cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Non-monotonic pressure evolution of the upper critical field in superconducting FeSe
Creators: name: Kaluarachchi, Udhara S.
name: Taufour, Valentin
name: Böhmer, Anna E.
name: Tanatar, Makariy A.
name: Bud'ko, Sergey L.
name: Kogan, Vladimir G.
name: Prozorov, Ruslan
name: Canfield, Paul C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pressure dependence of the upper critical field, $H_\textrm{c2,c}$, of single crystalline FeSe was studied using measurements of the inter-plane resistivity, $ρ_{\textrm{c}}$ in magnetic fields parallel to tetragonal $c$-axis. $H_\textrm{c2,c}(T)$ curves obtained under hydrostatic pressures up to $1.56$ GPa, the range over which the superconducting transition temperature, $T_\textrm{c}$, of FeSe exhibits a non-monotonic dependence with local maximum at $p_1\approx$ 0.8 GPa and local minimum at $p_2\approx$ 1.2 GPa. The slope of the upper critical field at $T_\textrm{c}$, $\left(\textrm{d}H_\text{c2,c}/\textrm{d}T\right)_{T_\textrm{c}}$, also exhibits a non-monotonic pressure dependence with distinct changes at $p_1$ and $p_2$. For $pp_2$ the slope is in good quantitative agreement with a single band, orbital Helfand-Werthamer theory with Fermi velocities determined from Shubnikov-de Haas measurements. This finding indicates that Fermi surface changes are responsible for the local minimum of $T_\textrm{c}(p)$ at $p_2\approx$ 1.2 GPa.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: Effective Use of a Simplified Approach to Prostate MRI for Assessing Surgical Candidacy in Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Bates, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Management
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Our objectives are to: Provide a brief review of the relevant anatomy in MRI of the prostate Describe the techniques with which magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate is performed at our institution. Provide illustrative examples of key findings...
Non-standard Neutrino Interactions at DUNE
Creators: name: de Gouvêa, André
name: Kelly, Kevin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effects of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) and how they modify neutrino propagation in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). We find that NSI can significantly modify the data to be collected by the DUNE experiment as long as the new physics parameters are large enough. For example, If the DUNE data are consistent with the standard three-massive-neutrinos paradigm, order 0.1 (in units of the Fermi constant) NSI effects will be ruled out. On the other hand, if large NSI effects are present, DUNE will be able to not only rule out the standard paradigm but also measure the new physics parameters, sometimes with good precision. We find that, in some cases, DUNE is sensitive to new sources of CP-invariance violation. We also explored whether DUNE data can be used to distinguish different types of new physics beyond nonzero neutrino masses. In more detail, we asked whether NSI can be mimicked, as far as the DUNE setup is concerned, by the hypothesis that there is a new light neutrino state.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures. Matches version submitted to journal. Bug fixed: quantitative results changed, qualitative results and conclusions unchanged
Regulating negative emotions with matched positive emotions using integrated scenarios
Creators: name: Bornstein, Oren
name: Eyal, Tal
name: Liviatan, Ido
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The aim of the experiment is to examine whether a positive emotion can effectively reduce a negative emotion with a matched vs. non-matched goal. Participants will imagine themselves in scenarios in which they first experienced shame or sadness and then they performed a pride- or joy-eliciting activity to regulate the negative emotion
Particle MCMC in forecasting frailty correlated default models with expert opinion
Creators: name: Nguyen, Ha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Predicting corporate default risk has long been a crucial topic in the finance field, as bankruptcies impose enormous costs on market participants as well as the economy as a whole. This paper aims to forecast frailty correlated default models with subjective judgements on a sample of U.S. public non-financial firms spanning January 1980-June 2019. We consider a reduced-form model and adopt a Bayesian approach coupled with the Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Particle MCMC) algorithm to scrutinize this problem. The findings show that the volatility and the mean reversion of the hidden factor, which determine the dependence of the unobserved default intensities on the latent variable, have a highly economically and statistically significant positive impact on the default intensities of the firms. The results also indicate that the 1-year prediction for frailty correlated default models with different prior distributions is relatively good, whereas the prediction accuracy ratios for frailty-correlated default models with non-informative and subjective prior distributions over various prediction horizons are not significantly different.
description: 31 pages, 2 figures
title: Unusual Manifestation of Stomach Cancer; Pictorial review and review of the literature
Creators: name: Lee, Dong Ho
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: CT
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this pictorial review is to investigate the previous literature about MDCT diagnosis and staging of stomach cancer, and to illustrate various imaging features of characteristic histology subtypes and unusual disease spread of stomach...
A Geospatial Assessment of Urban Tree Canopy and Policy Recommendations for Its Equitable Distribution in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Creators: name: Kolosna, Carl
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: INTRODUCTION: Why does the urban tree canopy matter? The composition of built and natural elements can substantially affect the health of people that live within a city. A primary mechanism that relates human health impacts and the built environment is the “urban heat island” effect – a phrase derived from the “island” of hotter air that is situated around an urban environment. The urban heat island phenomenon is characterized by empirical observations of higher temperatures within built environments when compared to more natural environments. Although many variables affect the magnitude of the UHI, the urban tree canopy (UTC) is one of the most influential. The UHI effect presents a serious hazard to human health, as increased temperature can cause respiratory difficulty, increase the chance of heat-stroke, exhaustion, and heat-related mortality. Just as planning operations can influence the UTC, they can also influence the level of impact that temperature increase will have on people by implementing measures (like preserving or increasing UTC) that mitigate the heat island effect.
Magnetization switching by current and microwaves
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Tomohiro
name: Saida, Daisuke
name: Nakatani, Yoshinobu
name: Kubota, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theoretical model of magnetization switching in a ferromagnetic multilayer by both electric current and microwaves. The electric current gives a spin transfer torque on the magnetization, while the microwaves induce a precession of the magnetization around the initial state. Based on numerical simulation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, it is found that the switching current is significantly reduced compared with the switching caused solely by the spin transfer torque when the microwave frequency is in a certain range. We develop a theory of switching from the LLG equation averaged over a constant energy curve. It was found that the switching current should be classified into four regions, depending on the values of the microwave frequency. Based on the analysis, we derive an analytical formula of the optimized frequency minimizing the switching current, which is smaller than the ferromagnetic resonance frequency. We also derive an analytical formula of the minimized switching current. Both the optimized frequency and the minimized switching current decrease with increasing the amplitude of the microwave field. The results will be useful to achieve high thermal stability and low switching current in spin torque systems simultaneously.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, published
title: Myxoid Containing Tumors Of Soft Tissues: MRI Appearance With Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation
Creators: name: Alberti, Nicolas
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Biopsy
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Soft-tissue tumors are mesenchymal tumors for which the classification established and reviewed in 2013 by the World Health Organization (WHO) is based on identification of the line of differentiation formed by tumor cells. The group of myxoid...
Braneworld cosmology in $f(R,T)$ gravity
Creators: name: Moraes, P. H. R. S.
name: Correa, R. A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Braneworld scenarios consider our observable universe as a brane embedded in a 5D space, named bulk. In this work, I derive the field equations of a braneworld model in a generalized theory of gravitation, namely $f(R,T)$ gravity, with $R$ and $T$, representing the Ricci scalar and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively. The cosmological parameters obtained from this approach are in agreement with recent constraints from Supernovae Ia data combined with baryon acoustic oscillations and cosmic microwave background observations, favouring such an alternative description of the universe dynamics.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
title: Intestinal lymphoma: A pictorial review
Creators: name: Khalil, Bilal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metastases
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Staging
subject: Education
subject: PET-CT
subject: PET
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the common locations and types of lymphoma affecting the intestinal tract To review the radiological appearances with CT and PET imaging in a range of...
A Case Study Examination Of Form-Based Code Use In North Carolina
Creators: name: Dancy, Susana Lee
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Form-based codes (FBC) are a regulatory instrument that emerged from the New Urbanism movement in the 1990s as an alternative to conventional zoning. In contrast to conventional zoning, which regulates the ways land is used and to what intensity, FBC put the primary regulation on the types of allowed buildings, rather than on the uses contained within the structures. Proponents suggest that FBC can be used to shape the built environment according to human-scale patterns, rather than the car-oriented patterns that dominated the latter half of the 20th Century. While FBC initially were used for new developments, municipalities across the nation have adopted them for existing urban areas. Some of these codes apply to specific districts within a traditional zoning scheme; others have completely replaced the conventional zoning systems. In North Carolina, at least nine municipalities have adopted form-based land use regulations. The first of these codes was adopted by the City of Belmont (1993), located west of Charlotte in Gaston County. Three towns along the Interstate 77 corridor in northern Mecklenburg County followed: Davidson (1995), Cornelius (1996), and Huntersville (1996). Other municipalities with FBC are scattered across the state: Catawba (2003) and Conover (1999) in Catawba County, Mooresville in Iredale County (2005), Waynesville in Haywood County (2005), and Knightdale in Wake County (2005). Given the longevity of FBCs in the state and the number of municipalities that have adopted them in some capacity, an analysis of their application could be useful to planning professionals, elected officials and other interested parties. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to: a) Explain the rationale for FBC. b) Compare the approaches to their use in North Carolina. c) Evaluate the effectiveness of the codes in reaching their intended results.
Truth and Scientific Reports Study 1 Preregistration
Creators: name: Handley-Miner, Isaac
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: When an information source approximates a scientific finding (i.e., provides a less specific account of that finding), are people more likely to classify that information as “true” when the information source is inferred to have political motives that are misaligned (vs aligned) with the reported approximation of the scientific finding?
Mechanical loss in state-of-the-art amorphous optical coatings
Creators: name: Granata, Massimo
name: Saracco, Emeline
name: Morgado, Nazario
name: Cajgfinger, Alix
name: Cagnoli, Gianpietro
name: Degallaix, Jérôme
name: Dolique, Vincent
name: Forest, Danièle
name: Franc, Janyce
name: Michel, Christophe
name: Pinard, Laurent
name: Flaminio, Raffaele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of mechanical characterizations of many different high-quality optical coatings made of ion-beam-sputtered titania-doped tantala and silica, developed originally for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Our data show that in multi-layer stacks (like high-reflection Bragg mirrors, for example) the measured coating dissipation is systematically higher than the expectation and is correlated with the stress condition in the sample. This has a particular relevance for the noise budget of current advanced gravitational-wave interferometers, and, more generally, for any experiment involving thermal-noise limited optical cavities.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures
Is the super-Penrose process possible near black holes?
Creators: name: Zaslavskii, O. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider collisions of particles near generic axially symmetric extremal black holes. We examine possibility of indefinitely large extraction of energy (the so-called super-Penrose process) in the limit when the point of collision approaches the horizon. Three potential options are considered (fractional powers of the lapse function in the relations between the energies and the angular momenta of particles in the point of collision), collision between outgoing particles and ingoing ones, collision in the ergoregion far from the horizon). It turns out in all three cases that states suitable for the super-Penrose process cannot be obtained from the previous collision of particles with finite masses and angular momenta.
description: 16 pages. Presentation improved. To appear in PRD
Developing Opportunity: A Study of Local Affordable Housing Barriers and Facilitators
Creators: name: Levine, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007
Subjects: Housing

description: Housing affordability is a significant problem in North Carolina. The National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates that a household with one full-time worker would need to earn $12.61 per hour -- more than double the newly implemented state minimum wage -- to afford a two bedroom apartment at North Carolina's $656 per month Fair Market Rent (NLIHC, 2006). There is a shortage of affordable housing across much of the state, but especially in many of the state's rapidly growing areas. For instance, in Wake County a household with one full-time worker would need to earn $16.35 per hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent (NLIHC, 2006). Across much of the state, real estate prices continue to escalate in the face of increasing demand and new housing units often target higher income households. Meanwhile, the stock of affordable housing in many parts of the state is aging and deteriorating with each passing year. This report is intended to provide local government staff and elected officials, as well as other interested individuals, with information about barriers and facilitators to development from the perspective of private sector affordable housing developers. The study findings will enable local governments to make better informed decisions about which strategies to pursue and which to avoid if they wish to encourage affordable housing. State government staff and elected officials interested in affordable housing also should find the research useful. In addition, housing advocates should find the results helpful in honing advocacy strategies to better match the needs of developers. Finally, affordable housing developers themselves are likely to be interested in the study findings. For all groups, the quantitative nature of this study sets it apart, since past research on the topic has almost always been qualitative in nature with an emphasis on speculative and anecdotal findings.
title: Shearwave Elastography for localization of prostate cancer lesions and assessment of elasticity thresholds: Implications for targeted biopsies and active surveillance protocols
Creators: name: Budaeus, Lars
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Elastography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Surgery
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diagnosis of prostate cancer relies on PSA-testing and digital rectal examination (DRE). Sextant prostate biopsy is still recommended for diagnosis [1]. These approaches lead to both over- and underdiagnosis. False positive elevated PSA-levels...
Dynamic sizing of required balancing capacities: the operational approach in France
Creators: name: Dumas, Jonathan
name: Terrier, Viktor
name: Bienvenu, Frédéric
name: Finet, Sébastien
name: Grisey, Nathalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: System operators employ operating reserves to deal with unexpected variations of demand and generation and guarantee the security of supply. However, they face new challenges to ensure this mission with the increasing share of renewable generation. This article focuses on the operational approach adopted by the French transmission system operator RTE for dynamically sizing the required margins in the dynamic margin monitoring strategy context. It relies on continuous forecasts of the main drivers of the uncertainties of the system imbalance. Four types of forecast errors, assumed to be independent, are considered in this approach: the errors in the wind and photovoltaic power generation, production of conventional power units, and electricity consumption. Then, the required margin is the result of comparing the global forecast error, computed as the convolution of these independent errors, with a security of supply criterion. This study presents the results of this method implemented at RTE and used in real-time operation.
description: Preprint version of the paper accepted for EEM 23 conference
Cd-substitution effect on photoexcitation properties of ZnO nanodots surrounded by carbon moiety
Creators: name: Shtepliuk, Ivan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
classificationCode: 29999
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The geometrical structure and photoexcitation properties of Zn27-nCdnO27C42 complexes are investigated by density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT calculations at the PBE0/6-31G*/SDD level of theory. The cohesive energy and frequency analysis indicate that the hybrid materials are energetically stable. In presence of Cd substituting atoms, the energy gap of the ZnO nanodots surrounded by carbon moiety is shown to decrease, as compared to Cd-free complex. In-depth excited state analysis including charge density difference (CDD) mapping and absorption spectrum decomposition is performed to reveal the nature of the dominant excited states and to comprehend the Cd-to-Zn substitution effect on the photoexcitation properties of Zn27-nCdnO27C42. A principal possibility to enhance the intramolecular charge transfer through incorporation of certain number of Cd atoms into the ZnO nanodots is shown. Such Cd-induced modifications in optical properties of semi-spherical Zn27-nCdnO27C42 complexes could potentially enable use of this hybrid material in optoelectronic and photocatalytic applications.
Trapping scaling for bifurcations in Vlasov systems
Creators: name: Barré, J.
name: Métivier, D.
name: Yamaguchi, Y. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non oscillating bifurcations of non homogeneous steady states of the Vlasov equation, a situation occurring in galactic models, or for Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes in plasma physics. We show that resonances are strongly suppressed, leading to very different phenomena with respect to the homogeneous case. Through an unstable manifold expansion, we show that the dynamics is very sensitive to the initial perturbation: the instability may saturate at small amplitude -generalizing the "trapping scaling" of plasma physics- or may grow to produce a large scale modification of the system. These analytical findings are illustrated and extended by direct numerical simulations with a cosine interaction potential.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Movies illustrating the numerical simulations available upon request
An empirical study of the emergence and policy implications of the food truck industry in the Research Triangle region
Creators: name: Moriarty, Lindsay
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Although hot dog stands, and traditional taco trucks have dominated the street food market for decades, recent changes in supply and demand have lead to the emergence of a new industry trend. In the last five years, high-end cuisine served fresh from kitchy food trucks are flooding U.S. streets from Los Angeles all the way to Durham, North Carolina. Although reminiscent of the "grease trucks" that have been known to haunt college campuses and construction sites, this newest generation of food trucks is marching to the beat of a decidedly different drum. Described as aggressively gourmet, tech-savvy and politically correct, new-wave food trucks have found success by catering to niche markets, and employing the use of technology in innovative and unforseen ways. In addition to exploring the emergence and potential impacts of the food truck industry, this project has also been designed to provide an empirical base that can be used in policymaking decisions as they relate to the management of the food truck industry at the municipal level. Because this industry has not yet been examined through an academic lens, there is little consensus over whether or not food trucks will help or harm local communities. To fill this gap, this study will profile the emergence and popularity of the food truck industry in North Carolina's Research Triangle region. Since 2008, this region has seen upwards of thirty-five food trucks set up shop on the streets of Durham, Wake, and Orange counties. Due to their close proximity to one another, and varying regulations between municipalities, the food truck industry in this region highlights the complex interplay between market demand, institutional regulation, and conflicting stakeholder interests. Locally, planners and policy makers really have no idea how many food trucks are out there or how to manage them most effectively. Raleigh and Chapel Hill, in particular, are struggling to understand the relationship between food trucks and brick and mortar restaurants, public perception, and whether or not this new industry holds any true value to the local economy.
Hypoglycaemia and other adverse effects of insulin-plus-glucose therapy for the emergency management of hyperkalaemia: a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Chothia, Mogamat-Yazied
name: Schoonees, Anel
name: Humphrey, Toby
name: Chikte, Usuf
name: Davids, Mogamat
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: emergency; hyperkalaemia; insulin-plus-glucose; hypoglycaemia

description: Hyperkalaemia is a very common electrolyte disorder encountered in hospitalized patients and, if left untreated, may result in life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. The treatment of hyperkalaemia includes shifting potassium into cells with intravenous insulin and glucose. Hypoglycaemia is a frequent complication of insulin therapy for hyperkalaemia, but this serious adverse effect has not yet been systematically reviewed and is probably under-appreciated. The proportion of patients who develop hypoglycaemia is as high as 75%. Many different treatment regimens have been proposed, which have variable effects on the reduction on [K+] and the risk of hypoglycaemia. Insulin can either be administered as an intravenous bolus or as a continuous infusion. Regardless of the regimen, insulin remains the most effective method of reducing serum K+ with average reductions of approximately 1.0 mM. One common regimen involves the intravenous bolus administration of 10 units of insulin together with 25 g of glucose (often as 50 ml of 50% dextrose water). The insulin concentrations needed to shift potassium into cells remain above the threshold concentration only transiently; however, it remains high enough to lower blood glucose (glycaemic concentrations) for a longer period, increasing the risk of hypoglycaemia. Most of the studies on which the recommended treatment regimens are based have been performed in small groups of patients with kidney failure who are treated with chronic haemodialysis. The majority of the studies used 25 g of glucose, with rates of hypoglycaemia ranging from 7% up to 75%. The risk for hypoglycaemia appears to increase with smaller doses of glucose and in patients with kidney failure. Poor kidney function increases the half-life of insulin, resulting in hypoglycaemia which typically occurs 1-3 hours after insulin administration. Insulins with shorter half-lives, such as lispro and aspart, may reduce the risk of hypoglycaemia in those patients with kidney disease. Patients with diabetes mellitus or higher pre-treatment blood glucose concentrations have a reduced risk of hypoglycaemia. Given the seriousness and the frequency of hypoglycaemia following insulin therapy, and the fact that this has not been comprehensively studied, we will conduct a systematic scoping review of this important complication, and of other adverse effects, of the treatment of hyperkalaemia.
Measurements of air-broadening parameters of water vapour transitions in the 5090–7490 cm−1 spectral region
Creators: name: Deichuli, V. M.
name: Petrova, T. M.
name: Solodov, A. M.
name: Solodov, A. A.
name: Starikov, V. I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: High-resolution spectra of H2O with a high signal/noise ratio (2500 at the absorbance equal 1) were recorded with a Bruker IFS 125 FTIR spectrometer covering H2O transitions from 5090 to 7490 cm−1 at the spectral resolution of 0.01 cm−1. The multispectrum fitting procedure has been applied to recover the spectral line parameters from measurements using quadratic speed-dependent Voigt (qSDV) profiles which made it possible to describe the experimental profile at the noise level. The H216O line broadening and shift coefficients for 439 lines of 7 vibrational bands 2ν3, ν2 + ν3, 2ν2 + ν3, ν1 + ν3, ν1 + ν2, ν1 + 2ν2 and 2ν1 were measured. A total of 339 lines were studied for the first time. The uncertainty of the broadening coefficients for the unblended H2O absorption lines was 2–4%. The determined parameters are compared to HITRAN12 and experimental values. The ratio between HITRAN data and our broadening coefficient varied from 0.82 to 1.21. The calculations of broadening and shift coefficients were performed in a framework of the semi-classical method and by using an empirical function whose parameters were taken from the literature. The uncertainty of calculations was 5% for the air broadening half-widths on average.
title: Evolving diagnostic paradigms for small Renal Masses: percutaneous Biopsy, why, when and how
Creators: name: Paladini, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Biopsy
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To propose the use of percutaneous biopsy (PB) in diagnostic workup of small renal masses (SRM). To describe the most recent indications to the use of this procedure. To discuss materials and methods so as to perform the procedure in the right way...
Gas and dust hydrodynamical simulations of massive lopsided transition discs - I. Gas distribution
Creators: name: Zhu, Zhaohuan
name: Baruteau, Clément
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by lopsided structures observed in some massive transition discs, we have carried out 2D numerical simulations to study vortex structure in massive discs, including the effects of disc self-gravity and the indirect force which is due to the displacement of the central star from the barycenter of the system by the lopsided structure. When only the indirect force is included, we confirm the finding by Mittal & Chiang (2015) that the vortex becomes stronger and can be more than two pressure scale heights wide, as long as the disc-to-star mass ratio is >1%. Such wide vortices can excite strong density waves in the disc and therefore migrate inwards rapidly. However, when disc self-gravity is also considered in simulations, self-gravity plays a more prominent role on the vortex structure. We confirm that when the disc Toomre Q parameter is smaller than pi/(2h), where h is the disc's aspect ratio, the vortices are significantly weakened and their inward migration slows down dramatically. Most importantly, when the disc is massive enough (e.g. Q~3), we find that the lopsided gas structure orbits around the star at a speed significantly slower than the local Keplerian speed. This sub-Keplerian pattern speed can lead to the concentration of dust particles at a radius beyond the lopsided gas structure (as shown in Paper II). Overall, disc self-gravity regulates the vortex structure in massive discs and the radial shift between the gas and dust distributions in vortices within massive discs may be probed by future observations.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
RCT of New Mexico’s Oversubscribed Dual Language & Traditional Charter Schools
Creators: name: Harvill, Eleanor
name: Rodriguez, David
name: Evidence Based Policy Team, Arnold Ventures
name: Buck, Stuart
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education

description: This project is a retrospective RCT to evaluate charter schools in New Mexico, capitalizing on oversubscribed charter schools’ admissions lotteries from prior years. Three experimental studies evaluate (1) the state’s oversubscribed charter elementary charter schools as a whole; (2) the state's oversubscribed charter middle schools and (3) the state’s oversubscribed charter high schools. In addition, the evaluation includes a quasi-experimental evaluation of New Mexico’s oversubscribed “Dual Language Immersion” (DLI) elementary charter schools.
Color knowledge in early-blind individuals: The role of behavioral relevance
Creators: name: Poort, Eva
name: Duiker, Tanita
name: Montero-Melis, Guillermo
name: van Paridon, Jeroen
name: Ostarek, Markus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a pre-registration for a language-learning experiment with early-blind and sighted participants. It includes the pre-registration of our data collection protocol, which details the theoretical background, research questions, materials, design, and sampling plan.
An Exploration of Successful Default Management Strategies For Affordable Home Loans
Creators: name: Russell, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Freddie Mac (Firm)
Fannie Mae

description: Since the 1990s, major players in the mortgage industry, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have strived to increase homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income borrowers. In order to address this opportunity, many lenders have developed affordable loan products targeted to this demographic. At the same time, there has been renewed focus on default management. This is especially important for low- and moderate-income borrowers given that they are more likely to experience delinquency when faced with an unexpected expense or change in income. It is critical for the industry to understand how best to manage these delinquencies in order to support the homeownership initiative and to limit investor losses. This paper seeks to identify default management best practices. For the purposes of this paper, default management and loss mitigation both refer to servicing after the first missed payment in order to cure the delinquency and/or reduce potential losses associated with a foreclosure. The first portion of the paper consists of a literature review that discusses some of the successful strategies employed in the industry. The second portion of the paper examines the evolution of servicing in Self-Help's Secondary Market Program. Self-Help is a non-profit community development financial institution that has partnered with The Ford Foundation, Fannie Mae and participating lenders to create a secondary market for non-conforming mortgage loans. Self-Help's wealth of experience with affordable mortgages provides valuable insight into successful default management strategies for CRA loans. The paper concludes with an examination of the operations and strategies of Self-Help's servicers in order to help explain performance discrepancies and highlight best practices.
Bitcoin Double-Spending Attack Detection using Graph Neural Network
Creators: name: Kang, Changhoon
name: Woo, Jongsoo
name: Hong, James Won-Ki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bitcoin transactions include unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) as their inputs and generate one or more newly owned UTXOs at specified addresses. Each UTXO can only be used as an input in a transaction once, and using it in two or more different transactions is referred to as a double-spending attack. Ultimately, due to the characteristics of the Bitcoin protocol, double-spending is impossible. However, problems may arise when a transaction is considered final even though its finality has not been fully guaranteed in order to achieve fast payment. In this paper, we propose an approach to detecting Bitcoin double-spending attacks using a graph neural network (GNN). This model predicts whether all nodes in the network contain a given payment transaction in their own memory pool (mempool) using information only obtained from some observer nodes in the network. Our experiment shows that the proposed model can detect double-spending with an accuracy of at least 0.95 when more than about 1% of the entire nodes in the network are observer nodes.
description: 3 pages, 1 table, Accepted as poster at IEEE ICBC 2023
title: 3T diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) in suspected adnexal tumors: reproducibility in qualitative and quantitative assessments in defining the malignancy
Creators: name: Härmä, Kirsi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Observer performance
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate the reproducibility of visual assessment of malignancy in diffusion weighted MRI (DW-MRI)and quantitative assessment of apparent diffusion coefficient measurements...
MASK-CNN-Transformer For Real-Time Multi-Label Weather Recognition
Creators: name: Chen, Shengchao
name: Shu, Ting
name: Zhao, Huan
name: Tang, Yuan Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Weather recognition is an essential support for many practical life applications, including traffic safety, environment, and meteorology. However, many existing related works cannot comprehensively describe weather conditions due to their complex co-occurrence dependencies. This paper proposes a novel multi-label weather recognition model considering these dependencies. The proposed model called MASK-Convolutional Neural Network-Transformer (MASK-CT) is based on the Transformer, the convolutional process, and the MASK mechanism. The model employs multiple convolutional layers to extract features from weather images and a Transformer encoder to calculate the probability of each weather condition based on the extracted features. To improve the generalization ability of MASK-CT, a MASK mechanism is used during the training phase. The effect of the MASK mechanism is explored and discussed. The Mask mechanism randomly withholds some information from one-pair training instances (one image and its corresponding label). There are two types of MASK methods. Specifically, MASK-I is designed and deployed on the image before feeding it into the weather feature extractor and MASK-II is applied to the image label. The Transformer encoder is then utilized on the randomly masked image features and labels. The experimental results from various real-world weather recognition datasets demonstrate that the proposed MASK-CT model outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, the high-speed dynamic real-time weather recognition capability of the MASK-CT is evaluated.
description: Have been accepted. Appears in Knowledge-Based Systems, see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705123006317
Strategies to spur the residential energy efficiency retrofit market: a market survey of the Philadelphia metropolitan area
Creators: name: Chasnow, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Energy costs are steadily rising, increasingly burdening the lower and middle classes in the United States, and the risk of climate change and its effects on our food and water systems can be found in the newspapers every week. For the average person, domestic and international energy debates and crises seem too big to tackle. What can individual residents do to combat climate change on the micro-level, and also reduce their own energy cost burden?
title: Prediction of locally advanced prostate cancer and tumor volume with Shearwave Elastography prior to radical prostatectomy: Impact on active surveillance and selection for prostate biopsy
Creators: name: Budaeus, Lars
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Pelvis
subject: Elastography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Surgery
subject: Screening
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Due to a suspected overtreatment of potentially low-risk tumors, active surveillance is an integral part of PCa treatment. One concern of patients and urologists is the risk of missing a spot with a high-risk tumor (upstaging) and an extracapsular...
From farm to fork? An empirical investigation of the challenges faced by North Carolina's small meatpackers
Creators: name: Prevatte, Tina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Rising concerns about the effects of industrialization and concentration within our globalized food economy have resulted in increased consumer demand for locally, sustainably produced foods. There is a vocal and growing subset of consumers who are taking a hard look at the food they consume, its origins, and how their food choices reflect their personal values. Food safety scares and environmental and health concerns have many Americans thinking critically about the sources of their food and how it is produced and processed. In fact, according to recent market research 70% of U.S. consumers want to know where their food comes from and would pay more for local food if they could find it (Packaged Facts, 2007). Developing alternative local food systems to meet this growing demand is a potential economic development strategy. Local food is now an estimated $5 billion industry, and expected to grow to $7 billion by 2011 (Packaged Facts, 2007). Communities that promote and develop markets for sustainable local foods not only have the potential to benefit from improved nutrition and environmental practices, but also to generate additional jobs through value-added product development. Knowing this, planners and sustainable agriculture activists throughout the U.S. are seeking ways to tap into and support the economic development potential of their local food system. However, as this work is undertaken, a number of challenges arise. North Carolina is better off than many states in terms of the access that small to mid-size farmers have to small meatpackers. Staff of North Carolina Cooperative Extension and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) maintain a directory of the small meatpackers in the state who have expressed a willingness to serve small to mid-size farmers seeking access to local markets. There are currently twenty small meatpackers listed in this directory. However, in spite of the existence of these willing small meatpackers, small-scale meatpacking is still viewed as a bottleneck by those working to rebuild the state's local food economy. This paper provides a critical examination of the current barriers and challenges to integrating this set of small meatpackers who are willing and able to work with small to midsize farmers as more viable links in North Carolina's local meats value chain. It serves as a regionally specific test of conventional wisdom regarding the challenges faced by small meatpackers, and sheds light on how these challenges can cause even the most committed small meatpackers to function as bottlenecks within their local food system.
title: Evaluation of association of Myocardial Bridging in the Left Anterior Descending Coronary with coronary atherosclerosis in the segment proximal to the site of bridging
Creators: name: LI, YANG
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Oncology
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Catheters
subject: Statistics
subject: Congenital
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To investigate whether myocardial bridging is an independent risk factor for coronary atherosclerosis proximal to a myocardial bridge in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) identified by multi-detector computed tomography...