cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Intra-arterial chemoembolization with local ablation therapy for advanced cancer patients
Creators: name: Jeon, Yong Sik
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Interventional Radiology
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Embolisation
subject: Cancer
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To evaluate the practical feasibility and clinical gains of local ablation therapy combined with intra-arterial chemoembolization (IACE) for the palliative treatment of advanced cancer...
A 7mm line survey of the shocked and disrupted molecular gas towards the W28 field TeV gamma-ray sources
Creators: name: Nicholas, B. P.
name: Rowell, G.
name: Burton, M. G.
name: Walsh, A. J.
name: Fukui, Y.
name: Kawamura, A.
name: Maxted, N. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 7mm Mopra observations of the dense molecular gas towards the W28 supernova remnant (SNR) field, following a previous 12mm line survey of this region. These observations take advantage of the 7mm beam size to probe the dense and disrupted gas in the region at ~1 arcmin scales. Our observations are focused towards the north-eastern (NE) HESS J1801-233 and southern HESS J1800-240B TeV gamma-ray sources, with slightly less observations towards HESS J1800-240A & C. Using the CS (1-0) transition we reveal multiple regions of dense gas, nH2 ~10^5 cm^-3. We report the discovery of dense gas towards HESS J1800-240C, at the site of a 1720MHz OH maser. The NE molecular cloud is known to be disrupted, many 1720MHz OH masers and broad CO line emission are detected at the rim of W28. Here we reveal this shock interaction region contains generally extended clumpy CS, as well as clumpy SiO and CH3OH emission with broad line profiles. The FWHM of the molecular lines extend up to 18 km/s on the W28 side of the NE cloud. The detection of SiO towards maser clumps OH C, D, E & F provide further evidence of the shocked conditions in the NE cloud. Several other lines associated with star formation are also detected towards the southern source, notably the energetic HII complex G5.89-0.39. The spatial match of dense gas with the TeV emission further supports the CR origin for the gamma-rays. We estimate the mass of several extended dense clouds within the field and predict the TeV flux from the dense cloud components. The predicted fluxes are on the order of 10^{-14} - 10^{-13} ph/cm^2/s, which should be detectable and possibly resolved by a future TeV instrument, such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array.
description: 18 pages + 2 pages appendix accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Conformity between multiple sclerosis lesion location along the white matter tract and clinical disability using MR tractography
Creators: name: Larassati, Hana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Localisation
subject: Segmentation
subject: Inflammation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The symptomatology of clinical disabilities occuring in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients has not been fully understood. Studies focused on lesions visible on conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly T2-weighted images (T2WI),...
Intentionality and Language Development
Creators: name: Bloom, Lois
name: Beckwith, Richard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Child development
Children--Language
Language acquisition
Developmental psychology

description: The purpose of this paper is to argue for explicit reference in child language research to the states of mind that underlie expression. As a result of taking this Intentional stance we can more cogently (1) address the development of capacities that make such representations possible; (2) explain certain well-known phenomena in language development such as the transitions to using words and learning grammar; and (3) explore the developmental relation among different systems of expression such as between speech and affect. Expressions, whether through action, speech, or affect, are a license to attribute the representations that underlie them. Such attributions are basic in research with children learning language. Our goal is to highlight this practice, and, thereby, offer a theoretical framework for unifying the perspectives within which research in language development is ordinarily pursued.
Long-distance properties of baryons in the Sakai-Sugimoto model
Creators: name: Cherman, Aleksey
name: Ishii, Takaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the realization of baryons in the Sakai-Sugimoto model. In this theory, which is the gravity dual of a QCD-like theory, baryons appear as soliton solutions. These solitons were approximated as flat-space instantons in previous studies. However, with this approximation, it has been shown that one does not reproduce some model-independent predictions for the behavior of baryon electromagnetic form factors which are connected with long-range pion physics. This made it appear that the long-range pion physics of baryons may be hidden in (intractable) α' corrections in the gravity dual. In this paper, we study the long-range properties of baryons in the Sakai-Sugimoto model without relying on the flat-space instanton approximation. The solution we obtain gives the correct result for the model-independent ratio of form factors, implying that the model captures the expected infrared properties of baryons without the need to go beyond the leading order in the α' expansion.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure. v2: reference added
title: Artists' depictions of catsteps in the Loess Hills of Iowa: evidence for mid-nineteenth century climate change
title: Hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dillon, Kimberly R.
name: Emerman, Steven H.
name: Wilcox, Pamela K.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2006

description: 2006 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 20 - March 22, 2006.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Catsteps (also known as terracettes) are the staircase-like features common on hillslopes of the Loess Hills of western Iowa. The record of artistic depictions of the Loess Hills was examined to determine when catsteps appeared. Landscape artists George Catlin and Karl Bodmer traveled up the Missouri River in 1832 and 1833, respectively, and between them, produced 30 works of art depicting either the Loess Hills or the loess bluffs on the Nebraska side of the river. Only one painting by Bodmer of Blackbird Hill on the Nebraska side possibly shows catsteps. Moreover, an engraving based on the painting and another painting of the same site by Bodmer do not show catsteps. The Assistant State Geologist, Orestes St. John, produced five sketches of the Loess Hills in 1868, three of which show well-defined catsteps. The appearance of catsteps during the period 1833-1868 may be related to the appearance of gullies during the period 1860-1900. An examination of census data shows that intensive grazing of the Loess Hills did not begin until about 1900 so that climate change is a more likely explanation for the appearance of both catsteps and gullies. Since catsteps are more common on the south- and west-facing slopes, which will dry most quickly, the most probable climate change is a decrease in the periodicity of precipitation cycles. Such a climate change is consistent with tree ring data from eastern South Dakota and eastern Montana, but not central and eastern Iowa.
title: MRI assesment of myelination for the Pediatric Brain - scale using T1- and T2-weigted sequences
Creators: name: Dryga, Dariya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Developmental disease
subject: Image verification
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: MR imaging is the method of choice for assessment in vivo of the development of myelination of the human central nervous system. The major changes inmyelinationoccur from 3weeks to 1year for all brain regions and this process follows well-defined...
Fathers and Maternal Risk for Physical Child Abuse
Creators: name: Guterman, Neil B.
name: Lee, Yookyong
name: Lee, Shawna J.
name: Waldfogel, Jane
name: Rathouz, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Families

description: This study set out to examine father-related factors predicting maternal physical child abuse risk in a national birth cohort of 1,480 families. In-home and phone interviews were conducted with mothers when index children were 3 years old. Predictor variables included the mother–father relationship status; father demographic, economic, and psychosocial variables; and key background factors. Outcome variables included both observed and self-reported proxies of maternal physical child abuse risk. At the bivariate level, mothers married to fathers were at lower risk for most indicators of maternal physical child abuse. However, after accounting for specific fathering factors and controlling for background variables, multivariate analyses indicated that marriage washed out as a protective factor, and on two of three indicators was linked with greater maternal physical abuse risk. Regarding fathering factors linked with risk, fathers' higher educational attainment and their positive involvement with their children most discernibly predicted lower maternal physical child abuse risk. Fathers' economic factors played no observable role in mothers' risk for physical child maltreatment. Such multivariate findings suggest that marriage per se does not appear to be a protective factor for maternal physical child abuse and rather it may serve as a proxy for other father-related protective factors.
A Practical Approach to 3D Scanning in the Presence of Interreflections, Subsurface Scattering and Defocus
Creators: name: Gupta, Mohit
name: Agrawal, Amit
name: Veeraraghavan, Ashok
name: Narasimhan, Srinivasa G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer engineering

description: Global or indirect illumination effects such as interreflections and subsurface scattering severely degrade the performance of structured light-based 3D scanning. In this paper, we analyze the errors in structured light, caused by both long-range (interreflections) and short-range (subsurface scattering) indirect illumination. The errors depend on the frequency of the projected patterns, and the nature of indirect illumination. In particular, we show that long-range effects cause decoding errors for low-frequency patterns, whereas short-range effects affect high-frequency patterns. Based on this analysis, we present a practical 3D scanning system which works in the presence of a broad range of indirect illumination. First, we design binary structured light patterns that are resilient to individual indirect illumination effects using simple logical operations and tools from combinatorial mathematics. Scenes exhibiting multiple phenomena are handled by combining results from a small ensemble of such patterns. This combination also allows detecting any residual errors that are corrected by acquiring a few additional images. Our methods can be readily incorporated into existing scanning systems without significant overhead in terms of capture time or hardware. We show results for several scenes with complex shape and material properties.
A conceptual framework for value creation management in the lean product development process
Creators: name: Cai, Tianyi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 155-162.
description: The dynamic environment of technology advancement, market change, and global competition give emphasis to value as a strategic asset. As a concept focusing on value, lean can be applied to Product Development Processes (PDP) to improve value creation management. In this research, lean principles are examined for their fit with PDP. Value specification is discussed by decomposing general value concepts into categories. Value drivers and waste drivers in a value stream are redefined to clarify how value is created directly. A review of the issues of risk and motivation management, inventory, and variability reveals how, when properly managed, value is created in lean PDP. Further, it is concluded that a combination of pull and push systems are the best option to control product development projects. Value centric knowledge management and a holistic view are defined as two pillars in pursuing perfection. A "core value creation management actions model" is proposed to reveal how value is created at a fundamental level, and point out the most important management actions and their relationships for value creation in lean PDP. It is concluded that by enhancing the core value creation actions at a fundamental level, development teams can be managed to build stronger and leaner value flow in complicated product development systems. A "value creation cell" model is proposed as a conceptual approach to describe an atomic value creation mechanism, providing a quantified lean approach to help allocate resources and properly control lean product development systems. A proposal is made for how the value creation cell concepts can be integrated into a design game for validating the cell model. This thesis develops ideas for lean value creation management actions in PDP, and a to-be-validated conceptual framework of lean value creation cell so as to give insights about how designers by taking proper management actions can optimize the development process and realize continuous creation of value in lean product design.
On general strong laws of large numbers for fields of random variables
Creators: name: Hamallah, Cheikhna
name: Lo, Gane Samb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F15 (Primary) 60G60, 62H11 (Secondary) 62H35

description: A general method to prove strong laws of large numbers for random fields is given. It is based on the Hájek - Rényi type method presented in Noszály and Tómács \cite{noszaly} and in Tómács and Líbor \cite{thomas06}. Noszály and Tómács \cite{noszaly} obtained a Hájek-Rényi type maximal inequality for random fields using moments inequalities. Recently, Tómács and Líbor \cite{thomas06} obtained a Hájek-Rényi type maximal inequality for random sequences based on probabilities, but not for random fields. In this paper we present a Hájek-Rényi type maximal inequality for random fields, using probabilities, which is an extension of the main results of Noszály and Tómács \cite{noszaly} by replacing moments by probabilities and a generalization of the main results of Tómács and Líbor \cite% {thomas06} for random sequences to random fields. We apply our results to establishing a logarithmically weighted sums without moment assumptions and under general dependence conditions for random fields.
Bringing Home the Bacon: A Case for Applying the New Jersey Urban School Funding Remedy from Abbott v. Burke to Poor Rural School Districts
Creators: name: Gruber, Kyle E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: School districts
subject: School districts--Finance
subject: Civil rights
subject: Educational law and legislation
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education

description: In 1997, seventeen poor rural school districts in New Jersey filed a lawsuit seeking a declaration that their districts were in violation of its students’ state constitutional right to a "thorough and efficient" education, and a financial remedy akin to the one granted to poor urban districts in Abbott v. Burke. Fifteen years and four decisions later, these districts are still inadequately funded and providing a constitutionally inadequate education to the students therein. This Article analyzes the state of education funding law in New Jersey, under the governing Abbott v. Burke decisions, and argues that there is no significant legal distinction barring the poor rural districts from access to the same, or similar, remedial measures.
title: Shear wave elastography like noninvasive method for differentiation between acute and chronic deep venous thrombosis.
Creators: name: BEKALO, IRYNA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Prospective
subject: Acute
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Elastography
subject: Vascular
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The aims and objectives of our study were to use shear wave elastography (SWE) for differentiation between acute and chronic deep venous thrombosis by characterizing of clot...
title: Suspended and substrate sediment sizes of the lower Rio Puerco, New Mexico
title: Hydrology days 2004
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2004
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Milhous, Robert T.
name: Fleming, Julie
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2004

description: 24th annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 10-12, 2004.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: An understanding of the transport of sediment in any river requires and understanding of the sizes of the sediment n the substrate and the sizes of transported sediment. Data in USGS records for the Rio Puerco near Bernardo show that 50% of the suspended load samples have at least 90% fines (<0.062 mm) and 90% of the samples have at least 77% or more fines. Samples from the river at a location above the gage show the surface material of the Rio Puerco has a median size of 0.0022 mm – very fine material. This layer is a few centimeters thick. Below this layer is substrate with a median size of 0.085 mm. Samples from the flood plain profile had a median size range of 0.007-0.20 with median in the range of 0.06. The flood plain and substrate samples have more sand than the suspended sediment size measurements imply. Another concern is the actual size of the sediment in transport. Data for the suspended sediment show significant differences in the sizes of the sediment measured using a dispersent compared to sizes with native water. To simulate this in the laboratory, very fine sediment (the surface material on the stream bed) was measured with and without dispersent. The size of the sediment measured with dispersent was 0.0022 mm compared to without dispersent median size of 0.01 mm. A similar test was done for one of the courser samples; the 'with dispersent' median size was 0.044 mm compared to 'without dispersent' median size of 0.050 mm. The analytical technique used in the laboratory determination of the particle sizes of suspended sediment and of the substrate must be part of the information reported in any study using grain size analysis.
The unravelling of identities and belonging: criminal gang involvement of youth from immigrant families
Creators: name: Ngo, Hieu Van
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 386-425
description: This dissertation study was a response to community concerns about youth gangs in Calgary. It aimed to achieve theoretical understanding of criminal gang involvement of youth from immigrant families, and to develop a collaborative, practical framework to support high risk youth. lnformed by participatory action research and grounded theory, the inquiry process involved an interplay of theoretical development and participation of community stakeholders in group reflection and action. The analysis of the experiences of predominantly male participants (29 males, l female) resulted in a grounded theory of unravelling identities and belonging. According to the proposed theory, some youth from immigrant families became involved in criminal gang activity as a result of the unravelling of their self-concept, Canadian identity, ethnic identity and sense of belonging. Such unravelling occurred as the youth experienced gradual disintegration in their relationships with family, school and community. The analysis further unearthed complex pathways of youth from immigrant families towards criminal gang involvement. The gang involved participants either directly experienced pre-migration vulnerabilities or were indirectly impacted by their parents' pre-migration histories. Their life experiences in Canada involved gradual disintegration of their interactions with their families , schools and communities. Subsequently, the participants experienced crises of identities and belonging, which propelled them towards forming friendships with other socially disconnected peers. They became involved in social cliques, and progressed towards membership in criminal gangs. Drawing upon recommendations from the community stakeholders, this dissertation offers a practical framework for supporting high risk youth from immigrant families. The framework is guided by a set of principles that focus on development amongst youth from i1mnigrant families of a positive sense of identity, and of equity, multi-sectoral involvement, coordination and collaboration, multiple approaches to youth services, addressing multiple needs with multiple interventions, and timeliness and responsiveness as criteria for community stakeholders and service providers. It focuses on prevention, and offers concrete strategies for home-based, school-based and community-based support for youth. The dissertation addresses the implications of the study with respect to theoretical development, research, public discourse, policy development, and practice and service development. The findings of the study have made valuable theoretical and practical contributions to addressing the involvement of youth from immigrant families in criminal gangs.
Downscaling projections of Indian monsoon rainfall using a non-homogeneous hidden Markov model
Creators: name: Greene, Arthur M.
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
name: Smyth, Padhraic
name: Triglia, Scott
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Rain and rainfall--Forecasting
Monsoons--Data processing
Atmosphere
Meteorology

description: Downscaled rainfall projections for the Indian summer monsoon are generated using a non-homogeneous hidden Markov model (NHMM) and information from both a dense observational dataset and an ensemble of general circulation models (GCMs). The projections are conditioned on two types of GCM information, corresponding approximately to dynamic and thermodynamic components of precipitation change. These have opposing effects, with a weakening circulation compensating not quite half of the regional precipitation increase that might otherwise be expected. GCM information is taken at the largest spatial scales consistent with regional physics and modelling constraints, while the NHMM produces a disaggregation consistent with the observed fine-scale spatiotemporal variability. Projections are generated using multimodel mean predictors, with intermodel dispersion providing a measure of the uncertainty due to GCM differences. The downscaled simulations exhibit small increases in the number of dry days, in the average length of dry spells, in mean daily intensity and in the exceedance frequency of nearly all daily rainfall percentiles.
On the Three-dimensional Central Moment Lattice Boltzmann Method
Creators: name: Premnath, Kannan N.
name: Banerjee, Sanjoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A three-dimensional (3D) lattice Boltzmann method based on central moments is derived. Two main elements are the local attractors in the collision term and the source terms representing the effect of external and/or self-consistent internal forces. For suitable choices of the orthogonal moment basis for the three-dimensional, twenty seven velocity (D3Q27), and, its subset, fifteen velocity (D3Q15) lattice models, attractors are expressed in terms of factorization of lower order moments as suggested in an earlier work; the corresponding source terms are specified to correctly influence lower order hydrodynamic fields, while avoiding aliasing effects for higher order moments. These are achieved by successively matching the corresponding continuous and discrete central moments at various orders, with the final expressions written in terms of raw moments via a transformation based on the binomial theorem. Furthermore, to alleviate the discrete effects with the source terms, they are treated to be temporally semi-implicit and second-order, with the implicitness subsequently removed by means of a transformation. As a result, the approach is frame-invariant by construction and its emergent dynamics describing fully 3D fluid motion in the presence of force fields is Galilean invariant. Numerical experiments for a set of benchmark problems demonstrate its accuracy.
description: 55 pages, 8 figures
Sagittarius $\mathrm{A}^{\star}$ as a plausible source candidate for PeV neutrinos
Creators: name: Ray, Sabyasachi
name: Dey, Rajat K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the recently observed diffuse neutrinos by IceCube with energies above 1 PeV might have originated from Sagittarius $\mathrm{A}^{\star}$ located in the galactic disk. This implies that the astrophysical settings of Sagittarius $\mathrm{A}^{\star}$ need to accelerate hadronic cosmic rays to energies of $\sim 100$ PeV or more. Then, the hadronic emission scenario argues that this galactic neutrino source is also a PeV gamma-ray source. Recent observation of galactic diffuse PeV gamma-rays with energies $\sim 1$ PeV by Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory has also advocated this conjecture. In the present paper, we demonstrate that if protons are accelerated to energies of $\sim 100$ PeV or more as reported by Osmanov {\it et al.} (Astrophys. J. {\bf 835} 164:2017) in Sagittarius $\mathrm{A}^{\star}$ environment, then they might generate PeV neutrinos and gamma rays through cosmic rays-gas/interstellar matter ({\it e.g.} $pp$) interactions. We estimate theoretically the diffuse neutrino flux due to back-to-back charged pion decays and the accompanying gamma-ray flux from neutral pion decays. These results suggest that a fraction ($\simeq 1\%$) of the PeV diffuse neutrino flux observed by IceCube can be explained by the neutrino emission from Sagittarius $\mathrm{A}^{\star}$. Upcoming IceCube Gen2 and Cherenkov telescope array could be able to test our scenario for PeV neutrino and gamma-ray emissions from the only known galactic Pevatron Sagittarius $\mathrm{A}^{\star}$ with CR energies more than $100$ PeV.
description: 7 pages, 0 figures
A Combined Theory of Defocused Illumination and Global Light Transport
Creators: name: Gupta, Mohit
name: Tian, Yuandong
name: Narasimhan, Srinivasa G.
name: Zhang, Li
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer science

description: Projectors are increasingly being used as light-sources in computer vision applications. In several applications, they are modeled as point light sources, thus ignoring the effects of illumination defocus. In addition, most active vision techniques assume that a scene point is illuminated only directly by the light source, thus ignoring global light transport effects. Since both defocus and global illumination co-occur in virtually all scenes illuminated by projectors, ignoring them can result in strong, systematic biases in the recovered scene properties. To make computer vision techniques work for general real world scenes, it is thus important to account for both these effects. In this paper, we study the interplay between defocused illumination and global light transport. We show that both these seemingly disparate effects can be expressed as low pass filters on the incident illumination. Using this observation, we derive an invariant between the two effects, which can be used to separate the two. This is directly useful in scenarios where limited depth-of-field devices (such as projectors) are used to illuminate scenes with global light transport and significant depth variations. We show applications in two scenarios: (a) accurate depth recovery in the presence of global light transport, and (b) factoring out the effects of illumination defocus for correct direct-global component separation. We demonstrate our approach using scenes with complex shapes, reflectance properties, textures and translucencies.
Addressing and manipulation of individual hyperfine states in cold trapped molecular ions and application to HD^{+} frequency metrology
Creators: name: Bressel, U.
name: Borodin, A.
name: Shen, J.
name: Hansen, M.
name: Ernsting, I.
name: Schiller, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Advanced techniques for manipulation of internal states, standard in atomic physics, are demonstrated for a charged molecular species for the first time. We address individual hyperfine states of ro-vibrational levels of a diatomic ion by optical excitation of individual hyperfine transitions, and achieve controlled transfer of population into a selected hyperfine state. We use molecular hydrogen ions (HD^{+}) as a model system and employ a novel frequency-comb-based, continuous-wave 5 \mum laser spectrometer. The achieved spectral resolution is the highest obtained so far in the optical domain on a molecular ion species. As a consequence, we are also able to perform the most precise test yet of the ab-initio theory of a molecule.
title: Imaging evaluation of immuno-related pneumonitis in patients with non–small-cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Vergara, Doriana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Retrospective
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Cancer
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Oncology
subject: Lung
subject: Chest
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide and in the United States. Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer are responsible for almost 1 in 4 cancer-related deaths, more than prostate, breast and...
Newly Identified Star Clusters in M33. III. Structural Parameters
Creators: name: Roman, Izaskun San
name: Sarajedini, Ata
name: Holtzman, Jon A.
name: Garnett, Donald R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the morphological properties of 161 star clusters in M33 using the Advanced Camera For Surveys Wide Field Channel onboard the Hubble Space Telescope using observations with the F606W and F814W filters. We obtain, for the first time, ellipticities, position angles, and surface brightness profiles for a significant number of clusters. On average, M33 clusters are more flattened than those of the Milky Way and M31, and more similar to clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The ellipticities do not show any correlation with age or mass, suggesting that rotation is not the main cause of elongation in the M33 clusters. The position angles of the clusters show a bimodality with a strong peak perpendicular to the position angle of the galaxy major axis. These results support the notion that tidal forces are the reason for the cluster flattening. We fit King and EFF models to the surface brightness profiles and derive structural parameters including core radii, concentration, half-light radii and central surface brightness for both filters. The surface brightness profiles of a significant number of clusters show irregularities such as bumps and dips. Young clusters (Log age < 8) are notably better fitted by models with no radial truncation (EFF models), while older clusters show no significant differences between King or EFF fits. M33 star clusters seem to have smaller sizes, smaller concentrations, and smaller central surface brightness as compared to clusters in the MW, M31, LMC and SMC. Analysis of the structural parameters presents a age-radius relation also detected in other star cluster systems. The overall analysis shows differences in the structural evolution between the M33 cluster system and cluster systems in nearby galaxies. These differences could have been caused by the strong differences in these various environments.
description: 30 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Beyond Supreme Court Anti-Discrimination: An Essay on Racial Subordinations, Racial Pleasures and Commodified Race
Creators: name: Gotanda, Neil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Race relations
subject: Discrimination--Law and legislation
subject: Race discrimination--Law and legislation
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In recent years, the Supreme Court has narrowed its examination of racial subordinations to focus upon three doctrinal approaches: disparate treatment racial discrimination, the intent theory of racial discrimination, and suspect category strict scrutiny. Taken together, these three doctrines mutually reinforce racial discrimination as the only available legal understanding of racial subordination. Faced with the Court's ever contracting list of issues available for discussion, some scholars have chosen to investigate outside the Court's constricted understanding of race. This Essay begins by noting that racial subordinations—social subordinations premised on a schema of body types—are multiple and not limited to a single, narrow understanding. After introducing the Supreme Court's restrictive approach in Section I, I examine in Section II recent scholarship on racial subordination that has pressed beyond the doctrinal confines created by the Supreme Court. I review authors discussing Title VII, common law contract, racial tropes, implicit bias, patent law, and trademark. Section III examines Professor Anthony Farley's concept of racial pleasure—the idea that racial subordination gives pleasure to its participants. Racial pleasure is a form of racial subordination that falls outside of the Supreme Court's understanding of racial subordination as racial discrimination. Through the examination of race in computer games, I suggest two distinctions. I observe a legal distinction between racial pleasures and commodified racial pleasures, and a normative legal distinction between permitted racial pleasures and illicit racial pleasures. Section III ends with a proposed standard for constitutional review of state regulation of illicit racial pleasures. As another interpretation of racial subordination, Section IV proposes a theorization of commodified race through Marx' theory of commodity circulation.
title: A plan for conversion of stormwater to groundwater recharge on the Utah Valley University main campus, Orem, Utah
title: Hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dastrup, Dylan B.
name: Ferreira, Gabriela R.
name: Zacharias, Daniel
name: Natter, Daniel H.
name: Kellum, Lawrence T.
name: Emerman, Steven H.
name: Davis, Brandon B.
name: Alexander, Michael R.
name: Selck, Jeff
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2013

description: 2013 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 25 - March 27, 2013.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: At the present time the vast majority of the stormwater generated on the Main Campus of Utah Valley University is exported to Utah Lake, which is only 1.4 miles from campus. Although there is a large boulder-lined detention pond on campus, it is used only as a holding pond before the stormwater is exported. The objective of this study was to determine what percentage of the average annual stormwater and the stormwater generated by a 100-year 24-hour precipitation event could be retained on campus and used for groundwater recharge by constructing a series of French drains. It was determined that the Main Campus could be divided into 33 watersheds that currently export stormwater (72.8% of the surface area) and 28 additional self-contained watersheds. Using the NRCS Runoff Curve Method, it was determined that the Main Campus exports 0.4998 ac·ft of stormwater annually and would export 23.2969 ac·ft of stormwater following a 100-year 24-hour precipitation event, while the self-contained watersheds capture 0.0330 ac·ft annually and would capture 2.7913 ac·ft following a 100-year 24-hour event. The construction of nine French drains (including subsurface expansion of the existing detention pond with discontinuation of pumping) with a combined surface area of 0.9260 ac would convert to groundwater recharge 0.1402 ac·ft annually (28.1% of current export) and 6.2083 ac·ft following a 100-year 24-hour precipitation event (26.6% of current export). Further reduction of stormwater export could not be accomplished without disruption to current paved areas or other built infrastructure.
The acquisition of l2 information structure in Hungarian': the salience of position vs. prosody
Creators: name: Hracs, Lindsay Dawn
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 120-131.
description: Includes a copy of Ethics Review form. Original with original copy of Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The current project investigates the L2 acquisition of focus structure in Hungarian' by native speakers of English. The study is designed to answer the question: Which is a more salient cue for English speakers to focus structure in Hungarian': position or prosody? Perceptual salience is the ease of hearing or perceiving a given linguistic feature, unit, or structure (DeKeyser and Goldschneider 2005:47). Results show no significant differences between the Position group and the Prosody group on overall accuracy scores and reaction times. However, the interaction of various linear word orders with other variables shows interesting significant results with respect the learners ' processing of word order.
SUSY Spectrum and the Higgs Mass in the BLMSSM
Creators: name: Perez, Pavel Fileviez
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 predictions for the mass of the light CP-even Higgs are investigated in the context of a simple extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model where the baryon and lepton numbers are local gauge symmetries. This theory predicts the existence of light charged and neutral leptons which give extra contributions to the Higgs mass at the one-loop level. We show the possibility to satisfy the LEP2 bound and achieve a Higgs mass around 125 GeV in a supersymmetric spectrum with light sfermions and small left-right mixing in the stop sector. We make a brief discussion of the unique leptonic signals at the Large Hadron Collider. This theory predicts baryon number violation at the low scale and one could avoid the current LHC bounds on the supersymmetric mass spectrum.
description: references added, minor corrections, to appear in Physics Letters B
title: Comparison of five segmentation software: qualitative analysis pre 3D printing
Creators: name: Martini, Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Experimental
subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Segmentation
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: Computer applications
subject: Information Technology
subject: Not applicable

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: 3D Printing is a production process in which an object is created by adding layers of material, following the instructions of a digital model. There are currently various fields of application in the medical field (e.g. Pre-surgical study,...
Have We Crossed the Bridge Yet?
Creators: name: Greenaway, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Race relations
subject: Selma to Montgomery Rights March
subject: African Americans--Social conditions
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: African Americans

description: Last test week, David Remnick's book, The Bridge, was published. It is a book ostensibly about the life and rise of our President, Barack Obama.  The Bridge is a reference to the bridge in Selma, Alabama where civil rights demonstrators were violently attacked by state troopers on March 7, 1965 on their way to Montgomery . . . Although deterred that day, the marchers, invoking the rule of law, eventually prevailed and were permitted to complete their historic march to Montgomery.  That confrontation galvanized our nation and helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year. . . . During the festivities relating to President Obama's inauguration, when asked to comment on the historic significance of the impending inauguration, Congressman [John] Lewis commented that Barack Obama is what comes at the end of that Bridge in Selma. It is a powerful, yet intriguing, metaphor that is susceptible to many interpretations.  Is having an African American President reaching the promised land? Is he what we, as African Americans, have hoped for in our quest for freedom? Is President Obama the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
Race, Rights and Reterritorialization
Creators: name: Gott, Gil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Contemporary Marxism
subject: Race relations
subject: Human rights
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Socialism
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This Essay considers the possibility of a political and dialectical theory of rights that builds on Critical race and neo-Marxist traditions through revision of formal Marxian approaches and in light of racialized forms of accumulation and anti-systemic struggle. This Essay borrows from the CRT and neo-Marxist traditions in arguing for the centrality of both political contestation and structural economic-materialist conditions in forging a progressive politics of rights. This can be contrasted to a critique of human rights in the international context that sees the discourse itself as depoliticizing insofar as rights become the prime possession of those who are denied a political space in which to assert their claims. The metaphor of rights (re)territorialization captures these concerns, while foregrounding the ongoing importance of race in grounding various aspects of global capital accumulation and concomitant political formations.
"Waves" vs. "particles" in the atmosphere's phase space: a pathway to long-range forecasting?
Creators: name: Ghil, Michael
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Atmosphere
Meteorology

description: Thirty years ago, E. N. Lorenz provided some approximate limits to atmospheric predictability. The details—in space and time—of atmospheric flow fields are lost after about 10 days. Certain gross flow features recur, however, after times of the order of 10–50 days, giving hope for their prediction. Over the last two decades, numerous attempts have been made to predict these recurrent features. The attempts have involved, on the one hand, systematic improvements in numerical weather prediction by increasing the spatial resolution and physical faithfulness in the detailed models used for this prediction. On the other hand, theoretical attempts motivated by the same goal have involved the study of the large-scale atmospheric motions' phase space and the inhomogeneities therein. These "coarse-graining" studies have addressed observed as well as simulated atmospheric data sets. Two distinct approaches have been used in these studies: the episodic or intermittent and the oscillatory or periodic. The intermittency approach describes multiple-flow (or weather) regimes, their persistence and recurrence, and the Markov chain of transitions among them. The periodicity approach studies intraseasonal oscillations, with periods of 15–70 days, and their predictability. We review these two approaches, "particles" vs. "waves," in the quantum physics analogy alluded to in the title of this article, discuss their complementarity, and outline unsolved problems.
Entangling capabilities of Symmetric two qubit gates
Creators: name: Sirsi, Swarnamala
name: Adiga, Veena
name: Hegde, Subramanya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our work addresses the problem of generating maximally entangled two spin-1/2 (qubit) symmetric states using NMR, NQR, Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Hamiltonians. Time evolution of such Hamiltonians provides various logic gates which can be used for quantum processing tasks. Pairs of spin-1/2's have modeled a wide range of problems in physics. Here we are interested in two spin-1/2 symmetric states which belong to a subspace spanned by the angular momentum basis {|j = 1, μ>; μ = +1, 0,-1}. Our technique relies on the decomposition of a Hamiltonian in terms of SU(3) generators. In this context, we define a set of linearly independent, traceless, Hermitian operators which provides an alternate set of SU(n) generators. These matrices are constructed out of angular momentum operators Jx,Jy,Jz. We construct and study the properties of perfect entanglers acting on a symmetric subspace i.e., spin-1 operators that can generate maximally entangled states from some suitably chosen initial separable states in terms of their entangling power.
description: 12 pages