cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solar Energy Implementation in Manufacturing Industry Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Fuzzy TOPSIS and S4 Framework
Creators: Ponce, Pedro
Pérez, Citaly
Fayek, Aminah Robinson
Molina, Arturo
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

The demand for electrical energy has increased since the population of and automation in factories have grown. The manufacturing industry has been growing dramatically due to the fast-changing market, so electrical energy for manufacturing processes has increased. As a result, solar energy has been installed to supply electrical energy. Thus, assessing a solar panel company could be a complex task for manufacturing companies that need to assess, install, and operate solar panels when several criteria with different hierarchies from decision-makers are involved. In addition, the stages of a solar panel system could be divided into analysis, installation, operation, and disposal, and all of them must be considered. Thus, the solar panel company must provide a holistic solution for each stage of the solar panel lifespan. This paper provides a fuzzy decision-making approach (Fuzzy TOPSIS) to deal with the assessment of solar companies using the S4 framework in which the sensing, smart, sustainable, and social features are labeled with linguistic values that allow the evaluation of companies using fuzzy values and linguistic labels, instead of using crisp values that are difficult to define when decision-makers are evaluating a solar company for installation of the solar panels. The S4 features are considered the benefits of the evaluation. In the case study presented, three solar panel companies with different alternatives are evaluated on the basis of three decision-makers from manufacturing companies using the S4 framework. This paper considers the benefits of solar companies in the context of decision-makers participating in a multi-decision selection of such a company to install solar panels, so that the selection process is more effective. Thus, the proposed Fuzzy TOPSIS method proved efficient when selecting a solar panel company from among many options that best meets the needs of manufacturing companies.
The Heliocentric Distance Where the Deflections and Rotations of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections Occur
Creators: name: Kay, C.
name: Opher, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the trajectory of a coronal mass ejection (CME), including any deflection from a radial path, and the orientation of its magnetic field is essential for space weather predictions. Kay et al. (2015b) developed a model, Forecasting a CME's Altered Trajectory (ForeCAT), of CME deflections and rotation due to magnetic forces, not including the effects of reconnection. ForeCAT is able to reproduce the deflection of observed CMEs (Kay et al. 2015a). The deflecting CMEs tend to show a rapid increase of their angular momentum close to the Sun, followed by little to no increase at farther distances. Here we quantify the distance at which the CME deflection is "determined," which we define as the distance after which the background solar wind has negligible influence on the total deflection. We consider a wide range in CME masses and radial speeds and determine that the deflection and rotation of these CMEs can be well-described by assuming they propagate with constant angular momentum beyond 10 Rs. The assumption of constant angular momentum beyond 10 Rs yields underestimates of the total deflection at 1 AU of only 1% to 5% and underestimates of the rotation of 10%. Since the deflection from magnetic forces is determined by 10 Rs, non-magnetic forces must be responsible for any observed interplanetary deflections or rotations where the CME has increasing angular momentum.
description: accepted in ApJ Letters
A search for pair-produced resonances in four-jet final states at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Journal of high energy physics 1, 41 (2017).
description: A search for massive coloured resonances which are pair-produced and decay into two jets is presented. The analysis uses 36.7 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. No significant deviation from the background prediction is observed. Results are interpreted in a SUSY simplified model where the lightest supersymmetric particle is the top squark, $\tilde{t}$, which decays promptly into two quarks through $R$-parity-violating couplings. Top squarks with masses in the range 100 GeV
description: Published by Springer, Berlin
Microengineering laser plasma interactions at relativistic intensities
Creators: name: Jiang, S.
name: Ji, L. L.
name: Audesirk, H.
name: George, K. M.
name: Snyder, J.
name: Krygier, A.
name: Lewis, N. S.
name: Schumacher, D. W.
name: Pukhov, A.
name: Freeman, R. R.
name: Akli, K. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first successful proof-of-principle experiment to manipulate laser-matter interactions on the microscale using highly ordered Si microwire arrays. The interaction of a high contrast short pulse laser with a flat target via periodic Si microwires yields a substantial enhancement in both total and cut-off energies of the produced electron beam. The self generated electric and magnetic fields behave as an electromagnetic lens that confines and guides electrons between the microwires as they acquire relativistic energies via direct laser acceleration (DLA).
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: Post Partum Convulsions a Mystery to Solve: Value of Brain MRI Study
Creators: name: El Ameen, Nadia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Complications
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Emergency
subject: Seizure disorders

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To evaluate the role of MRI of the brain in women with post partum convulsion and correlate them with clinical...
Participation in an RCT of metformin in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM): pregnant women’s perceptions and experiences of the decision-making process
Creators: name: Wallace, Sinead
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Gestational diabetes mellitus

description: Background: Research in pregnancy and childbirth is required to advance healthcare needs for this population. Fears around potential fetal risk and the history of drug scandals renders it an area of research that is somewhat neglected. Due to the growing medical complexities facing pregnant women nowadays, efforts have been made in recent times to recognise the ethical importance of including this population in clinical research. Although clinical trials are becoming more common in pregnancy, recruitment of this population remains difficult with a common assumption that pregnant women would be reluctant to participate in clinical trials. This study set out to explore pregnant women’s perspectives and experiences of the decision-making process to participate in a randomised controlled trial of metformin in gestational diabetes mellitus (the EMERGE clinical trial). Methods: This study employed a qualitative descriptive design with thematic analysis. Data were collected by conducting individual semi-structured interviews (n=11) with participants (n=9) and decliners (n=2) of the EMERGE clinical trial. Results: The main findings reveal that a significant perception of personal benefit from participation was the biggest influence on women’s decisions to participate. Concerns about the impact of gestational diabetes on their pregnancies, the option of a favourable intervention treatment, a low perception of risk associated with the trial and the opportunity to help medical research appeared to have significantly influenced their decision. Receiving detailed information, personal interactions with the study team, a perception of voluntariness in participation and accessibility of the trial positively impacted on women’s decisions to participate. Conclusions: Personal contact during recruitment, presenting clear and thorough trial information, providing previous participant testimonials and facilitating women to participate in clinical trials are all important strategies to incorporate when trying to enhance recruitment into pregnancy trials. Further research on pregnant women declining participation in clinical trials is needed.
Search for new phenomena in high-mass final states with a photon and a jet from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Journal of high energy physics 1, 38 (2017).
description: A search is performed for new phenomena in events having a photon with high transverse momentum and a jet collected in 36.7 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The invariant mass distribution of the leading photon and jet is examined to look for the resonant production of new particles or the presence of new high-mass states beyond the Standard Model. No significant deviation from the background-only hypothesis is observed and cross-section limits for generic Gaussian-shaped resonances are extracted. Excited quarks hypothesized in quark compositeness models and high-mass states predicted in quantum black hole models with extra dimensions are also examined in the analysis. The observed data exclude, at 95% confidence level, the mass range below 5.3 TeV for excited quarks and 7.1 TeV (4.4 TeV) for quantum black holes in the Arkani-Hamed-Dimopoulos-Dvali (Randall-Sundrum) model with six (one) extra dimensions.
description: Published by Springer, Berlin
COVID-19 and Youth Physical Activity: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Do, Bridgette
name: Kirkland, Chelsey
name: Besenyi, Gina
name: Smock, Carissa
name: Lanza, Kevin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sports Sciences
subject: Sports Studies
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: COVID-19
subject: exercise
subject: physical activity
subject: public health

description: Scoping review on COVID-19 and youth physical activity
title: 3D delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) at 3T used to evaluate the effect of hyaluronic acid on cartilage quality in knee osteoarthritis patients
Creators: name: van Tiel, Jasper
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Viscosupplementation and osteoarthritis: -Viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid injections (HA) symptomatic treatment early stage knee osteoarthritis (OA) -Significant good clinical results vs placebo 5 - 14 weeks after treatment (Bellamy 2006)...
The Tianlin Mission: a 6m UV/Opt/IR space telescope to explore the habitable worlds and the universe
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhai, Meng
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Wang, Shen
name: Liu, Jifeng
name: Chang, Jin
name: Zhang, Xuejun
name: Dong, Jihong
name: Xu, Boqian
name: Grupp, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] It is expected that the ongoing and future space-borne planet survey missions including TESS, PLATO, and Earth 2.0 will detect thousands of small to medium-sized planets via the transit technique, including over a hundred habitable terrestrial rocky planets. To conduct a detailed study of these terrestrial planets, particularly the cool ones with wide orbits, the exoplanet community has proposed various follow-up missions. The currently proposed ESA mission ARIEL is capable of characterization of planets down to warm super-Earths mainly using transmission spectroscopy. The NASA 6m UV/Opt/NIR mission proposed in the Astro2020 Decadal Survey may further tackle down to habitable rocky planets, and is expected to launch around 2045. In the meanwhile, China is funding a concept study of a 6-m class space telescope named Tianlin (A UV/Opt/NIR Large Aperture Space Telescope) that aims to start its operation within the next 10-15 years and last for 5+ years. Tianlin will be primarily aimed to the discovery and characterization of rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZ) around nearby stars and to search for potential biosignatures mainly using the direct imaging method. Transmission and emission spectroscopy at moderate to high resolution will be carried out as well on a population of exoplanets to strengthen the understanding of the formation and evolution of exoplanets. It will also carry out in-depth studies of the cosmic web and early galaxies, and constrain the nature of the dark matter and dark energy. We describe briefly the primary scientific motivations and main technical considerations based on our preliminary simulation results. We find that a monolithic off-axis space telescope with a primary mirror diameter larger than 6m equipped with a high contrast chronograph can identify water in the atmosphere of a habitable-zone Earth-like planet around a Sun-like star.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in RAA and is available online
Mental health literacy of primary school teachers: A scoping review
Creators: name: Frei, Jacqueline
name: Beames, Joanne
name: Werner-Seidler, Aliza
name: Hudson, Jennie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Early identification
subject: Mental health
subject: Mental health literacy

description: The aims of this scoping review are to first, identify the current literature investigating mental health literacy of primary school teachers; second, describe any available evidence-based interventions including how they were designed and by whom; and finally, provide recommendations for future research in this area.
Introduction to science policy concepts and the science-policy interface
Creators: name: Bankston, Adriana
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2022

description: This talk was given at the Virginia Science Policy Bootcamp (virtual) on March 4, 2022. This is an annual statewide event originated by graduate students at the University of Virginia, meant to introduce students across the Commonwealth to science policy and how it can impact their research and future careers.
title: Uterine artery embolization for management of secondary postpartum haemorrhage associated with placenta accreta
Creators: name: Wang, Zhiwei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Obstetrics

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of uterine artery embolization for management of secondary postpartum hemorrhage associated with placenta...
title: The value of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in the diagnosis of orbital masses
Creators: name: Yuan, Ying
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Neoplasia

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Dynamic contrast enhanced MR imaging (DCE-MRI) allows imaging of the physiology of the microcirculation and provides information related to the vascularity.The purpose was to determine the diagnostic efficacy of time intensity curve (TIC) and DCE...
title: Radiation dose levels assessment in computed tomography
Creators: name: Castro, Daniela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: Professional issues
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Safety

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Measurement of radiation dose levels in computed tomography of two regional public hospitals (A and B) and to establish DRL (Dose Reference Levels) for each CT scan exam (head, neck, cervical spine, lumbar spine, abdomen, abdomen/pelvis and...
Estimating Tipping Points in Feedback-Driven Financial Networks
Creators: name: Kostanjcar, Zvonko
name: Begusic, Stjepan
name: Stanley, H. E.
name: Podobnik, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Much research has been conducted arguing that tipping points at which complex systems experience phase transitions are difficult to identify. To test the existence of tipping points in financial markets, based on the alternating offer strategic model we propose a network of bargaining agents who mutually either cooperate or where the feedback mechanism between trading and price dynamics is driven by an external "hidden" variable R that quantifies the degree of market overpricing. Due to the feedback mechanism, R fluctuates and oscillates over time, and thus periods when the market is underpriced and overpriced occur repeatedly. As the market becomes overpriced, bubbles are created that ultimately burst in a market crash. The probability that the index will drop in the next year exhibits a strong hysteresis behavior from which we calculate the tipping point. The probability distribution function of R has a bimodal shape characteristic of small systems near the tipping point. By examining the S&P500 index we illustrate the applicability of the model and demonstate that the financial data exhibits a hysteresis and a tipping point that agree with the model predictions. We report a cointegration between the returns of the S&P 500 index and its intrinsic value.
title: Diffusion Weighted MRI in Follow-up of Superficial Urinary Bladder Carcinoma after Transurethral Resection: Does it have a role?
Creators: name: Abou-Elghar, Mohamed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: We conducted our prospective study to test the value of DW-MRI as a first-line diagnostic test to differentiate tumours from benign disease of the bladder after TUR of superfi cial bladder tumours. To the best of our knowledge this is the first...
Distributions of Age at Death from Roman Epitaph Inscriptions in North Africa
Creators: name: Pflaumer, Peter
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Gompertz distribution
subject: Roman demography
subject: life table
subject: mortality
subject: cluster analysis
subject: data analysis
subject: 310

description: Thousands of inscriptions of age at death from Roman epitaphs in North Africa are statistically analyzed. The Gompertz distribution is used to estimate survivor functions. The smoothed distributions are classified according to the estimation results. Similarities and differences can be detected more easily. Parameters such as mean, mode, skewness, and kurtosis are calculated. Cluster analysis provides three typical distributions. The analysis of the force of mortality function of the three clusters shows that the epigraphic sample is not representative of the mortality in North Africa. The results are compared with data from epitaphs from the European provinces. Africa is quite different. The general mortality level is much lower. The African cluster is much more homogeneous than the European cluster. The distributions are determined by three factors: mortality levels, commemorative processes, and population growth rates.
Diabetes Educators' Knowledge, Behaviors and Opinions Regarding Periodontal Disease and Diabetes
Creators: name: Lopes, Mary H.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to determine certified diabetes educators' (CDE) knowledge, behaviors and opinions about periodontal disease (PD) and diabetes. A questionnaire was distributed to CDEs who attended the 2009 American Association of Diabetes' Educators meeting and who provide counseling and education services to patients with diabetes. A total of 311 CDEs participated in the survey; only responses from nurses and registered dietitians were included in the final analysis (N=284). Descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis were utilized. Nurses had a higher proportion of correct answers compared to registered dietitians for questions regarding knowledge of PD. Most (62%) agreed that CDEs need to collaborate with dental professionals in disease management and 84% indicated interest in an oral health component being added to their continuing education. The findings suggest that collaboration with the dental profession would be a positive outcome for CDEs, as would oral health topics being added to their continuing education courses.
title: Texture analysis of MR images to predict breast tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Creators: name: Michoux, Nicolas
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Neoplasia

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: MRI plays a prominent role in the diagnosis and treatment planning of breast cancer [1]. It is the best imaging modality to evaluate residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and before surgery [2]. In particular, dynamic...
Water in the terrestrial planet-forming zone of the PDS 70 disk
Creators: name: Perotti, G.
name: Christiaens, V.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Tabone, B.
name: Waters, L. B. F. M.
name: Kamp, I.
name: Olofsson, G.
name: Grant, S. L.
name: Gasman, D.
name: Bouwman, J.
name: Samland, M.
name: Franceschi, R.
name: van Dishoeck, E. F.
name: Schwarz, K.
name: Güdel, M.
name: Lagage, P. -O.
name: Ray, T. P.
name: Vandenbussche, B.
name: Abergel, A.
name: Absil, O.
name: Arabhavi, A. M.
name: Argyriou, I.
name: Barrado, D.
name: Boccaletti, A.
name: Garatti, A. Caratti o
name: Geers, V.
name: Glauser, A. M.
name: Justannont, K.
name: Lahuis, F.
name: Mueller, M.
name: Nehmé, C.
name: Pantin, E.
name: Scheithauer, S.
name: Waelkens, C.
name: Guadarrama, R.
name: Jang, H.
name: Kanwar, J.
name: Morales-Calderón, M.
name: Pawellek, N.
name: Rodgers-Lee, D.
name: Schreiber, J.
name: Colina, L.
name: Greve, T. R.
name: Östlin, G.
name: Wright, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Terrestrial and sub-Neptune planets are expected to form in the inner ($<10~$AU) regions of protoplanetary disks. Water plays a key role in their formation, although it is yet unclear whether water molecules are formed in-situ or transported from the outer disk. So far Spitzer Space Telescope observations have only provided water luminosity upper limits for dust-depleted inner disks, similar to PDS 70, the first system with direct confirmation of protoplanet presence. Here we report JWST observations of PDS 70, a benchmark target to search for water in a disk hosting a large ($\sim54~$AU) planet-carved gap separating an inner and outer disk. Our findings show water in the inner disk of PDS 70. This implies that potential terrestrial planets forming therein have access to a water reservoir. The column densities of water vapour suggest in-situ formation via a reaction sequence involving O, H$_2$, and/or OH, and survival through water self-shielding. This is also supported by the presence of CO$_2$ emission, another molecule sensitive to UV photodissociation. Dust shielding, and replenishment of both gas and small dust from the outer disk, may also play a role in sustaining the water reservoir. Our observations also reveal a strong variability of the mid-infrared spectral energy distribution, pointing to a change of inner disk geometry.
description: To appear in Nature on 24 July 2023. 21 pages, 10 figures; includes extended data. Part of the JWST MINDS Guaranteed Time Observations program's science enabling products. Spectra downloadable on Zenodo at https://zenodo.org/record/7991022
An explicit reconstruction algorithm for the transverse ray transform of a second rank tensor field from three axis data
Creators: name: Desai, Naeem M.
name: Lionheart, William R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 45Q05, 65R32, 53A45

description: We give an explicit plane-by-plane filtered back-projection reconstruction algorithm for the transverse ray transform of symmetric second rank tensor fields on Euclidean 3-space, using data from rotation about three orthogonal axes. We show that in the general case two axis data is insufficient but give an explicit reconstruction procedure for the potential case with two axis data
title: Imaging of congenital lung malformations – an overview
Creators: name: Maciel, Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Normal variants
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: - Illustrate and discuss the characteristic imaging findings of a variety of common and uncommon congenital lung malformations, with emphasis on computer tomography (CT) and chest radiographs. -Underline the clinical significance of the presented...
Leptogenesis parametrized by lepton mass matrices
Creators: name: Gu, Pei-Hong
name: He, Xiao-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional seesaw-leptogenesis can simultaneously explain the suppression of neutrino masses and the generation of cosmic baryon asymmetry, but usually cannot predict an unambiguous relation between these two sectors. In this work we shall demonstrate a novel left-right symmetric scenario, motivated to solve the strong CP problem by parity symmetry, where the present baryon asymmetry is determined by three charged lepton masses and a seesaw-suppressed hermitian Dirac neutrino mass matrix up to an overall scale factor. To produce the observed baryon asymmetry, this scenario requires that the neutrinos must have a normal hierarchical mass spectrum and their mixing matrix must contain a sizable Dirac CP phase. Our model can be tested in neutrino oscillation and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Typos are corrected
title: Association of cerebrovascular plaques with cerebral microbleeds and cerebrovascular ischemic events
Creators: name: Park, Dong-Woo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Atherosclerotic plaque components come to be important factors of clinical events, TIA or stroke in addition to stenosis. Intraplaque hemorrhage (IPH) and neovascularity of atherosclerotic plaque components mainly contribute the...
Analytical Solution of Poisson's Equation with Application to VLSI Global Placement
Creators: name: Zhu, Wenxing
name: Huang, Zhipeng
name: Chen, Jianli
name: Chang, Yao-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Poisson's equation has been used in VLSI global placement for describing the potential field caused by a given charge density distribution. Unlike previous global placement methods that solve Poisson's equation numerically, in this paper, we provide an analytical solution of the equation to calculate the potential energy of an electrostatic system. The analytical solution is derived based on the separation of variables method and an exact density function to model the block distribution in the placement region, which is an infinite series and converges absolutely. Using the analytical solution, we give a fast computation scheme of Poisson's equation and develop an effective and efficient global placement algorithm called Pplace. Experimental results show that our Pplace achieves smaller placement wirelength than ePlace and NTUplace3. With the pervasive applications of Poisson's equation in scientific fields, in particular, our effective, efficient, and robust computation scheme for its analytical solution can provide substantial impacts on these fields.
A Social-Ecological Approach to Understanding Natural Disaster Preparedness and Risk Perception amongst Immigrants: A Multi-Method Inquiry
Creators: name: An Gie, Yong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Risk perception
Disaster preparedness
Immigrant
Canada
Social-Ecology
Social Environment
Psychosocial
Social capital
Risk management
Risk communication
Natural disasters
Hazards
Risks
Disasters

description: To increase disaster preparedness in immigrants, risk communication and management need to be tailored to their needs and concerns. To this end, research needs to uncover how immigrants construe natural disaster risks and issues in the context of the receiving community’s social environment, and how their experiences compared to the general population. The goal of this thesis was to understand how risk perception and the social environment relate to immigrants and Canadian-born individuals’ disaster preparedness. The relationship between risk perception and disaster preparedness was investigated in the first study. Analyses of the data from a national survey revealed that both groups shared three core risk perception dimensions: external responsibility for disaster management, self-preparedness responsibility, and illusiveness of preparedness. However, they differed in the salience of five risk perception beliefs. For both groups, external responsibility for disaster management and self-preparedness responsibility were positively associated with preparedness behaviours, whereas illusiveness of preparedness was negatively related to preparedness behaviours. In the second study, the relationship between community social capital and individuals’ preparedness behaviours was investigated. Analyses of two conceptually-linked national surveys revealed that neighbourhood contact and societal trust predicted during-disaster preparedness behaviours in both groups. Interestingly, societal trust positively predicted emergency planning in Canadian-born individuals but the reverse was true for immigrants. To provide a comprehensive social-ecological perspective, twenty-two individual interviews were conducted to explore immigrants and Canadian-born individuals’ lived experiences of natural disaster risks and issues. A unifying thread across five emergent themes showed that individuals did not perceive natural disaster risks as a valid threat and disaster preparedness as relevant to their daily lives because they believed that the positive social environment in Canada would mitigate the risks. For immigrants, the immigrant condition and culture shaped how they construed natural disaster risks and issues. Overall, findings suggest that risk communication and management need to focus on building human capital and social capital, use an all-of-society engagement approach, and reframe all-hazards preparedness as relevant for daily stressors. Specific for immigrants, disaster initiatives need to be tailored to the timeline of experience of being an immigrant within the context of their receiving communities.
The Host Stars of Keplers Habitable Exoplanets: Superflares, Rotation and Activity
Creators: name: Armstrong, D. J.
name: Pugh, C. E.
name: Broomhall, A. -M.
name: Brown, D. J. A.
name: Lund, M. N.
name: Osborn, H. P.
name: Pollacco, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We embark on a detailed study of the lightcurves of Keplers most Earth-like exoplanet host stars using the full length of Kepler data. We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability. Furthermore, we present the detection of superflares in the lightcurve of Kepler-438, the exoplanet with the highest Earth Similarity Index to date. Kepler-438b orbits at a distance of 0.166AU to its host star, and hence may be susceptible to atmospheric stripping. Our sample is taken from the Habitable Exoplanet Catalogue, and consists of the stars Kepler-22, Kepler-61, Kepler-62, Kepler-174, Kepler-186, Kepler-283, Kepler-296, Kepler-298, Kepler-438, Kepler-440, Kepler-442, Kepler-443 and KOI-4427, between them hosting 15 of the most habitable transiting planets known to date from Kepler.
description: Accepted by MNRAS, 18 pages, 16 figures
Genetic Assessment of Remnant Sub-Populations of Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Upper Danube
Creators: name: Friedrich, Thomas
name: Lieckfeldt, Dietmar
name: Ludwig, Arne
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Danube
subject: population size
subject: relationship
subject: sturgeon
subject: conservation
subject: 570 Biologie

description: While the potamodromous sterlet was common in the past throughout the Upper Danube in Germany and Austria, it nearly vanished in the second half of the 20th century. Until recently, only one small and isolated reproductive sub-population is known from the German–Austrian border. However, isolated remnants in another section downstream of Vienna, near the Austrian–Slovakian border, were discovered in 2014. An assessment of the population size is one of the most important prerequisites for conservation management. This study aims to assess the population sizes at both sites, using genetic pedigrees and comparison to mark–recapture data. A total of 193 samples collected from these populations between 2011 and 2021 have been investigated. In addition, 59 samples from captive stocks, 38 wild fish from downstream, and 247 genetic profiles from previous studies were used for comparison. Results show close relationships and intermittent reproduction on one site. Estimated populations based upon genetic pedigree are very small, and are consistent with mark–recapture results. Small population sizes of remnant populations have only limited, sporadic reproduction, as well as continual losses to outmigration support conservation actions for sturgeons in the Upper Danube, including the restoration of functional migration corridors.
title: Patient exposure doses in coronary CT examination from 2006 to 2012
Creators: name: Suzuki, Shoichi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Radiation safety
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Cardiac
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: We have been using anthropomorphic phantoms to evaluate the dose received by patients during coronary CTA at our university hospital by the same method continuously since 2006. We here report changes in this...
Educational intervention in rehabilitation to improve functional capacity after hip arthroplasty: scoping review
Creators: name: Nicolau, Célia
name: Mendes, Liliana
name: de Sousa, Luís
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: #Arthroplasty
subject: # Hip
subject: # Rehabilitation

description: Introduction: The aging process brings anatomical and physiological changes that increase the prevalence of chronic diseases and dependency condition. The coxofemoral joint is one of the most affected by degenerative, inflammatory or traumatic disease. In response to this condition, Hip Arthroplasty has become one of the most used and most successful procedures in improving pain, recovering limb function, reducing disability and improving quality of life. The Rehabilitation Nurses intervention has an extremely important role in person’s training for the greatest possible autonomy and independence. Objective: To identify educational interventions in rehabilitation carried out to empower and train the person undergoing Hip Arthroplasty, in order to improve mobility and functional capacity. Method: Scoping Review. The sources to be searched are CINAHL complete, MEDLINE Complete, Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive, Cochrane Methodology Register, Library, Information Science & Tecnology Abstracts, MedcLatina and Google Scholar. Inclusion criteria: The review will include studies that assess the implementation of rehabilitation interventions with educational interventions that enable the empowerment and training of the person undergoing hip replacement, and studies that address the effect of these interventions have on functional capacity, both at the level of activities basic daily life as well as instrumental activities. Two independent reviewers will carry out a critical evaluation of the eligible studies, to assess the level of evidence and to extract the data.
Mother-Infant Co-Regulation from 0 to 2 Years: The Role of Mimicry and Imitation. A systematic review.
Creators: name: Verde Cagiao, Maria
name: Vizcaíno, Carmen
name: García, Ruth
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: caregiver-infant interaction
subject: copy behaviors
subject: co-regulation
subject: dyadic interaction
subject: imitation
subject: imitation exchanges
subject: infancy
subject: mimicry

description: The purpose of this review is threefold: 1) to examine how copy behaviors have been studied in mother-infant natural interactions from 0 to 24 months, 2) to explore whether these behaviors can be classified as mimicry or imitation phenomena, and 3) to determine to what extent they contribute to co-regulation processes between both members of the dyad.
Optical observations of the nearby galaxy IC342 with narrow band [SII] and H$α$ filters. II - Detection of 16 Optically-Identified Supernova Remnant Candidates
Creators: name: Vucetic, M. M.
name: Ciprijanovic, A.
name: Pavlovic, M. Z.
name: Pannuti, T. G.
name: Petrov, N.
name: Goker, U. D.
name: Ercan, E. N.
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 present the detection of 16 optical supernova remnant (SNR) candidates in the nearby spiral galaxy IC342. The candidates were detected by applying [SII]/H$α$ ratio criterion on observations made with the 2 m RCC telescope at Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory in Bulgaria. In this paper, we report the coordinates, diameters, H$α$ and [SII] fluxes for 16 SNRs detected in two fields of view in the IC342 galaxy. Also, we estimate that the contamination of total H$α$ flux from SNRs in the observed portion of IC342 is 1.4%. This would represent the fractional error when the star formation rate (SFR) for this galaxy is derived from the total galaxy's H$α$ emission.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; to be published in Serbian Astronomical Jornal
Sums of seven octahedral numbers
Creators: name: Brady, Zarathustra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11P05

description: We show that for a large class of cubic polynomials $f$, every sufficiently large number can be written as a sum of seven positive values of $f$. As a special case, we show that every number greater than $e^{10^7}$ is a sum of seven positive octahedral numbers, where an octahedral number is a number of the form $\frac{2x^3+x}{3}$, reducing an open problem due to Pollock to a finite computation.
description: Ancillary file added
A remark on the characteristic elements of anticyclotomic Selmer groups of elliptic curves with complex multiplication at supersingular primes
Creators: name: Lei, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $p\ge5$ be a prime number. Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be an elliptic curve with complex multiplication by an imaginary quadratic field $K$ such that $p$ is inert in $K$ and that $E$ has good reduction at $p$. Let $K_\infty$ be the anticyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of $K$. Agboola--Howard defined Kobayashi-type signed Selmer groups of $E$ over $K_\infty$ and showed that exactly one of them is cotorsion over the corresponding Iwasawa algebra. In this short note, we discuss a link between the characteristic ideals of the cotorsion signed Selmer group and the fine Selmer group building on a recent breakthrough of Burungale--Kobayashi--Ota on the structure of local points.
description: To appear in Q. J. Math
pH-Dependent Selective Protein Adsorption into Mesoporous Silica
Creators: name: Moerz, Sebastian T.
name: Huber, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The adsorption of lysozyme, cytochrome c and myoglobin, similar-sized globular proteins of approximately 1.5 nm radius, into the mesoporous silica material Santa Barbara Amorphous-15 (SBA-15) with 3.3 nm mean pore radius has been studied photometrically for aqueous solutions containing a single protein type and for binary protein mixtures. Distinct variations in the absolute and relative adsorption behavior are observed as a function of the solution's pH-value, and thus pore wall and protein charge. The proteins exhibit the strongest binding below their isoelectric points pI, which indicates the dominance of electrostatic interactions between charged amino acid residues and the -OH groups of the silica surface in the mesopore adsorption process. Moreover, we find for competitive adsorption in the restricted, tubular pore geometry that the protein type which shows the favoured binding to the pore wall can entirely suppress the adsorption of the species with lower binding affinity, even though the latter would adsorb quite well from a single component mixture devoid of the strongly binding protein. We suggest that this different physicochemical behavior along with the large specific surface and thus adsorption capability of mesoporous glasses can be exploited for separation of binary mixtures of proteins with distinct pI by adjusting the aqueous solution's pH.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, as submitted
Algebraic structure and characteristic ideals of fine Mordell--Weil groups and plus/minus Mordell--Weil groups
Creators: name: Lei, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given an elliptic curve defined over a number field $F$, we study the algebraic structure and prove a control theorem for Wuthrich's fine Mordell--Weil groups over a $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of $F$, generalizing results of Lee on the usual Mordell--Weil groups. In the case where $F=\mathbb{Q}$, we show that the characteristic ideal of the Pontryagin dual of the fine Mordell--Weil group over the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension coincides with Greenberg's prediction for the characteristic ideal of the dual fine Selmer group. If furthermore $E$ has good supersingular reduction at $p$ with $a_p(E)=0$, we generalize Wuthrich's fine Mordell--Weil groups to define "plus and minus Mordell--Weil groups". We show that the greatest common divisor of the characteristic ideals of the Pontryagin duals of these groups coincides with Kurihara--Pollack's prediction for the greatest common divisor of the plus and minus $p$-adic $L$-functions.
Your DNA Your Say data file
Creators: name: Middleton, Anna
name: Milne, Richard
name: Morley, Katherine
name: Almarri, Mohamed
name: Atutornu, Jerome
name: Baranova, Elena
name: Bevan, Paul
name: Cerezo, Maria
name: Cong, Yali
name: Critchley, Christine
name: Hasan, Qurratulain
name: Goodhand, Peter
name: Fernow, Josepine
name: Hibino, Aiko
name: Houeland, Gry
name: Howard, Heidi
name: Malmgren, Charlotta
name: Izhevskaya, Vera
name: Cao, Jinhong
name: Kimura, Megumi
name: Kleiderman, Erika
name: Liu, Keying
name: Mascalzoni, Deborah
name: Mendes, Alvaro
name: Minari, Jusaki
name: Nicol, Dianne
name: Niemiec, Emilia
name: Prainsack, Barbara
name: Romano, Virginia
name: Sheerah, Haytham
name: Patch, Christine
name: Rivière, Marie
name: Robarts, Lauren
name: Roberts, Jonathan
name: Stefansdottir, Vigdis
name: Smith, James
name: Soulier, Alexandra
name: Steed, Claire
name: Tandre, Cornelia
name: Thorogood, Adrian
name: Voigt, Torsten
name: Wang, Nan
name: West, Anne
name: Yoshizawa, Go
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Statistics
subject: Medicine and Health
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Quantitative Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Bioethics and Medical Ethics

description: This is the core data file for the Your DNA, Your Say study of public perceptions of genomic data sharing, as of October 2019. It includes data from a cross-sectional survey of 22 countries conducted in 2017 and 2018.