cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Preoperative Serum C-Reactive Protein Levels and Post-Operative Lymph Node Ratio Are Important Predictors of Survival After Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Sanjay, Pandanaboyana
name: Leaver, Heather
name: De Figueiredo, Rodrigo S
name: Ogston, Simon
name: Kulli, Christoph
name: Polignano, Francesco M
name: Tait, Is
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Lymph Nodes; Pancreatic Neoplasms; C-Reactive Protein

description: Context There is paucity of data on the prognostic value of pre-operative inflammatory response and post-operative lymph node ratio on patient survival after pancreatic-head resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Objectives To evaluate the role of the preoperative inflammatory response and postoperative pathology criteria to identify predictive and/or prognostic variables for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Design All patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma between 2002 and 2008 were reviewed retrospectively. The following impacts on patient survival were assessed: i) preoperative serum CRP levels, white cell count, neutrophil count, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, lymphocyte count, platelet/lymphocyte ratio; and ii) post-operative pathology criteria including lymph node status and lymph node ratio. Results Fifty-one patients underwent potentially curative resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma during the study period. An elevated preoperative CRP level (greater than 3 mg/L) was found to be a significant adverse prognostic factor (P=0.015) predicting a poor survival, whereas white cell count (P=0.278), neutrophil count (P=0.850), neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (P=0.272), platelet/lymphocyte ratio (P=0.532) and lymphocyte count (P=0.721) were not significant prognosticators at univariate analysis. Presence of metastatic lymph nodes did not adversely affect survival (P=0.050), however a raised lymph node ratio predicted poor survival at univariate analysis (P<0.001). The preoperative serum CRP level retained significance at multivariate analysis (P=0.011), together with lymph node ratio (P<0.001) and tumour size (greater than 2 cm; P=0.008). Conclusion A pre-operative elevated serum CRP level and raised post-operative lymph node ratio represent significant independent prognostic factors that predict poor prognosis in patients undergoing curative resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. There is potential for future neo-adjuvant and adjuvant treatment strategies in pancreatic cancer to be tailored based on preoperative and postoperative factors that predict a poor survival.
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The Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter Direct Detection
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, A. Liam
name: Haxton, Wick
name: Katz, Emanuel
name: Lubbers, Nicholas
name: Xu, Yiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend and explore the general non-relativistic effective theory of dark matter (DM) direct detection. We describe the basic non-relativistic building blocks of operators and discuss their symmetry properties, writing down all Galilean-invariant operators up to quadratic order in momentum transfer arising from exchange of particles of spin 1 or less. Any DM particle theory can be translated into the coefficients of an effective operator and any effective operator can be simply related to most general description of the nuclear response. We find several operators which lead to novel nuclear responses. These responses differ significantly from the standard minimal WIMP cases in their relative coupling strengths to various elements, changing how the results from different experiments should be compared against each other. Response functions are evaluated for common DM targets - F, Na, Ge, I, and Xe - using standard shell model techniques. We point out that each of the nuclear responses is familiar from past studies of semi-leptonic electroweak interactions, and thus potentially testable in weak interaction studies. We provide tables of the full set of required matrix elements at finite momentum transfer for a range of common elements, making a careful and fully model-independent analysis possible. Finally, we discuss embedding non-relativistic effective theory operators into UV models of dark matter.
description: 32+23 pages, 5 figures; v2: some typos corrected and definitions clarified; v3: some factors of 4pi corrected
Cyclic A_\infty Structures and Deligne's Conjecture
Creators: name: Ward, Benjamin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: First we describe a class of homotopy Frobenius algebras via cyclic operads which we call cyclic $A_\infty$ algebras. We then define a suitable new combinatorial operad which acts on the Hochschild cochains of such an algebra in a manner which encodes the homotopy BV structure. Moreover we show that this operad is equivalent to the cellular chains of a certain topological (quasi)-operad of CW complexes whose constituent spaces form a homotopy associative version of the Cacti operad of Voronov. These cellular chains thus constitute a chain model for the framed little disks operad, proving a cyclic $A_\infty$ version of Deligne's conjecture. This chain model contains the minimal operad of Kontsevich and Soibelman as a suboperad and restriction of the action to this suboperad recovers their results in the unframed case. Additionally this proof recovers the work of Kaufmann in the case of a strict Frobenius algebra. We then extend our results to cyclic $A_\infty$ categories, with an eye toward the homotopy BV structure present on the Hochschild cochains of the Fukaya category of a suitable symplectic manifold.
description: extended results to cyclic A_infty categories; added additional citations, motivation, and future directions; to appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology
An Unusual Case of Double Heterotopic Pancreatic Tissues in the Same Localization
Creators: name: Kalkan, İsmail Hakkı
name: Öztaş, Erkin
name: Suvak, Burak
name: Yildiz, Hakan
name: Beyazit, Yavuz
name: Ibiş, Mehmet
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Choristoma; Pancreas; Stomach

description: No abstract available.
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Comaserica Brenske 1898
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Comaserica

description: Comaserica Brenske, 1898c
[40 species].
Type species Omaloplia (Emphania) conspurcata Blanchard, 1850, by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2007a).
Dissotoxus Fairmaire, 1900a.
Type species Dissotoxus insignicornis Fairmaire, 1900, by monotypy.
Synonymy by Dalla Torre (1912a).
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Colloid Carcinoma of the Pancreas: A Distinct Pancreatic Neoplasm with Good Prognosis. Report of a Case
Creators: name: Rubio-Perez, Ines
name: Martin-Perez, Elena
name: Sanchez-Urdazpal, Luis
name: Corbaton, Paloma
name: Larrañaga, Eduardo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous; Association; Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Context: Colloid carcinoma is considered a distinct type of pancreatic neoplasia with specific histopathological and molecular features, and a better prognosis. Case report We present the case of a patient with a 15cm locally invasive colloid carcinoma of the pancreas, in which an aggressive surgical approach achieved no evidence of disease 24 months after surgery. Conclusions If an accurate diagnostic approach and surgical resection are performed, the 5-year survival rate can reach 60%. Presence of invasive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm has been reported, and this can affect the prognosis. Adjuvant therapy has not demonstrated improvement of survival in surgically-resected patients.
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VIP and Calcitonin-Producing Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor with Watery Diarrhea: Clinicopathological Features and the Effect of Somatostatin Analogue
Creators: name: Kon, Tomoya
name: Wada, Ryuichi
name: Suzuki, Ryuta
name: Nakayama, Yoshihito
name: Ebina, Yoshihito
name: Yagihashi, Soroku
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Octreotide; Receptors, Somatostatin; WDHA syndrome

description: Context Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET) secretes various peptide hormones; however, calcitonin hypersecretion is rare. Its clinicopathological significance and treatment is still controversial. Case report A 43 year-old Japanese man presented severe watery diarrhea and a large mass in the pancreatic tail. Blood concentration of VIP was elevated to 649 pg/mL (reference range: 0-100 pg/mL), and calcitonin to 66,700 pg/mL (reference range: 15-86 pg/mL). There was no tumor in other endocrine organs. The resected tumor was composed of 80% calcitonin-positive cells and 10% VIP-positive cells. After the operation, the levels of VIP and calcitonin were decreased to 44 and 553 pg/mL, respectively, and diarrhea was improved. The mRNA of somatostatin receptor (SSTR) subtypes 2, 3 and 5 in the tumor tissue were increased 22.8, 25.1, and 37.0-fold of those of normal pancreas, respectively. At 19 months after the operation, blood calcitonin was again raised to 3,980 pg/mL, and metastatic tumors were found in the liver. With the treatment of long-acting somatostatin analogue, calcitonin was reduced to 803 pg/mL. The patient does not present endocrine symptom, and the size of the metastatic tumors appears stable. Conclusion From the world literature to date, co-secretion of VIP and calcitonin was documented in only 10 cases of pNET including the current case. Although VIP is a primary cause of diarrhea in these cases, high level of calcitonin may also influence on the clinical symptoms. Somatostatin analogue suppresses the levels of VIP and calcitonin, and the control proliferation is also expected when tumor cells express SSTRs.
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Orbital Josephson effect and interactions in driven atom condensates on a ring
Creators: name: Heimsoth, M.
name: Creffield, C. E.
name: Carr, L. D.
name: Sols, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a system of ac-driven condensed bosons we study a new type of Josephson effect occurring between states sharing the same region of space and the same internal atom structure. We first develop a technique to calculate the long time dynamics of a driven interacting many-body system. For resonant frequencies, this dynamics can be shown to derive from an effective time-independent Hamiltonian which is expressed in terms of standard creation and annihilation operators. Within the subspace of resonant states, and if the undriven states are plane waves, a locally repulsive interaction between bosons translates into an effective attraction. We apply the method to study the effect of interactions on the coherent ratchet current of an asymmetrically driven boson system. We find a wealth of dynamical regimes which includes Rabi oscillations, self-trapping, and chaotic behavior. In the latter case, a full many-body calculation deviates from the mean-field results by predicting large quantum fluctuations of the relative particle number.
description: Published version
Maternal mortality in Peru: Moment of the death and its association to the place of residence, 2017
Creators: name: Moquillaza-Alcántara, Victor
name: Nuñez-Herrera, Rebeca
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Introduction and objectives: Maternal mortality is a public health problem that reflects the inequity of access to health services, which translates into the high rates that persist. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate the moment of maternal death and its association with the place of residence. Materials and methods: Secondary base analysis of 2017 Demographic and Family Health Survey of Peru. Maternal mortality was considered to be death related to pregnancy, childbirth or 2 months after pregnancy. The association between maternal death according to the relative's residence (city, town or field) was evaluated using a generalized linear model of the Poisson family considering the ̈city ̈ as a reference, reporting the Prevalence Ratio (PR) and its interval of 95% confidence, assuming as an associated factor the value of p<0.05. Results: The moment of death occurred mainly during pregnancy (64.37%) and delivery (26.72%). The age of maternal death presented a median of 25 (RIQ: 10) years. Maternal mortality was registered in higher proportion in the countryside (52.63%), unlike non-pregnancy related deaths that showed the highest percentage in the city (42.15%). Considering the city as a reference, it was found that residing in a village is associated with death during childbirth (p = 0.006, RP: 2.79), while living in the field is associated with mortality during pregnancy (p=0.001 ; RP:1.74) and delivery (p<0.001; RP:3.30). The place of residence was not associated with death during the two months following the pregnancy (p>0.05). Conclusions: Residing in the village was a risk factor for death during childbirth while being in the field was a risk factor for death during pregnancy and childbirth. The risk increases as the residence move away from the city.
Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Auto-Transplantation as Treatment for Ampullary Adenocarcinoma in the Setting of Pancreatic Ductal Disruption Secondary to Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis. A Case Report
Creators: name: Iyegha, Uroghupatei P
name: Asghar, Javariah A
name: Beilman, Greg J
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adenoma; Ampulla of Vater; Insulin; Pancreatectomy /methods; Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing; Transplantation, Autologous

description: Context Ampullary adenocarcinoma is the third most common periampullary malignancy. Obstruction of the main pancreatic duct is linked with an increased incidence of acute pancreatitis. Acute necrotizing pancreatitis leading to pancreatic duct disruption carries significant morbidity. When these conditions occur in combination, the treatment can be drastically limited as pancreaticoduodenectomy is not a viable option in the setting of friable ductal tissue, which precludes pancreatic ductal anastomosis and can lead to the complications of leak or stricture. Case report Our patient is a 72-year-old woman who developed pancreatic ductal disruption and splenic vein thrombosis as a result of acute necrotizing pancreatitis. Concurrently, she was found to have an ampullary adenoma with high-grade dysplasia. Her treatment options were limited, as she was neither a candidate for pancreaticoduodenectomy given the ductal disruption nor total pancreatectomy, which would render her a brittle diabetic. She was successfully treated with total pancreatectomy and islet auto-transplantation thereby resecting her ampullary lesion while both avoiding a pancreatic anastomosis and preserving pancreatic endocrine beta-cell function. Conclusion We report a case where total pancreatectomy and islet auto-transplantation can be considered as a viable option for treatment of ampullary lesions in a setting where standard surgical options are suboptimal.
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Non-Gaussianity from Step Features in the Inflationary Potential
Creators: name: Adshead, Peter
name: Dvorkin, Cora
name: Hu, Wayne
name: Lim, Eugene A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide analytic solutions for the power spectrum and bispectrum of curvature fluctuations produced by a step feature in the inflaton potential, valid in the limit that the step is short and sharp. In this limit, the bispectrum is strongly scale dependent and its effective non-linearity attains a large oscillatory amplitude. The perturbations to the curvature power spectrum, on the other hand, remain a small component on top of the usual spectrum of fluctuations generated by slow roll. We utilize our analytic solutions to assess the observability of the predicted non-Gaussian signatures and show that, if present, only very sharp steps on scales larger than ~ 2 Gpc are likely to be able to be detected by Planck. Such features are not only consistent with WMAP7 data, but can also improve its likelihood by 2 Delta ln L ~ 12 for two extra parameters, the step location and height. If this improvement were due to a slow roll violating step as considered here, a bispectrum or corresponding polarization power spectrum detection would provide definitive checks as to its primordial origin.
description: Typos fixed, supersedes journal version
Secular Trends of Fibrocalculous Pancreatic Diabetes and Diabetes Secondary to Alcoholic Chronic Pancreatitis at a Tertiary Care Diabetes Centre in South India
Creators: name: Papita, Rozario
name: Nazir, Adamsha
name: Anbalagan, Viknesh Prabu
name: Anjana, Ranjit Mohan
name: Pitchumoni, Capecomorin
name: Chari, Suresh
name: Mohan, Viswanathan
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diabetes Mellitus; India; Pancreatitis, Chronic

description: Context Data on prevalence and trends in diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis in developing countries is scarce. Objective To compare the secular trends in the prevalence of fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes (FCPD) and diabetes secondary to alcoholic chronic pancreatitis (ACP) at a diabetes centre in south India. Research Design A retrospective analysis was done of all patients registered at Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre, Chennai, India between January 1991 and December 2010. Patients A total of 1,079 subjects with diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis were identified, of whom 47 were excluded because of difficulty in classification. Main outcome measure The number of patients with FCPD and diabetes secondary to ACP were calculated as a percentage of the total number of diabetes patients seen at the centre during five year blocks. Results Of the total of 1,032 cases of diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis, FCPD comprised 898 (87%) and ACP 134 (13%). The prevalence of FCPD decreased from 1.6% during 1991-1995 to 0.2% during 2006-2010 (P<0.001). The prevalence of ACP remained constant at 0.1%. The age at diagnosis of FCPD increased (P=0.002) while that of ACP decreased (P=0.025) during the study period. There was a significant increase in BMI of FCPD P<0.001), but not of ACP (P=0.248) patients. Conclusions At this centre, FCPD continues to be more common than ACP, but there is a decline in its frequency. The age at diagnosis of FCPD has increased, while that of ACP has decreased. The decline in FCPD probably reflects improved nutrition.
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Conioserica Brenske 1900
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Conioserica

description: Conioserica Brenske, 1900b
[2 species].
Type species Conioserica eisermanni Brenske, 1901, by subsequent monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Small representations, string instantons, and Fourier modes of Eisenstein series (with an appendix by D. Ciubotaru and P. Trapa)
Creators: name: Green, Michael B.
name: Miller, Stephen D.
name: Vanhove, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper concerns some novel features of maximal parabolic Eisenstein series at certain special values of their analytic parameter s. These series arise as coefficients in the R4 and D4R4 interactions in the low energy expansion of scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric string theory reduced to D=10-d dimensions on a torus T^d, d<8. For each d these amplitudes are automorphic functions on the rank d+1 symmetry group E_d+1. Of particular significance is the orbit content of the Fourier modes of these series when expanded in three different parabolic subgroups, corresponding to certain limits of string theory. This is of interest in the classification of a variety of instantons that correspond to minimal or next-to-minimal BPS orbits. In the limit of decompactification from D to D+1 dimensions many such instantons are related to charged 1/2-BPS or 1/4-BPS black holes with euclidean world-lines wrapped around the large dimension. In a different limit the instantons give nonperturbative corrections to string perturbation theory, while in a third limit they describe nonperturbative contributions in eleven-dimensional supergravity. A proof is given that these three distinct Fourier expansions have certain vanishing coefficients that are expected from string theory. In particular, the Eisenstein series for these special values of s have markedly fewer Fourier coefficients than typical ones. The corresponding mathematics involves showing that the wavefront sets of the Eisenstein series are supported on only certain coadjoint nilpotent orbits - just the minimal and trivial orbits in the 1/2-BPS case, and just the next-to-minimal, minimal and trivial orbits in the 1/4-BPS case. Thus as a byproduct we demonstrate that the next-to-minimal representations occur automorphically for E6, E7, and E8, and hence the first two nontrivial low energy coefficients are exotic theta-functions.
description: v3: 127 pp. Minor changes. Final version to appear in the Special Issue in honor of Professor Steve Rallis
Orchestomerus Dietz 1896
Creators: name: Yoshitake, Hiraku
name: Anderson, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Orchestomerus

description: Orchestomerus Dietz, 1896
 Orchestomerus Dietz 1896: 412. Type species: Orchestomerus wickhami Dietz 1896, subsequent designation by Colonnelli 1991.
 Diagnosis. Orchestomerus is characterized mainly by having a pair of carinate or obtuse prominences on the middle of the pronotum, edentate femora, tibiae with shallow grooves and lacking definite angles basally on outer margins, mesosternal canal that is limited laterally by oblique, apically narrowed costae, and transverse impressions on the sides of abdominal ventrite 5 laterally along the basal margin. The genus is very similar in general appearance to Craponius LeConte, 1876 known from the Nearctic Region. However, Craponius has the tibiae deeply grooved and emarginate along the outer margin for reception of the tarsi, the fore and middle tibiae have basally sharply angulate outer margins, the mesosternal canal is limited laterally by subparallel costae, and abdominal ventrite 5 lacks lateral impressions. Orchestomerus also closely resembles Hypocoeliodes Faust, 1896, but Hypocoeliodes possesses dentate femora and abdominal ventrite 5 lacks lateral impressions.
 Distribution. Nearctic and Neotropical Regions (Colonnelli 2004).
 Natural History. Our knowledge of the biology of Orchestomerus weevils is still limited, but available data suggest that they are associated with plants in the family Vitaceae (Korotyaev and Anderson 2002; Colonnelli 2004; Eiseman 2014).
description: Published as part of Yoshitake, Hiraku & Anderson, Robert S., 2015, A Review Of The Genus Orchestomerus Dietz (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae: Cnemogonini) Of The Usa, pp. 565-578 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 69 (4) on page 566, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.4.1840, http://zenodo.org/record/10085632
First principles calculations of the Shift Current Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in Ferroelectrics
Creators: name: Young, Steve M.
name: Rappe, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the bulk photovoltaic response of the ferroelectrics BaTiO$_3$ and PbTiO$_3$ from first principles by applying "shift current" theory to the electronic structure from density functional theory. The first principles results for BaTiO$_3$ reproduce eperimental photocurrent direction and magnitude as a function of light frequency, as well as the dependence of current on light polarization, demonstrating that shift current is the dominant mechanism of the bulk photovoltaic effect in BaTiO$_3$. Additionally, we analyze the relationship between response and material properties in detail. The photocurrent does not depend simply or strongly on the magnitude of material polarization, as has been previously assumed; instead, electronic states with delocalized, covalent bonding that is highly asymmetric along the current direction are required for strong shift current enhancements. The complexity of the response dependence on both external and material parameters suggests applications not only in solar energy conversion, but to photocatalysis and sensor and switch type devices as well.
description: First submitted April 2011, submitted PRL July 2011
Endoscopic Management of Pancreatic Injury Due to Abdominal Trauma
Creators: name: Bhasin, Deepak Kumar
name: Rana, Surinder Singh
name: Rao, Chalapathi
name: Gupta, Rajesh
name: Verma, Ganga Ram
name: Kang, Mandeep
name: Nagi, Birinder
name: Singh, Kartar
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; Fistula; Pancreas; Wounds and Injuries

description: Context There is limited experience with pancreatic endotherapy in patients with pancreatic injury due to trauma. Objective To retrospectively evaluate our experience of endoscopic management of pancreatic trauma. Patients Eleven patients (10 males and 1 female; mean age: 21.8±11.9 years) with pancreatic trauma. Intervention Endoscopic therapy. Patients with pseudocyst and a gastroduodenal bulge were treated with endoscopic transmural drainage. Pseudocysts without bulge or patients with external pancreatic fistula were treated with transpapillary drainage. Results Seven patients (6 males, 1 female) were treated for symptomatic pseudocyst and 4 patients (all males) were treated for persistent external pancreatic fistula. Three patients with external pancreatic fistula had partial disruption of pancreatic duct (head: 2 cases; tail: 1 case) and were successfully treated with bridging pancreatic stent (2 cases) or bridging nasopancreatic drain (1 case) with resolution of external pancreatic fistula in 4 to 6 weeks. Of seven patients presenting with symptomatic pseudocyst (size range: 4-14 cm), two patients were successfully treated with cystogastrostomy and there has been no recurrence over a follow up of 20 and 16 months, respectively. Five patients underwent transpapillary drainage. Three patients had partial disruption and two had complete disruption. In the former, a bridging nasopancreatic drain was placed in one patient and stent in two patients. All three patients had resolution of pseudocyst within 8 weeks and there has been no recurrence over a follow-up of 11 to 70 months. In two patients with complete disruption, non-bridging stent did not resolve the pseudocysts and required surgery. Conclusion Pancreatic injury due to trauma can be effectively treated endoscopically.
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Adapted metrics and random walks on graphs
Creators: name: Folz, Matthew Bryan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis discusses various aspects of continuous-time simple random walks on measure weighted graphs, with a focus on behaviors related to large-scale geometric properties of the underlying graph. In contrast to previous work in this area, the majority of the results presented here are applicable to random walks with unbounded generators. A recurring theme in this research is the use of novel distance functions for graphs known as adapted metrics, which are demonstrated to be a powerful tool for studying random walks on graphs. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the relevant probabilistic and analytic theory, and provides multiple constructions of the heat kernel and a brief introduction to the theory of Dirichlet forms. Chapter 3 introduces adapted metrics, which play a central role in the following chapters, and which are especially useful in understanding random walks with unbounded generators. Chapter 4 discusses heat kernel estimates, and presents an overview of on-diagonal heat kernel estimates for graphs, as well as techniques for obtaining various off-diagonal estimates of the heat kernel. The off-diagonal estimates were proved by the author, and are notable for their use of adapted metrics. Chapter 5 introduces metric graphs, a continuous analogue of graphs which possess many desirable analytic properties, and analyzes the problem of constructing a Brownian motion on a metric graph which behaves similarly to a given continuous-time simple random walk. Chapter 6 analyzes recurrence and transience of graphs, and proves an original estimate relating adapted volume growth to recurrence of graphs. Chapter 7 discusses bounds for the bottom of the essential spectrum in terms of geometric inequalities such as volume growth estimates and isoperimetric inequalities. The main result of this chapter was proved by the author, and establishes sharp estimates for the bottom of the spectrum in terms of the adapted volume growth. Chapter 8 considers stochastic completeness of graphs and proves sharp criteria relating volume growth to stochastic completeness. The results of this chapter were proved by the author, using the machinery of metric graphs.
To increase public health system fees for non-EU citizens further hinders Italy's ability to attract internationally mobile researchers
Creators: name: Saugmann, Pil Maria
name: Schoch, Hannah
name: Dahle, Sebastian
name: İşler, Devriş
name: Pilia, Sara
name: Lewandowska, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: On 16 October 2023, the Italian Government announced the outlines for the 2024 provisional budget. It stipulates a significant increase in enrolment costs for the National Italian Health System for non-EU residents without formal employment: the annual contribution will increase from 149€ to 700€  per year for doctoral candidates and from 1,200€ to 2,000€ for postdocs, respectively. 
On behalf of Eurodoc, the administrative board 2023/2024 expresses its concerns as this will also significantly impact doctoral candidates and early career researchers who are non-EU citizens in Italy.
Late Postpancreatectomy Hemorrhage After Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Is It Possible to Recognize Risk Factors?
Creators: name: Ricci, Claudio
name: Casadei, Riccardo
name: Buscemi, Salvatore
name: Minni, Francesco
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pancreatectomy, Hemorrhage, Pancreatic Fistula

description: Context Post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage is one of the most common complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Objective To evaluate the late post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage rate according to the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery criteria and to recognize factors related to its onset. Methods A prospective study of 113 patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy was conducted. Late post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage was defined according to the criteria of the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery. Demographic, clinical, surgical and pathological data were considered and related to late post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage. Results Thirty-one (27.4%) patients had a post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage. Twenty-five (22.1%) patients developed late post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage: 19 (16.8%) grade B, 6 (5.3%) grade C. Surgical re-operation was performed in 2 out of the 25 cases with late post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage (8.0%) grade C associated with postoperative pancreatic fistula. At univariate analysis, the only factor significantly related to late post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage was postoperative pancreatic fistula (P<0.001). Multivariate analysis underlined that the severity of postoperative pancreatic fistula (P<0.001) and pancreatic anastomosis (P=0.049) independently increased the risk of late hemorrhage. Conclusion In patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy, the criteria introduced by International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery to define late postpancreatectomy hemorrhage are related to a higher incidence of hemorrhage than previously detected because they considered also mild hemorrhage.

description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Bayesian Causal Mediation Analysis with Latent Mediators and Survival Outcome
Creators: name: Sun, Rongqian
name: Zhou, Xiaoxiao
name: Song, Xinyuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: This study develops a joint modeling approach that incorporates latent traits into causal mediation analysis with multiple mediators and a survival outcome. A linear structural equation model is used to characterize the latent mediators with several highly correlated observable surrogates and depicts the relationships among multiple parallel or causally ordered mediators and the exposure. A proportional hazards model is used to derive the path-specific causal effects on the scale of hazard ratio under the counterfactual framework with a set of sequential ignorability assumptions. A Bayesian approach with Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to perform efficient estimation of the causal effects. Posterior propriety theory is established for the proportional hazards model with latent variables. Empirical performance of the proposed method is verified through simulation studies. The proposed model is then applied to a study on the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset to investigate the causal effects of APOE-ε4 allele on the disease progression, either directly or through potential mediators, such as hippocampus atrophy, ventricle expansion, and cognitive impairment.
Corynoserica Moser 1918
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Corynoserica

description: Corynoserica Moser, 1918c
[1 species].
Type species Corynoserica tetraphylla Moser, 1918, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Universal properties of Fermi gases in arbitrary dimensions
Creators: name: Valiente, Manuel
name: Zinner, Nikolaj T.
name: Molmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider spin-1/2 Fermi gases in arbitrary, integer or non-integer spatial dimensions, interacting via a Dirac delta potential. We first generalize the method of Tan's distributions and implement short-range boundary conditions to arbitrary dimension and we obtain a set of universal relations for the Fermi gas. Three-dimensional scattering under very general conditions of transversal confinement is described by an effectively reduced-dimensional scattering length, which we show depends on the three-dimensional scattering length in a universal way. Our formula for non-integer dimensions interpolates between the known results in integer dimensions 1, 2 and 3. Without any need to solve the associated multichannel scattering problem, we find that confinement-induced resonances occur in all dimensions different from D=2, while reduced-dimensional contacts, related to the tails of the momentum distributions, are connected to the three-dimensional contact by a correction factor of purely geometric origin.
description: 6 pages, 0 figures
Identification of phosphate solubilizing bacteria and evaluation of their application with insoluble phosphorus fertilizers to soils from certified organic orchards affected by replant disease
Creators: name: Thurston, Molly Adair
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Replant disease (RD) affects the growth and establishment of young fruit trees in old orchard soils. Organic management strategies are needed as an alternative to chemical controls. Improved phosphorus (P) nutrition to stimulate root growth and improve tree establishment is a well-established strategy; however, only insoluble Rock Phosphate (RP) and Bone Meal (BM) inputs are available to Canadian organic growers. The ability of specific plant growth promoting rhizobacteria to solubilize phosphate may improve P availability and its uptake in young apple trees, replanted into inoculated orchards. In this study, 101 bacteria isolated from the roots of legumes from Saskatchewan soils were screened for P solubilization. Thirty-four of these bacteria were positive for P solubilization as measured by halo diameter production on calcium phosphate medium. Twelve isolates showing the largest halo diameters and three known P solubilizing bacteria (PSB) were compared on three media: calcium phosphate, Pikovskaya (PVK) and PVK with bromophenol blue. All twelve isolates previously identified as Pseudomonas, Rhanella, Serratia and Klebsiella spp. solubilized P on all media, although the halo diameters varied among media. The isolates were tested in liquid culture, where a marked decrease in the pH of the solution was observed and six isolates were identified for further testing in growth pouch assays in the presence of insoluble P. The root growth of apple seedlings inoculated with one of the six bacterial isolates, showed significant increases in total root length, surface area and the number of root tips compared to the control after four weeks of incubation. Three isolates were selected for greenhouse bioassays using five RD-affected soils collected from organic orchards. These isolates were inoculated onto apple trees, alone or in combination with RP or BM. Two field trials were simultaneously conducted in organic apple orchards, using iii the same treatments; however there were no significant effects of the isolate treatments in either set of experiments. Although the strongest P solubilizers did not enhance tree growth in the greenhouse and orchard trials, the in vitro work showed the potential of PSB as a tool to mitigate the impact of RD.
Bayesian causal mediation analysis with latent mediators and survival outcome
Creators: name: Sun, Rongqian
name: Zhou, Xiaoxiao
name: Song, Xinyuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: This study develops a joint modeling approach that incorporates latent traits into causal mediation analysis with multiple mediators and a survival outcome. A linear structural equation model is used to characterize the latent mediators with several highly correlated observable surrogates and depicts the relationships among multiple parallel or causally ordered mediators and the exposure. A proportional hazards model is used to derive the path-specific causal effects on the scale of hazard ratio under the counterfactual framework with a set of sequential ignorability assumptions. A Bayesian approach with Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to perform efficient estimation of the causal effects. Posterior propriety theory is established for the proportional hazards model with latent variables. Empirical performance of the proposed method is verified through simulation studies. The proposed model is then applied to a study on the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset to investigate the causal effects of APOE-ε4 allele on the disease progression, either directly or through potential mediators, such as hippocampus atrophy, ventricle expansion, and cognitive impairment.
Transduodenal Endosonography-Guided Biliary Drainage and Duodenal Stenting for Palliation of Malignant Obstructive Jaundice and Duodenal Obstruction
Creators: name: Maluf-Filho, Fauze
name: Retes, Felipe Alves
name: Neves, Carla Zanellato
name: Sato, Cezar Fabiano Manabu
name: Kawaguti, Fabio Shiguehissa
name: Jureidini, Ricardo
name: Ribeiro Jr, Ulysses
name: Bacchella, Telesforo
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Bile Ducts /ultrasonography; Drainage /adverse effects /methods; Duodenal Obstruction; Endosonography; Gastric Outlet Obstruction; Jaundice, Obstructive

description: Context Endosonography-guided biliary drainage has been used over the last few years as a salvage procedure when endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography fails. Malignant gastric outlet obstruction may also be present in these patients. We report the results of both procedures during the same session in patients with duodenal and biliary obstruction due to malignant disease. Methods A retrospective review from a prospective collected database. Results Technical success was achieved in all five patients; however, only three patients experienced relief of jaundice and gastric outlet obstruction. Conclusions Endosonography-guided biliary drainage and duodenal stenting in the same session is feasible. However, severe complications may limit the procedure. This is a challenging procedure and should be done by experts with special attention to patient’s selection.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
การประเมินประสิทธิภาพของสโมสรฟุตบอลในไทยพรีเมียร์ลีกโดยใช้วิธีการโอบล้อมข้อมูลแบบจัดเรียงประสิทธิภาพ
Creators: name: พรพิมล ชัยวุฒิศักดิ์
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2562
Subjects: วิธีโอบล้อมข้อมูล
สโมสรฟุตบอล
วิธีโอบล้อมข้อมูลแบบหาค่าประสิทธิภาพไขว้
วิธีโอบล้อมข้อมูลแบบหาค่าประสิทธิภาพซุปเปอร์

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 27, 1, 15-26
Emergent 3-manifolds from 4d Superconformal Indices
Creators: name: Terashima, Yuji
name: Yamazaki, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the smooth geometry of a hyperbolic 3-manifold emerges from a classical spin system defined on a 2d discrete lattice, and moreover show that the process of this "dimensional oxidation" is equivalent with the dimensional reduction of a supersymmetric gauge theory from 4d to 3d. More concretely, we propose an equality between (1) the 4d superconformal index of a 4d N=1 superconformal quiver gauge theory described by a bipartite graph on T^2 and the partition function of a classical integrable spin chain on T^2. The 2d spin system is lifted to a hyperbolic 3-manifold after the dimensional reduction and the Higgsing of the 4d gauge theory.
description: v2: 4 pages, 2 figures, explanations added, published in PRL
Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient with Vivax Malaria
Creators: name: Sharma, Vishal
name: Sharma, Alka
name: Aggarwal, Amitesh
name: Bhardwaj, Gaurav
name: Aggarwal, Sourabh
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2012
Subjects: Malaria; Pancreatitis; Plasmodium vivax

description: Context Acute pancreatitis is most commonly linked to gallstone disease or alcohol consumption. Occasionally it can follow infectious disease. Malaria, especially Plasmodium falciparum infection, has been associated with acute pancreatitis. Case report We present the case of a 17-year-old male who presented with a history of fever, abdominal pain and hypotension and revealing acute pancreatitis associated with infection by Plasmodium vivax. Conclusion Acute pancreatitis can accompany malaria, including Plasmodium vivax.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 13, N° 2 (2012): March - p. 124-251
Cretoserica Nikolajev 1998
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Cretoserica

description: † Cretoserica Nikolajev, 1998
[1 species].
Type species Cretoserica latitibialis Nikolajev, 1998, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
ข้อควรพิจารณาในความน่าเชื่อถือของข้อมูลที่ได้จากการสำรวจตัวอย่าง
Creators: name: ณัตติฤดี เจริญรักษ์
name: นัท กุลวานิช
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2562
Subjects: การสำรวจตัวอย่าง
ความน่าเชื่อถือ
การสุ่มตัวอย่าง
แบบสอบถาม

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 27, 1, 27-41
Anthrenus (Florilinus) ohbayashii Kadej, Hava, and Kitano, new species
Creators: name: Kadej, Marcin
name: Háva, Jiří
name: Kitano, Takanobu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dermestidae
Anthrenus
Anthrenus ohbayashii

description: Anthrenus (Florilinus) ohbayashii Kadej, Háva, and Kitano, new species
(Figs. 8–16)
description: Published as part of Kadej, Marcin, Háva, Jiří & Kitano, Takanobu, 2016, Descriptions Of Three New Species Of Anthrenus Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), With Keys To The Species Of Anthrenus From Nepal And Taiwan, pp. 789-796 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 70 (4) on page 791, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-70.4.789, http://zenodo.org/record/10085654