cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum phase transition in a multicomponent anyonic Lieb-Liniger model
Creators: name: Santos, Raul A.
name: Paraan, Francis N. C.
name: Korepin, Vladimir E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a one-dimensional multicomponent anyon model that reduces to a multicomponent Lieb-Liniger gas of impenetrable bosons (Tonks-Girardeau gas) for vanishing statistics parameter. At fixed component densities, the coordinate Bethe ansatz gives a family of quantum phase transitions at special values of the statistics parameter. We show that the ground state energy changes extensively between different phases. Special regimes are studied and a general classification for the transition points is given. An interpretation in terms of statistics of composite particles is proposed.
description: 6 pages, 2 PDF figures. Corrections, clarifications, references added
Antihypertensive Drug Class and Adherence: An Electronic Monitoring Study
Creators: name: Moise, Nathalie
name: Schwartz, Joseph
name: Bring, Rachel
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Kronish, Ian M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hypertension--Treatment
Patient compliance
Drugs--Classification
Medicine

description: Background: Medication adherence is essential to optimizing blood pressure (BP) control. Prior research has demonstrated differences in pharmacy refill patterns according to antihypertensive drug class. No prior study has assessed the association between drug class and day-to-day adherence.

Methods: Between 2011 and 2014, we enrolled a convenience sample of 149 patients with persistently uncontrolled hypertension from two inner-city clinics and concurrently measured adherence of up to four antihypertensive medications using electronic pillboxes during the interval between two primary care visits. The main outcome was mean percent of days adherent to each drug. Mixed effects regression analyses were used to assess the association between drug class and adherence adjusting for age, gender, race, ethnicity, education, health insurance, coronary artery disease, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, number of medications, days monitored, and dosing frequency.

Results: The mean age was 64 years; 72% women, 75% Hispanic, 88% prescribed ≥1 BP medication. In unadjusted analyses, adherence was lower for beta-blockers (70.9%) compared to angiotensin receptor blocking agents (75.0%, P = 0.11), diuretics (75.9%, P < 0.001), calcium channel blockers (77.6%, P < 0.001) and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (78.0%, P < 0.0001). In the adjusted analysis, only dosing frequency (P = 0.0001) but not drug class (P = 0.71) was associated with medication adherence.

Conclusions: Antihypertensive drug class was not associated with electronically measured adherence after accounting for dosing frequency amongst patients with uncontrolled hypertension. Low adherence to beta-blockers may have been due to the common practice of prescribing multiple daily dosing. Providers may consider using once daily formulations to optimize adherence and should assess adherence among all treated patients with uncontrolled hypertension.

Key words:
blood pressure drug class hypertension medication adherence.
title: Tailorizing pre-TAVI assessment: our experience with CT and MR protocols
Creators: name: Di Tosto, Federica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Arterial access
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Blood
subject: Cardiac Assist Devices
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The aim of our study is to show the importance of precise evaluation of aortic anulus size, coronary ostia height, aortic valve shape and access vessels evaluation in patients undergoing Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI). These tools...
title: Hydrology days award
title: Hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Colorado State University, Author
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hydrology -- Congresses
subject: Award winners

description: 2013 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 25 - March 27, 2013.
description: The 2013 Hydrology Days Award was presented to Vijay P. Singh.
title: External beam radiotherapy treatment planning and bladder preparation protocols in prostate cancer – a case study
Creators: name: Pinto, Serafim
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multicentre study
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: VMAT and Tomotherapy
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Oncology
subject: Patient Care

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and represents a major public health problem with social and economic impact. In recent years, genetic and environmental factors that influence the risk of developing prostate carcinoma have been...
Report on Effects of Frequent Users Service Enhancement (FUSE) on Homelessness
Creators: name: Aidala, Angela A.
name: McAllister, William
name: Yomogida, Maiko
name: Shubert, Virginia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Homeless persons--Services for
Homeless persons--Services for--Evaluation
Homeless persons--Housing
Homeless persons--Mental health
Homeless persons--Health and hygiene

description: The Corporation for Supportive Housing’s FUSE program provides housing and services to homeless people with a history of frequently using NYC shelters and of frequently being jailed. In so doing, it seeks to improve the physical and mental health of these people, as well as other aspects of their lives, and to reduce the their use of shelters, jails, and crisis care operations (e.g., ambulance rides, emergency room visits, and the like). This evaluation uses a prospective, quasi-experimental design as well as propensity score matching to measure the effects of the program over two years. It interviews and collects data at six month intervals on 72 program participants and a similarly sized comparison group. It finds strong effects on permanent housing and shelter use, milder but positive effects on incarceration and jails, and varyingly sized but generally positive effects on individual’s health as well as on crisis care operations. In addition, it finds, among other cost effects, that an almost $16,000 reduction per person in avoidable public costs offsets over 60% of the total public cost for the FUSE program.
title: Anderson-Fabry's disease: role of T1 mapping in patients without left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE)
Creators: name: Letteriello, Mayla
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Venous access
subject: Genetic defects
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Anderson-Fabry's disease is a rare X-linked recessive genetic disorder characterized by a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme α-galactosidase A, resulting in progressive pathologic intracellular glycosphingolipid deposition in different tissues,...
Continual Learning for Image Segmentation with Dynamic Query
Creators: name: Wu, Weijia
name: Zhao, Yuzhong
name: Li, Zhuang
name: Shan, Lianlei
name: Zhou, Hong
name: Shou, Mike Zheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image segmentation based on continual learning exhibits a critical drop of performance, mainly due to catastrophic forgetting and background shift, as they are required to incorporate new classes continually. In this paper, we propose a simple, yet effective Continual Image Segmentation method with incremental Dynamic Query (CISDQ), which decouples the representation learning of both old and new knowledge with lightweight query embedding. CISDQ mainly includes three contributions: 1) We define dynamic queries with adaptive background class to exploit past knowledge and learn future classes naturally. 2) CISDQ proposes a class/instance-aware Query Guided Knowledge Distillation strategy to overcome catastrophic forgetting by capturing the inter-class diversity and intra-class identity. 3) Apart from semantic segmentation, CISDQ introduce the continual learning for instance segmentation in which instance-wise labeling and supervision are considered. Extensive experiments on three datasets for two tasks (i.e., continual semantic and instance segmentation are conducted to demonstrate that CISDQ achieves the state-of-the-art performance, specifically, obtaining 4.4% and 2.9% mIoU improvements for the ADE 100-10 (6 steps) setting and ADE 100-5 (11 steps) setting.
description: Code: https://github.com/weijiawu/CisDQ
Mixed mode ic implementation for a robot path planner
Creators: name: Naik, Mihir
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 209-213
description: This thesis presents a study of a unique hybrid processor for a unique path-planning algorithm, which has already been proved successful. The architecture is a serial approach towards the algorithm using one analog multiplier embedded in a digital processor to do the calculations. It was shown that the IC implementation of this algorithm is very robust and works with all hardware deficiencies around it (noise in the multiplier, quantization noise in the data converters etc). The power consumption and chip area (without the data converters) of this implementation was less than 50 n W and 0.5 mm2 respectively.
Privacy Measurement in Tabular Synthetic Data: State of the Art and Future Research Directions
Creators: name: Boudewijn, Alexander
name: Ferraris, Andrea Filippo
name: Panfilo, Daniele
name: Cocca, Vanessa
name: Zinutti, Sabrina
name: De Schepper, Karel
name: Chauvenet, Carlo Rossi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Synthetic data (SD) have garnered attention as a privacy enhancing technology. Unfortunately, there is no standard for quantifying their degree of privacy protection. In this paper, we discuss proposed quantification approaches. This contributes to the development of SD privacy standards; stimulates multi-disciplinary discussion; and helps SD researchers make informed modeling and evaluation decisions.
description: 20 pages, 4 tables, 8 figures; NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation with Generative AI
Location-aided Distributed Primary User Identification in a Cognitive Radio Scenario
Creators: name: Belanovic, Pavle
name: Macua, Sergio Valcarcel
name: Zazo, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We address a cognitive radio scenario, where a number of secondary users performs identification of which primary user, if any, is transmitting, in a distributed way and using limited location information. We propose two fully distributed algorithms: the first is a direct identification scheme, and in the other a distributed sub-optimal detection based on a simplified Neyman-Pearson energy detector precedes the identification scheme. Both algorithms are studied analytically in a realistic transmission scenario, and the advantage obtained by detection pre-processing is also verified via simulation. Finally, we give details of their fully distributed implementation via consensus averaging algorithms.
description: Submitted to IEEE ICASSP2012
A Prospective Study of Tobacco Smoking and Mortality in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Wu, Fen
name: Chen, Yu
name: Parvez, Faruque
name: Segers, Stephanie
name: Argos, Maria
name: Islam, Tariqul
name: Ahmed, Alauddin
name: Rakibuz-Zaman, Muhammad
name: Hasan, Rabiul
name: Sarwar, Golam
name: Ahsan, Habibul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Mortality
Blood pressure
Smoking
Public health

description: Background

Limited data are available on smoking-related mortality in low-income countries, where both chronic disease burden and prevalence of smoking are increasing.

Methods

Using data on 20, 033 individuals in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) in Bangladesh, we prospectively evaluated the association between tobacco smoking and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality during ∼7.6 years of follow-up.

Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for deaths from all-cause, cancer, CVD, ischemic heart disease (IHD), and stroke, in relation to status, duration, and intensity of cigarette/bidi and hookah smoking.

Results

Among men, cigarette/bidi smoking was positively associated with all-cause (HR 1.40, 95% CI 1.06 1.86) and cancer mortality (HR 2.91, 1.24 6.80), and there was a dose-response relationship between increasing intensity of cigarette/bidi consumption and increasing mortality. An elevated risk of death from ischemic heart disease (HR 1.87, 1.08 3.24) was associated with current cigarette/bidi smoking. Among women, the corresponding HRs were 1.65 (95% CI 1.16 2.36) for all-cause mortality and 2.69 (95% CI 1.20 6.01) for ischemic heart disease mortality. Similar associations were observed for hookah smoking. There was a trend towards reduced risk for the mortality outcomes with older age at onset of cigarette/bidi smoking and increasing years since quitting cigarette/bibi smoking among men. We estimated that cigarette/bidi smoking accounted for about 25.0% of deaths in men and 7.6% in women.

Conclusions

Tobacco smoking was responsible for substantial proportion of premature deaths in the Bangladeshi population, especially among men. Stringent measures of tobacco control and cessation are needed to reduce tobacco-related deaths in Bangladesh.
Higgs inflation in minimal supersymmetric SU(5) GUT
Creators: name: Arai, Masato
name: Kawai, Shinsuke
name: Okada, Nobuchika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Standard Model Higgs boson with large nonminimal coupling to the gravitational curvature can drive cosmological inflation. We study this type of inflationary scenario in the context of supersymmetric grand unification and point out that it is naturally implemented in the {\em minimal} supersymmetric SU(5) model, and hence virtually in any GUT models. It is shown that with an appropriate Kähler potential the inflaton trajectory settles down to the Standard Model vacuum at the end of the slow roll. The predicted cosmological parameters are also consistent with the 7-year WMAP data.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, essentially the published version
title: Mobile Phones as a Potential Vehicle of Nosocomial Pathogens in Radiology Departments
Creators: name: Guerreiro, Tatiana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Professional Issues
subject: Management
subject: Professional issues
subject: Radiographers
subject: CT
subject: Digital radiography
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Education and training
subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Not applicable
subject: Experimental
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Nosocomial infections are a public health problem and responsible for the death of milion. [1,2] This infections compromise patients as a result of health care procedures and may also affect Professionals. [2] Considering that the hands of...
Evaporation/condensation transition of the two dimensional Potts model in microcanonical ensemble
Creators: name: Nogawa, Tomoaki
name: Ito, Nobuyasu
name: Watanabe, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evaporation/condensation transition of the Potts model on square lattice is numerically investigated by the Wang-Landau sampling method. Intrinsically system size dependent discrete transition between supersaturation state and phase-separation state is observed in the microcanonical ensemble by changing constrained internal energy. We calculate the microcanonical temperature, as a derivative of microcanonical entropy, and condensation ratio, and perform a finite size scaling of them to indicate clear tendency of numerical data to converge to the infinite size limit predicted by phenomenological theory for the isotherm lattice gas model.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
title: Texture Analysis on Bi-Parametric MRI for Evaluation of Aggressiveness in Patients with Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: BAEK, TAEWOOK
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genitourinary
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Cancer
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Since Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System version 2 (PI-RADSv2) was established, there has been much effort to detect clinically significant cancer (CSC,GS ≥7), using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This system has shown a maximum...
title: Bioaccumulation and detoxification mechanisms of persistent organic pollutants (PCB, DDT) in bodies Bactrian camels
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб)
Year: 2025

description: This monograph explores the bioaccumulation and detoxification mechanisms of persistent organic pollutants (PCBs, DDT) in the bodies of Bactrian camels. The study examines the primary pathways of accumulation of these pollutants in camel tissues, as well as the biochemical and physiological processes involved in their detoxification. This work provides both theoretical insights and practical applications, making it valuable for researchers in ecotoxicology, veterinary medicine, biology, and environmental science. The monograph will also be useful for students and faculty in the fields of biology, ecology, veterinary medicine, and related disciplines, as well as professionals working in environmental protection and animal health.
title:  Individual real-time dose detection devices for operators in the hybrid room: use and utility
Creators: name: Varchetta, Celestino
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Not applicable
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiographers
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Radiation Protection

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Safety and radiation protection are a key component of the interventions guided with the use of fluoroscopy and a further aspect that emerges in recent years is not only protection, but it is appropriate to know how to manage the dose of radiation...
Distribution of a bipartite entanglement in a mixed spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg tetramer
Creators: name: Vargová, Hana
name: Strečka, Jozef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of bipartite entanglement in a mixed spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg tetramer composed from two spin-1/2 and two spin-1 entities is investigated in detail in presence of an external magnetic field. Four different negativities measuring a strength of bipartite entanglement are analyzed at zero and non-zero temperatures. Derived rigorous analytic results and respective numerical results are discussed with the particular emphasis laid on the significance of a strength of the pair spin-spin interactions and spin diversity in the entanglement description. Based on both aforementioned driving forces the regions of parametric space, where the bipartite entanglement can exist solely for one type of spin pair or all four spin pairs, were identified.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Students' attitudes toward their instructors' accents in L2 Spanish and French
Creators: name: Miranda Barrios, Adolfina Del Carmen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The controversy about language instructors’ accent (i.e., the manner of pronunciation) has mainly targeted the perceptions and attitudes of learners of English as a foreign and second language (ESL/EFL). Some studies have consistently shown a tendency for learners to favour a native-speaking accent or being able to speak like a native speaker (Butler, 2007; Derwing, 2003). However, less is known about this topic in Romance language learning. The current study analyzes the attitudes and preferences learners of two Romance languages reported on how their instructors pronounced the target languages. The study also examined students’ attitudes toward their instructors’ accent on their own pronunciation and comprehension of the second language (L2). The participants were 20 third-year learners of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL); and 20 third-year learners of French as a second language (FSL) at a post-secondary institution in Canada. The data were collected through an attitudinal questionnaire (quantitative data) and a semi-structured interview (qualitative data). It was predicted that students would prefer an instructor with a native accent over an instructor with a non-native accent because of a facilitative effect on their pronunciation and comprehension of the L2. Results showed that both clusters of language learners (Spanish and French) favoured an instructor with a native accent and also showed the belief that the instructor’s native accent has a positive effect on their L2 pronunciation, but not on their L2 comprehension. Qualitative results suggested what strengths and limitations students believe each type of instructors’ accent offers for the language classroom.
Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole
Creators: name: Tchekhovskoy, Alexander
name: Narayan, Ramesh
name: McKinney, Jonathan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe global, 3D, time-dependent, non-radiative, general-relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accreting black holes (BHs). The simulations are designed to transport a large amount of magnetic flux to the center, more than the accreting gas can force into the BH. The excess magnetic flux remains outside the BH, impedes accretion, and leads to a magnetically arrested disc. We find powerful outflows. For a BH with spin parameter a = 0.5, the efficiency with which the accretion system generates outflowing energy in jets and winds is eta ~ 30%. For a = 0.99, we find eta ~ 140%, which means that more energy flows out of the BH than flows in. The only way this can happen is by extracting spin energy from the BH. Thus the a = 0.99 simulation represents an unambiguous demonstration, within an astrophysically plausible scenario, of the extraction of net energy from a spinning BH via the Penrose-Blandford-Znajek mechanism. We suggest that magnetically arrested accretion might explain observations of active galactic nuclei with apparent eta ~ few x 100%.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS, accepted
title: Safety of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Biomedical Implants and Devices
Creators: name: Baião, Diogo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Professional Issues
subject: Management
subject: Professional issues
subject: Radiographers
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Equipment
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Biological effects
subject: Education and training
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Not applicable
subject: Multicentre study

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The continuous technological evolution observed in the last 20 years has resulted in an improvement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment, used in the past mainly for experimental purposes.Today, the production of MRI equipment with...
title: Strategies for reducing alfalfa consumptive water use
title: Hydrology days 2008
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2008
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lindenmayer, Brad
name: Hansen, Neil
name: Crookston, Mark
name: Brummer, Joe
name: Jha, Ajay
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2008

description: 2008 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 26 - March 28, 2008.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: As competition builds for water resources in the Western U.S., limited irrigation strategies for crop production are emerging to conserve agricultural water for other uses or as a way to continue to produce crops under reduced water allocations. Alfalfa is a crop with potential for water savings in a limited irrigation system. The objective of this study was to evaluate potential water saving strategies for alfalfa on the Front Range of Colorado. A field study evaluated four irrigation strategies: Full Irrigation (FI), Stop Irrigation After 2nd Cutting (S2), Spring and Fall Irrigation (SF), and Stop Irrigation After 1st Cutting (S1). Changes in yield, consumptive water use (ET), water-use efficiency (WUE), stand density, and forage quality were measured. Results of the study showed that yield decreased with ET in a fashion similar to previous research. Over the two year period, average yields were reduced by 3.1, 3.5 and 6.5 Mg ha-1 compared to the FI treatment for the S2, SF, and S1 treatments, respectively. Average ET was reduced by 28.2, 27.2, 48.2 cm compared to the FI treatment for the S2, SF, and S1 treatments, respectively. WUE increased as irrigation decreased with an average WUE of 0.251, 0.327, 0.311, and 0.351 Mg ha-1 cm-1 for the FI, S2, SF, and S1 treatments, respectively. Also, the number of crowns m-2 was higher in the S2 and S1 treatments compared to the FI and SF treatments. Finally, forage quality increased as ET decreased, which may help economically offset the reduced yield. The limited irrigation of alfalfa is an approach to conserve agricultural water to meet changing water demand while still keeping an irrigated agricultural system in production.
Crystal Structure of DmdD, a Crotonase Superfamily Enzyme That Catalyzes the Hydration and Hydrolysis of Methylthioacryloyl-CoA
Creators: name: Tan, Dazhi
name: Crabb, Warren M.
name: Whitman, William B.
name: Tong, Liang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Enzymes--Structure
Crystals--Structure
Hydrolysis
Biochemistry

description: Dimethyl-sulphoniopropionate (DMSP) is produced in abundance by marine phytoplankton, and the catabolism of this compound is an important source of carbon and reduced sulfur for marine bacteria and other organisms. The enzyme DmdD catalyzes the last step in the methanethiol (MeSH) pathway of DMSP catabolism. DmdD is a member of the crotonase superfamily of enzymes, and it catalyzes both the hydration and the hydrolysis of methylthioacryloyl-CoA (MTA-CoA), converting it to acetaldehyde, CO2, MeSH, and CoA. We report here the crystal structure of Ruegeria pomeroyi DmdD free enzyme at 1.5 Å resolution and the structures of the E121A mutant in complex with MTA-CoA and 3-methylmercaptopropionate-CoA (MMPA-CoA) at 1.8 Å resolution. DmdD is a hexamer, composed of a dimer of trimers where the three monomers of each trimer are related by a crystallographic 3-fold axis. The overall structure of this hexamer is similar to those of canonical crotonases. However, the C-terminal loops of DmdD in one of the trimers assume a different conformation and contribute to CoA binding in the active site of a neighboring monomer of the trimer, while these loops in the second trimer are disordered. MTA-CoA is bound deep in the active site in the first trimer, but shows a 1.5 Å shift in its position in the second trimer. MMPA-CoA has a similar binding mode to MTA-CoA in the first trimer. MMPA-CoA cannot be hydrated and is only hydrolyzed slowly by DmdD. Replacement of the sulfur atom in MMPA-CoA with a methylene group abolishes hydrolysis, suggesting that the unique property of the substrate is a major determinant of the hydrolysis activity of DmdD.
Does provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling lead to higher HIV testing rate and HIV case finding in Rwandan clinics
Creators: name: Kayigamba, Felix R.
name: Van Santen, Daniela
name: Bakker, Mirjam I.
name: Lammers, Judith
name: Mugisha, Veronicah
name: Bagiruwigize, Emmanuel
name: De Naeyer, Ludwig
name: Asiimwe, Anita
name: Schim Van Der Loeff, Maarten F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: HIV (Viruses)--Psychological aspects
Hospitals--Outpatient services--Evaluation
HIV (Viruses)--Testing
Health services administration
Medical care

description: Background
Provider initiated HIV testing and counselling PITC is promoted as a means to increase HIV case finding. We assessed the effectiveness of PITC to increase HIV testing rate and HIV case finding among outpatients in Rwandan health facilities HF..

Methods
PITC was introduced in six HFs in 2009-2010. HIV testing rate and case finding were compared between phase 1 pre-PITC and phase 3 PITC period for outpatient-department OPD attendees only, and for OPD and voluntary counseling & testing VCT departments combined.

Results
Out of 26,367 adult OPD attendees in phase 1, 4.7 % were tested and out of 29,864 attendees in phase 3, 17.0 % were tested (p
Guigliana aliena
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Scoliidae
Guigliana
Guigliana aliena

description: Guigliana aliena (KLUG, 1832)
Trielis aliena (KLUG, 1832): SCOTT 1933 (In: BENSON et al.): 110 (Ambouli oasis).
Guigliana (Guigliana) aliena aliena (KLUG, 1832): BETREM & BRADLEY 1971: 49 (fig. 15), 69 (key ♀, tax.), 70 (tax., descr. ♂ ♀, Obock), 71 (map 10), 111 (fig. 16).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Ambouli, Obock.
Guigliana aliena is known from the Afrotropical (Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan) and Palaearctic regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 927, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
title: Comparison between ATA, ACR-TIRADS classification, subjective impression and isolated criteria of the nodule with the result of FNA
Creators: name: Pereira, Bianca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Oncology
subject: Oncologic Imaging

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Thyroid nodules are a common cause of concern among population, notably female, there detection increases to up to 50%, when ultrasound imaging are employed. The nodule is usually assessed by ultrasound examination in order to determine which of...
High-Energy Emission Induced by Ultra-High-Energy Photons as a Probe of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators Embedded in the Cosmic Web
Creators: name: Murase, Kohta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photomeson production in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) accelerators such as gamma-ray bursts and active galaxies may lead to ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray emission. We show that generation of UHE pairs in magnetized structured regions embedding the sources is inevitable, and accompanied >0.1 TeV synchrotron emission provides an important probe of UHECR acceleration. It would especially be relevant for powerful transient sources, and synchrotron pair echoes may be detected by future CTA via coordinated search for transients of duration ~0.1-1 yr for the structured regions with ~Mpc. Detections will be useful for knowing structured extragalactic magnetic fields as well as properties of the sources.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, ApJL in press, minor changes
The Theory of Reasoned Action as Parallel Constraint Satisfaction: Towards a Dynamic Computational Model of Health Behavior
Creators: name: Orr, Mark G.
name: Thrush, Roxanne
name: Plaut, David C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social influence
Human behavior
Learning
Medicine

description: The reasoned action approach, although ubiquitous in health behavior theory (e.g., Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior), does not adequately address two key dynamical aspects of health behavior: learning and the effect of immediate social context (i.e., social influence). To remedy this, we put forth a computational implementation of the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) using artificial-neural networks. Our model re-conceptualized behavioral intention as arising from a dynamic constraint satisfaction mechanism among a set of beliefs. In two simulations, we show that constraint satisfaction can simultaneously incorporate the effects of past experience (via learning) with the effects of immediate social context to yield behavioral intention, i.e., intention is dynamically constructed from both an individual’s pre-existing belief structure and the beliefs of others in the individual’s social context. In a third simulation, we illustrate the predictive ability of the model with respect to empirically derived behavioral intention. As the first known computational model of health behavior, it represents a significant advance in theory towards understanding the dynamics of health behavior. Furthermore, our approach may inform the development of population-level agent-based models of health behavior that aim to incorporate psychological theory into models of population dynamics.
title: Establishment of National Diagnostic Reference Levels for Dental Radiology
Creators: name: Brito, Andreia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Radiation Protection
subject: Professional issues
subject: Radiographers
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Equipment
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Education and training
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Retrospective
subject: Not applicable
subject: Multicentre study

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Diagnosis in dentistry can be performed using ionizing radiation, such as intraoral radiography, orthopantomography, cephalometry and cone beam CT. All these exams require the use of x-rays, which are harmful to humans, so it´s necessary to...
title: Aggregation scenarios to model water fluxes in watersheds with spatial changes in soil texture
title: Hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Soria, Jose M.
name: Leij, Feike J.
name: Angulo-Jaramillo, Rafael
name: Fuentes, Carlos
name: Haverkamp, Randel
name: Parlange, J.-Yves
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2003

description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: 23rd annual AGU hydrology days was held on March 31 - April 2, 2003 at Colorado State University.
description: Accurate knowledge of water fluxes in the vadose zone of watersheds is important for applications such as water resources management and climate forecasting. Most, if not all, largescale studies follow a pragmatic approach where simplifying assumptions have to be made regarding problem formulation and estimation of hydraulic properties. This study investigates simplifications in both regards to predict infiltration and evaporation fluxes near or at the surface for a generic, rectangular watershed consisting of sand and silt loam columns. The two-dimensional flow problem (reference scenario) as well as simplifying 1-D problems are solved with the finite-element method (FEM) for 1, 10, 100, and 1000 m widths of the flow domain and different proportions of the sand and silt loam soils. The hydraulic functions are estimated from soil texture. In the simplifying scenarios, the flow domain is either represented as an equivalent soil using a weighted particle-size distribution as previously applied in physico-empirical predictions of hydraulic properties (a priori aggregation) or as two parallel stream tubes with area-weighted contributions to the total flux (a posteriori aggregation). Substantial differences were found between the fluxes based on the "equivalent" and reference scenarios even though our approach was based on a most favorable situation where only a limited number of texturedependent hydraulic parameters were different. The "stream tube" scenario typically provided a good description of the flux according to the reference scenario except for infiltration in case of domains less than 10 m wide. No pronounced textural differences are likely to occur over such small distances and the stream tube model appears to be a viable method to describe near-surface fluxes in catchments with a spatially variable soil texture.
Improving Implementation of UN Security Council Sanctions Resolutions
Creators: name: Brewer, Jonathan
name: Nephew, Richard M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sanctions (International law)
United Nations. Security Council
International relations

description: Authors Jonathan Brewer and Richard Nephew identify key issues and obstacles faced by United Nations sanctions committees, panel members, and member states, and offer recommendations for how to solve some of these challenges, in light of the importance of sanctions as part of the UNSC policy-making process.

Following an informal survey of UN committee members and experts in late 2015 and early 2016, the authors have identified three core themes to be addressed: absence of proper training; shortage of proper analytic support, including access to technical capabilities and laboratory equipment; and inadequate education for sanctions committee members, panel experts, and member states.

In order to enhance the effectiveness of UN Security Council sanctions regimes--which offers immense international policy value given the application of sanctions in a variety of hotspots around the world--Brewer and Nephew recommend funding and implementing the following six programs:
(1) Provision of regular, specific training courses on sanctions topics;
(2) Provision of facilities and opportunities for dedicated, off-site informal discussions among sanctions committee chairs to promote information sharing on best practices, problems, and solutions;
(3) Establishment of a regular mechanism for the provision of ad hoc funding of specific requirements for sanctions implementation, similar to member state support programs for other specialized agencies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);
(4) Establishment of “matchmaking” facilities between potential donors and recipients for specific, identified projects;
(5) Development of a guidebook for member states on implementation of UNSC sanctions resolutions and, in time, dedicated training resources;
(6) Analytical papers on specific aspects of UNSC sanctions, intended to explore best practices, problems to avoid, and solutions to frequent implementation issues.
Nodal Superconducting Order Parameter and Thermodynamic Phase Diagram of (TMTSF)2ClO4
Creators: name: Yonezawa, Shingo
name: Maeno, Yoshiteru
name: Bechgaard, Klaus
name: Jerome, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The organic materials (TMTSF)2X are unique unconventional superconductors with archetypal quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) electronic structures. Here, based on our comprehensive field-angle-resolved calorimetry of (TMTSF)2ClO4, we succeeded in mapping the nodal gap structure for the first time in Q1D systems, by discriminating between the Fermi wavevectors and Fermi velocities. In addition, the thermodynamic phase diagrams of (TMTSF)2ClO4 for all principal field directions are obtained. These findings, providing strong evidence of nodal spin-singlet superconductivity, serves as solid bases for further elucidation of anomalous superconducting phenomena in (TMTSF)2X.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, including Supplemental Information added at the end of the manuscript
Conventional and inverse magnetocaloric and electrocaloric effects of a mixed spin-(1/2, 1) Heisenberg dimer
Creators: name: Vargová, Hana
name: Strečka, Jozef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mixed spin-(1/2, 1) Heisenberg dimer accounting for two different Landé $g$-factors is exactly examined in presence of external magnetic and electric field by considering exchange as well as uniaxial single-ion anisotropies. Rigorously calculated ground-state phase diagrams affirm existence of three different types of zero-temperature phase transitions accompanied with a non-zero value of a residual entropy. Presence of a magnetoelectric effect accounted within Katsura-Nagaosa-Balatsky mechanism is demonstrated through the analyzis of the magnetization and dielectric polarization in response to both external fields. The analyzis of two basic magnetocaloric characteristics, the adiabatic change of temperature and the isothermal entropy change, achieved upon variation of external fields, are exactly calculated in order to investigate the (multi)caloric behavior. The obtained results confirm existence of both conventional as well as inverse magnetocaloric effects. Utilizing the refrigeration capacity coefficient it is found that the application of an electric field during the adiabatic demagnetization process may lead to an enhancement of cooling performance in the region of conventional magnetocaloric effect. On the other hand, a sufficiently large electric field can reduce an inverse caloric effect provided that the electric-field-induced transition from the fully to partially polarized state is realized.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Leptonic and Digamma decay Properties of S-wave quarkonia states
Creators: name: Shah, Manan
name: Parmar, Arpit
name: Vinodkumar, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on Martin like potential, the S-wave masses of quarkonia have been reviewed. Resultant wave functions at zero inter quark separation are employed to compute the hyperfine splitting of the nS states and the leptonic and digamma decay widths of $n{^3S_1}$ and $n{^1S_0}$ states of quarkonia respectively. Analysis on the level differences of S-wave excited states of quantum mechanical bound systems show a systematic behaviour as n-increases. In view of such systematic behaviour expected for quarkonia, we observe that Y(4263) and X(4630) $1^{--}$ states are closer to the 4S and 6S states while $ψ(4415)$ and Z(4430) are closer to the 5S state of $c\bar{c}$ systems. Similarly we find $Υ(10865)$ is not fit to be the 5S state of $b\bar{b}$ system. while $Y_b (10880)$ observed by Belle or (10996) observed by Babar fit to be the 6S state of bottonia. Our predicted leptonic width, 0.242 keV of $Υ(10579, 4S)$ is in good agreement with the experimental value of 0.272 $\pm$ 0.029 keV. We predict the leptonic widths of the pure 5S and 6S states of upsilon states as 0.191 keV and 0.157 keV respectively. In the case of charmonia, we predict the leptonic widths of the 4S, 5S and 6S states as 0.654 keV, 0.489 keV and 0.387 keV respectively.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
title: Investigating the patient experience of using a novel microwave breast imaging device within the symptomatic breast clinic
Creators: name: Sidebottom, Richard
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Experimental
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Cancer
subject: Prospective
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: MARIA ® is a novel breast imaging device that utilises the variation in microwave permittivity of breast tissue to create an image of the internal breast structure, as described and demonstrated here [1] and here [2]. The design of MARIA ®...
Challenges for Conflict Mitigation in O-RAN's RAN Intelligent Controllers
Creators: name: Adamczyk, Cezary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The O-RAN architecture enables a more flexible and dynamic radio access network (RAN) control by separating hardware and software components. However, the distributed nature of the O-RAN architecture also presents several challenges for mitigating network control conflicts that can arise between different network elements. In this article, we identify key challenges for conflict mitigation in O-RAN networks, including reliable conflict detection, efficient maintenance of conflict mitigation configuration, optimal conflict resolution logic, testing and evaluation methodologies, and limited observability of O-RAN components. We propose solutions to these challenges, including pre-deployment conflict mitigation, conflict detection and resolution, and supervision and adaptation. The article concludes by highlighting the need for ongoing research to address these challenges and ensure effective conflict mitigation in O-RAN deployments.
description: Published in the proceedings of 2023 SoftCOM conference