cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of neutron matter with chiral three-body forces
Creators: name: Tews, I.
name: Gandolfi, S.
name: Gezerlis, A.
name: Schwenk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral effective field theory (EFT) enables a systematic description of low-energy hadronic interactions with controlled theoretical uncertainties. For strongly interacting systems, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods provide some of the most accurate solutions, but they require as input local potentials. We have recently constructed local chiral nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^2$LO). Chiral EFT naturally predicts consistent many-body forces. In this paper, we consider the leading chiral three-nucleon (3N) interactions in local form. These are included in auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo (AFDMC) simulations. We present results for the equation of state of neutron matter and for the energies and radii of neutron drops. In particular, we study the regulator dependence at the Hartree-Fock level and in AFDMC and find that present local regulators lead to less repulsion from 3N forces compared to the usual nonlocal regulators.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, published version
(103435) George Thomas Partridge
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Scaling functions of two-neutron separation energies of $^{20}C$ with finite range potentials
Creators: name: Shalchi, M. A.
name: Hadizadeh, M. R.
name: Yamashita, M. T.
name: Tomio, Lauro
name: Frederico, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behaviour of an Efimov excited state is studied within a three-body Faddeev formalism for a general neutron-neutron-core system, where neutron-core is bound and neutron-neutron is unbound, by considering zero-ranged as well as finite-ranged two-body interactions. For the finite-ranged interactions we have considered a one-term separable Yamaguchi potential. The main objective is to study range corrections in a scaling approach, with focus in the exotic carbon halo nucleus $^{20}C$.
Assessment of the Association of Caregiver Health Literacy and  Childhood Immunization Status
Creators: name: Iglesia, Edward
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Low parent health literacy is associated with poor child health outcomes and preventive care behaviors. The relationship between health literacy and childhood immunization status is under-explored. The objective of this retrospective study was to examine the relationship between caregiver health literacy and childhood immunization status in a cohort of children enrolled in the Greenlight study. The association of caregiver health literacy, as measured by the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy, with childhood immunization status at 24 months of age was modeled using logistic regression, controlling for common covariates of underimmunization in early childhood. After accounting for lost to follow-up, health literacy was not associated with a combined 6-vaccine series (aOR = 1.15, 95% CI 0.57, 2.30) nor with receipt of 2 doses seasonal influenza immunization at 24 months of age (aOR = 1.58, 95% CI 0.80, 3.11). Given the study’s limitations, more rigorous study is needed to provide more conclusive evidence about the relationship between health literacy and childhood immunization uptake, including to specific vaccinations like seasonal influenza.
title: Novel segmentation method using absorption- and phase-contrast x-ray images
Creators: name: Yoneyama, Akio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiographers
subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Segmentation

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Segmentation is an essential image processing technique to identify inner structures, distinguish between normal and tumor tissues, and visualize the effect of medication. We have been developing a novel segmentation method using two different...
Design of diamond microcavities for single photon frequency down-conversion
Creators: name: Lin, Zin
name: Johnson, Steven G.
name: Rodriguez, Alejandro W.
name: Loncar, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose monolithic diamond cavities that can be used to convert color-center Fock-state single photons from emission wavelengths to telecommunication bands. We present a detailed theoretical description of the conversion process, analyzing important practical concerns such as nonlinear phase shifts and frequency mismatch. Our analysis predicts sustainable power requirements ($ \lesssim 1~\mathrm{W}$) for a chipscale nonlinear device with high conversion efficiencies.
(103437) Henry Benjamin Partridge
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Making gender along the way: women, men and harm in Australian alcohol policy
Creators: name: Duncan, Duane
name: Keane, H
name: Moore, David
name: Ekendahl, M
name: Graham, K
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440712
subject: Social policy
classificationCode: 390406
subject: Gender, sexuality and education

description: Analysis of alcohol policy suggests women are marked out for special attention while men and masculinities are often ignored. In this paper, we employ Carol Bacchi’s work on ‘gendering practices’ and John Law’s concept of ‘collateral realities’ to examine how gender is constituted in Australian alcohol policy. For Bacchi, policies actively produce what it is possible for ‘men’ and ‘women’ to become. For Law, realities are constituted through methodological instruments and representational practices. We analyze the making of three collateral realities in Australian alcohol policy: gender as an individual attribute; gender as a synonym for women; and gender as confined to the domestic sphere. These collateral realities contribute to the maintenance of binary notions of gender and reinforce a straightforwardly causal role for alcohol in harms, including violence. Attention to the political effects of these ‘realities’ should be prioritized in the development of more equitable responses to alcohol and harm.
Evaluation of the impact of Patient-Centered Medical Home adoption among primary care providers in the Mid-west
Creators: name: Welsh, Patrick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Primary care transformation, or activities undertaken at the practice site level that are designed to strengthen the delivery of care, has been advanced as a vehicle for achieving improved population health outcomes, particularly among chronically ill patients. The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model has been established as an important mechanism for preventing acute episodes requiring high-cost interventions yet there remains uncertainty about the conditions that best contribute to the model’s success.
title: Brain imaging: comparison of T1 FLAIR BLADE with conventional T1 SE
Creators: name: Giankou, Eleonora
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiographers
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: T1 weighted spin-echo (SE) images are widely used to study anatomical details and pathologic abnormalities of brain. Artifacts can degrade the quality of these images; sometimes they may obscure or mimic pathology. Patient motion, blood flow in...
Cooperative phenomenon in a rippled graphene: Chiral spin guide
Creators: name: Pudlak, M.
name: Pichugin, K. N.
name: Nazmitdinov, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze spin scattering in ballistic transport of electrons through a ripple at a normal incidence of an electron flow. The model of a ripple consists of a curved graphene surface in the form of an arc of a circle connected from the left-hand and right-hand sides to two flat graphene sheets. At certain conditions the curvature induced spin-orbit coupling creates a transparent window for incoming electrons with one spin polarization simultaneously with a backscattering of those with opposite polarization. This window is equally likely transparent for electrons with spin up and spin down that move in opposite directions. The spin filtering effect being small in one ripple becomes prominent with the increase of N consequently connected ripples that create a graphene sheet of the sinusoidal type. We present the analytical expressions for spin up (down) transmission probabilities as a function of N connected ripples.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures; extended version, results unchanged
title: Cross-modality accuracy of dual-step prospective ECG-triggered dual-source CT compared with echocardiography and cardiac MR in the follow-up of heart-transplanted patients
Creators: name: Marano, Riccardo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Transplantation

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To evaluate the role of dual-step prospective ECG-triggered dual-source CT (pECGdualstep-DSCT) in the follow-up of h eart-transplanted patients ( HTPs) for the assessment of both left ventricular function (LVF) , in comparison with Echocardiography...
Linearly Supporting Feature Extraction For Automated Estimation Of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters
Creators: name: Li, Xiangru
name: Lu, Yu
name: Comte, Georges
name: Luo, Ali
name: Zhao, Yongheng
name: Wang, Yongjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe a scheme to extract linearly supporting (LSU) features from stellar spectra to automatically estimate the atmospheric parameters $T_{eff}$, log$~g$, and [Fe/H]. "Linearly supporting" means that the atmospheric parameters can be accurately estimated from the extracted features through a linear model. The successive steps of the process are as follow: first, decompose the spectrum using a wavelet packet (WP) and represent it by the derived decomposition coefficients; second, detect representative spectral features from the decomposition coefficients using the proposed method Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LARS)$_{bs}$; third, estimate the atmospheric parameters $T_{eff}$, log$~g$, and [Fe/H] from the detected features using a linear regression method. One prominent characteristic of this scheme is its ability to evaluate quantitatively the contribution of each detected feature to the atmospheric parameter estimate and also to trace back the physical significance of that feature. This work also shows that the usefulness of a component depends on both wavelength and frequency. The proposed scheme has been evaluated on both real spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)/SEGUE and synthetic spectra calculated from Kurucz's NEWODF models. On real spectra, we extracted 23 features to estimate $T_{eff}$, 62 features for log$~g$, and 68 features for [Fe/H]. Test consistencies between our estimates and those provided by the Spectroscopic Sarameter Pipeline of SDSS show that the mean absolute errors (MAEs) are 0.0062 dex for log$~T_{eff}$ (83 K for $T_{eff}$), 0.2345 dex for log$~g$, and 0.1564 dex for [Fe/H]. For the synthetic spectra, the MAE test accuracies are 0.0022 dex for log$~T_{eff}$ (32 K for $T_{eff}$), 0.0337 dex for log$~g$, and 0.0268 dex for [Fe/H].
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (accepted for publication)
Transreal Explicit Construction of Universal Possible Worlds
Creators: name: Reis, Tiago s. dos
name: Anderson, James
name: Gomide, Walter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other mathematical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Transmathematica archive. Please cite as:
 dos Reis, T., Anderson, J., & Gomide, W. (2023). Transreal Explicit Construction of Universal Possible Worlds. Transmathematica. https://doi.org/10.36285/tm.55
Ultrasound Measurement of Vascular Density to Evaluate Response to Anti-angiogenic Therapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Creators: name: Rajamahendiran, Rajalekha M.
name: Chiang, Yun-Chen
name: Dayton, Paul A.
name: Czernuszewicz, Tomasz J.
name: Bautch, Victoria L.
name: Aylward, Stephen
name: Rojas, Juan D.
name: Chytil, Anna
name: Gessner, Ryan C.
name: Chong, Diana C.
name: Rathmell, W. Kimryn
name: Papadopoulou, Virginie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background: Functional and molecular changes often precede gross anatomical changes, so early assessment of a tumor's functional and molecular response to therapy can help reduce a patient's exposure to the side effects of ineffective chemotherapeutics or other treatment strategies. Objective: Our intent was to test the hypothesis that an ultrasound microvascular imaging approach might provide indications of response to therapy prior to assessment of tumor size. Methods: Mice bearing clear-cell renal cell carcinoma xenograft tumors were treated with antiangiogenic and Notch inhibition therapies. An ultrasound measurement of microvascular density was used to serially track the tumor response to therapy. Results: Data indicated that ultrasound-derived microvascular density can indicate response to therapy a week prior to changes in tumor volume and is strongly correlated with physiological characteristics of the tumors as measured by histology (ρ = 0.75). Furthermore, data demonstrated that ultrasound measurements of vascular density can determine response to therapy and classify between-treatment groups with high sensitivity and specificity. Conclusion/Significance: Results suggests that future applications utilizing ultrasound imaging to monitor tumor response to therapy may be able to provide earlier insight into tumor behavior from metrics of microvascular density rather than anatomical tumor size measurements.
title: Added value of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the staging of cervical carcinoma
Creators: name: Dakhly, Sherihan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Management strategies of cervical cancer are either radical surgery in early-stage or primary chemo- and radiation therapy for patients with bulky tumors or locally advanced disease (stage IIB or greater) (Sala et al, 2013). Thus staging of cervical...
Radial Flow in Non-Extensive Thermodynamics and Study of Particle Spectra at LHC in the Limit of Small $(q-1)$
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Trambak
name: Cleymans, Jean
name: Khuntia, Arvind
name: Pareek, Pooja
name: Sahoo, Raghunath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We expand the Tsallis distribution in a Taylor series of powers of (q-1), where q is the Tsallis parameter, assuming q is very close to 1. This helps in studying the degree of deviation of transverse momentum spectra and other thermodynamic quantities from a thermalized Boltzmann distribution. After checking thermodynamic consistency, we provide analytical results for the Tsallis distribution in the presence of collective flow up to the first order of (q-1). The formulae are compared with the experimental data.
description: Replaced with Accepted version in Eur. Phys. J. A
(103431) Alfred James Mott
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Securitisation, development and the invisibility of gender
Creators: name: Lusby, Stephanie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Discussions of violence are ubiquitous in, and with regard to, Papua New Guinea. In this chapter, I discuss how persistent broader contexts of legitimised violence shape efforts to destabilise particular patterns of violence, namely, male violence against women. Looking at the perspectives of men working in the security industry in PNG, I argue that the increased traction and centrality of discourses of securitisation in the name of national development allows violence against men accused of criminal or anti-social behaviour to persist. Critically, the silences around the gendered dimensions of violence between men excused as ‘disciplinary’ produces double standards that are unhelpful to efforts to improve gender equality. Here, I seek to illustrate that narratives of discipline and security form a continuum in discussions of violence, highlighting the need for politicised and holistic approaches to gender in violence interventions.
Nuclear Mass Predictions for the Crustal Composition of Neutron Stars: A Bayesian Neural Network Approach
Creators: name: Utama, R.
name: Piekarewicz, J.
name: Prosper, H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Besides their intrinsic nuclear-structure value, nuclear mass models are essential for astrophysical applications, such as r-process nucleosynthesis and neutron-star structure. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of existing "state-of-the-art" mass models, we propose a refinement based on a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) formalism. A novel BNN approach is implemented with the goal of optimizing mass residuals between theory and experiment. A significant improvement (of about 40%) in the mass predictions of existing models is obtained after BNN refinement. Moreover, these improved results are now accompanied by proper statistical errors. Finally, by constructing a "world average" of these predictions, a mass model is obtained that is used to predict the composition of the outer crust of a neutron star. The power of the Bayesian neural network method has been successfully demonstrated by a systematic improvement in the accuracy of the predictions of nuclear masses. Extension to other nuclear observables is a natural next step that is currently under investigation.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review C
title: Independent component and seed-based analyses in localisation and lateralisation of Broca's and Wernicke's areas with resting state fMRI
Creators: name: Makovskaya, Lyudmila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Experimental
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Neural networks
subject: Experimental investigations

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: One of the most widely used clinical applications of functional MRI (fMRI) is presurgical brain mapping of motor, sensory and cognitive functions, including speech. Functional MRI is used to detect task-related neural activity, but poor task...
Appendix Materials for "Development and Evaluation of Search Tasks for IIR Experiments using a Cognitive Complexity Framework"
Creators: name: Urgo, Kelsey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, the “search as learning” community has argued that search systems should be designed to support learning. We report on a lab study in which we manipulated the learning objectives associated with search tasks assigned to participants. We manipulated learning objectives by leveraging Anderson and Krathwohl’s taxonomy of learning (A&K’s taxonomy) [2], which situates learn-ing objectives at the intersection of two orthogonal dimensions: the cognitive process and the knowledge type dimension. Participants in our study completed tasks with learning objectives that varied across three cognitive processes (apply, evaluate, and create) and three knowledge types (factual, conceptual, and procedural knowledge). We focus on the effects of the task’s cognitive process and knowledge type on participants’ pre-/post-task perceptions and search behaviors. Our results found that the three knowledge types considered in our study had a greater effect than the three cognitive processes. Specifically, conceptual knowledge tasks were perceived to be more difficult and required more search activity. We discuss implications for designing search systems that support learning.
title: Time is money: ultrashort protocol of MRI fistulogram for perianal fistulae
Creators: name: Balani, Ankit
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: MR physics
subject: MR
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Experimental
subject: Physics
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Fistula
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Perianal fistula is a chronic granulating track connecting perianal skin with anal mucosa. Quiet common and is associated with considerable discomfort and high morbidity. MRI is excellent in the diagnostic work-up of patients with perianal fistulae....
MPEC 2024-R167 : 2024 RQ5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RQ5

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.
title: CT enterography: farewell to colonoscopy? - diagnostic accuracy of qualitative predictors of inflammatory bowel disease and its activity (prospective study from a tertiary centre)
Creators: name: Laroia, Shalini
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Colon
subject: CT
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Screening
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To study the CT Enterography (CTE) findings in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) for diagnosis and accuracy of qualitative imaging features of primary disease, its activity and complications in comparison to histopathology of the affected segment....
title: To evaluate the effectiveness and the safety of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) in the treatment of submucosal uterine fibroids
Creators: name: Iafrate, Sonia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Uterine fibroids are common benign uterine tumors. They can cause abnormal menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain, urinary frequency and infertility. Although surgical intervention is the definitive treatment, some women prefer to preserve their...
Fluctuation theorems in general relativistic stochastic thermodynamics
Creators: name: Cai, Yifan
name: Wang, Tao
name: Zhao, Liu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the recently proposed framework of general relativistic stochastic mechanics [{\em J. Stat. Phys.}, 190:193, 2023; {\em J. Stat. Phys.}, 190:181, 2023] and stochastic thermodynamics [{\em SciPost Physics Core} 7, 082, 2024] at the ensemble level, this work focuses on general relativistic stochastic thermodynamics at the trajectory level. The first law of stochastic thermodynamics is reformulated and the fluctuation theorems are proved on this level, with emphasis on maintaining fully general covariance and on the choice of observers.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures. v2: fixed a typo and updated the detail of a reference
Improving Robeson County Public School Curriculum to Create Educational and Health Equity Among Lumbee Tribe: A Pilot Program to Reform Policy
Creators: name: Beaulieu, Allison
name: Nazario, Jenna
name: Dugom, Laura
name: Boland, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Discrimination is a social determinant of health and can occur across systems, including educational systems, resulting in disparities in success and wellbeing. Robeson County, North Carolina is home to the Lumbee Tribe who experience worse educational outcomes (end-of-year grades, secondary attainment, etc.) and health outcomes (substance use, uninsurance, etc.), despite their cultural and social cohesion. Discrimination in Robeson County high schools will be addressed by an Accountable Care Community (ACC) comprised of stakeholders in public health, education, policy, and the Lumbee community. ACC members will work together to propose a countywide policy requiring American Indian history and culture be taught in schools. The aim of this policy is to increase the proportion of adolescents who consider their schoolwork to be meaningful and important, a measure of decreased discrimination in schools. Impacts of the policy include improved evidence for statewide policy and decreased health disparities among Lumbee members in Robeson County.
title: Uterine fibroids treated with MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (MRgFUS): clinical outcomes in comparison to current therapeutic strategies
Creators: name: Napoli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: MR
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Embolisation
subject: Surgery

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids) represent the most common benign neoplasm of the female genitourinary tract during reproductive age. Clinical management is usually focused on symptoms, which have a considerable impact on quality of life:...
Designing Illumination Lenses and Mirrors by the Numerical Solution of Monge-Ampère Equations
Creators: name: Brix, Kolja
name: Hafizogullari, Yasemin
name: Platen, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J66, 35J96, 35Q60, 65N21, 65N35

description: We consider the inverse refractor and the inverse reflector problem. The task is to design a free-form lens or a free-form mirror that, when illuminated by a point light source, produces a given illumination pattern on a target. Both problems can be modeled by strongly nonlinear second-order partial differential equations of Monge-Ampère type. In [Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 25 (2015), pp. 803--837, DOI: 10.1142/S0218202515500190] the authors have proposed a B-spline collocation method which has been applied to the inverse reflector problem. Now this approach is extended to the inverse refractor problem. We explain in depth the collocation method and how to handle boundary conditions and constraints. The paper concludes with numerical results of refracting and reflecting optical surfaces and their verification via ray tracing.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; Keywords: Inverse refractor problem, inverse reflector problem, elliptic Monge-Amp\`ere equation, B-spline collocation method, Picard-type iteration; OCIS: 000.4430, 080.1753, 080.4225, 080.4228, 080.4298, 100.3190. Minor revision: two typos have been corrected and copyright note has been added
Religious Conversion Practices and LGBTQA + Youth
Creators: name: Jones, Tiffany
name: Power, Jennifer
name: Rolander, Adam
name: Despott, Nathan
name: Carman, Marina
name: Jones, Timothy
name: Anderson, Joel
name: Bourne, Adam
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440599
subject: Gender studies not elsewhere classified

description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-021-00615-5
Introduction: Multiple jurisdictions are debating responses to United Nations calls for banning attempts at conversion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA +) peoples’ identities to fit religious norms. This paper aimed to examine Australian LGBTQA + youths’ experiences and outcomes of religious conversion practices attempting to change or suppress their gender or sexuality. It explored how attending conversion practices related to demographic characteristics and outcomes. Methods: A 2019 online health and social well-being survey promoted via diverse social media questioned 6412 LGBTQA + Australians aged 14–21 years on their experiences of sexuality or gender change or suppression practices. Descriptive and inferential analyses were performed to understand relationships between exposure to conversion practices and demographic, socio-behavioural, and health and well-being measures. Results: Whilst most participants had never attended counselling, group work, programs or interventions aimed at changing their sexuality or gender identity, 4% had attended such conversion practices. Analyses showed associations between engaging with conversion practices and (1) specific demographics (being cisgender male, multi-gender-attracted, unemployed, affiliated to a religion at the personal or household level); (2) social experiences (increased exposure to social rejection, negative remarks and harassment); (3) socio-behavioural outcomes (decreased education, sport and housing opportunities) and (4) negative health and mental health outcomes (including increased suicidality and self-harm). Conclusions: The paper showed that conversion practices are correlated with poor well-being outcomes, providing arguments for expanding inclusive health and mental health services allowing for affirming religious and non-religious identities for LGBTQA + youth. Policy Implications: The paper provides evidence supporting bans on conversion practices.
(103428) Matilda Weston
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Effectiveness of intramuscular hyoscine butylbromine compared with intravenous administration in improving image quality in pelvic MRI
Creators: name: Taylor, Marcus
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Efficacy studies

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Antispasmodic agents are widely administered during pelvic MRI examinations, to reduce movement artefact from bowel peristalsis. The muscarinic antagonist hyoscine butylbromide (HBB) is one of the most commonly used drugs, acting on acetylcholine...
PTB-Anforderungen 1.02 „Choirometer“. Ausgabe April 2019
Creators: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: Muskelfleischanteil feststellende Geräte
Choirometer
PTB-A 1.02

description: PTB-Anforderungen enthalten Anforderungen zu technischen Spezifikationen, Konformitätsprüfungen und Verwendungspflichten für Messgeräte, die den Regelungen des Mess- und Eichrechts unterliegen. Sie werden von der PTB unter Beteiligung der betroffenen Kreise erstellt. PTB-Anforderungen bestehen aus drei Teilen. Der erste Teil behandelt Regeln und technische Spezifikationen für Messgeräte, um die wesentlichen Anforderungen an Messgeräte nach § 6 des Mess- und Eichgesetzes i.V.m. § 7 der Mess- und Eichverordnung zu konkretisieren. Der zweite Teil behandelt Prüfungen zur Konformitätsbewertung von Messgeräten, durch die nachgewiesen werden kann, dass die wesentlichen Anforderungen erfüllt werden. Der dritte Teil behandelt Regeln und Erkenntnisse zur näheren Bestimmung der Pflichten von Personen, die Messgeräte oder Messwerte verwenden, nach §§ 31 und 33 Mess- und Eichgesetz und §§ 22 und 23 Mess- und Eichverordnung. Diese PTB-Anforderungen behandeln folgende Messgeräte nach § 1 Absatz 1 Nummer 1 sowie Nummer 9 Buchstabe e der Mess- und Eichverordnung zur Bestimmung der Länge oder Kombinationen von Längen zur Längen- oder Flächenbestimmung sowie Dichte oder Massenanteil oder Massenkonzentration oder Volumenkonzentration von anderen Medien als Flüssigkeiten: Choirometer
An Assessment of Value-Added Agricultural Export and Economic Development in Nigeria 2015-2022
Creators: name: Bature, Y.M.T.
name: Eugene T. A.
name: Ruth L.C.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Agriculture which was the mainstay of the economy before the advent of oil as a major source of revenue for the country, facilitated a look into how value-added in the context of agricultural exports can bring about economic development in Nigeria. The paper focus on three main products (sesame seeds, cashew nuts, and high-quality raw cocoa beans), providing specificity in product coverage, which was lacking in extant literature. The paper specifically concerned with examining the extent to which value addition influenced the acceptability of Nigeria’s agricultural exports in the international market, as well as its effect on GDP and employment creation. The paper made use of documentary research where views of scholars were analysed. Export-led growth theory was employed to explained the value added agricultural exports and economic development in Nigeria. Findings arrived at indicated that value addition had positive and significant positive effect on the acceptability of Nigeria’s agricultural exports in the international market. Challenges were exposed that hampered the implementation of value addition activities on Nigeria’s exports. It was therefore recommended that sustained partnership with international organisations and other stakeholders be sought for the purpose of simplifying the certification process to the benefit of encouraging more participation in the Nigerian agricultural value chain.
title: Association of breast density and region of interest size with apparent diffusion coefficient value of normal fibroglandular tissue at MRI
Creators: name: Radovic, Niko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Normal variants
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Introduction: Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is garnering an increasingly important role in diagnostic evaluation of breast cancer as an adjunct to dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance (MR). DWI depicts random thermal motion of water...
Extent of stacking disorder in diamond
Creators: name: Salzmann, Christoph G.
name: Murray, Benjamin J.
name: Shephard, Jacob J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hexagonal diamond has been predicted computationally to display extraordinary physical properties including a hardness that exceeds cubic diamond. However, a recent electron microscopy study has shown that so-called hexagonal diamond samples are in fact not discrete materials but faulted and twinned cubic diamond. We now provide a quantitative analysis of cubic and hexagonal stacking in diamond samples by analysing X-ray diffraction data with the DIFFaX software package. The highest fractions of hexagonal stacking we find in materials which were previously referred to as hexagonal diamond are below 60%. The remainder of the stacking sequences are cubic. We show that the cubic and hexagonal sequences are interlaced in a complex way and that naturally occurring Lonsdaleite is not a simple phase mixture of cubic and hexagonal diamond. Instead, it is structurally best described as stacking disordered diamond. The future experimental challenge will be to prepare diamond samples beyond 60% hexagonality and towards the so far elusive 'perfect' hexagonal diamond.
title: Study of the nipple-areola complex with MRI and microcoils
Creators: name: Munoz, Marcelo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Pathology
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To evaluate the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with microcoils as the main alternative in the study of the nipple-areolar complex by showing the findings in tridimensional reconstructions of lesions and their lobar disposition. To analyze...
New research documents the severity of LGBTQA+ conversion practices — and why faith matters in recovery
Creators: name: Jones, Timothy
name: Power, Jennifer
name: Jones, Tiffany
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: New research reveals the harms of religion-based LGBTQA+ conversion practices are more severe than previously thought. People who have been harmed by attempts to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identity are often left with chronic, complex trauma and face a long journey of recovery.
EXPANSION OF ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOODS THROUGH THE CREATION OF AN ACCOUNTABLE CARE COMMUNITY IN ROBESON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Chelsea Newman
name: Duncan, Ben
name: Pham, Veronica
name: Renteria, Melissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Many individuals, especially those living in low-income communities and communities of color, face the challenge of access to healthy foods that support eating patterns. This has been a persistent issue for Robeson County, North Carolina. Research suggests that healthy food choices such as eating fruits and vegetables have nutritional, physical, and mental health benefits. However, there are barriers and disparities in the accessibility and availability of foods that support healthy eating patterns. In recognition of this, an Accountable Care Community plan was established to implement public health policy and program to limit barriers and improve access to healthy foods. The proposed policy involves expanding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Electronic Benefit Transfer benefits at the Robeson County Farmers Market. The proposed program consists of expanding the same benefits to be accessible to purchase Robeson County Farmers Market Community Supported Agriculture’s produce box. 

For this summary, the phrase “access to foods that support healthy eating patterns” is interchangeable with “access to healthy foods.”
PTB-Anforderungen 9.01 „Getreideprober“. Ausgabe April 2019
Creators: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2019
Subjects: PTB-Anforderungen
Dichte oder Massenanteil oder Massenkonzentration oder Volumenkonzentration von anderen Medien als Flüssigkeiten
Schüttdichte von Getreide
Getreideprober
PTB-A 9.01

description: PTB-Anforderungen enthalten Anforderungen zu technischen Spezifikationen, Konformitätsprüfungen und Verwendungspflichten für Messgeräte, die den Regelungen des Mess- und Eichrechts unterliegen. Sie werden von der PTB unter Beteiligung der betroffenen Kreise erstellt. PTB-Anforderungen bestehen aus drei Teilen. Der erste Teil behandelt Regeln und technische Spezifikationen für Messgeräte, um die wesentlichen Anforderungen an Messgeräte nach § 6 des Mess- und Eichgesetzes i.V.m. § 7 der Mess- und Eichverordnung zu konkretisieren. Der zweite Teil behandelt Prüfungen zur Konformitätsbewertung von Messgeräten, durch die nachgewiesen werden kann, dass die wesentlichen Anforderungen erfüllt werden. Der dritte Teil behandelt Regeln und Erkenntnisse zur näheren Bestimmung der Pflichten von Personen, die Messgeräte oder Messwerte verwenden, nach §§ 31 und 33 Mess- und Eichgesetz und §§ 22 und 23 Mess- und Eichverordnung. Diese PTB-Anforderungen behandeln folgende Messgeräte nach § 1 Absatz 1 Nummer 9 Buchstabe b der Mess- und Eichverordnung zur Bestimmung der Schüttdichte von Getreide: Getreideprober. Diese PTB-Anforderungen ersetzen die bisherigen PTB-A 11.1 der Ausgabe April 1988.
(103430) Mabel Helen Mary Shrapnell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: The significance of radiographic and ultrasonographic findings in the management of necrotising enterocolitis - results from a survey
Creators: name: Ahle, Margareta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: A common pathophysiological pathway of multifactorial aetiology, rather than a uniform disease entity [1, 2], Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) comes with a broad spectrum of clinical presentations - from mild and spontaneously resolving “medical”...
MPEC 2024-R168 : 2024 RR5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RR5

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.
Atom-interferometric measurement of Stark level splittings
Creators: name: Wang, Limei
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Zhang, Linjie
name: Raithel, Georg
name: Zhao, Jianming
name: Jia, Suotang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiple adiabatic/diabatic passages through avoided crossings in the Stark map of cesium Rydberg atoms are employed as beam splitters and recombiners in an atom-interferometric measurement of energy-level splittings. We subject cold cesium atoms to laser-excitation, electric-field and detection sequences that constitute an (internal-state) atom interferometer. For the read-out of the interferometer we utilize state-dependent collisions, which selectively remove atoms of one kind from the detected signal. We investigate the dependence of the interferometric signal on timing and field parameters, and find good agreement with time-dependent quantum simulations of the interferometer. Fourier analysis of the interferometric signals yield coherence frequencies that agree with corresponding energy-level differences in calculated Stark maps. The method enables spectroscopy of states that are inaccessible to direct laser-spectroscopic observation, due to selection rules, and has applications in field metrology.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures