cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Comparison of distention techniques prior to diagnostic MRI of the small intestine.
Creators: name: Schmidt, Stefan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: MR
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Dilatation
subject: Drugs / Reactions

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Despite further development of endoscopic techniques radiologic imaging plays an important role in the diagnostics of pathologies concerning the small intestine. For this purpose magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is mostly available, providing...
Emissivity of freestanding membranes with thin metal coatings
Creators: name: van Zwol, P. J.
name: Vles, D. F.
name: Voorthuijzen, W. P.
name: Péter, M.
name: Vermeulen, H.
name: van der Zande, W. J.
name: van de Kruijs, J. M. Sturm. R. W. E.
name: Bijkerk, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Freestanding silicon nitride membranes with thicknesses down to a few tens of nanometers find use as TEM windows or soft X-ray spectral purity filters. As the thickness of a membrane decreases, emissivity vanishes, which limits radiative heat emission and resistance to heat loads. We show that thin metal layers with thicknesses in the order of 1 nm enhance the emissivity of thin membranes by two to three orders of magnitude close to the theoretical limit of 0.5. This considerably increases thermal load capacity of membranes in vacuum environments. Our experimental results are in line with classical theory in which we adapt thickness dependent scattering terms in the Drude and Lorentz oscillators.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Examination of static and dynamic balance in breast cancer survivors
Creators: name: Tysinger, Daniel Clayton
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: This study compared static and dynamic balance between a group of post-treated breast cancer survivors (BCS) and a group of apparently healthy age and body weight-matched sedentary women control (CO). Sixty-five subjects participated in the study (BCS, n=40; CO, n=25). Static balance was assessed using the Single Limb Stance (SLS) while dynamic balance was assessed using the Timed 360 Turn and the Four Square Step Test (FSST). No significant differences were observed between the BCS and CO for static (p=.290) or dynamic balance (p=.396) measured via the Timed 360 Turn test. No associations between muscular fitness and balance were found in either group suggesting that the possible balance issue in BCS may be associated with neurological impairment instead of muscular fitness decline following treatment.
title: The correlation between Wells pre-test probability scoring and DVT result in our practice.
Creators: name: Alfahad, Aws
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Vascular
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Power Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Outcomes
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a massive health problem with an estimated mortaility rate of 25,000 deaths in UK 1 .Venography used to be the reference standard test for DVT 2 . However, it has now been superseded by venous duplex...
Thin-disk laser multi-pass amplifier
Creators: name: Schuhmann, K.
name: Ahmed, M. A.
name: Graf, T.
name: Hänsch, T. W.
name: Kirch, K.
name: Kottmann, F.
name: Pohl, R.
name: Taqqu, D.
name: Voß, A.
name: Weichelt, B.
name: Antognini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of the Lamb shift measurement in muonic helium we developed a thin-disk laser composed of a Q-switched oscillator and a multi-pass amplifier delivering pulses of 150 mJ at a pulse duration of 100 ns. Its peculiar requirements are stochastic trigger and short delay time (< 500 ns) between trigger and optical output. The concept of the thin-disk laser allows for energy and power scaling with high efficiency. However the single pass gain is small (about 1.2). Hence a multi-pass scheme with precise mode matching for large beam waists (w = 2 mm) is required. Instead of using the standard 4f design, we have developed a multi-pass amplifier with a beam propagation insensitive to thermal lens effects and misalignments. The beam propagation is equivalent to multiple roundtrips in an optically stable resonator. To support the propagation we used an array of 2 x 8 individually adjustable plane mirrors. Astigmatism has been minimized by a compact mirror placement. Precise alignment of the kinematic array was realized using our own mirror mount design. A small signal gain of 5 for 8 passes at a pump power of 400 W was reached. The laser was running for more than 3 months without the need of realignment. Pointing stability studies is also reported here.
description: 11 pages, 14 figures
title: Imaging findings of reversible lesions in the splenium of the corpus callosum associated with mild encephalitis (MERS). What's new about it?
Creators: name: Pivcevic, Daniela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Seizure disorders
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Illustrate the imaging findings of our case series of MERS. Discuss the possibles etiologies and physiopathological mechanisms. Display differential diagnosis of lesions of the splenium of the corpus...
High-temperature vapor detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon fluorescence
Creators: name: Chi, Zhenhuan
name: Cullum, Brian
name: Stokes, David L.
name: Mobley, Joel
name: Miller, Gordon H.
name: Hajaligol, Mohammad R.
name: Vo-Dinh, Tuan
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2001
Subjects: Laser-induced fluorescence
Chrysene
Pyrene
PAHs
Vapor
High temperature
Phenanthrene

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are generated from the incomplete combustion of organic matters in a wide variety of natural and man-made materials, such as fuels. It is important to develop an analytical technique for rapidly monitoring PAH generation at high temperatures during pyrolysis processes. This work describes a real-time and in situ technique using laser-induced fluorescence to detect PAH vapors at elevated temperatures. We report fluorescence spectra of several typical PAH model compounds, such as pyrene, phenanthrene and chrysene. We have also examined the temperature effects on PAH fluorescence spectra such as spectral shift, intensity and band width.
title: Dynamic Respiratory Motion Imaging of the Pulmonary Parenchyma Using 320-row ADCT
Creators: name: Moriya, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the technique of dynamic respiratory scanning using 320-row ADCT. To demonstrate the dose reduction techniques, Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction (AIDR3D) and a new image-reconstruction method using consecutive temporal images...
Abelian extensions and solvable loops
Creators: name: Stanovský, David
name: Vojtěchovský, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20N05, 08B10

description: Based on the recent development of commutator theory for loops, we provide both syntactic and semantic characterization of abelian normal subloops. We highlight the analogies between well known central extensions and central nilpotence on one hand, and abelian extensions and congruence solvability on the other hand. In particular, we show that a loop is congruence solvable (that is, an iterated abelian extension of commutative groups) if and only if it is not Boolean complete, reaffirming the connection between computational complexity and solvability. Finally, we briefly discuss relations between nilpotence and solvability for loops and the associated multiplication groups and inner mapping groups.
Nanosensors for analysis of a single cell
Creators: name: Cullum, Brian
name: Griffin, Guy D.
name: Vo-Dinh, Tuan
Publisher: name: SPIE
Year: 2001

description: BiOS 2001 The International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States
description: Submicron fiber-optic biosensors have been developed and used to measure toxic chemicals within single cells. These sensors are fabricated by pulling the distal-end of an optical fiber to a diameter of less than one micron and coating them with antibodies to selectively bind the species of interest. This paper describes the use of these fibers to selectively measure the concentration of benzo[a]pyrene tetrol, a metabolite of benzo[a]pyrene, within individual cells of two different cell lines, human mammary carcinoma cells and rat liver epithelial cells. The results from these measurements have been used to evaluate the analytical figures of merit of these sensors such as detection limits, which were found to be 0.64 +/- 0.17 X 10-11 M for BPT. In addition, measurements were performed both extracellularly and intracellularly, and an increase in variation of approximately 4% was determined for the intracellular measurements, relative to the extracellular measurements.
Ultrasonic diffraction in the design of photoacoustic probes
Creators: name: Mobley, Joel
name: Cullum, Brian
name: Vo-Dinh, Tuan
Publisher: name: SPIE
Year: 2001

description: BiOS 2001 The International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States
description: In this work, we examine the role of diffraction in the design of ring-shaped ultrasonic receivers for photoacoustic probes. The sensitivity patterns of ultrasonic receiving rings are calculated at 1 MHz using the angular spectrum technique. Three separate series of simulations are considered: flat ring with a fixed outer diameter and a variable inner diameter, flat ring with a fixed inner diameter and variable outer diameter, and a spherically focused ring with a variable inner diameter. From these results the focal zone characteristic and sensitivities are calculated. For the planar rings, we find that the spatial sensitivity varies markedly with ring width but the overall sensitivities are comparable. For the focused (spherically curved) rings, the focal distances and beam volumes were similar while the sensitivity grew with ring thickness.
Variation in the vocalizations of tamarins (saguinus) in Amazonian Peru
Creators: name: McClung, Maureen R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Tamarins (Saguinus) are a diverse genus of Amazonian primates with distributions that often coincide with rivers. This distributional pattern might be explained by the riverine barrier hypothesis, which suggests that rivers reduce gene flow by limiting dispersal. I investigated the differences in vocalizations among populations of Saguinus separated by rivers of different widths. I recorded alarm calls and long calls of four populations of Saguinus in three river compartments of northeastern Peru. ANOVAs and hierarchical clustering of call parameters showed that differences between populations did not reflect patterns expected by the riverine barrier hypothesis. Instead, differences among long calls reflected a recent phylogeny. Alarm calls diverged in sympatric populations, contrary to patterns of convergent evolution of alarm calls in other coexisting animals. Perhaps alarm calls are more important for the coordination of conspecific groups than previously thought.
Studying the securitization of migration in theory at the level of the state, the individual, and the EU, and empirically in language, public perception, and legislation at the national level in Greece
Creators: name: Kelaiditis, Stylianos
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: This thesis studies the challenges in dealing with the securitization of migration theoretically at the level of the state, the individual, and the EU, and empirically at the national level, in particular with regards to the legislative process in Greece concerning legislation passed by the Greek Parliament on March 16th 2010 titled Contemporary provisions for Greek citizenship and the political participation of expatriates and legally residing immigrants and other provisions. The focus turns to what informs state understanding(s) of and reactions to immigration, and how the process within the European Union influences these matters. This thesis will also examine to what extent the language used in dealing with migration is increasingly that of security. It will look at the veracity of Securitization theory in informing our specific understanding of the development of migration policy/legislation, its implications for state and legislative development, and effects on public opinion.
Additional formulas for "A novel modified nonlocal strain gradient theory for comprehensive analysis of functionally graded nanoplates" in Acta Mechanica
Creators: name: Vinh, Phạm Văn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401707
subject: Solid mechanics
classificationCode: 401702
subject: Dynamics, vibration and vibration control
classificationCode: 401705
subject: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
classificationCode: 401706
subject: Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation

description: Additional formulas for "A novel modified nonlocal strain gradient theory for comprehensive analysis of functionally graded nanoplates" in Acta Mechanica.
Memory effects and active Brownian diffusion
Creators: name: Ghosh, Pulak K.
name: Li, Yunyun
name: Marchegiani, Giampiero
name: Marchesoni, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A self-propelled artificial microswimmer is often modeled as a ballistic Brownian particle moving with constant speed aligned along one of its axis, but changing direction due to random collisions with the environment. Similarly to thermal noise, its angular randomization is described as a memoryless stochastic process. Here, we speculate that finite-time correlations in the orientational dynamics can affect the swimmer's diffusivity. To this purpose we propose and solve two alternative models. In the first one we simply assume that the environmental fluctuations governing the swimmer's propulsion are exponentially correlated in time, whereas in the second one we account for possible damped fluctuations of the propulsion velocity around the swimmer's axis. The corresponding swimmer's diffusion constants are predicted to get, respectively, enhanced or suppressed upon increasing the model memory time. Possible consequences of this effect on the interpretation of the experimental data are discussed.
description: accepted by J. Chem. Phys
title: Postoperative shoulder : what the radiologist needs to know
Creators: name: Lopez Parra, Maria Dolores
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Surgery
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: - Describe those surgical procedures used for the treatment of rotator cuff lesion, subacromial impingement and glenohumeral instability. - Explain the imaging findings in each post-operative situation, taking into account that certain radiological...
Engineering slow light and mode crossover in a fractal-kagome waveguide network
Creators: name: Nandy, Atanu
name: Chakrabarti, Arunava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytically exact scheme of unraveling a multitude of flat, dispersionless photonic bands in a kagome waveguide strip where each elementary plaquette hosts a deterministic fractal geometry of arbitrary size. The number of non-dispersive eigenmodes grows as higher and higher order fractal geometry is embedded in the kagome motif. Such eigenmodes are found to be localized with finite support in the kagome strip and exhibit a hierarchy of localization areas. The onset of localization can, in principle, be delayed in space by an appropriate choice of frequency of the incident wave. The length scale at which the onset of localization for each mode occurs, can be tuned at will as prescribed here using a real space renormalization method. Conventional methods of extracting the non-dispersive modes in such geometrically frustrated lattices fail as a non-translationally invariant fractal decorates the unit cells in the transverse direction. The scheme presented here circumvents this difficulty, and thus may inspire the experimentalists to design similar fractal incorporated kagome or Lieb class of lattices to observe a multifractal distribution of flat photonic bands.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Cold Plasma technology for microbial food safety
Creators: name: Soni, Aswathi
name: Brightwell, Gale
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: Food sciences

description: Cold Plasma is generated by non-thermal ionization of gas into free electrons, ions, reactive atomic and molecular forms, and ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Plasma activated water (PAW) is generated by treating water with cold plasma using controllable parameters, such as plasma-forming voltage, carrier gas, temperature, pulses, frequency.
Cigarette pack size and consumption: a randomised crossover trial
Creators: name: Lee, Ilse
name: Marteau, Theresa
name: Blackwell, Anna
name: Hobson, Alice
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: behaviour
subject: cigarette pack size
subject: smoking
subject: tobacco

description: This registration is to update the project with the data analysis plan before the data are analysed.
title: Impact of iterative CT image reconstruction on Calcium Score measurements
Creators: name: van Osch, Jochen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CAD
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To assess the effect of a novel iterative CT image reconstruction on the Coronary Calcium Score. Coronary artery calcium scoring is a well-validated clinical tool for the early detection of coronary artery atherosclerosis.A higher calcium score is...
27-day variation of the GCR intensity based on corrected and uncorrected for geomagnetic disturbances data of neutron monitors
Creators: name: Alania, M. V.
name: Modzelewska, R.
name: Wawrzynczak, A.
name: Sdobnov, V. E.
name: Kravtsova, M. V
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study 27-day variations of the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity for 2005- 2008 period of the solar cycle #23. We use neutron monitors (NMs) data corrected and uncorrected for geomagnetic disturbances. Besides the limited time intervals when the 27-day variations are clearly established, always exist some feeble 27-day variations in the GCR 5 intensity related to the constantly present weak heliolongitudinal asymmetry in the heliosphere. We calculate the amplitudes of the 27-day variation of the GCR intensity based on the NMs data corrected and uncorrected for geomagnetic disturbances. We show that these amplitudes do not differ for NMs with cut-off rigidities smaller than 4-5 GV comparing with NMs of higher cut-off rigidities. Rigidity spectrum of the 27-day variation of the GCR intensity found in the uncorrected data is soft while it is hard in the case of the corrected data. For both cases exists definite tendency of softening the temporal changes of the 27-day variation's rigidity spectrum in period of 2005 to 2008 approaching the minimum of solar activity. We believe that a study of the 27-day variation of the GCR intensity based on the data uncorrected for geomagnetic disturbances should be carried out by NMs with cut-off rigidities smaller than 4-5 GV.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, presented on 24th European Cosmic Ray Symposium 2014
Exchanging values: a comparison of Flaubert's concept of irony in Madame Bovary and Faulkner's reading of commodity culture in Absalom, Absalom!
Creators: name: Kaiser, Wilson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Flaubert attacked what he called "avachissement universel," the spread of bourgeois stupidity to all aspects of French culture. Faulkner also coined a term that indicated his concern with cultural changes, "snopesism." The differences between these two concepts, bovarism and snopesism, manifest a dramatic shift in the representation of society effected by the rise of commodity culture. Focusing on classical topoi as particularly dense cultural signifiers, I look at the developing presentations of culture in Absalom, Absalom! and Madame Bovary. As stable referents of bourgeois culture, classical topoi strongly identify a set of cultural values for Flaubert that he can then ironize. Faulkner, by contrast, demonstrates the destabilization of cultural referents with the "rise of the redneck" signaled by snopesism. However, while Flaubertian irony relies on the bourgeois betise he criticizes, Faulkner's critique of snopesism develops the tensions between utopian fantasies of fulfillment and irretrievable loss
title: Percutaneous tumour ablation with computed tomography-guided microwave ablation using a high energy delivering system
Creators: name: Papalouka, Vasiliki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Safety
subject: Equipment
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Image guided, percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) is a fairly recent and promising method in the field of thermal ablation. An imaging modality is used to localize the lesion and to guide insertion of a microwave antenna directly into the tumor. A...
Vapor detection of polyaromatic compounds using laser-induced fluorescence
Creators: name: Chi, Zenhuan
name: Cullum, Brian
name: Mobley, Joel
name: Miller, Gordon H.
name: Vo-Dinh, Tuan
Publisher: name: SPIE
Year: 2001

description: Environmental and Industrial Sensing, 2000, Boston, MA, United States
description: 12 In this work, we present the fluorescence spectra of anthracene and pyrene vapors at different elevated temperatures (from 150 to 650 degree(s)C) excited with the 337 nm line of a nitrogen laser. We describe the high temperature effects on the resulting spectral properties including spectral intensity, spectral bandwidth and spectral shift. We found that the PAH fluorescence spectral bandwidths become very broad as the temperature increases. The broadening is mainly due to thermal vibrational sequence congestion. We also have found that the fluorescence intensity of pyrene vapor increases with increasing temperature, which results from the increase of the pyrene vapor absorption cross section at 337 nm.
title: Coronary Artery Disease or Hiatal Hernia? Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography as a discriminating diagnostic tool in patients with chest pain.
Creators: name: Ravelli, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hernia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Cardiac

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: BACKGROUND In recent years, with the increasingly high performance of Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT) in terms of both spatial and temporal resolution, and the possibility to synchronize images acquisition to the ECG, the use of MDCT in the...
TOA-based passive localization of multiple targets with inaccurate receivers based on belief propagation on factor graph
Creators: name: Wu, Nan
name: Yuan, Weijie
name: Wang, Hua
name: Kuang, Jingming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Location awareness is now becoming a vital requirement for many practical applications. In this paper, we consider passive localization of multiple targets with one transmitter and several receivers based on time of arrival (TOA) measurements. Existing studies assume that positions of receivers are perfectly known. However, in practice, receivers' positions might be inaccurate, which leads to localization error of targets. We propose factor graph (FG)-based belief propagation (BP) algorithms to locate the passive targets and improve the position accuracy of receivers simultaneously. Due to the nonlinearity of the likelihood function, messages on the FG cannot be derived in closed form. We propose both sample-based and parametric methods to solve this problem. In the sample-based BP algorithm, particle swarm optimization is employed to reduce the number of particles required to represent messages. In parametric BP algorithm, the nonlinear terms in messages are linearized, which results in closed-form Gaussian message passing on FG. The Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound (BCRB) for passive targets localization with uncertain receivers is derived to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms. Simulation results show that both the sample-based and parametric BP algorithms outperform the conventional method and attain the proposed BCRB. Receivers' positions can also be improved via the proposed BP algorithms. Although the parametric BP algorithm performs slightly worse than the sample-based BP method, it could be more attractive in practical applications due to the significantly lower computational complexity.
description: 37 pages, 11 figures, accepted by Digital Signal Processing
title: Fluoroscopy-guided trans-foraminal infiltration of cervical nerve root: an indirect approach through the ipsilateral facet joint
Creators: name: Filippiadis, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Safety
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Acute

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Image guided percutaneus infiltrations provide both diagnostic and therapeutic management of back pain and neuralgias. They can be used to determine if a certain morphological alteration is the source of pain or to reduce painful symptoms during the...
title: The science of photovoltaics and solar cells: a module developed for hands on learning
Creators: name: Briggs, Joseph
name: Worley, Joshua
name: Wadsworth, Lindsey
name: Singh, Meenakshi
name: Collins, Reuben T.
name: Koh, Carolyn A.
Publisher: name: Colorado School of Mines Repository
Year: 2023

description: This document is a lesson plan for a short module covering: (1) What is a solar energy (2) Energy and wavelength of light (3) The concept of solar cells and how they work (4) The concept of photovoltaics. The module is readily adapted for students in grades 1-12. It was originally drafted for presentation to children aged 7-13 at the Rocky Mountain Camp for Dyslexic Children. The planned activities are therefore hands-on and do not rely on reading or writing skills.
title: Differentiable, Filter Free Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models Using Mixture Density Networks
Creators: name: Naubert, Christopher
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: I develop a methodology for Bayesian estimation of globally solved, non-linear macroeconomic models. A novel feature of my method is the use of a mixture density network to approximate the distribution of initial states. I use the methodology to estimate a medium-scale, two-agent New Keynesian model with irreversible investment and a zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Using simulated data, I show that the method is able to recover the “true” parameters when using the mixture density network approximation of the initial state distribution. This contrasts with the case when the initial states are set to their steady-state values.
description: J’élabore une méthode d’estimation bayésienne pour les modèles macroéconomiques non linéaires résolus globalement. Cette méthode innove notamment par l’utilisation d’un réseau de densité de mélange comme approximation de la distribution des états initiaux. Je l’applique pour estimer un modèle néokeynésien à moyenne échelle et à deux agents en situation d’investissement irréversible où les taux d’intérêt nominaux sont soumis à la borne du zéro. À l’aide de données simulées, je montre que cette méthode permet de récupérer les « vrais » paramètres lorsqu’on utilise le réseau de densité de mélange comme approximation de la distribution des états initiaux. Cette situation contraste avec celle où les états initiaux sont paramétrés à leurs valeurs de régime permanent.
Spin squeezing an ultracold molecule
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we present a concrete proposal for spin squeezing the ultracold ground state polar paramagnetic molecule OH, a system currently under fine control in the laboratory. In contrast to existing work, we consider a single, non-interacting molecule with angular momentum greater than $1/2$. Starting from an experimentally relevant effective Hamiltonian, we identify a parameter regime where different combinations of static electric and magnetic fields can be used to realize the single-axis twisting Hamiltonian of Kitagawa and Ueda [M. Kitagawa and M. Ueda, Phys. Rev. A 47, 5138 (1993)], the uniform field Hamiltonian proposed by Law et al. [C. K. Law, H. T Ng and P. T. Leung, Phys. Rev. A 63, 055601 (2001)], and a model of field propagation in a Kerr medium considered by Agarwal and Puri [G. S. Agarwal and R. R. Puri, Phys. Rev. A 39, 2969 (1989)]. To support our conclusions, we provide analytical expressions as well as numerical calculations, including optimization of field strengths and accounting for the effects of field misalignment. Our results have consequences for applications such as precision spectroscopy, techniques such as magnetometry, and stereochemical effects such as the orientation-to-alignment transition.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, updated references
title: Biosensors and biochips: advances in biological and medical diagnostics
title: Biosensors and Biochips for Bioanalysis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Vo-Dinh, T.
name: Cullum, Brian
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2000
Subjects: Significant Advance
Classification Scheme
Medical Application
Medical Field
Recent Literature

description: In the past two decades, the biological and medical fields have seen great advances in the development of biosensors and biochips capable of characterizing and quantifying biomolecules. This review is meant to provide an overview of the various types of biosensors and biochips that have been developed for biological and medical applications, along with significant advances over the last several years in these technologies. It also attempts to describe various classification schemes that can be used for categorizing the different biosensors and provide relevant examples of these classification schemes from recent literature.
Chrysoritis: Part I. Table S1. List of matched COI haplotypes in the thysbe clade.
Creators: name: Quek, Swee Peck
name: Heath, Alan
name: Pringle, Ernest
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Zoology not elsewhere classified

description: List of samples with unique COI haplotypes (in bold text) in the thysbe clade of Chrysoritis, followed by the samples showing identical haplotypes (regular text).
Project Visual Identity
Creators: name: Ismayilzada, Salima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Visual Identity
Logo
communication
website

description: Communication and dissemination activities play a vital role in creating awareness and common knowledge about the PROBONO project. This document presents an overview of the visual identity of the PROBONO project, together with the visual identity colours, typeface, logo, communication channels, and project website. These will help differentiate and recognize the project worldwide. The most important element of the project's visual identity is the website which will be the main hub for all relevant news and information. The website is intended to be easy to navigate, and the main menu contains information ‘’About’’ the project, as well as ‘’Members’’, ‘’Enablers’’, ‘’Pilots’’, ‘’Reports’’, and ‘’Contact’’ sections for now. Furthermore, the PROBONO social media channels have been integrated into the website as part of the news feed on the homepage. This functionality will keep the website updated at all times.
Land use/land cover change in Orange County, North Carolina from 1955 to 2001
Creators: name: Zhang, Su
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: Land use/land cover change (LULCC) has significant implications in terrestrial ecosystem goods and services. Current studies on LULCC are primarily based on space-borne satellite images. These studies are limited by the data availability. In this study, I extend the land-use land cover change analysis back to 1955 for Orange County, North Carolina based on historical aerial photos. I also analyzed the spatial configuration of the landscapes based on pattern matrix analysis and geospatial analysis. Results show that the urban area increased from 11.31 km2 to 128.15 km2 from; the agricultural area decreased from 335.53 km2 to 259.81 km2; the forest area decreased from 676.95 km2 to 632.45 km2. The LULCC change is associated with land configuration and composition changes. Pattern metrics analysis shows that in 2001, Orange County has more scattered land use patches and smaller patch sizes than in 1955 and 1975. Semi-vairograms generated for conifer and hardwoods are changing both in shape and the key characteristic parameters with time. These results can provide essential information for land management and planning to achieve sustainable development of Orange County in the future.
Billiards in confocal quadrics as a pluri-Lagrangian system
Creators: name: Suris, Yuri B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We illustrate the theory of one-dimensional pluri-Lagrangian systems with the example of commuting billiard maps in confocal quadrics.
description: 7 pp
Emerging technologies for food safety
Creators: name: Soni, Aswathi
name: Gardner, Mandy
name: Dixit, Yash
name: Reis, Marlon Martins dos
name: Cookson, Adrian
name: Brightwell, Gale
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: Food safety, traceability, certification and authenticity

description: Emerging technologies in Microbial Food Safety at Food Systems Integrity Team, AgResearch Cold plasma Dual light Hyperspectral imaging and deep learning
Political Persuasion and Meta-Perception
Creators: name: Lees, Jeffrey
name: Todd, Haley
name: Barranti, Maxwell
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: American Politics
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Research examining how meta-perception accuracy relates to the effectiveness of sincere political persuasion
Chrysoritis: Part I. Table S1. List of matched COI haplotypes in the thysbe clade of Chrysoritis.
Creators: name: Quek, Swee Peck
name: Heath, Alan
name: Pringle, Ernest
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Zoology not elsewhere classified

description: List of samples with unique COI haplotypes (in bold text) in the thysbe clade of Chrysoritis, followed by the samples showing identical haplotypes (regular text).
title: Zuska disease. Experience at our unit
Creators: name: Torres Sousa, María Yolanda
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Abscess

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To present our experience in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with abscess and/or fistulas related with epidermoid metaplasia of the galactophore...
Spin paramagnetic deformation of a neutron star
Creators: name: Suvorov, A. G.
name: Mastrano, A.
name: Melatos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanical corrections to the hydromagnetic force balance equation, derived from the microscopic Schrödinger-Pauli theory of quantum plasmas, modify the equilibrium structure and hence the mass quadrupole moment of a neutron star. It is shown here that the dominant effect --- spin paramagnetism --- is most significant in a magnetar, where one typically has $μ_{B}|\boldsymbol{B}|\gtrsim k_B T_e$, where $μ_{B}$ is the Bohr magneton, $\boldsymbol{B}$ is the magnetic field, and $T_e$ is the electron temperature. The spin paramagnetic deformation of a nonbarotropic magnetar with a linked poloidal-toroidal magnetic field is calculated to be up to ${\sim 10}$ times greater than the deformation caused solely by the Lorentz force. It depends on the degree of Pauli blocking by conduction electrons and the propensity to form magnetic domains, processes which are incompletely modelled at magnetar field strengths. The star becomes more oblate, as the toroidal field component strengthens. The result implies that existing classical predictions underestimate the maximum strength of the gravitational wave signal from rapidly spinning magnetars at birth. Turning the argument around, future gravitational-wave upper limits of increasing sensitivity will place ever-stricter constraints on the physics of Pauli blocking and magnetic domain formation under magnetar conditions.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Chyrsoritis: Part I. Table S4.Pairwise Φst matrix for thysbe clade species.xlsx
Creators: name: Quek, Swee Peck
name: Heath, Alan
name: Pringle, Ernest
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Zoology not elsewhere classified

description: Pairwise ΦST values (and corresponding p values) among Chrysoritis species within the thysbe clade, obtained from analyses of molecular variance (AMOVA). In the sheet entitled " FST (p value range color coded)," the pairwise ΦST values are shown, while the p value range for each ΦST value is noted by the color of the cell. A color key for the p value ranges is shown at the bottom end of the data. Actual p values can be found in the sheet entitled "p value."
A comprehensive review of variability in the thermal resistance (D-values) of food-borne pathogens: A challenge for thermal validation trials
Creators: name: Soni, Aswathi
name: Bremer, Phil
name: Brightwell, Gale
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences

description: The thermal processing of food relies heavily on determining the right time and temperature regime required to inactivate bacterial contaminants to an acceptable limit. To design a thermal processing regime with an accurate time and temperature combination, the D-values of targeted microorganisms are either referred to or estimated. The D-value is the time required at a given temperature to reduce the bacterial population by 90%. The D-value can vary depending on various factors such as the food matrix, the bacterial strain, and the conditions it has previously been exposed to; the intrinsic properties of the food (moisture, water activity, fat content, and pH); the method used to expose the microorganism to the thermal treatment either at the laboratory or commercial scale; the approach used to estimate the number of survivors; and the statistical model used for the analysis of the data. This review focused on Bacillus cereus, Cronobacter sakazakii, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Clostridium perfringens owing to their pathogenicity and the availability of publications on their thermal resistance. The literature indicates a significant variation in D-values reported for the same strain, and it is concluded that when designing thermal processing regimes, the impact of multiple factors on the D-values of a specific microorganism needs to be considered. Further, owing to the complexity of the interactions involved, the effectiveness of regimes derived laboratory data must be confirmed within industrial food processing settings.
Three good things: Nature connection and environmental activism - revised
Creators: name: Mackay, Caroline
name: Schmitt, Michael
name: Passmore, Holli-Anne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We are submitting an amendment to our previous pre-registration for this project: https://osf.io/x5ep2
The development of optical nanosensors for biological measurements
Creators: name: Cullum, Brian
name: Vo-Dinh, Tuan
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2000
Subjects: Optical nanosensors
Biological nanosensors
Biological measurements
Probes
Chemical nanosensors

description: This article discusses and documents the basic concepts of, and developments in, the field of optical nanosensors and nanobiosensors. It describes the progression of this field of research from its birth up to the present, with emphasis on the techniques of sensor construction and their application to biological systems. After a brief overview of the techniques for fabricating nanometer-sized optical fibers, we describe the various types of transducer and bioreceptor molecule presently used for nanosensor and nanobiosensor fabrication.
Measuring Perception of College Welcome Provided to Foreign-Born Students: Validation with Pilot Data
Creators: name: Evans, Kerri
Publisher: name: BON VIEW PUBLISHING
Year: 2024

description: Immigrant and foreign-born students are one of the fastest growing populations in higher education across the US, and yet there is a dearth of research around their sense of belonging on campus and in the classroom. Therefore, this paper will cover the development and evaluation process for a scale designed to evaluate the perception of college welcome provided to immigrant students. Data from 94 college students was used to conduct a series of factor analyses to assess the survey questions and their utility for measuring college welcome. The scale is made up of four factors. The Cognitive awareness of college welcome factor showed a Cronbach's alpha of 0.72, the Emotional college welcome factor showed a Cronbach's alpha of 0.732 Behaviors of college welcome showed a Cronbach's alpha of 0.75 and the Relational college welcome showed a Cronbach's alpha 0.767. Overall, Cronbach's alpha is 0.864 for the perception of college welcome which is excellent. While the results are promising that this scale could indeed be measuring college welcome, it is important that more data be collected, reflect a higher percentage of immigrant students, and that future research be done to continue to assess the reliability and validity of this scale. This scale is the first step in better understanding the perception of welcome provided to foreign-born students, which is critical so that social workers can intervene and help improve the social and emotional well-being of students.
title: Hemorrhagic infiltration of the pulmonary artery connective sheath: a complication of acute aortic dissection
Creators: name: Guilmette, Julie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Dissection
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Complications
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Hemorrhagic infiltration of the pulmonary artery connective sheath is a rare complication that may result in a case of acute aortic dissection, most frequently, Stanford type A (1, 2). The radiological interpretation of this finding may be of a...
Investigating the possible biasing effect of study design features in comparative diagnostic accuracy studies: protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
Creators: name: Yang, Bada
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Bias
subject: Comparative diagnostic accuracy studies
subject: Diagnostic accuracy studies
subject: Medical test evaluation
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: Meta-epidemiology
subject: Study design
subject: Systematic reviews

description: This is a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study investigating potential sources of bias in comparative diagnostic accuracy studies.
Table S4.Pairwise Φst matrix for Chyrsoritis (thysbe clade) species.xlsx
Creators: name: Quek, Swee Peck
name: Heath, Alan
name: Pringle, Ernest
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Zoology not elsewhere classified

description: Pairwise ΦST values (and corresponding p values) among Chrysoritis species within the thysbe clade, obtained from analyses of molecular variance (AMOVA). In the sheet entitled " FST (p value range color coded)," the pairwise ΦST values are shown, while the p value range for each ΦST value is noted by the color of the cell. A color key for the p value ranges is shown at the bottom end of the data. Actual p values can be found in the sheet entitled "p value."