cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Improving the clinical impact of radiological research: a cross-sectional study of radiology journals’ editorial policies
Creators: name: Gibson, Lorna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Professional issues
subject: CT
subject: Ethics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Translating research findings to clinical practice relies on complete and transparent reporting of studies. Authors' use of reporting guidelines has been shown to improve the completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic test accuracy (Smidt...
Some Theorems for Feed Forward Neural Networks
Creators: name: Eswaran, K.
name: Singh, Vishwajeet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62M45

description: In this paper we introduce a new method which employs the concept of "Orientation Vectors" to train a feed forward neural network and suitable for problems where large dimensions are involved and the clusters are characteristically sparse. The new method is not NP hard as the problem size increases. We `derive' the method by starting from Kolmogrov's method and then relax some of the stringent conditions. We show for most classification problems three layers are sufficient and the network size depends on the number of clusters. We prove as the number of clusters increase from N to N+dN the number of processing elements in the first layer only increases by d(logN), and are proportional to the number of classes, and the method is not NP hard. Many examples are solved to demonstrate that the method of Orientation Vectors requires much less computational effort than Radial Basis Function methods and other techniques wherein distance computations are required, in fact the present method increases logarithmically with problem size compared to the Radial Basis Function method and the other methods which depend on distance computations e.g statistical methods where probabilistic distances are calculated. A practical method of applying the concept of Occum's razor to choose between two architectures which solve the same classification problem has been described. The ramifications of the above findings on the field of Deep Learning have also been briefly investigated and we have found that it directly leads to the existence of certain types of NN architectures which can be used as a "mapping engine", which has the property of "invertibility", thus improving the prospect of their deployment for solving problems involving Deep Learning and hierarchical classification. The latter possibility has a lot of future scope in the areas of machine learning and cloud computing.
description: 15 pages 13 figures
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Terrorism/Power Generation/Medicare and Prescription Drugs/Iraq/2004 Presidential Election
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: George W. Bush job performance (10); Re-elect George W. Bush in 2004 (1); Bush administration plan for handling economy (1); United Nations (3); Favor/Oppose allowing a US citizen born in a different country to be elected president (1); Terrorism (3); Confidence in US government to protect citizens from future terrorist attacks (1); US back/ not back to normal since 9/11 (1); Time has/ has not healed wounds that were caused by 9/11 (1); Terrorist associated with Osama bin Laden currently in US (1); US war on Terrorism will/ will not require troops sent to other countries for next few years (1); Terrorist attacks likely/ not likely to happen (6): Blackouts (2); Electric and power generating facilities (2); Medicare (4); Prescription drugs from Canada (2); Situation in Iraq (5); 2004 democratic nominees (16); Favor/Oppose international peacekeeping force in Liberia (1); Fighting terrorism/ civil liberties 92); Patriot Act (2); Current rise in gas prices (2); Good/ bad time to buy a house (1); General courts have generally been supportive/ neutral/ hostile toward Christian religions in their rulings (1); Approve/ disapprove of federal couture decision ordering an Alabama court to remove monument of Ten commandments 91); Arnold Schwarzenegger (1).
The BOSS-WiggleZ overlap region II: dependence of cosmic growth on galaxy type
Creators: name: Marín, Felipe A.
name: Beutler, Florian
name: Blake, Chris
name: Koda, Jun
name: Kazin, Eyal
name: Schneider, Donald P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anisotropic galaxy 2-point correlation function (2PCF) allows measurement of the growth of large-scale structures from the effect of peculiar velocities on the clustering pattern. We present new measurements of the auto- and cross- correlation function multipoles of 69,180 WiggleZ and 46,380 BOSS-CMASS galaxies sharing an overlapping volume of ~0.2 (Gpc/h)^3. Analysing the redshift-space distortions (RSD) of galaxy 2-point statistics for these two galaxy tracers, we test for systematic errors in the modelling depending on galaxy type and investigate potential improvements in cosmological constraints. We build a large number of mock galaxy catalogues to examine the limits of different RSD models in terms of fitting scales and galaxy type, and to study the covariance of the measurements when performing joint fits. For the galaxy data, fitting the monopole and quadrupole of the WiggleZ 2PCF on scales 24
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
One Year of DDoS Attacks Against a Cloud Provider: an Overview
Creators: name: Boin, Clément
name: Guillaume, Xavier
name: Grimaud, Gilles
name: Groléat, Tristan
name: Hauspie, Michaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed denial of service attacks represents one of the most important threats to cloud-providers. Over the years, volumetric DDoS attacks have become increasingly important and complex. Due to the rapid adaptation of attackers to the detection and mitigation methods designed to counter them, the industry needs to constantly monitor and analyse the attacks they face. In this paper, we present an overview of the attacks that were perpetrated against our infrastructure in 2021. Our motivation is to give an insight of the challenge that DDoS attacks still represent within a large European cloud provider
Distant reading 940,000 online circulations of 26 iconic photographs
Creators: name: Smits, Thomas
name: Ros, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430306
subject: Digital history

description: How do digital media impact the meaning of iconic photographs? Recent studies have suggested that online circulation, especially in a memeified form, might lead to the erosion, fracturing, or collapsing of the original contextual meaning of iconic pictures. Introducing a distant reading methodology to the study of iconic photographs, we apply the Google Cloud Vision Application Programming Interface (GCV API) to retrieve 940,000 online circulations of 26 iconic images between 1995 and 2020. We use document embeddings, a Natural Language Processing technique, to map in what contexts iconic photographs are circulated online. The article demonstrates that constantly changing configurations of contextual imagetexts, self-referential image-texts, and non-referential image/texts shape the online live of iconic photographs: ebbs and flows of slowly disappearing, suddenly resurfacing, and newly found meanings. While iconic photographs might not need captions to speak, this article argues that a large-scale analysis of texts can help us better grasp what they say.
title: The long term follow up of transarterial renal artery aneurysm embolisation: the efficacy of Doppler ultrasound in comparison to digital subtraction angiography
Creators: name: Januszewicz, Magdalena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Kidney
subject: Vascular
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Embolisation
subject: Aneurysms

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Renal artery aneurysm are considered the second most common visceral aneurysm (approx. 20%) .Treatment should be either surgical or endovascular as rupture risks of up 3% have been reported.The patient follow-up is required to excludethe aneurysm...
Implementation of an emergency department geriatric delirium and agitation treatment protocol
Creators: name: Yanisko, Anna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: AbstractPurpose of Project: Per the American College of Emergency Physicians, there is a need for improvement in geriatric care in the emergency department. The purpose of the project was to decrease usage of benzodiazepines for geriatric agitation and delirium in the emergency department via use of a geriatric delirium and agitation pathway. Geriatric patients are at high risk for developing agitation or delirium in and out of the hospital due to etiologies including but not limited to infection, pain, stroke, hypoglycemia, electrolyte imbalance, and myocardial infarction. When experiencing delirium or agitation, they are at higher risk for morbidity and mortality, as delirium is highly underdiagnosed and often mismanaged. Methodology: A geriatric delirium and agitation pathway was created and disseminated along with education for emergency department staff. Retrospective data from charts was collected five weeks pre intervention and five weeks post intervention on prescribing practices for benzodiazepines and olanzapine. Geriatric patients included those aged 65 and older. Results: Results were not statistically significant (p > 0.05), with no change in prescribing of benzodiazepines for geriatric agitation/delirium and no change in preferred medication for geriatric agitation/delirium, olanzapine. Implications for Practice: It is important to continue updating practice and prescribing patterns as evidenced by literature to maximize patient safety and improve outcomes. Additionally, geriatric specific quality and education committees could be beneficial to focus on the geriatric population to close provider knowledge gaps. Other areas for improvement include but are not limited to decreasing falls, reducing hospital induced delirium and agitation, and highlighting safe medication practices. Geriatric patients with delirium and agitation have longer lengths of stay, increased morbidity and mortality, and use more resources. If these processes are improved, this will ultimately save costs to the patient and healthcare system, and improve patient outcomes.Keywords: geriatrics, geriatric delirium, delirium, agitation, emergency department, benzodiazepines, olanzapine
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: 2004 Presidential Election/Iraq/Religion/Same Sex Marriage/China
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: George W. Bush job performance (2); 2004 Democratic primary nominees (3); Bush vs. Democratic Nominees (10); Opinion of people in news (5); Agree/disagree that George W. Bush has the personality and leadership qualities a president should have (1); Agree/Disagree with George W. Bush on issues that matter most to respondent (1); consider different countries allies/enemies (5); Issues for 2004 election campaigns (14); Situation in Iraq was worth/not worth going to war over (1); War with Iraq is/is not over (1); Saddam Hussein (2); France (2); North Korea (1); Approve/disapprove of certain situations (6); Religious leaders should. Should not try to influence government policy (3); Good/bad thing if saw a bible on a public school teacher's desk (1); Monument to ten commandments in a courthouse (1); Why people file lawsuits opposing prayer in public schools/displays of religious symbols in government buildings (1); Opinion about display of religion in public (1); Government promoting teachings of a religion (1); Allowing two people of same sex to legally marry (2): Chinese Businesses (3); Ever voted for independent or third party candidate for president (1); Ralph Nader (2); Political debates in which candidates get questions ahead of time (2); Paying more attention to 2004 presidential election/ California recall election (1); Believe/ do not believe there is a Republican strategy to attempt to overturn results of elections (1).
Soliton dynamics in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers
Creators: name: Saleh, Mohammed F.
name: Biancalana, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers offer unprecedented opportunities to observe novel nonlinear phenomena. The various properties of gases that can be used to fill these fibers give additional degrees of freedom for investigating nonlinear pulse propagation in a wide range of different media. In this review, we will consider some of the the new nonlinear interactions that have been discovered in recent years, in particular those which are based on soliton dynamics.
Understanding intra-day price formation process by agent-based financial market simulation: calibrating the extended chiarella model
Creators: name: Gao, Kang
name: Vytelingum, Perukrishnen
name: Weston, Stephen
name: Luk, Wayne
name: Guo, Ce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This article presents XGB-Chiarella, a powerful new approach for deploying agent-based models to generate realistic intra-day artificial financial price data. This approach is based on agent-based models, calibrated by XGBoost machine learning surrogate. Following the Extended Chiarella model, three types of trading agents are introduced in this agent-based model: fundamental traders, momentum traders, and noise traders. In particular, XGB-Chiarella focuses on configuring the simulation to accurately reflect real market behaviours. Instead of using the original Expectation-Maximisation algorithm for parameter estimation, the agent-based Extended Chiarella model is calibrated using XGBoost machine learning surrogate. It is shown that the machine learning surrogate learned in the proposed method is an accurate proxy of the true agent-based market simulation. The proposed calibration method is superior to the original Expectation-Maximisation parameter estimation in terms of the distance between historical and simulated stylised facts. With the same underlying model, the proposed methodology is capable of generating realistic price time series in various stocks listed at three different exchanges, which indicates the universality of intra-day price formation process. For the time scale (minutes) chosen in this paper, one agent per category is shown to be sufficient to capture the intra-day price formation process. The proposed XGB-Chiarella approach provides insights that the price formation process is comprised of the interactions between momentum traders, fundamental traders, and noise traders. It can also be used to enhance risk management by practitioners.
description: Published in WILMOTT Magazine: May 2022 issue. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2208.13654
Algorithmic problems for differential polynomial algebras
Creators: name: Umirbaev, Ualbai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the ideal membership problem and the subalgebra membership problem are algorithmically undecidable for differential polynomial algebras with at least two basic derivation operators.
description: 12 pages
Surface Functionalization by Stimuli-Sensitive Microgels for Effective Enzyme Uptake and Rational Design of Biosensor Setups
Creators: name: Sigolaeva, Larisa V.
name: Pergushov, Dmitry V.
name: Oelmann, Marina
name: Schwarz, Simona
name: Brugnoni, Monia
name: Kurochkin, Ilya N.
name: Plamper, Felix A.
name: Fery, Andreas
name: Richtering, Walter
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Adsorption
subject: Biosensor
subject: Choline oxidase
subject: Microgel
subject: Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide)
subject: Poly(N-isopropylacrylamideco- N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]methacrylamide)
subject: Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring
subject: Stimuli-sensitivity
subject: Streaming potential
subject: Surface modification
subject: 540

description: We highlight microgel/enzyme thin films that were deposited onto solid interfaces via two sequential steps, the adsorption of temperature- and pH-sensitive microgels, followed by their complexation with the enzyme choline oxidase, ChO. Two kinds of functional (ionic) microgels were compared in this work in regard to their adsorptive behavior and interaction with ChO, that is, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-(3-aminopropyl)methacrylamide), P(NIPAM-co-APMA), bearing primary amino groups, and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-[3-(dimethylamino) propyl]methacrylamide), P(NIPAM-co-DMAPMA), bearing tertiary amino groups. The stimuli-sensitive properties of the microgels in the solution were characterized by potentiometric titration, dynamic light scattering (DLS), and laser microelectrophoresis. The peculiarities of the adsorptive behavior of both the microgels and the specific character of their interaction with ChO were revealed by a combination of surface characterization techniques. The surface charge was characterized by electrokinetic analysis (EKA) for the initial graphite surface and the same one after the subsequent deposition of the microgels and the enzyme under different adsorption regimes. The masses of wet microgel and microgel/enzyme films were determined by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) upon the subsequent deposition of the components under the same adsorption conditions, on a surface of gold-coated quartz crystals. Finally, the enzymatic responses of the microgel/enzyme films deposited on graphite electrodes to choline were tested amperometrically. The presence of functional primary amino groups in the P(NIPAM-co-APMA) microgel enables a covalent enzyme-to-microgel coupling via glutar aldehyde cross-linking, thereby resulting in a considerable improvement of the biosensor operational stability.
USCEA/Cambridge Report Poll: Nuclear Energy, November 1987
Creators: name: U.S. Council For Energy Awareness (USCEA)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Nuclear energy (3); nuclear energy versus foreign oil (1); importance of U.S. energy independence (2); sources of energy that will provide the most benefit (2); sources of energy (2); importance of nuclear power plants in meeting the nation's future energy needs (2); importance of coal-powered plants in the future (1); knowledge of nuclear energy (1); energy supply as a serious problem (1); most important problems facing the nation (2); regulating of nuclear power plants (2).
USCEA/Cambridge Report Poll: Nuclear Energy, February 1988
Creators: name: U.S. Council For Energy Awareness (USCEA)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Nuclear energy (2); importance of candidate's stand on nuclear energy in election (1); two sources of energy that will provide the most benefit (2); sources of energy (2); importance of nuclear power plants in the future (1); importance of coal-powered plants in the future (1); knowledge of nuclear energy (1); energy supply as a serious problem (1); increase in the need for nuclear energy (1); most important problems facing the nation (2).
title: Imaging features of malignant transformation and benign malignant-mimicking lesions in the genitourinary tracts
Creators: name: Park, Sung Bin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Education
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cancer
subject: Education and training
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Common benign disease in the genitourinary tracts can undergo malignant transformation. On the other hand, some benign disease may mimic malignancy. Although the usual imaging features of common benign disease are well known to radiologists, various...
title: CT-based myocardial ischemia evaluation: quantitative angiography, myocardial perfusion, and CT-FFR
Creators: name: Koo, Hyun Jung
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Non-invasive prediction of myocardial ischemia has been important issue to determine whether revascularization therapy performs or not in patient with stable coronary artery disease.Quantitative coronary CT angiography, myocardial CT perfusion, and...
Surface participation and dielectric loss in superconducting qubits
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
name: Axline, Christopher
name: Gao, Yvonne Y.
name: Brecht, Teresa
name: Frunzio, Luigi
name: Devoret, Michel H.
name: Schoelkopf, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the energy relaxation times ($T_1$) of superconducting transmon qubits in 3D cavities as a function of dielectric participation ratios of material surfaces. This surface participation ratio, representing the fraction of electric field energy stored in a dissipative surface layer, is computed by a two-step finite-element simulation and experimentally varied by qubit geometry. With a clean electromagnetic environment and suppressed non-equilibrium quasiparticle density, we find an approximately proportional relation between the transmon relaxation rates and surface participation ratios. These results suggest dielectric dissipation arising from material interfaces is the major limiting factor for the $T_1$ of transmons in 3D cQED architecture. Our analysis also supports the notion of spatial discreteness of surface dielectric dissipation.
description: Main text: 5 pages 4 figures; Supplementary Materials: 6 pages 4 figures 1 table
Higher dimensional Reissner-Nordström black holes supporting static scalar shells
Creators: name: Xie, Libo
name: Fang, Chaoxi
name: Jiang, Jie
name: Zhang, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analytically study scalarization of higher-dimensional charged Reissner-Nordström (RN) black hole. It is shown that static massive scalar field which is non-minimally coupled to Gauss-Bonnet invariant can be supported by higher-dimensional black hole in super-critical charge regime $Q/M\ge \bar{C}_d$ with $Q, M$ charge and mass of the black hole and $\bar{C}_d$ some unitless spacetime dimension-dependent quantity. Moreover, we show that the static massive scalar shell can be quite thin in the large mass regime $μM^{\frac{1}{d-3}}\gg 1$ with $μ$ mass of the scalar field.
Risk Factors and Outcomes Associated With Unintended Pregnancy in North Carolina
Creators: name: Sigel, Keith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Unintended pregnancy has long been recognized as a national health concern. Representing pregnancies that were not wanted at the time that conception occurred, the term unintended pregnancy is an aggregate of both mistimed and unwanted pregnancies. Mistimed pregnancies are those that were wanted by the woman at some time, but occurred sooner than desired. Unwanted pregnancies are those that occurred when the women did not want to be pregnant at all, at any time. It was noted that in the late 1970's and early eighties the rate of unintended pregnancy was decreasing, but in the late 1980's the rate began to increase again. This trend appeared to continue into the early 1990's. The last US estimate of the prevalence of unintended pregnancy was 49%, reported in 1994 as part of the National Survey of Family Growth. Decreasing unintended pregnancy to 30% is a major goal of the Healthy People 2010 campaign. Previous studies have determined the demographic groups at highest risk for unintended pregnancy. Being younger than 20 or older than 40 has been established as a significant risk factor, as well as having less than 12 years of education, and being African American.
Prediction-based One-shot Dynamic Parking Pricing
Creators: name: Hong, Seoyoung
name: Shin, Heejoo
name: Choi, Jeongwhan
name: Park, Noseong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many U.S. metropolitan cities are notorious for their severe shortage of parking spots. To this end, we present a proactive prediction-driven optimization framework to dynamically adjust parking prices. We use state-of-the-art deep learning technologies such as neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) to design our future parking occupancy rate prediction model given historical occupancy rates and price information. Owing to the continuous and bijective characteristics of NODEs, in addition, we design a one-shot price optimization method given a pre-trained prediction model, which requires only one iteration to find the optimal solution. In other words, we optimize the price input to the pre-trained prediction model to achieve targeted occupancy rates in the parking blocks. We conduct experiments with the data collected in San Francisco and Seattle for years. Our prediction model shows the best accuracy in comparison with various temporal or spatio-temporal forecasting models. Our one-shot optimization method greatly outperforms other black-box and white-box search methods in terms of the search time and always returns the optimal price solution.
description: Accepted at CIKM 2022
Equilibrium measures for certain isometric extensions of Anosov systems
Creators: name: Spatzier, Ralf
name: Visscher, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that for the frame flow on a negatively curved, closed manifold of odd dimension other than 7, and a Holder continuous potential that is constant on fibers, there is a unique equilibrium measure. We prove a similar result for automorphisms of the Heisenberg manifold fibering over the torus. Our methods also give an alternate proof of Brin and Gromov's result on the ergodicity of these frame flows.
Jet oscillations and mixing in fluidic oscillators: influence of geometric configuration and scale
Creators: name: Madane, Ketan
name: RANADE, VIVEK
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Fluidic oscillators (FOs) harness inherently oscillating jets for improving mixing, heat, and mass transfer and offer an attractive device platform for a wide range of applications. Despite several promising applications of FOs, the influence of their design and scale on the resulting jet oscillations and mixing has not been systematically studied. In this work, we investigated the influence of geometric configuration and device scale on jet oscillation frequency, flow, mixing, and residence time distribution (RTD). Initially, flow in FO was simulated using a two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for exploring a wider parameter space. These simulations indicated that the distance of the backflow limb from the inlet and device scale are the most important design parameters influencing the jet oscillation frequency. Detailed three-dimensional CFD simulations were then carried out for the shortlisted configurations of the FO. The shortlisted configurations were fabricated, and experimental measurements of jet oscillations were carried out. The jet oscillation frequency was measured using acquired pressure fluctuation data and fast Fourier transforms. The simulated results were compared with the experimental data. The validated CFD model was then used to evaluate various flow features of FO, mixing, and liquid and solid RTD considering potential applications. The presented results will be useful for identifying suitable design and operating parameters of the FO for a variety of processes and applications.
Exploring Climate Change as an Opportunity for the Reintegration of Environmental Health and Environmental Protection as a Field of Practice
Creators: name: Stamper, Kelli
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: This paper explores climate change as an opportunity for the field of environmental health protection (EHP) to address the divide it has suffered since the early 1970’s, when diversification of EHP functions at the federal, state, and local levels led to the organizational and functional separation of environmental protection functions from environmental public health. Although this resulted in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and a broadening of the EHP system, it has also created fragmentation and gaps that negatively impact the ability of the system to effectively identify, respond to, and address emerging and increasingly complex issues. Climate change is emerging as perhaps the most important public health issue of the 21st century. By many accounts, the US is already experiencing the impacts in the forms of extreme weather events and precipitation variances. Projected impacts will likely threaten the fundamental systems that support life and health; water, air food, ecosystems, affecting human health both directly and indirectly. Recognizing the need to address fragmentation and current silo-approaches to EHP issues, academia, public health leaders, practitioners, and professional organizations have worked to identify and implement strategies to strengthen the capacity of the EHP system. Climate change creates considerable greater urgency for systems change to ensure the capacity of the EHP system to adequate plan for and respond to such global EHP threats. Understanding, planning for, and taking action towards climate change mitigation and adaptation will require a comprehensive and integrated environmental health and protection approach. Along with the challenges and barriers that exist, climate change also provides opportunities to redefine the EHP field, to affect organizational and workforce changes, and to bridge the separation between environmental public health and protection to more effectively meet this and future environmental health challenges. The purpose of this paper is to review literature about and to recommend action for the reintegration of environmental health and environmental protection as a field a practice to prepare for and address climate change.
Improving the identification of menopause in midwifery care: a quality improvement project
Creators: name: Damallie, Naja
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Purpose of Project: Women in menopause experience undiagnosed symptoms that have a potentially negative impact on their quality of life. Certified Nurse Midwives are providers uniquely positioned to identify menopausal symptoms to then provide a menopausal diagnosis. Screening for menopause is an evidence-based prevention strategy that has proven to be beneficial in identifying menopausal symptoms, to then help improve quality of life. Two private midwifery offices have not yet utilized a screening tool for menopause. Creating a practice change by implementing a menopausal screening tool and providing an educational tool on menopause can help to improve quality of life of women by increasing the number of women diagnosed and encouraging the opportunity to educate. Methodology: During annual well-woman visits at two private midwifery offices, patients between the ages of 45 and 65 were screened for menopause using the Greene Climacteric Scale, a menopausal screening which identifies potential menopausal symptoms experienced. This tool was completed by each patient meeting the inclusion criteria. Once completed, the tool was scored by the midwives who then could provide the patient a diagnosis of menopause with a score above 12 and proceeded to treat their symptoms through the usual standard of care. In addition, a written educational resource from UpToDate titled “Menopause: The Basics,” was provided to the patients by the midwives. A pre-intervention retrospective chart review was conducted on 30 women who met the inclusion criteria of the project over a three-month period, and then repeated post-intervention prospectively for three months on 30 different women who were provided the screening tool and the educational resource.Results: Patient demographics, provider use of the GCS screening tool, and provider use of the menopausal education was collected via retrospective chart reviews and analyzed. Demographic data provided the mean age of the pre-implementation group to be 54 years old with a minimum value of 46 and maximum value of 64. The mean age of the post-implementation group was 50.6 years old with a minimum value of 45 and maximum value of 62. Data analyzed for education provided showed a 29% change with a p value of .044. Data analyzed after implementing the GCS, a 15% change in women found to have a menopausal diagnosis with a p value of .275. Implications for Practice: The Greene Climacteric Scale successfully increased the number of women diagnosed to be in menopause. The educational resource improved the opportunity and rate of discussion of menopause by the midwives. Both tools proved clinical significance in improving the identification of menopause. The recommendation is to incorporate both the screening tool and the educational tool into midwifery practices to improve the quality-of-life of perimenopausal women.
Thermoresponsive Microgel Coatings as Versatile Functional Compounds for Novel Cell Manipulation Tools
Creators: name: Uhlig, Katja
name: Wegener, Thomas
name: Hertle, Yvonne
name: Bookhold, Johannes
name: Jaeger, Magnus
name: Hellweg, Thomas
name: Fery, Andreas
name: Duschl, Claus
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell cultivation
subject: Cell-based assay
subject: Non-invasive cell detachment
subject: Stimuli-responsive polymers
subject: 540

description: For the effective use of live cells in biomedicine as in vitro test systems or in biotechnology, non-invasive cell processing and characterisation are key elements. Thermoresponsive polymer coatings have been demonstrated to be highly beneficial for controlling the interaction of adherent cells through their cultivation support. However, the widespread application of these coatings is hampered by limitations in their adaptability to different cell types and because the full range of applications has not yet been fully explored. In the work presented here, we address these issues by focusing on three different aspects. With regard to the first aspect, by using well-defined laminar flow in a microchannel, a highly controllable and reproducible shear force can be applied to adherent cells. Employing this tool, we demonstrate that cells can be non-invasively detached from a support using a defined shear flow. The second aspect relates to the recent development of simple methods for patterning thermoresponsive coatings. Here, we show how such patterned coatings can be used for improving the handling and reliability of a wound-healing assay. Two pattern geometries are tested using mouse fibroblasts and CHO cells. In terms of the third aspect, the adhesiveness of cells depends on the cell type. Standard thermoresponsive coatings are not functional for all types of cells. By coadsorbing charged nanoparticles and thermoresponsive microgels, it is demonstrated that the adhesion and detachment behaviour of cells on such coatings can be modulated.
Small Perturbations of an Interface for Elastostatic Problems
Creators: name: Lagha, Jihene
name: Triki, Faouzi
name: Zribi, Habib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B30, 35C20, 31B10

description: We consider solutions to the Lamé system in two dimensions. By using systematic way, based on layer potential techniques and the field expansion (FE) method (formal derivation), we establish a rigorous asymptotic expansion for the perturbations of the displacement field caused by small perturbations of the shape of an elastic inclusion with C2-boundary. We extend these techniques to determine a relationship between traction-displacement measurements and the shape of the object and derive an asymptotic expansion for the perturbation in the elastic moments tensors (EMTs) due to the presence of small changes in the interface of the inclusion.
description: 42pages,0 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1601.06774
Los Angeles Times Poll: California Politics
Creators: name: Los Angeles Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Information on political campaigns(7); Clinton job performance(1); Pete Wilson(1); Dianne Feinstein(5); gubernatorial candidates(6); senatorial candidates(4); candidate preference in 94 election(15); repeat offenders initiative(2); smoking law proposition(4); illegal aliens(4); negative campaigning(2); California economy(2); personal finances(2).
Towards Green and Infinite Capacity in Wireless Communication Networks: Beyond The Shannon Theorem
Creators: name: Elmusrati, Mohammed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: New and novel way for resources allocation in wireless communication has been proposed in this paper. Under this new method, it has been shown that the required power budget becomes independent of the number of served terminals in the downlink. However, the required power depends only of the coverage area, i.e. the channel losses at the cell boarder. Therefore, huge number (theoretically any number) of terminals could be supported concurrently at finite and small downlink power budget. This could be very useful to support the downlink signalling channels in HSPA+, LTE, and 5G. It can be very useful also to support huge D2D communication downlinks. Moreover, and based on the same concept, a new system configuration for a single link point-to-point communication has been presented. With this new configuration, the achieved data rate becomes independent of the required transmit power. This means that any data rate can be achieved at the target BER and with small and finite transmit power. This seems violating with some major results of the Shannon theorem. This issue will be discussed in details in this article.
description: Version of this paper has been submitted to IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communication
The Minnesota Poll # 311
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Time spent watching television (1); satisfaction with programming (1); cable subscription (1); library telecommunications (1); Attica police killings (3); prison reform (2); approval of various politicians (4); property taxes for school construction (1); school year length (3); children in school (1); hitchhiking (4); rating Richard Nixon administration (5); price and wage controls (6); supermarket trading stamps (5); presidential candidate preferences (3); black candidate on ballot (3); vacations (11); comic strip ratings (4); newspaper readership (2).
title: Imaging Follow-up of Patients with Desmoid Tumors: Correlation of Tumor Growth and Hormonal Therapy with Signal Characteristics on MR
Creators: name: Chanson, Anne
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Desmoid Tumors (DT) are benign soft tissue tumors that account for 0,03 % of all tumors They have no metastatic capacity, but can be locally aggressive Surgery is the primary therapy when complete removal of the lesion is feasible (R0 margins) with...
A Cavity-Enhanced Room-Temperature Broadband Raman Memory
Creators: name: Saunders, D. J.
name: Munns, J. H. D.
name: Champion, T. F. M.
name: Qiu, C.
name: Kaczmarek, K. T.
name: Poem, E.
name: Ledingham, P. M.
name: Walmsley, I. A.
name: Nunn, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Broadband quantum memories hold great promise as multiplexing elements in future photonic quantum information protocols. Alkali vapour Raman memories combine high-bandwidth storage, on-demand read-out, and operation at room temperature without collisional fluorescence noise. However, previous implementations have required large control pulse energies and suffered from four-wave mixing noise. Here we present a Raman memory where the storage interaction is enhanced by a low-finesse birefringent cavity tuned into simultaneous resonance with the signal and control fields, dramatically reducing the energy required to drive the memory. By engineering anti-resonance for the anti-Stokes field, we also suppress the four-wave mixing noise and report the lowest unconditional noise floor yet achieved in a Raman-type warm vapour memory, $(15\pm2)\times10^{-3}$ photons per pulse, with a total efficiency of $(9.5\pm0.5)$%.
The Minnesota Poll # 312
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Studded snow tires (3); solving energy crisis (5); approval of various politicians (4); US-Russia trust (2); future of communism (3); threat of communism (2); new car purchase (2); purchasing household items (19); wage-price freeze (2); government controls to avoid inflation (1); spending money (1); budget (1); credit cards (6); impression of Democratic party (2); impression of Republican party (2); legislature meetings (2); increased taxes (3); income tax fairness (4); separation of church and state (1); formal prayers in school (1); interest in automobile racing (3); Donnybrooke racing course (2); newspaper readership (2).
Determination of Pressure Dependence of Polymer Phase Transitions by pVT Analysis
Creators: name: Pionteck, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crystallization temperature
subject: Glass transition temperature
subject: Melt transition temperature
subject: Phase transition
subject: Polycaprolactone
subject: Polycarbonate
subject: Polyethersulfone
subject: Pressure dependence
subject: Pressure volume temperature (pVT) analysis
subject: 540

description: Glass transitions, melting, crystallization, and the isotropization of polymers are connected with changes in the density, respectively the specific volume (Vsp), which can be analyzed by dilatometric methods. Here, the pressure dependence of such transitions is determined by pressure volume temperature (pVT) analysis for different thermoplastic polymers in the pressure range of 10 to 200 MPa, and the temperature range from room temperature to 350 °C. The values for ambient pressure are extrapolated. It is shown that polymer transitions always increase with pressure, and that the melting temperature and glass transition temperature are nearly linearly dependent on pressure. This information, as well as the observed density changes with pressure and temperature, is very important for the processing of thermoplastics, including their simulation, as well as for the thermodynamic interpretations of the transition’s nature.
CYTOSKELETON - Microtubule Dynamics in the Cell Cycle
Creators: name: Pie, Hannah
name: Hoffman, Kathleen
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: This module contains exercises designed to help upper-level cell biology students understand the dynamics of microtubule polymerization and depolymerization within the cell cycle and how cancer treatments influence this process through interpretation of graphical information, use of dimensional analysis, and comparison of rates of change.
Factors Influencing the Decision to Seek Mental Health Specialty Services and Intervention Outcomes for Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Hispanic American Women
Creators: name: Nagaraj, Shruti
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Previous studies in the field of mental health and psychiatry have established an increasing prevalence of depression and anxiety and their high potential for disease-related morbidity. As Hispanic American women appear to be more susceptible to these conditions, steps must be taken to learn more about their experience with mental illness and mental health care. Because many women who need specialized services do not seek treatment for these mental health conditions, we wanted to learn more about barriers faced and overcome among women receiving specialty mental health services. To address this question, we plan to conduct Spanish language focus groups with women who sought specialty mental health services because of depression or anxiety disorders. The women will be recruited from specialty mental health clinics in the Chapel Hill/Durham area. The recorded transcripts of the focus groups will be analyzed by two independent reviewers to identify recurring themes or ideas provided by these women. This study design is unique as data will be collected from an intimate conversation rather than from a written questionnaire, and focus groups will be conducted in the women’s native language. We hope that this will lead to greater insight into this issue and subsequently to more access, improved care, and increased treatment of mental illness in this population.
title: Imaging of Anatomy and Pathology of the Popliteal fossa: A Pictorial review
Creators: name: Santosh, Divya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Cysts
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Illustrates normal anatomy of the popliteal fossa using schematic illustrations and cross-sectional and angiographic imaging, highlighting important variants. Provides an overview of imaging modalities to investigate popliteal pathologies. Depicts a...