cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VII. The First Fully Uniform Catalog Based on The Entire 48 Month Dataset (Q1-Q17 DR24)
Creators: name: Coughlin, Jeffrey L.
name: Mullally, F.
name: Thompson, Susan E.
name: Rowe, Jason F.
name: Burke, Christopher J.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Batalha, Natalie M.
name: Ofir, Aviv
name: Quarles, Billy L.
name: Henze, Christopher E.
name: Wolfgang, Angie
name: Caldwell, Douglas A.
name: Bryson, Stephen T.
name: Shporer, Avi
name: Catanzarite, Joseph
name: Akeson, Rachel
name: Barclay, Thomas
name: Borucki, William J.
name: Boyajian, Tabetha S.
name: Campbell, Jennifer R.
name: Christiansen, Jessie L.
name: Girouard, Forrest R.
name: Haas, Michael R.
name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Huber, Daniel
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Li, Jie
name: Patil-Sabale, Anima
name: Quintana, Elisa V.
name: Ramirez, Solange
name: Seader, Shawn
name: Smith, Jeffrey C.
name: Tenenbaum, Peter
name: Twicken, Joseph D.
name: Zamudio, Khadeejah A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the seventh Kepler planet candidate catalog, which is the first to be based on the entire, uniformly processed, 48 month Kepler dataset. This is the first fully automated catalog, employing robotic vetting procedures to uniformly evaluate every periodic signal detected by the Q1-Q17 Data Release 24 (DR24) Kepler pipeline. While we prioritize uniform vetting over the absolute correctness of individual objects, we find that our robotic vetting is overall comparable to, and in most cases is superior to, the human vetting procedures employed by past catalogs. This catalog is the first to utilize artificial transit injection to evaluate the performance of our vetting procedures and quantify potential biases, which are essential for accurate computation of planetary occurrence rates. With respect to the cumulative Kepler Object of Interest (KOI) catalog, we designate 1,478 new KOIs, of which 402 are dispositioned as planet candidates (PCs). Also, 237 KOIs dispositioned as false positives (FPs) in previous Kepler catalogs have their disposition changed to PC and 118 PCs have their disposition changed to FP. This brings the total number of known KOIs to 8,826 and PCs to 4,696. We compare the Q1-Q17 DR24 KOI catalog to previous KOI catalogs, as well as ancillary Kepler catalogs, finding good agreement between them. We highlight new PCs that are both potentially rocky and potentially in the habitable zone of their host stars, many of which orbit solar-type stars. This work represents significant progress in accurately determining the fraction of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The full catalog is publicly available at the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
description: Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 30 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables. We make the DR24 robovetter decision code publicly available at http://github.com/JeffLCoughlin/robovetter, with input and output examples provided using the same data as contained in the full paper's tables
title: Evidenzbasierte Versorgungsforschung – ein Beitrag zu methodologischen Grundlagen der Versorgungsforschung
Creators: name: Gräßel, Elmar
name: Hollederer, Alfons
name: Drexler, Hans
name: Kolominsky-Rabas, Peter L.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Versorgungsforschung zielt darauf ab, Erkenntnisse darüber zu generieren, wie Prozesse der Versorgung von kranken Menschen, die medizinische Leistungen in Anspruch nehmen, ablaufen und welche Auswirkungen sie in der Anwendungsroutine auf die Beteiligten und auf das Gesundheitssystem[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 15. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung
title: WP1 Integrated Electrical Heat - Integrated Electric Heat - Domestic Heat Storage: A Landscape Review
Creators: name: Energy Systems Catapult
Publisher: name: ETI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Smart Systems and Heat
subject: ENERGY EFFICIENCY (Residential and commercial)
subject: OTHER CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES or RESEARCH (Energy Models)
subject: OTHER CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES or RESEARCH (Other Supporting Data)

description: The Integrated Electric Heating Project provided a modelling tool to evaluate the opportunities and challenges for electric heating to meet UK household requirements.The tool will be used to create and evaluate upgrade pathways for a small number of housing archetypes informed by detailed information gathered from dwelling participating in the recent Home Energy Management System trial.

This report contains a landscape review of domestic heat storage, produced by NEF, is included as an annex to the final report of the Integrated Electric Heat project.

We looked in detail at 13 technologies that could provide the necessary thermal storage. We considered both daily storage (energy stored and used within the a 24 hour period), and also seasonal storage (energy stored in summer to be used in winter). We also considered which technologies were appropriate for which heat sources and delivery mechanisms – like radiators, underfloor heating, or warm-air heating. We concluded that the most promising four technologies to pursue in the integrated electric heating project are:Phase-change materials in a storage unit – using the Sunamp or other system to provide storage over a day or a few days.A seasonal storage pit – using solar Thermal energy to store energy from summer to winter.Electric storage heaters – powered by excess solar PV and cheap Economy 7 electricity overnight.A Thermochemical system – included for its potential as a disruptive technology, which may need a buffer tank until system designs are refined
title: Erreichbarkeit von Hausärzten und ausgewählten Fachärzten mittels Pkw und ÖPNV im ländlichen Raum am Beispiel Vorpommern-Greifswald
Creators: name: Stentzel, Ulrike
name: Piegsa, Jens
name: Fredrich, Daniel
name: Hoffmann, Wolfgang
name: Van Den Berg, Neeltje
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Erreichbarkeitsanalysen von medizinischen Versorgungseinrichtungen sind insbesondere in dünnbesiedelten ländlichen Räumen relevant. Die Leistungserbringer konzentrieren sich oft in den größeren Orten, was dazu führt, dass die Entfernungen für Patienten[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 15. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung
Indirect reciprocity can overcome free-rider problems on costly moral assessment
Creators: name: Sasaki, Tatsuya
name: Okada, Isamu
name: Nakai, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Indirect reciprocity is one of the major mechanisms of the evolution of cooperation. Because constant monitoring and accurate evaluation in moral assessments tend to be costly, indirect reciprocity can be exploited by cost evaders. A recent study crucially showed that a cooperative state achieved by indirect reciprocators is easily destabilized by cost evaders in the case with no supportive mechanism. Here, we present a simple and widely applicable solution that considers pre-assessment of cost evaders. In the pre-assessment, those who fail to pay for costly assessment systems are assigned a nasty image that leads to being rejected by discriminators. We demonstrate that considering the pre-assessment can crucially stabilize reciprocal cooperation for a broad range of indirect reciprocity models. In particular for the most leading social norms we analyse the conditions under which a prosocial state becomes locally stable.
description: 19 pages (incl. supplementary materials), 1 table, and 1 figure
What’s to come in PSMA therapies and diagnostics: A summary of clinical trials involving PSMA radioligand-based therapeutic and/or diagnostic approaches with active recruitment
Creators: name: Dawson, Debra Ann
name: Lock, Michael
name: Laidley, David
name: Bauman, Glenn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Cancer

description: Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)-based diagnostics and therapeutics are proving highly valuable in identifying disease sites and providing targeted radioligand therapy (RLT) for disseminated disease in prostate cancer (PC). With successful integration of these tools in limited PC presentations, there is a real need and excitement for trials testing PSMA-based approaches more broadly. We review the ongoing trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov which aim to evaluate PSMA-PET or PSMA-RLT applications. We outline clinical contexts which have significant ongoing study and therefore may see imminent change, as well as contexts which are lacking in study in the hopes of guiding future research. Trials examining intensification strategies through targeted radiotherapy, combination systemic therapies, and RLTs have the potential to demonstrate improved clinical outcomes using PSMA-PET CT for guidance. We expect that PSMA-PET will become fundamental in the work-up of patients before targeted radiotherapy or surgery. The results of ongoing trials will likely clarify the benefits of PSMA-RLT in metastatic PC including in oligometastatic and hormone-sensitive disease; however, there is a sparsity of trials evaluating PSMA-RLT outside of metastatic PC. Clinical trials with PSMA PET/CT as an endpoint for disease control are emerging and standardized reporting and metrics for PSMA staging and response will facilitate the inclusion of PSMA PET endpoints into therapeutic trials.
Self-Organized Bistability Associated With First-Order Phase Transitions
Creators: name: di Santo, Serena
name: Burioni, Raffaella
name: Vezzani, Alessandro
name: Muñoz, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Self-organized criticality elucidates the conditions under which physical and biological systems tune themselves to the edge of a second-order phase transition, with scale invariance. Motivated by the empirical observation of bimodal distributions of activity in neuroscience and other fields, we propose and analyze a theory for the self-organization to the point of phase-coexistence in systems exhibiting a first-order phase transition. It explains the emergence of regular avalanches with attributes of scale-invariance which coexist with huge anomalous ones, with realizations in many fields.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: Die Rolle von Migrantenselbstorganisationen in der Gesundheitsversorgung – ein systematischer Review
Creators: name: Askin, Basri
name: Wagner, Anke
name: Rieger, Monika A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe von Migrant/innen an der gesundheitlichen Versorgung ist ein wichtiges gesundheits- und integrationspolitisches Ziel. Die Gruppe der Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund ist heterogen, nicht nur im Hinblick auf Herkunft und Ethnizität, sondern auch[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 15. Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung
Additional file 1 of The prognostic role of palliative gastrectomy in advanced gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Luo, Desheng
name: Xu, Hongtao
name: Jiang, Chuan
name: Zheng, Jingjing
name: Wu, Dan
name: Tou, Laizhen
name: Que, Haifeng
name: Sun, Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Overview on the results of the WestGem study – a 2016 update
Creators: name: Rose, Olaf
name: Jaehde, Ulrich
name: Köberlein-Neu, Juliane
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Medication Management is a rapidly evolving pharmaceutical-care service in Germany. International data on randomized controlled studies on Medication Management dates back as far as 1996 with a controlled study by Hanlon et al., removing inappropriate drugs from the therapeutic regimen [ref:1].[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 23. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Arzneimittelanwendungsforschung und Arzneimittelepidemiologie
Deforming algebras with anti-involution via twisted associativity
Creators: name: Langlois-Rémillard, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This contribution studies a specific deformation of algebras with anti-involution. Starting with the observation that twisting the multiplication of such an algebra by its anti-involution generates a Hom-associative algebra of type II, it formulates the adequate modules theory over these algebras, and shows that there is a faithful functor from the category of finite-dimensional left modules of algebras with involution to finite-dimensional right modules of Hom-associative algebras of type II. It ends with a discussion on a diagrammatic operadic approach to generalize the study of such deformations.
description: 21p. some TikZ figures, submitted as a contribution to the proceedings of SPAS 2019, V\"aster\r{a}s
A space-time Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin method for the linear Schrödinger equation
Creators: name: Gómez, Sergio
name: Moiola, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M60, 78M10, 35Q41

description: A space-time Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin method for the Schrödinger equation with piecewise-constant potential is proposed and analyzed. Following the spirit of Trefftz methods, trial and test spaces are spanned by non-polynomial complex wave functions that satisfy the Schroödinger equation locally on each element of the space-time mesh. This allows for a significant reduction in the number of degrees of freedom in comparison with full polynomial spaces. We prove well-posedness and stability of the method, and, for the one- and two- dimensional cases, optimal, high-order, h-convergence error estimates in a skeleton norm. Some numerical experiments validate the theoretical results presented.
Mapping the schizophrenia quality of life scale to EQ-5D, HUI3 and SF-6D utility scores in patients with schizophrenia
Creators: name: Seow, Lee Seng Esmond
name: Lau, Jue Hua
name: Abdin, Edimansyah
name: Verma, Swapna K.
name: Tan, Kelvin Bryan
name: Subramaniam, Mythily
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: The current study aimed to map the disease-specific Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale (SQLS) onto the three- and five-level EuroQol five-dimension (EQ-5D-3 L and EQ-5D-5 L), Health Utility Index Mark 3 (HUI3) and Short Form six-dimensional (SF-6D) preference-based instruments to inform future cost-utility analyses for treatment of patients with schizophrenia. Data from 251 outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders was included for analysis. Ordinary least square (OLS), Tobit and beta regression mixture models were employed to estimate the utility scores. Three regression models with a total of 66 specifications were determined by goodness of fit and predictive indices. Distribution of the original data to the distributions of the data generated using the preferred estimated models were then compared. EQ-5D-3 L and EQ-5D-5 L were best predicted by the OLS model, including SQLS domain scores, domain-squared scores, age, and gender as explanatory predictors. The models produced the best performance index and resembled most closely with the observed EQ-5D data. HUI3 and SF-6D were best predicted by the OLS and Tobit model respectively. The current study developed mapping models for converting SQLS scores into generic utility scores, which can be used for economic evaluation among patients with schizophrenia.
Performance of a Geothermal System in Petroleum Fields of the Taranaki Region, New Zealand
Creators: name: Duggal, Rohit
name: Rayudu, Ramesh
name: Hinkley, Jim
name: Burnell, John
name: Ward, Simon
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 91305 Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Extracting energy from petroleum fields is an attractive topic for research. In the Taranaki region, some of the depleted oil and gas reservoirs are prospective candidates for low-temperature geothermal development. This is because the hydrocarbon wells produce a large amount of coproduced water at the surface. Therefore, we analyse one of the hydrocarbon fields encountering fractured reservoirs in the Taranaki region. We aim to estimate the production rate and well separations to sustain generation capacity from the field for 10 years. We used the Volsung reservoir simulator to simulate the reservoir models using the MINC (the Multiple INteracting Continua) formulations and representative rock properties. Then we analysed the behaviour of the petroleum reservoir over time with the extraction of geothermal energy. It was found that a flow rate of 180 kg/s is sufficient to produce 6 MW of electricity and could be sustained for at least 10 years. The work suggests that the theoretical maximum production rate between production and reinjection well separated by 500 m would be 220 kg/s before the production enthalpy declined below 20% of the initial value. But the field has several wells and larger separation between the production and injection wells. The model of the field has seen production rates of 180 kg/s to sustain a generation capacity of more than 6 MW without the evidence of any thermal breakthrough from the injection well over a period of 10 year. The model demonstrates the effective movement of the warmer fluids from the lower formations to the upper reservoir for higher production rates before the arrival of the cold waterfront from the reinjection well. For future analysis, it is recommended to conduct optimisation of the operation strategy in the field. A detailed thermo-economic study could also be performed to analyse the benefits of ultimate oil recovery, aquifer effect, and the onsite power demand.
A biomathematical model of tumor response to radioimmunotherapy with $α$PDL1 and $α$CTLA4
Creators: name: González-Crespo, Isabel
name: Gómez-Caamaño, Antonio
name: Pouso, Óscar López
name: Fenwick, John D.
name: Pardo-Montero, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is evidence of synergy between radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Radiotherapy can increase liberation of tumor antigens, causing activation of antitumor T-cells. This effect can be boosted with immunotherapy. Radioimmunotherapy has potential to increase tumor control rates. Biomathematical models of response to radioimmunotherapy may help on understanding of the mechanisms affecting response, and assist clinicians on the design of optimal treatment strategies. In this work we present a biomathematical model of tumor response to radioimmunotherapy. The model uses the linear-quadratic response of tumor cells to radiation (or variation of it), and builds on previous developments to include the radiation-induced immune effect. We have focused this study on the combined effect of radiotherapy and $α$PDL1/$α$CTLA4 therapies. The model can fit preclinical data of volume dynamics and control obtained with different dose fractionations and $α$PDL1/$α$CTLA4. A biomathematical study of optimal combination strategies suggests that a good understanding of the involved biological delays, the biokinetics of the immunotherapy drug, and the interplay between them, may be of paramount importance to design optimal radioimmunotherapy schedules. Biomathematical models like the one we present can help to interpret experimental data on the synergy between radiotherapy and immunotherapy, and to assist in the design of more effective treatments.
description: Matches accepted manuscript. Minor typos corrected. Extended Supplementary Materials
Bosonic edge states in gapped honeycomb lattices
Creators: name: Guo, Huaiming
name: Niu, Yuekun
name: Chen, Shu
name: Feng, Shiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By quantum Monte Carlo simulations of bosons in gapped honeycomb lattices, we show the existence of bosonic edge states. For single layer honeycomb lattice, bosonic edge states can be controlled to appear, cross the gap and merge into bulk states by an on-site potential applied on the outmost sites of the boundary. On bilayer honeycomb lattice, bosonic edge state traversing the gap at half filling is demonstrated. The topological origin of the bosonic edge states is discussed with pseudo Berry curvature. The results will simulate experimental studies of these exotic bosonic edge states with ultracold bosons trapped in honeycomb optical lattices.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communication
Bericht Internet-Sicherheit Österreich 2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Österreich , Internet , Sicherheit
subject: 360

description: Der vorliegende CERT Sicherheitsreport 2012 gibt einen Überblick über die Rolle Österreichs im Kampf gegen Cyber Bedrohungen und beleuchtet die Leistungen von CERT.at und GovCERT.gv.at.
Conic nonholonomic constraints on surfaces and control systems
Creators: name: Schmoderer, Timothée
name: Respondek, Witold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93B52, 37N35, 93A10, 93B27, 53B20, 53B30

description: This paper addresses the equivalence problem of conic submanifolds in the tangent bundle of a smooth 2-dimensional manifold. Those are given by a quadratic relation between the velocities and are treated as nonholonomic constraints whose admissible curves are trajectories of the corresponding control systems, called quadratic systems. We deal with the problem of characterising and classifying conic submanifolds under the prism of feedback equivalence of control systems, both control-affine and fully nonlinear. The first main result of this work is a complete description of non-degenerate conic submanifolds via a characterisation under feedback transformations of the novel class of quadratic control-affine systems. This characterisation can explicitly be tested on structure functions defined for any control-affine system and gives a normal form of quadratizable systems and of conic submanifolds. Then, we consider the classification problem of regular conic submanifolds (ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas), which is treated via feedback classification of quadratic control-nonlinear systems. Our classification includes several normal forms of quadratic systems (in particular, normal forms not containing functional parameters as well as those containing neither functional nor real parameters), and, as a consequence, gives a classification of regular conic submanifolds.
description: 30 pages, 5 appendices, preprint
title: WP1 Integrated Electrical Heat - Integrated Electric Heat - Upgrade Analysis Final Report
Creators: name: Energy Systems Catapult
Publisher: name: ETI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Smart Systems and Heat
subject: ENERGY EFFICIENCY (Residential and commercial)
subject: OTHER CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES or RESEARCH (Energy Models)
subject: OTHER CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGIES or RESEARCH (Other Supporting Data)

description: This deliverable is the final report of the Integrated Electric Heat project. It includes the methodology for developing the upgrade pathways, the upgrade pathways for five HEMS homes and an assessment of how thermal storage can flatten energy demand profiles for domestic heat.There are extensive appendices covering the modelling methodology, verification and output, as well as the home surveys and technology suitability. A landscape review of domestic heat storage, produced by NEF, is included as an annex to the main report.
Rayleigh-Gauss-Newton optimization with enhanced sampling for variational Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Webber, Robert J.
name: Lindsey, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is an approach for computing ground-state wavefunctions that has recently become more powerful due to the introduction of neural network-based wavefunction parametrizations. However, efficiently training neural wavefunctions to converge to an energy minimum remains a difficult problem. In this work, we analyze optimization and sampling methods used in VMC and introduce alterations to improve their performance. First, based on theoretical convergence analysis in a noiseless setting, we motivate a new optimizer that we call the Rayleigh-Gauss-Newton method, which can improve upon gradient descent and natural gradient descent to achieve superlinear convergence at no more than twice the computational cost. Second, in order to realize this favorable comparison in the presence of stochastic noise, we analyze the effect of sampling error on VMC parameter updates and experimentally demonstrate that it can be reduced by the parallel tempering method. In particular, we demonstrate that RGN can be made robust to energy spikes that occur when the sampler moves between metastable regions of configuration space. Finally, putting theory into practice, we apply our enhanced optimization and sampling methods to the transverse-field Ising and XXZ models on large lattices, yielding ground-state energy estimates with remarkably high accuracy after just 200 parameter updates.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Nambu bracket and M-theory
Creators: name: Ho, Pei-Ming
name: Matsuo, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nambu proposed an extension of dynamical system through the introduction of a new bracket (Nambu bracket) in 1973. This article is a short review of the developments after his paper. Some emphasis are put on a viewpoint that the Nambu bracket naturally describes extended objects which appear in M-theory and the fluid dynamics. The latter part of the paper is devoted to a review of the studies on the Nambu bracket (Lie 3-algebra) in Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson theory of multiple M2-branes. This paper is a contribution to the proceedings of Nambu memorial symposium (Osaka City University, September 29, 2015).
description: 25 pages, contribution to the proceedings of Nambu memorial symposium, Osaka City University, September 29, 2015, v2 minor modifications
The budget impact of introducing the OMNI® surgical system to a United States health plan for managing mild-to-moderate primary open-angle glaucoma
Creators: name: Mader, Gregory
name: Ghinelli, Federico
name: Torelli, Francesca
name: Patel, Chad
name: Masseria, Cristina
name: Dickerson, Jaime
name: Nguyen, Dan
name: Cantor, Louis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery devices fill an unmet need in the treatment paradigm between topical intraocular pressure medicines and more invasive filtration procedures. This study evaluated the adoption of The OMNI® Surgical System with or without cataract surgery in primary open-angle glaucoma patients. A budget impact analysis estimated costs before and after adoption of OMNI® to a hypothetical US health plan with 1 million Medicare-covered lives over two years. Model input data were derived from published sources and development of the model included primary research with key opinion leaders and payers. The model compared total annual direct costs for OMNI® versus other treatment options (medications, other minimally invasive surgical procedures, selective laser trabeculoplasty) to calculate budget impact. A one-way sensitivity analysis was conducted to assess parameter uncertainty. Increased adoption of OMNI® resulted in budget neutrality over the two years with a decrease in total costs of $35,362. Per member per month incremental costs were $0.00 when used without cataract surgery and yielded cost savings of -$0.01 when used with cataract surgery. Sensitivity analysis confirmed model robustness and identified surgical center fee variability as a key driver of costs. OMNI® is budgetary efficient from a US payer perspective.
Arbitrary power-conserving field transformations with passive lossless omega-type bianisotropic metasurfaces
Creators: name: Epstein, Ariel
name: Eleftheriades, George V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general theory for designing realistic omega-type bianisotropic metasurfaces (O-BMSs), unlocking their full potential for molding electromagnetic fields. These metasurfaces, characterized by electric surface impedance, magnetic surface admittance, and magnetoelectric coupling coefficient, were previously considered for wavefront manipulation. However, previous reports mainly considered plane-wave excitations, and implementations included cumbersome metallic features. In this work, we prove that any field transformation which locally conserves real power can be implemented via passive and lossless meta-atoms characterized by closed-form expressions; this allows rigorous incorporation of arbitrary source and scattering configurations. Subsequently, we show that O-BMS meta-atoms can be implemented using an asymmetric stack of three impedance sheets, an appealing structure for printed circuit board fabrication. Our formulation reveals that, as opposed to Huygens' metasurfaces (HMSs), which exhibit negligible magnetoelectric coupling, O-BMSs are not limited to controlling the phase of transmitted fields, but can rather achieve high level of control over the amplitude and phase of reflected fields. This is demonstrated by designing O-BMSs for reflectionless wide-angle refraction, independent surface-wave guiding, and a highly-directive low-profile antenna, verified with full-wave simulations. This straightforward methodology facilitates development of O-BMS-based devices for controlling the near and far fields of arbitrary sources in complex scattering configurations.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
Mapping the Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale to EQ-5D, HUI3 and SF-6D utility scores in patients with schizophrenia
Creators: name: Seow, Lee Seng Esmond
name: Lau, Jue Hua
name: Abdin, Edimansyah
name: Verma, Swapna K.
name: Tan, Kelvin Bryan
name: Subramaniam, Mythily
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: The current study aimed to map the disease-specific Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale (SQLS) onto the three- and five-level EuroQol five-dimension (EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L), Healthy Utility Index Mark 3 (HUI3) and Short Form six-dimensional (SF-6D) preference-based instruments to inform future cost-utility analyses for treatment in patients with schizophrenia. Data from 251 outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders was included for analysis. Ordinary least square (OLS), Tobit and beta regression mixture models (betamix) were employed to estimate the utility scores. Model selection of 66 regression models (regression methods x six model specifications) was determined by goodness of fit and predictive indices. Distribution of the original data to the distributions of the data generated using the preferred estimated models were then compared. EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L were best predicted by the OLS model, including SQLS domain scores, domain scores-squared, age, and gender as explanatory predictors. The models produced the best performance index and resemble more closely to the observed EQ-5D data. HUI3 and SF-6D were best predicted by the OLS and Tobit model respectively. The current study developed mapping models for converting SQLS scores into generic utility scores, which can be used in economics evaluation in schizophrenia patients.
Boundary modeling in model-based calibration for automotive engines via the vertex representation of the convex hulls
Creators: name: Waki, Hayato
name: Nae, Florin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When using the convex hull approach in the boundary modeling process, Model-Based Calibration (MBC) software suites -- such as Model-Based Calibration Toolbox from MathWorks -- can be computationally intensive depending on the amount of data modeled. The reason for this is that the half-space representation of the convex hull is used. We discuss here another representation of the convex hull, the vertex representation, which proves capable to reduce the computational cost. Numerical comparisons in this article are executed in MATLAB by using MBC Toolbox commands, and show that for certain conditions, the vertex representation outperforms the half-space representation.
description: We change only the license statement from the first version, MI Preprint Series MI 2016-6
Equilibrium modeling and solution approaches inspired by nonconvex bilevel programming
Creators: name: Harwood, Stuart
name: Trespalacios, Francisco
name: Papageorgiou, Dimitri
name: Furman, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Solution methods for generalized Nash equilibrium have been dominated by variational inequalities and complementarity problems. Since these approaches fundamentally rely on the sufficiency of first-order optimality conditions for the players' decision problems, they only apply as heuristic methods when the players are modeled by nonconvex optimization problems. In contrast, this work approaches generalized Nash equilibrium using theory and methods for the global optimization of nonconvex bilevel programs. Through this perspective, we draw precise connections between generalized Nash equilibria, feasibility for bilevel programming, the Nikaido-Isoda function, and classic arguments involving Lagrangian duality and spatial price equilibrium. Significantly, this is all in a general setting without the assumption of convexity. Along the way, we introduce the idea of minimum disequilibrium as a solution concept that reduces to traditional equilibrium when equilibrium exists. The connections with bilevel programming and related semi-infinite programming permit us to adapt global optimization methods for those classes of problems, such as constraint generation or cutting plane methods, to the problem of finding a minimum disequilibrium solution. We propose a specific algorithm and show that this method can find a pure Nash equilibrium even when the players are modeled by mixed-integer programs.
title: 4-Jahres-Ergebnis nach Allograftrekonstruktion am Kniegelenk bei traumatischem osteochondralem Defekt
Creators: name: Ziegler, Dirk
name: Meffert, Rainer
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Allograftrekonstruktion Knie osteochondraler Defekt
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Es existieren wenige Veröffentlichungen zu Rekonstruktionsmöglichkeiten bei massiven, traumatisch entstandenen, osteochondralen Defekten des Kniegelenkes [ref:1], [ref:2], [ref:3], [ref:4] und den dortigen Einsatz von Allografts. Der Defekt[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2016)
The impact of universal health coverage and COVID-19 pandemic on out-of-pocket expenses in Thailand: an analysis of household survey from 1994 to 2021
Creators: name: Sukmanee, Jarawee
name: Butchon, Rukmanee
name: Karunayawong, Picharee
name: Dabak, Saudamini Vishwanath
name: Isaranuwatchai, Wanrudee
name: Teerawattananon, Yot
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: After Thailand achieved Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2002, the extent of financial risk protection has not been assessed in the long term, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to revisit the impact of UHC on out-of-pocket expenses (OOPE) for health and to descriptively explore the impact of COVID-19 on OOPE. This study was a secondary data analysis and used data from the Socio-Economic Survey from 1994 to 2021 in Thailand. The effect of UHC on the percentage of OOPE in total health expenditures (THE) from 1994 to 2019 was investigated with an interrupted time-series analysis. Descriptive analyses of OOPE in absolute value during the COVID-19 were conducted. The percentage of OOPE in THE significantly decreased both before (β −2.02%; 95% CI: −2.70% to − 1.33%) and during (β 1.41%; 95% CI: 0.70% to 2.11%) the UHC period. During the pandemic, total household OOPE for medical equipment was found to have rapidly increased from 643 million THB in 2019 to 9.4 billion THB in 2020. The trend of providing financial risk protection (measured by OOPE/THE) in Thailand continues until 2019. Providing medical equipment in sufficient and equally accessible manners should be prioritized during the future pandemic.
title: Energy From Waste : WP2.2 - Appendix C -Thermal Waste Material Conversion Technology Test Report Gasification and Pyrolysis
Creators: name: ETI
Publisher: name: ETI
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Bioenergy
subject: OTHER POWER and STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES (Electric power conversion)

description: This deliverable forms part of Deliverable 2.2 in Work Package 2 and provides information on the thermal waste material conversion rig scale testing.The testing programme reviewed in this summary report was originally intended fill in gaps in available data in the public domain relevant to the technologies which could be employed at each stage of an advanced energy from waste system. However, it was found that only very limited suitable data were available on the operation of Gasification technologies using the mixed wastes, and so it was necessary to carry out a more fundamental study to determine the suitability of these technologies for use with highly variable mixed waste feedstocks.

For reliable system operation, it is essential to have an understanding of the properties of the fuel gases produced and their contaminants, as well as information other process products/residues and any operational problems which would need to be overcome.The novel test work conducted for the ETI Energy from Waste (FRP) project has provided valuable insight into the use of these technologies with mixed waste streams and empirical data to inform the development of computer-based models of advanced waste processing technologies.

The findings from The testing programme, in relation to The processing and gas utilisation technologies, reinforce the well-known critical nature of gas cleaning in enabling successful utilisation of the fuel gases produced in high efficiency systems. Although not a distinct area of investigation within the current project, it is expected that the key development opportunities required to enable the efficient use of waste materials would be in the area of gas cleaning, as further detailed in report 3.3 of this project.
High-order interpolatory Serendipity Virtual Element Method for semilinear parabolic problems
Creators: name: Gómez, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M60, 65M12, 65M15

description: We propose an efficient method for the numerical approximation of a general class of two dimensional semilinear parabolic problems on polygonal meshes. The proposed approach takes advantage of the properties of the serendipity version of the Virtual Element Method, which not only reduces the number of degrees of freedom compared to the original Virtual Element Method, but also allows the introduction of an approximation of the nonlinear term that is computable from the degrees of freedom of the discrete solution with a low computational cost, thus significantly improving the efficiency of the method. An error analysis for the semi-discrete formulation is carried out, and an optimal estimate for the error in the $L_2$-norm is obtained. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method when combined with a second order Strang operator splitting time discretization is illustrated in our numerical experiments, with approximations up to order $6$.
Wave Propagation in Modified Gravity
Creators: name: Lindroos, Jan Ø.
name: Llinares, Claudio
name: Mota, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the propagation of scalar waves induced by matter sources in the context of scalar-tensor theories of gravity which include screening mechanisms for the scalar degree of freedom. The usual approach when studying these theories in the non-linear regime of cosmological perturbations is based on the assumption that scalar waves travel at the speed of light. Within General Relativity such approximation is good and leads to no loss of accuracy in the estimation of observables. We find, however, that mass terms and non-linearities in the equations of motion lead to propagation and dispersion velocities significantly different from the speed of light. As the group velocity is the one associated to the propagation of signals, a reduction of its value has direct impact on the behavior and dynamics of nonlinear structures within modified gravity theories with screening. For instance, the internal dynamics of galaxies and satellites submerged in large dark matter halos could be affected by the fact that the group velocity is smaller than the speed of light. It is therefore important, within such framework, to take into account the fact that different part of a galaxy will see changes in the environment at different times. A full non-static analysis may be necessary under those conditions.
An Ecological Robustness-Oriented Approach for Power System Network Expansion
Creators: name: Huang, Hao
name: Mao, Zeyu
name: Panyam, Varuneswara
name: Layton, Astrid
name: Davis, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Power systems are critical infrastructure for reliable and secure electric energy delivery. Incidents are increasing, as unexpected multiple hazards ranging from natural disasters to cyberattacks threaten the security and functionality of society. Inspired by resilient ecosystems, this paper presents a resilient network design approach with an ecological robustness (R ECO )-oriented optimization to improve power systems' ability to maintain a secure operating state throughout unknown hazards. The approach uses R ECO , a surprisal -based metric that captures key features of an ecosystem's resilient structure, as an objective to strategically design the electrical network. The approach enables solvability and practicality by introducing a stochastic-based candidate branch creation algorithm and a Taylor series expansion for relaxation of the R ECO formulation. Finally, studies are conducted on the R ECO -oriented approach using the IEEE 24 Bus RTS and the ACTIVSg200 systems. Results demonstrate improvement of the system's reliability under multiple hazards, network properties of robust structure and equally distributed power flows, and survivability against cascading failures. From the analysis, we observe that a more redundant network structure with equally distributed power flows benefits its resilience.
Self-normalized Cramer moderate deviations for a supercritical Galton-Watson process
Creators: name: Fan, Xiequan
name: Shao, Qi-Man
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: primary 60J80, 60F10, secondary 62F03, 62F12

description: Let $(Z_n)_{n\geq0}$ be a supercritical Galton-Watson process. Consider the Lotka-Nagaev estimator for the offspring mean. In this paper, we establish self-normalized Cramér type moderate deviations and Berry-Esseen's bounds for the Lotka-Nagaev estimator. The results are believed to be optimal or near optimal.
title: Implantatprüfung für die Versorgung von Frakturen des proximalen Humerus: Ein neuartiger, ubiquitärer Schulterprüfstand
Creators: name: Wanzl, Maximilian
name: Föhr, Peter
name: Burgkart, Rainer
name: Schreiber, Ulrich
name: Lenich, Andreas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: biomechanische Testung
subject: ubiquitärer Schulterprüfstand
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: In der Literatur finden sich zahlreiche Prüfaufbauten zur Evaluierung von Humersimplantaten. Zumeist werden spezielle Aufbauten verwendet, die zur Prüfung eines Implantats geeignet sind, aber einen Vergleich mit am Markt bestehenden Implantaten nur bedingt zulassen. Ziel dieser[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Kongress für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (DKOU 2016)