cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The politics of accounting for refugees
Creators: name: Thomason, Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Refugees are presented to citizen-subjects in ambivalent terms. They are included within national systems of meaning as subjects that are desired; as subjects innocent of wrong-doing and who maintain the legal right to seek and to enjoy asylum where they see fit. Yet at the same time material and symbolic opportunities to exclude refugees abound. I analyze the furore at the arrival of the MV Sun Sea, a boat of Tamil asylum-seekers, to the shores of British Columbia, to argue that in this case, subjects that would normally be recognized as refugees with little difficulty, were rendered absolutely other; embodiments of an inhumanity that provided citizen-subjects with the sense that their rights could be casually forgotten. I ask the reader to consider the constitutive exclusions necessary to think and practice the refugee as a subject of the law and examine lay and advocate attempts to resignify the refugee with different values; to make the refugee of value to the nation as a productive body and as one that shared a being-in-common with the “fictive we” of the nation. My work with Refugee Community Organizations in London, England, calls into question the value of likeness for the political practice of relating to refugees, arguing that an attempt to become like refugees is bound to be inattentive to the very important ways in which unlikeness anchors all practices of becoming. Finally I engage with refugee story-telling to ask what must be left unexplained to promote a non-violent ethics of relation.
title: Artificial intelligence system improves the ability of radiologists on pulmonary nodules diagnosis in chest CT
Creators: name: Shen, Wei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Screening
subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Accurate detection of pulmonary nodules plays an important role in the early diagnosis of lung cancer. This study aims to evaluate the role of artificial intelligence (AI) system based on a 3D convolution neural network in assisting radiologists on...
Search for the exotic states at Belle
Creators: name: Shen, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent results on charmonium-like exotic states from the Belle experiment. The two-photon process $γγ\to ϕ\jpsi$ is measured to search for Y(4140). No signal for the $Y(4140) \to ϕ\jpsi$ is observed. But a narrow peak with a significance of 3.2$σ$ deviations including systematic uncertainty is observed at 4350.6 MeV/$c^2$ that we named X(4350). We also search for charmonium-like states, including X(3872), Y(4140), X(3915) and X(4350), in $Υ(1S)$ and $Υ(2S)$ radiative decays. No significant signal of any charmonium-like state is observed. The processes $γγ\to VV$ ($V=ω$ or $ϕ$) are also measured to search for the possible exotic states in low mass region. There are clear resonant structures in all the decay modes.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to KMI Inauguration Conference "Quest for the Origin of Particles and the Universe" (KMIIN), 24-26 Nov. 2011, KMI, Nagoya University
Soliton dynamics in the multiphoton plasma regime
Creators: name: Husko, Chad A.
name: Combrie, Sylvain
name: Colman, Pierre
name: Zheng, Jiangjun
name: De Rossi, Alfredo
name: Wong, Chee Wei
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Microphysics

description: Solitary waves have consistently captured the imagination of scientists, ranging from fundamental breakthroughs in spectroscopy and metrology enabled by supercontinuum light, to gap solitons for dispersionless slow-light, and discrete spatial solitons in lattices, amongst others. Recent progress in strong-field atomic physics include impressive demonstrations of attosecond pulses and high-harmonic generation via photoionization of free-electrons in gases at extreme intensities of 1014 W/cm2. Here we report the first phase-resolved observations of femtosecond optical solitons in a semiconductor microchip, with multiphoton ionization at picojoule energies and 1010 W/cm2 intensities. The dramatic nonlinearity leads to picojoule observations of free-electron-induced blue-shift at 1016 cm−3 carrier densities and self-chirped femtosecond soliton acceleration. Furthermore, we evidence the time-gated dynamics of soliton splitting on-chip, and the suppression of soliton recurrence due to fast free-electron dynamics. These observations in the highly dispersive slow-light media reveal a rich set of physics governing ultralow-power nonlinear photon-plasma dynamics.
Dark matter effects in modified teleparallel gravity
Creators: name: Vilhena, S. G.
name: Dutra, M.
name: Lourenço, O.
name: Pompeia, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work investigates dark matter (DM) effects in compact objects in modified teleparallel gravity (MTG) in which a modification of Teleparallel Equivalent to General Relativity is used. We applied a tetrad to the modified field equations where a set of relations is found. The conservation equation allows us to rewrite our Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations with an effective gravitational coupling constant. As input to these new equations, we use a relativistic mean-field (RMF) model with dark matter content included, obtained from a Lagrangian density with both, hadronic and dark particle degrees of freedom, as well as the Higgs boson, used as a mediator in both sectors of the theory. Through numerical calculations, we analyze the mass-radius diagrams obtained from different parametrizations of the RMF-DM model, generated by assuming different values of the dark particle Fermi momentum and running the free parameter coming from the MTG. Our results show that it is possible for the system simultaneously support more DM content, and be compatible with recent astrophysical data provided by LIGO and Virgo Collaboration, as well as by NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER).
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Novel signatures of the Higgs sector from S3 flavor symmetry
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Gautam
name: Leser, Philipp
name: Päs, Heinrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an earlier work we analyzed the CP-even scalar sector of an S3 flavor model, where we identified some novel decay signatures of an exotic scalar. In this work we extend our analysis by including the complete set of scalars/pseudoscalars, revisiting the potential minimization conditions in a more general setup, setting the spectrum in conformity with the current LHC limits on the scalar mass, and identifying yet another spectacularly novel decay channel which might be revealed from an intense study of rare top decays at the LHC into modes containing multileptons of different flavors.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Ab initio potential energy curves, scattering lengths, and rovibrational levels of the He$_2^+$ molecular ion in excited electronic states
Creators: name: Gȩbala, Jacek
name: Przybytek, Michał
name: Gronowski, Marcin
name: Tomza, Michał
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate accurate potential energy curves for a ground-state He$^+$ ion interacting with a He atom in the lowest-energy metastable $^3\!S$ electronic state. We employ the full configuration interaction method, equivalent to exact diagonalization, with results extrapolated to the complete basis set limit. The leading relativistic and adiabatic corrections are included using perturbation theory. We calculate rovibrational levels and spectroscopic constants of the He$_2^+$ molecular ion in excited electronic states for three stable isotopologues. We predict the scattering lengths for ultracold ion-atom collisions. The theoretical data are presented with their uncertainties and agree well with previous results for the ground state. The reported results may be useful for the spectroscopy of the He$_2^+$ molecular ion in the excited electronic state and collisional studies of He$^+$ ions immersed in ultracold gases of metastable He atoms.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables
title: Board of Directors: Selection, Compensation, and Removal
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Tayan, Brian
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2020

description: A board of directors requires professionals with a diverse mix of managerial, functional, and other specialized knowledge in order to properly advise and oversee management. This Quick Guide reviews the process by which companies select, compensate, and evaluate board members. It answers such questions as: How are qualified directors identified? What skills and experiences are needed? How are directors paid? How are directors evaluated? How are “bad” directors removed?
title: Ground-based remote sensing of corn evapotranspiration under limited irrigation practices
title: Hydrology days 2012
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2012
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Taghvaeian, S.
name: Chávez, J. L.
name: Hansen, N. C.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2012

description: 2012 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 21 - March 23, 2012.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Irrigated agriculture is the largest user of fresh water resources in arid/semi-arid parts of the world, where water is highly-demanded and usually over-allocated. Therefore, it is of crucial importance to accurately identify irrigation requirement of agricultural crops, known as evapotranspiration (ET). In this study, ground-based remotely sensed data were used in two major approaches to estimate crop coefficient (Kc) and ET over two treatments of limited-irrigation corn in northeastern Colorado. The first approach was the reflectance-based Kc, while the second approach was more complex and based on the surface energy balance equation. Implemented methods resulted in Kc values similar to what is reported in the literature for corn in the semi-arid climate of the study area. During a 4-week period, total corn ET averaged for all methods and treatments was 192 mm, similar to the reference alfalfa ET over the same period. The results showed that reflectance-based Kc methods are capable of estimating corn water consumption rates very similar to those of energy balance models during the period considered in the study.
Possible origin of AT2021any: a failed GRB from a structured jet
Creators: name: Xu, Fan
name: Huang, Yong-Feng
name: Geng, Jin-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searching for afterglows not associated with any gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a longstanding goal of transient surveys. These surveys provide the very chance of discovering the so-called orphan afterglows. Recently, a promising orphan afterglow candidate, AT2021any, was found by the Zwicky Transient Facility. Here we perform multi-wavelength fitting of AT2021any with three different outflow models, namely the top-hat jet model, the isotropic fireball model, and the structured Gaussian jet model. Although the three models can all fit the observed light curve well, it is found that the structured Gaussian jet model presents the best result, and thus is preferred by observations. In the framework of the Gaussian jet model, the best-fit Lorentz factor is about 68, which indicates that AT2021any should be a failed GRB. The half-opening angle of the jet and the viewing angle are found to be 0.104 and 0.02, respectively, which means that the jet is essentially observed on-axis. The trigger time of the GRB is inferred to be about 1000 s before the first detection of the orphan afterglow. An upper limit of 21.4% is derived for the radiative efficiency, which is typical in GRBs.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, revised according to referee's suggestions, main conclusion unchanged
Self-consistent calculations of quadrupole moments of the first 2+ states in Sn and Pb isotopes
Creators: name: Voitenkov, Dmitrii
name: Kamerdzhiev, Sergei
name: Krewald, Siegfried
name: Saperstein, Eduard
name: Tolokonnikov, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method of calculating static moments of excited states and transitions between excited states is formulated for non-magic nuclei within the Green function formalism. For these characteristics, it leads to a noticeable difference from the standard QRPA approach. Quadrupole moments of the first 2+ states in Sn and Pb isotopes are calculated using the self-consistent TFFS based on the Energy Density Functional by Fayans et al. with the set of parameters DF3-a fixed previously. A reasonable agreement with available experimental data is obtained.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Globalization: A Moral Imperative
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Economics

description: Argues on the notion that global free trade and investment are responsible for poverty, inequality, lowering of standards and harming social progress. Concerns of anti-globalist critics on globalization; result of the mistaken arguments against globalization; criticism against national politicians and international bureaucrats.
Apis florea FABRICIUS 1787
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Apis
Apis florea

description: Apis florea FABRICIUS, 1787
Apis florea FABRICIUS, 1787: STEINER 2017: (biol., Camp Lemonnier).
D i s t r i b u t i o n:CampLemonnier.
Apis florea, which is widely distributed in the Oriental region, is also known from the Afrotropical (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan) and Palaearctic regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 933, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
The stormwater retention benefits of urban trees and forests
Creators: name: Phillips, Tuana Hilst
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental science
subject: Hydrologic sciences
subject: Plant sciences
subject: forests
subject: infiltration
subject: stormwater
subject: transpiration
subject: trees
subject: urban

description: The use of urban tree canopies as strategies to mitigate stormwater runoff is limited in part by a lack of empirically observed data. This thesis quantifies soil infiltration capacity in 21 forest patches in Baltimore, Maryland, and reports results from a meta-analysis on urban tree transpiration. Results show that the degree to which soil infiltration and tree transpiration functions reduce stormwater runoff depends on soil physical properties, tree characteristics, and management drivers. Yet, results conservatively estimate that Baltimore forest patch soils are capable of infiltrating ~68% of rainfall. In addition, urban trees transpire ~1.7 mm of water per day in the growing season or ~0.8 mm of water per day on an annual basis, an amount of water that equals approximately 26% of the annual rainfall in the Baltimore region. Thus, urban trees and forests impact urban hydrology and are an important component of stormwater green infrastructure in built environments.
title: Recanalization of native superficial femoral artery chronic total occlusion, after failed femoropopliteal bypass in patients with critical limb ischemia.
Creators: name: MINICI, ROBERTO
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Interventional Radiology
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Arterial access
subject: Stents
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Femoropopliteal bypass occlusion is a significant issue with attendant increased mortality and morbidity. The overall limb salvage rate in patients with failed bypass graft is only about 50% at 2 years. Thrombectomy or thrombolysis followed by graft...
Contemporary heritage: a symbiotic architecture for Victoria, BC
Creators: name: Flach, Nathan Andrew
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 56
description: Thesis is in colour.
description: In 1891 the luxurious Janion Hotel was built at the terminus of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway near the waterfront in downtown Victoria, British Columbia. Today it lies vacant, boarded up, and abandoned, as it has for decades. Since the 1960s, heritage architecture in Canada has generally been approached from a historicist perspective where each piece is viewed as a precious document of its lime and place. Today, municipal laws in Victoria encourage a system of preservation where heritage facades are restored and the effects of time are erased. As a result of evaluating heritage architecture purely in terms of historical materiality, society is, in many cases, destroying the essence of its heritage buildings. The remnants are then displayed in an embalmed state, much like artifacts in a museum. This project explores an alternative approach to heritage architecture that favours holistic conservation over preservation. From this perspective, heritage buildings are treated as living entities that are allowed to grow and change, while still retaining the spirit and character that gives them heritage value in the first place. Employing a system of research, observation, and dialogue, a hypothetical design for the conservation of the Janion and its surrounding site is developed. Through the design, the heritage building and historical site house a new location for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, a public plaza celebrating the history of the railroad, commercial retail units, a robotic parking garage, and a waterfront restaurant and promenade. The project presents a design process that can be applied to heritage architecture throughout greater Victoria.
A Green's function formalism of energy and momentum transfer in fluctuational electrodynamics
Creators: name: Narayanaswamy, Arvind
name: Zheng, Yi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Microphysics

description: Radiative energy and momentum transfer due to fluctuations of electromagnetic fields arising due to temperature difference between objects is described in terms of the cross-spectral densities of the electromagnetic fields. We derive relations between thermal non-equilibrium contributions to energy and momentum transfer and surface integrals of tangential components of the dyadic Green's functions of the vector Helmholtz equation. The expressions derived here are applicable to objects of arbitrary shapes, dielectric functions, as well as magnetic permeabilities. For the case of radiative transfer, we derive expressions for the generalized transmissivity and generalized conductance that are shown to obey reciprocity and agree with theory of black body radiative transfer in the appropriate limit.
Investigation of the Effect of Fluctuating/Decreasing Heating Loads on Temperature Sensitive Paint Measurements in AEDC Tunnel 9
Creators: name: Juliano, John David
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Aerospace engineering
subject: AEDC Tunnel 9
subject: Temperature Sensitive Paint

description: An investigation was done on the effect of fluctuating or rapidly decreasing heating loads on the response of temperature sensitive paint (TSP). An experiment was designed and carried out in the University of Maryland Advanced Propulsion Research Laboratory’s Vitiated Heater with sudden changes in heat flux over time. The results of the experiment showed that the accuracy of the discrete instrumentation under a thin layer of TSP is dependent on the thickness of the paint layer and magnitude of the heating load. It also showed that the accuracy of a TSP measurement with a sudden change in heat flux decreases as the paint thickness or heating magnitude increases when the current data reduction methodology is applied. Finally, a novel dual-calibration data reduction method was utilized to improve the calculated heat transfer accuracy for an experiment with a sudden change in heat flux.
title: Information needs reported by radiographers and radiologists in a major Portuguese healthcare centre: Some requisites for Information Systems improvement
Creators: name: Santos, Milton
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Technology
subject: Computer applications
subject: eHealth
subject: Radiographers
subject: PACS
subject: RIS
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Workforce
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Health Information Systems have contributed to continuous improvement in health care, becoming a quality assurance by enabling decision-making based on appropriate and reliable information [1]. The existence of multiple Information Systems (IS) in a...
title: Investigating the potential of NAO index to forecast droughts in Sicily
title: Hydrology days 2007
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2007
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cancelliere, A.
name: Di Mauro, G.
name: Bonaccorso, B.
name: Rossi, G.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: 2007 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 19 - March 21, 2007.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Drought monitoring and forecasting is essential for an effective drought preparedness and mitigation. The use of large-scale climatic patterns, such as El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO ) or European Blocking (EB), can potentially improve the forecasting of drought evolution in time and space, provided the influence of such indices on the climatic variability in a region is verified. In the present paper, a stochastic model for the seasonal forecasting of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), developed in previous works, is extended in order to include information from NAO index. In particular SPI forecasts at a generic time horizon M are analytically determined, in terms of conditional expectation, as a function of a finite number of past observations of SPI and NAO, assuming a multivariate normal as the underlying distribution. In addition, an expression of the Mean Square Error (MSE) of prediction is also derived, which allows confidence intervals of prediction to be estimated. The forecasting performance of the model is verified by hindcasting observed SPI values computed on monthly areal average precipitation series observed in Sicily and validation is carried out by repeatedly applying a jackknife scheme. Preliminary results of the comparison between the model based only on the past observations of SPI values and the one that includes also the NAO index, seem to indicate a slight improvement of the latter model. Such results however cannot be considered conclusive and further analyses are needed in order to better assess the use of NAO as a predictor for droughts in Sicily.
title: Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Early Speckle-tracking Echocardiography in the prediction of Left Ventricle Remodeling after Acute ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Creators: name: Pellegrino, Fabio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Cardiac

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Over the years, several parameters obtained by cardiac imaging techniques have been proposed, to evaluate left ventricular remodeling (LVR) that occurs in patients who have experienced an acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) despite effective...
A Per-Baseline, Delay-Spectrum Technique for Accessing the 21cm Cosmic Reionization Signature
Creators: name: Parsons, Aaron R.
name: Pober, Jonathan C.
name: Aguirre, James E.
name: Carilli, Christopher L.
name: Jacobs, Daniel C.
name: Moore, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A critical challenge in measuring the power spectrum of 21cm emission from cosmic reionization is compensating for the frequency dependence of an interferometer's sampling pattern, which can cause smooth-spectrum foregrounds to appear unsmooth and degrade the separation between foregrounds and the target signal. In this paper, we present an approach to foreground removal that explicitly accounts for this frequency dependence. We apply the delay transformation introduced in Parsons & Backer (2009) to each baseline of an interferometer to concentrate smooth-spectrum foregrounds within the bounds of the maximum geometric delays physically realizable on that baseline. By focusing on delay-modes that correspond to image-domain regions beyond the horizon, we show that it is possible to avoid the bulk of smooth-spectrum foregrounds. We map the point-spread function of delay-modes to k-space, showing that delay-modes that are uncorrupted by foregrounds also represent samples of the three-dimensional power spectrum, and can be used to constrain cosmic reionization. Because it uses only spectral smoothness to differentiate foregrounds from the targeted 21cm signature, this per-baseline analysis approach relies on spectrally- and spatially-smooth instrumental responses for foreground removal. For sufficient levels of instrumental smoothness relative to interfering foregrounds, this technique substantially reduces the level of calibration previously thought necessary to detect 21cm reionization. As a result, this approach places fewer constraints on antenna configuration within an array, facilitating the adoption of configurations optimized for power-spectrum sensitivity. Under these assumptions, we demonstrate the potential for PAPER to detect 21cm reionization at an amplitude of 10 mK^2 near k~0.2h Mpc^-1 with 132 dipoles in 7 months of observing.
description: 33 Pages, 11 figures, accepted to ApJ
A role for the extended amygdala in the fear-enhancing effects of acute selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment
Creators: name: Ravinder, S.
name: Burghardt, Nesha Star
name: Brodsky, Rachel Jennifer
name: Bauer, Elizabeth Pike
name: Chattarji, S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Psychobiology
Biology
Biochemistry

description: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are reported to exacerbate symptoms of anxiety when treatment is initiated. These clinical findings have been extended to animal models wherein SSRIs also potentiate anxiety and fear learning, which depend on the amygdala. Yet, little is known about the role of specific amygdalar circuits in these acute effects of SSRIs. Here, we first confirmed that a single injection of fluoxetine 1 h before auditory fear conditioning potentiated fear memory in rats. To probe the neural substrates underlying this enhancement, we analyzed the expression patterns of the immediate early gene, Arc (activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein). Consistent with previous reports, fear conditioning induced Arc protein expression in the lateral and basal amygdala. However, this was not enhanced further by pre-treatment with fluoxetine. Instead, fluoxetine significantly enhanced expression of Arc in the central amygdala (CeA) and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST). Next, we tested whether direct targeted infusions of fluoxetine into the CeA, or BNST, leads to the same fear-potentiating effect. Strikingly, direct infusion of fluoxetine into the BNST, but not the CeA, was sufficient to enhance fear memory. Moreover, this behavioral effect was also accompanied by robust Arc expression in the CeA, similar to the systemic injection. Our results identify a novel role for the BNST in the acute fear-enhancing effects of SSRIs. These findings highlight the need to look beyond the traditional focus on input nuclei of the amygdala and add to accumulating evidence implicating these microcircuits in gating fear and anxiety.
title: CT density of bone islands: verification of thresholds proposed in the literature.
Creators: name: Owczarek, Magdalena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image verification
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: A growing number of body CTs performed worldwide results in an increased frequency of incidentally detected bone lesions [1]. Enostosis or bone island is a common benign sclerotic bone lesion, that has been recently removed from the WHO...
title: Intra-abdominal fluid volume in patients with clinically relevant post-operative pancreatic fistula is not associated with the subsequent development of hemorrhage
Creators: name: Leone, Riccardo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Retrospective
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Fistula
subject: Surgery
subject: Complications
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Case-control study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Post-operative pancreatic fistula (POPF) is a well-known risk factor for the subsequent development of hemorrhage in patients who underwent pancreatico-duodenectomy [1,2]. Aim of this work is to evaluate the impact of intra-abdominal fluid volume...
Why the Critics of Globalization Are Mistaken
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economics

description: I am certain that, if he were alive today, he would be deeply involved in the great debates over Globalization in which we find ourselves. So, I have decided to address the issues that the anti-Globalization critics have raised, since they dominate much of the public space, particularly in the rich countries. I wish to argue that the critics of Globalization are mistaken. To respond adequately to the critics of Globalization, however, it is useful to recall what Rabbi Hillel, who lived in the time of Herod, said: "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And when I am only for myself, what am I?" (He did go on to add: "And, if not now, when?", a prescription that has less appeal, I am afraid, to many who would rather follow St. Augustine who famously said: "Dear God, grant me chastity, but not yet"). What the Rabbi was saying was that we have, or must have, both altruism and self-interest to define our lives. But, in truth, on this spectrum, few lie in the center but tend to gravitate towards one end or the other. And this is just what we find among the critics of Globalization. Several are altruistic; they proceed from empathy, thinking that Globalization is malign in its impact on humanity, on what might be called "social issues." But a large number are also proceeding instead from self-interest, actuated by fear. These include mainly the labor unions that fear their wages and standards will collapse with Globalization, and others who fear that the overall prosperity of their nation is also at risk. As it happens, both sets of critics are mistaken; and so let me treat each separately, starting with the criticisms based on altruism and empathy, where I will conclude that, instead of lacking a Human Face, Globalization Has a Human Face.
Transvaluation of architecture: a perspective on performative value in architecture
Creators: name: Noori, Kamaran Ali
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 89-104
description: Signature page missing.
description: Human values are the foundation upon which life ' various decisions and beliefs stand on. Architecture is a discipline that highly depends on de ign decision makings and evaluation for various alternatives. Consequently, value and evaluation constitutes important roles in architecture discourse. This research builds on the views that acknowledge the significant of value and evaluation in architecture. For this purpose, this research first provides a general overview to the discussion and interpretations of human values in general and specifically across different fields like philosophy, economic, science, and others. This discussion is then followed by a detailed examining of the state of value in architecture. In doing so, this research reveals the connection between values and architecture and identifies different types of design value that drive architecture. The relation between changes in architecture and changes in design value, discussed in this research, highlights the role of design values in shaping architecture. In recognizing the vast influence of values and changes in values on architecture, this research examines a concept from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzche, called transvaluation of all values, in architecture. In addition to providing a discussion about the notion of transvaluation concept and Nietzsche's transvaluation toward life-affirming value , this research provides argument that embrace the importance of transvaluation theme in architecture. The final section of this research examines the projection of transvaluation and transvaluation toward life affirming values in contemporary architecture. In examining the state of contemporary architecture and its challenges, this research identifies performativity as a life-affirming value that contemporary architecture needs to use a a ground when transvaluating all its new emerging and traditional design values.
Why Multinationals Help Reduce Poverty
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economics

description: Over the years, multinationals have attracted both friends and enemies. Foes have argued that they exert adverse influences on the well-being of poor countries in general, and their poorer citizens in particular. Friends have argued that in their wake, multinational corporations bestow on host economies a variety of benefits primarily, but not exclusively, via spillover effects of various sorts. This paper provides a detailed reappraisal of the issues involved and argues that if their adverse effects can be removed by appropriate domestic policies, multinationals can have a potentially major role to play in the alleviation of poverty.
London-like tensor modes of gravitational waves in cosmic string cosmology
Creators: name: Aravena-Plaza, Claudio
name: Muñoz, Víctor
name: Asenjo, Felipe A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From a classical analysis, we show that gravitational waves in a cosmological medium with equation of state $ω=-1/3$ can follow a London-like equation, implying that some gravitational wave solutions present a decay for certain wavelengths. This scenario, corresponding to a cosmic string cosmology, induces an attenuation temporal scale on the gravitational wave propagation. We discuss on how these solutions impose a limit on the wavelength of the waves that can propagate, which depends on the type of spatial curvature and the energy density content of this type of cosmology.
title: Pre-stablished delays in Hepatic CT studies: is there space to optimization?
Creators: name: Santos, Milton
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Prospective
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT
subject: Radiographers
subject: Liver
subject: Contrast agents
subject: CT

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The use of intravenous contrast media (ICM) in hepatic computed tomography (CT) studies is subject to multiple factors that influence its administration. Regarding the patient, body weight and cardiac performance were the main factors that influence...
Silicon ring resonator add-drop multiplexers
Creators: name: Boeck, Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides have become an attractive area of research to decrease the footprint of optical interconnects as well as to ensure high speed data transmission. Specifically, research into using SOI ring resonator add-drop filters for WDM applications have been increasingly pursued. A ring resonator coupled on both sides by straight waveguides enables one to add (multiplex) or drop (demultiplex) wavelengths. Using series-coupled ring resonators, with each resonator having a different length, enables better spectral performance than single ring resonators. In this thesis, we have analyzed the properties of SOI strip waveguides and directional couplers. We have compared different spectral properties of single and series-coupled ring resonators and showed the advantages of using series-coupled ring resonators. SOI strip waveguide series-coupled racetrack resonators exhibiting the Vernier effect were designed by us and fabricated at a leading edge foundry. The free spectral range was 36 nm, which is comparable to the span of the optical C-band. The drop port response showed interstitial peak suppression between 9 dB and 17 dB and minimal resonance splitting.
Comments on the dual-BRST symmetry
Creators: name: Krishna, S.
name: Shukla, A.
name: Malik, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In view of a raging controversy on the topic of dual-Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (dual-BRST/co-BRST) and anti-co-BRST symmetry transformations in the context of four (3+1)-dimensional (4D) Abelian 2-form and 2D (non-)Abelian 1-form gauge theories, we attempt, in our present short note, to settle the dust by taking the help of mathematics of differential geometry, connected with the Hodge theory, which was the original motivation for the nomenclature of "dual-BRST symmetry" in our earlier set of works. It has been claimed, in a recent set of papers, that the co-BRST symmetries are not independent of the BRST symmetries. We show that the BRST and co-BRST symmetries are independent symmetries in the same fashion as the exterior and co-exterior derivatives are independent entities belonging to the set of de Rham cohomological operators of differential geometry.
description: LaTeX file, 6 pages, journal version
Tracking a nonrelativistic charge with an array of Rydberg atoms
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Akio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charged particle tracking has played a key role in the development of particle physics, particularly for understanding phenomena involving short-lived particles precisely. As a platform for high-resolution charged particle tracking, an array of Rydberg atoms is theoretically analyzed. Utilizing the Ramsey sequence to accumulate the phase shift between the ground and a Rydberg excited state induced by the time-dependent Stark shift due to a moving charge, a nonrelativistic charged particle can be tracked with a precision of $\sim10$ nm, with a potential of higher resolution by optimizing reconstruction algorithm. Although a lot of technical difficulties need to be resolved, the proposed scheme can potentially serve as a charge tracker for relativistic charged particles as well. Also, this analysis can explain potential decoherence in the quantum computation with Rydberg atoms induced by residual ions and cosmic rays.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
title: Fracture risk prediction in thalassemia major patients assessed by QCT and DXA
Creators: name: Tralli, Giulia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Haematologic
subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Thalassemia is a group of hereditary blood disease affecting the synthesis of globin chains of hemoglobin. Thalassemia Major (TM) is a severe form of anemia characterized by ineffective erythropoiesis, peripheral hemolysis, mild jaundice,...
The Capital Myth: The Difference Between Trade in Widgets and Dollars
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Economics

description: In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, the mainstream view that dominates policy circles, indeed the prevalent myth, is that despite the striking evidence of the inherently crisis-prone nature of freer capital movements, a world of full capital mobility continues to be inevitable and immensely desirable. Instead of maintaining careful restrictions, we are told, the only sensible course is to continue working toward unfettered capital flows; the favored solution is to turn the IMF even more firmly into an international lender of last resort that dispenses bailout funds to crisis-afflicted countries. The IMF took an important step in this direction at its annual meeting in Hong Kong last September, when the Interim Committee issued a statement virtually endorsing an eventual move to capital account convertibility, which means that you and I, nationals or foreigners, could take capital in and out freely, in any volume and at any time for IMF members. The obligations originally listed in 1944 in the Articles of Agreement, on the other hand, included only "avoidance of restrictions on payments for current transactions" and did not embrace capital account convertibility as an obligation or even a goal.
Transport phenomena in sharply contrasting media with a diffusion barrier
Creators: name: Dvoretskaya, O. A.
name: Kondratenko, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J60

description: Using the advection-diffusion equation, we analytically study contaminant transport in a sharply contrasting medium with a diffusion barrier due to localization of a contaminant source in a low-permeability medium. Anomalous diffusion behavior and crossover between different transport regimes are observed. The diffusion barrier results in exponential attenuation of the source power, retardation of the contaminant plume growth, and modification of the concentration distribution at large distances.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
MULTI-ELEMENT AND INSTATIONARY ISOTOPE-ASSISTED METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS FOR IMPROVED EVALUATION OF CELLULAR CARBON FLOW
Creators: name: Venkatesan, Shriramprasad
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: instationary MFA
subject: isotope-assisted metabolic flux analysis
subject: Metabolic engineering
subject: multi-element MFA

description: Isotope-assisted metabolic flux analysis (isotope MFA) combines experimental and computational techniques to analyze complex metabolic networks and thus to evaluate intracellular carbon flow and partitioning. However, the use of this methodology to increasingly complex networks can compromise flux identifiability and precision. In this thesis, we investigate two unique techniques that hold promise in overcoming this drawback. The first of these is multi-element isotope MFA. Traditionally, isotope MFA has traditionally utilized only 13C. Multi-element isotope MFA is a novel and untapped field of research, with less than a handful of studies which have utilized tracer elements other than 13C. This thesis explores the possibility of tracking different elements simultaneously fed either as a mixture or as multiple labels within the same molecule (multi-element tracer). Our analysis shows that multi-element tracking within a network allows for better information yield, which is necessary for resolution of fluxes more accurately for the network model. Also, our study shows that there are advantages to using several multi-element isotope labeling experiments in collaboration with parallel labeling experiments to provide better flux resolution at relatively less expensive costs. Instationary analysis is another topic of interest for this thesis. In this study, we create an instationary framework in our native flux analysis software adapting prior work done in the field. We also implement the method based on existing guidelines on a Pt diatom to attempt to explain an existing controversy regarding its carbon concentrating mechanism. Our brief work supports earlier work claiming that Pt operates a C4 mechanism.
title: Brain perfusion in pediatrics: pilot optimization of Time Inversion in Arterial Spin Labelling.
Creators: name: Munuera, Josep
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: MR physics
subject: Paediatric
subject: Vascular
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Prospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: In the study of different brain diseases knowing the cerebral cerebral flow can add important information. In pediatrics, being able to have perfusion sequences without exogenous contrast minimizes the risks and therefore they are the sequence of...