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8 Theory - The Theory Of Everything - Volume II
Creators: name: Ohad, Manor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 8T
subject: 8 Theory
subject: Manor
subject: Quantum Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Quantum field theory
subject: Quantum cosmology
subject: Quantum technology
subject: Quantum optics
subject: Quantum mechanics
subject: dark matter
subject: dark energy
subject: The theory of Everything
subject: GUT
subject: Particle physics
subject: theoretical Particle physics
subject: theoretical physics
subject: Quantum gravity
subject: Quantum gravitation
subject: General relativity
subject: number theory
subject: prime numbers
subject: QED
subject: QCD
subject: LHC
subject: CERN
subject: ATLAS
subject: laser physics
subject: topology
subject: mathematics
subject: QFT
subject: unified theory
subject: coupling constants
subject: grand unification
subject: Riemann hypothesis proof
subject: Quantum Entanglement
subject: bosons
subject: Higgs particle
subject: flatness
subject: monopoles
subject: CMS
subject: String theory
subject: M theory
subject: quantum loop gravity
subject: Primes
subject: wave physics
subject: statistical physics
subject: NASA
subject: Higgs
subject: muon
subject: zeta function
subject: black holes
subject: compact black holes

description: This Volume is a continuation of the first volume of the 8T. The Grand Unified Theory of Physics. V1.5 Inserts: (Pages 135-144). Similar to the first volume, the second volume is written by the solely by Manor Ohad. The second volume contains three parts. First part - Reflections on the open questions of the 8T. Second Part - Reflections on Quantum phenomena using Number theory. Third part - Reflections on the 8T framework and the Beauty of the final laws of Nature. The author included a collection of additional proofs to the most famous problem in number theory. The counting begins with the second proof as the first already presented in the first volume, Page 96-99 in "Classics".
Computational Study of the Magnetic Structure of Na$_2$IrO$_3$
Creators: name: Hu, Kaige
name: Wang, Fa
name: Feng, Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic structure of honeycomb iridate Na$_2$IrO$_3$ is of paramount importance to its exotic properties. The magnetic order is established experimentally to be zigzag antiferromagnetic. However, the previous assignment of ordered moment to the $\bm{a}$-axis is tentative. We examine the magnetic structure of Na$_{2}$IrO$_{3}$ using first-principles methods. Our calculations reveal that total energy is minimized when the zigzag antiferromagnetic order is magnetized along $\bm{g}\approx\bm{a}+\bm{c}$. Such a magnetic configuration is explained by adding anisotropic interactions to the nearest-neighbor Kitaev-Heisenberg model. Spin-wave spectrum is also calculated, where the calculated spin gap of $10.4$ meV can in principle be measured by future inelastic neutron scattering experiments. Finally we emphasize that our proposal is consistent with all known experimental evidence, including the most relevant resonant x-ray magnetic scattering measurements [X. Liu \emph{et al.} {Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{83}, 220403(R) (2011)].
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
title: Early detection of lung cancer using ultra-low-dose computed tomography in coronary CT angiography scans among patients with suspected coronary heart disease.
Creators: name: Zanon, Matheus
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Screening
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Chest CT screeningimproves lung cancer detection at early stages for high-risk populations, such as heavy-smokers [1-3].However, CT screening also has some considerable disadvantages as radiation exposure, patient distress and overdiagnosis. Aiming...
Phenomenology of bouncing black holes in quantum gravity: a closer look
Creators: name: Barrau, Aurelien
name: Bolliet, Boris
name: Vidotto, Francesca
name: Weimer, Celine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently shown that black holes could be bouncing stars as a consequence of quantum gravity. We investigate the astrophysical signals implied by this hypothesis, focusing on primordial black holes. We consider different possible bounce times and study the integrated diffuse emission.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Revisiting Data Augmentation for Rotational Invariance in Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Quiroga, Facundo Manuel
name: Ronchetti, Franco
name: Lanzarini, Laura
name: Fernandez-Bariviera, Aurelio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.10; I.5.2

description: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) offer state of the art performance in various computer vision tasks. Many of those tasks require different subtypes of affine invariances (scale, rotational, translational) to image transformations. Convolutional layers are translation equivariant by design, but in their basic form lack invariances. In this work we investigate how best to include rotational invariance in a CNN for image classification. Our experiments show that networks trained with data augmentation alone can classify rotated images nearly as well as in the normal unrotated case; this increase in representational power comes only at the cost of training time. We also compare data augmentation versus two modified CNN models for achieving rotational invariance or equivariance, Spatial Transformer Networks and Group Equivariant CNNs, finding no significant accuracy increase with these specialized methods. In the case of data augmented networks, we also analyze which layers help the network to encode the rotational invariance, which is important for understanding its limitations and how to best retrain a network with data augmentation to achieve invariance to rotation.
(103185) George Frederick Stooke
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Assessing of Soil Erosion Risk Through Geoinformation Sciences and Remote Sensing -- A Review
Creators: name: Filchev, Lachezar
name: Kolev, Vasil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.4; J.2
subject: 74Lxx, 91B05, 86-01

description: During past decades a marked manifestation of widespread erosion phenomena was studied worldwide. Global conservation community has launched campaigns at local, regional and continental level in developing countries for preservation of soil resources in order not only to stop or mitigate human impact on nature but also to improve life in rural areas introducing new approaches for soil cultivation. After the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals of UNs and launching several world initiatives such as the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) the world came to realize the very importance of the soil resources on which the biosphere relies for its existence. The main goal of the chapter is to review different types and structures erosion models as well as their applications. Several methods using spatial analysis capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) are in operation for soil erosion risk assessment, such as Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) in operation worldwide and in the USA and MESALES model. These and more models are being discussed in the present work alongside more experimental models and methods for assessing soil erosion risk such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine and Deep Learning, etc. At the end of this work, a prospectus for the future development of soil erosion risk assessment is drawn.
description: Chapter 21 (pages 54)
Transition to chaos in random neuronal networks
Creators: name: Kadmon, Jonathan
name: Sompolinsky, Haim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Firing patterns in the central nervous system often exhibit strong temporal irregularity and heterogeneity in their time averaged response properties. Previous studies suggested that these properties are outcome of an intrinsic chaotic dynamics. Indeed, simplified rate-based large neuronal networks with random synaptic connections are known to exhibit sharp transition from fixed point to chaotic dynamics when the synaptic gain is increased. However, the existence of a similar transition in neuronal circuit models with more realistic architectures and firing dynamics has not been established. In this work we investigate rate based dynamics of neuronal circuits composed of several subpopulations and random connectivity. Nonzero connections are either positive-for excitatory neurons, or negative for inhibitory ones, while single neuron output is strictly positive; in line with known constraints in many biological systems. Using Dynamic Mean Field Theory, we find the phase diagram depicting the regimes of stable fixed point, unstable dynamic and chaotic rate fluctuations. We characterize the properties of systems near the chaotic transition and show that dilute excitatory-inhibitory architectures exhibit the same onset to chaos as a network with Gaussian connectivity. Interestingly, the critical properties near transition depend on the shape of the single- neuron input-output transfer function near firing threshold. Finally, we investigate network models with spiking dynamics. When synaptic time constants are slow relative to the mean inverse firing rates, the network undergoes a sharp transition from fast spiking fluctuations and static firing rates to a state with slow chaotic rate fluctuations. When the synaptic time constants are finite, the transition becomes smooth and obeys scaling properties, similar to crossover phenomena in statistical mechanics
description: 28 Pages, 12 Figures, 5 Appendices
Improving Research Enrollment of Severe Burn Patients
Creators: name: Van Duin, D.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Williams, F.N.
name: Carson, S.S.
name: Williams, S.D.
name: Trexler, J.M.
name: Lachiewicz, A.M.
name: Cairns, B.A.
name: Jones, S.W.
name: Nielsen, C.A.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2017

description: Enrolling severely burn injured patients into prospective research studies poses specific challenges to investigators. The authors describe their experience of recruiting adults with ≥20% TBSA burns or inhalation injury admitted to a single academic burn unit into observational research with minimally invasive specimen collection. The authors outline iterative changes that they made to their recruitment processes in response to perceived weaknesses leading to delays in enrollment. The primary outcome was the change in days to consent for enrolled patients or cessation of recruitment for nonenrolled patients before and after the interventional modifications. The authors assessed change in overall enrollment as a secondary outcome. Study enrollment was approximately 70% in both 4-month study periods before and after the intervention. Following the intervention, time to consent by surrogate decision maker decreased from a median of 26.5 days (interquartile range [IQR] 14-41) to 3 days (IQR 3-6) (P =.004). Time to initial consent by patient changed from a median of 15 days (IQR 2-30) to 3 days (IQR 2-6) (P =.27). Time to decline for nonenrolled patients decreased from a median of 12 days (IQR 6.5-27) to 1.5 days (IQR 1-3.5) (P =.026). Both the findings of the study and a brief literature review suggest that careful design of the recruitment protocol, increased experience of the study team, and broad time windows for both approach and enrollment improve the efficiency of recruiting critically injured burn patients into research.
(103189) Alice Mary Baller
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
8 Theory - The Theory Of Everything - Volume II
Creators: name: Ohad, Manor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 8T
subject: 8 Theory
subject: Manor
subject: Quantum Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Quantum field theory
subject: Quantum cosmology
subject: Quantum technology
subject: Quantum optics
subject: Quantum mechanics
subject: dark matter
subject: dark energy
subject: The theory of Everything
subject: GUT
subject: Particle physics
subject: theoretical Particle physics
subject: theoretical physics
subject: Quantum gravity
subject: Quantum gravitation
subject: General relativity
subject: number theory
subject: prime numbers
subject: QED
subject: QCD
subject: LHC
subject: CERN
subject: ATLAS
subject: laser physics
subject: topology
subject: mathematics
subject: QFT
subject: unified theory
subject: coupling constants
subject: grand unification
subject: Riemann hypothesis proof
subject: Quantum Entanglement
subject: bosons
subject: Higgs particle
subject: flatness
subject: monopoles
subject: CMS
subject: String theory
subject: M theory
subject: quantum loop gravity
subject: Primes
subject: wave physics
subject: statistical physics
subject: NASA
subject: Higgs
subject: muon
subject: zeta function
subject: black holes
subject: compact black holes

description: This Volume is a continuation of the first volume of the 8T. The Grand Unified Theory of Physics. V1.6 Inserts: (Pages 144-153). Similar to the first volume, the second volume is written by the solely by Manor Ohad. The second volume contains three parts. First part - Reflections on the open questions of the 8T. Second Part - Reflections on Quantum phenomena using Number theory. Third part - Reflections on the 8T framework and the Beauty of the final laws of Nature. The author included a collection of additional proofs to the most famous problem in number theory. The counting begins with the second proof as the first already presented in the first volume, Page 96-99 in "Classics".
(103184) Stanley Mervyn Osborn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Renal artery embolization for the treatment of post-operative hemorrhage after open and robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy
Creators: name: Jeon, Chang Ho
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Kidney
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: N ephron-sparing surgery, also known as partial nephrectomy (PN), has been established as the standard treatment for renal masses as it preserves renal function ( 1 – 3 ). Recently, robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (RALPN) has been...
Mesenteric Thrombosis Complicating Influenza B Infection
Creators: name: Collins, M.H.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: McGinn, M.K.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2016

description: To the Editor:
A 44-year-old healthy, active man presented to an
outside hospital complaining of a 1-day history of fever up
to 39C, muscle aches, sinus pressure, nausea, vomiting,
and diarrhea in April 2015. Review of systems was negative
for abdominal pain, hematochezia, or melena. A chest
radiograph was negative for infiltration, consolidation,
edema, or other pathology. Lipase level was 37 U/L (within
normal limits). A nasopharyngeal swab antigen test was
positive for influenza B, and the patient was discharged on
oseltamivir. Three days later, intermittent fevers persisted
with chills, nausea, vomiting, and severe abdominal pain.
Anorexia developed, and the patient described “something
twisting and pulling at [his] insides.” An abdominal
computed tomography scan showed extensive superior
mesenteric vein thrombosis, which extended into the main
portal vein and proximal splenic vein. He was transferred to
our facility for transhepatic thrombolysis, which was complicated
by intrahepatic hematoma requiring subselective
hepatic artery embolization. He recovered completely and
was discharged with rivaroxaban. Hematology evaluation
was negative for predisposing hypercoagulable conditions
including factor II mutation, factor V Leiden, and lupus
anticoagulant. Of note, his past medical, surgical, and family
history were unrevealing for malignancy, coagulopathy,
cirrhosis, pancreatitis, or other prothrombotic states.
Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves Generated by Eccentric Neutron Star Binaries
Creators: name: Evangelista, E. F. D.
name: de Araujo, J. C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary systems emit gravitational waves in a well-known pattern; for binaries in circular orbits, the emitted radiation has a frequency that is twice the orbital frequency. Systems in eccentric orbits, however, emit gravitational radiation in the higher harmonics too. In this paper, we are concerned with the stochastic background of gravitational waves generated by double neutron star systems of cosmological origin in eccentric orbits. We consider in particular the long-lived systems, that is, those binaries for which the time to coalescence is longer than the Hubble time ($\sim 10$Gyr). Thus, we consider double neutron stars with orbital frequencies ranging from $10^{-8}$ to $2\times 10^{-6}$Hz. Although in the literature some papers consider the spectra generated by eccentric binaries, there is still space for alternative approaches for the calculation of the backgrounds. In this paper, we use a method that consists in summing the spectra that would be generated by each harmonic separately in order to obtain the total background. This method allows us to clearly obtain the influence of each harmonic on the spectra. In addition, we consider different distribution functions for the eccentricities in order to investigate their effects on the background of gravitational waves generated. At last, we briefly discuss the detectability of this background by space-based gravitational wave antennas and pulsar timing arrays.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
title: High-Resolution Computed Tomography Findings of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Lung Transplant Patients
Creators: name: Zanon, Matheus
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Tropical diseases
subject: Infection
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Chest computed tomography (CT) is one of the main modalities used in clinical suspicion of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), especially when initial radiographs are normal or for immunosuppressed cases, such as AIDS patients and transplant...
8 Theory - The Theory Of Everything - Volume II
Creators: name: Ohad, Manor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 8T
subject: 8 Theory
subject: Manor
subject: Quantum Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Quantum field theory
subject: Quantum cosmology
subject: Quantum technology
subject: Quantum optics
subject: Quantum mechanics
subject: dark matter
subject: dark energy
subject: The theory of Everything
subject: GUT
subject: Particle physics
subject: theoretical Particle physics
subject: theoretical physics
subject: Quantum gravity
subject: Quantum gravitation
subject: General relativity
subject: number theory
subject: prime numbers
subject: QED
subject: QCD
subject: LHC
subject: CERN
subject: ATLAS
subject: laser physics
subject: topology
subject: mathematics
subject: QFT
subject: unified theory
subject: coupling constants
subject: grand unification
subject: Riemann hypothesis proof
subject: Quantum Entanglement
subject: bosons
subject: Higgs particle
subject: flatness
subject: monopoles
subject: CMS
subject: String theory
subject: M theory
subject: quantum loop gravity
subject: Primes
subject: wave physics
subject: statistical physics
subject: NASA
subject: Higgs
subject: muon
subject: zeta function
subject: black holes
subject: compact black holes

description: This Volume is a continuation of the first volume of the 8T. The Grand Unified Theory of Physics. V1.7 Inserts: (Pages 154-163). Similar to the first volume, the second volume is written by the solely by Manor Ohad. The second volume contains three parts. First part - Reflections on the open questions of the 8T. Second Part - Reflections on Quantum phenomena using Number theory. Third part - Reflections on the 8T framework and the Beauty of the final laws of Nature. The author included a collection of additional proofs to the most famous problem in number theory. The counting begins with the second proof as the first already presented in the first volume, Page 96-99 in "Classics".
title: The thoracic spine of patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: reduced disc height and other degenerative intervertebral disc changes
Creators: name: Slonimsky, Einat
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Arthritides
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal spine

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Contrary to the commonly used classification for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) by Resnick, degenerative intervertebral disease (DID) were previously described in DISH. We aimed to assess for the presence and prevalence of such...
Descriptors and regions of interest fusion for gender classification in the wild. Comparison and combination with Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Castrillón-Santana, M.
name: Lorenzo-Navarro, J.
name: Ramón-Balmaseda, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gender classification (GC) has achieved high accuracy in different experimental evaluations based mostly on inner facial details. However, these results do not generalize well in unrestricted datasets and particularly in cross-database experiments, where the performance drops drastically. In this paper, we analyze the state-of-the-art GC accuracy on three large datasets: MORPH, LFW and GROUPS. We discuss their respective difficulties and bias, concluding that the most challenging and wildest complexity is present in GROUPS. This dataset covers hard conditions such as low resolution imagery and cluttered background. Firstly, we analyze in depth the performance of different descriptors extracted from the face and its local context on this dataset. Selecting the bests and studying their most suitable combination allows us to design a solution that beats any previously published results for GROUPS with the Dago's protocol, reaching an accuracy over 94.2%, reducing the gap with other simpler datasets. The chosen solution based on local descriptors is later evaluated in a cross-database scenario with the three mentioned datasets, and full dataset 5-fold cross validation. The achieved results are compared with a Convolutional Neural Network approach, achieving rather similar marks. Finally, a solution is proposed combining both focuses, exhibiting great complementarity, boosting GC performance to beat previously published results in GC both cross-database, and full in-database evaluations.
description: Revised version containing 12 pages. This revision includes newer referenes, results with CNN, fusion of local descriptors amd CNN and corrects different typos
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcal Bloodstream Infections in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients and Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: Impact of Daptomycin MICs of 3 to 4 mg/L
Creators: name: Miller, W.C.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Gilligan, P.H.
name: van Duin, D.
name: Bangdiwala, A.
name: Chong, P.P.
name: Shea, T.C.
name: Ivanova, A.
Publisher: name: Excerpta Medica Inc.
Year: 2016

description: Purpose Case reports of treatment failure with standard-dose daptomycin (6 mg/kg) have recently surfaced in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) bloodstream infection (BSI) episodes with daptomycin MICs of 3 to 4 mg/L. The clinical implications of daptomycin MICs of 3 to 4 mg/L in VRE BSIs have not been elucidated. Methods We performed a single institutional retrospective analysis of adult stem cell transplant recipients and patients with hematologic malignancies diagnosed with VRE BSI from 2006 to 2014 and compared outcomes between those with daptomycin MICs of 3 to 4 mg/L those with 2 mg/L, as determined by Etest. Findings Forty-two daptomycin-treated VRE BSI episodes, all due to Enterococcus faecium were identified; 19 episodes with daptomycin MICs of 3 to 4 mg/L and 23 episodes with a daptomycin MIC of 2 mg/L. Patients in the higher daptomycin MIC group were more likely to be male, to be stem cell transplant recipients, and to have received high-dose daptomycin treatment (>6 mg/kg). In unadjusted analyses, microbiological failure in the daptomycin MICs 3 to 4 mg/L versus 2 mg/L groups (odds ratio = 1.79, 95% CI, 0.52–6.11; P = 0.35), the median duration of bacteremia (4 days in daptomycin MICs 3–4 mg/L vs 3 days in daptomycin MIC 2 mg/L; P = 0.18) and all-cause 30-day mortality (21% in daptomycin MICs 3–4 mg/L vs 35% in daptomycin MIC 2 mg/L group; P = 0.49) were not different. In adjusted analyses, the association between higher Pitt bacteremia scores and all-cause 30-day mortality was statistically significant (P = 0.0006), whereas the association between daptomycin MICs of 3 to 4 mg/L and all-cause 30-day mortality approached statistical significance (P = 0.06). Implications Duration of bacteremia and microbiological failure rates did not differ by daptomycin MICs in VRE BSI episodes in our patients, composed of adult stem cell transplant recipients and patients with hematologic malignancies. There was a nonsignificant trend in multivariable analysis suggesting that all-cause 30-day mortality was lower in patients whose VRE bloodstream isolates were with daptomycin MICs of 3 to 4 mg/L.
Navigating the Data Seas: Identifying Power Dynamics in Data Practices from a Transnational Comparative Perspective
Creators: name: Manco, Alejandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Open Research Data
Unintended consequences
Open Science

description: Open research data sharing is portrayed as a positive practice (Tenopir et al., 2020; Thoegersen & Borlund, 2022), bolstered by open science policies at institutional, national, or regional levels worldwide. However, it is evident that data is not neutral (Beaulieu & Leonelli, 2021), giving rise to implicit power relations arising from data usage among researchers, their data sharing practices and motivations, as well as data infrastructures and reusability. While employing open data can serve as an effective means to counteract data colonialism to some extent, openness may also exhibit extractive tendencies, potential negative effects, or unintended consequences. This presentation will delve deeper into these issues concerning data sharing and reuse in the basic science domains (biology, chemistry, and physics) using a transnational comparative approach from the perspectives of scientists in Brazil, France, and Peru. This empirical qualitative proposal is built upon thirty semi-directed interviews with scientists in Brazil, France, and Peru, constituting a transnational comparison on this specific topic. The data collection process involved: Identifying the best universities in each country using the QS World University Rankings 2022 as a guide. Contacting scientists in the mentioned areas through social networks such as Twitter or Linkedin after identifying the institutions, and conducting interviews with those who agreed. Analyzing interview transcripts using Nvivo software. Conducting the coding process through thematic analysis and employing an inductive category development approach. Subsequently, the results were analyzed from a critical discourse analysis perspective (Jorgensen & Phillips, 2002).
8 Theory - The Theory Of Everything - Volume II
Creators: name: Ohad, Manor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 8T
subject: 8 Theory
subject: Manor
subject: Quantum Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Quantum field theory
subject: Quantum cosmology
subject: Quantum technology
subject: Quantum optics
subject: Quantum mechanics
subject: dark matter
subject: dark energy
subject: The theory of Everything
subject: GUT
subject: Particle physics
subject: theoretical Particle physics
subject: theoretical physics
subject: Quantum gravity
subject: Quantum gravitation
subject: General relativity
subject: number theory
subject: prime numbers
subject: QED
subject: QCD
subject: LHC
subject: CERN
subject: ATLAS
subject: laser physics
subject: topology
subject: mathematics
subject: QFT
subject: unified theory
subject: coupling constants
subject: grand unification
subject: Riemann hypothesis proof
subject: Quantum Entanglement
subject: bosons
subject: Higgs particle
subject: flatness
subject: monopoles
subject: CMS
subject: String theory
subject: M theory
subject: quantum loop gravity
subject: Primes
subject: wave physics
subject: statistical physics
subject: NASA
subject: Higgs
subject: muon
subject: zeta function
subject: black holes
subject: compact black holes
subject: Path integrations
subject: quantum optics
subject: differential topology
subject: category theory
subject: Riemann hypothesis
subject: proof Riemann hypothesis
subject: Ricci flow
subject: grand unified theory
subject: elementary particle physics
subject: astronomy
subject: PNP
subject: quantum mechanics
subject: self dual operators
subject: CFT
subject: Vertax algebras
subject: Dualities
subject: smooth manifolds
subject: condensed matter physics
subject: calculus of variations
subject: Newton laws
subject: gravitation
subject: quantum computing
subject: computer science
subject: PDE
subject: modular forms
subject: theoretical computer science
subject: experimental physics
subject: divergent series
subject: mathematical logic
subject: high energy physics
subject: hep
subject: GR
subject: JHEP
subject: Ligo

description: This Volume is a continuation of the first volume of the 8T. The Grand Unified Theory of Physics. V1.8 Inserts: (Pages 164-171). Similar to the first volume, the second volume is written by the solely by Manor Ohad. The second volume contains three parts. First part - Reflections on the open questions of the 8T. Second Part - Reflections on Quantum phenomena using Number theory. Third part - Reflections on the 8T framework and the Beauty of the final laws of Nature. The author included a collection of additional proofs to the most famous problem in number theory. The counting begins with the second proof as the first already presented in the first volume, Page 96-99 in "Classics".
title: Comparative evaluation of different computer programs for the analysis of the BOLD fMRI studies in patients with brain tumors
Creators: name: Urbanik, Andrzej
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The authors of the present research carried out a comparative analysis of three different computer software packages – FSL, SPM and FuncTool – for the processing of fMRI image data. The aim of the research was the analysis of the volume of...
Edge exponents in work statistics out of equilibrium and dynamical phase transitions from scattering theory in one dimensional gapped systems
Creators: name: Palmai, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss the relationship between edge exponents in the statistics of work done, dynamical phase transitions, and the role of different kinds of excitations appearing when a non-equilibrium protocol is performed on a closed, gapped, one-dimensional system. I show that the edge exponent in the probability density function of the work is insensitive to the presence of interactions and can take only one of three values: +1/2, -1/2 and -3/2. It also turns out that there is an interesting interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking or the presence of bound states and the exponents. For instantaneous global protocols, I find that the presence of the one-particle channel creates dynamical phase transitions in the time evolution.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Revised version published in PRB
(103186) Jessie Jane Graham
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Personalized Image Generation with Large Multimodal Models
Creators: name: Xu, Yiyan
name: Wang, Wenjie
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Tang, Biao
name: Yan, Peng
name: Feng, Fuli
name: He, Xiangnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Personalized content filtering, such as recommender systems, has become a critical infrastructure to alleviate information overload. However, these systems merely filter existing content and are constrained by its limited diversity, making it difficult to meet users' varied content needs. To address this limitation, personalized content generation has emerged as a promising direction with broad applications. Nevertheless, most existing research focuses on personalized text generation, with relatively little attention given to personalized image generation. The limited work in personalized image generation faces challenges in accurately capturing users' visual preferences and needs from noisy user-interacted images and complex multimodal instructions. Worse still, there is a lack of supervised data for training personalized image generation models.
 To overcome the challenges, we propose a Personalized Image Generation Framework named Pigeon, which adopts exceptional large multimodal models with three dedicated modules to capture users' visual preferences and needs from noisy user history and multimodal instructions. To alleviate the data scarcity, we introduce a two-stage preference alignment scheme, comprising masked preference reconstruction and pairwise preference alignment, to align Pigeon with the personalized image generation task. We apply Pigeon to personalized sticker and movie poster generation, where extensive quantitative results and human evaluation highlight its superiority over various generative baselines.
description: Accepted for publication in WWW'25
The von Neumann inequality for 3x3 matrices
Creators: name: Knese, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32E30, 47A63, 30E05

description: Recent work of Kosiński on the three point Pick interpolation problem on the polydisc proves the von Neumann inequality for 3x3 matrices. We give a detailed explanation of this using several standard reductions---credit for the main result should be attributed to Kosiński.
(103180) Arthur H Weston
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Willis elasticity from microcontinuum field theories: Asymptotics, microstructure-property relationships, and cloaking
Creators: name: Nassar, Hussein
name: Brucks, Phillip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Willis elasticity is an effective medium theory for linearly elastic composites that incorporates an unusual coupling between stress and velocity, as well as between momentum and strain. Interest in the theory peaked following the discovery that its formulation is invariant under curvilinear changes of coordinates and that, consequently, it can be used to inverse-design ``invisibility'' cloaks for elastodynamics. That said, the microstructure-property relationships in Willis elasticity are poorly understood and, in particular, the mechanics that underlie the coupling are largely unknown. Thus, no such cloaks were constructed. Here, we put forward the idea that Willis elasticity is a particular microcontinuum field theory where the (generalized) micro-displacements have been eliminated in favor of the macroscopic displacement field as if by Schur completion. The field theory is special in that it features an inertial coupling between the micro- and macro-displacements that, upon completion, re-emerges as the coupling term in Willis elasticity. Concretely, we analyze an asymptotic regime where mechanical lattices exhibit a kinematic enrichment with a strong (leading-order) inertial coupling. We provide, in closed-form, the resulting microstructure-property relationships. As an application, and in light of the gained insights, we design an ``invisibility'' cloak resolved into Willis-elastic mechanical lattices.
description: 7 figures
(103182) Curtison Osborn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
8 Theory - The Theory Of Everything - Volume II
Creators: name: Ohad, Manor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 8T
subject: 8 Theory
subject: Manor
subject: Quantum Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Quantum field theory
subject: Quantum cosmology
subject: Quantum technology
subject: Quantum optics
subject: Quantum mechanics
subject: dark matter
subject: dark energy
subject: The theory of Everything
subject: GUT
subject: Particle physics
subject: theoretical Particle physics
subject: theoretical physics
subject: Quantum gravity
subject: Quantum gravitation
subject: General relativity
subject: number theory
subject: prime numbers
subject: QED
subject: QCD
subject: LHC
subject: CERN
subject: ATLAS
subject: laser physics
subject: topology
subject: mathematics
subject: QFT
subject: unified theory
subject: coupling constants
subject: grand unification
subject: Riemann hypothesis proof
subject: Quantum Entanglement
subject: bosons
subject: Higgs particle
subject: flatness
subject: monopoles
subject: CMS
subject: String theory
subject: M theory
subject: quantum loop gravity
subject: Primes
subject: wave physics
subject: statistical physics
subject: NASA
subject: Higgs
subject: muon
subject: zeta function
subject: black holes
subject: compact black holes
subject: Path integrations
subject: quantum optics
subject: differential topology
subject: category theory
subject: Riemann hypothesis
subject: proof Riemann hypothesis
subject: Ricci flow
subject: grand unified theory
subject: elementary particle physics
subject: astronomy
subject: PNP
subject: quantum mechanics
subject: self dual operators
subject: CFT
subject: Vertax algebras
subject: Dualities
subject: smooth manifolds
subject: condensed matter physics
subject: calculus of variations
subject: Newton laws
subject: gravitation
subject: quantum computing
subject: computer science
subject: PDE
subject: modular forms
subject: theoretical computer science
subject: experimental physics
subject: divergent series
subject: mathematical logic
subject: high energy physics
subject: hep
subject: GR
subject: JHEP
subject: Ligo

description: This Volume is a continuation of the first volume of the 8T. The Grand Unified Theory of Physics. V1.9 Inserts: (Pages 172-180) Entanglement Breakthrough. Similar to the first volume, the second volume is written by the solely by Manor Ohad. The second volume contains three parts. First part - Reflections on the open questions of the 8T. Second Part - Reflections on Quantum phenomena using Number theory. Third part - Reflections on the 8T framework and the Beauty of the final laws of Nature. The author included a collection of additional proofs to the most famous problem in number theory. The counting begins with the second proof as the first already presented in the first volume, Page 96-99 in "Classics".
title: Spectrum of lipomatous soft-tissue masses.
Creators: name: Ferrufino, María
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: eLearning
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Recognize the spectrum of fatty soft tissue masses using the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of adipocytic tumors. Identify the radiologic appearance oflipomatous soft tissue masseswith an emphasis on commonly encountered...
Occupational health risks associated with the use of germicides in health care
Creators: name: Consoli, S.A.
name: Rutala, W.A.
name: Weber, D.J.
Publisher: name: Mosby Inc.
Year: 2016

description: Environmental surfaces have been clearly linked to transmission of key pathogens in health care facilities, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, Clostridium difficile, norovirus, and multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli. For this reason, routine disinfection of environmental surfaces in patient rooms is recommended. In addition, decontamination of shared medical devices between use by different patients is also recommended. Environmental surfaces and noncritical shared medical devices are decontaminated by low-level disinfectants, most commonly phenolics, quaternary ammonium compounds, improved hydrogen peroxides, and hypochlorites. Concern has been raised that the use of germicides by health care personnel may increase the risk of these persons for developing respiratory illnesses (principally asthma) and contact dermatitis. Our data demonstrate that dermatitis and respiratory symptoms (eg, asthma) as a result of chemical exposures, including low-level disinfectants, are exceedingly rare. Unprotected exposures to high-level disinfectants may cause dermatitis and respiratory symptoms. Engineering controls (eg, closed containers, adequate ventilation) and the use of personal protective equipment (eg, gloves) should be used to minimize exposure to high-level disinfectants. The scientific evidence does not support that the use of low-level disinfectants by health care personnel is an important risk for the development of asthma or contact dermatitis.