cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Redshift of excitons in carbon nanotubes caused by the environment polarizability
Creators: name: Rohlfing, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical excitations of molecular systems can be modified by their physical environment. We analyze the underlying mechanisms within many-body perturbation theory, which is particularly suited to study non-local polarizability effects on the electronic structure. Here we focus on the example of a semiconducting carbon nanotube, which observes redshifts of its excitons when the tube is touched by another nanotube or other physisorbates. We show that the redshifts mostly result from the polarizability of the attached ad-system. Electronic coupling may enhance the redshifts, but depends very sensitively on the structural details of the contact.
The prevalence of disordered gambling among adults in Oregon: A secondary analysis of data
Creators: name: Moore, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment Foundation
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Compulsive gambling -- Oregon
subject: Gambling -- Oregon
subject: Gambling Literature

description: Permission to archive report in repository granted by Wendy Hausotter, Public Health and Prevention Coordinator, Addictions and Mental Health Division, Problem Gambling Services.
description: This report is comprised of an analysis of the extensive amount of data that was collected as part of the efforts to replicate the Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment Foundation's (OGATF) 1997 epidemiological study of gambling behaviors among adults 18 years old and over in Oregon. The principal investigator for both the 1997 study and this study was Dr. Rachel Volberg, of Gemini Research, Incorporated. This report should be viewed as a companion report to Dr. Volberg's 2001 report of the replication study.
Acute Pancreatitis Following Orlistat Therapy: Report of Two Cases
Creators: name: Ahmad, Faheem Asem
name: Mahmud, Sajid
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Drug Toxicity; orlistat; Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing

description: Context Orlistat is a pancreatic lipase inhibitor licensed for the treatment of obesity. As obesity rates increase and non-prescription dispensing of orlistat increases, an awareness of its adverse effects is of crucial importance as complications arise more frequently from increased use. Orlistat induced pancreatitis has been described only once previously, but without a diagnostic increase in serum amylase. Case report We report the case of two patients who developed severe acute abdominal pain and elevated pancreatic enzymes at 2 and 10 days after starting orlistat. In one case no alterative precipitant was identified. In the other, a predisposing history of pancreatic injury was present. In both cases all other contributory causes were excluded. Conclusions Our reports suggest orlistat can trigger drug induced acute pancreatitis in certain patients. For patients presenting with abdominal pain soon after commencing orlistat, a diagnosis of pancreatitis must be considered. We also recommend cautious use of orlistat in patients at risk of pancreatic injury.

Image: Orlistat (Author: Boghog; Wikimedia Commons).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Solving the Bethe-Salpeter Equation in Real Frequencies at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Tupitsyn, I. S.
name: Prokof'ev, N. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation combined with solutions of the Bethe-Salpeter equation offers a powerful tool for studies of strong correlation effects arising in condensed matter models, nuclear physics, quantum field theories, and real materials. The standard finite-temperature approach would be to first solve the problem in the Matsubara representation and then apply numerical analytic continuation to the real-frequency axis to link theoretical results with experimental probes, but this ill-conditioned procedure often distorts important spectral features even for very accurate imaginary-frequency data. We demonstrate that the ladder-type finite-temperature Bethe-Salpeter equation in the Hartree-Fock basis for the 3-point vertex function and, ultimately, system's polarization can be accurately solved directly on the real frequency axis using the diagrammatic Monte Carlo technique and series resummation. We illustrate the method by applying it to the homogeneous electron gas model and demonstrate how multiple scattering events renormalize Landau damping.
description: 5 pages 4 figures
CMS search for Standard Model Higgs: H$\to$W$^+$W$^-$ and H$\to$ZZ
Creators: name: Codispoti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for the Standard Model Higgs decaying to W$^+$W$^-$ and ZZ in pp collisions from LHC at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV using up to 1.7 fb$^{-1}$ of data recorded by the CMS detector is presented. This search covers a mass range from 110 GeV/c$^2$ to 600 GeV/c$^2$. No significant excess above Standard Model background expectations is observed. Upper limits on the production cross section are derived.
description: "Presented at the 2011 Hadron Collider Physics symposium (HCP-2011), Paris, France, November 14-18 2011, 4 pages, 10 figure. "
Atomic Physics in the Ω-Model: A Geometric Theory of Quantum Spectra and Curvature
Creators: name: Brent Jarvis, Brent Jarvis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics/methods
subject: Nuclear physics
subject: Particle physics
subject: Atomic physics
subject: Nuclear physics
subject: Quantum physics
subject: Plasma physics
subject: Theoretical physics

description: The Ω-Model provides a geometric unification of gravity, electromagnetism, and quantum phenomena by encoding matter interactions as dual-frequency curvature on a horn torus topology. This paper presents a mathematically rigorous derivation of the core atomic predictions of the model, including spectral line quantization and anomalous magnetic moment corrections. Using a dual-frequency force law and a curvature-based invariant, the Ω-Model reproduces observed hydrogenic transitions with high precision and offers a predictive framework for curvature-induced quantum effects. All formulas presented are derived from geometric first principles and matched against observed atomic data.
Evidence for the ground-state resonance of 26O
Creators: name: Lunderberg, E.
name: DeYoung, P. A.
name: Kohley, Z.
name: Attanayake, H.
name: Baumann, T.
name: Bazin, D.
name: Christian, G.
name: Divaratne, D.
name: Grimes, S. M.
name: Haagsma, A.
name: Finck, J. E.
name: Frank, N.
name: Luther, B.
name: Mosby, S.
name: Nagy, T.
name: Peaslee, G. F.
name: Schiller, A.
name: Snyder, J.
name: Spyrou, A.
name: Strongman, M. J.
name: Thoennessen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence for the ground state of the neutron-unbound nucleus 26O was observed for the first time in the single proton-knockout reaction from a 82 MeV/u 27F beam. Neutrons were measured in coincidence with 24O fragments. 26O was determined to be unbound by 150+50-150 keV from the observation of low-energy neutrons. This result agrees with recent shell model calculations based on microscopic two- and three-nucleon forces.
description: Accepted for Publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Geometry-induced spin-filtering in photoemission maps from WTe$_2$ surface states
Creators: name: Heider, Tristan
name: Bihlmayer, Gustav
name: Schusser, Jakub
name: Reinert, Friedrich
name: Minár, Jan
name: Blügel, Stefan
name: Schneider, Claus M.
name: Plucinski, Lukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that an important quantum material WTe$_2$ exhibits a new type of geometry-induced spin-filtering effect in photoemission, stemming from low symmetry that is responsible for its exotic transport properties. Through the laser-driven spin-polarized angle-resolved photoemission Fermi surface mapping, we showcase highly asymmetric spin textures of electrons photoemitted from the surface states of WTe$_2$. Such asymmetries are not present in the initial state spin textures, which are bound by the time-reversal and crystal lattice mirror plane symmetries. The findings are reproduced qualitatively by theoretical modeling within the one-step model photoemission formalism. The effect could be understood within the free-electron final state model as an interference due to emission from different atomic sites. The observed effect is a manifestation of time-reversal symmetry breaking of the initial state in the photoemission process, and as such it cannot be eliminated, but only its magnitude influenced, by special experimental geometries.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Self-Ordering of Buckling, Bending, Bumping Beams
Creators: name: Guerra, Arman
name: Slim, Anja
name: Holmes, Douglas P.
name: Kodio, Ousmane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A collection of thin structures buckle, bend, and bump into each-other when confined. This contact can lead to the formation of patterns: hair will self-organize in curls; DNA strands will layer into cell nuclei; paper, when crumpled, will fold in on itself, forming a maze of interleaved sheets. This pattern formation changes how densely the structures can pack, as well as the mechanical properties of the system. How and when these patterns form, as well as the force required to pack these structures is not currently understood. Here we study the emergence of order in a canonical example of packing in slender-structures, i.e. a system of parallel growing elastic beams. Using experiments, simulations, and simple theory from statistical mechanics, we predict the amount of growth (or, equivalently, the amount of compression) of the beams that will guarantee a global system order, which depends only on the initial geometry of the system. Furthermore, we find that the compressive stiffness and stored bending energy of this meta-material is directly proportional to the number of beams that are geometrically frustrated at any given point. We expect these results to elucidate the mechanisms leading to pattern formation in these kinds of systems, and to provide a new mechanical meta-material, with a tunable resistance to compressive force.
On the locality of MHD turbulence scale fluxes
Creators: name: Teaca, B.
name: Carati, D.
name: Domaradzki, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scale locality of energy fluxes for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is investigated numerically for stationary states of turbulence. Two types of forces are used to drive turbulence, a kinetic force that acts only on the velocity field and a kinetic-inductive forcing mechanism, which acts on the velocity and magnetic fields alike. The analysis is performed in spectral space, which is decomposed into a series of shells following a power law for the boundaries. The triadic transfers occurring among these shells are computed and the fluxes and locality functions are recovered by partial summation over the relevant shells. Employing Kraichnan locality functions, values of 1/3 and 2/3 for the scaling exponents of the four MHD energy fluxes are found. These values are smaller compared with the value of 4/3 found for hydrodynamic turbulence. To better understand these results, an in depth analysis is performed on the total energy flux.
description: submitted to Physics of Plasmas, 10 pages, 8 figures
Discrimination algorithms for the remediation of unexploded ordnance
Creators: name: Beran, Laurens Sander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis considers analysis of magnetic and electromagnetic data for the purpose of discriminating between buried unexploded ordnance (UXO) and non-hazardous metallic clutter. Magnetic data acquired over a ferrous object are modelled as a magnetostatic dipole. For time-domain electromagnetic data, a linear combination of decaying, orthogonal dipoles represents the secondary magnetic field radiated by a conductor. Model parameters estimated with inversion can be input into a discrimination algorithm whose output is a ranked diglist of targets. Algorithms that have been applied to UXO discrimination can be broadly categorized as library or statistical methods. Library methods assume that for each ordnance type there is a single set of parameters which is representative of intrinsic target properties. Statistical methods try to formulate a decision rule with a training set of models for targets with known ground truth. Observed data can sometimes have non-normally distributed noise and consequently parameter estimates obtained via least squares inversion may be biased. Robust misfit functions provide improved estimates of model parameters when there are outliers in the data. I also investigate propagation of uncertainties from data to model parameters. For inversion of electromagnetic data I find that parameters derived from the dipole model are approximately normally distributed. However, when data coverage is poor or SNR is low, the posterior distribution of these parameters may be multimodal. I develop a statistical classification algorithm that incorporates parameter uncertainty by integrating over the posterior probability distribution. Simulations and applications to real data indicate that this technique can detect outliers to the distribution of ordnance sooner than conventional classifiers. I quantify the performance of a discrimination algorithm using metrics derived from the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. I use a bootstrapping algorithm to estimate mean values of performance metrics from limited training data and to identify the discrimination algorithm that is best suited to a particular problem. Finally, I consider the problem of determining the stop digging (or operating) point on the ROC. I derive an approximate probability distribution for the point on the ROC at which all ordnance are found and develop methods for estimating this point.
The Extension Of The Right Of Self-Determination In The Post-Cold War Era BLERIM MUSTAFA.pdf
Creators: name: Mustafa, Blerim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 480310
subject: Public international law
classificationCode: 480399
subject: International and comparative law not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 480307
subject: International humanitarian and human rights law

description: The present thesis assesses the extent to which the right of self-determination entails a right to remedial secession in the post-Cold War era. Through the prism of the remedial right doctrine, it explores how and under what conditions cases of remedial secession have brought about a change in the perception among the international community regarding the progressive development of remedial secession as a viable norm to help settle post-Cold War contentious self-determination disputes. In light of the case-studies’ – Timor-Leste, Kosovo and Iraqi Kurdistan – precedent-setting impact, post-Cold War state practice demonstrates greater flexibility in accommodating secessionist claims and a limited right to remedial self-determination. Regardless of the merits of a particular case, the right to remedial secession is not self-executing, and the realisation of this mode of external self-determination is contingent on favourable international political constellations. Henceforth, there is a greater likelihood of a favourable secessionist outcome, once the host state is persuaded by a consensus of the international community, to give its political consent to such an outcome. From this standpoint, an act of secession without the consent of the host state, although legitimate from the perspective of remedial secession, is not yet considered as a sustainable and viable mode of settling contentious self-determination disputes, since the sources of continued conflict are still present, and a danger of armed conflict cannot be excluded. In conclusion, the thesis suggests that the applicability of remedial right norms to address post-Cold War secessionist disputes are conditioned by the political support provided by external powerful states to seceding-aspiring entities. Thus, the viability and applicability of remedial right secession as a universal norm to settle contentious secessionist conflicts continue to depend on the perceptions of justice and political viability by the international community and involved parties.
Gambling and problem gambling in Oregon: Report to the Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment Foundation
Creators: name: Volberg, Rachel A.
Publisher: name: Gemini Research, Ltd.
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Gambling -- Oregon
subject: Compulsive gambling -- Oregon
subject: Gambling Literature

description: Permission to archive report in repository granted by Wendy Hausotter, Public Health and Prevention Coordinator, Addictions and Mental Health Division, Problem Gambling Services.
description: The purpose of this study is to establish a baseline measure of the prevalence of gambling-related problems among adults in Oregon. An additional purpose of this study is to identify the types of gambling causing the greatest difficulties for the citizens of Oregon. A large sample of Oregon residents aged 18 and over (N=1,502) were interviewed in May and June, 1997 about the types of gambling they have tried, the amounts of money they spend on gambling and about gambling-related difficulties. The results of this study will be useful in documenting the impacts of legal gambling and will contribute to the formulation of statewide policy with regard to legal gambling in Oregon.
Geospatial analysis of neighborhood deprivation index (NDI) for the United States by county
Creators: name: Andrews, Marcus R.
name: Tamura, Kosuke
name: Claudel, Sophie E.
name: Xu, Samantha
name: Joniqua N. Ceasar
name: Collins, Billy S.
name: Langerman, Steven
name: Mitchell, Valerie M.
name: Baumer, Yvonne
name: Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Little is known about the spatial clustering of neighborhood deprivation across the United States (US). Using data from the 2010 US Census Bureau, we created a neighborhood deprivation index (NDI: higher NDI indicates higher deprivation/ lower neighborhood socioeconomic status) for each county within the US County level scores were loaded into ArcGIS 10.5.1 where they were mapped and analyzed using Moran’s I and Anselin Local Moran’s I. Ultimately, NDI varies spatially across the US. The highest NDI scores were found in the Southeastern and Southwestern US states, and inland regions of Southern California. This information is critical for public health initiative development as planners may need to tailor the scale of their efforts based on the higher NDI neighborhoods of the county or geographic region with potentially greater chronic disease burden.
Mixed Endocrine Somatostatinoma of the Ampulla of Vater Associated with a Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Deschamps, Lydia
name: Dokmak, Safi
name: Guedj, Nathalie
name: Ruszniewki, Philippe
name: Sauvanet, Alain
name: Couvelard, Anne
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Adenocarcinoma; Ampulla of Vater; Mixed Tumor, Malignant; Neurofibromatosis 1

description: Context Mixed endocrine tumors are double neoplasms with both glandular and endocrine components; these tumors are rare, especially those arising in the ampulla of Vater. Ampullary somatostatinomas are classically associated with neurofibromatosis type 1. We herein describe the first reported case of a mixed endocrine somatostatinoma of the ampulla of Vater associated with neurofibromatosis type 1; we also present a review of the literature of the 7 mixed endocrine tumors of the ampulla which have been reported so far. Case report A 49-year-old woman presented with atypical abdominal pain. Endoscopic examination revealed a tumor involving the ampulla of Vater and a CT scan identified stenoses of both the distal common bile duct and the main pancreatic duct. A pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed and pathological examination revealed two tumor components, exocrine (high grade adenoma with infiltrative adenocarcinoma) and endocrine (expressing somatostatin hormone) with lymph node metastases originating from both types. The patient was treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and has had no recurrence for 3 years. Discussion In ampullary somatostatinomas, psammoma bodies are pathognomonic and chromogranin A is rarely expressed: these features should alert the pathologist to an association with neurofibromatosis type 1. The management of patients with mixed tumors is challenging. The treatment of choice is surgery, and adjuvant chemotherapy should be adapted to the most aggressive component, i.e. the exocrine one. Conclusion Because of their rarity, the diagnosis of ampullary mixed endocrine tumors is difficult. Our case points out the characteristic features of these neoplasms and their possible association with neurofibromatosis type 1.

Image: Large exophytic duodenal tumor situated in and around the ampulla of Vater.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Laparoscopy Assisted Transjejunal ERCP for Treatment of Pancreaticopleural Fistula
Creators: name: Saleem, Atif
name: Sawyer, Mark D
name: Baron, Todd H
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y; Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; Hydrothorax; Pancreatic Fistula /therapy

description: Context Pancreaticopleural fistula is a rare complication estimated to occur in 0.5% of the patients with pancreatitis and even extremely rare in surgically altered anatomy (e.g. Roux-en-Y anastomosis) patients. The conventional ERCP is difficult to treat pancreaticopleural fistula in a patient with complex upper GI anatomy because of long anatomical route. Case report We represent a case of a 47-year-old female with remote subtotal gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy admitted with recurrent left pleural effusion due to pancreaticopleural fistula. After failed ERCP through the anatomical route, pancreaticopleural fistula was treated successfully with laparoscopy-assisted transjejunal ERCP. Conclusion Laparoscopy-assisted ERCP is a useful modality in patients with surgically altered anatomy.

Image: Radiographic image showing endoscope in position passed retrograde.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Obstructive Jaundice Due to a Pancreatic Mass: A Rare Presentation of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in an Adult
Creators: name: Daniel, Sudin Varghese
name: Vani, Deven Harshad
name: Smith, Andrew Melvin
name: Hill, Quentin Antony
name: Menon, Krishna Viswanath
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency; Jaundice, Obstructive; Leukemia

description: Context To highlight a rare presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Case report A 39-year-old man presented with a 4 month history of weight loss and a 6 week history of upper abdominal pain radiating to the back with nausea and vomiting. Liver function tests showed an obstructive picture, full blood count was normal and on computerised tomography there was diffuse enlargement of the pancreas, with dilatation of the common bile duct and intra hepatic biliary radicles. Four weeks after presenting, the white cell count became elevated with blasts on the blood film and bone marrow biopsy revealed a precursor B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. After induction chemotherapy his jaundice resolved, the pancreatic mass reduced in size and he is now in a complete remission. Conclusion Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia may mimic common causes of a pancreatic mass such as adenocarcinoma and should be considered as part of the differential diagnosis when atypical features are present.

Image: Bone marrow trephine at presentation: cellular marrow with heavy infiltration by leukaemic blast cells.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Constraints on Late Time Violations of the Equivalence Principle in the Dark Sector
Creators: name: Thomas, Cameron C.
name: van de Bruck, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If dark energy is dynamical due to the evolution of a scalar field, then in general it is expected that the scalar is coupled to matter. While couplings to the standard model particles are highly constrained by local experiments, bounds on couplings to dark matter (DM) are only obtained from cosmological observations and they are consequently weaker. It has recently been pointed out that the coupling itself can become non-zero only at the time of dark energy domination, due to the evolution of dark energy itself, leading to a violation of the equivalence principle (EP) in the dark sector at late times. In this paper we study a specific model and show that such late-time violations of the EP in the DM sector are not strongly constrained by the evolution of the cosmological background and by observables in the linear regime (e.g. from the cosmic microwave background radiation). A study of perturbations in non-linear regime is necessary to constrain late--time violations of the equivalence principle much more strongly.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Typos corrected, references added. Comparison to model in which initial field value sits at the minimum has been added. Version to be submitted to journal
Rymosia beaucournui Matile 1963
Creators: name: El Mouden, Mohamed Amin
name: Chandler, Peter J.
name: Saidoun, Imane
name: Driauach, Ouafaa
name: Belqat, Boutaïna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Rymosia
Rymosia beaucournui

description: Rymosia beaucournui Matile, 1963
Material examined.
Morocco – Middle Atlas Region • 1 ♂; Gouffre Izora; 19/V/2022; K. Aattouch, M. El Ouahabi and M. A. El Mouden leg; UAE-FST MA 22/24122.
North African distribution.
Tunisia (Chandler 1994); Morocco (Chandler and Ribeiro 1995; Chandler et al. 2006; Banamar et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of El Mouden, Mohamed Amin, Chandler, Peter J., Saidoun, Imane, Driauach, Ouafaa & Belqat, Boutaïna, 2025, A new species of Docosia Winnertz, 1864 and new records of fungus gnats (Diptera, Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae) from North Africa, pp. 349-379 in ZooKeys 1233 on pages 349-379, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1233.130502
Gambling and problem gambling in New York: A 10-year replication survey, 1986 to 1996: Report to the New York Council on Problem Gambling
Creators: name: Volberg, Rachel A.
Publisher: name: Gemini Research
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Gambling -- New York State
subject: Compulsive gambling -- New York State
subject: Gambling Literature

description: Permission to archive report in repository granted by Rachel Volberg, President, Gemini Research.
description: This report presents the results of the second survey of gambling and problem gambling in the State of New York. The main purpose of this study was to examine changes in the prevalence of gambling-related problems among adults in New York in the last decade. The other main purpose of the study was to identify the types of gambling causing the greatest difficulties for the citizens of New York. A large sample of New York residents aged 18 and over (N=1,829) were interviewed in April, 1996 about the types of gambling they have tried, the amounts of money they spend on gambling, and about gambling-related difficulties. The information in this report will be valuable in the further development of services for problem gamblers in New York.
Medial Pancreatectomy for a Neuroendocrine Tumor Invading the Splenic Artery and Vein
Creators: name: Ait-Ali, Abdelmounaim
name: Sall, Ibrahima
name: El-Kaoui, Hakim
name: Bouchentouf, Sidi Mohammed
name: El-Hjouji, Abderrahmane
name: Rouibaa, Fadwa
name: Benkirane, Ahmed
name: Bounaim, Ahmed
name: Zentar, Aziz
name: Sair, Khalid
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Neuroendocrine Tumors; Pancreatectomy; Splenectomy

description: Context Pancreatic tumors in the midportion have traditionally been treated by an extended right or left pancreatectomy. A medial or central pancreatectomy is an alternative technique for benign or low-grade malignant neoplasms located to the left of the gastroduodenal artery and close to the splenomesenteric confluence. Case report A 38-year-old woman with no previous surgical history presented with epigastric abdominal pain. A computed tomography scan showed a 4 cm heterogeneous lesion within the pancreatic body. This tumor invaded the splenic artery and vein. There was no postoperative diabetes mellitus or exocrine insufficiency. The patient continues to be well after a 10-month follow-up without pancreatic insufficiency or local recurrence, and CT has demonstrated splenic perfusion by the collateral vessels. Conclusion We believe that a medial or central pancreatectomy may be a safe procedure where there is involvement of the large splenic vessels by a low grade malignant pancreatic tumor and that a systematic splenectomy is not justified.

Image: Proximal pancreas and jejunal Roux-en-Y pancreaticojejunostomy.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Met Office Projecting Future Sea Level (ProFSea) tool - User Guide
Creators: name: Perks, Rachel Jane
Publisher: name: Met Office
Year: 2023
Subjects: sea level
climate projections
sea level rise
sea level projections

description: This document summarises the underpinning science on sea-level projections and provides guidance on how to set-up and run the Met Office Projecting Future Sea Level (ProFSea) tool. Read this before using any products as it describes the data availability, the main outputs from the tool and the caveats and limitations.
We recommend that you read the UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) Marine Report (Palmer et al., 2018) and Palmer et al. (2020), for a comprehensive description of the underpinning science, detailed methods including the consideration of changes in surges, tides, and coastal waves, and a synthesis of the results for the 21st century. The ProFSea tool provides results rooted in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) model simulations and Monte Carlo approach, for the future emissions scenarios used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 5th Assessment Report (IPCC AR5). These are based on Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), further information is available about RCP Guidance on the UKCP18 website.
For all enquiries please contact: enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk
Endoscopic Ultrasonography Findings in Autoimmune Pancreatitis: Be Aware of the Ambiguous Features and Look for the Pivotal Ones
Creators: name: De Lisi, Stefania
name: Buscarini, Elisabetta
name: Arcidiacono, Paolo Giorgio
name: Petrone, Mara
name: Menozzi, Fernanda
name: Testoni, Pier Alberto
name: Zambelli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Autoimmunity; Endosonography; Pancreatitis

description: Autoimmune pancreatitis is a form of chronic pancreatitis caused by an autoimmune process. The classical appearance of autoimmune pancreatitis in abdominal imaging is diffuse pancreatic enlargement, but the focal form appears as a mass and often involves the pancreatic head; this scenario represents a challenging diagnostic problem because these features also resemble pancreatic cancer. We present the endoscopic ultrasound findings of seven patients with autoimmune pancreatitis in order to highlight the ambiguous features and the features pivotal for the diagnosis.

Image: Hypoechoic focal lesion of the pancreatic head at radial scanning EUS.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Energieeffizienz in der Gebäudetechnik - ENEFF (BOKU)
Creators: name: Kotik, Jan
name: Kitzberger, Thomas
name: Pröll, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Die Arbeitsgruppe ENEFF beschäftigt sich mit Energieeffizienz-Maßnahmen im Bereich der Gebäudetechnik und blickt auf zahlreiche erfolgreich umgesetzte Maßnahmen an wichtigen Bestandsgebäuden der BOKU zurück. Sowohl regelungstechnische Aspekte als auch konkrete technische Anlagenerweiterungen spielen dabei eine wichtige Rolle. Letztlich muss die Energiewende vor allem auch im Bereich des kommerziellen Gebäudesektors durch konkrete Maßnahmen im Bereich der Energieeffizienz und EE vorangetrieben werden; dazu leistet die AG ENEFF (BOKU) einen wichtigen Beitrag.
Spatio-temporal mobility and Twitter: 3D visualisation of mobility flows
Creators: name: Arjona, Joaquín Osorio
name: Palomares, Juan Carlos García
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent progress in computation and the spatio-temporal richness of data obtained from new sources have invigorated Time Geography. It is now possible to visualise and represent movements of people in a dual spatial–temporal dimension. In this work, we use geo-located data from the social media platform Twitter to show the value of new data sources for Time Geography. The methodology consists of visualising space–time paths in 2D and 3D in four study zones, with different land-use profiles, based on tweets compiled over the course of two years. The results provide a view of behaviours occurring in the areas of study throughout the day, with complementary data to show the population's main activity at different times.
Microgravity and Dissipative Granular Gas in a vibrated container: a gas with an asymmetric speed distribution in the vibration direction, but with a null mean speed everywhere
Creators: name: Evesque, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main topic of this paper (part 4) is the interpretation of data from extended simulations published in previous Poudres & Grains (see P&G 17, #1 to #18) concerning the dynamics of N equal-size spheres in a 3d rectangular cell excited along Oz in 0 gravity.(N=100, 500, 1000, 1200, 2000, 3000, 4000, 4500). Different Oz excitation kinds have been used (symmetric and non symmetric bi-parabolic, symmetric and non symmetric saw teeth, thermal wall). No rotation is included, dissipation is introduced via a restitution coefficient e= -V'n/Vn, where V'n and Vn are the relative ball speed along normal to ball centres after and before collision. It is proved that the local speed distribution along z is fundamentally dissymmetric in most part of the cell while the mean local speed is 0. This demonstrates the inability of a model based on a thermal bath (with a single local temperature) to describe this dissipative-granular-gas-system, even when assuming that this temperature varies in space. The other (1-3) parts sum up few results obtained in the very low density regime.
Sub-1 Volt and High-Bandwidth Visible to Near-Infrared Electro-Optic Modulators
Creators: name: Renaud, Dylan
name: Assumpcao, Daniel Rimoli
name: Joe, Graham
name: Shams-Ansari, Amirhassan
name: Zhu, Di
name: Hu, Yaowen
name: Sinclair, Neil
name: Loncar, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integrated electro-optic (EO) modulators are fundamental photonics components with utility in domains ranging from digital communications to quantum information processing. At telecommunication wavelengths, thin-film lithium niobate modulators exhibit state-of-the-art performance in voltage-length product ($V_π$L), optical loss, and EO bandwidth. However, applications in optical imaging, optogenetics, and quantum science generally require devices operating in the visible-to-near-infrared (VNIR) wavelength range. In this work, we realize VNIR amplitude and phase modulators featuring $V_π$L's of sub-1 V$\cdot\,$cm, low optical loss, and high bandwidth EO response. Our Mach-Zehnder modulators exhibit a $V_π$L as low as 0.55 V$\cdot\,$cm at 738 nm, and EO bandwidths in excess of 35 GHz. Furthermore, we highlight the new opportunities these high-performance modulators offer by demonstrating the first integrated EO frequency combs at VNIR wavelengths, with over 50 lines and tunable spacing, and the first frequency shifting of pulsed light beyond its intrinsic bandwidth (up to 7x Fourier limit) by an EO shearing method.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Gaming and Betting by Adult 60 Year Old and Older in Indiana - 2005: Summary of Methods and Findings
Creators: name: Survey Research Center Indiana University-Purdue University
name: Wolf, James
Publisher: name: Indiana University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Gambling -- Indiana
subject: Gambling Literature

description: The Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction indicated that this report was in the public domain.
description: The FSSA Division of Mental Health and Addiction sponsored a survey of people in Indiana age 60 years old and over to determine the extent of gaming and betting for money. In June 2005 the Survey Research Center at IUPUI conducted the survey and compiled this report. A random sample of people throughout Indiana age 60 and older was contacted by telephone. This resulted in a total of 762 interviews with a response rate of 33.6 percent.
Secnidazole-Induced Acute Pancreatitis: A New Side-Effect for an Old Drug?
Creators: name: Slim, Raoudha
name: Ben Salem, Chaker
name: Zamy, Michele
name: Fathallah, Neila
name: Raynaud, Jean-Jacques
name: Bouraoui, Kamel
name: Biour, Michel
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Drug Toxicity; Pancreatitis; secnidazole

description: No abstract available.

Image: Skeletal formula of secnidazole (Author: Fvasconcellos; Wikimedia Commons)
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
A four compartment epidemic model with retarded transition rates
Creators: name: Granger, Teo
name: Michelitsch, Thomas M.
name: Bestehorn, Michael
name: Riascos, Alejandro P.
name: Collet, Bernard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an epidemic model for a constant population by taking into account four compartments of the individuals characterizing their states of health. Each individual is in one of the compartments susceptible (S); incubated - infected yet not infectious (C), infected and infectious (I), and recovered - immune (R). An infection is 'visible' only when an individual is in state I. Upon infection, an individual performs the transition pathway S to C to I to R to S remaining in each compartments C, I, and R for certain random waiting times, respectively. The waiting times for each compartment are independent and drawn from specific probability density functions (PDFs) introducing memory into the model. We derive memory evolution equations involving convolutions (time derivatives of general fractional type). We obtain formulae for the endemic equilibrium and a condition of its existence for cases when the waiting time PDFs have existing means. We analyze the stability of healthy and endemic equilibria and derive conditions for which the endemic state becomes oscillatory (Hopf) unstable. We implement a simple multiple random walker's approach (microscopic model of Brownian motion of Z independent walkers) with random SCIRS waiting times into computer simulations. Infections occur with a certain probability by collisions of walkers in compartments I and S. We compare the endemic states predicted in the macroscopic model with the numerical results of the simulations and find accordance of high accuracy. We conclude that a simple random walker's approach offers an appropriate microscopic description for the macroscopic model.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures
Barapa Country through Barapa eyes: cultural mapping of Gunbower Island, Australia
Creators: name: McConachie, Fiona
name: Jenny, Bernhard
name: Reinke, Karin
name: Arrowsmith, Colin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The Gunbower Yemurriki Map details important information about Barapa Country and Barapa people for the purpose of education. The Barapa are the Traditional Owners of the lands north and south of the Murray River around Cohuna, Australia and are working with natural resource agencies to identify and map cultural assets on traditional lands, particularly in relation to water resources. The Gunbower Yemurriki Map has been developed through participatory cultural mapping processes to demonstrate the community connection to water and the wider cultural landscape. Yemurriki is the Barapa word for Country. The map developed and presented in this study will be used to educate the local non-indigenous community about Barapa cultural values and to act as a teaching aid for younger Barapa people. The map depicts stories, totems, and places identified within the landscape. All the information included is what the Barapa consider public and educational.
Reach the Bottom Line of the Sbottom Search
Creators: name: Alvarez, Ezequiel
name: Bai, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new search strategy for directly-produced sbottoms at the LHC with a small mass splitting between the sbottom and its decayed stable neutralino. Our search strategy is based on boosting sbottoms through an energetic initial state radiation jet. In the final state, we require a large missing transverse energy and one or two b-jets besides the initial state radiation jet. We also define a few kinematic variables to further increase the discovery reach. For the case that the sbottom mainly decays into the bottom quark and the stable neutralino, we have found that even for a mass splitting as small as 10 GeV sbottoms with masses up to around 400 GeV can be excluded at the 95% confidence level with 20 inverse femtobarn data at the 8 TeV LHC.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Postmortem Sampling of the Pancreas for Histological Examination: What Is the Optimum Cut-Off Time?
Creators: name: Siriwardana, Rohan Chaminda
name: Deen, Kamel Ismile
name: Hevawesenthi, Janaki
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pancreas /pathology; Postmortem Changes

description: No abstract available.

Image: Quality of microscopic specimens according to time after death.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Another Look at the EBS: A Stellar Debris Stream and a Possible Progenitor
Creators: name: Grillmair, Carl J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7, we reexamine the Eastern Banded Structure (EBS), a stellar debris stream first discovered in Data Release 5 and more recently detected in velocity space by Schlaufman et al. The visible portion of the stream is 18 degrees long, lying roughly in the Galactic Anticenter direction and extending from Hydra to Cancer. At an estimated distance of 9.7 kpc, the stream is approximately 170 pc across on the sky. The curvature of the stream implies a fairly eccentric box orbit that passes close to both the Galactic center and to the sun, making it dynamically distinct from the nearby Monoceros, Anticenter, and GD-1 streams. Within the stream is a relatively strong, 2 degree-wide concentration of stars with a very similar color-magnitude distribution that we designate Hydra I. Given its prominence within the stream and its unusual morphology, we suggest that Hydra I is the last vestige of the EBS's progenitor, possibly already unbound or in the final throes of tidal dissolution. Though both Hydra I and the EBS have a relatively high velocity dispersion, given the comparatively narrow width of the stream and the high frequency of encounters with the bulge and massive constituents of the disk that such an eccentric orbit would entail, we suggest that the progenitor was likely a globular cluster, and that both it and the stream have undergone significant heating over time.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Autoimmune Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer and Immunoglobulin-G4
Creators: name: Pezzilli, Raffaele
name: Corinaldesi, Roberto
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2016
Subjects: Autoimmune Diseases; Biological Markers; Immunoglobulin G; Leptin; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Pancreatitis

description: No abstract available.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, N° 1 (2010): January - P. 1-94
Adolescent gambling in Oregon: A report to the Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment Foundation
Creators: name: Carlson, Matthew J.
name: Thomas L. Moore,
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Compulsive gambling -- Oregon
subject: Gambling -- Oregon
subject: Teenage gamblers -- Oregon
subject: Gambling Literature

description: Permission to archive report in repository granted by Wendy Hausotter, Public Health and Prevention Coordinator, Addictions and Mental Health Division, Problem Gambling Services.
description: The Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment Foundation commissioned this independent study to measure the estimated prevalence of gambling and problem gambling among Oregon youth ages 13 to 17. This telephone survey of 1000 randomly selected youth in Oregon was conducted in September and October of 1998.