cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Revealing patterns and connections in the historic landscape of the northern Apennines (Vetto, Italy)
Creators: name: Brandolini, Filippo
name: Turner, Sam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: 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

description: In the Northern Apennines, significant modifications to the characteristic historical features of landscapes have occurred since the 1950s as agriculture declined in importance and villages were progressively depopulated. Today, European policies are promoting the repopulation of these regions to help preserve the cultural identity of territories and reduce demographic pressure inurban areas. Such initiatives increase the need for cultural and natural landscape management to be better integrated using interdisciplinary approaches. Sustainable landscape management is a dynamic process involving the formulation of strategies to underpin the preservation of landscape heritage and foster local development based on the values and opportunities provided by landscapes themselves. This study uses landscape archaeology and spatial statistics to provide insights into which parts of the historic landscape retain the greatest time-depth and which parts reflect the more recent radical change, enabling an understanding which goes beyond the basic spatial relationships between landscape components.
N* Spectroscopy from Lattice QCD: The Roper Explained
Creators: name: Leinweber, Derek
name: Kamleh, Waseem
name: Kiratidis, Adrian
name: Liu, Zhan-Wei
name: Mahbub, Selim
name: Roberts, Dale
name: Stokes, Finn
name: Thomas, Anthony W.
name: Wu, Jiajun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This brief review focuses on the low-lying even- and odd-parity excitations of the nucleon obtained in recent lattice QCD calculations. Commencing with a survey of the 2014-15 literature we'll see that results for the first even-parity excitation energy can differ by as much as 1 GeV, a rather unsatisfactory situation. Following a brief review of the methods used to isolate excitations of the nucleon in lattice QCD, and drawing on recent advances, we'll see how a consensus on the low-lying spectrum has emerged among many different lattice groups. To provide insight into the nature of these states we'll review the wave functions and electromagnetic form factors that are available for a few of these states. Consistent with the Luscher formalism for extracting phase shifts from finite volume spectra, the Hamiltonian approach to effective field theory in finite volume can provide guidance on the manner in which physical quantities manifest themselves in the finite volume of the lattice. With this insight, we will address the question; Have we seen the Roper in lattice QCD?
description: Plenary presentation at NSTAR2015, The 10th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons, 25-28 May 2015, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. 8 pages, 6 figures
DPAN: Dynamic Preference-based and Attribute-aware Network for Relevant Recommendations
Creators: name: Dai, Wei
name: Su, Yingmin
name: Pan, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In e-commerce platforms, the relevant recommendation is a unique scenario providing related items for a trigger item that users are interested in. However, users' preferences for the similarity and diversity of recommendation results are dynamic and vary under different conditions. Moreover, individual item-level diversity is too coarse-grained since all recommended items are related to the trigger item. Thus, the two main challenges are to learn fine-grained representations of similarity and diversity and capture users' dynamic preferences for them under different conditions. To address these challenges, we propose a novel method called the Dynamic Preference-based and Attribute-aware Network (DPAN) for predicting Click-Through Rate (CTR) in relevant recommendations. Specifically, based on Attribute-aware Activation Values Generation (AAVG), Bi-dimensional Compression-based Re-expression (BCR) is designed to obtain similarity and diversity representations of user interests and item information. Then Shallow and Deep Union-based Fusion (SDUF) is proposed to capture users' dynamic preferences for the diverse degree of recommendation results according to various conditions. DPAN has demonstrated its effectiveness through extensive offline experiments and online A/B testing, resulting in a significant 7.62% improvement in CTR. Currently, DPAN has been successfully deployed on our e-commerce platform serving the primary traffic for relevant recommendations. The code of DPAN has been made publicly available.
title: Screen Detected Breast Carcinoma, with Coarse Calcification
Creators: name: Abeywardhana, Dilupani
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning Objectives Background Imaging Findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Learning Objectives: Breastcalcifications are among the most common abnormal radiographic findings detected at screening mammography. This essay illustrates the clinico-pathological features of nine screen detected breast carcinomas which had mammographically...
LeXInt: Package for Exponential Integrators employing Leja interpolation
Creators: name: Deka, Pranab J.
name: Einkemmer, Lukas
name: Tokman, Mayya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a publicly available software for exponential integrators that computes the $φ_l(z)$ functions using polynomial interpolation. The interpolation method at Leja points have recently been shown to be competitive with the traditionally-used Krylov subspace method. The developed framework facilitates easy adaptation into any Python software package for time integration.
description: Publicly available software available at https://github.com/Pranab-JD/LeXInt, in submission
title: Management of outpatients undergoing contrast enhanced CT at increased risk for contrast induced nephropathy: A retrospective audit of clinical practice
Creators: name: Bateman, Mathew
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Audit and standards
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Management
subject: Kidney
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Quality assurance

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is recognised as a sudden decrease in renal function following the administration of iodinated contrast agents. It has been variably defined as an increase of >44.2 mmol/L - 88.4mmol/L (0.5mg/dL - 1.0mg/dl) or a...
Landscape and geology as controls on Bronze Age human dispersal: a case study from Sardinia (Italy)
Creators: name: Mariani, Guido S.
name: Brandolini, Filippo
name: Melis, Rita T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
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

description: The interaction of human dispersal patterns with landscape features can in many cases provide useful information on the sustenance strategies of past communities. Mapping the present landscape is a necessary step in recognizing the nature, impact, and diffusion of the processes which drive the behaviour of past populations and modify palaeolandscapes. We constructed a map of the land units in the southwestern corner of Sardinia and compared them with the distribution of known Bronze Age megalithic towers called nuraghes. The vast majority of nuraghes are near the plains or at mid elevations close to the river network, in areas with the highest landscape diversity. The occurrence of nuraghes also seems to be related to elevated outcrops giving the advantage of a raised position and stable foundations. Denudation processes, Late Holocene sea level rise, and anthropogenic disturbance seem to be the most important factors driving changes in the palaeolandscape.
title: To assess the role of DWI in focal liver lesion characterisation
Creators: name: Paschkewitz, Royce
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Haemangioma
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: To assess the role of diffusion weighted MRI in the characterization of focal liver lesions by retrospectively comparing ADC values with the imaging and lesion...
Semantic information and bottom-up attentional capture (Expt 2a - 2b)
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaoli
name: Shomstein, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Attention
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: It has been shown that semantic information, even when task-irrelevant, may bias attention during visual search. To further test the hypothesis that task-irrelevant semantic information influences attentional allocation, we modify a paradigm that is based on a previous study (Malcolm et al., 2016), where a salient distractor will be added into each trial to capture attention. We will examine the effect of semantic information on distractor capture, and whether/how they combine to influence visual search.
Planning from the Bottom Up: An Interview with Professor Walter Stohr
Creators: name: Powell, Heidi Walter
name: Morton, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: Walter Stohr is a professor of regional planning, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Economics (Wirtschaftuniversitat), Vienna, Austria. He is currently undertaking a compilation and analysis of local economic development initiatives in several regions of Europe, and has recently completed a study on the impacts of industrial parks in the United States and abroad.
title: Prediction of Survival With Cardiac MR Imaging Using Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Creators: name: Corona-Villalobos, Celia Pamela
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Hypertension

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: Introduction: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by pulmonary vascular remodeling that results in a progressive increase in pulmonary arterial pressure and vascular resistance, eventually leading to right ventricular (RV)...
Mobility anisotropy in monolayer black phosphorus due to charged impurities
Creators: name: Liu, Yue
name: Low, Tony
name: Ruden, P. Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the charged impurity limited mobility in black phosphorus, a highly anisotropic layered material. We compute the mobility within the Boltzmann transport equation under detailed balance condition, and taking into account the anisotropy in transport and electronic structure. For carrier densities accessible in experiments, we obtained an anisotropy ratio of 3 ~ 4 at zero temperature, two-folds larger than that observed in experiments on multilayers samples. We discuss also how the anisotropy depends on carrier density and impurity distribution.
Predicting the Masses of Exotic Hadrons with Data Augmentation Using Multilayer Perceptron
Creators: name: Bahtiyar, Huseyin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, there have been significant developments in neural networks, which led to the frequent use of neural networks in the physics literature. This work is focused on predicting the masses of exotic hadrons, doubly charmed and bottomed baryons using neural networks trained on meson and baryon masses that are determined by experiments. The original data set has been extended using the recently proposed artificial data augmentation methods. We have observed that the neural network's predictive ability increases with the use of augmented data. The results indicated that data augmentation techniques play an essential role in improving neural network predictions; moreover, neural networks can make reasonable predictions for exotic hadrons, doubly charmed, and doubly bottomed baryons. The results are also comparable to Gaussian Process and Constituent Quark Model.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Magnetic Pitch as a Tuning Fork for Superconductivity
Creators: name: Wang, Yishu
name: Feng, Yejun
name: Cheng, J. -G.
name: Wu, W.
name: Luo, J. L.
name: Rosenbaum, T. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetism and superconductivity often compete for preeminence as a material's ground state, and in the right circumstances the fluctuating remains of magnetic order can induce superconducting pairing. The intertwining of the two on the microscopic level, independent of lattice excitations, is especially pronounced in heavy fermion compounds, rare earth cuprates, and iron pnictides. Here we point out that for a helical arrangement of localized spins, a variable magnetic pitch length provides a unique tuning process from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic ground state in the long and short wavelength limits, respectively. Such chemical or pressure adjustable helical order naturally provides the possibility for continuous tuning between ferromagnetically and antiferromagnetically mediated superconductivity. At the same time, phonon mediated superconductivity is suppressed because of the local ferromagnetic spin configuration. We employ synchrotron-based magnetic x-ray diffraction techniques to test these ideas in the recently discovered superconductor, MnP. This sensitive probe directly reveals a reduced-moment, helical spin order at high pressure proximate to the superconducting state, with a tightened pitch in comparison to that at ambient pressure where superconductivity is absent. The correlation between magnetic pitch length and superconducting transition temperature in the (Cr/Mn/Fe)(P/As) family suggests a strategy for using spiral magnets as interlocutors for spin fluctuation mediated superconductivity.
Planner's Digest: Recovery Efforts in the Wake of Hurricane Floyd
Creators: name: Zimbler, Robin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The past hurricane season devastated much of Eastern North Carolina, killing 51 people, causing an estimated $53 1 million in crop losses, and damaging over 57.000 dwellings. Following Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd and Irene. 66 counties in North Carolina designated as disaster areas by the federal government face a long recovery process as many residents either rebuild or relocate to higher ground. Local, state and federal policy-makers face the challenge of directing recovery efforts in order to not only restore areas to pre-disaster conditions, but also make communities more disaster-resistant in the future.
title: Review of ultrasound appearance in inflammatory breast cancer
Creators: name: Abeywardhana, Dilupani
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Learning Objectives Background Imaging Findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Learning Objectives: To demonstrate the sonographic findings of Inflammatory breast carcinoma (IBC) To illustrate therole of sonography in lesion localisation for needle biopsy of lesions in...
Upper Palaeolithic site probability in Lower Austria – a geoarchaeological multi-factor approach
Creators: name: Boemke, Bruno
name: Einwögerer, Thomas
name: Händel, Marc
name: Lehmkuhl, Frank
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In archaeology, predictive models play a key role in understanding the interactions between humans and the palaeo-environment. They are also of great value for cultural heritage management and planning purposes. This is particularly true for Palaeolithic sites in the east Austrian loess landscape, which are often deeply embedded in sediment sequences. In this study, we analyse the geospatial behaviour of 23 Upper Palaeolithic sites in Lower Austria. Hereby, we apply a new approach, which combines the advantages of a classical deductive method with the capabilities of machine learning, implemented via the MaxEnt software. The result is a predictive model for an area of 7850 km², exploring the potential for the presence of Upper Palaeolithic sites. The model highlights several spatial dynamics of site probability in the study area. Possible sources of inaccuracies within the source data and the methodology are critically discussed.
Virtual transitions in an atom-mirror system in the presence of two scalar photons
Creators: name: Das, Ashmita
name: Sen, Soham
name: Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the virtual transition of an atom-mirror system with the simultaneous emission of two scalar photons, where the atom and the mirror admit a relative acceleration between them. For the single photon emission, literature (Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 071301) dictates that the transition probabilities of two individual systems, such as an atom accelerating with respect to the mirror and its reverse, turn out to be equivalent under the exchange of the frequencies of atom and the field. Addressing the observational merit of such excitation process, a detectable probability ($P \sim 10^{-2}$) is also reported in the above literature. In the present manuscript our finding dictates that the simultaneous emission of dual photon instead of one, destroys the equivalence between the transition probabilities as reported in the above literature.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
Critical behavior of the diffusive susceptible-infected-recovered model
Creators: name: Deng, Shengfeng
name: Ódor, Géza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The critical behavior of the non-diffusive susceptible-infected-recovered model on lattices had been well established in virtue of its duality symmetry. By performing simulations and scaling analyses for the diffusive variant on the two-dimensional lattice, we show that diffusion for all agents, while rendering this symmetry destroyed, constitutes a singular perturbation that induces asymptotically distinct dynamical and stationary critical behavior from the non-diffusive model. In particular, the manifested crossover behavior in the effective mean-square radius exponents reveals that slow crossover behavior in general diffusive multi-species reaction systems may be ascribed to the interference of multiple length scales and timescales at early times.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
title: Utility of novel non-contrast MRA in renovascular mapping for renal sympathetic denervation
Creators: name: Chew, Kym
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Kidney
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: Renovascularimaging plays a central role in renal sympathetic denervation (RDN), in theassessment ofanatomic suitability before RDN and for follow-up aftertreatment.RDN is a novel catheter-basedtechnique used in the treatment of refractory...
Proximal gradient method for huberized support vector machine
Creators: name: Xu, Yangyang
name: Akrotirianakis, Ioannis
name: Chakraborty, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Support Vector Machine (SVM) has been used in a wide variety of classification problems. The original SVM uses the hinge loss function, which is non-differentiable and makes the problem difficult to solve in particular for regularized SVMs, such as with $\ell_1$-regularization. This paper considers the Huberized SVM (HSVM), which uses a differentiable approximation of the hinge loss function. We first explore the use of the Proximal Gradient (PG) method to solving binary-class HSVM (B-HSVM) and then generalize it to multi-class HSVM (M-HSVM). Under strong convexity assumptions, we show that our algorithm converges linearly. In addition, we give a finite convergence result about the support of the solution, based on which we further accelerate the algorithm by a two-stage method. We present extensive numerical experiments on both synthetic and real datasets which demonstrate the superiority of our methods over some state-of-the-art methods for both binary- and multi-class SVMs.
description: in Pattern analysis and application, 2015
Decentralized Nonlinear Control of Redundant Upper Limb Exoskeleton with Natural Adaptation Law
Creators: name: Hejrati, Mahdi
name: Mattila, Jouni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The aim of this work is to utilize an adaptive decentralized control method called virtual decomposition control (VDC) to control the orientation and position of the end-effector of a 7 degrees of freedom (DoF) right-hand upper-limb exoskeleton. The prevailing adaptive VDC approach requires tuning of 13n adaptation gains along with 26n upper and lower parameter bounds, where n is the number of rigid bodies. Therefore, utilizing the VDC scheme to control high DoF robots like the 7-DoF upper-limb exoskeleton can be an arduous task. In this paper, a new adaptation function, so-called natural adaptation law (NAL), is employed to eliminate these burdens from VDC, which results in reducing all 13n gains to one and removing dependency on upper and lower bounds. In doing so, VDC-based dynamic equations are restructured, and inertial parameter vectors are made compatible with NAL. Then, the NAL adaptation function is exploited to design a new adaptive VDC scheme. This novel adaptive VDC approach ensures physical consistency conditions for estimated parameters with no need for upper and lower bounds. Finally, the asymptotic stability of the algorithm is proved with the virtual stability concept and the accompanying function. The experimental results are utilized to demonstrate the excellent performance of the proposed new adaptive VDC scheme.
description: Manuscript is published in 2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
In the Works: Planning for Water Quality in the Coastal Zone; Opening Closed Doors: Worker-Ownership Initiatives
Creators: name: Leyden, Kathleen
name: Solow, Carol B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: Includes two short reports: PLANNING FOR WATER QUALITY IN THE COASTAL ZONE: Water quality management regulations in the State of North Carolina have traditionally been administered by various state agencies including the Department of Environmental Management (DEM permits for surface water discharges and groundwater regulations), the Division of Health Services (large sewage disposal systems), and by local governments (local health department permits for septic systems and land use planning regulations that address watershed protection). In North Carolina's coastal zone, land use planning for the protection of water quality has been addressed at the state level since 1979. Sedimentation controls and limitations on impervious surfaces along estuarine shorelines were imposed by the Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA). A broader initiative was needed, however. In response the Division of Coastal Management (DCM) and the Coastal Resources Commission (CRC) agreed that coastal water quality and, in particular, the impact of non-point source pollution on coastal waters should be the priority issue for the 1985 agency work program. OPENING CLOSED DOORS: WORKER-OWNERSHIP INITIATIVES: Planners in states and regions where plant closings have had a devastating impact on the economic and social health of their communities are struggling to develop viable long-term job creation and retention strategies. Worker-ownership is one strategy that has gained recognition as an effective economic development program for some communities. Successful models for regional economic cooperatives remain, however, relatively undeveloped. An exemplary and potentially replicable model for economic development planners is the worker-ownership support agency network in North Carolina.
Archaeological sites and palaeoenvironments of Pleistocene West Africa
Creators: name: Cerasoni, Jacopo Niccolò
name: Hallett, Emily Y.
name: Arous, Eslem Ben
name: Beyer, Robert M.
name: Krapp, Mario
name: Manica, Andrea
name: Scerri, Eleanor M. L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: African paleoanthropological studies typically focus on regions of the continent such as Eastern, Southern and Northern Africa, which hold the highest density of Pleistocene archaeological sites. Nevertheless, lesser known areas such as West Africa also feature a high number of sites. Here, we present a high-resolution map synthesising all well contextualised Pleistocene archaeological sites present in Sub-Saharan West Africa. A detailed elevation and ecoregional map was developed and correlated with palaeoanthropological sites. This map is supplemented with 1,000- and 2000-year interval climate reconstructions over the last 120,000 years for three subregions of high archaeological interest. The presented archaeological sites were compiled by reviewing published literature, and selected based on: (1) documented archaeological stratification or >10 characteristic artefacts, (2) published coordinates, and (3) published chronometric ages or relative dating. The data presented here elucidates the current state of knowledge of Pleistocene West Africa, highlighting the regional potential for human evolutionary studies.
title: Early Cone Beam CT response of rectal cancer to neo-adjuvant chemoradiotherapy predicts pathologic response
Creators: name: Whalley, Deborah
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Colon
subject: Oncology
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: Following neo-adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (chemo/RT) 10–24% of operated rectal cancer patients have a pathologic complete response (ypT0), and this confers a significantly better prognosis [1]. Early identification of patients likely to do well or...
The Cleveland Eco-Village Case Study: Connecting Green Affordable Housing and City Planning
Creators: name: Lowry, Kelly A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Combining renovation with innovation, the Cleveland Eco-Village has dealt with the two distinct needs of an urban community: affordable housing and sustainable development. Green building emerged as their nexus: as a way to provide mass amounts of urban housing in a sustainable, inexpensive, and eco-friendly manner.
The Lexicon of War
Creators: name: Marsili, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: War
conflict
Hybrid war
Hybrid warfare
armed conflict
Geneva Conventions
Law of war
International humanitarian law

description: The term "hybrid" gained widespread use in military and political discourse; it grabbed the headlines and eventually reached the general public. We refer to "hybrid warfare" or "hybrid conflict", most likely without fully comprehending the term's meaning and ramifications. The question is whether and when hybrid warfare should be regarded an armed attackthat exceeds the threshold of damage and devastation caused by a kinetic action. The purpose of this study is to provide light on the consistency of the growing doctrine of hybrid warfare with current international (humanitarian) law, beginning with a lexical and logical analysis of the words.
description: This poster is derived from the paper Hybrid Warfare: Above or Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict?, to be published in the Hungarian Defence Review, Special issue, Vol. 149, No. 1., and presented at the international scientific conference on Soldiers and Hybrid War: The Role and Missions of Armed Forces in Below-Threshold Conflicts, held on 17-18 November 2021 at the Hungarian Defence Forces Zrínyi Miklós Barracks Theater, Budapest, Hungary. This work was supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under grant No. SFRH/BD/136170/2018.
title: Long-term erectile function (EF) and factors influencing EF preservation in men treated with permanent seed brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer
Creators: name: Ong, Wee Loon
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Brachytherapy
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: Of all the main treatment modalities for localized prostate cancer, none has been proven to be superior to the others in terms of cancer control (1). This made the understanding of the health related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes associated with...
Guided Electromagnetic Discharge Pulses Driven by Short Intense Laser Pulses: Characterisation and Modelling
Creators: name: Ehret, M.
name: Bailly-Grandvaux, M.
name: Korneev, Ph.
name: Apiñaniz, J. I.
name: Brabetz, C.
name: Morace, A.
name: Bradford, P.
name: d'Humières, E.
name: Schaumann, G.
name: Bagnoud, V.
name: Malko, S.
name: Matveevskii, C.
name: Roth, M.
name: Volpe, L.
name: Woolsey, N. C.
name: Santos, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2

description: Strong electromagnetic pulses (EMP) are generated from intense laser interactions with solid-density targets, and can be guided by the target geometry, specifically through conductive connections to the ground. We present an experimental characterization, by time- and spatial-resolved proton deflectometry, of guided electromagnetic discharge pulses along wires including a coil, driven by 0.5 ps, 50 J, 1e19 W/cm2 laser pulses. Proton-deflectometry data allows to time-resolve first the EMP due to the laser-driven target charging and then the return EMP from the ground through the conductive target stalk. Both EMPs have a typical duration of tens of ps and correspond to currents in the kA-range with electric-field amplitudes of multiple GV/m. The sub-mm coil in the target rod creates lensing effects on probing protons, due to both magnetic- and electric-field contributions. This way, protons of 10 MeV-energy range are focused over cm-scale distances. Experimental results are supported by analytical modelling and high-resolution numerical particle-in-cell simulations, unraveling the likely presence of a surface plasma, which parameters define the discharge pulse dispersion in the non-linear propagation regime.
Fuzzy model-based reconstruction of paleovegetation in Ethiopia
Creators: name: von Reumont, Frederik
name: Schäbitz, Frank
name: Asrat, Asfawossen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: We introduce a new method to compute plant distribution in Ethiopia under paleoclimatic conditions using fuzzy logic. Using a published map of the potential vegetation for Ethiopia we decipher the boundary conditions for the main vegetation units shown, reflecting modern climatic conditions for temperature and precipitation in this region. Fuzzy logic using these climatic values on a GIS platform then derived the computational map of the potential vegetation. Comparing it with the original map shows a general correspondence of about 90%. By changing the underlying climate parameters, we then used this model for hypothetical paleoclimatic conditions to simulate the vegetational response on these changed climate settings. Finally, vegetational response maps for Ethiopia are presented for two scenarios: (i) a colder and drier condition (such as the Last Glacial Maximum) and (ii) a warmer and wetter condition (such as the last interglacial) than today.
Carolina Forum: An interview with Mark Epp of the Graham Center: The Future of Small Farming
Creators: name: Ferland, Kathey
name: Faust, Ginny
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1982

description: To most of us, the 1980s may not seem as disastrous as the 1930s. But for many small farmers in America, the current decade is almost as bad. In the thirties, tenant farmers were losing their shirts as government programs paid big landowners to keep their land out of production. In response to this economic disaster, The National Sharecroppers Fund was established to assist tenant and low income farmers. In 1972, the Fund christened its new Frank Porter Graham Center, a small enclave in rural Anson County, N. C. The Graham Center offered training and educational programs to low income farmers, and experimented with alternative methods appropriate to small scale farming. About a year ago, the Graham Center reevaluated its role in response to the worsening situation of small farmers. In the following interview, Mark Epp, on staff at the Graham Center, discusses how the Graham Center has changed its methods while focusing on new twists in the decades old problem: Can the small farm survive?
An analytically tractable model for community ecology with many species
Creators: name: Dickens, Benjamin
name: Fisher, Charles K.
name: Mehta, Pankaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental problem in community ecology is to understand how ecological processes such as selection, drift, and immigration give rise to observed patterns in species composition and diversity. Here, we present a simple, analytically tractable, presence-absence (PA) model for community assembly and use it to ask how ecological traits such as the strength of competition, the amount of diversity, and demographic and environmental stochasticity affect species composition in a community. In the PA model, species are treated as stochastic binary variables that can either be present or absent in a community: species can immigrate into the community from a regional species pool and can go extinct due to competition and stochasticity. Despite its simplicity, the PA model reproduces the qualitative features of more complicated models of community assembly. In agreement with recent work on large, competitive Lotka-Volterra systems, the PA model exhibits distinct ecological behaviors organized around a special ("critical") point corresponding to Hubbell's neutral theory of biodiversity. These results suggest that the concepts of ecological "phases" and phase diagrams can provide a powerful framework for thinking about community ecology and that the PA model captures the essential ecological dynamics of community assembly.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
title: Prognostic significance of absolute neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in glioblastoma multiforme
Creators: name: de Campos Silva, Thomaz
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: Chemistry
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Cancer
subject: Image guided radiotherapy
subject: Blood

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: There issubstantial andconsistent evidence thatneoplasia relatedinflammation is a key determinant of outcome in patients with cancer.Several markers of inflammation have been examined over the pastyears in an attempt to refine stratification of...
Book Review: The New Geography of Jobs
Creators: name: Mead, Jill
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In The New Geography of Jobs, Enrico Morretti presents his view of 21st century production in the United States. According to the author, the United States no longer produces heavy machinery like automobiles, nor should it seek to recapture its former manufacturing dominance. Instead, the U.S. should continue to exploit its new competitive advantage: its enormous share of the worldwide market for innovative ideas and technologies. Going forward, innovation is the export sector that will be the key to the nation’s prosperity.
title: Delayed diagnosis: Impact on patient management and quality improvement
Creators: name: Brown, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Emergency
subject: Professional issues
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Observer performance
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Outcomes
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Trauma

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: Complete and accurate diagnoses in trauma patients can be difficult to establish, sometimes resulting in delayed diagnosis. The impact of this recognized phenomenon on management and eventual patient outcome in the trauma setting remains...
title: Carcinosarcoma of the Uterus- retrospective review
Creators: name: Govindarajulu, Geetha
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Purpose: To study the demographic profile and outcome of uterine carcinosarcoma over a 10 year period treated in the Hunter region of...
title: Intracranial melanoma metastases: imaging appearances and current management
Creators: name: Mandel, Catherine
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Oncology
subject: CNS
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Metastases
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning Objectives Background Imaging Findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Learning Objectives: to appreciate the diverse imaging appearances of intracranial melanoma metastases to learn about current treatment options and how imaging can influence the use of...
Extracted data and code
Creators: name: Cristea, Ioana
name: Ioannidis, john
name: Hardwicke, Tom
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: effect size
subject: emotion
subject: highly-cited
subject: meta-analysis

description: Extracted data and code for paper "Effect Sizes Reported in Highly Cited Emotion Research Compared With Larger Studies and Meta-Analyses Addressing the Same Questions"
Economic Incentives and Disincentives: A New Approach to Floodplain Management
Creators: name: Hyman, Eric L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1979

description: Floods are a serious problem in the United States and, to date, most floodplain management programs have been failures. Despite a massive attack on the problem by various levels of government, floods are inflicting larger total and per capita losses than ever before. Average annual property losses due to flooding exceed two billion dollars (White et al., 1973:3). The floodplain is generally defined as the area of land that would be inundated by the worst flooding likely to occur in a hundred year period. Approximately 9.5% of all cultivable land, and 16.5% of all urban land, in the United States lies within a floodplain (Maddock, 1977:44). Furthermore, urban development encroaches on 1.5% to 2.5% of the total floodplain area in this country each year, even though much of this new development gains no special benefit from a floodplain location. In order to control further losses from flooding, land use management would have to prevent 80- 90% of the uneconomic part of this expansion (White et al., 1973:xviii). Public action in the management of floodplain use is necessary in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare. Most importantly, floodplains are hazardous areas in which to live, and occupants impose costs upon themselves through the risk of death, injury, dislocation, and loss of property. In many instances occupants are aware of the risks involved with locating in a floodplain; however, new buyers, renters, and other temporary residents may be unaware of the risks if not warned of the hazard.
Band engineering of ternary metal nitride system Ti1-x ZrxN for plasmonic applications
Creators: name: Kumar, Mukesh
name: Ishii, Satoshi
name: Umezawa, Naoto
name: Nagao, Tadaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 00A79

description: Chemical composition is the primary factor that determines the electronic band structure and thus also influences the optical properties of plasmonic ceramics including nitrides and oxides. In this work, the optical and plasmonic properties of TiN, ZrN and their hypothetical intermediate alloys Ti1-xZrxN (x= 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, and 1), are studied by using first-principles density functional theory. We demonstrate the effects of electronic band structure tuning (band engineering) on the dielectric properties by varying the concentration of metallic constituents. Our calculations reveal that bulk plasma frequency, onset of interband transitions, width of bulk plasmon resonance and cross-over frequency, can be tuned flexibly in visible spectrum region by varying the amount of Zr concentration in Ti1-xZrxN alloy system. We found that low threshold interband energy onset (~1.95 eV) leads to high losses in Ti rich compounds than that of ZrN which points to lower losses.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures and 1 table [Optical Materials Express, 2015 [in press]
The Recoil Proton Polarization: a new discriminative DVCS observable
Creators: name: Bylund, Olga Bessidskaia
name: Defurne, Maxime
name: Guichon, Pierre A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalized parton distributions describe the correlations between the longitudinal momentum and the transverse position of quarks and gluons in a nucleon. They can be constrained by measuring photon leptoproduction observables, arising from the interference between Bethe-Heitler and Deeply virtual Compton scattering processes. At leading-twist/leading-order, the amplitude of the latter is parameterized by complex integrals of the GPDs {H, E, H, E} . As data collected on an unpolarized or longitudinally polarized target constrains H and H, E is poorly known as it requires data collected with a transversely polarized target, which is very challenging to implement in fixed target experiments. The only alternative considered so far has been DVCS on a neutron with a deuterium target, while assuming isospin symmetry and absence of final-state interactions. Today, we introduce the polarization of the recoil proton as a new DVCS observable, highly sensitive to E, which appears feasible for an experimental study at a high-luminosity facility such as Jefferson Lab.
title: Acquired Cholesteatoma - a pictorial review.
Creators: name: Francis, Victoria
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Complications
subject: Pathology

description: Learning Objectives Background Imaging Findings OR Procedure Details Conclusion Personal Information References
description: Learning Objectives: To review the anatomy, classification and imaging of acquired...