cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Use of MRI imaging with dynamic contrast enhancement for selecting the optimal size of embolic material for endovascular treatment of uterine myomas (fibroids).
Creators: name: Bychenko, Vladimir
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: MR
subject: Embolisation
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is currently a safe and effective alternative to hysterectomy for treatment of symptomatic uterine myomas. The main disadvantage of UAE is believed to be the increased frequency of recurrent clinical manifestations...
Additional file 1 of Perspectives of older adults with chronic illness on person-centered practice at an inpatient hospital department: a descriptive study
Creators: name: Vareta, Diana
name: Ventura, Filipa
name: Família, Carlos
name: Oliveira, Célia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Meta-food-chains as a many-layer epidemic process on networks
Creators: name: Barter, Edmund
name: Gross, Thilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Notable recent works have focused on the multi-layer properties of coevolving diseases. We point out that very similar systems play an important role in population ecology. Specifically we study a meta food-web model that was recently proposed by Pillai et al. This model describes a network of species connected by feeding interactions, which spread over a network of spatial patches. Focusing on the essential case, where the network of feeding interactions is a chain, we develop an analytical approach for the computation of the degree distributions of colonized spatial patches for the different species in the chain. This framework allows us to address ecologically relevant questions. Considering configuration model ensembles of spatial networks, we find that there is an upper bound for the fraction of patches that a given species can occupy, which depends only on the networks mean degree. For a given mean degree there is then an optimal degree distribution that comes closest to the upper bound. Notably scale-free degree distributions perform worse than more homogeneous degree distributions if the mean degree is sufficiently high. Because species experience the underlying network differently the optimal degree distribution for one particular species is generally not the optimal distribution for the other species in the same food web. These results are of interest for conservation ecology, where, for instance, the task of selecting areas of old-growth forest to preserve in an agricultural landscape, amounts to the design of a patch network.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
title: Typical localization of otosclerosis: imaging with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT).
Creators: name: Coniglio, Giovanni
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Anatomy
subject: Sclerosis
subject: Demineralisation-Bone

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the appearance of normal and pathological regions temporal bone typically place of otosclerotic spots. Otosclerosis is an idiopatic disease that can result in spongiosis or sclerosis of certain portions of petrous bone; provide a guide for...
Maximizing bicycle sharing: an empirical analysis of capital bikeshare usage
Creators: name: Daddio, David William
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: As one of three large North American systems, Capital Bikeshare represents a wealth of empirical data not only for the Washington Metropolitan area as it looks to expand its bicycle sharing system, but for other cities planning their own systems. In the past, North American cities relied on international practices to inform feasibility analyses and planning processes for nascent bicycle share systems. With actual usage, membership, and revenue figures in hand, researchers are just beginning to understand the operational dynamics of the technology in the context of American culture and urban spatial structure. To date, the public has committed more than $13 million in funding to the regional Capital Bikeshare system (mostly by way of federal grants). This study seeks to synthesize Capital Bikeshare data in order to help planners assess and improve it as a viable transportation investment. In doing so, this report helps to inform a larger policy dialogue about bicycle sharing locally and nationally. The methodology presented here adds to the small but growing body of bicycle share feasibility work; helping fill the empirical void in the North American literature and expand the suite of analytic approaches available to practitioners and academics.
Implementation science approach to disseminating healthy movement guidelines for young children in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Capio, Catherine
name: Chung, Kevin
name: Ng, Catalina
name: Jones, Rachel
name: Sit, Cindy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This project will take an implementation science approach to a deliberate dissemination of the movement guidelines for children aged two to six years in Hong Kong. Dissemination will be informed by active engagement with stakeholders. An evaluation will be conducted to assess the implementation process and the outcomes of the dissemination.
Diffusion Monte Carlo study of strongly interacting two-dimensional Fermi gases
Creators: name: Galea, Alexander
name: Dawkins, Hillary
name: Gandolfi, Stefano
name: Gezerlis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracold atomic Fermi gases have been a popular topic of research, with attention being paid recently to two-dimensional (2D) gases. In this work, we perform T=0 ab initio diffusion Monte Carlo calculations for a strongly interacting two-component Fermi gas confined to two dimensions. We first go over finite-size systems and the connection to the thermodynamic limit. After that, we illustrate pertinent 2D scattering physics and properties of the wave function. We then show energy results for the strong-coupling crossover, in between the Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) and Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) regimes. Our energy results for the BEC-BCS crossover are parametrized to produce an equation of state, which is used to determine Tan's contact. We carry out a detailed comparison with other microscopic results. Finally, we calculate the pairing gap for a range of interaction strengths in the strong coupling regime, following from variationally optimized many-body wave functions.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures; v2 corresponds to the published version
title: Anatomical investigation of the posterior humeral circumflex artery using 3D CT angiography: Avoiding axillary nerve injury when using minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis
Creators: name: Uchiyama, Daiji
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Anatomy
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Safety
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Surgery
subject: Outcomes
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction: Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO), which preserves blood circulation in soft tissues by decreasing invasion into tissues to a minimum, is being increasingly utilized in cases of surgical repair of bone fractures....
Statistical properties of $^{243}$Pu, and $^{242}$Pu(n,$γ$) cross section calculation
Creators: name: Laplace, T. A.
name: Zeiser, F.
name: Guttormsen, M.
name: Larsen, A. C.
name: Bleuel, D. L.
name: Bernstein, L. A.
name: Goldblum, B. L.
name: Siem, S.
name: Garotte, F. L. Bello
name: Brown, J. A.
name: Campo, L. Crespo
name: Eriksen, T. K.
name: Giacoppo, F.
name: Görgen, A.
name: Hadyńska-Klȩk, K.
name: Henderson, R. A.
name: Klintefjord, M.
name: Lebois, M.
name: Renstrøm, T.
name: Rose, S. J.
name: Sahin, E.
name: Tornyi, T. G.
name: Tveten, G. M.
name: Voinov, A.
name: Wiedeking, M.
name: Wilson, J. N.
name: Younes, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The level density and gamma-ray strength function (gammaSF) of 243Pu have been measured in the quasi-continuum using the Oslo method. Excited states in 243Pu were populated using the 242Pu(d,p) reaction. The level density closely follows the constant-temperature level density formula for excitation energies above the pairing gap. The gammaSF displays a double-humped resonance at low energy as also seen in previous investigations of actinide isotopes. The structure is interpreted as the scissors resonance and has a centroid of omega_{SR}=2.42(5)MeV and a total strength of B_{SR}=10.1(15)mu_N^2, which is in excellent agreement with sum-rule estimates. The measured level density and gammaSF were used to calculate the 242Pu(n,gamma) cross section in a neutron energy range for which there were previously no measured data.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Residential energy consumption in Orange County, NC: assessing the impacts of local efficiency programs
Creators: name: Linke, Jonathan Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Potential improvements to the energy efficiency of residential buildings present planners and policymakers a number of options for effecting local changes in energy consumption patterns. The possibility of increasing energy efficiency in the US building stock has been explored over the past several decades; however, the geographic scope is often too coarse to account for unique local variables. This paper builds upon past analyses of the relationship between housing characteristics and residential energy consumption to better understand the energy savings potential of local efficiency programs in Orange County, NC. Two energy models for residential consumption were constructed using Residential Energy Consumption Survey variables that were also available in a county parcel dataset. Three policy interventions were simulated for both heating and cooling energy consumption: (1) weatherization, (2) reflective roofing, and (3) tree shading. Overall, if applied uniformly for the entire county, the policies demonstrate potential to save 29, 13 and 19 percent of current heating and cooling energy use, respectively. All three interventions prove most effective for low income households, as well as older (pre-1980) as opposed to newer (1980-present) structures. Weatherization improvements demonstrate the highest heating energy savings potentials for the above variables at 45 percent and 51 percent, respectively. Whereas high income households save 14 percent and new structures see 12 percent savings. Cooling energy policy simulations show a more limited range of energy use reduction (10-23 percent), with low income households and older structures still receiving the highest savings. Resulting savings are comparable to the national, regional, and statewide estimates that appear throughout the literature. Savings estimates provide local policymakers an indication of the effectiveness of potential energy efficiency programs.
title: Spontaneous ruptured intercostal and lumber artery in type 1 neurofibromatosis
Creators: name: Isogai, Jun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To recognize the emergent vascular pathology in type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF 1) occurred with an uncommon rupture of intercostal or lumber artery, as well as the potential complications that can be...
Hot Dust Obscured Galaxies with Excess Blue Light: Dual AGN or Single AGN Under Extreme Conditions?
Creators: name: Assef, R. J.
name: Walton, D. J.
name: Brightman, M.
name: Stern, D.
name: Alexander, D.
name: Bauer, F.
name: Blain, A. W.
name: Diaz-Santos, T.
name: Eisenhardt, P. R. M.
name: Finkelstein, S. L.
name: Hickox, R. C.
name: Tsai, C. -W.
name: Wu, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxies (Hot DOGs) are a population of hyper-luminous infrared galaxies identified by the WISE mission from their very red mid-IR colors, and characterized by hot dust temperatures ($T>60~\rm K$). Several studies have shown clear evidence that the IR emission in these objects is powered by a highly dust-obscured AGN that shows close to Compton-thick absorption at X-ray wavelengths. Thanks to the high AGN obscuration, the host galaxy is easily observable, and has UV/optical colors usually consistent with those of a normal galaxy. Here we discuss a sub-population of 8 Hot DOGs that show enhanced rest-frame UV/optical emission. We discuss three scenarios that might explain the excess UV emission: (i) unobscured light leaked from the AGN by reflection over the dust or by partial coverage of the accretion disk; (ii) a second unobscured AGN in the system; or (iii) a luminous young starburst. X-ray observations can help discriminate between these scenarios. We study in detail the blue excess Hot DOG WISE J020446.13-050640.8, which was serendipitously observed by Chandra/ACIS-I for 174.5 ks. The X-ray spectrum is consistent with a single, hyper-luminous, highly absorbed AGN, and is strongly inconsistent with the presence of a secondary unobscured AGN. Based on this, we argue that the excess blue emission in this object is most likely either due to reflection or a co-eval starburst. We favor the reflection scenario as the unobscured star-formation rate needed to power the UV/optical emission would be $\gtrsim 1000~\rm M_{\odot}~\rm yr^{-1}$. Deep polarimetry observations could confirm the reflection hypothesis.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 3 of Understanding the mental health and intention to leave of the public health workforce in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Belita, Emily
name: Neil-Sztramko, Sarah E.
name: De Rubeis, Vanessa
name: Boamah, Sheila
name: Cabaj, Jason
name: Jack, Susan M.
name: Neudorf, Cory
name: Zogo, Clemence Ongolo
name: Seale, Carolyn
name: Watson-Creed, Gaynor
name: Dobbins, Maureen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 3: Additional File 3. The unadjusted association between workplace stressors and mental health in the past two weeks, and intention-to-leave public health
Closing up a light stop window in natural SUSY at LHC
Creators: name: Kobakhidze, Archil
name: Liu, Ning
name: Wu, Lei
name: Yang, Jin Min
name: Zhang, Mengchao
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: Top squark (stop) plays a key role in the radiative stability of the Higgs boson mass in supersymmetry (SUSY). The LHC searches for stop have made a great progress and tightly constrained the stop mass during Run-1. In this work, we use the LHC Run-1 data to determine the lower mass limit of the right-handed stop in a natural SUSY scenario, where the higgsinos $\tildeχ^0_{1,2}$ and $\tildeχ^\pm_{1}$ are light and nearly degenerate. We find that the stop mass has been excluded up to 430 GeV for $m_{\tildeχ^0_1} \lesssim 250$ GeV and to 540 GeV for $m_{\tildeχ^0_1} \simeq 100$ GeV by the Run-1 SUSY searches for $2b+E^{miss}_T$ and $1\ell+jets+E^{miss}_T$, respectively. In a small strip of parameter space with $m_{\tildeχ^0_1} \gtrsim 190$ GeV, the stop mass can still be as light as 210 GeV and compatible with the Higgs mass measurement and the monojet bound. The 14 TeV LHC with a luminosity of 20 fb$^{-1}$ can further cover such a light stop window by monojet and $2b+E^{miss}_T$ searches and push the lower bound of the stop mass to 710 GeV. We also explore the potential to use the Higgs golden ratio, $D_{γγ}=σ(pp \to h \to γγ)/σ(pp \to h \to ZZ^* \to4\ell^\pm)$, as a complementary probe for the light and compressed stop. If this golden ratio can be measured at percent level at the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) or future $e^+e^-$ colliders, the light stop can be excluded for most of the currently allowed parameter region.
description: Discussions added, version accepted by Phys. Lett. B
Increasing food access in lower-income areas: tools for planners
Creators: name: Soto, Dolly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The lack of access to healthy food is increasingly recognized as a problem that will not be solved by health departments alone. A number of potentially innovative, cross disciplinary strategies to combat food deserts - areas with little to no local access to healthy food - have recently been put into action. In New York City, two unique strategies that have been implemented are the Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) Program and the NYC Green Carts Program. Each of these programs addresses food access issues through zoning, economic incentives, and community and intergovernmental partnerships. Through an analysis of these strategies, this paper will attempt to partially answer the questions of why planners should care about food and what contributions planners can make to improve access to healthy food. The analysis finds that planners can use their interdisciplinary skills to add value to each of these programs. In addition to strong community development techniques, planners are able to analyze land use patterns, demographic and economic data, and influence and collaborate with other governmental agencies.
title: Typical and atypical imaging of thoracic and abdominal aortic rupture
Creators: name: Isogai, Jun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Surgery
subject: CT
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1.To describe CT radiological features of typical and atypical aortic ruptures in the thoracic and abdominal aortic dissection or aneurysm based on 35 and 45 patients, respectively. 2.To illustrate each compartment of mediastinal and retroperitoneal...
Additional file 1 of Can minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion achieve a better clinical and radiological outcome than traditional open technique in isthmic spondylolisthesis?
Creators: name: Ali, Elsayed Mohamed Selim
name: Eladawy, Amr Mohamed
name: ElHewala, Tarek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Supplementary file 1.
Rosai-dorfman disease: A rare entity in eastern India
Creators: name: Sharma, Sumita
name: Ratha, Sandeep
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Rosai-dorfman disease is a very rare disease. It is first time reported in Odisha, in IMS and SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar. After all necessary investigations, Clinicians came to conclude that it's Rosai-dorfman disease also known as sinus histiocytosis, which is commonly presented with massive lymphadenopathy.
Moduli trapping mechanism in modular flavor symmetric models
Creators: name: Kikuchi, Shota
name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Nasu, Kaito
name: Yamada, Yusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how the moduli in modular flavor symmetric models dynamically select enhanced symmetry points at which the residual modular symmetry renders extra matter fields massless. The moduli dynamics non-perturbatively produces the extra matter particles, which gives (time-dependent) effective potential that traps the moduli to enhanced symmetry points. We show analytic estimates of particle production rate consistent with numerical results, and the dynamics of moduli based on the analytic estimates.
description: 35 pages, 14 figures
Rainbow Valley of Colored (Anti) de Sitter Gravity in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Gwak, Seungho
name: Joung, Euihun
name: Mkrtchyan, Karapet
name: Rey, Soo-Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a theory of three-dimensional (anti) de Sitter gravity carrying Chan-Paton color charges. We define the theory by Chern-Simons formulation with the gauge algebra $(\mathfrak{gl}_{2}\oplus \mathfrak{gl}_{2})\otimes \mathfrak{u}(N)$, obtaining a color-decorated version of interacting spin-one and spin-two fields. We also describe the theory in metric formulation and show that, among $N^{2}$ massless spin-two fields, only the singlet one plays the role of metric graviton whereas the rest behave as \emph{colored spinning matter} that strongly interacts at large $N$. Remarkably, these \emph{colored spinning matter} acts as Higgs field and generates a non-trivial potential of staircase shape. At each extremum labelled by $k = 0, \ldots, [\frac{N-1}2]$, the $\mathfrak{u}(N)$ color gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken down to $\mathfrak{u}(N-k)\oplus \mathfrak{u}(k)$ and provides different (A)dS backgrounds with the cosmological constants $\big(\frac{N}{N-2k}\big)^{2}\,Ł$\,. When this symmetry breaking takes place, the spin-two Goldstone modes combine with (or are eaten by) the spin-one gauge fields to become partially-massless spin-two fields. We discuss various aspects of this theory and highlight physical implications.
description: 1+29 pages; 3 embedded fig v2. details of partially massless spectrum
The challenges of providing homeownership for working families: a case study in Pine Knolls Development, Chapel Hill, NC
Creators: name: Cunningham, Katharine A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Working families increasingly find it difficult to become homeowners in the communities they serve. While federal housing policy promotes homeownership, most federal resources are targeted to assist low-income households. Without access to subsidies, developers of workforce housing cannot increase homeownership opportunities for moderate-income households. A case study of Pine Knolls Development in Chapel Hill, NC examines the challenges facing one affordable housing developer and demonstrates the importance of government-sponsored financial assistance. As communities create new policies and programs to increase homeownership options for working families, some emerging best practices are considered.
Shell formation in short like-charged polyelectrolytes in a harmonic trap
Creators: name: Dutta, Sandipan
name: Jho, Y. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by recent experiments and simulations on pattern formation in biomolecules by optical tweezers, a theoretical description based on reference interaction site model (RISM) integral equation method is developed to calculate the equilibrium density profiles of small polyelectrolytes in an external potential. The formalism is applied to the specific case of a finite number of polyelectrolytes trapped in a harmonic potential. The density profiles of flexible Gaussian and rigid rod-like polyelectrolytes are studied over a range of lengths and numbers of polyelectrolytes in the trap and the Coulomb coupling parameter. For smaller polymers we recover the results for point charges. In the mean field limit the point particles do not form shells for any values of the coupling parameter whereas the longer polymers form a shell at the boundary at moderate coupling. When the inter-polymer cor- relations are included the density profile of the polymers shows sharp shells even at weak coupling. The implications of these results are also discussed.
Integrated Multi-Modal Transportation Planning: A Spatial Approach
Creators: name: Raw, Jeremy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Effective inclusion of non-automobile transportation in transportation planning practice calls for tools that respond as effectively to the special needs of these modes as standard tools do to the needs of automobile transportation. Such inclusion is of particular concern when policy makers wish to encourage alternative travel modes and seek substantial guidance from planners regarding the effects of various enhancements and modifications to the transportation system. Bicycle and pedestrian modes, and to a certain extent public transit, raise a variety of special problems having to do with the different spatial and temporal scales on which such travel takes place. These include small-scale environmental features, constraints on trip chaining, and availability of suitable destinations. But many people who rely on non-automobile modes are forced to make such decisions at a very large scale, by making residential and job location decisions that place them in walkable or bikeable neighborhoods. Existing transportation planning tools have not proved particularly effective at addressing either of these concerns. The present work begins with the postulate that the usefulness of alternative modes hinges on spatial arrangements of transportation facilities and potential destinations. However, rushing to characterize these arrangements in scalar measurements of travel time or cost risks obliterating important features that are critical to effective planning of enhancements. An equal peril, however, is to cease considering these arrangements as elements of a transportation system in order to consider them purely from a moral or aesthetic standpoint. This paper reviews a variety of theoretical and practical approaches to spatial relationships in transportation planning in order to outline the state of the art in relationship to the requirements of multi-modal, multiscale, spatially aware transportation planning. Based on this review, certain field-based techniques seem to hold particular promise for transportation planning models that can integrate the disparate requirements of different transportation modes and guide further research into operational definitions of walkable, bikeable or transit-friendly urban spaces in a form that will support effective policy and infrastructure investment decisions. This paper concludes with a concrete illustration of how scale and spatial analysis can inform multi-modal transportation planning. Simple estimation of density of destinations accessed by walking and driving trips were calculated from household travel data collected in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill). Further research is suggested to clarify and model the relationships between the observed spatial variations and specific physical features of the transportation system.
Morphologies of ~190,000 Galaxies at z=0-10 Revealed with HST Legacy Data II. Evolution of Clumpy Galaxies
Creators: name: Shibuya, Takatoshi
name: Ouchi, Masami
name: Kubo, Mariko
name: Harikane, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate evolution of clumpy galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) samples of ~17,000 photo-z and Lyman break galaxies at z~0-8. We detect clumpy galaxies with off-center clumps in a self-consistent algorithm that is well tested with previous study results, and measure the number fraction of clumpy galaxies at the rest-frame UV, f_clumpy^UV. We identify an evolutionary trend of f_clumpy^UV over z~0-8 for the first time: f_clumpy^UV increases from z~8 to z~1-3 and subsequently decreases from z~1 to z~0, which follows the trend of Madau-Lilly plot. A low average Sersic index of n~1 is found in the underlining components of our clumpy galaxies at z~0-2, indicating that typical clumpy galaxies have disk-like surface brightness profiles. Our f_clumpy^UV values correlate with physical quantities related to star formation activities for star-forming galaxies at z~0-7. We find that clump colors tend to be red at a small galactocentric distance for massive galaxies with log(M_*/M_sun)>~11. All of these results are consistent with a picture that a majority of clumps form in the violent disk instability and migrate into the galactic centers.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Signatures from Scalar Dark Matter with a Vector-like Quark Mediator
Creators: name: Giacchino, Federica
name: Ibarra, Alejandro
name: Honorez, Laura Lopez
name: Tytgat, Michel H. G.
name: Wild, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive study of a model where the dark matter is composed of a singlet real scalar that couples to the Standard Model predominantly via a Yukawa interaction with a light quark and a colored vector-like fermion. A distinctive feature of this scenario is that thermal freeze-out in the early universe may be driven by annihilation both into gluon pairs at one-loop ($gg$) and by virtual internal Bremsstrahlung of a gluon ($q \bar{q} g$). Such a dark matter candidate may also be tested through direct and indirect detection and at the LHC; viable candidates have either a mass nearly degenerate with that of the fermionic mediator or a mass above about 2 TeV.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures. Matches published version
title: Development of quantitative evaluation method for windmill artifacts in MDCT
Creators: name: Kujirai, Ryusuke
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artifacts
subject: Physics
subject: CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Bones

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction The development and evolution of Multi Detector-law CT (MDCT) enabled a lot of clinical advance in medical imaging. The evolution of MDCT resulted higher Z-axis spatial resolution to diagnostic imaging and the burden of patients was...
Vacant property registration programs: a new approach to managing the foreclosure crisis in North Carolina
Creators: name: Pearson, Brooks Rainey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The economic downturn and attendant mortgage foreclosure crisis have exacerbated the problem of vacant properties at a time when market demand has been insufficient to absorb the extra stock. Vacant or abandoned properties create costly problems for municipalities. They destabilize neighborhoods by contributing to crime and create an impediment to individual neighborhood redevelopment by lowering the livability of neighborhoods and reducing property values. They are vulnerable to fires, floods and other disasters. Vacant properties create a drain on city finances, with property tax revenues falling as demand for government services, such as police patrols and code enforcement, are increasing. In response to the blighting influence and expense of vacant and foreclosed homes, local governments throughout the United States have begun to enact vacant property registration ("VPR") ordinances. Registration ordinances typically require owners of properties that have become vacant or abandoned for a certain length of time to register formally with the local government. Registration provides the local government with a point of contact for regulation and holds the owner to certain safety and maintenance standards. Such ordinances often include fees for registration and penalties for failure to comply, which offset the regulatory and administrative costs of the program. North Carolina's history of strict statutory interpretation under Dillon's Rule combined with the fact that the relevant statutes overlap and sometimes contradict each other creates a confusing environment for constructing coherent policy. Despite these difficulties, in December of 2009 the town of Warrenton adopted North Carolina's first VPR ordinance. Hickory has also considered the possibility of a vacant property registration program to supplement their efforts to manage vacant properties in their town, but have yet to move this plan forward. Other North Carolina municipalities are likely to follow. In Chapter One of this paper I will discuss what led to the recent rise in vacant properties throughout North Carolina and how vacancies affect a municipality and its citizens. I will also discuss the challenges of implementing a VPR program in North Carolina. In Chapters Two I will detail the methodology used in undertaking this project. In Chapters Three and Four I will examine Hickory and Warrenton's efforts to manage vacant and abandoned properties in their town. In Chapter Five I will present a strategic approach to developing a VPR ordinance in North Carolina based on the case studies of Hickory and Warrenton, a thorough analysis of VPR ordinances throughout the southeast and my understanding of North Carolina law.
StubCoder: Automated Generation and Repair of Stub Code for Mock Objects
Creators: name: Zhu, Hengcheng
name: Wei, Lili
name: Terragni, Valerio
name: Liu, Yepang
name: Cheung, Shing-Chi
name: Wu, Jiarong
name: Sheng, Qin
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Song, Lihong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mocking is an essential unit testing technique for isolating the class under test (CUT) from its dependencies. Developers often leverage mocking frameworks to develop stub code that specifies the behaviors of mock objects. However, developing and maintaining stub code is labor-intensive and error-prone. In this paper, we present StubCoder to automatically generate and repair stub code for regression testing. StubCoder implements a novel evolutionary algorithm that synthesizes test-passing stub code guided by the runtime behavior of test cases. We evaluated our proposed approach on 59 test cases from 13 open-source projects. Our evaluation results show that StubCoder can effectively generate stub code for incomplete test cases without stub code and repair obsolete test cases with broken stub code.
description: This paper was accepted by the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) in July 2023
Additional file 2 of Perspectives of older adults with chronic illness on person-centered practice at an inpatient hospital department: a descriptive study
Creators: name: Vareta, Diana
name: Ventura, Filipa
name: Família, Carlos
name: Oliveira, Célia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: MRI Displays Affection of the Deep Temporal Artery and the Temporal Muscle in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis
Creators: name: Veldhoen, Simon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Vascular
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Statistics
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Giant Cell arteritis (GCA), which is also known as Horton´s disease or temporal arteritis is the most frequent vasculitis with an incidence of 10-50/100.000 people. It affects large and medium-sized arteries, particularly the superficial temporal...
Graph Theoretical Analysis of local ultraluminous infrared galaxies and quasars
Creators: name: Pavlou, Orestis
name: Michos, Ioannis
name: Lesta, Vicky Papadopoulou
name: Papadopoulos, Michalis
name: Papaefthymiou, Evangelos S.
name: Efstathiou, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a methodological framework for studying galaxy evolution by utilizing Graph Theory and network analysis tools. We study the evolutionary processes of local ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) and quasars and the underlying physical processes, such as star formation and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity, through the application of Graph Theoretical analysis tools. We extract, process and analyse mid-infrared spectra of local (z < 0.4) ULIRGs and quasars between 5-38 microns through internally developed Python routines, in order to generate similarity graphs, with the nodes representing ULIRGs being grouped together based on the similarity of their spectra. Additionally, we extract and compare physical features from the mid-IR spectra, such as the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) emission and silicate depth absorption features, as indicators of the presence of star-forming regions and obscuring dust, in order to understand the underlying physical mechanisms of each evolutionary stage of ULIRGs. Our analysis identifies five groups of local ULIRGs based on their mid-IR spectra, which is quite consistent with the well established fork classification diagram by providing a higher level classification. We demonstrate how graph clustering algorithms and network analysis tools can be utilized as unsupervised learning techniques for revealing direct or indirect relations between various galaxy properties and evolutionary stages, which provides an alternative methodology to previous works for classification in galaxy evolution. Additionally, our methodology compares the output of several graph clustering algorithms in order to demonstrate the best-performing Graph Theoretical tools for studying galaxy evolution.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Computing
title: Endovascular repair of aortic pseudoaneurysms:four years experience
Creators: name: Xue, Yuguo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Outcomes
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Stents
subject: Catheters
subject: Arterial access
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pseudoaneurysms are a rare variety of aortic disorders. Although mostly asymptomatic, they represent potentially fatal conditions that are traditionally treated surgically. Pseudoaneurysms of aorta are usually a late complication of previous...
Stable sets mapping with Taylor differential algebra with application to ballistic capture orbits around Mars
Creators: name: Caleb, Thomas
name: Merisio, Gianmario
name: Di Lizia, Pierluigi
name: Topputo, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ballistic capture orbits offer safer Mars injection at longer transfer time. However, the search for such an extremely rare event is a computationally intensive process. Indeed, it requires the propagation of a grid sampling the whole search space. This work proposes a novel ballistic capture search algorithm based on Taylor differential algebra propagation. This algorithm provides a continuous description of the search space compared to classical grid sampling research and focuses on areas where the nonlinearities are the largest. Macroscopic analyses have been carried out to obtain cartography of large sets of solutions. Two criteria, named consistency and quality, are defined to assess this new algorithm and to compare its performances with classical grid sampling of the search space around Mars. Results show that differential algebra mapping works on large search spaces, and automatic domain splitting captures the dynamical variations on the whole domain successfully. The consistency criterion shows that more than 87% of the search space is guaranteed as accurate, with the quality criterion kept over 80%.
description: Post-print submitted to "Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy". EXTREMA - Engineering Extremely Rare Events in Astrodynamics for Deep-Space Missions in Autonomy, European Research Council (ERC), European Union (EU), Horizon 2020. The content of this document reflects only the author's view. ERC is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains
title: Vascular pathology in the extracranial vertebral arteries in patients with acute ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Christensen, Hanne
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: CNS
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Dissection
subject: Image registration

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Vascular pathology in the extracranial vertebral arteries remains among the possible causes in cryptogenic stroke ( 1 ); however, the diagnosis is challenged by the great variety in the anatomy of the vertebral arteries, clinical symptoms and...
title: CT angiography in the diagnosis and post-treatment follow-up of midaortic syndrome: Presentation of 4 cases.
Creators: name: Valoyes Guerrero, Lisbeth
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Grafts

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the radiologic findings of four adult patients with midaortic syndrome diagnosed at our institution by CT...
NPDES Phase II and North Carolina Counties
Creators: name: Clegg, William Russell
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: The federal laws governing water quality are still changing to meet the challenge set out by the Clean Water Act. Storm water runoff, which is regulated under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), is one of the main contributors to water quality problems. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is responsible for administering NPDES, has begun Phase II of the program. This phase targets smaller storm water conveyance systems than did the first phase. This paper discusses a problem that North Carolina has had in implementing Phase II rules. Although counties are responsible for the storm water drainage systems that they own, most storm water drainage systems exist in road right-of-ways, and these right-of-ways are not owned by county governments. The roads, and their drainage systems, are owned by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT); yet DOT does not have the land use authority to regulate the developments that send water into these drainage systems. An examination of the laws makes it clear that the state should hold counties with Phase II permits accountable for storm water runoff conveyance systems in unincorporated areas, despite the confusion over who owns the storm water runoff conveyance systems. The paper looks at five different counties to assess the level of burden the regulations will place on county governments, if counties are given responsibility for Phase II permits throughout their jurisdiction. The five counties represent different levels of urbanization and land use or storm water controls.
title: 64­-row CT angiography of peripheral arteries with and without iterative image reconstruction: how much radiation dose can be saved?
Creators: name: Faggioni, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Extremities
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: CT angiography (CTA) is being increasingly used for the evaluation of runoff arteries as a noninvasive alternative to conventional angiographyin patients candidate to surgical or percutaneous limb revascularisation or for surgical planning of...
CAFE-AMR: A computational MHD Solar Physics simulation tool that uses AMR
Creators: name: Ochoa-Armenta, Ricardo
name: Guzmán, Francisco S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of our Sun holds significant importance in Space Weather research, encompassing a diverse range of phenomena characterized by distinct temporal and spatial scales. To address these complexities, we developed CAFE-AMR, an implementation of an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy coupled with a Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equation solver, aiming to tackle Solar Physics-related problems. CAFE-AMR employs standard fluid dynamics methods, including Finite Volume discretization, HLL and Roe class flux formulas, linear order reconstructors, second-order Runge-Kutta, and Corner Transport Upwind time stepping. In this paper, we present the core structure of CAFE-AMR, discuss and evaluate mesh refinement criteria strategies, and conduct various tests, including simulations of idealized Solar Wind models, relevant for Space Weather applications.
description: 17 pages, 23 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS