cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Longitudinal fMRI assessment in chronic spinal cord injury treated by intrathecal baclofen - pilot study
Creators: name: Keller, Jiří
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Trauma
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Statistics
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Spasticity is a frequent sign of upper motor neuron lesion in chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). In severe cases intrathecal baclofen (ITB) administration is recommended [1,2]. Being strong GABAB agonist ( Fig. 1 ), baclofen modulates spinal as well...
USIA Poll # 1985-I85109: 1985 Central American Opinion Survey
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Most important problem in the country (2); most important international problem for the country (2); threats from another country (9); aid from other countries (6); intervention from other countries (15); opinion about other countries (17); Guatemala's relations with other countries (9); views about the government and the armed conflict in El Salvador (12); views about the government and the armed conflict in Nicaragua (10); views about Cuba's government (3); knowledge and solution for the armed conflict in El Salvador (15); military aid to El Salvador (7); knowledge and solution for the armed conflict in Nicaragua (10); military maneuvers (5); aid from the United States (6); Contadora countries (5).
The Gaia-ESO survey: mapping the shape and evolution of the radial abundance gradients with open clusters
Creators: name: Magrini, L.
name: Vazquez, C. Viscasillas
name: Spina, L.
name: Randich, S.
name: Romano, D.
name: Franciosini, E.
name: Recio-Blanco, A.
name: Nordlander, T.
name: D'Orazi, V.
name: Baratella, M.
name: Smiljanic, R.
name: Dantas, M. L. L.
name: Pasquini, L.
name: Spitoni, E.
name: Casali, G.
name: Van der Swaelmen, M.
name: Bensby, T.
name: Stonkute, E.
name: Sacco, S. Feltzing. G. G.
name: Bragaglia, A.
name: Pancino, E.
name: Heiter, U.
name: Biazzo, K.
name: Gilmore, G.
name: Bergemann, M.
name: Tautvaivsiene, G.
name: Worley, C.
name: Hourihane, A.
name: Gonneau, A.
name: Morbidelli, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spatial distribution of elemental abundances and their time evolution are among the major constraints to disentangle the scenarios of formation and evolution of the Galaxy. We used the sample of open clusters available in the final release of the Gaia-ESO survey to trace the Galactic radial abundance and abundance to iron ratio gradients, and their time evolution. We selected member stars in 62 open clusters, with ages from 0.1 to about 7~Gyr, located in the Galactic thin disc at Galactocentric radii from about 6 to 21~kpc. We analysed the shape of the resulting [Fe/H] gradient, the average gradients [El/H] and [El/Fe] combining elements belonging to four different nucleosynthesis channels, and their individual abundance and abundance ratio gradients. We also investigated the time evolution of the gradients dividing open clusters in three age bins. The[Fe/H] gradient has a slope of -0.054 dex~kpc-1. We saw different behaviours for elements belonging to different channels. We found that the youngest clusters in the inner disc have lower metallicity than their older counterpart and they outline a flatter gradient. We considered some possible explanations, including the effects of gas inflow and migration. We suggested that it might be a bias introduced by the standard spectroscopic analysis producing lower metallicities in low gravity stars. To delineate the shape of the `true' gradient, we should limit our analysis to stars with low surface gravity logg>2.5 and xi<1.8 km~s-1. Based on this reduced sample, we can conclude that the gradient has minimally evolved over the time-frame outlined by the open clusters, indicating a slow and stationary formation of the thin disc in the latest Gyr. We found a secondary role of clusters' migration in shaping the gradient, with a more prominent role of migration for the oldest clusters.
description: 25 pages, 14 figures and 4 tables in the main text, 3 figures and 7 tables in the Appendix. Accepted for publication in A&A
title: Ultrasound validation of trendelenburg positioning to increase internal jugular vein cross- sectional area in chronic dialysis patients
Creators: name: Nayman, Alaaddin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Venous access
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hemodialysis is the most frequently utilized therapy and the right internal jugular vein (IJV) is a commonly used cannulation site for central venous access in chronically dialyzed patients (1,2). The safe and successful placement of the central...
Program and Evaluation Plan: An Intervention to Increase Childhood Vaccination Rates in the Chapel Hill Area
Creators: name: Frederick, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Childhood vaccination rates in North Carolina are currently well below the rate needed to confer herd immunity. As a result, there were three measles outbreaks in the State in 2013. The goal of this intervention is to increase vaccination coverage for children aged 19-35 months through an educational program for parents who initially refuse vaccination in the Chapel Hill area. This paper provides the program and evaluation plans for the intervention. It opens with a systematic review of the literature, addressing similar interventions and their evaluation. The program plan addresses the development of the intervention; its goals and its implementation. The evaluation plan is a way to assess whether the intervention is being implemented as planned, as well as the efficacy of the intervention. The paper is a guide to the development, implementation and evaluation of the intervention, and provides an approach to dissemination.
title: Feasibility study of thin-section brain CT in the routine dose protocol with a new iterative reconstruction technique
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaoyi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: Radiobiology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of the present study was to assess the feasibility of a knowledge-based iterative model reconstruction (IMR) in the routine dose protocol brain CT, and also investigate the quantitative and qualitative of thin slice and routine slice...
British Gallup Poll CQ 990A
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Approval of government's record (1); satisfaction with Mrs. Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister (1); Mr. Neil Kinnock as leader of the Labor Party (1); Mr. David Steel as leader of the Liberal party (1); Dr. David Owen as leader of the Social Democratic Party (1); voting in General Election (4); affiliation with political party (1); approval of government's policy towards South Africa (3); should government conduct economic transaction against South Africa (1); would economic transaction against South Africa lead to relaxation in South Africa's apartheid policy (1); who will be harm by the economic transaction (1); economic transaction cause more hardships for the native population of South Africa (1); boycotting goods (4).
The mRMR variable selection method: a comparative study for functional data
Creators: name: Berrendero, José R.
name: Cuevas, Antonio
name: Torrecilla, José L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Primary: 62H30, Secondary: 62H20

description: The use of variable selection methods is particularly appealing in statistical problems with functional data. The obvious general criterion for variable selection is to choose the `most representative' or `most relevant' variables. However, it is also clear that a purely relevance-oriented criterion could lead to select many redundant variables. The mRMR (minimum Redundance Maximum Relevance) procedure, proposed by Ding and Peng (2005) and Peng et al. (2005) is an algorithm to systematically perform variable selection, achieving a reasonable trade-off between relevance and redundancy. In its original form, this procedure is based on the use of the so-called mutual information criterion to assess relevance and redundancy. Keeping the focus on functional data problems, we propose here a modified version of the mRMR method, obtained by replacing the mutual information by the new association measure (called distance correlation) suggested by Székely et al. (2007). We have also performed an extensive simulation study, including 1600 functional experiments (100 functional models $\times$ 4 sample sizes $\times$ 4 classifiers) and three real-data examples aimed at comparing the different versions of the mRMR methodology. The results are quite conclusive in favor of the new proposed alternative.
Giant Vortices and the Regge Limit
Creators: name: Cuomo, Gabriel
name: Komargodski, Zohar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years it has been shown that strongly coupled systems become analytically tractable in the regime of large quantum numbers, such as large spin or large charge. The effective theories that emerge in these two limits are Regge theory and superfluid theory, respectively. Here we make a proposal for a new phase, the ``giant vortex,'' describing an intermediate regime with large spin and charge. The new phase connects superfluid theory with the large-spin expansion. The giant vortex admits a semi-classical effective theory description with peculiar chiral excitations (moving at the speed of light) and a Fock space of states that is reminiscent of the multi-twist operators in Regge theory, including the leading and daughter Regge trajectories. A similar giant vortex phase appears for Bose-Einstein condensates in a rotating trap, and our results should be applicable in that context as well. We show that the transition from the giant vortex to the Regge regime is accompanied by the scaling dimension turning from being larger than to being smaller than the mean field theory value, i.e. gravity switches from being the weakest force at small AdS distance to being the strongest force at large AdS distance.
description: 23 pages + appendices, 3 figures, v2 references added, small corrections v3 minor edits, journal version
title: Associations between the structural connectome and amygdala pathology
Creators: name: Milosavljevic, Tamara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Computer applications
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Biological effects
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate differences in the structural connectome among patients with normal cognition (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), psychoses of epilepsy (POE), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and sexual dysfunction (SD) after drug abuse and to determine...
Precise Estimate of Charged Wino Decay Rate
Creators: name: Ibe, Masahiro
name: Mishima, Masataka
name: Nakayama, Yuhei
name: Shirai, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Wino is an $\mathrm{SU}(2)_{L}$ triplet Majorana fermion and a well-motivated dark matter candidate. The mass difference between the charged and the neutral Winos is small thanks to the $\mathrm{SU}(2)_{L}$ symmetry. The small mass difference makes the charged Wino meta-stable, which provides disappearing charged track signatures at collider experiments. The constraint on the Wino dark matter at the LHC strongly depends on the Wino lifetime. We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) correction of the charged Wino decay and make the most precise estimate of the decay rate. We find that the NLO decay rate is determined by the mass difference and scarcely depend on the Wino mass itself in the heavy Wino limit. As a result, we find the NLO correction gives a minor impact on the lifetime of 2-4% increase.
description: 52 pages, 18 figures; published version
Comptes rendus
Creators: name: Postal, Cendrine
name: Berranger, Marie-Paule
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Publicité
subject: Littérature
subject: Collaboration
subject: Commerce
subject: Écrivains
subject: Advertising
subject: Literature
subject: Collaboration
subject: Commerce
subject: Writers

description: Ce volume illustré est une magistrale démonstration des liens puissants, bien que perçus contre-nature, entre la littérature et la publicité. La pratique de l’une grâce à l’autre s’avère une transgression : art et commerce ont souvent joué les frères ennemis, alors que depuis le XIXe siècle et le développement de la réclame, ils se fréquentent, se provoquent et collaborent au vu et au su de tous, stimulés par de très nombreux auteurs.
description: This illustrated volume masterfully demonstrates the powerful but supposedly unnatural links between literature and advertising. Their mutual enabling has proved to be transgressive: the worlds of art and commerce have often appeared to be “fraternal enemies,” while since the nineteenth century and the development of advertising they have openly frequented each other, provoked each other, and collaborated, stimulated by a large number of authors.
title: Accuracy of cardiac MRI single-breath-hold vs non-breath-hold compressed sensing input data for left ventricular volumetry: a clinical feasibility study
Creators: name: Sudarski, Sonja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR physics
subject: MR
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Image compression
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Complete data-sampled segmented multi-breath-hold cine cardiac MR sequences (CMR) are the accepted reference method for accurate assessment of left ventricular (LV) function and mass. CMR image quality largely depends on the patient’s capability...
Assuring the Influenza Vaccine Supply
Creators: name: McCall, Pamela B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Influenza disease epidemics occur seasonally in the United States and cause significant morbidity and mortality among certain high-risk groups. Influenza vaccines have been shown to decrease mortality and morbidity from influenza infection and are a safe and effective means of influenza prevention. Despite the availability of vaccine many high-risk groups are not vaccinated annually as is recommended by public health and medical experts. Lack of predictable, widespread vaccine uptake contributes to production and market issues affecting a consistently adequate and timely influenza vaccine supply. Problems with vaccine production in general are exacerbated by unique qualities of influenza vaccine production. Added to these problems is the urgent need to prepare for an impending influenza pandemic. Addressing these issues will involve public education and promotion of influenza vaccine, research and development of new vaccine technology and government intervention to assure a safe and adequate influenza vaccine supply.
Further consistency tests of the stability of fundamental couplings
Creators: name: Ferreira, M. C.
name: Martins, C. J. A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent publication [Ferreira {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. D89 (2014) 083011] we tested the consistency of current astrophysical tests of the stability of the fine-structure constant $α$ and the proton-to-electron mass ratio $μ=m_p/m_e$ (mostly obtained in the optical/ultraviolet) with combined measurements of $α$, $μ$ and the proton gyromagnetic ratio $g_p$ (mostly in the radio band). Given the significant observational progress made in the past year, we now revisit and update this analysis. We find that apparent inconsistencies, at about the two-sigma level, persist and are in some cases enhanced, especially for matter era measurements (corresponding to redshifts $z>1$). Although hidden systematics may be the more plausible explanation, we briefly highlight the importance of clarifying this issue, which is within the reach of state-of-the art observational facilities such as ALMA and ESPRESSO.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
title: Post-mortem CT imaging with biopsies as an alternative to autopsy in the diagnosis of cause of death in the intensive care unit: initial observations
Creators: name: Lahaye, Max
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Forensics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Public objection to autopsy has led to a decrease in autopsy rates and consequently to a search for minimally invasive diagnostic alternatives (1). This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of post- mortem CT (including standardized image-guided...
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: George W. Bush/CIA
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: George W. Bush job performance (1); U.S. Justice Department investigation about name release of undercover CIA agent (2); how likely that someone in White House leaked classified information (1); how likely that George W. Bush knew in advance that someone in White House was going to leak classified information (1); investigation should be handled by Justice Department/special counsel (1); think White House is/is not fully cooperating with investigation (1); what should happen if investigation finds that someone in White House leaked classified information (2).
Perceptions About The New Pertussis Immunization Recommendation Among Health Care Workers
Creators: name: Jordan, John G., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: New guidelines from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICP AC) recommend that health-care personnel should receive a single dose of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) as soon as feasible, if they have not previously received T dap. This represents a change in previous bordetella Pertussis (Pertussis) immunization practices, which previously recommended completion of only a series of Pertussis vaccination during childhood. The ACIP's new policy is largely in response to an increasing in reported incidence of Pertussis within the United States over the past couple of decades and data suggesting that immunity to Pertussis wanes over time. This Master's Paper reviews the health care community's historical response to recommended vaccines and evaluates health care workers' perception of the new pertussis vaccination recommendation in one large University-based Hospital System. The literature review reveals that misperceptions about vaccines (such as vaccines cause infections or are not effective), individual barriers (such as high cost and inconvenience) and systematic obstacles (such as lack of vaccination policy and incomplete tracking of immunization) make it difficult to achieve high immunization rates across a wide variety of recommended vaccines. However, none of the studies included in the systematic review discussed the new T dap vaccine. Our study of health care worker peceptions of the T dap recommendation is the first published report on the topic. Results from our study indicate that health care workers feel the pertussis vaccine is very important to the health of the public and that health care workers strongly agree that vaccination will prevent them from getting pertussis or giving pertussis to patients. Health care workers agree that Tdap vaccination is a personal responsibility and they also feel that T dap vaccination should be required for persons who work at a hospital. Both free vaccines and workman's compensation, to cover complications of vaccination, are very important to HCWs. This willingness of health care workers to accept the new vaccine requirement is very different from the resistance healthcare workers have applied to other immunization recommendations as reported in the published literature. UNC Health Care System's Tdap vaccination requirement is an appropriate health care policy and other health care facilities should strongly consider similar Tdap vaccination mandates.
Potential scientific synergies in weak lensing studies between the CSST and Euclid space probes
Creators: name: Liu, D. Z.
name: Meng, X. M.
name: Er, X. Z.
name: Fan, Z. H.
name: Kilbinger, M.
name: Li, G. L.
name: Li, R.
name: Schrabback, T.
name: Scognamiglio, D.
name: Shan, H. Y.
name: Tao, C.
name: Ting, Y. S.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Cheng, S. H.
name: Farrens, S.
name: Fu, L. P.
name: Hildebrandt, H.
name: Kang, X.
name: Kneib, J. P.
name: Liu, X. K.
name: Mellier, Y.
name: Nakajima, R.
name: Schneider, P.
name: Starck, J. L.
name: Wei, C. L.
name: Wright, A. H.
name: Zhan, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. With the next generation of large surveys coming to the stage of observational cosmology soon, it is important to explore their potential synergies and to maximise their scientific outcomes. In this study, we aim to investigate the complementarity of the two upcoming space missions Euclid and the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), focusing on weak lensing (WL) cosmology. In particular, we analyse the photometric redshifts (photo-zs) and the galaxy blending effects. For Euclid, WL measurements suffer from chromatic PSF effects. For this, CSST can provide valuable information for Euclid to obtain more accurate PSF, and to calibrate the color and color-gradient biases for WL measurements. Methods. We create image simulations for different surveys, and quantify the photo-z performance. For blending analyses, we employ high-resolution HST/CANDELS data to mock Euclid, CSST, and an LSST-like survey. We analyse the blending fraction for different cases, and the blending effects on galaxy photometry. Furthermore, we demonstrate that CSST can provide a large enough number of high SNR multi-band galaxy images to calibrate the color-gradient biases for Euclid. Results. The sky coverage of Euclid lies entirely within the CSST footprint. The combination of Euclid with CSST data can be done more uniformly than with the various ground-based data. Our studies show that by combining Euclid and CSST, we can reach a photo-z precision of $σ_{\rm NMAD} \approx 0.04$, and an outlier fraction of $η\approx 2.4\%$. Because of the similarly high resolutions, the data combination of Euclid and CSST can be relatively straightforward for photometry. To include ground-based data, however, sophisticated deblending utilizing priors from high-resolution space data is demanded. The color-gradient biases for Euclid can be well calibrated to the level of 0.1% using galaxies from CSST deep survey.
description: 18 pages, 19 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
JFHSC_Volume 4_Issue 39_Pages 33-62.pdf
Creators: name: Gharib, Manal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social psychology

description: Les effets négatifs d'un enlèvement sur le psychisme d’un enfant dans « 3096 jours » de Natascha Kampush,
title: Gd-EOB enhanced MRI T1-weighted 3D-GRE with and without elevated flip angle modulation for threshold-based liver volume segmentation
Creators: name: Grieser, Christian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Computer applications
subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Segmentation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Determination of liver volumes is of great importance in the preoperative setting of liver surgery such as living donor liver transplantation and liver resection. Furthermore, determination of hepatic tumor load is essential for...
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: 2004 Voters Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: George W. Bush job performance (12); terrorism/economy is a bigger problem facing the nation right now (1); U.S. Congress job performance (1); U.S. campaign against terrorism (1); how closely following 2004 presidential race (2); chance of voting in 2004 presidential election (2); if 2004 presidential election were being held today would vote for Bush/Democratic nominee (2); George W. Bush/Wesley Clark (2); George W. Bush/Joe Lieberman (2); George W. Bush/John Kerry (2); George W. Bush/Dick Gephardt (2); George W. Bush/Howard Dean (2); important issues in deciding vote for president next year (11); Iraq (7); George W. Bush (3); economy (2); better off financially since Bush became president (2); federal budget deficit (1); which political party best represents ideas about how U.S. should be governed (1); U.S. should have more major political parties/two parties are enough (1); leadership of Republican party (2); leadership of Democratic party (5); Bush willing to compromise with leadership of Democratic party (3); feelings about how federal government works (1); feelings about how politics and political process works (1); think federal government threatens own personal rights and freedoms (1); who would vote for if 2004 Democratic presidential primary/caucus in respondent's state were being held today (4); satisfied/not satisfied with choice of candidates in Democratic party this year (1); personal qualities of Democratic presidential candidates (5); positions on specific issues of Democratic presidential candidates (5); personal qualities/positions on specific issues more important in choosing a candidate for president (1); most important issue in deciding vote for Democratic presidential candidate (1); most important personal quality in deciding vote for Democratic presidential candidate (1); prefer candidate who agrees with respondent on issues but who might have difficult time beating Bush/may not agree on issues but may have easier time beating Bush (1); which Democratic candidate has best chance of defeating George W. Bush in November (1); 2000 presidential election (2).
title: Iodine selective imaging using dual energy computed tomography for therapy monitoring of metastasized melanoma
Creators: name: Klumpp, Bernhard
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Staging
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Monitoring of metastases under systemic therapy using computed tomography (CT) is commonly based on measurement of the diameter of target lesions. Besides changes in size under therapy also perfusion of metastases will change due to necrosis or...
Gouy phase in non-classical paths in triple-slit interference experiment
Creators: name: da Paz, Irismar
name: Vieira, Carlos
name: Ducharme, Robert
name: Cabral, Luis
name: Alexander, Helder
name: Sampaio, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple model to study the Gouy phase effect in the triple-slit experiment in which we consider a non-classical path. The Gouy phase differs for classical or non-classical paths as it depends on the propagation time. In this case the Gouy phase difference changes the Sorkin parameter $κ$ used to estimate non-classical path contribution in a nontrivial way shedding some light in the implementation of experiments to detect non-classical path contributions.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Cooperative peer-to-peer multiagent based systems
Creators: name: Caram, L. F.
name: Caiafa, C. F.
name: Ausloos, M.
name: Proto, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A multiagent based model for a system of cooperative agents aiming at growth is proposed. This is based on a set of generalized Verhulst-Lotka-Volterra differential equations. In this study, strong cooperation is allowed among agents having similar sizes, and weak cooperation if agent have markedly different "sizes", thus establishing a peer-to-peer modulated interaction scheme. A rigorous analysis of the stable configurations is presented first examining the fixed points of the system, next determining their stability as a function of the model parameters. It is found that the agents are self-organizing into clusters. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that, depending on parameter values, multiple stable configurations can coexist. It occurs that only one of them always emerges with probability close to one, because its associated attractor dominates over the rest. This is shown through numerical integrations and simulations,after analytic developments. In contrast to the competitive case, agents are able to increase their capacity beyond the no-interaction case limit. In other words, when some collaborative partnership among a relatively small number of partners takes place, all agents act in good faith prioritizing the common good, whence receiving a mutual benefit allowing them to surpass their capacity.
description: 14 pages, 31 refs., 6 figures, 1 table; quasi final version for Phys. Rev. E
A systematic review on medical and clinical research landscapes and quality in Malaysia and Indonesia [REALQUAMI]
Creators: name: Chew, Boon How
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biomedical Research
subject: Clinical Research
subject: https://osf.io/ytu7b/
subject: Indonesia
subject: Malaysia
subject: REALQUAMI
subject: Research Characteristics
subject: Research Quality
subject: Systematic Review

description: This systematic review aims to describe the characteristics and quality of clinical and biomedical research in all disciplines in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Instrumentation for correlated prompt $n$-$γ$ emission studies in coincidence with fission fragments
Creators: name: Marin, S.
name: Tolstukhin, I.
name: Oberling, M. B.
name: Knaack, R. A.
name: Kay, B. P.
name: Duke, D. L.
name: Montoya, K. B.
name: Connolly, D.
name: Loveland, W.
name: Chemey, A.
name: Pozzi, S. A.
name: Tovesson, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent theoretical and experimental results have brought renewed interest and focus on the topic of fission fragment angular momentum. Measurements of neutrons and $γ$ rays in coincidence with fission fragments remain the most valuable tool in the exploration of fission physics. To achieve these scientific goals, we have developed a system that combines a state-of-the-art fission fragment detector and $n$-$γ$ radiation detectors. A new twin Frisch-gridded ionization chamber has been designed and constructed for use with a spontaneous fission source and an array of forty \textit{trans}-stilbene organic scintillators (FS-3) at Argonne National Laboratory. The new ionization chamber design we present in this work aims at minimizing particle attenuation in the chamber walls, and provides a compact apparatus that can be fit inside existing experimental systems. The ionization chamber is capable of measuring fission fragment masses and kinetic energies, whereas the FS-3 provides neutron and gamma-ray multiplicities and spectra. The details of both detector assembly are presented along with the first experimental results of this setup. Planned event-by-event analysis and future experiments are briefly discussed.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures
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Creators: name: Belitsky, A. V.
name: Smirnov, A. V.
name: Smirnov, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of evaluation of multiloop Feynman integrals by means of their Mellin-Barnes representation. After a brief overview of available capabilities though open source toolkits and their application in various circumstances, we introduce a new code MBcreate which allows one to automatically deduce a concise Mellin-Barnes representation for a given parametric integral. A thorough discussion of its implementation and use is provided.
description: 13 pages, 3 ancillary files; download repository @ https://bitbucket.org/feynmanIntegrals/mb/src/master/
Challenges and Methods to Tackle Robotic Service Requirements in 6G Mobile Networks
Creators: name: Robitzsch, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: PREDICT-6G
SNS
6G
mobile networks
standardisation
3GPP
IEEE

description: The keynote “Challenges and Methods to Tackle Robotic Service Requirements in 6G Mobile Networks” was delivered by Dr Sebastian Robitzsch (InterDigital), chair of the PREDICT-6G Standardisation Advisory Committee, in the scope of the 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring, held on the 20-23 of June 2023, in Florence, Italy.
Reviewing "Death Panels": Policy and Medical Practice Implications of the Life Cycle of a Provision for End-of-Life Counseling
Creators: name: Wofford, Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Advance care planning requires conversation between individuals, their families, and their physicians. In August 2009, opponents of health reform characterized the Affordable Care Act’s provision for advance care planning consultations as “death panels.” The media coverage of this event had the power to influence not only the public’s opinion of health reform, but the perception of the sanctity of the patient-provider relationship, as well. The purpose of this Master’s Paper is to determine what effect the publicity of “death panels” had on physicians’ clinical practices of advance care planning discussions. This analysis triangulates medical literature, a non-random survey, and analysis of media coverage to shape the storyline of the twenty-one months between August 2009 and June 2011. End-of-life care planning is an important topic among University of North Carolina primary care providers and hematology/oncology specialists. It appears that although most faculty members were well aware of the “death panel” characterization, it had little effect on their clinical practice. Despite the lack of a provision for reimbursement of services for end-of-life planning in the Affordable Care Act, it appears that most providers are satisfied with their ability to facilitate these conversations with patients, and they place an emphasis on patient values. The findings of the media content analysis reinforce that political rhetoric is powerful. University of North Carolina physicians’ behaviors and attitudes about end-of-life counseling appear to have been unaffected by the negative characterization of end-of-life planning as “death panels.” It is unclear whether this response is also true of providers in other academic settings and community clinics.
title: Image quality control in mammography using control charts
Creators: name: Fernandes, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Professional issues
subject: Management
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Image verification
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Mammography is still the gold standard in the study of breast pathology. Therefore, the image control is a requirement in order to achieve efficient diagnosis. As a consequence of better image control, there is not the need to repeat the examination...
The Small-Mass Limit for Langevin Dynamics with Unbounded Coefficients and positive friction
Creators: name: Herzog, David P.
name: Hottovy, Scott
name: Volpe, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A class of Langevin stochastic differential equations is shown to converge in the small-mass limit under very weak assumptions on the coefficients defining the equation. The convergence result is applied to physically realizable examples where the coefficients defining the Langevin equation grow unboundedly either at a boundary, such as a wall, and/or at the point at infinity.
description: 11 pages, no figures
title: Characterisation of breast lesions with spectral mammography: results on first clinical cases
Creators: name: Kilburn-Toppin, Fleur
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Round lesions are a common mammographic finding, and it can be difficult to distinguish benign cysts from tumours on mammography alone. Recall rates for assessment from mammographic screening are approximately 5% in Northern Europe [1], and solitary...
Scalar-singlet assisted leptogenesis with CP violation from the vacuum
Creators: name: Barreiros, D. M.
name: Câmara, H. B.
name: Felipe, R. G.
name: Joaquim, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the vanilla type-I seesaw leptogenesis scenario, CP violation required to generate the lepton asymmetries in the heavy Majorana neutrino decays stem from complex Dirac-type Yukawa couplings. In this paper we explore the case in which that CP violation originates from the vacuum expectation value of a complex scalar singlet at a very high scale. This non-trivial CP-violating phase can be successfully communicated to the low-energy neutrino sector via the heavy neutrino portal. The new scalar-singlet degrees of freedom generate new contributions to the CP asymmetries relevant for leptogenesis not only at the one-loop level but also through tree-level three-body decays. These are computed here for an arbitrary number of heavy neutrinos, Higgs doublets and scalar singlets. We also take into account the new decays and scattering processes that enter the unflavoured Boltzmann equations governing the heavy-neutrino particle densities and the $(B-L)$-asymmetry evolution. Having established the framework of interest, we present a simple model with two RH neutrinos, two Higgs doublets and a complex scalar singlet, supplemented with a $\mathcal{Z}_8$ flavour symmetry. This symmetry minimises the number of free parameters without compromising the possibility of spontaneous CP violation and compatibility with neutrino data. In fact, the only viable $\mathcal{Z}_8$ charge assignment shows a preference for a non-trivial spontaneous CP-violating phase, which in turn leads to a non-vanishing CP asymmetry due to the direct link between high- and low-energy CP violation. An interesting feature of this simple setup is that the usual wave and vertex type-I seesaw contributions to the CP asymmetry vanish due to the $\mathcal{Z}_8$ symmetry. Thus, the observed baryon-to-photon ratio can be explained thanks to the new couplings among the heavy neutrinos and the new scalar degrees of freedom.
description: 44 LaTeX pages; 7 figures
Programmability and Distributed Intelligence: a way towards predictability?
Creators: name: Pongracz, Gergely
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: end-to-end network programmability
distributed intelligence

description: Conference Workshop: CHALLENGES OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 6G ERA: A VIEW FROM EU PROJECTS Gergely Pongracz, Technical coordinator of D6G represents the project. DESIRE6G is designing and developing novel zero-touch control, management, and orchestration platform, with native integration of AI, to support eXtreme URLLC application requirements. DESIRE6G is re-architecting mobile networks through a) its intent-based control and end-to-end orchestration that targets to achieve near real time autonomic networking; and b) a cloud-native unified programmable data plane layer supporting multi-tenancy. The DESIRE6G data, control, management, and orchestration plane is supported by a pervasive monitoring system, extending from the network to the user equipment or IoT terminal. DESIRE6G employs distributed ledger technology to support a) dynamic federation for services across of multiple administrative domains and b) infrastructure-agnostic software security.
Lideres de Salud Reproductiva: Systematic Review, Program Plan, and Evaluation Plan
Creators: name: Ringwood, Haley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Due to the rapidly growing Latino population in North Carolina, health disparities between Latinos and non-Latinos, most notably non-Hispanic whites, have become increasingly evident. These disparities are particularly salient in the area of reproductive and sexual health. For this reason, El Pueblo, a non-profit Latino-focused organization in Raleigh, developed the Lideres de Salud Reproductiva program. This program uses a lay health advisor (promotora) model to improve knowledge about reproductive health in the Latino community, in the hopes of positively affecting health behaviors and thus improving health outcomes. This paper includes a program plan and evaluation plan for the second phase of the Lideres de Salud Reproductiva program, in which the program will be converted from a promotora training program to a train-the-trainer program in an effort to expand the program's reach beyond Wake County.
Killing Operator for the Kerr Metric
Creators: name: Pommaret, Jean-Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 18G15, 35N10, 35Q75, 83C35, 83C50

description: When ${\cal{D}}: E \rightarrow F$ is a linear differential operator of order $q$ between the sections of vector bundles over a manifold $X$ of dimension $n$, it is defined by a bundle map $Φ: J_q(E) \rightarrow F=F_0$ that may depend, explicitly or implicitly, on constant parameters $a, b, c, ...$. A "direct problem " is to find the generating compatibility conditions (CC) in the form of an operator ${\cal{D}}_1: F_0 \rightarrow F_1$. When ${\cal{D}}$ is involutive, that is when the corresponding system $R_q=ker(Φ)$ is involutive, this procedure provides successive first order involutive operators ${\cal{D}}_1, ... , {\cal{D}}_n$ . Though ${\cal{D}}_1 \circ {\cal{D}}=0 $ implies $ad({\cal{D}}) \circ ad({\cal{D}}_1)=0$ by taking the respective adjoint operators, then $ad({\cal{D}})$ may not generate the CC of $ad({\cal{D}}_1)$ and measuring such "gaps" led to introduce extension modules in differential homological algebra. They may also depend on the parameters. When $R_q$ is not involutive, a standard {\it prolongation/projection} (PP) procedure allows in general to find integers $r,s$ such that the image $R^{(s)}_{q+r}$ of the projection at order $q+r$ of the prolongation $ρ_{r+s}(R_q) = J_{r+s}(R_q) \cap J_{q+r+s}(E)\subset J_{r+s}(J_q(E)) $ is involutive but it may highly depend on the parameters. However, sometimes the resulting system no longer depends on the parameters and the extension modules do not depend on the parameters because it is known that they do not depend on the differential sequence used for their definition. The purpose of this paper is to study the above problems for the Kerr $(m, a)$, Schwarzschild $(m, 0)$ and Minkowski $(0, 0)$ parameters while computing the dimensions of the inclusions $R^{(3)}_1\subset R^{(2)}_1 \subset R^{(1)}_1 =R_1 \subset J_1(T(X))$ for the respective Killing operators.
description: This paper is largely improving the previous arXiv:2203.11694 (now published in DOI:10.4236/jmp.2022.134036 ) by using new intrinsic homological techniques that have never been introduced in General Relativity The study of contact structures is also revisited along the same lines
title: MR imaging in locally advanced rectal cancer: quantitative evaluation of the full response to neoadjuvant therapy
Creators: name: Fugazzola, Carlo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To assess the diagnostic performance of DW Imaging (DWI) for the discrimination of complete responder (CR) from the non-complete responder (n-CR) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) undergoing chemotherapy and radiation...