cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Area Sampling Frames for Agriculture in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Willett, Joseph W.
name: Willett, Joseph W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: International Development
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: The Statistical Reporting Service, presently part of the Economics and Statistics Service (ESS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has used small agricultural areas as sampling units for agricultural estimates for about 35 years. USDA has also done basic research to Improve the methodology of area sampling frames and their use, and at present the frames are a tool for the efficient production of a wl.de array of agricultural estimates in the US. This report summarizes activities and accomplishments of the Economics and Statistics Service (ESS), U.S. Department of Agriculture under contract with the US Agency for International Development (AID) to assist developing countries in preparing and using area sampling frames (ASF) in agriculture. An "area sampling frame" is a breakdown of the land area of a country into units of size and location appropriate for sampling. Aerial photographs and Landsat remote sensing images are used in dividing the land area. The area frames are designed to be used in the collection of information from interview surveys of farmers; they may also be used to sample remote sensing data. Area frame samples are a well-developed, efficient technique for collecting such information.
description: Funds for the USDA work referred to in this report were provided by the Agency for International Development (AID), under Its project on Remote Sensing for Agriculture. The project number is AG/DSB-1224-6-78.
Citizens, Engineers and Air Toxics: Public Participation in Technology-based Standard Setting Under Section 112 of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
Creators: name: Malkin, Melissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: Open ended interviews were used to examine the potential for technical and non-technical public involvement in technology-based standard setting by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the air toxics provisions of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. The study found points where policy decisions are made at which non-technical citizen concerns can be incorporated into the decision making. The potential for technical input by citizen groups was also demonstrated. The study identified mechanisms by which the EPA can facilitate citizen involvement in air toxics rulemaking, including improved information exchange, structures like conference calls, early citizen involvement in standards, and management support.
Transverse field muon-spin rotation measurement of the topological anomaly in a thin film of MnSi
Creators: name: Lancaster, T.
name: Xiao, F.
name: Salman, Z.
name: Thomas, I. O.
name: Blundell, S. J.
name: Pratt, F. L.
name: Clark, S. J.
name: Prokscha, T.
name: Suter, A.
name: Zhang, S. L.
name: Baker, A. A.
name: Hesjedal, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of transverse-field muon-spin rotation measurements on an epitaxially grown 40 nm-thick film of MnSi on Si(111) in the region of the field-temperature phase diagram where a skyrmion phase has been observed in the bulk. We identify changes in the quasistatic magnetic field distribution sampled by the muon, along with evidence for magnetic transitions around $T\approx 40$ K and 30 K. Our results suggest that the cone phase is not the only magnetic texture realized in film samples for out-of-plane fields.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Ψυχικές διαταραχές των θυμάτων βίας στον χώρο του αθλητισμού
Creators: name: Γραβάνης, Ταξιάρχης Γρηγορίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: αθλητική βία
θύματα
ψυχικές διαταραχές
sports violence
victims
mental disorders

description: Η οπαδική βία, δηλαδή η εκδήλωση βίαιων ενεργειών πριν, κατά την διάρκεια ή μετά από ένα αθλητικό γεγονός ή στα πλαίσια αυτού, είναι ένα σύνθετο κοινωνικό φαινόμενο που απασχολεί την Ευρώπη από τα τέλη του 19ου αιώνα ακολουθώντας μια διαχρονική πορεία. Η βία δεν είναι απαραίτητα σύμπτωμα ψυχιατρικής διαταραχής, ωστόσο οι περισσότερες μορφές βίας έχουν συνδεθεί με ψυχικές διαταραχές στα θύματα που την υφίστανται. Στους αθλητικούς χώρους τα θύματα αυτά μπορεί να είναι επαγγελματίες του αθλητισμού όπως αθλητές ή διαιτητές αγώνων, φίλαθλοι ή οπαδοί καθώς και οι συγγενείς τους. Η βία στους αθλητικούς χώρους έχει συνδεθεί με ψυχική δυσφορία και αυξημένο επιπολασμό κατάθλιψης και άγχους σε διαιτητές, διαταραχής μετατραυματικού στρες (PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) σε θεατές-θύματα και διαταραχής παρατεταμένου πένθους και PTSD σε συγγενείς θυμάτων που έχουν χάσει τη ζωή τους εξαιτίας της. Από την άλλη, πολλά από τα θύματα της φαίνεται πως είχαν εμπλακεί σε βίαιες συγκρούσεις και ως θύτες, συνεπώς έχει ιδιαίτερη σημασία και η μελέτη των χαρακτηριστικών της προσωπικότητας τους, με προεξάρχοντα τα ψυχοπαθητικά και αντικοινωνικά χαρακτηριστικά, καθώς αυτή η γνώση αυτό θα βοηθήσει στην αντιμετώπιση του φαινομένου. Ενώ η αντιμετώπιση των ψυχικών διαταραχών στις μέρες συνεχώς βελτιώνεται, η μελέτη των παραπάνω δεδομένων και η διεξαγωγή νέων μελετών θα βοηθήσει σημαντικά σε δράσεις πρόληψης και έγκαιρης παρέμβασης σχετικά τη βία στους αθλητικούς χώρους και τις επακόλουθες ψυχικές συνέπειες της.
description: Fan violence, i.e. the manifestation of violent actions before, during or after a sporting event or in the context of it, is a complex social phenomenon that has concerned Europe since the end of the 19th century, following a long-term course. Violence is not necessarily a symptom of a psychiatric disorder, however most forms of violence have been linked to mental disorders in victims. In sports venues, these victims can be sports professionals such as athletes or match referees, sports fans or fans as well as their relatives. Violence in sports areas has been linked to psychological distress and increased prevalence of depression and anxiety in referees, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in fans-victims, and prolonged grief disorder and PTSD in bereaved relatives. On the other hand, many of its victims were involved in violent conflicts as perpetrators, therefore the study of their personality characteristics is also of particular importance, with psychopathic and antisocial characteristics prominent, as this knowledge will help to deal with the phenomenon. While the treatment of mental disorders is constantly improving these days, the study of the above data and the conduct of new studies will significantly help in prevention and early intervention actions regarding violence in sports venues and its subsequent mental consequences.
Quality Education for Every Girl for 12 Years: Insights from RISE Programme Research
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Spivack, Marla
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Inclusive education
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The rapid expansion that has brought nearly every child, girl and boy, into formal schooling is a remarkable development achievement. Despite this dramatic success in expansion, far too many children spend years in school without acquiring adequate basic skills. Governments, donors, and international organisations are increasingly acknowledging this learning crisis, and working to address it. Many are adopting an emphasis on the challenges faced by girls. The focus on quality education for girls provides an opportunity to move the education agenda to the next level: achievement of the global Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of providing every child with a quality education that achieves, at a minimum, functional literacy and numeracy. Four insights from completed and ongoing work from the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) Programme can inform this effort: 1. To realise the full benefits of education, ensure that girls are learning while in school. 2. To deliver learning to all girls and achieve the SDG of universal literacy and numeracy, girls must have access to systems that produce learning. 3. Start with the early primary school years. 4. Improving girls' education requires reorienting the system to be coherent for learning, which can include targeted approaches as part of an overall shift towards coherence.
title: CT perfusion can predict the tumor regression grade (TRG) of the esophageal carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy
Creators: name: Djuric-Stefanovic, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Neoadjuvant chemo radiotherapy (NACRT) became widely applied therapeutic regimen for patients who have advanced esophageal carcinoma. The main goals of NACRT are reduction of tumor volume and down staging the tumor, to enable radical...
Position-momentum entangled photon pairs in non-linear wave-guides and transmission lines
Creators: name: Sherkunov, Yury
name: Whittaker, David M.
name: Falko, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the correlation properties of light in non-linear wave-guides and transmission lines, predict the position-momentum realization of EPR paradox for photon pairs in Kerr-type non-linear photonic circuits, and we show how two-photon entangled states can be generated and detected.
description: 5.5 pages, 3 figures
Effect of Position and Motion on Personal Exposure in a HVLP Spray Painting Operation
Creators: name: McKernan, John L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1997

description: Worker exposure to particles is a problem in most spray painting processes. Previous studies, using a stationary mannequin and simple spray nozzle, showed that dimensional analysis could be used to correlate a dimensionless breathing zone concentration (which requires knowing the gun transfer efficiency) with a dimensionless nozzle pressure term (the Carlton number). This work expands on that study by using a real high volume-low pressure (HVLP) gun, and adding a representative spraying motion. A robot-mannequin, capable of holding and actuating the spray gun, and also performing a repeated side-to-side spraying motion was used. Vacuum pump oil was sprayed onto a flat plate in a wind tunnel to determine the relationship between nozzle pressure and breathing zone concentration. "Breathing zone" samples were collected using a cassette modified to mimic the IOM inlet. Data collected in the absence of motion show that the dimensionless concentration in the 90° position is lower than the 180° position until a crossover point is reached at low values of the Carlton number (8 x 10[5]). After this point, the dimensionless breathing zone concentration in the 80° position is lower than in the 90° orientation. For the case with motion, the importance of position to dimensionless breathing zone concentration was mitigated. Using task representative Carlton number values (alpha values) allows for simplification of the results. Alpha values for the 90° and 180° orientations without motion were 0.232 and 0.028. It was observed that the motion mitigated the positional effect in such a way as to make the alpha value for motion close to the average of the two no motion alpha values, 0.102. These results allow for the supposition of a formula to predict breathing zone concentrations or transfer efficiencies for conventional and HVLP spraying guns. The results also stress the association between contaminant generation, transport, and exposure. Models, such as the one used, are beneficial because they relate exposure to processes parameters that can be controlled to reduce it.
title: Addition of diffusion-weighted imaging for the clinical MR assessment of rectal cancer: effect on staging and interpretation time
Creators: name: Lambregts, Doenja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In many countries MRI is part of the routine clinical workup for patients with rectal cancer. MRI is routinely used to stage the primary rectal tumor in order to assess the risk factors for developing a local recurrence and determining the most...
Quantum Propagation of Electronic Excitations in Macromolecules: A Computationally Efficient Multi-Scale Approach
Creators: name: Beccara, S. A
name: Mascherpa, F.
name: Schneider, E.
name: Faccioli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a theoretical approach to study the quantum-dissipative dynamics of electronic excitations in macromolecules, which enables to perform calculations in large systems and cover long time intervals. All the parameters of the underlying microscopic Hamiltonian are obtained from \emph{ab-initio} electronic structure calculations, ensuring chemical detail. In the short-time regime, the theory is solvable using a diagrammatic perturbation theory, enabling analytic insight. To compute the time evolution of the density matrix at intermediate times, typically $\lesssim$~ps, we develop a Monte Carlo algorithm free from any sign or phase problem, hence computationally efficient. Finally, the dynamics in the long-time and large-distance limit can be studied combining the microscopic calculations with renormalization group techniques to define a rigorous low-resolution effective theory. We benchmark our Monte Carlo algorithm against the results obtained in perturbation theory and using a semi-classical non-perturbative scheme. Then we apply it to compute the intra-chain charge mobility in a realistic conjugate polymer.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
Exercise Interventions for Adult with Brain Tumors-A Systematic Review
Creators: name: K, Vijaya
name: Talgeri, Aishwarya
name: Noronha, Jean
name: Menon, Rashi
name: M, Prajna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: brain tumor
subject: brain tumor survivors
subject: exercise

description: Exercise interventions are recommended as an essential part of cancer rehabilitation. They are primarily addressed to enhance their psychological, cognitive, and physical capacity for functional recovery. Among individuals with brain tumors, exercise may be a promising intervention to improve neuro-oncological symptoms and also to manage possible side effects related to surgical and adjunctive interventions.
Dilution Refrigerator
Creators: name: Schätzle, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2024

description: JUNIQ Summer School on Quantum Computing, Jülich, Germany, 26 Aug 2024 - 30 Aug 2024
description: Dilution refrigerators are essential tools in the field of low-temperature physics, playing a crucial role in the development and operation of quantum computing and other advanced scientific research. These sophisticated devices achieve ultra-low temperatures, often below 10 millikelvin (mK), by exploiting the unique properties of a mixture of helium-3 (³He) and helium-4 (⁴He). The dilution refrigeration process relies on the phase separation of these two isotopes at low temperatures, creating a continuous cooling effect through the endothermic dilution of ³He in ⁴He.
Application of an Anova Model to Evaluate Occupational Exposure to Formaldehyde
Creators: name: King, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: Occupational exposure to formaldehyde was evaluated at a large chemical facility. Of particular interest was the validity of so-called Homogeneous Exposure Groups (HEGs) in which it is assumed that all individuals are exposed, on average, to the same level of contaminant. As a preliminary step a field study was conducted comparing the use of diffusion monitors to sorbent tubes for personal air sampling. Results from 26 matched pairs showed the two methods to be comparable [mean difference (badge - tube) = 0.03 ppm; mean (badge) = 0.17 ppm]. Six HEGs were formed based on job tasks and location. Using a randomized design, multiple full-shift samples were collected (with monitors) from representative workers in each HEG (127 measurements from 44 workers). Application of an analysis of variance (ANOVA) model indicated that the total variation in exposure across the entire sample population was partitioned as follows: 79% within-worker, 8% between-worker (within HEG), and 13% between HEG. Thus, assignment of HEGs in this case had only a marginal impact (13% reduction in variance) on the exposure assessment and substantial effort could have been avoided by randomly sampling the entire population prior to grouping.
title: Comprehensive Review: Various Clinical and Radiologic Manifestations of Endometriosis
Creators: name: Han, Byoung Hee
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education and training
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the various clinical and imaging manifestations of endometriosis. 2. Identify which imaging features are more specific for endometriosis. 3. Discuss MR strategies for identification and characterization of...
Raising the Floor on Learning Levels: Equitable Improvement Starts with the Tail
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Crouch, Luis
name: Rolleston, Caine
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Inclusive education
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this note, we examine the equity and inequality dimensions of the learning crisis.1We explore several questions, as follows: How should we understand equity and inequality in global education? Where does inequality in learning outcomes come from? Do countries improve their averages by reducing non-performance or improving high-performance? Is there more inequality between or within countries? What are the possible policy implications?
Caution, preprint! Brief explanations allow non-scientists to differentiate between preprints and peer-reviewed journal articles
Creators: name: Wingen, Tobias
name: Berkessel, Jana
name: Dohle, Simone
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We use this registration to create a public, open-access repository to preserve our data, materials, and registered analysis plans related to our manuscript https://osf.io/7n3mj/, for keeping them publicly accessible via the web into perpetuity. Files in this registration are timestamped and cannot be changed at a later time. Please note that this registration is not a preregistration, as it was created after the data collection. We have, however, preregistered our studies on a different platform and share the preregistration forms in the folder "Preregistration forms".
Context Sensitive Article Ranking with Citation Context Analysis
Creators: name: Doslu, Metin
name: Bingol, Haluk O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.3.3; H.3.1

description: It is hard to detect important articles in a specific context. Information retrieval techniques based on full text search can be inaccurate to identify main topics and they are not able to provide an indication about the importance of the article. Generating a citation network is a good way to find most popular articles but this approach is not context aware. The text around a citation mark is generally a good summary of the referred article. So citation context analysis presents an opportunity to use the wisdom of crowd for detecting important articles in a context sensitive way. In this work, we analyze citation contexts to rank articles properly for a given topic. The model proposed uses citation contexts in order to create a directed and weighted citation network based on the target topic. We create a directed and weighted edge between two articles if citation context contains terms related with the target topic. Then we apply common ranking algorithms in order to find important articles in this newly created network. We showed that this method successfully detects a good subset of most prominent articles in a given topic. The biggest contribution of this approach is that we are able to identify important articles for a given search term even though these articles do not contain this search term. This technique can be used in other linked documents including web pages, legal documents, and patents.
Model Prediction of HAA9 Values for Chlorinated and Chloraminated Disinfection in Drinking Water Using ICR Data
Creators: name: Kuroki, Monica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This report utilizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Information Collection Rule (ICR) disinfection by-products (DBP) drinking water sample data to predict the sum of 9 haloacetic acids (HAA9). Much of the haloacetic acid (HAA) occurrence data in the ICR database is for only 5 or 6 of the HAA9 although the remaining species have potentially higher human health risk. The first objective was to utilize a previously created model (Roberts et al. 2002) to predict the occurrence levels for the missing HAA data specifically from chlorination, chloramination, and combined chlorination-chloramination disinfection. Because of increased usage of chloramines and combined chlorination across utilities in the U.S., this study takes advantage of the large ICR database to develop a better picture of HAA9 values for these specific disinfection treatments. Model prediction accuracy was determined by comparing predicted HAA9 values to measured HAA9 where these were recorded in the database otherwise the predicted mi
TEMPO: Feature-Endowed Teichmüller Extremal Mappings of Point Clouds
Creators: name: Meng, Ting Wei
name: Choi, Gary Pui-Tung
name: Lui, Lok Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In recent decades, the use of 3D point clouds has been widespread in computer industry. The development of techniques in analyzing point clouds is increasingly important. In particular, mapping of point clouds has been a challenging problem. In this paper, we develop a discrete analogue of the Teichmüller extremal mappings, which guarantee uniform conformality distortions, on point cloud surfaces. Based on the discrete analogue, we propose a novel method called TEMPO for computing Teichmüller extremal mappings between feature-endowed point clouds. Using our proposed method, the Teichmüller metric is introduced for evaluating the dissimilarity of point clouds. Consequently, our algorithm enables accurate recognition and classification of point clouds. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Silcton Replication
Creators: name: Weisberg, Steven
name: Newcombe, Nora
name: Schinazi, Victor
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Neuroscience
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: cognitive neuroscience
subject: cognitive psychology
subject: individual differences
subject: spatial ability
subject: spatial cognition
subject: spatial navigation
subject: virtual environments

description: Replication and re-analysis of Weisberg et al. (2014)
A View of Neutrino Studies with the Next Generation Facilities
Creators: name: Stanco, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino physics is nowadays receiving more and more attention as a possible source of information for the long--standing investigation of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The rather recent measurement of the third mixing angle $θ_{13}$ in the standard mixing oscillation scenario encourages the pursuit of what is still missing: the size of any leptonic CP violation, absolute neutrino masses and the characteristic nature of the neutrino. Several projects are currently running and they are providing impressive results. In this review, the phenomenology of neutrino oscillations that results from the last two decades of investigations is reviewed, with emphasis on our current knowledge and on what lesson can be taken from the past. We then present a critical discussion of current studies on the mass ordering and what might be expected from future results. Our conclusion is that decisions determining the next generation of experiments and investigations have to be strictly based on the findings of the current generation of experiment. In this sense it would be wise to wait a few years before taking decisions on the future projects. In the meantime, since no direct path forward is evident for the future projects, the community must be committed to their careful evaluation.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Reviews in Physics
title: Imaging of ectopic pregnancy –Radiologic-Pathologic correlation
Creators: name: Kurata, Yasuhisa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Obstetrics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this exhibit is: 1.To review imaging of ectopic pregnancy with surgical specimen. 2.To show the pathologic findings corresponding to the imaging findings we interpret as ectopic pregnancy, emphasizing the pathology of the gestational...
Energetics of correlations in interacting systems
Creators: name: Friis, Nicolai
name: Huber, Marcus
name: Perarnau-Llobet, Martí
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental connection between thermodynamics and information theory arises from the fact that correlations exhibit an inherent work value. For noninteracting systems this translates to a work cost for establishing correlations. Here we investigate the relationship between work and correlations in the presence of interactions that cannot be controlled or removed. For such naturally coupled systems, which are correlated even in thermal equilibrium, we determine general strategies that can reduce the work cost of correlations, and illustrate these for a selection of exemplary physical systems.
description: v2: 11 pages, 4 figures, updated Figs. 2(a) and 3(a)
title: Barium examination of gastrointestinal diverticula.
Creators: name: Gabutti, Jesús
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diverticula
subject: Education
subject: Barium meal
subject: Barium enema
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Explain the main imaging characteristics of the different kinds of diverticula in the gastrointestinal tract with barium examination. Review the different barium exam techniques with an emphasis on diverticular disease findings. Describe the...
title: Estimating unknown dynamics of a quadrotor aerial vehicle artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Atapattu, Sachithra H.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: This thesis presents the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) to accurately estimate the unmodelled dynamics of a quadrotor aerial vehicle. Due to the complexity of aerodynamic models, ground effects, actuator non-linearities, and disturbances that occur during operation, usually a complete dynamic modelling of a quadcopter is difficult to achieve. A quadcopter’s flight stability mainly depends on its control system and its navigation system. Therefore, the knowledge of the platform’s unknown dynamic model will allow enhanced design of the autonomous system. This thesis focuses on estimating the unmodelled dynamics using machine learning (ML) techniques to achieve better design of control and navigation systems of quadcopters. In this work, the dynamic behaviour of a quadcopter is expressed as a combination of a nominal model and an unknown model. The nominal model is derived from classical rigid-body dynamic equations, while ML approaches are used to estimate the unknown model. Among the available ML techniques, two commonly used approaches; Gaussian process regression (GPR) and ANN are evaluated in this thesis. Training and testing of the methods were done offline, using a dataset gathered by manually flying an AscTec Hummingbird quadcopter in an OptiTrack motion capture environment. For the comparison of the selected ML techniques, the disturbance force was learnt initially. Since ANN showed better results than GPR in initial comparison, ANN was chosen and further evaluated with different architectures. The disturbances in force and torque were learnt separately using two independent ANNs. These estimated residual dynamics were added to the nominal dynamic model to obtain the compound dynamics. The results demonstrate reduction in model error in comparison to the nominal model. To demonstrate the use of learnt residual dynamics in improved controller design, a trajectory tracking controller was implemented in a simulated environment. This simulation was designed to track a desired trajectory in the presence of added disturbances estimated using the ANN model. The results are compared with the trajectory tracking results obtained with only the nominal model. As expected, the controller with disturbance correction using ANN model showed improved performance.
title: Diagnostic performance of US re-evaluation for patients with equivocal CT findings of acute appendicitis; comparison with CT re-ssessment
Creators: name: Kim, Hyukjung
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: I.INTRODUCTION Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal pain, and it is an urgent condition that requires prompt surgical intervention. Although numerous studies attest to the high sensitivity and specificity of...
Flooding/Pipe Surcharging at University of North Carolina at Science Complex
Creators: name: Suhag, Reena
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Science Complex located on campus at South Columbia Street just north of the Bell Tower is prone to flooding during heavy storm events. It experienced severe flooding during the June 30th, 2013 storm event which resulted in 4-5 feet of floodwaters at the site and caused about $125,000 in damages. This report focuses on identification of all possible causes and optimal solution development for the problem. Hydraulic modeling using SWMM, technical consultations, and field investigations were used to explore different options involving pipe resizing, addition of new pipes and storage unit to the site. Six different options were developed and compared against five criteria for a 100 year, SCS Type-II design storm. The most functional and cost effective solution was determined to be addition of new parallel pipes to the system. An implementation plan was developed and project costs were compared to the damage of the 10 year storm as an indicator of the likely economic benefits of the project.
title: Embolization of acquired uterine vascular malformation using Onyx: report of 10 cases.
Creators: name: Barral, Pierre-Antoine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Vascular
subject: Embolisation
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Fistula

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Uterine vascular malformation (UVM) is rare but a potentially serious cause of vaginal hemorrhage (16). UVM can occur in two nosological frameworks: Gestationnal trophoblastic disease, include hydatidiform moles, invasive moles, and...
Experiment 1 Aptima Hypothesis Preregistration
Creators: name: DeHaven, Alexander
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: ASIST
subject: Experiment 1
subject: Preregistration

description: Experiment 1 Hypothesis Preregistration for the Aptima team as part of DARPA's ASIST program.
RISE Vision Document 1: The Pivot from Schooling to Education
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Pritchett, Lant
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This document highlights that one of the greatest achievements in education worldwide has been reaching near universal primary school enrolment and attainment. This feat has been driven largely by closing inequality gaps between genders, incomes, and location (urban versus rural). Despite massive improvements in enrolment and attainment, learning profiles remain appallingly flat - children leave school lacking basic competencies.
Spin-orbit coupling controlled ground state in Sr$_2$ScOsO$_6$
Creators: name: Taylor, A. E.
name: Morrow, R.
name: Fishman, R. S.
name: Calder, S.
name: Kolesnikov, A. I.
name: Lumsden, M. D.
name: Woodward, P. M.
name: Christianson, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report neutron scattering experiments which reveal a large spin gap in the magnetic excitation spectrum of weakly-monoclinic double perovskite Sr2ScOsO6. The spin gap is demonstrative of appreciable spin-orbit-induced anisotropy, despite nominally orbitally-quenched 5d3 Os5+ ions. The system is successfully modeled including nearest neighbor interactions in a Heisenberg Hamiltonian with exchange anisotropy. We find that the presence of the spin-orbit-induced anisotropy is essential for the realization of the type I antiferromagnetic ground state. This demonstrates that physics beyond the LS or JJ coupling limits plays an active role in determining the collective properties of 4d3 and 5d3 systems, and that theoretical treatments must include spin-orbit coupling.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 4 pages supplementary material
Towards a Sustainable State: A Look at Sustainable Development on a State Level
Creators: name: Scruggs-McCray, Patricia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: The objective of this research is to develop a state-level sustainable development model. The elements of sustainable development (as described in chapter 11), are interwoven to produce a strategy to maintain and even increase a sustainable quality of life. Due to the multitude of elements involved in sustainable development, I will be limited as to the depth in which each will be explored. It is my intention to show how these elements can be integrated into comprehensive and interdependent programs. In order for this integration of elements to occur, two components must be addressed: the state level policies and programs geared towards sustainable development, and the management or institutional process for implementation. In evaluating the integration of various sectors, the report will utilize the three mandates for sustainability embraced by the Bruntland Commission: - to re-examine the critical issues of environment and development and to formulate concrete and realistic action proposals to deal with them. - to strengthen synergy on environment and development and to assess and propose new forms of cooperation that influence policies and events in the direction of needed change. -to raise the level of understanding and commitment to action on the part of individuals, organizations, institutions, businesses, and government.
title: Classification and radiologic findings of femoral hernia: highlights of hydrocele of femoral hernia
Creators: name: Kim, Jung Youn
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: There are three types of groin hernias, classified according to the anatomical defect : direct and indirect inguinal hernias (IH) and femoral hernias (FH). IHs are separated as direct and indirect typeaccording to the relationship with inferior...
Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity‐Scale Inventory
Creators: name: Editors:
name: Eve, Marlen
name: Pape, Diana
name: Flugge, Mark
name: Steele, Rachel
name: Man, Derina
name: Riley‐Gilbert, Marybeth
name: Biggar, Sarah
name: Editors:
name: Eve, Marlen
name: Pape, Diana
name: Flugge, Mark
name: Steele, Rachel
name: Man, Derina
name: Riley‐Gilbert, Marybeth
name: Biggar, Sarah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts from the report: Provisions of Section 2709 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prepare technical guidelines and science‐based methods to measure environmental service benefits from conservation and land management activities, initially focused on carbon. The methods contained in this document address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from agricultural and forestry activities. The objective for this report is to create a standard set of GHG estimation methods for use by USDA, landowners, and other stakeholders to assist them in evaluating the GHG impacts of their management decisions. The methods presented in the report address GHG emissions and carbon sequestration for the entire entity or operation and also provide the opportunity to assess individual practices or management decisions. Therefore, ease of us is critical. A co‐objective is to demonstrate capacity within USDA, establishing a standardized, consensus set of methods that become the scientific basis for entity‐scale estimation of the GHG impacts of landowner management decisions.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of the drug-drug interactions management system for appropriate use of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir: a retrospective observational study
Creators: name: Tomida, Takeshi
name: Kimura, Takeshi
name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
name: Uda, Atsushi
name: Matsumoto, Yuki
name: Tamura, Naoki
name: Iida, Masashi
name: Tanifuji, Akiko
name: Matsumoto, Kumiko
name: Mizuta, Naomi
name: Ebisawa, Kei
name: Ohji, Goh
name: Omura, Tomohiro
name: Iwata, Kentaro
name: Yano, Ikuko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Enriched algebraic theories and monads for a system of arities
Creators: name: Lucyshyn-Wright, Rory B. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 18C10, 18C15, 18C20, 18C05, 18D20, 18D15, 08A99, 08B99, 08B20, 08C05, 08C99, 03C05, 18D35, 18D10, 18D25, 18A35

description: Under a minimum of assumptions, we develop in generality the basic theory of universal algebra in a symmetric monoidal closed category $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to a specified system of arities $j:\mathcal{J} \hookrightarrow \mathcal{V}$. Lawvere's notion of algebraic theory generalizes to this context, resulting in the notion of single-sorted $\mathcal{V}$-enriched $\mathcal{J}$-cotensor theory, or $\mathcal{J}$-theory for short. For suitable choices of $\mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{J}$, such $\mathcal{J}$-theories include the enriched algebraic theories of Borceux and Day, the enriched Lawvere theories of Power, the equational theories of Linton's 1965 work, and the $\mathcal{V}$-theories of Dubuc, which are recovered by taking $\mathcal{J} = \mathcal{V}$ and correspond to arbitrary $\mathcal{V}$-monads on $\mathcal{V}$. We identify a modest condition on $j$ that entails that the $\mathcal{V}$-category of $\mathcal{T}$-algebras exists and is monadic over $\mathcal{V}$ for every $\mathcal{J}$-theory $\mathcal{T}$, even when $\mathcal{T}$ is not small and $\mathcal{V}$ is neither complete nor cocomplete. We show that $j$ satisfies this condition if and only if $j$ presents $\mathcal{V}$ as a free cocompletion of $\mathcal{J}$ with respect to the weights for left Kan extensions along $j$, and so we call such systems of arities eleutheric. We show that $\mathcal{J}$-theories for an eleutheric system may be equivalently described as (i) monads in a certain one-object bicategory of profunctors on $\mathcal{J}$, and (ii) $\mathcal{V}$-monads on $\mathcal{V}$ satisfying a certain condition. We prove a characterization theorem for the categories of algebras of $\mathcal{J}$-theories, considered as $\mathcal{V}$-categories $\mathcal{A}$ equipped with a specified $\mathcal{V}$-functor $\mathcal{A} \rightarrow \mathcal{V}$.
description: Minor changes to reflect journal version (published January 31, 2016)
RISE Vision Document 2: Ambitious Learning Goals Need Audacious New Approaches
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Pritchett, Lant
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: There are numerous efforts to turn broad learning goals into concrete, measurable, and achievable targets. All of these efforts recognise that neither education nor learning can be reduced to a single goal but will require measures of mastery at various stages and assessment of different domains of skills and competencies. In this vision document, we are not prejudging the outcome of the specific goals that will be adopted either globally or nationally, but rather want to ask: if goals are adopted, what will it take to reach them?
The Use of Household Willingness to Pay Information in Sanitation Planning: A Case Study in Kumasi, Ghana
Creators: name: Hughes, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: Two models that predicted sanitation coverage in Kumasi were developed using household willingness to pay (WTP) information. Most (90%) households in Kumasi live in apartment buildings. It was unclear how to use household WTP information to predict building decisions. The Household Decision Model (HDM) used the WTP frequency distribution to estimate the number of individual households that would decide to use Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines (KVIPs). The Building Decision Model (BDM) aggregated household WTP information to predict the number of apartment building owners that would choose to construct KVIPs. Both models estimated the subsidy cost and capital cost of providing Kumasi households with KVIPs. A sensitivity analysis was performed on the BDM showed it to be highly sensitive to key assumptions concerning the aggregation of household WTP information. This sensitivity suggested that improving the accuracy and usefulness of models such as the HDM and BDM requires a more complete understanding of group decision behavior in Kumasi than is presently available.
Additional file 1 of Application of CRISPR/Cas9 system to knock out GluB gene for developing low glutelin rice mutant
Creators: name: AlHusnain, Latifa
name: AlKahtani, Muneera D. F.
name: Attia, Kotb A.
name: Sanaullah, Tayyaba
name: Elsharnoby, Dalia E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1: Supplementary table 1 Sequence of primers used in present study.
title: Is there any additional value of diffusion-weighted MR imaging to conventional MR imaging in detection and assessing the sensitivity of deep stromal and parametrial invasion of primary cervical carcinoma?
Creators: name: Tarhan, Nefise
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Carcinoma of the uterine cervix is the third most common gynecological malignancy in the world (1). The main factor in deciding the therapy is the extent of the disease.Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is used to evaluate...
Exploring the impact of plant-based milk alternatives in the US
Creators: name: Mendez, Samara
name: Peacock, Jacob
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: plant-based milk alternatives; consumer behavior; milk elasticities

description: We provide a detailed research plan to evaluate the impact of the increasing availability of plant-based milk alternatives on demand for dairy fluid milk products in the United States. We will investigate this question by conducting three analyses: (1) gathering and comparing different sources of grocery sales data to investigate data variability and to determine whether plant-based sales are sufficient to replace declining dairy sales, (2) summarizing research on the relationship between plant-based and dairy milks to determine whether the products are price substitutes for each other, and (3) estimating demand for dairy milk in separate periods between 2001-2019 and comparing each period's responsiveness to price fluctuations to determine whether dairy milk demand has undergone major changes that could have been caused by the expansion of plant-based milk products.