cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hispanic Youth's Educational Support, Cultural Values, and Parental Support for Higher Education
Creators: name: Garcia-Baza, Isai
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Higher education has social and economic benefits, yet Hispanic Americans complete higher
education at lower rates than non-Hispanic Whites. Using an expectancy-value theory framework
I tested four hypotheses: (1) parental academic encouragement would be related to educational
attainment expectations in Hispanic high school students, (2) instrumental support would be
necessary for parental encouragement to be linked to educational attainment expectations, (3)
students who expected to financially contribute to their family would have lower educational
attainment expectations than their peers with less financial contribution expectations, (4) students
who felt pressure to remain close to home would be more likely than peers to expect to attend a
community college rather than a four-year institution. Hispanic high school students (22 boys, 25
girls) who were of Mexican heritage completed measures of educational attainment expectations,
parental encouragement, instrumental support, and Hispanic familism values. A positive
correlation was found between general academic encouragement and students’ educational
attainment expectations (r(45)=.41, p=.004), but this relationship was not moderated by
instrumental support. Hypothesis 3 was supported with a significant negative correlation between
family contribution expectations and the expectation of completing a bachelor’s degree r(45)=-.37, p =.011, and master’s degree r(45)=-.30, p=.042. Results did not support Hypothesis 4.
Reducing familial pressures to work after high school may foster educational attainment
expectations and increase college enrollment in Hispanic youth.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1354
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 43. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Synergic induction of autophagic cell death in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma
Creators: name: Wächter, Sabine
name: Knauff, Franziska
name: Roth, Silvia
name: Keber, Corinna
name: Holzer, Katharina
name: Manoharan, Jerena
name: Maurer, Elisabeth
name: Bartsch, Detlef K.
name: Di Fazio, Pietro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) has poor prognosis, high mortality rate and lack of effective therapy. A synergic combination of PD-L1 antibody together with cell death promoting substances like deacetylase inhibitors (DACi) and multi-kinase inhibitors (MKI) could sensitize ATC cells and promote decay by autophagic cell death. The PD-L1-inhibitor atezolizumab synergized with panobinostat (DACi) and sorafenib (MKI) leading to significant reduction of the viability, measured by real time luminescence, of three different patient-derived primary ATC cells, of C643 cells and follicular epithelial thyroid cells too. Solo administration of these compounds caused a significant over-expression of autophagy transcripts; meanwhile autophagy proteins were almost not detectable after the single administration of panobinostat, thus supporting a massive autophagy degradation process. Instead, the administration of atezolizumab caused an accumulation of autophagy proteins and the cleavage of the active caspases 8 and 3. Interestingly, only panobinostat and atezolizumab were able to exacerbate the autophagy process by increasing the synthesis, the maturation and final fusion with the lysosomes of the autophagosome vesicles. Despite ATC cells could be sensitized by atezolizumab via the cleavage of the caspases, no reduction of cell proliferation or promotion of cell death was observed. The apoptosis assay evidenced the ability of panobinostat alone and in combination with atezolizumab to induce the phosphatidil serine exposure (early apoptosis) and further the secondary necrosis. Instead, sorafenib was only able to cause necrosis. The increase of caspases activity induced by atezolizumab, the apoptosis and autophagy processes promoted by panobinostat synergize thus promoting cell death in well-established and primary anaplastic thyroid cancer cells. The combined therapy could represent a future clinical application for the treatment of such lethal and untreatable solid cancer.
Incidence and risk factors of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized patients: Systematic Review
Creators: name: Bakhsh, Tahani
name: Madani1, Mohammed
name: Nabilsi, Mohammed
name: Jumbi, Roaa
name: Bakhsh, Hassan
name: Rednah, Mervet
name: Albukhari, Radhia
name: Aldossary, Najla
name: Kshmiri, Ahmad
name: Alhamid, Alhassan
name: Dammas, Ali
name: Kishmiri, Jumanah
name: Alhabib, samia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major healthcare problem that has resulted in a significant increase in mortality, morbidity, and healthcare cost. Our knowledge of the incidence and risk factors of VTE differs among various ethnic backgrounds and nationalities, therefore, there is a need to explore the incidence of VTE and to understand the role of risk factors that require a pooled analysis. The aim of this review is to assess the incidence and risk factors of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized patients.
 Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Web of Sciences databases from 2015 to 2022, to identify studies reporting the incidence and risk factor of VTE among hospitalized patients. Descriptive statistics were described to present the results.
The longitudinal and transverse distributions of the pion wavefunction from the present experimental data on the pion-photon transition form factor
Creators: name: Zhong, Tao
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Huang, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is noted that the low-energy behavior of the pion-photon transition form factor $F_{πγ}(Q^2)$ is sensitive to the transverse distribution of the pion wavefunction, and its high-energy behavior is sensitive to the longitudinal one. Thus a careful study on $F_{πγ}(Q^2)$ can provide helpful information on the pion wavefunction precisely. In this paper, we present a combined analysis of the data on $F_{πγ}(Q^2)$ reported by the CELLO, the CLEO, the BABAR and the BELLE collaborations. It is performed by using the method of least squares. By using the combined measurements of BELLE and CLEO Collaborations, the pion wavefunction longitudinal and transverse behavior can be fixed to a certain degree, i.e. we obtain $β\in [0.691,0.757] \rm GeV$ and $B \in [0.00,0.235]$ for $P_{χ^2} \geq 90\%$, where $β$ and $B$ are two parameters of a convenient pion wavefunction model whose distribution amplitude can mimic the various longitudinal behavior under proper choice of parameters. We observe that the CELLO, CLEO and BELLE data are consistent with each other, all of which prefers the asymptotic-like distribution amplitude; while the BABAR data prefers a more broad distribution amplitude, such as the CZ-like one.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures
Circle packing inside a regular pentagon: supplemental material
Creators: name: Amore, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: circle packing
constrained optimization

description: We report the dense configurations of 2 ≤ N ≤ 200 congruent disks packed inside a regular pentagon obtained using the algorithms developed by the author.
description: added three tables; data of the configurations made available through zenodo
Quantum theory of an electromagnetic observer: classically behaving macroscopic systems and emergence of classical world in quantum electrodynamics
Creators: name: Plimak, L. I.
name: Ivanov, Misha
name: Aiello, A.
name: Stenholm, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum electrodynamics under conditions of distinguishability of interacting matter entities, and of controlled actions and back-actions between them, is considered. Such "mesoscopic quantum electrodynamics" is shown to share its dynamical structure with the classical stochastic electrodynamics. In formal terms, we demonstrate that all general relations of the mesoscopic quantum electrodynamics may be recast in a form lacking Planck's constant. Mesoscopic quantum electrodynamics is therefore subject to "doing quantum electrodynamics while thinking classically," allowing one to substitute essentally classical considerations for quantum ones without any loss in generality. Implications of these results for the quantum measurement theory are discussed.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1355
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 44. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Chiral nodes and oscillations in the Josephson current in Weyl semimetals
Creators: name: Khanna, Udit
name: Mukherjee, Dibya Kanti
name: Kundu, Arijit
name: Rao, Sumathi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The separation of the Weyl nodes in a broken time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal leads to helical quasi-particle excitations at the Weyl nodes, which, when coupled with overall spin conservation allows only inter-nodal transport at the junction of the Weyl semimetal with a superconductor. This leads to an unusual periodic oscillation in the Josephson current as a function of $k_0L$, where $L$ is the length of the Weyl semimetal and $2k_0$ is the inter-nodal distance. This oscillation is robust and should be experimentally measurable, providing a direct path to confirming the existence of chiral nodes in the Weyl semimetal.
description: 4+1 Pages + Appendix, V2: Accepted version to be published on Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm)
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1356
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 46. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Formal deduction of the Saint-Venant-Exner model including arbitrarily sloping sediment beds and associated energy
Creators: name: Fernández-Nieto, E. D.
name: de Luna, T. Morales
name: Narbona-Reina, G.
name: Zabsonré, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35L40, 35Q35

description: In this work we present a deduction of the Saint-Venant-Exner model through an asymptotic analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations. A multi-scale analysis is performed in order to take into account that the velocity of the sediment layer is smaller than the one of the fluid layer. This leads us to consider a shallow water type system for the fluid layer and a lubrication Reynolds equation for the sediment one. This deduction provides some improvements with respect to the classical Saint-Venant-Exner model: (i) the deduced model has an associated energy. Moreover, it allows us to explain why classical models do not have an associated energy and how to modify them in order to recover a model with this property. (ii) The model incorporates naturally a necessary modification that must be taken into account in order to be applied to arbitrarily sloping beds. Furthermore, we show that this modification is different of the ones considered classically, and that it coincides with a classical one only if the solution has a constant free surface. (iii) The deduced solid transport discharge naturally depends on the thickness of the moving sediment layer, what allows to ensure sediment mass conservation. Moreover, we include a simplified version of the model for the case of quasi-stationary regimes. Some of these simplified models correspond to the generalization of classical ones such as Meyer-Peter$\&$Müller and Ashida-Michiue models. Three numerical tests are presented to study the evolution of a dune for several definition of the repose angle, to see the influence of the proposed definition of the effective shear stress in comparison with the classical one, and by comparing with experimental data.
description: 44 pages, sumbitted to Advances in Water Resources 17 july 2014
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1357
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 47. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Parsa enstatite chondrite: a mineralogic and textural analysis
Creators: name: Horne, Audrey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The mineralogy and petrology of Parsa, an EH4 enstatite chondrite (Bhandari et
al., 1980), was analyzed with an emphasis on the rare mineral roedderite
[(Na,K)2(Mg,Fe)5Si12O30)] using a scanning electron microscope, a JEOL Hyperprobe,
and a Raman spectrometer. The dominant minerals in Parsa include enstatite (Mg2Si2O6),
kamacite (Fe-Ni alloy, more than 90-95 wt% Fe), troilite (FeS), and taenite (Fe-Ni alloy,
more than 20 wt% Ni), indicating formation under highly reducing conditions. Secondary
minerals include albite (NaAlSi3O8), quartz (SiO2), daubreelite (FeCr2S4),
caswellsilverite (NaCrS2), roedderite, and a mystery Ca-Mg-silicate. The minerals are
fragmented, creating a brecciated texture, with only the primary minerals forming
crystals larger than 300 μm. All minerals are surrounded by FeO(OH), a weathering
product of iron-containing minerals. Both kamacite and taenite contain up to 15 wt% Si,
with more partitioned into taenite. Kamacite contains quartz inclusions, whereas taenite
does not. The metallic minerals demonstrate partial melting, indicating that Parsa’s parent
body underwent a heating episode. Roedderite occurs as elongated euhedral crystals,
commonly as inclusions in troilite. All crystals are less than 15 μm across. K and Na
typically occur in a 1:1 atomic ratio with no apparent zoning. Roedderite contained
within troilite typically forms euhedral to subhedral, unbrecciated prisms with aspect
ratios of ~5, whereas roedderite crystals surrounded by brecciated silicates are typically
anhedral. This difference in morphology may reflect differences in the physical properties
of the troilite and other phases.
Both sides, now: love and counterculture in French and American transcurrent films of the 1960s and 1970s
Creators: name: Labbouz, Etienne J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: The quaking of French and American empires reverberated across the ocean. In the late sixties, decolonizing wars and broader socio-cultural oppression sparked waves of dissidence in the two Western countries and beyond. French and American filmmakers heard the echoes of insurgence happening in the country on the other side of the Atlantic. They set out to make films in a country that was prone to another revolution two centuries after the ones that established France and the United States as nations. Amid the demands for addressing the damages of imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism, one of these revolutions was purportedly sexual. Love and sex were issues at the forefront of the mainstream and countercultural discourse, including in Hollywood cinema, whose lack of innovation had sentenced its audiences “to twenty years of boredom.” Like a return of the repressed, filmmakers were eager to comment on this sexual liberation. Through the lens of psychoanalysis and film analysis I explore in this dissertation the cinematic reflections of French and American auteurs-filmmakers who made films in and about each other’s country in the late sixties and early seventies at the time of the so-called sexual revolution. I gauge through their crossed paths and regards croisés the extent to which sexual liberation was embedded in their transnational films. How did they represent the sexual politics of a country they had long fantasized about or that influenced their cinema? Did they find in this cross-cultural exchange the fertile ground for a revolutionary change whether at the level of society, cinema, or their own career? Stylized like a vinyl record popular in the sixties and seventies period of my study, this dissertation offers an analysis on Side A of the “American” films of French auteurs Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda and Henry Chapier who sojourned in California and saw the Golden State as the microcosm of “the radical novelty and strangeness of the transformations taking place in America.” On Side B, I examine the “French” films of Melvin Van Peebles, Andy Warhol-Paul Morrissey, Bernardo Bertolucci-Marlon Brando and Peter de Rome whose Paris setting of their films helped them channel an authorial voice and address issues connotated with the French capital’s reputation of City of Light and Love. How do France and the United States manifest themselves through the films of these selected auteurs? What place do they occupy in their imaginary? How did they represent the effusion of discourse precipitated by sexual liberation? Did their status as outsiders endow the artists with confusion or clarity to comment on the socio-cultural events of their time? Did their transversal gazes intersect? And what were the outcomes of these efforts inspired by the counterculture to make films à contre-courant?
Computational Interferometric Imaging
Creators: name: Kotwal, Alankar
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: IMAGING systems typically accumulate photons that, as they travel from a light source to a camera, follow multiple different paths and interact with several scene objects. This multi-path accumulation process confounds the information that is available in captured images about the scene, and makes using these images to infer properties of scene objects, such as their shape and material, challenging. Computational light transport techniques help overcome this multi-path confounding problem, by enabling imaging systems to selectively accumulate only photons that are informative for any given imaging task. Unfortunately, and despite a proliferation of such techniques in the last two decades, they are constrained to operate only under macroscopic settings. This places them out of reach for critical applications requiring microscopic resolutions, such as medical imaging and industrial fabrication. In this thesis, we change this state of affairs by introducing a new class of techniques that we call computational interferometric imaging: These techniques realize computational light transport capabilities using optical interferometry, a technology well-suited for micron-scale applications. We achieve this by either manipulating the properties of illumination used in interferometry setups, or using naturally-available illumination with such properties. To this end, we develop a theory of interferometry with illumination of general spatial and temporal coherence, unifying concepts across incoherent and coherent imaging. We invent and implement a hardware system that realizes such illumination in a programmable and light efficient manner. We then specialize our hardware system to enable two exciting capabilities: (a) fast and robust 3D sensing at micrometer axial and lateral resolutions; and (b) passive, outdoor time-of-flight imaging with sunlight, robust to wind, vibrations and ambient light, factors traditionally considered destructive to interferometry signal. Finally, we provide concrete directions for building faster and more robust extensions of our setups that can be easily deployed in existing interferometry systems in applications ranging from industrial fabrication and inspection, to retinal and cancer imaging. We hope that this thesis will have a three-fold impact on modern imaging research: (a) providing inspiration for the theoretical investigation of interferometric and coherent imaging, to demonstrate never-before-seen capabilities; (b) inventing interferometric systems for application areas where interferometry has never been applied; and (c) translating research inspired by this thesis, combined with the development of novel reconstruction techniques, to critical applications in industrial fabrication and biomedical imaging.
The Effects of Obesity, Weight Loss, and Weight Gain on Thymic Expression of FGF21
Creators: name: Adams-Mardi, Cyrus
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Thymic involution is a key concern in an increasingly obese and an increasingly old population due to its role in the immune system. FGF21 signaling has been identified as one key element in the alterations to the thymic microenvironment that are seen with obesity and age, which both increase thymic involution. Research has been quickly growing on this topic, and this study adds a characterization of weight change to the knowledge of transcriptional regulation of these signaling molecules. Since FGF21 has been identified as a strong protective factor against the degradation and loss of the thymic epithelial layer, it is of particular interest. A mouse model of obesity, weight loss, and weight gain using dietary modulation was used to study this interaction. It was hypothesized that FGF21 would be relatively expressed the most in the obese group, followed by the weight gain group, weight loss, and lean in descending order. It was also hypothesized that the relative expression of -Klotho and FGFR1 would follow this trend similarly. A statistically significant p-value for the difference in relative expression of FGF21 between the experimental groups (p = 0.0190) was found. The difference between groups was not significant for FGFR1 (p = 0.8549) or -Klotho  (p = 0.07180). The FGF21 multiple comparisons revealed significant differences between lean versus weight gain (p = 0.0161) and lean versus obese (p = 0.0107). The FGFR1 multiple comparisons showed no significant differences between any of the groups. The -Klotho multiple comparisons reveals a statistically significant difference between the obese and weight loss groups (p = 0.0142). These findings demonstrate a potential role for FGF21 signaling in obesity-induced immune dysfunction.
Budget Constrained Execution of Multiple Bag-of-Tasks Applications on the Cloud
Creators: name: Thai, Long
name: Varghese, Blesson
name: Barker, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optimising the execution of Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications on the cloud is a hard problem due to the trade- offs between performance and monetary cost. The problem can be further complicated when multiple BoT applications need to be executed. In this paper, we propose and implement a heuristic algorithm that schedules tasks of multiple applications onto different cloud virtual machines in order to maximise performance while satisfying a given budget constraint. Current approaches are limited in task scheduling since they place a limit on the number of cloud resources that can be employed by the applications. However, in the proposed algorithm there are no such limits, and in comparison with other approaches, the algorithm on average achieves an improved performance of 10%. The experimental results also highlight that the algorithm yields consistent performance even with low budget constraints which cannot be achieved by competing approaches.
description: 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015)
Amphiscirpus Oteng-Yeboah 1974
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Amphiscirpus

description: Amphiscirpus Oteng-Yeboah (1974: 308).
 Type: — A. nevadensis (Watson) Oteng-Yeboah (1974: 308) (Scirpus nevadensis Watson 1871: 360).
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2018, New names of fossil Cyperaceae of Northern Eurasia, pp. 131-144 in Phytotaxa 356 (2) on page 132, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13706075
Excited States of Proton-bound DNA/RNA Base Homo-dimers: Pyrimidines
Creators: name: Féraud, Géraldine
name: Berdakin, Matias
name: Dedonder, Claude
name: Jouvet, Christophe
name: Pino, Gustavo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are presenting the electronic photo fragment spectra of the protonated pyrimidine DNA bases homo-dimers. Only the thymine dimer exhibits a well structured vibrational progression, while protonated monomer shows broad vibrational bands. This shows that proton bonding can block some non radiative processes present in the monomer.
description: We acknowledge the use of the computing facility cluster GMPCS of the LUMAT federation (FR LUMAT 2764)
MPEC 2023-F149 : 2023 FK4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FK4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Relationship Between Vibratory Perception Threshold, Joint Position Sense, and Loading Rate During Walking Gait in ACLR Individuals
Creators: name: Buitendorp, Sean Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and surgical reconstruction (ACLR) increase the risk of
knee osteoarthritis (OA). Heightened loading rates have been observed following ACLR and are
associated with greater cartilage damage in animal models. ACLR individuals also demonstrate
somatosensory deficits that may contribute to higher loading rates. However, the relationship between
somatosensory function and gait biomechanics has yet to be evaluated post-ACLR. The purposes of this
study were to 1) compare joint position sense (JPS) and vibratory perception threshold (VPT) between the
ACLR and contralateral limbs, 2) evaluate the relationship between JPS and VPT, and 3) evaluate the
relationship between somatosensory function and loading rate during gait following ACLR. JPS, VPT,
and gait biomechanics were assessed in 30 ACLR individuals. JPS was assessed as the ability to
reproduce a specified joint angle. VPT was assessed as the minimum detectable vibration amplitude
applied to bony prominences in the lower extremity. Loading rate was assessed from force plates
embedded in a walkway as the peak of the 1st time derivative of the vertical ground reaction force
(vGRF). No significant between-limb differences in JPS or VPT were observed, nor were any significant
correlations between JPS and VPT or between vGRF loading rate and either JPS or VPT observed. These
results suggest that current ACLR and rehabilitation sufficiently restores somatosensory function
following rupture.
title: Bronchiolitis obliterans secondary to chronic graft-versus-host disease
Creators: name: Clemente Idoate, Ainhoa
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease
subject: Transplantation
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 18-year-old male patient with acute myeloid leukemia was treated with induction therapy followed by consolidation therapy. Finally, he received allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

Nine months later, routine Pulmonary Functional Tests (PFTs) revealed a FEV1 of 63% that pointed to an obstructive pulmonary disease.

description: 18 years, male
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1358
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 49. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Environmental Health Perspectives in the Ancient World
Creators: name: Lee, Esther
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis, I attempt to answer a number of specific questions concerning ancient civilizations’ assessment of environmental health. For example, did ancient Greeks and Romans demonstrate an understanding of the effects of climate conditions and natural substances on health? How did they attempt to control their environment in order to prevent disease and to promote health? To answer these questions, I examine a number of selections from primary texts by ancient writers, including the Hippocratic physicians, Dioscorides, and Frontinus. The works I discuss are written by individuals with a range of perspectives, from physicians to encyclopedists to civil engineers. This enables a broad view of environmental health as part of the ancient social context.As there are few studies dedicated specifically to the perception of environmental health in the ancient world, this essay offers a new perspective for scholarship on ancient health and medicine. In addition, this thesis expands knowledge of health in the ancient world beyond just the physician’s role as an individual agent in healing, expanding the perspective to include the social and preventative measures that were taken by communities to manipulate the space around them to promote health.
Using artificial intelligence methods to predict healthcare utilisation outcomes: a scoping review protocol.
Creators: name: Arocena, Pablo
name: Gallego-Moll, Carlos
name: Maynou, Laia
name: Casajuana-Closas, Marc
name: Zabaleta-Del-Olmo, Edurne
name: Carrasco-Ribelles, Lucía A.
name: Violán-Fors, Concepción
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health Economics
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Economics
subject: Computer Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Deep Learning
subject: HEOR
subject: Health Economics
subject: Health Economics Outcomes Research
subject: Healthcare Utilisation
subject: Healthcare Utilization
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Scoping Review

description: This scoping review aims to provide a broad overview of existing studies that have been used AI to predict healthcare utilisation. The main research questions are: o What are the datasets used, and what are their characteristics? o What AI methods are used, and what are their characteristics? o What are the performance metrics used? o What healthcare utilisation outcomes are predicted?
Physical properties of the extreme centaur and super-comet candidate 2013 AZ60
Creators: name: Pál, A.
name: Kiss, Cs.
name: Horner, J.
name: Szakáts, R.
name: Vilenius, E.
name: Müller, Th. G.
name: Acosta-Pulido, J.
name: Licandro, J.
name: Cabrera-Lavers, A.
name: Sárneczky, K.
name: Szabó, Gy. M.
name: Thirouin, A.
name: Sipőcz, B.
name: Dózsa, Á.
name: Duffard, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present estimates of the basic physical properties -- including size and albedo -- of the extreme Centaur 2013 AZ60. These properties have been derived from optical and thermal infrared measurements. Our optical measurements revealed a likely full period of ~9.4 h with a shallow amplitude of 4.5%. By combining optical brightness information and thermal emission data, we are able to derive a diameter of 62.3 +/- 5.3 km and a geometric albedo of 2.9% -- corresponding to an extremely dark surface. Additionally, our finding of ~> 50 Jm^{-2}K^{-1}s^{-1/2} for the thermal inertia is also noticeably for objects in such a distance. The results of dynamical simulations yield an unstable orbit, with a 50% probability that the target will be ejected from the Solar System within 700,000 years. The current orbit of this object as well as its instability could imply a pristine cometary surface. This possibility is in agreement with the observed low geometric albedo and red photometric colour indices for the object, which are a good match for the surface of a dormant comet -- as would be expected for a long-period cometary body approaching perihelion. Despite the fact it was approaching ever closer to the Sun, however, the object exhibited star-like profiles in each of our observations, lacking any sign of cometary activity. By the albedo, 2013 AZ60 is a candidate for the darkest body among the known TNOs.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Consequences of breaking time reversal symmetry in LaSb: a resistivity plateau and extreme magnetoresistance
Creators: name: Tafti, F. F.
name: Gibson, Q. D.
name: Kushwaha, S. K.
name: Haldolaarachchige, N.
name: Cava, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time reversal symmetry (TRS) protects the metallic surface modes of topological insulators (TIs). The transport signature of robust metallic surface modes of TIs is a plateau that arrests the exponential divergence of the insulating bulk with decreasing temperature. This universal behavior is observed in all TI candidates ranging from Bi2Te2Se to SmB6. Recently, several topological semimetals (TSMs) have been found that exhibit extreme magnetoresistance (XMR) and TI universal resistivity behavior revealed only when breaking TRS, a regime where TIs theoretically cease to exist. Among these new materials, TaAs and NbP are nominated for Weyl semimetal due to their lack of inversion symmetry, Cd3As2 is nominated for Dirac semimetal due to its linear band crossing at the Fermi level, and WTe2 is nominated for resonant compensated semimetal due to its perfect electron-hole symmetry. Here we introduce LaSb, a simple rock-salt structure material without broken inversion symmetry, without perfect linear band crossing, and without perfect electron-hole symmetry. Yet LaSb portrays all the exotic field induced behaviors of the aforementioned semimetals in an archetypal fashion. It shows (a) the universal TI resistivity with a plateau at 15 K, revealed by a magnetic field, (b) ultrahigh mobility of carriers in the plateau region, (c) quantum oscillations with a non-trivial Berry phase, and (d) XMR of about one million percent at 9 tesla rivaled only by WTe2 and NbP. Due to its dramatic simplicity, LaSb is the ideal model system to formulate a theoretical understanding of the exotic consequences of breaking TRS in TSMs.
description: 4 figures, 25 pages including supplementary information
Bedrock determines the elevational patterns of soil phosphorus pools in a subtropical karst forest
Creators: name: Zeng, Lian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Terrestrial ecology

description: Soil phosphorus (P) is an important nutrient limiting the plant productivity. The elevational pattern of soil P concentration is widely used to indicate how it responds to the climatic gradient. However, the bedrock variation in an elevational transect is usually neglected, which could have caused the inconsistent elevational patterns of soil P concentration in previous studies. In present study, we examined elevational patterns of various soil P pools (i.e., labile inorganic P (Pi) and organic P (Po), moderately labile Pi and Po, primary mineral P, and occluded P) in top-soils in an elevational transect with alternating bedrock types (i.e., clasolite and limestone) in a subtropical karst forest.
Geometry and physics of pseudodifferential operators on manifolds
Creators: name: Esposito, Giampiero
name: Napolitano, George M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A review is made of the basic tools used in mathematics to define a calculus for pseudodifferential operators on Riemannian manifolds endowed with a connection: esistence theorem for the function that generalizes the phase; analogue of Taylor's theorem; torsion and curvature terms in the symbolic calculus; the two kinds of derivative acting on smooth sections of the cotangent bundle of the Riemannian manifold; the concept of symbol as an equivalence class. Physical motivations and applications are then outlined, with emphasis on Green functions of quantum field theory and Parker's evaluation of Hawking radiation.
description: 14 pages, paper in honour of Gaetano Vilasi
p-Adic Stability In Linear Algebra
Creators: name: Caruso, Xavier
name: Roe, David
name: Vaccon, Tristan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using the differential precision methods developed previously by the same authors, we study the p-adic stability of standard operations on matrices and vector spaces. We demonstrate that lattice-based methods surpass naive methods in many applications, such as matrix multiplication and sums and intersections of subspaces. We also analyze determinants , characteristic polynomials and LU factorization using these differential methods. We supplement our observations with numerical experiments.
description: ISSAC 2015, Jul 2015, Bath, United Kingdom. 2015
Searching For Self: Addressing Identity In The Work Of Amrita Sher-Gil
Creators: name: Zvara, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Active primarily in the 1920s and 1930s in both Indian and European artistic circles, Amrita
Sher-Gil paved the way for women artists in India to liberate themselves from societal norms
imposed on them both as females and as artists. She was a pioneering figure in creating a visual
outlet for women to speak against India’s patriarchal society. Before Sher-Gil, women artists
in India occupied a subservient position in relation to their male counterparts despite their
talent, training, or subject matter. Today, contemporary artists throughout India credit
Sher-Gil as their source of inspiration as they use their art to speak out against India’s
social plights. While most scholarship on Amrita Sher-Gil focuses on her relationships with
India’s feminist and Independence movements, I am more concerned with understanding her inner
persona and character as well as the factors that influenced each of her works. Sher-Gil
navigated between India and Europe, Catholicism and Sikh, heterosexuality and homosexuality, wife
and mother, and woman and artist. Based on my study of her life, personal diary, letters, and
published editorials, I argue that Sher-Gil’s paintings suggest an attempt to understand her
multiple identities rather than aligning herself with any socio-political movement. This paper
also aims to evaluate Amrita Sher-Gil’s paintings as exercises in defining her identity
outside of fixed binaries. During her short 28 years, Sher-Gil created a variety of paintings in
an attempt to negotiate and reconcile the converging facets of her identity. Navigating divergent
cultures, ethnicities, linguistic and gendered experiences, Sher-Gil used her art to mediate and
understand these decidedly different dimensions of her identity.
Cladium Browne 1756
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cladium

description: Cladium Browne (1756: 114).
 Type: — C. jamaicense Crantz (1766: 362) (‘ iamaicense ’).
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2018, New names of fossil Cyperaceae of Northern Eurasia, pp. 131-144 in Phytotaxa 356 (2) on page 133, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13706075
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1359
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 50. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
title: The effect of diet on the cellular response to a small focal ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Fifield, Kathleen E.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that diet-induced obesity increases the risk of ischemic stroke. Furthermore, obesity is associated with worse neurological outcomes following overt ischemic strokes. The majority of strokes seen clinically; however, are covert, small strokes that often evade detection. How obesity impacts the cellular response to covert strokes is unclear. Furthermore, whether obesity alters the cellular response within the infarct core or penumbra is not known. To address these issues, I developed a mouse model of diet-induced obesity by feeding mice a high fat diet (HFD) for twelve weeks. Intra-cortical injections of Endothelin-1, a vasoconstrictor was used to induce a focal ischemic stroke that is representative of covert strokes observed in the clinic. To distinguish the ischemic core from the penumbra, an intra-cardiac injection of a dextran-linked fluorochrome was given at the time of euthanasia to label perfused blood vessels. Quantification of the number of labelled blood vessels per area allowed post mortem distinction of the infarct core from the penumbra in brain sections. Using this technique the cellular responses were examined in each region following stroke. The results show that: (1) prolonged high fat diet worsens stroke outcomes following small covert strokes; (2) cellular responses within the core and penumbra are distinct with the majority of neurons dying in the core by 4 hours. Neurons in the penumbra can survive up to 72 hours post-stroke despite extensive blood brain barrier (BBB) breakdown, leukocyte infiltration and astrogliosis; (3) acute administration of docosahexanoic acid (DHA) post-stroke ameliorates BBB disruption at 24 hours post-stroke in both diet groups, but its efficacy is attenuated in high-fat diet fed mice. In summary, diet-induced obesity exacerbates covert-like stroke injuries by worsening the cellular responses in the varying levels of perfusion across the infarct, while DHA may be a viable treatment for covert strokes.
Head-on collision of ultrarelativistic particles in ghost-free theories of gravity
Creators: name: Frolov, Valeri P.
name: Zelnikov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study linearized equations of a ghost-free gravity in four- and higher-dimensional spacetimes. We consider versions of such a theory where the nonlocal modification of the $\Box$ operator has the form $\Box \exp[(-\Box/μ^2)^N]$, where $N=1$ or $N=2n$. We first obtain the Newtonian gravitational potential for a point mass for such models and demonstrate that it is finite and regular in any number of spatial dimensions $d\ge 3$. The second result of the paper is calculation of the gravitational field of an ultrarelativistic particle in such theories. And finally, we study a head-on collision of two ultrarelativistic particles. We formulated conditions of the apparent horizon formation and showed that there exists a mass gap for mini-black-hole production in the ghost-free theory of gravity. In the case when the center-of-mass energy is sufficient for the formation of the apparent horizon, the latter has two branches, the outer and the inner ones. When the energy increases the outer horizon tends to the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini limit, while the inner horizon becomes closer to $r=0$.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, typos corrected
Isotropic and anisotropic pointing models
Creators: name: Pál, András
name: Vida, Krisztián
name: Mészáros, László
name: Mező, György
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes an alternative approach for generating pointing models for telescopes equipped with serial kinematics, esp. equatorial or alt-az mounts. Our model construction does not exploit any assumption for the underlying physical constraints of the mount, however, one can assign various effects to the respective components of the equations. In order to recover the pointing model parameters, classical linear least squares fitting procedures can be applied. This parameterization also lacks any kind of parametric singularity. We demonstrate the efficiency of this type of model on real measurements with meter-class telescopes where the results provide a root mean square accuracy of 1.5-2 arcseconds.
description: Accepted for publication in Exp. Astron
Protectionism and the Linguistic Reality of the French Language as Depicted through the Works of Erik Orsenna
Creators: name: Poulin, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Unlike in most countries where the effects of globalization are noticed
predominately with the introduction of foreign products and the presence of international
economic interrelations, the debate over globalization in France often focuses on the fear
of foreign influences on the French language. More specifically, these so-called “foreign
influences” only weakly veil the glaringly obvious accusation that the English language is
threatening French. During my year abroad, I grew accustomed to hearing many media-frenzied,
blatant accusations of how my mother tongue was threatening the language that
I had spent so much of my life attempting to master. Fearing that this might be true, I
decided to look further than the media’s viral call to the French to guard against the onset
of Anglicisms, and thus began research on the actual state of the French language’s
linguistic health and how modern linguists view this issue.