cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Εφαρμογή πολυκριτήριας μεθόδου για την επιχειρησιακή αξιοποίηση εναερίων μέσων στην αντιμετώπιση του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος στο θαλάσσιο περιβάλλον
Creators: name: Ορφανος Ιωαννης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Το ευρύτερο τμήμα της Νότιο - Ανατολικής Ευρώπης και ειδικότερα αυτό των Βαλκανίων είναι ένα κομμάτι της υφηλίου στο οποίο εντοπίζεται η συνύπαρξη πολλών διαφορετικών θρησκειών, εθνικοτήτων, πληθυσμών, αλλά και πολιτισμών.
Ανατρέχοντας στην ιστορία παρατηρείται ότι οι πολεμικές αναταραχές που έλαβαν χώρα στις κοντινές με την Ευρώπη χώρες, η κατάκτηση κρατών από έτερους λαούς που είχε ως απόρροια την αλλαγή των συνόρων σε πολλές χώρες και οι μαζικές μετακινήσεις πληθυσμών σε συνδυασμό με τις κοινωνικές κρίσεις είχαν ως αποτέλεσμα τη διεύρυνση των προϋποθέσεων φτώχειας και πίεσης στις κοινωνικές ομάδες, αλλά και στις δομές της πολιτείας όπου σε αρκετές περιπτώσεις τηρούσαν άρρηκτους δεσμούς με το έγκλημα.
Παράλληλα, συγκρατείται η ιδιαιτερότητα του γεωπολιτικού status των κρατών της Βαλκανικής χερσονήσου, καθώς αποτελεί το σταυροδρόμι σύνδεσης των χωρών της Ευρώπης με τις Ασιατικές και Αφρικανικές χώρες. Η Ελλάδα, ευρισκόμενη στο νότιο-ανατολικό άκρο της Βαλκανικής χερσονήσου και της Ευρώπης παρουσιάζεται ως σημείο σύνδεσης - πύλη εισόδου με τις προαναφερθείσες ηπείρους και πέραν του αδιαμφισβήτητου γεγονότος ότι αποτελεί σημαντικό πυλώνα σταθερότητας στη Βαλκανική χερσόνησο, δεν παύει να καθίσταται ο πρώτος αποδέκτης εκ των κρατών μελών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, επί του οποίου επιδρά η δραστηριοποίηση των εγκληματικών οργανώσεων και το οργανωμένο έγκλημα εν γένει.
Η ραγδαία εξάπλωση του φαινομένου που εξετάζει η εργασία αποτέλεσε το έρεισμα για τους αρμόδιους φορείς των χωρών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, ούτως ώστε να προβούν στην ανάληψη των απαιτούμενων ενεργειών με σκοπό τη δημιουργία των κατάλληλων μηχανισμών και την εκπόνηση - εφαρμογή ανάλογων πρακτικών με σκοπό την πρόληψη και αντιμετώπισή του, η επίτευξη των οποίων θα είναι το αποτέλεσμα της συνεργασίας των εταίρων της και της κοινής επιχειρησιακής αξιοποίησης των μέσων που διαθέτουν σε στεριά, θάλασσα και αέρα (πλωτά - χερσαία - εναέρια κ.λπ.).
Αρχικό σκοπό της παρούσας εργασίας αποτελεί η παρουσίαση του εν λόγω φαινομένου και των μορφών αυτού, εστιάζοντας σε αυτές που εκτυλίσσονται στο θαλάσσιο πεδίο. Ακολούθως, αναλύονται οι ιδιαιτερότητες που παρουσιάζουν οι κάθε μορφής εγκληματικές δράσεις στη θάλασσα, παρουσιάζεται ο υφιστάμενος εναέριος στόλος καθώς και ο τρόπος που αντιμετωπίζονται στις ημέρες μας οι μορφές του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος. Τέλος, εφαρμόζοντας μια πολυκριτήρια μέθοδο επιχειρείται η εξαγωγή συμπερασμάτων για τη βέλτιστη επιχειρησιακή αξιοποίηση των προαναφερθέντων εναερίων μέσων, έχοντας ως γνώμονα την όσο το δυνατόν πιο επιτυχή αντιμετώπιση/καταπολέμηση του φαινομένου αυτού.
Inflationary Constraints on Type IIA String Theory
Creators: name: Hertzberg, Mark P.
name: Kachru, Shamit
name: Taylor, Washington
name: Tegmark, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that inflation is forbidden in the most well understood class of semi-realistic type IIA string compactifications: Calabi-Yau compactifications with only standard NS-NS 3-form flux, R-R fluxes, D6-branes and O6-planes at large volume and small string coupling. With these ingredients, the first slow-roll parameter satisfies epsilon >= 27/13 whenever V > 0, ruling out both inflation (including brane/anti-brane inflation) and de Sitter vacua in this limit. Our proof is based on the dependence of the 4-dimensional potential on the volume and dilaton moduli in the presence of fluxes and branes. We also describe broader classes of IIA models which may include cosmologies with inflation and/or de Sitter vacua. The inclusion of extra ingredients, such as NS 5-branes and geometric or non-geometric NS-NS fluxes, evades the assumptions used in deriving the no-go theorem. We focus on NS 5-branes and outline how such ingredients may prove fruitful for cosmology, but we do not provide an explicit model. We contrast the results of our IIA analysis with the rather different situation in IIB.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure; v3: Updated to match version published in JHEP, references added
Pretherapy metabolic tumor volume is associated with response to CD30 CAR T cells in Hodgkin lymphoma
Creators: name: Dotti, G.
name: Savoldo, B.
name: Cheng, C.J.
name: Hucks, G.
name: Beaven, A.W.
name: Morrison, J.K.
name: Voorhees, T.J.
name: Dittus, C.
name: Grover, N.
name: Shea, T.C.
name: Zhao, B.
name: Ivanova, A.
name: Khandani, A.
name: Serody, J.
name: Park, S.
name: Oldan, J.
name: Smith, J.
Publisher: name: American Society of Hematology
Year: 2022

description: Our group has recently demonstrated that chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy targeting the CD30 antigen (CD30.CAR-T) is highly effective in patients with relapsed and refractory (r/r) classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). Despite high rates of clinical response, relapses and progression were observed in a subset of patients. The objective of this study was to characterize clinical and correlative factors associated with progression-free survival (PFS) after CD30.CAR-T cell therapy. We evaluated correlatives in 27 patients with r/r cHL treated with lymphodepletion and CD30.CAR-T cells. With a median follow-up of 9.5 months, 17 patients (63%) progressed, with a median PFS of 352 days (95% confidence interval: 116-not reached), and 2 patients died (7%) with a median overall survival of not reached. High metabolic tumor volume (MTV, .60 mL) immediately before lymphodepletion and CD30.CAR-T cell infusion was associated with inferior PFS (log rank, P 5 .02), which persisted after adjusting for lymphodepletion and CAR-T dose (log rank, P 5 .01 and P 5 .006, respectively). In contrast, receiving bridging therapy, response to bridging therapy, CD30.CAR-T expansion/persistence, and percentage of CD31PD-11 lymphocytes over the first 6 weeks of therapy were not associated with differences in PFS. In summary, this study reports an association between high baseline MTV immediately before lymphodepletion and CD30.CAR-T cell infusion and worse PFS in patients with r/r cHL.
Large Scale Structure Formation of Normal Branch in DGP Brane World Model
Creators: name: Song, Yong-Seon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the large scale structure formation of the normal branch in DGP model (Dvail, Gabadadze and Porrati brane world model) by applying the scaling method developed by Sawicki, Song and Hu for solving the coupled perturbed equations of motion of on-brane and off-brane. There is detectable departure of perturbed gravitational potential from LCDM even at the minimal deviation of the effective equation of state w_eff below -1. The modified perturbed gravitational potential weakens the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect which is strengthened in the self-accelerating branch DGP model. Additionally, we discuss the validity of the scaling solution in the de Sitter limit at late times.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
From Neuronal Models to Neuronal Dynamics and Image Processing
Creators: name: Keil, Matthias S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper is an introduction to the membrane potential equation for neurons. Its properties are described, as well as sample applications. Networks of these equations can be used for modeling neuronal systems, which also process images and video sequences, respectively. Specifically, (i) a dynamic retina is proposed (based on a reaction-diffusion system), which predicts afterimages and simple visual illusions, (ii) a system for texture segregation (texture elements are understood as even-symmetric contrast features), and (iii) a network for detecting object approaches (inspired by the locust visual system).
description: First published as chapter 10 in the Wiley book "Biologically Inspired Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications". (ISBN: 978-3-527-68047-4)
Improving the competitiveness of forage and fruit production in agro-forestry systems
Creators: name: ANDREA VITYI
name: ZSOLT KESERŰ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: agroforestry
berries
vegetables
shading
climate adaptation
Hungary

description: This practice abstract summarises experiences on supporting climate adaptation of berry and vegetable production by using partial shading in Hungarian experiments.
Merging $K$-means with hierarchical clustering for identifying general-shaped groups
Creators: name: Peterson, Anna D.
name: Ghosh, Arka P.
name: Maitra, Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clustering partitions a dataset such that observations placed together in a group are similar but different from those in other groups. Hierarchical and $K$-means clustering are two approaches but have different strengths and weaknesses. For instance, hierarchical clustering identifies groups in a tree-like structure but suffers from computational complexity in large datasets while $K$-means clustering is efficient but designed to identify homogeneous spherically-shaped clusters. We present a hybrid non-parametric clustering approach that amalgamates the two methods to identify general-shaped clusters and that can be applied to larger datasets. Specifically, we first partition the dataset into spherical groups using $K$-means. We next merge these groups using hierarchical methods with a data-driven distance measure as a stopping criterion. Our proposal has the potential to reveal groups with general shapes and structure in a dataset. We demonstrate good performance on several simulated and real datasets.
description: 16 pages, 1 table, 9 figures; accepted for publication in Stat
LSCOM Lexicon Definitions and Annotations (Version 1.0)
Creators: name: Kennedy, Lyndon
name: Hauptmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The DTO sponsored LSCOM workshop is developing an expanded multimedia concept lexicon on the order of 1000. Concepts related to events, objects, locations, people, and programs have been selected following a multi-step process involving input solicitation, expert critiquing, comparison with related ontologies, and performance evaluation. Participants of the process include representatives from intelligence community users, ontology specialists, and multimedia analytics researchers. In addition, each concept has been qualitatively assessed according to some criteria, such as utility (usefulness), observability (by humans), and feasibility (by automatic detection). An annotation process was completed in late 2005 by student annotators at Columbia University and CMU, over the entire development set of TRECVID 2005 videos. Human subjects judge the presence or absence of each concept in the key frame of each subshot, resulting in a total of 61901 labels for each concept. Out of the 834 initial selected concepts, the first version of LSCOM annotations consists of 449 unique concepts (39 LSCOM-Lite concepts included) over the entire TRECVID 2005 development set (61901 subshots).
Reconstructing a cascade from temporal observations
Creators: name: Xiao, Han
name: Rozenshtein, Polina
name: Tatti, Nikolaj
name: Gionis, Aristides
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a subset of active nodes in a network can we re- construct the cascade that has generated these observa- tions? This is a problem that has been studied in the literature, but here we focus in the case that tempo- ral information is available about the active nodes. In particular, we assume that in addition to the subset of active nodes we also know their activation time. We formulate this cascade-reconstruction problem as a variant of a Steiner-tree problem: we ask to find a tree that spans all reported active nodes while satisfying temporal-consistency constraints. We present three approximation algorithms. The best algorithm in terms of quality achieves a O(\sqrt{k})-approximation guarantee, where k is the number of active nodes, while the most efficient algorithm has linearithmic running time, making it scalable to very large graphs. We evaluate our algorithms on real-world networks with both simulated and real cascades. Our results in- dicate that utilizing the available temporal information allows for more accurate cascade reconstruction. Fur- thermore, our objective leads to finding the "backbone" of the cascade and it gives solutions of high precision.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, to appear in SDM 2018
A novel cervical cancer screen-triage-treat demonstration project with HPV self-testing and thermal ablation for women in Malawi: Protocol for a single-arm prospective trial
Creators: name: Saidi, F.
name: Gopal, S.
name: Mwapasa, V.
name: Lee, F.
name: Chinula, L.
name: Varela, A.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Chagomerana, M.
name: Tang, J.
name: Mkochi, T.
name: Msowoya, L.
name: Tomoka, T.
name: McGue, S.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2022

description: Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality among Malawian women, despite being preventable through screening and preventive therapy. In 2004, Malawi implemented a national screening program, using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and cryotherapy, but its success has been limited due to equipment and human resources challenges. Since the development of that program, new technologies for screening and treatment that are less resource-intensive and more scalable have become available. GeneXpert systems provide fast, accurate HPV results and are increasingly available in low-income countries. Self-collection for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing is a validated method for screening and improves uptake. Thermal ablation provides an alternative ablative treatment that is simpler to use than cryotherapy and can be performed with portable devices. Meanwhile, urine HPV testing methods provide promising options for primary screening. We designed a single-arm prospective study to investigate a novel HPV screen-triage-treat strategy among 1250 women in Lilongwe, Malawi. Our proposed strategy consists of (1) Xpert HPV testing of self-collected samples, (2) VIA and colposcopy for HPV-positive women, and (3) thermal ablation for HPV-positive/ablation-eligible women. We will collect cervical biopsies, Pap smears, and endocervical samples to validate the HPV results and VIA/colposcopy findings against endpoints of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or cancer (CIN2+). We will evaluate same-day completion of our algorithm, its performance in triaging women for treatment, and 24-week treatment efficacy of thermal ablation. We will also explore the performance of HPV and methylation tests in urine samples, as compared to provider- and self-collected cervicovaginal samples.
A New Algorithm for Double Scalar Multiplication over Koblitz Curves
Creators: name: Adikari, J.
name: Dimitrov, V. S.
name: Cintra, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Koblitz curves are a special set of elliptic curves and have improved performance in computing scalar multiplication in elliptic curve cryptography due to the Frobenius endomorphism. Double-base number system approach for Frobenius expansion has improved the performance in single scalar multiplication. In this paper, we present a new algorithm to generate a sparse and joint $τ$-adic representation for a pair of scalars and its application in double scalar multiplication. The new algorithm is inspired from double-base number system. We achieve 12% improvement in speed against state-of-the-art $τ$-adic joint sparse form.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
The Entropy Function for the Black Holes of Nariai Class
Creators: name: Cho, Jin-Ho
name: Nam, Soonkeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the fact that the near horizon geometry of the extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes is Nariai geometry, we define the black holes of Nariai class as the configuration whose near-horizon geometry is factorized as two dimensional de Sitter space-time and some compact topology, that is Nariai geometry. We extend the entropy function formalism to the case of the black holes of Nariai class. The conventional entropy function (for the extremal black holes) is defined as Legendre transformation of Lagrangian density, thus the `Routhian density', over two dimensional anti-de Sitter. As for the black holes of Nariai class, it is defined as {\em minus} `Routhian density' over two dimensional de Sitter space-time. We found an exact agreement of the result with Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. The higher order corrections are nontrivial only when the space-time dimension is over four, that is, $d>4$. There is a subtlety as regards the temperature of the black holes of Nariai class. We show that in order to be consistent with the near horizon geometry, the temperature should be non-vanishing despite the extremality of the black holes.
description: references added, compatible with the published version
Low-Latency Music Software Using Off-The-Shelf Operating Systems
Creators: name: Brandt, Eli
name: Dannenberg, Roger B
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Operating systems are often the limiting factor in creating low-latency interactive computer music systems. Real-time music applications require operating system support for memory management, process scheduling, media I/O, and general development, including debugging. We present performance measurements for some current operating systems, including NT4, Windows95, and Irix 6.4. While Irix was found to give rather good real-time performance, NT4 and Windows95 suffer from both process scheduling delays and high audio output latency. The addition of WDM Streaming to NT and Windows offers some promise of lower latency, but WDM Streaming may actually make performance worse by circumventing priority-based scheduling.
Cross-Linked Structure of Network Evolution
Creators: name: Bassett, Danielle S.
name: Wymbs, Nicholas F.
name: Porter, Mason A.
name: Mucha, Peter J.
name: Grafton, Scott T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the temporal co-variation of network co-evolution via the cross-link structure of networks, for which we take advantage of the formalism of hypergraphs to map cross-link structures back to network nodes. We investigate two sets of temporal network data in detail. In a network of coupled nonlinear oscillators, hyperedges that consist of network edges with temporally co-varying weights uncover the driving co-evolution patterns of edge weight dynamics both within and between oscillator communities. In the human brain, networks that represent temporal changes in brain activity during learning exhibit early co-evolution that then settles down with practice, and subsequent decreases in hyperedge size are consistent with emergence of an autonomous subgraph whose dynamics no longer depends on other parts of the network. Our results on real and synthetic networks give a poignant demonstration of the ability of cross-link structure to uncover unexpected co-evolution attributes in both real and synthetic dynamical systems. This, in turn, illustrates the utility of analyzing cross-links for investigating the structure of temporal networks.
description: 4.5 pages, 3 figures, supplementary materials
Assessing community health workers’ time allocation for a cervical cancer screening and treatment intervention in Malawi: a time and motion study
Creators: name: Chinula, L.
name: Mwapasa, V.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Low, D.
name: Tang, J.H.
name: Ziphondo, E.
name: Msowoya, L.
name: Gadama, L.
name: Barnabas, R.
name: Schouten, E.
name: Rao, D.
name: Chinkhumba, J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Background: Community health workers (CHWs) are essential field-based personnel and increasingly used to deliver priority interventions to achieve universal health coverage. Existing literature allude to the potential for detrimental effects of multi-tasking CHWs. This study objective was to assess the impact of integrating cervical cancer screening and prevention therapy (CCSPT) with family planning (FP) on time utilization among CHWs. Methods: A time and motion study was conducted in 7 health facilities in Malawi. Data was collected at baseline between October-July 2019, and 12 months after CCSPT implementation between July and August 2021. CHWs trained to deliver CCSPT were continuously observed in real time while their activities were timed by independent observers. We used paired sample t-test to assess pre-post differences in average hours CHWs spent on the following key activities, before and after CCSPT implementation: clinical and preventive care; administration; FP; and non-work-related tasks. Regression models were used to ascertain impact of CCSPT on average durations CHWs spent on key activities. Results: Thirty-seven (n = 37) CHWs were observed. Their mean age and years of experience were 42 and 17, respectively. Overall, CHWs were observed for 323 hours (inter quartile range: 2.8–5.5). Compared with the period before CCSPT, the proportion of hours CHWs spent on clinical and preventive care, administration and non-work-related activities were reduced by 13.7, 8.7 and 34.6%, respectively. CHWs spent 75% more time on FP services after CCSPT integration relative to the period before CCSPT. The provision of CCSPT resulted in less time that CHWs devoted towards clinical and preventive care but this reduction was not significant. Following CCPST, CHWs spent significantly few hours on non-work-related activities. Conclusion: Introduction of CCSPT was not very detrimental to pre-existing community services. CHWs managed their time ensuring additional efforts required for CCSPT were not at the expense of essential activities. The programming and policy implications are that multi-tasking CHWs with CCSPT will not have substantial opportunity costs.
Light-Cone Distortion of the Clustering and Abundance of Massive Galaxies at High-Redshifts
Creators: name: Muñoz, Joseph A.
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observational surveys of galaxies are not trivially related to single-epoch snapshots from computer simulations. Observationally, an increase in the distance along the line-of-sight corresponds to an earlier cosmic time at which the properties of the surveyed galaxy population may change. The effect of observing a survey volume along the light-cone must be considered in the regime where the mass function of galaxies varies exponentially with redshift. This occurs when the halos under consideration are rare, that is either when they are very massive or observed at high-redshift. While the effect of the light-cone is negligible for narrow-band surveys of Lyman-alpha emitters, it can be significant for drop-out surveys of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) where the selection functions of the photometric bands are broad. Since there are exponentially more halos at the low-redshift end of the survey, the low-redshift tail of the selection function contains a disproportionate fraction of the galaxies observed in the survey. This leads to a redshift probability distribution (RPD) for the dropout LBGs with a mean less than that of the photometric selection function (PHSF) by an amount of order the standard deviation of the PHSF. The inferred mass function of galaxies is then shallower than the true mass function at a single redshift with the abundance at the high-mass end being twice or more as large as expected. Moreover, the statistical moments of the count of galaxies calculated ignoring the light-cone effect, deviate from the actual values.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by MNRAS
TESS Science Processing Operations Center Pipeline Status and Updates
Creators: name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Twicken, Joseph D.
name: Caldwell, Douglas A.
name: Ting, Eric B.
name: Tenenbaum, Peter
name: Smith, Jeffrey C.
name: Wohler, Bill
name: Rose, Mark
name: Henze, Christopher E.
name: Fausnaugh, Michael
name: Burke, Christopher J.
name: Vanderspek, Roland
name: Hounsell, Rebekah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: science pipelines
exoplanets
transit photometry

description: The past eighteen months have seen a number of important changes for the TESS Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) and our archival data products as TESS embarked upon its first extended mission. First, the SPOC developed and deployed a new 20-sec cadence pipeline, promising to unveil exciting new astrophysics at these short timescales for up to 1000 targets per observing sector. We also developed an FFI light curve pipeline that creates light curves and associated data products for up to 160,000 targets in each sector and archive these as High-Level Science Products (HLSP) at MAST. Soon we plan to perform transiting planet searches on these light curves and to release Data Validation reports and associated data products to the MAST. We also present results from the first multi-year transiting planet search of sectors 1 through 36. Finally, we discuss major changes to the SPOC pipeline that motivated the reprocessing of the first year of data, including the application of target- and cadence-specific scattered light flags, and an update to the sky background correction algorithm to mitigate bias in the original algorithm for dim and/or severely crowded stars. The TESS Mission is funded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
Prevalence of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) among adult cancer patients in Malawi
Creators: name: Hill, J.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Chikasema, M.
name: Vaz, O.
name: Gopal, S.
name: Manda, A.
name: Yang, H.
name: Seguin, R.
name: Li, Q.
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Year: 2022

description: Purpose: The objective of this study is to document the prevalence of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) use by adult cancer patients at a national teaching hospital in Malawi. We aim to document the products/therapies used, the reason for use, as well as patient-reported satisfaction with TCAM practitioners and modalities. Methods: We conducted investigator-administered interviews with adult cancer patients presenting to the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) Cancer Clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi between January and July 2018. The KCH is a national teaching hospital in the capital of Lilongwe, which serves patients with cancer from the northern half of Malawi. Descriptive statistics were used to describe TCAM use and logistic regression was applied to identify predictors of TCAM. Results: A total of 263 participants completed the survey, of which 70% (n = 183) were female and average age was 45 (SD 14) years old. The prevalence of overall TCAM use was 84% (n = 222), and 60% (n = 157) of participants reported combining TCAM with conventional cancer treatment. The majority of patients used TCAM to directly treat their cancer versus for symptom management. Patients reported using faith-based healing (64%, n = 168), herbal medicine (56%, n = 148), diet change (46%, n = 120), and vitamins/minerals (23%, n = 61). Participants reported the highest satisfaction for physicians among practitioners and diet change for modalities. Female gender was found to be a predictor of TCAM with conventional treatment use, no other significant predictors were observed. Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of TCAM use among an adult population with cancer in Malawi, and a wide variety in the TCAM modalities used among patients. Additional studies are needed to identify risks and benefits of TCAM use to assist with policy and public health, patient safety, and holistically address the global burden of cancer.
title: ADCO, Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503) (11 H 1173), f. 00600
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Grènetier de Cîteaux : comptes (1499-1503), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1173), f. 00600, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
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description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
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Lowering the barriers to programming : a survey of programming environments and languages for novice programmers
Creators: name: Kelleher, Caitlin
name: Pausch, Randy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abstract: "Since the early 1960's, researchers have built a number of programming languages and environments with the intention of making programming accessible to a larger number of people. This paper presents a taxonomy of languages and environments designed to make programming more accessible to novice programmers of all ages. The systems are organized by their primary goal, either to teach programming or to use programming to empower their users, and then by the authors' approach to making learning to program easier for novice programmers. The paper explains all categories in the taxonomy, provides a brief description of the systems in each category, and suggests some avenues for future work in novice programming environments and languages."
Unitarity Bounds for New Physics from Axial Coupling at LHC
Creators: name: Shu, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If a new massive vector boson with nonzero axial couplings to fermions will be observed at LHC, then an upper limit on the scale of new physics could be derived from unitarity of $\mathcal{S}$-matrix. The new physics will involve either new massive fermions, or scalars, or even a strongly coupled sector. We derive a model independent bound on the scale of new physics. If $M_{G}/ g_{A} < 3$ TeV and the fermion is a top quark, the upper limit is 78 TeV.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Extended Human Papillomavirus Genotyping to Predict Progression to High-Grade Cervical Precancer: A Prospective Cohort Study in the Southeastern United States
Creators: name: Vidal, A.C.
name: Maguire, R.L.
name: North, K.E.
name: Schmitt, J.W.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Murphy, S.K.
name: Valea, F.
name: Hoyo, C.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Bentley, R.C.
name: Brewster, W.R.
name: Bukowski, A.
Publisher: name: American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
Year: 2022

description: Background: High-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing (HPV16; else HPV18/45; else HPV31/33/35/52/58; else HPV39/ is utilized in primary cervical cancer screening, generally along with 51/56/59/68). cytology, to triage abnormalities to colposcopy. Most screening-Results: At enrollment, median participant age was 30.1 years; based hrHPV testing involves pooled detection of any hrHPV or of most (63%) were hrHPV-positive. Over follow-up, 24 participants HPV16/18. Cervical neoplasia progression risks based on extended progressed to CIN2þ (7.0%). CIN2þ IR among hrHPV-positive hrHPV genotyping—particularly non-16/18 hrHPV types—are not participants was 3.4/1,000 person-months. CIN2þ IRs were highest well characterized. HPV genotype-specific incidence of high-grade for HPV16 (8.3), HPV33 (7.8), and HPV58 (4.9). Five-year CIN2þ cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or more severe (CIN2þ) following risk was higher for HPV16 (0.34) compared with HPV18/45 (0.12), an abnormal screening result was examined. HPV31/33/35/52/58 (0.12), and HPV39/51/56/59/68 (0.16) (P ¼ 0.05). Methods: We assessed a US-based prospective, multiracial, Conclusions: Non-16/18 hrHPV types are associated with difclinical cohort of 343 colposcopy patients with normal histology ferential CIN2þ progression rates. HPV16, 33, and 58 exhibited the (n ¼ 226) or CIN1 (n ¼ 117). Baseline cervical samples underwent highest rates over 5 years. HPV risk groups warrant further invesHPV DNA genotyping, and participants were followed up to 5 years. tigation in diverse US populations. Genotype-specific CIN2þ incidence rates (IR) were estimated with Impact: These novel data assessing extended HPV genotyping in accelerated failure time models. Five-year CIN2þ risks were estia diverse clinical cohort can inform future directions to improve mated nonparametrically for hierarchical hrHPV risk groups screening practices in the general population.
Holographic parity violating charged fluid dual to Chern-Simons modified gravity
Creators: name: Zou, De-Cheng
name: Liu, Yunqi
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the $(2+1)$-dimensional parity violating charged fluid on a finite cutoff surface $Σ_c$, dual to the nondynamical and dynamical Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravities. Using nonrelativistic long-wavelength expansion method, the field equations are solved up to $\mathcal{O}(ε^2)$ in the nondynamical model. It is shown that there exists nonvortical dual fluid with shear viscosity $η$ and Hall viscosity $η_A$ on the cutoff surface $Σ_c$. The ratio of shear viscosity over entropy density $η/s$ of the fluid takes the universal value $1/{4π}$, while the ratio of Hall viscosity over entropy density $η_A/s$ depends on the $Σ_c$ and black brane charge $q$. Moreover the nonvortical dual fluid obeys the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equation. However, these kinematic viscosities $ν$ and $ν_A$ related to $η$ and $η_A$ do not appear in this MHD equation, due to the constraint condition $\tilde{\partial}^2β_j=0$ for the $(2+1)$-dimensional dual fluid. Then, we extend our discussion to the dynamical CS modified gravity and show that the dual vortical fluid possesses another so-called Curl viscosity $ζ_A$, whose ratio to entropy density $ζ_A/s$ also depends on the $Σ_c$ and $q$. Moreover, the value of $η/s$ still equals to $1/4π$ and the result of $η_A/s$ agrees to the previous result under the probe limit of the pseudo scalar field at the infinite boundary in the charged black brane background for the dynamical CS modified gravity. This vortical dual fluid corresponds to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence equation in plasma physics.
description: 21 pages, no figure, new version, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D
Deep-Survey Constraints on X-ray Outbursts from Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Luo, B.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Steffen, A. T.
name: Bauer, F. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Luminous X-ray outbursts with variability amplitudes as high as ~1000 have been detected from a small number of galactic nuclei. These events are likely associated with transient fueling of nuclear supermassive black holes. In this paper, we constrain X-ray outbursts with harder spectra, higher redshifts, and lower luminosities than have been studied previously. We performed a systematic survey of 24668 optical galaxies in the Chandra Deep Fields to search for such X-ray outbursts; the median redshift of these galaxies is ~0.8. The survey spans 798 days for the Chandra Deep Field-North, and 1828 days for the Chandra Deep Field-South. No outbursts were found, and thus we set upper limits on the rate of such events in the Universe, which depend upon the adopted outburst X-ray luminosity. For an outburst with X-ray luminosity $\ga 10^{43}$ ergs/s and a duration of 6 months, the upper limit on its event rate is ~10^{-4} /galaxy/yr, roughly consistent with theoretical predictions. Compared to previous survey results, our harder-band and deeper survey suggests that the outburst rate may increase by a maximum factor of 10 when considering both obscured X-ray outbursts and redshift evolution from z~0 to z~0.8. Our results also suggest that the X-ray luminosity function for moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei is not primarily due to stellar tidal disruptions.
description: 28 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Phases, many-body entropy measures and coherence of interacting bosons in optical lattices
Creators: name: Roy, R.
name: Gammal, A.
name: Tsatsos, M. C.
name: Chatterjee, B.
name: Chakrabarti, B.
name: Lode, A. U. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Already a few bosons with contact interparticle interactions in small optical lattices feature a variety of quantum phases: superfluid, Mott-insulator and fermionized Tonks gases can be probed in such systems. To detect these phases -- pivotal for both experiment and theory -- as well as their many-body properties we analyze several distinct measures for the one-body and many-body Shannon information entropies. We exemplify the connection of these entropies with spatial correlations in the many-body state by contrasting them to the Glauber normalized correlation functions. To obtain the ground-state for lattices with commensurate filling (i.e. an integer number of particles per site) for the full range of repulsive interparticle interactions we utilize the multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree method for bosons (MCTDHB) in order to solve the many-boson Schrödinger equation. We demonstrate that all emergent phases -- the superfluid, the Mott insulator, and the fermionized gas can be characterized equivalently by our many-body entropy measures and by Glauber's normalized correlation functions. In contrast to our many-body entropy measures, single-particle entropy cannot capture these transitions.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, software available at http://ultracold.org
Quantum sensing of motion in colloids via time-dependent Purcell effect
Creators: name: Kadochkin, Alexey S.
name: Shishkin, Ivan I.
name: Shalin, Alexander S.
name: Ginzburg, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-matter interaction dynamics is governed by the strength of local coupling constants, tailored by surrounding electromagnetic structures. Characteristic decay times in dipole-allowed fluorescent transitions are much faster than mechanical conformational changes within an environment and, as the result, the latter can be assumed static during the emission process. However, slow-decaying compounds can break this commonly accepted approximation and introduce new interaction regimes. Here, slow decaying phosphorescent compounds are proposed to perform quantum sensing of nearby structure's motion via observation of collective velocity-dependent lifetime distributions. In particular, characteristic decay of an excited dye molecule, being comparable with its passage time next to a resonant particle, is modified via time-dependent Purcell enhancement, which leaves distinct signatures on properties of emitted light. Velocity mapping of uniformly moving particles within a fluid solution of phosphorescent dyes was demonstrated via analysis of modified lifetime distributions. The proposed interaction regime enables performing studies of a wide range of phenomena, where time-dependent light-matter interaction constants can be utilized for extraction of additional information about a process
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Effect of the environment on home-based self-sampling kits for anal cancer screening
Creators: name: Chiao, E.
name: Swartz, M.D.
name: Nyitray, A.G.
name: Schneider, E.A.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Schick, V.
name: Nitkowski, J.
name: Ridolfi, T.
name: Brzezinski, B.
name: Giuliano, A.
name: Fernandez, M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2022

description: Background: Anal cancer incidence has increased in Western countries in recent decades and currently there are no consensus screening guidelines. Home-based self-sampling kits might facilitate screening for anal precancer/cancer but could require travel through postal mail where they may experience extreme temperatures or long transport times. Objective: To determine the effect of the environment on specimen adequacy for HPV genotyping of a mailed home-based self-sampling anal cancer screening kit. Study design: The Prevent Anal Cancer (PAC) Study in Milwaukee, Wisconsin recruited men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender persons 25 years of age and older. Participants were randomized to receive a mailed self-sampling kit or attend a clinic for screening. Kits were insulated with foam and included a device to record temperature every twenty minutes. Samples were returned via mail and underwent HPV genotyping using the SPF10-LiPA25 assay which also detected human RNase P to determine specimen adequacy by qPCR. For the first 93 kits, logistic regression assessed associations between specimen inadequacy and temperature, freeze-thaw cycle, presence of fecal matter, and number of days in an uncontrolled environment. Results: Most specimens (92.5%) were adequate for HPV genotyping. Specimen inadequacy was not associated with temperature, freeze-thaw cycle, or transit time. Fecal matter was present more often in inadequate (71.4%) compared to adequate specimens (16.3%) (p = .004). Conclusions: These real-world data from mailed home-based anal self-sampling kits found that environmental conditions did not affect specimen adequacy. While over 90% of specimens were adequate, presence of fecal matter predicted specimen inadequacy.
Stellar Bar evolution in the absence of dark matter halo
Creators: name: Roshan, Mahmood
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stellar bar growth in high resolution numerical galaxy models with and without dark matter halos. In all models the galactic disk is exponential and the halos are rigid or live Plummer spheres. More specifically, when there is no dark matter halo, we modify the gravitational force between point particles. To do so we use the weak field limit of an alternative theory of dark matter known as MOG in the literature. The galaxy model in MOG has the same initial conditions as in galaxy models with dark matter halo. On the other hand, the initial random velocities and the Toomre's local stability parameter are the same for all the models. We show that the evolution and growth of the bar in MOG is substantially different from the standard cases including dark matter halo. More importantly, we find that the bar growth rate and its final magnitude is smaller in MOG. On the other hand, the maximum value of the bar in MOG is smaller than the Newtonian models. It is shown that although the live dark matter halo may support the bar instability, MOG has stabilizing effects. Furthermore, we show that MOG supports fast pattern speeds, and unlike in the dark matter halo models pattern speed does not decrease with time. Theses differences, combined with the relevant observations, may help to distinguish between dark matter an modified gravity in galactic scales.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Jupiter Equation of anomaly, Toledan Table by Pedersen (Fritz S.) (2002) | Type-B (ID n° 294)
Creators: name: Pedersen, Fritz S.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomy
History of astronomy
DISHAS
Astronomical table

description: This is a type B edition: A type-B edition corresponds to a critical edition of several table witnesses:
 it is based on several different editions, themselves based on tables from different primary sources.
 A type-B edition can be based on type-A, type-B or type-C editions.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/294
description: Source: The Toledan Tables, Pedersen (Fritz S.), 2002
High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Messenger RNA Testing Using Urine, Cervicovaginal Self-Collected and Provider-Collected Cervical Samples among Women in Mombasa, Kenya
Creators: name: Mandaliya, K.
name: Kabare, E.
name: Islam, J.Y.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Grabert, B.K.
name: Mutua, M.
name: Shafi, J.
name: Waweru, W.
name: Manguro, G.
name: McClelland, R.S.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2022

description: We compared human papillomavirus messenger RNA testing using urine, self-, and provider-collected samples for the detection of high-grade cervical cytology and assessed acceptability of urine self-collection among females who engage in sex work in Kenya. Participants found urine sampling comfortable, but high-risk human papillomavirus messenger RNA detection in urine samples was less likely to detect high-grade lesions than self-and provider-collected cervical samples.
Measuring the mass distribution in stellar systems
Creators: name: Tremaine, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the fundamental tasks of dynamical astronomy is to infer the distribution of mass in a stellar system from a snapshot of the positions and velocities of its stars. The usual approach to this task (e.g., Schwarzschild's method) involves fitting parametrized forms of the gravitational potential and the phase-space distribution to the data. We review the practical and conceptual difficulties with this approach and describe a novel statistical method for determining the mass distribution that does not require determining the phase-space distribution of the stars. We show that this new estimator out-performs other distribution-free estimators for the harmonic and Kepler potentials.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures