cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Radiative lifetime and energy of the low-energy isomeric level in $^{229}$Th
Creators: name: Tkalya, E. V.
name: Schneider, Christian
name: Jeet, Justin
name: Hudson, Eric R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the range of the radiative lifetime and energy of the anomalous, low-energy $3/2^+(7.8 \pm 0.5$ eV) state in the $^{229}$Th nucleus. Our phenomenological calculations are based on the available experimental data for the intensities of $M1$ and $E2$ transitions between excited levels of the $^{229}$Th nucleus in the $K^π[Nn_ZΛ]=5/2^+[633]$ and $3/2^+[631]$ rotational bands. We also discuss the influence of certain branching coefficients, which affect the currently accepted measured energy of the isomeric state. From this work, we establish a favored region where the transition lifetime and energy should lie at roughly the 90% confidence level. We also suggest new nuclear physics measurements, which would significantly reduce the ambiguity in the present data.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
title: Application of volume navigation image fusion assisted contrast-enhanced ultrasound in detection and characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma invisible on conventional ultrasound
Creators: name: Wang, Wen-ping
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: During the radiofrequency (RF) ablation guided with ultrasound, we quite frequently encounter hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) that have poor sonographic conspicuity. Thus, it is difficult to accurately localize and target the index...
Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian: Quantum Chaos approach
Creators: name: Kolovsky, Andrey R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss applications of the theory of Quantum Chaos to one of the paradigm models of many-body quantum physics -- the Bose-Hubbard model, which describes, in particular, interacting ultracold Bose atoms in an optical lattice. After preliminary, pure quantum analysis of the system we introduce the classical counterpart of the Bose-Hubbard model and the governing semiclassical equations of motion. We analyze these equations for the problem of Bloch oscillations of cold atoms where a number of experimental results are available. The review is written for non-experts and can be viewed as an introduction to the field.
description: Conference proceeding, 18 pages, 11 figures
title: Role of CT and serum Ca-125 for expediting cytoreductive surgery in advanced ovarian cancer patients on chemotherapy
Creators: name: Retnasingam, Ganesh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Surgery
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Maximum cytoreductive surgery which is also known as debulking surgery has been the recommended surgical approach for advanced stages of ovarian carcinoma for the past two decades [1]. The 5-year survival for advanced ovarian cancer is approximately...
Program and Evaluation Plan: Supportive Housing in Durham, North Carolina
Creators: name: Moore, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Mental illness and homelessness are widespread societal problems, and are concurrent in many cases. Providing proper housing for this population can be challenging, yet housing models formulated in the past 25 years have shown remarkable improvements over traditional solutions (i.e. shelters and transitional housing). This issue is of particular concern in North Carolina in the wake of a lawsuit alleging that psychiatric patients were inappropriately housed in adult care homes in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. As part of the settlement from this lawsuit, funding has been made available for the establishment of 3,000 new “housing slots” for these individuals, including rental subsidies and treatment/support teams. The Durham supportive housing program plans to construct new apartments to meet this need, connect mentally ill individuals with this housing, and provide necessary services. At the current time, each of these roles is filled by different organizations, resulting in inefficiency and fragmentation of care. The primary goal of this program is to provide homes and treatment to 16 mentally ill individuals by its third year of operation, based upon the supportive housing model recommended by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This paper will begin with a review of the supportive housing literature to provide useful examples of programs. It will subsequently describe the program to be instituted in the City of Durham, including its theoretical basis, its goals and objectives, and an implementation timeline. The following section will describe an evaluation method to both ensure that the program is being instituted in accordance with its plan and provide evidence to support its use. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the program’s strengths and weaknesses. Overall, this paper will serve to guide the activities of this program over a five year period, and provide a foundation for future development and expansion.
Parameterizing density operators with arbitrary symmetries to gain advantage in quantum state estimation
Creators: name: Corte, Inés
name: Losada, Marcelo
name: Tielas, Diego
name: Holik, Federico
name: Rebón, Lorena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we show how to parameterize a density matrix that has an arbitrary symmetry, knowing the generators of the Lie algebra (if the symmetry group is a connected Lie group) or the generators of its underlying group (in case it is finite). This allows to pose MaxEnt and MaxLik estimation techniques as convex optimization problems with a substantial reduction in the number of parameters of the function involved. This implies that, apart from a computational advantage due to the fact that the optimization is performed in a reduced space, the amount of experimental data needed for a good estimation of the density matrix can be reduced as well. In addition, we run numerical experiments and apply these parameterizations to quantum state estimation of states with different symmetries.
Readout of Majorana parity states using a quantum dot
Creators: name: Gharavi, Kaveh
name: Hoving, Darryl
name: Baugh, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically examine a scheme for projectively reading out the parity state of a pair of Majorana bound states (MBS) using a tunnel coupled quantum dot. The dot is coupled to one end of the topological wire but isolated from any reservoir, and is capacitively coupled to a charge sensor for measurement. The combined parity of the MBS-dot system is conserved and charge transfer between the MBS and dot only occurs through resonant tunnelling. Resonance is controlled by the dot potential through a local gate and by the MBS energy splitting due to the overlap of the MBS pair wavefunctions. The latter splitting can be tuned from zero (topologically protected regime) to a finite value by gate-driven shortening of the topological wire. Simulations show that the oscillatory nature of the MBS splitting is not a fundamental obstacle to readout, but requires precise gate control of the MBS spatial position and dot potential. With experimentally realistic parameters, we find that high-fidelity parity readout is achievable given nanometer-scale spatial control of the MBS, and that there is a tradeoff between required precisions of temporal and spatial control. Use of the scheme to measure the MBS splitting versus separation would present a clear signature of topological order, and could be used to test the robustness of this order to spatial motion, a key requirement in certain schemes for scalable topological qubits. We show how the scheme can be extended to distinguish valid parity measurements from invalid ones due to gate calibration errors.
description: 3 figures; added two tables in updated version
title: Structured resistance training increases bone mineral density in postmenopausal frail women: a quantitative computer tomography study
Creators: name: Huovinen, Ville
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Geriatrics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Frailty is a growing problem in developing countries [1]. It can be divided into physical and psychosocial components. The most characteristic symptoms are decreased muscle strength and sarcopenia, which expose to decreased quality of...
Revealing the Origin of Time-reversal Symmetry Breaking in Fe-chalcogenide Superconductor FeTe1-xSex
Creators: name: Farhang, Camron
name: Zaki, Nader
name: Wang, Jingyuan
name: Gu, Genda
name: Johnson, Peter D.
name: Xia, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently evidence has emerged in the topological superconductor Fe-chalcogenide FeTe1-xSex for time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB), the nature of which has strong implications on the Majorana zero modes (MZM) discovered in this system. It remains unclear however whether the TRSB resides in the topological surface state (TSS) or in the bulk, and whether it is due to an unconventional TRSB superconducting order parameter or an intertwined order. Here by performing in superconducting FeTe1-xSex crystals both surface-magneto-optic-Kerr effect (SMOKE) measurements using a Sagnac interferometer and bulk magnetic susceptibility measurements, we pinpoint the TRSB to the TSS, where we also detect a Dirac gap. Further, we observe surface TRSB in non-superconducting FeTe1-xSex of nominally identical composition, indicating that TRSB arises from an intertwined surface ferromagnetic (FM) order. The observed surface FM bears striking similarities to the two-dimensional (2D) FM found in 2D van der Waals crystals, and is highly sensitive to the exact chemical composition, thereby providing a means for optimizing the conditions for Majorana particles that are useful for robust quantum computing.
description: accepted version at Physical Review Letters
$X(3872)$ and $T_{cc}$: structures and productions in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Yun, Hyeongock
name: Park, Daeho
name: Noh, Sungsik
name: Park, Aaron
name: Park, Woosung
name: Cho, Sungtae
name: Hong, Juhee
name: Kim, Yongsun
name: Lim, Sanghoon
name: Lee, Su Houng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue why the recently observed $T_{cc}$ could either be a compact multiquark configuration or a loosely bound molecular configuration composed of charmed mesons, whereas the $X(3872)$ is most likely a molecular configuration. The argument is based on different short range interactions for these tetraquark states coming from the color-color and color-spin interaction in a quark model, and the presence of a common strong D-wave mixing at larger distance similar to the deuteron case, which for the molecular configurations lead to large sizes. Such an analogy at large distance allows us to calculate the transverse momentum dependence of the loosely bound molecular configuration of tetraquarks produced in heavy ion collisions using the coalescence model that successfully reproduces the deutron data using the proton spectra. The ratio of the integrated $X(3872)$ yield obtained from our method to the $ψ(2S)$ yield obtained from statistical hadronization model method is calculated to be $0.806 \pm 0.234$, which is a factor of 2.47 larger than that obtained by using statistical model predictions for both particles and in line with the data from the CMS experiment. As the previously calculated transverse momentum distribution of the $T_{cc}$ assuming the structure to be a compact multiquark configuration is markedly different, experimental measurements of the transverse distribution of the tetraquark states will discriminate between their two possible structures.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Cooking Should Not Kill: What Works, What Doesn't and What's Next? Strategies for Clean Cookstove Adoption
Creators: name: Sen, Banalata
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Despite decades of research and implementation efforts to alleviate the burden of indoor air pollution from use of biomass burning stoves, poor communities worldwide and especially their women and children continue to pay a heavy price with their health, safety, and economic security. Much is known about the devastating consequences of biomass burning on global health and environment, but efforts to deploy improved clean burning stoves and fuels that reduce harmful emissions have not been very successful. Major barriers including unpopular designs, cost, deficient supply chain, lack of awareness of health and economic benefits, and gender dynamics in affected communities, have prevented implementation of large-scale adoption of cleaner cooking solutions in developing countries. The latest efforts for improving adoption rates are focused on market-based strategies. To be successful, these market-based strategies will need to be combined with strong community engagement efforts with an emphasis on women who are end-users of the stoves and also the most impacted by the adverse outcomes of biomass burning. Global health interventions that have engaged women's and community health workers have been successful in improving health behaviors and outcomes. We propose a Health Impact Pyramid framework that combines key stakeholder engagement with market-based strategies to overcome existing barriers and make cookstove adoption desirable and sustainable. We describe a logic model that can serves as a guide for implementing and evaluating the intervention. Applying a framework that addresses the social, cultural, economic, and environmental determinants of this global health intervention will be important if the global community is to reduce the burden of disease from biomass burning.
विविध फळझाडांसाठी जमीन, लागवड व खत व्यवस्थापना
Creators: name: अनिकेत सुनील गायकवाड
name: निहाल श्रीधर तितिरमारे
name: प्रसाद बाळासाहेब मरगळ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: आंबा
पेरू
केळी
अंजीर
डाळिंब
नारळ
मोसंबी
लिंबू
जांभूळ
चिंच
लिची
खजुर
विविध फळझाडांसाठी जमीन, लागवड व खत व्यवस्थापना
पपई
द्राक्षे
ड्रॅगन फ्रुट
स्ट्रॉबेरी
सिताफळ
आवळा
बोर
सुक्ष्म अन्नद्रव्ये
फर्टीगेशन

description: विविध फळझाडांच्या लागवडीचे यशापयश हे जमीन, हवामान, खत व्यवस्थापन आणि पाणी पुरवठा यावर विशेष अवलंबून आहे. यापैकी खत व्यवस्थापनास अन्यन साधारण महत्व आहे. फळझाडांची लागवड केल्यानंतर नियमित आणि भरपूर उत्तम दर्जाची फळे येण्यासाठी जमीन सुपीक ठेवणे जरुरीचे आहे. फळझाडांची वाढ आणि त्यावर होणारी फलधारणा जमिनीतून मिळणाऱ्या पोषक अन्नद्रव्यावर आणि स्थानिक हवामानावर अवलंबून असते. त्यामुळे या दोन महत्वाच्या बाबींपैकी जमिनीच्या सुपिकतेकडे लक्ष देणे अत्यंत महत्वाचे आहे. जमिनीच्या सुपिकतेकडे दुर्लक्ष झाल्यास झाडांची वाढ कमी होते आणि झाडे किडी व रोगास बळी पडतात. झाडांची वाढ निकोप व्हावी म्हणून योग्य मशागत, तणांचा बंदोबस्त, खतांचा संतुलित पुरवठा, सेंद्रिय पदार्थांचे आच्छादन म्हणून वापर, आच्छादनाची पिके, आंतरपिके इत्यादी मार्गांनी जमिनीची सुपिकता चागली ठेवणे फायदेशीर ठरते. फळझाडांच्या लागवडीसाठी योग्य आकाराचा खड्डा, (तक्ता क्र. २ मध्ये दिल्याप्रमाणे) योग्य अंतरावर एप्रिल-मे महिन्यातच खोदावेत. उन्हाळ्यात खड्डे तापू द्यावेत. खड्डा भरताना तळाला पालापाचोळा टाकून १५ ते २० किलो चांगले कुजलेले शेणखत व पोयटा माती व १ ते १.५ किलो सिंगल सुपर फॉस्फेट व ५०-१०० ग्रॅम फॉलीडॉल पावडर यांच्या मिश्रणाने जून च्या पहिल्या आठवड्यात भरून घ्यावा. दोन चांगले पाऊस पडून गेल्यावर सर्वसाधारणपणे जून-जुलै महिन्यात रोपांची/कलमांची लागवड करावी. रोपे/कलमे खात्रीशीर रोपवाटिकेतूनच खरेदी करावीत. सर्वसाधारणपणे फळझाडांना जून-जुलै, सप्टेंबर-ऑक्टोबर व जानेवारी-फेब्रुवारी या महिन्यात वर्षातून तीन वेळा खते द्यावीत. परंतू खते देताना प्रत्येक फळझाडाचा बहार येण्याचा व फळे पक्व होण्याचा कालावधी लक्षात घेऊन खते द्यावीत. सर्वसाधारणपणे जून-जुलै महिन्यात संपूर्ण शेणखत अथवा कंपोस्ट खत, संपूर्ण स्फुरद व पालाश ची मात्रा द्यावी. नत्राची मात्रा एक ते दोन हप्त्यात विभागून द्यावी. खते देण्यापूर्वी तज्ञांचा सल्ला घ्यावा. खताची मात्रा देताना झाडाच्या मोठ्या विस्ताराखाली खोडापासून एक मीटर लांब, ४० ते ५० से.मी. रुंद आणि १५ से. मी. खोल वर्तुळाकार चर काढावा. प्रथम चरात पालापाचोळा आणि शेणखत नंतर रासायनिक खते सर्व बाजूनी टाकावी नंतर चर मातीने बुजवावा.
RRR - Strack - Ozdogru
Creators: name: Özdoğru, Asil
name: Özbek, Gizem
name: Yücebaş, Saliha
name: Balatekin, Nursena
name: Köse, Şeyma
name: tanis, Dilan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Registered Replication Report (RRR) project for facial feedback hypothesis by Ozdogru Research Team
title: Volumetric Brain MRI changes in Parkinson's disease
Creators: name: Elshafey, Rasha
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Segmentation
subject: Dementia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common progressive neurodegenerative disorder usually affecting people older than forty years and its incidence is progressively increasing with advancing age(1). Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) is commonly...
Conformal interactions between matter and higher-spin (super)fields
Creators: name: Kuzenko, Sergei M.
name: Ponds, Michael
name: Raptakis, Emmanouil S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In even spacetime dimensions, the interacting bosonic conformal higher-spin (CHS) theory can be realised as an induced action. The main ingredient in this definition is the model $\mathcal{S}[φ,h]$ describing a complex scalar field $φ$ coupled to an infinite set of background CHS fields $h$, with $\mathcal{S}[φ,h]$ possessing a non-abelian gauge symmetry. Two characteristic features of the perturbative constructions of $\mathcal{S}[φ, h]$ given in the literature are: (i) the background spacetime is flat; and (ii) conformal invariance is not manifest. In the present paper we provide a new derivation of this action in four dimensions such that (i) $\mathcal{S}[φ, h]$ is defined on an arbitrary conformally-flat background; and (ii) the background conformal symmetry is manifestly realised. Next, our results are extended to the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric case. Specifically, we construct, for the first time, a model $\mathcal{S}[Φ, H]$ for a conformal scalar/chiral multiplet $Φ$ coupled to an infinite set of background higher-spin superfields $H$. Our action possesses a non-abelian gauge symmetry which naturally generalises the linearised gauge transformations of conformal half-integer superspin multiplets. The other fundamental features of this model are: (i) $\mathcal{S}[Φ, H]$ is defined on an arbitrary conformally-flat superspace background; and (ii) the background $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal symmetry is manifest. Making use of $\mathcal{S}[Φ, H]$, an interacting superconformal higher-spin theory can be defined as an induced action.
description: 69 pages; V2: References and new comments added, typos corrected; V3: Published version
Obesity in the Military: the Role of Leadership in Creating Partnerships for Effective Change within the Canadian Forces Community
Creators: name: Grodecki, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Excess weight is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes, from diseases like diabetes and coronary heart disease to a diminished quality of life and increased risk of overall mortality. Obesity is a modifiable risk factor caused primarily by poor diet and inadequate physical activity, and supported by a societal environment that encourages both. Within the Canadian Forces (CF) the majority of members are now classified as either overweight or obese, with the rate of obesity rising to almost a quarter of military members. In a military context obesity is also negatively associated with operational readiness. The CF has an existing long-term strategic vision to promote a culture of health and fitness, and the Strengthening the Forces (STF) program is integral in that vision. Qualitative research engaged staff of the CF Directorate of Force Health Protection (D FHP) through rolling interviews, in which data was collected on existing obesity-related health promotion programs and perceived barriers and challenges to success in lowering obesity rates. Interviews started with the core staff of the STF program and expanded to other programs that touch on obesity, including food services, fitness, and clinical services. In conjunction with a literature search on the role of leaders in successful partnerships, the qualitative research helped to answer the question of what defines an effective leader within a partnership setting, what the perceived organizational barriers to implementation of obesity interventions and the creation of a culture of health and fitness within the CF were, and whether these barriers can be overcome through effective leadership in a collaborative partnership.
Temporal meta-states are associated with differential patterns of dynamic connectivity, network topology and attention
Creators: name: Shine, James M.
name: Koyejo, Oluwasanmi
name: Poldrack, Russell A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Little is currently known about the coordination of neural activity over longitudinal time-scales and how these changes relate to behavior. To investigate this issue, we used resting-state fMRI data from a single individual to identify the presence of two distinct temporal states that fluctuated over the course of 18 months. We then demonstrated that these temporal states were associated with distinct neural dynamics within individual scanning sessions. In addition, the temporal states were also related to significant alterations in global efficiency, as well as differences in self-reported attention. These patterns were replicated in a separate longitudinal dataset, providing further supportive evidence for the presence of fluctuations in functional network topology over time. Together, our results underscore the importance of longitudinal phenotyping in cognitive neuroscience.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
title: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Aktuelle Beiträge
title: Aktuelle Beiträge
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft-Zeitschrift Für Agrarpolitik Und Landwirtschaft
Publisher: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2022

description: Weine aus „neuen“ Rebsorten – Weine für die Zukunft?
title: The potential role of MRI DTI in assessment of normal appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis patients
Creators: name: Rezk, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: White matter tracts are affected, including those of the cerebral hemispheres, infratentorium, and spinal cord. MS lesions, known as plaques, may be detected anywhere in the white matter with resulting diverse clinical presentations. Continuing...
USIA Poll # I91030: West Germany Security Issue
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Most important problem facing the nation (2); media usage (3); materialism/post-materialism (4); Germany and the world: Should Germany try to influence other countries to develop a western democracy (10); attitude toward other nations and leaders (9); attitude toward international organizations (4); defense/national security (5); EU (Common Market) (1); NATO (17); War in the Gulf (7); political action (2); personal relationship with the U.S. and Americans (2).
Sequential generalized measurements: Asymptotics, typicality and emergent projective measurements
Creators: name: Ma, Wen-Long
name: Li, Shu-Shen
name: Liu, Ren-Bao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relation between projective measurements and generalized quantum measurements is a fundamental problem in quantum physics, and clarifying this issue is also important to quantum technologies. While it has been intuitively known that projective measurements can be constructed from sequential generalized or weak measurements, there is still lack of a proof of this hypothesis in general cases. Here we prove it from the perspective of quantum channels. We show that projective measurements naturally arise from sequential generalized measurements in the asymptotic limit. Specifically, a selective projective measurement arises from a set of typical sequences of selective generalized measurements. We provide an explicit scheme to construct projective measurements of a quantum system with sequential generalized measurements. Remarkably, a single ancilla qubit is sufficient to mediate sequential generalized measurements for constructing arbitrary projective measurements of a generic system.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures (+6 pages supplement)
Exploring professional identity development within anatomical pathology
Creators: name: Rozario, Shemona Yasmin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis aims to address workforce shortages in the medical specialty of anatomical pathology (AP) by learning from the reflective journeys of junior doctors interested in AP, AP trainees, and consultants. By exploring these journeys through the lens of professional identity development, this thesis offers suggestions to enhance recruitment and retention into the field.
Electoral Participation and Political Culture in Mexico City
Creators: name: Consejo Mexicano De Ciencias Sociales (COMECSO)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Economic situation(3); interest in politics(2); media habits(4); foreign debt(1); free price policy(1); PRI's image(4); vote in 1985(3); vote in 1988(7); perception of electoral fraud(4).
Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Type 2 Diabetics - A Systematic Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Atkins, Matthew E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Purpose of this review: To determine whether type 2 diabetics treated with a low carbohydrate diet of at least four weeks duration have better intermediate outcomes, including glycemic control, hemoglobin Ale (HbgAlc), weight reduction, insulin sensitivity, triglycerides (TG), and lipid levels compared to type 2 diabetics on a heart healthy or normal diet?
title: Morphological MR imaging of the articular cartilage of the knee at 3T: value of ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequence?
Creators: name: Van Dyck, Pieter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In the knee, the superficial and middle layers of articular cartilage have T2 values of ~ 50ms, while the deep cartilage layer has much shorter T2 values, in the range of 1 to 2 ms or less [1]. Therefore, with a practical minimum echo time (TE) of...
title: Balloon occlusion of the common iliac artery during cesarean hysterectomy for placenta previa, accreta or percreta
Creators: name: Okamoto, Daisuke
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Balloon occlusion
subject: Obstetrics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Placenta previa, acreta or percreta is a rare life-threatening obstetrical condition causing massive hemorrhage (1). Prophylactic balloon occlusion of common iliac arteries (BO-CIA) was reported to be helpful to prevent massive bleeding during...
Thermodynamics of a Single Mesoscopic Phononic Mode
Creators: name: Golokolenov, Ilya
name: Ranadive, Arpit
name: Planat, Luca
name: Esposito, Martina
name: Roch, Nicolas
name: Zhou, Xin
name: Fefferman, Andrew
name: Collin, Eddy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent decades, the laws of thermodynamics have been pushed down to smaller and smaller scales, within the field of stochastic thermodynamics and state-of-art experiments performed on mesoscopic systems. These measurements concern electrons, photons, and mesoscopic mechanical objects. Here we report on the measurements of thermal fluctuations of a single mechanical mode in-equilibrium with a heat reservoir. The device under study is a nanomechanical beam with a first flexure resonating at 3.8MHz, cooled down to temperatures in the range from 100mK to 400mK. The technique is constructed around a microwave opto-mechanical setup using a cryogenic High Electron Mobility Transistor, and is based on two parametric amplifications implemented in series: an in-built opto-mechanical 'blue-detuned' pumping plus a Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier stage. We demonstrate our ability to resolve energy fluctuations of the mechanical mode in real-time up to the fastest relevant speed given by the mechanical relaxation rate. The energy probability distribution is then exponential, matching the expected Boltzmann distribution. The variance of fluctuations is found to be $(k_B T)^2$ with no free parameters. Our microwave detection floor is about 3 Standard Quantum Limit at 6GHz; the resolution of our fastest acquisition tracks reached about 100 phonons, and is related to the rather poor opto-mechanical coupling of the device ($g_0/2π\approx 0.5~$Hz). This result is deeply in the classical regime, but shall be extended to the quantum case in the future with systems presenting a much larger $g_0$ (up to $2π\times 250~$Hz), potentially reaching the resolution of a single mechanical quantum. We believe that it will open a new experimental field: phonon-based quantum stochastic thermodynamics, with fundamental implications for quantum heat transport and macroscopic mechanical quantum coherence.
description: With appendix
title: Association of low back pain with Modic changes and other degenerative changes of lumbar spine in middle aged working men: a cross-sectional MRI study
Creators: name: Luoma, Katariina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arthritides
subject: Epidemiology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The association of nonspecific low back pain (NSLBP) with degenerative disc changes and bony endplate lesions is still not clear. In an earlier cross-sectional MRI study (on 0.01T) of 164 middle-aged, 40-45 years old, working men (construction...
Tests of Higgs boson compositeness through the HHH form factor
Creators: name: Gounaris, G. J.
name: Renard, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how the $q^2$-dependence of the triple Higgs boson HHH form factor can reveal the presence of various types of new physics contributions, like new particles coupled to the Higgs boson or Higgs boson constituents, without directly observing them. We compare the effect of such new contributions to the one of higher order SM corrections to the point-like HHH coupling, due to triangle, 4-leg and s.e. diagrams. We establish simple analytic expressions describing accurately at high energy these SM corrections, as well as the examples of new physics contributions.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
title: Fetal dose from emergency CT examination: fetal simulation and dose measurements with the use of a female humanoid phantom
Creators: name: Law, Martin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: CT
subject: Radiation effects
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Dissection
subject: Acute

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pregnant patients may experience non-obstetrical emergencies over the course of pregnancy, and CT remains essential in the emergent setting for pregnant population [1]. For pregnant women undergoing abdominopelvic CT, the concern of consequent...
Gallup Poll # 1173G
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2005

description: Reagan job approval (8); most important problem in country (41); partisan opinions (1); capabilities of Reagan administration (5); abortion (4); religious involvement (5); nuclear disarmament (6); opinions on war (1); Reagan administration's economic policies (23); income tax cut (1); cuts in federal spending (13).
Alumni Mentors - Planning a Mentorship Program for the Nourish International Executive Board
Creators: name: Thekkekandam, Maria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: This document lays out a mentorship program plan for a service organization called Nourish International (NI). NI is a 501(c)3 certified non-profit organization that pairs engaged undergraduate students with fundraising ventures to help alleviate global poverty and foster the growth of student leaders. NI has begun using mentorship to augment and strengthen the student experience in the service organization. To improve this mentorship, the proposed program involves alumni in the mentoring process. This program includes surveying alumni to measure interest, training interested alumni to be mentors, and pairing alumni mentors with interested chapters. Mentors can be involved in a number of ways, depending on their interest, and mentorship lasts one year. At the end of the year, executive board (EB) members and mentors will be evaluated to understand ways to improve the program. EB members will also be evaluated to see what leadership skills they gain during one year. A pilot year is proposed to test the project on a small scale and evaluate it before enacting it in all 24 NI chapters. To assess impact of NI as a whole, NI alumni will also be surveyed to understand their perceived outcomes from participation as undergraduates with NI. Along with the program and evaluation plans, this document also includes a systematic review detailing the current evidence on outcomes of college student mentorship programs.
Gallup Poll # 1175G
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2005

description: Reagan job approval (2); Congress job approval (1); Israeli bombing raid (3); partisan opinions (2); abortion law (1); Alexander Haig job approval (1); handgun law (14); civil defense and nuclear war (4); rating certain people (9); national arms ban (1); election registration (1); U.S. involvement in nuclear war (2).
An Examination of the Causal Relationship between Soft Drink Consumption and Kidney Disease with Policy Suggestions
Creators: name: Thompson, Freiler
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Objectives: To examine whether a relationship between soft drink consumption and kidney disease could be disproven. Data Sources: The data sources were PubMed and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature electronic databases and spot searches of journals not included in those databases. Methods: Study texts and abstracts were reviewed for applicability and those which provided data were included. In addition, journal and informational articles regarding general kidney health and current strategies to combat kidney disease were referenced. Results: Based on the reviews, a causal relationship has been shown between the consumption of both regular soft drinks and diet soft drinks with an increase in kidney disease as well as an increase in kidney disease risk factors such as uric acid production, diabetes, and obesity. Conclusions: It was concluded that a relationship between soft drink consumption and kidney disease could not be disproven.
Faraday Rotation Measure Variations of Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources
Creators: name: Yang, Yuan-Pei
name: Xu, Siyao
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, some fast radio burst (FRB) repeaters were reported to exhibit complex, diverse variations of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), which implies that they are surrounded by an inhomogeneous, dynamically evolving, magnetized environment. We systematically investigate some possible astrophysical processes that may cause RM variations of an FRB repeater. The processes include (1) a supernova remnant (SNR) with a fluctuating medium; (2) a binary system with stellar winds from a massive/giant star companion or stellar flares from a low-mass star companion; (3) a pair plasma medium from a neutron star (including pulsar winds, pulsar wind nebulae, and magnetar flares); (4) outflows from a massive black hole. For the SNR scenario, a large relative RM variation within a few years requires that the SNR is young with a thin and local anisotropic shell, or the size of dense gas clouds in interstellar/circumstellar medium around the SNR is extremely small. If the RM variation is caused by the companion medium in a binary system, it is more likely from the stellar winds of a massive/giant star companion. The RM variation contributed by stellar flares from a low-mass star is disfavored, because this scenario predicts an extremely large relative RM variation during a short period of time. The scenarios invoking a pair plasma from a neutron star can be ruled out due to their extremely low RM contributions. Outflows from a massive black hole could provide a large RM variation if the FRB source is in the vicinity of the black hole.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Developing Australian reference levels for image guided interventional procedures
Creators: name: Wallace, Anthony
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Angioscopy
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The Australian Radiation Protection & Nuclear Safety Agency's (ARPANSA) National Diagnostic Reference Level Service (NDRLS) has initiated a national voluntary survey program to estimate diagnostic reference levels (DRL) for image guided...
A Review of mHealth in Resource Poor Countries - A Pilot Plan for an mHealth Breastfeeding Intervention in Rural Uganda
Creators: name: Kavuma, Edna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Technological advancements have led to increased connectivity across the globe. In eHealth, information technology is applied in healthcare to improve care and interoperability of data in the healthcare industry. mHealth is an extension of this advancement involving mobile phones. Given the exponential growth in the use of cellular phones all over the world, mHealth has the potential to positively influence health service delivery, sharing and disbursement of health information as well as health data collection. In resource poor countries, mHealth has the capacity to bridge the gap between health care worker and patient, by creating opportunities for direct communication via text message or voice communication where it did not exist before. This paper explores the importance of mHealth and summarizes findings from an in-depth literature review of maternal and child health mHealth case studies conducted in resource poor settings. Maternal and child health mHealth programming is studied to establish the association with breastfeeding as a behavior that could be influenced through an mHealth project. Based on this literature review, an mHealth breastfeeding pilot project is proposed for implementation in rural Uganda. The recommendations include integrating a breastfeeding focused mHealth pilot within the existing health infrastructure as well as a preliminary community resource assessment to establish baseline need in the select community. Uganda’s current health care infrastructure is described as well as the challenges and cost considerations for a potential mHealth breastfeeding pilot project. Although, increasing breastfeeding for children of six years of age was the original purpose of this paper, the literature review and evidence from Uganda’s existing mHealth capabilities highlight that a broader systematic approach is needed. Breastfeeding can certainly be a focus on any mHealth campaign in Uganda, the challenge however is being able to provide adequate and sufficient care and resources to mothers and children, whose health issues are beyond breastfeeding. Similar conclusions may also be applicable to other resource poor settings and eHealth studies should focus on how a breastfeeding campaign can be embedded within a broader post-natal maternal and child mHealth program.
title: Inter- and intraobserver agreement of noninvasive 4D pressure difference mapping derived from 4D flow MRI in patients with repaired aortic coarctation and healthy volunteers
Creators: name: Rengier, Fabian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Observer performance
subject: Congenital

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In patients with aortic coarctation, pressure gradients across the stenosis are important for clinical management both before and after repair. Currently, pressure gradients over the stenosis are either measured by invasive catheterisation or...
A contribution to the cryptanalysis of cryptographic schemes (EC)DSA and NTRU
Creators: name: Αδαμούδης, Μάριος Α.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Κρυπτογραφία
Κρυπτοσύστημα
Ψηφιακή υπογραφή
Ασφάλεια
DSA
NTRU
Cryptosystem
Digital signature

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία εξετάζουμε το κρυπτοσύστημα NTRU και την ψηφιακή υπογραφή (EC)DSA, και παρουσιάζουμε καινούργιες επιθέσεις που βασίζονται στα δικτυωτά. Αρχικά παρουσιάζουμε τα δύο συστήματα και σχολιάζουμε τις προηγούμενες επιθέσεις σε αυτα. ΄Επειτα παρουσιάζουμε τα πιο σημαντικά αποτελέσματα από την θεωρία των δικτυωτών. Στην συνέχεια περιγράφουμε μία επίθεση στην ψηφιακή υπογραφή (EC)DSA, η οποία ανάγει το πρόβλημα της εύρεσης του μυστικού κλειδιού στο CVP για ένα συγκεκριμένο δικτυωτό, και στην συνέχεια εφαρμόζουμε τον αλγόριθμο του Babai. Συνεχίζοντας με το (EC)DSA, παρουσιάζουμε μία επίθεση η οποία χρησιμοποιεί τον αλγόριθμο απαρίθμησης του Kannan παίρνοντας ως δεδομένο ότι κάποια απο τα εφήμερα κλειδιά έχουν κοινά bits σε κάποιες συγκεκριμένες θέσεις. Η τελεταία επίθεση στο (EC)DSA, είναι μία ειδική περίπτωση όπου τα κλειδιά είναι αρκετά μικρά. Αποδεικνύουμε ένα θεώρημα σε αυτή την κατεύθυνση και δίνουμε δύο εφαρμογές όπου η μία αφορά το bitcoin. Τέλος μελετάμε το κρυπτοσύστημα NTRU και δείχνουμε ότι το πρόβλημα της εύρεσης του καθαρού κειμένου ανάγεται στο CVP για ένα συγκεκριμένο δικτυωτό. ΄Επειτα εφαρμόζοντας τον αλγόριθμο του Babai βρίσκουμε το καθαρό κείμενο. Σε όλες τις επιθέσεις παρουσιάζουμε τα πειραματικά δεδομένα για να δείξουμε την αποτελεσματικότητά τους.
description: In this thesis, we examine the NTRU cryptosystem and the DSA signature and provide new lattice theory-based attacks against them. We start by introducing the two systems and outlining the prior attacks against them. Then we present the most significant findings from the theory of lattices. These attacks heavily rely on lattice theory. Next, we introduce an attack on (EC)DSA that reduces the problem of finding the secret key to a CVP problem for a specific lattice and makes use of Babai’s algorithm. Continuing with (EC)DSA, we present an attack that uses Kannan’s enumeration algorithm and takes as its hypothesis that a number of ephemeral keys share specific bits. The last attack on the (EC)DSA is a case when the secret and ephemeral keys are quite small. We present an algorithm in this direction, and we give two applications, one of which refers to bitcoin. Finally, we study the NTRU cryptosystem and show how the problem of finding the plaintext message is related to a CVP problem for a specific lattice. Then, using Babai’s algorithm, we find the plaintext message. For all the previous attacks,we present the results of experiments that show the effectiveness of these attacks.
Preparation of a quantum degenerate mixture of $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K molecules and $^{40}$K atoms
Creators: name: Cao, Jin
name: Yang, Huan
name: Su, Zhen
name: Wang, Xin-Yao
name: Rui, Jun
name: Zhao, Bo
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the preparation of a quantum degenerate mixture of $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K molecules and $^{40}$K atoms. A deeply degenerate atomic mixture of $^{23}$Na and $^{40}$K atoms with a large number ratio ($N_F/N_B\approx 6$) is prepared by the mode-matching loading of atoms from a cloverleaf-type magnetic trap into a large-volume horizontal optical dipole trap and evaporative cooling in a large-volume three-beam optical dipole trap. About $3.0\times10^4$ $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K ground-state molecules are created through magneto-association followed by stimulated adiabatic Raman passage. The 2D density distribution of the molecules is fit to the Fermi-Dirac distribution with $T/T_F\approx0.4-0.5$. In the atom-molecule mixture, the elastic collisions provide a thermalization mechanism for the molecules. In a few tens of milliseconds which are larger than the typical thermalization time, the degeneracy of the molecules is maintained, which may be due to the Pauli exclusion principle. The quantum degenerate mixture of $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K molecules and $^{40}$K atoms can be used to study strongly interacting atom-molecule mixtures and to prepare ultracold triatomic molecular gases.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures