cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE ROLE OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ON COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF INFORMATION QUALITY
Creators: name: Dr. SUFIAN NATHMI AL SHEYAB
name: Dr. TRAD ESHIWI JIZZA ANAWARSEH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Supply Chain Management; Competitive Advantage; Information Quality; Manufacturing; Jordan.

description: Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating influence that information quality (IQ) has on the link between supply chain management (SCM) and competitive advantage (CA) in manufacturing companies located in Jordan.  The information requested from 156 manufacturing companies in Jordan was gathered through the use of a quantitative approach.  The hypotheses of the study were examined through the application of hierarchical linear multiple regression analysis, which was carried out with the assistance of SPSS.  Based on the findings, it is evident that SCM has a considerable favourable impact on CA.  Additionally, intelligence (IQ) in conjunction with after-sales support had a substantial beneficial influence, although suppliers and specifications did not have a major impact for the most part. In addition, the investigators discovered that the link between SCM and CA was not increased by IQ.  The purpose of this study is to investigate the aspects of intelligence that are constructed by SCM and CA in relation to one another. Additionally, this research contributes to the existing body of literature, particularly with regard to Jordan. This study, which is one of the first few studies conducted in Jordan within this sector, contributes to the expanding body of knowledge in the field by providing useful information on the impact that intelligence quotient (IQ) has on the linkage between SCM and CA.
Are Retrocausal Accounts of Entanglement Unnaturally Fine-Tuned?
Creators: name: Almada, D.
name: Ch'ng, K.
name: Kintner, S.
name: Morrison, B.
name: Wharton, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An explicit retrocausal model is used to analyze the general Wood-Spekkens argument [1] that any causal explanation of Bell-inequality violations must be unnaturally fine-tuned to avoid signaling. The no-signaling aspects of the model turn out to be robust under variation of the only free parameter, even as the probabilities deviate from standard quantum theory. The ultimate reason for this robustness is then traced to a symmetry assumed by the original model. A broader conclusion is that symmetry-based restrictions seem a natural and acceptable form of fine-tuning, not an unnatural model-rigging. And if the Wood-Spekkens argument is indicating the presence of hidden symmetries, this might even be interpreted as supporting time-symmetric retrocausal models.
description: 14 pages, accepted for publication in International Journal of Quantum Foundations (v2, 2016)
Photoemission orbital tomography for excitons in organic molecules
Creators: name: Kern, Christian S.
name: Windischbacher, Andreas
name: Puschnig, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Driven by recent developments in time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we extend the successful method of photoemission orbital tomography (POT) to excitons. Our theory retains the intuitive orbital picture of POT, while respecting both the entangled character of the exciton wave function and the energy conservation in the photoemission process. Analyzing results from three organic molecules, we classify generic exciton structures and give a simple interpretation in terms of natural transition orbitals. We validate our findings by directly simulating pump-probe experiments with time-dependent density functional theory.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Injury Surveillance in Youth Football
Creators: name: Hobson, Jillian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Injuries frequently occur in contact sports such as football, however injury risk in football is 5 to 7 times greater than other youth contact sports and 14% of all football injuries are serious.  With over 3 million youth football players, there is a critical need to understand rates and common mechanisms of injury at this level.  Therefore, the objective of this thesis was to complete a literature review of existing sports injury surveillance systems and conduct surveillance of injuries occurring in a local Winston Salem, NC youth football organization (ages 9-13) within a single season.  This thesis highlights the role of injury surveillance in sports; need to conduct further surveillance efforts at the youth level; and value of combining surveillance efforts with on-field video collected during sporting events to investigate injury mechanisms in youth football.
title: Obtaining the FRCR exams - a review of the exam components, resources available and different techniques required for acheiving the full FRCR
Creators: name: Ramsay, Lauren
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: eLearning
subject: Education
subject: PACS
subject: Professional issues
subject: eHealth

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To understand the exam structure and path to obtaining full FRCR in the United Kingdom, with reference to helpful resources and author personal experience - To review the revision options available for each...
Pew Research Center Poll: January, 1998 New Interest Index--Congress/Pop Culture
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Bill Clinton job performance (1); Republicans in Congress job performance (1); satisfaction with country (1); interest in news (1); interest in specific stories (10); Republicans vs. Democratic Party (2); priorities of Congress (15); budget surplus (4); Bosnia (2); "fast track" authority (1); re-election of Congressmen (2); news media (3); confidence in criminal trials (1); topics of discussion (27); computer ownership (1); Internet (1); religious preferences (1); born again (1).
title: Possibilities of high resolution ultrasound in the diagnosis of ductal system of the parotid glands
Creators: name: Vasil'eva, Yulia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Head and neck
subject: Contrast agents

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the possibilities of high-resolution (HR) ultrasound with additional administration of saline in the ductal system of the parotid salivary glands (PSG) in the diagnosis of...
THE ROLE OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ON COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF INFORMATION QUALITY
Creators: name: Dr. SUFIAN NATHMI AL SHEYAB
name: Dr. TRAD ESHIWI JIZZA ANAWARSEH
name: AHMAD ALI AL-SUBAIHI
name: DUNYA ELWAKED
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Supply Chain Management; Competitive Advantage; information quality; Manufacturing; Jordan.

description: Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating influence that information quality (IQ) has on the link between supply chain management (SCM) and competitive advantage (CA) in manufacturing companies located in Jordan.  The information requested from 156 manufacturing companies in Jordan was gathered through the use of a quantitative approach.  The hypotheses of the study were examined through the application of hierarchical linear multiple regression analysis, which was carried out with the assistance of SPSS.  Based on the findings, it is evident that SCM has a considerable favourable impact on CA.  Additionally, intelligence (IQ) in conjunction with after-sales support had a substantial beneficial influence, although suppliers and specifications did not have a major impact for the most part.  In addition, the investigators discovered that the link between SCM and CA was not increased by IQ.  The purpose of this study is to investigate the aspects of intelligence that are constructed by SCM and CA in relation to one another. Additionally, this research contributes to the existing body of literature, particularly with regard to Jordan.  This study, which is one of the first few studies conducted in Jordan within this sector, contributes to the expanding body of knowledge in the field by providing useful information on the impact that intelligence quotient (IQ) has on the linkage between SCM and CA.
title: What radiologists must know about interstitial diseases associated with tobacco consumption
Creators: name: Cuellar, Diana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review interstitial lung diseases associated with tobacco consumption. To review and know the radiological findings (with HRCT) of interstitial lung diseases associated with tobacco...
First generation of fluorescent labeled DNA bis-intercalators
Creators: name: Carpio, Marissa Aileen
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2005
Subjects: NMR structural analysis
Bis-intercalators
Fluorescent labeling

description: Understanding biochemical functions at the most basic level promises greater understanding and control over cellular processes. Synthetic molecules that specifically bind double helical DNA have been pursued as a means of controlling gene expression as well as creating novel therapeutic agents. The Iverson group has developed a unique mode of DNA recognition that is referred to as threading polyintercalators. These threading polyintercalators are composed of amino acids and the electron deficient 1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide linked in a head-to-tail fashion and they are constructed using Fmoc-based solid phase peptide synthesis. Dimer, trimer, tetramer, and octamer polyintercalators have been synthesized and studied. NMR structural analysis has been used to study the mode of DNA binding by a tetrameric threading polyintercalating molecule and its linkers were found to reside in alternating grooves in the order of minor-major-minor groove. The threading polyintercalation mode of DNA binding poses a number of interesting questions regarding the kinetics of association and dissociation. The attachment of carboxyfluorescein to a previously synthesized bis-intercalator will be a valuable tool with which to measure association and disassociation rates in the context of DNA binding. The interaction of the fluorophore with DNA can be monitored by UV-Vis and especially single molecule fluorescence. The idea will be to uncover the mechanism by which threading polyintercalators associates and dissociates from their preferred binding sites. A number of important questions come to mind including the way in which threading polyintercalator molecules might find their preferred binding sites as well as the order of events in polyintercalative binding. Mass spectrometry combined with high-pressure liquid chromatography verified isolation of the desired bis-intercalator conjugates. Preliminary studies have confirmed DNA binding to homopolymer DNA sequences, setting the stage for detailed kinetic studies
Equilibrium Phases of Tilted Dipolar Lattice Bosons
Creators: name: Zhang, C.
name: Safavi-Naini, A.
name: Rey, Ana Maria
name: Capogrosso-Sansone, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent advances in creating nearly degenerate quantum dipolar gases in optical lattices are opening the doors for the exploration of equilibrium physics of quantum systems with anisotropic and long-range dipolar interactions. In this paper we study the zero- and finite-temperature phase diagrams of a system of hard-core dipolar bosons at half-filling, trapped in a two-dimensional optical lattice. The dipoles are aligned parallel to one another and tilted out of the optical lattice plane by means of an external electric field. At zero-temperature, the system is a superfluid at all tilt angles $θ$ provided that the strength of dipolar interaction is below a critical value $V_c(θ)$. Upon increasing the interaction strength while keeping $θ$ fixed, the superfluid phase is destabilized in favor of a checkerboard or a stripe solid depending on the tilt angle. We explore the nature of the phase transition between the two solid phases and find evidence of a micro-emulsion phase, following the Spivak-Kivelson scenario, separating these two solid phases. Additionally, we study the stability of these quantum phases against thermal fluctuations and find that the stripe solid is the most robust, making it the best candidate for experimental observation.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Pew Research Center Poll: 1998 Election Weekend
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Thought about election (1); registered voter (2); follow news about election/candidates (1); vote in election (4); interest in politics (1); voting frequency (1); 1998 Congressional election (6); Congressional voting issues (1); control of Congress (1); vote against Clinton (1); re-elect Representative (3); Bill Clinton job performance (1); Republicans in Congress job performance (1); importance of current news stories (10); Clinton -Lewinsky scandal (2); vote in US House of Representative election (1); negative political campaigning (1); religion (1); born again Christian (1).
title: Predictive factors of discomfort and faintness during mammography
Creators: name: Watanabe, Megumi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Safety
subject: Mammography
subject: Management
subject: Breast

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Mammography requires that the breasts be compressed between the image receptor and compression paddle in order to flatten the tissues for increased image quality and to minimize the radiation dose to the radiosensitive breast. Many Asian women...
Exact Cosmological Solutions in Modified Brans-Dicke Theory
Creators: name: Rasouli, S. M. M.
name: Moniz, Paulo Vargas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we obtain exact cosmological vacuum solutions for an extended FLRW homogenous and isotropic Brans-Dicke (BD) universe in five dimensions for all values of the curvature index. Then, by employing the equations associated to a modified Brans-Dicke theory (MBDT) [1], we construct the physics on a four-dimensional hypersurface. We show that the induced matter obeys the equation of state of a fluid of a barotropic type. We discuss the properties of such an induced matter for some values of the equation of state parameter and analyze in detail their corresponding solutions. To illustrate the cosmological behaviors of the solutions, we contrast our solutions with those present the standard Brans-Dicke theory. We retrieve that, in MBDT scenario, it is impossible to find a physically acceptable solution associated to the negative curvature for both the dust-dominated and radiation-dominated universes. However, for a spatially flat and closed universes, we argue that our obtained solutions are more general than those associated to the standard BD theory and, moreover, they contain a few classes of solutions which have no analog in the BD cosmology. For those particular cases, we further compare the results with those extracted in the context of the induced matter theory (IMT) and general relativity (GR). Furthermore, we discuss in detail the time behaviors of the cosmological quantities and compare them with recent observational data. We find a favorable range for the deceleration parameter associated to a matter-dominated spatially flat universe (for the late times) which is compatible with recent corresponding observational results.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures; version accepted for publication in CQG
title: Comparison of a New Manganese-Based Orally-Administered Hepatobiliary MR Contrast Agent with Gd-Chelate-enhanced MR Images for the Evaluation of Focal Liver Lesions
Creators: name: Shamsi, Kohkan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: MR
subject: Liver
subject: Contrast agents

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Aim: To compare the efficacy of orally-administered manganese chloride tetrahydrate CMC 001 and Gd-chelate-enhanced MR images for the evaluation of focal liver lesions. Introduction: MRI is an important modality for the detection and...
DMDD: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dataset Mentions Detection
Creators: name: Pan, Huitong
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Dragut, Eduard
name: Caragea, Cornelia
name: Latecki, Longin Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: The recognition of dataset names is a critical task for automatic information extraction in scientific literature, enabling researchers to understand and identify research opportunities. However, existing corpora for dataset mention detection are limited in size and naming diversity. In this paper, we introduce the Dataset Mentions Detection Dataset (DMDD), the largest publicly available corpus for this task. DMDD consists of the DMDD main corpus, comprising 31,219 scientific articles with over 449,000 dataset mentions weakly annotated in the format of in-text spans, and an evaluation set, which comprises of 450 scientific articles manually annotated for evaluation purposes. We use DMDD to establish baseline performance for dataset mention detection and linking. By analyzing the performance of various models on DMDD, we are able to identify open problems in dataset mention detection. We invite the community to use our dataset as a challenge to develop novel dataset mention detection models.
description: Pre-MIT Press publication version. Submitted to TACL
The long X-ray tail in Zwicky 8338
Creators: name: Schellenberger, G.
name: Reiprich, T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction processes in galaxy clusters between the hot ionized gas (ICM) and the member galaxies are of crucial importance in order to understand the dynamics in galaxy clusters, the chemical enrichment processes and the validity of their hydrostatic mass estimates. Recently, several X-ray tails associated to gas which was partly stripped of galaxies have been discovered. Here we report on the X-ray tail in the 3 keV galaxy cluster Zwicky 8338, which might be the longest ever observed. We derive the properties of the galaxy cluster environment and give hints on the substructure present in this X-ray tail, which is very likely associated to the galaxy CGCG254-021. The X-ray tail is extraordinarily luminous ($2\times10^{42}$ erg/s), the thermal emission has a temperature of 0.8 keV and the X-ray luminous gas might be stripped off completely from the galaxy. From the assumptions on the 3D geometry we estimate the gas mass fraction (< 0.1%) and conclude that the gas has been compressed and/or heated.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted by A&A
The Past, Present, and Future Direction of Navy Dietetics
Creators: name: Zuzelski, Kimberly A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The Navy’s Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Robinson, declared in his Change of Office remarks that Navy Medicine needs to perfect wellness programs to prevent illnesses rather than waiting to treat them. He further stated that one of his goals for Navy Medicine was to put health care providers out of business (2007), indicating that population health and prevention strategies would be a priority. VADM Robinson also identified readiness, via alignment and agility, as a priority. Navy Medicine’s leadership embraced this focus by developing a strategic goal for agile forces aiming to ensure the right capabilities to deliver consistent, appropriate, and timely health care services across the entire range of joint military operations. Specific objectives in meeting this goal include alignment of future afloat and ashore health service capabilities to warfighter requirements, and billet structure with all platform requirements (NMO, 2008). Current staffing models designed to align billet structure with platform requirements are outdated and do not account for the current and future roles of Navy Dietitians (RDs) in meeting warfighter requirements. Health service capabilities are adversely affected by the present billet structure. RDs, once heavily involved in fleet support through nutrition classes and health promotion; have curtailed these activities in order to accommodate the requisite workload in the hospitals and clinics and meet business plan productivity goals. Opportunities exist in Navy Medicine to redefine the roles of the Navy RD in order to enhance the health of the active duty population by meeting the warfighters’ nutritional and educational needs. This can be done first by assessing current billet structure for accessibility of nutritional services from military and civilian assets. While civilian RDs can be used inside the continental United States (U.S.) and at ashore commands outside the continental U.S., military RDs are best utilized in the fleet, in remote locations, and in theater for operational support and accessibility. The organizational design of nutrition related functions in Military treatment facilities (MTF) needs to be more flexible for optimal productivity and readiness, and productivity measures need to be redefined to reflect operational impact rather than MTF clinical workload.
Triply degenerate nodal line and tunable contracted-drumhead surface state in a tight-binding model
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Ru
name: Liu, Gui-Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of topological semimetals has been extended to more general topological nodal systems such as metamaterials and artificial periodic structures. Among various nodal structures, triply degenerate nodal line (TNL) is rare and hence lack of attention. In this work, we have proposed a simple tight-binding model which hosts a topological non-trivial TNL. This TNL not only has the drumhead surface states as usual nodal line systems, but also has surface states which form a contracted-drumhead shape. And the shape and area of this contracted-drumhead can be tuned by the hopping parameters of the model. This provides an effective way to modulate surface states as well as their density of states, which can be important in future applications of topological nodal systems.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Petrov classification of analogue spacetimes
Creators: name: Baak, Sang-Shin
name: Datta, Satadal
name: Fischer, Uwe R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an effort to invariantly characterize the conformal curvature structure of analogue spacetimes built from a nonrelativistic fluid background, we determine the Petrov type of a variety of laboratory geometries. Starting from the simplest examples, we increase the complexity of the background, and thereby determine how the laboratory fluid symmetry affects the corresponding Petrov type in the analogue spacetime realm of the sound waves. We find that for more complex flows isolated hypersurfaces develop, which are of a Petrov type differing from that of the surrounding fluid. {Finally, we demonstrate that within the incompressible background approximation, as well as for all compressible quasi-one-dimensional flows, the only possible Petrov types are the algebraically general type I and the algebraically special types O and D.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures; added section with general considerations on possible Petrov types of Painlev\'e-Gullstrand geometries, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
High performance CCSDS image data compression using GPGPUs for space applications
Creators: name: Ramanarayanan, Sunil Chokkanathapuram
name: Manthey, Kristian
name: Juurlink, Ben
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: DDC::000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: GPGPU
subject: graphics processing units
subject: compression
subject: image data
subject: cache
subject: space applications

description: The usage of graphics processing units (GPUs) as computing architectures for inherently data parallel signal processing applications in this computing era is very popular. In principle, GPUs in comparison with central processing units (CPUs) could achieve significant speed-up over the latter, especially considering data parallel applications which expect high throughput. The paper investigates the usage of GPUs for running space borne image data compression algorithms, in particular the CCSDS 122.0-B-1 standard as a case study. The paper proposes an architecture to parallelize the Bit-Plane Encoder (BPE) stage of the CCSDS 122.0-B-1 in lossless mode using a GPU to achieve high throughput performance to facilitate real-time compression of satellite image data streams. Experimental results are furnished by comparing the performance in terms of compression time of the GPU implementation versus a state of the art single threaded CPU and an field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation. The GPU implementation on a NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670 achieves a peak throughput performance of 162.382 Mbyte/s (932.288 Mbit/s) and an average speed-up of at least 15 compared to the software implementation running on a 3.47 GHz single core Intel® XeonTM processor. The high throughput CUDA implementation using GPUs could potentially be suitable for air borne and space borne applications in the future, if the GPU technology evolves to become radiation-tolerant and space-qualified.
title: Accuracy and predictive values of contrast-enhanced multi-detector CT findings in the diagnosis of colitis
Creators: name: Calabrese, Emanuela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Colon
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Inflammation
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: As multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) is widely used in the initial evaluation of the acute abdomen [1], prompt recognition of CT findings suggestive of colitis can be helpful forthe patient management [2]. Indeed, while the diagnosis of...
Metrics and properties of optimal gauges in multimode cavity QED
Creators: name: Arwas, Geva
name: Manucharyan, Vladimir E.
name: Ciuti, Cristiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-mode cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) describes, for example, the coupling between an atom and a multi-mode electromagnetic resonator. The gauge choice is important for practical calculations in truncated Hilbert spaces, because the exact gauge-invariance is recovered only in the whole space. An optimal gauge can be defined as the one predicting the most accurate observables for the same number of atomic levels and modes. Different metrics quantifying the gauge performance can be introduced depending on the observable of interest. In this work we demonstrate that the optimal choice is generally mode-dependent, i.e., a different gauge is needed for each cavity mode. While the choice of gauge becomes more important for increasing light-matter interaction, we also show that the optimal gauge does not correspond to the situation where the entanglement between light and matter is the smallest.
description: Final published version
Real-Time Vision System for License Plate Detection and Recognition on FPGA
Creators: name: Rosli, Faird
name: Elhossini, Ahmed
name: Juurlink, Ben
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: DDC::000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: FPGA
subject: Field Programmable Gate Array
subject: ANPR
subject: Automatic Number Plate Recognition
subject: OCR
subject: Optical Character Recognition
subject: license plate detection

description: Rapid development of the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) offers an alternative way to provide acceleration for computationally intensive tasks such as digital signal and image processing. Its ability to perform parallel processing shows the potential in implementing a high speed vision system. Out of numerous applications of computer vision, this paper focuses on the hardware implementation of one that is commercially known as Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR).Morphological operations and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithms have been implemented on a Xilinx Zynq-7000 All-Programmable SoC to realize the functions of an ANPR system. Test results have shown that the designed and implemented processing pipeline that consumed 63 % of the logic resources is capable of delivering the results with relatively low error rate. Most importantly, the computation time satisfies the real-time requirement for many ANPR applications.
A Jastrow wave function for the spin-1 Heisenberg chain: the string order revealed by the mapping to the classical Coulomb gas
Creators: name: Piccioni, Davide
name: Apostoli, Christian
name: Becca, Federico
name: Mazzola, Guglielmo
name: Parola, Alberto
name: Sorella, Sandro
name: Santoro, Giuseppe E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a two-body Jastrow wave function is able to capture the ground-state properties of the $S=1$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with the single-ion anisotropy term, in both the topological and trivial phases. Here, the optimized Jastrow pseudo potential assumes a very simple form in Fourier space, i.e., $v_{q} \approx 1/q^2$, which is able to give rise to a finite string-order parameter in the topological regime. The results are analysed by using an exact mapping from the quantum expectation values over the variational state to the classical partition function of the one-dimensional Coulomb gas of particles with charge $q=\pm 1$. Here, two phases are present at low temperatures: the first one is a diluted gas of dipoles (bound states of particles with opposite charges), which are randomly oriented (describing the trivial phase); the other one is a dense liquid of dipoles, which are aligned thanks to the residual dipole-dipole interactions (describing the topological phase, with the finite string order being related to the dipole alignment). Our results provide an insightful interpretation of the ground-state nature of the spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model.
DISPARITIES IN COLORECTAL AND ESOPHAGEAL CANCER IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Schlottmann, Francisco
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Unequal access to care and inadequate health care utilization are the main determinants of cancer care disparities. I aimed to identify differences in the effect of disparities in stage at diagnosis among patients with a cancer in which screening is widely recommended (colorectal cancer CRC) and one in which it is not (esophageal cancer).I performed a retrospective analysis of the National Cancer Database during the period 2004-2015, including adult patients (≥18 years old) diagnosed with esophageal or CRC. I used multivariable generalized logistic regression to identify potential differences in the effect of disparities in stage at diagnosis.My resulting analytical sample included a total of 96,524 esophageal cancer patients and 361,187 CRC patients. Black patients were more likely to be diagnosed with stage IV only in CRC (OR 1.34, 95%CI 1.30, 1.37). Similarly, longer travel distances and lower educational attainment were only associated with increased odds of stage IV CRC (OR 1.20, 95%CI 1.17, 1.23 and 1.11, 95%CI 1.07, 1.15, respectively). While both Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured patients were more likely to be diagnosed with stage IV esophageal cancer (OR 1.34, 95%CI 1.21, 1.47 and 1.99, 95%CI 1.72, 2.31) and stage IV CRC (OR 1.94, 95%CI 1.86, 2.02 and 2.33 95%CI 2.21, 2.46,) than were patients with private insurance, the effect was larger among CRC patients. From 2004 to 2015, the rates of stage IV esophageal cancer fell from 42.0% to 38.2%, while the rates of stage IV CRC increased from 36.9% to 40.8% (p<0.0001).In conclusion, this analysis of a national database suggests that racial and socioeconomic disparities are more pronounced in CRC than in esophageal cancer. Equity in access to screening and cancer care should be prioritized to reduce health disparities.
Synthesis of nanoparticulate Ti-doped ZnO by solution combustion technique
Creators: name: Oratai JONGPRATEEP
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: ZnO
TiO2
Nanoparticles
Combustion synthesis
Photocatalysis

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 1, 104-108
Elliptic flow of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elliptic flow, $v_{2}$, of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity ($2.5 < y < 4$) is measured in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$~=~2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The scalar product, two- and four-particle $Q$ cumulants and Lee-Yang zeros methods are used. The dependence of the $v_2$ of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays on the collision centrality, in the range 0--40\%, and on transverse momentum, $p_{\rm T}$, is studied in the interval $3 < p_{\rm T} < 10$~GeV/$c$. A positive $v_2$ is observed with the scalar product and two-particle $Q$ cumulants in semi-central collisions (10--20\% and 20--40\% centrality classes) for the $p_{\rm T}$ interval from 3 to about 5 GeV/$c$. The $v_2$ magnitude tends to decrease towards more central collisions and with increasing $p_{\rm T}$. It becomes compatible with zero in the interval $6
description: 25 pages, 4 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 20, submitted to PLB, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1737
Influence of BLT content on phase structure and electrical properties of (1-x)BT-xBLT ceramic
Creators: name: Thanawat KLAYTAE
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: BT-BLT
Ferroelectric properties
Dielectric properties
Hysteresis loop

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 1, 109-115
High-resolution CMB bispectrum estimator with flexible modal basis
Creators: name: Sohn, Wuhyun
name: Fergusson, James R.
name: Shellard, E. P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new independent pipeline for the CMB bispectrum estimation of primordial non-Gaussianity and release a public code for constraining bispectrum shapes of interest based on the Planck 2018 temperature and polarization data. The estimator combines the strengths of the conventional KSW and Modal estimators at the cost of increased computational complexity, which has been made manageable through intensive algorithmic and implementation optimization. We also detail some methodological advances in numerical integration over a tetrapyd - domain where the bispectrum is defined on - via new quadrature rules. The pipeline has been validated both internally and against Planck. As a proof-of-concept example, we constrain some highly oscillatory models that were out of reach in conventional analyses using a targeted basis with a fixed oscillation frequency, and no significant evidence for primordial non-Gaussianity of these shapes is found. The methodology and code developed in this work will be directly applicable to future surveys where we expect a notable boost in sensitivity.
description: 35 pages, 12 figures, public codes at https://github.com/Wuhyun/CMB-BEST and https://github.com/Wuhyun/Tetraquad
High-energy spin waves in the spin-1 square-lattice antiferromagnet La$_2$NiO$_4$
Creators: name: Petsch, A. N.
name: Headings, N. S.
name: Prabhakaran, D.
name: Kolesnikov, A. I.
name: Frost, C. D.
name: Boothroyd, A. T.
name: Coldea, R.
name: Hayden, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inelastic neutron scattering is used to study the magnetic excitations of the $S=1$ square-lattice antiferromagnet La$_2$NiO$_4$. We find that the spin waves cannot be described by a simple classical (harmonic) Heisenberg model with only nearest-neighbor interactions. The spin-wave dispersion measured along the antiferromagnetic Brillouin-zone boundary shows a minimum energy at the $(1/2,0)$ position as is observed in some $S=1/2$ square-lattice antiferromagnets. Thus, our results suggest that the quantum dispersion renormalization effects or longer-range exchange interactions observed in cuprates and other $S=1/2$ square-lattice antiferromagnets are also present in La$_2$NiO$_4$. We also find that the overall intensity of the spin-wave excitations is suppressed relative to linear spin-wave theory indicating that covalency is important. Two-magnon scattering is also observed.
description: Final author version
A critical review of eggshell waste: An effective source of hydroxyapatite as photocatalyst
Creators: name: Sarute UMMARTYOTIN
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Eggshell
Hydroxyapatite
Photocatalyst
Synthesis
Composite

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 1, 124-135
Nonlinear-optical frequency-doubling meta-reflector: pulsed regime
Creators: name: Popov, Alexander K.
name: Myslivets, Sergey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of backward-wave second harmonic meta-reflector operating in pulse regime are investigated. We show that ratio of the income pulse length to the thickness of the metaslab determines its important operational properties which are in contrast with those manifested at common second harmonic generation settings.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Annotation Imputation to Individualize Predictions: Initial Studies on Distribution Dynamics and Model Predictions
Creators: name: Lowmanstone, London
name: Wan, Ruyuan
name: Owan, Risako
name: Kim, Jaehyung
name: Kang, Dongyeop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Annotating data via crowdsourcing is time-consuming and expensive. Due to these costs, dataset creators often have each annotator label only a small subset of the data. This leads to sparse datasets with examples that are marked by few annotators. The downside of this process is that if an annotator doesn't get to label a particular example, their perspective on it is missed. This is especially concerning for subjective NLP datasets where there is no single correct label: people may have different valid opinions. Thus, we propose using imputation methods to generate the opinions of all annotators for all examples, creating a dataset that does not leave out any annotator's view. We then train and prompt models, using data from the imputed dataset, to make predictions about the distribution of responses and individual annotations. In our analysis of the results, we found that the choice of imputation method significantly impacts soft label changes and distribution. While the imputation introduces noise in the prediction of the original dataset, it has shown potential in enhancing shots for prompts, particularly for low-response-rate annotators. We have made all of our code and data publicly available.
description: NLPerspectives - 2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP, 39 pages, 13 figures, 13 tables
title: Lithiasis and Spontaneous Hemobilia
Creators: name: Barbiera, Filippo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Acute
subject: Complications
subject: CT
subject: Emergency
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Bleeding into the biliary tree or hemobilia is a rare cause for upper gastro-intestinal bleeding that was first described by Francis Glison in 1654 [1]. Most commonly hemobilia is the result of trauma or investigatory interventions but...
Recent developments in the field of metal foam-polymer hybrid materials: A brief overview
Creators: name: CHATURVEDI, Abhay
Publisher: name: Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Metal foam
Polymer
Hybrid
Interface
Mechanical property

description: Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals, 28, 1, 136-140
Optimization of probabilistic quantum search algorithm with a priori information
Creators: name: Huang, Yutong
name: Pang, Shengshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum computer encodes information in quantum states and runs quantum algorithms to surpass the classical counterparts by exploiting quantum superposition and quantum correlation. Grover's quantum search algorithm is a typical quantum algorithm that proves the superiority of quantum computing over classical computing. It has a quadratic reduction in the query complexity of database search, and is known to be optimal when no a priori information about the elements of the database is provided. In this work, we consider a probabilistic Grover search algorithm allowing nonzero probability of failure for a database with a general a priori probability distribution of the elements, and minimize the number of oracle calls by optimizing the initial state of the quantum system and the reflection axis of the diffusion operator. The initial state and the reflection axis are allowed to not coincide, and thus the quantum search algorithm rotates the quantum system in a three-dimensional subspace spanned by the initial state, the reflection axis and the search target state in general. The number of oracle calls is minimized by a variational method, and formal results are obtained with the assumption of low failure probability. The results show that for a nonuniform a priori distribution of the database elements, the number of oracle calls can be significantly reduced given a small decrease in the success probability of the quantum search algorithm, leading to a lower average query complexity to find the solution of the search problem. The results are applied to a simple but nontrivial database model with two-value a priori probabilities to show the power of the optimized quantum search algorithm. The paper concludes with a discussion about the generalization to higher-order results that allows for a larger failure probability for the quantum search algorithm.
description: v2: Main text expanded to include analysis of the first-order optimization result. Close to the published version
title: It's not just about the cancer - manisfestations of systemic disease in the breast.
Creators: name: Stafford, Kirsten
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This is an educational exhibit outlining the key diagnostic features of systemic disease in the breast on various imaging modalities. The following systemic diseases are discussed: 1. Cardiovascular disease 2. Diabetic mastopathy 3. Granulomatous...
title: CT Evaluation of Pulmonary Hypertension: To See, or Not To See, That is the Question…
Creators: name: Kul, Melahat
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To be aware of Pulmonary Hypertension and its clinical importance To discuss the role of radiologists; Recognizing Computed Tomography (CT) findings of pulmonary hypertension Distinguishing different causes of pulmonary hypertension with...