cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Portable Intrinsic Gradiometer for Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Magnetic Gradient in Unshielded Environment
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
name: Mhaskar, Rahul
name: Smith, Ken
name: Prouty, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a portable all-optical intrinsic scalar magnetic gradiometer composed of miniaturized cesium vapor cells and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Two cells, with an inner dimension of 5 mm x 5 mm x 5 mm and separated by a baseline of 5 cm, are driven by one VCSEL and the resulting Larmor precessions are probed by a second VCSEL through optical rotation. The off-resonant linearly polarized probe light interrogates two cells at the same time and the output of the intrinsic gradiometer is proportional to the magnetic field gradient measured over the given baseline. This intrinsic gradiometer scheme has the advantage of avoiding added noise from combining two scalar magnetometers. We achieve better than 18 fT/cm/rt-Hz sensitivity in the gradient measurement. Ultra-sensitive short-baseline magnetic gradiometers can potentially play an important role in many practical applications, such as nondestructive evaluation and unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection. Another application of the gradiometer is for magnetocardiography (MCG) in an unshielded environment. Real-time MCG signals can be extracted from the raw gradiometer readings. The demonstrated gradiometer greatly simplifies the MCG setup and may lead to ubiquitous MCG measurement in the future.
Characterizing and approximating scale mixtures
Creators: name: Hamdan, Hasan Naji
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is to identify and approximate infinite scale mixtures of normals, infinite scale mixture of uniforms and infinite scale mixtures of exponentials. We present a new method for approximating an infinite scale mixture with a known mixing measure by a scale mixture with a finite number of terms. The method is based on discretizing the mixing measure. We wish to minimize the number of terms, which depends on the mixing measure, used in this approximation process. The first part of the thesis will focus on scale mixture of normals in the univariate and multivariate setting. The new method will be used to approximate invariant and multivariate variance mixtures of normals with mean 0. Two different ways of applying the method in the multivariate case are introduced. Several results related to variance mixtures of normals are proved. Two different ways of estimating the mixing measure of the variance mixture of normals based on a sample are introduced. The first method is called the relative rate of change method, RRC, and the second method is called UNMIX. The estimated mixing measure from the UNMIX method is used to fit the data. Variance-mean mixtures are presented through Barndorff-Nielsen dependence structure. The approximation method is used to approximate variance-mean mixtures in the independent case. Infinite scale mixtures of uniforms are characterized and the new method is used to approximate them. Similarly, infinite scale mixture of exponentials are characterized and approximated by the new method. The performance of the method depends on what are we mixing and the percentage of the mixing measure in the tail and near the origin.
Dicerca asperata
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Dicerca
Dicerca asperata

description: 82. Dicerca asperata (Laporte and Gory, 1837)
 New State Record: Washington County, 11 May 1940, W. A. Connell, beating oak.
 County Records (n = 23): Chisago and Washington.
Collection Dates: 5 May–11 August.
 Minnesota Hosts: Adults collected on Quercus sp. Larval host recorded as Quercus sp.
 Collection Method: Beating Quercus sp. and as C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 183, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Stationary Einstein-Maxwell fields in arbitrary dimensions
Creators: name: Ida, Daisuke
name: Uchida, Yuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Einstein-Maxwell equations in D-dimensions admitting (D-3) commuting Killing vector fields have been investigated. The existence of the electric, magnetic and twist potentials have been proved. The system is formulated as the harmonic map coupled to gravity on three-dimensional base space generalizing the Ernst system in the four-dimensional stationary Einstein-Maxwell theory. Some classes of the new exact solutions have been provided, which include the electro-magnetic generalization of the Myers-Perry solution, which describes the rotating black hole immersed in a magnetic universe, and the static charged black ring solution.
description: 26 pages
Additional file 2 of MicroRNAs associated to single drug components of R-CHOP identifies diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with poor outcome and adds prognostic value to the international prognostic index
Creators: name: Due, Hanne
name: Brøndum, Rasmus Froberg
name: Young, Ken H.
name: Bøgsted, Martin
name: Dybkær, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. MicroRNA associated to single drug components of R-CHOP identifies diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with poor outcome and adds prognostic value to the international prognostic index.
Characterizing and approximating scale mixtures
Creators: name: Hamdan, Hasan Naji
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this study is to identify and approximate infinite scale mixtures of normals, infinite scale mixture of uniforms and infinite scale mixtures of exponentials. We present a new method for approximating an infinite scale mixture with a known mixing measure by a scale mixture with a finite number of terms. The method is based on discretizing the mixing measure. We wish to minimize the number of terms, which depends on the mixing measure, used in this approximation process. The first part of the thesis will focus on scale mixture of normals in the univariate and multivariate setting. The new method will be used to approximate invariant and multivariate variance mixtures of normals with mean 0. Two different ways of applying the method in the multivariate case are introduced. Several results related to variance mixtures of normals are proved. Two different ways of estimating the mixing measure of the variance mixture of normals based on a sample are introduced. The first method is called the relative rate of change method, RRC, and the second method is called UNMIX. The estimated mixing measure from the UNMIX method is used to fit the data. Variance-mean mixtures are presented through Barndorff-Nielsen dependence structure. The approximation method is used to approximate variance-mean mixtures in the independent case. Infinite scale mixtures of uniforms are characterized and the new method is used to approximate them. Similarly, infinite scale mixture of exponentials are characterized and approximated by the new method. The performance of the method depends on what are we mixing and the percentage of the mixing measure in the tail and near the origin.
Dicerca callosa subsp. callosa callosa Casey 1909
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Dicerca
Dicerca callosa
Dicerca callosa callosa casey, 1909

description: 83. Dicerca callosa callosa Casey, 1909
 County Records (n = 15): Beltrami, Clearwater, and Crow Wing.
Collection Dates: 14 June–9 August.
 Minnesota Hosts: Collected on “weeds”. Adults recorded on Betula sp., Populus tremuloides, and Salix sp.
 Collection Method: On weeds and as C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 183, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Imperfect Competition and International Trade: Evidence from Fourteen Industrial Countries
Creators: name: Helpman, Elhanan
name: Helpman, Elhanan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Specialization that results from comparative advantage in the production of homogeneous and differentiated -products is used to derive hypotheses about the volume of trade and its composition. These hypotheses are examined empirically for a sample of fourteen industrial countries during the post-war period.. The examination relies on cross-country comparisons as well as on comparisons of the group of countries at different points of time. The data seems to be consistent with the hypotheses.
Angle deficit & non-local gravitoelectromagnetism around a slowly spinning cosmic string
Creators: name: Boos, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic strings, as remnants of the symmetry breaking phase in the Early Universe, may be susceptible to non-local physics. Here we show that the presence of a Poincaré-invariant non-locality -- parametrized by a factor $\exp(-\Box\ell^2)$ -- regularizes the gravitational field and thereby changes the properties of spacetime: it is now simply connected and the angle deficit around the cosmic string becomes a function of the radial distance. Similar changes occur for the non-local gravitomagnetic field of a rotating cosmic string, and we translate these mathematical facts into the language of non-local gravitoelectromagnetism and thereby provide a physical interpretation. We hope that these insights might prove helpful in the search for traces of non-local physics in our Universe.
description: v2: Matches published version, 10 pages, 1 figure. v1: 9 pages, 1 figure. Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2020 Awards for Essays on Gravitation, awarded an Honorable Mention
Balance of Reason
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1885
Subjects: subject: Literary Union (Jacksonville, Ill.)
subject: Problem Solving
subject: Thinking
subject: Round Table (Jacksonville, Ill.)
subject: Sorosis (Jacksonville, Ill.)
subject: Club (Jacksonville, Ill.)
subject: Thinking
subject: Problem Solving

description: Given as a toast at a joint meeting of the four Jacksonville, Ill. clubs (Literary Union, Sorosis, Club, and Round Table) on February 13, 1885. Includes membership rosters
Non-Markovian Decay of a Three Level Cascade Atom in a Structured Reservoir
Creators: name: Dalton, B. J.
name: Garraway, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a formalism that enables the study of the non-Markovian dynamics of a three-level ladder system in a single structured reservoir. The three-level system is strongly coupled to a bath of reservoir modes and two quantum excitations of the reservoir are expected. We show that the dynamics only depends on reservoir structure functions, which are products of the mode density with the coupling constant squared. This result may enable pseudomode theory to treat multiple excitations of a structured reservoir. The treatment uses Laplace transforms and an elimination of variables to obtain a formal solution. This can be evaluated numerically (with the help of a numerical inverse Laplace transform) and an example is given. We also compare this result with the case where the two transitions are coupled to two separate structured reservoirs (where the example case is also analytically solvable).
Power lines: How commercial popular culture is creating a new public sphere in Accra, Ghana
Creators: name: Nadeau, Jennifer Ellen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Particularly in countries without long-standing experience with procedural democracy, definitions of political participation must reach beyond voting and protests to include activities ranging from union organization to theater and song. Processes of globalization, however, have increasingly incorporated such areas of informal political life into transnational economic structures. This project shows that because of as well as in spite of globalization, commercial popular culture in Accra is providing a new arena for political participation. The project combines fieldwork in Accra, textual analysis of popular art transcripts, and secondary source research. It begins by building a theoretical foundation for examining intersections between culture, politics, and economics, framing James Scott's study of the expression of subversive political ideas via "hidden transcripts" in the context of Gramscian theories of hegemony. It also addresses various approaches to understanding nonformal political participation, including civil society theory and studies of politics and art, and finally incorporates theories of globalization, including discussions of cultural imperialism and cultural hybridity. These theoretical abstractions manifest themselves in everyday commercial aesthetic activities. Accra's commercial radio, television, video movies, and live performances are shaped and regulated by powerful local, national, and transnational forces, including corporate advertisers, western cultural norms, wealthy elites, and the Ghanaian state. Yet they also offer an unprecedented space for public political expression and debate. They create and disseminate alternatives to dominant ideas and strategies for expression---even as technologies, regulating agencies, academic habits, and marketing channels continually work to consolidate hegemony. These new commercial media may also be helping to establish civil society in Accra, by providing a readily accessible public stockpile of shared cultural symbols as well as experience with new, standardized rules of political engagement. Though bounded and conditioned by various relations of social power, Accra's commercial popular arts provide a new venue for working out social problems and political positions.
Life Cycle Analysis of Bags for Food Scraps Collection
Creators: name: Kasper, Steven
name: Kim, Paul
name: Liang, Jeffrey
name: Muthukuda, Kawindi
name: Tamimi, Zeyad
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: This report analyzes three alternative composting systems to improve sustainability for the UBC composting system: switching to an off-site composting facility, replacing plastic bag liners with paper bags and switching to a bagless system. The evaluation was done by performing a triple bottom line analysis on each of the options based on the information acquired from the client Bud Fraser as well as information from online resources such as the SEEDS library. Upon examination, the results indicate that the bagless system is the most viable out of the three options. The bagless system can be integrated into the current composting system with very little effort, which saves a large amount of integration time to fully implement the system. It will allow for zero bag waste and, in comparison, a minimal amount of further waste in the form of fuel and water. It may be the most cost effective and the least disruptive solution to the current system, however the downsides to this solution are specifically social, such as custodian staff lifting heavier loads and trucks transporting bins more frequently. In the future, the findings of this report could be further used to develop an even more sustainable system of composting. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Power lines: How commercial popular culture is creating a new public sphere in Accra, Ghana
Creators: name: Nadeau, Jennifer Ellen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Particularly in countries without long-standing experience with procedural democracy, definitions of political participation must reach beyond voting and protests to include activities ranging from union organization to theater and song. Processes of globalization, however, have increasingly incorporated such areas of informal political life into transnational economic structures. This project shows that because of as well as in spite of globalization, commercial popular culture in Accra is providing a new arena for political participation. The project combines fieldwork in Accra, textual analysis of popular art transcripts, and secondary source research. It begins by building a theoretical foundation for examining intersections between culture, politics, and economics, framing James Scott's study of the expression of subversive political ideas via "hidden transcripts" in the context of Gramscian theories of hegemony. It also addresses various approaches to understanding nonformal political participation, including civil society theory and studies of politics and art, and finally incorporates theories of globalization, including discussions of cultural imperialism and cultural hybridity. These theoretical abstractions manifest themselves in everyday commercial aesthetic activities. Accra's commercial radio, television, video movies, and live performances are shaped and regulated by powerful local, national, and transnational forces, including corporate advertisers, western cultural norms, wealthy elites, and the Ghanaian state. Yet they also offer an unprecedented space for public political expression and debate. They create and disseminate alternatives to dominant ideas and strategies for expression---even as technologies, regulating agencies, academic habits, and marketing channels continually work to consolidate hegemony. These new commercial media may also be helping to establish civil society in Accra, by providing a readily accessible public stockpile of shared cultural symbols as well as experience with new, standardized rules of political engagement. Though bounded and conditioned by various relations of social power, Accra's commercial popular arts provide a new venue for working out social problems and political positions.
On the homotopy types of compact kaehler and complex projective manifolds
Creators: name: Voisin, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that in every dimension greater than or equal to 4, there exist compact Kaehler manifolds which do not have the homotopy type of projective complex manifolds. Thus they a fortiori are not deformation equivalent to a projective manifold, which solves negatively Kodaira's problem. We give both non simply connected (of dimension at least 4) and simply connected (of dimension at least 6) such examples.
description: To appear in Inventiones Math
Examining the differential returns from robbery incidents
Creators: name: Planty, Michael George
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates whether the differential returns from robbery incidents can be explained in terms of how these crimes are committed. Past research relying on offender surveys have failed to explain the difference between successful and unsuccessful criminal events because of its reliance on the offender as the unit of analysis, potential sample selectivity problems, and ambiguous definitions of success. Focusing on the offender and not the incident limits our understanding in important ways. Specific attributes of the incident, such as the offender's tactics, target characteristics and situational characteristics, are neglected or overly generalized. This research uses victimization surveys, which provide incident characteristics linked to outcomes, to test the "tactical choice analysis" model for street robberies. The model predicts that successful robbers use tactics and target victims that maximize intimidation and avoid exposure thereby increasing the likelihood of completion, payoff and arrest avoidance for a given crime. Specifically, this research examines whether the characteristics of how street robberies are committed, as predicted by the "tactical choice model," are significantly related to the probability of: (1) crime completion, (2) monetary payoff, (3) arrest avoidance, and (4) an integrated overall measure of incident success. 2,387 robbery incidents from the 1993--1998 National Crime Victimization Survey incident file are examined using multivariate regression techniques. The results show that the specific attributes of the criminal event are able to explain the differential returns for street robbery incidents for a given measure of success. The findings do not provide complete support for past research examining robbery incidents. The failure for this convergence with offender surveys is discussed in terms of sample selection, definitions of success, and statistical methodology. The findings are discussed in relation to selective crime prevention, and future research objectives are outlined.
Dicerca divaricata
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Dicerca
Dicerca divaricata

description: 85. Dicerca divaricata (Say, 1823)
 County Records (n = 281): Aitkin, Anoka, Beltrami, Cass, Chisago, Clearwater, Cook, Crow Wing, Fillmore, Goodhue, Hennepin, Itasca, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lake, Mille Lacs, Nicollet, Norman, Olmsted, Otter Tail, Pine, Ramsey, Red Lake, St. Louis, Stearns, Washington, and Wright.
Collection Dates: 4 May–21 October.
 Minnesota Hosts: Collected on Larix laricina and Populus sp. Larval hosts recorded as Acer pennsylvanicum, A. saccharum, Betula lenta L., Fraxinus americana, F. nigra, Ostrya virginiana, Quercus alba, Q. rubra, and Ulmus americana. Adults also on Abies sp., Acer negundo, A. rubrum, Betula alleghaniensis, Fagus grandifolia, Pinus sp., Populus balsamifera, and Prunus sp.
 Collection Method: On L. laricina logs, in Lindgren funnel trap on Pinus banksiana, and as C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 184, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Does Nature use neutral beams for interstellar plasma heating around compact objects?
Creators: name: Churazov, Eugene
name: Khabibullin, Ildar
name: Sunyaev, Rashid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A neutral beam injection technique is employed in all major TOKAMAK facilities for heating of magnetically confined plasma. The question then arises, whether a similar mechanism might work in astrophysical objects? For instance, a hyper-Eddington galactic binary SS433 possesses baryonic jets, moving at a quarter of the speed of light, and observations revealed signs of gas cooling and recombination on sub-pc scales and equally strong signs of powerful energy deposition on much larger scales $\sim$100 pc. Here we consider a model where neutral atoms transport this energy. A sub-relativistic beam of neutral atoms penetrates the interstellar medium, these atoms gradually get ionised and deposit their energy over a region, whose longitudinal dimension is set by the "ionisation length". The channel, where the energy is deposited, expands sideways and drives a shock in the lateral direction. Once the density in the channel drops, the heating rate by the beam drops accordingly, and the region of the energy release moves along the direction of the beam. We discuss distinct features associated with this scenario and speculate that such configuration might also boost shock acceleration of the "pick-up" protons that arise due to ionisation of neutral atoms both upstream and downstream of the shock.
description: MNRAS, accepted
Additional file 1 of MicroRNAs associated to single drug components of R-CHOP identifies diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with poor outcome and adds prognostic value to the international prognostic index
Creators: name: Due, Hanne
name: Brøndum, Rasmus Froberg
name: Young, Ken H.
name: Bøgsted, Martin
name: Dybkær, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Rituximab response-specific miRNAs. Table 2. Cyclophosphamide response-specific miRNAs. Table 3. Doxorubicin response-specific miRNAs. Table 4. Vincristine response-specific miRNAs. Table 5. Uni and multivariate cox regression analysis. Figure 1. Predicted survival from various prognostic classifiers vs observed overall survival with the brier score (top row) or time varying AUC (bottom row). Figure 2. Predicted risk group vs 5-year overall survival in the combined GCB dataset. Figure 3. Predicted risk group vs 5-year overall survival in GCB classified patients within each dataset: IDRC, LLMPPR-CHOP, and AAU. Figure 4. Correlation analysis between mature miRNA and miRNA encoding gene. Figrue 5. Correlation analysis between mature miRNA and miRNA encoding gene.
Spatial analysis of HPV vaccination rates in Chicago: utilizing geographic information systems software to analyze rates of adolescent HPV immunization across clinics of Chicago
Creators: name: Hamann, Haley
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: public health
subject: HPV vaccination
subject: Papillomavirus Vaccines
subject: Papillomaviridae
subject: Spatial Analysis
subject: Healthcare Disparities
subject: Vaccination
subject: Chicago (Ill.)

description: A Northwestern University Capstone Project
description: Background: Persistent infection of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the leading cause of cervical cancer in women and can lead to reproductive health problems in both men and women (1). Although this is widely recognized by health professionals and understood to be preventable by a basic vaccine series, certain cities of Chicago are still struggling to vaccinate their adolescent patients. This is a widely recognized issue, and one that (unlike many other public health problems) has a solution. Methods: This analysis utilized geographic information systems (GIS) and de-identified clinic-level data from the Chicago Department of Public Health in order to visualize the rates of HPV vaccination across Vaccines for Children providers in the city and to determine areas of the city that education or communication efforts to improve the HPV vaccination rate need to be directed towards. The visual, geospatial data was also subject to statistical analysis in order to determine statistically significant hot and cold spot trends of vaccination across Chicago clinics. Results: The trends observed in this analysis are consistent with other public health disparities in the cityzip codes on the south side of Chicago maintained low rates of vaccination across their clinics while the northern and western zip codes seemed to perform far more superior. Specifically, zip codes 60628, 60620, and 60643 were cold spots for this data and represent most of the well-known southern Chicago neighborhoods most affected by the clear health disparity. On the other hand, zip codes 60634, 60707 and 60639 represented the hot spots for high vaccination rates and populated the citys medical district and academic hospitalcommunities.Discussion: It is important to recognize that racial and health disparities go hand in hand, and this analysis brings to light a similar point. By understanding the patients that are served in clinics with significantly low rates of HPV vaccination, the city can better understand the types of interventions that will facilitate the citys improvement in their rates of HPV vaccination. This analysis is important and relevant for the Chicago Department of Public Health and can be used to further launch client-centered or communication-based interventions in clinics themselves in order to improve vaccination recommendations, increase series completion rates and bring the city up to meet their goal of 80% adolescents vaccinated against HPV.
Petite valeurs propres des fibrés principaux en tores
Creators: name: Jammes, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J50, 58C40

description: Let M^n be a compact n-dimensional principal T^k-bundle. We consider collapsings of M on N=M/T^k such that the diameter and sectional curvature of M satisfy diam(M)
description: 28 pages, in French. 1 figure, v4: final version
title: Abstract - Development of a Graph Model for the OMOP Common Data Model
title: Development of a Graph Model for the OMOP Common Data Model
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kang, Mengjia
name: Alvarado-Guzman, Jose A.
name: Rasmussen, Luke
name: Starren, Justin B
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graph Database
subject: SCRIPT study
subject: OMOP CDM
subject: Models, Theoretical
subject: Graph databases
subject: Data Curation

description: Current phenotyping and systems biology research requires not only integration of large volumes of Electronic Health Record (EHR) and multi-omics data, but also capturing the multitudes of relations among the concepts. Graph databases have emerged as a promising technology for such tasks, supporting not only local analysis but also global analysis leveraging graph algorithms like Centrality, Community Detection, Path Finding or Node Embeddings.Unfortunately, EHR data is rarely available in a graph format. While a nave row-to-node conversion is possible, the resulting graph is typically attribute-heavy, resulting in suboptimal performance. To address this limitation, we developed a modelling method to convert data form the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM) to the Neo4j [www.neo4j.com] graph property model.
Nonuniversal Equation of State of a Quasi-2D Bose Gas in Dimensional Crossover
Creators: name: Ye, Xiaoran
name: Yu, Tao
name: Liang, Zhaoxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equation of state (EOS) for a pure two-dimensional (2D) Bose gas exhibits a logarithmic dependence on the s-wave scattering length [L. Salasnich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130402 (2017)]. The pronounced disparity between the EOS of a 2D Bose gas and its 3D counterpart underscores the significance of exploring the dimensional crossover between these two distinct dimensions. In this work, we are motivated to deduce nonuniversal corrections to EOS for an optically trapped Bose gas along the dimensional crossover from 3D to 2D, incorporating the finite-range effects of the interatomic potential. Employing the framework of effective field theory, we derive the analytical expressions for both the ground state energy and quantum depletion. The introduction of the lattice induces a transition from a 3D to a quasi-2D regime. In particular, we systematically analyze the asymptotic behaviors of both the 2D and 3D aspects of the model system, with a specific focus on the nonuniversal effects on the EOS arising from finite-range interactions. The nonuniversal effects proposed in this study along the dimensional crossover represent a significant stride toward unraveling the intricate interplay between dimensionality and quantum fluctuations.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Fluctuational Anomalous Hall and Nernst Effects in Superconductors
Creators: name: Li, Songci
name: Levchenko, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we develop microscopic kinetic theory of the anomalous Hall and Nernst effects in superconductors induced by fluctuations in the vicinity of the critical transition temperature. The technical analysis is carried out within the Matsubara diagrammatic technique and linear response Kubo formula with disorder averaging and an analytical continuation. It is shown that asymmetric skew-scattering due to spin-orbit interaction gives rise to a new anomalous Hall conductance promoted by Maki-Thompson interference and density of states fluctuational effects. The side-jump mechanism of the anomalous Hall effect is present only in the density of states contributions. The anomalous Nernst effect is found due to a special nonlinear Aslamazov-Larkin term from the quantum-crossing of interacting fluctuations in a Hikami box with the skew-scattering process. In addition to calculations in the weak-coupling BCS model we also sketch an approach for the account of fluctuational transport effects in the strong-coupling limit. In particular we explore an example of how Keldysh version of the Eliashberg theory can in principle be constructed and estimate fluctuation-induced conductivity within conventional electron-phonon coupling scenario. These ideas may pave the way for further developments of strong coupling theories in applications to fluctuations in unconventional superconductors and anomalous transport responses in particular.
description: Preprint submitted to Annals of Physics special issue "Eliashberg theory at 60" [23 pages, 6 figures, 1 table]
Examining the differential returns from robbery incidents
Creators: name: Planty, Michael George
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This study investigates whether the differential returns from robbery incidents can be explained in terms of how these crimes are committed. Past research relying on offender surveys have failed to explain the difference between successful and unsuccessful criminal events because of its reliance on the offender as the unit of analysis, potential sample selectivity problems, and ambiguous definitions of success. Focusing on the offender and not the incident limits our understanding in important ways. Specific attributes of the incident, such as the offender's tactics, target characteristics and situational characteristics, are neglected or overly generalized. This research uses victimization surveys, which provide incident characteristics linked to outcomes, to test the "tactical choice analysis" model for street robberies. The model predicts that successful robbers use tactics and target victims that maximize intimidation and avoid exposure thereby increasing the likelihood of completion, payoff and arrest avoidance for a given crime. Specifically, this research examines whether the characteristics of how street robberies are committed, as predicted by the "tactical choice model," are significantly related to the probability of: (1) crime completion, (2) monetary payoff, (3) arrest avoidance, and (4) an integrated overall measure of incident success. 2,387 robbery incidents from the 1993--1998 National Crime Victimization Survey incident file are examined using multivariate regression techniques. The results show that the specific attributes of the criminal event are able to explain the differential returns for street robbery incidents for a given measure of success. The findings do not provide complete support for past research examining robbery incidents. The failure for this convergence with offender surveys is discussed in terms of sample selection, definitions of success, and statistical methodology. The findings are discussed in relation to selective crime prevention, and future research objectives are outlined.
Effects of set size and growth regulators on growth and yield of onion
Creators: name: Mondal, M. F.
name: Alam, M. S.
name: Mondal, M. F.
name: Alam, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Onion
subject: IAA
subject: GA3
subject: NAA
subject: Cycocel
subject: Growth
subject: Yield

description: The experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of three sizes of sets viz., small (2.25g), medium (5.5g) and large (9.00g), and five growth regulators, namely IAA (200 ppm), GA3(100 ppm), NAA (200 ppm), CCC (500 ppm) and a control on the growth and yield of onion cv. Taherpuri. Large bulb produced the highest bulb yield (12.86t/ha) by increasing plant height, number of leaves per plant, bulb diameter and mean bulb weight. Smaller bulb produced higher proportion of single bulbs (62.53%) than larger ones. The growth regulators significantly increased the bulb yield compared with control treatment. Application of IAA at 200 ppm gave the best results on all the parameters except plant height. The highest bulb yield was recorded as 12.57t/ha from the plants sprayed with IAA at 200 ppm. The interaction effect of bulb size and growth regulators was not significant. The combined treatment of large bulb x IAA gave rise to the highest bulb yield (14.23t/ha). The highest gross income (TK. 3,13,060/ha) and net return (TK. 1,67,445/ha) were obtained from the treatment combination of large bulb x IAA and large bulb x NAA. But the highest benefit cost ratio (2.52) was found in the treatment combination of small bulb x NAA. The effects of growth regulators were found in order of IAA>GA3>NAA>CCC.
Chemical and morphological characterization of III-V strained layered heterostructures
Creators: name: Gray, Allen Lindsay
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation describes investigations into the chemical and morphological characterization of III-V strained layered heterostructures by high-resolution x-ray diffraction. The purpose of this work is two-fold. The first was to use high-resolution x-ray diffraction coupled with transmission electron microscopy to characterize structurally a quaternary AlGaAsSb/InGaAsSb multiple quantum well heterostructure laser device. A method for uniquely determining the chemical composition of the strain quaternary quantum well, information previously thought to be unattainable using high resolution x-ray diffraction is thoroughly described. The misconception that high-resolution x-ray diffraction can separately find the well and barrier thickness of a multi-quantum well from the pendellosung fringe spacing is corrected, and thus the need for transmission electron microscopy is motivated. Computer simulations show that the key in finding the well composition is the intensity of the -3rd order satellite peaks in the diffraction pattern. The second part of this work addresses the evolution of strain relief in metastable multi-period InGaAs/GaAs multi-layered structures by high-resolution x-ray reciprocal space maps. Results are accompanied by transmission electron and differential contrast microscopy. The evolution of strain relief is tracked from a coherent "pseudomorphic" growth to a dislocated state as a function of period number by examining the x-ray diffuse scatter emanating from the average composition (zeroth-order) of the multi-layer. Relaxation is determined from the relative positions of the substrate with respect to the zeroth-order peak. For the low period number, the diffuse scatter from the multi-layer structure region arises from periodic, coherent crystallites. For the intermediate period number, the displacement fields around the multi-layer structure region transition to random coherent crystallites. At the higher period number, displacement fields of overlapping dislocations from relaxation of the random crystallites cause the initial stages of relaxation of the multi-layer structure. At the highest period number studied, relaxation of the multi-layer structure becomes bi-modal characterized by overlapping dislocations caused by mosaic block relaxation and periodically spaced misfit dislocations formed by 60°-type dislocations. The relaxation of the multi-layer structure has an exponential dependence on the diffuse scatter length-scale, which is shown to be a sensitive measure of the onset of relaxation.
Chemical and morphological characterization of III-V strained layered heterostructures
Creators: name: Gray, Allen Lindsay
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This dissertation describes investigations into the chemical and morphological characterization of III-V strained layered heterostructures by high-resolution x-ray diffraction. The purpose of this work is two-fold. The first was to use high-resolution x-ray diffraction coupled with transmission electron microscopy to characterize structurally a quaternary AlGaAsSb/InGaAsSb multiple quantum well heterostructure laser device. A method for uniquely determining the chemical composition of the strain quaternary quantum well, information previously thought to be unattainable using high resolution x-ray diffraction is thoroughly described. The misconception that high-resolution x-ray diffraction can separately find the well and barrier thickness of a multi-quantum well from the pendellosung fringe spacing is corrected, and thus the need for transmission electron microscopy is motivated. Computer simulations show that the key in finding the well composition is the intensity of the -3rd order satellite peaks in the diffraction pattern. The second part of this work addresses the evolution of strain relief in metastable multi-period InGaAs/GaAs multi-layered structures by high-resolution x-ray reciprocal space maps. Results are accompanied by transmission electron and differential contrast microscopy. The evolution of strain relief is tracked from a coherent "pseudomorphic" growth to a dislocated state as a function of period number by examining the x-ray diffuse scatter emanating from the average composition (zeroth-order) of the multi-layer. Relaxation is determined from the relative positions of the substrate with respect to the zeroth-order peak. For the low period number, the diffuse scatter from the multi-layer structure region arises from periodic, coherent crystallites. For the intermediate period number, the displacement fields around the multi-layer structure region transition to random coherent crystallites. At the higher period number, displacement fields of overlapping dislocations from relaxation of the random crystallites cause the initial stages of relaxation of the multi-layer structure. At the highest period number studied, relaxation of the multi-layer structure becomes bi-modal characterized by overlapping dislocations caused by mosaic block relaxation and periodically spaced misfit dislocations formed by 60°-type dislocations. The relaxation of the multi-layer structure has an exponential dependence on the diffuse scatter length-scale, which is shown to be a sensitive measure of the onset of relaxation.
Dicerca lepida LeConte 1857
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Dicerca
Dicerca lepida

description: 86. Dicerca lepida LeConte, 1857
 New State Record: Ramsey County. Collection date unspecified. Identified by J. N. Knull in 1922.
 County Records (n = 1): Ramsey.
Collection Dates: Unspecified.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Crataegus chrysocarpa var. chrysocarpa and Ostrya virginiana. Adults also on Quercus sp.
Collection Method: Unspecified.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 184, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Seed production of Sesbania rostrata through vegetative propagation
Creators: name: Bhuiya, M. S. U.
name: Salam, M. A.
name: Bhuiya, M. S. U.
name: Salam, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Sesbania rostrata
subject: Vegetative propagation
subject: Seed production

description: Three field experiments were conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Bangladesh 'Agricultural University, Mymensingh to determine the suitable age of mother plant for stem cutting, the appropriate length of cutting, and the optimum date of planting, spacing and dose of TSP for seed production of Sesbania rostrata. These experiments were conducted during July to December each year of 2000 to 2002. Each of the experiments was set in a Randomized Complete Block design with four replications. Results indicated that for seed production of the crop through vegetative means, it might be raised with top portion planted on 20 July. Neither the age of mother plant, length of cutting and their interaction nor the plant spacing, dose of TSP and their interaction had any significant effect on the plant characters and seed yield of the crop.
Reduction Theorems for Optimal Unambiguous State Discrimination of Density Matrices
Creators: name: Raynal, Philippe
name: Lütkenhaus, Norbert
name: van Enk, Steven J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present reduction theorems for the problem of optimal unambiguous state discrimination (USD) of two general density matrices. We show that this problem can be reduced to that of two density matrices that have the same rank $n$ and are described in a Hilbert space of dimensions $2n$. We also show how to use the reduction theorems to discriminate unambiguously between N mixed states (N \ge 2).
description: 6 pages, 1 figure