cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Developing a Novel, Sustainable, and Acceptable Complementary Feeding Product using Caterpillar Cereal for Infants and Young Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Creators: name: Bauserman, Melissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: Adequate nutrition in early life is important for brain development and growth in infants and young children. Young children in developing countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are vulnerable to poor nutrition after 6 months of age when breast milk is supplemented with complementary foods that provide inadequate protein and micronutrients. The World Health Organization recommends complementary feeding with animal-source foods in order to avoid micronutrient deficient states. Animal-source foods are not readily available in many Central African countries. However, caterpillars are a common staple in adult diets and may be suitable for complementary feeding for infants and young children. Objectives: Create a macro- and micronutrient-rich cereal made from locally available and abundant caterpillars to be used for complementary feeding in rural DRC. Test the biochemical properties and acceptability of this cereal. Design/Methods: We developed a cereal made from dried caterpillars, ground corn, palm oil, sugar and salt, and measured its macro- and micronutrient content using standard laboratory techniques: Kjeldahl method for analysis of protein content, Soxhlet method for determination of lipid content and spectrophotometry for determination of iron, lead and mercury. We cultured the cereal to determine if it was free from microbiologic contamination. Maternal and infant acceptability was evaluated among 20 mothers and their 8-month-old infants. Mothers were instructed in the preparation of the cereal and asked to evaluate the cereal in five domains using a five-point Likert scale (1=dislike very much to 5=like very much). During the following week, they fed their infants a 30-gram portion daily. Infant acceptability was based on daily consumption during the last 4 days of feeding and the occurrence of any adverse signs or symptoms. Results: We produced a caterpillar cereal that had suitable macro- and micronutrient content for complementary feeding. The cereal was free from Enterobacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, Shigella, yeast and fungus contamination. Mothers' median ratings for cereal characteristics were: overall impression=4, taste=5, smell=4, texture=4, color=5, and consistency=4. All infants consumed more than 75% of the daily portions, with 5 infants consuming 100%. No serious adverse feeding events were reported. Conclusions: Caterpillar cereal has appropriate macro- and micronutrient content for complementary feeding, and is acceptable to mothers and infants in the DRC. Therefore, this cereal may be a satisfactory substitute for animal-source foods.
The multichord stellar occultation by the centaur Bienor on January 11, 2019
Creators: name: Fernández-Valenzuela, E.
name: Morales, N.
name: Vara-Lubiano, M.
name: Ortiz, J. L.
name: Benedetti-Rossi, G.
name: Sicardy, B.
name: Kretlow, M.
name: Santos-Sanz, P.
name: Morgado, B.
name: Souami, D.
name: Organero, F.
name: Ana, L.
name: Fonseca, F.
name: Román, A.
name: Alonso, S.
name: Gonçalves, R.
name: Ferreira, M.
name: Iglesias-Marzoa, R.
name: Lamadrid, J. L.
name: Alvarez-Candal, A.
name: Assafin, M.
name: Braga-Ribas, F.
name: Camargo, J. I. B.
name: Colas, F.
name: Desmars, J.
name: Duffard, R.
name: Lecacheux, J.
name: Gomes-Júnior, A. R.
name: Rommel, F. L.
name: Vieira-Martins, R.
name: Pereira, C. L.
name: Casanova, V.
name: Selva, A.
name: Perelló, C.
name: Mottola, S.
name: Hellmich, S.
name: Maestre, J. L.
name: Castro-Tirado, A. J.
name: Pal, A.
name: Trigo-Rodriguez, J. M.
name: Beisker, W.
name: Laporta, A.
name: Garcés, M.
name: Escaned, L.
name: Bretton, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within our program of physical characterization of trans-Neptunian objects and centaurs, we predicted a stellar occultation by the centaur (54598) Bienor to occur on January 11, 2019, with good observability potential. We obtained high accuracy astrometric data to refine the prediction, resulting in a shadow path favorable for the Iberian Peninsula. This encouraged us to carry out an occultation observation campaign that resulted in five positive detections from four observing sites. This is the fourth centaur for which a multichord (more than two chords) stellar occultation has been observed so far, the other three being (2060) Chiron, (10199) Chariklo, and (95626) 2002 GZ$_{32}$. From the analysis of the occultation chords, combined with the rotational light curve obtained shortly after the occultation, we determined that Bienor has an area-equivalent diameter of $150\pm20$ km. This diameter is $\sim30$ km smaller than the one obtained from thermal measurements. The position angle of the short axis of the best fitting ellipse obtained through the analysis of the stellar occultation does not match that of the spin axis derived from long-term photometric models. We also detected a strong irregularity in one of the minima of the rotational light curve that is present no matter the aspect angle at which the observations were done. We present different scenarios to reconcile the results from the different techniques. We did not detect secondary drops related to potential rings or satellites. Nonetheless, similar rings in size to that of Chariklo's cannot be discarded due to low data accuracy.
description: Accepted for publication in A\&A
Hegemoni Politik Dalam Diskurus Pemilukada Sulsel
Creators: name: BAKRI, WAHYUDDIN
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Hegemoni Politik
subject: Pemilihan Kepala Daerah

description: Merupakan Karya Ilmiah penyelesaian Megister yang mengkaji tentang Hegemoni Politik
Observations and modeling of spectral line asymmetries in stellar flares
Creators: name: Wollmann, Jiří
name: Heinzel, Petr
name: Kabáth, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar flares are energetic events occurring in stellar atmospheres. They have been observed on various stars using photometric light curves and spectra. On some cool stars, flares tend to release substantially more energy compared to solar flares. Spectroscopic observations have revealed that some spectral lines, aside from an enhancement and broadening, exhibit asymmetry in their profile. Asymmetries with enhanced blue wings are often associated with the presence of coronal mass ejections while the origin of the red asymmetries is currently not well understood. A few mechanisms have been suggested but no modeling has been performed yet. We observed the dMe star AD Leo using the 2-meter Perek telescope at Ondřejov observatory, with simultaneous photometric light curves. In analogy with solar flares, we model the H$α$ line emergent from an extensive arcade of cool flare loops and explain the observed asymmetries using the concept of coronal rain. We solve the non-LTE radiative transfer in H$α$ within cool flare loops taking into account the velocity distribution of individual rain clouds. For a flare occurring at the center of the stellar disc, we then integrate radiation emergent from the whole arcade to get the flux from the loop area. We observed two flares in the H$α$ line that exhibit red wing asymmetry corresponding to velocities up to 50 km s$^{-1}$ during the gradual phase of the flare. Synthetic profiles generated from the model of coronal rain have enhanced red wings quite compatible with observations.
Step bunching and macrostep formation in 1D atomistic scale model of unstable vicinal crystal growth
Creators: name: Krzyżewski, F.
name: Załuska-Kotur, M.
name: Krasteva, A.
name: Popova, H.
name: Tonchev, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We devise a new 1D atomistic scale model of vicinal growth based on Cellular Automaton. In it the step motion is realized by executing the automaton rule prescribing how adatoms incorporate into the vicinal crystal. Time increases after each rule execution and then nDS diffusional updates of the adatoms are performed. The increase of nDS switches between the diffusion-limited (DL, nDS=1) and kinetics-limited (KL, nDS >> 1) regimes of growth. We study the unstable step motion by employing two alternative sources of instability - biased diffusion and infinite inverse Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier (iiSE). The resulting step bunches consist of steps but also of macrosteps since there is no step-step repulsion incorporated explicitly into the model. This complex pattern formation is quantified by studying the time evolution of the bunch size N and macrostep size Nm in order to find the proper parameter combinations that rescale the time and thus to obtain the full time-scaling relations including the pre-factors. For the case of biased diffusion the time-scaling exponent beta of N is 1/2 while for the case of iiSE it is 1/3. In both cases the time-scaling exponent beta_m of Nm is ~3beta/4 in the DL regime and 3beta/5 in the KL one.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
A National Examination of Publically Funded Pediatric Palliative Care Programs and Hospitalization Characteristics
Creators: name: England, Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Background: Prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 few states had pediatric palliative care. Literature suggests that adult palliative care services result in cost savings, but little literature provides evidence about the effect of pediatric palliative care on cost, and no literature as yet compares costs in states with and without pediatric palliative care programs. Objective: To investigate differences in hospitalization characteristics between states with and without pediatric palliative care programs. Design: I used the 2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) to determine total hospital charges, length of stay, and number of procedures associated with all in-hospital pediatric deaths. I compared median values of states with and without pediatric palliative care and regressed presence of palliative care on all variables to examine total hospital charges. I further adjusted the model for length of stay and number of procedures and I repeated the analysis with an adjustment for the presence of a Diagnosis Related Group for neuromuscular disorder, one of the most common diagnoses in pediatric palliative care programs. Results: I found that patients who died in hospital in states with pediatric palliative care programs had higher hospital charges, longer hospital stays, and more procedures during their hospitalization. The difference in charges closed dramatically for patients with neuromuscular disorders. Conclusion: States with pediatric palliative care programs have higher hospital-based health care utilization over all, but state palliative care programs are in their infancy, and in states with such programs, costs associated with conditions amenable to palliative care do not significantly differ from median costs. These findings suggest that implementing palliative care programs may not cause significantly higher costs for patients who most commonly receive palliative care, and it is possible that the early effect of pediatric palliative care programs on hospital charges varies by diagnosis.
Activated carbon-decorated polyacrylonitrile fibers and their porphyrin-immobilized composites for removal of methylene blue dye and Ciprofloxacin in water
Creators: name: Oyim, James
name: Amuhaya, Edith
name: Nyokong, Tebello
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Photocatalyst adsorbents are an appealing group of materials for environmental applications. Herein, we study a new simple, inexpensive, yet very effective adsorbent photocatalyst based on porphyrin immobilized activated carbon-decorated polyacrylonitrile, InP(PAN/AC), for removal of methylene blue dye and Ciprofloxacin in water under Xe-lamp and sunlight irradiation (the latter for Ciprofloxacin only). Our results shed light on developing the most effective and sustainable adsorbent photocatalysts that can easily be industrialized due to the ease of preparation through electrospinning coupled with the readily available preparation materials. After five cycles, the InP(PAN/AC) maintained high methylene dye removal efficiency and structural integrity. Significantly, we propose the coordinated contribution of singlet oxygen and hydroxyl radical in the photodegradation process and highlight the importance of such an integrated system with adsorption and photodegradation capabilities for water treatment.
Merger identification through photometric bands, colours, and their errors
Creators: name: Suelves, L. E.
name: Pearson, W. J.
name: Pollo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We present the application of a fully connected neural network (NN) for galaxy merger identification using exclusively photometric information. Our purpose is not only to test the method's efficiency, but also to understand what merger properties the NN can learn and what their physical interpretation is. Methods. We created a class-balanced training dataset of 5\,860 galaxies split into mergers and non-mergers. The galaxy observations came from SDSS DR6 and were visually identified in Galaxy Zoo. The 2$\,$930 mergers were selected from known SDSS mergers and the respective non-mergers were the closest match in both redshift and $r$ magnitude. The NN architecture was built by testing a different number of layers with different sizes and variations of the dropout rate. We compared input spaces constructed using: the five SDSS filters: $u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$; combinations of bands, colours, and their errors; six magnitude types; and variations of input normalization. Results. We find that the fibre magnitude errors contribute the most to the training accuracy. Studying the parameters from which they are calculated, we show that the input space built from the sky error background in the five SDSS bands alone leads to 92.64 $\pm$ 0.15 \% training accuracy. We also find that the input normalization, that is to say, how the data are presented to the NN, has a significant effect on the training performance. Conclusions. We conclude that, from all the SDSS photometric information, the sky error background is the most sensitive to merging processes. This finding is supported by an analysis of its five-band feature space by means of data visualization. Moreover, studying the plane of the $g$ and $r$ sky error bands shows that a decision boundary line is enough to achieve an accuracy of 91.59\%.
description: 16 pages, 20 figures, accepted in A&A on 05/11/2022, final version submitted on 09/12/2022 (also current one in arXiv)
title: The profile of HBV DNA in Chinese patients at the time of HCC diagnosis and HBV reactivation after TACE in patients with low serum HBV DNA level
Creators: name: Shao, Wenbo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The major risk factor for HCC in China is chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection [1]. Many studies have shown that higher HBV DNA level is a strong risk predictor of HCC.[2-4] However, most of these studies obtained the HBV DNA levels at studies...
Automatic Generation of Minimal Cut Sets
Creators: name: Kromodimoeljo, Sentot
name: Lindsay, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A cut set is a collection of component failure modes that could lead to a system failure. Cut Set Analysis (CSA) is applied to critical systems to identify and rank system vulnerabilities at design time. Model checking tools have been used to automate the generation of minimal cut sets but are generally based on checking reachability of system failure states. This paper describes a new approach to CSA using a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) model checker called BT Analyser that supports the generation of multiple counterexamples. The approach enables a broader class of system failures to be analysed, by generalising from failure state formulae to failure behaviours expressed in LTL. The traditional approach to CSA using model checking requires the model or system failure to be modified, usually by hand, to eliminate already-discovered cut sets, and the model checker to be rerun, at each step. By contrast, the new approach works incrementally and fully automatically, thereby removing the tedious and error-prone manual process and resulting in significantly reduced computation time. This in turn enables larger models to be checked. Two different strategies for using BT Analyser for CSA are presented. There is generally no single best strategy for model checking: their relative efficiency depends on the model and property being analysed. Comparative results are given for the A320 hydraulics case study in the Behavior Tree modelling language.
description: In Proceedings ESSS 2015, arXiv:1506.03250
Controlling Quantum Chaos: Optimal Coherent Targeting
Creators: name: Tomsovic, Steven
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the principal goals of controlling classical chaotic dynamical systems is known as targeting, which is the very weakly perturbative process of using the system's extreme sensitivity to initial conditions in order to arrive at a predetermined target state. It is shown that a generalization to chaotic quantum systems is possible in the semiclassical regime, but requires tailored perturbations whose effects must undo the dynamical spreading of the evolving quantum state. The procedure described here is applied to initially minimum uncertainty wave packets in the quantum kicked rotor, a preeminent quantum chaotic paradigm, to illustrate the method, and investigate its accuracy. The method's error can be made to vanish as $\hbar \rightarrow 0$
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
The Occupational and Environmental Health Nurse as Case Manager in the Occupational Health Setting: Development and Evaluation of the Process and Program
Creators: name: Meadows, Laurel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Since the late 1800s case management has been utilized by public health nurses to coordinate health care services. While assisting the ill or injured individual to reach an optimal level of wellness and functional ability, case management is a collaborative process designed to promote quality cost-effective outcomes. A literature review about case management was conducted and will be discussed in this paper. Major points include the history and purpose of case management, pertinent laws and regulations applicable in the occupational health setting, the case management process, the role of the occupational and environmental health nurse, and the reasons for increased emphasis on case management in the occupational health setting. The hallmark article which describes Honeywell Corporation's successful case management program will be discussed as a benchmark in developing a case management program. Case managers employed in occupational health settings in industries were interviewed about the details of several components of the case management programs. These interviews will also be presented.
title: A multi-parametric, automatic method to monitor long-term reproducibility in digital mammography: results from a regional screening program
Creators: name: Gennaro, Gisella
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Physics
subject: Statistics
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Long-term reproducibility tests are always included in quality control (QC) protocols performed in mammography, to monitor reproducibility of image quality over time [1-5]. Those tests are carried out by exposing with relatively high...
Lebesgue density and exceptional points
Creators: name: Andretta, Alessandro
name: Camerlo, Riccardo
name: Costantini, Camillo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E15, 28A05

description: Work in the measure algebra of the Lebesgue measure on the Cantor space: for comeager many $[A]$ the set of points $x$ such that the density of $x $ at $A$ is not defined is $Σ^{0}_{3}$-complete; for some compact $K$ the set of points $x$ such that the density of $x$ at $K$ exists and it is different from $0$ or $1$ is $Π^{0}_{3}$-complete; the set of all $[K]$ with $K$ compact is $Π^{0}_{3}$-complete. There is a set (which can be taken to be open or closed) in $\mathbb R$ such that the density of any point is either $0$ or $1$, or else undefined. Conversely, if a subset of $\mathbb R^n$ is such that the density exists at every point, then the value $1/2$ is always attained. On the route to this result we show that Cantor space can be embedded in a measured Polish space in a measure-preserving fashion.
Combining magneto-hydrostatic constraints with Stokes profiles inversions. III. Uncertainty in the inference of electric currents
Creators: name: Borrero, J. M.
name: Yabar, A. Pastor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric currents play an important role in the energy balance of the plasma in the solar atmosphere. They are also indicative of non-potential magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection. Unfortunately, the direct measuring of electric currents has traditionally been riddled with inaccuracies. We study how accurately we can infer electric currents under different scenarios. We carry out increasingly complex inversions of the radiative transfer equation for polarized light applied to Stokes profiles synthesized from radiative three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The inversion yields the magnetic field vector, ${\bf B}$, from which the electric current density, ${\bf j}$, is derived by applying Ampere's law. We find that the retrieval of the electric current density is only slightly affected by photon noise or spectral resolution. However, the retrieval steadily improves as the Stokes inversion becomes increasingly elaborated. In the least complex case (a Milne-Eddington-like inversion applied to a single spectral region), it is possible to determine the individual components of the electric current density ($j_{\rm x}$, $j_{\rm y}$, $j_{\rm z}$) with an accuracy of $σ=0.90-1.00$ dex, whereas the modulus ($\|{\bf j}\|$) can only be determined with $σ=0.75$ dex. In the most complicated case (with multiple spectral regions, a large number of nodes, Tikhonov vertical regularization, and magnetohydrostatic equilibrium), these numbers improve to $σ=0.70-0.75$ dex for the individual components and $σ=0.5$ dex for the modulus. Moreover, in regions where the magnetic field is above 300 gauss, $\|{\bf j}\|$ can be inferred with an accuracy of $σ=0.3$ dex. In general, the $x$ and $y$ components of the electric current density are retrieved slightly better than the $z$ component.
description: accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A): 12 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
Employing deep programmability and distributed intelligence for real-time 6G networks
Creators: name: Papagianni, Chrysa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: AI
real-time 6G networks
deep programmability
distributed intelligence

description: Project Coordinator Chrysa Papagianni participates in The 6G series workshop by Hexa-X and Hexa-X-II (Session 4 – Connecting intelligence).
Joint Statistics of Cosmological Constant and SUSY Breaking in Flux Vacua with Nilpotent Goldstino
Creators: name: Cicoli, Michele
name: Licheri, Matteo
name: Maharana, Anshuman
name: Singh, Kajal
name: Sinha, Kuver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the joint distribution of the gravitino mass and the cosmological constant in KKLT and LVS models with anti-D3 brane uplifting described via the nilpotent goldstino formalism. Moduli stabilisation (of both complex structure and Kaehler moduli) is incorporated so that we sample only over points corresponding to vacua. Our key inputs are the distributions of the flux superpotential, the string coupling and the hierarchies of warped throats. In the limit of zero cosmological constant, we find that both in KKLT and LVS the distributions are tilted favourably towards lower scales of supersymmetry breaking.
description: 21 pages
title: Role of MRI in the evaluation of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Creators: name: Di Giovanni, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To find a correlation between MRI alterations of proximal thigh muscles, muscular enzymes blood levels and muscular weakness in a group of patients affected by idiopathic inflammatory myopathies...
Comprehensive Community Health Program for Underserved in Two Counties
Creators: name: Reid, Jonathan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Racial and ethnic minorities bear a larger burden of diseases with respect to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Specifically, African American and Hispanic minorities maintain higher prevalence rates, worse control of risk factors, and higher rates of complications. Although the number of promising approaches to address these disparities is increasing, the literature is inconsistent for important factors such as risk, population, and setting when trying to design and implement effective evidence based programs. This program plan and evaluation is based on ongoing work by AccessCare and partners for an Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities sponsored grant to address these issues for two counties in rural North Carolina. At the time of this publication, the AccessCare Community Health Disparity Program was in its implementation and evaluation planning stages and was designed to utilize a comprehensive network of community organizations, providers, and educators to support and teach susceptible patients with chronic disease self-management skills. A systematic review of clinically oriented studies in communities of high risk populations addressing a range of cardiovascular diseases and risk factors including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and physical inactivity was performed to identify successful programs and evidence based strategies. Data supporting the value of registries, multidisciplinary teams, and community outreach through culturally tailored programs with interventions addressing care transitions, medication access, and adherence has been incorporated into this plan. There is a deficiency of research in programs that directly address disparity reduction and reports that present long-term results or sustainability of these health care interventions. Given the limitations of available research, this program’s ability to reduce disparities directly and its long term sustainability are the greatest areas of uncertainty. However, the program has the potential to significantly improve health outcomes through evidence based management, education, and financial assistance.
title: Comparative value of CT-urography and intravenous urography in planning of surgical interventions in patients with staghorn renal calculi
Creators: name: Klimkova, Marina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Surgery
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Urolithiasis is one of the most spread urologic diseases. It occurs in 1-3% of world population, and these numbers are rising. Urolithiasis is a social important problem, because it affects young employable people and has high likelihood of a...
Fermionic spectral walls in kink collisions
Creators: name: Campos, João G. F.
name: Mohammadi, Azadeh
name: Queiruga, Jose M.
name: Wereszczynski, Andrzej
name: Zakrzewski, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a spectral wall, i.e., an obstacle in the dynamics of a bosonic soliton, which arises due to the transition of a normal mode into the continuum spectrum, exists after coupling the original bosonic model to fermions. This spectral wall can be experienced if the boson or fermion field is in an excited state. Furthermore, while passing through a spectral wall, an incoming kink-fermion bound state can be separated into purely bosonic kink, which continues to move to spatial infinity and a fermionic cloud that spreads in the region before the wall.
Measurement of the Charged Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor
Creators: name: Abbott, D.
name: Anklin, H.
name: Armstrong, C.
name: Arrington, J.
name: Assamagan, K.
name: Avery, S.
name: Baker, O. K.
name: Blok, K. P.
name: Bochna, C.
name: Brash, E. J.
name: Breuer, H.
name: Chant, N.
name: Dunne, J.
name: Eden, T.
name: Collaboration, The Jefferson Lab Fpi
name: Volmer, J.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
title: Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) as a prognostic parameter in the pre-treatment management of oesophageal cancer
Creators: name: Salerno, Annalaura
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Oncology
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Outcomes analysis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Oesophageal cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide, and its relative survival rate at 5-years remains less than 20% [1-3]. For better clinical outcomes of oesophageal cancer is crucial an accurate pre-treatment staging in order to...
PIB-based block copolymer with a segment having alternating sequence of leucine and alanine side-chain pendants
Creators: name: Dey, Asmita
name: Haldar, Ujjal
name: Tota, Rajasekhar
name: Faust, Rudolf
name: De, Priyadarsi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A family of block copolymers with a hydrophobic polyisobutylene segment and another segment with an alternating sequence of tert-butoxy carbonyl (Boc)-leucine containing maleimide unit and Boc-alanine containing styrene unit was synthesized using a combination of living cationic and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerizations. After successful deprotection of the Boc-groups from the pendant amino acids, the block copolymers become amphiphilic with free –NH3+ and –COOH functionalities in an alternating fashion in the poly(maleimide-alt-styrene) segment. The alternating sequence of leucine and alanine pendants throughout the second segment of the block copolymer chain was investigated systematically using NMR spectroscopy. In the pH range of 2–9, the deprotected copolymers showed pH-induced transformation of polymeric self-assemblies with critical aggregation concentrations ∼28 and ∼30 mg/L at pH 2 and pH 9, respectively. The pH-induced morphological transformation was well evidenced by 1H NMR spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and field emission scanning electron microscopy analysis. Additionally, these block copolymeric self-assemblies were studied for delivery applications at different pH, using Nile red as a model hydrophobic dye molecule.
Imaging of HH80-81 jet in the NIR shock tracers H$_2$ and [Fe II]
Creators: name: Mohan, Sreelekshmi
name: Vig, Sarita
name: Varricatt, Watson P.
name: Tej, Anandmayee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The HH80-81 system is one of the most powerful jets driven by a massive protostar. We present new near-infrared (NIR) line imaging observations of the HH80-81 jet in the H$_2$ (2.122 $μ$m) and [Fe II] (1.644 $μ$m) lines. These lines trace not only the jet close to the exciting source but also the knots located farther away. We have detected nine groups of knot-like structures in the jet including HH80 and HH81 spaced $0.2-0.9$ pc apart. The knots in the northern arm of the jet show only [Fe II] emission closer to the exciting source, a combination of [Fe II] and H$_2$ at intermediate distances, and solely H$_2$ emission farther outwards. Towards the southern arm, all the knots exhibit both H$_2$ and [Fe II] emission. The nature of the shocks is inferred by assimilating the NIR observations with radio and X-ray observations from literature. In the northern arm, we infer the presence of strong dissociative shocks, in the knots located close to the exciting source. The knots in the southern arm that include HH80 and HH81 are explicable as a combination of strong and weak shocks. The mass-loss rates of the knots determined from [Fe II] luminosities are in the range $\sim 3.0\times 10^{-7}-5.2\times 10^{-5}$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$, consistent with those from massive protostars. Towards the central region, close to the driving source of the jet, we have observed various arcs in H$_2$ emission which resemble bow shocks, and strings of H$_2$ knots which reveal traces of multiple outflows.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Study on Outdoor Urban Farming Planters Through Daylight Simulations: A Full-Scale Experiment In Singapore
Creators: name: Soh, Chew Beng
name: Haridarshan, R
name: Chien, Szu-Cheng
name: An, Hui
name: Saha, Arijit
name: Teoh, Mei Ting
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300207
subject: Agricultural systems analysis and modelling

description: The objective of this study was to examine the practicality and efficacy of utilizing a planter for outdoor urban farming at the Singapore Institute of Technology. The research encompassed various stages, commencing with an exploration of the optimal Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density (PPFD) and Daily Light Integral (DLI) values suitable for cultivating Asian greens. Subsequently, a comprehensive model of the urban farming structure and planter was generated using Revit and Rhino software.To evaluate the planter's performance in an outdoor setting, daylight simulations were carried out utilizing ClimateStudio. These simulations were conducted during a period of clear sky conditions spanning from 28th March to 13th April, considering the material characteristics of the actual structure and planter. The chosen materials for both the outdoor structure and planter closely mirrored those employed in real-world scenarios. Through the analysis of the outcomes derived from the daylight simulations, this study assessed the feasibility and effectiveness of employing the planter for outdoor urban farming.
Increasing Utilization of Standardized Developmental Screenings
Creators: name: Creed, Deborah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Can Increasing Avenues for Standardized Developmental Screening Improve Health Benefits for Young Children? This paper investigates what effects standardized developmental screening instruments in community settings can have on accessibility, assessment and early intervention in identified developmental concerns. Developmental screening provides a technique to identify abnormal growth and development in children as well as identifying opportunities for early medical intervention. Primary care settings have characteristically delivered screenings in conjunction with well child visits but fail to utilize standardized screening tools consistently. Literature review demonstrates utilizing standardized screening tools in medical and community settings have succeeded in increasing evidence-based screening practices. Initiatives such as the Assuring Better Child Health Development (ABCD) project have implemented models of coordinated community based screening, assessment, and intervention approaches for young children. This paper concludes strategies should be implemented for standardized screening practices in community settings serving young children to optimize the success of developmental screening opportunities.
title: Comparison of time-pressure values of injection data among 5 different low osmolar contrast media
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Makoto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Contrast agents
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Time-pressure curves during contrast media injection are usually visually inspected ( Fig. 1 ). There are few reports investigating injection data in particular. We speculated that by investigating pressure values during the injection, we could find...
Magnetically ordered and kagome quantum spin liquid states in the Zn-doped claringbullite series
Creators: name: Georgopoulou, M.
name: Fåk, B.
name: Boldrin, D.
name: Stewart, J. R.
name: Ritter, C.
name: Suard, E.
name: Ollivier, J.
name: Wills, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron scattering measurements have been performed on deuterated powder samples of claringbullite and Zn-doped claringbullite (Zn$_x$Cu$_{4-x}$(OD)$_{6}$FCl). At low temperatures, claringbullite Cu$_4$(OD)$_{6}$FCl forms a distorted pyrochlore lattice with long-range magnetic order and spin-wave-like magnetic excitations. Partial Zn doping leads to the nominal ZnCu$_3$(OD)$_{6}$FCl compound, a geometrically frustrated spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnet that shows no transition to magnetic order down to 1.5 K. The magnetic excitations form a gapless continuum, a signature of fractional excitations in a quantum spin liquid.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, Supplemental Material
Green composites of bio-based epoxy and waste tea fiber as environmentally friendly structural materials
Creators: name: Borah, Nobomi
name: Karak, Niranjan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology

description: Bio-derived epoxy green composites were fabricated using waste tea fibers and their durability was studied under aggressive environments. The fibers were first mercerized and subsequently functionalized with maleic anhydride. Functionalization resulted in improved adhesion as well as uniform distribution of the fibers in the matrix. Although, the tensile strength was lower than the pristine, improvements were recorded in their mechanical strengths (tensile strength up to 16.1 MPa) compared to un-modified ones, with good elongation at break (23.8%). The green composites also demonstrated good thermal stability up to 244 °C. On investigating the durability toward disparate chemical and physical environments, all the materials exhibited high resistance under extreme temperatures (2 and 70 °C) and UV irradiation and showed remarkable enhancements in tensile strength after aging (up to 65.8% and 49.5%, respectively). This study ensured promising outdoor applications of this green composite derived using waste materials as a benign durable material.
title: Characteristics of malignant breast lesions on contrast enhanced MRI influence the apparent diffusion coefficient in diffusion-weighted imaging
Creators: name: Dorrius, Monique
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) is an extensively reviewed method reflecting the diffusion of water molecules through biological tissues. Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) is a quantitative measurement and is calculated for each voxel. Two or...
USIA Poll # 1996-I96039: Economy/Democracy/Illegal Drugs/Radio Listeners
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Most important Ethiopian problem (2); knowledge of foreign countries (1); cooperating with foreign countries (2); systems for Ethiopia to emulate (2); economic condition (1); reasons for economic problems (2); financial situation (2); free market economy (2); knowledge and trust of organizations/countries (3); America helping Ethiopia (1); opinions of international financial organizations (2); democracy (5); opinions on democracy (3); democracy in Ethiopia (1); changes dictated by international financial institutions (2); foreign investment (1); knowledge of international leaders (12); opinion of international leaders (12); international issues (5); peace in Ethiopia (1); confidence in foreign countries dealing with world problems (7); confidence in Ethiopian organizations (6); illegal drugs and drug addiction (4); cooperation in drug war (2); government helping citizens (2); type of society (2); human rights issues (1); opinion of certain statements (7); policies in Ethiopia (2); Bosnian war (2); important things for government to do (8); importance of United States (1); American influence (2); America handling internal affairs (13); American policies (13); getting an American education (1); information source on United States (1).
Breaking Dense Structures: Proving Stability of Densely Structured Hybrid Systems
Creators: name: Möhlmann, Eike
name: Theel, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: D.2.4; Design; Verification

description: Abstraction and refinement is widely used in software development. Such techniques are valuable since they allow to handle even more complex systems. One key point is the ability to decompose a large system into subsystems, analyze those subsystems and deduce properties of the larger system. As cyber-physical systems tend to become more and more complex, such techniques become more appealing. In 2009, Oehlerking and Theel presented a (de-)composition technique for hybrid systems. This technique is graph-based and constructs a Lyapunov function for hybrid systems having a complex discrete state space. The technique consists of (1) decomposing the underlying graph of the hybrid system into subgraphs, (2) computing multiple local Lyapunov functions for the subgraphs, and finally (3) composing the local Lyapunov functions into a piecewise Lyapunov function. A Lyapunov function can serve multiple purposes, e.g., it certifies stability or termination of a system or allows to construct invariant sets, which in turn may be used to certify safety and security. In this paper, we propose an improvement to the decomposing technique, which relaxes the graph structure before applying the decomposition technique. Our relaxation significantly reduces the connectivity of the graph by exploiting super-dense switching. The relaxation makes the decomposition technique more efficient on one hand and on the other allows to decompose a wider range of graph structures.
description: In Proceedings ESSS 2015, arXiv:1506.03250
title: Evaluation of silent MRI in paediatric patients: comparison with conventional MRI
Creators: name: Matsuo, Chisato
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Imaging sequences

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Acoustic noise during the operation of MR (magnetic resonance) system, generated by the rapid alterations of currents within the gradient coils, has been a burden especially for children (1). Most children have to be sedated for good images. The new...
title: Prostate cancer (PCa): localisation of the puncture spots of index lesions (PSIL) in MR guided biopsies (MRGB) after negative TRUS [Transrectal Ultrasound] guided biopsies (TRGB)
Creators: name: Rödel, Stefan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: CAD
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Retrospective analysis of the localization of puncture spots of index lesions (PSIL)using MR guided biopsies (MRGB) after negative systematic TRUS [Transrectal Ultrasound] guided biopsies...