cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Linear Iterative Unfolding Method
Creators: name: Laszlo, Andras
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A frequently faced task in experimental physics is to measure the probability distribution of some quantity. Often this quantity to be measured is smeared by a non-ideal detector response or by some physical process. The procedure of removing this smearing effect from the measured distribution is called unfolding, and is a delicate problem in signal processing, due to the well-known numerical ill behavior of this task. Various methods were invented which, given some assumptions on the initial probability distribution, try to regularize the unfolding problem. Most of these methods definitely introduce bias into the estimate of the initial probability distribution. We propose a linear iterative method, which has the advantage that no assumptions on the initial probability distribution is needed, and the only regularization parameter is the stopping order of the iteration, which can be used to choose the best compromise between the introduced bias and the propagated statistical and systematic errors. The method is consistent: "binwise" convergence to the initial probability distribution is proved in absence of measurement errors under a quite general condition on the response function. This condition holds for practical applications such as convolutions, calorimeter response functions, momentum reconstruction response functions based on tracking in magnetic field etc. In presence of measurement errors, explicit formulae for the propagation of the three important error terms is provided: bias error, statistical error, and systematic error. A trade-off between these three error terms can be used to define an optimal iteration stopping criterion, and the errors can be estimated there. We provide a numerical C library for the implementation of the method, which incorporates automatic statistical error propagation as well.
description: Proceedings of ACAT-2011 conference (Uxbridge, United Kingdom), 9 pages, 5 figures, changes of corrigendum included
1+1-dimensional p-wave superconductors from intersecting D-branes
Creators: name: Bu, Yanyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we explore 1+1 dimensional p-wave superconductors using the probe D-brane construction. Specifically, we choose three intersecting D-brane models: D1/D5, D2/D4 and D3/D3 systems. According to the dilaton running behavior, we denote the former two systems as nonconformal models and the last system as conformal. We find that all three models are qualitatively similar in describing superconducting condensate as well as some basic features (such as the gap formation and DC superconductivity) of superconducting conductivity. There also exist some differences among the three models as far as the AC conductivity is concerned. Specifically, for D3/D3 model there is no peak at nonzero frequency for the imaginary part of the conductivity, which is present in the nonconformal models; their asymptotic behaviors are different-for D1/D5 the real part of the AC conductivity approaches one at large frequency limit, for D2/D4 it slowly goes to a certain nonzero constant smaller than one and for D3/D3 it goes to zero. We find the profile of the AC conductivity for the D1/D5 system is very similar to that of higher dimensional p-wave superconductors.
description: v2: matched with the published version
Optimal rates of convergence for convex set estimation from support functions
Creators: name: Guntuboyina, Adityanand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a minimax optimal solution to the problem of estimating a compact, convex set from finitely many noisy measurements of its support function. The solution is based on appropriate regularizations of the least squares estimator. Both fixed and random designs are considered.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOS959 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: The Dilemma of Quality vs. Quantity of Life
Creators: name: Shahrokni, Armin
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Palliative Care; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Quality of Life

description: Due to pancreatic cancer’s dismal prognosis, much of management is focused upon palliation and symptom management, and the decision to treat a patient with more aggressive maneuvers must always take into account the impact upon a patient’s quality of life. In addition, majority of the patients with advanced pancreatic cancer are elderly. Oncologists are challenged to make tough treatment decisions. Many elderly patients cannot tolerate side effects of chemotherapy, especially the combination regimens. Despite that many patients continue to receive chemotherapy even in the last month of their lives. The effect of referral to palliative care on health-related outcome especially for patients with poor quality of life is still not very clear. The authors will review abstracts that have focused on these fields that were presented at the Annual Meeting of ASCO 2013 (Abstracts #4009, #4053, #6607, #9518, #9538, #9539, #9546, and #9638).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 4 (2013): July - p. 304-474
Using simple elastic bands to explain quantum mechanics: a conceptual review of two of Aert's machine-models
Creators: name: de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the beginning of his research, the Belgian physicist Diederik Aerts has shown great creativity in inventing a number of concrete machine-models that have played an important role in the development of general mathematical and conceptual formalisms for the description of the physical reality. These models can also be used to demystify much of the strangeness in the behavior of quantum entities, by allowing to have a peek at what's going on - in structural terms - behind the "quantum scenes," during a measurement. In this author's view, the importance of these machine-models, and of the approaches they have originated, have been so far seriously underappreciated by the physics community, despite their success in clarifying many challenges of quantum physics. To fill this gap, and encourage a greater number of researchers to take cognizance of the important work of so-called Geneva-Brussels school, we describe and analyze in this paper two of Aerts' historical machine-models, whose operations are based on simple breakable elastic bands. The first one, called the spin quantum-machine, is able to replicate the quantum probabilities associated with the spin measurement of a spin-1/2 entity. The second one, called the \emph{connected vessels of water model} (of which we shall present here an alternative version based on elastics) is able to violate Bell's inequality, as coincidence measurements on entangled states can do.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Highlights on Novel Imaging Methods of Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Krishnamoorthy, Saravanan Kokila
name: Hayim, Morris
name: Vestal, Tyler
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: (18F)-1-alpha-D-(2-deoxy-2-fluoroarabino¬furanosyl)-2-nitroimidazole; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Positron-Emission Tomography; Predictive Value of Tests

description: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths. Since the majority of patients present with incurable metastatic disease, novel imaging methods are needed to identify pancreatic cancer and assess response to therapy. Research presented at the 2013 American Society of Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting provided insight into potential imaging methods. We discuss Abstracts #4049, #TPS4144, #TPS4146, and #E15069 in this paper.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 4 (2013): July - p. 304-474
Additional file 2 of The value of innovation: association between improvements in survival of advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and targeted and immunotherapy
Creators: name: Ramagopalan, Sreeram
name: Leahy, Thomas P.
name: Ray, Joshua
name: Wilkinson, Samantha
name: Sammon, Cormac
name: Subbiah, Vivek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Treatment classification, patient characteristics and additional results. Description: Tables showing (1) treatment classification, (2) baseline characteristics and treatment regimen among admNSCLC patients by calendar year of diagnosis (2012 to 2019) stratified by biomarker status and (3) hazard ratios for overall survival among admNSCLC patients, stratified by biomarker status.
Aegidiellus Paulian 1984
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Aegidiellus

description: Aegidiellus Paulian, 1984
[3 species].
Type species Phileurus alatus Laporte, 1840, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Travelling waves and conservation laws for complex mKdV-type equations
Creators: name: Anco, Stephen C.
name: Mohiuddin, Mohammad
name: Wolf, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Travelling waves and conservation laws are studied for a wide class of U(1)-invariant complex mKdV equations containing the two known integrable generalizations of the ordinary (real) mKdV equation. The main results on travelling waves include deriving new complex solitary waves and kinks that generalize the well-known mKdV $\sech$ and $\tanh$ solutions. The main results on conservation laws consist of explicitly finding all 1st order conserved densities that yield phase-invariant counterparts of the well-known mKdV conserved densities for momentum, energy, and Galilean energy, and a new conserved density describing the angular twist of complex kink solutions
description: 24 pages; minor corrections
First Line Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Jarboe, Jamie
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: 130-nm albumin-bound paclitaxel; CA-19-9 Antigen; oxaliplatin; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Metastatic pancreatic cancer remains a difficult disease to treat; however, there are more new drug combinations on the horizon each week. We will discuss the results of the MPACT trial presented at the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting (Abstracts #4005, #4058, and #4059) and compare to the 2011 FOLFIRINOX data.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 4 (2013): July - p. 304-474
Biomarkers for Pancreatic Cancer: Is it Ready for Primetime?
Creators: name: Kim, Richard
name: Mahipal, Amit
name: Choi, Minsig
name: Saif, Mohammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biological Markers; Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1; Osteonectin; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: No abstract available
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 4 (2013): July - p. 304-474
Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer. Looking Beyond Traditional Chemotherapy and Radiation
Creators: name: Savir, Guy
name: Huber, Kathryn E
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Chemoradiation; Immunotherapy; Neoadjuvant Therapy

description: About a third of all pancreatic cancer is found to be locally advanced at the time of diagnosis, where the tumor is inoperable but remains localized to the pancreas and regional lymphatics. Sadly, this remains a universally deadly disease with progression to distant disease being the predominant mode of failure and average survival under one year. Optimal treatment of these patients continues to be an area of controversy, with chemotherapy alone being the treatment preference in Europe, and chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation in selected patients, preferred in the USA. The aim of this paper is to summarize the key abstracts presented at the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting that address evolving approaches to the management of locally advanced pancreatic cancer. The late breaking abstract (#LBA4003) provided additional European data showing non-superiority of chemoradiation compared to chemotherapy in locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients without distant progression following 4 months of chemotherapy. Another late breaking abstract, (#LBA4004), unfortunately showed a promising new complement to gemcitabine and capecitabine using immunotherapy in the form of a T-helper vaccine did not translate to improved survival in the phase III setting.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 4 (2013): July - p. 304-474
Measurement of the azimuthal ordering of charged hadrons with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a measurement of the ordering of charged hadrons in the azimuthal angle relative to the beam axis in high-energy proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A spectral analysis of correlations between longitudinal and transverse components of the momentum of the charged hadrons, driven by the search for phenomena related to the structure of the QCD field, is performed. Data were recorded with the ATLAS detector at centre-of-mass energies of sqrt(s) = 900 GeV and sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The correlations measured in a phase space region dominated by low-pT particles are not well described by conventional models of hadron production. The measured spectra show features consistent with the fragmentation of a QCD string represented by a helix-like ordered gluon chain.
description: 12 pages + author list (24 pages in total), 11 figures, 5 tables, revised author list, matches published PRD version
Additional file 3 of The value of innovation: association between improvements in survival of advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and targeted and immunotherapy
Creators: name: Ramagopalan, Sreeram
name: Leahy, Thomas P.
name: Ray, Joshua
name: Wilkinson, Samantha
name: Sammon, Cormac
name: Subbiah, Vivek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3. Sensitivity analysis plots. Description: Plots of the hazard ratios from both sensitivity analyses for each population and for both the main analysis and post hoc analysis. It also includes a table of the additional covariates used in the sensitivity analysis stratified by year.
Incorporating microdosimetry into radiation therapy treatment planning with multi-scale Monte Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Lucido, Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: In order to choose and design optimal treatment plans for radiation therapy, it is necessary to employ models that can predict the tissue response to the ionizing radiation. The conventional models are based on the radiological absorbed dose, which does not account for the effect of radiation damage clustering on cellular response – a more mechanistic model can lead to better metrics for treatment planning. This dissertation presents a novel method for performing multi-scale Monte Carlo simulations to obtain microdosimetric information for patient specific treatments. This is done by using a track structure Monte Carlo simulation in the regions of interest for scoring and a condensed history algorithm for the rest of the geometry. Since the condensed history code does not correctly follow the tracks of particles below a certain energy threshold, the volume in which the track structure simulation is performed must extend beyond the volume in which scoring is done. The effect of this extended volume on simulation accuracy and performance are discussed, and it is shown that the watch volume must extend beyond the target by a distance equal to the range of the subthreshold electrons. This simulation method is benchmarked against experimental measurements for several radioisotopes and run for a volumetric arc radiotherapy plan. In addition, there is a comparison of the microdosimetric characteristics of two widely used track structure simulations(Geant4-DNA and NOREC), and a discussion of the use of Monte Carlo in the patient specific treatment planning for Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy and Total Body Irradiation.
Onorius Frolov 2015
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Onorius

description: Onorius Frolov & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015
[1 species].
Type species Onorius inexpectatus Frolov & Vaz-de-Mello, 2015, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Supplementary document for A flexible X-ray Talbot-Lau interferometer and its theory - 7339234.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Zhao
name: Zan, Guibin
name: Lin, Qisi
name: Guan, Yong
name: Tian, Lijiao
name: Gao, Kun
name: Wang, Zhili
name: Zhu, Peiping
name: Yun, Wenbing
name: Liu, Gang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Theoretical simulation
Scolitantides orion
Creators: name: Aistleitner, Eyjolf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Scolitantides
Scolitantides orion

description: Scolitantides orion (PALLAS, 1771)
 B e l e g e: Austria, Steiermark, Oberes Murtal, Leoben, Hinterberg, 28.6.1939; St. Michael, Jassinggraben, 8.6.1950.- Grazer Bergland, Graz, Gösting, 10.6.1958, leg. Hanusch, 13.8.o.J., leg. Anonymus, Peggauer Wand, 4.8.1957; leg. Meier. Italien, Bozen, Klausen, 450 m, 4.5.1994.- Trento, Tenno, 400-800 m, 6.6.1981; Arco, 150 m, 3.5.1990.- Pordenone, Polcenigo-Mezzomonte (11km N Sacile), 800-1200 m, 9.8.1991, 1♀, alle leg. Aistleitner. - Udine, Bordano-Interneppo, 28.5.1958, leg. Meier.
V e r b r e i t u n g: Chorotyp eurasiatisch; Europa (meist in disjunkten Populationen) bis Fennoskandien, Vorderasien (Türkei), Zentralasien (Kasachstan), Sibirien (W Baikalsee) bis zum Amur, Mongolei, China, Korea, Japan.
description: Published as part of Aistleitner, Eyjolf, 2021, Zur Chorologie und Faunistik der Tagfalter in den Ost- und Südalpen 1. Tagfalter (Papilionoidea) aus der Sammlung von Herbert Meier † sowie Daten aus den Sammlungen des Entomologischen Forschungsmuseums EFMEA in Feldkirch, pp. 787-867 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 813, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10086880
Bayesian methods for genetic association analysis with heterogeneous subgroups: From meta-analyses to gene-environment interactions
Creators: name: Wen, Xiaoquan
name: Stephens, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Genetic association analyses often involve data from multiple potentially-heterogeneous subgroups. The expected amount of heterogeneity can vary from modest (e.g., a typical meta-analysis) to large (e.g., a strong gene--environment interaction). However, existing statistical tools are limited in their ability to address such heterogeneity. Indeed, most genetic association meta-analyses use a "fixed effects" analysis, which assumes no heterogeneity. Here we develop and apply Bayesian association methods to address this problem. These methods are easy to apply (in the simplest case, requiring only a point estimate for the genetic effect and its standard error, from each subgroup) and effectively include standard frequentist meta-analysis methods, including the usual "fixed effects" analysis, as special cases. We apply these tools to two large genetic association studies: one a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from the Global Lipids consortium, and the second a cross-population analysis for expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs). In the Global Lipids data we find, perhaps surprisingly, that effects are generally quite homogeneous across studies. In the eQTL study we find that eQTLs are generally shared among different continental groups, and discuss consequences of this for study design.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOAS695 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Cerhomalus Quedenfeldt 1884
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Cerhomalus

description: Cerhomalus Quedenfeldt, 1884
[4 species].
Type species Cerhomalus mechowi Quedenfeldt, 1884, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
ПРОИВОДСТВА НАТРИЙ СУЛЬФИДА
Creators: name: Каипбергенова, Гулжамила
name: Джолдасов, Асадбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Натрий сульфид является важным химическим соединением, используемым в различных отраслях промышленности, таких как текстильное производство, производство бумаги, фармацевтическая и нефтегазовая промышленность. Производство натрий сульфида может осуществляться различными способами, включая реакцию металлического натрия с серой или сульфидной кислотой, электролиз раствора сернистой кислоты и др. В данной статье рассмотрены основные методы производства натрий сульфида, их преимущества и недостатки, а также особенности технологического процесса. Также описаны основные области применения натрий сульфида и его свойства.
Additional file 1 of Spatial and temporal analysis of myocardial infarction incidence in Zanjan province, Iran
Creators: name: Soleimani, Mohsen
name: Bagheri, Nasser
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1.
Autoimmune Pancreatitis Complicated by Spontaneous Subcapsular Splenic Haemorrhage
Creators: name: Hanna, Mina S
name: Terlevich, Ana
name: Przemioslo, Robert
name: Marden, Peter
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Autoimmune Diseases; Immunoglobulin G; Pancreatic Pseudocyst; Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing; Splenic Diseases

description: Context Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare but increasingly recognised condition with unique clinical, immunological and histological features. We report the first case of autoimmune pancreatitis associated with spontaneous splenic haemorrhage. Case report A 75-year-old man presented with severe epigastric pain radiating to the back associated with nausea and vomiting. A CT-scan of his abdomen showed a large pseudocyst within the pancreatic tail as well as a subcapsular splenic haemorrhage. His IgG4 levels were elevated and clinical history and investigations were consistent with severe acute pancreatitis, but were negative for other known causes of pancreatic disease. The patient was started on steroid therapy and improved dramatically clinically, immunologically and radiologically thus confirming the diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis. His splenic haemorrhage was managed conservatively in view of his haemodynamic stablity and eventually self-resolved. Conclusion Autoimmune pancreatitis should not be overlooked in cases of acute pancreatitis without other obvious etiology. Furthermore, superimposed splenic haemorrhage is a rare but important complication of autoimmune pancreatitis.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5 (2013): September - p. 475-527
An experiment in therapeutic planning : learning with the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw First Nations
Creators: name: Erfan, Aftab
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Many of the communities in which planners work are characterized by deeply rooted conflict and collective trauma, a legacy of various forms of injustice, including some that have been enabled by the planning profession itself. In this context, can planning play a healing or therapeutic role, without recreating or perpetuating the cycles of oppression? This dissertation reflects on my community-based action research on Tsulquate, a small First Nations reserve on Vancouver Island, where the Gwa’sala and ‘Nakwaxda’xw people have lived since relocation in 1964. Between 2009 and 2012, and particularly over a year of intensive fieldwork, I engaged in this community to assist in the ambitious task of addressing intergenerational trauma, the importance of which was expressed within the Band’s newly created Comprehensive Community Plan. Written as mixed-genre creative analytic process (CAP) ethnography, the dissertation tells the stories of my engagement, and in particular of a series of public, intergenerational workshops I facilitated using a methodology called Deep Democracy. I document evidence of modest but promising patterns of individual and collective ‘healing’ and ‘transformation’ in the course of the workshops, and evaluate the effectiveness of my tools and approaches using first person (reflective), second person (interpersonal), and third person (informant-based) sources of information. I argue in favour of a role for a therapeutic orientation in planning, suggesting that planning is in fact particularly well-suited to a therapeutic task given its collaborative-community focus, its ability to connect the past to the future, its practical orientation, and its relative lack of ‘baggage’ compared with the other helping professions. The ability to play a therapeutic or healing role is contingent, however, not only on planners learning new skills, but also on developing a set of ‘metaskills’ or personal attitudes –compassion, playfulness and beginner’s mind – that are essential for effective and ethical involvement in such sensitive settings. I argue that reflective practice is key to the making of therapeutic planners, and outline a developmental path based on a combination of personal and assisted reflective practice: journaling, meditation, artistic practice, peer coaching, and supervision.
Chaetonyx Schaum 1862
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Chaetonyx

description: Chaetonyx Schaum in Kraatz, 1862
[3 species and 2 additional subspecies].
Type species Chaetonyx robustus Schaum, 1862, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Renal Lesions in Autoimmune Pancreatitis: Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Assessing Response to Corticosteroid Therapy
Creators: name: Zaheer, Atif
name: Halappa, Vivek Gowdra
name: Akshintala, Venkata S
name: Singh, Vikesh K
name: Kamel, Ihab R
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Autoimmune Diseases; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Pancreatitis

description: Context Autoimmune pancreatitis is a rare disorder characterized by the systemic deposition of IgG4 plasma cells. Extrapancreatic manifestations of autoimmune pancreatitis depend on the site of plasma cell deposition. The most common extrapancreatic site of involvement is the bile duct followed by the retroperitoneum and kidneys. Case report We report a case of a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis and renal lesions who underwent MRI prior to and after corticosteroid therapy. Conclusion We emphasize the role of diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) findings on MRI in evaluating the response to steroid therapy.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5 (2013): September - p. 475-527
Multi-photon state engineering by heralded interference between single photons and coherent states
Creators: name: Bartley, Tim J.
name: Donati, Gaia
name: Spring, Justin B.
name: Jin, Xian-Min
name: Barbieri, Marco
name: Datta, Animesh
name: Smith, Brian J.
name: Walmsley, Ian A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a technique for generating multi-photon nonclassical states via interference between coherent and Fock states using quantum catalysis. By modulating the coherent field strength, the number of catalyst photons and the ratio of the beam splitter upon which they interfere, a wide range of nonclassical phenomena can be created, including squeezing of up to 1.25 dB, anti- and super-bunched photon statistics and states exhibiting over 90% fidelity to displaced coherent superposition states. We perform quantum catalysis experimentally, showing tunability into the nonclassical regime. Our protocol is not limited by weak nonlinearities that underlie most known strategies of preparing multi-photon nonclassical states. Successive iterations of this protocol can lead to direct control over the weights of higher-order terms in the Fock basis, paving the way towards conditional preparation of "designer" multi-photon states for applications in quantum computation, communication and metrology.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures. Revised manuscript for publication
Performance Characteristics of Endoscopic Ultrasound in the Staging of Pancreatic Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Nawaz, Haq
name: Fan, Chen Yi
name: Kloke, John
name: Khalid, Asif
name: McGrath, Kevin
name: Landsittel, Douglas
name: Papachristou, Georgios I
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Endosonography; Neoplasm Staging; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Sensitivity and Specificity; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

description: Context The optimal approach to pre-operative imaging assessment of pancreatic cancer is unknown. Objective The aim of this meta-analysis was to assess accuracy and performance characteristics of EUS in determining nodal staging, vascular invasion, and prediction of resectability of pancreatic cancer. A secondary aim was to perform head to head comparison of performance characteristics between EUS and CT for nodal staging, vascular invasion and resectability. Design Data from EUS studies were pooled according to bivariate generalized random effects model. Pooled estimates for CT were obtained from studies which performed head to head comparison between EUS and CT. Patients Patients with pancreatic cancer undergoing pre-operative imaging assessment. Intervention EUS. Main outcome measure Pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of EUS for nodal staging, vascular invasion and resectability. Results Forty-nine studies were considered of which 29 met inclusion criteria with a total of 1,330 patients. Pooled summary estimates for EUS-nodal staging were 69% for sensitivity and 81% for specificity. For vascular invasion, sensitivity was 85% and specificity was 91%. The sensitivity and specificity for resectability was 90% and 86%, respectively. CT scan showed lower sensitivity than EUS for nodal staging (24% vs. 58%) and vascular invasion (58% vs. 86%); however, the specificities for nodal staging (88% vs. 85%) and vascular invasion (95% vs. 93%) were comparable in studies where both imaging techniques were performed. The sensitivity and specificity of CT in determining resectability (90% and 69%) was similar to that of EUS (87% and 89%). Conclusions EUS is an accurate pre-operative tool in the assessment of nodal staging, vascular invasion and resectability in patients with pancreatic cancer.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 5 (2013): September - p. 475-527
MPEC 2023-X113 : 2013 GB137
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Hybalus Dejean 1833
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Hybalus

description: Hybalus Dejean, 1833 [
38 species and 1 additional subspecies].
Type species Geobius cornifrons Brullé, 1832 by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Minimal surfaces bounded by elastic lines
Creators: name: Giomi, L.
name: Mahadevan, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In mathematics, the classical Plateau problem consists of finding the surface of least area that spans a given rigid boundary curve. A physical realization of the problem is obtained by dipping a stiff wire frame of some given shape in soapy water and then removing it; the shape of the spanning soap film is a solution to the Plateau problem. But what happens if a soap film spans a loop of inextensible but flexible wire? We consider this simple query that couples Plateau's problem to Euler's Elastica: a special class of twist-free curves of given length that minimize their total squared curvature energy. The natural marriage of two of the oldest geometrical problems linking physics and mathematics leads to a quest for the shape of a minimal surface bounded by an elastic line: the Euler-Plateau problem. We use a combination of simple physical experiments with soap films that span soft filaments, scaling concepts, exact and asymptotic analysis combined with numerical simulations to explore some of the richness of the shapes that result. Our study raises questions of intrinsic interest in geometry and its natural links to a range of disciplines including materials science, polymer physics, architecture and even art.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary on-line material: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/softmat/Euler-Plateau-problem/
Additional file 1 of Involvement of transcribed lncRNA uc.291 in hyperproliferative skin disorders
Creators: name: Mancini, Mara
name: Sergio, Simone
name: Cappello, Angela
name: Farkas, Timea
name: Bernassola, Francesca
name: Scarponi, Claudia
name: Albanesi, Cristina
name: Melino, Gerry
name: Candi, Eleonora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Table 1.
Variational Implementation of Immersed Finite Element Methods
Creators: name: Heltai, Luca
name: Costanzo, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.8; G.4
subject: 74F10, 74S05

description: Dirac-delta distributions are often crucial components of the solid-fluid coupling operators in immersed solution methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. This is certainly so for methods like the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) or the Immersed Finite Element Method (IFEM), where Dirac-delta distributions are approximated via smooth functions. By contrast, a truly variational formulation of immersed methods does not require the use of Dirac-delta distributions, either formally or practically. This has been shown in the Finite Element Immersed Boundary Method (FEIBM), where the variational structure of the problem is exploited to avoid Dirac-delta distributions at both the continuous and the discrete level. In this paper, we generalize the FEIBM to the case where an incompressible Newtonian fluid interacts with a general hyperelastic solid. Specifically, we allow (i) the mass density to be different in the solid and the fluid, (ii) the solid to be either viscoelastic of differential type or purely elastic, and (iii) the solid to be and either compressible or incompressible. At the continuous level, our variational formulation combines the natural stability estimates of the fluid and elasticity problems. In immersed methods, such stability estimates do not transfer to the discrete level automatically due to the non- matching nature of the finite dimensional spaces involved in the discretization. After presenting our general mathematical framework for the solution of FSI problems, we focus in detail on the construction of natural interpolation operators between the fluid and the solid discrete spaces, which guarantee semi-discrete stability estimates and strong consistency of our spatial discretization.
description: 42 pages, 5 figures, Revision 1
Accuracy of Multi-Detector Computed Tomography, Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-CT, and CA 19-9 Levels in Detecting Recurrent Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Hamidian Jahromi, Alireza
name: Sangster, Guillermo
name: Zibari, Gazi
name: Martin, Brett
name: Chu, Quyen
name: Takalkar, Amol
name: Shi, Runhua
name: Shokouh-Amiri, Hosein
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: CA-19-9 Antigen; Neoplasms; Pancreas; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Positron-Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography; Sensitivity and Specificity

description: Context We compared the accuracy of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-CT (FDG-PET-CT), multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) and CA 19-9 levels in detecting pancreatic cancer recurrence in patients with resected CA 19-9 positive pancreatic adenocarcinomas. Methods We retrospectively evaluated 122 patients with pancreatic adenocarcinomas who underwent surgical resection of the tumor between January 2002 and December 2011. Twenty-five patients had MDCT, FDG-PET-CT and CA 19-9 levels performed no less than six weeks post-operation and within 8 weeks of each other for detection of tumor recurrence. Of these, 20 patients had high pre-operative CA 19-9 levels that dropped to a normal level postoperatively which will be the focus of this study. The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value (PPV, NPV), and accuracy of MDCT, FDG-PET-CT, and CA 19-9 in detecting recurrence were compared. Results Operations performed included pyloric sparing pancreaticoduodenectomy (n=9), pancreaticoduodenectomy (n=7), distal pancreatectomy (n=3) and total pancreatectomy (n=1). Three patients had no recurrence, but local recurrence and distant metastasis were seen in 8 (40%) and 12 (60%) patients, respectively. In our study, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and diagnostic effectiveness  (accuracy) were: 82%, 100%, 100%, 50%, 85% for MDCT; 82%, 100%, 100%, 50%, 85% for FDG-PET-CT and 94%, 100%, 100%, 75%, 95% for CA 19-9. The difference in recurrence detection accuracy of the tests was not statistically significant. A combination of CA 19-9 with MDCT or FDG-PET-CT was 100% accurate in detecting cancer recurrence in our patients. Conclusion Our data suggests that CA 19-9 levels can be used reliably to detect recurrent pancreatic adenocarcinomas in patients with CA 19-9-positive primary tumors. Combination of CA 19-9 with MDCT or FDG-PET-CT is potentially the most accurate approach in detecting pancreatic cancer recurrence.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 4 (2013): July - p. 304-474
High resolution imaging of the ATLBS regions: the radio source counts
Creators: name: Thorat, K.
name: Subrahmanyan, R.
name: Saripalli, L.
name: Ekers, R. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Australia Telescope Low-brightness survey (ATLBS; \cite{SESS10}) regions have been mosaic imaged at a radio frequency of 1.4 GHz with $6\arcsec$ angular resolution and 72 $μ$Jy beam$^{-1}$ rms noise. The images (centered at RA: $00^{h}\ 35^{m}\ 00^{s}$, DEC: $-67^{\circ}\ 00^{'}\ 00^{"}$ and RA: $00^{h}\ 59^{m}\ 17^{s}$, DEC: $-67^{\circ}\ 00^{'}\ 00^{"}$ (J2000 epoch)) cover 8.42 square degrees sky area and have no artifacts or imaging errors above the image thermal noise. Multi-resolution radio and optical r-band images (made using the 4-m CTIO Blanco telescope) were used to recognize multi-component sources and prepare a source list; the detection threshold was 0.38 mJy in a low resolution radio image made with beam FWHM of $50\arcsec$. Radio source counts in the flux density range 0.4-8.7 mJy are estimated, with corrections applied for noise bias, effective area correction and resolution bias. The resolution bias is mitigated using low resolution radio images, while effects of source confusion are removed by using high resolution images for identifying blended sources. Below 1 mJy the ATLBS counts are systematically lower than the previous estimates. Showing no evidence for an upturn down to 0.4 mJy, they do not require any changes in the radio source population down to the limit of the survey. The work suggests that automated image analysis for counts may be dependent on the ability of the imaging to reproduce connecting emission with low surface brightness and on the ability of the algorithm to recognize sources, which may require that source finding algorithms effectively work with multi-resolution and multi-wavelength data. The work underscores the importance of using source lists-as opposed to component lists-and correcting for the noise bias in order to precisely estimate counts close to the image noise and determine the upturn at sub-mJy flux density.
description: 53 pages, 10 Figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Don't be so hard on yourself: Does daily self-compassion increase emotion regulation efficacy and improve mental health?
Creators: name: Herron, Laura
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Self-compassion is a stance taken toward the self involving mindfulness, self-kindness and an awareness of the common human experience of suffering. Research has shown that self-compassion is meaningfully related to positive mental health outcomes, and that practicing self-compassion is a skill that can be learned over a relatively short period of time and through fairly simple interventions (Albertson, Neff, & Dill-Shackleford, 2014; Shapira & Mongrain, 2010). Emotion regulation efficacy refers to a person’s beliefs about their ability to handle strong emotions. The current study tested the hypothesis that practicing self-compassion would lead to increased emotion regulation efficacy and decreased fear of emotion, as well as improved outcomes on measures of psychological distress. Participants engaged in either daily self-compassion practice or a control condition for one week while concurrently measuring daily affect and rumination, and subsequently assessing overall changes in emotion regulation efficacy, fear of emotion and mental health outcomes including stress, anxiety and depression. Contrary to predicted outcomes, participant scores on main dependent measures did not change significantly from pre- to post-intervention, and condition did not predict change in scores. Though main hypotheses were not supported, post-hoc exploratory analyses yielded some notable results.
Additional file 4 of Identification, expression, and artificial selection of silkworm epigenetic modification enzymes
Creators: name: Gao, Rui
name: Li, Chun-Lin
name: Tong, Xiao-Ling
name: Han, Min-Jin
name: Lu, Kun-Peng
name: Liang, Shu-Bo
name: Hu, Hai
name: Luan, Yue
name: Zhang, Bi-Li
name: Liu, Yan-Yu
name: Dai, Fang-Yin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4 : Figure S1. The tissue expression profile of EMEs of Drosophila melanogaster (A) and Mus musculus (B). The Gene Numbers on the right are from WERAM 1.0 database and EnsemblASIA.
New Developments in the Management of Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancers
Creators: name: Goodman, Martin David
name: McPartland, Sarah
name: Huber, Kathryn
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2013
Subjects: Neoadjuvant Therapy; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Radiosurgery

description: There remains great variability in the treatment for patients with borderline resectable pancreatic head cancers. Whether surgery should be attempted or neoadjuvant therapy consisting of chemoradiation or chemotherapy alone is at some debate. Each neoadjuvant regimen does show efficacy but there is no clear consensus which would be most beneficial. We will discuss three abstracts (#4043, #4057, #e15082) that were presented in the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting that will discuss neoadjuvant therapies and how they are related to getting an R0 resection.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 14, N° 4 (2013): July - p. 304-474