cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Performance Measures for Environmental Health in North Carolina: Building On the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation Program
Creators: name: Rivers, Edward R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The formal practice of Environmental Health in North Carolina has been in existence since at least 1877 when the General Assembly formed a State Board of Health. The responsibilities of the board were to investigate the sanitary and environmental conditions related to the causes of and prevention of disease. Environmental health has been practiced in North Carolina in some form since that time, but today challenges face practitioners of environmental health that threaten to undermine the protections that have been provided for over 130 years. The North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation Program (NCLHDAP) provides performance standards for local health agencies that that include environmental health programs. These standards are general, requiring specific programs and services, but including few metrics that define and govern performance within the activities. Performance measures, including and building upon the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Standards, and the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards, would be beneficial and improve the state and consistency of practice among county environmental health departments in North Carolina. A set of performance measures are proposed that consider the program activities conducted in North Carolina, identify and acknowledge shortcomings and disparities of practice, and take into account the political climate that has recently promoted privatization of some environmental health services in the state.
title: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of solitary thyroid nodules - qualitative and quantitative evaluation: initial results
Creators: name: Petrasova, Hana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Thyroid nodules are very common. The prevalence of thyroid nodules in autopsies ranges between 8.2 and 64.6 % [1, 2]. However, less than 5.0 - 6.5 % of incidentally discovered thyroid nodules are malignant [3]. Ultrasonography (US) is the most...
United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll: Affordable Care Act
Creators: name: National Journal
name: United Technologies
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Congress action toward Affordable Care Act (1); effects of ACA on various groups (6); reason for health care exchange problems (1); reason for insurance policy cancellations (1); government treatment of uninsured population (1); ACA problems as temporary or permanent (1).
The Pregnancy Medical Home: History, Evolution and Comparison of Three States Pilot Programs
Creators: name: Schultz, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The enhanced prenatal care model, Pregnancy Medical Home (PMH) is an adaptation of thePatient Centered Medical Home, intended to improve patient experience, population health, and cost through coordinating care to high-risk pregnant women. Pregnancy Medical Home as it is known in North Carolina has been implemented in other states under different names. It is a model of enhanced prenatal care adapted according to the principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) that have been applied to primary care settings. With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, opportunities have arisen to pilot PMH programs in several states, including North Carolina. This paper will describe the application of the PMH in the context of the current obstetrical care landscape in the United States. A detailed discussion of the Pregnancy Medical Home (PMH) of North Carolina will be provided and compared with two other PMH pilot programs in Texas and Wisconsin.
Intrinsic correlations of galaxy sizes in a hydrodynamical cosmological simulation
Creators: name: Johnston, Harry
name: Westbeek, Dana Sophia
name: Weide, Sjoerd
name: Chisari, Nora Elisa
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Devriendt, Julien
name: Pichon, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Residuals between measured galactic radii and those predicted by the Fundamental Plane (FP) are possible tracers of weak lensing magnification. However, observations have shown these to be systematically correlated with the large-scale structure. We use the Horizon-AGN hydrodynamical cosmological simulation to analyse these intrinsic size correlations (ISCs) for both elliptical (early-type) and spiral (late-type) galaxies at $z=0.06$. We fit separate FPs to each sample, finding similarly distributed radius residuals, $λ$, in each case. We find persistent $λλ$ correlations over three-dimensional separations $0.5-17\,h^{-1}{\rm{Mpc}}$ in the case of spiral galaxies, at $>3σ$ significance. When relaxing a mass-selection, applied for better agreement with galaxy clustering constraints, the spiral $λλ$ detection strengthens to $9σ$; we detect a $5σ$ density-$λ$ correlation; and we observe intrinsically-large spirals to cluster more strongly than small spirals over scales $\lesssim10\,h^{-1}{\rm{Mpc}}$, at $>5σ$ significance. Conversely, and in agreement with the literature, we observe lower-mass, intrinsically-small ellipticals to cluster more strongly than their large counterparts over scales $0.5-17\,h^{-1}{\rm{Mpc}}$, at $>5σ$ significance. We model $λλ$ correlations using a phenomenological non-linear size model, and predict the level of contamination for cosmic convergence analyses. We find the systematic contribution to be of similar order to, or dominant over the cosmological signal. We make a mock measurement of an intrinsic, systematic contribution to the projected surface mass density $Σ(r)$ and find statistically significant, low-amplitude, positive (negative) contributions from lower-mass spirals (ellipticals), which may be of concern for large-scale ($\gtrsim\,7\,h^{-1}$ Mpc) measurements.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures, matches MNRAS accepted version
Structure Optimization with Stochastic Density Functional Theory
Creators: name: Chen, Ming
name: Baer, Roi
name: Rabani, Eran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear-scaling techniques for Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) are essential to describe the ground state properties of extended systems. Still, these techniques often rely on the locality of the density matrix or on accurate embedding approaches, limiting their applicability. In contrast, stochastic density functional theory (sDFT) achieves linear- and sub-linear-scaling by statistically sampling the ground state density without relying on embedding or imposing localization. In return, ground state observables, such as the forces on the nuclei, fluctuate in sDFT, making the optimization of the nuclear structure a highly non-trivial problem. In this work, we combine the most recent noise-reduction schemes for sDFT with stochastic optimization algorithms to perform structure optimization within sDFT. We compare the performance of the stochastic gradient descent (sGD) approach and its variations (stochastic gradient descent with momentum (sGDM)) to stochastic optimization techniques that rely on the Hessian, such as the stochastic Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (sBFGS) algorithm. We further provide a detailed assessment of the computational efficiency and its dependence on the optimization parameters for each methods for determining the ground state structure of bulk silicon with varying supercell dimensions.
A cross-diffusion system derived from a Fokker-Planck equation with partial averaging
Creators: name: Jüngel, Ansgar
name: Zamponi, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K45, 35K65, 35Q84

description: A cross-diffusion system for two compoments with a Laplacian structure is analyzed on the multi-dimensional torus. This system, which was recently suggested by P.-L. Lions, is formally derived from a Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density associated to a multi-dimensional Itō process, assuming that the diffusion coefficients depend on partial averages of the probability density with exponential weights. A main feature is that the diffusion matrix of the limiting cross-diffusion system is generally neither symmetric nor positive definite, but its structure allows for the use of entropy methods. The global-in-time existence of positive weak solutions is proved and, under a simplifying assumption, the large-time asymptotics is investigated.
The Influence of Insurance Status on Transfer of Patients and Hospital Length of Stay
Creators: name: Abimbola, Obafunto
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: Patients who are uninsured or underinsured have worse healthcare outcomes. Understanding how this translates to outcomes for patients in orthopedic traumas is important. There is some evidence that these patients who lack optimal insurance plans (uninsured, or government plans) may have decreased access. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate current evidence of patient treatment outcomes and then to investigate how insurance influences hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay. Systematic Review: Purpose: A review of the literature was conducted in order to investigate the current evidence of how disparities for the uninsured or government-insured patients in orthopedic traumas influenced patient treatment and management. Methods: EMBASE, MEDLINE, and COCHRANE online databases were searched for related articles. Results: Seven articles that met inclusion and exclusion criteria. A hand search resulted in the identification of an additional 2 studies. Articles assessed according to USPSTF methodology. One study had the rating of “good- very good” study quality, six studies were found to be of “good” study quality and 2 were graded as of “fair” study quality. Conclusion: This review of the evidence found that the literature on how insurance disparities influence treatment and management of trauma patients is limited to transfer of patients in orthopedics. Though limited, there is evidence that patients who are uninsured or underinsured have decreased access to care. Original Research: Purpose: To investigate the association between the quality of insurance coverage and in-hospital length of stay and intensive care unit length of stay. Methods: Retrospective cohort study using the UNC Trauma registry. Patients included were adults who had injury severity scores less than 18 and were either uninsured, Medicaid insured, or had private insurance. Statistical Analysis: Pearson’s correlation, Student’s t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and test of proportions were used to look for associations between insurance status and hospital/ICU stays, and then to examine the association of potential confounders with insurance status. Linear regression was used for analysis of the relationship. Results: Hospital mean length of stay was 6.6 days for uninsured patients, 8.4 days for Medicaid patients, and 6.4 for privately insured patients (p=0.01). Mean ICU length of stay was 4.0 for uninsured patients, 5.8 for Medicaid patients, and 6.1 for privately insured patients (p=0.2). Conclusion: In patients with minor to moderate orthopedic trauma injuries, Medicaid patients received increased amounts of care, as demonstrated by longer hospital stays. However, there was no difference in intensive care stays by insurance group.
title: 99mTc-Tetrofosmin liver uptake in pre liver transplant patients and patients with no history of liver disease
Creators: name: Mannelli, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: SPECT
subject: Physiological studies
subject: Transplantation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Liver resection represents the first choice of treatment for primary and secondary liver malignancies, giving the patient the best chance of long-term survival. Advances in hepatic surgical technique, perioperative care and improvements in patient...
Evaluating Community Medicine Education for Residents and Medical Students: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: House, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Purpose. In recent years, primary care residency teaching has become increasingly focused on teaching community medicine skills. The approaches for teaching community medicine to residents are extremely varied and difficult to evaluate. The purpose of this paper is to explore and summarize the existing methods for the evaluation of community medicine education of medical students and residents. Methods. A PubMed literature search was undertaken using the following MESH terms: (internship and residency OR medical students OR graduate medical education OR medical education) AND (curriculum OR models, educational OR clinical clerkship/methods) AND (program evaluation OR assessment) AND (community oriented primary care OR community medicine/education) AND (Primary Health Care OR Family Practice). Evaluation methods were divided into six subtypes based on Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluation adapted for medical education. Results. The majority of literature described programs which used a combination of methods for evaluation, but only four papers indicated using validated instruments. The three most commonly reported evaluation methods were: acquisition of knowledge and skills (Kirkpatrick level 2b), reaction/satisfaction data (level 1), and change in attitudes/perceptions (level 2a). A modest number of papers described measuring a change in practice (level 4a) or a change in behavior (level 3). Only five studies looked at patient or community outcome data (level 4b) to determine the efficacy of their community medicine education. Conclusions. Methods currently used for the evaluation of community medicine education among residents and medical students vary greatly and are of questionable validity. Further research is necessary to establish an effective and reliable means of assessing community health education in the medical setting.
Probability density functions for the variable solar wind near the solar cycle minimum
Creators: name: Vörös
name: Z.
name: Leitner, M.
name: Narita, Y.
name: Consolini, G.
name: Kovács, P.
name: Tóth, A.
name: Lichtenberger, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unconditional and conditional statistics is used for studying the histograms of magnetic field multi-scale fluctuations in the solar wind near the solar cycle minimum in 2008. The unconditional statistics involves the magnetic data during the whole year 2008. The conditional statistics involves the magnetic field time series splitted into concatenated subsets of data according to a threshold in dynamic pressure. The threshold separates fast stream leading edge compressional and trailing edge uncompressional fluctuations. The histograms obtained from these data sets are associated with both large-scale (B) and small-scale (δB) magnetic fluctuations, the latter corresponding to time-delayed differences. It is shown here that, by keeping flexibility but avoiding the unnecessary redundancy in modeling, the histograms can be effectively described by a limited set of theoretical probability distribution functions (PDFs), such as the normal, log-normal, kappa and logkappa functions. In a statistical sense the model PDFs correspond to additive and multiplicative processes exhibiting correlations. It is demonstrated here that the skewed small-scale histograms inherent in turbulent cascades are better described by the skewed log-kappa than by the symmetric kappa model. Nevertheless, the observed skewness is rather small, resulting in potential difficulties of estimation of the third-order moments. This paper also investigates the dependence of the statistical convergence of PDF model parameters, goodness of fit and skewness on the data sample size. It is shown that the minimum lengths of data intervals required for the robust estimation of parameters is scale, process and model dependent.
description: 38 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2015
title: Relationship between fibers type changes and muscle architecture in rat gastrocnemius after aerobic exercise
Creators: name: André, Alexandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Experimental
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal system

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The maintenance of skeletal muscle architecture is essential for contraction and performance. In previous works we demonstrated that aerobic exercise changes skeletal muscle fiber type. The arrangement of fibers within a muscle is an important...
Millisecond-lived circular Rydberg atoms in a room-temperature experiment
Creators: name: Wu, Haiteng
name: Richaud, Rémi
name: Raimond, Jean-Michel
name: Brune, Michel
name: Gleyzes, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Circular Rydberg states are ideal tools for quantum technologies, with huge mutual interactions and extremely long lifetimes in the tens of milliseconds range, two orders of magnitude larger than those of laser-accessible Rydberg states. However, such lifetimes are observed only at zero temperature. At room temperature, blackbody-radiation-induced transfers annihilate this essential asset of circular states, which have thus been used mostly so far in specific, complex cryogenic experiments. We demonstrate here, on a laser-cooled atomic sample, a circular state lifetime of more than one millisecond at room temperature for a principal quantum number 60. The inhibition structure is a simple plane-parallel capacitor that efficiently inhibits the blackbody-radiation-induced transfers. One of the capacitor electrodes is fully transparent and provides complete optical access to the atoms, an essential feature for applications. This experiment paves the way to a wide use of circular Rydberg atoms for quantum metrology and quantum simulation.
Enhanced Acoustic Emission in Relation to the Acoustic Halo Surrounding Active Region 11429
Creators: name: Hanson, Chris S.
name: Donea, Alina C.
name: Leka, K. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of acoustic holography in the high-frequency $p$-mode spectrum can resolve the source distributions of enhanced acoustic emissions within halo structures surrounding active regions. In doing so, statistical methods can then be applied to ascertain relationships with the magnetic field. This is the focus of this study. The mechanism responsible for the detected enhancement of acoustic sources around solar active regions has not yet been explained. Furthermore the relationship between the magnetic field and enhanced acoustic emission has not yet been comprehensively examined. We have used vector magnetograms from the \Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on-board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to image the magnetic-field properties in the halo. We have studied the acoustic morphology of an active region, with a complex halo and "glories," and we have linked some acoustic properties to the magnetic-field configuration. In particular, we find that acoustic sources are significantly enhanced in regions of intermediate field strength with inclinations no different from the distributions found in the quiet Sun. Additionally we have identified a transition region between the active region and the halo, in which the acoustic source power is hindered by inclined fields of intermediate field strength. Finally, we have compared the results of acoustic emission maps, calculated from holography, and the commonly used local acoustic maps, finding that the two types of maps have similar properties with respect to the magnetic field but lack spatial correlation when examining the highest-powered regions.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, Accepted by Solar Physics
Cabarrus Health Alliance: A Local Health Department Implementing the Core Functions of Public Health
Creators: name: Lawrence, Judith Lynn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Every county in North Carolina must attempt to meet the public health needs of its citizens. State law requires that each county government accomplish these core functions: assess the county's health needs, assure that those needs are being met, and develop policy to improve the health of its citizens. Cabarrus County has chosen to accomplish those core functions in a unique and different way. In 1997, the Cabarrus County Health Department became the Cabarrus Health Alliance (CHA) in an effort to accomplish more in the area of public health. Throughout the years that it has existed as the Alliance, CHA has faced many challenges. It continues to serve the population by providing essential services which include Environmental Health, vital statistics, Communicable Disease surveillance and prevention, and Maternal and Child health services. Grants have provided many opportunities to expand the Health Initiatives department that reaches out to the public not only with unique educational opportunities for prevention of disease, but also to provide services that would not otherwise be funded. In working with the Health Cabarrus Board, CHA has assisted in determining the health needs of the county in order to decide how best to meet those needs. The purpose of this paper is to explain how the Cabarrus Health Alliance works to achieve the core functions of public health: assessment, assurance, and policy development. The organizational changes of the agency will also be reviewed.
title: Rectal vascular supply anatomical variability- prognostic factor of lateral node metastasis in patients with rectal cancer?
Creators: name: Ananyeva, Natalia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Colon
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: - to study special aspects of rectal blood supply and lymphatic drainage. - to analyze correlation between rectal vascular supply individualities and occurrence of lateral lymph node...
Formation History of HD106906 and the Vertical Warping of Debris Disks by an External Inclined Companion
Creators: name: Moore, Nathaniel W. H.
name: Li, Gongjie
name: Hassenzahl, Lee
name: Nesvold, Erika R.
name: Naoz, Smadar
name: Adams, Fred C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HD106906 is a planetary system that hosts a wide-orbit companion, as well as an eccentric and flat debris disk, which hold important constraints on its formation and subsequent evolution. The recent observations of the companion constrain its orbit to be eccentric and inclined relative to the plane of the debris disk. Here, we show that, in the presence of the inclined companion, the debris disk quickly ($\lesssim5$ Myr) becomes warped and puffy. This suggests that the current configuration of the system is relatively recent. We explore the possibility that a recent close encounter with a free floating planet could produce a companion with orbital parameters that agree with observations of HD106906b. We find that this scenario is able to recreate the structure of the debris disk while producing a companion in agreement with observation.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Workplace Violence: The Role of Occupational and Environmental Health Nurses
Creators: name: Fudale, Donna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Violence is a threat to everyone regardless of age or occupation. Workplace violence, when assaults and suicides are included, accounted for 17% of all work-related fatal occupational injuries in 2011 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, [BLS], 2011b). Incidents such as stalking, harassment, and/or bullying may go unreported. Unfortunately, the scope of workplace violence (WPV) is not currently captured by any designated organization. Depending on the nature and severity of the incident, costs from lost work time, wages, diminished productivity, medical costs, workers compensation claims, fines, counseling, training replacement workers, cleaning, remodeling/ refurbishing the impacted area, increased insurance costs, legal, and security expenses can only be estimated but are likely to run in the billions of dollars. Recommendations for high risk industries and occupations, such as health care settings, late-night retail establishments, and security and police officers have been made for violence prevention (Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA], n.d.). The white collar, business environment needs to establish strategies and response plans to ensure a safe environment for employees as well, starting with a threat/risk assessment. Violence prevention plans, which are composed of environmental, administrative, training and social components, will be addressed along with the creation of threat response team (TRT). Occupational and Environmental Health Nurses (OHNs), due to their relationship with the workforce and their role in the business, are in position to address workplace violence. They, as an essential member of a TRT, can respond to potentially dangerous employees, abusive partners, and violent customers. By advocating for violence reduction programs in the community, OHNs can assist in creating a safer and healthier environment for current and future employees.
Transient effects in Herschel/PACS spectroscopy
Creators: name: Fadda, Dario
name: Jacobson, Jeffery D.
name: Appleton, Philip N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ge:Ga detectors used in the PACS spectrograph onboard the Herschel space telescope react to changes of the incident flux with a certain delay. This generates transient effects on the resulting signal which can be important and last for up to an hour. The paper presents a study of the effects of transients on the detected signal and proposes methods to mitigate them especially in the case of the "unchopped" mode. Since transients can arise from a variety of causes, we classified them in three main categories: transients caused by sudden variations of the continuum due to the observational mode used; transients caused by cosmic ray impacts on the detectors; transients caused by a continuous smooth variation of the continuum during a wavelength scan. We propose a method to disentangle these effects and treat them separately. In particular, we show that a linear combination of three exponential functions is needed to fit the response variation of the detectors during a transient. An algorithm to detect, fit, and correct transient effects is presented. The solution proposed to correct the signal for the effects of transients substantially improves the quality of the final reduction with respect to the standard methods used for archival reduction in the case where transient effects are most pronounced. The programs developed to implement the corrections are offered through two new interactive data reduction pipelines in the latest releases of the Herschel Interactive Processing Environment.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press
Target effects in negative-continuum assisted dielectronic recombination
Creators: name: Yerokhin, V. A.
name: Artemyev, A. N.
name: Shabaev, V. M.
name: Stöhlker, Th.
name: Surzhykov, A.
name: Fritzsche, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of recombination of a quasi-free electron into a bound state of an initially bare nucleus with the simultaneous creation of a bound-electron--free-positron pair is investigated. This process is called the negative-continuum assisted dielectronic recombination (NCDR). In a typical experimental setup, the initial electron is not free but bound in a light atomic target. In the present work, we study the effects of the atomic target on the single and double-differential cross sections of the positron production in the NCDR process. The calculations are performed within the relativistic framework based on QED theory, with accounting for the electron-electron interaction to first order in perturbation theory. We demonstrate how the momentum distribution of the target electrons removes the non-physical singularity of the differential cross section which occurs for the initially free and monochromatic electrons.
Treatment of the Rural Substance Abusing Gravida: A Model for Collaboration
Creators: name: Richardson, Claudia Weaver
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Treatment of pregnant women abusing illicit substances and alcohol during pregnancy remains challenging-especially in rural areas. Limited resources and large geographic service delivery areas hinder even the most idealistic program to effectively care for these women. With increasing budget constraints, the likelihood of funding for new, highly integrated programming is unlikely. A more realistic approach, based upon the collaboration of existing service providers may show greater promise. Such a model is presented here utilizing existing providers in North Carolina.
Escritura académica (I de IV) : optimizar tu espacio y tu rutina de trabajo
Creators: name: Torres-Salinas, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: escritura académica

description: Página web del curso https://sites.google.com/go.ugr.es/torressalinas/escritura En esta sesión, abordaremos la importancia de un espacio de trabajo adecuado, tanto físico como mental, para fomentar la concentración y el trabajo eficaz. Asimismo, repasaremos de manera general qué herramientas están a nuestra disposición y cuáles debemos conocer para afrontar un proceso completo de escritura en un contexto digital (procesadores, anotadores, almacenamiento, inteligencia artificial…). En una tercera parte, nos centraremos en técnicas de Deep Focus que nos permitan trabajar y escribir con un mayor rendimiento, alejados de las distracciones habituales. En definitiva, esta sesión promete no solo informar sino también mejorar tu proceso de redacción de textos académicos. Itinerario: El curso de escritura académica tiene como objetivo introducir diferentes conocimientos técnicos e intelectuales que debemos desarrollar para conseguir escribir con fluidez textos de carácter académico y científico (libros, informes, artículos, blogs, etc.). Este curso está compuesto por cuatro sesiones que se impartirán a lo largo de 2023/2024. El currículum está compuesto por las siguientes sesiones: Escritura académica(I)- Optimizar tu espacio y tu rutina de trabajo Escritura académica (II) – Iniciación a MS Word a Nivel Experto Escritura académica (III) – Leer, anotar, almacenar y recuperar Escritura académica (IV) – Estructuración y organización del texto
title:  Automating the judicial system: embracing artificial intelligence for transparency and efficiency
Creators: name: Saidakhrarovich  ,  Gulyamov Said
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2023

description: This article describes the mechanism for using artificial intelligence (AI) in leg- islative, executive and judicial activities, defines the goals, objectives and functions of AI, as well as the positive and negative aspects of its implementation in the state management system. The author argues that the use of AI in the legal field can help increase transparency, fairness and efficiency of the judicial process, and can also contribute to the development of new human rights, such as the predictability of the law and the right to peace of mind. The article also high- lights the risks associated with the use of AI in the legal field, such as the possibility of dehu- manizing the justice system, the need to establish ethical, legal and technological principles for the implementation of AI in the judicial process.
description: Roma Tre Law Review – 01/2023
title: CT features and pathological correlation of primitive neuroectodermal tumour of the kidney
Creators: name: Xing, Jingjing
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of the study was to analyze the computed tomography (CT) findings of primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of the kidney and correlate them...
Lattice regularizations of $θ$ vacua: Anomalies and qubit models
Creators: name: Nguyen, Mendel
name: Singh, Hersh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anomalies are a powerful way to gain insight into possible lattice regularizations of a quantum field theory. In this work, we argue that the continuum anomaly for a given symmetry can be matched by a manifestly-symmetric, local, lattice regularization in the same spacetime dimensionality only if (i) the symmetry action is offsite, or (ii) if the continuum anomaly is reproduced exactly on the lattice. We consider lattice regularizations of a class of prototype models of QCD: the (1+1)-dimensional asymptotically-free Grassmannian nonlinear sigma models (NLSMs) with a $θ$ term. Using the Grassmannian NLSMs as a case study, we provide examples of lattice regularizations in which both possibilities are realized. For possibility (i), we argue that Grassmannian NLSMs can be obtained from $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ antiferromagnets with a well-defined continuum limit, reproducing both the infrared physics of $θ$ vacua and the ultraviolet physics of asymptotic freedom. These results enable the application of new classical algorithms to lattice Monte Carlo studies of these quantum field theories, and provide a viable realization suited for their quantum simulation. On the other hand, we show that, perhaps surprisingly, the conventional lattice regularization of $θ$ vacua due to Berg and Lüscher reproduces the anomaly exactly on the lattice, providing a realization of the second possibility.
description: 10 pages + appendices
Simulation-based assessment of human centric lighting performance in tropical hospitals
Creators: name: Chen, Hong Yu
name: Chien, Szu-Cheng
name: Yong, Sam Kah Teck
name: Yeh, I-Ling
name: Fan, Peijin Esther Monica
name: Seah, Qian Hui Vivia
name: Leow, Wen Xin Beverly
name: Liyana, Nur
name: Ng, Lit Soo
name: Aloweni, Fazila
name: Leow, Leong Chai
name: Phua, Ghee Chee
name: Ang, Shin Yuh
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420319
subject: Primary health care

description: Recent research studies have proven that in a healing environment, good quality of lighting is essential to create a comfortable environment for patients to rest and recuperate, which can enhance their circadian rhythm, leading to improvement in the health of patients and this reduces their vulnerability to develop serious complications which could affect the healing process. Therefore, this study aims to examine Human Centric Lighting (HCL) performance of a retrofitted tropical hospital ward via a spectral raytracing simulation tool-ALFA. The simulation results will serve as a solid basis for developing the HCL recipe for the ward in temporal and spatial approach.
Identification of target system operations. Development of global efficiency criterion of target operations
Creators: name: Lutsenko, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 74P

description: Guaranteed maximization of financial returns from economic structures is only possible if all of its systems are focused on selecting target operations with maximum efficiency. Is it possible? Any system is created to enhance the value of output products of the system operation. Thus, two products: a consumer product that has value to the customer and the target product (value added), rewarding manufacturer of consumer value are formed at the output of the managed system. If the management system has degrees of freedom, obtaining a consumer product with desired quality characteristics can be achieved with various management modes, each corresponding to their costs, results and operation time. All that is necessary is to be able to evaluate the efficiency of the operation based on its basic indicators, available for any operation. Efficiency formula, which can be used to assess any target operation, including with distributed parameters was obtained. In this case, it is necessary to use numerical methods. As applied to the model of the simple operation, efficiency formula is extremely simple. To use it, it is necessary to get only three parameters from the system under study: the cost estimate of input products of the operation, the cost estimate of output products of the operation and the operation time. Since these basic indicators are available in absolutely any system, they can all be oriented to achieve the global goao - the maximum resource efficiency.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
A light in the dark: searching for electromagnetic counterparts to black hole-black hole mergers in LIGO/Virgo O3 with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Creators: name: Graham, Matthew J.
name: McKernan, Barry
name: Ford, K. E. Saavik
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Djorgovski, S. G.
name: Coughlin, Michael
name: Burdge, Kevin B.
name: Bellm, Eric C.
name: Helou, George
name: Mahabal, Ashish A.
name: Masci, Frank J.
name: Purdum, Josiah
name: Rosnet, Philippe
name: Rusholme, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising locations for the merger of compact objects detected by gravitational wave (GW) observatories. Embedded within a baryon-rich, high density environment, mergers within AGN are the only GW channel where an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart must occur (whether detectable or not). Considering AGN with unusual flaring activity observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), we describe a search for candidate EM counterparts to binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO/Virgo in O3. After removing probable false positives, we find nine candidate counterparts to BBH mergers mergers during O3 (seven in O3a, two in O3b) with a $p$-value of 0.019. Based on ZTF sky coverage, AGN geometry, and merger geometry, we expect $\approx 3(N_{\rm BBH}/83)(f_{\rm AGN}/0.5)$ potentially detectable EM counterparts from O3, where $N_{\rm BBH}$ is the total number of observed BBH mergers and $f_{\rm AGN}$ is the fraction originating in AGN. Further modeling of breakout and flaring phenomena in AGN disks is required to reduce our false positive rate. Two of the events are also associated with mergers with total masses $> 100M_\odot$, which is the expected rate for O3 if hierarchical (large mass) mergers occur in the AGN channel. Candidate EM counterparts in future GW observing runs can be better constrained by coverage of the Southern sky as well as spectral monitoring of unusual AGN flaring events in LIGO/Virgo alert volumes. A future set of reliable AGN EM counterparts to BBH mergers will yield an independent means of measuring cosmic expansion ($H_0$) as a function of redshift.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures, submitted to ApJ
Sociological Study of University of Columbia
Creators: name: Williamson Student Study
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Estimated monthly living expenses; weekly hours worked; standard of living compared to past; social class belong to and aspire to; method of choosing a career; career plans; projected salary in chosen profession; estimated percent of classmates who will find employment upon graduating; past or intended changes in career plans; assessment of family's attitude toward chosen career; number of friends in respondent's chosen career and their satisfaction with same; study habits; qualities of an outstanding professor, various listed departments and universities; preference for hired or chaired professorships; purpose of and attitude toward student strikes; evaluation of various listed university services; religiosity of respondent and family members; concept of God; effect of religion on national problems; belief in chastity until marriage, indissolubility of marriage; religious instruction received; favorite recreation; frequency of movie-going, playing sports; newspaper preference; friends and
Drug and Supplement Regulation in America: Divergent Systems Lead to Health Dangers
Creators: name: Barr, Heather
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Dietary supplements consumed by many in the United States can seriously interact with other drugs and/or medications having potentially lethal side effects. Such supplements are marketed with little regulatory oversight from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As many supplements are taken for their health effects, as are drugs and medications, the regulations imposed by the FDA on drugs should be examined and comparative regulation developed for supplements. A comparison of the two systems of regulation leads to the logical conclusion that supplements should be regulated in a manner similar to over-the-counter drugs.
title: Breast tissue late enhancement 1 hour after Gd-BOPTA i.v. administration: observational study
Creators: name: Marra, Rosa Speranza
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Contrast agents
subject: MR
subject: Technical aspects

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Liver imaging in hepato-biliary phase,60 minutes after i.v. Gd-BOPTA administration, is now part in the routine liver imaging for identification and characterization of liver lesions or after biliary surgery,and is thought to be due to 4-5% biliary...
GOALS-JWST: Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Nucleus of NGC 7469
Creators: name: Armus, L.
name: Lai, T.
name: U, V.
name: Larson, K. L.
name: Diaz-Santos, T.
name: Evans, A. S.
name: Malkan, M. A.
name: Rich, J.
name: Medling, A. M.
name: law, D. R.
name: Inami, H.
name: Muller-Sanchez, F.
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: der Werf, P. can
name: Stierwalt, S.
name: Linden, S.
name: Privon, G. C.
name: Barcos-Munoz, L.
name: Hayward, C.
name: Song, Y.
name: Appleton, P.
name: Aalto, S.
name: Bohn, T.
name: Boker, T.
name: Brown, M. J. I.
name: Finnerty, L.
name: Howell, J.
name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Kemper, F.
name: Marshall, J.
name: Mazzarella, J. M.
name: McKinney, J.
name: Murphy, E. J.
name: Sanders, D.
name: Surace, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present mid-infrared spectroscopic observations of the nucleus of the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469 taken with the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of Directors Discretionary Time Early Release Science (ERS) program 1328. The high resolution nuclear spectrum contains 19 emission lines covering a wide range of ionization. The high ionization lines show broad, blueshifted emission reaching velocities up to 1700 km s$^{-1}$ and FWHM ranging from $\sim500 - 1100$ km s$^{-1}$. The width of the broad emission and the broad to narrow line flux ratios correlate with ionization potential. The results suggest a decelerating, stratified, AGN driven outflow emerging from the nucleus. The estimated mass outflow rate is one to two orders of magnitude larger than the current black hole accretion rate needed to power the AGN. Eight pure rotational H$_{2}$ emission lines are detected with intrinsic widths ranging from FWHM $\sim 125-330$ km s$^{-1}$. We estimate a total mass of warm H$_{2}$ gas of $\sim1.2\times10^{7}$M$_{\odot}$ in the central 100 pc. The PAH features are extremely weak in the nuclear spectrum, but a $6.2μ$m PAH feature with an equivalent width $\sim0.07μ$m and a flux of $2.7\times10^{-17}$ W m$^{-2}$ is detected. The spectrum is steeply rising in the mid-infrared, with a silicate strength $\sim0.02$, significantly smaller than seen in most PG QSOs, but comparable to other Seyfert 1's. These early MIRI mid-infrared IFU data highlight the power of JWST to probe the multi-phase interstellar media surrounding actively accreting supermassive black holes.
research data and code management - an introduction
Creators: name: Riedl, Lydia
name: Löhden, Eike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: research data
research software
code
data management
code management
open science
open data
open code
reproducibility

description: Research is increasingly computational, data-driven, and collaborative.
 The increasing size of digital research data that are generated or collected in almost every research project requires us to be more responsible, proactive data managers.
 We are faced with the challenge of not only managing and documenting these data, but also preserving them and making them available for reuse.
 In addition, more and more automated (analysis) pipelines are playing a role in modern research. Therefore, code management is becoming more and more essential in research to ensure the reproducibility of results, as it allows for the systematic organization, version control, and sharing of the software and algorithms. While data and code management can sound like a lot of work for little payoff, managing our research data well actually provides a lot of personal and practical benefits. Well managed and well described data is easier to sort through, access, and understand, making our research project more efficient. Data Management protects against data loss and - increasingly important - publication retractions, possibly sparing you a frustrating experience. This workshop will focused on best practices for managing digital research data.