cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Discovery of a new bona fide luminous blue variable in Norma
Creators: name: Gvaramadze, V. V.
name: Kniazev, A. Y.
name: Berdnikov, L. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of optical spectroscopy of the candidate evolved massive star MN44 revealed via detection of a circular shell with the Spitzer Space Telescope. First spectra taken in 2009 May--June showed the Balmer lines in emission as well as numerous emission lines of iron, which is typical of luminous blue variables (LBVs) near the visual maximum. New observations carried out in 2015 May--September detected significant changes in the spectrum, indicating that the star became hotter. We found that these changes are accompanied by significant brightness variability of MN44. In particular, the I_c-band brightness decreased by \approx 1.6 mag during the last six years and after reaching its minimum in 2015 June has started to increase. Using archival data, we also found that the I_c-band brightness increased by \approx 3 mag in \approx 30 yr preceding our observations. MN44 therefore represents the seventeenth known example of the Galactic bona fide LBVs. We detected a nitrogen-rich knot to the northwest of the star, which might represent an interstellar cloudlet interacting with the circumstellar shell. We discuss a possible association between MN44 and the INTEGRAL transient source of hard X-ray emission IGR J16327-4940, implying that MN44 might be either a colliding-wind binary or a high-mass X-ray binary.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Comparison of conventional 3-T MRI and 1.5-T MR arthrography of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI)
Creators: name: Crespo Rodriguez, Ana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Arthrography
subject: Puncture
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Several publications have advocated the use of direct magnetic resonance arthrography (MRA) for the detection of labral tears because of its higher sensitivity compared with conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 1.5-T magnets (1). The...
title: Thoracic examinations with 16, 64, 128 and 256 slices CT: comparison of exposure doses measured with an anthropomorphic phantom and TLD dosimeters
Creators: name: Zito, Felicia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With the introduction of multi-detector CT (MDCT) scanners the number of clinical applications of CT procedures has continued to increase due to the greater volume coverage and faster rotation times that have provided significantly higher...
Group environment affecting third-party punishment: neural signatures from ERPs and EEG oscillations
Creators: name: , Gaoyuan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This study used a modified third-party punishment task and EEG to explored how does group environment affect TPP and its neural mechanism, and provided electrophysiological evidence from EEG for how the group environment and gain and loss contexts influence TPP to maintain social fairness.
Complete Strangeness Measurements in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Tomasik, Boris
name: Kolomeitsev, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions within and around the energy range of the planned NICA facility. We describe the minimal statistical model, in which the total strangeness yield is fixed by the observed or calculated $K^+$ multiplicity. We show how the exact strangeness conservation can be taken into account on the event-by-event basis in such a model. We argue that from strange particle yields one can reveal information about the collision dynamics and about possible modifications of particle properties in medium. This can be best achieved if the complete strangeness measurement is performed, i.e. kaons, anti-kaons, hyperons and multistrange hyperons are registered in the same experimental setup. In particular the production of hadrons containing two and more strange quarks, like $Ξ$ and $Ω$ baryons could be of interest.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the NICA White Paper
Individual/group modulates third-party punishment in gain and loss contexts
Creators: name: Ao, Lihong
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Cooperation is the most important form of human social interaction. The existence of the third party plays an important role in maintaining social cooperation. This study intends to use the Prisoner's dilemma task to explore the cognitive neural mechanism and psychological processing of the third-party punishment decision in different contexts (Gain/Loss) and environment (individual/group).
Quantum cryptography without detector vulnerabilities using optically-seeded lasers
Creators: name: Comandar, L. C.
name: Lucamarini, M.
name: Fröhlich, B.
name: Dynes, J. F.
name: Sharpe, A. W.
name: Tam, S.
name: Yuan, Z. L.
name: Penty, R. V.
name: Shields, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Security in quantum cryptography is continuously challenged by inventive attacks targeting the real components of a cryptographic setup, and duly restored by new counter-measures to foil them. Due to their high sensitivity and complex design, detectors are the most frequently attacked components. Recently it was shown that two-photon interference from independent light sources can be exploited to avoid the use of detectors at the two ends of the communication channel. This new form of detection-safe quantum cryptography, called Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD), has been experimentally demonstrated, but with modest delivered key rates. Here we introduce a novel pulsed laser seeding technique to obtain high-visibility interference from gain-switched lasers and thereby perform quantum cryptography without detector vulnerabilities with unprecedented bit rates, in excess of 1 Mb/s. This represents a 2 to 6 orders of magnitude improvement over existing implementations and for the first time promotes the new scheme as a practical resource for quantum secure communications.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Supplementary information included. Citation typo in the abstract corrected
MPEC 2023-F142 : 2023 FC4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FC4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Externally driven macroscopic systems: Dynamics versus Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Grmela, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experience collected in mesoscopic dynamic modeling of externally driven systems indicates absence of potentials that could play role of equilibrium or nonequilibrium thermodynamic potentials yet their thermo-dynamics-like modeling is often found to provide a good description, good understanding, and predictions that agree with results of experimental observations. This apparent contradiction is explained by noting that the dynamic and the thermodynamics-like investigations on a given mesoscopic level of description are not directly related. Their relation is indirect. They both represent two aspects of dynamic modeling on a more microscopic level of description. The thermodynamic analysis arises in the investigation of the way the more microscopic dynamics reduces to the mesoscopic dynamics (reducing dynamics) and the mesoscopic dynamic analysis in the investigation of the result of the reduction (reduced dynamics).
Knee Injuries in Collegiate Athletes, a Review of Literature, and a Study of the Effects of Pre vs. Post Collegiate ACL Reconstruction in Division 1 Collegiate Athletes on Subsequent Knee Surgeries and Sports Career Length
Creators: name: Viradia, Neal
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The direct annual economic burden of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury exceeds 2 billion dollars. Additionally, it is known that knee injuries, particularly ACL injuries, increase the risk of osteoarthritis later in life. ACL and other knee injuries are common in athletics. These injuries often require reconstruction in addition to extensive rehabilitation before functions return at a pre-injury level. Though considerable research has been conducted regarding outcomes, a large knowledge gap exists in terms of injury risk factors, and targeted prevention programs. The development of successful preventive strategies cannot occur without an understanding of the mechanisms associated with knee injuries. The goals of this master’s paper are to define the prevalence of knee injuries and understand the outcomes of ACL injuries in collegiate athletes. The first part of the paper is an original research study examining whether previous ACL injury in high school athletics is a risk factor for subsequent graft failure and reoperation. The research question serves to examine the future health implications for high-level athletes who have suffered a prior ACL injury and undergone a subsequent reconstruction during their high school career. The second, more substantial portion of the paper is a mini-systematic review examining at the epidemiology of knee injuries among collegiate athletes. These findings will help to increase our understanding of the epidemiology of knee injuries, and serve to guide potential interventions that could be developed to prevent knee injuries.
Multichannel long-range Rydberg molecules
Creators: name: Eiles, Matthew T.
name: Greene, Chris H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A generalized class of ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules is proposed which consist of a multichannel Rydberg atom whose outermost electron creates a chemical bond with a distant ground state atom. Such multichannel Rydberg molecules exhibit favorable properties for laser excitation, because states exist where the quantum defect varies strongly with the principal quantum number. The resulting occurrence of near degeneracies with states of high orbital angular momentum promotes the admixture of low $l$ into the high $l$ deeply bound `trilobite' molecule states, thereby circumventing the usual difficulty posed by electric dipole selection rules. Such states also can exhibit multi-scale binding possibilities that could present novel options for quantum manipulation.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Model-based iterative reconstruction in CT thorax: first quantitative clinical results
Creators: name: Brussaard, Carola
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To determine the capability of Iterative Model Reconstruction (IMR-Philips) as dose reducing method in clinical...
USIA Poll # 1986-I86066: Security Issues--Following the Reykjavik Summit
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: US-Soviet Union relations (1); meeting between US President Ronald Reagan/Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik (5); agree/disagree with statement (4); US President Reagan/Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev should/should not meet again (1); efforts in nuclear arms control agreements (1); most important issues for future arms control negotiations (1); most important issue for US President Reagan/Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev to discuss (1); descriptions of US President Reagan/Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev (4); nuclear testing (1); security of Western Europe if US/Soviet Union agree to eliminate intermediate range nuclear missiles (1); Soviet Union as a threat to security of Western Europe (1).
Presidential Performance in Domestic Visits Survey: August 1993.
Creators: name: Office Of The Technical Advisor To The President Of Mexico
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Level of awareness of the construction of new roads(11); privatization of road construction(3); roads' efficiency and price(3); condition of the roads(6); presidential job performance(3); candidate preference for the 1988 presidential election(1); demographics(8).
title: Robot-assisted navigation system for CT-guided percutaneous lung lesions procedures: our experience in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Chu, Cheuk Man
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Localisation
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: BACKGROUND Imaging-guided lung procedures are usually challenging due to patients breathing, especially during local anaesthesia procedure. This is an ongoing prospective study with 100 patients targeted in the university-based hospital in Hong...
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Crime in America
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2005

description: Bill Clinton job performance (4); crime in U.S. (2); crime in neighborhood (4); would/would not be afraid to walk alone at night (1); Republican/Democratic party can better handle issue of crime (1); agree/disagree that government can't do much to stop crime (1); work ethic among police (1); how often worry about certain things (7); treatment of criminals (2); police protection (2); have/have not done certain things because of concern over crime (7); penalty for murder (1); favor/oppose certain things as ways of dealing with crime in U.S. (8); causes of crime in U.S. (9); would favor/oppose certain activities to help reduce crime (10); how safe does respondent feel in certain places (4); think certain types of people are more/less likely than others to commit crimes (9); juvenile offenders (3); agree/disagree with certain statements (2); opinion about some things that have been reported in the news recently (3); have/have not been victim of a crime in last twelve months (1); anyone respondent knows has/has not been victim of a crime in last twelve months (1); ever been the victim of a violent crime (1); how often watch local news on television (1); coverage of news about crime on television (2); guns in household (2).
title: Diagnostic value of computed tomography for staging colon cancer: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nerad, Elias
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To determine the diagnostic value of pre-operative computed tomography (CT) in detecting colon carcinomas with invasion beyond the bowel wall and the presence of malignant lymph...
Mixed-ADC Massive MIMO Detectors: Performance Analysis and Design Optimization
Creators: name: Zhang, Ti-Cao
name: Wen, Chao-Kai
name: Jin, Shi
name: Jiang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using a very low-resolution analog-to-digital convertor (ADC) unit at each antenna can remarkably reduce the hardware cost and power consumption of a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. However, such a pure low-resolution ADC architecture also complicates parameter estimation problems such as time/frequency synchronization and channel estimation. A mixed-ADC architecture, where most of the antennas are equipped with low-precision ADCs while a few antennas have full-precision ADCs, can solve these issues and actualize the potential of the pure low-resolution ADC architecture. In this paper, we present a unified framework to develop a family of detectors over the massive MIMO uplink system with the mixed-ADC receiver architecture by exploiting probabilistic Bayesian inference. As a basic setup, an optimal detector is developed to provide a minimum mean-squared-error (MMSE) estimate on data symbols. Considering the highly nonlinear steps involved in the quantization process, we also investigate the potential for complexity reduction on the optimal detector by postulating the common \emph{pseudo-quantization noise} (PQN) model. In particular, we provide asymptotic performance expressions including the MSE and bit error rate for the optimal and suboptimal MIMO detectors. The asymptotic performance expressions can be evaluated quickly and efficiently; thus, they are useful in system design optimization. We show that in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, the distortion caused by the PQN model can be ignored, whereas in the high-SNR regime, such distortion may cause 1-bit detection performance loss. The performance gap resulting from the PQN model can be narrowed by a small fraction of high-precision ADCs in the mixed-ADC architecture.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Mid Continent Omnibus Survey #8-2
Creators: name: Mid Continent Surveys
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: President Richard Nixon job performance (1); President Nixon policy approval (1); wage-prize freeze (1); economic future (1); Walter Mondale job performance (1); Huber Humphrey job performance (1); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); preferred election tickets (4); politician health conditions (4); draft deserters (1); family planning (1); abortion (1); marijuana legalization (1); traffic laws (1); Charles Stenvig job performance (1); Lawrence Cohen job performance (1).
Mid Continent Omnibus Survey #X-2
Creators: name: Mid Continent Surveys
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: President Richard Nixon job performance (1); President Nixon handling Vietnam (1); draft deserters (1); US international influence (1); foreign affairs information (2); President Nixon handling US (1); economic future (1); wage-price freeze (1); rising food prices (1); selling wheat overseas (1); grain company agreements (1); bread prices (1); interest in presidential campaign (1); George McGovern opinions (2); President Nixon opinions (2); most important election issue (1); presidential election (3); Democratic national headquarters break-in (1); Walter Mondale job performance (1); Huber Humphrey job performance (1); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); Charles Stenvig job performance (1); Lawrence Cohen job performance (1).
title: Dynamic first pass CT perfusion imaging of the myocardium vs. intracoronary transluminal attenuation gradient in coronary CT angiography for the assessment of coronary artery stenosis
Creators: name: Gramer, Bettina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Venous access
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of dynamic first pass computed tomography perfusion imaging and the transluminal attenuation gradient derived from coronary computed tomographyangiography in the assessment of coronary artery...
Structural Racism and its Influence on the Severity of Atopic Dermatitis in African American Children
Creators: name: Burkhart, Craig
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is the most common skin disease of childhood and is often more severe in African American than White children.  The reason for this disparity is unknown, but recent research indicates that it may be due to a combination of environmental and genetic factors.   One recent example of research on factors related to AD severity is a survey that was performed on a convenience sample of 201 pediatric AD patients evaluating their physical and socioeconomic environments. This study was conducted by myself as part of a practicum experience required for completion of my MPH degree.  Survey data was geocoded and linked to a measure of structural racism (residential segregation).  African American children were more likely to live in homes that were rented, be in low income families, have caregivers with lower educational attainment, and exposure to tobacco smoke.  The same factors that were associated with worse AD severity in this study were also found in published literature pointing the role of social determinants of health in racial differences in AD severity.  In addition, this study found that living in highly segregated communities was strongly associated with severe AD in African American children, which suggests structural racism may influence AD severity.  This master’s paper addresses two questions: (1) What is the association between structural racism and the severity of AD in children who identify as white versus black or African American and (2) do these associations differ across the two races?  The role of structural racism in creating health disparities is discussed along with a recommendation for addressing disparities in skin diseases such as AD with a Health in All Policies approach that addresses racism at all socioecologic levels of the social determinants of health model.
title: Quelles sont les interventions infirmières probantes décrites dans la littérature afin de permettre l’empowerment et la self-advocacy des personnes atteintes de démences ?
title: Quelles sont les interventions infirmières probantes décrites dans la littérature afin de permettre l’empowerment et la self-advocacy des personnes atteintes de démences ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Perruchoud, Elisa
name: Pichonnaz, Dylan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Psychogériatrie
subject: Soins infirmiers
subject: Proches aidants
subject: Professionnels de la santé
subject: Patient
subject: Démence
subject: Symptômes comportementaux et psychologique de la démence
subject: Soins centrés sur la personne/famille
subject: Interventions infirmières non-pharmacologique
subject: hesav TB SI
subject: Empowerment
subject: Self-advocacy

description: Problématique La population ciblée dans ce travail est celle des personnes atteintes de démence (PAD) vivant à domicile. Actuellement, les interventions infirmières existantes sont principalement basées sur la pharmacologie. Objectif Proposer des interventions infirmières probantes à l’aide de la littérature déjà existante à ce sujet, afin de promouvoir l'empowerment et la self-advocacy des PAD. Méthode La recherche de littérature a été menée sur les bases de données : CINAHL et Medline-PubMed et en ayant recours au crossreferencing. La méthode PICO a été utilisée afin de délimiter la problématique. Les critères d’inclusion étaient : une population gériatrique (65 ans et plus), les deux sexes confondus (H/F), des patients ayant tous types de démences du stade débutant à modéré. Intégration de proches aidants (PA) et des professionnels de la santé (PDS) dans la prise en soin, à domicile. La question de recherche a permis d’identifier des articles pertinents pour ce travail. La méthodologie a permis de sélectionner six articles d’études primaires. Résultats Les résultats extraits des articles sélectionnés démontrent le manque de connaissances des PDS et des PA concernant l’empowerment et la self-advocacy des PAD. Les résultats démontrent l’importance de l’intégration des PA dans la prise en soin, ainsi que le manque de sensibilisation et l’effet de la stigmatisation en lien avec la démence dans la société. Grâce au cadre conceptuel de T. Kitwood (1997) conçu pour favoriser l’empowerment et la self-advocacy des PAD, ainsi que la diminution des SCPD (symptômes comportementaux de la démence), plusieurs interventions ont été identifiées. Conclusion La discussion permet de relier les principaux résultats au modèle théorique de Kitwood ainsi qu’aux concepts mobilisés dans ce travail : empowerment, self-advocacy, soins centrés sur la personne (PCC), interventions infirmières. Le travail s’appuie sur les ressources identifiées pour proposer des pistes d’amélioration dans la prise en soin des PAD pour éviter les SCPD et la maltraitance des PAD par les PDS ou les PA, en lien avec l’évolution des troubles neurocognitifs (TNC).
A Hemeneutic Approach to Advancing Implementation Science: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: MacLeod, Martha
name: Snadden, David
name: McCaffrey, Graham
name: Zimmer, Lela
name: Wilson, Erin
name: Graham, Ian
name: Ulrich, Cathy
name: Zimmer, Peter
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this research is to advance implementation science through examining and articulating what it means to take a philosophical hermeneutic approach to studying knowledge and its implementation in a rural, remote, and northern context. Philosophical hermeneutics is concerned with interpretation: it focuses on meaning, language, and how things happen based on individual and context-specific understandings in the midst of the everyday (Gadamer, 1989; Zimmermann, 2015). It is concerned with relational, historical, and contextual ways of understanding. Hermeneutic research can articulate taken-for-granted practices of how learning occurs, how evidence is taken up, how knowledge evolves and how actions are taken or not taken over time in particular places and situations (Benner, 1994; Moules, McCaffrey, Field, & Laing, 2015). The study will be conducted in two parts. The first, a scoping review, will consider the use of hermeneutics in the field of implementation science. The second, an interview and observation study, will allow for understanding how evidence is taken up or not through the various approaches to implementation that are at work in rural, remote, and northern BC, and how knowledge is generated in order for implementation to happen (Holmes, Scarrow, & Schellenberg, 2012). The scoping review will be undertaken to summarize the existing knowledge on whether and in what way philosophical hermeneutics has been used as an approach within implementation science.
Comparison theorems for causal diamonds
Creators: name: Berthiere, Clement
name: Gibbons, Gary
name: Solodukhin, Sergey N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We formulate certain inequalities for the geometric quantities characterizing causal diamonds in curved and Minkowski spacetimes. These inequalities involve the red-shift factor which, as we show explicitly in the spherically symmetric case, is monotonic in the radial direction and it takes its maximal value at the centre. As a byproduct of our discussion we re-derive Bishop's inequality without assuming the positivity of the spatial Ricci tensor. We then generalize our considerations to arbitrary, static and not necessarily spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat spacetimes. In the case of spacetimes with a horizon our generalization involves the so-called {\it domain of dependence}. The respective volume, expressed in terms of the duration measured by a distant observer compared with the volume of the domain in Minkowski spacetime, exhibits behaviours which differ if $d=4$ or $d>4$. This peculiarity of four dimensions is due to the logarithmic subleading term in the asymptotic expansion of the metric near infinity. In terms of the invariant duration measured by a co-moving observer associated with the diamond we establish an inequality which is universal for all $d$. We suggest some possible applications of our results including the comparison theorems for entanglement entropy, causal set theory and fundamental limits on computation.
description: 36 pages, 3 figures
AI and Health Inequities in Primary Care
Creators: name: d'Elia, Alexander
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: AI
subject: Health equity
subject: Primary care

description: PhD project commenced in 2021 using a review followed by a inductive interview study to uncover ways in which AI may affect equity in primary care and ultimately create guidance for equitable implementation.
Field-free magnetization reversal by spin-Hall effect and exchange bias
Creators: name: Brink, Arno van den
name: Vermijs, Guus
name: Solignac, Aurélie
name: Koo, Jungwoo
name: Kohlhepp, Jurgen T.
name: Swagten, Henk J. M.
name: Koopmans, Bert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) driven by spin-transfer torque (STT) is a major contender for future memory applications. The energy dissipation involved in writing remains problematic, even with the advent of more efficient perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) devices. A promising alternative switching mechanism employs spin-orbit torques and the spin-Hall effect (SHE) in particular, but additional symmetry breaking is required to achieve deterministic switching in PMA devices. Currently used methods rely on in-plane magnetic fields or anisotropy gradients, which are not suitable for practical applications. Here, we interface the magnetic layer with an anti-ferromagnetic material. An in-plane exchange bias (EB) is created, and shown to enable field-free SHE-driven magnetization reversal of a perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/IrMn structure. Aside from the potential technological implications, our experiment provides additional insight into the local spin structure at the ferromagnetic/anti-ferromagnetic interface.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures and 11 supplementary figures
Encoding of low-quality DNA profiles as genotype probability matrices for improved profile comparisons, relatedness evaluation and database searches
Creators: name: Ryan, K.
name: Williams, D. Gareth
name: Balding, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many DNA profiles recovered from crime scene samples are of a quality that does not allow them to be searched against, nor entered into, databases. We propose a method for the comparison of profiles arising from two DNA samples, one or both of which can have multiple donors and be affected by low DNA template or degraded DNA. We compute likelihood ratios to evaluate the hypothesis that the two samples have a common DNA donor, and hypotheses specifying the relatedness of two donors. Our method uses a probability distribution for the genotype of the donor of interest in each sample. This distribution can be obtained from a statistical model, or we can exploit the ability of trained human experts to assess genotype probabilities, thus extracting much information that would be discarded by standard interpretation rules. Our method is compatible with established methods in simple settings, but is more widely applicable and can make better use of information than many current methods for the analysis of mixed-source, low-template DNA profiles. It can accommodate uncertainty arising from relatedness instead of or in addition to uncertainty arising from noisy genotyping. We describe a computer program GPMDNA, available under an open source license, to calculate LRs using the method presented in this paper.
description: 28 pages. Accepted for publication 2-Sep-2016 - Forensic Science International: Genetics
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll--Health Insurance and Pre-existing Conditions/Federal Budget
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Opinion of health reform law (1); influence of health reform law (4); Congress handling health reform law (1); reform proposals in the law (3); possessing pre-existing conditions (6); trouble getting coverage because of pre-existing conditions (4); job decisions based on health care coverage (2); opinion of super-committee (1); trusting groups/people to make deficit reduction suggestions (4); confidence in super-committee (1); super-committee getting support of both parties (1); role of certain tasks in budget reduction strategy (7); areas where spending should be reduced (4); worries (10).
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: November Kaiser Health Tracking Poll--Health Care Reform/Health Insurance
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Opinion of health reform law (4); groups better/worse off with health reform law (8); Congress handling health reform law (1); 30 day contact with news about reform law (2); negative coverage of reform law (1); understanding the reform law (1); benefitting from the reform law (4); negative affect of reform law (4); elements of reform law (32).
title: Impact of iterative reconstruction on objective and subjective image quality parameters in 256-slice MDCT dynamic myocardial perfusion imaging
Creators: name: Gramer, Bettina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Image noise is an important limitation factor of myocardial perfusion imaging. Iterative reconstruction techniques are an alternative to conventional filtered back projection reconstructions [source 1]. Recent studies to examine objective image...
title: Teleradiology in Italy: results of an online survey
Creators: name: Coppola, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Teleradiology
subject: Computer Applications-Teleradiology
subject: Quality assurance

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: This study has the purpose to obtain an overview of the current applications of Teleradiology (TR) in Italy and to evaluate the radiologist’s current opinion about it and the possible future usage of this technique.The diffusion of teleradiology...
Book Character Realism, Internal States and Dialogue in Children’s Story Telling
Creators: name: Russell, Samantha
name: Cain, Kate
name: Wang, Jessica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Early Childhood Education
subject: Anthropomorphism
subject: Character Dialogue
subject: Children's Stories
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Mental States
subject: Prosocial
subject: Psychology

description: The purpose of this study was to examine children’s recall of stories that varied by character realism (human/animal) and story theme (prosocial (sharing)/busy), which formed part of a larger experimental design. Our research questions address the influences of story and child characteristics on the frequencies of internal states and dialogues in the story retells.
Washington Post Poll: 2005 Gubernatorial Election/Government Spending
Creators: name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: Plans to vote in 2005 election for governor (1); how closely following this year's governor's race in Virginia (1); Jerry W. Kilgore vs. Timothy M. Kaine vs. H. Russ Potts Jr. (2); will definitely vote for candidate in November/could change mind and vote for someone else (1); President Bush's endorsement of Jerry Kilgore for governor (1); Governor Warner's endorsement of Tim Kaine for governor (1); direction of Virginia (2); opinion of certain people/groups (7); George W. Bush job performance (1); Governor Mark Warner job performance (1); Tim Kaine's responsibility for successes and failures of Warner administration (1); Senator George Allen job performance (1); qualifications of gubernatorial candidates (2); agree/disagree with statements about candidates for governor (16); gubernatorial candidates' views on most issues (2); candidates' reliance on religious beliefs when making policy decisions (2); new tax plan in Virginia (3); state tax increases should have to be approved by full statewide vote/state legislature should make tax decisions on its own (3); would support/oppose plan to use public funds to make preschool available to all Virginia 4-year-olds (1); importance of state issues in deciding vote for governor this year (10); Virginia economy (1); would support/oppose raising Virginia's gasoline tax (1); growing numbers of immigrants (1); would support/oppose using public money to help pay for places where day laborers could gather to look for work (2); abortion (1); death penalty (3); 2001 gubernatorial election (2); how many years lived in Virginia (1); live inside/outside the Beltway (1).
Depletion of gaseous CO in protoplanetary disks by surface-energy-regulated ice formation
Creators: name: Powell, Diana
name: Gao, Peter
name: Murray-Clay, Ruth
name: Zhang, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Empirical constraints of fundamental properties of protoplanetary disks are essential for understanding planet formation and planetary properties (1,2). Carbon monoxide (CO) gas is often used to constrain disk properties (3). However, estimates show that the CO gas abundance in disks is depleted relative to expected values (4,5,6,7), and models of various disk processes impacting the CO abundance could not explain this depletion on observed 1Myr timescales (8,9,10,11,12,13,14). Here we demonstrate that surface energy effects on particles in disks, such as the Kelvin effect, that arise when ice heterogeneously nucleates onto an existing particle can efficiently trap CO in its ice phase. In previous ice formation models, CO gas was released when small ice-coated particles were lofted to warmed disk layers. Our model can reproduce the observed abundance, distribution and time evolution of gaseous CO in the four most studied protoplanetary disks (7). We constrain the solid and gaseous CO inventory at the midplane and disk diffusivities and resolve inconsistencies in estimates of the disk mass -- three crucial parameters that control planetary formation.
description: Published in Nature Astronomy (2022), includes supplementary material
title: Correlation of thoracic aortic distensibility with aortic and coronary atherosclerotic plaques
Creators: name: Karimi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To determine the relationship between aortic distensibility and the presence, extent and composition of thoracic aortic plaques...
title: A prospective study to assess the utility of in-vivo strain ratio ultrasound elastography with gray scale ultrasound in evaluation of thyroid nodules
Creators: name: Singhal, Suman
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Thyroid nodules, a frequent incidental finding with imaging modalities(Ultrasound, Computed Tomography and Magnetic resonance imaging) are mostly benign in nature, however if found to be malignant are associated with poor prognosis. The aim of the...
title: Shoulder MRI in patients whit suspected injury of the supraspinatus tendon: evaluation with externally rotated arm and hand in supination or neutral position
Creators: name: Amore, BARBARA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: This MRI study was performed to determine which position of the shoulder in patients with suspected injury to the supraspinatus tendon of the rotator cuff is best to provide excellent images for diagnostic point of view and which gives us a better...
Environmental Risk Factors for Eosinophilic Esophagitis: A systematic review of the literature and a Geospatial Analysis using GIS
Creators: name: Green, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Abstract BACKGROUND: Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an emerging clinicopathologic entity defined by abnormal esophageal eosinophilic infiltration. Management of this disease is hampered by limited understanding of etiology and controllable risk factors. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the environmental risk factors for EoE and its complications. METHODS: We searched MEDLINE-indexed literature from 1950 through December 31, 2013. To identify additional relevant studies, we hand searched bibliographies of relevant papers. We limited the review to articles using human subjects, published in English, and consisting of case reports, case series, cross-sectional and cohort studies, or clinical trials. RESULTS: 12 articles discuss the risk of environmental exposures on EoE. CONCLUSION: A growing literature indicates that environment plays a large role in the etiology of EoE. Seasonal, geographic, and climate-based differences in disease prevalence have been shown but the exact mediator of this process, possibly pollen and other aeroallergens that vary over time and from place to place, remains elusive.
The effect of “smoky” coal bans on chronic lung disease among older people in Ireland
Creators: name: Lyons, Seán
name: Mao, Likun
name: Nolan, Anne
name: O'Sullivan, Vincent
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Globally, coal is still widely used for heating. However, there are concerns about its effect on ambient air quality and health. We estimated the effect of bans prohibiting the sale and use of so-called “smoky coal” on the prevalence of chronic lung disease in older people. Our identification strategy relied on the phased extension of smoky coal bans to Irish towns after 2010. We examined five waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), a large nationally representative survey containing detailed information on health, housing, and socioeconomic status. Controlling for relevant factors, smoky coal bans reduced the probability that an older person reports being diagnosed with chronic lung disease by between three and five percentage points. In models where we estimated the effect of the ban on the incidence of new cases of chronic lung disease, rather than existing cases, we found the effect was between -0.96 and -2.5 percentage points. Our findings were robust to estimating the model using different sub-samples and control variables. Furthermore, to address potential endogeneity of the ban, we examined subsamples defined by whether participants lived in towns within a range of the population threshold at which the ban was imposed. Estimating our model using these subsamples showed a consistently negative effect of the ban. We also showed parallel trends in health outcomes before the treatment, and that the treatment did not affect attrition from the sample.
Preparing for a new territory
Creators: name: Tannis, Tamara
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Canada, Northern
subject: Land titles--Registration and transfer--Nunavut
subject: Land use--Canada, Northern--Planning

description: The division of the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, represented years of preparation for responsible self-government in Nunavut. Northern planners played a central role in the development of the land reform planning process. While there was no Canadian precedent for this task, planners representing the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) worked within a five-year time-frame to develop, initiate, and implement the land reform components prior to division.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6505/Tannis.pdf?sequence=3
title: Which lumbar spine changes are associated with abnormal body mass index? a case-control study
Creators: name: Haghighatkhah, Hamidreza
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: MR
subject: Image compression

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Low pack pain point prevalence rate in IRAN,according to a survey performed in 2004 by the International league of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) ,and the collabration of the World Health Organization (WHO) ,is approximately 15.4 and 23.4 in...
Protocol for a scoping review on implementation conditions of telerehabilitation
Creators: name: Stampa, Susanne
name: Thienel, Christine
name: Tokgöz, Pinar
name: Razum, Oliver
name: Dockweiler, Christoph
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: telerehabilitation

description: The protocol describes the procedure for a scoping review to identify barriers and facilitating factors in the implementation of digitally supported offers in medical rehabilitation and rehabilitation aftercare.
MPEC 2023-F143 : 2023 EQ3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 EQ3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.