cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The formation of active protoclusters in the Aquila Rift: A millimeter continuum view
Creators: name: Maury, Anaelle
name: Andre, Philippe
name: Men'shchikov, Alexander
name: Konyves, Vera
name: Bontemps, Sylvain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Abridged -- We present an analysis of the Aquila Rift complex which addresses the questions of the star formation rate (SFR), star formation efficiency (SFE) and typical lifetime of the Class 0 protostellar phase in two nearby cluster-forming clumps: the Serpens South and W40 protoclusters. We carried out a 1.2 mm dust continuum mapping of the Aquila Rift complex with the MAMBO bolometer array on the IRAM 30m telescope. We perform a systematic source extraction in our millimeter continuum map. Based on complementary data from the Herschel Gould Belt survey and Spitzer maps, we characterize the SEDs of the 77 mm continuum sources detected with MAMBO and estimate their evolutionary stages. Taking advantage of the comprehensive dataset available for the Serpens South region, spanning wavelengths from 2 microns to 1.2 mm, we estimate the numbers of young stellar objects (YSOs) at different evolutionary stages and find a ratio of Class 0 to Class I protostars N(0)/N(I)=0.19-0.27. This low ratio supports a scenario of relatively fast accretion at the beginning of the protostellar phase, and leads to a Class 0 lifetime of ~4-9x10^{4} yr. We also show that both the Serpens South and W40 protoclusters are characterized by large fractions of protostars and high SFRs ~20-50 Msun.Myr^{-1}pc^{-2}, in agreement with the idea that these two nearby clumps are active sites of clustered star formation currently undergoing bursts of star formation, and have the potential ability to form bound star clusters. While the formation of these two protoclusters is likely to have been initiated in a very different manner, the resulting protostellar populations are observed to be very similar. This suggests that after the onset of gravitational collapse, the detailed manner in which the collapse has been initiated does not affect much the ability of a clump to form stars.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures. Abstract has been shortened. Accepted for publication in A&A. Final version including corrections in section 4.1.2. Table 1 available upon request, contact the authors
Introducing Thoth: Open Metadata Manager & Distribution Service for OA Books
Creators: name: Gatti, Rupert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This presentation will showcase Thoth Open Metadata (https://thoth.pub/), a non-profit open metadata management and dissemination service for OA books and book chapters. Using detailed case studies, it will demonstrate how library publishers may benefit from utilising Thoth for their own publishing programs.
The difficulties associated with book and chapter metadata are well recognised. Each distribution platform/service maintains its own metadata, which is not – or is only partially – shared between platforms, and is often not well equipped to incorporate metadata for open access content. This is particularly problematic for small publishers, who are required to submit metadata in multiple different formats, containing different information, to an array of different parties. Publishers then find that the transmission of this data across the book distribution system results in metadata being overwritten and/or degraded in the process. This is also problematic for third parties interested in creating services for users that rely on metadata records maintained across multiple platforms or publishers.
Several publishers have now adopted Thoth as their metadata manager to create and distribute metadata in multiple formats including ONIX and MARC, submit books and chapter metadata to CrossRef for DOI registration and archive content in university repositories. Third-party applications are also beginning to utilise Thoth's open APIs as a trusted and open source of book metadata to create novel content and services.
In this presentation we propose to showcase several users and use cases for Thoth, outline planned developments for the service over the coming three years, and demonstrate the advantages of utilising and supporting open source, non-profit and community owned infrastructures over commercial alternatives. This session will give attendees at the Library Publishing Coalition conference valuable insight into the growth and development of an important and trustworthy new player in the field of OA book metadata.
BERT Based Clinical Knowledge Extraction for Biomedical Knowledge Graph Construction and Analysis
Creators: name: Harnoune, Ayoub
name: Rhanoui, Maryem
name: Mikram, Mounia
name: Yousfi, Siham
name: Elkaimbillah, Zineb
name: Asri, Bouchra El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background : Knowledge is evolving over time, often as a result of new discoveries or changes in the adopted methods of reasoning. Also, new facts or evidence may become available, leading to new understandings of complex phenomena. This is particularly true in the biomedical field, where scientists and physicians are constantly striving to find new methods of diagnosis, treatment and eventually cure. Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offer a real way of organizing and retrieving the massive and growing amount of biomedical knowledge. Objective : We propose an end-to-end approach for knowledge extraction and analysis from biomedical clinical notes using the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model and Conditional Random Field (CRF) layer. Methods : The approach is based on knowledge graphs, which can effectively process abstract biomedical concepts such as relationships and interactions between medical entities. Besides offering an intuitive way to visualize these concepts, KGs can solve more complex knowledge retrieval problems by simplifying them into simpler representations or by transforming the problems into representations from different perspectives. We created a biomedical Knowledge Graph using using Natural Language Processing models for named entity recognition and relation extraction. The generated biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) are then used for question answering. Results : The proposed framework can successfully extract relevant structured information with high accuracy (90.7% for Named-entity recognition (NER), 88% for relation extraction (RE)), according to experimental findings based on real-world 505 patient biomedical unstructured clinical notes. Conclusions : In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end system for the construction of a biomedical knowledge graph from clinical textual using a variation of BERT models.
Using Paragraph Vectors to improve our existing code review assisting tool-CRUSO
Creators: name: Kapur, Ritu
name: Sodhi, Balwinder
name: Shipra Sharma
name: Poojith U Rao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Code reviews are one of the effective methods to estimate defectiveness in source code. However, the existing methods are dependent on experts or inefficient. In this paper, we improve the performance(in terms of speed and memory usage) of our existing code review assisting tool–CRUSO. The central idea of the approach is to estimate the defectiveness for an input source code by using the defectiveness score of similar code fragments present in various StackOverflow (SO) posts. The significant contributions of our paper are i) SOpostsDB: a dataset containing the PVA vectors and the SO posts information, ii) CRUSO-P: a code review assisting system based on PVA models trained on SOpostsDB. For a given input source code, CRUSOP labels it as {Likely to be defective, Unlikely to be defective, Unpredictable}. To develop CRUSO-P, we processed >3 million SO posts and 188200+ GitHub source files. CRUSO-P is designed to work with source code written in the popular programming languages {C, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python}. CRUSO-P outperforms CRUSO with an improvement of 97.82% in response time and a storage reduction of 99.15%. CRUSO-P achieves the highest mean accuracy score of 99.6% when tested with the C programming language, thus achieving an improvement of 5.6% over the existing method.
$Λ$ and $\overlineΛ$ Freeze-Out Distributions and Global Polarizations in Au+Au Collisions
Creators: name: Tsegelnik, Nikita
name: Kolomeitsev, Evgeni
name: Voronyuk, Vadym
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gold--gold collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$ and $11.5$GeV are simulated within the PHSD transport model. In each collision event, the spectator nucleons are separated and the fluidization procedure for the participants is performed. The local velocities are determined in the Landau frame and the kinematic and thermal vorticity fields are evaluated. We analyze the thermodynamic properties of the cells where $Λ$s and $\overlineΛ$s were born or had their last interaction. Such cells contribute to the formation of the observed global polarization of hyperons induced by the thermal vorticity of the medium. The $\overlineΛ$ polarization signal is found to be mainly determined by hot, dense, and highly vortical cells at the earlier stage of the collision, whereas the $Λ$ polarization signal is accumulated over the longer time and includes cells with lower vorticity. The calculated global polarizations for both $Λ$s and $\overlineΛ$s agree well with the experimental finding by the STAR collaboration at energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=11.5$GeV. For collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$GeV, we can reproduce the STAR data for $Λ$ hyperons, but significantly underpredict the observed global polarization of $\overlineΛ$. Furthermore, we consider the centrality dependence of the hyperon polarization in collisions at 7.7GeV. It increases with an increase of centrality, reaches a maximum at 65--75%, and then starts decreasing rapidly for peripheral collisions.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
A Well Deserved Championship for the Dominican Republic
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Recreation

description: Many times when people from Europe or other non-baseball playing countries have commented how strange it is that Americans love baseball while "the rest of the world plays soccer," I have tried to explain that many countries play baseball. After listing off the countries where baseball is popular, I usually conclude by telling people that the country with the best baseball in the world is not the U.S., but the Dominican Republic.
title: Lower limbs deformities and malalignment: the importance of a new system with 3D capabilities
Creators: name: Chemin, Renan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Bones
subject: Anatomy
subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To understand the basic principles of the system, its indications and utilities, demonstrating the main measures and images provided in the evaluation of lower limb alignment, emphasizing its 3D...
AzTEC 1.1 mm Observations of the MBM12 Molecular Cloud
Creators: name: Kim, M. J.
name: Kim, S.
name: Youn, S.
name: Yun, M. S.
name: Wilson, G. W.
name: Aretxaga, I.
name: Williams, J. P.
name: Hughes, D. H.
name: Humphrey, A.
name: Austermann, J. E.
name: Perera, T. A.
name: Mauskopf, P. D.
name: Magnani, L.
name: Kang, Y. -W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 1.1 mm observations of the dust continuum emission from the MBM12 high-latitude molecular cloud observed with the Astronomical Thermal Emission Camera (AzTEC) mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. We surveyed a 6.34 deg$^2$ centered on MBM12, making this the largest area that has ever been surveyed in this region with submillimeter and millimeter telescopes. Eight secure individual sources were detected with a signal-to-noise ratio of over 4.4. These eight AzTEC sources can be considered to be real astronomical objects compared to the other candidates based on calculations of the false detection rate. The distribution of the detected 1.1 mm sources or compact 1.1 mm peaks is spatially anti-correlated with that of the 100 micronm emission and the $^{12}$CO emission. We detected the 1.1 mm dust continuum emitting sources associated with two classical T Tauri stars, LkHalpha262 and LkHalpha264. Observations of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) indicate that LkHalpha262 is likely to be Class II (pre-main-sequence star), but there are also indications that it could be a late Class I (protostar). A flared disk and a bipolar cavity in the models of Class I sources lead to more complicated SEDs. From the present AzTEC observations of the MBM12 region, it appears that other sources detected with AzTEC are likely to be extragalactic and located behind MBM12. Some of these have radio counterparts and their star formation rates are derived from a fit of the SEDs to the photometric evolution of galaxies in which the effects of a dusty interstellar medium have been included.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, The Astrophysical Journal, in press
DEP Bulletin:Volume 37 Issue 6
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (For Free!)
Creators: name: Kroski, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Library science

description: Do you secretly harbor a dream of becoming Editor-in-Chief of your own publication? Are you organizing a conference and looking for an easy way to publish all of those contributed papers? Would you like to walk your students through the peer-reviewed publishing process? Why not start your own online journal?
01 Program: Environmental justice in the Anthropocene symposium
Creators: name: Colorado State University. School Of Global Environmental Sustainability, Author
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017

description: Presented at the Environmental justice in the Anthropocene symposium held on April 24-25, 2017 at the Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado. This symposium aims to bring together academics (faculty and graduate students), independent researchers, community and movement activists, and regulatory and policy practitioners from across disciplines, research areas, perspectives, and different countries. Our overarching goal is to build on several decades of EJ research and practice to address the seemingly intractable environmental and ecological problems of this unfolding era. How can we explore EJ amongst humans and between nature and humans, within and across generations, in an age when humans dominate the landscape? How can we better understand collective human dominance without obscuring continuing power differentials and inequities within and between human societies? What institutional and governance innovations can we adopt to address existing challenges and to promote just transitions and futures?
description: "We have planned a diverse, international Symposium on Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene. In this program, you will find logistical information about the symposium, the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Anthropocene Global Challenge Research Team (GCRT), Colorado State University, and Fort Collins."
Accounting for Risk Aversion in Derivatives Purchase Timing
Creators: name: Leung, Siu Tang
name: Ludkovski, Mike
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Finance
Economics

description: We study the problem of optimal timing to buy/sell derivatives  by a risk-averse agent in incomplete markets. Adopting the exponential utility indifference valuation, we investigate this timing flexibility and the associated delayed purchase premium. This leads to a stochastic control and optimal stopping problem that combines the observed market price dynamics and the agent's risk preferences. Our results extend recent work on indifference valuation of American options, as well as the authors' first paper (Leung and Ludkovski, SIAM J. Fin. Math., 2011). In the case of Markovian models of contracts on non-traded assets, we provide analytical characterizations and numerical studies of the optimal purchase strategies, with applications to both equity and credit derivatives.
Términos que transforman realidades Análisis del discurso de la Reproducción Asistida
Creators: name: Isabel Santamaria
name: Mª Carmen Marimón
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: ENTRETEXTOS 2021: III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ENTRETEXTOS: DISCOURSE GENRES, CORPUS AND TRANSLATION IN PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC CONTEXTS. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
title: Established and emerging fast imaging and motion compensation techniques in abdominal MRI
Creators: name: Kolokythas, Orpheus
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Image registration
subject: Education and training
subject: Artifacts
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal Viscera

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To learn about established strategies and newer imaging techniques to address patient motion in magnetic resonance applications of the...
Audio-Based Semantic Concept Classification for Consumer Video
Creators: name: Lee, Keansub
name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Electrical engineering
Sound

description: This paper presents a novel method for automatically classifying consumer video clips based on their soundtracks. We use a set of 25 overlapping semantic classes, chosen for their usefulness to users, viability of automatic detection and of annotator labeling, and sufficiency of representation in available video collections. A set of 1873 videos from real users has been annotated with these concepts. Starting with a basic representation of each video clip as a sequence of mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) frames, we experiment with three clip-level representations: single Gaussian modeling, Gaussian mixture modeling, and probabilistic latent semantic analysis of a Gaussian component histogram. Using such summary features, we produce support vector machine (SVM) classifiers based on the Kullback-Leibler, Bhattacharyya, or Mahalanobis distance measures. Quantitative evaluation shows that our approaches are effective for detecting interesting concepts in a large collection of real-world consumer video clips.
Reservoir engineering and dynamical phase transitions in optomechanical arrays
Creators: name: Tomadin, A.
name: Diehl, S.
name: Lukin, M. D.
name: Rabl, P.
name: Zoller, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the driven-dissipative dynamics of photons interacting with an array of micromechanical membranes in an optical cavity. Periodic membrane driving and phonon creation result in an effective photon-number conserving non-unitary dynamics, which features a steady state with long-range photonic coherence. If the leakage of photons out of the cavity is counteracted by incoherent driving of the photonic modes, we show that the system undergoes a dynamical phase transition to the state with long-range coherence. A minimal system, composed of two micromechanical membranes in a cavity, is studied in detail, and it is shown to be a realistic setup where the key processes of the driven-dissipative dynamics can be seen.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Ashley Judd Could Be a Problem for Mitch McConnell
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Ashley Judd's all but declared Senate campaign has the potential to have an impact far beyond Kentucky politics. Her candidacy will not be uncontroversial. As a movie star with a national profile and as a supporter of progressive causes, she may not look like the ideal candidate to unseat a Republican incumbent -- albeit an increasingly unpopular one -- in a solidly red state like Kentucky. This, however, is what makes Judd's Senate campaign intriguing and indeed important.
null Rostocker Moulagensammlung
Creators: name: Dahlke, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine
subject: 740 Drawing & decorative arts
subject: 943 General history of Europe Central Europe Germany

description: Im Forschungsfeld der Materialen Medizingeschichte (nach Thomas Schnalke) entwickelt der Autor eine objekt- und sammlungshermeneutische Methode (Objektinformationsanalyse), womit das (Sammlungs-)Objekt als historische Quelle und epistemisches Ding für die Medizingeschichtsschreibung nutzbar gemacht wird. Die Rostocker Moulagensammlung ist nicht nur Material für den beschriebenen Ansatz, sondern in ihrer medizinhistorischen Bemächtigung überwältigt sie diese mit historischen Kontexten, die unser heutiges medizinisches Denken, Reden und Handeln weder einzigartig noch besonders erscheinen lässt.
Deep Chandra observation of the galaxy cluster WARPJ1415.1+3612 at z=1: an evolved cool-core cluster at high-redshift
Creators: name: Santos, Joana S.
name: Tozzi, Paolo
name: Rosati, Piero
name: Nonino, Mario
name: Giovannini, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the deepest (370 ksec) Chandra observation of a high-redshift galaxy cluster, we perform a detailed characterization of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) of WARPJ1415.1+3612 at z=1.03. We also explore the connection between the ICM core properties and the radio/optical properties of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG). We perform a spatially resolved analysis of the ICM to obtain temperature, metallicity and surface brightness profiles. Using the deprojected temperature and density profiles we accurately derive the cluster mass at different overdensities. In addition to the X-ray data, we use archival radio VLA imaging and optical GMOS spectroscopy of the central galaxy to investigate the feedback between the central galaxy and the ICM. The X-ray spectral analysis shows a significant temperature drop towards the cluster center, with a projected value of Tc = 4.6 \pm 0.4 keV, and a remarkably high central iron abundance peak, Zc= 3.6 Zsun. The central cooling time is shorter than 0.1 Gyr and the entropy is equal to 9.9 keV cm2. We detect a strong [OII] emission line in the optical spectra of the BCG with an equivalent width of -25 Å, for which we derive a star formation rate within the range 2 - 8 Msun/yr. The VLA data reveals a central radio source coincident with the BCG and a faint one-sided jet-like feature with an extent of 80 kpc. The analysis presented shows that WARPJ1415 has a well developed cool core with ICM properties similar to those found in the local Universe. Its properties and the clear sign of feedback activity found in the central galaxy in the optical and radio bands, show that feedback processes are already established at z~1. In addition, the presence of a strong metallicity peak shows that the central regions have been promptly enriched by star formation processes in the central galaxy already at z > 1.
description: Version 2. Accepted for publication in A&A. Minor text modifications. Added one new figure (fig. 1)
Real-time simulations of transmon systems with time-dependent Hamiltonian models
Creators: name: Lagemann, Hannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this thesis we study aspects of Hamiltonian models which can affect the time evolution of transmon systems. We model the time evolution of various systems as a unitary real-time process by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE). We denote the corresponding computer models as non-ideal gate-based quantum computer (NIGQC) models since transmons are usually used as transmon qubits in superconducting prototype gate-based quantum computers (PGQCs).We first review the ideal gate-based quantum computer (IGQC) model and provide a distinction between the IGQC, PGQCs and the NIGQC models we consider in this thesis. Then, we derive the circuit Hamiltonians which generate the dynamics of fixed-frequency and flux-tunable transmons. Furthermore, we also provide clear and concise derivations of effective Hamiltonians for both types of transmons. We use the circuit and effective Hamiltonians we derived to define two many-particle Hamiltonians, namely a circuit and an associated effective Hamiltonian. The interactions between the different subsystems are modelled as dipole-dipole interactions. Next, we develop two product-formula algorithms which solve the TDSE for the Hamiltonians we defined. Afterwards, we use these algorithms to investigate how various frequently applied assumptions affect the time evolution of transmon systems modelled with the many-particle effective Hamiltonian when a control pulse is applied. Here we also compare the time evolutions generated by the effective and circuit Hamiltonian. We find that the assumptions we investigate can substantially affect the time evolution of the probability amplitudes we model. Next, we investigate how susceptible gate-error quantifiers are to assumptions which make up the NIGQC model. We find that the assumptions we consider clearly affect gate-error quantifiers like the diamond distance and the average infidelity.
description: Dissertation, 203 pages, RWTH Aachen University, 2023. This dissertation includes and extends the results of arXiv:2201.02402 and arXiv:2211.11011
Measurement of g-factor tensor in a quantum dot and disentanglement of exciton spins
Creators: name: Witek, B. J.
name: Heeres, R. W.
name: Perinetti, U.
name: Bakkers, E. P. A. M.
name: Kouwenhoven, L. P.
name: Zwiller, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform polarization-resolved magneto-optical measurements on single InAsP quantum dots embedded in an InP nanowire. In order to determine all elements of the electron and hole $g$-factor tensors, we measure in magnetic field with different orientations. The results of these measurements are in good agreement with a model based on exchange terms and Zeeman interaction. In our experiment, polarization analysis delivers a powerful tool that not only significantly increases the precision of the measurements, but also enables us to probe the exciton spin state evolution in magnetic fields. We propose a disentangling scheme of heavy-hole exciton spins enabling a measurement of the electron spin $T_2$ time.
The Downside to the Runoff in Afghanistan
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: It looks as if President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has been convinced of the need for a runoff election against Abdullah Abdullah, scheduled for November 7th.  Pressure for the runoff grew after the extent of election fraud in the election of August 20th became clear in the weeks following that election. Many observers believed that Karzai did not legitimately get the 50% of the vote necessary to win in the first round.
Combined effect of silica fume and additive on the behavior of high performance concretes subjected to high temperatures
Creators: name: Tebbal, Nadia
name: El Abidine Rahmouni, Zine
name: Maza, Mekki
Publisher: name: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology
Year: 2017
Subjects: High temperatures, mechanical strength, silica fume, HPC, superplasticizer

description: Mining Science
title: #PASH-tag: Keeping up with the many faces of pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia
Creators: name: Ferraro, Regan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Mammography
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Pathology
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Review the incidence and most common presentations of PASH 2. Review the multimodality imaging appearance of PASH 3. Discuss the key factors thatimpact managment of this rare...
GREAT [CII] and CO observations of the BD+40°4124 region
Creators: name: Sandell, Göran
name: Wiesemeyer, Helmut
name: Requena-Torres, Miguel Angel
name: Heyminck, Stefan
name: Güsten, Rolf
name: Stutzki, Jürgen
name: Simon, Robert
name: Graf, Urs U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The BD+40\degree4124 region was observed with high angular and spectral resolution with the German heterodyne instrument GREAT in CO J = 13 \rightarrow 12 and [CII] on SOFIA. These observations show that the [CII] emission is very strong in the reflection nebula surrounding the young Herbig Ae/Be star BD+40\degree4124. A strip map over the nebula shows that the [CII] emission approximately coincides with the optical nebulosity. The strongest [CII] emission is centered on the B2 star and a deep spectrum shows that it has faint wings, which suggests that the ionized gas is expanding. We also see faint CO J = 13 \rightarrow 12 at the position of BD+40\degree4124, which suggests that the star may still be surrounded by an accretion disk.We also detected [CII] emission and strong CO J = 13 \rightarrow 12 toward V1318 Cyg. Here the [CII] emission is fainter than in BD+40\degree4124 and appears to come from the outflow, since it shows red and blue wings with very little emission at the systemic velocity, where the CO emission is quite strong. It therefore appears that in the broad ISO beam the [CII] emission was dominated by the reflection nebula surrounding BD+40\degree4124, while the high J CO lines originated from the adjacent younger and more deeply embedded binary system V1318 Cyg.
Same tune, different songs : banality, critical inventions, and collocations in Lord of the Flies criticisms
Creators: name: Grue, Dustin Elias
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: What place does formulaic language have in literary criticism? On the one hand, as Douglas Biber (2006) suggests, repeating word combinations “are important for the production and comprehension of texts in the university” (p. 135). But on the other hand the repetition of stock or conventional phrases opens up academic writing to the charge of repetition, an act proscribed as ‘banal.’ So formulaic language is both good and bad: necessary but also necessary to avoid. And the study of literature might be especially subject to such folly, since the very epistemology of criticism is repetition – critics’ reproductions (through quotation) of an author’s writing, critics’ echoes of one another, secondary texts, etc. By necessity, a chorus of voices critiquing the same texts motivates the creation of conventional language – but what is this necessity? When is it generative, and when is it banal? Under the theoretical guidance of Relevance Theory, and using methods from corpus linguistics and the Digital Humanities, this work investigates formulaic language in a corpus comprised of literary criticism. Such criticism is 46 works on William Golding’s (1954) novel, Lord of the Flies. I also sketch the history of the theoretical concept of ‘collocation’—generally, the tendency for words to cluster around other words—and argue against the model of collocation that favours semantic conventionalization, where collocations are, essentially, coded with meaning. A main finding of this work is that collocations are often attributed to other speakers—real or fictional—and therefore their meaning is more pragmatically oriented than semantically conditioned. Data analysis is performed through automated rendering of the corpus using custom scripts, and qualitative analysis – of both the output of such rendering, and distanced reading of the corpus. The centerpiece tool of this work is a text-tool I developed that produces a visualization of terms’ collocates. This visualization is based on Howard White’s (2007a, 2007b) work in bibliometrics, and graphs collocations on two axes corresponding to the central tenets of Relevance Theory. Other quantitative methods of investigation describe the discovery of a term saliency metric (Chapter 2) and extended distributions of terms around other terms (Chapter 4).
Mike Huckabee's Reductio ad Hitlerum
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Former Arkansas governor, and formerly relevant national political figure, Mike Huckabee is guilty of the latest right wing reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy. The Tea Party and right wing penchant for comparing President Obama to Hitler and Stalin is evidence not of any totalitarian tendencies on the part of Obama. Instead it is evidence that right wing contempt for science is now rivaled by contempt for learning anything about history. Stalin and Hitler are among the most brutal murderers and dictators of the 20th, or any other, century. Most of the world knows this. To the right wing of the Republican Party, apparently, Stalinism is a system of governance where the marginal tax rate exceeds 35 percent, while the Nazi regime, according to Huckabee's newest insight, was one characterized by gun control.
title: Medulloblastoma: Update of 2016 WHO classification and correlation with radiological findings.
Creators: name: Guillén Gutiérrez, Cinthia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Molecular, genomics and proteomics
subject: Biopsy
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Oncology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss the main imaging characteristics of the medulloblastoma. To describe the radiogenomics and radiomics of their utility in the differentiation of medulloblastoma. To identify the four main groups of the 2016 WHO...
title: The newest generations of breast implants modifying the rupture patterns over time.
Creators: name: Mágero, Natália
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Prostheses
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Complications
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the evolution of breast silicone implants and the changes in rupture imaging patterns that came with their new characteristics of shape, shell and filler. To unite specific ultrasonographic, mammography and magnetic resonance imaging...
Decentralized Inverse Transparency With Blockchain
Creators: name: Zieglmeier, Valentin
name: Daiqui, Gabriel Loyola
name: Pretschner, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Employee data can be used to facilitate work, but their misusage may pose risks for individuals. Inverse transparency therefore aims to track all usages of personal data, allowing individuals to monitor them to ensure accountability for potential misusage. This necessitates a trusted log to establish an agreed-upon and non-repudiable timeline of events. The unique properties of blockchain facilitate this by providing immutability and availability. For power asymmetric environments such as the workplace, permissionless blockchain is especially beneficial as no trusted third party is required. Yet, two issues remain: (1) In a decentralized environment, no arbiter can facilitate and attest to data exchanges. Simple peer-to-peer sharing of data, conversely, lacks the required non-repudiation. (2) With data governed by privacy legislation such as the GDPR, the core advantage of immutability becomes a liability. After a rightful request, an individual's personal data need to be rectified or deleted, which is impossible in an immutable blockchain. To solve these issues, we present Kovacs, a decentralized data exchange and usage logging system for inverse transparency built on blockchain. Its new-usage protocol ensures non-repudiation, and therefore accountability, for inverse transparency. Its one-time pseudonym generation algorithm guarantees unlinkability and enables proof of ownership, which allows data subjects to exercise their legal rights regarding their personal data. With our implementation, we show the viability of our solution. The decentralized communication impacts performance and scalability, but exchange duration and storage size are still reasonable. More importantly, the provided information security meets high requirements. We conclude that Kovacs realizes decentralized inverse transparency through secure and GDPR-compliant use of permissionless blockchain.
description: Peer-reviewed version accepted for publication in ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2104.09971
title: Imaging Spectrum of CRMO (Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis)
Creators: name: Kaila, Pramod
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Inflammation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Early diagnosis of CRMO is imperative as it allows for earlier anti-inflammatory treatment and earlier treatment precludes the need for invasive intervention that can result in damaging deformities. This leads to a better quality of life and better...
A Mathematical Model for Estimating Biological Damage Caused by Radiation
Creators: name: Manabe, Yuichiro
name: Ichikawa, Kento
name: Bando, Masako
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 92B05

description: We propose a mathematical model for estimating biological damage caused by low-dose irradiation. We understand that the Linear Non Threshold (LNT) hypothesis is realized only in the case of no recovery effects. In order to treat the realistic living objects, our model takes into account various types of recovery as well as proliferation mechanism, which may change the resultant damage, especially for the case of lower dose rate irradiation. It turns out that the lower the radiation dose rate, the safer the irradiated system of living object (which is called symbolically "tissue" hereafter) can have chances to survive, which can reproduce the so-called dose and dose-rate effectiveness factor (DDREF).
description: 22 pages, 6 Figs, accepted in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Directed Transport of Confined Brownian Particles with Torque
Creators: name: Radtke, Paul K.
name: Schimansky-Geier, Lutz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the influence of an external magnetic field (torque) on the motion of Brownian particles confined in a channel geometry with varying width. Furthermore, the particles are driven by random fluctuations modeled by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process (OUP) with given correlation time $τ_c$. The latter is implemented as both a thermal and a nonthermal process. In contrast to the thermal OUP for the nonthermal process directed transport emerges, i.e. our setup now realizes a ratchet mechanism: Due to the assumed thermodynamic nonequilibrium situation random fluctuations are rectified. The transport quantities of the system are studied in detail with respect to the correlation time, the torque and the channel geometry. Eventually, the mechanism of the symmetry breaking is elucidated.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Tribal consultation and collaborative governance: environmental and cultural justice through the lens of the National Environmental Policy Act (1969) and the National Historic Preservation Act (1966)
Creators: name: Rowe, Matthew J.
name: Finley, Judson Byrd
name: Baldwin, Elizabeth
name: DeMinck, Rashail
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: cultural justice
natural resources
cultural resources
NEPA
NHPA
tribal consultation

description: Presented at the Environmental justice in the Anthropocene symposium held on April 24-25, 2017 at the Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado. This symposium aims to bring together academics (faculty and graduate students), independent researchers, community and movement activists, and regulatory and policy practitioners from across disciplines, research areas, perspectives, and different countries. Our overarching goal is to build on several decades of EJ research and practice to address the seemingly intractable environmental and ecological problems of this unfolding era. How can we explore EJ amongst humans and between nature and humans, within and across generations, in an age when humans dominate the landscape? How can we better understand collective human dominance without obscuring continuing power differentials and inequities within and between human societies? What institutional and governance innovations can we adopt to address existing challenges and to promote just transitions and futures?
Five Questions for the 2013 Baseball Season
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Recreation

description: Baseball is, among other things, a game of questions. Before each season the battery of questions include which players will see their skills erode suddenly due to age, which second-year players will build on successful rookie years, which rookies will make an impact and, of course, which team will win the World Series. Each team also faces many questions including: will the pitching hold up, will the top prospect make it in the big leagues, will an aging veteran come back after an injury or off year. As each new year begins there are also significant questions facing baseball that address deeper issues facing the game. This year five of these question are:
The treatment of the infrared region in perturbative QCD
Creators: name: de Oliveira, E. G.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Ryskin, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the contribution coming from the infrared region to NLO matrix elements and/or coefficient functions of hard QCD processes. Strictly speaking, this contribution is not known theoretically, since it is beyond perturbative QCD. For DGLAP evolution all the infrared contributions are collected in the phenomenological input parton distribution functions (PDFs), at some relatively low scale Q_0; functions which are obtained from a fit to the `global' data. However dimensional regularization sometimes produces a non-zero result coming from the infrared region. Instead of this conventional regularization treatment, we argue that the proper procedure is to first subtract from the NLO matrix element the contribution already generated at the same order in α_s by the LO DGLAP splitting function convoluted with the LO matrix element. This prescription eliminates the logarithmic infrared divergence, giving a well-defined result which is consistent with the original idea that everything below Q_0 is collected in the PDF input. We quantify the difference between the proposed treatment and the conventional approach using low-mass Drell-Yan production and deep inelastic electron-proton scattering as examples; and discuss the potential impact on the `global' PDF analyses. We present arguments to show that the difference cannot be regarded as simply the use of an alternative factorization scheme.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, title changed, text considerably modified to improve presentation, and discussion section enlarged
title: TELE: Are we doing it right?
Creators: name: Mangalappilly, Anoop
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Workforce
subject: Socio-economic issues
subject: Teleradiology
subject: Professional issues
subject: Computer applications
subject: Professional Issues

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To analyse the positives and pitfalls of teleradiology. To better understand how commercial teleradiology practice transform radiology workplaces. To make the authorities aware of the long-term consequences of...
My Father and Stan the Man
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Recreation

description: A few hours after the Cardinals won the 2011 World Series, I got an email from my father saying "Tonight, this old Cardinals fan is very happy." My father is far from a big sports fan and grew up in New Jersey, making it unclear why he was a Cardinals fan. It was possible that he was simply rooting against the Rangers because of the presence of George W. Bush in the owner's box periodically during the World Series, but it was unlikely that my father was even paying attention that closely. Over the years, I have met other men my father's age who were also lifelong Cardinals fans despite growing up in the east, where they were a lot closer to Boston, New York, Philadelphia or Washington.