cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What Defines Walkability: Walking Behavior Correlates
Creators: name: Spoon, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: At one point in time, cities grew as compact and vibrant entities focused on the downtown. In these close-knit environments, residents had the ability to walk or bicycle to destinations due to the fact that they lived in close proximity to where they worked and entertained. However, as development patterns slowly changed, cities began to sprawl outward causing an automobile dominated society that has lead to a number of negative effects, including traffic congestion and increased sedentary lifestyles. Due to these problems, the city planning and public health professions are now supporting walkable communities that are designed to promote walking and bicycling to nearby destinations. However, the implementation of walkability in an environment has been hindered by the fact that planners and public health practitioners have not adequately determined what measurable variables define walkability. While a number of studies and reports have attempted to define walkability, there are few occasions when similarities exist. Further complicating the task of defining walkability is the difficulty that exists in identifying the strongest correlates of walking. The objective of this paper is to examine the literature focused on walkability and the walking behavior to decipher a compact list of proxy variables from those cited in research that can serve as a working definition of walkability. A synthesis of the literature will also determine if walkability actually produces an increase in walking, and whether this increase is for transportation or recreational purposes. As a result of the findings from these research questions and the literature reviewed in this paper, recommendations for future actions for planners are proposed to help improve the implementation of walkability in the built environment.
title: "Diagnostic value of modern MRI techniques (MR-spectroscopy, DWI, perfusion) in prostatic cancer detection"
Creators: name: Serova, Natalya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: MR-Spectroscopy
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To determine and compare the diagnostic value of modern MRI techniques (MR-spectroscopy, DWI, perfusion) in prostatic cancer...
Encouraging development of a quality urban open space system: lessons from the field
Creators: name: Holub, Krista
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Urban Open Space (UOS) planning is an important part of central city revitalization that is happening in cities across the nation. There are defined and quantifiable social, economic and environmental benefits of UOS. However, there is still much that we do not know regarding how to maximize the return on open space developments. This study evaluates how urban open space efforts are being carried out in eight selected U.S. cities to understand: 1) How is the private provisioning of publicly accessible urban open space occurring in cities and what lessons can be learned to improve the process and outcomes? 2) How is quality urban open space developed, funded, codified, measured, and maintained? Six factors regarding open space emerged from the analysis of the case study cities' plans and processes. These factors are discussed in detail; typologies of UOS, vision statements, private development and management, design guidelines, operations and maintenance, and funding. From the lessons learned through the study, six suggestions were developed for the UOS planning efforts of the Durham City-County Planning Department: 1) Improve the downtown trail system: Durham should challenge itself to both create a connected green network through downtown and capitalize on the economic opportunities along the trail. 2) Plan for adequate operations, maintenance, and repairs: Durham should review its current levels of maintenance to assess their adequacy, set guidelines for the minimum operational expense requirements for new spaces, and encourage the development of formal organizations that contribute to and enhance the care and stewardship of open spaces. 3) Program and activate: Durham should include and budget for programming of the open space areas to create consistent use of UOS by a variety of users. 4) Engage stakeholders: The Durham UOS planning effort should engage all stakeholders early in the process and coordinate continually as needed. 5) Set minimum requirements for provision and design: Durham should set minimum requirements for provision and design of UOS to set a standard and communicate minimum expectations for developers interested in downtown. 6) Conduct post-occupancy evaluations: Durham should conduct post-occupancy evaluations of open spaces to gauge and respond to user needs and also document its successes with UOS.
title: In vivo evaluation of Gd-BOPTA and Gd-DTPA in a rat liver tumor model of a solitary colorectal cancer metastasis at 9.4T
Creators: name: Seidel, Roland
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Image registration
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Liver
subject: Animal (veterinary) studies

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The investigation of contrast and perfusion properties in liver metastases in the context of tumor targeted therapies are major aspects for the evaluation of therapeutic effects. At higher field strengths above 1.5 T contrast properties of Gd-based...
Second anitbody testing
Creators: name: Northstone, Kate
name: Wells, Nicholas
name: haworth, simon
name: Timpson, Nicholas
name: Bowring, Claire
name: Smith, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: ALSPAC
subject: COVID-19

description: Details of the second COVID antibody testing undertaken in ALSPAC
Finding structure in data using multivariate tree boosting
Creators: name: Miller, Patrick J.
name: Lubke, Gitta H.
name: McArtor, Daniel B.
name: Bergeman, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Technology and collaboration enable dramatic increases in the size of psychological and psychiatric data collections, but finding structure in these large data sets with many collected variables is challenging. Decision tree ensembles like random forests (Strobl, Malley, and Tutz, 2009) are a useful tool for finding structure, but are difficult to interpret with multiple outcome variables which are often of interest in psychology. To find and interpret structure in data sets with multiple outcomes and many predictors (possibly exceeding the sample size), we introduce a multivariate extension to a decision tree ensemble method called Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (Friedman, 2001). Our method, multivariate tree boosting, can be used for identifying important predictors, detecting predictors with non-linear effects and interactions without specification of such effects, and for identifying predictors that cause two or more outcome variables to covary without parametric assumptions. We provide the R package 'mvtboost' to estimate, tune, and interpret the resulting model, which extends the implementation of univariate boosting in the R package 'gbm' (Ridgeway, 2013) to continuous, multivariate outcomes. To illustrate the approach, we analyze predictors of psychological well-being (Ryff and Keyes, 1995). Simulations verify that our approach identifies predictors with non-linear effects and achieves high prediction accuracy, exceeding or matching the performance of (penalized) multivariate multiple regression and multivariate decision trees over a wide range of conditions.
title: Unusual serous metastatic commitment
Creators: name: De Luca, Silvina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The pathologic processes that may secondarily affect the peritoneum and peritoneal cavity can be loosely categorized into three broad groups: metastatic neoplasms, infectious and inflammatory lesions, and miscellaneous tumors and tumorlike lesions....
Obliquely propagating electromagnetic waves in magnetized kappa plasmas
Creators: name: Gaelzer, Rudi
name: Ziebell, Luiz Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Velocity distribution functions (VDFs) that exhibit a power-law dependence on the high-energy tail have been the subject of intense research by the plasma physics community. Such functions, known as kappa or superthermal distributions, have been found to provide a better fitting to the VDFs measured by spacecraft in the solar wind. One of the problems that is being addressed on this new light is the temperature anisotropy of solar wind protons and electrons. In the literature, the general treatment for waves excited by (bi-)Maxwellian plasmas is well-established. However, for kappa distributions, the wave characteristics have been studied mostly for the limiting cases of purely parallel or perpendicular propagation, relative to the ambient magnetic field. Contributions to the general case of obliquely-propagating electromagnetic waves have been scarcely reported so far. The absence of a general treatment prevents a complete analysis of the wave-particle interaction in kappa plasmas, since some instabilities can operate simultaneously both in the parallel and oblique directions. In a recent work, Gaelzer and Ziebell [J. Geophys. Res. 119, 9334 (2014)] obtained expressions for the dielectric tensor and dispersion relations for the low-frequency, quasi-perpendicular dispersive Alfvén waves resulting from a kappa VDF. In the present work, the formalism introduced by Ref. 1 is generalized for the general case of electrostatic and/or electromagnetic waves propagating in a kappa plasma in any frequency range and for arbitrary angles. An isotropic distribution is considered, but the methods used here can be easily applied to more general anisotropic distributions, such as the bi-kappa or product-bi-kappa.
description: Accepted for publication in Physics of Plasmas; added references for section 1
Penetrative internally heated convection in two and three dimensions
Creators: name: Goluskin, David
name: van der Poel, Erwin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Convection of an internally heated fluid, confined between top and bottom plates of equal temperature, is studied by direct numerical simulation in two and three dimensions. The unstably stratified upper region drives convection that penetrates into the stably stratified lower region. The fraction of produced heat escaping across the bottom plate, which is one half without convection, initially decreases as convection strengthens. Entering the turbulent regime, this decrease reverses in two dimensions but continues monotonically in three dimensions. The mean fluid temperature, which grows proportionally to the heating rate ($H$) without convection, grows proportionally to $H^{4/5}$ when convection is strong in both two and three dimensions. The ratio of the heating rate to the fluid temperature is likened to the Nusselt number of Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Simulations are reported for Prandtl numbers between 0.1 and 10 and for Rayleigh numbers (defined in terms of the heating rate) up to $5\times10^{10}$.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, 1 movie; v2: text updated, figures and tables added, figure 4 corrected
title: Computer-aided IVIM/Kurtosis Diffusion MRI for breast lesions: comparison with BI-RADS MRI categories
Creators: name: Iima, Mami
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Cancer
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Breast

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: IVIM (IntraVoxel Incoherent Motion) MRI, which can provide separate information on tissue perfusion and water diffusion (a marker of tissue microstructure) [1], has recently undergone a striking revival especially for body organ studies, including...
Tale of two trails: exploring different paths to success
Creators: name: Gilchrist Walker, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This comparative case study investigates two successful trail development initiatives, using the Active Living by Design Community (ALbD) Action Model as an analytical framework. The model includes five strategies: preparation, promotion, programs, policy, and physical projects. Key stakeholders at each site participated in interviews (N = 14). Data were analyzed for content using AtlasTi. Trail traffic counts were conducted to augment qualitative data. Both communities demonstrated robust trail development strategies, but minimal integration with trail use encouragement strategies. Strengths and weaknesses varied depending upon the role of local government. Communities with different levels of government support each contributed unique lessons to inform best practices of trail development initiatives. To maximize physical activity impacts, however, public health professionals must play a greater role in community trail initiatives. The ALbD Community Action Model provides a viable framework with which to structure public health involvement in future community trail initiatives.
Kruger 1999 Replication + Extension
Creators: name: Kwan, Ching
name: Feldman, Gilad
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: judgment and decision making
subject: Kruger (1999)
subject: replication

description: Please see pre-registration folder for Qualtrics survey and very detailed pre-registration with simulated random dataset and analysis code attached.
title: Dignity related morphologic features of only MR-visible histologicaly proven breast lesions: experiences after 354 biopsies at 1.5 T MRI
Creators: name: Malich, Ansgar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CAD
subject: Vacuum assisted biopsy
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Cancer
subject: Image verification
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Decision, which lesion to biopsy MR-guided is still a diagnostic challenge. Several clinicians but also some radiologists critically discuss the effect of MR-guided biopsies because this method is time consuming and thus expensive, it is...
Kinetically Modified Non-Minimal Higgs Inflation in Supergravity
Creators: name: Pallis, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider models of chaotic inflation driven by the real parts of a conjugate pair of Higgs superfields involved in the spontaneous breaking of a grand unification symmetry at a scale assuming its supersymmetric value. We combine a superpotential, which is uniquely determined by applying a continuous R symmetry, with a class of logarithmic or semi-logarithmic Kahler potentials which exhibit a prominent shift-symmetry with a tiny violation, whose strengths are quantified by c- and c+ respectively. The inflationary observables provide an excellent match to the recent BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck results setting 3.5x10^-3<=r+-=c+/c-<=1/N where N=3 or 2 is the prefactor of the logarithm. Inflation can be attained for subplanckian inflaton values with the corresponding effective theories retaining the perturbative unitarity up to the Planck scale.
description: Published version
title: Trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE) with Irinotecan drug-eluting beads (DEBIRI) in patients with unresectable colorectal liver metastases refractory to multiple lines of standard systemic therapy: our single-center multidisciplinary study
Creators: name: Guerra, Alessandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: Liver
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Metastases
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction. Hepatic metastases of colorectal cancer (CRC) are quite common occurring at some time in 23% of all of the 190000 colorectal patients diagnosed each year [1]. Patients with liver metastases from CRC have a poor prognosis with 1- and...
A Comparative Case Study of Local Option Transportation Taxes in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Charlotte, North Carolina
Creators: name: Callahan, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This paper presents the findings of a comparative case study of local option transportation taxes in the Albuquerque, New Mexico and Charlotte, North Carolina regions. A local option transportation tax (LOTT) was defined by Goldman and Wachs as "a tax that varies within a state, with revenues controlled at the local or regional level, and earmarked for transportation-related purposes" (Goldman and Wachs, 2003, pg. 21). LOTTs have become increasingly popular in recent years as the dominant source of funding for transportation project, the fuel tax, has become less productive. Among the most prominent examples of LOTTs are those used to fund light rail projects (Goldman & Wachs, 2003). One common criticism of LOTTs is that county sales taxes for transportation undermine regional bodies, such as MPOs, which were strengthened through federal legislation in the early 1990s (Wachs, 2005). While many regions, such as Charlotte, adopt a LOTT in one county to support transit, the Albuquerque region adopted a three-county gross receipts tax to support transit. The Albuquerque arrangement may mitigate some of the concerns about the potential for LOTTs to undermine the regional transportation planning process. The paper presents the factors and environment under which a regional LOTT (Albuquerque) rather than a more local LOTT (Charlotte) is adopted in a region. My findings suggest that state involvement is a critical ingredient in overcoming the political fragmentation and tension that exists in a region. Legislation in New Mexico allowed for the creation of regional transit districts and gave them the authority to collect tax revenue with voter approval. A strong champion is also important in securing a regional LOTT. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was an ardent supporter of regional transit in Albuquerque, while the champion of the Charlotte LOTT was the Charlotte mayor. Additionally, it is important to have strong business community support and the public must be able to visualize the projects that will be supported by the LOTT.
title: Initial Diagnostic and Follow-up imaging of Primary Chest Wall Masses in Children
Creators: name: Stedman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Paediatric
subject: Oncology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To gain an understanding of the clinico-radiological approach to categorising chest-wall lesions. 2. Discuss some more commonly encountered primary chest-wall lesions 3. Demonstrate the imaging characteristics of these lesions at presentation....
title: Imaging spectrum of atypical pulmonary metastases
Creators: name: De Luca, Silvina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The lung is an extremely common site for metastases. Large autopsy series of oncologic patients with extrathoracic malignant diseases reveal pulmonary metastases in about 20%–54% of these patients. Typical radiologic findings in computed...
Hazard mitigation planning and policy in the United States and Canada: a comparative analysis
Creators: name: Jensen, Carla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: There are three key questions that drive this comparative analysis. First, what are the institutions and governance arrangements at the federal and state/provincial levels that affect the implementation of hazard mitigation measures at the local level? Second, do similar communities in Washington and British Columbia mitigate hazards differently? Finally, what policy lessons can be drawn from these differences or similarities in hazard mitigation implementation? These questions are addressed in three parts, at three nested scales. The first section presents a comparative literature review on federal hazard mitigation policy in the United States and Canada. This section reviews the history of hazard mitigation policy in each country, the shared themes and challenges, and the areas of policy divergence at the federal level. The second section describes the hazard mitigation institutions and governance arrangements at the state and provincial level. It begins by reviewing shared governance arrangements in general, before describing the hazard environment, legislation, and programs in British Columbia and Washington, and then hypothesizing about the impacts of these governance arrangements on the implementation of mitigation measures at the local level. Local implementation is explored in section three. Case studies of two communities in British Columbia and two communities in Washington are presented and analyzed covering: hazard exposure; hazard mitigation planning practices; the type and number of mitigation tools used; and the degree of political and public support for hazard mitigation in each community. Conclusions are then drawn about the impacts of federal and state/provincial governance arrangements on local hazard mitigation practices and policy recommendations are put forward.
Trace-distance measure of coherence
Creators: name: Rana, Swapan
name: Parashar, Preeti
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that trace distance measure of coherence is a strong monotone for all qubit and, so called, $X$ states. An expression for the trace distance coherence for all pure states and a semi definite program for arbitrary states is provided. We also explore the relation between $l_1$-norm and relative entropy based measures of coherence, and give a sharp inequality connecting the two. In addition, it is shown that both $l_p$-norm- and Schatten-$p$-norm-based measures violate the (strong) monotonicity for all $p\in(1,\infty)$.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure; published version
Task Measuring Implicit Attractiveness as a Function of Skin Tone and Facial Features: A Failed Replication
Creators: name: Stepanova, Elena
name: Strube, Michael
name: Mazur, Kali
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Prepared for publication in The Journal of Social Psychology, Original Study 1 and Replication of Study 1 (i.e., Study 2).
title: Image quality in chest MDCT performed for follow up of oncology patients: comparison of low (LD) and standard radiation dose (SD) protocols
Creators: name: Zalazar, Laura Romina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Equipment
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: MDCT is the reference standard for follow up of oncology patients. Repeating the follow up MDCT examinations increases the radiation dose oncology patients receive during their routine clinical care. Chest MDCT radiation may involve some of the most...
Health economic outcomes of outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy delivered by telehealth
Creators: name: Kitcher, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Economics
subject: Health Information Technology
subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Musculoskeletal, Neural, and Ocular Physiology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Telemedicine
subject: Economics
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: A systematic review protocol on health economic outcomes of outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy delivered by Telehealth. The objectives of this protocol are 1) determine the health economic outcomes of telehealth-delivered physiotherapy in outpatient musculoskeletal conditions, 2) describe how telehealth in musculoskeletal care has been economically evaluated to date.
Notes on Translational and Rotational Properties of Tensor Fields in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Dvoeglazov, Valeriy V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, several discussions on the possible observability of 4-vector fields have been published in literature. Furthermore, several authors recently claimed existence of the helicity=0 fundamental field. We re-examine the theory of antisymmetric tensor fields and 4-vector potentials. We study the massless limits. In fact, a theoretical motivation for this venture is the old papers of Ogievetskii and Polubarinov, Hayashi, and Kalb and Ramond. They proposed the concept of the notoph, whose helicity properties are complementary to those of the photon. We analyze the quantum field theory with taking into account mass dimensions of the notoph and the photon. It appears to be possible to describe both photon and notoph degrees of freedom on the basis of the modified Bargmann-Wigner formalism for the symmetric second-rank spinor. Next, we proceed to derive equations for the symmetric tensor of the second rank on the basis of the Bargmann-Wigner formalism in a straightforward way. The symmetric multispinor of the fourth rank is used. Due to serious problems with the interpretation of the results obtained on using the standard procedure we generalize it and obtain the spin-2 relativistic equations, which are consistent with the general relativity. Thus, in fact we deduced the gravitational field equations from relativistic quantum mechanics. The relations of this theory with the scalar-tensor theories of gravitation and f(R) are discussed. Particular attention has been paid to the correct definitions of the energy-momentum tensor and other Noether currents in the electromagnetic theory, the relativistic theory of gravitation, the general relativity, and their generalizations. We estimate possible interactions, fermion-notoph, graviton-notoph, photon-notoph, and we conclude that they can probably be seen in experiments in the next few years.
description: 11pp, no figures, talks at the ICCA-10, Tartu, Estonia, Aug. 4-9, 2014 and the IX Vigier Symposium, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 16-19, 2014. "Unified Field Mechanics. Proceedings of the IX Symposium Honoring Noted French Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier". (World Scientific, Singapore, Nov. 2015), pp. 293-303. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1308.5134, arXiv:math-ph/0009024
METICOS Deliverable D5.4 TAM Prototype Model
Creators: name: Sackl, Andreas
name: Schatz, Raimund
name: Bieg, Till
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This deliverable provides an overview of the first iteration of the METICOS WP5 technology acceptance modeling (TAM), which focuses on traveler acceptance of smart border control technologies. Using the traveler TAM dataset presented in D5.3, a model was developed that is capable of accurately explaining as well as predicting traveler acceptance of a given border control technology. To this end, the PLS-SEM (partial least squares structural equation modeling) approach was chosen, because of its advantages over traditional covariance-based SEM.
 Benchmarking and comparison with alternative modeling approaches show, that the resulting PLS-SEM performs almost as good as traditional machine-learning based approaches in terms of accuracy (approx. 0.889 RMSE) and variance explained (approx. 72%). However, the PLS-SEM approach provides much higher levels of explainability, flexibility and extensibility, thereby representing the optimal balance between performance and explainability in the context of the METICOS project.
 The resulting traveler PLS-SEM TAM model serves as the basis of the ETAP algorithm development in T5.5. Furthermore, once the border control staff survey is completed and results data analyzed (T5.2), the same modeling approach as presented here will be used for the development of the staff TAM model (D5.8).
title: Anatomical distribution in detecting bone metastases: role of whole body diffusion-weighted MRI
Creators: name: Frauenfelder, Giulia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Bones
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Staging
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To assess the diagnostic value of Whole-Body Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance imaging (WB-DW MRI) in skeletal metastases detection in comparison with Computed Tomography (CT) and Bone Scintigraphy (BS) as standard of reference. Moreover, to...
title: Is the arterial calcium stimulation and hepatic venous sampling a good technique to localise insulin-secreting tumours?
Creators: name: Lombardo, Sagrario
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Pancreas
subject: Oncology
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Catheter venography
subject: CT
subject: Angioscopy
subject: Sampling
subject: Endocrine disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hypoglycemia is often caused by various geneses and insulinoma is the representative disease which causes it. Normally it is very difficult to diagnose and localize a small insulinoma preoperatively; especially insulinomas less than 15 mm [ 1] and...
SALSA: Social Anxiety and Links to Substance Abuse
Creators: name: Dev, Amelia
name: Timpano, Kiara
name: Bradford, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In this interim preregistration, we are registering planned analyses for the second SALSA study (SALSA2). The SALSA studies (SALSA1 & SALSA2) jointly examine relationships between social anxiety and other mental health symptoms, affective forecasts, and substance use. SALSA1 was collected Fall 2020 and formed the basis for theory and hypothesis testing. Data collection for SALSA2 has been initiated, but we have not seen the data and no analyses have been run.
Detection of a Cooper-Pair Density Wave in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$
Creators: name: Hamidian, M. H.
name: Edkins, S. D.
name: Joo, Sang Hyun
name: Kostin, A.
name: Eisaki, H.
name: Uchida, S.
name: Lawler, M. J.
name: Kim, E. -A.
name: Mackenzie, A. P.
name: Fujita, K.
name: Lee, Jinho
name: Davis, J. C. Séamus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum condensate of Cooper-pairs forming a superconductor was originally conceived to be translationally invariant. In theory, however, pairs can exist with finite momentum $Q$ and thereby generate states with spatially modulating Cooper-pair density. While never observed directly in any superconductor, such a state has been created in ultra-cold $^{6}$Li gas. It is now widely hypothesized that the cuprate pseudogap phase contains such a 'pair density wave' (PDW) state. Here we use nanometer resolution scanned Josephson tunneling microscopy (SJTM) to image Cooper-pair tunneling from a $d$-wave superconducting STM tip to the condensate of Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$. Condensate visualization capabilities are demonstrated directly using the Cooper-pair density variations surrounding Zn impurity atoms and at the Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$ crystal-supermodulation. Then, by using Fourier analysis of SJTM images, we discover the direct signature of a Cooper-pair density modulation at wavevectors $Q_{p} \approx (0.25,0)2π/ a_{0}$;$(0,0.25)2π/ a_{0}$ in Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$. The amplitude of these modulations is ~5% of the homogenous condensate density and their form factor exhibits primarily $s$/$s'$-symmetry. This phenomenology is expected within Ginzburg-Landau theory when a charge density wave with $d$-symmetry form factor and wave vector $Q_{c}=Q_{p}$ coexists with a homogeneous $d$-symmetry superconductor ; it is also encompassed by several contemporary microscopic theories for the pseudogap phase.
Material degradation due to moisture and temperature. Part 1: Mathematical model, analysis, and analytical solutions
Creators: name: Xu, C.
name: Mudunuru, M. K.
name: Nakshatrala, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The mechanical response, serviceability, and load bearing capacity of materials and structural components can be adversely affected due to external stimuli, which include exposure to a corrosive chemical species, high temperatures, temperature fluctuations (i.e., freezing-thawing), cyclic mechanical loading, just to name a few. It is, therefore, of paramount importance in several branches of engineering -- ranging from aerospace engineering, civil engineering to biomedical engineering -- to have a fundamental understanding of degradation of materials, as the materials in these applications are often subjected to adverse environments. As a result of recent advancements in material science, new materials like fiber-reinforced polymers and multi-functional materials that exhibit high ductility have been developed and widely used; for example, as infrastructural materials or in medical devices (e.g., stents). The traditional small-strain approaches of modeling these materials will not be adequate. In this paper, we study degradation of materials due to an exposure to chemical species and temperature under large-strain and large-deformations. In the first part of our research work, we present a consistent mathematical model with firm thermodynamic underpinning. We then obtain semi-analytical solutions of several canonical problems to illustrate the nature of the quasi-static and unsteady behaviors of degrading hyperelastic solids.
Defining a critical mass threshold for agricultural support services: an economic assessment of western North Carolina
Creators: name: Nousaine, Aaron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: This paper poses the hypothesis that there is a threshold, or point of critical mass, in agricultural production, below which a variety of businesses, institutions, and supplier networks that provide support services to agriculture, may be expected to close down or relocate outside the region. The purpose of this research is to provide local policy makers with evidence for and against the existence of a critical mass threshold and to highlight which support service categories may be most at-risk. A secondary goal is also to estimate, to the extent possible, the economic impacts that changes in agricultural output might have on the regional economy, taking into account any potential shifts in support service availability. Because no research of this kind has previously been undertaken in the region, very little data currently exists that can address the questions being posed here. The desire to both establish the existence of the critical mass threshold, and estimate its economic implications, required the use of a mixed methodology of qualitative interviews and quantitative economic modeling. Details regarding these two methodological approaches are elaborated alongside their respective results in Chapters 4 and 5. The unique synergy between these techniques expanded the richness and usability of the analysis in a way that could not be achieved through either method alone. The 22 semi-structured interviews provided insight into current trends, forward linkages, and structural shifts that would not otherwise be captured by the input-output analysis. The IMPLAN economic model then 5 leveraged inputs developed during the interview phase, coupled with a robust dataset of regional economic accounts, to estimate the potential magnitude of the impact that these trends might impose on the region's economy. The region, in this context, is defined by the primary service area of the Land-of-Sky Regional Council (LOSRC), for whom this research was conducted. Based in the Asheville metropolitan area, the organization serves local governments in Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, and Transylvania counties in the western mountains of North Carolina.
title: Communication of unexpected significant findings using an automated PACS alert system: A clinical audit
Creators: name: James, Karl
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Cancer
subject: Safety
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Management
subject: Computer applications

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The goal of this audit is to assess communication of significant unexpected findings between radiologists and clinicians and to assess outcome of further patient investigation as a result of the reports. Variables measured include number of...
Mass and size growth of early-type galaxies by dry mergers in cluster environments
Creators: name: Oogi, Taira
name: Habe, Asao
name: Ishiyama, Tomoaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform dry merger simulations to investigate the role of dry mergers in the size growth of early-type galaxies in high density environments. We replace the virialized dark matter haloes obtained by a large cosmological $N$-body simulation with $N$-body galaxy models consisting of two components, a stellar bulge and a dark matter halo, which have higher mass resolution than the cosmological simulation. We then re-simulate nine cluster forming regions, whose masses range from 1e+14 Msun to 5e+14 Msun. Masses and sizes of stellar bulges are also assumed to satisfy the stellar mass--size relation of high-z compact massive early-type galaxies. We find that dry major mergers considerably contribute to the mass and size growth of central massive galaxies. One or two dry major mergers double the average stellar mass and quadruple the average size between $z=2$ and $z=0$. These growths favorably agree with observations. Moreover, the density distributions of our simulated central massive galaxies grow from the inside-out, which is consistent with recent observations. The mass--size evolution is approximated as R propto M_{*}^{alpha}, with alpha ~ 2.24. Most of our simulated galaxies are efficiently grown by dry mergers, and their stellar mass--size relations match the ones observed in the local Universe. Our results show that the central galaxies in the cluster haloes are potential descendants of high-z (z ~ 2-3) compact massive early-type galaxies. This conclusion is consistent with previous numerical studies which investigate the formation and evolution of compact massive early-type galaxies.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted for MNRAS; adjusted to match the published version
Simple Spans Underestimate Verbal Working Memory Capacity
Creators: name: Barrouillet, Pierre
name: Gorin, Simon
name: Camos, Valerie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Registration of the data and material associated to the research entitled "Simple Spans Underestimate Verbal Working Memory Capacity" and published in the "Journal of Experimental Psychology: General".
title: Финансы
title: Учебник
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Подолянец Л.А.
name:  Галевский С.Г.
name:  Катышева Е.Г.
name:  Лебедева О.Ю.
name:  Сафина Э.Б.
Publisher: name: Санкт-Петербургский горный университет
Year: 2015

description: Изложены основные положения современной теории финансов, касающиеся различных областей финансов: денежно-кредитной и банковской сфер, систем государственных и частных финансов, международных финансовых отношений и их транснациональных участников, страхования. Особое внимание уделяется специфике функционирования финансов предприятий минерально-сырьевого комплекса. Учебник предназначен для бакалавров различных форм обучения по направлению подготовки 080100 «Экономика».
description: Basic propositions of modern Finance theory relating to various areas of Finance: money and banking spheres, public and private Finance, international financial relations and their transnational parties insurance. Special attention is paid to the specificity of functioning of Finance of enterprises of the mineral complex. The textbook is intended for bachelors of various forms of training in the field of training 080100 "Economics".
D-functions and immanants of unitary matrices and submatrices
Creators: name: de Guise, Hubert
name: Spivak, Dylan
name: Kulp, Justin
name: Dhand, Ish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent results in multiphoton interferometry, we expand a result of Kostant on immanants of an arbitrary $m\times m$ unitary matrix $T\in$ su$(m)$ to the submatrices of $T$. Specifically, we show that immanants of principal submatrices of a unitary matrix $T$ are a sum $\sum_{t} D^{(λ)}_{tt}(Ω)$ of the diagonal $D$-functions of group element $Ω$, with $t$ determined {by} the choice of submatrix, and the irrep $(λ)$ determined by the immanant under consideration. We also provide evidence that this result extends to some submatrices that are not principal diagonal, and we discuss how this result can be extended to cases where $T$ carries an su$(m)$ representation that is different from the defining representation.
description: 13 pages. Updated to published version. Comments welcome
Zinc phthalocyanine conjugated cellulose nanocrystals for memory device applications
Creators: Pawan Kumar
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

We present the electrical properties of zinc phthalocyanine covalently conjugated to cellulose nanocrystals (CNC@ZnPc). Thin films of CNC@ZnPc sandwiched between two gold electrodes showed pronounced hysteresis in their current–voltage characteristics. The layered metal–organic–metal sandwich devices exhibit distinct high and low conductive states when bias is applied, which can be used to store information. Density functional theory results confirmed wave function overlap between CNC and ZnPc in CNC@ZnPc, and helped visualize the lowest (lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) and highest molecular orbitals (highest occupied molecular orbital) in CNC@ZnPc. These results pave the way forward for all-organic electronic devices based on low cost, earth abundant CNCs and metallophthalocyanines.
title: Staging of cervical carcinoma by the use of T2-weighted and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR imaging with fat suppression at 3T
Creators: name: Vlychou, Marianna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To assess the diagnostic efficacy of T2-weighted images with fat suppression and contrast-enhanced T1 –weighted images with fat suppression at 3.0T for preoperative staging of cervical carcinoma. Histopathological diagnosis ofcervicaldisorders...