cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Injury Patterns, Imaging Usage, and Disparities Associated With Car Restraint Use in Children
Creators: name: McCauley, Christopher J.
name: Schiro, Sharon E.
name: McLean, Sean E.
name: Nakayama, Don K.
name: Purcell, Laura N.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2023

description: Background Motor vehicle collision (MVC) is a leading cause of accidental death in children. Despite effective forms of child safety restraint (eg, car seat and booster seat), studies demonstrate poor compliance with guidelines. The goal of this study was to delineate injury patterns, imaging usage, and potential demographic disparities associated with child restraint use following MVC. Methods A retrospective review of the North Carolina Trauma Registry was performed to determine demographic factors and outcomes associated with improper restraint of children (0-8 years) involved in MVC from 2013 to 2018. Bivariate analysis was performed by the appropriateness of restraint. Multivariable Poisson regression identified demographic factors for the relative risk of inappropriate restraint. Results Inappropriately restrained patients were older (5.1 years v. 3.6 yrs, P < .001) and weighed more (44.1 lbs v. 35.3 lbs, P < .001). A higher proportion of African American (56.9% v. 39.3%, P < .001) and Medicaid (52.2% v. 39.0%, P < .001) patients were inappropriately restrained. Multivariable Poisson regression showed that African American patients (RR 1.43), Asian patients (RR 1.51), and Medicaid payor status (RR 1.25) were associated with a higher risk of inappropriate restraint. Inappropriately restrained patients had a longer length of stay, but injury severity score and mortality were no different. Discussion African American children, Asian children, and Medicaid insurance payor status patients had an increased risk of inappropriate restraint use in MVC. This study describes unequal restraint patterns in children, which suggests opportunity for targeted patient education and necessitates research to further delineate the underlying etiology of these differences.
On the logical strengths of partial solutions to mathematical problems
Creators: name: Bienvenu, Laurent
name: Patey, Ludovic
name: Shafer, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03B30, 03F35

description: We use the framework of reverse mathematics to address the question of, given a mathematical problem, whether or not it is easier to find an infinite partial solution than it is to find a complete solution. Following Flood, we say that a Ramsey-type variant of a problem is the problem with the same instances but whose solutions are the infinite partial solutions to the original problem. We study Ramsey-type variants of problems related to König's lemma, such as restrictions of König's lemma, Boolean satisfiability problems, and graph coloring problems. We find that sometimes the Ramsey-type variant of a problem is strictly easier than the original problem (as Flood showed with weak König's lemma) and that sometimes the Ramsey-type variant of a problem is equivalent to the original problem. We show that the Ramsey-type variant of weak König's lemma is robust in the sense of Montalban: it is equivalent to several perturbations of itself. We also clarify the relationship between Ramsey-type weak König's lemma and algorithmic randomness by showing that Ramsey-type weak weak König's lemma is equivalent to the problem of finding diagonally non-recursive functions and that these problems are strictly easier than Ramsey-type weak König's lemma. This answers a question of Flood.
description: 43 pages
Remembering Friend, Mentor, and Scholar Sam Bass Warner Jr., 1928–2023
Creators: name: Vale, Lawrence
name: Whittemore, Andrew
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description: For the urban historian, it is heartening to see awareness of the injustices of urban renewal, redlining, freeway siting, and other historic practices figure prominently in public conversations today—recognition of our turbulent urban and planning history is even beginning to inform governments’ current policies. Sam Bass Warner Jr. was among the first group of scholars to turn a critical eye on the historical development of American cities, and works of his, including Streetcar Suburbs (1962), The Private City (1968), and The Urban Wilderness (1972), became seminal pieces in the nascent, largely uncharted field of American urban and planning history during the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with these influential debuts, Sam’s six-decade career remained dedicated to bringing urban and planning history out of obscurity and into the place we see it today.
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Creators: name: Vfer Jkt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

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The cutoff profile for the simple exclusion process on the circle
Creators: name: Lacoin, Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we give a very accurate description of the way the simple exclusion process relaxes to equilibrium. Let $P_t$ denote the semi-group associated the exclusion on the circle with $2N$ sites and $N$ particles. For any initial condition $χ$, and for any $t\ge\frac{4N^2}{9π^2}\log N$, we show that the probability density $P_t(χ,\cdot)$ is given by an exponential tilt of the equilibrium measure by the main eigenfunction of the particle system. As $\frac{4N^2}{9π^2}\log N$ is smaller than the mixing time which is $\frac{N^2}{2π^2}\log N$, this allows to give a sharp description of the cutoff profile: if $d_N(t)$ denote the total-variation distance starting from the worse initial condition we have \[\lim_{N\to\infty}d_N\biggl(\frac{N^2}{2π^2}\log N+\frac{N^2}{π^2}s\biggr)=\operatorname {erf}\biggl(\frac{\sqrt{2}}πe^{-s}\biggr),\] where $\operatorname {erf}$ is the Gauss error function.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOP1053 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Quantales, generalised premetrics and free locales
Creators: name: Bruno, J.
name: Szeptycki, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Premetrics and premetrisable spaces have been long studied and their topological interrelationships are well-understood. Consider the category ${\bf Pre}$ of premetric spaces and $ε$-$δ$ continuous functions as morphisms. The absence of the triangle inequality implies that the faithful functor ${\bf Pre} \to {\bf Top}$ - where a premetric space is sent to the topological space it generates - is not full. Moreover, the sequential nature of topological spaces generated from objects in ${\bf Pre}$ indicates that this functor is not surjective on objects either. Developed from work by Flagg and Weiss, we illustrate an extension ${\bf Pre}\hookrightarrow {\bf P} $ together with a faithful and surjective on objects left adjoint functor ${\bf P} \to {\bf Top}$ as an extension of ${\bf Pre} \to {\bf Top}$. We show this represents an optimal scenario given that ${\bf Pre} \to {\bf Top}$ preserves coproducts only. The objects in ${\bf P}$ are metric-like objects valued on value distributive lattices whose limits and colimits we show to be generated by free locales on discrete sets.
description: General Topology, Category Theory, Premetrics, premetrizable spaces, free locale, quantales, continuity spaces, premetrics
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND KINESIOPHOBIA LEVELS IN ACLR PATIENTS
Creators: name: Schulz, Madeline Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Athletes frequently report psychological distress as a factor in failure to return to sport following an ACL reconstruction (ACLR). To improve rehabilitation following ACLR it is necessary to determine the associations between anxiety, depression, and kinesiophobia throughout ACLR rehabilitation. Participants (n= 42) completed the State-Trait Anxiety Index prior to surgery, PROMIS anxiety and depression surveys at 6- and 12 months post-operation, and the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia-11 at 12 months post-operation. Greater anxiety and depression scores at 6 months were associated with greater anxiety and depression scores at 12 months. Greater anxiety and depression scores at 12 months were weakly associated with greater TSK-11 scores at 12 months. Greater pre-operative state and trait scores were associated with each other. Anxiety, depression, and fear of reinjury exist during the first 12 months of ACLR rehabilitation and should be addressed during formal rehabilitation.
Delta-Sarcoglycan Gene Therapy Halts Progression of Cardiac Dysfunction, Improves Respiratory Failure, and Prolongs Life in Myopathic Hamsters
Creators: name: Ellisman, Mark H.
name: Powell, Frank L.
name: Fu, Zhenxing
name: Hayashi, Takeharu
name: Ross, John
name: Hoshijima, Masahiko
name: Gu, Yusu
name: Dalton, Nancy D.
name: Jeon, Young E.
name: Xiao, Xiao
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The BIO14.6 hamster provides a useful model of hereditary cardiomyopathies and muscular dystrophy. Previous delta-sarcoglycan (δSG) gene therapy (GT) studies were limited to neonatal and young adult animals, and prevented the development of cardiac and skeletal muscle dysfunction. GT of a pseudo-phosphorylated mutant of phospholamban (S16EPLN) moderately alleviated the progression of cardiomyopathy.
A drag-and-drop proof tactic
Creators: name: Donato, Pablo
name: Strub, Pierre-Yves
name: Werner, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We explore the features of a user interface where formal proofs can be built through gestural actions. In particular, we show how proof construction steps can be associated to drag-and-drop actions. We argue that this can provide quick and intuitive proof construction steps. This work builds on theoretical tools coming from deep inference. It also resumes and integrates some ideas of the former proof-by-pointing project.
Role of Coronin 1B in PDGF-Induced Migration of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Creators: name: Pounkova, Lily
name: Bear, James E.
name: Adamo, Candace M.
name: San Martín, Alejandra
name: Williams, Holly C.
name: Lassègue, Bernard
name: Datla, Srinivasan Raju
name: Seidel-Rogol, Bonnie
name: Griendling, Kathy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The type I subclass of Coronins, a family of actin binding proteins, regulates various actin dependent cellular processes including migration. However, the existence and role of coronins in vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) migration has yet to be determined.
The observation of quantum fluctuations in a kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Lu, Fangjun
name: Yuan, Long
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Li, Boqiang
name: Luo, Yongkang
name: Li, Yuesheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for the experimental evidence of quantum spin liquid (QSL) states is critical but extremely challenging, as the quenched interaction randomness introduced by structural imperfection is usually inevitable in real materials. YCu$_3$(OH)$_{6.5}$Br$_{2.5}$ (YCOB) is a spin-1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet (KHA) with strong coupling of $\langle J_1\rangle\sim$ 51 K but without conventional magnetic freezing down to 50 mK $\sim$ 0.001$\langle J_1\rangle$. Here, we report a Br nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of the local spin susceptibility and dynamics on the single crystal of YCOB. The temperature dependence of NMR main-line shifts and broadening can be well understood within the frame of the KHA model with randomly distributed hexagons of alternate exchanges, compatible with the formation of a randomness-induced QSL state at low temperatures. The in-plane spin fluctuations as measured by the spin-lattice relaxation rates ($1/T_1$) exhibit a weak temperature dependence down to $T$ $\sim$ 0.03$\langle J_1\rangle$. Our results demonstrate that the majority of spins remain highly fluctuating at low temperatures despite the quenched disorder in YCOB.
description: NMR work on YCu3(OH)6.5Br2.5, accepted in Communications Physics
Deterministic replica-exchange method without pseudo random numbers for simulations of complex systems
Creators: name: Urano, Ryo
name: Okamoto, Yuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a replica-exchange method (REM) which does not use pseudo random numbers. For this purpose, we first give a conditional probability for Gibbs sampling replica-exchange method (GSREM) based on the heat bath method. In GSREM, replica exchange is performed by conditional probability based on the weight of states using pseudo random numbers. From the conditional probability, we propose a new method called deterministic replica-exchange method (DETREM) that produces thermal equilibrium distribution based on a differential equation instead of using pseudo random numbers. This method satisfies the detailed balance condition using a conditional probability of Gibbs heat bath method and thus results can reproduce the Boltzmann distribution within the condition of the probability. We confirmed that the equivalent results were obtained by REM and DETREM with two-dimensional Ising model. DETREM can avoid problems of choice of seeds in pseudo random numbers for REM using a differential equation.
description: 12 pages, 1 table, 11 figures, auto-correlation function and time series of internal state are added
Measurement of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive $pp \rightarrow W + X$ production at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV at CMS and an improved determination of light parton distribution functions
Creators: name: Ghosh, Saranya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the muon charge asymmetry in inclusive $pp \rightarrow WX$ production at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV are presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 $\mathrm{fb^{-1}}$ recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. With a sample of more than twenty million $W \rightarrow μν$ events, the statistical precision is greatly improved in comparison to previous measurements. These new results provide additional constraints on the parton distribution functions of the proton in the range of the Bjorken scaling variable $x$ from $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-1}$. These measurements are used together with the cross sections for inclusive deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA in a next-to-leading-order QCD analysis.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures. Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2014
A dimension-breaking phenomenon for water waves with weak surface tension
Creators: name: Groves, Mark D.
name: Sun, Shu-Ming
name: Wahlén, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the water-wave problem with weak surface tension has small-amplitude line solitary-wave solutions which to leading order are described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The present paper contains an existence theory for three-dimensional periodically modulated solitary-wave solutions which have a solitary-wave profile in the direction of propagation and are periodic in the transverse direction; they emanate from the line solitary waves in a dimension-breaking bifurcation. In addition, it is shown that the line solitary waves are linearly unstable to long-wavelength transverse perturbations. The key to these results is a formulation of the water wave problem as an evolutionary system in which the transverse horizontal variable plays the role of time, a careful study of the purely imaginary spectrum of the operator obtained by linearising the evolutionary system at a line solitary wave, and an application of an infinite-dimensional version of the classical Lyapunov centre theorem.
description: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00205-015-0941-3
A new failure mechanism in thin film by collaborative fracture and delamination: interacting duos of cracks
Creators: name: Marthelot, Joel
name: Bico, Jose
name: Melo, Francisco
name: Roman, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a thin film moderately adherent to a substrate is subjected to residual stress, the cooperation between fracture and delamination leads to unusual fracture patterns, such as spirals, alleys of crescents and various types of strips, all characterized by a robust characteristic length scale. We focus on the propagation of a duo of cracks: two fractures in the film connected by a delamination front and progressively detaching a strip. We show experimentally that the system selects an equilibrium width on the order of 25 times the thickness of the coating and independent of both fracture and adhesion energies. We investigate numerically the selection of the width and the condition for propagation by considering Griffith's criterion and the principle of local symmetry. In addition, we propose a simplified model based on the criterion of maximum of energy release rate, which provides insights of the physical mechanisms leading to these regular patterns, and predicts the effect of material properties on the selected width of the detaching strip.
Performance of MET reconstruction and pileup mitigation techniques in CMS
Creators: name: Ghosh, Saranya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction algorithms is presented using 8 TeV pp collision data collected with the CMS detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $12.2 \pm 0.5$ $\mathrm{fb^{-1}}$. The scale and resolution of missing transverse momentum and the effects of multiple proton-proton interactions (pileup), are measured using events with an identified Z boson or isolated photon. They are in general well described by the simulation. Advanced missing transverse momentum reconstruction algorithms are also developed specifically to mitigate the effects of large numbers of pileup interactions on missing transverse momentum resolution. Using these advanced algorithms, the dependence of the missing transverse momentum resolution on pileup interactions is reduced significantly.
description: 3 pages, 6 figures. Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2014
Unconventional magneto-resistance, and electronic transition in Mn$_3$Ge Weyl semimetal
Creators: name: Rai, Venus
name: Jana, Subhadip
name: Meven, Martin
name: Dutta, Rajesh
name: Perßon, Jörg
name: Nandi, Shibabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weyl semimetals are well known for their anomalous transport effects caused by a large fictitious magnetic field generated by the non-zero Berry curvature. We performed the analysis of the electrical transport measurements of the magnetic Weyl semimetal Mn$_{3}$Ge in the a-b and a-c plane. We have observed negative longitudinal magneto-resistance (LMR) at a low magnetic field ($B<1.5$ T) along all the axes. The high field LMR shows different behavior along x and z axes. A similar trend has been observed in the case of planar Hall effect (PHE) measurements as well. The nature of high field LMR along the x axis changes near 200 K. Dominant carrier concentration type, and metallic to semimetallic transition also occur near 200 K. These observations suggest two main conclusions: (i) The high field LMR in Mn$_3$Ge is driven by the metallic - semimetallic nature of the compound. (ii) Mn$_3$Ge compound goes through an electronic band topological transition near 200 K. Single crystal neutron diffraction does not show any change in the magnetic structure below 300 K. However, the in-plane lattice parameter (a) shows a maximum near 230 K. Therefore, it is possible that the change in electronic band structure near 200 K is driven by the a lattice parameter of the compound.
description: Accepted in Physical Review B
Joint photon-electron Lorentz violation parameter plane from LHAASO data
Creators: name: He, Ping
name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory~(LHAASO) is one of the most sensitive gamma-ray detector arrays, whose ultrahigh-energy~(UHE) work bands not only help to study the origin and acceleration mechanism of UHE cosmic rays, but also provide the opportunity to test fundamental physics concepts such as Lorentz symmetry. LHAASO directly observes the $1.42~\mathrm{PeV}$ highest-energy photon. By adopting the synchrotion self-Compton model, LHAASO also suggests that the $1.12~\mathrm{PeV}$ high-energy photon from Crab Nebula corresponds to a $2.3~\mathrm{PeV}$ high-energy electron. We study the $1.42~\mathrm{PeV}$ photon decay and the $2.3~\mathrm{PeV}$ electron decay to perform a joint analysis on photon and electron two-dimensional Lorentz violation~(LV) parameter plane. Our analysis is systematic and comprehensive, and we naturally get the strictest constraints from merely considering photon LV effect in photon decay and electron LV effect in electron decay. Our result also permits the parameter space for new physics beyond relativity.
description: 8 latex pages, 3 figures, final version for journal publication
Axonopsis (Hexaxonopsis)
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Axonopsidae
Axonopsis

description: Axonopsis (Hex a xonopsis) alpa Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Maharashtra—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974).
Remarks: Male unknown.
Habitat: Small streams.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Some Aspects of Equivariant LS-category
Creators: name: Bayeh, Marzieh
name: Sarkar, Soumen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55M30, 55M99

description: We study the lower bounds and upper bounds for LS-category and equivariant LS-category. In particular we compute both invariants for torus manifolds. There are some examples to show the sharpness of conditions in the theorems. Moreover the equivariant LS-category of the product space is discussed and counterexamples of some previous results are given.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures, some minor changes
Pathways to renal biopsy and diagnosis among patients with ANCA small-vessel vasculitis
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody small-vessel vasculitis (ANCA-SVV) is an autoimmune systemic process increasingly recognised since the advent of antibody testing for the disease. Prompt diagnosis and institution of immunosuppressive therapy has been shown to improve patient outcome. The goal of this study was to better understand how patients navigate the health care system from symptom presentation to biopsy diagnosis, and to study the effects of prompt versus delayed diagnosis.
Finiteness of Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Black Hole
Creators: name: Wen, Wen-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A logarithmic but divergent term usually appears in the computation of entanglement entropy circumferencing a black hole, while the leading quantum correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy also takes the logarithmic form. A quench model of CFT within finite Euclidean time was proposed in the \cite{Kuwakino:2014nra} to regard this logarithmic term as entanglement between radiation and the black hole, and this proposal was justified by the alternative sign for $n$-partite quantum information. However, this preliminary form suffers from the notorious divergence at its low temperature limit. In this letter, we propose a modified form for black hole entanglement entropy such that the divergence sickness can be cured. We discuss the final stage of black hole due to this modification and its relation to R{è}nyi entropy, higher loop quantum correction and higher spin black holes.
description: 8 pages, version submitted to EPL
Recommendations for Planning Pilot Studies in Clinical and Translational Research
Creators: name: Stewart, Paul W.
name: Moore, Charity G.
name: Carter, Rickey E.
name: Nietert, Paul J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Advances in clinical and translation science are facilitated by building on prior knowledge gained through experimentation and observation. In the context of drug development, preclinical studies are followed by a progression of phase I through phase IV clinical trials. At each step, the study design and statistical strategies are framed around research questions that are prerequisites for the next phase. In other types of biomedical research, pilot studies are used for gathering preliminary support for the next research step. However, the phrase "pilot study" is liberally applied to projects with little or no funding, characteristic of studies with poorly developed research proposals, and usually conducted with no detailed thought of the subsequent study. In this article, we present a rigorous definition of a pilot study, offer recommendations for the design, analysis and sample size justification of pilot studies in clinical and translational research, and emphasize the important role that well-designed pilot studies play in the advancement of science and scientific careers.
Energy-Efficient Routing in Wireless Networks in the Presence of Jamming
Creators: name: Sheikholeslami, Azadeh
name: Ghaderi, Majid
name: Pishro-Nik, Hossein
name: Goeckel, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The effectiveness and simple implementation of physical layer jammers make them an essential threat for wireless networks. In a multihop wireless network, where jammers can interfere with the transmission of user messages at intermediate nodes along the path, one can employ jamming oblivious routing and then employ physical-layer techniques (e.g. spread spectrum) to suppress jamming. However, whereas these approaches can provide significant gains, the residual jamming can still severely limit system performance. This motivates the consideration of routing approaches that account for the differences in the jamming environment between different paths. First, we take a straightforward approach where an equal outage probability is allocated to each link along a path and develop a minimum energy routing solution. Next, we demonstrate the shortcomings of this approach and then consider the joint problem of outage allocation and routing by employing an approximation to the link outage probability. This yields an efficient and effective routing algorithm that only requires knowledge of the measured jamming at each node. Numerical results demonstrate that the amount of energy saved by the proposed methods with respect to a standard minimum energy routing algorithm, especially for parameters appropriate for terrestrial wireless networks, is substantial.
A partial taxonomy of judgment aggregation rules, and their properties
Creators: name: Lang, Jerôme
name: Pigozzi, Gabriella
name: Slavkovik, Marija
name: van der Torre, Leendert
name: Vesic, Srdjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The literature on judgment aggregation is moving from studying impossibility results regarding aggregation rules towards studying specific judgment aggregation rules. Here we give a structured list of most rules that have been proposed and studied recently in the literature, together with various properties of such rules. We first focus on the majority-preservation property, which generalizes Condorcet-consistency, and identify which of the rules satisfy it. We study the inclusion relationships that hold between the rules. Finally, we consider two forms of unanimity, monotonicity, homogeneity, and reinforcement, and we identify which of the rules satisfy these properties.
НЕКОТОРЫЕ ДИАГНОСТИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ДЕТСКОЙ АЛЛЕРГИИ
Creators: name: Собирова, Наргиза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Контроль, профилактика и диагностика аллергических процессов у детей являются важной медицинской практикой. В данной статье рассмотрены некоторые методики диагностики детской аллергии.
Soft-virtual corrections to Higgs production at N$^3$LO
Creators: name: Li, Ye
name: von Manteuffel, Andreas
name: Schabinger, Robert M.
name: Zhu, Hua Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we compute the soft-virtual corrections to Higgs boson production in gluon fusion for infinite top quark mass at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. In addition, we present analogous soft-virtual terms for both Drell-Yan lepton production in QCD and scalar pair production in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. The result for Drell-Yan lepton production is derived from the result for Higgs boson production using Casimir scaling arguments together with well-known results available in the literature. For scalar pair production in the N = 4 model, we show by explicit calculation that the result is equal to the part of the Higgs boson soft-virtual term which is of maximal transcendentality weight.
description: 22 pages, 1 figure; in v2: added references and corrected eq. (5.2). v2 is the version published in PRD
FAS-UNet: A Novel FAS-driven Unet to Learn Variational Image Segmentation
Creators: name: Zhu, Hui
name: Shu, Shi
name: Zhang, Jianping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Solving variational image segmentation problems with hidden physics is often expensive and requires different algorithms and manually tunes model parameter. The deep learning methods based on the U-Net structure have obtained outstanding performances in many different medical image segmentation tasks, but designing such networks requires a lot of parameters and training data, not always available for practical problems. In this paper, inspired by traditional multi-phase convexity Mumford-Shah variational model and full approximation scheme (FAS) solving the nonlinear systems, we propose a novel variational-model-informed network (denoted as FAS-Unet) that exploits the model and algorithm priors to extract the multi-scale features. The proposed model-informed network integrates image data and mathematical models, and implements them through learning a few convolution kernels. Based on the variational theory and FAS algorithm, we first design a feature extraction sub-network (FAS-Solution module) to solve the model-driven nonlinear systems, where a skip-connection is employed to fuse the multi-scale features. Secondly, we further design a convolution block to fuse the extracted features from the previous stage, resulting in the final segmentation possibility. Experimental results on three different medical image segmentation tasks show that the proposed FAS-Unet is very competitive with other state-of-the-art methods in qualitative, quantitative and model complexity evaluations. Moreover, it may also be possible to train specialized network architectures that automatically satisfy some of the mathematical and physical laws in other image problems for better accuracy, faster training and improved generalization.The code is available at \url{https://github.com/zhuhui100/FASUNet}.
description: 18 pages
Embedded area-constrained Willmore tori of small area in Riemannian three-manifolds II: Morse Theory
Creators: name: Ikoma, Norihisa
name: Malchiodi, Andrea
name: Mondino, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49Q10, 53C21, 53C42, 35J60, 83C99

description: This is the second of a series of two papers where we construct embedded Willmore tori with small area constraint in Riemannian three-manifolds. In both papers the construction relies on a Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction, the difficulty being the Möbius degeneration of the tori. In the first paper the construction was performed via minimization, here by Morse Theory; to this aim we establish new geometric expansions of the derivative of the Willmore functional on exponentiated small Clifford tori degenerating, under the action of the Möbius group, to small geodesic spheres with a small handle. By using these sharp asymptotics we give sufficient conditions, in terms of the ambient curvature tensors and Morse inequalities, for having existence/multiplicity of embedded tori stationary for the Willmore functional under the constraint of prescribed (sufficiently small) area.
description: Final version, to appear in the American Journal of Mathematics
A comparative study of frozen-section immunoperoxidase and flow cytometry for immunophenotypic analysis of lymph node biopsies.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: Immunophenotyping by flow cytometry and frozen-section immunoperoxidase was compared on 21 consecutive lymph node biopsy specimens, of which a diagnosis of lymphoma was made for 11 specimens. Samples for flow cytometry were obtained by a fine-needle aspiration technique. Concordance between frozen-section immunoperoxidase and flow cytometry for all routine markers on all specimens ranged from 76 to 100%. In general, B-cell markers showed poorer concordance than T-cell markers, with kappa and lambda light chains having the poorest concordance, at 76% each. Flow cytometry was significantly more sensitive (90 versus 30%; P < 0.006) and had a significantly higher negative predictive value (100 versus 63%; P < 0.006) than frozen-section immunoperoxidase for demonstrating light-chain restriction. There was no significant difference in the specificities (100 versus 91%) or positive predictive values (100% each) between the two methods. Both methods demonstrated characteristic immunophenotypes for intermediate cell lymphomas, small lymphocytic lymphomas, and T-cell lymphoblastic lymphomas. Frozen-section immunoperoxidase and flow cytometry appear to be significantly concordant methods for immunophenotypic analysis of lymph node biopsies. Light-chain restriction is more readily demonstrated by flow cytometry than frozen-section immunoperoxidase. We believe that ex vivo fine-needle aspiration is a simple and reliable method of obtaining cell suspensions of lymph nodes for flow cytometry.
Laboratory diagnosis of congenital syphilis by immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgA immunoblotting.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: We screened cord blood or serum samples from 101 infants at risk for congenital syphilis and serum samples from their mothers for immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, and IgA antibodies to Treponema pallidum by western blotting (immunoblotting). Clinical evaluation showed that six infants had signs and/or symptoms consistent with congenital syphilis. The sera from five of these infants were IgM blot positive, and four were IgA blot positive. Four asymptomatic infants had serologic evidence of congenital syphilis. The sera from three of these infants were IgM blot positive, and two were IgA blot positive. However, the IgM reactivity of the serum from one asymptomatic infant, which was also IgA positive, was abolished by protein G treatment. An IgM capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay corroborated the presence of IgM antibodies in six of seven IgM blot-reactive sera. Overall, for detection of symptomatic congenital syphilis, a sensitivity of 83% for IgM blotting and 67% for IgA blotting was obtained. The significance of positive IgM or IgA Western blots for asymptomatic infants requires further study to confirm infection in these infants.
Ab initio no-core shell model study of neutron-rich $^{18,19,20}$C isotopes
Creators: name: Choudhary, Priyanka
name: Srivastava, Praveen C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We implement the ab initio no-core shell model approach to study neutron-rich $^{18}$C, $^{19}$C and $^{20}$C isotopes. For this purpose, we employ charge-dependent Bonn 2000 (CDB2K), inside non-local outside Yukawa (INOY) and chiral next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^{3}$LO) nucleon-nucleon interactions. Low-lying energy spectra, electromagnetic properties and point-proton radii for these nuclei up to basis space $N_{\rm max}$ = 4 are calculated. Binding energies obtained with INOY interaction are in better agreement with the experimental values as compared to other \textit{ab initio} interactions. We also show the behavior of ground state energy and point-proton radii with the NCSM parameters, $\hbar$$Ω$ and $N_{\rm max}$. We report a strong sensitivity of the B(E2) values from the first excited $2^+$ to the ground state of $^{18}$C and $^{20}$C to the nuclear interaction. Shell model calculations with YSOX interaction are also performed, and corresponding results are compared with ab initio one.
description: Nuclear Physics A 1029, 122565 (2023)
Determination of natural killer cell function by flow cytometry.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Natural killer cells (NK cells) are a subset of peripheral blood lymphocytes that mediate non-major histocompatibility complex-restricted cytotoxicity of foreign target cells. The "gold standard" assay for NK cell activity has been the chromium release assay. This method is not easily performed in the clinical laboratory because of difficulties with disposal of radioactive and hazardous materials, short reagent half-lives, expense, and difficulties with assay standardization. We describe a flow cytometric assay for the clinical measurement of NK cell activity. This study compared the chromium release assay and the flow cytometric assay by using clinically relevant specimens. There were no significant differences between the two assays in the measurement of lytic activity for 17 peripheral blood specimens or in reproducibility in repeated samplings of healthy individuals. We also established a normal range of values for NK activity in healthy adults and identified a small cluster of individuals who have exceptionally high or low levels of NK activity. The flow cytometric assay was validated by testing specimens from subjects expected to have abnormally low levels of NK activity (pregnant women) and specimens from healthy individuals in whom the activity of NK cells was enhanced by exposure to interleukin-2 or alpha interferon. Treatment with these agents was associated with a significant increase in NK activity. These results confirm and extend those of others, showing that the flow cytometric assay is a viable alternative to the chromium release assay for measuring NK cell activity.
Evaluation of TruCount Absolute-Count Tubes for Determining CD4 and CD8 Cell Numbers in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Adults
Creators: name: Plaeger, S.
name: O'Gorman, M.
name: Reimann, K.
name: Schnizlein-Bick, C.
name: Wilkening, C.
name: Lowder, J.
name: Schmitz, J.
name: Monical, C.
name: Spritzler, J.
name: Nicholson, J.
name: Schnizlein-Bick, C.
name: Mandy, F.
name: Douglas, S.
name: Mudzinski, S.
name: Donnenberg, A.
name: Schnizlein-Bick, C.
name: Peters, S.
name: Nicholson, Janet K.A.
name: Wilkening, C.
name: Shiba, A.
name: Livnat, D.
name: Waxdal, M.
name: O'Gorman, M.
name: Spritzler, J.
name: Plaeger, S.
name: Spina, C.
name: Kagan, J.
name: Bessent, E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: A single-platform technology that uses an internal bead standard and three-color flow cytometry to determine CD4 and CD8 absolute counts was evaluated for reproducibility and agreement. Values obtained using TruCount absolute-count tubes were compared to those obtained using a two-color predicate methodology. Sixty specimens from human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected donors were shipped to five laboratories. Each site also analyzed replicates of 14 human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected local specimens at 6 h and again at 24 h. The interlaboratory variability was significantly less with TruCount (median difference in percent coefficient of variation [%CV] between the two methods was −8% and −3% for CD4 and CD8, respectively) than with the predicate method. Intralaboratory variability was smaller, with a median difference in %CV of −1% for both CD4 and CD8 with 6-h samples and −2% and −3% for CD4 and CD8, respectively, with 24-h samples. Use of TruCount for shipped samples resulted in a median CD4 count change of 7 cells (50th estimated percentile) when all laboratories and CD4 strata were combined. For on-site samples, the median CD4 count change was 10 CD4 cells for 6-h samples and 2 CD4 cells for 24-h samples. Individual site biases occurred in both directions and cancelled each other when the data were combined for all laboratories. Thus, the combined data showed a smaller change in median CD4 count than what may have occurred at an individual site. In summary, the use of TruCount decreased both the inter- and intralaboratory variability in determining absolute CD4 and CD8 counts.
Curvature estimates for constant mean curvature surfaces
Creators: name: Meeks, William H.
name: Tinaglia, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10

description: We derive extrinsic curvature estimates for compact disks embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with nonzero constant mean curvature.
description: We have separated the original paper into two parts. This new posting is the first part which is self-contained and deals with extrinsic curvature estimates for embedded nonzero constant mean curvature disks. The second part is now the paper arXiv:1609.08032
Grain growth competition during melt pool solidification -- Comparing phase-field and cellular automaton models
Creators: name: Elahi, S. M.
name: Tavakoli, R.
name: Romero, I.
name: Tourret, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A broad range of computational models have been proposed to predict microstructure development during solidification processing but they have seldom been compared to each other on a quantitative and systematic basis. In this paper, we compare phase-field (PF) and cellular automaton (CA) simulations of polycrystalline growth in a two-dimensional melt pool under conditions relevant to additive manufacturing (powder-bed fusion). We compare the resulting grain structures using local (point-by-point) measurements, as well as averaged grain orientation distributions over several simulations. We explore the effect of the CA spatial discretization level and that of the melt pool aspect ratio upon the selected grain texture. Our simulations show that detailed microscopic features related to transient growth conditions and solid-liquid interface stability (e.g. the initial planar growth stage prior to its cellular/dendritic destabilization, or the early elimination of unfavorably oriented grains due to neighbor grain sidebranching) can only be captured by PF simulations. The resulting disagreement between PF and CA predictions can only be addressed partially by a refinement of the CA grid. However, overall grain distributions averaged over the entire melt pools of several simulations seem to lead to a notably better agreement between PF and CA, with some variability with the melt pool shape and CA grid. While further research remains required, in particular to identify the appropriate selection of CA spatial discretization and its link to characteristic microstructural length scales, this research provides a useful step forward in this direction by comparing both methods quantitatively at process-relevant length and time scales.