cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Exact Bremsstrahlung Function in N=2 Superconformal Field Theories
Creators: name: Fiol, Bartomeu
name: Gerchkovitz, Efrat
name: Komargodski, Zohar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an exact formula for the energy radiated by an accelerating quark in N=2 superconformal theories in four dimensions. This formula reproduces the known Bremsstrahlung function for N=4 theories and provides a prediction for all the perturbative and instanton corrections in N=2 theories. We perform a perturbative check of our proposal up to three loops.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures; references added
The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issues
Creators: name: Rudich, Y
name: Jang, M.
name: Prevot, A.S.H.
name: Jenkin, M.E.
name: Hallquist, M
name: Claeys, M.
name: Dommen, J.
name: Baltensperger, U
name: Mentel, TF
name: Kiendler-Scharr, A.
name: Iinuma, Y.
name: Wildt, J.
name: Maenhaut, W.
name: Simpson, D.
name: McFiggans, G.
name: Wenger, J.C.
name: George, C
name: Szmigielski, R.
name: Hoffman, T.
name: Surratt, J.D.
name: Herrman, H.
name: Monod, A.
name: Jimenez, J.L.
name: Seinfeld, J.H.
name: Donahue, N.M.
name: Hamilton, J.F.
name: Goldstein, A.H.
Publisher: name: Copernicus Publications
Year: 2009

description: Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) accounts for
a significant fraction of ambient tropospheric aerosol and a
detailed knowledge of the formation, properties and transformation
of SOA is therefore required to evaluate its impact
on atmospheric processes, climate and human health.
The chemical and physical processes associated with SOA
formation are complex and varied, and, despite considerable
progress in recent years, a quantitative and predictive
understanding of SOA formation does not exist and therefore
represents a major research challenge in atmospheric
science. This review begins with an update on the current
state of knowledge on the global SOA budget and is followed
by an overview of the atmospheric degradation mechanisms
for SOA precursors, gas-particle partitioning theory
and the analytical techniques used to determine the chemical
composition of SOA. A survey of recent laboratory,
field and modeling studies is also presented. The following
topical and emerging issues are highlighted and discussed
in detail: molecular characterization of biogenic SOA constituents,
condensed phase reactions and oligomerization, the
interaction of atmospheric organic components with sulfuric
acid, the chemical and photochemical processing of organics
in the atmospheric aqueous phase, aerosol formation
from real plant emissions, interaction of atmospheric organic
components with water, thermodynamics and mixtures in atmospheric
models. Finally, the major challenges ahead in
laboratory, field and modeling studies of SOA are discussed
and recommendations for future research directions are proposed.
title: 'A culture of prevention': the idea of preventability and the construction of war as a governance object
Creators: name: Rodehau-Noack, Johanna
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2022

description: War and conflict were seen as inevitable, justifiable and productive for centuries, yet today conflict prevention is a core item on the agendas of major international actors. This thesis grapples with how the notion of war as preventable became dominant in international discourse. I argue that for policy to be oriented towards prevention, war needed to be constructed as a problem of international governance. How problems of international politics are constructed matters because such processes determine what a problem is and how it has to be resolved. Using archival material, I show that war was constructed as a problem in three interlocking processes that rendered it undesirable but calculable and, therefore, ultimately governable. This thesis documents these three processes of war’s construction as a governance problem. Firstly, early Christian pacifists designated war as a cataclysmic phenomenon that constitutes the opposite of ‘peace’ and is knowable through science. Secondly, by translating war into statistics, scholars made war comparable across time and space. Thirdly, activists and policymakers problematised war by associating it with existing issues like Christian morality, the civilisational telos, and cost-benefit rationality. From these associations derives the imperative to prevent war because it is both inherently objectionable and has undesirable effects. The representation of war as a governance object is embedded in a broader set of binaries that tied ‘war’ to barbarism and ‘peace’ to civilisation. The argument thus shows how the idea of prevention relies on scientific developments of modernity and its cosmological location in European thought. I close with a speculative discussion of a martial ecological perspective, which abandons the binary conception of war and peace. As it suspends the belief in modernist problem solving and instead advocates to affirm the world as it is, I argue that this approach makes the concept of prevention obsolete. Considering the ethical stakes, I suggest worlding as an ethical alternative to affirmation.
Homotopy types of Hom complexes of graphs
Creators: name: Matsushita, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Hom complex ${\rm Hom}(T,G)$ of graphs is a CW-complex associated to a pair of graphs $T$ and $G$, considered in the graph coloring problem. It is known that certain homotopy invariants of ${\rm Hom}(T,G)$ give lower bounds for the chromatic number of $G$. For a fixed finite graph $T$, we show that there is no homotopy invariant of ${\rm Hom}(T,G)$ which gives an upper bound for the chromatic number of $G$. More precisely, for a non-bipartite graph $G$, we construct a graph $H$ such that ${\rm Hom}(T,G)$ and ${\rm Hom}(T,H)$ are homotopy equivalent but $χ(H)$ is much larger than $χ(G)$. The equivariant homotopy type of ${\rm Hom}(T,G)$ is also considered.
description: 13 pages, final version. In the present version, the proofs are simplified
Revisiting The Transformative Classroom: a response to Schroeder-Strong, Merrifield, Morgan, and Dahlbeck
Creators: name: Yacek, Douglas W.
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Aspiration
subject: Moral education
subject: Transformative experience
subject: Transformative learning
subject: Transformative teaching
subject: 370
subject: Sittliche Erziehung
subject: Transformation
subject: Lernen
subject: Lehren
subject: Schule

description: In this response to reviewers, I revisit some of the central positions and theses of my book The Transformative Classroom and engage with several important criticisms. In doing so, I try to point out what I think is of particular value for further understanding the transformative potential of the classroom, especially where I think I could have captured this better in the book.
description: Theory and research in education;20(1)
Assessment of non-verbal intellectual development in the Arab world: A meta-analysis
Creators: name: Lozano-Ruiz, Alvaro
name: Amaoui, Sofia
name: Fasfous, Ahmed
name: Ibanez-Casas, Inmaculada
name: Pérez-García, Miguel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multicultural Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Open-ended registration of a protocol for a meta-analysis (PRISMA-P) before data collection.
Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid Exponents of Correlation Functions around Fermi points in the Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Nenuwe, Nelson
name: Idiodi, John O. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correlation functions of one-dimensional Hubbard model in the presence of external magnetic field was investigated through the conformal field technique. The long distance behaviour of the correlation functions and their critical exponents for the model in the presence of a magnetic field are established by solving the dressed charge matrix equations and setting the number of occupancies to one, as an alternative to the usual zero often used by authors in literatures. Our result shows the critical exponents of the correlation function grows monotonically with magnetic field and reduces to definite values at zero magnetic field around various Fermi points.
description: 18 pages and 7 figures
Experiences of meditative wilderness immersion: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Creators: name: Lawson, Sophie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The ‘wilderness solo’ has a long history as a tool for personal growth and transformation in a variety of traditions, from ancient contemplative practice to modern psychotherapy. Whilst there are well documented psychosocial benefits and challenges of undertaking such expeditions, they have not been looked at in the specific context of meditative practice. This research will address the question: how do Buddhist meditators experience and make sense of solo wilderness retreats? Given the isolation imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this researh also aims to understand how meditative wilderness experiences shape participants' responses to lockdown.
Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers Associated with Brocard-Ramanujan Equation
Creators: name: Pongsriiam, Prapanpong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B39, 11D99

description: We explicitly solve the diophantine equations of the form $$ A_{n_1}A_{n_2}\cdots A_{n_k}\pm 1 = B_m^2 $$ where $(A_n)_{n\geq 0}$ and $(B_m)_{m\geq 0}$ are either the Fibonacci sequence or Lucas sequence. This extends the result of D. Marques (2011) and L. Szalay (2012) concerning a variant of Brocard-Ramanujan equation. This is a manuscript of the article published in Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society, 32(3) (2017), pp. 511-522
description: Published in Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society, 32(3) (2017), pp. 511-522 http://ckms.kms.or.kr/
Dilute Species Transport in Non-Newtonian, Single-Fluid, Porous Medium Systems
Creators: name: Minge Jiang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Vast reserves of natural gas held in tight shale formations have become accessible over the last two decades as a result of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing creates patterns of fractures that increase the permeability of the shale.  The production of natural gas from such formations has led to the U.S. becoming a net exporter of natural gas, lowered energy costs, and led to a reduction in coal-fired power generation, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The hydraulic fracturing process is complex and poses environmental risks, which are not clearly understood.  Many fundamental questions remain to be answered before these risks can be clearly understood and analyzed.  The difficulties result from the injection and attempted recovery of non-Newtonian fluids, which often include many species considered pollutants if encountered in drinking water, under gravitationally and viscously unstable conditions.  This work investigates how species disperse in non-Newtonian fluids, which is a topic that has received scant attention in the literature. Dispersion is a deviation from the mean rate of movement, and it is caused by a combination of factors including molecular diffusion, and pore-scale velocity distributions, which are in turn affected by viscosity variations.  A series of experiments were performed to quantify dispersion for porous medium systems consisting of non-Newtonian fluids flowing through a sand media.  Non-Newtonian fluids included guar gum, which is a common additive used in hydraulic fracturing that leads to a shear-thickening dependence of the dynamic viscosity on the shear rate. The observed dispersion for the media under both Newtonian and non-Newtonian conditions was observed with dispersion increasing slightly for the non-Newtonian systems compared to dilute species transport in Newtonian systems. To further investigate the dispersion process, pore-scale modeling was performed using OpenFOAM.  A non-Newtonian form of the momentum equation was solved along with a dilute species transport equation for a porous medium consisting of sphere packings similar to those for which laboratory experiments were performed.  Simulated results were compared to the laboratory experiments and used to reveal mechanisms responsive for dispersion.  The results of this work provide a means to improve fundamental understanding and mathematical models of flow and transport resulting from hydraulic fracturing.
title: Testicular Infarction Due to Unremitting Epididymitis
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Alborz
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Complications
subject: Infection
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Testicular infarction secondary to epididymitis is a rare condition and should be considered as a complication of unresolving epididymitis. These patients should be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Color flow Doppler should be performed and...
Robustness Analysis of Continuous-Depth Models with Lagrangian Techniques
Creators: name: Neubauer, Sophie A.
name: Grosu, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents, in a unified fashion, deterministic as well as statistical Lagrangian-verification techniques. They formally quantify the behavioral robustness of any time-continuous process, formulated as a continuous-depth model. To this end, we review LRT-NG, SLR, and GoTube, algorithms for constructing a tight reachtube, that is, an over-approximation of the set of states reachable within a given time-horizon, and provide guarantees for the reachtube bounds. We compare the usage of the variational equations, associated to the system equations, the mean value theorem, and the Lipschitz constants, in achieving deterministic and statistical guarantees. In LRT-NG, the Lipschitz constant is used as a bloating factor of the initial perturbation, to compute the radius of an ellipsoid in an optimal metric, which over-approximates the set of reachable states. In SLR and GoTube, we get statistical guarantees, by using the Lipschitz constants to compute local balls around samples. These are needed to calculate the probability of having found an upper bound, of the true maximum perturbation at every timestep. Our experiments demonstrate the superior performance of Lagrangian techniques, when compared to LRT, Flow*, and CAPD, and illustrate their use in the robustness analysis of various continuous-depth models.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2107.08467
Flexible Microfluidics to study Antimicrobial Resistance of Gene edited Bacteria
Creators: name: Pandey, Santosh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agricultural biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
Agricultural biotechnology not elsewhere classified
Agricultural molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins
Genetically modified animals
Genetically modified field crops and pasture
Genetically modified horticulture plants
Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics)
Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
Gene mapping
Genetics not elsewhere classified
Genomics
Biologically active molecules
Biomolecular modelling and design
Molecular medicine
Proteins and peptides

description: By utilizing a low-cost engineering tool, we have created a microfluidic platform to study bacteria at the single cell level, allowing us to unlock insights into microbial physiology and genetics that would otherwise not be possible. The platform is composed of 3D devices made of adhesive tapes, an agarose membrane as the resting substrate, a temperature-controlled environmental chamber, and an autofocusing module. With this technology, we have been able to observe Escherichia coli morphological changes during ampicillin exposure and measure the minimum inhibitory concentration of the antibiotic. Additionally, we have been able to use CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) to evaluate gene regulation in a concentration gradient. Overall, our microfluidic platform provides a powerful, low-cost tool to uncover new genetic determinants of antibiotic susceptibility and assess the long-term effectiveness of antibiotics in bacterial cultures.
title: CT Features Observed in the Different Histological Subtypes of Invasive Adenocarcinoma of the Lung: A Pictorial Review
Creators: name: Ayesa, Sally
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the radiological appearances on CT of the five histological subtypes of invasive non-mucinous adenocarcinoma of the lung, as outlined in the International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma...
title: Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma: Typical and Atypical Radiological Imaging Appearances: A Pictorial Review
Creators: name: Ramesh, Rajalakshmi
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Lymphoma

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To present a pictorial review summarizing typical, and highlighting atypical imaging findings in primary central nervous system lymphoma in the adult...
Antiretroviral Therapy and the Prevalence and Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
Creators: name: Dobs, Adrian S.
name: Kingsley, Lawrence A.
name: Brown, Todd T
name: Li, Xiuhong
name: Cole, Stephen C
name: Palella, Frank J.
name: Riddler, Sharon A.
name: Visscher, Barbara R.
name: Margolick, Joseph B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Background: The risk of diabetes mellitus (DM) in human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected patients receiving
highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has
not been well defined.
Methods: We conducted an analysis in the Multicenter
AIDS Cohort Study to determine the prevalence and
incidence of DM in this cohort of HIV-infected and HIVseronegative
men. Prevalence analysis included 1278
men (710 HIV seronegative and 568 HIV infected, 411
receiving HAART) with fasting glucose concentration
determinations at baseline. Incidence analysis included
680 of these 1278 men who at the baseline visit had a
fasting glucose concentration of 98 mg/dL (5.4 mmol/L)
or less, no self-reported history of DM, and no selfreported
use of antidiabetic medication. Diabetes mellitus
was defined as a fasting glucose concentration of 126
mg/dL (7 mmol/L) or higher, self-reported diagnosis of
DM, or self-reported use of antidiabetic medication.
Results: Fifty-seven (14%) of the 411 HIV-infected men
using HAART at the baseline visit had prevalentDMcompared
with 33 (5%) of the 711 HIV-seronegative men
(prevalence ratio=4.6; 95% confidence interval, 3.0-
7.1, adjusted for age and body mass index[calculated as
weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in
meters]). The rate of incident DM was 4.7 cases per 100
person-years among HIV-infected men using HAART
compared with 1.4 cases per 100 person-years among HIVseronegative
men (rate ratio=4.11; 95% confidence interval,
1.85-9.16, adjusted for age and body mass index),
during the 4-year observation period, based on a
median follow-up of 2.3 years.
Conclusion: The incidence of DM in HIV-infected men
with HAART exposure was greater than 4 times that of
HIV-seronegative men, representing a risk that is higher
than previous estimates.
On the Min-cost Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone
Creators: name: Ha, Quang Minh
name: Deville, Yves
name: Pham, Quang Dung
name: Hà, Minh Hoàng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, have been adopted as part of a new logistic method in the commercial sector called "last-mile delivery". In this novel approach, they are deployed alongside trucks to deliver goods to customers to improve the quality of service and reduce the transportation cost. This approach gives rise to a new variant of the traveling salesman problem (TSP), called TSP with drone (TSP-D). A variant of this problem that aims to minimize the time at which truck and drone finish the service (or, in other words, to maximize the quality of service) was studied in the work of Murray and Chu (2015). In contrast, this paper considers a new variant of TSP-D in which the objective is to minimize operational costs including total transportation cost and one created by waste time a vehicle has to wait for the other. The problem is first formulated mathematically. Then, two algorithms are proposed for the solution. The first algorithm (TSP-LS) was adapted from the approach proposed by Murray and Chu (2015), in which an optimal TSP solution is converted to a feasible TSP-D solution by local searches. The second algorithm, a Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP), is based on a new split procedure that optimally splits any TSP tour into a TSP-D solution. After a TSP-D solution has been generated, it is then improved through local search operators. Numerical results obtained on various instances of both objective functions with different sizes and characteristics are presented. The results show that GRASP outperforms TSP-LS in terms of solution quality under an acceptable running time.
description: 57 pages, technical report, latest work
title: Anatomical Variations of the Levator Scapulae Muscle - an MR Imaging Study
Creators: name: Au, John
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Normal variants
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy
subject: Education and training

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Anatomical variations of the levator scapulae muscle are scarcely described in the current literature. However, knowledge of levator scapulae morphology and variants is important in many clinical settings. In clinical radiology, recognition of...
PREDICTION OF CALIFORNIA BEARING RATIO OF A BLACK COTTON SOIL STABILIZED WITH WASTE GLASS AND EGGSHELL POWDER USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
Creators: name: BIRUHI TESFAYE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The laboratory test process to determine the California bearing ratio (CBR) of black cotton soils is not only overpriced but also time-consuming as well. Hence advanced prediction of CBR plays a significant role as it is applicable in pavement design. The strength of soil or CBR can be improved using eggshell and waste glass powder when they are mixed with the proper ratio. The prediction of CBR of treated soil was executed by Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) which is a computational tool based on the properties of the biological neural systems. ANNs have been used over the last few years in the modeling of different parameters. To observe CBR values, combined eggshell and waste glass powder was added to soil as 2% ESP + 2% WGP, 4% ESP + 4% WGP, 6% ESP + 6% WGP, and 8% ESP + 8% WGP of the weights of the soil samples. Accordingly, the necessary tests were conducted in order to get the required best model. From the findings at 4%ESP +4%WGP dosage addition, the minimum LL, PL & PI were obtained as 53.95%, 40%, and 13.95 respectively.
title: The Development of an MR Atlas of the Cervical Spine Musculature
Creators: name: Au, John
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To identify the 27 muscles of the cervical spine on axial MR...
Epistemic Insight Framework - Primary and Secondary
Creators: name: Team, The Lasar Centre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Epistemic Insight (EI) Curriculum Framework presents a pedagogical and learning framework for development of Epistemic insight through three fundamental areas which explore Big Questions, and identifies the learning outcomes for primary and secondary school students, including progression in their understanding of: relationships between science and religion the nature of science in real world contexts and multidisciplinary arenas ways of knowing and how they interact
Safety and effectiveness of dose-sparing strategies for seasonal influenza vaccine: Rapid scoping review of fractional dosing of the intramuscular influenza vaccine
Creators: name: Tricco, Andrea
name: Rios, Patricia
name: Antony, Jesmin
name: Williams, Chantal
name: Ramkissoon, Naveeta
name: straus, sharon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Clinical/health services research
subject: rapid scoping review

description: Rapid scoping review
A dual null formalism for the collapse of fluids in a cosmological background
Creators: name: Maciel, Alan
name: Delliou, Morgan Le
name: Mimoso, José P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we revisit the definition of Matter Trapping Surfaces (MTS) introduced in previous investigations and show how it can be expressed in the so-called dual null formalism developed for Trapping Horizons (TH). With the aim of unifying both approaches, we construct a 2+2 threading from the 1+3 flow, and thus isolate one prefered spatial direction, that allows straightforward translation into a dual nul subbasis, and to deduce the geometric apparatus that follows. We remain as general as possible, reverting to spherical symmetry only when needed, and express the MTS conditions in terms of 2-expansion of the flow, then in purely geometric form of the dual null expansions. The Raychadhuri equations that describe both MTS and TH are written and interpreted using the previously defined gTOV (generalized Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov) functional introduced in previous work. Further using the Misner-Sharp mass and its previous perfect fluid definition, we relate the spatial 2-expansion to the fluid pressure, density and acceleration. The Raychaudhuri equations also allows us to define the MTS dynamic condition with first order differentials so the MTS conditions are now shown to be all first order differentials. This unified formalism allows one to realise that the MTS can only exist in normal regions, and so it can exist only between black hole horizons and cosmological horizons. Finally we obtain a relation yielding the sign, on a TH, of the non-vanishing null expansion which determines the nature of the TH from fluid content, and flow characteristics. The 2+2 unified formalism here investigated thus proves a powerful tool to reveal, in the future extensions, more of the very rich and subtle relations between MTS and TH.
description: 10pp 1 fig. corrected for equation labels, cross listing corrected
Holographic Black Hole Chemistry
Creators: name: Karch, Andreas
name: Robinson, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamic quantities associated with black holes in Anti-de Sitter space obey an interesting identity when the cosmological constant is included as one of the dynamical variables, the generalized Smarr relation. We show that this relation can easily be understood from the point of view of the dual holographic field theory. It amounts to the simple statement that the extensive thermodynamic quantities of a large $N$ gauge theory only depend on the number of colors, $N$, via an overall factor of $N^2$.
description: 13 pages
title: Multi-Institutional Retrospective Analysis of High-Intermediate and High-Risk Endometrial Cancer Treated with Chemo-Radiotherapy versus Radiotherapy Alone.
Creators: name: Sim, Esther
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Our purpose was to establish whether the addition of chemotherapy to radiotherapy would improve overall, disease-specific and relapse-free survival in patients with high-intermediate (HIR) and high-risk (HR) endometrial...
Impact of HIV Infection and HAART on Serum Lipids in Men
Creators: name: Palella, Frank
name: Cole, Stephen R.
name: Li, Rui
name: Chmiel, Joan S.
name: Smit, Ellen
name: Riddler, Sharon A.
name: Visscher, Barbara
name: Evans, Rhobert
name: Dobs, Adrian
name: Kingsley, Lawrence A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Context: Alterations in serum lipid values have been widely reported among persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), but no data have yet been reported on changes from preseroconversion lipid values.

Objective: To describe changes in serum cholesterol levels associated with HIV infection and antiretroviral medication exposure, and 1-time assessment of triglyceride levels post-HAART initiation.

Design, Setting, and Participants: The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, a prospective study in which homosexual and bisexual men were enrolled and from which 50 of 517 HIV seroconverters were drawn for the analysis herein, who later initiated HAART, involving measurements of stored serum samples obtained between 1984 and 2002.

Main Outcome Measures: Changes in levels of total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) at 6 time points during an average of 12 years; 1-time assessment of triglyceride levels from the third post-HAART clinic visit.

Results: Among the 50 men, notable declines in mean serum TC (–30 mg/dL [−0.78 mmol/L]), HDL-C (–12 mg/dL [−0.31 mmol/L]), and LDL-C values (–22 mg/dL [−0.57 mmol/L]) were observed after HIV infection. Following HAART initiation, there were large increases in mean TC and LDL-C values (50 and 21 mg/dL [1.30 and 0.54 mmol/L], respectively); however, the mean changes from the preseroconversion values were 20 mg/dL (0.52 mmol/L) (95% confidence interval [CI], –1 to 41) and –1 mg/dL (−0.03 mmol/L) (95% CI, –25 to 22), respectively. Mean HDL-C remained below baseline levels throughout follow-up. The median value (interquartile range) of triglycerides was 225 mg/dL (2.54 mmol/L) (147-331 mg/dL).

Conclusions: Before treatment, HIV infection results in substantial decreases in serum TC, HDL-C, and LDL-C levels. Subsequent HAART initiation is associated with increases in TC and LDL-C but little change in HDL-C. Increases in TC and LDL-C observed after about 3 years of HAART possibly represent a return to preinfection serum lipid levels after accounting for expected age-related changes.
2+1-dimensional wormhole from a doublet of scalar fields
Creators: name: Mazharimousavi, S. Habib
name: Halilsoy, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a class of exact solutions in the framework of $2+1-$dimensional Einstein gravity coupled minimally to a doublet of scalar fields. Our solution can be interpreted upon tuning of parameters as an asymptotically flat wormhole as well as a particle model in $2+1-$dimensions.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, final version published in PRD
BosonSampling with Lost Photons
Creators: name: Aaronson, Scott
name: Brod, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: BosonSampling is an intermediate model of quantum computation where linear-optical networks are used to solve sampling problems expected to be hard for classical computers. Since these devices are not expected to be universal for quantum computation, it remains an open question of whether any error-correction techniques can be applied to them, and thus it is important to investigate how robust the model is under natural experimental imperfections, such as losses and imperfect control of parameters. Here we investigate the complexity of BosonSampling under photon losses---more specifically, the case where an unknown subset of the photons are randomly lost at the sources. We show that, if $k$ out of $n$ photons are lost, then we cannot sample classically from a distribution that is $1/n^{Θ(k)}$-close (in total variation distance) to the ideal distribution, unless a $\text{BPP}^{\text{NP}}$ machine can estimate the permanents of Gaussian matrices in $n^{O(k)}$ time. In particular, if $k$ is constant, this implies that simulating lossy BosonSampling is hard for a classical computer, under exactly the same complexity assumption used for the original lossless case.
description: 12 pages. v2: extended concluding section
title: Application of Time-Resolved CT Angiogram in the Assessment of Intracranial Vessels
Creators: name: Lim, Wan Yin
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Fistula
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the technique of 4-dimensional CT as a potential non-invasive alternative to cerebral angiography. We present the different applications of 4D-CT in the assessment of potential cerebrovascular pathologies based on our institution's...
Topography of the graphene/Ir(111) moir{é} studied by surface x-ray diffraction
Creators: name: Jean, Fabien
name: Zhou, Tao
name: Blanc, Nils
name: Felici, Roberto
name: Coraux, Johann
name: Renaud, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of a graphene monolayer on Ir(111) has been investigated {\it in situ} in the growth chamber by surface x-ray diffraction including the specular rod, which allows disentangling the effect of the sample roughness from that of the nanorippling of graphene and iridium along the moir{é}-like pattern between graphene and Ir(111). Accordingly we are able to provide precise estimates of the undulation associated with this nanorippling, which is small in this weakly interacting graphene/metal system and thus proved difficult to assess in the past. The nanoripplings of graphene and iridium are found in phase, i.e. the in-plane position of their height maxima coincide, but the amplitude of the height modulation is much larger for graphene (\(0.379 \pm 0.044\) Å) than, {\it e.g.}, for the topmost Ir layer (\(0.017 \pm 0.002\) Å). The average graphene-Ir distance is found to be \(3.38 \pm 0.04\) Å.
Borrelia burgdorferi OspA is an arthropod-specific transmission-blocking Lyme disease vaccine
Creators: name: Telford III, Sam R.
name: Fikrig, Erol
name: Barthold, Stephen W.
name: de Silva, Aravinda
name: Brunet, Laura Rosa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease, is transmitted by Ixodes ticks. A vaccine
based on B. burgdorferi outer surface protein (Osp) A protects mice from spirochete infection.
Here we report on the expression of OspA on spirochetes inside engorging ticks and relate
OspA expression to antispirochetal immunity. Spirochetes in the gut of unfed nymphal
ticks were stained by an OspA antibody, whereas in feeding ticks, the majority of spirochetes in
the gut and salivary glands did not stain with the antibody. Thus, OspA was not expressed on
most spirochetes during transmission from the vector to the vertebrate host. To examine the
mechanism of protection afforded by OspA antibody, mice were passively immunized with
OspA antibody at different times relative to tick attachment. When OspA antibody was administered
to mice before or at the time of tick attachment, spirochetal development events in the
vector, such as growth and salivary gland invasion, were blocked and the mice were protected
from B. burgdorferi infection. When OspA antibody was administered to mice 48 h after tick attachment,
spirochetes persisted in the nymphs and the mice were not protected despite the
presence of circulating antibodies in the host as well as in the tick blood meal. Thus, OspA immunity
appears to be effective only during a narrow window time at the beginning of the
blood meal when antibodies bind to OspA-expressing spirochetes in the tick gut and block
transmission from the vector to the host.
title: Post Mortem CT in Trauma Patients: A Case Series
Creators: name: Bell, Hayden
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Forensics
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Trauma
subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Five cases of recent post mortem imaging at the Royal Adelaide Hospital arepresented, with imaging results compared tothe formal autopsy reports. Learning objectives include: To highlightthe general benefits and limitations of post mortem...
Transitional annealed adaptive slice sampling for Gaussian process hyper-parameter estimation
Creators: name: Garbuno-Inigo, A.
name: DiazDelaO, F. A.
name: Zuev, K. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Surrogate models have become ubiquitous in science and engineering for their capability of emulating expensive computer codes, necessary to model and investigate complex phenomena. Bayesian emulators based on Gaussian processes adequately quantify the uncertainty that results from the cost of the original simulator, and thus the inability to evaluate it on the whole input space. However, it is common in the literature that only a partial Bayesian analysis is carried out, whereby the underlying hyper-parameters are estimated via gradient-free optimisation or genetic algorithms, to name a few methods. On the other hand, maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation could discard important regions of the hyper-parameter space. In this paper, we carry out a more complete Bayesian inference, that combines Slice Sampling with some recently developed Sequential Monte Carlo samplers. The resulting algorithm improves the mixing in the sampling through delayed-rejection, the inclusion of an annealing scheme akin to Asymptotically Independent Markov Sampling and parallelisation via Transitional Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Examples related to the estimation of Gaussian process hyper-parameters are presented. For the purpose of reproducibility, further development, and use in other applications, the code to generate the examples in this paper is freely available for download at http://github.com/agarbuno/ta2s2_codes
description: This work is a continuation of our research on arXiv:1506.08010
An examination of competing versions of the person-environment fit approach to stress
Creators: name: Edwards, Jeffery R
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: This study examined two versions of the person-environment (P-E) fit approach to stress, one representing the fit between environmental supplies and employee values (S-V fit), and another the fit between environmental demands and employee abilities (D-A fit). Hypotheses based on three competing models derived from the P-E fit literature were tested with a procedure that overcomes problems with the measurement and analysis of fit. Results indicated that the relationships of S-V and D-A fit with strain combined aspects of the models with other relationships suggested by P-E fit theory and the organizational stress literature. Also, S-V fit was linked primarily to dissatisfaction and D-A fit to tension, but both versions were related to both forms of strain.
title: Πρακτικές μηχανικής μάθησης με εφαρμογές στην Κυβερνοασφάλεια
title: Machine learning practices for Cybersecurity
Creators: name: Χασιωτης Θεμιστοκλης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: Η εργασία αυτή μελετά εργαλεία τεχνητής νοημοσύνης για την έγκαιρη και αποτελεσματική αναγνώριση, προτεραιοποίηση και αποσόβηση των απειλών, προκειμένου να αναπτυχθούν συστήματα λογισμικού για την υποστήριξη αποφάσεων εκτίμησης και αντιμετώπισης απειλών στον κυβερνοχώρο.
Τα θέματα που διερευνά η παρούσα εργασία περιλαμβάνουν την ανίχνευση παραβιάσεων δικτύου με βάση την ανίχνευση ανωμαλιών (anomaly-based network intrusion detection), την ανίχνευση εσωτερικών απειλών, την ανίχνευση ανεπιθύμητης αλληλογραφίας και phishing, την ανίχνευση κακόβουλου λογισμικού με βάση την συμπεριφορά και την ανίχνευση κακόβουλης δραστηριότητας με βάση την ανάλυση εντολών σε επίπεδο γλώσσας μηχανής κλπ.
Οι μέθοδοι της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης που προσφέρονται για το σκοπό της εργασίας περιλαμβάνουν μηχανική μάθηση για την ανάλυση λογισμικού, μηχανική μάθηση και εξόρυξη δεδομένων για την ασφάλεια βάσεων δεδομένων, μηχανική μάθηση για την ανίχνευση κακόβουλου λογισμικού και άλλα. Πηγή ιδιαιτέρως σημαντικών προβλημάτων είναι το γεγονός ότι αναγκαστικά, η εκπαίδευση των αλγορίθμων τεχνητής νοημοσύνης γίνεται με βάση ένα περιορισμένο σύνολο παραδειγμάτων, αφού η συμπεριφορά του κακόβουλου λογισμικού είναι άγνωστη και ταχύτατα μεταβαλλόμενη.
Στην εργασία παρουσιάζονται οι κύριες αρχές της ταξινόμησης και της ομαδοποίησης στην περίπτωση της εποπτευόμενης μάθησης. Στη συνέχεια διαφορετικά σύνολα δεδομένων υποβλήθηκαν σε επεξεργασία για την εκτέλεση εντοπισμού κακόβουλου λογισμικού και τέλος παρουσιάζεται η ανίχνευση και ταυτοποίηση διαφορετικών κυβερνοεπιθέσεων.

description: This thesis studies artificial intelligence tools for early and effective threat identification, prioritization and deterrence in order to develop software systems to support cyber threat assessment and response decisions.
The topics explored in this thesis include anomaly-based network intrusion detection, insider threat detection, spam and phishing detection, behavior-based malware detection, and malware detection activity based on parsing machine language commands etc.
The AI methods offered for this purpose include machine learning for software analysis, machine learning and data mining for database security, machine learning for malware detection and more. A source of particularly significant problems is the fact that artificial intelligence algorithms are necessarily trained on a limited set of examples, since malware behavior is unknown and rapidly changing.
Finally presents the main classification and clustering principles in the case of supervised learning. Then different data sets were processed to perform malware detection and finally the detection and identification of different cyber attacks is presented.
Improving cold atmospheric pressure plasma efficacy on breast cancer cells control-ability and mortality by using vitamin C and static magnetic field
Creators: name: Mehrabifard, R.
name: Mehdian, H.
name: Hajisharifi, K.
name: Amini, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the last decades, there have been numerous reports about the interaction of magnetic field (MF) and cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) with the biological systems, separately. In this manuscript, we have investigated the combined effect of CAP with the static magnetic field (SMF) as an effective method for cancer cells treatment. MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells were cultured and treated with CAP in different input power and different exposure time in the presence and absence of the SMF. Vitamin C is used in medium, and cell viability is investigated in the presence and absence of this antioxidant compound. The MTT assay has been employed to measure cell survival, and then T-test and one-way ANOVA are used to assess the significance level of quantitative data. In order to determine the migration rate of cancer cells, wound healing assay has been carried out. Results show that presence of the SMF and vitamin C as well as increasing the input power has a significant role on the attenuation of the survival and migration rate of the cells. The results of the present investigation will greatly contribute to improve the CAP efficiency in cancer therapy through using the SMF and vitamin C as a complement to conventional CAP therapies.
MPEC 2023-F188 : 2014 SQ260
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.