cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Saturated fat intake and prostate cancer aggressiveness: Results from the population-based North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project
Creators: name: Farnan, L.
name: Allott, E.H.
name: Bensen, J.T.
name: Su, L.J.
name: Mohler, J.L.
name: Fontham, E.T.H.
name: Steck, S.E.
name: Arab, L.
Publisher: name: Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2017

description: Background:Epidemiologic and laboratory evidence supports a role for cholesterol in prostate cancer (PC). Dietary saturated fat content impacts serum cholesterol levels. However, epidemiologic associations between saturated fat and PC aggressiveness are inconsistent. We hypothesized that high saturated fat intake would be associated with increased PC aggressiveness, and that statin use would modify this association.Methods:Of 1854 PC cases in the North Carolina-Louisiana PC Project, 321 (17%) were classified as high aggressive (Gleason sum ≥8, PSA>20 ng ml-1, or Gleason sum ≥7 and clinical stage T3-4) or low/intermediate aggressive (all other cases). Using low/intermediate aggressive cases as the referent group, we examined the association between tertiles of total fat-Adjusted saturated fat intake and high aggressive PC using logistic regression, overall and stratified by race and statin use. We examined total fat-Adjusted polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids (PUFA and MUFA, respectively), trans fat and cholesterol intake in secondary analysis.Results:High total fat-Adjusted saturated fat intake was associated with an elevated odds ratio (OR) for aggressive PC (OR T3vsT1 1.51; 95% CI 1.10-2.06; P-Trend=0.009), with an attenuated association in statin users (OR T3vsT1 1.16; 95% CI 0.67-2.01; P-Trend=0.661) compared with non-users (OR T3vsT1 1.71; 95% CI 1.16-2.51; P-Trend=0.053). High total fat-Adjusted cholesterol intake was associated with aggressive PC in European Americans (OR T3vsT1 1.62; 95% CI 1.02-2.58; P-Trend=0.056), but not African Americans (OR T3vsT1 0.92; 95% CI 0.60-1.42; P-Trend=0.750). High total fat-Adjusted PUFA was inversely associated with PC aggressiveness (OR T3vsT1 0.75; 95% CI 0.55-1.03), although this was not significant. No associations were found between total fat-Adjusted MUFA or trans fat and PC aggressiveness.Conclusions:High total fat-Adjusted saturated fat intake was associated with increased PC aggressiveness, with a suggestion of a stronger effect in men not using statins. The association between total fat-Adjusted cholesterol intake and PC aggressiveness was most pronounced in European Americans.
EgoSampling: Fast-Forward and Stereo for Egocentric Videos
Creators: name: Poleg, Yair
name: Halperin, Tavi
name: Arora, Chetan
name: Peleg, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While egocentric cameras like GoPro are gaining popularity, the videos they capture are long, boring, and difficult to watch from start to end. Fast forwarding (i.e. frame sampling) is a natural choice for faster video browsing. However, this accentuates the shake caused by natural head motion, making the fast forwarded video useless. We propose EgoSampling, an adaptive frame sampling that gives more stable fast forwarded videos. Adaptive frame sampling is formulated as energy minimization, whose optimal solution can be found in polynomial time. In addition, egocentric video taken while walking suffers from the left-right movement of the head as the body weight shifts from one leg to another. We turn this drawback into a feature: Stereo video can be created by sampling the frames from the left most and right most head positions of each step, forming approximate stereo-pairs.
description: in IEEE CVPR 2015, Boston, MA, June 2015
Sexual Health before Treatment in Women with Suspected Gynecologic Malignancy
Creators: name: Bretschneider, C.E.
name: Wu, J.M.
name: Bensen, J.T.
name: Gehrig, P.A.
name: Geller, E.J.
name: Doll, K.M.
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: Sexual health in survivors of gynecologic cancer has been studied; however, sexual health in these women before treatment has not been thoroughly evaluated. The objective of our study was to describe the pretreatment characteristics of sexual health of women with suspected gynecologic cancer before cancer treatment. Materials and Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of women with a suspected gynecologic cancer, who were prospectively enrolled in a hospital-based cancer survivorship cohort from August 2012 to June 2013. Subjects completed the validated Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Sexual Function and Satisfaction Questionnaire. Pretreatment sexual health was assessed in terms of sexual interest, desire, lubrication, discomfort, orgasm, enjoyment, and satisfaction. Results: Of 186 eligible women with suspected gynecologic cancer, 154 (82%) completed the questionnaire pretreatment. Mean age was 58.1 ± 13.3 years. Sexual health was poor: 68.3% reported no sexual activity, and 54.7% had no interest in sexual activity. When comparing our study population to the general U.S. population, the mean pretreatment scores for the subdomains of lubrication and vaginal discomfort were similar, while sexual interest was significantly lower and global satisfaction was higher. In a linear regression model, controlling for cancer site, age remained significantly associated with sexual function while cancer site did not. Conclusions: Problems with sexual health are prevalent in women with suspected gynecologic malignancies before cancer treatment. Increasing awareness of the importance of sexual health in this population will improve quality of life for these women.
Low-loss interconnects for modular superconducting quantum processors
Creators: name: Niu, Jingjing
name: Zhang, Libo
name: Liu, Yang
name: Qiu, Jiawei
name: Huang, Wenhui
name: Huang, Jiaxiang
name: Jia, Hao
name: Liu, Jiawei
name: Tao, Ziyu
name: Wei, Weiwei
name: Zhou, Yuxuan
name: Zou, Wanjing
name: Chen, Yuanzhen
name: Deng, Xiaowei
name: Deng, Xiuhao
name: Hu, Changkang
name: Hu, Ling
name: Li, Jian
name: Tan, Dian
name: Xu, Yuan
name: Yan, Fei
name: Yan, Tongxing
name: Liu, Song
name: Zhong, Youpeng
name: Cleland, Andrew N.
name: Yu, Dapeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scaling is now a key challenge in superconducting quantum computing. One solution is to build modular systems in which smaller-scale quantum modules are individually constructed and calibrated, and then assembled into a larger architecture. This, however, requires the development of suitable interconnects. Here, we report low-loss interconnects based on pure aluminium coaxial cables and on-chip impedance transformers featuring quality factors up to $8.1 \times 10^5$, which is comparable to the performance of our transmon qubits fabricated on single-crystal sapphire substrate. We use these interconnects to link five quantum modules with inter-module quantum state transfer and Bell state fidelities up to 99\%. To benchmark the overall performance of the processor, we create maximally-entangled, multi-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. The generated inter-module four-qubit GHZ state exhibits 92.0\% fidelity. We also entangle up to 12 qubits in a GHZ state with $55.8 \pm 1.8\%$ fidelity, which is above the genuine multipartite entanglement threshold of 1/2. These results represent a viable modular approach for large-scale superconducting quantum processors.
Identification tridimensionnelle du réseau poreux d’une argile par imagerie FIB-MEB
Creators: name: Bennai, Fares
name: Hattab, Mahdia
name: Ding, Yanzheng
name: Jrad, Mohamad
name: Guyon, Julien
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2024

description: L'objectif de cet article est de proposer une nouvelle approche permettant d'étudier en 3D la variation des propriétés des pores d’une argile saturée et remaniée en lien avec le chargement mécanique. Un chargement œdométrique est appliqué à un échantillon d’argile synthétique jusqu’à un certain niveau de contrainte. Une approche d’observation en post-mortem utilisant la microscopie électronique à balayage (MEB) couplée à un faisceau ionique focalisé (FIB) a été développée pour observer un micro-volume de l'échantillon donnant un structure 3D de la texture. Une reconstruction du micro-volume est possible à partir d’une nouvelle méthode de traitement, dans laquelle l’intelligence artificielle a été intégrée pour la segmentation des pores. Ainsi, les propriétés de l'espace poral peuvent être quantifiées. La distribution de la taille des pores est ensuite comparée avec les résultats de la porosimétrie au mercure.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 42 No 1 (2024): Special Issue - RUGC 2024
Behaviour of a protective coating for bio-based materials used for energy rehabilitation regarding salt attack
Creators: name: Bahou, Oumayma
name: Ismail, Brahim
name: Belayachi, Naima
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2024

description: This study focuses on the behaviour of three lime-based coatings against salts attack intended to protect straw biobased insulation composites as part of an energy retrofit of building. Salts are among the main causes of mortar degradation. Their sources are various between interior ones as mortar constituents and mixing water, and others external as groundwater in contact with gypseous soils, rainwater polluted by sulfur dioxide or di-icing salts that infiltrate the coating by capillary actions or by spaying. In this paper ageing tests are carried out by total immersion in salt solution to expose the samples to salts attack by using sodium sulfate and sodium chloride solutions. The studied mortars are composed by lime, calcareous sand and two additives used also in the biobased insulation materials. The reference mortar without additives is used to highlight the effect of the two additives (air entrainer and casein protein). The third mortar is used with the addition of a small percentage of fine straw about 7.5 %.  This percentage allows the optimized mortar to meet all criteria for an insulation coating. The results show that the coating with straw and additives are more resistant than those based on the reference mixture without additives, even when ageing tests are carried out with the most aggressive sodium sulfate solution. This resistance is linked to the induced porosity of the additives which minimizes the crystallization pressure.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 42 No 1 (2024): Special Issue - RUGC 2024
Archaeological Shovel Testing Along Unsurveyed Portions of the Proposed Emergency Access Road Between Family Housing and Pumping Station Road on Arnold Air Force Base
Creators: name: Chapman, Shawn
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Coffee (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/5122/coffee-county
subject: Franklin (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3332/franklin-county
subject: Arnold Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/80982/arnold-air-force-base
subject: Tennessee
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/169/tennessee
subject: 19th Century
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5536/19th-century
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: 20th Century
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/4/20th-century
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: Woodland
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/13/woodland
subject: Early Woodland
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/14/early-woodland
subject: 40FR226
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126845/40fr226
subject: 40FR479
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126917/40fr479
subject: 40FR211
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126840/40fr211
subject: 40FR476
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126920/40fr476
subject: 40FR209
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126839/40fr209
subject: 40FR225
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126842/40fr225
subject: 40FR472
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126922/40fr472
subject: 40FR480
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126905/40fr480
subject: 40FR475
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126921/40fr475
subject: 40FR227
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126844/40fr227
subject: Habitation Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/985/habitation-site
subject: Farmstead
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/747/farmstead
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Family Housing Area
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167227/family-housing-area
subject: Emergency Access Road
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167226/emergency-access-road
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey

description: Summary of an archaeological investigation in support of a proposed emergency access road. Investigations included a review of the existing site records, pedestrian survey and visual inspection as well as shovel testing. Visual inspection and shovel testing produced evidence of a small Early Woodland site recorded as 40FR502. This site is recommended not eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Detection of persistent gamma-ray emission toward SS433/W50
Creators: name: Bordas, Pol
name: Yang, Ruizhi
name: Kafexhiu, Ervin
name: Aharonian, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microquasar SS433 features the most energetic jets known in our Galaxy. A large fraction of the jet kinetic power is delivered to the surrounding W50 nebula at the jet termination shock, from which high-energy emission and cosmic-ray production have been anticipated. Here we report on the detection of a persistent gamma-ray signal from the direction of SS433/W50 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The steady flux and a narrow spectral energy distribution with a maximum around 250 MeV suggest that gamma-rays are rendered by the bulk jet kinetic power through proton-proton collisions at the SS433/W50 interaction regions. If the same mechanism is operating in other baryon-loaded microquasar jets, their collective contribution may represent a significant fraction of the total galactic cosmic-ray flux at GeV energies.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Additional file 1 of Mothers and Babies Virtual Group (MBVG) for perinatal Latina women: study protocol for a hybrid type-1 effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Platt, Rheanna
name: Polk, Sarah
name: Barrera, Alinne Z.
name: Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz
name: Hirschhorn, Lisa R.
name: Graham, Andrea K.
name: Musci, Rashelle J.
name: Hamil, Jaime
name: Echavarria, Diane
name: Cooper, Lindsay
name: Tandon, S. Darius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Activities, function, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of older adults with cancer
Creators: name: Deal, A.M.
name: Bryant, A.L.
name: Muss, H.B.
name: Bensen, J.T.
name: Pergolotti, M.
name: Williams, G.R.
name: Reeve, B.B.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2017

description: Objective This study aims to (1) describe the activities, function, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of a large sample of older adults (age ≥ 65) with cancer, (2) identify the associations with demographics, cancer type, comorbid conditions, and ability to participate in activities and functional status. Materials and Methods The Health Registry/Cancer Survivorship Cohort is an institutional database designed to aid cancer survivorship research. The registry includes three measures of patient-reported HRQOL: FACT-G and PROMIS® Global measures for physical and mental health. Other measures included in the registry are cancer type, date from diagnosis, number of comorbid conditions and specific conditions and their limitations in daily activity, and self-reported daily activity/function. Results Our sample consists of 768 older adults with cancer, mean age 72 years, 60% female, and 90% White. Mean scores for HRQOL: FACT-G (85, range: 25–108), PROMIS-physical (48, range: 16–67) and, PROMIS-mental (51, range: 21–67). In multivariable models, Black race, one or more comorbid conditions, and Gastrointestinal cancer (p < .05), and patient- reported decreased levels of activities/function were all independently associated with poor HRQOL (p < .0001). Conclusions Older Black adults with cancer, those that have high comorbidity burden, with gastrointestinal cancers and those that report decreased ability to participate in daily activities/function reported poorer HRQOL. As geriatric oncology moves towards trying to identify who may need supportive services, this study demonstrated that a one question patient-reported level of activities and functional ability were independently associated with physical, mental, and cancer-specific HRQOL.
title: Unfolded Lipase at Interfaces Studied via Interfacial Dilational Rheology: The Impact of Urea
Creators: name: Dowlati, Saeid
name: Javadi, Aliyar
name: Miller, Reinhard
name: Eckert, Kerstin
name: Kraume, Matthias
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: Unfolding can interrupt the activity of enzymes. Lipase, the enzyme responsible for triglyceride catalysis, can be deactivated by unfolding, which can significantly affect the yield of enzymatic processes in biochemical engineering. Different agents can induce lipase unfolding, among which we study the impact of urea as a strong denaturant. Unfolding weakens the rigidity and stability of globular proteins, thereby changing the viscoelastic properties of the protein adsorbed layers. These changes can be detected and quantified using interfacial dilational rheology. The urea-induced unfolding of lipase destructs its globular structure, making it more flexible. The interfacial tension and viscoelastic moduli of lipase adsorbed layers reduce upon the addition of urea in the range of studied concentrations. The results agree with the theory that, upon unfolding, a distal region of the loop and tail domain forms adjacent to the proximal region of the interface. The exchange of matter between these regions reduces the viscoelasticity of the unfolded lipase adsorbed layers. Additionally, unfolding reduces the rigidity and brittleness of the lipase adsorbed layers: the aged adsorbed layer of native lipase can break upon high-amplitude perturbations of the interfacial area, unlike the case for urea-induced unfolded lipase.
Solar Flare Chromospheric Line Emission: Comparison Between IBIS High-resolution Observations and Radiative Hydrodynamic Simulations
Creators: name: da Costa, Fatima Rubio
name: Kleint, Lucia
name: Petrosian, Vahé
name: Dalda, Alberto Sainz
name: Liu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar flares involve impulsive energy release, which results in enhanced radiation over a broad spectral range and a wide range of heights. In particular, line emission from the chromosphere can provide critical diagnostics of plasma heating processes. Thus, a direct comparison between high-resolution spectroscopic observations and advanced numerical modeling results could be extremely valuable, but has not yet been attempted. In this paper, we present in this paper such a self-consistent investigation of an M3.0 flare observed by the Dunn Solar Telescope's Interferometric Bi-dimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) on 2011 September 24 which we have modeled with the radiative hydrodynamic code RADYN. We obtained images and spectra of the flaring region with IBIS in H$α$ 6563 Å and Ca II 8542 Å, and with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscope Imager (RHESSI) in X-rays. The latter observations were used to infer the non-thermal electron population, which was passed to RADYN to simulate the atmospheric response to electron collisional heating. We then synthesized spectral lines and compared their shapes and intensities to those observed by IBIS and found a general agreement. In particular, the synthetic Ca II 8542 Å profile fits well to the observed profile, while the synthetic H$α$ profile is fainter in the core than for the observation. This indicates that H$α$ emission is more responsive to the non-thermal electron flux than the Ca II 8542 Å emission. We suggest that it is necessary to refine the energy input and other processes is necessary to resolve this discrepancy.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures. Accepted in ApJ
Additional file 1: of The small GTPase Rab5c is a key regulator of trafficking of the CD93/Multimerin-2/Î˛1 integrin complex in endothelial cell adhesion and migration
Creators: name: Barbera, Stefano
name: Nardi, Federica
name: Elia, Ines
name: Realini, Giulia
name: Lugano, Roberta
name: Santucci, Annalisa
name: Tosi, Gian
name: Dimberg, Anna
name: Galvagni, Federico
name: Orlandini, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Small vesicles containing CD93 colocalize with caveolin-1 in early spreading ECs. Figure S2. Disruption of the actin cytoskeleton impairs CD93 intracellular trafficking. Figure S3. Microtubule cytoskeleton disruption has no effects on CD93 intracellular trafficking. Figure S4. CD93 trafficking does not depend on transport from or to the Golgi complex. Figure S5. CD93 is colocalized with MMRN2 in spreading HDBECs. Figure S6. CD93 colocalizes strongly with Rab5 and slightly with Rab11, but not with Rab7. Figure S7. Rab5c is the predominant isoform in HUVECs. Figure S8. Rab5c regulates CD93 recycling to the cell surface. Figure S9. Î˛1 integrin protein levels decrease at the leading edge of migrating Rab5c-silenced ECs. Figure S10. In CD93 silenced ECs, large Rab5c+ve vesicles form regularly. (PDF 2570 kb)
Archaeological Investigations for Proposed Marksmanship Training Facility, Tennessee Army National Guard, at Arnold Air Force Base
Creators: name: Chapman, Shawn
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Tennessee (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/702/tennessee-state-territory
subject: Coffee (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/5122/coffee-county
subject: Franklin (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3332/franklin-county
subject: Arnold Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/80982/arnold-air-force-base
subject: Camp Forrest
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85510/camp-forrest
subject: 40CF310
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/127089/40cf310
subject: 40CF263
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/126870/40cf263
subject: Negative Result
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/76495/negative-result
subject: Tennessee Army National Guard
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167230/tennessee-army-national-guard
subject: Marksmanship Training Facility
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167241/marksmanship-training-facility
subject: TANC
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/167242/tanc
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey

description: Summary of archaeological investigations in support of the construction of proposed marksmanship training facility for the Tennessee Army National Guard. Investigations included a review of the existing site records and visual inspection. Records search indicated two sites are located within one mile of the project area but neither were impacted by the undertaking. Visual inspection showed that the project area has been subjected to heavy disturbance in the past, mainly from the use of the area during the Camp Forrest era. No archaeological sites were recorded as a result of this investigation. The area is recommended cleared from a cultural resources perspective.
Assisting Self-Assembly of 3d/4f Coordination Clusters
Creators: name: Kämmerer, Hagen
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Single-Molecule Magnets
Coordination Cluster
Self-Assembly
Magnetism

description: Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit dem Konzept der unterstützten Selbstorganisation, mit dem Ziel neuartige 3d/4f Koordinationscluster zu synthetisieren. Bei diesem Ansatz werden vorgeformte Übergangsmetallbausteine als Vektor verwendet um diverse Übergangsmetale, Liganden und Co-Liganden in die Reaktion einzubringen. Die strukturelle Untersuchung der Verbindungen erfolgt mittels Einkristallstrukturanalyse, Infrarotspektroskopie sowie in einigen Fällen Massenspektrometrie. Magnetische Analysen werden mittels SQUID-Magnetometrie und in einigen Fällen in Kollaboration mit anderen Forschungsgruppen durch microSQUID- und 57Fe-Mößbauer-Techniken durchgeführt. Theoretische Methoden wie MAGELLAN und ALPS/QMC ergänzen die physikalischen Messungen. Wichtige Konzepte wie das allgemeine Konzept der unterstützten Selbstorganisation sowie die Verwendung des M2Ln2 Schmetterlings Motivs als standardisierte Testumgebung um die Auswirkung der Verwendung unterschiedlicher Metalle und Liganden auf die magnetischen Eigenschaften der zu untersuchenden Verbindungen werden in Kapitel 1 eingeführt. Darüber hinaus wird die Variabilität der verwendeten Bausteine durch die Untersuchung ausgewählter dreikerniger Übergangsmetallcluster hervorgehoben. Ein systematischer Syntheseansatz wird vorgestellt, der den gezielten Austausch des Übergangsmetalls in diesen Verbindungen ermöglicht. Einige dreikernige Verbindungen wurden mittels SQUID-Magnetometrie, 57Fe Mößbauer sowie Massenspektrometrie untersucht. In Kapitel 4 wird die Synthese von Mangan basierten Koordinationsclustern beschrieben, die einen Mn6 Cluster als Startmaterial verwendet. Mangan spielt durch die besondere historische und biochemische Bedeutsamkeit eine spezielle Rolle in dem Fachgebiet des molekularen Magnetismus. In Kapitel 5 wurden unter Verwendung von dreikernigen Übergangsmetallclustern zwei verschiedene Strukturtypen erhalten: (I) neuartige Schmetterlings-Systeme mit verschieden Liganden, sowie ein riesiger zyklischer Koordinationscluster, der faszinierende magnetische Eigenschaften aufweist.
Electric control of two-dimensional Van Hove singularity in oxide ultra-thin films
Creators: name: Kim, Donghan
name: Kim, Younsik
name: Sohn, Byungmin
name: Kim, Minsoo
name: Kim, Bongju
name: Noh, Tae Won
name: Kim, Changyoung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Divergent density of states (DOS) can induce extraordinary phenomena such as significant enhancement of superconductivity and unexpected phase transitions. Moreover, van Hove singularities (VHSs) are known to lead to divergent DOS in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Despite the recent interest in VHSs, only a few controllable cases have been reported to date. In this work, we investigate the electronic band structures of a 2D VHS with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and control transport properties by utilizing an atomically ultrathin SrRuO$_3$ film. By applying electric fields with alkali metal deposition and ionic-liquid gating methods, we precisely control the 2D VHS, and the sign of the charge carrier. Use of a tunable 2D VHS in an atomically flat oxide film could serve as a new strategy to realize infinite DOS near the Fermi level, thereby allowing efficient tuning of electric properties.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 2 of Mothers and Babies Virtual Group (MBVG) for perinatal Latina women: study protocol for a hybrid type-1 effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Platt, Rheanna
name: Polk, Sarah
name: Barrera, Alinne Z.
name: Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz
name: Hirschhorn, Lisa R.
name: Graham, Andrea K.
name: Musci, Rashelle J.
name: Hamil, Jaime
name: Echavarria, Diane
name: Cooper, Lindsay
name: Tandon, S. Darius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Chasing Puppies
Creators: name: Abrahamsen, Mikkel
name: Erickson, Jeff
name: Kostitsyna, Irina
name: Löffler, Maarten
name: Miltzow, Tillmann
name: Urhausen, Jérôme
name: Vermeulen, Jordi
name: Viglietta, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2022

description: We solve an open problem posed by Michael Biro at CCCG 2013 that was inspired by his and others' work on beacon-based routing. Consider a human and a puppy on a simple closed curve in the plane. The human can walk along the curve at bounded speed and change direction as desired. The puppy runs along the curve (faster than the human) always reducing the Euclidean straight-line distance to the human, and stopping only when the distance is locally minimal. Assuming that the curve is smooth (with some mild genericity constraints) or a simple polygon, we prove that the human can always catch the puppy in finite time. Our results hold regardless of the relative speeds of puppy and human, and even if the puppy's speed is unbounded.
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13 No. 2: Special Issue of Selected Papers from SoCG 2021
Fast reconfigurable paper-based flow switch
Creators: name: Pandey, Santosh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Analytical biochemistry
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Food chemistry and food sensory science
Food nutritional balance
Food safety, traceability, certification and authenticity
Food sciences not elsewhere classified
Food sustainability
Food technology
Organic green chemistry
Physical organic chemistry
Natural products and bioactive compounds
Free radical chemistry
Clinical chemistry (incl. diagnostics)
Clinical microbiology
Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Chemical engineering design
Food engineering
Process control and simulation
Separation technologies
Water treatment processes
Powder and particle technology

description: This paper presents the development of a unique actuator device made from chromatography paper and incorporating folds. Upon selective wetting of the fold with an actuation fluid, either at the crest or trough, the tip of the actuator is raised or lowered, thereby engaging or breaking the fluid connection between channels. This reduces the response time to within two seconds from wetting and requires only four microliters of actuation fluid. Six switch configurations are implemented, including single-pole single-throw (normally OFF and normally ON) and single-pole double-throw (with single and double break). This technology is then used in an autonomous colorimetric assay that can detect glucose, protein, and nitrite in artificial saliva. Additionally, this work expands upon the origami concept in paper microfluidics by using multiple-fold geometries for the programmable switching of fluidic connections.
 Kong, T., Flanigan, S., Weinstein, M., Kalwa, U., Legner, C., & Pandey, S. (2017). A fast, reconfigurable flow switch for paper microfluidics based on selective wetting of folded paper actuator strips. Lab on a Chip, 17(21), 3621–3633. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7LC00620A https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/LC/C7LC00620A
Hadronic vacuum polarization function within dispersive approach to QCD
Creators: name: Nesterenko, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dispersive approach to quantum chromodynamics is applied to the study of the hadronic vacuum polarization function and associated quantities. This approach merges the intrinsically nonperturbative constraints, which originate in the kinematic restrictions on the respective physical processes, with corresponding perturbative input. The obtained hadronic vacuum polarization function agrees with pertinent lattice simulation data. The evaluated hadronic contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment and to the shift of the electromagnetic fine structure constant conform with recent assessments of these quantities.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Shovel Testing of the Proposed Earth Day Boy Scout Tree Planting Site
Creators: name: Chapman, Shawn
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Coffee (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/5122/coffee-county
subject: Franklin (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3332/franklin-county
subject: Arnold Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/80982/arnold-air-force-base
subject: Tennessee
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/169/tennessee
subject: Tree Planting
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/85274/tree-planting
subject: Shovel Test
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/8858/shovel-test
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey

description: Cultural resources survey in support of a Boy Scout project to plant Willow Oaks as part of an Earth Day Celebration. The location includes a portion of the old Franklin County Recreation Area on the south side of Woods Reservoir just east of Camp Arrowhead. Seven shovel test locations were examined within the area to be used for tree planting. Any areas of bare ground were also visually inspected for the presence of cultural material. All shovel tests were negative for cultural material and no cultural material was observed on the ground surface in the bare areas.
Valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall phases and tunable topological phase transitions in half-hydrogenated Bi honeycomb monolayers
Creators: name: Liu, Cheng-Cheng
name: Zhou, Jin-Jian
name: Yao, Yugui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on first-principles calculations, we find novel valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall (VP-QAH) phases with a large gap-0.19 eV at an appropriate buckled angle and tunable topological phase transitions driven by the spontaneous magnetization within a half-hydrogenated Bi honeycomb monolayer. Depending on the magnetization orientation, four different phases can emerge, i.e., two VP-QAH phases, ferromagnetic insulating and metallic states. When the magnetization is reversed from the +$\mathbf{z}$ to -$\mathbf{z}$ directions, accompanying with a sign change in the Chern number (from -1 to +1), the chiral edge state is moved from valley $K$ to $K'$. Our findings provide a platform for designing dissipationless electronics and valleytronics in a more robust manner through the tuning of the magnetization orientation.
description: 9 figures
Effect of quantum statistics on the gravitational weak equivalence principle
Creators: name: Mousavi, S. V.
name: Majumdar, A. S.
name: Home, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of quantum statistics on the arrival time distribution of quantum particles computed through the probability current density. It is shown that symmetrization or asymmetrization of the wave function affects the arrival time distribution for even freely propagating particles. In order to investigate the effect of statistics on the weak equivalence principle in quantum mechanics (WEQ), we then compute the mean arrival time for wave packets in free fall. The violation of WEQ through the effect of statistics on the mass-dependence of the mean arrival time is clearly exhibited. We finally evaluate the effect of spin on the violation of WEQ using a different approach by including an explicit spin-dependence in the probability current distribution, and compare it with the approach using particle statistics. Our results show WEQ re-emerges smoothly in the limit of large mass.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, Accepted by Class. Quantum Grav
Indication, Abstraction and Individuation
Creators: name: Levinson, Jerrold
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2012

description: Roughly thirty years ago, as part of an exploration of the ontology of art, I suggested that musical works (and implicitly, also literary works) were not pure abstract structures, like geometrical forms, but instead impure indicated structures. However, what exactly does that mean? In the present paper I revisit that old idea of mine in the hope of clarifying it somewhat, before then using it as a springboard to discussion of artistic indication as a singular psychological act, of the individuation of indicated objects that results from such indication, of the relation between artistic indication and neighboring sorts of action – what we might call actions of simple indication – and finally, of the indication that musical and literary artworks effect, as opposed to the indication by which they are created.
description: Trópos, V. 4 N. 2 (2011): Rethinking Creativity: Between Art and Philosophy
Continuous sampling of the squeezed state nonclassicality
Creators: name: Agudelo, E.
name: Sperling, J.
name: Vogel, W.
name: Köhnke, S.
name: Mraz, M.
name: Hage, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the direct -- continuous in phase -- sampling of a regularized $P$ function, the so-called nonclassicality quasiprobability, for squeezed light. Through their negativities, the resulting phase-space representation uncovers the quantum character of the state. In contrast to discrete phase-locked measurements, our approach allows an unconditional verification of nonclassicality by getting rid of interpolation errors due to fixed phases. To realize the equal phase distribution of measured quadratures, a data selection is implemented with quantum random numbers created by measuring the vacuum noise. The continuously measured squeezed field was generated in an optical parametric amplifier. Suitable pattern functions for obtaining the regularized $P$ function are investigated. The significance of detecting negativities in our application is determined. The sampling of nonclassicality quasiprobabilities is shown to be a powerful and universal method to visualize quantum effects within arbitrary quantum states.
Study of the effect of strain rate on the in-plane shear and transverse compression response of a composite ply using computational micromechanics
Creators: name: Rueda-Ruiz, Mario
name: Herraez, Miguel
name: Sket, Federico
name: Galvez, Francisco
name: Gonzalez, Carlos
name: Molina-Aldareguia, Jon Mikel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of composite materials for structures subjected to impacts requires a deep understanding about the dynamic behaviour of the material. To this end, a physically-based computational micromechanics simulation tool has been developed to predict failure initiation in a composite ply over a wide range of strain rates. The computational micromechanics framework incorporates constitutive models for the fibre, matrix and fibre-matrix interface, which are partly calibrated with novel micromechanical testing techniques. The simulation tool was applied to two matrix-dominated deformation modes of the ply: transverse compression and in-plane shear. The comparison of simulation and experimental results at coupon level have revealed a change in failure initiation mechanism of the composite ply with strain rate, which was then corroborated through observation of the fracture surfaces on the samples.
Fast reconfigurable paper flow switch
Creators: name: Pandey, Santosh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Analytical biochemistry
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Food chemistry and food sensory science
Food nutritional balance
Food safety, traceability, certification and authenticity
Food sciences not elsewhere classified
Food sustainability
Food technology
Organic green chemistry
Physical organic chemistry
Natural products and bioactive compounds
Free radical chemistry
Clinical chemistry (incl. diagnostics)
Clinical microbiology
Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Chemical engineering design
Food engineering
Process control and simulation
Separation technologies
Water treatment processes
Powder and particle technology

description: This paper presents the development of a unique actuator device made from chromatography paper and incorporating folds. Upon selective wetting of the fold with an actuation fluid, either at the crest or trough, the tip of the actuator is raised or lowered, thereby engaging or breaking the fluid connection between channels. This reduces the response time to within two seconds from wetting and requires only four microliters of actuation fluid. Six switch configurations are implemented, including single-pole single-throw (normally OFF and normally ON) and single-pole double-throw (with single and double break). This technology is then used in an autonomous colorimetric assay that can detect glucose, protein, and nitrite in artificial saliva. Additionally, this work expands upon the origami concept in paper microfluidics by using multiple-fold geometries for the programmable switching of fluidic connections.
 Kong, T., Flanigan, S., Weinstein, M., Kalwa, U., Legner, C., & Pandey, S. (2017). A fast, reconfigurable flow switch for paper microfluidics based on selective wetting of folded paper actuator strips. Lab on a Chip, 17(21), 3621–3633. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7LC00620A https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/LC/C7LC00620A
Quality of care received and patient-reported regret in prostate cancer: Analysis of a population-based prospective cohort
Creators: name: Mohler, J.L.
name: Chen, R.C.
name: Bensen, J.T.
name: Song, L.
name: Holmes, J.A.
name: Mishel, M.H.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Meeting quality of care standards in oncology is recognized as important by physicians, professional organizations, and payers. Data from a population-based cohort of patients with prostate cancer were used to examine whether receipt of care was consistent with published consensus metrics and whether receiving high-quality care was associated with less patient-reported treatment decisional regret. METHODS: Patients with incident prostate cancer were enrolled in collaboration with the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry, with an oversampling of minority patients. Medical record abstraction was used to determine whether participants received high-quality care based on 5 standards: 1) discussion of all treatment options; 2) complete workup (prostate-specific antigen, Gleason grade, and clinical stage); 3) low-risk participants did not undergo a bone scan; 4) high-risk participants treated with radiotherapy (RT) received androgen deprivation therapy; and 5) participants treated with RT received conformal or intensity-modulated RT. Treatment decisional regret was assessed using a validated instrument. RESULTS: A total of 804 participants were analyzed. Overall, 66% of African American and 73% of white participants received care that met all standards (P =.03); this racial difference was confirmed by multivariable analysis. Care that included “discussion of all treatment options” was found to be associated with less patient-reported regret on univariable analysis (P =.03) and multivariable analysis (odds ratio, 0.59; 95% confidence interval, 0.37-0.95). CONCLUSIONS: The majority of participants received high-quality care, but racial disparity existed. Participants who discussed all treatment options appeared to have less treatment decisional regret. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate an association between a quality of care metric and patient-reported outcome.
More dynamic data structures for geometric set cover with sublinear update time
Creators: name: Chan, Timothy
name: He, Qizheng
Publisher: name: Journal of Computational Geometry
Year: 2022

description: We study geometric set cover problems in dynamic settings, allowing insertions and deletions of points and objects. We present the first dynamic data structure that can maintain an $O(1)$-approximation in sublinear update time for set cover for axis-aligned squares in 2D. More precisely, we obtain randomized update time $O(n^{2/3+\delta})$ for an arbitrarily small constant $\delta>0$. Previously, a dynamic geometric set cover data structure with sublinear update time was known only for unit squares by Agarwal, Chang, Suri, Xiao, and Xue [SoCG 2020]. If only an approximate size of the solution is needed, then we can also obtain sublinear amortized update time for disks in 2D and halfspaces in 3D. As a byproduct, our techniques for dynamic set cover also yield an optimal randomized $O(n\log n)$-time algorithm for static set cover for 2D disks and 3D halfspaces, improving our earlier $O(n\log n(\log\log n)^{O(1)})$ result [SoCG 2020].
description: Journal of Computational Geometry, Vol. 13 No. 2: Special Issue of Selected Papers from SoCG 2021
Additional file 2: of Antenatal care presentation and engagement in the context of sex work: exploring barriers to care for sex worker mothers in South Africa
Creators: name: Parmley, Lauren
name: Rao, Amrita
name: Zamakayise Kose
name: Lambert, Andy
name: Max, Ryan
name: Phaswana-Mafuya, Nancy
name: Mfezi Mcingana
name: Hausler, Harry
name: Baral, Stefan
name: Schwartz, Sheree
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

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