cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vapor-solid-solid growth of silicon nanowires using magnesium seeds and their electrochemical performance in Li-ion battery anodes
Creators: name: Rashad, Muhammad
name: GEANEY, HUGH
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The energy density of next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can be considerably improved by replacing traditional graphite anodes with silicon nanowires (Si NWs). However, the synthesis of Si NWs is restricted due to the requirement for expensive and heavy metal catalysts for growth. Herein, for the first time, we successfully demonstrate the growth of Si NWs using magnesium (Mg) as a catalyst material, within a wet-chemical glass-ware-based setup. Analysis of the Si NWs revealed the presence of Mg2Si at the tips of the Si NWs, indicating that growth proceeds via a vapor–solid-solid (VSS) mechanism. Si NWs were also grown from Mg foil, Mg powder, and from thermally evaporated layers on stainless steel substrates, demonstrating the versatility of Mg as a catalyst material. Mg as a catalyst facilitated high NW mass loadings (up to 0.8 mg/cm2 ) on planar stainless steel current collectors, coupled with tight diameter control (average diameter of ~20 nm). Within LIB half-cell testing, they demonstrated high initial coulombic efficiencies (up to ~81 %) and high gravimetric (up to 2792 mAh/g) and areal capacities (up to 1.58 mAh/cm2 ). The approach highlights Mg as a catalyst for the development of higher mass loading and binder-free Si NWs anodes for LIBs.
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: War on Terrorism/Mideast/Amtrak/Catholic Church
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: Congressional election (2); Bush job approval (1); confidence in American institutions (1); 2004 Presidential election (1); stock market (2); War against terrorism (6); Department of Homeland Security (3); civil liberties and terrorism (3); conflicts between nations (1); conflicts between groups over religious reasons (1); government assistance for religious schools (1); public school drug tests (1); U.S. Supreme Court nominees (2); Middle East (4); Amtrak (1); Catholic Church and sexual abuse (6); Fourth of July (2); remembrance of 9/11 (1); tennis (1); NBA age restriction (1); basketball fan (1); fatherhood after 60 (1).
Aligning the Goals of Community Engaged Research: Why and How Academic Medical Centers Can Successfully Engage with Communities to Improve Health
Creators: name: Cook, Jennifer D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: A key goal of the National Institute of Health‘s Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) consortium is improving the health of the nation through community engaged research (CEnR). CEnR requires a mindset and skills that leadership in Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) have not yet the opportunity to learn. This paper seeks to assist AMCs – both within the CTSA consortium and outside of it –in how to better engage with their communities and build a CEnR agenda. CEnR is defined as a cyclical approach to research that shares power and decision-making throughout the research process between scientists and community stakeholders and links research to a translational health agenda that changes behavior, structures and policies. Five steps are suggested for AMCs to consider in working toward the development of a CEnR agenda, including: 1) Recognize that CEnR is ―Real‖ Science 2) Define Community and Identify Partners 3) Learn the Etiquette of Community Engagement 4) Build a Pipeline of CEnR Researchers and 5) Improve Dissemination Plans. AMCs are also encouraged to examine their own institutional structures and examine questions such as: Are institutions flexible, ―community ready‖ partners? Do researchers use the term research ―subjects‖ or research ―participants‖? Are there tenure and promotion paths for junior faculty interested in CEnR? Are members of institutional review boards trained in CEnR?
Steinera nigra C. W. Dodge 1948
Creators: name: Ertz, Damien
name: Poulsen, Roar S.
name: Charrier, Maryvonne
name: Søchting, Ulrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Peltigerales
Koerberiaceae
Steinera
Steinera nigra

description: Steinera nigra C.W. Dodge
 B.A. N.Z. Antarct. Res. Exped. Rep., ser. B, 7: 67 (1948). Type:— KERGUELEN. Long Island, 49°30’S, 69°50’E, February 1930, B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. B953-1 (holotype FH !).
 Description: Dodge (1948).
 Notes: the type specimen (FH) is very reduced and composed of only two tiny, sterile thallus lobes of c. 2 mm in diam, growing on plant detritus together with a species of cf. Lepraria (“growing on dead Acaena between Parmelia kerguelensis ?” according to the protologue in Dodge 1948). As a consequence, it can hardly be referred to any recent material of cyanolichen. Henssen & James (1982, p. 228) did not treat this species because the type material was not available for study by them.
description: Published as part of Ertz, Damien, Poulsen, Roar S., Charrier, Maryvonne & Søchting, Ulrik, 2017, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Steinera (Arctomiales, Arctomiaceae) in the subantarctic islands of Crozet and Kerguelen, pp. 201-238 in Phytotaxa 324 (3) on page 232, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.324.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13698300
Demonstratives in ?ay?aj?u??m: Managing joint attention through gesture and salience
Creators: name: Huijsmans, Marianne
name: Reisinger, D. K. E.
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, we provide the first detailed description and analysis of the demonstrative system in ?ay?a?u??m (a.k.a. Comox-Sliammon; ISO 639-3: coo), a Coast Salish language spoken in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing from original fieldwork with five speakers, we show that the demonstratives in ?ay?a?u??m not only encode deictic distance, evidentiality, gender, and number, but also whether or not joint attention (cf. Diessel, 2006) has been established between the speech participants. The gesture demonstratives rely on the use of co-speech gesture to establish joint attention, while the salience demonstratives are used where joint attention is already established and, consequently, do not require gesture. To analyze the former, we incorporate gesture into the semantic analysis as the means of identifying the referent (following Ebert, Ebert and Hörnig, 2020). We analyze the latter as relying on contextual salience to establish reference (inspired by Roberts, 2002; Schwarz, 2009). In more provisional terms, we also present less common uses of demonstratives, where gesture is used to refer to manners, qualities, or degrees (cf. König & Umbach, 2018). This research adds to the growing body of super-semantic literature which argues that the contribution of gesture belongs within the compositional semantics, indicating that certain demonstrative forms may even require gesture to establish reference.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Parameters of the Galactic Spiral Density Wave from Masers with Parallax Errors Less Than 10%
Creators: name: Bobylev, Vadim
name: Bajkova, Anisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the kinematics of Galactic masers and radio stars with measured VLBI trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions. We have considered masers with relative trigonometric parallax errors less than 10\% and determined the Galactic rotation parameters from them. In particular, the linear rotation velocity of the Galaxy at the solar distance $R_0$ has been found to be $244.4\pm4.3$ km s$^{-1}$ (for the adopted $R_0=8.1\pm0.1$ kpc). We have performed a joint and separate spectral analysis of the radial, residual tangential, and vertical maser velocities. For example, from the vertical maser velocities we have estimated the velocity perturbation amplitude $f_W=5.2\pm1.5$ km s$^{-1}$ with the wavelength $λ_W=2.6\pm0.7$ kpc, arguing for the influence of the spiral density wave on the vertical stellar velocities. Based on 104 masers within 3 kpc of the Sun, as a result of the joint solution, we have estimated the radial, $f_R=6.7\pm1.1$ km s$^{-1}$, and tangential, $f_θ=2.6\pm1.2$ km s$^{-1}$, velocity perturbations, the perturbation wavelength $λ=2.1\pm0.3$ kpc, and the Sun's phase in the Galactic spiral density wave $χ_\odot=-148\pm15^\circ$. We have confirmed the presence of the Radcliffe wave in the spatial distribution of masers and radio stars belonging to the Local Arm.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Stock Market/Economy/Large Corporations
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: George W. Bush job performance (1); 2004 presidential election (1); Congress controlled by Republicans or Democrats (1); economy (7); worried about job loss (1); standard of living (1); medical/health costs (1); retirement (2); overall spending (1); able to afford college (1); stock market (12); confidence in accuracy of company finance information (1); reasons for current state of economy (7); Dow Jones Industrial Average (1); buying stocks (1); view of stockbrokers/financial advisors (1); corporate corruption (3); long-term investments (1); personal stocks investments (11); investment strategies (1); personal knowledge about stocks (1).
Cumulative readings in focus contexts
Creators: name: Hirsch, Aron
name: Schwarz, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: Cumulative readings of sentences containing plurals involve universal inferences. Under a classical approach, those inferences are introduced by the predicate which takes the plurals as arguments (e.g. Sternefeld 1998, Beck & Sauerland 2000). Recent work, however, has proposed that plurals are associated with a core existential semantics, and that universal inferences are introduced external to the predication as a grammatical implicature (e.g. Magri 2014, Bar-Lev 2018, 2020, Chatain 2022). We provide new support for the implicature view by establishing that cumulativity patterns like an implicature in the way it interacts with the focus operator only. When only occurs with a scalar term, implicatures are in general observed just in the presupposition, and we show that cumulativity is likewise observed just as presuppositional in only data. While the data follow for free from the implicature analysis, the predicate analysis does not directly predict the observed readings.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Structural and electrostatic properties between pH-responsive polyelectrolyte brushes studied by augmented strong stretching theory
Creators: name: Sin, Jun-Sik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study electrostatic and structural properties between pH-responsive polyelectrolyte brushes by using a strong stretching theory accounting for excluded volume interactions, the density of polyelectrolyte chargeable sites and the Born energy difference between the inside and outside of the brush layer. In a free energy framework, we obtain self-consistent field equations to determine electrostatic properties between two pH-responsive polyelectrolyte brushes. We elucidate that in the region between two pH-responsive polyelectrolyte brushes, electrostatic potential at the centerline and osmotic pressure increase not only with excluded volume interaction, but also with density of chargeable sites on a polyelectrolyte molecule. Importantly, we clarify that when two pH-responsive polyelectrolyte brushes approach each other, the brush thickness becomes short and that a large excluded volume interaction and a large density of chargeable sites yield the enhanced contract of polyelectrolyte brushes. In addition, we also demonstrate how the influence of such quantities as pH, the number of Kuhn monomers, the density of charged sites, the lateral separation between adjacent polyelectrolyte brushes, Kuhn length on the electrostatic and structural properties between the two polyelectrolyte brushes is affected by the exclusion volume interaction. Finally, we investigate the influence of Born energy difference on the thickness of polyelectrolyte brushes and the osmotic pressure between two pH-responsive polyelectrolyte brushes.
The Minnesota Poll # 288
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Satisfaction with mail service (2); mail rate increases (1); Post Office Department profits (1); price changes (1); fair prices (2); approval for various politicians (8); helping South Vietnam (1); ending Vietnam War (3); race relations (6); preferred presidential party (2); description of self (1); description of living area (1); important environmental factors (1); neighborhood environment (4); conservation (8); limiting population growth (1); metric measures (3); starving people (3); food stamp spending (1); household members (6); newspaper readership (3).
Dependent pluractionality in Piipaash (Yuman)
Creators: name: Henderson, Robert
name: Pasquereau, Jérémy
name: Powell, John W. W.
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: Piipaash is a Yuman language spoken in Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC) and Gila River Indian Community (GRIC), both of which are located near Phoenix, Arizona. This work, based on text and other secondary sources, presents a novel analysis of a pluractional affix in Piipaash. In particular, Piipaash has what, at first pass, look like standard dependent definites (e.g., Balusu 2006; Farkas 1997; Henderson 2014). Looking more broadly we see that the marker of such indefinites, -xper-, has a wider distribution than markers of dependent indefinites in other languages discussed in the literature. Moreover, this distribution introduces two puzzles that we will solve in this paper by proposing a unified account of -xper- in terms of a novel kind of pluractionality that we dub “dependent pluractionality”. The core proposal is that in most previously discussed languages the relevant dependent indefinite morphology marks an individual variable as dependent (i.e., the variable quantified over by a numeral or indefinite). In Piipaash, -xper- marks an event variable as dependent. What is special about Piipaash is that a wide variety of expressions are verbal, including numerals, and have an event argument.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Stability of the 1D IBVP for a Non Autonomous Scalar Conservation Law
Creators: name: Colombo, Rinaldo M.
name: Rossi, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L65, 35L04

description: We prove the stability with respect to the flux of solutions to initial-boundary value problems for scalar non-autonomous conservation laws in one space dimension. Key estimates are obtained through a careful construction of the solutions.
The Minnesota Poll # 292
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Most interesting event (1); financial conditions (2); personal financial situation (1); price changes (1); prices affecting unemployment (2); approval of various politicians (4); ending Vietnam War (3); congressman against Vietnam War (1); responsibility for Vietnam involvement (1); marijuana (3); senator candidate preferences (2); Hubert Humphrey as president (2); banning electoral college (1); new car purchase (1); new car differences (2); gas tax (1); forgotten America (4); conservation (2); nuclear power plant hazards (2); nuclear waste in Mississippi River (4); newspaper readership (8).
An angular frequency dependence on the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase
Creators: name: Barboza, P. M. T.
name: Bakke, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum effect characterized by a dependence of the angular frequency associated with the confinement of a neutral particle to a quantum ring on the quantum numbers of the system and the Aharonov-Casher geometric phase is discussed. Then, it is shown that persistent spin currents can arise in a two-dimensional quantum ring in the presence of a Coulomb-type potential. A particular contribution to the persistent spin currents arises from the dependence of the angular frequency on the geometric quantum phase.
description: To be published in Annals of Physics (NY)
Additional file 1 of Feasibility, validity and reliability of the ASCOT-Proxy and ASCOT-Carer among unpaid carers of people living with dementia in England
Creators: name: Silarova, Barbora
name: Rand, Stacey
name: Towers, Ann-Marie
name: Jones, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: List of measures used for establishing construct validity of ASCOT-Proxy and ASCOT-Carer.
Cumulativity without plural projection
Creators: name: Harada, Masashi
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: It has been proposed that the part structures of denotations of plurals ‘project’ to the denotations of expressions including those plurals (e.g., Gawron and Kehler 2004, Kubota and Levine 2016, Schmitt 2019/2020). If such a plural projection is possible, not only plural DPs but also expressions including those plural DPs denote pluralities (e.g., type the two recipes denotes a plurality {TYPE(recipe1),TYPE(recipe2)} instead of a singularity {TYPE({recipe1,recipe2})}). One piece of support for plural projection comes from Schmitt’s (2019) observation about a type of cumulativity. In this paper, I examine a wider range of such cumulativity, and show that a source of cumulativity in the literature (e.g., Krifka 1989, Kratzer 2007) can capture all the relevant cumulativity data without plural projection while an analysis with plural projection can capture only a proper subset of those data. Therefore, this paper concludes that the relevant cumulativity does not support the need of plural projection.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Communicating, Improving and Evaluating BCBSNC Member Advisory Group: A Member Engagement Approach
Creators: name: Luttrell, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The importance of patient-centered care has become more evident in public health practice, and a patient-centered organization is important to improve and encourage public health. Best practices have identified key inputs through Member Advisory Councils as critical components to developing patient-centered care and, while once limited to hospitals, health plans are discovering their role as they look to improve health and control costs. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) developed the Member Advisory Group (MAG) in 2015, a program designed to address this concern and ensure/increase patient-centered organizational efforts. The program implementation was considered a success and the first year saw valuable member participation, but the program faced a challenge, and there was a need for additional employee engagement and communication of the work MAG was doing across the BCBSNC Enterprise. To improve the quality and make a case for future funding of the program, it was necessary to develop a communication plan with elements of a social marketing campaign as well as an evaluation plan that would elevate and communicate the success of MAG. The communication plan and evaluation plan will help BCBSNC ensure member input reaches internal employees who can affect change and ultimately improve BCBSNC as a patient-centered organization. Future recommendations include hiring a communication coordinator and expanding the MAG to other regions of the state of North Carolina.
OPOR Survey # 1944-032: Roosevelt Survey # 32
Creators: name: Office Of Public Opinion Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: Conference now going on in Washington between representatives of United States, Great Britain and Russia (4); Argentine people are Fascist/friendly to us (1); international organization (3); about how much longer think war will last (2); Allies should/should not accept if Hitler offered to discuss peace now (1); severity of peace treaty when war is over (1); chief enemy in war with Germany is German people as a whole/German government (1); what this war is all about (2); what about this war puzzles respondent most (1); Germany/Japan is greatest military threat to United States (1); Russia can/cannot be trusted to cooperate with us when war is over (1); tariffs (4); Franklin D. Roosevelt job performance (1); 1940 presidential election (2); how certain is respondent that he/she will vote this year (1); Republican candidate for president this year (1); how would respondent vote if presidential election were being held today (1); in what country were parents born (2).
Game-theoretical approach for opinion dynamics on social networks
Creators: name: Li, Zhifang
name: Chen, Xiaojie
name: Yang, Han-Xin
name: Szolnoki, Attila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Opinion dynamics on social networks have been received considerable attentions in recent years. Nevertheless, just a few works have theoretically analyzed the condition in which a certain opinion can spread in the whole structured population. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary game approach for a binary opinion model to explore the conditions for an opinion's spreading. Inspired by real-life observations, we assume that an agent's choice to select an opinion is not random, but is based on a score rooted both from public knowledge and the interactions with neighbors. By means of coalescing random walks, we obtain a condition in which opinion $A$ can be favored to spread on social networks in the weak selection limit. We find that the successfully spreading condition of opinion $A$ is closely related to the basic scores of binary opinions, the feedback scores on opinion interactions, and the structural parameters including the edge weights, the weighted degrees of vertices, and the average degree of the network. In particular, when individuals adjust their opinions based solely on the public information, the vitality of opinion $A$ depends exclusively on the difference of basic scores of $A$ and $B$. When there are no negative (positive) feedback interactions between connected individuals, we find that the success of opinion $A$ depends on the ratio of the obtained positive (negative) feedback scores of competing opinions. To complete our study, we perform computer simulations on fully-connected, small-world, and scale-free networks, respectively, which support and confirm our theoretical findings.
On 'noch (ein)mal so'
Creators: name: Grubic, Mira
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This paper discusses the expression “nochmal so” (occurring with a gradable adjective) which is translated either as “twice as” or as “that ..., too”. It is argued that “nochmal” in these sentences is a contraction of “noch einmal” (lit. “still/in addition once”), whereby “noch” (= “still”, “in addition”) is a phasal particle which can be used with a variety of different readings, e.g. a temporal reading as “still” and additive reading as “in addition”. A particular puzzle of the examples discussed in this paper is that, in contrast to the predictions of the standard account of “noch” which assumes that it merely contributes a presupposition, the presence of “noch” matters for the truth conditions of the sentence. In order to account for this, I will adopt and adapt Thomas (2018)’s differential account of additive “noch” and argue that the “noch” in “nochmal so” is additive.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Line and Continuum Variability in Active Galaxies
Creators: name: Rashed, Y. E.
name: Eckart, A.
name: Valencia-S., M.
name: García-Marín, M.
name: Busch, G.
name: Zuther, J.
name: Horrobin, M.
name: Zhou, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compared optical spectroscopic and photometric data for 18 AGN galaxies over 2 to 3 epochs, with time intervals of typically 5 to 10 years. We used the Multi-Object Double Spectrograph (MODS) at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and compared the spectra to data taken from the SDSS database and the literature. We find variations in the forbidden oxygen lines as well as in the hydrogen recombination lines of these sources. For 4 of the sources we find that, within the calibration uncertainties, the variations in continuum and line spectra of the sources are very small. We argue that it is mainly the difference in black hole mass between the samples that is responsible for the different degree of continuum variability. In addition we find that for an otherwise constant accretion rate the total line variability (dominated by the narrow line contributions) reverberates the continuum variability with a dependency $ΔL_{line} \propto (ΔL_{cont.})^{\frac{3}{2}}$. Since this dependency is prominently expressed in the narrow line emission it implies that the luminosity dominating part of the narrow line region must be very compact with a size of the order of at least 10 light years. A comparison to literature data shows that these findings describe the variability characteristics of a total of 61 broad and narrow line sources.
description: 30 pages including the appendix, 18 figures including the appendix. Accepted 2015 September 3. Received 2015 August 24; in original form 2015 July 3 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Implicatures in (non-)monotonic environments
Creators: name: Benz, Anton
name: Gotzner, Nicole
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: It has been shown that some embedded under universal and existential quantifiers can locally be interpreted as some but not all. This implicature can be reliable if supported by pragmatic context. We present experimental evidence showing that this local implicature can also be understood reliably if some is embedded under non–monotonic operators like only and exactly. Moreover, these operators reliably lead to a others none interpretation. We present a decomposition analysis which splits non-monotonic operators into a positive upward entailing and a negative downward-entailing component, where the positive component is responsible for the local but not all implicature, and the negative one for the others none interpretation.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
title: Comparison of mDIXON and proton density liver fat fraction maps in patients suspected of NAFLD/NASH with ¹H-MRS as reference
Creators: name: Runge, Jurgen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: MR
subject: MR-Spectroscopy
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: As theprevalence of the metabolic syndrome increases, so does the number ofpeople with increased liver fat fraction (FF) [1]. FF can be accurately measured using non-invasive quantitative magnetic resonance techniques, first employedmore thantwo...
Crossover to the Anomalous Quantum Regime in the Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect of Graphene
Creators: name: Milletari, Mirco
name: Ferreira, Aires
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent reports of spin-orbit coupling enhancement in chemically modified graphene have opened doors to studies of the spin Hall effect with massless chiral fermions. Here, we theoretically investigate the interaction and impurity density dependence of the extrinsic spin Hall effect in spin-orbit coupled graphene. We present a nonperturbative quantum diagrammatic calculation of the spin Hall response function in the strong-coupling regime that incorporates skew scattering and anomalous impurity density-independent contributions on equal footing. The spin Hall conductivity dependence on Fermi energy and electron-impurity interaction strength reveals the existence of experimentally accessible regions where anomalous quantum processes dominate. Our findings suggest that spin-orbit-coupled graphene is an ideal model system for probing the competition between semiclassical and bona fide quantum scattering mechanisms underlying the spin Hall effect.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures + Supp. Mat.; to appear in Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communications
Deep Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection in Textured Images using CW-SSIM
Creators: name: Bionda, Andrea
name: Frittoli, Luca
name: Boracchi, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detecting anomalous regions in images is a frequently encountered problem in industrial monitoring. A relevant example is the analysis of tissues and other products that in normal conditions conform to a specific texture, while defects introduce changes in the normal pattern. We address the anomaly detection problem by training a deep autoencoder, and we show that adopting a loss function based on Complex Wavelet Structural Similarity (CW-SSIM) yields superior detection performance on this type of images compared to traditional autoencoder loss functions. Our experiments on well-known anomaly detection benchmarks show that a simple model trained with this loss function can achieve comparable or superior performance to state-of-the-art methods leveraging deeper, larger and more computationally demanding neural networks.
description: International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2021). NVIDIA Prize winner
Assessing the Role of Imaging in Primary Breast Cancer Staging
Creators: name: Staley, Stuart-Allison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: In the United States, there is no well-established staging protocol for new breast cancer patients. With various imaging modalities available, we performed the following systematic review and original retrospective study to better characterize the utility of bone scan, liver ultrasound, chest radiograph, and computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen. For our systematic review, we determined the pooled detection rates of distant metastases using bone scan, liver ultrasound, and chest radiograph by clinical stage. In our study, we determined the utility of further imaging with abdominal CT when there is no detected disease beyond the ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes by CT of the chest. Methods: As part of our systematic review, we searched PubMed and EMBASE databases for relevant articles using detection rate, defined as the number of patients with an abnormal test result divided by the total number of patients tested, as the primary outcome of interest for bone scan, liver ultrasound, and chest radiograph. Additionally, for our retrospective study, we reviewed medical charts for 440 patients and used cross tabulation bivariate analysis to characterize the relationship between detection of disease in the chest and disease in the abdomen. Conclusion: Based on our systematic review, we believe that the routine use of bone scan, liver ultrasound, and chest radiograph in the staging evaluation of primary breast cancer patients is of little value in detecting metastatic disease in women with clinical stage I and stage II cancer due to very low detection rates. Furthermore, we determined that of patients with no detectable disease in the chest beyond the ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes according to chest CT, 99.7% of them will have no detectable disease in the abdomen based on CT.
Attitudes Towards Robotic Gynaecological Surgery
Creators: name: Ismail, Aemn
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: The technology of robotic-assisted minimal access surgery is rapidly progressing in all surgical specialities including Gynaecology. The introduction of this new technology in the UK has raised some issues amongst patients as well as medical professionals. There is a perception that there is a lack of knowledge surrounding robotics and its role in healthcare amongst the general public. Also, the increased use of robotic surgery increases the demand for training and experience amongst surgeons and trainees. Aim: The overall aims of the work to be presented in this thesis are to understand the attitudes towards robotic surgery in gynaecology from patients and medical professional perspectives, to explore their issues and explore practical solutions in an attempt to mitigate these issues. In order to understand and build up a current knowledge base on medical professionals’ views and issues with robotic surgery, I conducted a national survey inviting all obstetrics and gynaecology trainees nationally. Moreover, to understand attitudes from patients’ perspectives, I conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with women who had undergone robotic surgery. Conclusion: We were able to understand the current needs of both medical professionals and patients’ perspectives with regards to robotic surgery in gynaecology. In order to address these needs, we have undertaken a Delphi exercise to determine a core gynaecological robotic training curriculum. Furthermore, we have designed a new patient information video as a new modern source of perioperative information for robotic gynaecological surgery. A further pilot study was conducted to determine patients’ preference and information needs.
Composite measure phrases: Odds, scores, flavors of scales, and the taxonomy of MPs
Creators: name: Gobeski, Adam
name: Morzycki, Marcin
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: Purely numerical measure phrases (MPs) like three or two thirds, which lack a unit term, are often construed as denoting degrees on a single numerical scale. This paper examines an apparently unrecognized class of complex purely numerical MPs such as two in three and six to one, which we term COMPOSITE MPS. Such MPs demonstrate, we argue, that mathematically equivalent MPs aren’t always equivalent linguistically and that different purely mathematical MPs refer to degrees on different and incommensurable scales. Indeed, some, such as sports scores, seem to refer irreducibly to tuples or pluralities of degrees. We classify composite MPs into three varieties, each of which requires a distinct analysis.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
title: Mucinous Carcinoma of the Breast- What are their Sonographic and MRI features?
Creators: name: To, Victoria Yuen Kwun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To our knowledge, there is limited literature on the imaging features of mucinous breast carcinoma due to its rarity. The objective is to present the sonographic and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics of this rare subtype at two local...
Telemedicine as a special case of Machine Translation
Creators: name: Wołk, Krzysztof
name: Marasek, Krzysztof
name: Glinkowski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine translation is evolving quite rapidly in terms of quality. Nowadays, we have several machine translation systems available in the web, which provide reasonable translations. However, these systems are not perfect, and their quality may decrease in some specific domains. This paper examines the effects of different training methods when it comes to Polish - English Statistical Machine Translation system used for the medical data. Numerous elements of the EMEA parallel text corpora and not related OPUS Open Subtitles project were used as the ground for creation of phrase tables and different language models including the development, tuning and testing of these translation systems. The BLEU, NIST, METEOR, and TER metrics have been used in order to evaluate the results of various systems. Our experiments deal with the systems that include POS tagging, factored phrase models, hierarchical models, syntactic taggers, and other alignment methods. We also executed a deep analysis of Polish data as preparatory work before automatized data processing such as true casing or punctuation normalization phase. Normalized metrics was used to compare results. Scores lower than 15% mean that Machine Translation engine is unable to provide satisfying quality, scores greater than 30% mean that translations should be understandable without problems and scores over 50 reflect adequate translations. The average results of Polish to English translations scores for BLEU, NIST, METEOR, and TER were relatively high and ranged from 70,58 to 82,72. The lowest score was 64,38. The average results ranges for English to Polish translations were little lower (67,58 - 78,97). The real-life implementations of presented high quality Machine Translation Systems are anticipated in general medical practice and telemedicine.
A Deep Neural Networks ensemble workflow from hyperparameter search to inference leveraging GPU clusters
Creators: name: Pochelu, Pierrick
name: Petiton, Serge G.
name: Conche, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automated Machine Learning with ensembling (or AutoML with ensembling) seeks to automatically build ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to achieve qualitative predictions. Ensemble of DNNs are well known to avoid over-fitting but they are memory and time consuming approaches. Therefore, an ideal AutoML would produce in one single run time different ensembles regarding accuracy and inference speed. While previous works on AutoML focus to search for the best model to maximize its generalization ability, we rather propose a new AutoML to build a larger library of accurate and diverse individual models to then construct ensembles. First, our extensive benchmarks show asynchronous Hyperband is an efficient and robust way to build a large number of diverse models to combine them. Then, a new ensemble selection method based on a multi-objective greedy algorithm is proposed to generate accurate ensembles by controlling their computing cost. Finally, we propose a novel algorithm to optimize the inference of the DNNs ensemble in a GPU cluster based on allocation optimization. The produced AutoML with ensemble method shows robust results on two datasets using efficiently GPU clusters during both the training phase and the inference phase.
On a tensor-analogue of the Schur product
Creators: name: Sumesh, K.
name: Sunder, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the tensorial Schur product $R \circ^\otimes S = [r_{ij} \otimes s_{ij}]$ for $R \in M_n(\mathcal{A}), S\in M_n(\mathcal{B}),$ with $\mathcal{A}, \mathcal{B}$ unital $C^*$-algebras, verify that such a `tensorial Schur product' of positive operators is again positive, and then use this fact to prove (an apparently marginally more general version of) the classical result of Choi that a linear map $ϕ:M_n \to M_d$ is completely positive if and only if $[ϕ(E_{ij})] \in M_n(M_d)^+$, where of course $\{E_{ij}:1 \leq i,j \leq n\}$ denotes the usual system of matrix units in $M_n (:= M_n(\mathbb{C}))$. We also discuss some other corollaries of the main result.
description: Corrected typos, The final publication (with marginal changes) is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/[10.1007/s11117-015-0377-x]
When a quanti?er is not a quanti?er: Non-conservative percentage expressions in German
Creators: name: Gehrke, Berit
name: Wągiel, Marcin
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper we discuss percentage expressions of the type ‘fifty percent’ in German and two readings they give rise to, a conservative and a non-conservative one. Based on a questionnaire and a corpus study, we show that the non-conservative reading does not just need a bare, non-genitive-marked nominal to arise, but is also conditioned by word order (it has to appear low) and by the types of predicates that allow for it (in essence, predicates that can be used as existential or HAVE-predicates). We propose an account, under which the percentage expression is a type of scalar modifier that has an apparent effect on the predicate due to semantic incorporation ((in)transitives) and to an existential structure (intransitives).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
An efficient and flexible inference system for serving heterogeneous ensembles of deep neural networks
Creators: name: Pochelu, Pierrick
name: Petiton, Serge G.
name: Conche, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved qualitative predictions but they are computing and memory intensive. Therefore, the demand is growing to make them answer a heavy workload of requests with available computational resources. Unlike recent initiatives on inference servers and inference frameworks, which focus on the prediction of single DNNs, we propose a new software layer to serve with flexibility and efficiency ensembles of DNNs. Our inference system is designed with several technical innovations. First, we propose a novel procedure to find a good allocation matrix between devices (CPUs or GPUs) and DNN instances. It runs successively a worst-fit to allocate DNNs into the memory devices and a greedy algorithm to optimize allocation settings and speed up the ensemble. Second, we design the inference system based on multiple processes to run asynchronously: batching, prediction, and the combination rule with an efficient internal communication scheme to avoid overhead. Experiments show the flexibility and efficiency under extreme scenarios: It successes to serve an ensemble of 12 heavy DNNs into 4 GPUs and at the opposite, one single DNN multi-threaded into 16 GPUs. It also outperforms the simple baseline consisting of optimizing the batch size of DNNs by a speedup up to 2.7X on the image classification task.
title: Modeling channel-wise response of a multi-bin detector for photon-counting spectral CT and its applications
Creators: name: Liu, Xuejin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT
subject: Physics
subject: Artifacts
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Multibin photon-counting x-ray detectors have shown a great potential to be applied in next generation computedtomography (CT). Investigations have shown their substantial advantages in solving the current limitations ofconventional...
Additional file 2 of Feasibility, validity and reliability of the ASCOT-Proxy and ASCOT-Carer among unpaid carers of people living with dementia in England
Creators: name: Silarova, Barbora
name: Rand, Stacey
name: Towers, Ann-Marie
name: Jones, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Statistical analysis
Numeracy and Home Blood Pressure Measurement Reporting
Creators: name: Rao, Vishal
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Background: Numeracy, a component of overall health literacy, affects the way patients understand and process numerical health information. Home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM), a valuable tool in predicting CVD risk and end-organ damage independent of office BPs, requires the self-measurement and reporting of numerical health information and may be limited by patient understanding. To my knowledge, the relationship between numeracy and quality of HBPM has not been previously described. In this study, I examined the association of numeracy level with the completeness of home BP reporting. Methods: A systematic review of recent literature was conducted to describe the relationship between low numeracy and health-related skills, self-efficacy, and other health-related outcomes among patients with chronic disease. Following the literature review, I analyzed data from 420 adults participating in a four week BP measurement study who performed HBPM and completed a validated 3-item numeracy assessment. Participants were asked to complete triplicate home BP measurements twice daily for 5 consecutive days during week 1 and week 3. Demographic information and health literacy assessments were also collected. Total percentages of completed home BP readings by low vs. high numeracy level were summarized using descriptive statistics, and I performed multivariate regression analyses to identify potential confounders that may mediate the effect of numeracy on completion of home BP reporting. Results: Four studies of numeracy published since 2010 were identified in the systematic review. Two studies measured health care utilization, one study measured diabetes self-efficacy, and two studies measured severity of diabetes as outcomes by numeracy level. The evidence was low for disease severity and was insufficient for self-efficacy and health care utilization. Among the 420 adults who performed HBPM, nearly one-third had low numeracy (score of 0 or 1) and two-thirds had adequate numeracy (score of 2 or 3). Those with adequate numeracy reported completing home BP readings more than those with low numeracy (96.2% vs. 93.7%; P=0.009), which held true after adjusting for potential confounders. Conclusion: There is insufficient evidence in the current literature describing the relationship between numeracy and health-related skills. Among patients with borderline high blood pressures, higher numeracy level is associated with more complete reporting of home BP readings, although the difference is small. More research is needed to assess whether higher numeracy is a predictor of more accurate BP readings, and whether this trend holds true in the context of other numerical health parameters.