cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dodging the cosmic curvature to probe the constancy of the speed of light
Creators: name: Cai, Rong-Gen
name: Guo, Zong-Kuan
name: Yang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a new model-independent method to probe the constancy of the speed of light $c$. In our method, the degeneracy between the cosmic curvature and the speed of light can be eliminated, which makes the test more natural and general. Combining the independent observations of Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and luminosity distance $d_L(z)$, we use the model-independent smoothing technique, Gaussian processes, to reconstruct them and then detect variation of the speed of light. We find no signal of deviation from the present value of the speed of light $c_0$. Moreover, to demonstrate the improvement in probing the constancy of the speed of light from future experiments, we produce a series of simulated data. The Dark Energy Survey will be able to detect $Δc /c_0 \sim 1\%$ at $\sim 1.5σ$ confidence level and $Δc /c_0 \sim 2\%$ at $\sim 3σ$ confidence level. If the errors are reduced to one-tenth of the expected DES ones, it can detect a $Δc /c_0 \sim 0.1\%$ variation at $\sim 2σ$ confidence level.
description: 10 pages, several corrections and updates to match the published version
Naderi’s The Runner Trauma of Modernity and Desire for the Machine
Creators: name: Barati, Amir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: English language
English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
Other literatures in English
Cinema studies
Screen media
Communication and media studies not elsewhere classified
Screen and media culture

description: Amir Naderi’s The Runner (1984) heralds a golden age in Iranian cinema. The film portrays the extensive historical rupture caused by the violent force of an imported modernity introduced to the Iranian traditional society, and how desiring bodies in a develop-ing country are breached in competition with the western machine. A unique product of Iranian cinema, the film depicts a nation’s optimistic quest for the synchronization of parallax ways of being. In other words, it echoes the Iranian endeavor to emerge from local convention and accept the extrinsic intruder. Simultaneously, while showcasing the first modern Iranian city, The Runner displays the historical turmoil that bloody wars produced for the native population, generating an ambivalent yet precise image of a war-torn society transitioning toward modernity.
title: Fax Funerea, Memoriae Exequiali, Illustriss. Celsiß.q; Principis, ac Dn., Dn. Annæ Margaretæ, Landgraviæ Hassiæ, Comitis Diepholtinæ, Et Bronchorstianæ &c. Patronæ Pauperum beneficentiss.; 1629
title: Maximo Suorum luctu denatæ, IX. Augusti, Anno M. DC. XXIX. Butzhachij: Accensa, Ad Threnodiam Charitum Ulmens. Atque Inde, Qua par, Erigendo ... Dn. Philippo, Landgravio Hassiæ, Comiti In Catzenelnbogen, Diez, Ziegenhain, & Nidda &c. Omnis sublimioris doctrinæ Antistiti summo: Emissa, Typisq; exscripta Jonæ Saurii, Chalcographi Ulmensis.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Emissa, Typisq; exscripta Jonæ Saurii, Chalcogrphi Ulmensis. Anno M. DC.XXIX.
CEOP Poll # 1989-BC89: Electoral Preferences in the State of Baja California, Mexico
Creators: name: Centro De Estudios De Opinion Publica (CEOP)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Current personal and national situation (2); attitudes towards change (1); media habits (1); evaluation of school/health services (2); opinion of federal/state government (4); opinion of police (1); political information and participation (3); party preferences (4); candidate preferences (1); perception of electoral fraud (1); opinion of local authorities (2); opinion of president Salinas (1); attitudes towards the resignation of governor Leyva (1); support of Salinas/Cardenas/Clouthier (1); satisfaction with national/government/personal achievements (11); church participation in politics (3); Mexican workers in US (1); foreign investment (1); free trade agreement (1); foreign debt (1); opinion of La Quina/Legorreta's incarceration (2); abortion (1); religious habits (2).
title: Aged-related CT patterns of pneumonia in severely immunocompromised paediatric cancer patients
Creators: name: Mayer, Johanna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Paediatric
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Infection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Characterization of CT patterns in children with hematologic malignancies and/or undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and suspected pneumonia. As the limited data of CT in children suggest potentially clinically important differences...
Calculation of free baryon spectral densities at finite temperature
Creators: name: Praki, Chrisanthi
name: Aarts, Gert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following a recent lattice study of nucleon parity doubling at finite temperature from the computation of the two-point nucleon correlators, we study the spectral functions of free nucleons at finite temperature. Spectral densities in the continuum are presented along with a comparison to (free) results on the lattice. Particular attention is given to lattice artefacts at higher energies.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures. Talk presented at the 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 14 -18 July 2015, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan
Right-handed neutrinos, domain walls and tadpoles in the superstring inspired $μν$SSM
Creators: name: Lopez-Fogliani, D. E.
name: Munoz, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the special role of right-handed neutrinos in the $μν$SSM for solving the $μ$- and $ν$-problems, simultaneously avoiding the potential domain wall and tadpole problems, In particular, embedding the $μν$SSM in the framework of superstrings implies that not all gauge invariant terms are necessarily present in the superpotential, and thus there is more flexibility to allow only those that avoid the domain wall and tadpole problems to be present. These can be non-renormalizable terms of dimension 4 or terms of higher dimensions. In addition, non-perturbative effects can also solve both problems. We discuss another implication of the superstring inspired $μν$SSM, since the right-handed neutrino is expected to have extra $U(1)$ charges at high energies. In this case, the cubic right-handed neutrino terms in the superpotential, helpful for generating Majorana masses and solving domain wall and tadpole problems, can arise through a variety of stringy mechanisms.
description: Discussions expanded, 1 table and references added. Version published in Nucl. Phys. B, 24 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Evaluation of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable Tele-Town Hall on Colorectal Cancer Screenings
Creators: name: Bristow, Helen Boyle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable with the American Association of Retired People collaborated on a health intervention program to increase knowledge and intention in colorectal cancer screening. The program included three educational communication activities with a target population that included respondents from four states (Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, and Nebraska) whom were 65 – 74 years of age and had less than a college education. This population was specifically chosen because they have a high rate of colorectal cancer and specifically have a higher rate of late stage colorectal cancer diagnosis. The first component of the educational program was a Tele-Town Hall educational telephone session with a target population of 100,000 and an expected response rate of 10%. A mailing of educational materials from the Centers for Disease Control and American Cancer Society followed. And then a Post-Event survey telephone call was placed to the 10,000 respondents to the Tele-Town Hall. The expected response rate for the Post-Event survey was again 10% or 1,000 participants. The program will evaluate the knowledge of colorectal cancer and intention for colorectal screenings in a One-Group Pretest – Post-test Design. This document outlines the program, the intervention and the evaluation process and does include some preliminary results. Final results will be reported in June 2011 after all data is received and analyzed on the Tele-Town Hall (March 16, 2011) and Post-Event Survey (April 6, 2011).
The Relation between Solar Eruption Topologies and Observed Flare Features I: Flare Ribbons
Creators: name: Savcheva, A.
name: Pariat, E.
name: McKillop, S.
name: McCauley, P.
name: Hanson, E.
name: Su, Y.
name: Werner, E.
name: DeLuca, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a topological magnetic field investigation of seven two-ribbon flares in sigmoidal active regions observed with Hinode, STEREO, and SDO. We first derive the 3D coronal magnetic field structure of all regions using marginally unstable 3D coronal magnetic field models created with the flux rope insertion method. The unstable models have been shown to be a good model of the flaring magnetic field configurations. Regions are selected based on their pre-flare configurations along with the appearance and observational coverage of flare ribbons, and the model is constrained using pre-flare features observed in extreme ultraviolet and X-ray passbands. We perform a topology analysis of the models by computing the squashing factor, Q, in order to determine the locations of prominent quasi-separatrix layers (QSLs). QSLs from these maps are compared to flare ribbons at their full extents. We show that in all cases the straight segments of the two J-shaped ribbons are matched very well by the flux-rope-related QSLs, and the matches to the hooked segments are less consistent but still good for most cases. In addition, we show that these QSLs overlay ridges in the electric current density maps. This study is the largest sample of regions with QSLs derived from 3D coronal magnetic field models, and it shows that the magnetofrictional modeling technique that we employ gives a very good representation of flaring regions, with the power to predict flare ribbon locations in the event of a flare following the time of the model.
title: Evaluation of peripherally inserted central catheters complications in orthopedic inpatients with bone infection for long-term intravenous antibiotics therapy
Creators: name: Valbousquet Schneider, Laura
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Vascular
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Venous access
subject: Catheters
subject: Infection
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are commonly used to establish and maintain medium to long-term intravenous access to treat patients presenting with aggressive or recalcitrant bones infections [1], [2] and may offer an attractive...
Optimizing documentation of HIV testing and counseling practices in the emergency department and inpatient wards of the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A program and evaluation plan
Creators: name: Runyon, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: While the impact of the HIV epidemic is felt worldwide, Africa is disproportionately affected, accounting for 70% of people living with the disease. Early diagnosis and viral suppression are critical to controlling the disease. According to UNAIDS, children with HIV are less likely to receive treatment than are infected adults (24% vs 38%). This is true in Tanzania, a sub-Saharan country where less than 30% of those 14 years old and under living with HIV are receiving treatment, compared with 30-50% of infected adults. The first step towards receiving treatment is HIV testing, counseling, and referral. Prior analysis of the physician documentation patterns specific to HIV testing, counseling, and referral patients for children < 18 years old presenting to the Muhimbili National Hospital Emergency Department in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania revealed several opportunities for improvement. Of 1632 children testing during the one-year study period, the test result was documented for only 74%, counseling was documented for 17%, and referral for follow-up care was documented for 38% of those testing positive and surviving to discharge. The goal of this hospital-based program and evaluation plan is to increase documentation of HIV test results, counseling of patients and/or their parent(s) or guardian(s), and referral of those testing positive to follow-up care. This will be accomplished by engaging key stakeholders to inform the development, implementation, and refinement of the program and encourage participation. The program will be built around the WHO consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services and their "5Cs: Consent, Confidentiality, Counseling, Correct Results, and Connection." The evaluation plan will measure the program inputs, outputs, and outcomes and be used to optimize the program. If proven successful, the program will be disseminated to other hospitals and recommended for inclusion in undergraduate and graduate physician training programs.
Coherent coupling between localised and propagating phonon polaritons
Creators: name: Gubbin, Christopher R.
name: Martini, Francesco
name: Politi, Alberto
name: Maier, Stefan A.
name: De Liberato, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the recent observation of localised phonon polaritons in user-defined silicon carbide nano-resonators, here we demonstrate coherent coupling between those localised modes and propagating phonon polaritons bound to the surface of the nano-resonator's substrate. In order to obtain phase-matching, the nano-resonators have been fabricated to serve the double function of hosting the localised modes, while also acting as grating for the propagating ones. The coherent coupling between long lived, optically accessible localised modes, and low-loss propagative ones, opens the way to the design and realisation of phonon-polariton based quantum circuits.
Depinning dynamics of confined colloidal dispersions under oscillatory shear
Creators: name: Hülsberg, Marcel
name: Klapp, Sabine H. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly confined colloidal dispersions under shear can exhibit a variety of dynamical phenomena, including depinning transitions and complex structural changes. Here, we investigate the behaviour of such systems under pure oscillatory shearing with shear rate $\dotγ(t) = \dotγ_0 \cos(ωt)$, as it is a common scenario in rheological experiments. The colloids' depinning behaviour is assessed from a particle level based on trajectories, obtained from overdamped Brownian Dynamics simulations. The numerical approach is complemented by an analytic one based on an effective single-particle model in the limits of weak and strong driving. Investigating a broad spectrum of shear rate amplitudes $\dotγ_0$ and frequencies $ω$, we observe complete pinning as well as temporary depinning behaviour. We discover that temporary depinning occurs for shear rate amplitudes above a frequency-dependent critical amplitude $\dotγ_0^\mathrm{crit}(ω)$, for which we attain an approximate functional expression. For a range of frequencies, approaching $\dotγ_0^\mathrm{crit}(ω)$ is accompanied by a strongly increasing settling time. Above $\dotγ_0^\mathrm{crit}(ω)$, we further observe a variety of dynamical structures, whose stability exhibits an intriguing ($\dotγ_0, ω$) dependence. This might enable new perspectives for potential control schemes.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
title: Locally advanced rectal cancer: correlation between tumour volume reduction rate measured by magnetic resonance and response to preoperative chemo-radiotherapy
Creators: name: Guidi, Elisa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Colonography MR
subject: Comparative studies

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In patients with Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer (LARC) who undergo combined treatments, consisting of preoperative chemo-radiotherapy (CRT), surgery, and postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy, the earlier prediction of CRT response is critical for...
Barati-The Runner-Naderi.pdf
Creators: name: Barati, Amir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: English language
English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
Other literatures in English
Cinema studies
Screen media
Communication and media studies not elsewhere classified
Screen and media culture

description: Amir Naderi’s The Runner (1984) heralds a golden age in Iranian cinema. The film portrays the extensive historical rupture caused by the violent force of an imported modernity introduced to the Iranian traditional society, and how desiring bodies in a develop-ing country are breached in competition with the western machine. A unique product of Iranian cinema, the film depicts a nation’s optimistic quest for the synchronization of parallax ways of being. In other words, it echoes the Iranian endeavor to emerge from local convention and accept the extrinsic intruder. Simultaneously, while showcasing the first modern Iranian city, The Runner displays the historical turmoil that bloody wars produced for the native population, generating an ambivalent yet precise image of a war-torn society transitioning toward modernity.
A Secondary Data Analysis of Rural African Americans and Nonparticipation in HIV and AIDS Related Clinical Research
Creators: name: Watson, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and Autoimmune Immunodeficiency Syndrome have had devastating effects upon the lives and deaths of many across the globe. Within the United States, this epidemic remains an important public health issue. Although advances from medical research have done much to improve the mortality rates and quality of life among those infected, several studies and papers have highlighted an exclusion of U.S. minorities in these studies. This paper will address several topics regarding HIV/AIDS and U.S. blacks. First of all, the historical impact of HIV/AIDS on the national and state (North Carolina) landscape for the general population will be explored through relevant scientific articles. Patterns of differential incidence, prevalence, mortality, and treatment according to race will also be discussed. These will be covered in the sections: • HIV/AIDS Morbidity & Mortality • HIV/AIDS and Race/Ethnicity Secondly, the inclusion of black U.S. citizens in medical research will be investigated. This will include a short discussion of the importance and implications for inclusion of African Americans in medical research. I will also provide an overview of the existing literature regarding barriers and facilitators for African American participation in general and HIV/AIDS medical research. These will be covered in the section: • Black Americans and Medical Research The main scope of this paper, however, is to explore the predictors of research participation among rural African Americans through a secondary data analysis. The former topics are meant to provide the backdrop on which this secondary data analysis will be outlined, discussed, and critiqued. Quantitative data from this small pilot sample will be analyzed, reported, and discussed as is common in the scientific literature. Furthermore, there will be a clear research plan presented for a future qualitative analysis meant to complement our quantitative analyses. These goals will be met in the following sections: • Objectives • Methods • Results • Discussion • Conclusion
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll: 2012 Presidential Election/Debt Ceiling/Afghanistan
Creators: name: NBC News
name: Wall Street Journal
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Direction of country (1); Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama handling various issues (4); Congress job performance (1); opinions of political figures (11); isolated events vs. world trends (9); presidential candidate preferences (1); Obama political leaning (1); domestic vs. foreign issues (1); Obama attention to various issues (6); economic policy effects (1); approval of various policies (5); better party for various issues (13); party affiliation (4); primary elections (1); Republican candidate preferences (2); most important election issues (1); preferred candidate types (13); Tea Party support (2); reducing collective bargaining rights (1); economy rating (2); impact of recession (1); budget compromises (2); avoiding government shutdown (2); unacceptable budget cuts (6); balanced budget as amendment (2); raising debt ceiling (2); Medicare changes (2); privatizing Medicare (1); Afghanistan situation (1); Afghanistan success (2); Afghanistan troop reduction (1); military action in Libya (1); British royal family (2); news source (1).
title: The usefulness of the quantitative evaluation of diffusion-weighted MRI in the diagnosis of anterior cruciate ligament tear
Creators: name: Han, Chul
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate usefulness of the DWI in the diagnosis of the ACL...
Higgs boson decay into gluons in a 4D regularization: IR cancellation without evanescent fields to NLO
Creators: name: Pereira, Ana
name: Cherchiglia, Adriano
name: Sampaio, Marcos
name: Hiller, Brigitte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higgs decay using an effective Higgs-Yang-Mills interaction in terms of a dimension five operator as well as usual QCD interactions is revisited in the context of Implicit Regularization (IReg) and compared with conventional dimensional regularization (CDR), four dimensional helicity (FDH) and dimensional reduction (DRED) schemes. The decay rate for $H \rightarrow gg(g)$ is calculated in this strictly four-dimensional set-up to $α_s^3$ order in the strong coupling. Moreover we include joint processes that contribute at the same perturbative order in the real emission channels consisting of 3 gluons as well as gluon quark-antiquark final states with light (zero mass) quarks. Unambiguous identification and separation of UV from IR divergences is achieved putting at work the renormalization group scale relation inherent to the method. UV singularities are removed as usual by renormalization, the IR divergences are cancelled due to the method's compliance with the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg (KLN) theorem. Most importantly, we verify that no evanescent fields such as $ε$-scalars need be introduced as required by some mixed regularizations that operate partially in the physical dimension.
description: Version accepted for publication at EPJC
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll: 2012 Presidential Election/Economy/Federal Debt Ceiling
Creators: name: NBC News
name: Wall Street Journal
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Direction of country (1); Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama handling economy (1); Congressional party performance (2); Obama re-election (1); partisanship (1); voting in primary (1); 2012 republican presidential nominees (1); Michele Bachmann vs. Barack Obama (1); Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama (1); economic outlook (1); personal economic situation (1); economic recession (1); desired stance for Democrats in Congress (1); desired stance for Republicans in Congress (1); raising the debt ceiling (8).
Review of Neutrino Oscillations With Sterile and Active Neutrinos
Creators: name: Kisslinger, Leonard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently neutrino oscillation experiments have shown that it is very likely that there are one or two sterile neutrinos. In this review neutrino oscillations with one, two, three sterile and three active neutrinos, and parameters that are consistent with experiments, are reviewed.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1508.03027
title: Contrast-enhanced spectral mammography: CESM - descriptive analysis with pathologic correlation
Creators: name: Rubio, Fausto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To establish a correlation between the pattern of enhancement with CESM and histologic...
The Role of Spirituality in Quality of Life at the End of Life
Creators: name: Carle, Timothy R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Background: Quality of life issues have received increased attention in the public health and patient care realms as patient-centered quality indices have gained recognition. With increasingly complex and invasive measures available for care of the seriously ill patient, end-of-life quality of life issues are currently being investigated to help optimize care of the whole person near the end of life. Furthermore, it has been shown that patients generally place greater importance upon spiritual factors in relation to their quality of life than do physicians. The QUAL-E is a recently developed quality-of-life scale developed to particularly address issues present in the lives of seriously ill patients. Like several scales developed before it, the QUAL-E has incorporated questions that provide information into the patient's spiritual well-being. Analysis of these questions will yield information on how symptoms effects a patient's sense of spiritual peace and on whether there are associations between demographic information and a patient's inclination to place greater information on spiritual factors in peace self-assessment. Methods: This project looked at data from the first validation phase of the QUAL-E in which 200 patients with advanced serious illness were asked the original 54 QUAL-E questions. The questions that pertain to the spiritual health and the importance placed upon spiritual peace by the patient were analyzed against reported symptom severity and demographic information. Correlation analysis was conducted among individual symptom responses and symptom summary scores compared to spiritual peace questions in the entire dataset and in symptom subsets. Nonparametric analysis was also conducted to show associations between the presence or degree of particular symptoms and spiritual peace. Results: Analysis of the dataset from questionnaires filled out by 200 patients with advanced serious illness revealed no consistent correlations between the presence or severity of symptoms and self-reported sense of peace as indicated by six representative questions. Nonparametric analysis revealed inconsistent associations between certain questions and symptom degree. Analysis of demographic information and reported importance of peace in the quality of life revealed living alone as a factor associated with an increased sense of peace. Discussion: This research failed to show associations between self-reported symptom presence or severity and self-reported level of spiritual peace. Further research is necessary to better characterize the factors that may influence a patient's sense of peace and the importance placed upon spiritual factors.
Handgrip strength is associated with specific aspects of vascular function in individuals with metabolic syndrome
Creators: name: Carlos Sánchez-Delgado, Juan
name: Cohen, Daniel
name: A. Camacho-López, Paul
name: Carreño-Robayo, Javier
name: Castañeda-Hernández, Alvaro
name: García-González, Daniel
name: Martínez-Bello, Daniel
name: Aroca-Martinez, Gustavo
name: Parati, Gianfranco
name: Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a disorder associated with an increased risk for the development of diabetes mellitus and its complications. Lower isometric handgrip strength (HGS) is associated with an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases. However, the association between HGS and arterial stiffness parameters, which are considered the predictors of morbidity and mortality in individuals with MetS, is not well defined. Objective: To determine the association between HGS and HGS asymmetry on components of vascular function in adults with MetS. Methods: We measured handgrip strength normalized to bodyweight (HGS/kg), HGS asymmetry, body composition, blood glucose, lipid profile, blood pressure, pulse wave velocity (PWV), reflection coefficient (RC), augmentation index @75 bpm (AIx@75) and peripheral vascular resistance (PVR) in 55 adults with a diagnosis of MetS between 25 and 54 years old. Results: Mean age was 43.1 ± 7.0 years, 56.3% were females. HGS/kg was negatively correlated with AIx@75 (r = −0.440), p < 0.05, but these associations were not significant after adjusting for age and sex. However, when interaction effects between sex, HGS/kg and age were examined, we observed an inverse relationship between HGS/kg and AIx@75 in the older adults in the sample, whereas in the younger adults, a weak direct association was found. We also found a significant association between HGS asymmetry and PVR (beta = 30, 95% CI = 7.02; 54.2; p <0.012). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that in people with MetS, maintaining muscle strength may have an increasingly important role in older age in the attenuation of age-related increases in AIx@75—a marker of vascular stiffness—and that a higher HGS asymmetry could be associated with a greater vascular resistance.
Pew Research Center Poll: March 2011, Omnibus Week 2--News Interest Index
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Knowledge of certain stories covered in news (6); story followed more closely (1); knowledge of specific issues (3); tone of federal budget debate (1); American responsibility to take action in Libya (1); favoring/opposing certain actions in Libya (5); best argument for/against using military force in Libya (2).
title: Evaluation of the repeatability of volumetric liver volume estimation technique by computed tomography
Creators: name: Gac, Pawel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Liver
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-General

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The amount of the future liver remnant volume is fundamental for hepato-biliary surgery, representing an important potential risk-factor for the development of post-hepatectomy liver failure. There is no uniform consensus about the amount of hepatic...
Scale-invariant random geometry from mating of trees: a numerical study
Creators: name: Budd, Timothy
name: Castro, Alicia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for scale-invariant random geometries is central to the Asymptotic Safety hypothesis for the Euclidean path integral in quantum gravity. In an attempt to uncover new universality classes of scale-invariant random geometries that go beyond surface topology, we explore a generalization of the mating of trees approach introduced by Duplantier, Miller and Sheffield. The latter provides an encoding of Liouville Quantum Gravity on the 2-sphere decorated by a certain random space-filling curve in terms of a two-dimensional correlated Brownian motion, that can be viewed as describing a pair of random trees. The random geometry of Liouville Quantum Gravity can be conveniently studied and simulated numerically by discretizing the mating of trees using the Mated-CRT maps of Gwynne, Miller and Sheffield. Considering higher-dimensional correlated Brownian motions, one is naturally led to a sequence of non-planar random graphs generalizing the Mated-CRT maps that may belong to new universality classes of scale-invariant random geometries. We develop a numerical method to efficiently simulate these random graphs and explore their possible scaling limits through distance measurements, allowing us in particular to estimate Hausdorff dimensions in the two- and three-dimensional setting. In the two-dimensional case these estimates accurately reproduce previous known analytic and numerical results, while in the three-dimensional case they provide a first window on a potential three-parameter family of new scale-invariant random geometries.
description: 28 pages, 16 figures
A Bright Year for Tidal Disruptions?
Creators: name: Metzger, Brian D.
name: Stone, Nicholas C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a star is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole (BH), roughly half of its mass falls back to the BH at super-Eddington rates. Being tenuously gravitationally bound and unable to cool radiatively, only a small fraction f_in << 1 of the returning debris will likely be incorporated into the disk and accrete, with the vast majority instead becoming unbound in an outflow of velocity ~1e4 km/s. This slow outflow spreads laterally, encasing the BH. For months or longer, the outflow remains sufficiently neutral to block hard EUV and X-ray radiation from the hot inner disk, which instead becomes trapped in a radiation-dominated nebula. Ionizing nebular radiation heats the inner edge of the ejecta to temperatures of T > few 1e4 K, converting the emission to optical/near-UV wavelengths where photons more readily escape due to the lower opacity. This can explain the unexpectedly low and temporally constant effective temperatures of optically-discovered TDE flares. For BHs with relatively high masses M_BH > 1e7 M_sun the ejecta can become ionized at an earlier stage, or for a wider range of viewing angles, producing a TDE flare which is instead dominated by thermal X-ray emission. We predict total radiated energies consistent with those of observed TDE flares, and ejecta velocities that agree with the measured emission line widths. The peak optical luminosity for M_BH < 1e6 M_sun is suppressed due to adiabatic losses in the inner disk wind, possibly contributing to the unexpected dearth of optical TDEs in galaxies with low mass BHs. In the classical picture, where f_in ~ 1, TDEs de-spin supermassive BHs and cap their maximum spins well below theoretical accretion physics limits. This cap is greatly relaxed in our model, and existing Fe K-alpha spin measurements provide suggestive preliminary evidence that f_in < 1.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS
The Texas Poll: May, 1961
Creators: name: Belden Associates
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Food prices (1); gas prices (1); oil companies (3); gas purchases (2); changing gas brand names (2); thought toward senate election (1); poll tax (1); voting precinct (2); interest in politics (1); voter participation (3); senator candidate preferences (2); governor candidate preferences (3); Price Daniel job performance (1); John Kennedy job performance (1); preferred taxes (2); Citizens Tax League chairman (1); legalized horse race betting (1); children in household (2); polio vaccinations (3); adults in household (1).
title: Late gadolinium enhancement imaging on a 3T scanner with parallel RF transmission technique: prospective comparison of 3D-PSIR and 3D-IR
Creators: name: Schultz, Anthony
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: MR physics
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Perception image
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Cardiac MRI is nowadays an essential tool in the management of heart diseases patients, with a demand in constant augmentation . In our academic hospital ( Nouvel Hopital Civil, Strasbourg University Hospital ), 556 patients underwent a cardiac MRI...
The Texas Poll: Gas/Politics and Elections/Nuclear War
Creators: name: Belden Associates
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Food prices (1); gas prices (1); oil companies (3); gas purchases (2); Price Daniel job performance (1); John Kennedy job performance (1); governor candidate preferences (7); attorney general preferences (2); term limits (2); justice of the peace (1); fallout shelters (2); nuclear war with communists (1); newspaper readership (3); corn chips (3).
title: Fascial tail, T2 hypointense band and orientation along muscle fibres: MRI triad of desmoids
Creators: name: Alberawi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Oncology
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Desmoid tumors are rare soft tissue tumors arising from connective tissue of muscle, overlying fascia or aponeurosis. They are a histologically benign tumors with high tendecy to recur. the most common site of involvment is the anterior abdominal...
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Individual-based vs. Population-based Approach
Creators: name: Esporas, Megan H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Chronic diseases are the number one cause of death and disability in the United States, yet they are among the most preventable. Childhood obesity, in particular, has become an epidemic affecting one third of all children. The complex causality of genetic, environmental, sociocultural, and behavioral factors in the development of childhood obesity make prevention challenging, but essential for managing the rising prevalence of this condition. The individualbased approach to prevention is primarily used by health care providers and targets those with the highest level of relative risk for childhood obesity. The population-based approach addresses the behavioral, sociocultural, and environmental factors that contribute to childhood obesity in populations. This paper aims to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the individualbased and population-based approaches to prevention of childhood obesity, and to determine which approach has the greatest potential to most effectively manage this epidemic.
Resonant Multilevel Amplitude Damping Channels
Creators: name: Chessa, Stefano
name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new set of quantum channels: resonant multilevel amplitude damping (ReMAD) channels. Among other instances, they can describe energy dissipation effects in multilevel atomic systems induced by the interaction with a zero-temperature bosonic environment. At variance with the already known class of multilevel amplitude damping (MAD) channels, this new class of maps allows the presence of an environment unable to discriminate transitions with identical energy gaps. After characterizing the algebra of their composition rules, by analyzing the qutrit case, we show that this new set of channels can exhibit degradability and antidegradability in vast regions of the allowed parameter space. There we compute their quantum capacity and private classical capacity. We show that these capacities can be computed exactly also in regions of the parameter space where the channels aren't degradable nor antidegradable.
Perspectives and completely positive maps
Creators: name: Hansen, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the filtering of the perspective of a regular operator map of several variables through a completely positive linear map. By this method we are able to extend known operator inequalities of two variables to several variables; with applications in the theory of operator means of several variables. We also extend Lieb-Ruskai's convexity theorem from two to $ n+1 $ operator variables.
description: New title. Minor improvements of content and style. Some material deleted
title: Interventional neuroradiology procedures: patient and staff dose levels
Creators: name: Santos, Joana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In the last decade there has been an exponential increase in fluoroscopy guided intervention procedures, especially in Neuroradiology area. Cerebral angiography remains the gold standard examination for diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular...
Defensive Driving Skills for Public Health - How Strategic Thinking Can Be an Effective Tool for Sustainability in a Shifting Environment
Creators: name: Helm, Heather
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the critical component of strategic thinking in the strategic planning process and how identifying a correct strategy factors into the ultimate sustainability of a public health program. Strategic planning documentation has become easier to produce with the wide variety of templates and tools available for organizations. While these encourage strategy development, the structured aspects of this process may not fully encourage organizations to develop an overall philosophy and approach to strategic thinking. This paper will discuss strategy in the context of the strategic plan, highlight challenges organizations face when developing strategy, present philosophies of strategy development from experts in the field, provide tools and techniques for developing strategy, connect strategy with sustainability, and finally, feature an example that illustrates how strategy can be used to help position a developing public health program for success. The methods used to support this analysis were reviews of peer reviewed journals using search applications such as PubMed and Google Scholar, as well as books authored by leading experts and instructors in the field of strategy. Key words and combinations such as strategic planning, strategy, sustainability, performance measurement, scenario planning, SWOT, PESTLE, and cord blood banking were used. In addition, observations and work from my practicum experience at the Georgetown University/Department of Defense Cord Blood Bank was used as the example for the application of strategic thinking.
Monte Carlo simulation of prompt gamma-ray spectra from depleted uranium under D-T neutron irradiation and electron recoil spectra in a liquid scintillator detector
Creators: name: Qin, Jianguo
name: Lai, Caifeng
name: Liu, Rong
name: Zhu, Tonghua
name: Zhang, Xinwei
name: Ye, Bangjiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To overcome the problem of inefficient computing time and unreliable results in MCNP5 calculation, a two-step method is adopted to calculate the energy deposition of prompt gamma-rays in detectors for depleted uranium spherical shells under D-T neutrons irradiation. In the first step, the gamma-ray spectrum for energy below 7 MeV is calculated by MCNP5 code; secondly, the electron recoil spectrum in a BC501A liquid scintillator detector is simulated based on EGSnrc Monte Carlo Code with the gamma-ray spectrum from the first step as input. The comparison of calculated results with experimental ones shows that the simulations agree well with experiment in the energy region 0.4-3 MeV for the prompt gamma-ray spectrum and below 4 MeVee for the electron recoil spectrum. The reliability of the two-step method in this work is validated.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
title:  Quality and Pluralism in European Legal Teaching
Creators: name: Paglietti  , Maria Cecilia
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2023

description: In the field of modern legal education, the question we should ask our-selves is: what kind of jurists do we want to train? The answer to the question is crucial because the choice of educational model is neither ethically nor politically neutral, neither is legal education. The Clinical Legal Movement (CLM) might contribute to the purpose of reinventing legal education in Europe. I think the time has come for a systematic scholarly debate in the European legal academia and it seems to me that it should polarize around two issues: quality (ensure the inclusiveness of the quality dimensions for law clinics and the preservation of the diversity of the higher education institutions and teaching-learning modalities across the EU) and pluralism (of the models of clinical legal teaching -live-client, externship/internship programs-, of the areas of law covered -traditional/business-, of the students reached (politically minded, social committed or more business oriented).
description: Roma Tre Law Review – 01/2023
title: Impact of MRI-US image fusion in second-look US for MRI-detected lesions situated around mammary fascia
Creators: name: Nakano, Shogo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: We recently developed a real-time virtual sonography (RVS) that enables simultaneous display of both MRI and US cross section image of the same site in real time 1-6) . The purpose of the study was to evaluate the utility of second-look US using RVS...