFLESSI PRATICO-APPLICATIVI IN SANITA’ PUBBLICA VETERINARIA
Creators: name: Ruffo, Giancarlo
name: Beghetto, Mara
name: La Greca, Enrico
name: Fossati, Paola
Publisher: name: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria
Year: 2018

description: The Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) no. 2018/1629 modifies the list of animal diseases included in Annex II to Regulation (EU) no. 2016/429. In the present work, the Authors compare the legislative developments regarding Animal Health from D.P.R. n. 320/54 to Reg. (UE) n. 2016/429 and to Delegated Reg. (EU) n. 2018/1629, highlighting the consequences of application regarding the notifiable diseases
description: Rassegna di Diritto, Legislazione e Medicina Legale Veterinaria, V. 17, N. 3 (2018): RASSEGNA
Dolerotarsa Peringuey 1904
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Dolerotarsa

description: Dolerotarsa Péringuey, 1904
[1 species].
Type species Dolerotarsa emendatrix Péringuey, 1904, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Translational Research. New Findings and Potential Future Applications in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Strimpakos, Alexios S
name: Syrigos, Kostas N
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adenocarcinoma; Biological Markers; gemcitabine; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: The current achievements in pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment are disappointing for patients and clinicians alike. Still, in the dawn of 2012, most patients are diagnosed at a late stage where cure is not feasible, with the majority going to succumb within the same year of diagnosis. Thus, the only hope for early and diagnosis and radical treatment is the invention of diagnostic and prognostic tests which might predict accurately patients who may develop this disease and those who have the most aggressive potential, so clinician adopt the appropriate strategy. In this paper we summarize the findings from the three most interesting research abstract as presented at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. In particular, we focus on Abstract #160 which shows the diagnostic utility of microRNA serum profiling in pancreatic cancer patients, on Abstract #201 which suggests a potential prognostic role of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta pathway in advanced pancreatic cancer, and on Abstract #165 which shows that protein S100A4 might be a new, potentially useful, predictive biomarker of gemcitabine efficacy.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas: Clinical Surveillance and Malignant Progression, Multifocality and Implications of a Field-Defect
Creators: name: Remotti, Helen Elaine
name: Winner, Megan
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal; Early Detection of Cancer; Pancreatic Cyst; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Population Surveillance

description: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are a heterogeneous group of mucin producing cystic tumors that involve the main pancreatic duct and/or branch ducts and may be associated with invasive carcinoma. Predicting the risk of malignant transformation of an IPMN lesion can be challenging. The Sendai criteria, based in large part on radiographic imaging features, help guide surgical intervention based on the stratification of cysts into high and low risk lesions for malignancy. Invasive carcinoma may develop in the index IPMN lesion or in a separate site within the pancreas, supporting the concept of a field defect in IPMN tumorigenesis. This stresses the importance of evaluation of the entire pancreas upon diagnosis of IPMN and continued surveillance of the residual pancreas following resection. Herein, the authors summarize the data presented at the 2012 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium regarding prevalence and site of invasive carcinoma detected in patients undergoing surveillance for IPMN (Abstract #152).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Remarks on the Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Frampton, Paul H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The acceleration of the surface of last scatter (SLS) must somehow reflect the energy content within it. A test particle at the SLS is assumed to experience a linear combination of two forces: one Newtonian, the other pseudo-Newtonian describable by a cosmological constant $Λ$ in general relativity. In the $Λ$ description, which is surely too unimaginative, the size of $Λ$ reflects only the comparable magnitudes of the Newtonian and pseudo-Newtonian forces; any claim of fine tuning due to quantum mechanics is probably illusory.
description: 6 pages, no figures; improved version