cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Post-procedural imaging assessment of residual Yttrium-90 activity in microsphere delivery systems using next generation digital photon counting PET/CT.
Creators: name: Wright, Chadwick
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: PET-CT
subject: Radioembolisation
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Yttrium-90 is a high energy beta emitting radioisotope used clinically for targeted radiotherapy. In particular, it is used for the radioembolization of tumor-induced neovasculature in patients with unresectable hepatic malignancies and...
(100936) Thomas Crocker
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Mean ergodic theorem for amenable discrete quantum groups and a Wiener type theorem for compact metrizable groups
Creators: name: Huang, Huichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L65, 37A30, 43A05

description: We prove a mean ergodic theorem for amenable discrete quantum groups. As an application, we prove a Wiener type theorem for continuous measures on compact metrizable groups.
description: The article is modified according to the referee's comments including the change of the title. Accepted for publication by Analysis&PDE
(100931) Adolphus Frederick Crocker
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Specific and Nonspecific Effects of Naltrexone on Goal-Directed and Habitual Models of Alcohol Seeking and Drinking
Creators: name: Hay, Rachel A.
name: Hodge, Clyde W.
name: Robinson, Donita L.
name: Jennings, Joshua H.
name: Zitzman, Dawnya L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The opioid receptor antagonist naltrexone (NTX) reduces goal-directed alcohol drinking in rats presumably by blunting alcohol reward. However, different operant conditioning behavior can be produced by different reinforcement schedules, with goal-directed operant behavior being more sensitive to changes in reward value than less flexible, habit-associated models.
The importance of basis states: an example using the Hydrogen basis
Creators: name: Forestell, Lindsay
name: Marsiglio, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a simple system, the electron configuration in a Hydrogen-like atom, to demonstrate the importance of using a complete basis set to provide a proper quantum mechanical description. We first start with what might be considered a successful strategy --- to diagonalize a truncated Hamiltonian matrix, written in a basis consisting of Hydrogen ($Z=1$) basis states. This fails to provide the correct answer, and we then demonstrate that the continuum basis states provided the rest of the true wave function, for the bound ground states. This work then shows, in a relatively simple system, the need to utilize a complete basis set, consisting of both bound and continuum states.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
title: CT-guided lung biopsy: is coaxial technique more accurate and safer than single needle technique?
Creators: name: Porfiri, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer
subject: Pathology
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Lung cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death worldwide. Because of the diffusion of multidetecter CT, an increasing number of lung lesions isdetected but a definitive diagnosis is often necessary to determine the most...
Constraining the Star Formation Rate using Joint CIB Continuum and [CII] Intensity Mapping
Creators: name: Zhou, Zilu
name: Maniyar, Abhishek S.
name: Pullen, Anthony R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Line intensity mapping (LIM) experiments probing the nearby universe can expect a considerable amount of cosmic infrared background (CIB) contiuum emission coming from near and far-infrared galaxies. For the purpose of using the LIM data to constrain the star formation rate (SFR), we argue that the CIB continuum - traditionally treated as contamination - can be combined with the LIM signal to enhance the SFR constraints achievable. We first present a power spectrum model that is capable of joining continuum and line emissions that assume the same prior SFR model. We subsequently analyze the effectiveness of the joint model in the context of the EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM), which utilizes the [CII] molecular line to study the SFR. We numerically compute the theoretical power spectra according to our model and the EXCLAIM survey specifics, and perform Fisher analysis to obtain SFR parameter constraints. We find that although the joint model has no considerable advantage over LIM alone assuming the current survey level of EXCLAIM, its effects become significant when we consider more optimistic values of survey resolution and angular span that are expected of future LIM experiments. By manipulating the Fisher formalism, we show that the CIB is not only an additional SFR sensitive signal, but also serves to break the SFR parameter degeneracy that naturally emerges from the [CII] Fisher matrix. For this reason, addition of the CIB will allow improvements in the survey parameters to be better reflected in the SFR constraints, and can be effectively utilized by future LIM experiments.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, will submit to MNRAS
(100932) Mary Garraway
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: An automated method to asses clinical image quality using FROC analysis for nodule detection in simulated lung phantom CT images
Creators: name: Veldkamp, Wouter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Physics
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To develop a method for clinical image quality assessment in CT using FROC analysis. As proof of concept, the detectability of lesions in simulated CT images of an anthropomorphic lung phantom was...
Entanglement Steering in Adaptive Circuits with Feedback
Creators: name: Ravindranath, Vikram
name: Han, Yiqiu
name: Yang, Zhi-Cheng
name: Chen, Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intensely studied measurement-induced entanglement phase transition has become a hallmark of non-unitary quantum many-body dynamics. Usually, such a transition only shows up at the level of each individual quantum trajectory, and is absent for the density matrix averaged over measurement outcomes. In this work, we introduce a class of adaptive random circuit models with feedback that exhibit transitions in both settings. After each measurement, a unitary operation is either applied or not depending on the measurement outcome, which steers the averaged density matrix towards a unique state above a certain measurement threshold. Interestingly, the transition for the density matrix and the entanglement transition in the individual quantum trajectory in general happen at \textit{different} critical measurement rates. We demonstrate that the former transition belongs to the parity-conserving universality class by an explicit mapping to a classical branching-annihilating random walk process.
description: 4.5 pages,6 figures; 5 pages of supplemental material. [v2] Figures compressed to reduce file size. [v3] Reference added
Trait Aggression and Problematic Alcohol Use Among College Students: The Moderating Effect of Distress Tolerance
Creators: name: Ali, Bina
name: Daughters, Stacey B.
name: Beck, Kenneth H.
name: Ryan, Jonathan S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Trait aggression has been linked to alcohol-related problems among college students. However, the individual conditions underlying this association are unknown. Empirical evidence and theory suggest the importance of distress tolerance, defined as an individual’s ability to withstand negative affective states, in the relationship between trait aggression and alcohol use. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to examine whether distress tolerance moderates the relationship between trait aggression and problematic alcohol use.
(100933) Elizabeth Bryan Edwards
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Coronary CT and endocardial leads - image quality in 320 MSCT with iterative reconstruction
Creators: name: Garmer, Marietta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) was rated as appropriate by the American College of Cardiology Foundation in patients with low or intermediate risk or pretest probability (1). CCTA has not been advised for patients with cardiac devices as...
(100929) George Henry Cother
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Esophageal stenting in the management of cancer-related dysphagia: is still useful?
Creators: name: Crivelli, Paola
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Oncology
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Recanalisation
subject: Stents
subject: Safety
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Swallowing disorders
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Aim of the study is to describe a cohort of patients with esophageal cancer-related dysphagia managed with a stent in the University hospital of...
Adipose Inflammation and Macrophage Infiltration After Binge Ethanol and Burn Injury
Creators: name: Hamilton, Jillian L.
name: Kovacs, Elizabeth J.
name: Qin, Yuanyuan
name: Zahs, Anita
name: Chen, Michael M.
name: Bird, Melanie D.
name: Ramirez, Luis
name: Makowski, Liza
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Ethanol exposure prior to traumatic injury, such as a burn, elevates systemic and local inflammatory responses and increases morbidity and mortality. Adipose is a large tissue mass that is often inflamed during obesity or other stresses which disturbs metabolic homeostasis. To date, there has been little investigation into the inflammatory response of adipose tissue after combined ethanol exposure and burn injury.
Hadamard gap series in weighted-type spaces on the unit ball
Creators: name: Hu, Bingyang
name: Li, Songxiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a sufficient and necessary condition for an analytic function $f(z)$ on the unit ball $\BB$ in $\CC^n$ with Hadamard gaps, that is, for $f(z)=\sum_{k=1}^\infty P_{n_k}(z)$ where $P_{n_k}(z)$ is a homogeneous polynomial of degree $n_k$ and $n_{k+1}/n_k \ge c>1$ for all $k \in \NN$, to belong to the weighted-type space $H^\infty_μ$ and the corresponding little weighted-type space $H^\infty_{μ, 0}$, under some condition posed on the weighted funtion $μ$. We also study the growth rate of those functions in $H^\infty_μ$. Finally, we characterize the boundedness and compactness of weighted composition operator from weighted-type space $H^\infty_μ$ to mixed norm spaces.
(100926) Ann Milsom
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Comparison of compression force & compressed breast thickness of Full-Field Digital Mammography and Combined FFDM plus Digital Breast Tomosynthesis when additional views considered
Creators: name: Lo, Christine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has quickly gained favor in the world of mammography, both for screening and diagnosis [1,2]. The correlative relationship between the implementation of DBT and decreased recall rates has been shown in a number of...
Alcohol Activates the Hedgehog Pathway and Induces Related Procarcinogenic Processes in the Alcohol-Preferring Rat Model of Hepatocarcinogenesis
Creators: name: Wank, Abigail
name: Max Schmidt, C.
name: Pereira, Thiago A.
name: Machado, Mariana V.
name: Guy, Cynthia D.
name: Diehl, Anna Mae
name: Choi, Steve
name: Swiderska-Syn, Marzena
name: Yip-Schneider, Michele T.
name: Karaca, Gamze
name: Michelotti, Gregory
name: Kadiyala, Vishnu
name: Chan, Isaac S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Alcohol consumption promotes hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The responsible mechanisms are not well understood. Hepatocarcinogenesis increases with age and is enhanced by factors that impose a demand for liver regeneration. Because alcohol is hepatotoxic, habitual alcohol ingestion evokes a recurrent demand for hepatic regeneration. The alcohol-preferring (P) rat model mimics the level of alcohol consumption by humans who habitually abuse alcohol. Previously, we showed that habitual heavy alcohol ingestion amplified age-related hepatocarcinogenesis in P-rats, with over 80% of alcohol-consuming P rats developing HCCs after 18 months of alcohol exposure, compared to only 5% of water-drinking controls.
On general correlation between 3D solar wind speed and density model and solar proxies
Creators: name: Porowski, C.
name: Bzowski, M.
name: Tokumaru, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solar wind (SW) is a supersonic outflow of plasma from the solar corona, with the latitudinal speed and density profiles varying with the solar activity. The SW protons charge exchange with the inflowing interstellar neutral atoms and create energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), which bring information on the physical state of the plasma within the boundary region of the heliosphere. The speed of the ENAs depends on their energies, and consequently observations at different energies provide information on different epochs backwards in time. Therefore, understanding the history of the evolution of the SW is important to understand this information. In this paper, we extend the work by \citet{porowski_etal:22a}, who provided the WawHelioIon 3DSW model of the time evolution of latitudinal profiles of the SW speed and density based on results of analysis of interplanetary scintillations (IPS). Based on results of Principal Component Analysis, we seek for correlation between selected solar proxies and the structure of the SW obtained from IPS and show that it is possible to reproduce the evolution of the SW structure during the past three solar cycles based on the proxies. With this, we extend the history of the evolution of the SW structure back to 1976, i.e., to the epoch when observations of the key proxies -- the inclination of the SW current sheet and the solar polar magnetic fields -- became available. We point out the potential of the use of the proxies for forecasting the structure of the SW into the future.
description: Corrected mistake in the description: phi is not heliographic latitude but co-latitue (i.e., phi = 0 at the north pole and phi = pi at the south pole)
(100927) Charles Milsom
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Association and ancestry analysis of sequence variants in ADH and ALDH using alcohol-related phenotypes in a Native American community sample
Creators: name: Wilhelmsen, Kirk C.
name: Peng, Qian
name: Gizer, Ian R.
name: Libiger, Ondrej
name: Ehlers, Cindy L.
name: Schork, Nicholas J.
name: Bizon, Chris
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Higher rates of alcohol use and other drug-dependence have been observed in some Native American populations relative to other ethnic groups in the U.S. Previous studies have shown that alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) genes and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) genes may affect the risk of development of alcohol dependence, and that polymorphisms within these genes may differentially affect risk for the disorder depending on the ethnic group evaluated. We evaluated variations in the ADH and ALDH genes in a large study investigating risk factors for substance use in a Native American population. We assessed ancestry admixture and tested for associations between alcohol-related phenotypes in the genomic regions around the ADH1-7 and ALDH2 and ALDH1A1 genes. Seventy-two (72) ADH variants showed significant evidence of association with a severity level of alcohol drinking-related dependence symptoms phenotype. These significant variants spanned across the entire 7 ADH gene cluster regions. Two significant associations, one in ADH and one in ALDH2, were observed with alcohol dependence diagnosis. Seventeen (17) variants showed significant association with the largest number of alcohol drinks ingested during any 24-hour period. Variants in or near ADH7 were significantly negatively associated with alcohol-related phenotypes, suggesting a potential protective effect of this gene. In addition, our results suggested that a higher degree of Native American ancestry is associated with higher frequencies of potential risk variants and lower frequencies of potential protective variants for alcohol dependence phenotypes.
(100928) Jane Brittain
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Formation and evolution of coronal rain observed by SDO/AIA on February 22, 2012
Creators: name: Vashalomidze, Z.
name: Kukhianidze, V.
name: Zaqarashvili, T. V.
name: Oliver, R.
name: Shergelashvili, B.
name: Ramishvili, G.
name: Poedts, S.
name: De Causmaecker, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation and dynamics of coronal rain are currently not fully understood. Coronal rain is the fall of cool and dense blobs formed by thermal instability in the solar corona towards the solar surface with acceleration smaller than gravitational free fall. We aim to study the observational evidence of the formation of coronal rain and to trace the detailed dynamics of individual blobs. We used time series of the 171 Å\, and 304 Å\, spectral lines obtained by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) above active region AR 11420 on February 22, 2012. Observations show that a coronal loop disappeared in the 171 Å channel and appeared in the 304 Å line$\text{}\text{}$ more than one hour later, which indicates a rapid cooling of the coronal loop from 1 MK to 0.05 MK. An energy estimation shows that the radiation is higher than the heat input, which indicates so-called catastrophic cooling. The cooling was accompanied by the formation of coronal rain in the form of falling cold plasma. We studied two different sequences of falling blobs. The first sequence includes three different blobs. The mean velocities of the blobs were estimated to be 50 km s$^{-1}$, 60 km s$^{-1}$ and 40 km s$^{-1}$. A polynomial fit shows the different values of the acceleration for different blobs, which are lower than free-fall in the solar corona. The first and second blob move along the same path, but with and without acceleration, respectively. We performed simple numerical simulations for two consecutive blobs, which show that the second blob moves in a medium that is modified by the passage of the first blob. Therefore, the second blob has a relatively high speed and no acceleration, as is shown by observations. The second sequence includes two different blobs with mean velocities of 100 km s$^{-1}$ and 90 km s$^{-1}$, respectively.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, Accepted in A&A
Toward a description of the centrality dependence of the charge balance function in the HYDJET++ model
Creators: name: Chernyshov, A. S.
name: Eyyubova, G. Kh.
name: Korotkikh, V. L.
name: Lokhtin, I. P.
name: Malinina, L. V.
name: Petrushanko, S. V.
name: Snigirev, A. M.
name: Zabrodin, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data from the Large Hadron Collider on the charge balance function in Pb+Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76~TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed and interpreted within the framework of the \hydjet++ model. This model allows us to qualitatively reproduce the experimentally observed centrality dependence of the balance function widths at relatively low transverse momentum intervals due to the different charge creation mechanisms in soft and hard processes. However, a fully adequate description of the balance function in these intervals implies an essential modification of the model by including exact charge conservation via the canonical rather than the grand canonical ensemble. A procedure is proposed for introducing charge correlations into the thermal model without changing other model parameters. With increasing transverse momenta, the default model results describe the experimental data much better because the contribution of the soft component of the model is significantly reduced in these transverse momentum intervals. In practical terms, there is a transition to a single source of charge correlations, namely, charge correlations in jets in which exact charge conservation holds at each stage.
description: Matches published version
(100930) Elizabeth Davis
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Chronic Intermittent Ethanol Exposure and Withdrawal Alters (3 α ,5 α )-3-Hydroxy-Pregnan-20-One Immunostaining in Cortical and Limbic Brain Regions of C57BL/6J Mice
Creators: name: Cook, Jason B.
name: Morrow, Danielle H.
name: Morrow, A. Leslie
name: Becker, Howard C.
name: O'Buckley, Todd K.
name: Mckinley, Raechel E.
name: Lopez, Marcelo F.
name: Maldonado-Devincci, Antoniette M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The GABAergic neuroactive steroid (3α,5α)-3-hydroxy-pregnan-20-one (3α,5α-THP, allopregnanolone) has been studied during withdrawal from ethanol in humans, rats and mice. Serum 3α,5α-THP levels decreased and brain levels were not altered following acute ethanol administration (2 g/kg) in male C57BL/6J mice, however the effects of chronic intermittent ethanol (CIE) exposure on 3α,5α-THP levels have not been examined. Given that CIE exposure changes subsequent voluntary ethanol drinking in a time-dependent fashion following repeated cycles of ethanol exposure, we conducted a time-course analysis of CIE effects on 3α,5α-THP levels in specific brain regions known to influence drinking behavior.
title: Semi-automatic detection of changes in T2 lesion load in multiple sclerosis in comparison to visual analysis: increased diagnostic yield?
Creators: name: Schwerdtner, Klaus
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Computer applications
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Comparative studies

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Background – Epidemiology MS Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common inflammatory-demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. With an prevalence greater than 100 per 100,000 is affects over 2 million people worldwide. [1, 2] It is the...
Presentation: Concept of Improving UAV Coverage Path Planning with the use of the MuZero Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
Creators: name: Saurugger, Bernd
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: One of the main challenges in artificial intelligence is constructing agents with planning capabilities. While tree based planning methods achieve great success in challenging domains like chess, where perfect simulation is available, in real-world problems, such as the coverage path planning of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) - which plays a crucial role in the automation process of UAV-supported disaster management - the dynamics governing the environment are often very complex and unknown. By combining a tree-based search with a learned model, the MuZero algorithm is able to achieve superhuman performance in a range of challenging and visually complex domains. This algorithm works without any knowledge of their underlying dynamics. In this work I present the concept of implementing the MuZero algorithm, to improve the UAV coverage path planning framework of Bisalas et al., in which they enable an agent to efficiently cover a target area (TA), considering the orientation of the observation sensor, avoiding collisions as well as no-flying zones (NFZ) and reacting to changing environments, by applying proximal policy optimization to an advantage-based actor-critic deep reinforcement learning model.
(100925) William John Cother
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Towards an I/O Conformance Testing Theory for Software Product Lines based on Modal Interface Automata
Creators: name: Luthmann, Lars
name: Mennicke, Stephan
name: Lochau, Malte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present an adaptation of input/output conformance (ioco) testing principles to families of similar implementation variants as appearing in product line engineering. Our proposed product line testing theory relies on Modal Interface Automata (MIA) as behavioral specification formalism. MIA enrich I/O-labeled transition systems with may/must modalities to distinguish mandatory from optional behavior, thus providing a semantic notion of intrinsic behavioral variability. In particular, MIA constitute a restricted, yet fully expressive subclass of I/O-labeled modal transition systems, guaranteeing desirable refinement and compositionality properties. The resulting modal-ioco relation defined on MIA is preserved under MIA refinement, which serves as variant derivation mechanism in our product line testing theory. As a result, modal-ioco is proven correct in the sense that it coincides with traditional ioco to hold for every derivable implementation variant. Based on this result, a family-based product line conformance testing framework can be established.
description: In Proceedings FMSPLE 2015, arXiv:1504.03014
Consequences of Adolescent or Adult Ethanol Exposure on Tone and Context Fear Retention: Effects of an Acute Ethanol Challenge During Conditioning
Creators: name: Spear, Linda P.
name: Broadwater, Margaret
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: An acute ethanol challenge prior to fear conditioning typically disrupts fear retention to contextual cues to a greater degree than fear retention to a discrete tone cue, and adolescent rats are less sensitive than adults to these ethanol-induced disruptions of context fear memory. Given that some research suggests that repeated ethanol exposure during adolescence may “lock-in” adolescent-typical ethanol sensitivity into adulthood, the purpose of this study was to determine whether adults exposed to ethanol as adolescents would be less sensitive to ethanol-induced disruptions of context fear.
title: Διαταραχές αιμόστασης σε ασθενείς με πρόσφατη κεντρική θρόμβωση
title: Disorders of hemostasis in patients with recent central thrombosis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ζερβάκη, Μαρία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Αιμόσταση
Θρομβοφιλία
Θρόμβωση
Πήξη
Παράγοντας

description: Βασικός σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η μέτρηση των βιοδεικτών που συμμετέχουν στο μηχανισμό της αιμόστασης.
(100922) Elizabeth Jane Seavell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Economic evaluation and decision making for quality improvement in complex community health systems
Creators: name: Kumar, Meghan Bruce
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Community health is a fundamental part of many healthcare systems and is widely advocated as a means to increase access to and coverage of health services, yet the quality of care in large-scale community health programmes is mixed. Quality improvement (QI) approaches are now being tested in community settings and there is limited evidence that integrating QI approaches can underpin success of community programmes. However, how best to measure that success and the cost and value thereof to the different decision makers in complex community health systems is not yet known. This thesis provides the first economic evaluation of QI in community health systems, linking this to an exploration of decision making that includes an assessment of how economic evidence like this is used. Using an interdisciplinary mixed methods approach, I worked across several countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Indonesia, Malawi, and Mozambique) to provide evidence to inform policy decisions. I first examined the costs of a QI intervention in all five countries and then used those data as the foundation of a cost-effectiveness decision tree model for the intervention in Kenya. Through interviews with national and global decision makers, I qualitatively examined the use and value of evidence in community health programmes. I present the results in a series of three related publications, linking them together with a literature review and discussion that show how these studies build upon each other and what they add to the existing evidence base. This thesis shows that QI for community health is a good investment contingent on an existing cadre of community health workers. The budget impact of the QI intervention is low (less than 0.53% of general government health expenditure) and the modelled cost-effectiveness yields an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of US$249.43 per disability-adjusted life year. The absolute costs are highly dependent on context and the intensity of the intervention. Qualitative findings indicate that decision makers are not satisfied with existing evidence and have limited capacity to assess its relevance for their settings and perspectives. As a result, power and politics fill this evidence gap. Evidence must be at the heart of decisions in funding universal health coverage for them to be sustainable. To achieve this, the global community must strengthen the relevance of evidence and build the capacity of decision makers to understand and apply it. For a complex system, useful evaluation should describe context and mechanism of an intervention, estimate the effect size on both programmatic and health impacts and accurately reflect the opportunity costs.
Dysmorphogenic Effects of First Trimester-Equivalent Ethanol Exposure in Mice: A Magnetic Resonance Microscopy-Based Study
Creators: name: Styner, Martin A.
name: Holloway, Hunter E.
name: Parnell, Scott E.
name: Sulik, Kathleen K.
name: Baker, Lorinda K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The first trimester of human development and the equivalent developmental period in animal models is a time when teratogenic ethanol exposure induces the major structural birth defects that fall within Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Previous FASD research employing an acute high dose maternal intraperitoneal ethanol treatment paradigm has identified sensitive periods for a number of these defects. Extending this work, this investigation utilized high resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRM)-based analyses to examine the dysmorphology resulting from maternal dietary ethanol intake occurring during selected first trimester-equivalent time periods.
title: Diagnostic accuracy of CT in predicting retroportal lamina infiltration in patients with pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Bonello, Luke
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pancreas
subject: CT
subject: Surgery
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pancreatic cancer is associated with a very poor prognosis, even in patients with surgically resectable disease. An important prognostic factor in patients undergoing duodeno-cephalo-pancreasectomy (DCP) for pancreatic head adenocarcinoma (PHA) is...
Conservation of all Lipkin's zilches from symmetries of the standard electromagnetic action and a hidden algebra
Creators: name: Letsios, Vasileios A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 1964, Lipkin discovered the zilches, a set of conserved quantities in free electromagnetism. Among the zilches, optical chirality was identified by Tang and Cohen in 2010, serving as a measure of the handedness of light and leading to investigations into light's interactions with chiral matter. While the symmetries underlying the conservation of the zilches have been examined, the derivation of zilch conservation laws from symmetries of the standard free electromagnetic (EM) action using Noether's theorem has only been addressed in the case of optical chirality. We provide the full answer by demonstrating that the zilch symmetry transformations of the four-potential, $A_μ$, preserve the standard free EM action. We also show that the zilch symmetries belong to the enveloping algebra of a "hidden" invariance algebra of free Maxwell's equations. This "hidden" algebra is generated by familiar conformal transformations and certain "hidden" symmetry transformations of $A_μ$. Generalizations of the ``hidden'' symmetries are discussed in the presence of a material four-current, as well as in the theory of a complex Abelian gauge field. Additionally, we extend the zilch symmetries of the standard free EM action to the standard interacting action (with a non-dynamical four-current), allowing for a new derivation of the continuity equation for optical chirality in the presence of electric charges and currents. Furthermore, new continuity equations for the remaining zilches are derived.
description: Accepted for publication in Letters in Mathematical Physics -- v7: misprints corrected; v8: minor changes in title and abstract, literature review included in the Introduction, discussion of "hidden'' symmetries in Sec. IV extended; v9: revised title and abstract
title: Psychological mechanisms contributing to alcohol-induced increases in energy intake
Creators: name: Gough, Tom
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Consumption of alcohol is a significant risk factor for undesirable weight. Previous investigations have demonstrated that acute alcohol consumption reliably increases caloric intake relative to consumption of an alcohol-free comparator, however a complete understanding of the mechanisms contributing to this effect is lacking. Therefore, this thesis investigated the psychological mechanisms underpinning alcohol consumption’s effects on eating behaviour. Specifically, it investigated the role of alcohol-induced changes to cognitive control of eating as well as food reward. The thesis also explored whether alcohol-induced changes to food intake and BMI can be explained by a dual-process account of appetite control - an interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes. Chapter 3 (Studies 1 and 2) investigated whether acute alcohol consumption can impair recall of memories related to a recently consumed meal and whether this affects subsequent food intake. Findings revealed that acute alcohol consumption prior to a lunch meal impaired meal memory recall relative to an alcohol-free drink in Study 2 but not in Study 1. Both studies failed to provide evidence that meal memory recall affects subsequent food intake. Chapter 4 (Studies 3 and 4) investigated whether acute alcohol consumption can enhance food reward, relative to a placebo-alcohol. Study 3 found that an alcohol dose of 0.3 g/kg (grams of alcohol per kilogram of bodyweight) did not enhance food reward (measured using self-report scales and an attentional bias task) or increase food intake. However, Study 4 showed that a dose of 0.6 g/kg, acute alcohol consumption enhanced food reward and food intake relative to the placebo. Contrary to predictions of the dual-process account, the interaction between trait motor impulsivity and change in food-related attentional bias between drink conditions did not significantly predict change in food intake. Finally, Chapter 5 (Study 5) examined whether change in BMI over a 12-month period is predicted by change in drinking behaviour, and whether trait motor impulsivity moderates this effect. Findings did not support these predictions. Overall, the findings of this thesis demonstrate that acute alcohol consumption does affect important cognitive factors implicated in appetite control, however there is no evidence to suggest that this contributes to alcohol-induced increase in food intake. Results also indicate that alcohol-induced enhanced food reward and increases in food intake may be dose-dependent, whereby lower doses of iv alcohol may be insufficient at increasing food intake. The dual-process model of eating behaviour did not appear to explain alcohol-induced change to food intake or BMI in these studies. Further research regarding the importance of cognitive and reward-based mechanisms within the context of alcohol-induced food intake and BMI is now warranted.